Template:Pp/doc

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=26 December 2024}}

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=19 January 2025}}