Tardis:Protection policy

Some of the pages on the TARDIS Index File, the Doctor Who Wiki are protected by Admins to restrict editing or movement of the page in order to prevent vandalism, the creation of junk articles or random edits.

Protected articles
When an article is protected, it cannot be edited by anonymous (IP) editors and registered users who are not logged in. It also cannot be edited by extremely new, registered editors.

Pages that are semi-protected will be tagged with this template Template:Semi-protect.

Only registered (logged in) users may edit these pages.

Locked articles
Full protection prevents all users (except admins) from editing an article or page.

Pages that are fully protected will be tagged with this template Template:Full protect.

Other protection types
These forms of protection are subsets of the above levels of protection.

Creation protection
Creation protection protects a page that has either previously been deleted or has been identified as a target for vandalism or page recreation. The level of protection applied may be either semi-protection or full protection.

Move protection
This prevents a page from being moved to another name, this can be in the form of semi-protection or full protection.

Why does X page have protection on it?
Certain pages may be semi-protected or fully protected to prevent vandalism or unhelpful content being added to the page.

Pages may also be semi-protected to maintain the consistent quality of a page. This usually applies to pages that attract a high number of rumours. Semi-protection ensures that random rumours are not added without proper citation.

Full protection of pages is applied to many base-level elements of the wiki to prevent modification of aspects that are integral to the smooth running of the wiki. Full protection is also added so some articles and article titles to prevent their creation or editing (this applies usually to yet to be broadcast or released stories). Full protection may also be applied to disputed articles in order to resolve edit wars (see below).

Recently released stories
Articles relating to recently released or broadcast are routinely semi-protected in an attempt to combat random edits that flow in following the broadcast or release of a story.

Edit wars
An edit war occurs when editors who disagree about the content of a page repeatedly override each other's contributions. In some situations the decision will be made by an admin to fully protect the article rather than blocking individual users so that the issue may be discussed with the article in a state of stasis while the discussion takes place.

Editing information on protected pages
If you wish to add information to a protected article but are prevented from doing so, you may add a request to the talk page of the article. If the information is valid, another user who is not prevented from editing the page may add the information for you. However, the information will be reviewed to be in keeping with our various policies, and therefore we cannot guarantee that all requested information will be added.