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Items listed here are considered ultra-high-use and are often critical to the Wikipedia interface or used on many articles or other pages. Occasionally, individual templates will be part of a very closely-related family of templates, all of which should probably be cascade-protected to avoid problems; even if an individual template in such a family isn't widely used, it should still be protected for the same reason. Templates that are template protected or temporarily fully-protected (whether for vandalism, an edit war, or some other reason) do not belong here. Content pages (articles) should NEVER be added to this page.

This page is used to protect:

  1. High-risk templates that should always be protected, using cascading protection. On occasion, accidental unprotection or transclusion of unprotected templates into protected templates have led to severe disruption.
  2. High-risk files transcluded by them or used in the interface.

Do not delete or unprotect items because they are listed on this page! Don't do it, especially if a file has a backup copy on Commons. This page is meant to be an extra protection, to protect against silly mistakes, such as admins deleting or unprotecting high-risk templates and files. This cascade page is not meant to be the only protection. Items should generally only be removed from this page as a result of a deletion discussion closed as delete, in the course of complete deprecation in favor of a newer item, or because there is consensus to drop the item's protection to a lower level.

If this page causes any kind of problem, please ask on the talk page or speak to an(other) admin.

Changes must be requested on the talk page using {{editprotected}}.[1] Cascading protection should not, generally, be applied to individual templates, since it protects their /doc subpages as well.


Escape templates

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Often used in system messages and templates with Parser Functions.

Warning: the page "Wikipedia:Cascade-protected items/content" is not cascade-protected.

Citation templates

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Used in almost every article

Warning: the page "Wikipedia:Cascade-protected items/content" is not cascade-protected.

Meta templates

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High-risk templates that serve as "roots" for more specific templates.

Warning: the page "Wikipedia:Cascade-protected items/content" is not cascade-protected.

Interface templates

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Templates that are used in the interface. That is, templates that have been designed to be used in the MediaWiki namespace and their dependencies.

Warning: the page "Wikipedia:Cascade-protected items/content" is not cascade-protected.

Cenarium's stuff

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Warning: the page "Wikipedia:Cascade-protected items/content" is not cascade-protected.

Template:Short description and dependencies

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Warning: the page "Wikipedia:Cascade-protected items/content" is not cascade-protected.

Cascade protected images

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The images listed here are protected even if they are accidentally deleted. Thus no-one can upload a bad image during that time. This also protects the images after they have been restored, since admins sometimes forget to re-protect the images after they have restored them.

Admins sometimes delete protected images by accident, or because they think we don't need them since they exist on Commons. But images are usually locally uploaded and protected here at the English Wikipedia since they are used in an interface message or in some widely used template. Thus these images are high-use and high-risk.

Used in interface and message boxes

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The 50 most-used images

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The 51-100 most used images

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Images used in system messages

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Other known high-risk images

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Padlock sets

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Main Page

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Footnotes

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This page was initially in user space at User:Cenarium/Protected templates, whose idea it was. It was copied/moved to Wikipedia space on 16:57, 14 October 2009 (UTC). Similar pages from other users, notably User:Hersfold/Lockbox, User:Dinoguy1000/Lockbox, User:Davidgothberg/Lockbox, and User:Mifter/Protection Test have been incorporated.

See also

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  1. ^ Editors can edit the lead of this page (this edit is proof of that) since JoJo moved the cascade protected stuff to Wikipedia:Cascade-protected items/content in 2017.