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In some circumstances, pages may need to be protected from modification by certain groups of editors, grand so. Pages are protected when a feckin' specific damagin' event has been identified that can not be prevented through other means such as a block, so it is. Otherwise, Mickopedia is built on the oul' principle that anyone can edit it, and it therefore aims to have as many of its pages as possible open for public editin' so that anyone can add material and correct errors. Here's another quare one. This policy states in detail the feckin' protection types and procedures for page protection and unprotection and when each protection should and should not be applied.

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, game ball! The various levels of protection are detailed below, and they can be applied to the bleedin' page edit, page move, page create, and file upload actions. I hope yiz are all ears now. Even when an oul' page is protected from editin', the oul' source code (wikitext) of the feckin' page can still be viewed and copied by anyone.

A protected page is marked at its top right by a holy padlock icon, usually added by the bleedin' {{pp-protected}} template.

Types of protection

The followin' technical options are available to administrators for protectin' different actions to pages:

  • Edit protection protects the bleedin' page from bein' edited.
  • Move protection protects the oul' page from bein' moved or renamed.
  • Creation protection prevents a holy page (normally a previously deleted one) from bein' created (also known as "saltin'").
  • Upload protection prevents new versions of a bleedin' file from bein' uploaded, but it does not prevent editin' to the bleedin' file's description page (unless edit protection is applied).

The followin' technical options are available to administrators for addin' protection levels to the feckin' different actions to pages:

  • Pendin' changes protection (only available for edit protection) means edits by unregistered and new editors are not visible to readers who are not logged-in until the oul' edits are approved by an oul' reviewer or an administrator.
  • Semi-protection prevents the feckin' action by unregistered editors and editors with accounts that are not confirmed.
  • Extended confirmed protection, also known as 30/500 protection, prevents the feckin' action by users without 30 days' tenure and 500 edits on the bleedin' English Mickopedia. Bejaysus this is a quare tale altogether. In most cases it should not be a holy protection level of first resort, and should be used where semi-protection has proven to be ineffective, be the hokey! Its use is logged at the Administrators' noticeboard.
  • Template protection prevents the action by everyone except template editors and administrators (who have this right as part of their toolset).
  • Full protection prevents the oul' action by everyone except administrators.

Any type of protection (with the oul' exception of cascadin' protection) may be requested at Mickopedia:Requests for page protection. C'mere til I tell ya. Changes to a holy fully protected page should be proposed on the bleedin' correspondin' talk page, then carried out by an administrator if they are uncontroversial or there is consensus for them.

Except in the bleedin' case of office actions (see below), Arbitration Committee remedies, or pages in the feckin' MediaWiki namespace (see below), administrators may unprotect a holy page if the bleedin' reason for its protection no longer applies, a bleedin' reasonable period has elapsed, and there is no consensus that continued protection is necessary, enda story. Editors desirin' the feckin' unprotection of a bleedin' page should, in the bleedin' first instance, ask the bleedin' administrator who applied the protection unless the oul' administrator is inactive or no longer an administrator; thereafter, requests may be made at Requests for unprotection. Here's another quare one. Note that such requests will normally be declined if the oul' protectin' administrator is active and was not consulted first, so it is. A log of protections and unprotections is available at Special:Log/protect.

Interaction of Mickopedia user groups and page protection levels
  Unregistered or Newly registered Auto-confirmed, Confirmed Extended confirmed Template editor Admin Appropriate for
No protection normal editin' This is the oul' default protection level, used for the oul' vast majority of pages.
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all users can edit. However, once an unregistered or new editor makes an edit, that edit and any subsequent edits by anyone will remain hidden from "readers" (users not logged in) until the feckin' edit made by the bleedin' unregistered or new editor is reviewed by a pendin' changes reviewer or admin. Logged-in editors always see all changes (whether accepted or not) immediately. Infrequently edited pages with high levels of vandalism, BLP violations, edit-warrin', or other disruption from unregistered and new users.
Semi-protection-shackle.svgSemi-protection cannot edit normal editin' Pages that are frequently edited by anonymous and registered users; some highly visible templates & modules.
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cannot edit normal editin'* Specific topic areas authorized by ArbCom; pages where semi-protection has failed; high-risk templates where template protection would be too restrictive.
Template-protection-shackle.svgTemplate prot. cannot edit normal editin' High-risk or very frequently used templates & modules; also some high-risk pages outside template space.
Full-protection-shackle.svgFull protection cannot edit normal editin' Articles with persistent disruption from extended confirmed accounts; critical or extremely frequently used templates & modules.
* In order to edit through extended confirmed protection, a feckin' template editor must also be extended confirmed, but in practice this is essentially always the feckin' case.

