Warhammer 40k fanon:Article Ownership Policy

Seen commonly on articles and enforced as something that is mandatory by our Article Quality Policy, property templates are templates that function as something of an ownership tag for articles.

Outside of keeping track of which user owns which article, they also exist for the purpose of detailing the conditions of article "ownership", either declaring which articles are open for community projects or which articles may only be edited by the author and any others she/he gives permission to.

This wiki however does not recognise any tangible concept of private property. Using a property template does not automatically entitle you to unrestricted ownership and control of your article, most specifically to the point where such a thing would inhibit beneficial practices carried out by Administrators and specific users voted as fit for such a job.

As such, property templates function, to the betterment of both users and the wiki as a whole, like so:

For templates that declare "Please do not edit this article without explicit permission from the author.":
 * No user except the user(s) whose name is displayed on the template may edit the article
 * The user(s) whose names are displayed on the template may give permission to other non-listed users to edit their articles, in whatever section or time constraint they so desire.

Administrators and users who have been given explicit permission by Admins to carry out such a task are permitted to waive the above in the following circumstances for specific purposes:
 * In the event of vandalism where changes made by the vandal must be reverted
 * Whenever the article does not qualify as meeting the minimum standards marked by an * on our Article Quality Policy, (i.e. Property templates, construction templates, infoboxes, categories, etc)
 * Article protection measures
 * Moving articles
 * Adding Quality Issue templates
 * Adding Stub templates
 * Adding Non-Canon Friendly templates
 * Removal of sections which violate our rules