A KoL Wiki:List of protected pages

Administrators have the ability to "protect" pages or images so that they cannot be modified except by other admins (the link "MediaWiki:Editthispage" is replaced by a link "View source" when viewed by non-admins). This ability is only to be used in limited circumstances.

Procedure

1. Protect the page, supplying a reason.
2. Add an approriate protection template (e.g. {{prot_high-use}} (or {{???}})
3. List pages you protect on TheKolWiki:List of protected pages; if it is protected due to a conflict, you may want to list all user names/IPs involved in the conflict.

   Please use {{article|ARTICLE NAME}} when listing a page at Wikipedia:Protected page, where ARTICLE NAME is the article or page you wish to protect.

4. Remove the protection (while supplying a reason) once the conflict has been resolved.
5. Remove the protection template from the top of an unprotected page and make mention of the removal in the edit summary.

If you protect a page, or find a protected page not listed here, please add it below, to the appropriate sections. Please also add a short description of ten words or less indicating why you protected it.

See Also

• Page Protection Policy
• Requests for (Un)Protection
• Protection Log

Administrative Pages

• TheKolWiki:About
• TheKolWiki:Administrators - Admin list only needs to be edited by admins
• TheKolWiki:List of protected pages - Only admins can protect pages, and therefore only admins can list them here.
• TheKolWiki:Copyrights
• TheKolWiki:Current events
• TheKolWiki:General disclaimer - Standard Spambot Target
• TheKolWiki:Site support - Standard Spambot Target

High Profile Pages

• Main Page - Standard Spambot/Vandalism Target

Pages Prone to Vandalism

• Strange Leaflet Quest - Common Readditions of Magic Words
• Strange Leaflet Walkthrough - again, preventing the addition of Magic Words

Pages Prone to Overenthusiastic Reference Addition

• The Castle in the Clouds in the Sky - it's three common nouns.
• Cobb's Knob Laboratory - ménage != menagerie.
• The Guy Made Of Bees - if Riff says no Candyman, no Candyman.

High-Use Templates

• Template:Item - Used on all item pages
  • Template:Item/meta -- Used on all item data pages
  • Template:Item/plural -- Used on all item pages to show the plural form (or a message if there is none)
• Template:Useitem - Used for all item consumption messages
  • Template:Adv - Used, via {{useitem}}, on almost all food and booze pages, as well as many others.
• Template:Effect - Used on all effect pages
  • Template:Effect/meta - Used on all effect data pages
• Template:Location/meta - Used on all location data pages
• Template:Location/meta2 - Used on all compound location data pages
• Template:Familiar/meta - Used on all familiar data pages
• Template:Combat - Used on location pages for every combat
• Template:Battle - Used on all combat pages
• Template:Combat/meta - Used on all combat data pages
• Template:Kolimage - Used on all images
• Template:Data1 - Used to load data from all item/effect data pages
• Template:Data2 - Used to load data from all location/combat data pages
• Template:! - Used to get desired interpretation of | symbols in several protected templates.

User Pages

• User:SomeStranger/sig + User:SomeStranger/sig2 - Dynamic signature being used by admin (to reduce clutter on talk pages)
• User:Quietust/sig + User:Quietust/sig2 - Dynamic signature being used by admin (to reduce clutter on talk pages)

Other

• Talk:Discussion - Why discuss discussion? Don't.
• Talk:Proposed Standards - Similarly, don't discuss a page for discussion of standards.
• Talk:Established Standards - Proposed Standards is for discussion of standards.
• TheKolWiki talk:Requested articles - Root article is a discussion article by its very nature.

Reasons Unknown (or Probably Don't Need to Be)

• Template:666 - Was a one-day-use main page template.
• KolMohDee - Writing of this DJ's page was awarded as part of a radio contest. Protected to prevent vandalism.