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This is the protection policy of Plants vs. Zombies Wiki.

Content moderators and administrators can protect and unprotect pages, including ones that do not exist. Protection of a page or image usually means that a non-admin cannot modify it.

The majority of pages on all Wikia should remain publicly editable, and not protected. Pages may, however, be temporarily or permanently protected in cases of extreme vandalism or edit warring or abusive re-creation.

Protection types

Semi-protection

Semi-protection prevents new users with less than four days of account age and ten edits (non-autoconfirmed users) from editing. This is the most common form of protection and normally enough to stop vandals from vandalizing an article.

This level of protection should be enforced when:

  • The page is under constant vandalism.
  • A new user continues to bring back low-quality edits on a page despite multiple revision undoes.

An ideal expiration date for this level of protection is 3-7 days, unless if the page has been semi-protected once; 1-3 months for the second protection, 6-12 months for the third protection, and infinite for the fourth. Note that these are only the ideal length of protection.

Full protection

Full protection effectively restricts a page from being edited by anyone but content moderators and administrators. This level of protection is only used in high-risk pages such as the Plants vs. Zombies Wiki namespace and widely-used templates, or in very specific cases where preventing edits from autoconfirmed users is required.

Since this level of protection effectively restricts all users but content moderators and admins from editing a page, this should only be applied when:

  • The page is under constant vandalism by established users formerly masquerading as normal users ("sockpuppets")
  • The page is part of the Plants vs. Zombies Wiki namespace.
  • The page is a critical template that's used in articles (e.g. infoboxes).
  • The page is subject to constant low-quality edits by multiple users.

When applying this to articles, never set the length to infinite as it will effectively prevent users from being able to edit them until the protection is removed manually.

If there is a fully protected mainspace article with infinite expiry time, be sure to contact a content mod, admin, or bureaucrat. Usually this happens due to an error such as forgetting to include expiry time when the page was being protected.

Move-protection

This prevents users from moving a page. Used in situations where a page is being constantly renamed. This protection should be applied when:

  • The page is being constantly moved despite repeated warnings to stop it.
  • The page is being vandalized by renaming it to nonsense or inappropriate titles.
  • The page name is confirmed to be the official name and there's no reason to rename it.

Creation protection

Creation protection prevents users from creating a specified page. This is useful in cases such as to stop users from continuously recreating deleted pages.

This should only be applied when:

  • A page is being constantly renamed to the target page name despite multiple attempts to stop it.
  • Official PopCap/EA employees demand us to not create a specific page, usually because it might spoil the upcoming content.
  • That specific page name is subject to abuse by spammers.

Cascading protection

Cascading protection protects a page and any pages linked in it. Due to its nature, content moderators and admins should never use this protection to prevent issues with pages refusing to be edited by members.

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