Wikipedia:Lists of protected pages
Administrators have the ability to "protect" pages or images such that they cannot be modified except by other admins. This ability is only to be used in limited circumstances.
Policy
- Do not edit a temporarily protected page except to add a protected page notice.
- Do not protect a page you are involved in an edit dispute over.
See Wikipedia:Protection policy for more detailed advice and the purpose of protected pages.
Procedure
- Protect the page, supplying a reason.
- Add {{protected}} (or {{vprotected}} for vandalism) to the top of the temporarily protected page and make mention of the protection in the edit summary.
- List pages you protect on Wikipedia:Protected page; if it is protected due to a conflict, you may want to list all user names/IPs involved in the conflict.
- Consider encouraging a resolution between the disputing parties.
- Remove the protection (while supplying a reason) once the conflict has been resolved.
- Remove {{protected}} from the top of an unprotected page and make mention of the removal in the edit summary.
See also
- Requests for page protection - place to request protection; use when your involvement in editing a page precludes protecting it yourself. Also used by non-administrators who wish for a page to be protected.
- Protection log - automated log of protections and unprotections
- This page is protected
- Wikipedia maintenance section on maintaining this page
- Wikipedia:Most vandalized pages - please add pages subjected to repeated vandalism to this list
- m:Protected pages considered harmful - essay
- m:The Wrong Version - humor
Rationale
See meta:Protected pages considered harmful, meta:edit wars
Viewing the source of a protected page
To view the source of e.g. Main Page, use one of the following:
- //en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&action=edit
- Special:Export/Main Page
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:Protection log for recent unprotections, which replaces the manual list of recently unprotected pages. The {{protected}} header automatically adds Category:Protected to the page, adding it to the Category's listing.
Semi-permanently protected pages or images (various reasons)
- Main Page (protect from vandalism). Discuss any changes to the Main Page at Talk:Main Page
- Image:Wiki.png and Image:Wiki.PNG (Wikipedia logo)
- Wikipedia:Copyrights, Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License (copyright and license pages)
- Text of the GNU Free Documentation License (redirect to the above)
- Press releases: January 2002, January 2003, February 2004 (should remain static indefinitely)
- Wikipedia:designated agent (see meta:designated agent)
- Wikipedia:Foldoc license
- Wikipedia:Donation addresses (It should not be possible to falsify donation addresses.)
- Wikipedia:General disclaimer (linked from every article. It also needs to keep its precise wording in order to protect us and warn our readers.)
- Wikipedia:Risk disclaimer - (linked to from the General disclaimer)
- Wikipedia:Legal disclaimer (same)
- Wikipedia:Medical disclaimer (same)
- Wikipedia:Content disclaimer (same)
- Wikipedia:Block log/Archive1
- Wikipedia:Blocked IPs
- Wikipedia:Popular articles
- Village pump archive 2004-09-26 (to prevent page move vandalism of large history)
- MediaWiki:Sitenotice. Permanently protected since it affects every page and rapid changes would affect the caching of the whole site.
These template pages
- Template:Biology
- Template:Cc-by
- Template:Cc-by-nc
- Template:Cc-by-nc-sa
- Template:Cc-by-nd
- Template:Cc-by-nd-nc
- Template:Cc-by-sa
- Template:Cc-nc
- Template:Cc-nc-sa
- Template:Cc-nd
- Template:Cc-sa
- Template:CompactTOC
- Template:CompactTOC2
- Template:CompactTOCwithnumbers
- Template:Controversial
- Template:Copyrighted
- Template:CopyrightedFreeUse
- Template:CopyrightedFreeUseProvided
- Template:CrownCopyright
- Template:Disambig
- Template:Disputed
- Template:Fairuse
- Template:GFDL
- Template:GPL
- Template:Gnunote
- Template:Ifd
- Template:LGPL
- Template:LandRegistryCopyright
- Template:LearningandSkillsCouncilCopyright
- Template:NHSCopyright
- Template:NPOV
- Template:NationalAuditOfficeCopyright
- Template:Noncommercial
- Template:PAphoto
- Template:PD
- Template:PD-US
- Template:PD-USGov
- Template:PermissionAndFairUse
- Template:QualificationsandCurriculumAuthorityCopyright
- Template:Sandbox
- Template:Sitesupportpage
- Template:TeacherTrainingAuthorityCopyright
- Template:Test
- Template:Unverified
- Template:Verifieduse
- Template:Wiktionary
- Template:Winad
Semi-permanently protected (system administration reasons)
The following pages are automatically generated and are usually protected for system administration reasons:
- Auto-generated logs: Deletion log, Upload log, Protection log, Block log, Bureaucrat log and their archives
- Wikipedia:All pages by title (for Special:Allpages)
- Wikipedia:!Long articles (for Special:Longpages)
- Wikipedia:!Most wanted articles (for Special:Wantedpages)
- Wikipedia:!Orphaned articles (for Special:Lonelypages)
- Wikipedia:!Dead-end pages for Special:Deadendpages
- Wikipedia:!Short articles (for Special:Shortpages)
- All pages in the MediaWiki namespace except for the unprotected ones.
