	Edit	Move	Pending changes	Upload
Generic	((pp))	((pp-move))	((pp-pc))	((pp-upload))
BLP	((pp-blp))	–	–	–
Blocked user's talk page	((pp-usertalk))	–	–	–
Dispute	((pp-dispute))	((pp-move-dispute))	–	–
Extended confirmed protection	((pp-extended))	–	–	–
Long-term	((pp-semi-indef))	–	–	–
Main Page image	((pp-main-page))	–	–	–
Office	((pp-office))	–	–	–
Sockpuppetry	((pp-sock))	–	–	–
Templates and images	((pp-template))	–	–	((pp-upload))
Vandalism	((pp-vandalism))	((pp-move-vandalism))	–	–
Talk page	((Permanently protected)) ((Temporarily protected))	–	–	–

This is a list of pages that are permanently protected or semi-protected, in line with the protection policy. Note that the list is partial and incomplete. For the full list, go here.

Pages linked from the sidebar[edit]

These are linked from every page (via the 'sidebar' on Monobook and some other skins).

Wikipedia:Community Portal (semi-protected) – and the following transcluded templates:
- Template:Announcements/Community bulletin board (semi-protected)
- Wikipedia:Community Portal/Opentask (semi-protected)
Portal:Current events (protected) – and the following transcluded templates:
- Portal:Current events/Inclusion
- Portal:Current events/Calendar (semi-protected)
- Template:Current events header
- Template:Current events footer
- Portal:Current events/More events (semi-protected)
Wikipedia:About (semi-protected)
Wikipedia:Contents (semi-protected)
Wikipedia:Featured content (semi-protected)
Wikipedia:Contact us - media and other informational contact page
Help:Contents (semi-protected)

High-visibility images[edit]

The following images are used on visible or high-use pages of some kind, and may be part of the interface (for example, on pages in the MediaWiki namespace).

Image:Portal.svg - widely used throughout Wikipedia and prominently so.

Image:Information icon.svg, Image:Octagon-warning.svg, Image:Padlock.svg, Image:Red copyright.svg, Image:Nuvola apps kwrite.png, Image:Symbol comment vote 2.svg, Image:Commons-logo.svg, Image:Information.svg, Image:Stop sign light red.svg, Image:Stop x nuvola.svg, all used in system messages, and so very high-visibility.

Generic image names[edit]

These images have very generic names, and are undesirable as names of actual files due to the risk of accidental overwriting should someone inadvertently choose the same generic name. The images themselves contain a message similar to the following one explaining not to use the name:

Image:00000.jpg
Image:Box.jpg
Image:Campus.jpg
Image:Chart.png
Image:Church.JPG
Image:Cover.jpg
Image:Cute.jpg
Image:Default.jpg
Image:DVD Box.jpg
Image:DVD Cover.jpg
Image:Example.JPG
Image:File.jpg
Image:Flag.JPG
Image:Flag.gif
Image:Folder.jpg
Image:Guy.gif
Image:Headshot.JPG
Image:Headshot.jpg
Image:Image.gif
Image:Image.jpeg
Image:Image.jpg
Image:Image.png
Image:Image.svg
Image:Image001.jpg
Image:Image01.jpg
Image:Image1.jpg
Image:Images.jpg
Image:Img.gif
Image:Img.jpg
Image:Img.png
Image:Lastscan.jpg
Image:Logo.JPG
Image:Logo.PNG
Image:Logo.gif
Image:Logo.jpg
Image:Logo.png
Image:Logo.svg
Image:North.jpg
Image:Photo.gif
Image:Photo.jpeg
Image:Photo.jpg
Image:Photo.png
Image:Photo1.jpg
Image:Pic.jpg
Image:Picture.gif
Image:Picture.jpg
Image:Picture.png
Image:Picture.svg
Image:Picture 001.jpg
Image:Picture 2.png
Image:Pleasedont.gif
Image:Poster.jpeg
Image:Poster.jpg
Image:Screenshot.gif
Image:Smile.jpg
Image:Thumbnail.jpg
Image:Title.gif
Image:Untitled.jpg
Image:Untitled1.JPG
Image:Untitled.png
Image:Untitled.gif

