Jump to content

Wikipedia:Lists of protected pages

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Woohookitty (talk | contribs) at 22:22, 27 December 2005 (→‎Semi-protection). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Shortcut

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.

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 (Category:Conflicts).

See Wikipedia: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 Wikipedia: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 Wikipedia: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 locked only for 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.

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

Latest at the bottom, please; and please sign all entries so we know how old they are.

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.

Semi-protection

Latest at the bottom, please; and please sign all entries so we know how old they are.

Please ensure that you add {{sprotected}} at the top of the semi-protected page.

Redirects

Redirects which people keep trying to turn into articles, etc. Latest at the bottom, please.

Protected against article re-creation

All articles listed here should be marked with {{deletedpage}} and protected. Remove and archive pages accordingly.

Latest at the bottom, please.

User has cleverly used socks so as to avoid the 3RR, but I'm blocking anyway. Disruptive of the AfD process (nominates own articles for deletion, then has socks go in and vote). All articles seemingly created to violate WP:POINT, and are mere attempts at vandalism. Enjoys writing about non-notable, unencyclopedic things; obviously aware of policy. Troll-like behavior. Ha. Ha. -[[User:Mysekurity|Mysekurity]] [[additions | e-mail]] 05:59, 8 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Pages protected against spambot

See Category:Protected against spambots

Other

  • Talk:Iori Yagami. Edit war on the talk page of an article for an obscure videogame character. That's right--edit war not on the article, but on the talk page. Protected to give contributors a time-out. — Phil Welch Katefan's ridiculous poll 21:22, 13 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Template:S-ttl One editor making repeated tiny edits to heavily used template. Have left note on editor's page, suggesting he needs to work on a copy in the sandbox, rather than on the template itself. Should think this only needs to be a brief protection. 00:42, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

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

Visibility reasons

Legal reasons

Libel, slander or privacy considerations

Sometimes it may be appropriate to protect pages based on considerations, whether of legal liability or common courtesy, of harm they may cause. This may involve slander, libel or privacy. Privacy considerations might involve, for example, notorious public behavior by a mentally ill person or a dramatic but embarrassing event which involves a person who is not a public figure. see Template:Privacy protection.

  • User:AI/Touretzky quotes defamatory material removed at request of Dave Touretzky
  • User:Aidan Work posted potentially serious defamation on his user page about prominent elected figures and defended its contents against considerable condemnation. Given his intention to repeat the claims, even though he posted the comments from New Zealand and would be subject to NZ libel law, I have removed the claims and locked his page. His behaviour on WP, and in particular his defamation, is currently being investigated with an RfA. FearÉIREANN\(caint) 02:04, 14 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

System administration reasons

Former special pages and their archives

Other pages

Licence templates

General


Creative Commons
UK Governmental
US Governmental
Wikimedia-specific
Other

High use templates

See also Wikipedia:High-risk templates

A high number of articles directly or indirectly depend on each of the following templates. Editing them can lock the data base server(s) in the order of seconds (see also WP:AUM). They should therefore only be edited if it is really needed. Development of new revisions of these templates should be done aside (in a page under user space, in a template sandbox or on a separate development subpage of the template). Changes to these templates should be requested on the respective talk pages with detailed change instructions and then applied by an admin.

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) in user spaces are protected such that only the user or an administrator can edit it.

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: Registered users

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: 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.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Lists_of_protected_pages&oldid=32920959"