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:A. We restrict these abilities for the purposes of security against vandalism and spam. Specifically: | :A. We restrict these abilities for the purposes of security against vandalism and spam. Specifically: | ||
:*Moving pages and files can be burdensome to undo even for admins. | :*Moving pages and files can be burdensome to undo even for admins. | ||
:*The purpose of semi-protection is to disallow edits from anonymous and new users to combat vandalism or spam. | :*Deleting pages and files require admin intervention, the process of which is more time-consuming than reverting bad edits. | ||
:* | :*The purpose of semi-protection is to disallow edits from anonymous and new users to combat vandalism or spam, or otherwise limit nonconstructive edits to contentious pages and pages that require expertise to edit. | ||
:*Unwanted images have a greater potential for harm than text-based vandalism, and so it's in the wiki's best interest to lock image uploading behind a barrier that most bad faith actors will not surmount. | |||
:*While the most important images are often protected, uploading new versions of existing files can be abused by new-account vandals to quickly insert unwanted images onto a multitude of pages. | :*While the most important images are often protected, uploading new versions of existing files can be abused by new-account vandals to quickly insert unwanted images onto a multitude of pages. | ||