Forum:Question about user pages

Why are user pages treated like articles- why can anyone edit a person's user page, instead of that user himself? Can't we just have each user having the right to only be able to edit his profile, just like Wikipedia? After all, if people could edit other users' profiles, too many counter-productive edits are going to appear. --Thenewguy34( Other) 13:10, June 16, 2012 (UTC)
 * There's the threat of vandalism or inappropriate content, especially of wikis whose admins are inactive. 13:15, June 16, 2012 (UTC)
 * I disagree, the reasons I don't like it are:


 * Vandalism on Wikis is easy to undo
 * Most userpages aren't vandalised, or aren't vandalised very often for it to be a significant problem
 * It teaches users that any page is able to edit on a wiki, even ones that might not be socially acceptable to edit, this is the spirit of a wiki
 * Many users want people to edit their userpage, or other pages in their userspace, due to having a guestbook, etc
 * Users could add malicious content to their userpage that users can't remove, and have to wait for admins (-TK-999 said this above)
 * --  Random Time  13:17, June 16, 2012 (UTC)
 * Whats a guestbook? — ¤ U LTIMATE S UPREME ¤ (T@lk) 14:27, June 16, 2012 (UTC)
 * Example --  Random Time  14:52, June 16, 2012 (UTC)
 * You mean the Userboxes? — ¤ U LTIMATE S UPREME ¤ (T@lk) 15:04, June 16, 2012 (UTC)
 * No, where people have signed the userpage --  Random Time  15:08, June 16, 2012 (UTC)