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Welcome—request protection of a page, file, or template here. Before requesting, read the protection policy. Full protection is used to stop edit warring between multiple users or to prevent vandalism to high-risk templates; semi-protection and pending changes are usually used to prevent IP and new user vandalism (see the rough guide to semi ...
Administrators' guide/Protecting. Administrators protect pages and images to prevent vandalism and assist in resolving content disputes, for example. The key principle to remember here is that Wikipedia is the encyclopedia that "anyone can edit". Protecting pages defeats that goal and so page protection should be avoided when possible and kept ...
Lists of protected pages. This is a list of resources available that list pages that are protected, semi-protected or move protected. To request that a page be protected or unprotected, see Wikipedia:Requests for page protection. Special:ProtectedPages - automatic list. Also see Wikipedia:List of indefinitely protected pages - indefinitely or ...
Protection is a technical restriction applied only by administrators, although any user may request protection. Protection can be indefinite or expire after a specified time. The various levels of protection are detailed below, and they can be applied to the page edit, page move, page create, and file upload actions.
Some Wikipedia pages are protected from editing to prevent vandalism. This protection status is usually shown as a padlock at the top right of the protected page. Its varying colours depend on the level of protection, which include: Only administrators and office staff are able to activate page protection.
Rough guide to semi-protection. Semi-protection is a measure commonly used on Wikipedia to protect popular pages from vandalism or editing disputes. A semi-protected article can only be edited by accounts which are at least 4 days old and have made at least 10 edits ( autoconfirmed users ). The official policy related to applying and removing ...
Main Page featured article protection. Wikipedia's Main Page featured article is one of the most visible and heavily edited on the site. For this reason, it receives a lot of vandal edits from unregistered users visiting Wikipedia. Consequently, it is and has been suggested many times that the featured article should be semi-protected.
Page protection may refer to: In computer architecture, memory protection with page granularity. NX bit, no-execute page protection. On Wikipedia, Wikipedia#Restrictions, restrictions on user editing. On Wikipedia, Wikipedia:Requests for page protection. Category: Disambiguation pages.