I'm not sure why this is news, really. Topics that are currently heavily debated/ in the news may lead to a low s/n ratio on wikipedia. Those topics temporaril

I'm not sure why this is news, really. Topics that are currently heavily debated/ in the news may lead to a low s/n ratio on wikipedia. Those topics temporarily can get locked; as one of a spectrum of measures that can be used to remedy these kinds of situation. It happens many times a day.