Wikipedia:Lists of protected pages: Difference between revisions

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.

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Policy

1. Do not edit a temporarily protected page except to add a protected page notice.
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; if it is protected due to a conflict, you may want to list all user names/IPs involved in the conflict.
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.

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 one of the following:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?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:Unprotected page for pages recently unprotected.)

Semi-permanently protected pages (various reasons)

• Main Page (protect from vandalism)
• 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:Database queries
• Wikipedia:designated agent (see meta:designated agent)
• Wikipedia:Foldoc license
• Wikipedia:Donation addresses (donation address should not be possible to falsify)
• 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)

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
• 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.

Semi-permanently protected (user 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: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, 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.
• User:Mirv is not a sysop, but I protected his user and talk pages per request. Pakaran. 04:42, 25 Feb 2004 (UTC)
• User:David Newton/Bird Dispute
• Evercat 20:23, 15 Mar 2004 (UTC)
• User:Francs2000, User:Francs2000/Sandbox, User talk:Francs2000/Archive1, User talk:Francs2000/Archive2 - have had some vandal troubles and no-one needs to edit these pages but me. -- Graham  :) | Talk 16:53, 23 Mar 2004 (UTC)
• User:Kaihsu - protected by Kaihsu, 25 March 2004.

Pages protected due to edit wars or vandalism

latest at bottom

• Table Hockey, History of Table Hockey, The History of Table Hockey. A copyvio that various anons (same person though) keeps reverting. Protecting until it goes through process at copyvio. RADICALBENDER★ 20:30, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)

• The Rape of Nanking (book)
  • Protected on March 10. Unprotected on the 28th. Reprotected. →Raul654 04:07, Mar 29, 2004 (UTC)

• Sealand - edit war between Branddobbe and Wik. Please use TALK. Kingturtle 23:32, 30 Mar 2004 (UTC)

• McFly - edit war between Wik and VerilyVery. Please use TALK. Kingturtle 23:38, 30 Mar 2004 (UTC)

• New Imperialism - edit war between Lir and 172, protection requested by both of them. Warofdreams 11:57, 31 Mar 2004 (UTC)

• Scientific_skepticism - edit war between Reddi,David Gerard, and others. moink 17:01, 31 Mar 2004 (UTC)

• Hate group - edit war between an anonymous user and others. moink 22:26, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC)

• Gdansk - prematurely unprotected, immediate return to revert war between Wik and anon, now reprotected. Controversial portion reverted to current revision of Gdansk/temp, where some have been working to achieve a consensus. Constructive discussion ongoing on talk page. Do not unprotect without reading talk:Gdansk first. Mkweise 23:57, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC)

• Al-Aqsa Intifada - edit war between Rei and MathKnight. Protection was requested. →Raul654 00:38, Apr 3, 2004 (UTC)

• Karl Marx - reversion war involving 172, TDC and Wik, among others. - Kingturtle

• Zviad Gamsakhurdia (again). Repeated POV vandalism by User:Levzur.

• St. Mary's Church, Gdansk, rename and edit warring, plan to leave it protected until the talk page discussion resolves the matter. Jamesday 06:42, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • Actually a consensus had been achieved on the talk page, and the currently protected version reflects it. There are two dissenters from opposite sides, who have exhausted my patience in the matter. Mkweise 11:24, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC)

• Gay Nigger Association of America, and subsequent locations GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA and Gay Niggers Association of America protected as redirs to Slashdot trolling phenomena. -Mkweise 20:49, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC)
  • GNAA is itself the troll. 164 google hits. 0 hits on its own page on Slashdot (See the link to slashdot at the foot of the slashdot_trolling page to which GNAA forwards. GNAA is an association of juvenile trolls who are doubtless wetting themselves that GNAA has a Wiki defintion. Protection is absolutely not the right course of action here. --Tagishsimon 16:33, 6 Apr 2004 (UTC)
    • Umm, Tagishsimon...I protected it as a redirect, after the article had been repeatedly deleted and recreated. I expect that would continue ad infinitum if we unprotect and delete again. Mkweise
    • Umm, okay. yes. You're right; in that light, good policy & I stand corrected. Sadly I think you'll also need to protect GNAA (Slashdot), the latest addition from our troll friend. Possibly the Slashdot Troll page should be edited & then locked ... maybe they'll eventually go away? --Tagishsimon
      • I'm not sure that's the best response. Conventional wisdom has it that the one and only way to get trolls to go away is to ignore them completely. Mkweise 20:45, 6 Apr 2004 (UTC)
      • Give us our fucking wiki back. We didn't do anything against you guys. WE WERE FAIR. We decided that the disambiguation for the other GNAA was fine. If anything, our wiki should be protected as I made it, so people would stop fucking with us.
        • Uh-oh, now we've gone and angered a great and mighty troll. Let us tremble in fear, for surely we are doomed. Mkweise 01:29, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)

• Iridology - the cabal ordered me to do it. →Raul654 21:59, Apr 5, 2004 (UTC)

• Erika Steinbach - again. Revert war between Ugen and anon, as well as others. →Raul654 02:20, Apr 6, 2004 (UTC)

• Gdynia - revert war between Ertz and 24.2.152.139. Protected requested. →Raul654 03:01, Apr 6, 2004 (UTC)

• GNAA protected after about a dozen reverts each by user:JRR Trollkien and user:82.39.115.87. -Mkweise 00:01, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)