Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Decrease
Before posting, first discuss with the protecting admin on 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.
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Reason: Wikipedia, the article about itself has been indefinitely extended confirmed protected for nearly 1 year now (since March of 2024). This was in light of a sockpuppet who kept on vandalizing the article. I think that given the long timeframe, the person running the sockpuppet has likely lost interest in Wikipedia (no way he would be monitoring the page for an entire year just to vandalize it again and for it to be protected once more). GIven the few amount of users that have Extended Confirmed status and that it is the most important article on the website, it should be downgraded to indefinite Autoconfirmed Protection. SimpleSubCubicGraph (talk) 05:26, 1 February 2025 (UTC)
- Before posting, first discuss with the protecting admin on their talk page. — Malcolmxl5 (talk) 12:11, 1 February 2025 (UTC)