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appropriate, extended confirmed protection can be deployed. In the rare case of a long history of disruptive editing of an unprotected article by multiple autoconfirmed accounts (usually due to sockpuppetry), administrators can bypass semi-protection and apply extended confirmed protection immediately.
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after the expiry of extended confirmed protection. Instead, it must be manually configured again when ECP has expired. It has occasionally proved useful to also enable pending changes indefinitely when setting a time-limited EC protection, so that articles do not become entirely unprotected.
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Generally, articles should first be placed under semi-protection to see if semi-protection in combination with appropriate blocks can give sufficient protection to obviate the need for extended confirmed protection. If semi-protection proves too weak even in combination with blocks that are
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As of August 2023, it is still true that if protection is elevated from semi-protection to extended confirmed protection with an expiry that is sooner than the expiry of the original protection, the
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To find such instances, search for "ECP", "30/500" and "500/30". The use of all three terms is required due to inconsistencies in how such protections have been logged.
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specified by ArbCom) do not explicitly include ECP. However, ECP has been applied to a number of pages as a discretionary sanction. This includes pages related to the
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As with other protection decisions, if a decision to apply ECP needs to be discussed, this should first be raised on the protecting administrator's talk page.
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of a user who has extended-confirmed rights on another account). Extended confirmed (30/500) protection is therefore a stronger form of protection than
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topics as a general sanctions measure. Administrators may apply indefinite extended confirmed protection at any time to any page in the conflict area
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mentions a notification on the administrator's noticeboard, most admins consider this requirement to be met by the bot that updates the table on
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have made at least 500 edits, or have been manually granted extended-confirmed rights by an administrator (usually because the account is a
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and the history of Jews and antisemitism in Poland during World War II (1933–45). The community has further authorized blanket ECP for
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This page provides additional information about concepts in the page(s) it supplements. This page is not one of
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Knowledge:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive284#Extended confirmed protection & ArbCom sanctions
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Knowledge:Arbitration enforcement log/2016#GamerGate (superseded by Gender and sexuality)
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Deployment of extended confirmed protection may be mandated or permitted as a remedy in
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The official policy related to applying extended confirmed protection is located at
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Knowledge:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement/Archive183#Caste articles and talk pages
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Knowledge:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement/Archive173#TheRedPenOfDoom, third filing
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Special:Diff/745583904#GamerGate:_Motion_regarding_Talk:Gamergate_controversy
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The topics which ArbCom has explicitly specified for use of ECP are the
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Knowledge:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Palestine-Israel articles 3#500/30
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the RfC that allowed ECP to be used outside topics specified by ArbCom
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For a listing of ongoing discussions and current requests, see the
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For a listing of current collaborations, tasks, and news, see the
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Knowledge:Protection policy § Extended confirmed protection
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and so expect discussions to be held in the usual place.
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Index

explanatory essay
protection policy
extended-confirmed protection section
Knowledge's policies or guidelines
thoroughly vetted by the community
Shortcuts
WP:ROUGHECP
WP:ECPGUIDE
Knowledge:Protection policy
Extended confirmed protection
extended-confirmed accounts
legitimate alternative account
semi-protection
rough guide
Knowledge:Protection policy § Extended confirmed protection
policy
administrators
Arbitration Committee
Knowledge:Arbitration enforcement log
Arab–Israeli conflict
Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict
Discretionary sanctions
a number of topics
Gamergate controversy
Indian castes
the RfC that allowed ECP to be used outside topics specified by ArbCom
WP:AN
List of extended confirmed protected pages
Knowledge:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Palestine-Israel articles 3#500/30
Knowledge:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Antisemitism_in_Poland#Antisemitism_in_Poland:_Motion_(May_2020)

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