Protected page

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Administrators can protect a page to restrict editing or moving of that page, and remove such protection. Such protection may be indefinite, or expire after a specified time.

• Full protection disables editing for everyone except administrators. Fully protected media files cannot be overwritten by new uploads.

• Semi-protection disables editing for anonymous users and registered accounts less than four days old.

• Move protection protects the page solely from moves. By default, fully protected pages are also move protected.

Cascading protection fully protects any page transcluded onto the protected page. Any type of protection or unprotection may be requested at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection. Changes to protected pages should be proposed on the page's discussion page, and carried out if there is consensus to do so.

Except in the case of office actions (see below), administrators may unprotect a page if the reason for its protection no longer applies, a reasonable period has elapsed, and there is no consensus that continued protection is necessary. Contacting the administrator who originally protected the page is advised in unclear circumstances.

[edit] Full protection

Indefinite full protection may be used for:

Pages which are very visible, such as the Main Page, or very frequently transcluded pages to prevent vandalism. This includes images or templates used in other visible or frequently transcluded pages.

Temporary full protection may be used for:

Pages experiencing edit warring as the result of a dispute.

[edit] Protected titles

Non-existent pages may be protected, for any length of time, if they are repeatedly re-created following deletion in line with the deletion policy. This prevents creation of the page.

Administrators may apply protection to non-existent pages with the same procedure as with all other pages.

Contributors wishing to re-create a protected title with more appropriate content should contact an administrator. As with deletions in general, the matter can also be solved through the deletion review process.

[edit] Permanent protection

The MediaWiki namespace, which defines parts of the site interface, is fully protected. Administrators cannot remove this protection.

[edit] Content disputes

Pages experiencing edit warring as the result of a dispute may be temporarily protected, with an appropriate expiration date, and involved parties asked to settle the dispute through discussion. Isolated incidents of edit warring, and persistent edit warring by particular users, may be better addressed by blocking, so as not to prevent normal editing of the page by others.

[edit] Semi-protection

Indefinite semi-protection may be used for:

• Pages subject to heavy and persistent vandalism.
• User pages, but not user talk pages, when requested by the user.
• Policy pages, on a case-by-case basis.

Temporary semi-protection may be used for:

• Pages subject to significant but temporary vandalism or disruption, for example due to media attention, when blocking individual users is not a feasible option.
• Article discussion pages subject to persistent disruption. Such protection should be used sparingly as it prevents anonymous and newly registered users participating in discussions.
• Semi-protection should not be used as a pre-emptive measure against vandalism that has not yet occurred, nor should it be used solely to prevent editing by anonymous and newly registered users. In particular, it should not be used to settle content disputes.

[edit] Move protection

Move protection may be used for:

• Pages subject to persistent page-move vandalism.
• Pages subject to a page name dispute.
• Visible pages which have no reason to be moved, such as the Main Page.
• By default, fully protected pages are also move protected. If a protected page is moved by an administrator, the page will be protected at the new location, but the redirect remaining at the original location will not be protected. Anonymous and newly registered users cannot move pages, so while semi-protection against page moves is possible (and applied, by default, when a page is semi-protected), it does nothing.

The same restrictions that apply to full protection during a dispute also apply to move protection during a dispute; administrators should avoid favoring one name over another, and protection is not an endorsement of the current name.

[edit] Cascading protection

Cascading protection automatically fully protects any page that is transcluded onto the protected page, whether directly or indirectly. This includes images and other media.

Cascading protection should be used only to prevent vandalism to particularly visible pages such as the Main Page.