Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-1251315-20150621144554/@comment-34115-20150626163807

Infoboxes are in their own namespace so they can be locked temporarily to prevent edit wars when users are likely to edit war over specific facts.

This is something that would affect all infoboxes, so it doesn't make sense to lock infoboxes because of it. As that would mean locking all infoboxes to sysops permanently.