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01 July 2013

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. 069952497aComments and complaintsStuff I've done 13:32, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Lectonar (talk) 14:03, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Regular vandalism, unhelpful edits, spam, and advertising added to the article. Thanks. ツ Jenova20 (email) 08:31, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. This may be regular, but it is very slow....Lectonar (talk) 14:05, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary pending changes: Extremely high-traffic page. — Confession0791 talk 03:41, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined High-traffic it is, much vandalised it is not....I only see some disagreement(s) and one or two instances of spamming in the last 50 or so edits....Lectonar (talk) 14:07, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: vandalism, please protect for 1 or 2 days. --Tomcsy (talk) 22:42, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected by Lectonar for three days. Mike V • Talk 17:20, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Full protection: See Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Government This is an unusual case where one users obsession with reviving this badly failed idea seems to keep drawing him back once in a while to once again restart the farcical idea that Wikipedia has a government. He also is claiming that this thread somehow undid the consensus established at the MFD. I can't see how that is a reasonable interpretation and would ask that the consensus version, that is the "failed proposal" version be restored and the page protected. Or Block Count Iblis for refusal to accept consensus and long-term edit warring on this subject. . Beeblebrox (talk) 17:29, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

Something is needed, and it's not discussion as there have already been four or five discussions to no avail. At every turn he has been told to either userfy the page if he wants to control it or start a new page to make a new proposal. He has proclaimed that this page is an exception, even though there was a strong consensus that it be marked as failed and left alone. Beeblebrox (talk) 17:44, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
The easy out here is to rollback to the failed version, protect the page, and userfy Count Ibils' new version. However, in light of consensus can change, what harm is there in letting him go wild with editing it? It's just an essay, and it can't be enforced like policy unless he wants to propose it again as such. I'm not really sure why we should bother creating more conflict by protecting and saying he can't edit some fringe essay that doesn't much matter anyway. Steven Walling • talk 01:01, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
Declined, Protection isn't necessary. The MFD consensus is old, and if someone thinks they can have another run at it, then they should be able to. Their editing isn't dispruptive, so I see no real reason to protect. Additionally, protecting an article to stop one user editing it would be a poor decision; action should be taken against the user, not the page. Though I don't think that would be right on this occaision, personnally. GedUK  12:06, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Permanent Semi-protection: User is regularly making uncited and unverifiable edits to page with inaccurate information about the company. Asking for permanent page protection from ElainNJ due to long history of vandalizing this page with minor, highly-inaccurate edits designed to get past administrators, e.g. the year "2011" to "2001", cost of something from $50 to $500. Tyheyn (talk) 11:57, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. This is just a peak of vandalism since end of June; before that, we have virtually months of no edits at all. This is even under the threshold for Pending changes protection. Please read our protection policy. You should perhaps use escalating warnings for the user making the disruptive edits, and report to WP:AIV subsequently. Lectonar (talk) 12:00, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: This protection is temporary and is requested to prevent IP and new user editing. BlListChecket (talk) 08:24, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Pages are not protected preemptively. Harryboyles 11:37, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Uncletomwood (talk) 08:13, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Lectonar (talk) 11:56, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite full protection: Persistent vandalism – the article is a GA nominee, it should be protected from IP edits for life. Kailash29792 (talk) 03:45, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

  • Automated comment: A request for protection/unprotection was recently made for this page, and was denied at some point within the last 8 days. Snotbot  t • c »  03:48, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
  • Very strong oppose - firstly, you're asking for "full protection" - that prevents anyone other than sysops editing it. Secondly, you were here a few days ago, and were told that GA nominations don't get protection. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 09:51, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
Declined Pre-emptively protecting articles, including articles at any stage in the GA or FA lifecycle, goes against the principle of allowing anybody to edit. Articles are always open to improvement and are never 'finished'. Harryboyles 11:47, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Recent edit warring, disruptive edits, adding of unsourced/irrelevant content, and nationalistic POV-pushing by a Turkish IP-hopper (78.160.xxx.xxx). Zyma (talk) 13:12, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Lectonar (talk) 14:04, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection Current IP edit warring over the current Egypt protests. Dl2000 (talk) 01:53, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Lectonar (talk) 14:02, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations. Binksternet (talk) 21:35, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. GedUK  12:19, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent IP vandalism: deliberate insertion of factually incorrect information by anonymous user with dynamic IP address. Keri (talk) 20:18, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. GedUK  12:08, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Long term semi-protection Extensive (and fairly inventive!) pleas to reinsert spam and puffery into the article by an IP-hopping user (who may well be affiliated with the subject). Started again the moment the previous protection expired (check the history); can't see this stopping any time soon... Sadly can't do it myself, I'm fairly involved. Yunshui 雲‍水 19:55, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Lectonar (talk) 09:45, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Article attracts Turkish nationalist IPs who contribute nothing to it except to plaster it with WP:UNDUE references to "Turks", "Turkic", and such. Semi-protection will benefit the article. Irānshahr (talk) 19:42, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Lectonar (talk) 09:59, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of IP/new user vandalism, specifically genre warring: [1] (09:57, 30 June 2013), [2] (07:08, 30 June 2013), [3] (14:24, 29 June 2013), [4] (18:47, 28 June 2013), [5] (22:17, 27 June 2013), [6] (21:26, 26 June 2013), [7] (11:51, 26 June 2013) ... along with the occasional defamation ([8]) and witty remark preventing any attempt to improve the article ([9]). Dan56 (talk) 10:28, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Lectonar (talk) 11:57, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. GoPurple'nGold24 01:49, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of ten days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. --Bongwarrior (talk) 05:46, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Unprotection: See below, dormant sock. Crazynas t 08:10, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

Protecting administrator is currently on a wiki-break. Crazynas t 18:44, 29 June 2013 (UTC)
Done --Bongwarrior (talk) 05:39, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Unprotection: See below, dormant sock. Crazynas t 08:10, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

Protecting administrator is currently on a wiki-break. Crazynas t 18:44, 29 June 2013 (UTC)
Done --Bongwarrior (talk) 05:39, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Unprotection: See below, dormant sock. Crazynas t 08:10, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

Protecting administrator is currently on a wiki-break. Crazynas t 18:44, 29 June 2013 (UTC)
Done --Bongwarrior (talk) 05:39, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Unprotection: See below, dormant sock. Crazynas t 08:10, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

