Wikipedia:List of indefinitely protected pages

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


 * Community Portal (semi-protected) – and the following transcluded templates:
 * Template:Announcements/Community bulletin board (semi-protected)
 * 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)
 * About (semi-protected)
 * Contents (semi-protected)
 * Featured content (semi-protected)
 * Contact us - media and other informational contact page
 * Help:Contents (semi-protected)

High-visibility images
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
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
 * Image:A.jpg
 * Image:D.jpg
 * Image:E.jpg
 * Image:F.jpg
 * Image:G.jpg
 * Image:I.jpg
 * Image:J.jpg
 * Image:K.jpg
 * Image:L.jpg
 * Image:M.jpg
 * Image:N.jpg
 * Image:O.jpg
 * Image:Q.jpg
 * Image:R.jpg
 * Image:S.jpg
 * Image:T.jpg
 * Image:U.jpg
 * Image:V.jpg
 * Image:W.jpg
 * Image:X.jpg
 * Image:Y.jpg
 * Image:B.JPG
 * Image:G.JPG
 * Image:H.JPG
 * Image:I.JPG
 * Image:J.JPG
 * Image:K.JPG
 * Image:V.JPG
 * Image:Y.JPG
 * Image:d.gif
 * Image:k.gif
 * Image:l.gif
 * Image:p.gif
 * Image:u.gif
 * Image:f.GIF
 * Image:N.png
 * Image:O.png
 * Image:R.png

Legal reasons

 * 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.
 * Designated agent – see designated agent.
 * Foldoc license – Permission to use material from the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing under the GFDL.

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


 * Text of the GNU Free Documentation License
 * Text of the GNU General Public License
 * Text of the GNU Lesser General Public License

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


 * General disclaimer
 * Risk disclaimer
 * Legal disclaimer
 * Medical disclaimer
 * Content disclaimer

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. 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 Office actions.

System administration reasons

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


 * General


 * Template:Copyrighted
 * Template:ImageLicenseFreeUse
 * Template:TextLicenseFreeUse
 * Template:TextLicenseMinorFreeUse
 * Template:Noncommercial
 * Template:Replaceable fair use
 * Template:Self
 * Template:Self2 (redirect)


 * Public domain


 * Template:PD
 * Template:PD-US
 * Template:PD-art
 * Template:PD-old
 * Template:PD-user


 * 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


 * Template:CrownCopyright
 * Template:PD-USGov
 * Template:PD-USGov-Military-Navy
 * Template:PD-USGov-NASA


 * Wikimedia-specific


 * Template:WikimediaNoLicensing
 * Template:WikimediaAllLicensing
 * Template:WikimediaMediaLicensing
 * Template:WikimediaTextLicensing

High use templates

 * See also 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  and providing detailed change instructions. The change will then be made by an administrator.


