Editing Incubator escapee wiki:Protection policy (section)

== Retired protections ==
=== Superprotect ===
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Superprotect was a level of protection,<ref>{{cite web |title=Superprotect |website=Wikimedia Meta-Wiki |date=2014-09-08 | url=https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Superprotect |access-date=2024-03-20}}</ref> allowing editing only by [{{fullurl:Special:GlobalUsers|group=staff}} Wikimedia Foundation employees who were in the Staff global group]. It was [[gerrit:153302|implemented on August 10, 2014]] and [[mw:WMF product development process/2015-11-05|removed on November 5, 2015]]. It was never used on the English Wikipedia.

For several years, the [[Wikipedia:Namespace#Former namespaces|Gadget namespace]] (which no longer exists) could only be edited by WMF staff, which has sometimes been referred to as superprotection even though it is unrelated to the above use.

=== Cascading semi-protection ===
Cascading semi-protection was formerly possible, but it was disabled in 2007 after [[phab:T10796|users noticed]] that non-administrators could fully protect any page by transcluding it onto the page to which cascading semi-protection had been applied by an administrator.

=== Pending changes protection level&nbsp;2 ===
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Originally, two levels of pending changes protection existed, where level{{nbsp}}2 required edits by all users who were not [[WP:Reviewing pending changes|pending changes reviewers]] to be reviewed. Following a community discussion, level{{nbsp}}2 was retired from the English Wikipedia in January 2017. It was suggested then that "Pending changes level{{nbsp}}1" be referred to in the future as simply "Pending changes".<ref>[[Special:Permalink/762319924#Make PC2 no longer available to admins|VPR RfC to remove PC2]]</ref>