Help:Protecting and unprotecting pages

Protecting and unprotecting pages is very straightforward, but these operations require moderator permission.

Protecting a page
You can designate a page as a protected page by clicking the 'Protect page' tab, and supplying a comment (a brief textual description of why you are protecting the page).

There are several reasons why a particular page might be protected.

On public wikis, a protected page is usually one which has been repeatedly targeted with vandalism, or where it is believed that any vandalism would have an unusually severe impact. On corporate wikis, a page may be protected when the content has been frozen via an approval process.

However there are also many good reasons for not protecting pages. As a moderator you must make this choice, and wield your power responsibly.

Request a page be protected
Although only moderators can protect a page, any contributor can request that a page be protected by using the template protect. Add this to the page in question and add the reason why to the discussion/talk page.