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See also Wikipedia:High-risk templates and Category:Wikipedia protected templates. The following templates are indefinitely protected or semi-protected because a large number of pages directly or indirectly depend on them. These templates should only be edited when absolutely necessary.
To request that a page be protected or unprotected, see Wikipedia:Requests for page protection. Special:ProtectedPages - automatic list Also see Wikipedia:List of indefinitely protected pages - indefinitely or permanently protected pages, specifically maintenance templates and high-exposure Wikipedia pages
Wikipedia:Edit lock; Wikipedia:List of indefinitely protected pages; Wikipedia:Requests for page protection; Wikipedia:Rough guide to semi-protection; Wikipedia:Make protection requests sparingly, an essay; Wikipedia:Salting is usually a bad idea, an essay; metawiki:Protected pages considered harmful; metawiki:The Wrong Version
For a dynamic and sortable list of all protected pages, see Special:ProtectedPages. For reports of protected pages, see Wikipedia:Database reports#Protections. For semi-protected pages, which cannot be edited by anonymous and newly registered users, see Category:Wikipedia semi-protected pages
Requests to move move-protected pages should be made at Wikipedia:Requested moves, not here. If the discussion page and the article are both protected preventing you from making an edit request, this page is the right place to make that request. Please see the top of this page for instructions on how to post requests.
Some Wikipedia pages are protected from editing to prevent vandalism. This protection status is usually shown as a padlock at the top right of the protected page. Its varying colours depend on the level of protection, which include: Full protection; Semi-protection; Creation protection; Move protection; Upload protection; Extended-confirmed ...
Administrators protect pages and images to prevent vandalism and assist in resolving content disputes, for example. The key principle to remember here is that Wikipedia is the encyclopedia that "anyone can edit". Protecting pages defeats that goal and so page protection should be avoided when possible and kept as short as possible.
Most pages on Wikipedia are only protected temporarily, to prevent edit wars or to control vandalism. You should be able to edit the page when it is unprotected in a short while. In the meantime, please feel free to discuss the changes you want to make on the talk page of the page in question. However a few types of pages are protected ...