Help:Cascading protection

Cascading protection is a new feature to the MediaWiki software, introduced in MediaWiki 1.10. It allows you to protect a page so, that all templates transcluded to the page will also be protected without needing to protect those templates on one-by-one basis.

You can also prevent the recreation of commonly spammed pages, such as  with cascading protection



What's it good for?
Let's imagine you have a page that has seven templates in it. If someone was to vandalize those templates, that'd cause a lot of harm to the page. When that one page is protected with cascading protection, those seven templates will also be protected - and you don't need to protect them individually.

You can also protect commonly spammed junk pages against recreation with cascading protection. This means if a spammer tries to create such title, he will not be allowed to.

The easiest way to do this is to create a page, such as  or such page, list the titles there like , create the page and cascadeprotect it afterwards.

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  inside the square brackets.

Cascading protection doesn't work with autoconfirmed level?
That's true. The protection level must be sysop in order to activate cascading protection.

How can I cascadeprotect pages?
Just click the protect tab as usually, it's there among normal protection options.