MarioWiki:Protected pages

You've probably come here from a link on a protected page, which cannot currently be edited, or a protected image which can not currently be overwritten. Administrators have the ability to "protect" pages or images such that they cannot be modified except by other admins. If it's semi-protected, users less than 4 days old cannot edit, every other user can.

This ability is only used in certain circumstances, such as to a popular page highly vandalized. Sometimes permanent semi-protection is used in articles, though permanent full protection is mostly used for policies, such as this page, but almost never in articles.

User pages can only be edited by the user him/herself, with the exception of sysops, who can edit any user page. A user's user page is where he or she expresses him/herself, not another's, so there's no practical need to edit others' user pages.

Reasons for protecting pages include (but are not limited to):

 * Protecting high visibility pages such as the Main Page from vandalism.
 * Maintaining the integrity of the site's logos.
 * All MediaWiki pages, which are interface messages used repeatedly in the wiki software, are permanently fully protected by default.
 * All images featured on the Main Page must be protected. When they come off the Main Page, they should be unprotected.