Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-2194058-20140616043653

Prior to resigning as administrator on a wiki about a now-closed game (name is not important to this discussion), we had established a strict policy regarding private servers which clearly states we do not want it mentioned on the wiki. After my resignation, users in and out of the wiki believed it was necessary to fully protect the site (locking all or nearly all articles) from "vandalism" regarding these servers. Although doubtful they can accomplish this, I am also highly doubtful if Wikia would allow such full protection of the wiki. Even then, only special instances, such as extreeeeeeme vandalism to the point of a protection of the site to clean it up, is only temporary to a single half-day (12 hours or less). Thus locking because of such "vandalism" is not a valid action, excuse, or reason.

According to Help:Protect site, the paragraph starting with "As this tool..." on section "Usage," the last sentence says, "Please contact Wikia Staff for alternatives and other opinions." While I doubt this could mean the possibility of fully protecting the wiki, I do wonder what these alternatives are, if we are allowed to talk about it at all.

In my opinion, I highly disagree with the action to protect the site just because of a policy. Most importantly, we do not own the site, but acting merely as helpers to improve the community. Not to mention, the current and/or future admins are now in decision of the policy, whether to keep it or disband/ease the strictness. (Even then, if I was still around, I would have probably just ease the strictness and allow conversations about it.)

All in all and on topic, I highly doubt Wikia would allow these actions against the wiki, as it takes away the spirit of free-editing. Since I'm doubtful, I am not fully certain, and I became curious if such action is allowed site-wide. Not to mention it might be a legal issue... I think lol.

If certain that such action isn't allowed, I will inform the community, since I really don't want to be told to have locked all articles when I was an admin, and argue about it, and I really don't want them to waste their time to do something that will just be undone later. :P

TL;DR: Is full protection of all articles (just because of a simple policy where we [they] want to avoid "vandalism" on articles) considered justified and allowed on Wikia? 