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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.
Review request to see if protection/unprotection is warranted under the Wikipedia:Protection policy; Mark reviewed requests using {} (see below) so that a bot may recognize and archive those entries; Carry out the protection/unprotection and mark the article with the proper protection template (see below)
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 allows different levels of protection for textual additions to the page. By default, only the Edit option box is available.
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.
If you discover a page that appears to have been protected and then forgotten about, you can request to have it unprotected by posting on Wikipedia:Requests for page protection. If a page has only recently been protected, it may be best to wait a few days first, unless some resolution has been reached on the talk page. If you think that an edit ...
Ideally, requests should be made on the article talk page rather than here. Unless the talk page itself is protected, you may instead add the appropriate template among {{Edit protected}}, {{Edit template-protected}}, {{Edit extended-protected}}, or {{Edit semi-protected}} to the article's talk page if you would like to make a change rather than requesting it here.
This policy states in detail the protection types and procedures for page protection and unprotection, and when each protection should and should not be applied. Protection is a technical restriction applied only by administrators, although any user may request protection. Protection can be indefinite or expire after a specified time. The ...
Place requests for new or upgrading of article protection, upload protection, or create protection at the BOTTOM of this section. Check the archive of fulfilled and denied requests or, failing that, the if you cannot find your request. Only recently answered requests are still listed here.