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|+ Interaction of Wikipedia user groups and page protection levels

 

!scope="col" width="9%" | Unregistered or newly registered

!scope="col" width="9%" | Confirmed or autoconfirmed

!scope="col" width="9%" | Extended confirmed

!scope="col" width="9%" | Template editor {{hsp}}★

!scope="col" width="8%" | Admin

!scope="col" width="8%" | Interface admin

!scope="col" width="37%" | Appropriate for{{#ifeq:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|Wikipedia:Protection policy


(See also: Wikipedia:Protection policy)}}
scope="row" style="text-align:left" | No protection

|colspan="6" style="background:#ccffcc" | {{small caps|Normal editing}}

| The vast majority of pages. This is the default protection level.

scope="row" style="text-align:left" | 20pxPending changes

|colspan="6" style="background:#ffffc0" | {{small caps|All users can edit}}
Edits by unregistered or newly registered editors (and any subsequent edits by anyone) are hidden from readers who are not logged in until reviewed by a pending changes reviewer or administrator. Logged-in editors see all edits, whether accepted or not.

| Infrequently edited pages with high levels of vandalism, BLP violations, edit-warring, or other disruption from unregistered and new users.

scope="row" style="text-align:left" | 20pxSemi

|style="background:#ffcccc" | {{small caps|Cannot edit}}

|colspan="5" style="background:#ccffcc" | {{small caps|Normal editing}}

| Pages that have been persistently vandalized by anonymous and registered users. Some highly visible templates and modules.

scope="row" style="text-align:left" | 20pxExtended confirmed

|colspan="2" style="background:#ffcccc" | {{small caps|Cannot edit}}

|colspan="4" style="background:#ccffcc" | {{small caps|Normal editing}}

| Specific topic areas authorized by ArbCom, pages where semi-protection has failed, or high-risk templates where template protection would be too restrictive.

scope="row" style="text-align:left" | {{nobr|20pxTemplate}}

|colspan="3" style="background:#ffcccc" | {{small caps|Cannot edit}}

|colspan="3" style="background:#ccffcc" | {{small caps|Normal editing}}

| High-risk or very-frequently used templates and modules. Some high-risk pages outside of template space.

scope="row" style="text-align:left" | 20pxFull

|colspan="4" style="background:#ffcccc" | {{small caps|Cannot edit}}

|colspan="2" style="background:#ccffcc" | {{small caps|Can edit}}♦

| Pages with persistent disruption from extended confirmed accounts.

scope="row" style="text-align:left" | 20pxInterface

|colspan="5" style="background:#ffcccc" | {{small caps|Cannot edit}}

| style="background:#ccffcc" | {{small caps|Normal editing}}

| Scripts, stylesheets, and similar objects fundamental to operation of the site or that are in other editors' user spaces.

colspan="8" style="text-align:left" |★{{hsp}} The table assumes a template editor also has extended confirmed privileges, which is almost always the case in practice.
♦{{hsp}} Administrators are only authorized to perform non-controversial edits without obtaining consensus on the talk page.
colspan="8" style="text-align:left" |Other modes of protection:

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|File:Create-protection-shackle.svg Create protection

|File:Move-protection-shackle.svg Move protection

|File:Upload-protection-shackle.svg Upload protection

|File:Office-protection-shackle.svg Office protection

|File:Cascade-protection-shackle.svg Cascade protection}}

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