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*] Because of vandal fighting, am anticipating a very quick attack. Protection from moves only desired, as I'll revert anything else. *] Because of vandal fighting, am anticipating a very quick attack. Protection from moves only desired, as I'll revert anything else.
*], because of multi-project vandalism of this user's pages. *], because of multi-project vandalism of this user's pages.
*] *] (and previous name, ], from moves)
*] — vandalism by someone who seems to have access to the user's account. *] — vandalism by someone who seems to have access to the user's account.


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

Policy

  1. Do not edit a temporarily protected page except to add a protected page notice.
  2. Do not protect a page on which you are involved in an edit dispute.

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

Procedure

  1. Protect the page, supplying a reason.
  2. Add {{protected}} (or {{vprotected}} for vandalism) to the top of the temporarily protected page and make mention of the protection in the edit summary.
  3. List pages you protect on Misplaced Pages:Protected page; 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 Misplaced Pages:Protected page, where ARTICLE NAME is the article or page you wish to protect.
  4. Consider encouraging a resolution between the disputing parties.
  5. Remove the protection (while supplying a reason) once the conflict has been resolved.
  6. Remove {{protected}} from the top of an unprotected page and make mention of the removal in the edit summary.

See also

Rationale

See meta:Protected pages considered harmful, meta:edit wars


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 the 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.

Pages protected due to edit wars or vandalism

latest at bottom

This needs a lot of pruning. Please examine older listings and unprotect if at all possible.

Real articles

Protected against article re-creation

latest at bottom

Pages protected against spambot

See Category:Protected against spambots

Other

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 {{ProtectedMainPageImage}} to them. This will add the image to Category:Protected main page images. There are typically 4 to 5 images on the main page, although some of them may be from the Wikicommons.

Permanently/semi-permanently protected pages and images

  • User:Lir This user is banned for one year (ending 8 March 2006 as of 10 March 2005). This user's page has been repeatedly altered to conform to the banned user's wishes without the express authorization of the Arbitration Committee.
  • Misplaced Pages:Votes for deletion/Ambition (cards). Has been targeted by very sneaky vandalism in an attempt to rewrite history. No reason for an archive to be edited anyway. If left unprotected it would need constant babysitting to prevent further attempts to rewrite history history.
  • Image:PolysOriginalBuilding m.jpg. Keeps being replaced by goatse image. SlimVirgin 06:50, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)
  • Talk:Macedonian Slavs/Poll. Incredibly contentious poll fought over by rival nationalists. Archived following end of poll and protected to ensure that comment is directed to the main discussion page. -- ChrisO 00:11, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Visibility reasons

Legal reasons

System administration reasons

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

Various template pages

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.

Subpages and boilerplates

Some users have created boilerplate pages in their user namespace and protected them from editing. The appropriateness of doing this is disputed.

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:MARMOT -- Page is being deleted by MARMOT's anonymous IP; page is also evidence for ArbCom case.
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