Help:Administrator's Handbook/Protect

Protect prevents changes to a page by users below a certain user level.


 * Allow all users - Default: anyone can edit
 * Block new and unregistered users - Autoconfirmed: No IP editing, no editing by the newest accounts
 * Administrators only - Sysop: only editable by administrators

Page move permissions are "locked" by default to match the edit permissions, but can be unlocked to allow editing without allowing page moves, or in theory vice-versa (though there's rarely any reason to set it that way). This is often done to project namespace pages which should be editable by anyone, but should not be moved around.

Protecting a page does not automatically protect the talk page.

Pages that should generally be protected:


 * Project and help namespace pages should generally be protected against page moves.
 * Policy pages may be protected
 * Widely used templates
 * User namespace pages, on request of the user.