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Administrators have the ability to "protect" pages or images so that they cannot be modified except by other admins (the link "" is replaced by a link "" when viewed by non-admins). This ability is only to be used in limited circumstances.

Admins must not protect pages they are actively engaged in editing, except in the case of vandalism.

Articles linked from the main page should NOT be protected (full or semi) except to clean up vandalism. Protection should be kept to 10-15 minutes in these cases.

Policy

  1. Do not edit a temporarily protected page except to add a protected page notice.
  2. Do not protect a page on which you are involved in an edit war (Category:Conflicts).

See Protection policy for more detailed advice and the purpose of protected pages.

Procedure

  1. Protect the page, supplying a reason.
  2. Add an approriate Protection templates (e.g. (or )
  3. List pages you protect on List of protected pages; if it is protected due to a conflict, you may want to list all user names/IPs involved in the conflict.
    Please use when listing a page at Wikipedia:Protected page, where ARTICLE NAME is the article or page you wish to protect.
  4. Remove the protection (while supplying a reason) once the conflict has been resolved.
  5. Remove the protection template from the top of an unprotected page and make mention of the removal in the edit summary.

See also

Rationale

See Protected pages considered harmful, edit wars

Instructions

If you protect a page, or find a protected page not listed here, please add it below, to the appropriate sections. 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 the Log/protect for recent unprotections, which replaces the manual list of recently unprotected pages. The header automatically adds Category:Protected to the page, adding it to the Category's listing.

Pages protected due to OFFICE guidelines

Per Jimbo Wales, some articles are being protected by Danny due to complaints at Wikimedia's office. Please do not unprotect these without asking Danny first.

Pages protected only against moves

Please ensure that you add to the top of a move-locked page. New protections should be added at the bottom of this list. Please use or to list pages here.
  • Protected from moving to something abusive. Redwolf24 04:39, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
  • – should not be moved without consensus on talk page. Sudden moving of widely used Wikipedia systems disrupts wikipedia. --Phroziac (Phroziac) 21:54, September 9, 2005 (UTC)
  • Docglasgow protected this a while ago... I unprotected and then reprotected today after not knowing what's going on. --Nlu (Nlu) 02:42, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
  • . Look at US deleted.PNG to the United States. TitoxdEsperanza(Titoxd - Semi-protection policy) 23:21, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
  • . US deleted.PNG. 'nuff said. – Ugen64 23:29, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
  • . keeps moving it to titles such as "Mr Ian Lee" (which is now a redirect) or even "Mr Ian 'the man' Lee" (which I've deleted twice now). These moves are done against the consensus of the other editors at that article, and without discussion. Lupo 13:35, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
  • - constant move-warring from here to and back. (ESkog)(ESkog) 12:49, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
  • needs to settle the naming issue first Alex Bakharev 01:28, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
  • . Visibility and "no reason not to". It's been like that for awhile, I'm just reporting it.--HereToHelpHereToHelpHereToHelp 20:34, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
  • - recently subject of pagemove vandalism. Dr Zak 00:34, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
  • . Keep it semied, not for edit warring but for vandalism. - HereToHelp -- 16 May 2006
  • . move protect - Nightstallion -- 17 May 2006
  • . edit war - Dijxtra -- 18 May 2006
  • . pagemove vandalism by Johnny the Vandal - Curps -- 23 May 2006
  • . reduce to moves-only - Freakofnurture -- 24 May 2006
  • . move vandalism. - Nightstallion -- 29 May 2006
  • . Main page link. - — Xaosflux Xaosflux -- 29 May 2006
  • . move protect - Tomf688 -- 2 June 2006
  • . repeated undiscussed moves to POV title. -- ChrisO 23:35, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
  • . move-warring. -- AmiDaniel -- 3 June 2006
  • . move from hell - Henry Flower -- 3 June 2006
  • . This page should be move-protected; a move could create serious problems. - Ral315 -- 5 June 2006
  • . surely this page should at least be move-protected, considering there is absolutely no valid reason for a non-sysop to try moving it. - Mark -- 6 June 2006
  • . move protection due to vandal - Brian0918 -- 6 June 2006
  • . WoW attack. - AmiDaniel -- 8 June 2006
  • . continuous "typo" corrections to page title when they are unnecessary - Tomf688 -- 14 June 2006
  • . move protection due to move vandal - Brian0918 -- 15 June 2006
  • . move protection due to move vandal - Brian0918 -- 15 June 2006
  • . move vandal - Brian0918 -- 15 June 2006
  • . protect against move-vandalism - Nightstallion -- 15 June 2006
  • . nine days, not tagged, change to moves-only - Freakofnurture -- 19 June 2006
  • . move protecting - Tomf688 -- June 21, 2006
  • . pre-emptive move protect - Natalinasmpf -- June 22, 2006
  • . for obvious reasons: * - King of Hearts -- June 22, 2006
  • . Protected against moves until agreement reached - ChrisO -- June 24, 2006
  • . pre-emptive move protection - Brian0918 -- June 25, 2006
  • . pre-emptive move protection - Brian0918 -- June 26, 2006
  • . pre-emptive move protection - Brian0918 -- June 27, 2006
  • . pre-emptive move protection - Brian0918 -- June 28, 2006
  • . prevent further moves by user changing title against style, accuracy and consensus - Cecropia -- June 28, 2006
  • . I don't really see the point of someone being able to move this. - Cyde -- June 28, 2006
  • . Move war is still going on. - AmiDaniel -- July 6, 2006
  • . move protect - Zoe -- July 5, 2006
  • . pre-emptive move protection - Brian0918 -- July 10, 2006
  • . Stop Romanji-English move war until consensus found - Smurrayinchester -- July 14, 2006
  • . annon seems to have gone away, keeping the move protection on - Zscout370 -- July 16, 2006
  • - Temporarily protected following earlier move war, in order to allow a cooldown while discussions are ongoing. -- ChrisO 13:04, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Pages protected due to edit wars or vandalism

