Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1270784-20130410232837/@comment-5065259-20130411071407

this question has been brought up a few times and no legitimate answer has been given by staff or anyone so far. There is a time when normal general policy does not work for a wiki topic in which everyone is free to edit. There are many reasons for this to pop up but the big reasons are: no community, community has no respect for creator (company who produces product or content), constant posting of policy violations (leaks, unauthorized content, vandalism, spamming),  number of active users way < than total number of articles. should exceptions be added for certain cases?

"There is no option to restrict editing to the founder or to a particular group.

'Unnecessary page protection is a common mistake that is considered harmful to wiki development. A clear statement of the wiki's goals is a better way to promote your vision than technical restrictions."'

this is clearly stated but there seems to be something that many people have glimpsed past A LOT and that is: exceptions to the rule. there should be a universal reasonable accepted exception to this. wiki topics that don't always get information on a constant basis such as Ice Age tend to not have a very big fan base which results in poor shape of the wiki. there are times where articles are protected from wiki contributors and sometimes in rare cases from everyone except admins.

i leave you with a question here: is it more worthy to try and undo multiple dumb edits to multiple pages or to sustain and maintain the wiki by protecting all articles so that the public may view it as an encyclopedia?

note: this is for extreme conditions only, most editors on big wikis don't understand the problem at the heart-most responses concern: just fix it. that doesn't work when there are LESS than 5 active users on a daily basis.

also something to think about on duplicate wikis, there are some editors here that are admins that don't exactly know what is best for a wiki-no hope to fix it up or admins simply target certain users. this is one of the biggest reasons why new wikis are created. there are times when admins won't listen. i have been through this, how about everyone else? when was the last time that you tried helping out a smaller wiki? its so easy to think that bigger wikis have more people and that seems to make them think its the same for all wikis.