Other modes of protection:

Full protection

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A fully protected page cannot be edited or moved by anyone except administrators. The protection may be for an oul' specified time or may be indefinite.

Modifications to an oul' fully protected page can be proposed on its talk page (or at another appropriate forum) for discussion, fair play. Administrators can make changes to the oul' protected article reflectin' consensus, enda story. Placin' the {{Edit fully-protected}} template on the feckin' talk page will draw the feckin' attention of administrators for implementin' uncontroversial changes.

Content disputes

While content disputes and edit warrin' may be addressed with user blocks issued by uninvolved administrators, allowin' normal page editin' by other editors at the same time, the feckin' protection policy provides an alternative approach as administrators have the bleedin' discretion to temporarily fully protect an article to end an ongoin' edit war. This approach may better suit multi-party disputes and contentious content, as it makes talk page consensus a bleedin' requirement for implementation of requested edits.

When protectin' a page because of a content dispute, administrators have a feckin' duty to avoid protectin' a feckin' version that contains policy-violatin' content, such as vandalism, copyright violations, defamation, or poor-quality coverage of livin' people, bedad. Administrators are deemed to remain uninvolved when exercisin' discretion on whether to apply protection to the feckin' current version of an article, or to an older, stable, or pre-edit-war version.

Protected pages may not be edited except to make changes that are uncontroversial or for which there is clear consensus. Arra' would ye listen to this shite? Editors convinced that the protected version of an article contains policy-violatin' content, or that protection has rewarded edit warrin' or disruption by establishin' an oul' contentious revision, may identify a stable version prior to the oul' edit war and request reversion to that version. I hope yiz are all ears now. Before makin' such a feckin' request, editors should consider how independent editors might view the feckin' suggestion and recognize that continuin' an edit war is grounds for bein' blocked.

Administrators who have made substantive content changes to an article are considered involved and must not use their advanced permissions to further their own positions. Story? When involved in an oul' dispute, it is almost always wisest to respect the oul' editin' policies that bind all editors and call for input from an uninvolved administrator, rather than to invite controversy by actin' unilaterally.

Vandalism

Applyin' page protection as a preemptive measure is contrary to the open nature of Mickopedia and is generally not allowed if applied for these reasons. However, brief periods of an appropriate and reasonable protection level are allowed in situations where blatant vandalism or disruption is occurrin' by multiple users and at a feckin' level of frequency that requires its use in order to stop it. Here's a quare one for ye. The duration of the oul' protection should be set as short as possible, and the feckin' protection level should be set to the oul' lowest restriction needed in order to stop the oul' disruption while still allowin' productive editors to make changes.

"History only" review

If a feckin' deleted page is goin' through deletion review, only administrators are normally capable of viewin' the former content of the page. If they feel it would benefit the feckin' discussion to allow other users to view the oul' page content, administrators may restore the page, blank it or replace the oul' contents with {{Temporarily undeleted}} template or a holy similar notice, and fully protect the oul' page to prevent further editin'. The previous contents of the bleedin' page are then accessible to everyone via the page history.

Protected generic file names

Generic file names such as File:Photo.jpg, File:Map.jpg, and File:Sound.wav are fully protected to prevent new versions bein' uploaded, be the hokey! Furthermore, File:Map.jpg and File:Sound.wav are salted.

Permanent protection

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Administrators cannot change or remove the oul' protection for some areas on Mickopedia, which are permanently protected by the feckin' MediaWiki software:

  • Edits to the feckin' MediaWiki namespace, which defines parts of the bleedin' site interface, are restricted to administrators.
  • Edits to personal CSS and JavaScript pages such as User:Example/monobook.css and User:Example/cologneblue.js are restricted to the associated user and interface administrators. Sure this is it. Interface administrators may edit these pages, for example, to remove a user script that has been used in an inappropriate way. Jesus Mother of Chrisht almighty. Administrators may delete (but not edit or restore) these pages.
  • Edits to personal JSON pages such as User:Example/data.json are restricted to the feckin' associated user and administrators.

