Category:Wikipedia extended-protected redirects

The pages in this category are redirects from pages that are extended-confirmed protected (or extended-protected) from editing for any of several possible reasons. When the Rcat shell template is used, this category will be populated automatically. To add a redirect to this category, place {{Rcat shell|(any appropriate rcats)}} on the second new line (skip a line) after #REDIRECT [[Target page name]], and when needed, place {{DEFAULTSORT:<sort key>}} on the first new line after the shell template. For more information follow the links. Never substitute redirect template(s), nor place them on soft redirects. See also the complete list of redirect templates and the redirect style guide.

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. 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. 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 redirects which have been Extended-confirmed protected. This level of protection is to be applied in topic areas authorized by the Arbitration Committee or as a result of community consensus. Pages with this level of protection can be edited only by editors with the extended confirmed user access level, granted automatically to editors with 30 days tenure and 500 edits.

Protection at this level is usually done as a last resort to prevent persistent sockpuppetry, edit warring, or in cases where semi-protection has proven to be ineffective.

Populating this category does not in itself protect the page. Actual page protection is engaged by administrators.