Talk:client

Requesting change in protection level

I am requesting that the protection level be changed. As it stands, this page has been edit-protected and move-protected indefinitely since March 2017, after the page became a massive target for vandalism. The page history from around that time shows five instances of "Tag: Redirect" and the rollbacks that followed those strings of edits, as well as the fact the edits were redacted from the history, suggests the edits were malicious, so it was understandable for an admin to lock the page. I am requesting the following change to the protection levels: Unprotect for editing, but change the "Move" protection log to "Move = Allow only administrators." As it stands, the current protection of allowing autoconfirmed users to move the page is a mistake because moving a page specifically requires the offender to be autoconfirmed, so this page is still not technically protected from that kind of behavior. Throughout the year 2017, User:Chuck Entz had move-protected a lot of entries, with the summary "Well-attested spelling, should not be moved," [1] but most of those entries were not edit-protected. But I am also requesting a decrease in the protection level for general editing of the page because the vandal seems to have a thing for page-moving. As you can see from the history of this page, the page had a generally clean history prior to 2016 with only a select few edits that were unambiguous vandalism. Let's try unprotection and see what happens. If it is re-vandalized, feel free to re-protect the page at your discretion. Inner Focus (talk) 13:27, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

@SemperBlotto unprotected the page. I put the move protection back. I've been move-protecting a few basic-English pages whenever I think about it, with the general goal of protecting them all. I figure there's no harm in move-protecting a page that shouldn't be moved anyway, and anything that makes life harder for page-move vandals is worth the (minimal) effort, even though it will never stop them completely. Chuck Entz (talk) 14:02, 15 September 2020 (UTC)