Editing Incubator escapee wiki:Protection policy (section)

=== User pages ===
{{Policy shortcut|WP:UPROT|WP:UPPROT}}

Base user pages (for example, the page User:Example, and not User:Example/subpage or User talk:Example) are automatically protected from creation or editing by unconfirmed accounts and anonymous IP users. An exception to this includes an unconfirmed registered account attempting to create or edit their own user page. IP editors and unconfirmed accounts are also unable to create or edit user pages that do not belong to a currently registered account. This protection is enforced by [[Special:AbuseFilter/803|an edit filter]].<ref>Please refer to [[Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Protect user pages by default]] and [[Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/Protect user pages by default|its talk page]] for community discussion related to a preventative measure for user pages.</ref> Users may opt-out of this protection by placing {{tlx|unlocked userpage}} anywhere on their own user page.

[[Wikipedia:User pages|User pages]] and subpages within their own user space can be protected upon a request from the user, as long as a need exists. Pages within the user space should not be automatically or preemptively protected without good reason or cause.<ref>Per discussion at {{Section link|Wikipedia talk:Protection policy/Archive 15#Own userspace pages protection policy}}, June 2013</ref><ref>Per discussion at {{Section link|Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive314#Protecting an editor's user page or user space per their request}}, September 2019</ref> Requests for protection specifically at uncommon levels (such as template protection) can be granted if the user has expressed a genuine and realistic need.

When a filter is insufficient to stop user page vandalism, a user may choose to create a ".css" subpage (ex. User:Example/Userpage.css), copy all the contents of their user page onto the subpage, transclude the subpage by putting {{tlf|User:Example/Userpage.css}} on their user page, and then ask an administrator to fully protect their user page. Because user space pages that end in ".css" and ".js" are editable only by the user to which that user space belongs (and interface administrators), this will protect one's user page from further vandalism.

==== Deceased users ====
{{See also|Wikipedia:Deceased Wikipedians/Guidelines}}

In the event of the confirmed death of a user, the user's user page (but not the user talk page) should be fully protected.