South Park The Fractured But Whole Wiki:Protected page

Any page on South Park The Fractured But Whole Wiki can be protected from editing.

Pages protected for one of three reasons:

Administrators and Bureaucrats can protect any page on this Wiki. However, Fandom staff prohibits Wiki staff members from locking too many or all of the articles from editing so administrators and bureaucrats are advised to protect wisely. The main purpose of an encyclopedia is to open editing to all users, otherwise, this project wouldn't have existed in the first place.
 * 1) If the page is an important page, such as the Policies page, it cannot afford to be allowed to be vandalized, so should always be protected.
 * 2) If a page, image or template is transcluded (included) into a lot of other pages, any vandalism would affect a large proportion of the site, so these are often protected.
 * 3) If a page is repeatedly vandalized, then temporary or permanent protection can help stop that.

Levels of Protection
There are 3 levels of protection, ranging from unprotected (least restricted) to full protection (most restricted).
 * Unprotected: An article that is unprotected is open for editing to all I.P. addresses, new accounts, registered users, and staff.


 * Semi-Protection: An article under Semi-Protection can only be edited by registered users and staff. I.P. addresses and recently created accounts that are not yet autoconfirmed cannot edit Semi-protected articles.


 * Full Protection: An article under full protection is closed for editing to non-staff users. Only staff members can modify articles on this level. Users wishing to modify a fully protected article should get in touch with a staff member via their talk page and request changes be made by them.