Wikipedia:Lists of protected pages

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.

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. Protect the page supplying a reason
4. Add {{protected}} to the top of the temporarily protected page and make mention of the protection in the edit summary.
5. List pages you protect on Wikipedia:Protected page; if it is protected due to a conflict, you may want to list all user names/IPs involved in the conflict.
6. Consider encouraging a resolution between the disputing parties.
7. Remove the protection (while supplying a reason) once the conflict has been resolved
8. Remove {{protected}} from the top of an unprotected page and make mention of the removal in the edit summary.

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

Rationale

See meta:Protected pages considered harmful, meta:edit wars

Viewing the source of a protected page

To view the source of e.g. Main Page, use one of the following:

• //en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&action=edit
• Special:Export/Main Page

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:protection log for recent unprotections, which replaces the manual list of recently unprotected pages.

Semi-permanently protected pages (various reasons)

• Main Page (protect from vandalism). Discuss any changes to the Main Page at Talk:Main Page
• Wikipedia:Copyrights, Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License (copyright and license pages)
• Text of the GNU Free Documentation License (redirect to the above)
• Press releases: January 2002, January 2003, February 2004 (should remain static indefinitely)
• Wikipedia:designated agent (see meta:designated agent)
• Wikipedia:Foldoc license
• Wikipedia:Donation addresses (It should not be possible to falsify donation addresses.)
• Wikipedia:General disclaimer (linked from every article. It also needs to keep its precise wording in order to protect us and warn our readers.)
  • Wikipedia:Risk disclaimer - (linked to from the General disclaimer)
  • Wikipedia:Legal disclaimer (same)
  • Wikipedia:Medical disclaimer (same)
  • Wikipedia:Content disclaimer (same)

1. Wikipedia:Press_releases/February_2004/Text-Only
2. Wikipedia:Block_log/Archive1
3. Wikipedia:Blocked_IPs
4. Wikipedia:MediaWiki_interface_messages
5. Wikipedia:Popular_articles

These template pages

1. Template:1911
2. Template:Biology
3. Template:Cc-by
4. Template:Cc-by-nc
5. Template:Cc-by-nc-sa
6. Template:Cc-by-nd
7. Template:Cc-by-nd-nc
8. Template:Cc-by-sa
9. Template:Cc-nc
10. Template:Cc-nc-sa
11. Template:Cc-nd
12. Template:Cc-sa
13. Template:CompactTOC
14. Template:CompactTOC2
15. Template:CompactTOCwithnumbers
16. Template:Controversial
17. Template:Copyrighted
18. Template:CopyrightedFreeUse
19. Template:CopyrightedFreeUseProvided
20. Template:CrownCopyright
21. Template:Disambig
22. Template:Disputed
23. Template:Fairuse
24. Template:GFDL
25. Template:GPL
26. Template:Gnunote
27. Template:Ifd
28. Template:LGPL
29. Template:LandRegistryCopyright
30. Template:LearningandSkillsCouncilCopyright
31. Template:NHSCopyright
32. Template:NPOV
33. Template:NationalAuditOfficeCopyright
34. Template:Noncommercial
35. Template:PAphoto
36. Template:PD
37. Template:PD-US
38. Template:PD-USGov
39. Template:PermissionAndFairUse
40. Template:QualificationsandCurriculumAuthorityCopyright
41. Template:Sandbox
42. Template:Sitesupportpage
43. Template:TeacherTrainingAuthorityCopyright
44. Template:Test
45. Template:Unverified
46. Template:Verifieduse
47. Template:Wheaton
48. Template:Wiktionary
49. Template:Winad

Semi-permanently protected (system administration reasons)

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

• Auto-generated logs: Deletion log, Upload log, Protection log, Block log, Bureaucrat log and their archives
• Wikipedia:All pages by title (for Special:Allpages)
• Wikipedia:!Long articles (for Special:Longpages)
• Wikipedia:!Most wanted articles (for Special:Wantedpages)
• Wikipedia:!Orphaned articles (for Special:Lonelypages)
• Wikipedia:!Dead-end pages for Special:Deadendpages
• Wikipedia:!Short articles (for Special:Shortpages)
• All pages in the MediaWiki namespace except for the unprotected ones.

Semi-permanently protected (user pages)

User pages and their subpages are frequently targets for vandalism, and may be protected indefinitely upon request of the user associated with the page if there is a history of vandalism. This policy does not apply to user talk pages, which are rarely protected.