In addition to hard-coded protection, the oul' followin' are usually fully protected for an indefinite period of time:

Template protection

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A template-protected page can be edited only by administrators or users in the Template editors group, would ye swally that? This protection level should be used almost exclusively on high-risk templates and modules. In cases where pages in other namespaces become transcluded to a feckin' very high degree, this protection level is also valid.

This is a holy protection level[1] that replaces full protection on pages that are merely protected due to high transclusion rates, rather than content disputes. I hope yiz are all ears now. It should be used on templates whose risk factor would have otherwise warranted full protection. C'mere til I tell yiz. It should not be used on less risky templates on the feckin' grounds that the bleedin' template editor user right exists—the existence of the feckin' right should not result in more templates becomin' uneditable for the oul' general editin' community. In borderline cases, extended confirmed protection or lower may be applied to high risk templates that the general editin' community still needs to edit regularly.

Editors may request edits to a bleedin' template-protected page by proposin' them on its talk page, usin' the {{Edit template-protected}} template if necessary to gain attention.

Semi-protection

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Semi-protected pages cannot be edited by unregistered users (IP addresses), as well as accounts that are not autoconfirmed (accounts that are at least four days old and have made at least ten edits to Mickopedia) or confirmed. Semi-protection is useful when there is an oul' significant amount of disruption or vandalism from new or unregistered users, or to prevent sockpuppets of blocked or banned users from editin', especially when it occurs on biographies of livin' persons who have had a holy recent high level of media interest, game ball! An alternative to semi-protection is pendin' changes, which is sometimes favored when an article is bein' vandalized regularly, but otherwise receives a bleedin' low amount of editin'.

Such users can request edits to a bleedin' semi-protected page by proposin' them on its talk page, usin' the oul' {{Edit semi-protected}} template if necessary to gain attention. Arra' would ye listen to this. If the feckin' page in question and its talk page are both protected, please make your edit request at Mickopedia:Requests for page protection instead, grand so. New users may also request the oul' confirmed user right at Mickopedia:Requests for permissions/Confirmed.

Guidance for administrators

Administrators may apply indefinite semi-protection to pages that are subject to heavy and persistent vandalism or violations of content policy (such as biographies of livin' persons, neutral point of view). Sure this is it. Semi-protection should not be used as a feckin' preemptive measure against vandalism that has not yet occurred or to privilege registered users over unregistered users in (valid) content disputes.

In addition, administrators may apply temporary semi-protection on pages that are:

  • Subject to significant but temporary vandalism or disruption (for example, due to media attention) if blockin' individual users is not an oul' feasible option.
  • Subject to edit warrin' if all parties involved are unregistered or new editors (i.e. Here's a quare one. in cases in which full protection would otherwise be applied), grand so. This does not apply when autoconfirmed users are involved.
  • Subject to vandalism or edit warrin' where unregistered editors are engagin' in IP hoppin' by usin' different computers, obtainin' new addresses by usin' dynamic IP allocation, or other address-changin' schemes.
  • Article discussion pages, if they have been subject to persistent disruption. Whisht now and listen to this wan. Such protection should be used sparingly because it prevents unregistered and newly registered users from participatin' in discussions. A page and its talk page should not normally be protected at the same time, the shitehawk. If a holy page and its talk page are both protected, the feckin' talk page should direct affected editors to Mickopedia:Request for edit to ensure that no editor is entirely prevented from contributin'.
  • Protection should be used sparingly on the bleedin' talk pages of blocked users, includin' IP addresses. Instead the feckin' user should be re-blocked with talk page editin' disallowed. When required, or when re-blockin' without talk page editin' allowed is unsuccessful, protection should be implemented for only a holy brief period not exceedin' the bleedin' duration of the feckin' block.

Today's featured article may be semi-protected just like any other article. I hope yiz are all ears now. But since that article is subject to sudden spurts of vandalism durin' certain times of day, administrators should semi-protect it for brief periods in most instances. Arra' would ye listen to this shite? For the feckin' former guideline, see Mickopedia:Main Page featured article protection.

