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The New York Times gets it exactly backwards

Jimmy Wales · 17 Jun 2006

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  1. The facts are that protection as a policy has existed for years. Semi-protection was devised as a softer, more open approach. Rather than full protection, which means that no one can edit, we now increasingly use semi-protection, which allows people to continue to edit the article.

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