Board Thread:Wiki Discussions/@comment-1251315-20140820175011/@comment-28861328-20140908180432

Elveonora wrote: Ten Tailed Fox wrote: Really? I've seen you do this not once.
 * Sysops who protect pages so that only they can edit the information there.

I have protected pages many times so that only sysops can edit them. No denial there. I've only done so (the History and talk pages will confirm this) in cases of:


 * Revert/edit wars. Where both parties are just going back and forth.
 * Potential edit war articles. For example, I suggested we protect the TSB article the day after Kaguya's natures were revealed, because I knew it'd be a shit storm. It was. I also protected Gaara's and Bunpuku's page when the initial decision was made yesterday in anticipation of a shit storm. Oh, look what's happening right now!

Those options are given to sysops for a reason and the reasons are in plain sight in the Wikia Activity. Its either we let people do what they want and revert a page back and forth, based on their beliefs, all day long, or we tell them to cool their jets by protecting the articles for a few days.

I should also note, I've never protected an article for longer than a week; usually in a case where I think the next chapter will settle whatever dispute brought about the protection. Yesterdays Magnet Release decision warrented a protection of 3 days to allow everyone to sort it out.

Edit: Malicious intent, however, is another matter entirely and I have never used any of the buttons I've been given maliciously. Ever.