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==Contacting an Staff Member==
==Contacting an Staff Member==
An automatically generated list of administrators can be found at [[Special:Listadmins]].  You can find a manual list of the staff on the [[Kingdom Hearts Wiki:Staff|Staff]] page.
An automatically generated list of administrators can be found at [[Special:Listadmins]].  You can find a manual list of the staff on the [[KHWiki:Staff|Staff]] page.


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An administrator can protect pages, which prevents other editors from editing them. Pages can be protected on different levels. Pages can be protected from anonymous IP edits, newer users, or from non-staff users, and for varying degrees of time.
An administrator can protect pages, which prevents other editors from editing them. Pages can be protected on different levels. Pages can be protected from anonymous IP edits, newer users, or from non-staff users, and for varying degrees of time.
*Semi-protection is normally used to alleviate vandalism. It appears in the Protection Log as “edit=autoconfirmed”, and protects pages from being edited by unregistered users (anonymous IP addresses) and newer accounts.  It should only be used in cases of heavy vandalism from multiple usernames or IP addresses.  Putting the page on your watchlist and reverting vandalism may be a better alternative.  Semi-protection may also be used on formatting templates or other major templates.
*Semi-protection is normally used to alleviate vandalism. It appears in the Protection Log as “edit=autoconfirmed”, and protects pages from being edited by unregistered users (anonymous IP addresses) and newer accounts.  It should only be used in cases of heavy vandalism from multiple usernames or IP addresses.  Putting the page on your watchlist and reverting vandalism may be a better alternative.  Semi-protection may also be used on formatting templates or other major templates.
*Full protection is generally used for protecting major site-wide pages. It appears in the Protection Log as “edit=sysop”, and only administrators can edit these pages. It can be used for important formatting templates, templates that require virtually no change or depict a special formatting character (such as {{tname|!}}), or pages dealing with legal concerns such as the site's [[Kingdom Hearts Wiki:Copyrights|copyright notice]].  Full protection should rarely be used to prevent vandalism unless semi-protection fails to do so.  Full protection may be used, however, to alleviate edit wars between established users.
*Full protection is generally used for protecting major site-wide pages. It appears in the Protection Log as “edit=sysop”, and only administrators can edit these pages. It can be used for important formatting templates, templates that require virtually no change or depict a special formatting character (such as {{tname|!}}), or pages dealing with legal concerns such as the site's [[KHWiki:Copyrights|copyright notice]].  Full protection should rarely be used to prevent vandalism unless semi-protection fails to do so.  Full protection may be used, however, to alleviate edit wars between established users.
*Protection can also be placed solely on moving a page, in case the page is a target of page-move vandalism or edit warring.
*Protection can also be placed solely on moving a page, in case the page is a target of page-move vandalism or edit warring.
Pages should be protected if the pages involved suffer recurring and targeted vandalism or if the pages are at the center of an edit war. This may happen around the time of a game launch, as the release of a new game may spur many edits of poorer and often false quality. However, pages should never be protected simply to preserve edits that are more favorable over edits that are more correct. Page Protection should be used in an edit war to encourage discussion on the edits, not to kill that discussion. Pages should also not be protected to eliminate editing related to new game releases, but rather to encourage better editing and prevent repetitive reverting or rollbacks.
Pages should be protected if the pages involved suffer recurring and targeted vandalism or if the pages are at the center of an edit war. This may happen around the time of a game launch, as the release of a new game may spur many edits of poorer and often false quality. However, pages should never be protected simply to preserve edits that are more favorable over edits that are more correct. Page Protection should be used in an edit war to encourage discussion on the edits, not to kill that discussion. Pages should also not be protected to eliminate editing related to new game releases, but rather to encourage better editing and prevent repetitive reverting or rollbacks.