User blog:Denmax/Numerous protected pages

Should the following pages receive a change in protection? Yes No Not to all

I've been wondering what were the points of protecting so many of the more visited pages (Gumball and many gallery pages). I do see a reasons - to avoid vandalism - however restricting every individual to contribute onto the few most critical pages is not a recommended step. The rule of "Prevention is better than the cure" does not apply, because the cure is just as simple, or even simpler, than the mode of prevention and does not decay the quality of the page.

Many wikias such as the other two of the three CN wikis, MLP, etc, get much more traffic than us, which means a lot more vandalism. But you don't see them protecting their main character pages, because undo-ing vandalism is much more simpler than the hassle of restricting individuals from contributing to the page. It's like we're expecting that no more greater changes will happen in the future.

Doesn't mean we have to unprotect EVERY page. Just the ones that are obviously better off unprotected. There is always room for improvement. Page protection should be given to pages that require more advanced knowledge, or could result in serious damage to the wiki from a single change or edit.

A good example of a protected page is some of the large scale template pages. Another good example are personal user pages of admins (because really, you are only expecting yourself to be editting that thing). An obvious candidate for protection is the main page, because really, there's no real way of contributing to the main page unless discussed by the community.

Just my two cents. Feel free to comment.

List of pages to change protection (from full to semi)
 * A whole lot of the gallery pages
 * Gumball Watterson

List of pages to change protection (from none to full)
 * The list of infobox templates
 * Template:Tab
 * Template:SimpleNavbox
 * Template:Navbox
 * Probably your user page

List of pages to change protection (from none to semi)
 * The list of templates using SimpleNavbox
 * Template:EpisodeNavbox