User blog comment:H-Man Havoc/Semi-Protected Pages/@comment-1891865-20110328152658/@comment-737801-20110328173939

I also think Teugene was the last person to deal with juvenile actions with the last major vandalism spree as well.

Again though H-Man, the only way to prevent something like this is to either lock all pages from Unregistered users, a.k.a. semi protecting the whole wiki, or locking the whole wiki so that only myself, Spart, and staff members can edit it for registered users. Neither one of those is really acceptable for reasons that I detailed below in another response.

The only thing that would have resulted from semi-protecting pages, is that after a period of time, he, as a registered user, would have been able to edit them anyway, which would have been upped it up full protection. The only thing this would have accomplished is the end result of the entire wiki being fully protected, meaning that you, or anyone apart from Spart, myself, and staff members could edit any page.

Semi-protection can only go so far because as soon as the user's email address is authenticated/confirmed, they can edit those pages. So there is a very big flaw in your plan, because then he could have edited the semi-protected pages, meaning again he could have one up to full protection. That doesn't do anything but cave to vandals and prevent more than likely good, or at least good natured edits from new people and URs.

The only way your idea has merit, if and only if the person says unregistered, because if they register, then your idea is basically useless for a complete lack of a better term.