The template takes a single parameter, specifying which page's legend to display:
full
Legend for Category:Wikipedia fully-protected edit requests
Color legend
Red
Template-protected, title blacklist, extended-confirmed-protected, semi-protected, or not protected
Yellow
MediaWiki-namespace, user script (JS or CSS), or cascading protection
Green
Direct protection in the Template or Module namespaces
White
Direct protection in namespaces other than Template and Module
template
Legend for Category:Wikipedia template-protected edit requests
Color legend
Red
Fully-protected, semi-protected, extended-confirmed-protected, not protected, MediaWiki-namespace, user script (JS or CSS), or cascading protection
Yellow
Title blacklist protection
Green
Direct template-protection in the Template or Module namespaces
White
Direct template-protection in namespaces other than Template and Module
extended
Legend for Category:Wikipedia extended-confirmed-protected edit requests
Color legend
Red
Fully-protected, template-protected, semi-protected, not protected, MediaWiki-namespace, user script (JS or CSS), or cascading protection
Green
Direct extended-confirmed-protection in the Template or Module namespaces
White
Direct extended-confirmed-protection in namespaces other than Template and Module
semi
Legend for Category:Wikipedia semi-protected edit requests
Color legend
Red
Fully-protected, template-protected, extended-confirmed-protected, not protected, MediaWiki-namespace, user script (JS or CSS), or cascading protection
Yellow
Semi-protected by the title blacklist
Green
Direct semi-protection in the Template or Module namespaces
White
Direct semi-protection in namespaces other than Template and Module
editreq
Legend for Category:Requested edits
Color legend
Red
Fully-protected, template-protected, MediaWiki-namespace, user script (JS or CSS), or cascading protection
Yellow
Extended-confirmed-protected or semi-protected
Green
Not protected in the article namespace
White
Not protected in namespaces other than the article namespace
