Jay Walsh's estimate for the number of articles under protection is quite a bit off. I count 7631 right now, not 1500 (see http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?

Jay Walsh's estimate for the number of articles under protection is quite a bit off. I count 7631 right now, not 1500 (see http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ProtectedPages&namespace=0&type=edit&level=0&sizetype=min http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ProtectedP...). His count is pretty close to the number of fully-protected pages, so he may just be confusing the two numbers. Still a small number of the total articles, but I do regularly come across articles that I want to do some editing on, and am unable to without logging in (or in some cases, without being an administrator).