 * Template:-
 * Template:-Class
 * Template:-importance
 * Template:!-
 * Template:!!
 * Template:'
 * Template:*mp
 * Template:=
 * Template:·
 * Template:A-Class
 * Template:About
 * Template:Adminbacklog
 * Template:AfD categories
 * Template:Afd2 starter
 * Template:Afd3 starter
 * Template:Age
 * Template:Non-free album cover
 * Template:Amg movie
 * Template:Anonblock
 * Template:AOL
 * Template:Assessed-Class
 * Template:Assessment index footer
 * Template:Assessment index header
 * Template:Audio
 * Template:Autoblock
 * Template:AutoLink
 * Template:B-Class
 * Template:Babel
 * Template:BDYearsInDecade
 * Template:Birthyr
 * Template:Blatantvandal
 * Template:Blocked user
 * Template:Bot
 * Template:Campaign
 * Template:Catmore
 * Template:Check talk
 * Template:Christianity-stub
 * Template:Cite book
 * Template:Cite journal
 * Template:Cite news
 * Template:Cite paper
 * Template:Cite press release
 * Template:Cite web
 * Template:Citeweb
 * Template:Cleanup-date
 * Template:Clear
 * Template:Clerk-Note
 * Template:Col-2
 * Template:Col-3
 * Template:Col-begin
 * Template:Col-break
 * Template:Col-end
 * Template:Comicsproj
 * Template:Commonscat
 * Template:Commonwealth of Nations
 * Template:Context
 * Template:Coor dms
 * Template:Coor URL
 * Template:Copy to Wikimedia Commons
 * Template:Country data Cocos (Keeling) Islands
 * Template:Country data European Union
 * Template:Country data French Guiana
 * Template:Country data Guadeloupe
 * Template:Country data Martinique
 * Template:Country data New Caledonia
 * Template:Country data none
 * Template:Country data Réunion
 * Template:Country data Tokelau
 * Template:Country data United Kingdom
 * Template:Country data United Nations
 * Template:Country data United States
 * Template:Country flag2
 * Template:Country flagcountry2
 * Template:Country flagicon2
 * Template:Cquote
 * Template:Croatia-bio-stub
 * Template:Current
 * Template:Dab (redirect)
 * Template:Dab-Class
 * Template:Dablink
 * Template:DANFS
 * Template:Day-1
 * Template:Day+1
 * Template:Db-meta
 * Template:Deathyr
 * Template:Decrease
 * Template:DEFAULTSORT
 * Template:Details
 * Template:Details more
 * Template:Disambig (redirect)
 * Template:Disambiguation
 * Template:Distinguish
 * Template:Documentation
 * Template:Documentation subpage
 * Template:Doppelganger
 * Template:Doppelganger-other
 * Template:Electiontable
 * Template:EMedicine2
 * Template:End
 * Template:End box (redirect)
 * Template:Episode list
 * Template:Error:not substituted
 * Template:Esoteric (redirect)
 * Template:Expand list
 * Template:Expand-section
 * Template:Expert
 * Template:Expert-subject
 * Template:FA-Class
 * Template:Fact
 * Template:Facts
 * Template:Featured article
 * Template:Film (cascading)
 * Template:Fix
 * Template:FJC Bio
 * Template:Flag
 * Template:Flagcountry
 * Template:Flagicon
 * Template:Flora of Australia Online
 * Template:Football kit
 * Template:Football squad player
 * Template:For
 * Template:GA-Class
 * Template:Game-screenshot
 * Template:Gbm4ibx
 * Template:Gbmapping
 * Template:Gbmaprim
 * Template:Gutenberg author
 * Template:Harvard citation
 * Template:Harvard citation no brackets
 * Template:High-importance
 * Template:ICD10
 * Template:ICD9
 * Template:ICDO
 * Template:Image-Class
 * Template:Increase
 * Template:Infobox actor
 * Template:Infobox album
 * Template:Infobox album/color
 * Template:Infobox album/link
 * Template:Infobox ethnic group
 * Template:Infobox film
 * Template:Infobox football biography
 * Template:Infobox military conflict
 * Template:Infobox monarch
 * Template:Infobox mountain
 * Template:Infobox music genre
 * Template:Infobox musical artist
 * Template:Infobox officeholder
 * Template:Infobox person
 * Template:Infobox single
 * Template:Infobox ship begin
 * Template:Infobox website
 * Template:Intricate template
 * Template:IPA
 * Template:IPA-all
 * Template:Iran-geo-stub
 * Template:Islam-stub
 * Template:Islam-bio-stub
 * Template:ISSN
 * Template:ISSN search link
 * Template:Italic title
 * Template:Judaism-stub
 * Template:KIA