This list always needs pruning. Wikipedia works perfectly fine on a protection cycle of less than one week. Please examine older listings and unprotect if at all possible. If you add an article here, please remember to check the talk page frequently, and always consider removing protection as soon as possible.

Real articles

Full protection
See also Category:Protected, Category:Protected against vandalism and Log/protect
Latest at the bottom, please; and please sign all entries so we know how old they are. Please use a * in front of you entry, without a space after it.Please ensure that you add one of the following templates at the top of a protected page: or in the case of vandalism. Also, if you see a vandalised page, report it to an admin, or simply re-edit it back to what it was before.
  • Turned into a redirect after SFD vote - someone has twice reverted this redirection - Grutness...Grutness 06:26, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
  • edit warring over first paragraph, straw poll being conducted -- Samir_(The_Scope) Samir_(The_Scope) 08:57, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
  • . Protected for legal reasons - ChrisO -- June 24, 2006
  • . edit warring - William M. Connolley -- June 25, 2006
  • - the Biff Rose vandal is back. -Will Beback 05:55, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
  • . this x x is x absurd (ongoing edit war, with no discussion on the talk page). - FrancisTyers -- July 7, 2006
  • . edit warriors in Chabot's office - DragonflySixtyseven -- July 7, 2006
  • - edit warring. Stifle (Stifle) 21:56, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
  • . edit warring over infobox, again - PS2pcGAMER -- July 9, 2006
  • . Users engaging in edit warring. - Voice of All -- July 9, 2006
  • . Fruitless editing dispute. - Phil Sandifer -- July 9, 2006
  • . repeat vandalism - DragonflySixtyseven -- July 9, 2006
  • . step up protection...let's see discussion in talk. - Wikibofh -- July 10, 2006
  • . Edit/revert war with discussion (on some of the pages, not all) that goes nowhere. Extreme POV-pushing on both (all?) sides. Additional related pages involved in this edit/revert/POV war have also been protected:
Until all associated editors can come to some sort of agreement on all of these articles (it's pretty much the same ones reverting back and forth on all of them), they will remain protected. ···NihonjoeJapanese · Nihonjoe to NihonjoeJAoEA 07:43, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
  • . golbez jumped the proverbial gun - FrancisTyers -- July 10, 2006
  • . edit war - FireFox -- July 10, 2006
  • . A Morrow - Theresa knott -- July 11, 2006
  • . revert war again, discuss changes on talk page - Naconkantari -- July 12, 2006
  • . to settle the discussions - Alex Bakharev -- July 12, 2006
  • . Users engaging in edit warring. - Voice of All -- July 13, 2006
  • . edit-warring - Blnguyen -- July 14, 2006
  • . Content dispute - Tony Sidaway -- July 14, 2006
  • . Given the recent attack, let's vprotect. - AmiDaniel -- July 14, 2006
  • -edit war. -Will Beback 22:07, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
  • . biff Rose vandal - Will Beback -- July 15, 2006
  • . protect - Jaranda -- July 15, 2006
  • . Actually will need full prot for a while, looking at it. - JzG -- July 16, 2006
  • . wait for talk-page-clarification. - Nightstallion -- July 16, 2006
  • . re full protect - Jaranda -- July 16, 2006
  • . Rather a while ago I protected this page due to an edit war. Since unprotection, reverts were still common, but I held back hoping it would improve. Since it seems this is not the case, I have protected until sufficient collaboration exists on the page, and people act constructively. Due to the slow rate of this edit war, no recent violations of 3RR were made. Ian13Ian13 21:23, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
  • . POV pushing, edit warring - 1ne -- July 16, 2006
  • . Continuing content dispute - Tony Sidaway -- July 17, 2006
  • . protecting this article. Continued recreation of personal attack image is being used for harassment purposes only - MONGO -- July 17, 2006
  • . edit war - Alex Bakharev -- July 17, 2006
  • , redirect to Parkinson's disease - General Tojo sockpuppets. Tom harrison Tom harrison 20:10, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Semi-protection
See also Category:Semi-protected and Log/protect
Latest at the bottom, please; and please sign all entries so we know how old they are. Please use a * in front of your entry, without a space after it.
  • - unprotection tried regularly
  • . - unprotection tried regularly
  • . - unprotection tried regularly
  • - unprotection tried regularly
