Editing Incubator escapee wiki:Protection policy (section)

=== Move protection<span class="anchor" id="move"></span><!--former tag allows section referencing while accommodating section name changes. DO NOT REMOVE IT.--> ===
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Move-protected pages, or more technically, fully move-protected pages, cannot be moved to a new title except by an administrator. Move protection is commonly applied to:

* Pages subject to persistent page-move [[Wikipedia:Vandalism|vandalism]].
* Pages subject to a page-name dispute.
* Highly visible pages that have no reason to be moved, such as the [[Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard|administrators' noticeboard]] and articles selected as "[[Wikipedia:Today's featured article|Today's featured article]]" on the main page.

Move protection of any duration may be applied to pages being repeatedly moved in violation of policy using the lowest protection level sufficient to stop the disruption (extended-confirmed or full). Non-confirmed editors cannot move pages so semi-move protection has no effect.

Fully edit-protected pages are also implicitly move-protected.

As with full edit protection, protection because of edit warring [[:meta:The Wrong Version|should not be considered an endorsement of the current name]]. When move protection is applied during a requested move discussion, the page should be protected at the location it was at when the move request was started.

All [[WP:FILE|files]] and [[WP:CATEGORY|categories]] are implicitly move-protected, requiring [[WP:File mover|file movers]] or administrators to rename files, and [[WP:Page mover|page movers]] or administrators to rename categories.