Editing Incubator escapee wiki:Protection policy (section)

=== Permanent protection<span class="anchor" id="perm"></span><span class="anchor" id="indef"></span><span class="anchor" id="interface"></span><span class="anchor" id="Interface protection"></span><!--former tag allows section referencing while accommodating section name changes. DO NOT REMOVE IT.--> ===
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Administrators cannot change or remove the protection for some areas on Wikipedia, which are permanently protected by the [[MediaWiki]] software:
*Edits to the [[Help:MediaWiki namespace|MediaWiki namespace]], which defines parts of the site interface, are restricted to administrators and [[WP:IADMIN|interface administrators]].
**Edits to system-wide CSS and JavaScript pages such as [[MediaWiki:common.js]] are further restricted to [[WP:IADMIN|interface administrators]].
*Edits to personal CSS and JavaScript pages such as [[User:Example/monobook.css]] and [[User:Example/vector-2022.js]] are restricted to the associated user and [[WP:IADMIN|interface administrators]]. Interface administrators may edit these pages, for example, to remove a user script that has been used inappropriately. Administrators may delete (but not edit or restore) these pages.
*Edits to personal JSON pages such as [[User:Example/data.json]] are restricted to the associated user and administrators.

Such protection is called permanent or indefinite protection, and interface protection in the case of CSS and JavaScript pages.