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Re:Facebook, Axios and NBC Paid to Whitewash Wikipedia Pages by ihuman on Friday March 15, 2019 @08:30AM (#19399045)
I think thats the first time I've seen the "Extended confirmed protection" lock.

> Extended confirmed protection, also known as 30/500 protection, allows edits only by editors with the extended confirmed user access level, granted automatically to registered users with at least 30 days tenure and 500 edits.

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Re:Facebook, Axios and NBC Paid to Whitewash Wikipedia Pages by 99052882514569 on Friday March 15, 2019 @09:34AM (#19399531)
I understand why they did this. If someone disagrees and thinks it's "biased" to do this, they need to either present their alternative to keeping spam and edit wars in check, or have their 'bias' criticism summarily dismissed.
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Re:Facebook, Axios and NBC Paid to Whitewash Wikipedia Pages by tim333 on Friday March 15, 2019 @09:02AM (#19399272)
They have that on the Donald Trump page also. I guess controversial stuff.
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Re:Facebook, Axios and NBC Paid to Whitewash Wikipedia Pages by Geimfari on Friday March 15, 2019 @09:57AM (#19399711)
Not necessarily controversial, but articles that see an endless stream of disruptive editing.

It was originally implemented to limit disruption on articles related to the Isreal/Palestine conflict.

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