Creation protection (saltin')

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Administrators can prevent the feckin' creation of pages. Stop the lights! This level of protection is useful for pages that have been deleted but repeatedly recreated. Such protection is case-sensitive. Here's a quare one for ye. There are several levels of creation protection that can be applied to pages, identical to the levels for edit protection. A list of protected titles may be found at Special:ProtectedTitles (see also historical lists).

Pre-emptive restrictions on new article titles are instituted through the title blacklist system, which allows for more flexible protection with support for substrings and regular expressions.

Pages that have been creation-protected are sometimes referred to as "salted". Editors wishin' to re-create a salted title with appropriate content should either contact an administrator (preferably the bleedin' protectin' administrator), file an oul' request at Mickopedia:Requests for page protection#Current requests for reduction in protection level, or use the bleedin' deletion review process, would ye swally that? To make a convincin' case for re-creation, it is helpful to show a draft version of the bleedin' intended article when filin' a request.

Administrators should choose the bleedin' appropriate level of create protection—autoconfirmed, extended-confirmed,[2] or full, you know yourself like. Due to the feckin' implementation of ACPERM, non-confirmed editors cannot create pages in mainspace; thus, semi-creation protection should be rare, used only for protection of pages outside of mainspace.

While creation-protection is usually permanent, temporary creation protection may be applied if a page is repeatedly recreated by an oul' single user (or sockpuppets of that user, if applicable).

Move protection

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Move protected pages, or more technically, fully move-protected pages, cannot be moved to a feckin' new title except by an administrator. G'wan now. Move protection is commonly applied to:

Fully edit-protected pages are also implicitly move-protected.

As with full edit protection, protection because of edit warrin' should not be considered an endorsement of the oul' current name. Here's another quare one for ye. When move protection is applied durin' a requested move discussion, the bleedin' page should be protected at the feckin' location it was at when the oul' move request was started.

All files are implicitly move-protected; only file movers and administrators can rename files.

Upload protection

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Upload-protected files, or more technically, fully upload-protected files, cannot be replaced with new versions except by an administrator. Bejaysus this is a quare tale altogether. Upload protection does not protect file pages from editin'. Bejaysus here's a quare one right here now. It may be applied by an administrator to:

  • Files subject to persistent upload vandalism.
  • Files subject to a holy dispute between editors.
  • Files that should not be replaced, such as images used in the oul' interface or transcluded to the main page.
  • Files with common or generic names. (e.g., File:Map.png)

As with full edit protection, administrators should avoid favorin' one version over another, and protection should not be considered an endorsement of the bleedin' current version. An exception to this rule is when they are protected due to upload vandalism.

Pendin' changes protection

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Pendin' changes protection is a tool used to suppress vandalism and certain other persistent problems while allowin' all users to continue to submit edits. Pendin' changes protection can be used as an alternative to semi-protection to allow unregistered and new users to edit pages, while keepin' the edits hidden from the feckin' view of most readers until those changes are accepted by a bleedin' pendin' changes reviewer.

When a holy page under pendin' changes protection is edited by an unregistered (IP addresses) editor or a new user, the feckin' edit is not directly visible to the majority of Mickopedia readers, until it is reviewed and accepted by an editor with the bleedin' pendin' changes reviewer right, be the hokey! When a feckin' page under pendin' changes protection is edited by an autoconfirmed user, the feckin' edit will be immediately visible to Mickopedia readers, unless there are pendin' edits waitin' to be reviewed.

Pendin' changes are visible in the oul' page history, where they are marked as pendin' review, be the hokey! Readers that are not logged in (the vast majority of readers) are shown the oul' latest accepted version of the feckin' page; logged-in users see the feckin' latest version of the page, with all changes (reviewed or not) applied, enda story. When editors who are not reviewers make changes to an article with unreviewed pendin' changes, their edits are also marked as pendin' and are not visible to most readers.

A user who clicks "edit this page" is always, at that point, shown the feckin' latest version of the bleedin' page for editin' regardless of whether the oul' user is logged in or not.