  • - unprotection tried regularly
  • - unprotection tried regularly
  • . don't need IPs involved in this -- Woohookitty April 28, 2006
  • . Vandalism. Kusma Kusma 22:52, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
  • . IP vandalism - Kungfuadam -- 14 June 2006
  • - reapply after numerous unsuitable entries added by IPs. Please do not unprotect without discussion. -Will Beback 05:07, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
  • . due to innumerous new users who happen to begin contributing to Wikipedia here, purely by change I am sure - Rama -- June 24, 2006
  • . protection from banned user Hogeye, utilizing numerous open proxies - Sarge Baldy -- June 28, 2006
  • . too much vandalism - Jaranda -- July 1, 2006
  • . protecting from Amorrow IPs - Tregoweth -- July 3, 2006
  • . protecting from Amorrow IPs - Tregoweth -- July 3, 2006 \Jtdirl 14:18, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
  • . repeat drug ad spamming - Alteripse -- July 6, 2006
  • . Prevent vandalism by banned user - JzG -- July 6, 2006
  • . re-semi - Jaranda -- July 7, 2006
  • . sock attack - Jaranda -- July 7, 2006 \Jtdirl 22:56, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
  • . Reduce to semi - Jaranda -- July 9, 2006
  • . Heavy vandalism from multiple sources. - Voice of All -- July 9, 2006
  • , , , , Heavymetal. High-speed leyasu sockpuppetry attacks. - Mailer diablo 16:24, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
  • . Leyasu IP-ing - Circeus -- July 9, 2006
  • - anon using dynamic IPs keeps replacing "Jew" with "Hebrew Israelite". SlimVirgin SlimVirgin 21:55, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
  • . vandalism - Golbez -- July 9, 2006
  • . what's good for zidane is good here - Golbez -- July 9, 2006
  • . attractive target today - will lift tomorrow - Crzrussian -- July 9, 2006
  • . updated to semi protected as problem seems to be with ip which is removing parts of article - PinchasC -- July 9, 2006
  • . Persistent vandal has used multiple IPs and created vandalism-only accounts to attack this article only (see history). Need to keep semiprotected for a longer stretch until he gives up. —Josiah Rowe (Josiah Rowe • Contributions/Josiah Rowe) 05:59, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
  • . POV-pushing, and edit warring from IP accounts - Alex Bakharev -- July 10, 2006
  • . Protected from editing by banned Contributions - ChrisO -- July 10, 2006
  • . linkspamming - RadioKirk -- July 10, 2006
  • . Heavy vandalism from multiple sources. - Voice of All -- July 10, 2006
  • . edit war from ip evading block - The JPS -- July 10, 2006
  • . repeated insertion of spamlink - Blnguyen -- July 11, 2006
  • . Heavy vandalism from multiple sources. - Voice of All -- July 11, 2006
  • . trying semi-protection - Can't sleep, clown will eat me -- July 11, 2006
  • . A Morrow - Theresa knott -- July 11, 2006
  • . page coming under attack from vandals - Francs2000 -- July 11, 2006
  • . A Morrow - Theresa knott -- July 11, 2006
  • . ongoing vandalism from same IP range - Petros471 -- July 11, 2006
  • . ongoing vandalism from same IP range - Petros471 -- July 11, 2006
  • . sprotecting because of the digg.com article. - Nandesuka -- July 11, 2006
  • and . repeated cut'n'paste moves from one to the other by multiple anon IPs - MPF 15:12, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
  • . precautionary - Jimbo Wales -- July 11, 2006
  • . vandalism - Naconkantari -- July 11, 2006
  • . trying semi-protection - Can't sleep, clown will eat me -- July 11, 2006
  • . Protected by Samuel Blanning. Reasoning was, "still being vandalised every few minutes by different IPs". — Rebelguys2 Rebelguys2 20:23, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
  • . Block Amorrow - FloNight -- July 12, 2006
  • . Protected against banned Contributions - ChrisO -- July 12, 2006
  • . much vandalism and pov editing - Jimbo Wales -- July 12, 2006
  • . Heavy vandalism from multiple sources. - Voice of All -- July 12, 2006
  • . vandalism persoanl attack against Contributions - Blnguyen -- July 13, 2006
  • . semiprotected - Alex Bakharev -- July 13, 2006
  • . vandalism and edit warring from IPs - Alex Bakharev -- July 13, 2006
  • . vandalism and edit warring from IPs - Alex Bakharev -- July 13, 2006
  • . vandalism and edit warring from IPs - Alex Bakharev -- July 13, 2006
  • . vandalism and edit warring from IPs - Alex Bakharev -- July 13, 2006
  • . edit warring and vandalism from IPs - Alex Bakharev -- July 13, 2006
  • . constant disruption by banned user Mywayyy - Aldux -- July 13, 2006
  • . Re semiprotect - the hoaxer is back - Brookie -- July 13, 2006
  • . rival spamers edit waring - Geni -- July 13, 2006
