Shortcut: WP:PERMPROT

Protection templates v • d • e
	{{pp-meta}}	Full	Semi	Move
	Dispute:	{{pp-dispute}}	N/A	{{pp-move-dispute}}
	Vandalism:	{{pp-vandalism}}		{{pp-move-vandalism}}
	High visibility templates:	{{pp-template}}		N/A
	User talk of blocked user:	{{pp-usertalk}}	{{pp-semi-usertalk}}	N/A
	Sockpuppetry:	N/A	{{pp-semi-sock}}	N/A
	WP:BLP:	N/A	{{pp-semi-blp}}	N/A
	Long-term:	N/A	{{pp-semi-indef}}	{{pp-move-indef}}
	Generic (other protection):	{{pp-protected}}		{{pp-move}}
	Scrutiny of the Office:	{{pp-office}}	{{reset}}	N/A
	Talk page info:	{{Permprot}}	{{Temprot}}	N/A
	Create protection:	{{pp-create}}		N/A

This is a list of pages that are permanently protected or semi-protected, in line with the protection policy. Note that the list is partial and incomplete. For the full list, go here.

Contents 1 Main Page and component templates 2 Pages linked from the sidebar 3 High-visibility templates 3.1 Fully protected 3.2 Semi-protected 4 High-visibility images 5 Generic image names 6 Legal reasons 6.1 Libel, slander or privacy considerations 7 System administration reasons 8 License templates 9 High use templates 9.1 Semi-protected 9.2 Fully protected 10 Javascript-related pages

[edit] Main Page and component templates

Templates that make up Main Page content, including those that change daily, are automatically protected by transclusion on the Main Page, as cascading protection is enabled.

• Main Page – discuss changes at Talk:Main Page
• Wikipedia:Today's featured article/December 30, 2009 (changes daily)
• Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 30 (changes daily)
• Template:POTD protected/2009-12-30 (changes daily)
• Template:Did you know
• Template:In the news
• Template:MainPageInterwikis
• Template:Main Page banner
• Template:POTD protected
• Template:WikipediaSister
• Template:SelAnnivFooter
• Template:TFAfooter
• Template:WikipediaOther
• Template:Wikipedialang

[edit] Pages linked from the sidebar

These are linked from every page (via the 'sidebar' on Monobook and some other skins).

• Wikipedia:Community Portal (semi-protected) – and the following transcluded templates:
  • Template:Announcements/Community bulletin board (semi-protected)
  • Wikipedia:Community Portal/Opentask (semi-protected)
• Portal:Current events (semi-protected) – and the following transcluded templates:
  • Portal:Current events/Inclusion
  • Portal:Current events/Calendar (semi-protected)
  • Portal:Current events/DateHeader2
  • Portal:Current events/More events (semi-protected)
• Wikipedia:About (semi-protected)
• Wikipedia:Contents (semi-protected)
• Wikipedia:Featured content (semi-protected)
• Wikipedia:Contact us - media and other informational contact page
• Help:Contents (semi-protected)

[edit] High-visibility templates

These templates are not necessarily used on a large number of pages, but those pages on which they are used are visible ones. This also includes templates that are frequently used, but intended to be substituted, so that while they are only transcluded on a handful of pages, changes to them will quickly affect a large number of pages. See also High-use templates below.

In addition to these pages, all templates transcluded in Today's Featured Article are considered high-visibility and are temporarily fully-protected.

[edit] Fully protected

• Template:Donate
• Portal:Box-footer – High use. Never/rarely edited. Would be non-trivial to figure out if vandalized.
• Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Protection - Cascade protected to cover the current signpost, transcluded on hundreds of pages

Deletion process templates

• Template:Afd, Template:Afd2, Template:Afd3
• Template:Ifd, Template:Cfd, Template:Cfr, Template:Rfd, Template:Tfd, and Template:Md1

"Old-style" user warning templates

• Template:Test, Template:Test1a, Template:Test2, Template:Test2a, Template:Test3, Template:Test4, Template:Test5
• Template:Spam, Template:Spam4im

