User blog comment:Minithepeanut/Protecting Pages/@comment-3503487-20120916071755

I'm probably going to get hate for this, but I agree with this blog. Let me explain.

Just because you're an admin doesn't mean you should protect your pages. Non-admins work hard on their pages too. And I'm not just saying this to represent the non-admins; I'd feel the same way on a wiki I admin. If people mess up your pages, this is why we have the undo and rollback buttons and why we have so many admins to warn and block vandals. It is very easy to get back what used to be on a page even if for some reason you can't undo an edit. Simply go to the history of a page, find the revision you want, add the old edit ID to your page URL and voila, you have the old version. Click edit and publish and there you go.

I think anyone should be able to add inactive templates and fix major coding errors and such on other pages. Character pages are not things that only admins should be able to edit like the administration team page or what not. I agree, sometimes it can be annoying if someone edits your page to fix your character's grammar if it's supposed to be that way, but maybe you can just tell the user nicely to stop that.

Yes, demoting is a bit extreme, but Mini's giving a heads up and just making a point that this flies against Wikia policies. Wikia follows a strict code of assuming good faith, especially for sysops, which means not reverting edits that weren't meant for harm and not taking precautions that wouldn't be especially beneficial to the wiki. Yes, protecting doesn't harm anyone, but it gives off the sense that administrators have special privileges that other users have, when really an admin should just have the extra functions to enforce the rules and overall ideas of the wiki and not just protecting their own pages as they see fit.

lol ok sorry that's just my opinion

Oh, also: off* necessary* receive* xP mwahahahaha grammar nazi