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I'm pretty sure there's hover text that says the page is locked when you hover over the lock icon with your mouse, although I could be wrong.
A hopeless mess in a kernel of truth.It would be a good idea to, when a page is being edited, to instead of a lock icon to use a clock icon (hey, that rhymes) to differentiate the two.
TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup

When a user, or an administrator, opens up a page for editing or other, its padlock icon is the exact same. At first impression, this doesn't tell the troper anything other than its locked when browsing the page. Your average user won't click on the locked icon...because they know that's pointless...and will come back later, or refresh the page over and over. It's only until clicking on the padlock icon, do they find the page maybe locked all along by administrators.
On wikis, pages that have been locked from editing by staff, have a message displayed at the top of the page (see example):- https://hazbinhotel.fandom.com/wiki/Alastor
I suggest tvtropes does the same.