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Can someone please explain to me why admins feel the need to protect their archives or their talks, despite the fact that various non-admins have archives and nearly all moves of talkpages not by their owners would be vandalism? Unless you wish to protect everyone's archives, the parallel between such actions and [[SW:YAV|YAV]] are amusing. --<span style="font-family:vivaldi; font-size:12pt">[[User:Shadowcrest|<span style="color:#4682b4">Shadow</span>]][[User talk:Shadowcrest|<span style="color:#4682b4;">crest</span>]]</span> 22:58, 6 January 2009 (UTC) | Can someone please explain to me why admins feel the need to protect their archives or their talks, despite the fact that various non-admins have archives and nearly all moves of talkpages not by their owners would be vandalism? Unless you wish to protect everyone's archives, the parallel between such actions and [[SW:YAV|YAV]] are amusing. --<span style="font-family:vivaldi; font-size:12pt">[[User:Shadowcrest|<span style="color:#4682b4">Shadow</span>]][[User talk:Shadowcrest|<span style="color:#4682b4;">crest</span>]]</span> 22:58, 6 January 2009 (UTC) | ||
:Move vandals have an unpleasant tendency to target admins' user pages/talk pages, and some have had archives vandalised. It's not intended to counteract YAV in any way. [[User:Miles.oppenheimer|<font color="mediumpurple"><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">'''Miles''']] <font color="mediumblue">([[User talk:Miles.oppenheimer|<font color="mediumblue">talk]])</font></font></span></font> 23:05, 6 January 2009 (UTC) | :Move vandals have an unpleasant tendency to target admins' user pages/talk pages, and some have had archives vandalised. It's not intended to counteract YAV in any way. [[User:Miles.oppenheimer|<font color="mediumpurple"><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">'''Miles''']] <font color="mediumblue">([[User talk:Miles.oppenheimer|<font color="mediumblue">talk]])</font></font></span></font> 23:05, 6 January 2009 (UTC) | ||
::They have a tendency to target people that revert their vandalism, actually. Which would include all the rollbackers by default- that's what rollback is for, isn't it?- as well as various other users who do not have rollback that revert anyway. So there goes that argument. | |||
::I realize that you and the others don't do it to spite YAV, but that's what it does. Unless you wish to retroactively protect others' archives, I don't see why admin's archives and the like should remain protected. Prot isn't a tool that should be used willy-nilly either. --<span style="font-family:vivaldi; font-size:12pt">[[User:Shadowcrest|<span style="color:#4682b4">Shadow</span>]][[User talk:Shadowcrest|<span style="color:#4682b4;">crest</span>]]</span> 23:12, 6 January 2009 (UTC) | |||
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Admins and protecting talks
Can someone please explain to me why admins feel the need to protect their archives or their talks, despite the fact that various non-admins have archives and nearly all moves of talkpages not by their owners would be vandalism? Unless you wish to protect everyone's archives, the parallel between such actions and YAV are amusing. --Shadowcrest 22:58, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
- Move vandals have an unpleasant tendency to target admins' user pages/talk pages, and some have had archives vandalised. It's not intended to counteract YAV in any way. Miles (talk) 23:05, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
- They have a tendency to target people that revert their vandalism, actually. Which would include all the rollbackers by default- that's what rollback is for, isn't it?- as well as various other users who do not have rollback that revert anyway. So there goes that argument.
- I realize that you and the others don't do it to spite YAV, but that's what it does. Unless you wish to retroactively protect others' archives, I don't see why admin's archives and the like should remain protected. Prot isn't a tool that should be used willy-nilly either. --Shadowcrest 23:12, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
