Template:Protection padlock/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
| 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 the reasons table.
• |small= – If set to Template:Pval, Template:Pval, Template:Pval, or Template:Pval, a padlock icon is generated instead of a full protection banner.
• |action= – The protection action. Must be one of Template:Pval (for normal protection), Template:Pval (for move-protection) or Template:Pval (for pending changes). The default value is Template:Pval.
• |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 Template:Pval and Template:Pval reasons.
• |user= – The username of the user to generate links for. As of July 2014, this only has an effect when the Template:Pval 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 Template:Pval, Template:Pval, Template:Pval, or Template:Pval.

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 as Category:Wikipedia pages semi-protected against vandalism, and sometimes to change the icon of the banner (e.g. office actions).

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}}

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.

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Protection padlock in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for Protection padlock

Produces banners to describe why a page is protected and padlock icons

Template parameters

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Reason	1	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".	Boolean	optional