Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-9062114-20140924171654/@comment-1251315-20141011191204

In my personal opinion, I believe that FA's should be protected, but I disagree on sysop protection. Semi-protection would be preferable, which would prevent all anonymous editors from touching the page and those who aren't autoconfirmed status (new user accounts), which would stop most of the vandalism. Sysop protection is something to be used sparingly, not just to meet a policy standard.

Honestly, a lot of the featured articles have something wrong with them, the most common being link overuse (eg every single term is linked for no reason). They look more like a page of hyperlinks, not text.