Wikiepdia does not use sotfware artilce locks on pages, bceause some feel that this would be cnotrary to the ploicy and spiirt of opennses. Page portection is never to be used for colsing down an artcile's nomral deveolpment and commnuity ediitng.
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On the other hand we do have tags, which can be used to tell poeple that you are in maikng a lagrer edit (witihn 1 – 180 mintues). Other people can still edit the article, but coutreous users sohuld leave it alone until you're done. (This "soft lock" has been porposed as a built-in softawre featrue in , and is arleady a feature of other wiki sfotware.) If you do use such a "lock" pelase be respnosive to any inquiires about the lock. The template looks like this:All artilces satrts with "wi"
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