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Administrators have the ability to "protect" pages or images so that they cannot be modified except by other admins (the link "Edit this page" is replaced by a link "View source" when viewed by non-admins). This ability is only to be used in limited circumstances.

Admins must not protect pages they are actively engaged in editing, except in the case of simple vandalism.

Articles linked from the main page should NOT be protected (full or semi) except to clean up vandalism. Protection should be kept to 10-15 minutes in these cases.

Procedure

  1. Protect the page, supplying a reason.
  2. Add an approriate protection template (e.g. {{protected}} (or {{sprotected}})
  3. List pages you protect on Wikipedia:List of protected pages; if it is protected due to a conflict, you may want to list all user names/IPs involved in the conflict.
    Please use {{article|ARTICLE NAME}} when listing a page at Wikipedia:Protected page, where ARTICLE NAME is the article or page you wish to protect.
  4. Remove the protection (while supplying a reason) once the conflict has been resolved.
  5. Remove the protection template from the top of an unprotected page and make mention of the removal in the edit summary.

If you protect a page, or find a protected page not listed here, please add it below, to the appropriate sections. Please also add a short description of ten words or less indicating why you protected it.

See also

Pages protected due to WP:OFFICE guidelines

Per Jimbo Wales, some articles are being protected by User:Danny due to complaints at Wikimedia's office. Please do not unprotect these without asking Danny first.

Pages protected only against moves

Please ensure that you add {{moveprotected}} to the top of a move-locked page. New protections should be added at the bottom of this list. Please use {{Non-article|Type|NAME}} or {{article|NAME}} to list pages here.

Pages protected due to edit wars or vandalism

This list always needs pruning. Wikipedia works perfectly fine on a protection cycle of less than one week. Please examine older listings and unprotect if at all possible. If you add an article here, please remember to check the talk page frequently, and always consider removing protection as soon as possible.

Real articles

Full protection

See also Category:Protected, Category:Protected against vandalism and Protection log

Latest at the bottom, please; and please sign all entries so we know how old they are. Please use a * in front of you entry, without a space after it.Please ensure that you add one of the following templates at the top of a protected page: {{protected}} or {{vprotected}} in the case of vandalism. Also, if you see a vandalised page, report it to an admin, or simply re-edit it back to what it was before.

Until all associated editors can come to some sort of agreement on all of these articles (it's pretty much the same ones reverting back and forth on all of them), they will remain protected. ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 07:43, 10 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protection

See also Category:Semi-protected and Protection log

Latest at the bottom, please; and please sign all entries so we know how old they are. Please use a * in front of your entry, without a space after it.

(Duck (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) as always. ≈ jossi ≈ t • @ 05:05, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Protected against spambots or banned users

See also: Semi-protected from banned users

In the case of users engaging in long-term spamming a page or banned users continuing to edit a page when they cannot easily be blocked (AOL or shared IP), the pages may be watched by VoABot II. Blacklisted changes are automatically reverted. Edits by logged-out users of certain IP ranges may be reverted as well. Additionally, semi-protection may be used if necessary.

This is only used to stop obvious IP hopping spammers or users blocked indefinetely from adding content (not random vandalism) by administrators.

The following pages are specifically watched by VoABot II for spam or edits by banned users. Contact Voice of All to get pages added to the list.

Other pages

Images protected while on the Main Page

Images on the main page often become the target of vandalism, particularly being overwritten with shock site images, which harms the credibility of the project due to that page's extreme visibility. Also, it takes some time for sysops to determine what caused a main page change. As such, images have begun to be protected during their time there, and this has become a de facto policy since the second or third week of November 2004.

In order to keep track of these images, please add {{mprotected}} to them. This will add the image to Category:Protected main page images. There are typically 4 to 5 images on the main page.

For main page images from the Wikicommons, the quickest, most effective way to protect them is to copy the image, upload it locally, and add {{c-uploaded}}. Please make sure you copy attribution information from commons along with the image, and speedily delete this file once it is definitely off the Main Page.

Protected user pages

User pages sometimes become targets for vandalism, and may be protected upon request of the user associated with the page if this is a serious problem. Clear evidence can be seen from a user's history of the page, and their history from their discussion page.

By software configuration, script files (*.js) and stylesheets (*.css) in user spaces are protected such that only the user or an administrator can edit it.

Full protection

--HappyCamper 21:34, 1 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected

User talk pages: Registered users

User talk pages should only be protected in cases of persistent vandalism, and then only for as brief a period as possible. Please use the template {{Usertalk-sprotect}} to mark such pages. This adds the page to Category:Semi-protected user and user talk pages. If the vandalism is by the user himself/herself, use the {{vandal}} tag; otherwise, use the {{article}} tag. For blocked or banned users, use {{ProtectBU}}.

Should be unprotected 29 March 2007, when block expires. --Nlu (talk) 12:34, 18 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Should be unproteced 1 Feb 2007, when block expires. --Nlu (talk) 12:37, 18 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Should be unprotected 10 Apr 2007, when block expires. --Nlu (talk) 12:50, 18 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Should be unprotected 6 Feb 2007, when block expires. --Nlu (talk) 12:50, 18 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User talk pages: Anonymous users

Talk pages of anonymous users should generally only be semi-protected. This prevents a vandal from blanking warnings etc., but still allows non-admin RC patrollers to issue warnings on this page. Please use the template {{Usertalk-sprotect}} to mark such pages. This adds the page to Category:Semi-protected user and user talk pages. Please use the {{IPvandal}} tag (replacing " " with "_" as appropriate). Admins, please remember to check back periodically and unprotect talk pages as blocks expire.

Now blocked through 24 December 2006. --Nlu (talk) 18:29, 18 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Protected user subpages and boilerplates

Some users have created boilerplate pages in their user namespace and protected them from editing.

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