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-'''Protected Pages''' are just that, articles which have been protected to stop any editor who is not an [[WiKirby:Administrators|Administrator]] from editing them.  For more information about the article in question being locked and the reasoning behide it, please see the article's talk page.  If need be, it can be requested on the talk page that the article be unlocked in order to make changes.  However, because an administrator can edit protected pages, an administrator may make the change instead of unlocking it to prevent problems.
+'''Protected Pages''' are just that: articles which have been protected to stop any editor who is not an [[WiKirby:Ranks#Administrator|Administrator]] from editing them. This is usually done to userspace and policy pages; all mainspace articles are unprotected (per a [[WiKirby:Proposals/Archive-2020#Abolish semi-protection for all mainspace pages (November 11th, 2020 - November 25th, 2020)|proposal]] that passed on November 25, 2020).
 == Protection Levels ==
-*An '''Unprotected''' page allows all users who have an account to edit.  Pages with this level of protection may also be ''Moved'' by any user.
+*An '''Unprotected''' page allows all users to edit. Pages with this level of protection may also usually be [[Help:Moving pages|moved]] by any registered user.
-*'''AutoConfirmed Users Only''' protected pages prevents the newest members from editing a page.
+*'''Autoconfirmed Users Only''' protected pages prevents the newest members from editing a page; only [[WiKirby:Ranks#Autoconfirmed|Autoconfirmed]] users may edit them. This is generally reserved for user pages.
-*'''Administrators Only''' Is the highest level of protection. This prevents anyone from editing or moving a page unless they have Administrator/Bureaucrat privileges enabled.
+*'''Administrators Only''' is the highest level of protection. This prevents anyone from editing or moving a page unless they have Administrator privileges enabled. This level of protection is reserved for pages outside the mainspace, such as policy and archive pages.
+(Note that the above levels of protection may be applied independently to ''editing'' and ''moving'' rights; e.g. an article that can be edited by all users may not always be movable by them.)
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