User:Chairboy/protecthelper.greasemonkey.js

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Simple helper script to easily populate the protect rationale when protecting pages.  Lists a few common reasons, if you can think of more, let me know.
[[Image:Protecthelper.png|center]]
It doesn't do anything cool like pre-check boxes yet, but I'll see if I can figure out an efficient way to do that soon.
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// Protect helper script 
// Help with wikipedia article protection
// 2007-03-15
// GFDL
// Ben Hallert
// 
// ==UserScript==
// @name        ProtectHelper
// @namespace   http://hallert.net/
// @description Provide a dropdown menu of common page protection rationale on Wikipedia.  Admins only.
// @include     http://en.wikipedia.org/*
// ==/UserScript==
 
if (document.getElementById('mwProtect-reason'))
{
	var protect_table	= document.getElementById('mwProtectSet');
	var par		= document.getElementById('mwProtect-reason');
 
	var newhelper   = document.createElement('select');
	newhelper.setAttribute('id','protecthelper');
	newhelper.setAttribute('onChange','document.getElementById(\'mwProtect-reason\').value = document.getElementById(\'protecthelper\').value;');
	newhelper.innerHTML = "<option value=\'\'>Select a protect reason</option>"
+ "<option value=\'[[WP:SALT]] - Protecting a page that has been repeatedly re-created after proper deletion or as a result of a policy violation.\'>Salting a page</option>"
+ "<option value=\'[[WP:TPP]] - Page fully protected to stop an edit war, to hold a history review during a deletion review, or to prevent a disruptive user from using his or her talk page as an abuse tool.\'>Full protection</option>"
+ "<option value=\'[[WP:TPP]] - Page protected from being moved as a result of on-going page-move vandalism, an active page name dispute, or it is a high-visibility page that has no reason to be moved.\'>Move protection</option>"
+ "<option value=\'[[WP:TPP]] - Cascading protection to secure transcluded pages, either due to high visibility or to prevent from article recreation.\'>Cascading protection</option>"
+ "<option value=\'[[WP:TPP]] - Semi protected page against new and unregistered users due to heavy and continued vandalism\'>Semi protection</option>"
+ "<option value=\'\'>---------------</option>"
+ "<option value=\'[[WP:PROT]] - Manually unprotecting page\'>Unprotecting</option>";
 
        if(protect_table)
        {
		var firsttbody  = protect_table.getElementsByTagName('tbody')[0];
                        if(firsttbody)
                        {
                                var firstrow    = firsttbody.getElementsByTagName('tr')[0];
                                if(firstrow)
                                {
                                        var newcell     = firstrow.insertCell(0);
                                        newcell.setAttribute('rowspan','1');
                                        newcell.setAttribute('colspan','3');
                                        newcell.appendChild(newhelper);
                                        newhelper.setAttribute('size','8');
                                }
                        }
 
        }
 
 
 
}
void 0
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