Template talk:Managed research project

I have edited the template to restrict usage. It is basic to Wikiversity that all users may edit all pages. However, we do allow some limited resource management. It has been accepted that attributed subpages may be managed, for example. This is because alternate pages are then possible, neutrally linked from the top-level resource.

The resource management subpage should document the consensus, pointing to the discussion.

There is a simpler solution: attribution of subpages. If a subpage is the attributed work of User X, or a committee that is named, they are responsible for it, and it should not be altered without their consent.

An example of a mainspace resource that is managed is Wikiversity Journal of Medicine. I consider that project controversial, experimental, and not settled, and even it does not have this kind of template and restriction, though it's a major project.

So if one wants to manage a page, exclusively, create the top-level page with a brief introduction, perhaps, then a subpage link to that page as the user's essay or project or document development. Historically, these subpages may be named for the user. They will then be protected by the Wikiversity community, this is easy. When the page is done, and if it is desired to release it for general editing, then if no alternate subpages have been created, request the top-level page be deleted and move the subpage up a level.

Another approach is to develop the page in user space. Then, when done, move it to mainspace. Very simple and very clear, and totally understood by the entire community. We will leave your user page alone, and we will notice others, not you, editing it, and may review those and revert the edits. You will never be dinged for revert warring, for example, on your user page, and anyone contending with you there is likely to be promptly warned, and, if it continues, blocked. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 21:30, 3 September 2015 (UTC)