[edit] Semi-protected

"New-style" user warning templates

Not all of these are semi-protected, however the following are:

• uw-3rr
• uw-afd1, uw-afd2, uw-afd3, uw-afd4
• uw-agf1, uw-agf2, uw-agf3
• uw-autobiography
• uw-biog1, uw-biog2, uw-biog3, uw-biog4
• uw-block1, uw-block2, uw-block3
• uw-chat1, uw-chat2, uw-chat3, uw-chat4
• uw-create1, uw-create2, uw-create3, uw-create4
• uw-defamatory1, uw-defamatory2, uw-defamatory3, uw-defamatory4, uw-defamatory4im
• uw-delete1, uw-delete2, uw-delete3, uw-delete4, uw-delete4im
• uw-error1, uw-error2, uw-error3
• uw-hoax
• uw-image1, uw-image2, uw-image3, uw-image4, uw-image4im
• uw-legal
• uw-mos1, uw-mos2, uw-mos3
• uw-move1, uw-move2, uw-move3, uw-move4
• uw-notcensored1, uw-notcensored2, uw-notcensored3
• uw-npa1, uw-npa2, uw-npa3, uw-npa4, uw-npa4im
• uw-npov1, uw-npov2, uw-npov3, uw-npov4
• uw-own1, uw-own2, uw-own3
• uw-sblock
• uw-spam1, uw-spam2, uw-spam3, uw-spam4, uw-spam4im
• uw-speedy1, uw-speedy2, uw-speedy3, uw-speedy4
• uw-tpv1, uw-tpv2, uw-tpv3
• uw-upv
• uw-vandalism1, uw-vandalism2, uw-vandalism3, uw-vandalism4, uw-vandalism4im

[edit] High-visibility images

The following images are used on visible or high-use pages of some kind, and may be part of the interface (for example, on pages in the MediaWiki namespace).

• Image:Portal.svg - widely used throughout Wikipedia and prominently so.

• Image:Information icon.svg, Image:Octagon-warning.svg, Image:Padlock.svg, Image:Red copyright.svg, Image:Nuvola apps kwrite.png, Image:Symbol comment vote 2.svg, Image:Commons-logo.svg, Image:Information.svg, Image:Stop sign light red.svg, Image:Stop x nuvola.svg, all used in system messages, and so very high-visibility.

[edit] Generic image names

These images have very generic names, and are undesirable as names of actual files due to the risk of accidental overwriting should someone inadvertently choose the same generic name. The images themselves contain a message similar to the following one explaining not to use the name:

Image:00000.jpg Image:Box.jpg Image:Campus.jpg Image:Chart.png Image:Church.JPG Image:Cover.jpg Image:Cute.jpg Image:Default.jpg Image:DVD Box.jpg Image:DVD Cover.jpg Image:Example.JPG Image:File.jpg Image:Flag.JPG Image:Flag.gif Image:Folder.jpg Image:Guy.gif Image:Headshot.JPG Image:Headshot.jpg Image:Image.gif Image:Image.jpeg Image:Image.jpg Image:Image.png Image:Image.svg Image:Image001.jpg Image:Image01.jpg Image:Image1.jpg Image:Images.jpg Image:Img.gif Image:Img.jpg Image:Img.png Image:Lastscan.jpg Image:Logo.JPG Image:Logo.PNG Image:Logo.gif Image:Logo.jpg Image:Logo.png Image:Logo.svg Image:North.jpg Image:Photo.gif Image:Photo.jpeg Image:Photo.jpg Image:Photo.png Image:Photo.svg Image:Photo1.jpg Image:Pic.jpg Image:Picture.gif Image:Picture.jpg Image:Picture.png Image:Picture.svg Image:Picture 001.jpg Image:Picture 2.png Image:Pleasedont.gif Image:Poster.jpeg Image:Poster.jpg Image:Screenshot.gif Image:Smile.jpg Image:Thumbnail.jpg Image:Title.gif Image:Untitled.jpg Image:Untitled1.JPG Image:Untitled.png Image:Untitled.gif