Numbers

Image:1.jpg
Image:2.jpg
Image:3.jpg
Image:4.jpg
Image:5.jpg
Image:7.jpg
Image:8.jpg
Image:9.jpg
Image:1.JPG
Image:2.JPG
Image:3.JPG
Image:4.JPG
Image:7.JPG
Image:9.JPG
Image:1.gif
Image:2.gif
Image:3.gif
Image:4.gif
Image:5.gif
Image:6.gif
Image:8.gif
Image:9.gif
Image:2.png
Image:3.png
Image:4.png
Image:5.png
Image:6.png
Image:7.png
Image:8.png
Image:9.png

Single letters

Legal reasons[edit]

Wikipedia:Copyrights – Policy page on copyright and licenses.
Press releases: January 2002, January 2003, February 2004, February 2004/Text-Only – should remain static indefinitely. New press releases are on the Foundation website and Meta.
Wikipedia:Designated agent – see meta:designated agent.
Wikipedia:Foldoc license – Permission to use material from the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing under the GFDL.

License texts

Full text of GNU licenses. These need to be accurate for copyright reasons.

Disclaimers

These are linked from the footer of every page, and need to be accurate for legal reasons.

Libel, slander or privacy considerations

Sometimes it may be appropriate to protect pages based on considerations, whether of legal liability or common courtesy, of harm they may cause. This may involve slander, libel or privacy. Privacy considerations might involve, for example, notorious public behavior by a mentally ill person or a dramatic but embarrassing event which involves a person who is not a public figure. Wikipedia:Images of Wikipedians has been permanently semi-protected due to concerns of people adding images of other people. That page is on a constant watch to remove photos added inappropriately.

See Wikipedia:Office actions.

System administration reasons[edit]

Auto-generated logs (old): Deletion log, Upload log, Protection log, Block log, Bureaucrat log and their archives
Wikipedia:Special:Deadendpages
Village pump archive 2004-09-26 (to prevent page move vandalism of large history)
All pages in the MediaWiki namespace

License templates[edit]

The following license templates are indefinitely protected due to both high visibility and legal reasons.

General

Public domain

GNU

Template:GFDL
Template:GDFL (redirect) – redirect from typo
Template:GPL
Template:GPL-2
Template:LGPL
Template:GFDL-no-disclaimers
Template:GFDL-with-disclaimers
Template:GFDL-self-with-disclaimers
Template:GFDL 1.2

Creative Commons

Template:Cc-by
Template:Cc-by-nc (redirect)
Template:Cc-by-nc-sa (redirect)
Template:Cc-by-nd-nc (redirect)
Template:Cc-by-sa
Template:Cc-nc (redirect)
Template:Cc-nc-sa (redirect)
Template:Cc-nd (redirect)
Template:Cc-sa

Governmental

Wikimedia-specific

High use templates[edit]

See also Wikipedia:High-risk templates and Category:Wikipedia protected templates.

The following templates are indefinitely protected or semi-protected because a large number of pages directly or indirectly depend on them. These templates should only be edited when absolutely necessary. Development of new revisions should be done elsewhere (in a page under user space, in a template sandbox or on a separate development subpage of the template). See also High-visibility templates above.

Fully protected

Changes to these templates should be requested on the template's talk page by adding ((editprotected)) and providing detailed change instructions. The change will then be made by an administrator.

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items.

Javascript-related pages[edit]

Installation templates

The following templates are used to install javascript tools easily, and should be protected to prevent malicious javascript code creeping in.

Input data

User:Lupin/badwords is a list of words flagged by anti-vandalism tools. This is semi-protected to allow established editors to change it while avoiding vandals inserting common words into the list, rendering it useless.

Other[edit]

Wikipedia:Database reports/Indefinitely semi-protected talk pages