Administrators have the ability to "protect" pages such that they cannot be edited except by other admins. This ability is only to be used in limited circumstances.
Policy
The following rules apply to general encyclopedia pages, not to Memory Alpha "meta" pages:
- Do not edit a protected page
- Do not protect a page you have edited
- Add a boilerplate message to the top of temporarily protected pages
- List pages you protect or unprotect on Memory Alpha:Protected page
See Memory Alpha:Protection policy for more detailed advice and the purpose of protected pages.
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.
Permanently protected pages
These pages are permanently protected, primarily to prevent vandalism. Other pages, such as legal policies, are also permanently protected to prevent unauthorized changes from being made to them.
- Main Page and its templates
- Memory Alpha:Copyrights
- Memory Alpha:Creative Commons License
- Memory Alpha:Privacy policy
- Memory Alpha:Administrators
- Memory Alpha:Announcements
- Memory Alpha:List of interwiki prefixes
- Memory Alpha:Policy changes
- Template:pfid-exceptions
- Image:Wiki.png
- Memory Alpha:Designated agent
- Memory Alpha:Protected page
Semi-permanently protected pages
These pages are protected for the indefinite future, but it is planned (hoped) that they will be unprotected at some point. A specific reason should be given for why the page was protected.
- User:Curps & User talk:Curps -- created by an imposter of Wikipedia admin "Curps" by copying content from Wikipedia pages. -- Cid Highwind 10:36, 21 Mar 2005 (EST)
- User:Linuxbeak and User talk:Linuxbeak -- another impostor, another Wikipedia admin named Linuxbeak. -- SmokeDetector47| TALK 21:37, 26 Aug 2005 (UTC)
Temporarily protected pages
- Conspiracy; edit war, no one was using talk page to explain either side. --Alan del Beccio 21:28, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
Vandal targets
- Article pages
- Temporary; see talk page
- Boothby - Some nerdluck keeps adding offensive crap to poor Boothby's page. It'll probably be protected for quite some time; this guy is apparently starved for attention. --From Andoria with Love 02:39, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
- Leslie Wong - constant vandalism --From Andoria with Love 01:34, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
- Talk pages
- Protection can be lifted if there's a need for real discussion of the topics.
- Help pages
- Help:Editing- URL spam target.--Tim Thomason 12:15, 17 Dec 2005 (UTC)
- Help:Contents - URL spam target. --From Andoria with Love 04:29, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
- Help:New page - URL spam target. --Alan del Beccio 15:29, 22 January 2006 (UTC)