Protecting administrator is currently on a wiki-break. Crazynas t 18:44, 29 June 2013 (UTC)
Done --Bongwarrior (talk) 05:39, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Unprotection: Same sockmaster, I suspect, unprotect?. Crazynas t 08:07, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

Protecting administrator is currently on a wiki-break. Crazynas t 18:44, 29 June 2013 (UTC)
Done --Bongwarrior (talk) 05:39, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Unprotection: Not listed in the log but probably protected because of the same sockmaster as above that appears dormant, unprotect?. Crazynas t 08:07, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

Protecting administrator is currently on a wiki-break. Crazynas t 18:44, 29 June 2013 (UTC)
Done --Bongwarrior (talk) 05:39, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Unprotection: Protected because of sockmaster that appears dormant, unprotect?. Crazynas t 08:06, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

Protecting administrator is currently on a wiki-break. Crazynas t 18:44, 29 June 2013 (UTC)
Done --Bongwarrior (talk) 05:39, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Unprotection: Protected because of sockmaster that appears dormant, unprotect?. Crazynas t 08:05, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

Protecting administrator is currently on a wiki-break. Crazynas t 18:44, 29 June 2013 (UTC)
Done --Bongwarrior (talk) 05:39, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Unprotection: Protected because of sockmaster that appears dormant, unprotect?. Crazynas t 08:05, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

Protecting administrator is currently on a wiki-break. Crazynas t 18:44, 29 June 2013 (UTC)
Done --Bongwarrior (talk) 05:39, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Unprotection: Protected because of sockmaster that appears dormant, unprotect?. Crazynas t 08:05, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

Protecting administrator is currently on a wiki-break. Crazynas t 18:44, 29 June 2013 (UTC)
Done --Bongwarrior (talk) 05:39, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Unprotection: Protected because of sockmaster that appears dormant, unprotect?. Crazynas t 08:05, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

Protecting administrator is currently on a wiki-break. Crazynas t 18:44, 29 June 2013 (UTC)
Done --Bongwarrior (talk) 05:39, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Unprotection: Protected because of sockmaster that appears dormant, unprotect?. Crazynas t 08:04, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

Protecting administrator is currently on a wiki-break. Crazynas t 18:44, 29 June 2013 (UTC)
Do not see a notification on this person talk page so left one [10]. Have also sent them an email. Should give them a day or two days. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 00:22, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
Ok, thanks Doc James, I took the wiki-break banner at the top of the talk-page as evidence that the user didn't really want to be contacted. Crazynas t 01:15, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

Folks, I have no problem on these being unprotected. I'm not editing regularly on Wikipedia these days, so if any of the other admins could go ahead and unprotect these, it will be great. Thanks. --Ragib (talk) 05:16, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

All of these requests have been Done. Thank you for your input. --Bongwarrior (talk) 05:39, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Requesting semi protection (Autoconfirmed only), due to multiple vandalism edits from non-Autoconfirmed users. Thank you. -- (T) Numbermaniac (C) 02:34, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. --Bongwarrior (talk) 05:28, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: IP edit war. Frietjes (talk) 19:11, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Only two IPs over a single issue. I wrote to them asking to discuss at talk. Will monitor. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 00:45, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Mild BLP policy violations. Persistent vandalism/sock puppetry. PrivateMasterHD (talk) 19:27, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

Declined Steven Walling • talk 22:41, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – The subject is in the news regarding a reported trade, awaiting an official announcement. . —Chris!c/t 00:24, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 10 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Steven Walling • talk 00:45, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Continuous vandalism attacks. Theman244 (talk) 22:57, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 10 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Steven Walling • talk 00:52, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: BLP policy violations. Lugia2453 (talk) 21:21, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Subject of article is involved in a current event, short term constant vandalism. -- LuK3 (Talk) 18:22, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 day, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Steven Walling • talk 00:55, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Constant long-term vandalism and general BLP violations. -- LuK3 (Talk) 17:21, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Steven Walling • talk 00:37, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semiprotection. IP is repeatedly adding unsourced claim that an unidentified magazine has named subject one of the world's most beautiful androgynes, quite possibly vandalism. Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (talk) 15:11, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

Declined Single IP persisting with same unsourced edit. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 16:10, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection Disruptive editing An anonymous IP (who recently came out of block) keeps changing sales claims as well as chart peaks into unsupported ones.--Harout72 (talk) 16:31, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Steven Walling • talk 22:34, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

Permanent semi-protection: Regular, persistent, often unexplained edits by single issue and anonymous accounts, usually deletion of unflattering content or addition of unsourced POV. Jojalozzo 03:23, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Steven Walling • talk 22:32, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

02 July 2013

Semi-protection: High level of vandalism. Also, violent or repulsive content, hateful or abusive content, harmful dangerous acts, spam or misleading and infringement of human rights Theorginaleditor (talk) 15:21, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Whoaa, easy here....this was just stupid, almost "normal" vandalism, easily reverted. Do a little bit of new page patrol, and I promise you, you will see worse in the first days. Lectonar (talk) 17:22, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. TBSfan1223 (talk) 15:12, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Warn the user appropriately then report them to AIV or ANI if they continue. Lectonar (talk) 17:12, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – Rampant POV pushing on this page without any attempt to resolve at the talk page. I propose a rollback to the last version of 22 June 2013, before a series of POV edits began to creep in. A block of one week will allow involved users to discuss content with cooler heads. WikiDan61ChatMe!ReadMe!! 11:17, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Content dispute. Please use the article's talk page or other forms of dispute resolution. We don't handle content disputes here. I will consider blocking some IP vandals for a short time to prevent further attacks in the near future. Bearian (talk) 17:18, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
User(s) blocked. 2 especially bad IPs. Bearian (talk) 17:25, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent addition of unsourced content. Jetstreamer Talk 10:50, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Lectonar (talk) 10:58, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Continuous manipulation of content, as well as addition of fictitious information. – Recollected • 23:12, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. SlimVirgin (talk) 20:35, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

