Editing Incubator escapee wiki:Protection policy (section)

== Preemptive protection ==
{{Policy shortcut|WP:NO-PREEMPT|WP:PREEMPTIVE}}

Applying page protection solely as a preemptive measure is contrary to the open nature of Wikipedia and is generally not allowed. Instead, protection is used when vandalism, disruption, or abuse by multiple users is occurring at a frequency that warrants protection. The duration of protection should be as short as possible and at the lowest protection level sufficient to stop the disruption, allowing edits from as many productive users as possible.

Exceptions include the Main Page, along with its templates and images, which are indefinitely fully protected. Additionally, [[Wikipedia:Today's featured article|Today's Featured Article]] is typically semi-protected from the day before its scheduled appearance on the Main Page until the day after it leaves. Pages subject to [[Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee|Arbitration Committee]] remedies that specify protection by default without requiring prior disruption are also an exception.<ref>See {{slink|Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Palestine-Israel articles 5#ECP by default}}.</ref>