  • . Revert war - Pgk -- July 13, 2006
  • . re semi - Jaranda -- July 13, 2006
  • heavy vandalism -- Malo Malo Contributions/Malo 21:47, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
  • . Heavy vandalism from multiple sources. - Voice of All -- July 13, 2006
  • . enough of this - Shanes -- July 13, 2006
  • . trying semi-protection - Can't sleep, clown will eat me -- July 13, 2006
  • . trying semi-protection - Can't sleep, clown will eat me -- July 13, 2006
  • .persistent vandalism by block evading 200... ip-hopping anon--Vsmith 01:54, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
  • . Persistent vandalism by block evading 200... ip-hopping anon--Vsmith 01:54, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
  • . good god, IP vandalism all day long - Pschemp -- July 13, 2006
  • . reinstated semi-protection; living person, frequently vandalized - Can't sleep, clown will eat me -- July 14, 2006
  • . trying semi-protection - Can't sleep, clown will eat me -- July 14, 2006
  • . reinstated semi-protection; living person, frequently vandalized - Can't sleep, clown will eat me -- July 14, 2006
  • . repeated anon vandalism from many different IP addresses. -- ChrisO 07:26, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
  • . trying semi-protection - Can't sleep, clown will eat me -- July 14, 2006
  • . Heavy vandalism from multiple sources. - Voice of All -- July 14, 2006
  • . Heavy vandalism from multiple sources. - Ahoerstemeier 15:47, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
  • . vandalbot again - Naconkantari -- July 14, 2006
  • . protect from banned user Amorrow - FloNight -- July 14, 2006
  • . Protect after banned user started a Afd - FloNight -- July 14, 2006
  • . IP link-spamming -- JayjgJayjg 21:16, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
  • . IP link-spamming -- JayjgJayjg 21:16, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
  • . Heavy vandalism from multiple sources. - Voice of All -- July 14, 2006
  • . too much vandalism/vanity - Jaranda -- July 14, 2006 \Jtdirl 03:15, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
  • . trying semi-protection - Can't sleep, clown will eat me -- July 15, 2006
  • . Excessive vandalism and copyright violations - Yamla -- July 15, 2006
  • . Semi-protection against repeated anon vandalism - ChrisO -- July 15, 2006
  • . Heavy vandalism from multiple sources. - Voice of All -- July 15, 2006
  • . back to semi protection, now that vandal account has been blocked - Malo -- July 15, 2006
  • . IP revert war. Jossi Jossi • Emailuser/Jossi 03:20, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
  • . trying semi-protection - Can't sleep, clown will eat me -- July 16, 2006
  • . vandalism - Alex Bakharev -- July 16, 2006
  • . AMorrow - KimvdLinde -- July 16, 2006
  • . AMorrow - KimvdLinde -- July 16, 2006
  • . Banned user AMorrow - KimvdLinde -- July 16, 2006
  • . semi-protected while high profile on slashdot for previous vandalism - Brian0918 -- July 16, 2006
  • . Amorrow - KimvdLinde -- July 16, 2006
  • . anon using dynamic IPs adding possibly libellous material - SlimVirgin -- July 16, 2006
  • . vandalism - RadioKirk -- July 16, 2006
  • . vandalism - RadioKirk -- July 16, 2006
  • . Edit war. 24hr cooling off period seems a good idea. - Redvers -- July 16, 2006
  • . sprotecting against "wiki-star revenge" recurring AOL vandal - The Anome -- July 16, 2006
  • . vandalism - Jaranda -- July 16, 2006
  • . vandalism from blocked user - CJCurrie -- 17 July 2006 (UTC)
  • . Semi ought to do it, as the edit summary vandal is anonymous. Admins, please *don't* unprotect in a hurry, look at the deleted revisions first! - Bishonen -- July 16, 2006
  • . vandalism - Naconkantari -- July 16, 2006
  • . Semi-protected against repeated vandalism by banned User:Gibraltar - ChrisO -- July 16, 2006
  • . recent spate of vandalism - AYArktos -- July 16, 2006
  • . reinstated semi-protection; living person, frequently vandalized - Can't sleep, clown will eat me -- July 17, 2006
  • . trying semi-protection - Can't sleep, clown will eat me -- July 17, 2006
  • . Heavy vandalism from multiple sources. - Voice of All -- July 17, 2006
  • . trying semi-protection - Can't sleep, clown will eat me -- July 17, 2006
  • Anon vandalism. Jossi Jossi • Emailuser/Jossi 18:05, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
  • -- to counter serious periodic vandalism. Dysprosia 23:38, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
  • to counter anon attempts to make into advertisement. -- Ricky81682 (Ricky81682) 02:28, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Protected against spambots or banned users

