Wiki101 Policy
This is an official policy of Wiki101. It is considered a standard that everyone must follow.
Policies are put in place with the consent of the community at large.
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POL:PP
Page protection is the ability to limit who can edit, move, or create a particular page. Administrators and Content Moderators have the ability to protect and unprotect pages when needed. As any wiki is a collaborative resource shared with the entire community, the majority of pages on the wiki will remain unprotected. All protections and unprotections are logged and viewable by anyone.
Rules
As page protection is a very restrictive measure, it should only be done when there is a specific need, such as:
- Stopping vandalism which has persisted over a long period of time.
- Stopping an edit war.
- Protecting the proper display of the wiki (main page, policy pages, templates, etc.)
Pages should not be protected for reasons like these:
- Users disagreeing with a moderator or administrator
- Reserving a page to be edited later
- Marking a page as "complete" (wikis are never truly completed)