Anybreaking changes to this template, including moving it or nominating it for deletion,must be communicated in advance toTwinkle's users and maintainers atWikipedia talk:Twinkle. The standard installation of Twinkle relies on this template. Thank you.
If this template ismoved,redirected ordeleted, please ask an administrator to updateUser:MusikBot II/FixPP/config accordingly. Thank you.
This is a general template for producingprotection banners andpadlock icons. It can be used with any protection reason, any protection action, and any protection level.
Usage
{{pp| 1 =reason| small =yes| action =action| 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 thereasons table.
|small= – If set toyes,y,1, ortrue, a padlock icon is generated instead of a full protection banner.
|action= – The protection action. Must be one ofedit (for normal protection),move (for move-protection) orautoreview (for pending changes). The default value isedit.
|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 theoffice andreset reasons.
|user= – The username of the user to generate links for. As of July 2014, this only has an effect when theusertalk 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 ofreason.
|category= – Categories are suppressed if this is set tono,n,0, orfalse.
Reasons
The following table contains the available reasons, plus the actions for which they are available. Reasons are used to customize the banner text, to place articles in more specific hidden categories such asCategory:Wikipedia pages semi-protected against vandalism, and sometimes to change the icon of the banner (e.g. office actions).
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}}
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}}
Visibility
This template will hide itself (not display a padlock icon) if it is used on a page that is not currently protected.User:MusikBot II may also automatically remove the template wikicode from pages that are not currently protected.
Reason for protection, may be one of: blp, dispute, dmca, mainpage, office, reset, sock, template, usertalk, vandalism
Example
blp
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.
Default
no
Example
yes
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".
Default
edit
Example
edit
String
optional
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.
User
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".
