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Bug 6916 - blocking section feautre request
blocking section feautre request
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Page editing (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Lowest enhancement (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2006-08-03 15:17 UTC by Mike Połtyn
Modified: 2011-03-13 17:46 UTC (History)
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Description Mike Połtyn 2006-08-03 15:17:54 UTC 
I thought about it when I was, again, cleaning up "External links" section in number of 
articles after IPs adding bunch of unnecessary links, which was adverts of their sites.

We (sysops) have "block page" feature. Maybe you can do a feature that will be blocking 
one section from editing (just like whole page: no restrictions, only registered, only 
sysops). It will be useful, because then I could work on some articles instead of clearing 
all spam links...
Comment 1 Aryeh Gregor (not reading bugmail, please e-mail directly) 2006-08-03 20:06:55 UTC 
The spam links would just be added to another section.  Or another page.  Get
the spam sites blacklisted at [[m:Spam blacklist]] if they're persistent.  More
generally, I can't see a lot of benefit in protecting one section when anyone
could edit any of the rest of the page.
Comment 2 Mark A. Hershberger 2011-03-13 17:46:00 UTC 
Changing all WONTFIX high priority bugs to lowest priority (no mail should be generated since I turned it off for this.)
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