Thread:CustardBursts/@comment-24.16.34.50-20200103011745/@comment-37611621-20200103011831

Hi Eva,

There is something that needs to be brought to your attention. I've noticed that you've been fully protecting some pages in which protection is completely unnecessary and sometimes against the rules of FANDOM. I've been thinking about this for a while, but after seeing the Sophie and Keefe and Sophie and Fitz pages protected, I decided to message you. When I took it upon myself to categorize uncategorized templates, I noticed a few that were protected and uncategorized, some of which had been categorized, protected, and then uncategorized.

Our Protected Pages FANDOM page was deleted when Cath purged the Lost Cities Keeper Wiki pages, and I'm not able to find the link. On it, it stated different rules about what pages Administrators were allowed to categorize. I can't quote it word for word now that the page has been deleted, but one of the rules was about not protecting pages that don't need protecting. An example is Template:StarBirthday (Please take that out of the Templates category. Category:Templates is a place for categorizing categories, not pages.). I first came upon the template when it was called something along the lines of "Template:Don't follow, this is a secret, keep out". It was uncategorized, so in the uncategorized templates page. I don't remember exactly what happened, but I either didn't categorize it because it was protected, categorized it and then unfollowed and then it was reuncategorized, or didn't categorize it because of "keep out". I don't remember if I messaged you either. Anyway, it was in the Uncategorizedtemplates page for a really long time and I couldn't edit it because it was protected. This breaks a rule that, again, I can no longer quote word for word: Only protect pages if it is absolutely necessary. In the general advice section of the help page on protected pages on community central, it says "Do not make the common mistake of protecting pages unnecessarily."

The above was mostly just a little example. The O: template is another example if you want detail there. There are a lot more, though, which leads me to this: The Sophie and Keefe and Sophie and Fitz pages should have not been protected. Page protection levels should make sense. If a page is repeatedly vandalized by IPs, then semi-protection will stop that; full protection is not necessary. If two established editors are having an edit war, then temporary full protection of the page is needed. That's from the official Community Central page. Please unprotect all of these pages protected unneccessarily. There are far more rules on the Protected Pages page that was deleted, and I'm not sure if those rules were added by the Community Central bot, or IceCream111 and/or Cath, but no matter what, they're rules.

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