Help:Page protection

Administrators have the ability to protect and unprotect pages should the need for either arise on a wiki. The majority of pages on a wiki should remain unprotected; pages should only be protected if there is a history of vandalism. Wikia offers suggestions for protection as well.

Protection levels
There are four protection levels admins can use when protecting a page.
 * Semi-protection: protection of a page against editing by an unregistered or non-autoconfirmed user.
 * Full protection: protection of a page against editing by a non-admin.
 * Cascading protection: protection of a page from editing by a non-admin, as well as any other pages on the wiki linked to on the page.
 * Move protection: protection of a page against moving by a non-admin.

Protection

 * To protect a page, image, template, or other protectable page, click on the arrow on the “Edit” button next to the title to produce a dropdown menu. Then click “Protect.”
 * When the protection screen appears, you can set the protection level, as talked about in the previous section. Do this by checking which level you want.


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 * You may want the page move protection to be set at a different level than the editing protection. By default, they are the same. To set a different level, select the check box in the “Move” section, then choose which protection level you would like.
 * To set cascading protection, click the check box next to “Protect pages included in this page (cascading protection)”
 * Select a default reason for protection in the drop down menu, or add in your own and/or additional reason in the box below.
 * Click “Confirm” to save your changes.

Unprotect

 * To unprotect a protected page, again click on the arrow on the “Edit” button.
 * You can alter the protection level on the protection screen.
 * Select a default reason for unprotection in the drop down menu, or add in your own and/or additional reason in the box below.
 * Click “Confirm” to save your changes.

Next pages

 * Learn about cascading protection.
 * Learn about protecting a wiki.
 * Read the administrators' how-to guide.

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