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Wikipedia does not use pre-emptive software '''article locks''' on pages, because this would be contrary to the policies of Wikipedia and spirit of openness. Page [[Wikipedia:protection|protection]] is never to be used for closing down an article's normal development and community editing, and should be used only to prevent actual disruption.

=={{tl|in use}} template==

On the other hand, we ''do'' have {{tl|in use}} tags, which can be used to alert people that you are in the process of making a larger edit. The article remains open to editing, but courteous users should leave it alone until you're done. The template looks like this:

{{in use|category=no|nocat=true}}

== {{tl|intranslation}} template==
Also, {{template|intranslation}}. It's the same as {{template|inuse}}, but it's used when an article is in the process of being translated from another Wikipedia into the English one. Again, it should only be used while you are improving the article.

It also adds [[:Category:Articles in translation]] as a category in the article, which of course gets removed once the notice is removed, too.

{{intranslation|category=no|nocat=true}}

== {{tl|archiving}} template==
If a talk page is actively being [[WP:ARCHIVE|archived]], add {{tl|archiving}} to the top so the archival doesn't clobber edits.
{{archiving}}

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