This is a general template for producing protection banners and padlock icons. It can be used with any protection reason, any protection action, and any protection level.
Usage
{{pp | 1 = reason | small = yes/no | action = action | expiry = expiry | date = protection date | user = username | section = talk page section name | category = no }}
Parameters
All parameters are optional.
- 1 - the reason that the page was protected. If set, this must be one of the values listed in the reasons table.
- small - if set to "yes", "y", "1", or "true", a padlock icon is generated instead of a full protection banner.
- action - the protection action. Must be one of "edit" (for normal protection), "move" (for move-protection) or "autoreview" (for pending changes). The default value is "edit".
- expiry - the expiry date of the protection. This can be a date (for temporary protection), or one of the strings "indef", "indefinite", "indefinitely", or "infinite" (for indefinite protection). If this is a date, it must be valid input to the second parameter of the #time parser function.
- date - the protection date. This must be valid input to the second parameter of the #time parser function. This argument only has an effect for the "office" and "reset" reasons.
- user - the username of the user to generate links for. As of July 2014, this only has an effect when the "usertalk" reason is specified.
- section - the section name of the protected page's talk page where discussion is taking place. This works for most, but not all, values of reason.
- category - categories are suppressed if this is set to "no", "n", "0", or "false".
Reasons
The following table contains the available reasons, plus the actions for which they are available.
Reason | Action | Description |
---|---|---|
blp | edit | For pages protected to promote compliance with the biographies of living persons policy. |
dispute | edit | For pages protected due to editing disputes. |
dmca | edit | For pages protected by the Wikimedia Foundation due to Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown requests. |
mainpage | edit | For pages protected for being displayed on the Main Page. |
office | edit | For pages protected by the Wikimedia Foundation. |
reset | edit | For pages protected by the Wikimedia Foundation and "reset" to a bare-bones version. |
sock | edit | For pages protected due to sock puppetry. |
template | edit | For high-risk templates and Lua modules. |
usertalk | edit | For pages protected against disruptive edits by a particular user. |
vandalism | edit | For pages protected against vandalism. |
dispute | move | For pages protected against page moves due to disputes over the page title. |
vandalism | move | For pages protected against page-move vandalism. |
Syntax examples
Padlock icons
Padlock icon for a page protected due to vandalism:
{{pp|vandalism|small=yes}}
Padlock icon for a page temporarily protected due to editing disputes:
{{pp|dispute|small=yes|expiry=10 March 2016}}
Banners
Banner for a page protected due to sockpuppetry, with a link to a talk page discussion:
{{pp|sock|section=Sockpuppetry concerns}}
Banner for a page temporarily move-protected due to page-move vandalism:
{{pp|vandalism|action=move|expiry=3 April 2016}}
TemplateDate
Produces banners to describe why a page is protected and padlock icons
Template parameters
This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.
Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Reason | 1 |
Reason for protection, may be one of: blp, dispute, dmca, mainpage, office, reset, sock, template, usertalk, vandalism
|
string |
suggested |
Small | small |
Specifies whether the small format is used. If set to "yes", "y", "1", or "true", a padlock icon is generated instead of a full protection banner.
|
boolean |
suggested |
Action | action |
Protection action. Must be one of "edit" (for normal protection), "move" (for move-protection) or "autoreview" (for pending changes). The default value is "edit".
|
string |
optional |
Expiry | expiry |
Expiry date of the protection. This can be a date (for temporary protection), or one of the strings "indef", "indefinite", "indefinitely", or "infinite" (for indefinite protection). If this is a date, it must be valid input to the second parameter of the #time parser function.
|
date |
suggested |
Date | date |
Protection date. This must be valid input to the second parameter of the #time parser function. This argument only has an effect for the "office" and "reset" reasons.
|
date |
optional |
User | user |
Username of the user to generate links for. This only has an effect when the "usertalk" reason is specified.
|
wiki-user-name |
optional |
Section | section |
Section name of the protected page's talk page where discussion is taking place. This works for most, but not all, values of reason.
|
string |
optional |
Category | category |
Categories are suppressed if this is set to "no", "n", "0", or "false".
|
boolean |
optional |
See also
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