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{{Subpage|[[Help:Contents]]}} {{Shortcut|[[VDC:PP]] or [[VDC:PROT]]}} [[Category:Page protection]] [[Category:Wiki]]
[[Special:Listadmins|Administrators]] have the ability to "protect" pages or images so that they cannot be modified except by other admins (the link "[[Valve Technology]]" is replaced by a link "{{MediaWiki:Viewsource}}" when viewed by non-admins). This ability is only to be used in limited circumstances.

Admins '''must not''' protect pages they are actively engaged in editing, except in the case of {{Wiki|Wikipedia:Vandalism|simple vandalism|icon=no}}, {{Wiki|Spamming|spam|icon=no}} or disputed edit/edit warring.

==Policy==
# Do not edit a temporarily protected page except to add a protected page notice.
# Do not protect a page on which you are involved in an [[Wikipedia:edit war|edit dispute]] ([[:m:Category:Conflicts|Category:Conflicts]]).

See [[Wikipedia:Protection policy]] for more detailed advice and the purpose of protected pages.

==Procedure==
# Protect the page, supplying a reason.
# Add <nowiki>{{protected}}</nowiki> to the top of the temporarily protected page and make mention of the protection in the edit summary.
# List pages you protect on ''Valve Developer Community:Protected page''; if it is protected due to a conflict, you may want to list ''all'' user names/IPs involved in the conflict.
#: Please use '''<nowiki>{{article|ARTICLE NAME}}</nowiki>''' when listing a page at ''Wikipedia:Protected page'', where '''ARTICLE NAME''' is the article or page you wish to protect.
# Consider encouraging a resolution between the disputing parties.
# Remove the protection (while supplying a reason) once the conflict has been resolved.
# Remove <nowiki>{{protected}}</nowiki> from the top of an unprotected page and make mention of the removal in the edit summary.

== See also ==
* [[Requests for page protection]] - place to request protection; use when your involvement in editing a page precludes protecting it yourself.  Also used by non-administrators who wish for a page to be protected.  Also for unprotection requests.
* [[Special:Log/protect|Protection log]] - automated log of protections and unprotections
* [[Valve Developer Community:This page is protected|This page is protected]]
* [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Wikipedia_maintenance#Protected_pages|Wikipedia maintenance section on maintaining this page]]
* [[Valve Developer Community:Most vandalized pages]] - please add pages subjected to repeated vandalism to this list