See also: Semi-protected from banned users

In the case of users engaging in long-term spamming a page or banned users continuing to edit a page when they cannot easily be blocked (AOL or shared IP), the pages may be watched by VoABot. Blacklisted changes are automatically reverted. Edits by logged-out users of certain IP ranges may be reverted as well. Additionally, semi-protection may be used if necessary.

This is only used to stop obvious IP hopping spammers or users blocked indefinetely from adding content (not random vandalism) by ADMIN.

The following pages are specifically watched by VoABot for spam or edits by banned users. Contact Voice of All to get pages added to the list.

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Other pages

  • One editor making repeated tiny edits to heavily used template. Have left note on editor's page, suggesting he needs to work on a copy in the sandbox, rather than on the template itself. Should think this only needs to be a brief protection. 00:42, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Semiprotected. Talk header template with moderate visibility, repeatedly vandalized by anons. —Ilmari Karonen (Ilmari Karonen) 03:47, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
Protected for WikiProject Usability/Main Page purposes, as the page is being considered as a replacement for the Main Page. TitoxdEsperanza(Titoxd - WikiProject edit counters/Flcelloguy's Tool) 00:09, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
  • - SEO optimization, personal info on Wikipedia editors. See also ANI#"Wyatt Ehrenfels" (and Wyatt Ehrenfels's protection). No reason this shouldn't be permanent. —Cryptic Cryptic 18:42, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
  • - Semi-protected for vandalism. Enochlau (Enochlau) 06:15, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
  • . Will probably continue to be semied fro good for vandalism and visibility. Move is sysop (no reason not to).--HereToHelpHereToHelpHereToHelp 20:38, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
  • . Due to script by 20+ admin, many active here, and a bot, we can't have people messing around. - Voice of All -- 24 May 2006
  • . Quite a few instances of vandalism - Tony Sidaway -- 24 May 2006
  • . avoid vandalism from anonymous users and throwaway vandal accounts - Freakofnurture -- 26 May 2006
  • . protection template - R. Koot -- 27 May 2006
  • . used in mediawiki namespace - R. Koot -- 27 May 2006
  • . commonly used template, RFPP - King of Hearts -- 28 May 2006
  • . official flag should be used, full stop. - Nightstallion -- 29 May 2006
  • . to prevent reinsertion of category that groups wikipedians by religions - Tony Sidaway -- 8 June 2006
  • semi-protected to deal with with unrelenting vandalism. - AmiDaniel -- 8 June 2006
  • . repeated vandalism - Grutness -- 8 June 2006
  • - edit war over use of parenthesis v. comma --Jiang 00:49, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
  • . HRT - Titoxd -- 12 June 2006
  • . Vandalism to talk page as well. - AmiDaniel -- 12 June 2006
  • . repeated vandalism by anon IPs - Humus sapiens -- 12 June 2006
  • . used on many pages, but edited occasionally - Ixfd64 -- 13 June 2006
  • . widely transcluded emplate - Cyberjunkie -- 13 June 2006
  • . no need - Voice of All -- 18 June 2006
  • . vandalism attack - Zoe -- 19 June 2006
  • . Page being used as a bulletin board rather than discussing the article subject. - (aeropagitica) -- 20 June 2006
  • . Edit warring - KillerChihuahua -- June 22, 2006
  • . Same as article page - Rama -- June 24, 2006
  • . no need for this now... - Voice of All -- June 25, 2006
  • . Edit war has broken out. Musical Linguist Musical Linguist 00:56, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
  • . ICT - King of Hearts -- June 29, 2006
  • . ICT - King of Hearts -- June 29, 2006
  • . GNU license. Why shouldn't it be protected? - Lbmixpro -- June 29, 2006
  • . GNU license. Why shouldn't this be unprotected. - Lbmixpro -- June 29, 2006
  • . back to sprot - Xaosflux -- June 29, 2006
  • . And protecting - userfying done - Mike Rosoft -- June 30, 2006
  • . Banned Alberuni editing again. - Jayjg -- June 30, 2006
  • Biff Rose vandal. -Will Beback 05:43, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Ditto. -Will Beback 11:26, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
  • . protected until issue is clarified. - Nightstallion -- July 6, 2006
  • . until this has been clarified for *all*. - Nightstallion -- July 6, 2006
  • . The has been constant vandalism that keeps on replacing the current flag with the British Ensign used by Hong Kong until 1997 - Zscout370 -- July 6, 2006
  • . nonsense requests again - Voice of All -- July 7, 2006
  • . semi-protect to avoid random additions from anons and newbies - Brian0918 -- July 7, 2006
  • . why is this unprotected? - Titoxd -- July 7, 2006
  • . IP troll + not much to edit here anyway - Voice of All -- July 9, 2006
  • . for legal reasons - Drini -- July 9, 2006
  • . It;s being vandalized - CSTAR -- July 9, 2006
  • . Edit warring over policy is even worse than over content. -- KimvdLinde KimvdLinde 01:29, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
  • . reprotecting as per Raul654 - Freakofnurture -- July 11, 2006
  • . Stop banned user from editing - FloNight -- July 11, 2006
  • . Not quite, Jude - Essjay -- July 12, 2006
  • . Edit warring - Circeus -- July 13, 2006
  • . leyasu is back - Circeus -- July 14, 2006
  • . A few people, prodded bythat bastien of integrity, The Inquirer, have decided to use this talk page to attack Wikipedia and the nominators of the AfD. Enough is enough. - Jeffrey O. Gustafson -- July 15, 2006 Jeffrey O. Gustafson (Talk | contribs)
  • . protect per request on talk page - Ilmari Karonen -- July 16, 2006
  • . inane edits by logged-out users - Freakofnurture -- July 16, 2006
  • . protect per other unsigned templates - Lowellian -- July 16, 2006
  • . protect per other unsigned templates - Lowellian -- July 16, 2006
  • . Recent vandalism - Tony Sidaway -- July 16, 2006
  • . sprotecting against "wiki-star revenge" recurring AOL vandal - The Anome -- July 16, 2006

    • Images protected while on the Main Page

    Images on the main page often become the target of vandalism, particularly being overwritten with shock site images, which harms the credibility of the project due to that page's extreme visibility. Also, it takes some time for sysops to determine what caused a main page change. As such, images have begun to be protected during their time there, and this has become a de facto policy since the second or third week of November 2004.

