Help:Administrator's Handbook/Protect

Protecting a page is very straightforward. First, click on the "More" drop-down at the top of the page. The protect button will appear if you're an administrator or another user with the appropriate rights logged in to their account. Hit "Protect", and this will take you to the protection prompt.

Protecting a page
The page protection form appears as follows:



By default, the top and bottom options both move to the same place when you change the top one. If "Unlock further protect options" is checked, each box may be adjusted independently. Page move permissions are "locked" by default to match the edit permissions, but can be unlocked to allow editing without allowing page moves, or in theory vice-versa (though there's rarely any reason to set it that way). You can for example decide to allow only sysops to edit the page but for non-sysops the "(allow 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 an "allow only autoconfirmed users" option that only allows autoconfirmed users and others in higher ranks to edit a certain page.


 * Allow all users: (Default) anyone can edit.
 * Allow only autoconfirmed users: Autoconfirmed; not editable by IP address, or by the newest accounts.
 * Allow only administrators: Sysops; only editable by administrators.

Unprotecting a page
To lift protection from a page, click on the aforementioned "More" drop-down. Note, however, that the protect button will rename to "Change protection" once an administrator has placed protection on it. Hit "Change protection", and it will direct you to the same protection prompt as shown above.