Wikipedia talk:Protection policy
Latest comment: 8 days ago by FaviFake in topic Proposed layout changes
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Ammending text that allows preemptive protection authorised by arbitration remedy
Per remedy 5 of Indian military history arbitration case, I would suggest ammending text to reflect that admins can preemptively protect pages in topics authorised by arbitration remedy under the preemptive protection section:
| − | 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. | + | 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 or permit preemptive protection without requiring prior disruption are also an exception. |
Stylez995 (talk) 13:38, 18 July 2025 (UTC)
- As this entire section is already about exceptions to preemtion, perhaps just simplifying to: "
Pages subject to Arbitration Committee protection remedies are also an exception.
" ? — xaosflux Talk 13:50, 18 July 2025 (UTC)- I think we can keep it simple in a way that reduces the chances we'll need to revisit the wording in the future. I would recommend
Pages subject to Arbitration Committee remedies that permit or require preemptive protection may be protected accordingly.
Thepermit or require
could even be shortened toauthorize
, but I thinkpermit or require
is a bit clearer. Daniel Quinlan (talk) 22:24, 19 July 2025 (UTC)- I went ahead and made the change. I added the word "Finally" at the start of the sentence to improve the flow and I also updated the footnote (rather than try to update the policy for every future Arbitration Committee decision, I just linked WP:GS which people tend to update long before this policy). Daniel Quinlan (talk) 05:09, 21 July 2025 (UTC)
- I think we can keep it simple in a way that reduces the chances we'll need to revisit the wording in the future. I would recommend
Please add image
Please add the image from https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Castes_and_Tribes_of_Southern_India/Br%C4%81hman Worldmonk (talk) 08:47, 31 July 2025 (UTC)
- @Worldmonk: to begin with, s:Castes and Tribes of Southern India/Brāhman has several images (c:File:Brahman house with marks of hand.jpg; c:File:Telugu Brahman.jpg; c:File:Smartha Brahman.jpg; c:File:Padmanabha Swami.jpg; c:File:Dikshitar Brahmin of Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India (1909).jpg; c:File:Madhwa Brahmin.jpg; c:File:Fuel stack Udupi.jpg; c:File:Odiya brahmin.jpg; and c:File:Konkani brahmin.jpg), you don't say which one. But in any case, you're at the wrong page: this is the talk page for discussing improvements to the page Wikipedia:Protection policy; please make your request at the talk page for the article concerned. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 12:24, 31 July 2025 (UTC)
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Proposed layout changes
I propose applying the following changes to the page:
- Reorder the sections (template protection was created later, hence its section was added at the end even though it was lesss powerful than Full) from this:
- PP protection
- Semi-protection
- EC protection
- Full protection
- Template protection
- to this:
- PP protection
- Semi-protection
- EC protection
- Template protection
- Full protection
- Simplify the table by removing the names of the colours from the table (which are a remnant of when the locks weren't labelled – some, such as "White", are also incorrect nowadays): This is an example of what it could look like, while this is what it looks like now.
FaviFake (talk) 09:01, 23 August 2025 (UTC)
- The first is trivial, done. Primefac (talk) 16:34, 24 August 2025 (UTC)
- Primefac Thanks; regarding this:
My bad, I meant the small table at the top, the one between the lede and the 1st section. This is my proposed design to simplify it. Since there wouldn't be the colour names, the cell borders are imo unnecessary. FaviFake (talk) 10:08, 25 August 2025 (UTC)[...] there are no colour names in the table?
- Primefac Thanks; regarding this: