User blog:Blupo/Restricting user page editing

Hello everyone.

This has been something that people were talking about for a while before it faded into the background. User pages are vandalised infrequently, but user pages are more personal than articles, and vandalisning them feels somewhat like an invasion of someone's personal space.

There is now a new abuse filter rule that will prevent any user from editing your user pages unless you explicitly give them permission. How do you give them permission? You need to insert the RestrictedUserPage template onto the page you want to give permissions to. The  field should be a comma-separated list of users that have editing permissions on the page.

You, admins, and other administrative people are still allowed to edit your pages, even if you don't give them permission.