MediaWiki:Protect-dropdown: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 22:08, 16 May 2017

Article protection
- Editing this article is a privilege of membership. Go to Special:UserSignup and join the Tardis Team!
- Page has been excessively vandalised
- Page has been excessively spammed
- Upholding T:NO WARS: preventing counter-productive edit warring
- Upholding spoiler policy: this story has not yet been released
- Upholding user page policy: protecting user page under current attack
- Upholding disambiguation policy: blocking creation of invalid title
- This story has been released. Its title will not change. Move protecting.
- This is a policy or help page
- Directly used by MediaWiki page
Category protection
- Do not recreate this category per this forum thread
Template protection
- Changing this template will break others
- Template uses advanced coding
- Template is a bug tester, and therefore shouldn't be altered
File protection
- Maintenance image used on many pages
- Referred to by CSS; many unseen links
- Dimensions crucial; change inadvisable

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-*Common protection reasons
+*Article protection
-** Excessive vandalism
+** Editing this article is a privilege of membership. Go to [[Special:UserSignup]] and join the Tardis Team!
-** Excessive spamming
+** Page has been excessively vandalised
-** Counter-productive edit warring
+** Page has been excessively spammed
-** High traffic page
+** Upholding [[T:NO WARS]]: preventing counter-productive edit warring
-** Upholding [[Tardis:spoiler policy]]
+** Upholding [[T:OFF REL|spoiler policy]]: this story has not yet been released
-** Upholding [[Tardis:user page policy]]
+** Upholding [[Tardis:user page policy|user page policy]]: protecting user page under current attack
+** Upholding [[Tardis:disambiguation policy|disambiguation policy]]: blocking creation of invalid title
+** This story '''has been <u>released</u>'''.  Its title will not change.  Move protecting.
 ** This is a policy or help page
 ** Directly used by MediaWiki page
-** Referred to by CSS; many unseen links
+*Category protection
+** Do not recreate this category per [[Forum:What makes an ally and an enemy?|this forum thread]]
 *Template protection
 ** Changing this template will break others
 ** Template uses advanced coding
+** Template is a bug tester, and therefore shouldn't be altered
+*File protection
+**Maintenance image used on many pages
+**Referred to by CSS; many unseen links
+**Dimensions crucial; change inadvisable