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The way to protect a non-existent page is very similar to protecting a regular page. We will use the test page Protect & salt test page. Go to Protect & salt test page. At the top of the page, look under the "More" dropdown menu and choose "Protect". Or for an automated method, look under Twinkle and choose "PP".
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.
make a request to protect or unprotect a page : see Wikipedia:Requests for page protection: make a request to edit a page : see Wikipedia:Edit requests: obtain user rights to edit protected pages : request user rights: report a user for persistent vandalism or spam : file a vandalism report: report a user for edit warring or violating revert ...
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. When administrators protect a page, they should include a warning note on the talk page stating if edit warring starts resumes after a protection period, the most likely administrative response is to escalate to ...
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 ...
We usually only protect pages that, for whatever reason, show themselves to be particularly prone to vandalism. If you wish to experiment with editing Wikipedia, please try the Wikipedia sandbox. For more information on who protected the page and for what reason, see: The talk page of the protected page; The protection log; The protection policy
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.
If the page has been protected (the s, p, t or m option) with an expiration, then a second optional parameter that accepts the duration can be specified. For example, {{RFPP|p|1 week}} produces: Fully protected for a period of 1 week , after which the page will be automatically unprotected.