transfer speculation --NoCultureIcons (talk) 16:19, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Already protected by administrator Mattythewhite. Bearian (talk) 17:12, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent vandalism and edit-warring by several IP addresses over the past two days. Areaseven (talk) 06:00, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Warn the user appropriately then report them to AIV or ANI if they continue. Lectonar (talk) 08:26, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Recurring target by anonymous hoaxers posting patently false information about the characters' fates. As far as I know, Francesca's death, if she did die, wasn't explicitly mentioned ingame. Same with several others. Blake Gripling (talk) 03:40, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Warn the user appropriately then report them to AIV or ANI if they continue. Lectonar (talk) 08:25, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary pending changes: Persistent vandalism – The page is being disrupted by auto-confirmed IPs, probably the same editor, dynamic IP from Japanese ISP. One week pending changes?. Peacemaker67 (send... over) 22:32, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Warn the user appropriately then report them to AIV or ANI if they continue. Lectonar (talk) 08:20, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – I'm requesting this again because the edit warring caused by a content dispute has continued, and the discussion that I started at the talk page has continued to be ignored entirely. Dogmaticeclectic (talk) 22:00, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined Stale now, no edits since June 30. If edit warring picks up, consider using the edit-warring noticeboard. Lectonar (talk) 08:24, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Repeated deletion of sourced information by ip's without explanation. 76.117.234.85 (talk · contribs) was just blocked yesterday, and now 76.98.1.250 (talk · contribs) returns. I expect others will return/appear if we block him as well. --Ronz (talk) 04:23, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Lectonar (talk) 08:15, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Unsourced edits and vandalism by IP editors. STATic message me! 20:13, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Lectonar (talk) 08:22, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
Done GedUK  12:18, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – On-going edit war. Article at AfD, but it looks like to survive. . Stuartyeates (talk) 20:01, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined I am somewhat loath to protect an article which is at AfD, as new aspects might come to light (AfD is usually an incentive for people to work a bit more on the article); let this run, and if the problems persist afterwards (if the article is kept), consider dispute resolution. Lectonar (talk) 06:53, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Very high level of WP:BLP vandalism since recent ending of protection. STATic message me! 06:25, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 year, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Lectonar (talk) 08:27, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Page vandalized to create a hoax, then posted to Reddit. Currently has ~1800 upvotes and people are coming here to vandalize further. . Sædontalk 23:48, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Already protected by administrator Discospinster. Lectonar (talk) 08:21, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Dogmaticeclectic (talk) 17:57, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Warn the user appropriately then report them to AIV or ANI if they continue. (IP 70xxxx) Lectonar (talk) 06:41, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – repeated revert of redirect due to 6-1 merge discussion (reverting by article creator, and the 1 dissenter in merge discussion). Gaijin42 (talk) 02:23, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

If you want to delete the article, AFD is the proper venue. This is a sleazy runaround. Kauffner (talk) 04:02, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
  • Comment: This is still edit warring and the 6-1 merge still requires page protection. In ictu oculi (talk)
  • I once thought editors were supposed to write articles. But now I see that I underestimated the importance of vindictively blanking material written by others. Kauffner (talk) 11:36, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
  • Fantastic, a personal attack in there towards me as well - show me where I've ever lied about you, please. Just because you've got a vendetta against IIO, doesn't mean you should use every single opportunity to attack them. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 18:33, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
  • If you want to fight, take it to a talk page or noticeboard. This thread is over unless someone has something to say that relates to page protection. Gamaliel (talk) 21:12, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
User:Gamaliel as relates to page protection the edit history on the page following merger shows edit warring. As relates to the 6-1, that is spread all over 3 separate Talk pages - the two original articles Talk:History of writing in Vietnam and Talk:Chữ nôm and the new article Talk:Han-Nom duplicate which has been merged. If page-protection is refused then a workable alternative to page-protection should be suggested. Cheers. In ictu oculi (talk) 01:42, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
  • There have been several discussions about different proposals, none of which yield a 6-1 figure. If we are consolidating the opinions expressed in various places, Ultraexact had some kind words about the article. LiliCharlie, who helped write the article, supports it. White whirlwind supports using "Han-Nom" as a language template descriptor. As long as "Han-Nom" remains in use as a descriptor, there is a need for a Han-Nom article for it to link to. The article is all about the history of Vietnamese writing, as well as its current Unicode status. These are not exactly hot topics, and I had to translate a lot of it from Vietnamese. It was all original writing, although later copied to other places. IIO has been stalking me for a long time, and he canvasses editors with various grudges. Kauffner (talk) 01:58, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
Declined – Content dispute. Please use the article's talk page or other forms of dispute resolution. This is obviously a problem that can not be solved by page protection. If the talk-page attempts prove unsucsessful, the next step would probably be a RfC.Lectonar (talk) 06:38, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

'Semi protection: Sock user won't give up. Keeps reverting edits and vandalizing boxing records. --TwoNyce 06:30, July 1 2013 (UTC)

Question:. Can you say why this is a case of vandalism/socking rather than a regular content dispute? I can't tell from the diff. SlimVirgin (talk) 18:00, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
How not? The IP address keeps changing. And 9 times out of 10 it's the same IP with the comment below. Same thing also happened to the Timothy Bradley article and was temporarily protected for this same reason. --2Nyce 15:09, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
Declined – Content dispute. Please use the article's talk page or other forms of dispute resolution. Lectonar (talk) 06:36, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

User talk:Gfdsakjbvcjndksjnf (edit | user page | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary full protection: Inappropriate use of user talk page while blocked – Blocked user removed warnings. Robert McClenon (talk) 01:13, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined We don't do it that way, we just take away their talk page access. I will look into that. Dennis Brown | 2¢ | WER 02:03, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – The first editor under this username is mentioned at Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/MascotGuy. The second iteration of the username was created specifically to prevent a vandal from recreating it. However, the page itself suffers from vandalism, though the vandalism seems to have subsided. Epicgenius(talk to me • see my contributions) 19:54, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined Last vandalism was 3 February 2010‎. Dennis Brown | 2¢ | WER 02:09, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Constant changes to his nationality, all violating the current consensus/MOS. Somchai Sun (talk) 14:39, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected Until Wimbledon ends; pending changes would probably be useful after that. Lectonar (talk) 06:40, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Boubaker polynomials (edit | project page | history | links | watch | logs)

Create protection: Repeatedly recreated – This and Boubaker polynomials (which should be protected as well) have been repeatedly recreated by a variety of socks. RadioFan (talk) 01:51, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Done Kind of complicated with the socks, you can always ask the clerk at SPI to salt in these cases. I just didn't think of it. Dennis Brown | 2¢ | WER 02:01, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – BLP article is a vandal magnet, and has a long history of vandalism, including a one-year semi-protection that expired a month ago. DPH1110 (talk) 00:39, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected indefinitely. Last protection was a year and the problem is as described. Dennis Brown | 2¢ | WER 02:07, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Strong range of Vandalism is observed. This page needs protection till the film completes its business. Pavanjandhyala (talk) 15:54, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined - I see lots of IPs trying to sort out the article. (Adding sources might help those edits stick.) No clear evidence of vandalism. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 00:25, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Your submission name here (edit | project page | history | links | watch | logs)

Indefinite create protection: This page title is used as pre-loaded example link at the AFC Help Desk and is therefore highly visible. Requesting indef creation protection to prevent disruption. Pol430 talk to me 21:18, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

 Done Steven Walling • talk 00:28, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
 Requesting immediate archiving... Lectonar (talk) 06:35, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. 069952497aComments and complaintsStuff I've done 19:18, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Bishonen | talk 19:23, 1 July 2013 (UTC).