Numbers Image:1.jpg Image:2.jpg Image:3.jpg Image:4.jpg Image:5.jpg Image:7.jpg Image:8.jpg Image:9.jpg Image:1.JPG Image:2.JPG Image:3.JPG Image:4.JPG Image:7.JPG Image:9.JPG Image:1.gif Image:2.gif Image:3.gif Image:4.gif Image:5.gif Image:6.gif Image:8.gif Image:9.gif Image:2.png Image:3.png Image:4.png Image:5.png Image:6.png Image:7.png Image:8.png Image:9.png

Single letters Image:A.jpg Image:D.jpg Image:E.jpg Image:F.jpg Image:G.jpg Image:I.jpg Image:J.jpg Image:K.jpg Image:L.jpg Image:M.jpg Image:N.jpg Image:O.jpg Image:Q.jpg Image:R.jpg Image:S.jpg Image:T.jpg Image:U.jpg Image:V.jpg Image:W.jpg Image:X.jpg Image:Y.jpg Image:B.JPG Image:G.JPG Image:H.JPG Image:I.JPG Image:J.JPG Image:K.JPG Image:V.JPG Image:Y.JPG Image:d.gif Image:k.gif Image:l.gif Image:p.gif Image:u.gif Image:f.GIF Image:N.png Image:O.png Image:R.png

[edit] Legal reasons

• Wikipedia:Copyrights – Policy page on copyright and licenses.
• Press releases: January 2002, January 2003, February 2004, February 2004/Text-Only – should remain static indefinitely. New press releases are on the Foundation website and Meta.
• Wikipedia:Designated agent – see meta:designated agent.
• Wikipedia:Foldoc license – Permission to use material from the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing under the GFDL.
• Wikipedia:Site support – Soft redirect to the Fundraising page on the Wikimedia Foundation website, should not be changed.

License texts

Full text of GNU licenses. These need to be accurate for copyright reasons.

• Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License
• Wikipedia:Text of the GNU General Public License
• Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Lesser General Public License

Disclaimers

These are linked from the footer of every page, and need to be accurate for legal reasons.

• Wikipedia:General disclaimer
• Wikipedia:Risk disclaimer
• Wikipedia:Legal disclaimer
• Wikipedia:Medical disclaimer
• Wikipedia:Content disclaimer

[edit] Libel, slander or privacy considerations

Sometimes it may be appropriate to protect pages based on considerations, whether of legal liability or common courtesy, of harm they may cause. This may involve slander, libel or privacy. Privacy considerations might involve, for example, notorious public behavior by a mentally ill person or a dramatic but embarrassing event which involves a person who is not a public figure. See Template:Privacy protection. Wikipedia:Images of Wikipedians has been permanently semi-protected due to concerns of people adding images of other people. That page is on a constant watch to remove photos added inappropriately.

See Wikipedia:Office Actions.

[edit] System administration reasons

• Auto-generated logs (old): Deletion log, Upload log, Protection log, Block log, Bureaucrat log and their archives
• Wikipedia:Special:Deadendpages
• Village pump archive 2004-09-26 (to prevent page move vandalism of large history)
• All pages in the MediaWiki namespace

[edit] License templates

The following license templates are indefinitely protected due to both high visibility and legal reasons.

General Template:Copyrighted Template:CopyrightedFreeUse-User Template:CopyrightedFreeUseProvided Template:ImageLicenseFreeUse Template:TextLicenseFreeUse Template:TextLicenseMinorFreeUse Template:Noncommercial Template:Non-free restricted use Template:PermissionAndFairUse (redirect) Template:Replaceable fair use Template:Self Template:Self2 (redirect) Public domain Template:PD Template:PD-US Template:PD-art Template:PD-old Template:PD-user GNU Template:GFDL Template:GDFL (redirect) – redirect from typo Template:GPL Template:GPL-2 Template:LGPL Template:GFDL-no-disclaimers Template:GFDL-with-disclaimers Template:GFDL-self-with-disclaimers Template:GFDL 1.2

