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These steps will take you directly to the protection screen, which you then can change as you see fit.
These steps will take you directly to the protection screen, which you then can change as you see fit.


One word of caution, though. Often, we try to create-protect pages we have just deleted. This is logical enough; we want to stop people from re-creating a page we've judged to be inappropriate. However, there is, as of late [[2011]], a bit of a flaw in the Wikia cache which doesn't allow this. If you try to create-protect immediately after deletion, you'll be brought to the edit-protect screen, which isn't what you want. You have to wait between 15 minutes and an hour for the cache to "catch up".
One word of caution, though. Often, we try to create-protect pages we have just deleted. This is logical enough; we want to stop people from re-creating a page we've judged to be inappropriate. However, there is, as of late [[2011]], a bit of a flaw in the Fandom cache which doesn't allow this. If you try to create-protect immediately after deletion, you'll be brought to the edit-protect screen, which isn't what you want. You have to wait between 15 minutes and an hour for the cache to "catch up".


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