Thread:Jimbo Wales/@comment-36815121-20181127013542/@comment-37625257-20181127014202

For most mainspace pages of a wiki you're right, but a user page is personal and unless they abuse it the only one who should have the right to edit a userpage is the actual user that userpage belongs to.

Not to mention Jimbo Wales is literally the co-founder of Wikipedia. It makes sense his userpage would be protected to avoid vandalism.