Protected Page
Administrators can protect and unprotect pages, including ones that do not exist. 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 or edit warring or abusive re-creation.
Uses
- Protecting highly vandalised pages, such as the Main Page on large wikis.
- Maintaining the integrity of the site's logo and favicon.
- Maintaining the integrity of key copyright and license pages.
- Preventing repeatedly created vandal or spam pages from creation.
A temporary protection is used for enforcing a "cool down" period to stop an "edit war", or protecting a page that has been a recent target of persistent vandalism.
Usage
Most pages and images are unprotected by default. You can protect editing, moving, or both by checking or unchecking the "Unlock move permissions" selection box.
- (default): Any user, whether logged in or anonymous, can edit or move the page.
- Block unregistered users: Anonymous users and new accounts less than 4 days old cannot edit/move.
- Sysops only: Only administrators may edit and/or move the page.
Rules
- Do not make the common mistake of protecting pages unnecessarily.
- Do not edit a temporarily protected page except to add a notice explaining the protection.
- Do not protect a page you are involved in an edit dispute over.
- Avoid favoring oneversion of the article over another, unless one version is vandalism.
- Temporarily protected pages should not be left protected for very long.
- Talk pages and user talk pages are not protected except in extreme circumstances.
- The protection of a page on any particular version is not meant to express support for that version.