Thread:Support/Unprotect/reply (3)

Well, if you change from protection to semi-protection you're unprotecting the page for autoconfirmed users, so the definition makes sense. But you can also reduce or increase the duration of the protection and add or reduce types of protection (edit, move, flagged revisions, even read permissions with some extension etc.). The additional problem with Italian is that the word for "protection" is "protezione", which doesn't have an opposite, so it was changed to a longer phrase.

The only solution I see is to dump the protect/unprotect distinction and let the button always say "protection" ("change protection level" has the verb but is too long), although in this way sysops won't notice whether the page is currently protected. Another possibility is to leave the button as it is and change only the description (Unprotectthispage), in all languages.