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*Articles that are being excessively vandalized. | *Articles that are being excessively vandalized. | ||
*Enforcing a "cool down" period to stop an "edit war". | *Enforcing a "cool down" period to stop an "edit war". | ||
*A page or image that has been a recent target of persistent vandalism or other persistent nonconstructive edits by a | *A page or image that has been a recent target of persistent vandalism or other persistent nonconstructive edits by a blocked user. | ||
==Unprotection== | ==Unprotection== | ||
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*Avoid favoring one version of the article over another, unless one version is vandalism. | *Avoid favoring one version of the article over another, unless one version is vandalism. | ||
*Temporarily protected pages should not be left protected for very long. | *Temporarily protected pages should not be left protected for very long. | ||
*Talk and user talk pages should never be protected for extended periods, except in extreme circumstances (such as a user being persistently harassed by another | *Talk and user talk pages should never be protected for extended periods, except in extreme circumstances (such as a user being persistently harassed by another block-evading user). | ||
*The protection of a page on any particular version is not meant to express support for that version and requests should therefore not be made that the protected version be reverted to a different one. | *The protection of a page on any particular version is not meant to express support for that version, and requests should therefore not be made that the protected version be reverted to a different one. | ||
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