Template:Protection table

Interaction of Wikipedia user groups and page protection levels
	Unregistered	Newly registered	Auto-confirmed, Confirmed	Extended confirmed	Pending changes reviewer	Admin	Appropriate for (See also: Wikipedia:Protection policy)
No protection	Normal editing (can edit; changes go live immediately) "Go live" means the changes become visible to readers who are not logged in to Wikipedia. In all cases throughout this table, changes are immediately visible to readers who are logged in.						The vast majority of pages
Pending changes protection	Can edit; changes go live after reviewer acceptance		Normal editing. (If there are previous pending changes, no changes will go live until the pending changes have been reviewed.)		Normal editing;* can accept pending changes		Infrequently edited articles with high levels of vandalism or BLP violations from unregistered and new users
Semi-protection	Cannot edit		Normal editing				Articles with high levels of vandalism or edit warring from unregistered and new users; some highly visible templates & modules
Extended confirmed protection**	Cannot edit			Normal editing			Specific topic areas authorized by Arbcom; pages subject to persistent disruption that semi-protection has failed to stop
Template prot.	Cannot edit; cannot be granted template editor permissions		Cannot edit (unless Template editor, in which case Normal editing)			Normal editing	High-risk templates & modules
Full protection	Cannot edit					Normal editing	Articles with persistent vandalism or edit warring from (auto)confirmed and extended confirmed accounts; critical templates & modules
* When an Administrator or Pending Changes Reviewer edits an article that has pending changes awaiting review, they are prompted to review the pending changes before saving their edit. ** This row assumes that a Pending changes reviewer is also Extended confirmed. (A Pending changes reviewer needs separate Extended confirmed rights to edit through Extended confirmed protection; in practice nearly all Pending changes reviewers will have that additional right.)