Annoying Orange Wiki:Protection policy

Administrators have the ability to protect pages from editing. Protection can be indefinite, or can be set to expire at a certain time.


 * Semi-protection locks edits from anonymous users.
 * Full-protection locks edits from anyone, except administrators.
 * Move-protection locks the renaming of articles from anyone except administrators.
 * Creation-protection locks a specific article so it cannot be recreated by anyone except administrators.

Semi-protection
Semi-protection (also known as half-protection or anonymous protection) prevents edits from anonymous users, as well as registered Wikia contributors who are less than four days old or made ten edits. Indefinite semi protection may be used for: However, temporary semi-protection may be used for:
 * preventing vandalism to popular articles, such as Orange
 * preventing spamming from anonymous users
 * persistant violations of our policies and community guidelines
 * Subject to significant but temporary vandalism or disruption (for example, due to media attention) when blocking individual users is not a simple option.
 * Edit-warring in which all parties involved are anonymous users. If there were any registered users involved, full-protection must be used.

Full-protection
Full-protection prevents edits from anyone except administrators. Anyone can still view the page. Sometimes, highly visible templates and pages are permanently protected due to their visibility. The "edit" button is replaced by a link which reads "view source".

Move-protection
Move-protection prevents the renaming of the page from anyone except administrators. It is used for:
 * Pages that have been repeatedly improperly moved
 * High-traffic page
 * High-traffic templates or pages that have no reason to be moved

Creation-protection
Creation-protection prevents an article from being created by anyone except for administrators. It is commonly used for:
 * Pages that have been repeatedly inappropriately recreated
 * Pages that have no reason to be created

Necessary pages to protect
Besides articles, here are miscellaneous articles an administrator can protect:
 * User pages of regular users may be semi-protected, in case of vandalism, or if the user requests it
 * Talk pages that are subject to heavy vandalism should be semi-protected, but if this happens, a new page for IP addresses to leave messages should be created.
 * User pages of indefinitely blocked users/banned users should be fully protected
 * Highly visible images or templates

Miscellaneous information

 * System messages, which are used to provide interface text for the software, are automatically fully-protected, and the protection cannot be removed.
 * Administrators have the ability to edit any page.
 * Semi-protection can also prevent edits from registered users who are not autoconfirmed.