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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.

Part of the Community Information series

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:

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)

Semi-permanently protected (system administration reasons)

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

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)
  • 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

  • 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

  • Nucleic acid - edit war between 168... and Lir. Since I'm the protecting sysop in the other one (DNA), I thought I might as well do this one. -- Cyan 18:55, 17 Jan 2004 (UTC)
    • Unprotected. -- Cyan 18:30, 24 Jan 2004 (UTC)
    • Reprotected. -- Cyan 05:44, 30 Jan 2004 (UTC)
    • Added protection notice. silsor 18:29, Feb 15, 2004 (UTC)
    • Unprotected, been a while Dysprosia 07:05, 21 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Haganah - Danny and Europeen edit war on the status of Haganah's terrorist status. Poor Yorick
    • Added protection notice. silsor 18:32, Feb 15, 2004 (UTC)
    • Unprotected. It has been a few days now. Kingturtle 03:58, 19 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Alexander Lukashenko because Adam Carr and 172 can't agree and revert each other in turn. Adam Carr asked for Wikipedia:Request for mediation about 12 hours ago, and we recommanded that he first try to ask for other people opinion, or perhaps a poll. Anthere [note: protected Feb. 1 --silsor]
    • Added protection notice. silsor 18:35, Feb 15, 2004 (UTC)
    • Unprotected. Been over two weeks. silsor 18:47, Feb 15, 2004 (UTC)
  • New Imperialism - based on this request "*New Imperialism Lirath Q. Pynnor 17:05, 29 Jan 2004 (UTC)" -- I checked the page and it appeared that an edit war had continued through yesterday (with no signs of stopping today, that I could tell). I know this is a contentious page, but decided that nothing in the protection policy allowed me to say "let them fight it out". If someone disagrees, go ahead and revert me. :) Jwrosenzweig 20:54, 3 Feb 2004 (UTC)
    • Unprotected after cool-down period. [1] silsor 18:45, Feb 16, 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)
  • Wikipedia:Possible misuses of admin privileges (again) - Lir made a comment on 168, 168 reverted, snoyes reverted, 168 reverted, packran revereted, etc etc. →Raul654 06:21, Feb 12, 2004 (UTC)
    • As a subnote - after adding the msg:protected tag to the top, 168 reverted me, and 2 other sysops who attempted to restore it (after it was protected). Far be it for me to criticize another admin for using his powers (I've generally been the most reluctant to say anything bad about someone on the misuse of powers page), but I think willfully and repeatedly editing the same article after protection can be considered an abuse of admin powers. →Raul654 06:30, Feb 12, 2004 (UTC)
    • Unprotected by me on February 12. silsor 03:27, Feb 17, 2004 (UTC)
  • List of massacres committed during the Al-Aqsa Intifada I protected this yesterday (thanks for reminding me to post this Uriber) after an edit war between Viajero and StarOfDavid. It seems that the best way to deal with the pages is to simply protect them as they become sticking points. OneVoice, I and others are working on the WP:AIC page as a central way of organizing discussions related to these various related AIC articles. To discuss the page in question, we are going to try an experiment, using the WP:AICO (Arab-Israeli conflict Oasis) - as a place for all related discussion. I will include this message there as well. By forcing people to discuss these issues on a separate but related page, we can keep all the small fires from getting out of control - its the small fires that are problematic, because they are hard to access, can pop up anywhere, and rareley get good moderation. Be well,-戴&#30505sv 20:41, 12 Feb 2004 (UTC)
    • Unprotected after a six day hiatus. --Modemac 12:40, 18 Feb 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)
  • Israeli-Palestinian conflict - protected due to revert war. I saved to the last version before the revert war, an edit by an anon not involved. Dori | Talk 15:01, Feb 13, 2004 (UTC)
  • Removed protection. Kingturtle 00:58, 20 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Curse of the Bambino - despite my best efforts for compromise (some of which succeeded), this page was ultimately hit by huge vandalism from either several like-minded individuals, or one person with wildly rotating IPs. It's almost like the page was /.ed or something. Anyhow, hopefully 24 hours off will be sufficient. I'd like to get out of the protected page business. Jwrosenzweig 21:11, 13 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • DNA - 168 protected this on "his version," but didn't bother listing it here. Pakaran. 01:18, 14 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Atlantium - edit war between Wik, Anthony, and 62.169.220.232. --
    • Someone add the NPOV dispute message to this page. The main argument is over whether or not wik's phrasing that Atlantium "pretends to be a sovereign state" and "George Francis Cruickshank plays the role of head of state" is POV.
  • WWJD. Wik reverting Anthony again since he got unbanned. RickK 19:41, 16 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • Bill Clinton - edit war between ChrisDJackson and Jiang over which image to use. Let it cool down. Kingturtle 00:54, 17 Feb 2004 (UTC)
    • Removed protection. Kingturtle 07:30, 25 Feb 2004 (UTC)
      • I have since participated in editing and discussing. So I must recuse myself from future protections. Please keep an eye on it. I am not asking anyone to protect it. Just watch it, and proceed how you see fit. Kingturtle 03:50, 27 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)
  • Hate speech - another revert war involving 24.45.99.191; protected by request of Texture. -- Infrogmation 21:55, 20 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • September 11, 2001 attacks - edit war. Protected by PMA 01:52, Feb 21, 2004 (UTC)
    • Another Plautus satire vs everyone special →Raul654 01:55, Feb 21, 2004 (UTC)
    • Unprotected following banning of Plautus by Jimbo. -- ChrisO 22:36, 27 Feb 2004 (UTC)
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)
  • Howard Dean -- edit war. Jiang actually protected it, but I saw it wasn't listed here yet. FWIW, Daniel Nagy seems to be the problem child. -- RobLa 01:29, 23 Feb 2004 (UTC)
    • Unprotected by Jiang 27 hours later. --Minesweeper 22:40, Feb 25, 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)
  • The Turner Diaries -- Request due to POV vandalism. --mav 15:33, 23 Feb 2004 (UTC)
    • Unprotected, though I may be over optimistic. -- Infrogmation 04:50, 2 Mar 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)
  • Tornado - requested on requests for protection. Edit war: Plautus vs others. →Raul654 18:05, Feb 25, 2004 (UTC)
    • Has been unprotected for a while. →Raul654 02:01, Mar 2, 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)
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