Editing Incubator escapee wiki:Protection policy (section)

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Administrators can prevent the creation of pages. This type of protection is useful for pages that have been [[Wikipedia:Deletion policy|deleted]] but repeatedly recreated. Such protection is case-sensitive. There are several levels of creation protection that can be applied to pages, identical to the levels for edit protection. A list of protected titles can be found at [[Special:ProtectedTitles]] (see also [[WP:Protected titles/Historical|historical lists]]).

Preemptive restrictions on new article titles are instituted through the [[WP:Title blacklisting|title blacklist]] system, which allows for more flexible protection with support for [[substring]]s and [[regular expression]]s.

{{Anchor|Salted}}Pages that have been creation-protected are sometimes referred to as "[[salting the earth|salted]]". Editors wishing to re-create a salted title with appropriate content should either contact an [[Wikipedia:Administrators|administrator]] (preferably the protecting administrator), file a [[WP:RFUP|request for reduction in protection level]], or use the [[Wikipedia:Deletion review|deletion review]] process. To make a convincing case for re-creation, it is helpful to show a [[WP:Drafts|draft version]] of the intended article when filing a request.

Create protection of any duration may be applied to pages being repeatedly recreated in violation of policy using the lowest protection level sufficient to stop the disruption (autoconfirmed, extended-confirmed,<ref name="ECPRFC2"/> or full). Due to the implementation of [[WP:ACPERM|ACPERM]], non-confirmed editors cannot create pages in [[WP:MAINSPACE|mainspace]]; thus, semi-creation protection should be used only for protection of pages outside of mainspace.

While creation-protection is usually permanent, temporary creation protection can be applied if a page is repeatedly recreated by a single user (or [[WP:SOCK|sockpuppets]] of that user, if applicable).