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With the exception of several pages which are permanently protected — namely those in the MediaWiki namespace which provide text for the user interface, system administration and copyright/license pages, and the Main Page, which is highly visible, making it too much of a target for vandalism — you should be able to edit the page when it is unprotected in a few days' time. In the meantime, please feel free to discuss the changes you want to make on the talk page of the article in question.

If you discover a page that appears to have been protected and then forgotten about, you can request to have it unprotected by posting on Wikipedia:Requests for page protection. If a page has only recently been protected, it may be best to wait a few days first, unless some resolution has been reached on the talk page.