Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-9062114-20140924171654/@comment-9062114-20140929210105

Kruziikrel wrote: There may not be massive amounts of locked pages, but the issue is with pages being sysop locked. Who is the judge of when a page is "complete"? I believe that no article needs to be locked to the sysop level. If staff are concerned that an article is "high traffic", then why not set it at user level lock? If anything, sysop locking of a page should only be a temporary solution in the event that it is massively vandalised or prone to edit warring. In my opinion, featured articles being sysop locked is a poor excuse to have that level of "security" set upon them. I completely agree, the whole concept of so many articles on the Wiki being protected infinitely (as shown in the history) by Sysops is absurd here, as stated by Shock and Zeta also these pages are not perfect and it's not the Sysop's place to decided what is and isn't a "complete" page!

Idk how the rule featured pages are indefinitly locked came to be