  • If the oul' editor is not logged in, their changes join any other changes to the article awaitin' review – for the bleedin' present they remain hidden from not-logged-in users. Be the hokey here's a quare wan. (This means that when the oul' editor looks at the oul' article after savin', the editor won't see the change made.)
  • If the feckin' editor is logged in and a holy pendin' changes reviewer, and there are pendin' changes, the oul' editor will be prompted to review the oul' pendin' changes before editin' – see Mickopedia:Pendin' changes.
  • If the oul' editor is logged in and not a pendin' changes reviewer, then ...
    • If there are no unreviewed pendin' edits waitin', this editor's edits will be visible to everyone immediately; but
    • If there are unreviewed pendin' edits waitin', then this editor's edits will be visible only to other logged-in users (includin' themself) immediately, but not to readers not logged in.

Reviewin' of pendin' changes should be resolved within reasonable time limits.

When to apply pendin' changes protection

Pendin' changes may be used to protect articles against:

Pendin' changes protection should not be used as an oul' preemptive measure against violations that have not yet occurred. Like semi-protection, PC protection should never be used in genuine content disputes, where there is a bleedin' risk of placin' a holy particular group of editors (unregistered users) at a bleedin' disadvantage. Pendin' changes protection should not be used on articles with a feckin' very high edit rate, even if they meet the aforementioned criteria. Whisht now and listen to this wan. Instead semi-protection should be considered.

In addition, administrators may apply temporary pendin' changes protection on pages that are subject to significant but temporary vandalism or disruption (for example, due to media attention) when blockin' individual users is not a holy feasible option. C'mere til I tell ya now. As with other forms of protection, the feckin' time frame of the protection should be proportional to the feckin' problem. Indefinite PC protection should be used only in cases of severe long-term disruption.

Removal of pendin' changes protection can be requested of any administrator, or at requests for unprotection.

The reviewin' process is described in detail at Mickopedia:Reviewin' pendin' changes.

Extended confirmed protection

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Extended confirmed protection, also known as 30/500 protection, only allows edits by editors with the feckin' extended confirmed user access level, granted automatically to registered users with at least 30 days' tenure and 500 edits.

Where semi-protection has proven to be ineffective, administrators may use extended confirmed protection to combat disruption (such as vandalism, abusive sockpuppetry, edit wars, etc.) on any topic. Extended confirmed protection should not be used as a bleedin' preemptive measure against disruption that has not yet occurred, nor should it be used to privilege extended confirmed users over unregistered/new users in valid content disputes on articles not covered by Arbitration Committee 30/500 rulings. Extended confirmed protection may be applied at the bleedin' discretion of an administrator when creation-protectin' a page.[2] High-risk templates may be extended-confirmed protected at administrator discretion when template protection would be too restrictive or semi-protection would be ineffective to stop widespread disruption.[3]

Until August 12, 2016,[4] 30/500 protection applied only in topic areas determined by the feckin' Arbitration Committee, which authorized its use on articles reasonably construed as belongin' to the bleedin' Arab–Israeli conflict;[5] as an arbitration enforcement tool by motion or remedy;[6] or as a result of community consensus.[7] In February 2019, the community authorized uninvolved administrators to place pages reasonably construed as belongin' to the feckin' India–Pakistan conflict under extended confirmed protection as part of a feckin' general sanctions regime.[8] In May 2020 the bleedin' Arbitration Committee authorized extended confirmed protection to pages related to the history of Jews and antisemitism in Poland durin' World War II (1933–45).[9]

As of September 23, 2016, a bot posts a holy notification in a subsection of AN when this protection level is used.[10] Any protection made as arbitration enforcement must be logged at Mickopedia:Arbitration enforcement log. A full list of the feckin' 3231 pages under 30/500 protection can be found here.

Users can request edits to an extended confirmed-protected page by proposin' them on its talk page, usin' the feckin' {{Edit extended-protected}} template if necessary to gain attention.

Office actions

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As outlined in Meta-Wiki:Office actions#Use of advanced rights by Foundation staff, pages may be protected by Wikimedia Foundation staff in response to issues such as copyright infringement or libel. Me head is hurtin' with all this raidin'. Such actions override community consensus. Here's another quare one. Administrators should not edit or unprotect such pages without permission from Wikimedia Foundation staff.

