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== Example ==
 
Suppose Mallet, a malicious Wikipedia visitor wished to [[Web site defacement|deface]] the Wikipedia [[Main Page]]. The Main Page and all images on it are normally [[Wikipedia:Protected_page|protected from modification]] by non-administrators preciselyto forprevent thisprecisely purposethis.
 
Mallet proposes some article ''A'' as a [[featured article]], so that a blurb of article ''A'' will appear on the Main Page. If the article text itself contained suspicious material, it would immediately be noticed, so what Mallet intends to do is arrange for the image to be not locked.