Biocrawler:Protected page

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Administrators have the ability to "protect" pages or images such that they cannot be modified except by other admins (the link "Edit this page" is replaced by a link "View source"). This ability is only to be used in limited circumstances.

Contents

1 Policy 2 Procedure 3 See also 4 Rationale 5 List of protected pages 5.1 Pages protected due to edit wars or vandalism 5.1.1 Real articles 5.1.2 Protected against article re-creation 5.1.3 Pages protected against spambot 5.1.4 Other 5.2 Images protected while on the Main Page 5.3 Permanently/semi-permanently protected pages and images 5.3.1 Visibility reasons 5.3.2 Legal reasons 5.3.3 System administration reasons 5.3.4 Various template pages 5.4 User pages 5.4.1 Subpages and boilerplates 5.4.2 User talk pages

Policy

1. Do not edit a temporarily protected page except to add a protected page notice.
2. Do not protect a page on which you are involved in an edit dispute.

See Biocrawler:Protection policy for more detailed advice and the purpose of protected pages.

Procedure

1. Protect the page, supplying a reason.
2. Add {{protected}} (or {{vprotected}} for vandalism) to the top of the temporarily protected page and make mention of the protection in the edit summary.
3. List pages you protect on Biocrawler:Protected page; if it is protected due to a conflict, you may want to list all user names/IPs involved in the conflict.

   Please use {{article|ARTICLE NAME}} when listing a page at Biocrawler:Protected page, where ARTICLE NAME is the article or page you wish to protect.

4. Consider encouraging a resolution between the disputing parties.
5. Remove the protection (while supplying a reason) once the conflict has been resolved.
6. Remove {{protected}} from the top of an unprotected page and make mention of the removal in the edit summary.

See also

• Requests for page protection - place to request protection; use when your involvement in editing a page precludes protecting it yourself. Also used by non-administrators who wish for a page to be protected.
• Protection log - automated log of protections and unprotections
• This page is protected
• Biocrawler maintenance section on maintaining this page
• Biocrawler:Most vandalized pages - please add pages subjected to repeated vandalism to this list
• m:Protected pages considered harmful - essay
• m:The Wrong Version - semi-humorous essay about revert warriors' perception of page protection

Rationale

See meta:Protected pages considered harmful, meta:edit wars

List of protected pages

If you protect a page, or find a protected page not listed here, please add it to this list. Please also add a short description of ten words or less indicating why you protected it. If you need to say more, discuss on the talk page of the page you protected. Also see the protection log for recent unprotections, which replaces the manual list of recently unprotected pages. The {{protected}} header automatically adds Category:Protected to the page, adding it to the Category's listing.

Pages protected due to edit wars or vandalism

latest at bottom

This needs a lot of pruning. Please examine older listings and unprotect if at all possible.

