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(→‎How to create protect pages: updating these instructions as they don't actually apply anymore. the simplest method is simply to insert a direct URL into your browser.)
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#Copy the following text into your browser URL window:<pre>http://tardis.wikia.com/index.php?title=PAGENAME&action=protect&redlink=1</pre>
#Copy the following text into your browser URL window:<pre>http://tardis.wikia.com/index.php?title=PAGENAME&action=protect&redlink=1</pre>
#Replace "PAGENAME" with the name of the page to be protected.  You do not have use underscores for spaces, or use any special characters for symbols.  Just highlight the word "PAGENAME" and type over it with the plain text title.
#Replace "PAGENAME" with the name of the page to be protected.  You do not have use underscores for spaces, or use any special characters for symbols.  Just highlight the word "PAGENAME" and type over it with the plain text title.
#Press enter
#Press {{key|Enter}}
#You will then be brought to the protection screen, which you then can change as you see fit.
You will be brought 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".


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