Atkinspedia:Protected page

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• Note: pages permanently protected because of visibility or legal reasons are now listed separately at Atkinspedia:List of indefinitely protected pages.
• Note: pages protected as a {{deletedpage}} or redirect to another page are now listed separately at Atkinspedia:List of pages protected against re-creation.

• Note: You can request protection and unprotection at Atkinspedia:Requests for page protection.

Administrators have the ability to "protect" pages or images so that they cannot be modified except by other admins (the link "Edit this page" is replaced by a link "View source" 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 simple 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 dispute (Category:Conflicts).

See Atkinspedia: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 template (e.g. {{protected}} (or {{sprotected}})
3. List pages you protect on Atkinspedia: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 {{article|ARTICLE NAME}} when listing a page at Atkinspedia: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

• Atkinspedia:List of indefinitely protected pages - please list long-term protections here.
• Requests for page protection - place to request protection; use when your involvement in editing a page precludes protecting it yourself. Also used by non-administrators who wish for a page to be protected. Also for unprotection requests.
• Protection log - automated log of protections and unprotections
• This page is protected
• Atkinspedia maintenance section on maintaining this page
• Atkinspedia:Most vandalized pages - please add pages subjected to repeated vandalism to this list