    In order to keep track of these images, please add to them. This will add the image to Category:Protected main page images. There are typically 4 to 5 images on the main page.

    For main page images from the Wikicommons, the quickest, most effective way to protect them is to copy the image, upload it locally, and add . Please make sure you copy attribution information from commons along with the image, and SD this file once it is definitely off the Main Page.

    Protected user pages

    User pages sometimes become targets for Vandalism, and may be protected upon request of the user associated with the page if this is a serious problem. Clear evidence can be seen from a user's history of the page, and their history from their discussion page.

    By software configuration, script files (*.js) and stylesheets (*.css) in user spaces are protected such that only the user or an administrator can edit it.

    Full protection
    • , protection log, briefly unprotected, still vandalised.--Duk 17:25, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
    • Lir This user is banned for one year (ending 23 September 2006 as of 23 September 2005). This user's page has been repeatedly altered to conform to the banned user's wishes without the express authorization of the Arbitration Committee.
    • {page moves only)
    • (page moves only) - protected by Ugen64Ugen64 - frequent page move vandalism target
    • , Nitram0003 etc. Blocked sock puppet that comes back and removes sock puppet warnings.
    • (page moves only) Because of vandal fighting, am anticipating a very quick attack. Protection from moves only desired, as I'll revert anything else.
    • , because of multi-project vandalism of this user's pages.
    • -- Sockpuppet of banned user MARMOT.
    • -- temporary protection as of 22:05, 9 July 2005 (UTC) until socks lose interest.
    • -- see this version to see why. This is to be permanently locked. - Ta bu shi da yu 03:18, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
    • \Jtdirl
    • Func( Func, Contributions/Func, Emailuser/Func, ) 17:47, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
    • perm banned user for various offenses ranging from posting a list of Jewish wikipedians to posting instructions on how to best disrupt wikipedia using open proxies. Jtkiefer Jtkiefer | Emailuser/Jtkiefer | Contributions/Jtkiefer
      - 20:32, September 2, 2005 (UTC)
    • Banned by the ArbCom for one year for leagal treates, continued vandalism and legal threats as an IP on page.--Petaholmes 01:39, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
    • to prevent continued edits to it by IP socks of perm banned user. Jtkiefer Jtkiefer | Emailuser/Jtkiefer | Contributions/Jtkiefer
      - 02:41, September 8, 2005 (UTC)
    • imposter of Fenian_Swine IP keeps vandalizing by restoring to copycat page of Fenian Swine's. Jtkiefer Jtkiefer | Emailuser/Jtkiefer | Contributions/Jtkiefer
      - 20:31, September 10, 2005 (UTC)
    • requested by user on RFPP, being vandalized. --CesarB 23:55, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
      • NOTE: Vandal is known to have impersonated Nihiltres and asked for unprotection *. Be sure it's the real Nihiltres if unprotecting on request. --CesarB 22:07, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
    • — this is a non-static IP address, of which one user has taken possession, blanking explanation on the user page and "archiving" vandalism warnings on the Talk page. --Mel Etitis (Mel Etitis 07:59, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
    --HappyCamper 21:34, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
    • - repeat vandalism by an AOL proxy IP
    • - user page of a permablocked vandal. Page contained vandalism denigrating another (legitimate) user. Lupo 12:49, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
    • and BigDaddy777. Redwolf24 protected the user talk page on October 11th. I protected the user page on the same day. It was done because BigDaddy777 was blocked indefinitely, but continued to be disruptive. --Woohookitty 09:14, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
    • - protected at Aranda's request, since hurricanes force his absence and it has been vandalized several times. --Marudubshinki Marudubshinki Contributions/Marudubshinki 22:29, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
    • Image:Jdavidb.jpg - used on my user page and vandalized; since this is a picture of myself and my child there should never be any need for anyone to change it. Not sure if this is within policy, but I'll unprotect if there's a problem. Jdavidb Jdavidb 15:50, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
    • - socks of permanently blocked impostor changing this page to a redir. OwenX OwenX 00:21, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
    • and Jake Remington - indefinitely blocked user. 2 of his sockpuppets have vandalized the pages and there's a possibility that they are using it to call other people in to vandalized. He's blocked indefinitely anyway. No reason not to protect. Similar to BigDaddy777 case up above. --WoohookittyWoohookitty 21:24, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
    • – AI is banned by Requests_for_arbitration/AI#AI_banned_pending_final_resolution_of_legal_disputes, yet their user page keeps getting edited and I'm tired of reverting. There's no reason to edit this page: AI cannot edit personally, and cannot reply to other people's edits. --MarkSweep MarkSweep 18:00, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
    • -IP vandalism.Voice of All(MTG)Voice_of_All(MTG)|Emailuser/Voice of All(MTG)|EA 21:45, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
    • . Blocked sock puppet account of Marcuse, being vandalized by antagonist Jonah Ayers, all related to "Biff Rose". -Willmcw 02:06, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
    • - after being vandalized 168 times, decided to semi-protect it. OwenX OwenX 23:40, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
    • - semiprotected following spate of defacements by AOL IP addresses. TenOfAllTrades(TenOfAllTrades) 15:00, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
    • - blocked user. Protected on 12/30 by Jpgordon. --WoohookittyWoohookitty 11:51, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
    • Permanently protected in early November after multiple bouts of rather horrifying vandalism, which started up again whenever the page was unprotected. JayjgJayjg 21:04, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
    • Edit wars, attempts to deface Alex Bakharev 21:03, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
    • - SEO optimization, personal info on Wikipedia editors. See also ANI#"Wyatt Ehrenfels" (and Dream/Archive1's protection). No reason this shouldn't be permanent. —Cryptic Cryptic 18:39, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
    • Prevention of vandalism from vandal editing from an anonymous IP address and Mt. flesh. (aeropagitica) 20:44, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
    • - April fools edit war. Unless it's okay with Jimbo, best keep protected until April 2 --LbmixproLbmixproEALbmixpro 06:38, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
    • due to the user repeatedly adding fair use images to it. —BorgHunter BorgHunter/AntiUBX (BorgHunter) 12:19, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
    • - attack page on Cunado19 Proto||Proto 14:43, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
    • both userpage and talkpage full protection, indef blocked user. --Syrthiss 17:39, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
    • , bout of vandalism and insults. Was requested. SlimVirgin SlimVirgin 00:38, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
    • User repeatedly tries to remove . --Nlu (Nlu) 11:17, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
    • protected talk page of this editor after he requested I do so.--MONGO 04:11, 4 April 2006 (UTC) also now protected the userpage and the other identified account this editor has used, both the userpage and talkpage for per request of this user.--MONGO 11:26, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
    • - until vandal Ben King and sockpuppets lose interest. The JPS The JPS 12:33, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
    • - protected talk page. This is the community-banned , who was advised to create another account, edit sensibly and perhaps rehabilitate herself. Instead of which she's carried on with the behaviour she was banned for. --Andrew Norman (Andrew Norman) 13:55, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
    • Vanity author keeps deleting afd tags whilst the matter is live Brookie Brookie 15:23, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
    • - banned user keeps deleting ban and sockpuppet notices. -Will Beback 01:28, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
    • per request to prevent vandalism. Prodego Prodego 23:05, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
    • ChildrensCrusade, IWashMyselfWithaRagOnaStick, CentipediaNES, NocturnalAdmission. All protected because someone tried to shift the blaim to another puppeteer. -- KimvdLinde KimvdLinde 18:53, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
    • - per request to prevent vandalism. Syrthiss 15:04, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
    • Talk page of for 48 hours due to persistent blanking of warning templates. Tijuana BrassTijuana Brass 08:09, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
    • Xtinamoline - Removing sockpuppet notice from page. --LbmixproLbmixproEALbmixpro 05:23, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
    • - vandalism-only account; removing warnings; pages used for attacks. Tom harrison Tom harrison 15:01, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
    • - Biff Rose-related vandalism. -Will Beback 09:38, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
    • — protected against repeated re-creation of deleted content Uncle G 11:15, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
    • To prevent further personal attacks while blocked. --InShaneee 19:45, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