Real articles

• Jewish Task Force (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Jewish_Task_Force&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Jewish_Task_Force&action=watch)) — persistent vandalism by anon. Requested on WP:RFPP. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 15:16, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Anarchism (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Anarchism&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Anarchism&action=watch)) Edit war with no signs of stopping soon. Also, I protected the version preferred by those more closely complying with the 3RR. I would like for a more experienced admin to review what I did and check if I made any mistake. --cesarb 16:02, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Khmer Rouge (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Khmer_Rouge&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Khmer_Rouge&action=watch)) Edit war over the use of organisation acronyms, there is a content RfC underway --nixie 03:42, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Anarchism (disambiguation) (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Anarchism_%28disambiguation%29&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Anarchism_%28disambiguation%29&action=watch)) The dispute from Anarchism spilled to here; content kept ping-ponging between two versions. --cesarb 06:27, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Stalinism (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Stalinism&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Stalinism&action=watch)). Repeated insertion of a POV section by shifting anons. RickK 05:07, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)
• Zanskar (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Zanskar&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Zanskar&action=watch)) Protected because of ongoing revert war. Mgm|^(talk) 21:18, Jun 12, 2005 (UTC)
• (Aesthetic Realism (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Aesthetic_Realism&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Aesthetic_Realism&action=watch)) anon keeps deleting content without discussion. This link is Broken 04:28, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Jihad (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Jihad&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Jihad&action=watch)) a brewing edit war in full swing. I have protected the page and initiated some mediation on the talk page. Inter\^Echo 19:49, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Succubus (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Succubus&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Succubus&action=watch)) Article protected due to a revert war. It was also protected due to the persistent removal of a disputed tag, now present there. A discussion about this issue can be seen in the talk page.--Kaonashi 03:31, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Wal-Mart (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Wal-Mart&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Wal-Mart&action=watch)). Edit war with user using anon proxies. Noel (talk) 04:17, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Saudi Arabia (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Saudi_Arabia&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Saudi_Arabia&action=watch)) - pro- and anti-Islam editors clashing. SlimVirgin ^(talk) 09:02, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC)
• Qana Incident (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Qana_Incident&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Qana_Incident&action=watch)) - revert war about contents and title. SlimVirgin ^(talk) 09:18, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC)
• Parents Without Rights (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Parents_Without_Rights&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Parents_Without_Rights&action=watch)) Edit war involving user who seemingly has many different ID's. Noel (talk) 15:18, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Hong Kong Police (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Hong_Kong_Police&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Hong_Kong_Police&action=watch)) - revert war, protection requested. --Michael Snow 03:39, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• 313 (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=313&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=313&action=watch)) regularly vandalised from 313 board. --Henrygb 17:58, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Turkish Invasion of Cyprus (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Turkish_Invasion_of_Cyprus&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Turkish_Invasion_of_Cyprus&action=watch)) - repeated vandalism from sockpuppets of User:Argyrosargyrou. -- ChrisO 22:53, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Moses Kalankaytuk (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Moses_Kalankaytuk&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Moses_Kalankaytuk&action=watch)) and Movses Kagankatvatsi (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Movses_Kagankatvatsi&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Movses_Kagankatvatsi&action=watch)) - User:Rovoam moving pages using cut & paste rather than page move, ignoring warnings and returning under proxy servers when blocked -- Francs2000 | Talk (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Francs2000&action=edit&section=new) [[]] 02:27, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Note: This same user has vandalised my user talk page 23 times in the last 10 hours. -- Francs2000 | Talk (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Francs2000&action=edit&section=new) [[]] 11:18, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Suicide bombing (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Suicide_bombing&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Suicide_bombing&action=watch)) - revert war, protection requested. --Michael Snow 03:03, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Pakistan (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Pakistan&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Pakistan&action=watch)) - revert war, protection requested. Phil Bordelon 03:23, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• The Rape of Nanking (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=The_Rape_of_Nanking&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=The_Rape_of_Nanking&action=watch)) - revert war, protection requested. SlimVirgin ^(talk) 16:50, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)
• Terrorism (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Terrorism&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Terrorism&action=watch)) - revert war, protection requested. SlimVirgin ^(talk) 16:50, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)
• Quneitra (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Quneitra&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Quneitra&action=watch)) - revert war, protection requested. SlimVirgin ^(talk) 16:50, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)
• Fidel Castro (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Fidel_Castro&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Fidel_Castro&action=watch)) - revert war, protection requested. --Michael Snow 01:17, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Efraín Ríos Montt (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Efra%EDn_R%EDos_Montt&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Efra%EDn_R%EDos_Montt&action=watch)) - revert war, protection requested. --Michael Snow 01:17, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Put-in-Bay, Ohio (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Put-in-Bay%2C_Ohio&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Put-in-Bay%2C_Ohio&action=watch)) - Another attempt to add link spam to the page. Please leave this one to soak for a long time; the content hasn't changed one word since the last spam attempt a month ago. Noel (talk) 04:45, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Jizya (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Jizya&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Jizya&action=watch)) - User:Yuber has reverted to his preferred version 25 times in the last month against the wishes of several editors. SlimVirgin ^(talk) 01:55, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)
• Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Mary-Kate_and_Ashley_Olsen&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Mary-Kate_and_Ashley_Olsen&action=watch)) - edit war involving anon with multiple IP addresses in multiple ranges. Noel (talk) 16:28, 20 Jun 2005
• List of songs deemed inappropriate by Clear Channel following the September 11, 2001 attacks (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=List_of_songs_deemed_inappropriate_by_Clear_Channel_following_the_September_11%2C_2001_attacks&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=List_of_songs_deemed_inappropriate_by_Clear_Channel_following_the_September_11%2C_2001_attacks&action=watch)) - vandalism. silsor 05:57, Jun 21, 2005 (UTC)
• Kashmir (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Kashmir&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Kashmir&action=watch)) – volatile situation. Agenda's and views being expressed on the page. =Nichalp «Talk»= 09:00, Jun 21, 2005 (UTC)
• Islamophobia (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Islamophobia&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Islamophobia&action=watch)) - lenghty edit war migrated to anons. Noel (talk) 18:30, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• History of the United States (1988-present) (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=History_of_the_United_States_%281988-present%29&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=History_of_the_United_States_%281988-present%29&action=watch)) - revert war between Trey Stone and 172. -- Viajero | Talk 09:05, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Protected against article re-creation

