User talk:Rlyon

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User:Rlyon/NYU Stern Office Hours
Hi Robert, FYI I moved your office hours signup page into a user subpage, since it seemed to belong better there than in the mainspace. Sincerely, James. -- Jtneill - Talk - c 22:23, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Page protection is a bit tricky. Custodians can protect pages for such needs but this is used rarely. The options really only allow prevention of editing by new and unregistered users, or to Administrators only. In your case, I imagine we do want to allow new editors at least (e.g., your students) to edit and in some cases they may be unregistered e.g., . In general, you won't get unwanted edits and usually if you do they are reverted pretty fast. This isn't foolproof, but I'm guessing that it should be quite satisfactory. Otherwise you'd probably need to use an institution-specific system which could track/limit editing to an enrolled cohort. I hope this helps. Let me know if I can do anything else. Sincerely, James. -- Jtneill - Talk - c 22:43, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Just correcting/clarifying above - Semi-protection: protection of a page against editing by an unregistered user is an option, but that would force your students to register and login in order to signup. So, edits such as wouldn't be possible. If you want semi-protection then let me know. -- Jtneill - Talk - c 22:56, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
 * You're doing great, don't worry, it takes a while to get oriented. There is no single way that everyone follows for such discussion threads. But a common way is for a topic, to have a heading, and then to indent replies using colons e.g., :, ::, etc. Some people like to keep the thread on a single page, others post across each others' talk pages (like we're doing). I prefer the latter (because it alerts each other), but don't really mind. I'll put semi-protection on your user hours page - see how it goes - it can be undone any time. -- Jtneill - Talk - c 23:08, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I've undone that protection - perhaps the semi-protection on WV is protecting against both unregistered and new accounts after all - and yours is still considered a new account. So, yes, that is too much, I've undone it.
 * Thanks, James. But doesn't that require both conversants to be "watching" the userspace talk page? Or is that the default? -- Robert --Rlyon 23:13, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
 * By default, if someone edits your user talk page, you get the orange message box appearing at the top of your screen (which I like). Otherwise, yes, for any other pages, you probably need to have them on your watchlist if you want to track edits there. -- Jtneill - Talk - c 23:22, 15 October 2009 (UTC)