User pages
User pages and their subpages are frequently targets for vandalism, and may be protected upon request of the user associated with the page if there is a history of vandalism. Add protected user pages to this list. User pages should not be protected unless there is a history of vandalism, and should be unprotected as soon as practicable -- see Wikipedia:User page for more.
- 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: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)
- Also User:RickK/stuff and User:RickK/temp. RickK 22:05, 16 Nov 2003 (UTC)
- User:Snoyes/boiler.
- User:David Newton/Bird Dispute
- User:Chris 73/CompletedWork, User:Chris 73/Images, User:Chris 73/Boilerplate. I should be the only one with the need to edit these pages -- Chris 73 | Talk 07:27, 19 May 2004 (UTC)
- Though my main userpage has been unprotected, I think User:Blankfaze/Greet and User:Blankfaze/VW need to stay protected. These are a welcome template and a vandalism warning template, respectively, and it could be very bad-ish if I used one of them after it was vandalised. blankfaze | (беседа!) 22:15, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- User:Lupo/Do not copyvio is a boilerplate message of mine; I don't want to have to check it before each use to make sure nobody has tinkered with it. Lupo 18:32, 25 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- User:Lupo/Img Src ditto. Lupo 13:57, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- User:Lupo/Welcome ditto. Lupo 21:20, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- User:Ahoerstemeier - probably same vandal as for Silsor, as a thank you for the protection. andy 14:46, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- User:Demonslave. Repeated vandalism, including page move vandalism. Protection requested on IRC. Angela. 00:05, Oct 5, 2004 (UTC)
- User:Irismeister Protected by User:Neutrality at Irismeister's request after Irismeister claimed that User:Pakaran had vandalized a page of Irismeister's (the edit history for User:Irismeister does not show any edits by Pakaran, so I assume the page Iris refers to is his talk page or perhaps a subpage). Jwrosenzweig 22:44, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- As Irismeister disputes my claim, I post here the link to the history page for User:Irismeister -- anyone who cares to actually look at it will note that Pakaran appears nowhere (except where he is mentioned in edit summaries by Irismeister himself). Jwrosenzweig 23:01, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
OK - you're right and I was wrong - Pakaran only banned me abusively, JDF editied my user page and you were covering for them both - and Neutrality - sorry about that :O)
- User:Plato/Welcome. Boilerplate message. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (hopefully!)]] 00:35, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)
- User:Neutrality/Welcome. Boilerplate message. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (hopefully!)]] 19:48, Oct 21, 2004 (UTC)
- User:Neutrality/Vandal. Boilerplate message. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (hopefully!)]] 19:48, Oct 21, 2004 (UTC)
- User:Deb. My page is protected. If anyone wants to make any comments to or about me, they can use my talk page, which is not protected. Deb 17:13, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)
User talk pages
User talk pages should only be protected in cases of persistent vandalism, and then only for as brief a period as possible.
