Thread:Merrystar/@comment-32738051-20170517225607/@comment-11001-20170519001034

Hello. Profile pages haven't been restricted against editing in a long while; the part that is restricted is the profile masthead.

Unfortunately user pages are just... pages. They can be protected, either individually or wiki-wide, so that only a certain groupof people can edit them (eg. sysops, rollbacks, or regular users). And yes, they could be protected separately from other pages on the wiki. But they cannot be restricted so that only a certain user can edit them.

People who have a lot of trouble with attacks on their user pages can ask an admin they trust to protect it at sysop level, and then just request that it be temporarily unprotected when they want to change it.

But for the majority of people, it is rarely that big of a problem.