Wikibooks:Protected page

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This page documents an official Wikibooks policy. Policies are rules and principles that the Wikibooks community has accepted and Wikibookians must follow. Except for minor edits, please make use of the discussion page to propose changes to this policy.

This policy has an unstable branch for proposing changes.

Note: To see the log for recent page protects/unprotects, see Protection log.

Wikibooks users known as 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.

This ability is used semi-permanently in some cases:

  • Protecting the highly visible pages Wikibooks portal and Main Page from vandalism, especially automated linkspamming.
  • Maintaining the integrity of the copyright and license pages.
  • Protecting certain "system administration" pages.
  • Maintaining the integrity of past press releases. (not needed yet)

This ability is also intended to be used temporarily in some cases:

  • Enforcing a "cool down" period to stop an "edit war", upon request (see below).
  • Protecting a page that has been a recent target of persistent vandalism or persistent edits by a banned user.
  • Preventing changes to a page while investigating a possible bug.

Admins should not protect pages when they have been involved in the edit war in question (either by actively editing the page or by expressing strong opinions on the talk page). Admin powers are not editor privileges - Admins should only act as servants to the user community at large. If you are an admin and you want a page in an edit war in which you are somehow involved to be protected, you should contact another admin and ask them to protect the page for you.

In general, pages should not be left protected for very long, and discussion pages should be left open.

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[edit] Editing protected pages

Admins should be cautious in editing semi-permanently protected pages, and do so in accordance with consensus and any specific guidelines on the subject. In many cases it is appropriate for an Admin to first raise the issue on the relevant talk page, as a non-Admin would have to do.

In cases of temporary page protection, Admins should refrain from editing pages while they are protected. They should not continue editing content while people with different points of view who are not Admins are unable to do so. There are, however, a few times when Admins may cautiously decide to edit such a page:

[edit] List of semi-permanently protected pages

Pages that need to be protected due to their visibility:

Pages that need to be protected for legal reasons:

Historical pages that were previously generated automatically by MediaWiki software. These pages survived a Vote for Deletion in the past, and there is no reason to modify these pages directly by a user. Their status in the future should be decided by community consensus:

Because Wikijunior is so prominent of a project, and because of repeated vandalism against the pages, the following main pages have been protected from moving and name changes. It is not anticipated that these books will change their naming convention without a significant discussion taking place first anyway:

[edit] List of semi-protected pages

Pages that need to be semi-protected due to their visibility:

Semi-Protection will allow normal users to edit them while providing the administrators a with a user-id if questions arise.

[edit] List of temporarily protected pages

If you protect a page, or find a protected page not listed here, please add it to this list. If you unprotect a page, or find a page listed here is no longer protected, remove it from this list.

Fully protected
Protected from moves only
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