User blog comment:Puretppc/Difficulty of levels./@comment-4189499-20140228001629

The difficulty is stored in Template:Difficulty level in a #switch based on pagename. This was done to ensure the difficulty level was only changed after a community consensus was reached by making it harder to get to. It removes simple access to difficulty from the regular user who is unfamiliar with this wiki's set-up, stopping unknowing users changing the difficulty to whatever they want without holding a discussion first. It was also moved because of trouble with page locking over difficulty a few months ago. If the difficulty is in a separate template, if there are problems with people changing the difficulty without consensus, just that template needs to be locked, keeping everything else on the levels pages free to edit. If you feel there is a need to change the difficulty on any level, it's probably best to contact an admin to do it so they can make sure an adequate discussion was held and then they have the knowledge of how to change the template.