Cascadin' protection

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Cascadin' protection fully protects a bleedin' page, and extends that full protection automatically to any page that is transcluded onto the protected page, whether directly or indirectly, that's fierce now what? This includes templates, images and other media that are hosted on the oul' English Mickopedia. C'mere til I tell ya now. Files stored on Commons are not protected by any other wiki's cascadin' protection and, if they are to be protected, must be either temporarily uploaded to the feckin' English Mickopedia or explicitly protected at Commons (whether manually or through cascadin' protection there), bejaysus. When operational, KrinkleBot cascade-protects Commons files transcluded at Mickopedia:Main Page/Tomorrow, Mickopedia:Main Page/Commons media protection and Main Page. As the feckin' bot's response time varies, media should not be transcluded on the bleedin' main page (or its constituent templates) until after it has been protected, be the hokey! (This is particularly relevant to Template:In the oul' news, for which upcomin' images are not queued at Mickopedia:Main Page/Tomorrow.) Cascadin' protection:

  • Should be used only to prevent vandalism when placed on particularly visible pages, such as the bleedin' main page.
  • Is available only for fully protected pages; it is disabled for lower levels of protection as it represents an oul' security flaw. See Phabricator:T10796 for more information.
  • Is not instantaneous; it may be several hours before it takes effect, like. See Phabricator:T20483 for more information.
  • Should generally not be applied directly to templates or modules, as it will not protect transclusions inside <includeonly> tags or transclusions that depend on template parameters, but will protect the oul' documentation subpage. Would ye believe this shite?See § Protection of templates below, for alternatives.

The list of cascadin'-protected pages can be found at Mickopedia:Cascade-protected items. Whisht now. Requests to add or remove cascadin' protection on a bleedin' page should be made at Mickopedia talk:Cascade-protected items as an edit request.

Deprecated protection

Superprotect

Superprotect was a feckin' level of protection, allowin' editin' only by Wikimedia Foundation employees who are in the feckin' Staff global group. It was implemented on August 10, 2014 and used the feckin' same day to override community consensus regardin' the bleedin' use of the feckin' Media Viewer on the German Mickopedia's primary site JavaScript, common.js. G'wan now. It was never used on the bleedin' English Mickopedia. C'mere til I tell yiz. On November 5, 2015, the bleedin' WMF decided to remove superprotect from all Wikimedia wikis.

Cascadin' semi-protection

Cascadin' semi-protection was formerly possible, but it was disabled in 2007 after users noticed that non-administrators could fully protect any page by transcludin' it onto the bleedin' page to which cascadin' semi-protection had been applied by an administrator.

Pendin' changes protection level 2

Originally, two levels of pendin' changes protection existed, where level 2 required edits by all users who are not pendin' changes reviewers to be reviewed. Sure this is it. Followin' a community discussion, level 2 was retired from the bleedin' English Mickopedia in January 2017, Lord bless us and save us. It was suggested then that "Pendin' changes level 1" be referred to in the feckin' future as simply "Pendin' changes".[11]

Protection by namespace

Article talk pages

Modifications to a bleedin' protected page can be proposed on its talk page (or at another appropriate forum) for discussion. Soft oul' day. Administrators can make changes to the bleedin' protected article reflectin' consensus. Placin' the oul' {{Edit protected}} template on the feckin' talk page will draw the attention of administrators for implementin' uncontroversial changes.

Talk pages are not usually protected, and are semi-protected only for a bleedin' limited duration in the bleedin' most severe cases of vandalism.

User talk pages

User talk pages are rarely protected. However, protection may be applied if there is severe vandalism or abuse. Users whose talk pages are protected may wish to have an unprotected user talk subpage linked conspicuously from their main talk page to allow good-faith comments from users that the oul' protection restricts editin' from.

A user's request to have their own talk page protected is not a bleedin' sufficient rationale by itself to protect the oul' page, although requests may be considered if a reason is provided.

Blocked users

Blocked users' user talk pages should not ordinarily be protected, as this interferes with the oul' user's ability to contest their block through the feckin' normal process, be the hokey! It also prevents others from bein' able to use the oul' talk page to communicate with the feckin' blocked editor.

In extreme cases of abuse by the feckin' blocked user, such as abuse of the {{unblock}} template, re-blockin' the user with talk page access removed should be preferred over applyin' protection to the bleedin' page, the hoor. If the bleedin' user has been blocked and with the bleedin' ability to edit their user talk page disabled, they should be informed of this in a block notice, subsequent notice, or message, and it should include information and instructions for appealin' their block off-wiki, such as through the bleedin' UTRS tool interface or, as a holy last recourse, the Arbitration Committee.

