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  2. Wikipedia:Administrators' guide/Protecting - Wikipedia

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    We will semi protect the page from editing. In the edit box, you will see that the default "Allow all users" is checked. To semi-protect, check the box for Allow only autoconfirmed users. (To test fully protecting the page, select the Allow only administrators option.) At the bottom of the edit box there is a dropdown menu titled expires. The ...

  3. Wikipedia:Requests for page protection - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Wikipedia:Protection policy - Wikipedia

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    A user who clicks "edit this page" is always, at that point, shown the latest version of the page for editing regardless of whether the user is logged in or not. If the editor is not logged in, their changes join any other changes to the article awaiting review – for the present they remain hidden from not-logged-in users.

  5. Help:Protection - Wikipedia

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    Depending on its level of protection, editing on the page has been restricted to either autoconfirmed users, extended confirmed users, template editors or administrators.We regret any inconvenience this may cause—we strive to protect pages only when absolutely necessary and to unprotect them as soon as possible.

  6. Wikipedia:Edit lock - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia does not use pre-emptive software article locks on pages, because this would be contrary to the policies of Wikipedia and spirit of openness. Page protection is never to be used for closing down an article's normal development and community editing, and should be used only to prevent actual disruption.

  7. Wikipedia:Rough guide to semi-protection - Wikipedia

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    If each vandal edit was followed by a revert, without any further edits to the page, then 50% of edits would be vandalism. More than 50% is rare but may occur when multiple vandalism edits are reverted by a single edit, or when multiple vandals are engaged in an edit war. The higher the percentage of vandal edits, the greater the need for ...