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Dogmaticeclectic (talk) 17:58, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Lectonar (talk) 18:38, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
For reference: this should state "User(s) blocked" instead. Dogmaticeclectic (talk) 19:42, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending changes protection - This template has been a recent target of the LTA pest dubbed the "Voice Cast Vandal". Any IP that can add constructively to the template should go through pending changes. The last 5 IP edits (three of them being this vandal) have not been constructive. Similar protection was granted for Jim Varney and he has attacked it after that protection. He will attack this template again, so this is a preventative measure. Doc talk 02:27, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined More due to technical considerations, as template-space is not open to pending changes protection....and regarding semi-protection: we do not protect preemptively. On the bright side: I have watchlisted this. Lectonar (talk) 18:34, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

03 July 2013

Semi-protection: - We have a new account repeatedly adding fraudulent information that "The ancient Ethiopians believed they were descended from Perseus and Andromeda" and citing this to a page on "African girl names" from the wayback machine, and also a blog. He also cites wikipedia (WP:CW), removes the correct information, and is messing up the formatting with several other bad edits. He is not discussing any of his changes, just keeps making them repeatedly. This page has very few watchers and I am out of reverts already. We need semi-protection. Til Eulenspiegel /talk/ 15:36, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined As this is a content dispute with a single, newly registered user, please start a discussion with him at the article's talk page. I've posted at both your talks suggesting that you do so. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 16:30, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism of this page by an anon user: (talk). I request that this page be protected so that only logged in users can edit it. Thank you. Jheditorials (talk) 13:29, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined - Not really vandalism. IP is removing what he sees as poorly sourced content and using edit summaries. You restored including a blogspot ref. I suggest further encouraging him to discuss at article talk is best for now. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 16:07, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-Protection: Article is suffering massive vandalism after being discussed in a comedy podcast. I expect the vandalism will continue for a week or more. Vandalism is being screenshotted and bragged about on forums and such and may inspire people to make the same edits later.--Licourtrix (talk) 15:50, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Bearian (talk) 16:19, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
User(s) blocked. 2 IPs. Bearian (talk) 16:19, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Ccurrent event, just became a coup and vandalism has already started from IPs. Can someone lock it immediately to new editors and IPs. 2-3 days for now?Lihaas (talk) 19:46, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 day, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. We can reassess tomorrow...Lectonar (talk) 19:49, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – This page should not be unprotected! Just look at VAST national vandalisam, removal of sources, POV struggle... Every IP edit for months was reverted. I am asking for a bit longer semi protection, this time. WhiteWriterspeaks 18:44, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Bishonen | talk 18:57, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Arctic Kangaroo (✉ • ✎) 15:47, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Bishonen | talk 19:15, 3 July 2013 (UTC).

