Editing Incubator escapee wiki:Protection policy (section)

== Overview of page protection ==
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Any protection applied to a page involves setting a type, level, and duration as follows:

=== Protection type ===
*'''[[#Edit protection|Edit protection]]''' protects the page from being [[Help:Editing|edited]].
*'''[[#Move protection|Move protection]]''' protects the page from being [[Help:Moving a page|moved or renamed]].
*'''[[#Creation protection (salting)|Creation protection]]'''<ref name="Salt-Note>This is also known as ''"salting"''.</ref> prevents a page from being [[Wikipedia:How to create a page|created]].
*'''[[#Upload protection|Upload protection]]''' prevents new versions of a file from being [[Help:upload|uploaded]], but it does not prevent editing of the file's description page (unless edit protection is applied).

=== Protection level ===
*'''Pending changes protection''' requires edits made by unregistered users and users whose accounts are not [[Wikipedia:User access levels#Autoconfirmed users|confirmed]] to be approved by a [[Wikipedia:User access levels#Reviewer|pending changes reviewer]] before the changes become visible to most readers. Pending changes is only available for edit protection on articles and project pages.
*'''Semi-protection''' prevents the action by unregistered users and users whose accounts are not confirmed.
*'''Extended confirmed protection'''<ref name="ECP-Former-Name">Extended confirmed protection was previously known as '''30/500 protection'''.</ref> prevents the action if the user's account is not extended confirmed (at least 30 days old with more than 500 edits). In most cases, it should not be a protection level of first resort, and should be used where semi-protection has proven to be ineffective.
*'''Template protection''' prevents the action by everyone except [[Wikipedia:Template editor|template editors]] and [[Wikipedia:Administrators|administrators]] (who have this right as part of their toolset).
*'''Full protection''' prevents the action by everyone except [[Wikipedia:Administrators|administrators]].

=== Protection duration ===
*Protection can be applied for either a specified period or indefinitely.
*The duration is generally determined by the severity and persistence of the disruption, with some exceptions for specific cases.