Help:Administrator's Handbook/Protect

Sometimes it is necessary to protect a page against vandalism or other unwanted edits.

Page Protection


By default the top and bottom options both move to the same place when you change the top one. If you check "Unlock move permissions" each may be adjusted independently. You can for example decide to allow only sysops to edit the page, but for non-sysops--the "(all users)" category--to move the page if they choose to do so. In most cases you will want to protect against both, which is why this is the default. There is also a "new and unregistered users" that will block new users and contributers that do not have an account.

Unprotecting
When you select the "unprotect" option, you will be taken to the same protection page as shown above. You may now change the current protection level to one of the other two.

Things to note
Note that the talk page of the page you are protecting will NOT be protected along with its sibling, and vice versa. If this is necessary you will need to do it separately.