Wikipedia:Requests for page protection
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Before requesting, read the protection policy. Full protection is used to stop edit warring between multiple users or to prevent vandalism to high-risk templates; semi-protection and pending changes are usually used to prevent IP and new user vandalism (see the rough guide to semi-protection); and move protection is used to stop pagemove revert wars. Extended confirmed protection is used where semi-protection has proved insufficient (see the rough guide to extended confirmed protection) After a page has been protected, it is listed in the page history and logs with a short rationale, and the article is listed on Special:Protectedpages. In the case of full protection due to edit warring, admins should not revert to specific versions of the page, except to get rid of obvious vandalism.
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Current requests for increase in protection level
Place requests for new or upgrading pending changes, semi-protection, full protection, move protection, create protection, template editor protection, or upload protection at the BOTTOM of this section. Check the archive of fulfilled and denied requests or, failing that, the page history if you cannot find your request. Only recently answered requests are still listed here.
Craig Monroe
Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations – Severe accusations not covered by RS. LilianaUwU (talk / contributions) 00:15, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
Marty Munsch
Reason: As soon as protection expires, anonymous IP edits adding un- or poorly-sourced material is added (probably by the subject) so the page goes back to looking like a resume. This has been going on for many years; please consider permanently protecting it or nominating for deletion (subject is not notable) Xblkx (talk) 00:41, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
Surongo
Reason: High level of IP vandalism. They are changing box office backed by reliable sources several times in month. As I can't be available everytime I can't revert them right on time. Needs longer time protection. Mehedi Abedin 02:43, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
Valentine's Day
Reason: 2 46.152.35.160 (talk) 04:18, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
- It has already been protected, indefinately since 2020. What do you mean by 2? A number is not a reason for protection. 74.14.6.233 (talk) 05:00, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
Declined – Unfathomable request. Favonian (talk) 10:40, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
Gazetted officer (India)
Reason: High level of IP vandalism i.e. removal of data TheProEditor11 (talk) 04:36, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
- Note to admin: This is a bad request to restore unconstructive content and enforce their version. The user is treating Wikipedia as a directory of listings, and adding largely unsourced content with WP:FAKE references, not to mention unreliable blog-like sources like legodesk.com.--2409:4073:4E39:D390:41DE:C49B:4BBB:61A0 (talk) 07:33, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
Al-Lat
Reason: Persistent vandalism over several years; repeated temporary protection only stops it temporarily. Some of the edits may be well-intentioned, but they almost all come from new or inexperienced editors seeking to "cleanse" the article of blasphemy against Islam for asserting that a pre-Islamic goddess was worshipped as a wife or daughter of Allah. Similar edits are also regularly made at the companion articles Manat and Al-Uzza. Would suggest indefinite extended confirmed protection of all three, since it is apparent that the same kind of edits will be repeated as long as it is possible to do so. P Aculeius (talk) 04:59, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
- If there are multiple editors who are editing in the same exact thing, then it is probably sockpuppetry. 74.14.6.233 (talk) 05:01, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
- I don't think it's one person using sockpuppets. It's likely that some of the edits involve sockpuppetry, but while the edits are all aimed at denying that such a goddess existed or was worshipped or was regarded as the wife or daughter of Allah, or asserting that she was "fake" or a "demon", etc. they are carried out in a variety of ways, sometimes adding words, sometimes deleting them, frequently arguing through their edit summaries that what the article said prior to their edits was wrong, sometimes citing the Qur'an, sometimes not using the summary, sometimes pretending to be fixing a typo, etc. The last person was an IP editor who edited all three articles similarly; the one before that was a registered user with no other edits; the three before that were all IP's; while the page was partly protected in December it was the site of edit warring initiated by a registered user with no previous edits to other articles, who was eventually blocked with a total of 12 edits over three weeks' time. The one thing they all have in common is that they all seem to be offended by any version that neutrally describes pre-Islamic beliefs that are inconsistent with Islam, or fails to describe those beliefs as false or heretical or blasphemous. P Aculeius (talk) 05:22, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
List of foreign-born samurai in Japan
Indefinite extended confirmed protection: Persistent vandalism – merely a suggestion: this page has been edit-warred for quite some time, even after repeated goldlocks. proposing indefinite (or lengthy) either bluelock or silverlock. Josethewikier (talk) 06:04, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
List of megaprojects in India
Reason: Persistent addition of copyrighted material by IPs going back to 2022. Some of these are obviously good faith additions, and some of them included material cited to a news article while really being copied from press releases, so I think there's multiple editors involved. History has been mostly revdelled, so I'm sorry I can't be more specific or warn the IPs better.