latest at bottom

• Lloyd House (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Lloyd_House&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Lloyd_House&action=watch)) — redirect to California Institute of Technology. Re-created three times after being voted for deletion. Dpbsmith (talk) 20:29, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC) 2005 (UTC)
• Pelican shit (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Pelican_shit&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Pelican_shit&action=watch)) - Oddly, no one has ever tried to create an article here. But still protecting it because of obsessive vandal who wants to Google-bomb this phrase for some reason and constantly creates nonsense pages or vandalism that creates a redlink to the non-existent Pelican shit page. Pre-emptively protect that page just in case he has something planned; unlikely to ever be an encyclopedic topic, at least under that title. -- Curps 02:10, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC) and Pelican Shit (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Pelican_Shit&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Pelican_Shit&action=watch)) -- Curps 17:01, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Same goes for Category:Pelican shit. Also helps to track down vandalized articles by the same vandal. -- AllyUnion (talk) 03:55, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Same goes for Biocrawler:Pelican shit in progress (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Biocrawler:Pelican_shit_in_progress&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Biocrawler:Pelican_shit_in_progress&action=watch)) -- Curps 05:58, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • And now User:Pelican Shit. -- Curps 01:11, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Jewish ethnocentrism (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Jewish_ethnocentrism&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Jewish_ethnocentrism&action=watch)) protected after post-VFD recreation AndyL 20:07, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Cabbage Hit (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Cabbage_Hit&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Cabbage_Hit&action=watch)) - re-creation vandalism. -- AllyUnion (talk) 12:05, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Wheelchair fetishism (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Wheelchair_fetishism&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Wheelchair_fetishism&action=watch)) - vandal also left a nasty bit of juvenalia on my talk page. - DavidWBrooks 02:04, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• GANNON-BANNED (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=GANNON-BANNED&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=GANNON-BANNED&action=watch)), was VfD'd -- Curps 04:49, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Now recreated as a redirect to The Legend of Zelda series. – ABCD 00:05, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Federal Commonwealth Society (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Federal_Commonwealth_Society&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Federal_Commonwealth_Society&action=watch)) -- was VFD' months ago with consensus to delete. Has been recreated twice without a VFU. AndyL 17:31, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
• Matrixism (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Matrixism&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Matrixism&action=watch)) - repeatedly created by anon after VFD deletion. - UtherSRG 19:48, May 6, 2005 (UTC)
• Suspicious (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Suspicious&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Suspicious&action=watch))- repeated recreation of an insult page by a very persistent vandal. Cannot be blocked as he's editing from dynamic IPs at the Cambridge University network. JRM · Talk 23:27, 2005 May 12 (UTC)
• Tsavong Lah (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Tsavong_Lah&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Tsavong_Lah&action=watch)) - vandalism. User:Rdsmith4/Sig 02:10, May 24, 2005 (UTC)
• Bullshido (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Bullshido&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Bullshido&action=watch)). I merged and redirected this (to McDojo in line with two VfDs. The page's creator and protector, Phrost (talk • contribs), recreated it, together with an insistence that I (and by implication the admins who closed the VfDs) were prejudiced. I've protected the redirect, and explained the situation to Phrost. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 19:15, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
• Pakistan Social Democratic Platform (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Pakistan_Social_Democratic_Platform&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Pakistan_Social_Democratic_Platform&action=watch)). Had to be deleted more than 3 times on the last 24 hours. --cesarb 22:22, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Girlspace (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Girlspace&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Girlspace&action=watch)) deleted 3 times in 10 minutes. Nohat 08:33, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• ACW-Utah (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=ACW-Utah&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=ACW-Utah&action=watch)) deleted three times today (created purely as a vehicle for a personal attack on user:Chadbryant). Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 23:00, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Also Chad Bryant (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Chad_Bryant&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Chad_Bryant&action=watch)), which also has a history of being recreated. Noel (talk) 00:16, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Based on today's vandalism by the DNA vandal, the following pages have been protected against re-creation:
  • Talk talk:DNA (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Talk_talk:DNA&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Talk_talk:DNA&action=watch))
  • Talk:Talk talk:DNA (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Talk:Talk_talk:DNA&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Talk:Talk_talk:DNA&action=watch))
  • Talk talk:Chloroplast (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Talk_talk:Chloroplast&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Talk_talk:Chloroplast&action=watch))
  • Talk:Talk talk:Chloroplast (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Talk:Talk_talk:Chloroplast&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Talk:Talk_talk:Chloroplast&action=watch))
  • Talk talk:Organelle (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Talk_talk:Organelle&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Talk_talk:Organelle&action=watch))
  • Talk:Talk talk:Organelle (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Talk:Talk_talk:Organelle&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Talk:Talk_talk:Organelle&action=watch))