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Constant vandalism of article from new users and IPs. Murry1975 (talk) 14:32, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of ten days. Tiptoety talk 15:53, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Please protect for a couple of weeks. A lot if IP vandalism due to transfer rumours in the media. JMHamo (talk) 13:30, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 16:24, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Unprotection: Page was protected in 2010, very slow now, open up? The protecting administrator suggested I bring this here. Crazynas t 08:45, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected Downgraded to pd lvl.1. A notebook case for pd; can always up to semi again. Lectonar (talk) 08:49, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
 Requesting immediate archiving... Lectonar (talk) 19:03, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Mild amount of vandalism. This regards a baseball pitcher who has recently threw a no-hitter. A lot of unanswered and disruptive edits are occurring. PrivateMasterHD (talk) 11:23, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Lectonar (talk) 12:43, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent vandalism by IP sockpuppets of Bertrand101. Areaseven (talk) 07:08, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Lectonar (talk) 08:41, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary move protection: Controversial word fake on title. Case in progress. No concensus on WP:RM. A new user just moved without closing the discussion. Evano1van(எவனோ ஓருவன்) 07:01, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined Only one attempt to move so far. Lectonar (talk) 08:38, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection Target of IP users adding random content which is unsourced and general nuisance. A period of 2 weeks should do it. —Indian:BIO · [ ChitChat ] 04:43, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Warn the user appropriately then report them to AIV or ANI if they continue....and not a high frequeny of vandalism either. Lectonar (talk) 08:33, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Continued persistent IP edits that either unnecessarily change the order of the contestants or insert incorrect information. Mr. Gerbear (talk) 01:46, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Lectonar (talk) 08:04, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Requesting semi-protection in response to an ongoing edit dispute. —017Bluefield (talk) 03:00, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Content dispute. Please use the article's talk page or other forms of dispute resolution. Lectonar (talk) 08:13, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Its summer now, so all the little kiddos are playing around at FAs. Every other edit for the past week is an editor reverting an IP. Please protect so as to save us some time to improve articles. Thanks and cheers!. GabeMc (talk|contribs) 20:21, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. This is way under the threshold for protection, even for pending changes lvl.1. Lectonar (talk) 07:45, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection. Vandalism! An IP is insisting on adding information from an invalid source (It is an unknwon forum!). according to Wikipedia:Verifiability the page must be protected from these kinds of IPs. For more information you can see the page's history. Thanks. --Faramarz♚♔♚ 20:18, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Warn the user appropriately then report them to AIV or ANI if they continue. Lectonar (talk) 07:44, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism in wake of current events, previously semi-protected for one day. Jr8825 • Talk 10:34, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Lectonar (talk) 10:46, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – Massive edit warring regarding a dispute. Zayeem (talk) 18:53, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Content dispute. Please use the article's talk page or other forms of dispute resolution. Seems to be too early to fully protect; discussion on talk-page is ongoing. Lectonar (talk) 07:43, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi protection: Content dispute/edit warring, constant vandalism by users and especially this IP User 121.220.49.19‎. I tried explaining to this user while reverting edits. This page needs protection --Miss X-Factor (talk) 23:22, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Note that Miss X Factor broke 3RR. Dispute is now ended as I got my way in part through updated source. Protection not needed. 121.220.49.19 (talk) 02:07, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
Declined – Content dispute. Please use the article's talk page or other forms of dispute resolution. Seems not to have ended; the parties are invited to use the articles talk-page. Lectonar (talk) 07:41, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi - IPs and new accounts continually reverting good faith edits from different users on these pages again after protection expired! Chris1636 (talk) 04:51, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. for the first, Declined – Warn the user appropriately then report them to AIV or ANI if they continue. for the 2nd and 3rd, Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. for the 4th and Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. for the last. The next time please list all requests separately; these were very different. Lectonar (talk) 07:39, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Repeated vandalism of BLP. FunkyCanute (talk) 09:58, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 10:13, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection Persistent sockpuppetry. There is this user who is adding complety unsourced new lines. The lat time the page was PC-protected for creating false lines, like "Metro Toluca", which is impossible as Toluca is one hour away from Mexico City. Apparently nobody's watching the page and I have problems with my internet connection, so I can't handle this person quickly. Tbhotch.™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions. 00:04, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined I've asked the IP to discuss at talk instead. If he persists, I will protect the page. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 04:44, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Unprotection: Protected in 2010. I suspect the crop of kids that did this have moved on by now. Protecting administrator is not currently active, and the page is very slow. Crazynas t 09:12, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Unprotected Lectonar (talk) 09:19, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Please protect for a couple of weeks. Many unsourced IP edits that are untrue and need reverting. JMHamo (talk) 07:47, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Lectonar (talk) 08:32, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations – Repeated insertion of promotional and completely unsourced material, including personal details. . §FreeRangeFrogcroak 05:25, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Lectonar (talk) 08:35, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Factually incorrect changes to genre and to the songs charting. STATic message me! 04:26, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Lectonar (talk) 08:22, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent vandalism by IP sockpuppets of Bertrand101. Areaseven (talk) 07:04, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 day, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 07:19, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
One day only? The article was protected for one year before vandalism resumed over the past couple of days since the protection was lifted. - Areaseven (talk) 07:37, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
True. Okay. I'll monitor the page, and even a smidgen more vandalism after expiry and I'll protect for much, much longer. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 08:12, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – two weeks semi please, continued IP WP:OWN disruption to article, refusal to engage on talk page. Peacemaker67 (send... over) 03:40, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Already protected by administrator EdJohnston. Lectonar (talk) 08:20, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Requesting Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP editors keep removing content that were properly sourced without giving any reason. [[11]][[12]][[13]][[14]][[15]]. This continued even after I tried to warn them on the article talk page [[16]] as well as tried to inform the IP editor repeatedly about editing policies on his/her talk page. [[17]]. It has even escalated to the point that the editor is blatantly justifying his changes with outright untruthful edit summaries and using dead links/broken links. [[18]], and justifying the old removals by claiming that they were not found in the sourced references (even though the edits themselves included the very sources that counters his claims) [[19]], or claiming the original content was not covered by the media when his edit was removing the sources provided [[20]]. UPDATE: Now the IP is just blindly undoing whatever was being added without even noticing that its no longer the same thing he/she was undoing before. [[21]][[22]][[23]]Zhanzhao (talk) 03:01, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Already protected by administrator Drmies. Lectonar (talk) 08:17, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Previous protection expired on June 10th, constant vandalism and BLP violations since then. -- LuK3 (Talk) 00:55, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of 6 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. ... should be enough, as the vandalism seems to have somewhat abated in comparison to before the last protection. Lectonar (talk) 08:01, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary Semi-protection: Persistent sock puppetry. This guy is socking again and has edited this template from Special:Contributions/31.110.5.203, Special:Contributions/31.109.42.201, Special:Contributions/178.98.161.253 and 5 other IPs that all resolve to T-Mobile UK. Other boxing articles he frequents have been semi-protected for one month.--Jahalive (talk) 23:00, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Although the Sp-investigation is somewhat stale, it would be good to list the newest attempts there. Lectonar (talk) 07:59, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Repeated deletion of content of a closed AFD by various IPs. | Uncle Milty | talk | 22:51, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Lectonar (talk) 07:52, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – The subject is in the news regarding a reported trade, awaiting an official announcement. —Chris!c/t 22:39, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Already protected by administrator Zagalejo. Lectonar (talk) 07:50, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – The subject is in the news regarding a reported trade, awaiting an official announcement. —Chris!c/t 22:38, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Already protected by administrator Zagalejo. Lectonar (talk) 07:50, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – The subject is in the news regarding a reported trade, awaiting an official announcement. —Chris!c/t 22:38, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Already protected by administrator Zagalejo. Lectonar (talk) 07:48, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – The subject is in the news regarding a reported trade, awaiting an official announcement. —Chris!c/t 22:38, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Already protected by administrator Zagalejo. Lectonar (talk) 07:49, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Stop IPs from jumping the gun. Echoedmyron (talk) 20:50, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Already protected by administrator Resolute. Lectonar (talk) 07:47, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Short term vandalism. -- LuK3 (Talk) 02:32, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 day, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 04:59, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of vandalism. I have repeatedly asked multiple users and IP's to stop creating fake cast members who are not real and have never appeared on the show. They do not listen. Junebea1 (talk) 17:19, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 05:21, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Biography of person who is not alive, full protection set seven months ago because of content warring. I think it is time for the article to open back up. Binksternet (talk) 16:09, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Unprotected Lectonar (talk) 16:25, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
Moved to ANI

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Unexplained page protection despite absence of edit warring, by an administrator who removed an external link (despite a community consensus against removing such links, e.g. in WP:BadSites). No account has been given for either the removal (which has had no discussion and no reversions) or the page protection (which had edit-warring in only the ganglia-firings of administrators oozing of good faith). Kiefer.Wolfowitz 13:04, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

