Thread:Bellamybug/@comment-254594-20181207122959/@comment-12699193-20181210225758

OK, say we protect all mainspace pages. Do we want to change Move protection of the pages to sysop-only or autoconfirmed only? Do we want to also protect the pages from being edited? Not a fan of this since this discourages new users from contributing (even though this ban will be temporary).

Let's think of the downsides of this. One small one is that the protection log will be spammed 1000s of times, making it hard to navigate through. Another might be that the pages that are currently protected will probably lose their protection once we decide to mass un-protect everything.