  Zzyzx11 (Talk) 00:16, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• Potato summit (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Potato_summit&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Potato_summit&action=watch)) Had to be deleted more than 3 times in the last ~25 hours --cesarb 01:25, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Template:Tets (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Template:Tets&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Template:Tets&action=watch)) Was deleted at least 9 times within an hour. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 00:52, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Letter writing (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Letter_writing&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Letter_writing&action=watch)) Being recreated by Richardr443 (talk • contribs) aka 24.9.112.127 (talk • contribs) who doesn't seem to have accepted it being transwikied (see Biocrawler:Votes for deletion/Letter writing and Biocrawler:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Letter writing) --cesarb 16:58, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Iain is cool (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Iain_is_cool&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Iain_is_cool&action=watch)) Deleted 6 times in 11 minutes. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 00:44, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Islamofascism (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Islamofascism&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Islamofascism&action=watch)) - has been redirected to Neofascism and religion (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Neofascism_and_religion&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Neofascism_and_religion&action=watch)) SlimVirgin ^(talk) 10:33, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC)
• Electoral roll (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Electoral_roll&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Electoral_roll&action=watch)) — redirect to Electoral register. Re-created 4 times within an hour after being voted for deletion. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 23:28, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Patchou (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Patchou&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Patchou&action=watch)). Deleted 4 times in 5 minutes. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 07:27, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Schubert Coat of Arms (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Schubert_Coat_of_Arms&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Schubert_Coat_of_Arms&action=watch)). Had to be deleted more than 3 times in the last 24 hours. --cesarb 00:48, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Unprotected and redirected to Schubert Crest. --cesarb 21:55, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Q (video game character) (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Q_%28video_game_character%29&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Q_%28video_game_character%29&action=watch)) - redirect to Street Fighter III per VfD decision. Recreated 9 times in 3 days. Rossami (talk) 20:53, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286208998628034825342117068 (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286208998628034825342117068&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286208998628034825342117068&action=watch)) Repeatedly recreated. Noel (talk) 05:05, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Palestinian refugee: The biggest bluff of the 20th century (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Palestinian_refugee:_The_biggest_bluff_of_the_20th_century&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Palestinian_refugee:_The_biggest_bluff_of_the_20th_century&action=watch)) recreated 5 times since the VfD 3 days ago --cesarb 20:11, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Elizabeth II of Canada (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Elizabeth_II_of_Canada&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Elizabeth_II_of_Canada&action=watch)) protecting redirection decided upon by VFD after attempt to reinstate article. AndyL 02:53, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Horeb Jewish Society (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Horeb_Jewish_Society&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Horeb_Jewish_Society&action=watch)) recreated several times after VfD. Jayjg ^(talk) 03:18, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Digg.com (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Digg.com&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Digg.com&action=watch)) Valid VfDs: Biocrawler:Votes for deletion/Digg and Biocrawler:Votes for deletion/Digg (2). Users keep trying to recreate the article. Rhobite 03:49, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)
• Clout (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Clout&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Clout&action=watch)) — two sets of recreationists: "Clout" pseudo-religion vandals, and an anon who keeps recreating a dictionary-entry page after transwikification to Wiktionary. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 23:37, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Pages protected against spambot

See Category:Protected against spambots

Other

• Image:Edit-this-page-large.png (history (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Image:Edit-this-page-large.png&action=history) · watch (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Image:Edit-this-page-large.png&action=watch)) - Vandalism protection, requested at WP:RFPP by User:Smoddy. -- AllyUnion (talk) 03:47, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Images protected while on the Main Page

Images on the main page often become the target of vandalism, particularly being overwritten with shock site images, which harms the credibility of the project due to that page's extreme visibility. Also, it takes some time for sysops to determine what caused a main page change. As such, images have begun to be protected during their time there, and this has become a de facto policy since the second or third week of November 2004.

