Help:Controlling your work

Most pages on a wiki can be edited by anyone. It's considered polite to let the person who created a story or character be the one to change it, but without special steps, preventing changes by others is often not possible.

So when you create a story or a character, you need to decide if you want others to be able to make changes.

Selecting change permission
Three templates are available to signal to others if you do or do not want their help:


 * Template:Open
 * Template:Discuss
 * Template:Closed

The Open template states that editing can be done by anyone and gives an option to contact you if they want to talk about changes before they make them.

The Discuss template requests that people contact you first to discuss changes. However, this would not prevent them from going ahead and just making the changes anyway.

The Closed states that you do not want anyone else changing your story or character. Note that editing by other people cannot be prevented without contacting an administrator.

Locking down the page
If you want people to discuss changes with you first or want to completely prevent changes you do not want, you may want to create a blog instead of a regular page. The blog would then only be editable by you and you can select whether comments can be entered. (Note: Admins can edit blogs, but typically only do so for maintenance purposes, like updating a link.)

Regular pages can be protected so that new users and people who aren't logged into an account cannot edit them, or fully-protected so that only administrators and/or content managers can make changes.

Abandoned pages
Any pages you create can be considered to be abandoned if you decide to leave the wiki, even if you tagged them for discussion or not to be edited. Two years after the last day you were here, anyone can make changes to it. The Abandoned template will be placed at the top of the page and will replace any of the three other templates that might already be there.

If you do not want changes to be made even after you're gone, contact an administrator and request that the page(s) be fully protected. The current list of administrators is: