Thread:Fossiliferous/@comment-25480756-20141001185242/@comment-24668482-20141002083337

Yeah, that is pretty standard across all wikia. If you go to community central (the wikia help desk, run by wikia staff) you can even edit the paid wikia staff's profiles if you wanted.

I guess it comes from the fact that these are wikis, which are community built collobarative projects, so everything is free and open. There is obviously a trust system in place, and people who break that trust can be banned. If someone edits your profile, the next time you log in there will be a notification at the top of the page telling you, so you can see everything that is done and revert any vandalism. If someone does vandalise your profile, you should contact me and I will protect it for you.

In theory, I could protect all different profile pages to a certain degree but that would go against the ethos of a wiki if I started to abuse that function. I have 3 levels of protecting I can apply to any one page:

1. allow all users (default)

2. Block new and unregistered users

3. Administrators only

If you want me to use the second option on your profile page I will (the 3rd option would mean you could not edit it yourself) but honestly I would be surprised if any one made any changes on purpose, and it is pretty easy to see any changes. For the record, because there are not many edits here in any given day I have time to check every single edit, so I will probably see anything within a day or two and will make sure no-one is being bullied.