See Talk:Wikipediocracy please before unprotecting. Dougweller (talk) 13:11, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
Doug has not explained the page protection, there, yet, so there is no point in reading your claims to have secret information and to be consulting authorities, while violating administrative policy and misusing your tools. Nobody has even reinserted the external link. Kiefer.Wolfowitz 13:15, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
It's pretty clear now it was about outing, and I've said (just now) I don't mind being reverted. I don't like such links (or the current screenshot on the page), but if other people are happy with them... Dougweller (talk) 15:33, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
Please focus on policy relevant information, Doug. You misused your administrative office to lock the page with no policy warrant. On the contrary, you locked the page immediately after you removed an external link, whose presence on the page has been the result of consensus from weeks of discussion. Thus, your removal was disruptive editing in itself. Locking the page was a textbook misuse of tools to gain the upperhand in a content dispute. Despite admitting your error, you still have not unlocked the page.
Is there an administrator here who knows locking policy and will duly unlock the page? Kiefer.Wolfowitz 19:25, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
Not unprotected Marking as not done because this is the wrong venue for this IMO. Kiefer, if you think Doug has misused his admin tools, open a WP:ANI thread. Legoktm (talk) 19:30, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
If an administrator cannot be found to unprotect an improperly protected page, here, then why should I waste my time at ANI? Kiefer.Wolfowitz 19:34, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
This noticeboard isn't designed for threaded discussions, ANI is. If you want, I can remove my decline so that it won't get archived and another sysop will look at it, however I'm pretty sure you're going to get a much better and faster response at ANI. Legoktm (talk) 19:38, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
Thanks! Somebody else opened a thread at ANI, so I'll archive this. Please do it properly if I mess up. Thanks! Kiefer.Wolfowitz 19:49, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 Requesting immediate archiving...Crazynas t 08:36, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism, consistent with other One Direction pages RingbearerNZ (talk) 02:48, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 day, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 04:25, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection As usual, as it comes closer to the release date of a new NOW album, the IPs come out to add their own track lists and predictions. 2 or 3 weeks should do. --StarcheerspeaksnewslostwarsTalk to me 17:03, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Pages are not protected preemptively. For the moment there is not too much vandalism. Lectonar (talk) 22:03, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. King Jakob C2 15:27, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Lectonar (talk) 22:02, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection. Persistent vandalism from IPs and newly created accounts, page is about defense attorney in Trayvon Martin case. RA0808 talkcontribs 19:58, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Jezebel'sPonyobons mots 22:08, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Users are posting speculative information about unaired episodes. Auric talk 13:11, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. See Special:Contributions/87.161.215.57 for how an IP has erased the vandalism you noted. Bearian (talk) 17:37, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Archcaster userspace requests

Indefinite Semi-protection: User request within own user space --Archcaster 08:50, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Pages are not protected preemptively. Reaper Eternal (talk) 13:06, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
What's that supposed to mean? --Archcaster 18:24, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
It means he denied your request. Yet, if you need protection while you go on vacation or attend to personal/family/medical issues, then I will protect your main user page only for that time period. How long do you need it? Bearian (talk) 18:46, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

04 July 2013

Semi-Protection: Instructions have been set up as to what material can be added to the article, which IPs have continually ignored. I request permanent protection as there will always be a problem. For now, IPs won't follow instructions. Later, there will be political vandalism. PrairieKid (talk) 19:40, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 19:44, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: (or range block) Persistent IP-hopping vandalism. Fat&Happy (talk) 19:20, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 19:39, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Per the NBA's CBA, all free agency moves that have been agreed to in principle (between July 1-9) will not be made official until July 10. However, there are some IPs and non-autoconfirmed accounts not adhering to this moratorium period. --Bigpoliticsfan (talk) 18:44, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Already protected. for nine days by User:Zagalejo. Mark Arsten (talk) 19:41, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism, WP:BLP issues arising from his interview with Andy Murray yesterday. Ghmyrtle (talk) 17:26, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 17:31, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Permanent semi-protection: Ongoing IP vandalism. This is a one-time static list created in 1994 and not generating much ongoing coverage; the only changes necessary would normally be changing the status of listees from active to retired, which occur much less frequently than the addition and deletion of names by editors under the delusion they are Pelé . Fat&Happy (talk) 16:22, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected Lectonar (talk) 17:01, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Dynamic IP editor is reverting multiple editors and ignoring edit summaries and the talkpage. --Modocc (talk) 16:09, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. For now....Lectonar (talk) 17:03, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent IP vandalism claiming direct divine revelation. Yes, on a page about a cop car. ObtuseAngle (talk) 12:21, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. 3 vandalism-edits in 2 days, although I admit this is one of the more funny vandalisms I have seen...just watchlist and revert. Lectonar (talk) 12:24, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – National editing. Origin question. We need protection, again... WhiteWriterspeaks 10:25, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Lectonar (talk) 11:09, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Genre warring. I call the big one bitey (talk) 13:54, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. ItsZippy (talk • contributions) 14:51, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Pending transaction. TM 12:35, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. GedUK  12:38, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – The article was improved by references found during a recent AfD, but there is on-going edit warring. Stuartyeates (talk) 20:11, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

User(s) blocked.: Antinoos69 (talk · contribs) blocked by EdJohnston (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) for one week. If problems persist, let us know. KrakatoaKatie 09:25, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Unregistered users continuously re-add former FOX O&Os to the template

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Lectonar (talk) 07:56, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Please semi-protect this page. An edit war has broken out where I have been attempting to put a very one-sided view by an IP editor into perspective (see here). The IP editor concerned has the hall-marks of the banned editor User:DeFacto. Martinvl (talk) 20:42, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Lectonar (talk) 07:43, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: An IP was blocked yesterday after being repeatedly told that two lone charter flights three months apart over summer 2014 cannot be added into the destination table. Now that this UK school's IP has been blocked for two years (it had a long block history), the apparent vandal is now inserting the same info after school hours from another UK dynamic IP. HkCaGu (talk) 20:24, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. IP has stopped after the last warning. Lectonar (talk) 07:42, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite create protection: Repeatedly recreated – Three times created by a user who either doesn't get it, or won't listen. Pol430 talk to me 08:58, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Done KrakatoaKatie 09:12, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: As per user (me! :)) request. Hallows Aktiengesellschaft (talk) 08:57, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Done KrakatoaKatie 09:14, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary pending changes: Due to the current events (Egyptian protests against the President of Egypt), I request a protection against this article. Camerontregan (talk) 08:55, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Pending changes protection should not be used on pages with a high edit rate. KrakatoaKatie 09:16, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Sorry, but I already protected....protection-conflict, so to speak...Lectonar (talk) 09:18, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Every IP edit since the end of the last protection (July 2) has been vandalism. STATic message me! 05:26, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Lectonar (talk) 07:58, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