Creative Commons Template:CC-Layout Template:Cc-by Template:Cc-by-2.0-map-of Template:Cc-by-nc (redirect) Template:Cc-by-nc-sa (redirect) Template:Cc-by-nd-1.0 (redirect) Template:Cc-by-nd-nc (redirect) Template:Cc-by-sa Template:Cc-nc (redirect) Template:Cc-nc-sa (redirect) Template:Cc-nd (redirect) Template:Cc-sa Governmental Template:CrownCopyright Template:PD-USGov Template:PD-USGov-Military-Navy Template:PD-USGov-NASA Wikimedia-specific Template:WikimediaNoLicensing Template:WikimediaAllLicensing Template:WikimediaMediaLicensing Template:WikimediaTextLicensing Other Template:PD-USSR (redirect) Template:CeCILL

[edit] High use templates

See also Wikipedia:High-risk templates and Category:Protected templates.

The following templates are indefinitely protected or semi-protected because a large number of pages directly or indirectly depend on them. These templates should only be edited when absolutely necessary. Development of new revisions should be done elsewhere (in a page under user space, in a template sandbox or on a separate development subpage of the template). See also High-visibility templates above.

[edit] Semi-protected

This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.

Template:' Template:African American ethnicity Template:Asia topic Template:Checkip (fully move-protected) Template:Checkuser (fully move-protected) Template:Clerk-Note Template:Coord Template:Contains Indic text Template:Countries of Africa Template:Countries of Asia Template:Countries of Central Asia Template:Countries of Europe Template:Countries of North America Template:Country data Northern Ireland Template:Country (fully move-protected) Template:Crimin Template:Current events box Template:CUU Template:Delayed Template:Emergency-bot-shutoff Template:FA number Template:FFA number Template:For2 Template:FSM Template:Gamebox contents Template:God Template:Infobox baseball team Template:Infobox Officeholder Template:Infobox VG Template:Infobox hurricane Template:Infobox Legislation Template:Infobox Muscle Template:Infobox Television Template:Infobox University Template:Introduction to Wikipedia Template:Islam Template:IPsock Template:IUCN2006 Template:Japan topics Template:Jesus

Template:LGBT sidebar Template:MapleStory Versions content (fully move-protected) Template:MoreInfo Template:Navbox generic Template:Navigation with image Template:Neo-Nazism Template:Note label (fully move-protected) Template:Nuclear weapons Template:PDFlink Template:Politics of India Template:Portals Template:Power Rangers Template:Raise Template:Rangeblock Template:Renameuser Template:Rfd bottom Template:Rfd top Template:Rights Template:S-rail/lines Template:SockpuppetProven Template:Sprotect2 (redirect) Template:Television colour Template:Template doc page viewed directly Template:UFOs Template:UK-politician-stub Template:US patent (fully move-protected) Template:US-politician-stub Template:User2 Template:VG Navigation

[edit] Fully protected

Changes to these templates should be requested on the template's talk page by adding {{editprotected}} and providing detailed change instructions. The change will then be made by an administrator.

This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.

