Back in the AutoCAD days typically a CAD Manager would manage all the AutoCAD templates & blocks. Everything was available to all the design staff to use but they were not freely allowed to edit templates or blocks. This became a “check & balance” that made sense because it’s much easier to manage a standard if there is not a “free for all” on it. If there was a “free for all” then drawing sets would not be consistent and things would run less efficient. This is why a CAD Manager typically has had things like templates and blocks locked down thus the term “CAD Nazi” became widely known.
With the switch from AutoCAD to Revit I have noticed that standards can get very messy very quick in Revit. There are several ways this happens. A few ways I have seen this happen is copying from other projects, transferring project standards or the model was never setup properly to begin with so designers just made things up on their own. For example often times a designer doesn’t even know that…