That is frequently done. A recent example is the article on "recession", which was frozen around the time that the US had two consecutive quarters of negative

That is frequently done. A recent example is the article on "recession", which was frozen around the time that the US had two consecutive quarters of negative growth (often used as a definition for a recession). https://www.npr.org/2022/07/29/1114599942/wikipedia-recession-edits https://www.npr.org/2022/07/29/1114599942/wikipedia-recessio... There are differing levels of "frozen", which require differing levels of editor seniority to be allowed to edit.