User talk:SRMach5B

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[edit] bad behavior possible here

I am sure you know that Obama (Fukui) is a city that is much older than Mr. Barack Obama. Mr. Obama is also not well known outside the USA. You may not know that the Obama (Fukui) article is about 1 year older than the Mr. Obama article.

If you look up Clinton, you see the disambiguation page, not the Mr. Clinton or Mrs. Clinton article. There are several small towns named Clinton, but all are much smaller than Obama. Yet, Clinton has a disambiguation page and the Obama page is redirected to Mr. Obama. This is wrong.

Can you lock the Obama page so that people will not change it to redirect to Mr. Obama.SRMach5B 03:30, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Page protection is used as a method to cool down edit disputes, it is not a measure used to prevent other users to edit the page to enforce a point of view. I think you need to use the proper dispute resolution, use the talk page or talk to the user whom you are in dispute with, please see WP:DISPUTE. If you really think the page needs page protection, place a request on WP:RFPP. Yamamoto Ichiro (山本一郎)(会話) 03:36, 17 June 2007 (UTC)


Sorry that I did not know all about locking a page. What do you think about the Obama page being a disambiguation. This way it does not favor Mr. Obama or the city, just like the Clinton page?SRMach5B 03:58, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

First of all, please try to use proper terminology, it's "page protection" not "locking a page", just to avoid confusion in the future in case if you talk to another newbie. About the disambig issue, I do not have an opinion or stance on it because I rarely edit articles myself, as I mostly administrate, so I can't really help you much there. I would strongly suggest you start a discussion regarding this on the article talk page, or ask at Wikipedia:New contributors' help page for assistance. Yamamoto Ichiro (山本一郎)(会話) 04:09, 17 June 2007 (UTC)