User blog comment:Fredy-san/Going More Strict Now About New Users/@comment-27093654-20170213012736/@comment-27095444-20170213200629

But the main thing of Wikia is that everyone can edit articles, that's the whole fun of it. How could we promote people without knowing if they  have any experience in making pages by themselves. Also staff members are not so active and we basically receive more edits from third party members than from our own "crew".

So I don't think  that protecting all pages would be a good idea.