On this wiki, you may encounter pages you cannot edit. These pages have been protected, meaning that administrators have locked them from public editing. Reasons behind this action vary, as will be explained.
Protected Titles
You may find that a page is protected before you can even create it - the site will instead display an error message or take you back to another page. These titles have been protected, usually to prevent spinoff material, derivatives of an already-taken title, previously deleted pages that were reuploaded repeatedly, or pages blocked by the 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). These are the characters that cannot be in your title: .?!@%&*()[]{}$
You can view the Abuse Log here.
Semi-Protected Pages
This wiki does not have enabled anonymous editing, which makes protecting pages this way largely pointless. Thus, the amount of pages with this type of protection is low in number. However, they are still not able to be edited directly by new users who lack the autoconfirmed group right. This is to protect pages from vandalism by new accounts, who also cannot comment on articles until several days after their creation.
Fully-Protected Pages
Fully Protected pages are locked and only editable by an admin. These are often protected this way due to:
- Being a Site Rules/Project Page.
- Being a Suggested Reading/PotM article.
- Being a heavily vandalized page or one suffering from edit warring.
- Being an admin's user page.
- Being a page that needs no further editing.
The decision for protection falls under Administrator discretion, but it is carried out via necessity rather than distrust. If you see something wrong or missing on a protected page, tell us about it on one of our talk pages. We will either temporarily unprotect the page or take care of the edit ourselves.