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Interaction of Wikipedia user groups and page protection levels Unregistered or newly registered Confirmed or autoconfirmed Extended confirmed Template editor ★ Admin Interface admin Appropriate for No protection Normal editing: The vast majority of pages. This is the default protection level. Pending changes
Protecting pages defeats that goal and so page protection should be avoided when possible and kept as short as possible. In general, the length of time used to protect a page is based on how long you think it will take for the contributor(s) to cool down and resume proper contributions. A 24 hour page protection is typical.
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 ...
The responsibility to protect (R2P or RtoP) is a global political commitment which was endorsed by the United Nations General Assembly at the 2005 World Summit in order to address its four key concerns to prevent genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.
If you discover a page that appears to have been protected and then forgotten about, you can request to have it unprotected by posting on Wikipedia:Requests for page protection. If a page has only recently been protected, it may be best to wait a few days first, unless some resolution has been reached on the talk page. If you think that an edit ...
Before requesting, read the protection policy.Full protection is used to stop edit warring between multiple users or to prevent vandalism to high-risk templates; semi-protection and pending changes are usually used to prevent IP and new user vandalism (see the rough guide to semi-protection); and move protection is used to stop pagemove revert wars.
Thus page protection can simply postpone resolving the conflict, and the page can lurch between one preferred version and another without a clear solution. It is best practice to look for signs of this behaviour. If requests for page protection are being used to game the consensus process, then it may not be a good idea to protect the page ...
Wikipedia must always fight vandalism, but its immediate and practical objective should be protecting its content, not just stopping vandals. Wikipedia has created extensive policies and involved users to fight vandalism, but this is mere policing of a wider, changing society. This is not the job of, nor purpose of an encyclopedia.