Forum:Suggestion: block edits on featured articles

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For our dear sysops: there are lots of articles here that were once featured and thereafter modified to the point we cannot see how in the hell those piles of crap were in a remote past proudly displayed at our main page. I'm thinking about (yes, again) Flying Spaghetti Monster but I've seen others (sorry for looking obsessive but it upsets me as we're talking about my faith). So I suggest our beloved leaders to block edits in an article when it's featured. Maybe you can open a exception for the article's author to edit it over again. herr doktor needsAcell  [scream!] 19:16, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

At the moment, the policy is to semi-protect them so that only registered users can edit. This keeps the worst of the vandalism and cruft away, but yeah, someone could still register and wait a few days to vandalise if they really wanted to. Also, several of our FA's have evolved through multiple contributions and edits, so the "original author" can often just be "the person who came up with the idea" and not neccessarily the ones who made it feature worthy. </My two cents>. -- Sir Codeine K·H·P·B·M·N·C·U·Bu. · (Harangue) 19:41, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

But it's not necessarily vandalism. An article can be disfigured or simply modified by well-intentioned users. When it is, you don't have how to know what was featured anymore. herr doktor needsAcell  [scream!] 19:48, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

In the "featured article" template on each article there's a link to the specific version of the page that was featured, so there will at least always be a way to find unmolested revisions. —rc (t) 20:01, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Original authors have only as much right to edit the articles as everyone else. Every article belongs to the community, thanks to the licence they're all submitted under. Yes, everything you write here is as much mine as it is yours, and the same goes for everyone else. What a crazy world we live in! • Spang • ☃ • talk • 00:56, 24 Nov 2006

Even if an article never made featured status, often a topic like Wal★Mart goes downhill over time as more unconnected, random idea fragments get added. There is no one clear idea or structure to these pages once everyone adds their random two bits, it's just a patchwork. --205.150.76.14 02:31, 24 November 2006 (UTC)