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Fallen London Wiki, true to the base principle of [[w:Wiki|wikis]], aims to be openly editable by anyone. Except for a few special pages (like the [[Fallen London Wiki|Main Page]]), <u>all content pages are free from any kind of protection</u>.
 
Fallen London Wiki, true to the base principle of [[w:Wiki|wikis]], aims to be openly editable by anyone. Except for a few special pages (like the [[Fallen London Wiki|Main Page]]), <u>all content pages are free from any kind of protection</u>.
  
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However, this can leave us open to large-scale vandalism and high server load caused by bad faith or incorrect edits. Because of this, certain high-risk technical pages (such as [[Special:AllPages/Template:|templates]] and [[Special:AllPages/Module:|Lua modules]]) unfortunately need to be under some level of protection, as any edits to these kinds of pages will have wide-ranging effects throughout the entire wiki.
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The only significant area this wiki uses page protections is for certain high-risk technical pages ([[Special:AllPages/Template:|templates]] and [[Special:AllPages/Module:|Lua modules]]). The limiting factor (using number of transclusions) is as follows:
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These restrictions are applied based on the number of transclusions that these pages have, and are as follows:
 
 
* 250+: Autoconfirmed protection (registered user with at least 10 edits and at least 4 days since account creation)
 
* 250+: Autoconfirmed protection (registered user with at least 10 edits and at least 4 days since account creation)
 
* 5000+: [[Fallen London Wiki:Template editor|Template editor]] protection (trusted user group, granted on request)
 
* 5000+: [[Fallen London Wiki:Template editor|Template editor]] protection (trusted user group, granted on request)
  
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Under special circumstances, some particularly complex or important templates or modules may also receive protection even if they don't cross the relevant threshold.
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Rarely, some particularly complex or important templates/modules may also receive protection even if they don't cross the relevant threshold.
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The reason for restricting access to these highly transcluded pages is to prevent large-scale vandalism and high server load caused by bad faith or incorrect edits.
  
 
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