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Cascading protection fully protects a page, and extends that full protection automatically to any page that is transcluded onto the protected page, whether directly or indirectly. This includes templates, images and other media that are hosted on the English Wikipedia.
Problem with your editing or Wikipedia behavior (under any account or IP address) - your account or a connected IP has been used in a problematic way or there is a concern about your editing. Problem with your username - your username was unsuitable and has been blocked; you need to choose another before continuing.
Some Wikipedia pages are protected from editing to prevent vandalism. This protection status is usually shown as a padlock at the top right of the protected page. Its varying colours depend on the level of protection, which include: Full protection; Semi-protection; Creation protection; Move protection; Upload protection; Extended-confirmed ...
A list of semi-protected articles is at Protected pages. Go to the article you wish to protect; in this case, we will use Wikipedia:Administrators' guide/Protecting/Protect. At the top of the page, click Protect. [1] On the next page, you will see several confirm protection option boxes: Edit, Move, and Pending changes. The edit option box ...
We usually only protect pages that, for whatever reason, show themselves to be particularly prone to vandalism. If you wish to experiment with editing Wikipedia, please try the Wikipedia sandbox. For more information on who protected the page and for what reason, see: The talk page of the protected page; The protection log; The protection policy
To request that a page be protected or unprotected, see Wikipedia:Requests for page protection. Special:ProtectedPages - automatic list Also see Wikipedia:List of indefinitely protected pages - indefinitely or permanently protected pages, specifically maintenance templates and high-exposure Wikipedia pages
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. That page is on a constant watch to remove photos added inappropriately.
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).