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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: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 is not a sysop, but I protected his user and talk pages per request. Pakaran. 04:42, 25 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Pages protected due to edit wars or vandalism

latest at bottom

  • 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)
  • WWJD. Wik reverting Anthony again since he got unbanned. RickK 19:41, 16 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)
      • I have removed protection. Kingturtle 02:05, 8 Mar 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)
  • 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)
    • Unprotecting for now. If more nonsense is added without talking about it, I will reblock. RadicalBender 21:36, 7 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
  • Daniel Wright - protected to prevent anonymous user from blanking it constantly. David Newton 20:20, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • Have removed protection so that the information in the article may be verified by other users and amended accordingly. The moment it is vandalised again I call for the page to be re-protected and kept that way for the duration of discussion on vfd. -- Graham  :) 20:44, 7 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • Page reprotected after anon user went through and put 'allegedly' in front of everything. - Graham  :) 01:35, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Micronation - Wik and Gene poole back at their infantile edit war. Kosebamse 22:44, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Bob and George - edit war between RadicalBender and 24.3.59.157. Protected requested on requests page. →Raul654 05:39, Mar 6, 2004 (UTC)
  • Iridology Long series of highly POV reversions by irismeister. Huge rants on the talk pages which I can't make any sense of, misleading edit summaries. Tannin 14:27, 3 Feb 2004 (UTC)
    • In lieu of Iridology, Irismeister is now abusing people on their talk pages and here, so check this link before unprotecting please. Cheers, fabiform | talk 18:17, 7 Feb 2004 (UTC) Unprotected by Tannin 21:30, 11 Feb 2004 (UTC) as Irismeister has been banned. (He is back now, but one assumes that he has learned something from he experience and does not want a repeat.)
    • Moved from "Unprotected pages" since this has been protected since Feb 19. --Minesweeper 07:36, Mar 6, 2004 (UTC)
  • Wikipedia:Protected page. - protected because wik is starting an edit war. Kingturtle 20:17, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • Removed protection. Kingturtle 04:30, 7 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • DNA - other users treating me like a criminal, refusing to discuss. Edit war. Protected at Anthere's request. 168...|...Talk 04:21, 7 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • DNA is unprotected, but the first two paragraphs may NOT be edited. Consider that virtual protection. SweetLittleFluffyThing
  • Kim Jong-il - nasty edit war between 172 and Adam Carr. --mav 13:20, 7 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Gdansk - reverts and masked reverts over margin placements and choice of words - between nico and curious. Kingturtle 22:12, 7 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • Did you ever want to delete prepetually protected pages, like this, silesia, DNA et al? ;) →Raul654 22:13, Mar 7, 2004 (UTC)
  • Terrorism - heated confict between Isomorphic, Stevertigo, Cecropia, 165.228.127.160...did i leave anyone out? Kingturtle 23:13, 7 Mar 2004 (UTC)
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