Animation Wiki:Protection policy

Pages can be protected by discretion of administrators and content moderators.

Fully protected
Only administrators may edit fully protected pages. This level of protection may be used on a short basis (denoted by the gold lock) under the following circumstances:
 * A large number of destructive edits have been made over a reasonably long period of time.
 * An edit war has taken place.

In addition, this level of protection may be used on a permanent basis (denoted by the red lock) if the page is essential to the proper display of the wiki and damage would cause extraordinarily widespread disruption. Examples include our site logos.

Semi-protected
Pages with a silver lock have been protected because of vandalism or controversy. This protection is only intended to be temporary. Any user above the autoconfirmed level may edit these pages.

Create protected
If you see a sky blue lock in the right-hand corner of a page you want to create, it means that only sysops may create this page. The protection was inserted to prevent spam pages from being created.

Move protected
Pages with a green lock have been protected to avoid the page being moved without authorization. This may be due to page-move vandalism, or as a prevention measure on high-use pages. Only sysops may move the page.