Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-8072-20160419225958/@comment-24036697-20170327192231

DEmersonJMFM wrote: Ideally no wiki page should be protected but realistically some pages and some specific content pages (especially controversial topics in a fandom) are going to be targets of negative edits at a higher frequency than others. Protecting a page, just because it's the main one, may not be appropriate and maintaining the sense of openness is important (protecting high-use templates is a little different because a negative edit can affect much more than a single page, wikis shouldn't protect every template just to do so though as I've seen some wikis do). I personally allow non-new users to edit the main page in the instance there's a typo (non-template text content) and haven't experienced large vandalism (of course the largest wikis have the greatest probability, ignoring the wiki's subject matter, of being vandalized). Given the activity of most wikis, protecting a home page simply isn't going to be necessary (in which protection is frowned upon).

Wikia/Fandom pages are no different. I've seen errors on their pages I could of corrected if they were open to editing (some I'm sure are still there, one took months to be fixed). I wouldn't mind the idea of another protection level that allowed users to submit edits that could be approved by an Admin (a little more straightforward than a wall or talk message). On my wiki, I have the main page and all major templates protected from edits by anonymous and new users, and fully protected from moving except by admins. I think that is reasonable since those are some of the most sensitive areas of the site, and partial protection still allows most users to edit the pages.