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Cannot edit: Normal editing: Pages that have been persistently vandalized by anonymous and registered users. Some highly visible templates and modules. Extended confirmed: Cannot edit: Normal editing: Specific topic areas authorized by ArbCom, pages where semi-protection has failed, or high-risk templates where template protection would be too ...
Articles under extended confirmed protection (ECP) can be edited only by extended-confirmed accounts – accounts that have been registered for at least 30 days and have made at least 500 edits, or have been manually granted extended-confirmed rights by an administrator (usually because the account is a legitimate alternative account of a user who has extended-confirmed rights on another account).
If there is a good chance it will need more editing in the future, please request semi-protection only. This way, it'll be easier to perform those edits. Navigational templates should not be protected at all if possible, and if they are, should be semi-protected at the most. With rare exceptions, they should not be fully protected.
Before requesting, read the protection policy.Full protection is used to stop edit warring between multiple users or to prevent vandalism to high-risk templates; semi-protection and pending changes are usually used to prevent IP and new user vandalism (see the rough guide to semi-protection); and move protection is used to stop pagemove revert wars.
An edit which, in isolation, is not disruptive may still be part of a pattern of editing that is. A group of disruptive edits may be close together in time, or spread out; they may all occur on a single page, or on many pages; they may be all very similar, or superficially quite different.
No protection Normal editing: The vast majority of pages. This is the default protection level. Pending changes: All users can edit Edits by unregistered or newly registered editors (and any subsequent edits by anyone) are hidden from readers who are not logged in until reviewed by a pending changes reviewer or administrator. Logged-in editors ...
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When one becomes frustrated with the way a policy or guideline is being applied, it may be tempting to try to discredit the rule or interpretation thereof by, in one's view, applying it consistently.