Wikipedia:Main_Page_featured_article_protection
Wikipedia:Main Page featured article protection
Wikipedia's Main Page featured article is one of the most visible and heavily edited on the site. For this reason, it receives a lot of vandal edits from unregistered users visiting Wikipedia. Consequently, it is and has been suggested many times that the featured article should be semi-protected. Full protection of the page is generally prohibited. Administrators may semi-protect the page for part or all of the day as if the page were any other article.[1] The length of protection is as short as the situation reasonably permits. Possible circumstances under which an administrator might consider semi-protection appropriate are given below.
This former Wikipedia guideline, no longer backed by community consensus, is retained for historical reference. |
This page in a nutshell: Wikipedia's Main Page featured article should as a rule not be fully protected, but it may be semi-protected for part or all of the day should vandalism warrant it. |