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See also Wikipedia:High-risk templates and Category:Wikipedia 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.
This is a list of resources available that list pages that are protected, semi-protected or move protected. 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 ...
This category contains pages which have been protected from page moves indefinitely. Use {{ Pp-move-indef }} to add pages to this category. This should only be done if the page is in fact protected – adding the template does not in itself protect the page.
Protected pages are categorized into subcategories of Category:Wikipedia protected pages, depending on the level of (and reason for) protection. For a dynamic and sortable list of all protected pages (including redirects), see Special:ProtectedPages .
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 ...
In the meantime, please feel free to discuss the changes you want to make on the talk page of the page in question. However a few types of pages are protected indefinitely: The Main page and all pages and images included onto it, via cascading protection; Pages in the MediaWiki namespace, which contain system messages and text for the user ...
The oldest pages, listed at the top, are checked regularly and unprotected if appropriate. Indefinitely protected pages, such as maintenance templates, are listed at Wikipedia:List of indefinitely protected pages. Long-term semi-protected pages were before listed here, but have now been moved to Wikipedia:List of protected pages/Long-term ...
This category contains biographies of living people which have been semi-protected from editing indefinitely. Semi-protection prevents editing from anonymous and newly registered users; to edit these pages, user accounts must be at least 4 days old and must have edited at least 10 times to non-protected pages.