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Wikipedia:Protected page

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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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Table of contents

1 Policy 2 Commentary 3 Viewing the source of a protected page 4 List of protected pages 4.1 Semi-permanently protected pages (various reasons) 4.2 Semi-permanently protected (system administration reasons) 4.3 Semi-permanently protected (sysop pages) 4.4 Temporarily protected (edit wars or vandalism)

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
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, GNU FDL (redirects 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:

• Wikipedia:Deletion log
• Wikipedia:Upload log
• Wikipedia:Protection log
• Wikipedia:Block 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 (sysop 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:Kingturtle -- I feel that user pages should be protected because it is the one place in wikipedia where one's one expression can be presented in its most pure form. Also, it is to thwart vandals. Kingturtle 17:46, 27 Sep 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)

Temporarily protected (edit wars or vandalism)

latest at bottom

• Violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 2004. Edit war between BLplusplus and BL, along with various others. Angela. 12:41, Feb 8, 2004 (UTC)
  • Unprotected. It's been 10 days. Kingturtle 04:00, 19 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Re-protected by Hemanshu - 10:04 (PST), 22 Feb 2004
  • Unprotected. Kingturtle 23:00, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)

• International Solidarity Movement - edit war between OneVoice and Zero0000 -- Viajero 08:37, 11 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Removed protection. Kingturtle 00:54, 20 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Re-added protection. Reverting reverts of reverts occurring. Kingturtle 19:43, 22 Feb 2004 (UTC)

• Szczecin -- protected at Darkelf's request after lengthy revert war between Wik and Darkelf. Can't tell if it has waned or if they simply logged off for the day. The page may have reached an uneasy consensus by now...couldn't really tell, and as I thought the war had gone on too far and Darkelf made the request, I went ahead. Jwrosenzweig 05:50, 12 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Is it possible to de-protect it now? Over two weeks passed...Przepla 16:15, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC)

• Pila - Edit war between Wik and Nico. Should I keep doing this? In theory these protections end edit wars and force cooldown, but Wik has been involved in over half a dozen in a day or two. If someone wants me to stop protecting pages like this, please let me know. I want to protect Wikipedia from being a senseless reversion battle arena, but if it's pointless I'll give up and do something else. Jwrosenzweig 21:02, 12 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Not sure what protection accomplishes. You're not going to protect WP from being a senseless reversion battle arena as long as Wik is still here. Anthony DiPierro 21:05, 12 Feb 2004 (UTC)

• DNA - 168 protected this on "his version," but didn't bother listing it here. Pakaran. 01:18, 14 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • removed protection. Kingturtle 23:00, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)

• Suicide bombing - Apparently protected by Ed Poor because of an edit war between Wik on one side, and Reddi, TakuyaMurata and Raul654 on the other side on 12 February. Andre Engels 20:52, 15 Feb 2004 (UTC)

• Mass murder - Apparently protected by User:172 because of an edit war with Wik and HectorRodriguez on one side and VeryVerily on the other side, on 14 February. Andre Engels 20:52, 15 Feb 2004 (UTC)

• Anti-Zionism - Apparently protected because of an edit war between Viajero and OneVoice, on 12 February. I do not know by whom. Added protection notice. Andre Engels 20:52, 15 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Removed protection. Kingturtle 23:00, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)

• WWJD. Wik reverting Anthony again since he got unbanned. RickK 19:41, 16 Feb 2004 (UTC)

• Micronation, protected by silsor. Wik again. RickK 22:57, 16 Feb 2004 (UTC)

• History of Palestine - edit war OneVoice and Zero. -- Viajero 23:25, 16 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • protection removed: 15:23, 16 Feb 2004 . . Viajero

• One thousand seven hundred twenty-nine - protected since Wik has been unbanned yet again. RickK 05:25, 17 Feb 2004 (UTC)

• Iridology - requested on Wikipedia:Requests for page protection →Raul654 20:41, Feb 19, 2004 (UTC)

• Image:Dolly the sheep.jpg and Image:Dolly the sheep2.jpg as Taw deleted them without discussion (they can be used by educational projects). Secretlondon 22:26, Feb 19, 2004 (UTC)

• Saddam Hussein - six straight reverts from a few different users. Kingturtle 04:36, 20 Feb 2004 (UTC)

• White supremacy and National Alliance because of the request below. Jwrosenzweig 19:54, 20 Feb 2004 (UTC)

White supremacy and National Alliance - too many reversions going on with some anon users putting long rants into the articles. Apparently there's been a call put out on alt.revisionism for "helpers." - David Gerard 19:46, Feb 20, 2004 (UTC)

