Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-24577221-20160116170626

On our wiki, we've got a page for people to share their "friend codes", which are used in a game for a variety of purposes. What we want to have is a few paragraphs of explanation, then the list of codes. Unfortunately, we're finding that the explanatory paragraphs are frequently being messed with inappropriately -- charitably, a lot of the people adding to the page are young and quite inexperienced with editing.

We'd like to find some way of protecting the explanatory stuff but leave the list of codes open to editing. I've tried a couple of different things. The best I've found so far was to create a template with the explanatory stuff and stick that at the top of the page with the list of codes. Unfortunately, we're now finding that people are accidentally removing the tag referencing the template, removing the explanatory stuff completely.

I've been playing with another option in personal sandboxes: making the list of codes the template, making the explanatory stuff the actual text, and protecting the explanatory stuff and including the list of codes. When I go to edit the codes, I end up working on the template, indirectly. But this seems to lock me into using the source editor, which isn't acceptable for young inexperienced contributors.

I'm getting the impression that I'm off on the wrong track. Can someone please tell me how to accomplish our goal?

Thanks! 