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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Mav (talk | contribs) at 23:17, 13 February 2004 (changed rule # 2 from "editing" to "involved in an edit dispute over" ; that is the intent, no?). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Administrators have the ability to "protect" pages such that they cannot be edited except by other admins. This ability is only to be used in limited circumstances.

Part of the Community Information series

Policy

  1. Do not edit a protected page
  2. Do not protect a page you are involved in an edit dispute over.
  3. Add {{msg:protected}} to the top of the temporarily protected page and make mention of the protection in the edit summary
  4. List pages you protect on Wikipedia:Protected page
  5. Consider encouraging a resolution between the disputing parties
  6. Remove {{msg:protected}} from the top of an unprotected page and make mention of the removal in the edit summary
  7. List pages you unprotect on Wikipedia:Unprotected page

See Wikipedia:Protection policy for more detailed advice and the purpose of protected pages.

See also: recently unprotected pages

Requests for page protection, Protection log, This page is protected, Maintaining this page, m:Protected pages considered harmful, m:The Wrong Version

Commentary

The protected page system may be changed in the future so that all users can modify them, but modifications won't go through until a certain amount of time has passed (and/or an admin accepts them). This would reduce the requirements for admin intervention for useful things to happen.

See meta:Protected pages considered harmful, meta:edit wars, MeatBall:DelayAction.

Viewing the source of a protected page

To view the source of e.g. Main Page, use

or

The latter also gives metadata (see m:page metadata) about the last edit. It is an XML file; tags are coded in its source, and plainly shown when rendered by the browser. However, blank lines in the wikisource are shown in the xml-source, but not in the rendering.


List of protected pages

If you protect a page, or find a protected page not listed here, please add it to this list. Please also add a short description of ten words or less indicating why you protected it. If you need to say more, discuss on the talk page of the page you protected.

(Also see Wikipedia:Unprotected page for pages recently unprotected.)

Semi-permanently protected pages (various reasons)

Semi-permanently protected (system administration reasons)

The following pages are automatically generated and are usually protected for system administration reasons:

Semi-permanently protected (sysop pages)

  • User:Eloquence/Boilerplate texts - This is a user subpage that has no relevance whatsoever to anyone except me. When I copy & paste from there, I want to be sure that these are my words without checking the history. As such, protection is entirely appropriate, and user subpages of that nature are hardly relevant enough to be listed on Wikipedia:Protected page. —Eloquence. 23:25, 13 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • User:Kingturtle -- I feel that user pages should be protected because it is the one place in wikipedia where one's one expression can be presented in its most pure form. Also, it is to thwart vandals. Kingturtle 17:46, 27 Sep 2003 (UTC)
  • User:RickK. Too many vandals attacking the page. It's my User page and nobody else needs to edit it. That's what the Talk page is for. RickK 19:32, 8 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • User:Snoyes, User:Snoyes/boiler.
  • User:Ilyanep + Some Subpages - I'd like to keep my page protected (minus my talk and some publicly editable pages) because, First of all, it's my page, and Second of all, I've had some vandal troubles a while ago on my front page.

Temporarily protected (edit wars or vandalism)

latest at bottom

  • Nizkor Project - edit war, protection requested by both participants, chose a random version. Morwen 09:31, Jan 21, 2004 (UTC)
  • Nucleic acid - edit war between 168... and Lir. Since I'm the protecting sysop in the other one (DNA), I thought I might as well do this one. -- Cyan 18:55, 17 Jan 2004 (UTC)
    • Unprotected. -- Cyan 18:30, 24 Jan 2004 (UTC)
    • Reprotected. -- Cyan 05:44, 30 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Haganah - Danny and Europeen edit war on the status of Haganah's terrorist status. Poor Yorick
  • New Imperialism - based on this request "*New Imperialism Lirath Q. Pynnor 17:05, 29 Jan 2004 (UTC)" -- I checked the page and it appeared that an edit war had continued through yesterday (with no signs of stopping today, that I could tell). I know this is a contentious page, but decided that nothing in the protection policy allowed me to say "let them fight it out". If someone disagrees, go ahead and revert me. :) Jwrosenzweig 20:54, 3 Feb 2004 (UTC)
7/2/04 , constantly being changed by user conte charles said vassallo, who defaces and changes the page, even though many other users have reverted it back. Ghariexem
edit war between OneVoice, Zero0000 and Viajero Bmills 11:26, 11 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Szczecin -- protected at Darkelf's request after lengthy revert war between Wik and Darkelf. Can't tell if it has waned or if they simply logged off for the day. The page may have reached an uneasy consensus by now...couldn't really tell, and as I thought the war had gone on too far and Darkelf made the request, I went ahead. Jwrosenzweig 05:50, 12 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Wikipedia:Possible misuses of admin privileges (again) - Lir made a comment on 168, 168 reverted, snoyes reverted, 168 reverted, packran revereted, etc etc. →Raul654 06:21, Feb 12, 2004 (UTC)
    • As a subnote - after adding the msg:protected tag to the top, 168 reverted me, and 2 other sysops who attempted to restore it (after it was protected). Far be it for me to criticize another admin for using his powers (I've generally been the most reluctant to say anything bad about someone on the misuse of powers page), but I think willfully and repeatedly editing the same article after protection can be considered an abuse of admin powers. →Raul654 06:30, Feb 12, 2004 (UTC)
  • List of massacres committed during the Al-Aqsa Intifada I protected this yesterday (thanks for reminding me to post this Uriber) after an edit war between Viajero and StarOfDavid. It seems that the best way to deal with the pages is to simply protect them as they become sticking points. OneVoice, I and others are working on the WP:AIC page as a central way of organizing discussions related to these various related AIC articles. To discuss the page in question, we are going to try an experiment, using the WP:AICO (Arab-Israeli conflict Oasis) - as a place for all related discussion. I will include this message there as well. By forcing people to discuss these issues on a separate but related page, we can keep all the small fires from getting out of control - its the small fires that are problematic, because they are hard to access, can pop up anywhere, and rareley get good moderation. Be well,-戴&#30505sv 20:41, 12 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Pila - Edit war between Wik and Nico. Should I keep doing this? In theory these protections end edit wars and force cooldown, but Wik has been involved in over half a dozen in a day or two. If someone wants me to stop protecting pages like this, please let me know. I want to protect Wikipedia from being a senseless reversion battle arena, but if it's pointless I'll give up and do something else. Jwrosenzweig 21:02, 12 Feb 2004 (UTC)
    • Not sure what protection accomplishes. You're not going to protect WP from being a senseless reversion battle arena as long as Wik is still here. Anthony DiPierro 21:05, 12 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Peter Beattie - repeated vandalization. Probably 24 hours will be long enough. -- Viajero 14:29, 13 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Israeli-Palestinian conflict - protected due to revert war. I saved to the last version before the revert war, an edit by an anon not involved. Dori | Talk 15:01, Feb 13, 2004 (UTC)
  • Curse of the Bambino - despite my best efforts for compromise (some of which succeeded), this page was ultimately hit by huge vandalism from either several like-minded individuals, or one person with wildly rotating IPs. It's almost like the page was /.ed or something. Anyhow, hopefully 24 hours off will be sufficient. I'd like to get out of the protected page business. Jwrosenzweig 21:11, 13 Feb 2004 (UTC)
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