Wikipedia:List of indefinitely protected pages
This is a list of pages that are permanently protected or semi-protected, in line with theprotection policy.Notethat the list ispartial and incomplete.For the full list, gohere.
Pages linked from the sidebar[edit]
These are linked from every page (via the 'sidebar' onMonobookand some other skins).
- Wikipedia:Community Portal(semi-protected) – and the following transcluded templates:
- Template:Announcements/Community bulletin board(semi-protected)
- Wikipedia:Community Portal/Opentask(semi-protected)
- Portal:Current events(protected) – and the following transcluded templates:
- Wikipedia:About(semi-protected)
- Wikipedia:Contents(semi-protected)
- Wikipedia:Featured content(semi-protected)
- Wikipedia:Contact us- media and other informational contact page
- Help:Contents(semi-protected)
High-visibility images[edit]
The following images are used on visible or high-use pages of some kind, and may be part of the interface (for example, on pages in theMediaWiki namespace).
- Image:Portal.svg- widely used throughout Wikipedia and prominently so.
- Image:Information icon.svg,Image:Octagon-warning.svg,Image:Padlock.svg,Image:Red copyright.svg,Image:Nuvola apps kwrite.png,Image:Symbol comment vote 2.svg,Image:Commons-logo.svg,Image:Information.svg,Image:Stop sign light red.svg,Image:Stop x nuvola.svg,all used in system messages, and so very high-visibility.
Generic image names[edit]
These images have very generic names, and are undesirable as names of actual files due to the risk of accidental overwriting should someone inadvertently choose the same generic name. The images themselves contain a message similar to the following one explaining not to use the name:
Legal reasons[edit]
- Wikipedia:Copyrights–Policy pageon copyright and licenses.
- Press releases:January 2002,January 2003,February 2004,February 2004/Text-Only– should remain static indefinitely. New press releases are onthe Foundation websiteandMeta.
- Wikipedia:Designated agent– seemeta:designated agent.
- Wikipedia:Foldoc license– Permission to use material from theFree On-line Dictionary of Computingunder the GFDL.
- License texts
Full text of GNU licenses. These need to be accurate for copyright reasons.
- Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License
- Wikipedia:Text of the GNU General Public License
- Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Lesser General Public License
- Disclaimers
These are linked from the footer of every page, and need to be accurate for legal reasons.
- Wikipedia:General disclaimer
- Wikipedia:Risk disclaimer
- Wikipedia:Legal disclaimer
- Wikipedia:Medical disclaimer
- Wikipedia:Content disclaimer
Libel, slander or privacy considerations[edit]
Sometimes it may be appropriate to protect pages based on considerations, whether of legal liability or common courtesy, of harm they may cause. This may involveslander,libelorprivacy.Privacy considerations might involve, for example, notorious public behavior by a mentally ill person or a dramatic but embarrassing event which involves a person who is not a public figure.Wikipedia:Images of Wikipedianshas been permanently semi-protected due to concerns of people adding images of other people. That page is on a constant watch to remove photos added inappropriately.
System administration reasons[edit]
- Auto-generated logs (old):Deletion log,Upload log,Protection log,Block log,Bureaucrat logand their archives
- Wikipedia:Special:Deadendpages
- Village pump archive 2004-09-26(to prevent page move vandalism of large history)
- All pages in theMediaWiki namespace
License templates[edit]
The following license templates are indefinitely protected due to both high visibility and legal reasons.
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High use templates[edit]
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. Development of new revisions should be done elsewhere (in a page under user space, in a template sandbox or on a separate development subpage of the template). See alsoHigh-visibility templatesabove.
Fully protected[edit]
Changes to these templates should be requested on the template's talk page by adding{{editprotected}}
and providing detailed change instructions. The change will then be made by an administrator.
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- Installation templates
The following templates are used to install javascript tools easily, and should be protected to prevent malicious javascript code creeping in.
- Input data
- User:Lupin/badwordsis a list of words flagged by anti-vandalism tools. This is semi-protected to allow established editors to change it while avoiding vandals inserting common words into the list, rendering it useless.