User talk pages presently protected include:
- (none)
Pages protected due to edit wars or vandalism
latest at bottom
(はさばくのきつね) 19:21, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Image:George_W._Bush.jpeg and Image:GW-Bush-in-uniform.jpg - repeated dodgy uploads in place. Evercat 22:02, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Henry Kissinger—edit war (VeryVerily vs. Shorne, Stargoat, and William M. Connolley) restarted as soon as the page was unprotected. —No-One Jones (m) 13:11, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Human rights in the United States. Edit war. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (hopefully!)]] 00:30, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)
- India. Edit war. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (hopefully!)]] 00:30, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)
- Propaganda. Edit war. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (hopefully!)]] 00:30, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)
- Rick Crawford. Edit war. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (hopefully!)]] 00:30, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)
- Template:Sep11. Edit war. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (hopefully!)]] 00:30, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)
- A compromise is presently being worked out on the talk page; please don't unprotect until some kind of agreement is reached. —No-One Jones (m) 15:48, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Bystrzyca Klodzka. Edit war. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (hopefully!)]] 00:30, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)
- Poznan. Edit war. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (hopefully!)]] 00:30, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)
- Phil Gingrey. Edit war. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (hopefully!)]] 00:30, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)
- North American Man-Boy Love Association. Edit war. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (hopefully!)]] 00:30, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)
- Image:IndiaNumbered.png. Edit war. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (hopefully!)]] 00:30, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)
- Image:IndiaNagaland.png. Edit war. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (hopefully!)]] 00:30, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)
- Empire of Atlantium. Edit war. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (hopefully!)]] 00:30, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)
- Sabra and Shatila Massacre—edit war. —No-One Jones (m) 19:18, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Pol Pot—edit war resumed as soon as protection was lifted. —No-One Jones (m) 23:27, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Penis - protected due to revert war over the presence of a warning.—Ëzhiki (erinaceus europeaus) 16:18, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)
- Vagina - due to revert war over the presence of a warning.—Ëzhiki (erinaceus europeaus) 16:18, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)
- Clitoris - protected (yet again!) due to revert war over the presence of a warning. -- Schnee 16:38, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- McJob - edit war. Proteus (Talk) 18:21, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Ron Paul - major edit war resumed as soon as it was unprotected. -- Infrogmation 19:24, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- David Reimer revert war. Plus the fact that it's come to light that one of the anticirc activists is trying to recrute his activists friends to come and edit war over this article. (See the discussion at the village pump). Theresa Knott (Not the skater) 21:54, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Rachel Corrie, revert war between HistoryBuffEr and Jayjg. RickK 04:56, Oct 24, 2004 (UTC)
- Ghadeer Jaber Mkheemar—edit war. —No-One Jones (m) 16:08, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Atheism - edit war. --[[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (hopefully!)]] 01:41, Oct 25, 2004 (UTC)
- Collectivisation in the USSR - edit war. Proteus (Talk) 15:16, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Operation Days of Penitence - edit war, usual suspects
- United States - edit war, usual suspects. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (hopefully!)]] 00:08, Oct 26, 2004 (UTC)
- History of Modern Greece - edit war, usual suspects. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (hopefully!)]] 00:10, Oct 26, 2004 (UTC)
- Gwangju - edit war, usual suspects. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (hopefully!)]] 00:12, Oct 26, 2004 (UTC)
- Opposition to U.S. foreign policy - edit war, usual suspects. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (hopefully!)]] 00:15, Oct 26, 2004 (UTC)
- Demographic history of Kosovo - longstanding edit war with anonymous user. Jayjg 01:54, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Phillips Academy - persistent vandalism to the list of graduates by a gang of anons having "fun" Noel 03:24, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Zoophilia - persistent vandalism by anon user. -- Schnee 19:00, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- George W. Bush and John Kerry. Slew of petty vandalisms; protected through the election unless there is a need for significant updates. Discussed in more detail on talk page. -- Infrogmation 15:21, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Vietnam Veterans Against the War There is an Edit/Reversion war going on between User:TDC and 165.247.205.159 AdamJacobMuller Fri Oct 29 18:12:13 EDT 2004
- September 11, 2001 attacks - vandalism from various anon IPs. -- Grunt 🇪🇺 22:32, 2004 Oct 29 (UTC)
- History of the United States (1865-1918) - edit war between Sam Spade and 172. AndyL 01:29, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- History of the United States (1988-present)—edit war. —No-One Jones (m) 06:17, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Khmer Rouge -- edit war 172 03:10, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Alberto Fujimori -- edit war 172 07:18, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)