Forum:Protecting the War Room?

Wikians. On May 31 on the Call of Duty Forum an unregistered IP with no previous edits cast a support vote for the installment of Call of Duty Day. Not only did this user clearly not know anything about this wiki works but wasn't even able or willing to sign. Now this vote was struck out by user CodExpert but should he have had to do this? were my thoughts. Now it is clear we cannot expect unregistered IPs to even bother to read the terms of the wiki or give a damn for that matter. Now unregistered users commiting vandalism or destroying/wrecking pages in the mainspace are something that we as a wiki have to deal with. Now while sometimes it seems like restricting IPs from editing would be a good thing but in truth it would not be IPs can be helpful and it would destroy our wiki status if we said no to unregistered contributors editing the mainspace. But this is the War Room where registered users come together to debate, discuss, and implement new decisions that will effect the wiki as a whole. This is no place for unregistered contributors who cannot vote and will rarely if ever understand what discussions are about.

Now according to policy IPs not registered are not allowed to vote so any time they vote someone has to take the time to strike it out. Now there are ways to enforce this rule however. I propose that we start locking down all War Room pages making it to where only registered users can edit them. The unregistered IPs are not even allowed to anyway and by doing this it will ensure nothing similar happens again. And yes while some will view it as over reacting to a small case, better safe than sorry can apply in a way. And why do we have these rules if we will not take easy measures to enforce them? Doing this should be simple, help enforce the rules, and keep the War Room clean of the occasional unregistered editor.

Support - As nominator.