Help:Cascading protection

Cascading protection is a form of page protection which allows you to protect a page so that all templates transcluded to the page will also be protected without needing to protect those templates one at a time. When a template is vandalized, especially on a page which uses many templates, it may not be immediately obvious which page/template needs to be fixed, prolonging the amount of time that the page remains vandalized. You can also use this feature to prevent the recreation of commonly spammed pages, such as.



How do I cascade protect a page?
Just click the "protect" tab/link as usual; cascade protect is there among normal protection options. The protection level must be "sysop" in order to activate cascading protection; it will not work at the "autoconfirmed" level, which only affects new and unregistered users.

How do I prevent creation of certain titles?
You can also protect commonly spammed junk pages against recreation with cascading protection, so that a spammer will be unable to create such a page.

The easiest way to do this is to create a page, such as, and list the titles there using a leading colon, like. Save the page and cascade protect it afterwards.

NOTE: If you enter , it would prevent the (re)creation of template called Test page, not the page called Test page. You need to add the colon,, inside the square brackets.