Editing Wikipedia fully-protected main page files (section)

== Instructions for administrators ==
Since January 14, 2007, [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-01-15/Cascading protection|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 [[Commons:Main Page|Wikimedia Commons]]. For these images, there are two options:
# Copy the image, upload it locally, and add '''{{tl|C-uploaded}}'''. Please make sure you also copy the author attribution information and the licence tag from Commons along with the image.
# If you are an admin at the Commons, you may protect the Commons version, and add {{[[Commons:Template:En main page|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 [[Wikipedia:Speedy deletions|speedily deleted]] once they are definitely off the Main Page. However, you should immediately check the [[Wikipedia:Viewing and restoring deleted pages by sysops|deleted history]] of the image description page and restore any relevant Wikipedia-specific edits, category links, or tags (such as '''{{tl|FeaturedPicture}}''' and '''{{tl|DYKfile}}''').

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