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Surely protecting thousands of pages manually is not good use of time (and we need to make sure bots and special cases still work).

It's also no good use of time to let people edit pages that should not be edited and revert every useful edit they did. This wastes the time of at least two people every time it happens.

Besides, what should I do to change the bad message I was talking about in my first post?

What bad message? This thread went on a tangent and I no longer know what we're talking about. At this point if we have a clear idea of what needs doing just file a bug to change the message.

I'm sorry? Read the first post please. Everything except for the "Side note".