    Semi-protected

    User talk pages: Registered users

    User talk pages should only be protected in cases of persistent Vandalism, and then only for as brief a period as possible. Please use the template to mark such pages. This adds the page to Category:Semi-protected user and user talk pages. If the vandalism is by the user himself/herself, use the tag; otherwise, use the tag. For blocked or banned users, use .
    • Katefan0 for privacy reasons
    • . User banned by arbcom for a year, but exploits the mediawiki 1.5 misfeature to converse with sockpuppets. Thryduulf 21:59, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
    Should be unprotected 29 March 2007, when block expires. --Nlu (Nlu) 12:34, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
    • Banned by the ArbCom for one year for leagal treates, continued vandalism and legal threats as an IP on page.--Petaholmes 01:38, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
    Should be unproteced 1 Feb 2007, when block expires. --Nlu (Nlu) 12:37, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
    • being used to continue to edit despite his one year arbcom ban. Dmcdevit·Dmcdevit 23:04, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
    Should be unprotected 10 Apr 2007, when block expires. --Nlu (Nlu) 12:50, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
    • being used to continue to edit despite his one year arbcom ban. Dmcdevit·Dmcdevit 23:04, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
    Should be unprotected 6 Feb 2007, when block expires. --Nlu (Nlu) 12:50, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
    • vandalism by blocked user from a variety of one-off vandal sockpuppet accounts. (aeropagitica)(aeropagitica) 16:35, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
    • blocked for one week by Essjay. Repeatedly replacing warnings with offensive content. AmiDaniel (AmiDaniel) 04:17, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
    • Blocked for one month, blanking talk page. AmiDaniel (AmiDaniel) 02:18, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
    • vandalism Prodego Prodego 02:23, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
    • Tijuana Brass and Kevin1243 sprotected by Tijuana Brass 31 May (smugface the (mumble) dwarf, for various values of mumble, vandalism) and unprotected by Lar (at TB's request) 3 June Lar/EsperanzaEmailuser/LarLar: Lar/Contributions/Lar 14:34, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
    • Semiprotected per owner request. AmiDaniel (AmiDaniel) 00:23, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
    • . Banned user continues to edit. -Will Beback 02:15, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
    • - Repeatedly blanking talk page.--Shanel Shanel 00:17, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
    • - Allowed them to place an , and then semiprotected it. Been vandalizing Deaths in 2006 under at least one username, enabled popups and vandalized several pages. Its an indefblock so this doesn't need to be lifted unless the user is unblocked. Syrthiss 14:52, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
    • Will Beback - Biff Rose-related vandalism. -Will Beback 09:40, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
    • - Blocked for one month for incivlity and attacks, yet continued to insult people using the usertalk page. --Deskana Deskana 21:47, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
    • - Unblock template abuse. --Deskana Deskana 20:49, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
    • - temper tantrum, indefinitely blocked, flooding recent changes with abusive messages. Antandrus Antandrus 22:14, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