In order to keep track of these images, please add {{ProtectedMainPageImage}} to them. This will add the image to Category:Protected main page images. There are typically 4 to 5 images on the main page, although some of them may be from the Wikicommons.

Permanently/semi-permanently protected pages and images

• User:Lir This user is banned for one year (ending 8 March 2006 as of 10 March 2005). This user's page has been repeatedly altered to conform to the banned user's wishes without the express authorization of the Arbitration Committee.
• Biocrawler:Votes for deletion/Ambition (cards). Has been targeted by very sneaky vandalism in an attempt to rewrite history. No reason for an archive to be edited anyway. If left unprotected it would need constant babysitting to prevent further attempts to rewrite history history.
• Image:PolysOriginalBuilding m.jpg. Keeps being replaced by goatse image. SlimVirgin ^(talk) 06:50, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)

Visibility reasons

• Main Page (protect from vandalism). Discuss any changes to the Main Page at Talk:Main Page
• Templates that make up Main Page content: Template:Did you know, Template:In the news, Biocrawler:Today's featured article/November 22, 2008, Biocrawler:Selected anniversaries/November 22, Template:BiocrawlerSister and the images it links to.
• Image:Wiki.png and Image:Wiki.PNG (Biocrawler logo)
• MediaWiki:Sitenotice
• Template:Biocrawlerlang
• Template:BiocrawlerSister
• Template:Donate
• Template:Newpagelinksmain
• Template:TFAfooter
• Template:Vfd2 (Used in the assistance of listing VFD pages. Should not change unless VFD process changes. As this template is included using subst:, it must be protected for visibility reasons. Any changes to this template will, in effect, aid in the vandalism of the VFD nomination process.)
• Template:Vfd3 (Used in the assistance of listing VFD pages. Should not change unless VFD process changes. As this template is included using subst:, it must be protected for visibility reasons. Any changes to this template will, in effect, aid in the vandalism of the VFD nomination process.)
• Biocrawler:Press releases/March 2005 -- currently linked at the top of the Main Page, and actively being distributed to a wide audience.
• Biocrawler:Recentchanges - banner at top of recent changes, apparently it is a "big vandalism target"

Legal reasons

• Biocrawler:Copyrights, Biocrawler:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License (copyright and license pages)
• Text of the GNU Free Documentation License (redirect to the above)
• Press releases: January 2002, January 2003, February 2004 (should remain static indefinitely)
  • Biocrawler:Press releases/February 2004/Text-Only
• Biocrawler:designated agent (see meta:designated agent)
• Biocrawler:Foldoc license
• Biocrawler:Donation addresses (It should not be possible to falsify donation addresses.)
• Biocrawler:Site support: Should be a link to the Foundation site, should not be changed, should not be possible to have donations going elsewhere. (This was linked from the sidebar and might still be in some skins.)
• Biocrawler:General disclaimer (linked from every article. It also needs to keep its precise wording in order to protect us and warn our readers.)
  • Biocrawler:Risk disclaimer - (linked to from the General disclaimer)
  • Biocrawler:Legal disclaimer (same)
  • Biocrawler:Medical disclaimer (same)
  • Biocrawler:Content disclaimer (same)

System administration reasons

• Biocrawler:Block log/Archive1
• Biocrawler:Blocked IPs
• Biocrawler:Popular articles
• Village pump archive 2004-09-26 (to prevent page move vandalism of large history)

The following pages are automatically generated and are usually protected for system administration reasons:

• Auto-generated logs: Deletion log, Upload log, Protection log, Block log, Bureaucrat log and their archives
• Biocrawler:All pages by title (for Special:Allpages)
• Biocrawler:!Long articles (for Special:Longpages)
• Biocrawler:!Most wanted articles (for Special:Wantedpages)
• Biocrawler:!Orphaned articles (for Special:Lonelypages)
• Biocrawler:!Dead-end pages (for Special:Deadendpages)
• Biocrawler:!Short articles (for Special:Shortpages)
• All pages in the MediaWiki namespace except for the unprotected ones.