Template:- Template:-Class Template:-importance Template:! Template:!- Template:!! Template:*mp Template:= Template:· Template:A-Class Template:Abs Template:About Template:Adminbacklog Template:AFC preload Template:AfD categories Template:Afd2 starter Template:Afd3 starter Template:Age Template:Non-free album cover Template:Amg movie Template:Anonblock Template:AOL Template:AOLblock Template:Assessed-Class Template:Assessment index footer Template:Assessment index header Template:Audio Template:Autoblock Template:AutoLink Template:B-Class Template:Babel Template:BDYearsInDecade Template:Birthyr Template:Blatantvandal Template:Blocked user Template:Border-notinline Template:Bot Template:Campaign Template:Caption Template:Catmore Template:Catmore1 Template:Check talk Template:Christianity-stub Template:Cite book Template:Cite journal Template:Cite news Template:Cite paper Template:Cite press release Template:Cite web Template:Citeweb Template:Cleanup-date Template:Cleanup-spam Template:Clear Template:Clerk-Note Template:Click Template:Col-2 Template:Col-3 Template:Col-begin Template:Col-break Template:Col-end Template:Collab-australian Template:Collab-gaming Template:Comicsproj Template:Commonscat Template:Commonwealth of Nations Template:CompactTOC2 Template:Context Template:Coor dms Template:Coor URL Template:Copy to Wikimedia Commons Template:Core-article Template:Country data Cocos (Keeling) Islands Template:Country data European Union Template:Country data French Guiana Template:Country data Guadeloupe Template:Country data Martinique Template:Country data New Caledonia Template:Country data none Template:Country data Réunion Template:Country data Tokelau Template:Country data United Kingdom Template:Country data United Nations Template:Country data United States Template:Country flag2 Template:Country flagcountry2 Template:Country flagicon2 Template:Cquote Template:Croatia-bio-stub Template:Current Template:Dab (redirect) Template:Dab-Class Template:Dablink Template:DANFS Template:Day-1 Template:Day+1 Template:Db-meta Template:De icon Template:Deathyr Template:Decrease Template:DEFAULTSORT Template:Deletedpage Template:Deletedtalkpage Template:Details Template:Details more Template:Disambig (redirect) Template:Disambiguation Template:Distinguish Template:Documentation Template:Documentation subpage Template:Documentation/docname Template:Doppelganger Template:Doppelganger-other Template:Electiontable Template:EMedicine2 Template:En icon Template:End Template:End box (redirect) Template:Ent Template:Episode list Template:Error:not substituted Template:Es icon Template:Esoteric (redirect) Template:Expand Template:Expand list Template:Expand-section Template:Expert Template:Expert-subject Template:FA-Class Template:FA-star Template:Fact Template:Facts Template:Featured article Template:Film (cascading) Template:Film More Information Template:Fix Template:Fix-inline Template:FJC Bio Template:Flag Template:Flagcountry Template:Flagicon Template:Flora of Australia Online Template:Fn Template:Fnb Template:Football kit Template:Football squad player Template:For Template:Fr icon Template:GA-Class Template:Game-screenshot Template:Gbm4ibx Template:Gbmapping Template:Gbmaprim Template:Geolinks-start Template:Geolinks-US-cityscale Template:Gutenberg author Template:GWAblock Template:Harvard citation Template:Harvard citation no brackets Template:Harvard reference Template:High-importance Template:Howtoedit Template:ICD10 Template:ICD9 Template:ICDO Template:Image-Class Template:Increase Template:Infobox actor Template:Infobox Album Template:Infobox Album/color Template:Infobox Album/link Template:Infobox Ethnic group Template:Infobox Film Template:Infobox Football biography Template:Infobox Military Conflict Template:Infobox Monarch Template:Infobox Mountain Template:Infobox Music genre Template:Infobox Musical artist Template:Infobox Officeholder Template:Infobox Person Template:Infobox Single Template:Infobox Ship Begin Template:Infobox Website Template:Interwiki-all Template:Intricate template Template:IPA Template:IPA-all Template:Iran-geo-stub Template:Islam-stub Template:Islam-bio-stub Template:ISSN Template:ISSN search link Template:It icon Template:Italic title Template:Ja icon Template:Japanese episode list Template:Judaism-stub Template:KIA

