Board Thread:Wiki management/@comment-5079138-20170819055312

So, you probably didn't notice this but I've unprotected most, if not all of the mainspace articles that are fully protected (i.e. only content mods, admins and crats can edit). The pages in question are:


 * The disambiguation page for plants
 * The disambiguation page for zombies
 * Items
 * List of plants
 * List of zombies
 * List of achievements

The reason behind this is that these pages have been fully protected for a very long time with no clear reasons (all of them are set to be indefinitely fully protected since 2014/15 by . Full protections for mainspace pages like this is completely unnecessary unless if some edit wars happened or if a mass-vandalism occurred on the wiki/pages. In some cases it could also make the wiki unfriendly because we're literally restricting people from editing them until they get the higher staff roles. There's no such thing as a "perfect article", so keep that in mind before rushing for protections like this.

Also, a note to content mods/admins/crats, when protecting pages, please use semi-protection instead and if the pages have a very little or no history of being vandalized before, put a damn expiry time for it. That's how Wikipedia admins handle vandalized pages. If you really need to fully protect them to settle up edit wars/drama/mass-vandalism, then again, put a damn expiry time. Don't just set it to indefinite because it would effectively restrict people from ever editing it until it's unprotected, and since the protection goes pretty much unnoticed by content mods/admins/crats until they edit the pages and see the notifications it's probably gonna take a quite long time until someone decides to unprotect them.

I don't think a vote is necessary for this since such things could be easily done without causing any side effects, and also because those pages have been fully protected for at least 2 years that unprotecting them should've been very obvious.

Thanks. 