Board Thread:Administration/@comment-4832646-20140805212550

This is a project page meant more for explanation that I've decided to write up. I'm posting it here to get it cleared if I can add it as a project page or not. It isn't too big a problem, as people don't generally complain about protected pages. But, I think there should be something just in case.

On this wiki, you may encounter pages that you cannot edit. These pages have been protected, meaning administrators/VCROC have locked them from editing for some purpose. Reasons behind this action vary, but it is not commonly done.

Protected Titles
You may find that a page is protected before you even create it - it will take you back to the main page or the previous page you visited. These titles have been protected, either by an admin/VCROC to prevent spinoff material, derivatives of an already taken title, or previously deleted pages that were reuploaded repeatedly, or protected by our wiki's Abuse Filter for having certain characters in the title (these are not shown in the Protection Log. The abuse filter is an automatic function.)

Semi-Protected Pages
This wiki does not have enabled anon editing, so these pages are very low in number. However, these pages are still not able to be edited directly by new users who lack the autoconfirmed group right. This is often to protect pages from vandalism of newly created accounts.

Fully-Protected Pages
Fully Protected, or locked, pages are pages you cannot edit. These are often protected this way due to:


 * Being a Site Rules/Project Page.


 * Being a Suggested Reading/PotM article.


 * Being an article whose author holds a different license than CC-BY-SA and does not wish his work to be altered.


 * A heavily vandalized page or page suffering from edit warring.


 * An admin/VCROC user page.


 * A page that needs no further editing.

The Admins and VCROC are not protecting these pages out of distrust. We are protecting them because they need protected, and protection belongs to the Administrator's/VCROC's discretion. If you see something wrong or needing edited and has been protected, great! Tell us about it on one of our talk pages. We will either temporarily unprotect the page or take care of the edit ourselves.

Note that protected pages are generally few in number, and we hope to keep it that way.

Anyhow, since this does give explanation to the reasons we may protect pages, I've highlighted the thread. Feel free to put any input you so please. 