User:Elockid/Protection proposal

Vandalism on articles especially BLPs are still present. Pending changes (PC) to some extent has been used to try and reduce vandalism on high profile BLPs. For example, the article Justin Bieber still receives high levels of vandalism despite being semi-protected. PC level 2 was introduced to help some of the vandalism but was not very successful in stopping/reducing the amount of vandalism.

Autoconfirmation is very easy attain and it's supposed to be. Long-term sockpuppeteers have taken advantage of this and have easily broken through pages that have been protected as a result of sockpuppetry. For example in List of Bob's Burgers episodes, several socks were successful enough in getting through the protection. is a prime example of socks taking advantage of this relative ease of attaining autoconfirmation. Time and time again, long-term sockpuppeteers have continued to abuse the ease of autoconfirmation. We already have a special user who easily abuses this.

Though rarely used, full protection is used to help deal with the sockpuppetry and vandalism from autoconfirmed accounts. Due to pages being fully protected, only administrators may edit the page, drastically preventing any kind of improvements or changes that can be done those articles.

Long-term and trusted editors should not be blocked from editing due to vandalism and/or sockpuppetry. I believe that an intermediate protection is needed to help deal with situations where full protection would be used for sockpuppetry and vandalism. Though PC may come to mind, PC does not physically prevent autoconfirmed accounts from editing a page To help with the concerns above, I am proposing the the split of our current semi-protection capabilities:

Semi-protection 1 (SP1)

 * Can only be edited by autoconfirmed/confirmed users:
 * -Account has a minimum of 10 edits and is at least 4 days old
 * -Or account is confirmed


 * Note: This is currently what's in use for semi-protection

Semi-protection 2 (SP2)

 * Can only be edited by users who
 * -Are either account creators, administrator, autoreviewers, reviewers, and/or rollbacker
 * -Or a new userright if the community wishes.
 * Perhaps Veteran or Veteran Editor?
 * -Or have at least X edits (for those who do not want to be associated with userrights)
 * Suggestion of 1,000 edits

Requirements for new userright if chosen

 * Have at least X edits
 * Suggestion of at least 1,000 edits


 * Be at least X months old
 * Suggestion of at least 3 months old


 * Optional: have at least X mainspace edits
 * Suggestion of at least 500 mainspace edits

Usage

 * On pages where SP1 has found to be unsuccesful/less than what was expected.