Administrators have the ability to protect and unprotect pages on The Lucille Ball Wiki. These measures are put into place only when it becomes necessary, and are done with caution and regards to the following policies and procedures.
There are two forms of protection on this wiki: full protection and partial protection. Full protection means that only administrators can modify the page. Partial protection means that only registered, logged in users can modify it.
Most of pages on The Lucille Ball Wiki will remain publicly editable, and not protected. Pages may, however, be temporarily or permanently protected for legal reasons, to protect the integrity of the wiki, or in cases extreme edit conflicts that cannot easily be resolved.
Uses[]
Administrators may protect a page for one or more of the following reasons.
- Protecting highly vandalised pages.
- Maintaining the integrity of specific and important site pages and images (such as the site logo or prominant pages).
- Maintaining the integrity of key copyright and license pages.
- Protecting the interface and system messages in the MediaWiki namespace (all of which are permanetly protected).
Additionally, a temporary protection may be used for:
- Enforcing a "cool down" period to stop an "edit war" or other significant conflict.
- Protecting a page or image that has been a recent target of persistent vandalism or persistent edits by a banned user.
See below for specific policy that the administrators will use in regards to protecting one or more wiki pages.
Policy[]
Administrators should consider the following before making a page or image protected.
- Do not protect a page unless it is absolutely necessary.
- Do not edit a temporarily protected page except to add a notice explaining the page is protected.
- Do not protect a page you are involved in an edit dispute over. Admin powers are not editor privileges - admins should only act as servants to the user community at large.
- Avoid favoring one version of the article over another, unless one version is vandalism.
- Temporarily protected pages should not be left protected for very long.
- Talk pages and user talk pages are not protected except in extreme circumstances.
- The protection of a page on any particular version is not meant to express support for that version and requests should therefore not be made that the protected version be reverted to a different one.