The article has been continuously semi-protected since May 2008, and without any upcoming elections or ongoing protests, the risk of large-scale vandalism is as low as it is likely to be. The protecting admin (Khoikhoi (talk · contribs)) seems to have left Wikipedia. eh bien mon prince (talk) 02:51, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Done Left the move-protection in place, downgraded edit to pending changes lvl.1. Lectonar (talk) 08:03, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: This article consistently gets hammered by disruptive revisions from IPs, largely due to the amount of speculation around the coaching lineup. WikiRedactor (talk) 22:51, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Lectonar (talk) 07:50, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent addition of unsourced or poorly unsourced material by IP users. Mr. Gerbear|Talk 21:07, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Lectonar (talk) 07:45, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – There is a non-stop content dispute/edit warring on this article (lead section) since 29 June 2013‎. A temporary full protection will be helpful. That dispute can be solved on discussion page. There is a related consensus on the discussion page. Zyma (talk) 10:54, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Consider the edit warring noticeboard – This is a case of possible edit-warring by one or two users. Essentially Slovenski Volk and HistoryofIran. To get a third opinion might also be appropriate. Lectonar (talk) 19:35, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
I have also warned the users. Lectonar (talk) 19:41, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
OK. Thanks. Zyma (talk) 19:54, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
 Requesting immediate archiving... Lectonar (talk) 07:42, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite pending changes: BLP policy violations – Or just unprotect. BLP protected in 2010 with currently a very low edit rate. The protected administrator suggested that I bring this here. Crazynas t 08:43, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected Lectonar (talk) 08:49, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
 Requesting immediate archiving... Lectonar (talk) 08:01, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – Better we resolve this on talk than edit-war over controversial content. I've been involved in some of the reverting, but I promise not to raise a fuss if the "wrong version" winds up getting protected. — PinkAmpers&(Je vous invite à me parler) 02:58, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Fully protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 04:24, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: repeatedly recreated spam. Hell In A Bucket (talk) 02:49, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Done Mark Arsten (talk) 04:21, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Content is old, outdated. Clearly someone with a close connection to the fire accident has edited the page. The information about the parliamentary inquiry does not belong in the second paragraph. This whole site needs to be cleaned up, and done so in a way that is objective for this 11 year old company which has staged 40 races to date with more than 11,000 competitors having taken part. Very surprising that someone is allowed to vandalise a page.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Tenniswimbledon (talk • contribs)

Note: Have you tried contacting the protecting admin, User:JamesBWatson? Because of enduring problems, I would be loath to unprotect the page...and you can always use the edit-protected request, as outlined above. Lectonar (talk) 07:24, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Vandalism from multiple IP addresses. Robert McClenon (talk) 23:16, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 02:45, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Long-term semi-protection: IP vandalism hopper has been only real "editor" for months. All the rest of the edits on each article have been pretty much cleanup edits. No reason for an IP to edit these articles because they change so little. Nate • (chatter) 21:20, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

For the list: Semi-protected for a period of one month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. For the parent article: Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Mark Arsten (talk) 23:30, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

User talk:Anthonyy1926 (edit | user page | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary semi-protection: This is the talk page of a blocked user. 155blue (talk) 21:09, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined He hasn't removed the notice after being warned, so I won't protect for now. If he keeps it up I can revisit. Mark Arsten (talk) 23:14, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite pending changes: As this is an adoption lesson page that I do not wish to be edited but, rather, merely wish to have available as a resource (the tests, however, will not be protected), I respectfully request indefinite Pending-Changes Semi-Protection so that I (and other Reviewers) am able to edit this page, but not my students (by accident). I view this as non-controversial, as it is in my userspace. Jackson Peebles (talk) 20:55, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Not done Pending changes can not be applied to userspace pages. Mark Arsten (talk) 23:23, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite pending changes: As this is an adoption lesson page that I do not wish to be edited but, rather, merely wish to have available as a resource (the tests, however, will not be protected), I respectfully request indefinite Pending-Changes Semi-Protection so that I (and other Reviewers) am able to edit this page, but not my students (by accident). I view this as non-controversial, as it is in my userspace. Jackson Peebles (talk) 20:55, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Not done Pending changes can not be applied to userspace pages. Mark Arsten (talk) 23:23, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite pending changes: As this is an adoption lesson page that I do not wish to be edited but, rather, merely wish to have available as a resource (the tests, however, will not be protected), I respectfully request indefinite Pending-Changes Semi-Protection so that I (and other Reviewers) am able to edit this page, but not my students (by accident). I view this as non-controversial, as it is in my userspace. Jackson Peebles (talk) 20:55, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Not done Pending changes can not be applied to userspace pages. Mark Arsten (talk) 23:23, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite pending changes: As this is an adoption lesson page that I do not wish to be edited but, rather, merely wish to have available as a resource (the tests, however, will not be protected), I respectfully request indefinite Pending-Changes Semi-Protection so that I (and other Reviewers) am able to edit this page, but not my students (by accident). I view this as non-controversial, as it is in my userspace. Jackson Peebles (talk) 20:55, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Not done Pending changes can not be applied to userspace pages. Mark Arsten (talk) 23:23, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite pending changes: As this is an adoption lesson page that I do not wish to be edited but, rather, merely wish to have available as a resource (the tests, however, will not be protected), I respectfully request indefinite Pending-Changes Semi-Protection so that I (and other Reviewers) am able to edit this page, but not my students (by accident). I view this as non-controversial, as it is in my userspace. Jackson Peebles (talk) 20:55, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Not done Pending changes can not be applied to userspace pages. Mark Arsten (talk) 23:23, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite pending changes: As this is an adoption lesson page that I do not wish to be edited but, rather, merely wish to have available as a resource (the tests, however, will not be protected), I respectfully request indefinite Pending-Changes Semi-Protection so that I (and other Reviewers) am able to edit this page, but not my students (by accident). I view this as non-controversial, as it is in my userspace. Jackson Peebles (talk) 20:55, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Not done Pending changes can not be applied to userspace pages. Mark Arsten (talk) 23:23, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite pending changes: As this is an adoption lesson page that I do not wish to be edited but, rather, merely wish to have available as a resource (the tests, however, will not be protected), I respectfully request indefinite Pending-Changes Semi-Protection so that I (and other Reviewers) am able to edit this page, but not my students (by accident). I view this as non-controversial, as it is in my userspace. Jackson Peebles (talk) 20:55, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Not done Pending changes can not be applied to userspace pages. Mark Arsten (talk) 23:23, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite pending changes: As this is an adoption lesson page that I do not wish to be edited but, rather, merely wish to have available as a resource (the tests, however, will not be protected), I respectfully request indefinite Pending-Changes Semi-Protection so that I (and other Reviewers) am able to edit this page, but not my students (by accident). I view this as non-controversial, as it is in my userspace. Jackson Peebles (talk) 20:55, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Not done Pending changes can not be applied to userspace pages. Mark Arsten (talk) 23:23, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite pending changes: As this is an adoption lesson page that I do not wish to be edited but, rather, merely wish to have available as a resource (the tests, however, will not be protected), I respectfully request indefinite Pending-Changes Semi-Protection so that I (and other Reviewers) am able to edit this page, but not my students (by accident). I view this as non-controversial, as it is in my userspace. Jackson Peebles (talk) 20:53, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Not done Pending changes can not be applied to userspace pages. Mark Arsten (talk) 23:23, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Full protection Content dispute and edit warring on a featured article. Mark Arsten (talk) 23:02, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Fully protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Diannaa (talk) 02:01, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Article on 1960s project to explode a nuclear weapon on the moon. A spate of edits by IPs alleging Edward Snowden's involvement. No references provided, so reverted over and over by editors under WP:BLP. Request temporary semi-protection for a few weeks. Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:41, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 23:34, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Discruptive editing involving anons and informal edit summaries.Tintor2 (talk) 16:17, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 10 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Bearian (talk) 20:54, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
User(s) re-blocked with talk page editing disallowed. Bearian (talk) 20:54, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Create protection: Repeatedly recreated – Created three times in four days. Sir Sputnik (talk) 23:22, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Done Mark Arsten (talk) 23:24, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Horrendous amount of vandalism by IP users. – Recollected • 22:30, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 23:10, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent vandalism putting rumoured players and other competitions. Deb (talk) 17:23, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Lectonar (talk) 19:18, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – Really lame edit war between two users over the usage of an internal link. Darkness Shines (talk) 16:20, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined I have warned both users, and this was already brought up at the appropriate noticeboard. Lectonar (talk) 19:24, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Constant vandalism of article from new users and IPs. Stephreef (talk) 15:14, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

