This is supposed to be a fandom repository of facts for the series. It will never be taken seriously if we constantly have people changing the information with malicious spam. Is there anyway we can petition to Wikia to ask them if it's possible to put a SCREENED option for new edits before they hit the site, so an admin can approve or discard edits? Just wondering as someone who likes contributing to this Wikia with serious info.
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No, sorry, it's forbidden and would be against Fandom/Wikia's Terms of Use. FANDOM wikis must be open for all users to edit, and a screening tool you specified doesn't exist. The patrolling tool is the closest tool to what you described but patrolling doesn't restrict edits and is more of a "checking tool".
But we admins do have extra tools and rights that allow us to stop vandalism. As mentiojed, the patrolling tool. We can also block specific users from editing if they continuously vandalise. The Fandom VSTF, a volunteer anti-vandal team does help with stopping vandalism sometimes and have helped with stopping vandalism on Tamlin's page in the past. They can be contacted if vandalism gets very bad.
Pages can also be locked from new editors (the Tamlin page is for instance) but as vandalism isn't too intense we haven't locked any of the other pages (yet), but can if needed.
Vandalism is always inevitably on wikis though (Wikia is after all based on Wikipedia) but myself and the other admins check the activity feed constantly to check for vandals. The recent vandalism to the pages have been completely reverted.
If you do see any vandalism on the wiki, feel free to contact myself or RedstoneDemigod on our Message walls and we will revert edits/block users ASAP.
Thanks for your concern though, but having such as a feature is against FANDOM's rules.
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The user that just vandalised also heavily vandalised the Throne of Glass wiki as well. Sigh. I'll think about putting in more protections on articles in future. Thanks for actually editing the wiki though, your edits are appreciated! :)
Well, that makes it harder to stop vandals.
Then you can add user "Surielthethirddwheel" as a vandal and refuse her access. I reversed two of her edits today. Here are those URLs, if you want to see what she attempted to do to both Azriel and Tamlin:
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Yes sure, I've blocked Surielthethirddwheel and reversed her recent edits to the Nesta, Feyre, Elain and other pages as well. :) Thanks.
Another one you can ban from the group: "Hxvilliard".
Just changed Azriel's page back AGAIN because of this twit.
The problem seems to be Wikia doesn't have an IP block on accounts that are reported to them for spam and problems. I think maybe I'll talk to them directly about beefing up their sign in and recording IPs for bad accounts. I run the Black Dagger Brotherhood Wikia and I'm concerned about this sort of thing happening there, too.
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Blocked and edits reverted. It think does block the IP address: acourtofthornsandroses.wikia.com/wiki/Special:BlockList. (ADragonsBookHoard is me btw)
I can lock some of the pages against new editors from editing but honestly vandalism isn't a major problem here...
Vandalism is so awful... I can't believe people are doing this!