Category:Wikipedia fully protected main page files

This is a maintenance category, used for maintenance of the Wikipedia project. It is not part of the encyclopedia and contains non-article pages, or groups articles by status rather than subject. Do not include this category in content categories (except for eponymous maintenance categories).

This is a tracking category. It builds and maintains a list of pages primarily for the sake of the list itself. They are not part of the encyclopedia's categorization scheme.

Duplicate files in this category should be deleted after they have been removed from the main page.

• This category is hidden on its member pages—unless the corresponding user preference (Appearance → Show hidden categories) is set.
• These categories can be used to track, build and organize lists of pages needing "attention en masse" (for example, pages using deprecated syntax), or that may need to be edited at someone's earliest convenience.
• These categories also serve to aggregate members of several lists or sub-categories into a larger, more efficient list (discriminated by classifications).

This category contains images that are protected because they are or will soon be on the Main Page. Images scheduled to go next onto the Main Page at 00:00 UTC can be found at Main Page/Tomorrow. The templates and/or pages transcluded on the main page are the featured article, In the news, Did you know, selected anniversaries, and Picture of the Day. Duplicate images or local copies of Commons files that are no longer on the main page should be deleted.

Since January 14, 2007, cascading protection has been enabled on the main page. Thus, any template or image included on the main page will also be automatically protected for as long as they remain included in it.

However, you should protect the rotating TFA, SA, and POTD templates and images directly, a day or two before they appear. This will prevent vandalism seconds before they automatically go under cascading protection at 0:00 (UTC)

Furthermore, cascading protection currently does not apply to images hosted on the Wikimedia Commons. For these images, there are two options:

1. Copy the image, upload it locally, and add {{C-uploaded}}. Please make sure you also copy the author attribution information and the licence tag from Commons along with the image.
2. If you are an admin at the Commons, you may protect the Commons version, and add {{En main page}} there. This will also automatically block non-sysop users from uploading a local version here on the English Wikipedia.

All C-uploaded images should be speedily deleted once they are definitely off the Main Page. However, you should immediately check the deleted history of the image description page and restore any relevant Wikipedia-specific edits, category links, or tags (such as {{FeaturedPicture}} and {{DYKfile}}).