Only loosely related to this RfC draft: as statistical overview how we use page protection in Wikidata.
- Since the beginning of Wikidata in October 2012, administrators have used page protection in main namespace (items) for ~5200 times (on average 2.3 times per day)
- However, almost 3000 of these protections have been applied by User:Abián in four batches (plus a couple of individual protections for the same reason) since September 2018. Details: country items on 27 September, some head of states on 31 October, some hundred "high risk items" on 9 January, and most of the rest on 26 January. Without Abián's protections, there would have been ~2200 item protections since Wikidata was set up, which is a little less than one per day on average.
- Without the protections applied by User:Abián recently, we have around 130 items which are indefinitely semi-protected as of now 1. There has been excessive vandalism in (most of) those cases.