TotalFreedom Wiki:Protection policy

Administrators have the ability to protect and unprotect pages to stop them from being edited, moved, or created. There are five types of protection; full protection, semi-protection, move protection, cascading protection, and creation protection.

By default, an account is required to edit pages on this wiki.

Full protection

Fully protected pages cannot be edited by non administrators, and can be set temporarily or indefinitely.

Pages that are usually fully protected include:

• Templates and modules that are used in interface messages.
• Temporary full protection in order to stop an edit war; which is the repeated editing / reverting of an article by editors with a dispute.
• Personal and global CSS and JS pages; these pages are permanently protected by the software and can only be edited by the pages owner or an interface administrator.

Semi-protection

Semi protected pages cannot be edited by new users. Only editors with accounts older than four days and with no less than ten edits can modify them.

Pages that are usually semi-protected include:

• Pages that are subjected to repeated vandalism that other tools have failed to stop. Protections applied in this case should usually be temporary.
• Widely transcluded templates that may be edited in the future.
• Pages that are highly visible.

Move protection

Move protected pages cannot be moved by non administrators.

Pages that are usually move protected include:

• Pages subject to page-move vandalism.
• Pages that have no reason to be moved in the far future.
• Page name disputes.

Cascading protection

Cascade protected pages are fully protected pages that extend full protection to any pages transcluded onto the protected page. Cascading protection is not currently used, but may be used in the future.

Creation protection

Creation protection, otherwise known as salting, allows administrators to prevent the creation of a page by either non autoconfirmed users or non administrators. Creation protection can also be enforced by the title blacklist.

Unprotection

Most protected pages will have their protection expire automatically, but an administrator can remove the protection early if the reasons for protection no longer apply.