NB, one or two sentence copyvios rarely set off copypatrol or the copyright bot. GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 06:08, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
Empire: Total War
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent addition of unsourced or poorly sourced content – Seems to be based on unsupported speculation about a new release. No actual evidence or announcement online. Suspect same editor on multiple IPs adding unsourced info. Escape Orbit (Talk) 07:01, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
Sikhism
Reason: Requesting preferably semi-protected status for this page. Persistent (years long) low-quality (even if GF) IP edits which significantly undermined the quality of the article. The grammar in particular was unacceptably awful prior to me embarking on an informal project to fix it last week, far beneath the quality we should expect for a major religion. Finally, it appears to be the norm for articles on major religions to be semi-protected. JDiala (talk) 08:05, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
Kuty (Kąty) defence
Reason: Continuous editing war between non-logged-in users over the result even though it is a Polish victory, and I ask for a low level of security so that only those logged in can edit Birczenin (talk) 08:22, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
Lalla Latifa Amahzoune
Reason: high lvl of IP vandalism on her birth year AvaBrandon2000 (talk) 08:25, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
Mario Party DS
Reason: High level of IP vandalism. Greparty (talk) 08:43, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
Niki (Greek political party)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – An IP editor seems to be constantly removing reliable sources from the article, in an attempt to whitewash the party's image to make the party looks more moderate. Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 10:18, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
Current requests for reduction in protection level
Before posting, first discuss with the protecting admin at their talk page. Post below only if you receive no reply.
- To find out the username of the admin who protected the page click on "history" at the top of the page, then click on "View logs for this page" which is under the title of the page. The protecting admin is the username in blue before the words "protected", "changed protection level" or "pending changes". If there are a number of entries on the log page, you might find it easier to select "Protection log" or "Pending changes log" from the dropdown menu in the blue box.
- Requests to downgrade full protection to template protection on templates and modules can be directed straight here; you do not need to ask the protecting admin first.
- Requests for removing create protection on redlinked articles are generally assisted by having a draft version of the intended article prepared beforehand.
- If you want to make spelling corrections or add uncontroversial information to a protected page please add {{Edit fully-protected}} to the article's talk page, along with an explanation of what you want to add to the page. If the talk page is protected please use the section below.
Check the archives if you cannot find your request. Only recently answered requests are still listed here.
2010 Atlantic hurricane season
Reason: The extended confirmed protection is no longer necessary because the autoconfirmed vandalism-only account that vandalized the page in October 2022 probably won't come back to this article. I would suggest reducing it to semi-protection or unprotecting the page entirely. 24.115.255.37 (talk) 21:09, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
- Whoops, I did not discuss with the protecting admin first. I did not see that note until after submitting this. 24.115.255.37 (talk) 21:10, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
Owned-and-operated television stations in the United States
- Owned-and-operated television stations in the United States (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Reason: This page was semi-protected in 2013 for sockpuppetry, but I think the sockpuppet has likely been gone for years and the user who protected it has been inactive for 4 years, so I think removing the protection from the page or at least downgrade it to pending changes is necessary. 2603:6081:893D:13AC:DC19:1DFF:FEB0:A9C2 (talk) 02:53, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
Current requests for edits to a protected page
Please request an edit directly on the protected page's talk page before posting here
Ideally, requests should be made on the article talk page rather than here.
- Unless the talk page itself is protected, you may instead add the appropriate template among
{{Edit protected}},{{Edit template-protected}},{{Edit extended-protected}}, or{{Edit semi-protected}}to the article's talk page if you would like to make a change rather than requesting it here. Doing so will automatically place the page in the appropriate category for the request to be reviewed. - Where requests are made due to the editor having a conflict of interest (COI; see Wikipedia:Suggestions for COI compliance), the
{{Edit COI}}template should be used. - Requests to move move-protected pages should be made at Wikipedia:Requested moves, not here.
- If the discussion page and the article are both protected preventing you from making an edit request, this page is the right place to make that request. Please see the top of this page for instructions on how to post requests.
- This page is not for continuing or starting discussions regarding content should both an article and its discussion page be protected. Please make a request only if you have a specific edit you wish to make.
Khot (town)
please unblock this page i want to edit this page 103.19.48.97 (talk) 08:32, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
Not done – I was about to tell you about edit requests, but meanwhile your IP has been globally blocked. Favonian (talk) 10:36, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
Handled requests
A historical archive of previous protection requests can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive.