Board Thread:Wiki management/@comment-5079138-20160318134306

OK, so I realized that a lot of mainspace pages are indefinitely semi-protected due to persistent vandalism. However, those happened a long time ago (1-4 years or so), and it only happened once. So I feel like this is bad for this wiki because this means that we don't allow new users to make constructive edits there.

Here are some of the semi-protected pages:

Peashooter (protected on 9 September 2012, by, reason is persistent vandalism)

Plants vs. Zombies (protected on 4 September 2012  by, reason is that he doesn't trust anons to edit it (this was dont before anon editing is disallowed))

Plants vs. Zombies 2 (protected by, later on 9 February and 27 March 2014. Reason is to stop people from adding unconfirmed contents)

Additionally, some articles with a lot of contents are also protected. This isn't actually good if there are no persistent vandalism done by users, since this implies that new users aren't allowed to edit long pages yet, and Wikipedia never does the same thing.

Here are some:

Sunflower (protected on 20 January 2013  by, no reason specified)

Dinosaur (protected on 10 December 2015 by )

Zombatar (protected on 16 March 2012 by due to people adding more than one zombatars)

I feel like the rules should be updated so that content mods and admins shouldn't unnecessarily protect pages like this, as well as unprotect those pages, since those protections seem to be completely unnecessary.

Now for the available voting choices...

1: Unprotect those, add a new rule that content mods and admins shouldn't unnecessarily protect articles, and protect articles with an expiration date (unless if the vandalism was done multiple times after four protections have been done).

2: Unprotect those,  add a new rule that content mods and admins shouldn't unnecessarily protect articles, but keep protecting articles indefinitely.

3. Unprotect those only without adding any new rules.

4. Don't unprotect those articles.

5. Other (please specify)

If you choose the first option, then please specify how long the protection will be.

1: Three days for first protection, one week for second, one month for third, three months for fourth, indefinite for fifth.

2: One month for first to fourth protection, then indefinite for the fifth one.

3: Three months  for first to fourth protection, then indefinite for the fifth one.

4: Other (please specify).

Please vote using the or.

 