Wikipedia:Protected page

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Administrators have the ability to "protect" pages. This means they can not be edited, except by other admins. (Admin is a short word for Administrator.)

See Wikipedia:Protection policy for more detailed advice and the purpose of protected pages.

1 List of protected pages
2 Requests for Page protection
3 See also

[edit] List of protected pages

[edit] Article pages

Shawn Mikula - Deleted (to remove content from visible history), blanked, and then protected in order to prevent re-insertion of previously deleted vanity information. Protection notice in place to explain the situation. -- Netoholic @ 03:12, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I protected Talk:Simple English Lessons because that page was filled with spam and deleted eight times during the month of August 2005. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 23:17, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
George W. Bush is semi-protected. Reason: vandalism target. -- aflm (talk) 21:24, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
I've temporarily semi-protected plato since it keeps being vandalised by different IPs. Angela 15:31, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
Semi protected The Simpsons and Worm, because several newly created accounts of vandals continue to mess with it. Blockinblox 16:57, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
Ditto for Diego Armando Maradona... Blockinblox 03:02, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User pages

User:Reri Horlockon - vandalism target. -- 200.226.20.87 02:25, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
User:George McFinnigan - many IPs using to attack the real es: user.
User:SimonMayer - (I don't like my page being vulnerable. Although that last vandal was probably correct. -- User:SimonMayer, 04:32, 31 March 2005)

[edit] Images

Image:Wiki.png - main logo (User:Angela, 07:36, 12 February 205)

[edit] Special project pages

Main Page - per a discussion, to prevent embarassing vandalism -- Netoholic @ 19:30, 5 June 2005
- Template:Introduction, which is also not changed much but may be attracting a certain vandal. -- (Ricky81682 talk, 00:40, 27 November 2005)
- Template:Wikitopics which doesn't seem to be used for anything other than vandalism. -- (Ricky81682 talk, 07:09, 17 November 2005)
W/index.php - protected from link spammers -- Netoholic @, 14:12, 6 October 2005
Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License (copyright and license pages)
- GNU FDL (redirects to the above)

The following are important archive pages:

Pages in the MediaWiki namespace are not editable except by adminstrators.

[edit] Requests for Page protection

Put Protect, which means only administrators can edit it, put semi-protect, which means only 4 day old accounts can edit it, or move-protect, which means it can only be moved by administrators.