A KoL Wiki:Protected page
Administrators have the ability to protect pages so that they cannot be edited, or images so that they cannot be overwritten, except by other administrators. Administrators can also protect pages from moves only. Administrators have the additional ability to protect pages from being edited by unregistered or very new users.
If a page is protected because of an edit war, please do not ask for it to be protected in some other version than it currently is. A protection is not an endorsement of the current version. Instead, go to the talk page and attempt to resolve the dispute. Non-admins can propose changes to protected pages on the talk page.
If an administrator moves a protected page, the page will be protected at the new location, and the redirect will be unprotected at the page's original location.
Uses
- Protecting high visibility pages such as the Main Page from vandalism.
- Locking other pages that are prone to vandalism.
- Protecting certain "system administrative" pages. This includes many standard templates, such as deletion notices and stub templates.
- Protecting deleted articles that are repeatedly created.
- Temporarily locking an article to prevent new content from immediately being spoiled.
- Temporarily locking a page because many users are attempting to edit it at once. This can happen when new KoL content is released. This can lag the wiki and create many Edit Conflicts, which can confuse newer wiki users. There is also usually an influx of new registers on the wiki when new KoL content is released, all trying to add the new/missing content. An administrator can then appropriately format and/or add the new page content on the protected page. The page will then be unprotected, as it would need less large-scale, immediate editing.
- Locking widely used templates where editing would result in significant lag due to cache invalidation.
