Editing Incubator escapee wiki:Protection policy (section)

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Cascading protection fully protects a page, and extends that full protection ''automatically'' to any page that is [[Help:Transclusion|transcluded]] onto the protected page, whether directly or indirectly. This includes templates, images and other media that are hosted on the English Wikipedia. Files stored on Commons are ''not'' protected by any other wiki's cascading protection and, if they are to be protected, must be either temporarily uploaded to the English Wikipedia or explicitly protected at Commons (whether manually or through cascading protection there). When operational, [[c:User:KrinkleBot|KrinkleBot]] cascade-protects Commons files transcluded at [[Wikipedia:Main Page/Tomorrow]], [[Wikipedia:Main Page/Commons media protection]] and [[Main Page]]. As the bot's response time varies, media should ''not'' be transcluded on the main page (or its constituent templates) until after it has been protected. (This is particularly relevant to [[Template:In the news]], for which upcoming images are not queued at [[Wikipedia:Main Page/Tomorrow]].) Cascading protection:
*Should be used only to prevent [[Wikipedia:Vandalism|vandalism]] when placed on particularly visible pages, such as the main page.
*Is available only for fully protected pages; it is disabled for lower levels of protection as it represents a workflow flaw. See [[#Cascading semi-protection|below]] as well as [[Phabricator:T10796|this bug ticket]] for more information.
*Is not instantaneous; it can be several hours before it takes effect. See [[Phabricator:T20483]] for more information.
*Should generally not be applied directly to templates or [[WP:LUA|modules]], as it will not protect transclusions inside {{tag|includeonly|o}} tags or transclusions that depend on template parameters, but ''will'' protect the [[Wikipedia:Template documentation|documentation subpage]]. {{Xref|See {{slink||Protection of templates}} below}}, for alternatives.

The list of cascading-protected pages can be found at [[Wikipedia:Cascade-protected items]]. Requests to add or remove cascading protection on a page should be made at [[Wikipedia talk:Cascade-protected items]] as an [[Wikipedia:Edit requests|edit request]].