Wikipedia:List of indefinitely protected pages

This is a list of pages that are permanently protected or semi-protected, in line with the protection policy. Note that the list is partial and incomplete. For the full list, go here.

Templates that make up Main Page content, including those that change daily, are automatically protected by transclusion on the Main Page, as cascading protection is enabled.

These are linked from every page (via the 'sidebar' on Monobook and some other skins).

These templates are not necessarily used on a large number of pages, but those pages on which they are used are visible ones. This also includes templates that are frequently used, but intended to be substituted, so that while they are only transcluded on a handful of pages, changes to them will quickly affect a large number of pages. See also High-use templates below.

In addition to these pages, all templates transcluded in Today's Featured Article are considered high-visibility and are temporarily fully-protected.

Not all of these are semi-protected, however the following are:

The following images are used on visible or high-use pages of some kind, and may be part of the interface (for example, on pages in the ).

These images have very generic names, and are undesirable as names of actual files due to the risk of accidental overwriting should someone inadvertently choose the same generic name. The images themselves contain a message similar to the following one explaining not to use the name:

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Full text of GNU licenses. These need to be accurate for copyright reasons.

These are linked from the footer of every page, and need to be accurate for legal reasons.

Sometimes it may be appropriate to protect pages based on considerations, whether of legal liability or common courtesy, of harm they may cause. This may involve slander, libel or privacy. Privacy considerations might involve, for example, notorious public behavior by a mentally ill person or a dramatic but embarrassing event which involves a person who is not a public figure. has been permanently semi-protected due to concerns of people adding images of other people. That page is on a constant watch to remove photos added inappropriately.

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