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 Non-regular editors of the war game wiki are encouraged to seek guidance from an administrator or seasoned contributor before moving pages.
+== Protected pages and files ==
+Very rarely, an [[Special:Listusers/sysop|'''administrator''']] will determine that some kind of page on this website requires that only an administrator edit it. An editor will know if a page is protected and they lack permissions by seeing the button "View source" rather than "Edit" or "Edit source". Bigger wikis use this on high-traction pages to avoid misinformation and to maintain a stable version. For this wiki, it's usually pages relating to policy, files which are official or widely used where changing them is unlikely to make sense, and templates that if not edited carefully can result in a negative cascade effect that makes the website unreadable. While such issues are easy to resolve, they may be hard to catch given the low-traction nature of the wiki, and so it's determined that prevention is the superior option.
+If there is a page that an editor wishes to manipulate, but cannot, they are to contact an administrator for assistance. Editors can also ask to ''become'' an administrator (see the relevant card at [[Help:Handout]]) if this becomes a frequent problem.
 == Categories ==