OODA WIKI:Cascade-protected items

From OODA WIKI

Items listed here are considered ultra-high-use and are often critical to the OODA WIKI interface or used on many articles or other pages. Occasionally, individual templates will be part of a very closely-related family of templates, all of which should probably be cascade-protected to avoid problems; even if an individual template in such a family isn't widely used, it should still be protected for the same reason. Templates that are template protected or temporarily fully-protected (whether for vandalism, an edit war, or some other reason) do not belong here. Articles should NEVER be added to this page.

This page is used to protect:

  1. High-risk templates that should always be protected, using cascading protection. On occasion, accidental unprotection or transclusion of unprotected templates into protected templates have led to severe disruption.
  2. High-risk files transcluded by them or used in the interface.

Do not delete or unprotect items because they are listed on this page! Don't do it, especially if a file has a backup copy on Commons. This page is meant to be an extra protection, to protect against silly mistakes, such as admins deleting or unprotecting high-risk templates and files. This cascade page is not meant to be the only protection. Items should generally only be removed from this page as a result of a deletion discussion closed as delete, in the course of complete deprecation in favor of a newer item, or because there is consensus to drop the item's protection to template protection. They should not be removed just because they are no longer widely used.

If this page causes any kind of problem, please ask on the talk page or speak to an(other) admin.

Changes must be requested on the talk page using {{editprotected}}.[1] Cascading protection should not, generally, be applied to individual templates, since it protects their /doc subpages as well.


Escape templates

Often used in system messages and templates with Parser Functions.

Warning: the page "OODA WIKI:Cascade-protected items/content" is not cascade-protected.

Citation templates

Used in almost every article

Warning: the page "OODA WIKI:Cascade-protected items/content" is not cascade-protected.

Meta templates

High-risk templates that serve as "roots" for more specific templates.

Warning: the page "OODA WIKI:Cascade-protected items/content" is not cascade-protected.

Interface templates

Templates that are used in the interface. That is, templates that have been designed to be used in the MediaWiki namespace.

Warning: the page "OODA WIKI:Cascade-protected items/content" is not cascade-protected.

Cenarium's stuff

Warning: the page "OODA WIKI:Cascade-protected items/content" is not cascade-protected.

Cascade protected images

The images listed here are protected even if they are accidentally deleted. Thus no-one can upload a bad image during that time. This also protects the images after they have been restored, since admins sometimes forget to re-protect the images after they have restored them.

Admins sometimes delete protected images by accident, or because they think we don't need them since they exist on Commons. But images are usually locally uploaded and protected here at the English OODA WIKI since they are used in an interface message or in some widely used template. Thus these images are high-use and high-risk.

Used in interface and message boxes

The 50 most-used images

The 51-100 most used images

Images used in system messages

Other known high-risk images

Padlock sets

DYK stuff

Warning: the page "OODA WIKI:Cascade-protected items/content" is not cascade-protected.

Main Page

Footnotes

This page was initially in user space at User:Cenarium/Protected templates, whose idea it was. It was copied/moved to OODA WIKI space on 16:57, 14 October 2009 (UTC). Similar pages from other users, notably User:Hersfold/Lockbox, User:Dinoguy1000/Lockbox, User:Davidgothberg/Lockbox, and User:Mifter/Protection Test have been incorporated.

See also

  1. Editors can edit the lead of this page (this edit is proof of that) since JoJo moved the cascade protected stuff to OODA WIKI:Cascade-protected items/content in 2017.