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Currently in the list of standard remedies available in a CTOPS, there are individual and page restrictions. Pages subject to page restrictions must have an editnotice on them. However, one of the page restrictions is page protection. It seems extremely unnecessary to require an editnotice for page protection -- in order to even see the editnotice, you'd have to have been in the class of individual not affected by the protection in the first place, i.e. it will never be shown to anyone it is relevant to. Additionally, the level of protection can already be conveyed through the standard protection system padlock icons and related templates. So can we adjust the text of the main WP:CT page and all the individual subpages for specific CT's (as well as any templates used for future CT page generation) to adjust the following sentence in the Templates section from When a page has active page restrictions, the following template must be used as an editnotice: to When a page has active page restrictions other than page protection, the following template must be used as an editnotice:? (I'm asking here as I'm unsure what the correct venue or process is -- can only the committee change it, does it require an RFCA, etc.) ⇒SWATJester ^{Shoot Blues, Tell VileRat!} 03:33, 12 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oh shoot, I guess I'm a badmin now because I never added an edit notice for any non-ARBPIA-EC protections. I think that's a pretty reasonable update to reflect common practice. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 10:38, 12 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

WP:CTOP specifies that "An administrator who imposes a page restriction (other than page protection) must add an editnotice to restricted pages using the standard template ({{Contentious topics/page restriction editnotice}} or a derived topic-specific template), and should generally add a notice to the talk page of restricted pages." The message you're seeing that doesn't specify that seems to be from Wikipedia:Contentious topics/topic specific standard templates. I'll just update that to conform with the CTOP procedure. ~ Jenson ( SilverLocust 💬 ) 00:34, 13 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Aha, I had not checked to see if the text I was reading was transcluded from somewhere else but that looks like the culprit. Well, that simplifies things if it was just the template message that was out-of-touch with the process, thanks for the speedy fix! ⇒SWATJester ^{Shoot Blues, Tell VileRat!} 02:11, 13 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]