Thread:Sakaros/@comment-1998339-20190214024452/@comment-104549-20190215184433

Protection's not a particularly drastic remedy, but it is an atypical one. As you implied, it almost demands a concerted and intentionally negative effort; a more garden variety edit war doesn't usually rise to the level of protection, and can usually be handled by a Message Wall post. When protection is necessary, "Block new and unregistered users" is going to be the solution 99% of the time; "Administrators and Content Moderators only" is so extreme that I've never even seen it done. Granted, that's because all of the vandals I've seen who necessitate protection are anons; on the off-chance an established user goes nuts, something like that might be demanded, but that's a pretty weird hypothetical.

I usually drop protections in one-month increments. LEGO Star Wars and any fanon The Clone Wars seasons are common targets, for whatever reason.

Your handling was completely proper; any user can point out a policy violation to another, and any user can revert edits that (seemingly or actually) violate the Editing Policy. If I think your actions need to be defended, I'll let you know, but I'm not holding my breath for that to happen.