Template:La Template:Lang Template:Languageicon Template:LangWithName Template:LangWithNameNoItals Template:Law-stub Template:LGBT sidebar Template:Link Template:List-Class Template:Listen Template:Loop Template:Low-importance Template:Lower Template:Lt Template:Lx Template:M-cropped Template:MacTutor Template:Main Template:MainPageInterwikis Template:Merge Template:Mid-importance Template:Min Template:MONTHNAME Template:MONTHNUMBER Template:Mprotected Template:Mprotected2 Template:MultiLicenceWithCC-By-All-IntEng Template:MultiLicensePD Template:NA-Class Template:National squad Template:Navbox Template:Navigation with columns Template:NavigationBox Template:NavigationBox athletic conference Template:Needed-Class Template:Nihongo Template:Nl icon Template:No-Class Template:No copyright holder Template:No source Template:Not verified Template:Note Template:Nowrap Template:OIC Template:Oldafdfull Template:OMIM Template:Orphan Template:Oscoor Template:Otherpeople2 Template:Otherpersons Template:Otherpersons2 (redirect) Template:Otheruses Template:Otheruses1 Template:Otheruses2 Template:Otheruses3 Template:Otherusesof Template:PAGENAMEU Template:Party-stub Template:PD-PhilippinesGov (redirect) Template:Pic of the day Template:Pl icon Template:Plainlink Template:Planetmath instructions Template:Plant-stub Template:Please check ISBN Template:Please leave this line alone (sandbox heading) Template:PMID Template:Policy Template:Policy section Template:Polytonic Template:Portal Template:Portal-Class Template:POTD Template:POV Template:Pow Template:Pp-dispute Template:pp-protected Template:Prod Template:Promotional Template:Protect-ex Template:ProtectBU Template:Protected template Template:Protected title Template:Protected2 Template:Protectedtemplate (redirect) Template:Pt icon Template:Purge Template:Quote box Template:R from UN/LOCODE Template:Rating-5 Template:Redirect Template:Redirect-Class Template:Ref Template:Refbegin Template:Refend Template:Ref label Template:Reflist Template:REMOVE THIS TEMPLATE WHEN CLOSING THIS AfD Template:Resolved Template:Retired Template:Rf Template:Rfd bottom (semi-protected) Template:Rfd top (semi-protected) Template:Rotten-tomatoes Template:Rtl-lang Template:S-dip Template:S-prec Template:S-rail Template:S-start Template:S-ttl Template:Sample box end Template:Schoolblock Template:See Template:See also Template:Shortcut Template:Single infobox request Template:Sisterlinks Template:Smallsup Template:Sockpuppet Template:Songs Template:Spa Template:Spaces Template:Specify Template:Spoken Wikipedia Template:Spoken Wikipedia boilerplate Template:Start-Class Template:Str find Template:Str find/logic Template:Str left Template:Str len Template:Str len/core Template:Stub Template:Stubclass Template:Stub-Class Template:Subst Template:Succession box Template:Succession box two to one Template:Superimpose Template:Sv icon Template:Talkarchive Template:Talkheader Template:Taxobox Template:Taxobox begin placement virus Template:Taxobox group v entry Template:This Template:Tl Template:Tlx Template:Tnavbar Template:Tnavbar-header Template:Top-importance Template:TrainsWikiProject Template:Turkey-bio-stub Template:Tv-screenshot Template:Tv.com person Template:Unassessed-Class Template:Uncategorized Template:Unicode Template:Unsigned Template:Unsigned2 Template:Unreferenced Template:User en Template:User0 Template:User5 Template:User6b Template:Userbox Template:Userboxtop Template:Usertalk-sprotect2 Template:Uw-ublock Template:Verify credibility Template:Welcome Template:Welcomenh Template:Welcomespam Template:WikEd Template:Wikify Template:Wikinews Template:WikiProject California Template:WikiProject Texas Template:WikiProject Video games Template:Wikiquote Template:Wikisource author Template:Wikispecies Template:Wikitravel Template:Wiktionarypar Template:WikiProject Australia Template:WP India Template:WPBiography Template:WPMILHIST Template:WPMILHIST Infobox style Template:WPMILHIST/Class Template:Year in other calendars Template:Yearcat Template:Yi icon Template:Zero

[edit] Javascript-related pages

Installation templates

The following templates are used to install javascript tools easily, and should be protected to prevent malicious javascript code creeping in.

• Template:js
• Template:navpop

Input data

• User:Lupin/badwords is a list of words flagged by anti-vandalism tools. This is semi-protected to allow established editors to change it while avoiding vandals inserting common words into the list, rendering it useless.