Editing Brighter Shores:Protection policy (section)

==Guidelines==
* Protecting pages pre-emptively is generally discouraged. Only protect when there is persistent vandalism coming from many IPs/accounts, or if there is an on-going edit war that is showing no signs of cooling down. Blocks should be used instead of protection whenever possible.
* Do not edit protected pages that are subject to dispute except to add a notice explaining the page's protection.
* Do not protect a page you are involved in a dispute over. Administrative rights are not editor privileges &ndash; administrators should only act as servants to the user community at large.
* Avoid favouring one version of the article over another, unless one version is factually incorrect or vandalism.
* Temporarily protected pages should generally not be left as such for very long. Expiry times should usually be used in these cases.
* Talk and user talk pages are not to be protected except in extreme circumstances. An exception applies to user talk pages for banned users that are being persistently abused.
* Protection is not an endorsement of the protected version. Do not edit a page protected in a dispute to change it to another version.
* To maintain the open nature of the wiki format, protection should be used sparingly. Always consider other options, such as blocks and dispute resolution, before resorting to protection. Whenever possible, use an expiry time to keep the page protected for as little time as possible.

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