Kovopedia:Protection Policy

Administrators can protect and unprotect pages, including ones that do not exist. Protection of a page or image means that a non-admin cannot modify it. The majority of pages on the Wiki should remain publicly editable, and not protected. Pages may, however, be temporarily or permanently protected in cases of extreme unwanted activity.

Uses

 * Protecting highly vandalized pages, such as the Main Page.
 * Maintaining the integrity of the site's files.
 * Maintaining the integrity of legal pages, such as the Privacy Policy.
 * Preventing repeatedly created vandal or spam pages from creation. See Special:Protectedtitles.
 * Protecting the interface and system messages in the MediaWiki namespace (these are protected automatically).

A temporary protection is used for:
 * Enforcing a "cool down" period to stop an edit war.
 * Protecting a page or image that has been a recent target of persistent vandalism or persistent edits by a blocked user.

There is no need to protect personal .css and .js pages like user/monobook.css or user/cologneblue.js. Only the accounts associated with these pages (and admins) are able to edit them.

Usage
Most pages and images are unprotected by default, only the site logo and favicons are automatically protected. An admin can protect editing, moving, or both. By default, both will be affected equally, but an admin can choose to give different edit and move permissions if necessary.


 * Allow all users means any user, whether logged in or anonymous, can edit or move the page.
 * Allow only autoconfirmed users, or semi-protected, means anonymous users and new accounts less than 4 days old (among other requirements) cannot edit and/or move pages.
 * Allow only administrators, or fully-protected, means only administrators may edit and/or move the page.

Pages can also be cascade protected. This will cause all images, pages, or templates transcluded onto the page to be fully protected, even if the main article is only semi-protected.

Rules

 * 1) Do not make the common mistake of protecting pages unnecessarily. For example, do not protect a page simply because it is experiencing high editing traffic.
 * 2) Do not protect a page you are involved in an edit dispute over unless it is the subject of edit warring.
 * 3) Avoid favoring one version of the article over another, unless one version is vandalism or a decision has been reached in one's favor.
 * 4) Temporarily protected pages should not be left protected until the expected passing duration of activity.
 * 5) Talk pages are not protected unless discussions become personal or they are being mass-spammed.
 * 6) The protection of a page on any particular version is not meant to express support for that version and requests should therefore not be made that the protected version be reverted to a different one.