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Administrators may protect pages permanently (guidelines, legal matters, etc) or temporarily in order to stop edit wars, huge vandalism, or the likes. Depending on the protection level, non-admins or unregistered users cannot modify it.

Permanently Protected Pages

 * Important pages/images (the Main Page, logo, favicon, copyright, etc)
 * The interface and system messages in the MediaWiki namespace (these are protected automatically)

Temporary Protected Pages

 * Highly vandalized pages/images or spam pages (See Special:Protectedtitles)
 * Pages where an edit war occurs

Other Info
There is no need to protect personal .css and .js pages like user/monobook.css or user/cologneblue.js. Only the accounts associated with these pages (and admins) are able to edit them. For more information on using these pages, see Help:User style.
 * (default) means any user, whether logged in or anonymous, can edit or move the page.
 * Block unregistered users, or semi-protected, means anonymous users and new accounts less than 4 days old cannot edit and/or move pages.
 * Sysops only, or fully-protected, means only administrators may edit and/or move the page.
 * Pages can also be cascade protected, this will cause all images, pages, or templates transcluded onto the page to be fully protected, even if the main article is only semi-protected.