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Wikipedia:Preemptive salting

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Administrators can salt pages at their discretion, even preemptively, if they meet one of the following criteria:

No. Criterion and example(s) Shortcut
1 The page has a title of the form Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Username, where Username is the username of an administrator.

Example: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Jimbo Wales

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2 The page has a title of the form Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Username, where Username is the username of an administrator.

Note: Any autoconfirmed user may request create protection of its corresponding long-term abuse page, even preemptively, if the user was not banned, and isn't a sockpuppet of a banned or blocked user.

Example: Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Jimbo Wales

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3 The page is, or ever was, a deletion discussion of a featured or good article, or of a main page.

Example: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Main Page

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4 The page is, or ever was, a deletion discussion of a policy critical to Wikipedia being an encyclopedia.

Example: Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Neutral point of view

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