Thread:TotallyTinkerbell/@comment-25680254-20141113233543/@comment-25112275-20141114172802

Hello Soomac,

Thank you for the reply back. I’m actually doing this on my phone on the ride down to see my family. It is a welcome distraction on this ride.

It was lengthy response because I wanted you to understand why the page was protected and why we can’t do anything about the requirements.

4 days and 10 edit requirement is not something we as admins can change. It is something all wikia’s have as it was made by the wikia staff. As to why they did that, I do not know. However, we have generally not had a problem with this, mostly because episode pages are rarely edited by new users. New users tend to flock near the character and relationship pages.

The reason we have them protected is not just for malicious edits. It is to keep opinion and speculation off the page. To keep anything not fact off the page. It’s to keep any spoilers from appearing where they should not on the page. Anon’s generally do not read the rules, policies, layout guide, or even the category guide. They like to do as they please. All of the examples I’ve posted have been done on episode pages.

Yes they have also been done on character, and relationship pages. We once had many types of pages up for protection review. In the end admins could only agree on locking the season two episode pages.

However, I will re-talk to the other admins and see how they feel. As this was something that was just solved and implemented it may not be addressed for a while.

I do know how you feel. I went through the same thing. I had never edited a wiki before coming to the 100 wiki. When I came here I was a complete newbie to everything. The first edit I ever went to make was on a protected page. When I was told why, it was protected; I understood and respected the admins decision. I simply asked an admin to make the edit and I went about editing other pages.

After 4 days, I had enough edits and was on long enough, that I was able edit any page I liked. I then went on to become an enforcer, joined the update team, and then applied for adminship. This was just in this year alone. In fact, it was over the summer.

People, who register, tend to visit this wiki regularly. Normally they do not have a problem waiting or even achieving 10 edits.

On some wikia’s, they have more rules and are stricter on policies. We do not think that the season two episode pages being protected is such a bad thing.

The ‘’only’’ pages that are currently protected on the entire wiki are the season two episode pages and a few very important templates that I edit. Any other page on the site can be edited to your desire.

The templates are protected because we’ve had people not know how to edit the coding, try to edit them and mess up coding.

As for the episode pages being the first you visited that’s wonderful. However, the wiki trackers shows that people tend to go to the character or relationship pages first. These pages generally get the most traffic, are the most visited, most commented on, and edited.

As for understanding which pages they can and can not edit that will be in the new policies. We have ready thought of this.

Best regards,

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