Wikipedia:Preemptive salting
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Administrators can salt pages at their discretion, even preemptively, if they meet one of the following criteria:
| No. | Criterion and example(s) | Shortcut |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The page has a title of the form Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Username, where Username is the username of an administrator. | WP:PREEMPTSALT#1 |
| 2 | The page has a title of the form Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Username, where Username is the username of an administrator.
Note: Any autoconfirmed user may request create protection of its corresponding long-term abuse page, even preemptively, if the user was not banned, and isn't a sockpuppet of a banned or blocked user. |
WP:PREEMPTSALT#2 |
| 3 | The page is, or ever was, a deletion discussion of a featured or good article, or of a main page. | WP:PREEMPTSALT#3 |
| 4 | The page is, or ever was, a deletion discussion of a policy critical to Wikipedia being an encyclopedia.
Example: Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Neutral point of view |
WP:PREEMPTSALT#4 |