Various template pages

• Template:Cc-by
• Template:Cc-by-nc
• Template:Cc-by-nc-sa
• Template:Cc-by-nd
• Template:Cc-by-nd-nc
• Template:Cc-by-sa
• Template:Cc-nc
• Template:Cc-nc-sa
• Template:Cc-nd
• Template:Cc-sa
• Template:Constantvandalisminprogress
• Template:Controversial
• Template:Copyrighted
• Template:CopyrightedFreeUse
• Template:CopyrightedFreeUse-User
• Template:CopyrightedFreeUseProvided
• Template:CrownCopyright
• Template:Deletedpage (since all pages using it should also be protected)
• Template:Disambig
• Template:Disputed
• Template:Fairuse
• Template:GFDL (also Template:GDFL, a redirect for typos to Template:GFDL)
• Template:GPL
• Template:If defined call1
• Template:Ifd
• Template:ImageLicenseFreeUse
• Template:LGPL
• Template:LandRegistryCopyright
• Template:LearningandSkillsCouncilCopyright
• Template:NHSCopyright
• Template:NPOV
• Template:NationalAuditOfficeCopyright
• Template:Noncommercial
• Template:PAphoto
• Template:PD
• Template:PD-US
• Template:PD-USGov
• Template:PermissionAndFairUse
• Template:QualificationsandCurriculumAuthorityCopyright
• Template:Shortcut
• Template:Sitesupportpage
• Template:Template call1
• Template:Test
• Template:TeacherTrainingAuthorityCopyright
• Template:TextLicenseFreeUse
• Template:TextLicenseMinorFreeUse
• Template:Unverified
• Template:Verifieduse
• Template:Void
• Template:Vprotected
• Template:Welcome

User pages

User pages sometimes become targets for vandalism, and may be protected upon request of the user associated with the page if this is a serious problem. Clear evidence can be seen from a user's history of the page, and their history from their discussion page.

• User:Hephaestos
• User:RickK
• User:Danny
• User:Gerald Farinas
• User:Kaihsu
• User:Dori
• User:Olivier
• User:GeneralPatton
• User:PMelvilleAustin
• User:Chris 73 (on - and - off protection depending on the level of vandalism)
• User:Neutrality (protected from page moves) - protected by ugen64 - frequent page move vandalism target
• User:Terri Schiavo Username blocked as inappropriate. Userpage protected as a pre-emptive measure.
• User:Nitram0002, User:Nitram0003 etc. Blocked sock puppet that comes back and removes sock puppet warnings.
• User:DickSucker Owner placed fork of Pope John Paul II there. Username blocked as inappropriate.
• User:Geogre Because of vandal fighting, am anticipating a very quick attack. Protection from moves only desired, as I'll revert anything else.
• User:AndreasPraefcke, because of multi-project vandalism of this user's pages.
• User:TheCustomOfLife
• User:Wragge — vandalism by someone who seems to have access to the user's account.

Subpages and boilerplates

Some users have created boilerplate pages in their user namespace and protected them from editing. The appropriateness of doing this is disputed.

• User:Eloquence/Boilerplate texts
• User:RickK/Jimbo's statement
• User:RickK/Articles I have written
• User:RickK/Articles I have made significant updates to
• User:Snoyes/boiler
• User:David Newton/Bird Dispute
• User:Blankfaze/Greet
• User:Blankfaze/VW
• User:Lupo/Do not copyvio
• User:Lupo/Img Src
• User:Lupo/Welcome
• User:Plato/Welcome
• User:Neutrality/Welcome
• User:Neutrality/Vandal
• User:Raul654/archive
• User:Raul654/License
• User:Gerald Farinas/index
• User:Davidcannon/Index
• User:Davidcannon/Index-1
• User:Davidcannon/Honours
• User:Davidcannon/Biotable
• User:Rdsmith4/sig
• User:Silsor/Sam Hocevar
• User:Dori/Disclaimers
• User:Dori/Copyrights
• User:Taxman/Copyrights
• User:Scott Burley/sig
• User:Mel Etitis

User talk pages

User talk pages should only be protected in cases of persistent vandalism, and then only for as brief a period as possible.

• User talk:MARMOT -- Page is being deleted by MARMOT's anonymous IP; page is also evidence for ArbCom case.eo:Vikipedio:Sxlositaj pagxoj

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