Blue Throttle Wiki/Page Protection

Page protection is done by administrators, and they can also unprotect pages. Usually, pages are not protected unless in the case of vandalism or edit wars. Category pages and talk pages are usually not protected, unless in severe cases or vandalism.

Usage
A short-term protection is used for:


 * Force stopping an edit war. An edit war is an argument between two or more users that involves editing. Example: If a user adds a few paragraphs but another user removes them, the the user who added the paragraphs re adds them, then the other user removes the paragraphs again, it is considered an edit war.
 * Stopping vandalism of a certain page, if it was the first or second time is has been vandalized.

A long-term protection is used for:


 * Preventing further vandalism, if the page has a high rate of vandalism.
 * Preventing deleted pages from being recreated

Levels of protection
Allow all users means that anyone can edit that page, unless they are blocked. Allow only autoconfirmed users, or semi-protected means that only logged in users that are over 4 days old can edit that page. Allow only administrators, or fully-protected means that only administrators or users promoted to administrator level can edit that page.

Normally, the protection level of this Wiki is semi, which means that users will have to log in to edit pages, comment, and create pages, and must be promoted to administrator level to move pages.