Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-3076045-20131027120203/@comment-4787430-20131028000804

I would be in support of the middle ground, making Feature Articles editable by only registered users when it is present on the main page. The reason for this is, the Featured Article is going to be on the main page and there is quick access to it, so it is an easy target for vandals.

As for locks in general. It is probably in the best interest of the wiki community to make all pages editable by all users, and if a page does for some reason need to be locked, that it be a lock that expires after a short time. Sometimes a lock does need to happen in the event that an edit-war or mass vandalism occurs. The time that the page is locked would be the time it takes to restore the page to its last good version, and then after that, the lock should be removed.