Wikipedia:Administrators' guide/Protecting

Admins protect pages and images to prevent vandalism and assist in resolving content disputes, for example. Below are instructions for protecting and unprotecting pages, please semi-protect, then unprotect Wikipedia:New admin school/Protecting/Protect.

Protecting a page

1. Go to the article you wish to protect, in this case, we will use Wikipedia:New admin school/Protecting/Protect.
2. At the top of the page, click the protect tag.
3. On the next page, you will see two boxes, one titled edit which allows protection for textual additions to the article, the other is titled move which allows the article to be protected from being moved.
4. We will semi protect the article from editing. In the edit box, select block new and unregistered users (to test fully protecting the article select block all non-admin users option in the edit box.)
5. Under the box titled expires, type the length of time the page is to be protected for. For example, 1 week, or 6 hours.
6. In the box titled reason, type the reason you are protecting the page.
7. Press the confirm button.
8. Add {{pp-semi}}/{{pp-protected}} to the top of the article to show that this has been semi-protected/full protected.

Note: See the protection template series for all the available protection tags.

Unprotecting a page

1. Go to the article you wish to unprotect, in this case, we will use Wikipedia:New admin school/Protecting/Protect.
2. At the top of the page, click the unprotect tag.
3. On the next page, you will see two boxes, one titled edit which allows unprotection for textual additions to the article, the other is titled move which allows the article to be unprotected from being moved.
4. In the edit box, select Allow all users.
5. Next to expires there is a box to type in, leave this blank.
6. Next to reason, type the reason you are unprotecting the article.
7. Press the confirm button.