Purpose and usage[]
What exactly does it do?
A fellow-genealogist has urged me to copy this to somewhere in the Genealogy Wikia's MediaWiki pages. Is there any reason why I shouldn't? Robin Patterson 02:52, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
- Thank you; seen that. Doesn't mean much to me. It doesn't suggest that I shouldn't do what the local expert urges. Robin Patterson 22:48, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
Inviting discussion on locking pages[]
Why do we lock pages like this? (as in, when using this template)
Citation:
- "you don't want people commenting on year-old blogs."
- Why is that, exactly? I've never seen any problem in any form with anyone commenting on old blogs or forum posts. In fact, I've often seen the opposite: Disallowing adding new information to old discussions means that false information cannot be corrected. When searching for information on video games, threads on gamefaqs often come up in the results - usually unanswered similar questions from years ago, which no-one can answer now.
- Wikia suffers the same problem with locking old blogs and forums posts. When I search for a question, it's easy to find the same question being asked, but impossible to leave an answer in the same place so that the next person searching can find it easily.
- The implementation of Message Walls has caused wiki-wide locking of all talk pages, again making it impossible to leave answers to old questions, despite those unanswered questions popping up in search results. -452 19:53, November 14, 2012 (UTC)
End Citation It makes asking a difficult question lead to getting a partial answer, and then, when someone else has the same question, them getting another, overlaping, partial answerSisima70 (talk) 19:05, May 1, 2016 (UTC)