    User talk pages: Anonymous users

    Talk pages of anonymous users should generally only be semi-protected. This prevents a vandal from blanking warnings etc., but still allows non-admin RC patrollers to issue warnings on this page. Please use the template to mark such pages. This adds the page to Category:Semi-protected user and user talk pages. Please use the tag (replacing " " with "_" as appropriate). Admins, please remember to check back periodically and unprotect talk pages as blocks expire.

    22:22, 2 October 2005 (UTC) (semi-protected) Block expires 2 October 2006 (UTC)

  • Semi protected due to vandalism by blocked anon. Sam Korn]] 13:45, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Soapboxing. Should be unprotected 8 Aug 2006, when block expires. --Nlu (Nlu) 06:26, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
  • - Blocked for a month, was blanking warnings. School IP with long rap sheet. Android79Android79 16:44, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
    Now blocked through 3 Jul 2006. --Nlu (Nlu) 16:01, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Soapboxing. Should be unprotected 8 Jul 2006, when block expires. --Nlu (Nlu) 19:34, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Soapboxing. Should be unprotected 12 Aug 2006, when block expires. --Nlu (Nlu) 09:33, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Soapboxing. Should be unprotected 23 June 2006, when block expires. --Nlu (Nlu) 05:09, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Soapboxing. Should be unprotected 30 Nov 2006, when block expires. --Nlu (Nlu) 16:44, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Blocked for one week. Copying full text of articles and pasting over existing warnings. AmiDaniel (AmiDaniel) 08:29, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
    • Now blocked through 16 June 2006. --Nlu (Nlu) 18:29, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
    • Attack page, semiprotected. Sock of community banned user . Bishonen | Bishonen 11:01, 20 June 2006 (UTC).
    • . Indefinitely blocked IP who is probably a copycat of Willy on Wheels. Continues to vandalize his own talkpage, therefore semi-protected. As the block is indefinite, leave the protection as long as desired. Sjakkalle Sjakkalle 13:54, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
    • . Replaces own talkpage with obscenities after being blocked. Sjakkalle Sjakkalle 12:49, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
    • , user already blocked for a month, continues to blank talk page. -- Malo Malo Contributions/Malo 19:30, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
    • - user recently blocked and intent on being a negative influence on the encyclopedia. Continues to blank page after being blocked. --ZsinjZsinj 22:46, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
    • - user repeatedly vandalised own talk page after being blocked. Extraordinary Machine 14:06, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
    • - user repeatedly removed messages from user talk page after being blocked. Mushroom (Mushroom) 14:38, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

    Protected user subpages and boilerplates

    Some users have created boilerplate pages in their user namespace and protected them from editing.

    • - user is done with this, doesn't intend to edit and it's widely transcluded.
    • - At user request; not in current use, concerned about possible vandalism in regards to transclusions. Please contact me on my talk or via email before unprotecting.
    • Urhixidur/Archive/2004 - because it is an archive.
    • Urhixidur/Archive/2005 - because it is an archive.
    • Kilo-Lima/Archives - all pages here will be locked because it's an archive; instead of me listing each one individually.

    Protected | Viquipèdia:Pàgina protegida | Wikipedia:Denne side er beskyttet | Wikipedia:Geschützte Seiten | Wikipedia:Esta página está protegida | Vikipedio:Sxlositaj pagxoj | Wikipédia:page protégée | Wikipedia:Halaman yang dilindungi | Wikipedia:Pagina protetta | Wikipedia:保護されたページ | Wikipedia:Protégéiert Säiten | Wikipedia:Beveiligde pagina's | Wikipedia:Página protegida | Википедия:Защищённые страницы | Wikipedia:Protected page | Wikipédia:Kaca nu dijaga | Wikipedia:Skyddade sidor | Wikipedia:保護的頁面 | Wikipedia vandalism

     

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