 * Template:La
 * Template:Lang
 * Template:LangWithName
 * Template:Law-stub
 * Template:LGBT sidebar
 * Template:Link
 * Template:List-Class
 * Template:Listen
 * Template:Loop
 * Template:Low-importance
 * Template:Lower
 * Template:Lt
 * Template:Lx
 * Template:M-cropped
 * Template:MacTutor
 * Template:Main
 * Template:MainPageInterwikis
 * Template:Merge
 * Template:Mid-importance
 * Template:Min
 * Template:MONTHNAME
 * Template:MONTHNUMBER
 * Template:Mprotected
 * Template:Mprotected2
 * Template:MultiLicenceWithCC-By-All-IntEng
 * Template:MultiLicensePD
 * Template:NA-Class
 * Template:National squad
 * Template:Navbox
 * Template:Navigation with columns
 * Template:NavigationBox
 * Template:Needed-Class
 * Template:Nihongo
 * Template:No-Class
 * Template:No copyright holder
 * Template:No source
 * Template:Not verified
 * Template:Note
 * Template:Nowrap
 * Template:OIC
 * Template:Oldafdfull
 * Template:OMIM
 * Template:Orphan
 * Template:Oscoor
 * Template:Other people2
 * Template:Otherpersons
 * Template:Otherpersons2 (redirect)
 * Template:Otheruses
 * Template:Otherusesof
 * Template:PAGENAMEU
 * Template:Party-stub
 * Template:Pic of the day
 * Template:Plainlink
 * Template:Planetmath instructions
 * Template:Plant-stub
 * Template:Please check ISBN
 * Template:Please leave this line alone (sandbox heading)
 * Template:PMID
 * Template:Policy
 * Template:Policy section
 * Template:Polytonic
 * Template:Portal
 * Template:Portal-Class
 * Template:POTD
 * Template:POV
 * Template:Pow
 * Template:Pp-dispute
 * Template:pp-protected
 * Template:Prod
 * Template:Promotional
 * Template:Protect-ex
 * Template:Protected template
 * Template:Protected title
 * Template:Purge
 * Template:Quote box
 * Template:R from UN/LOCODE
 * Template:Redirect
 * Template:Redirect-Class
 * Template:Ref
 * Template:Refbegin
 * Template:Refend
 * Template:Ref label
 * Template:Reflist
 * Template:REMOVE THIS TEMPLATE WHEN CLOSING THIS AfD
 * Template:Resolved
 * Template:Retired
 * Template:Rfd bottom (semi-protected)
 * Template:Rfd top (semi-protected)
 * Template:Rotten-tomatoes
 * Template:S-dip
 * Template:S-prec
 * Template:S-rail
 * Template:S-start
 * Template:S-ttl
 * Template:Schoolblock
 * Template:See
 * Template:See also
 * Template:Shortcut
 * Template:Single infobox request
 * Template:Sisterlinks
 * Template:Smallsup
 * Template:Sockpuppet
 * Template:Songs
 * Template:Spa
 * Template:Spaces
 * Template:Specify
 * Template:Spoken Wikipedia
 * Template:Start-Class
 * Template:Str find
 * Template:Str left
 * Template:Str len
 * Template:Str len/core
 * Template:Stub
 * Template:Stub-Class
 * Template:Subst
 * Template:Succession box
 * Template:Superimpose
 * Template:Talkarchive
 * Template:Talkheader
 * Template:Taxobox
 * Template:This
 * Template:Tl
 * Template:Tlx
 * Template:Tnavbar
 * Template:Tnavbar-header
 * Template:Top-importance
 * Template:TrainsWikiProject
 * Template:Turkey-bio-stub
 * Template:Tv-screenshot
 * Template:Unassessed-Class
 * Template:Uncategorized
 * Template:Unicode
 * Template:Unsigned
 * Template:Unsigned2
 * Template:Unreferenced
 * Template:User en
 * Template:User0
 * Template:User5
 * Template:User6b
 * Template:Userbox
 * Template:Userboxtop
 * Template:Uw-ublock
 * Template:Verify credibility
 * Template:Welcome
 * Template:Welcomenh
 * Template:Welcomespam
 * Template:WikEd
 * Template:Wikinews
 * Template:WikiProject California
 * Template:WikiProject Texas
 * Template:WikiProject Video games
 * Template:Wikiquote
 * Template:Wikisource author
 * Template:Wikispecies
 * Template:Wiktionarypar
 * Template:WikiProject Australia
 * Template:WP India
 * Template:WPBiography
 * Template:WPMILHIST
 * Template:WPMILHIST Infobox style
 * Template:WPMILHIST/Class
 * Template:Year in other calendars
 * Template:Yearcat
 * Template:Zero

Javascript-related pages

 * Installation templates

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


 * Template:js
 * Template:navpop


 * 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

 * Database reports/Indefinitely semi-protected talk pages