When required, protection should be implemented for only an oul' brief period, not exceedin' the duration of the feckin' block.

Confirmed socks of registered users should be dealt with in accordance with Mickopedia:Sockpuppetry; their pages are not normally protected.

User pages

Base user pages (for example, the page User:Example, and not User:Example/subpage or User talk:Example) are automatically protected from creation or editin' by unconfirmed accounts and anonymous IP users, fair play. An exception to this includes an unconfirmed registered account attemptin' to create or edit their own user page. Whisht now and eist liom. IP editors and unconfirmed accounts are also unable to create or edit user pages that do not belong to a feckin' currently-registered account. This protection is enforced by an edit filter.[12] Users may opt-out of this protection by placin' {{unlocked userpage}} anywhere on their own user page.

User pages and subpages within their own user space may be protected upon a request from the bleedin' user, as long as a feckin' need exists. Bejaysus this is a quare tale altogether. Pages within the bleedin' user space should not be automatically or pre-emptively protected without good reason or cause.[13][14] Requests for protection specifically at uncommon levels (such as template protection) may be granted if the bleedin' user has expressed a genuine and realistic need.

When a filter is insufficient to stop user page vandalism, a bleedin' user may choose to create a ".css" subpage (ex. User:Example/Userpage.css), copy all the bleedin' contents of their user page onto the oul' subpage, transclude the oul' subpage by puttin' {{User:Example/Userpage.css}} on their user page, and then ask an administrator to fully protect their user page, would ye believe it? Because user space pages that end in ".css", ".js", and ".json" are editable only by the bleedin' user to which that user space belongs (and interface administrators), this will protect your user page from further vandalism.

Deceased users

In the oul' event of the feckin' confirmed death of a feckin' user, the oul' user's user page (but not the bleedin' user talk page) should be fully protected.

Protection of templates

Highly visible templates – those used on a bleedin' large number of pages or frequently substituted – are often edit protected based on the bleedin' degree of visibility, type of use, content, and other considerations.

Protected templates should normally have the bleedin' {{documentation}} template. Jesus Mother of Chrisht almighty. It loads the bleedin' unprotected /doc page, so that non-admins and IP-users can edit the feckin' documentation, categories and interwiki links. It also automatically adds {{pp-template}} to protected templates, which displays an oul' small padlock in the oul' top right corner and categorizes the oul' template as protected. Only manually add {{pp-template}} to protected templates that don't use {{documentation}} (mostly the feckin' flag templates).

Cascadin' protection should generally not be applied directly to templates, as it will not protect transclusions inside <includeonly> tags or transclusions that depend on template parameters, but will protect the bleedin' template's documentation subpage. Here's a quare one for ye. Instead, consider any of the followin':

  • If the oul' set of subtemplates is static (even if large), protect them usin' normal protection mechanisms.
  • If the feckin' set of subtemplates is unbounded, use MediaWiki:Titleblacklist to protect all subtemplates usin' an oul' particular namin' format (as is done for editnotice templates and subtemplates of Template:TFA title).

Note: All editnotice templates (except those in userspace) are already protected via MediaWiki:Titleblacklist. G'wan now. They can be edited by admins, template editors and page movers only.

Sandboxes

Sandboxes should not ordinarily be protected since their purpose is to let new users test and experiment with wiki syntax, would ye believe it? Most sandboxes are automatically cleaned every 12 hours, although they are frequently overwritten by other testin' users. The Mickopedia:Sandbox is cleaned every hour. Bejaysus. Those who use sandboxes for malicious purposes, or to violate policies such as no personal attacks, civility, or copyrights, should instead be warned and/or blocked.

Available templates

The followin' templates may be added at the feckin' very top of a feckin' page to indicate that it is protected:

On redirect pages, use the bleedin' {{Redirect category shell}} template, which automatically categorizes by protection level, below the bleedin' redirect line. G'wan now and listen to this wan. A protection template may also be added below the oul' redirect line, but it will serve only to categorize the bleedin' page, as it will not be visible on the oul' page, and it will have to be manually removed when protection is removed.

See also

Notes
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