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Add a user right to edit the topic header of flow posts that are not your own
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This represents a significant amount of the vandalism on mw.org. It'd be nice if there was a right and we could set it to autoconfirmed (or maybe even admin. Who needs to edit other people's topic titles anyways?)

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Who needs to edit other people's topic titles anyways?

For example, to remove spam or personal attack.

Change 845771 had a related patch set uploaded (by Brian Wolff; author: Brian Wolff):

[mediawiki/extensions/Flow@master] Add a user right to control editing flow topic titles of other user's posts.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/845771

Change 845771 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/Flow@master] Add a user right to control editing flow topic titles of other user's posts.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/845771

Etonkovidova subscribed.

Checked on testwiki and mediawiki wmf.23 - the users without Autoconfirmed rights cannot edit the topic titles.