FFXIclopedia:Article Protection

Administrators can protect pages to restrict editing.


 * Full protection disables editing for everyone except other administrators. Fully protected images cannot be overwritten by new uploads.
 * Note: Other more limited types of protection are available, but not currently utilized by the FFXIclopedia.

Any type of protection, as well as unprotection, may be requested by contacting an administrator. Non-admins can propose changes to protected pages on the related talk page. All protections and unprotections are automatically logged in the protection log.

Full protection
Indefinite full protections are used for:
 * High visibility pages such as the Main Page in order to prevent vandalism.
 * Certain "FFXIclopedia administration" pages, including policy and legal pages.
 * Certain "system administration" pages, including many templates, and the entire MediaWiki namespace. These are pages that need rarely be changed, and that because of widespread usage can cause large-scale disruption if vandalized, or modified ill-advisedly. Again, admins should not make significant changes to these pages without prior discussion.
 * Pages deleted by consensus that are repeatedly recreated.

Temporary full protections are used for:
 * Enforcing a "cool down" period to stop an edit war.

Content disputes
Except in cases of clear vandalism, or issues with legal impact such as copyright or defamation, pages protected in an edit war are protected in whatever version they happen to be currently in. Protection during an edit war is not an endorsement of the current version. Editors should not ask for a specific version of a page to be protected or, if it has already been protected, reverted to a different version. Instead, editors should attempt to resolve the dispute on the related talk page.

During edit wars, admins should not generally protect pages when they are involved as a party to the dispute. Admins should edit pages that are protected due to a content dispute with caution, and administrators doing so should indicate this on the article's talk page.

Unprotection
Any admin may unprotect any page after a reasonable period has lapsed, particularly if there is no discussion on the talk page.