Administrators can protect and unprotect pages. Protection of a page or image usually means that a non-admin cannot modify it.
The majority of pages on all Wikia should remain publicly editable, and not protected. Pages may, however, be temporarily or permanently protected for legal reasons (for example, license texts should not be changed) or in cases of extreme vandalism, edit warring, .
Uses[]
- Protecting highly vandalised pages, such as the Main Page.
- Maintaining the integrity of the site's logo, favicon, and template code.
- Maintaining the integrity of key copyright and license pages.
- Protecting the interface and system messages in the MediaWiki namespace.
- Enforcing a "cool down" period to stop an "edit war", upon request.
- Protecting a page or image that has been a recent target of persistent vandalism or persistent edits by a banned user.
Rules[]
- Do not make the common mistake of protecting pages unnecessarily. Fo
- Do not protect a page you are involved in an edit dispute over.
- Avoid favoring one version of the article over another, unless one version is vandalism.
- Talk pages and user talk pages are not protected except in extreme circumstances.