• 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)
  • Also User:RickK/stuff and User:RickK/temp. RickK 22:05, 16 Nov 2003 (UTC)
• User:Snoyes, User:Snoyes/boiler.
• User:Ilyanep + Some Subpages - Talk Page. I want these to be my words.
• User:David Newton/Bird Dispute
• Evercat 20:23, 15 Mar 2004 (UTC)
• User:Francs2000 and subpages, User talk:Francs2000/Archive1, 2 etc - have had some vandal troubles and no-one needs to edit these pages but me. -- Graham  :) | Talk 16:53, 23 Mar 2004 (UTC)
• User:Kaihsu - protected by Kaihsu, 25 March 2004.
• User:Dori - no need for anyone but myself to edit this, and I don't want a vandalism to potentially end up on google (no matter how small the probability). Dori | Talk 00:16, Apr 12, 2004 (UTC)
• User:Perl - a redirect to Perl's page on wikibooks. Protected at his request (on the requests for page protection). →Raul654 22:13, Apr 19, 2004 (UTC)
• Maximus Rex 01:25, 1 May 2004 (UTC)
• User:Ugen64 - there's no reason for anyone to edit this page; among other things, I edit as User:Cryptfiend64 now. ugen64 01:41, May 14, 2004 (UTC)
• User:Chris 73 and the subpages User:Chris 73/CompletedWork, User:Chris 73/Images, User:Chris 73/Boilerplate. I should be the only one with the need to edit these pages -- Chris 73 | Talk 07:27, 19 May 2004 (UTC)
• User:Ingoolemo (protected by Raul654 upon request)
• User:Schneelocke - If you want to leave me a message or something, use my talk page. ^_~ -- Schnee 21:48, 17 Jun 2004 (UTC)
• User:Flockmeal & User:Flockmeal/Welcome - personal user page and template for a welcome message to new users. No need for others to edit. --Flockmeal 21:32, Jun 23, 2004 (UTC)
• User:Mirv -- while I'm away. —No-One Jones 18:06, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)
• User:Zoe - protected by Zoe, 1 Jul 2004.

1. User:66.36.249.149
2. User:Deb
3. User:Dori
4. User:Hemanshu/myscript
5. User:Hephaestos_(aka:_Chicken_Shit)
6. User:JCarriker
7. User:Jerk_Ass!
8. User:Kenneð
9. User:Louisy_Democrats
10. User:Mikkalai
11. User:Montrealais
12. User:Raul654/Requests
13. User:Raul654/Useful_pages
14. User:Roozbeh
15. User:Serious_Democrats
16. User:WhisperToMe
17. User:Zenogantner

User talk pages

There is no policy that permits user talk pages to be protected. User talk pages presently protected include:

1. User talk:Wik/Archive_April_2004
2. User talk:Wik/Archive_December_2003
3. User talk:Wik/Archive_February_2004
4. User talk:Wik/Archive_January_2004
5. User talk:Wik/Archive_July-August_2003
6. User talk:Wik/Archive_March_2004
7. User talk:Wik/Archive_November_2003
8. User talk:Wik/Archive_October_2003
9. User talk:Wik/Archive_September_2003

Pages protected due to edit wars or vandalism

latest at bottom

• User:Zenogantner (he requested it). Vandalism by de:Benutzer:Herbye, banned on German Wikipedia. He probably will go to vandalise more german Admin-pages on EN. Any help is welcome :-) Fantasy 15:25, 3 Jun 2004 (UTC)

• Gdansk - revert war between anon and several others. →Raul654 06:26, Jun 8, 2004 (UTC)

• Benny Morris - edit war. Protection requested. →Raul654 08:26, Jun 9, 2004 (UTC)

• Tali Hatuel - edit war Zero000, Mirv, and anons -- Viajero 14:59, 9 Jun 2004 (UTC)

• Birmingham -- I'm sorry to ask for this but one user cannot accept not getting his own way (no names mentioned) and insists on a silly edit war. G-Man 22:58, 9 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • Request fulfilled -- edit war clearly not going to stop with unresolved dispute visible on talk page. Jwrosenzweig 23:07, 9 Jun 2004 (UTC)

• Yasser Arafat—revert war between three of the usual suspects. —No-One Jones 19:05, 17 Jun 2004 (UTC)

• Anti-Semitism - edit war Guanaco 01:11, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • Unprotected. Guanaco 21:08, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)
    • Reprotected on request. →Raul654 01:51, Jun 25, 2004 (UTC)

• Surrealism is having an edit-war. moink 22:56, 26 Jun 2004 (UTC)

• Internet democracy Vandalism by anon for university of croatia trying to redefine term. theresa knott 11:32, 30 Jun 2004 (UTC)

• Azerbaijan and History_of_Azerbaijan protected by David Gerard due to edit war involving K1 and Roozbeh, among others, against anonymous user 198.81.26.74, who edits this article almost exclusively. --Michael Snow 17:12, 30 Jun 2004 (UTC) [edited]

• Internet troll - Edit war. Protection was requested. →Raul654 17:44, Jul 3, 2004 (UTC)
• Unprotected. Guanaco 00:45, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)

• Rich - repeated vandalism by a single user with some stupid agenda who is using multiple anon accounts. RickK 22:41, Jul 3, 2004 (UTC)

• Palestinian views of the peace process - (re) protected due to edit war that has broken out today: 4 reversions so far today by RK. -- Graham ☺ | Talk 14:48, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)

• Daniel Pipes - protracted edit war with anon -- Viajero 11:53, 6 Jul 2004 (UTC)

• The Rowdyruff Boys—edit war between Marcus2 and King Moonraiser; talk:The Rowdyruff Boys was non-existent at the time of protection. —No-One Jones 18:19, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)

• User:The Trolls of Navarone. Edit war between Hephaestos, who wants the page blanked, and User:Mark Richards, who wants it left at the user's last edit. Protected by David Gerard. VV[[]] 20:44, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)

• Peace_Now reprotected to due an protracted edit between several users and an anon. -- Viajero 08:33, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)

• A number of pages were protected by Roozbeh on 7 Jul 2004, including:
  • Persia
  • Iran
  • History of Iran
  • Christians in Iran
  • Persian language
  • Persian literature
  • Azerbaijani language

• Zero0000 protected Middle East on 7 Jul 2004.