Board Thread:The Reference Desk/@comment-188432-20130310185635/@comment-188432-20130406052918

You're a little late to this particular party, SOTO. The pages have been locked, or not, according to the way that edit wars were happening at the time. In general, we're loathe to lock pages, so locks occur only on the basis of positive evidence of an edit war. They aren't locked on the basis of suspicion.

There wasn't much of an edit war going on at Tribe of Gum so it remains editable.

Now, if one does break out there, then I can certainly lock that too. But the thing that's most worrying is that people were making declarative statements at Hunters of the Burning Stone (comic story) that weren't based on a complete understanding of the story.

In general, you're absolutely right that we allow unfinished comic stories to remain editable while the story is ongoing, as long as people don't go beyond reporting what has already been published.

In this case, the block came to stop an edit war (and to try, unsuccessfully as it turned out, to try to prevent OS25 from getting blocked), and it seems justified to maintain it to prevent a lot of unnecessary editing and re-editing.

If users want to write about the article before the story is concluded, they can always go to Talk:Hunters of the Burning Stone (comic story) and leave their proposed changes there.