Bharatpedia:Protection policy: Difference between revisions

*'''Extended confirmed protection''', also known as '''30/500 protection''', prevents the action by users without 30 days' tenure and 500 edits on the Indian English Wikipedia. It is applied to combat any form of disruption where semi-protection has proven to be ineffective. It should not be applied as a protection level of first resort. Its use is logged at the Administrators' noticeboard.

Such users can request edits to a semi-protected page by proposing them on its talk page, using the {{Tl|Edit semi-protected}} template if necessary to gain attention. If the page in question and its talk page are ''both'' protected, please make your edit request at [[Wikipedia:Requests for page protection]] instead. New users may also request the confirmed user right at [[Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Confirmed]].

Pages that have been creation-protected are sometimes referred to as "salted". Contributors wishing to re-create a salted title with appropriate content should either contact an administrator (preferably the protecting administrator), file a request at [[Wikipedia:Requests for page protection#Current requests]] for reduction in protection level, or use the deletion review process. To make a convincing case for re-creation, it is helpful to show a draft version of the intended article when filing a request.

* Files with common or generic names. (eg. File:map.png)

*If the editor is logged in and a pending changes reviewer and there are pending changes, the editor will be prompted to review the pending changes before editing{{snd}}see [[Wikipedia:Pending changes]].

{{anchor|Reviewing}}The reviewing process is described in detail at [[Wikipedia:Reviewing pending changes]].

Cascading protection fully protects a page, and extends that full protection ''automatically'' to any page that is transcluded onto the protected page, whether directly or indirectly. This includes templates, images and other media that are hosted on the Indian English Wikipedia. Files stored on Commons are ''not'' protected by any other wiki's cascading protection and, if they are to be protected, must be either temporarily uploaded to the English Bharatpedia or explicitly protected at Commons (whether manually or through cascading protection there).  

Requests to add or remove cascading protection on a page should be made at [[Wikipedia talk:Cascade-protected]] items as an edit request.

Confirmed socks of registered users should be dealt with in accordance with [[Wikipedia:Sockpuppetry]]; their pages are not normally protected.

Base user pages (for example, the page User:Example, and not User:Example/subpage or User talk:Example) are automatically protected from creation or editing by unconfirmed accounts and anonymous IP users. An exception to this includes an unconfirmed registered account attempting to create or edit their own user page. IP editors and unconfirmed accounts are also unable to create or edit user pages that do not belong to a currently-registered account. This protection is enforced by an edit filter.<ref>Please refer to [[Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Protect user pages]] by default and its talk page for community discussion related to a preventative measure for user pages.</ref> Users may opt-out of this protection by placing {{tlx|unlocked userpage}} anywhere on their own user page.

Sandboxes should not ordinarily be protected since their purpose is to let new users test and experiment with wiki syntax. Most sandboxes are automatically cleaned every 12 hours, although they are frequently overwritten by other testing users. The [[Wikipedia:Sandbox]] is cleaned every hour. Those who use sandboxes for malicious purposes, or to violate policies such as no personal attacks, civility, or copyrights, should instead be warned and/or blocked.