• David Icke - Page protected per request User:Gtrmp on Rfpp:

David Icke - User:68.35.40.141 has made dozens of POV edits over the last two weeks, many of which are factually incorrect and/or wholly irrelevant (his last edit added the minute of Icke's birth). This user may very well be the banned User:Khranus. -Sean 05:50, 21 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Version: 05:19, 13 Feb 2004 -- Viajero 08:43, 21 Feb 2004 (UTC)

• Al Gore. Revert war between ChrisDJackson and others over whether the images are copyright violations or not. Angela. 00:18, Feb 22, 2004 (UTC)
  • I am trying to resolve this in the TALK page, but I am not getting full cooperation from ChrisDJackson. Kingturtle 19:43, 22 Feb 2004 (UTC)

• Second Treaty of Thorn -- edit war --mav 02:23, 22 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • removed protection. Kingturtle 23:00, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)

• Violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 2004 - edit war between User:Viajero and User:OneVoice on request of User:Viajero on Rfpp --Hemanshu 17:58, 22 Feb 2004 (UTC)

• State terrorism -- Wik & User:VeryVerily. silsor 07:39, Feb 23, 2004 (UTC)

• Zviad Gamsakhurdia -- Continual changes by User:Levzur, contrary to clear consensus, many of them dishonestly marked "minor". Not the first time this page has been protected for the same reason. Tannin 09:09, 23 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • removed protection. Kingturtle 23:00, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)

• Richard Genovese - edit war Morwen 17:44, Feb 23, 2004 (UTC)
  • removed protection. Kingturtle 23:00, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)

• Surrealist techniques - repeated vandalism by one of the same people vandalizing Richard Genovese. RickK 16:32, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)

• Big Bang - edit war between Plautus satire, Curps, Silsor, Reddi. Requested by Silsor on RfPP -- Viajero 19:29, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • "Edit war" shown to have ended one (1) hour prior to page protection. - Plautus satire 20:39, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)

• Charlotte Bobcats - target of persistent vandal. --Minesweeper 06:05, Feb 29, 2004 (UTC)

• Dan Quayle - repeated edit war over the use of copyrighted pictures. RickK 00:12, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)

• User:Sterlingda/Free Energy - was being linked to as the main page of http://www.powerpedia.org and encased in that site's own adverts, an incredibly blatent attempt at bandwidth theft. Nevertheless, perhaps this is not really an adequate reason for protection. Will not object if someone unprotects. Evercat 01:53, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC)

• Bill Clinton - revert war continuing over image choice. I protected it. Kingturtle 02:09, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)

• User talk:Michael - recent vandal activity. Kingturtle 03:25, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • There was no vandalism - one oddball user made a comment that few would agree with, that's all. Unprotecting... Pete/Pcb21 (talk) 13:37, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)

• Kim Jong-il - revert war between Adam Carr and 172. PMA 15:43, Mar 4, 2004 (UTC)

• McFly - until Wik and Mr. Di Pietro find something else to do. Muriel 16:01, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)

• Atlantium - unprotected at 15:20 March 4, Wik and Anthony begin reverting each other within 10 minutes, revert each other 15 times apiece (by my count) over 3 hours, protect by me Jwrosenzweig 18:16, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC) -- Boys, stop fighting, I'm tired of this.
  • Finally won one. That boy reverts fast. Anthony DiPierro 18:33, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • Anthony, grow up. -- Viajero 19:19, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)

• Anarcho-capitalism - edit war between Kevehs and VeryVerily. --mav 18:20, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Please unprotect page. I had already voluntarily ceased to edit page at time of protection, there is no reason to put entire page on hold due to conflict between 2 users. If conflict is still going at the end of this week I will cease to edit for another week. Kev 20:40, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)

• Torah - edit war between new user Sihan and, well, everybody else. Keeps adding Torah Cosmos, which is also listed on VfD. RadicalBender 20:06, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Good. We need less of this nonsense. Rickyrab 20:08, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)

• Nucleic acid, pending request from User:Lir, related to DNA conflict, Lir and 168 conflict, Mav and 168 conflict. I reverted to Lir version to balance the DNA version. For more information, check with mediation and DNA talk page with regards to Lir and 168 issue, as well as pending request for arbitration for reversion war issue. SweetLittleFluffyThing

• 1729 (number) - another infantile edit war between User:Wik and User:Anthony DiPierro which commenced eighteen minutes after it was unprotected. - Hephaestos|§ 17:37, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)

• Daniel Wright - protected to prevent anonymous user from blanking it constantly. David Newton 20:20, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)

• Micronation - Wik and Gene poole back at their infantile edit war. Kosebamse 22:44, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)

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