Thread:Fearless Diva/@comment-34892069-20180206155825/@comment-3452092-20180207024807

They have blocked not only that IP, but close IPs (probably ends up being the IPs from that house or apartment) as well, so hopefully that is the end of that problem. This had to be done at a level higher than Fearless Diva or Wolf which is why it couldn't be done at the beginning of the problem. The wikia higher ups had to be contacted and they had to respond before it could be dealt with. In the meantime, Sel was blocking any new vandal users as she learned about them while she was in class. I was baby sitting my nephew who is fourteen-months-old, so a bit of a handful, when this happened. I'm glad it's over.

It is possible to lock images (it's called protecting them) to prevent them from being replaced by a vandal as well as protect pages in the same way. Probably the protection level we would want is "block new and unregistered users". That would protect against people who just joined the site (i.e. sock puppet accounts made specifically for vandalism). The problem is it would make it so that new users who were there legitimately couldn't edit either. However, this is a page by page protection, so I would definitely do that for the main page, the series categories, the page with the list of stories, and a couple other major ones like that. Since there is no reason images should be changed, except in cases where a better version of the image is being uploaded, I would protect all images at that level, too. There's probably a few templates I woud protect at a deeper level, too, but that's not something I would put on someone else since it is a massive project, but it is possible and probably a good idea if Sel and Wolf have the time to do at least the first list I mentioned. I am the admin on other wikias, so I figured this out by checking one of my wikias. . . where I apparently did put a protection on the main page, so I think I might have had some minor issues with vandalism, nothing like this. I know one of the other wikias occasionally has people who make a whole bunch of blank pages with tons of categories and then just vanish, , , it's weird. I think they must just want to cause trouble, because they sure aren't doing it for badges.

It would take a bit of time, but yes, it is possible to do what you ask. Unfortunately it's something the admins have to do, so not something we can help with.

Edited to Add: There does appear to be a way to protect pages that are on a page (such as templates used their and images), which would go a long way to protecting more pages at a quicker pace.