Board Thread:Administrator's noticeboard/@comment-1445357-20130110104757/@comment-4959312-20130128181426

If you are going to lock anything then you should probably do everything. It doesn't make sense to go half-way.

That being said, new champ pages get a lot of traffic and the ability of the wiki to self-correct generally is at it's best on new-champ pages. It seems like a mistake to restrict it during the first week when developing the page is most important and will draw the most edits, junk or not.