I am not sure whether you meant the template or the article, but both are Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Lectonar (talk) 19:17, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection. Article is besieged by tabloidy material about his so-called "relationships".--Bbb23 (talk) 22:54, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 23:06, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Create protection: Repeatedly recreated. Kudu ~I/O~ 20:10, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Creation protected for a period of three months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. —Tom Morris (talk) 20:43, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – Slow, but month's long, edit war over whether or not she should be called Princess... Can't see any attempted discussion outside edit summaries. Onorem (talk) 16:45, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Not done - I initiated Talk:Carole Radziwill#Princess or not princess and invited involved parties to discuss there. I will monitor, and protect if needed. If another admin feels a protect is appropriate, please feel free. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 17:43, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

05 July 2013

Temporary semi-protection: Per the NBA's CBA, all free-agency moves that have been agreed to in principle (between July 1-9) will not be made official until July 10. However, there are a few IPs and non-autoconfirmed accounts not adhering to this moratorium period. --Bigpoliticsfan (talk) 20:44, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Already done. by Zagalejo--Jezebel'sPonyobons mots 21:07, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: IP hopping editor edit warring over image in infobox. Can we semi protect it for a few days and hope they get bored. noq (talk) 20:04, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Jezebel'sPonyobons mots 21:05, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Minor vandalism. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 18:41, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. There are a few productive edits from IPs as well. Pending changes should help separate the wheat from the chaff. Jezebel'sPonyobons mots 20:56, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Maintenance template (merge discussion) deleted 5 times by 5 different IPs. Logical Cowboy (talk) 15:17, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. If the merge discussion comes to a conclusion before the two weeks are up, just pop me a note on my talk page and I'll lift the protection. Jezebel'sPonyobons mots 20:49, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Article is currently on pending changes level 2. There is too much IP vandalism and BLP violations. I think a temporary semi-protection would lighten up the vandalism. -- LuK3 (Talk) 14:57, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Already protected. by WilliamH --Jezebel'sPonyobons mots 20:46, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection. String of IPs have been adding sensationalist tabloidery to the article periodically sincelast year, more intensely in recent weeks. Some suppression may be called for, especially given the section heading that has now manifested at least once in the edit history. Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (talk) 14:20, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Jezebel'sPonyobons mots 20:44, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – WP:KAGE. No useful edits from new/IP users, only sock edits these years. HNAKXR (talk) 14:28, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for two weeks. The template has never been protected before, and we do not jump immediately to indefinite semiprotection. Diannaa (talk) 14:57, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – WP:KAGE. No useful edits from new/IP users, only sock edits these years. HNAKXR (talk) 14:28, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for two weeks. The template has never been protected before, and we do not jump immediately to indefinite semiprotection. Diannaa (talk) 14:55, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Continued vandalism on the C++ page, it has started again since the previous protection expired. MThinkCpp (talk) 14:25, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of two weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Diannaa (talk) 14:53, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Several articles have been protected already by Drmies‎ due to frequent vandalism by unknown IPs (see The Biggest Loser Patrol Page) who are mostly coming from Israel. I would like to request to indefinitely protect the article due to this reasons. AR E N Z O Y 1 6A•t a l k• 14:18, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of six months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Diannaa (talk) 14:46, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Slow silly nonsense additions by IP. Seems to be part of some larger campaign based on watching Twitter of other indie game developers noting nonsense going on various game pages, but no isolated IP source. MASEM (t) 14:07, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Diannaa (talk) 14:42, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Protection ended and IPs are back adding pov while discussion is ongoing (and heading against the grain of what is added). Lihaas (talk) 11:46, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Not unexpected this is. Lectonar (talk) 11:52, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations. Keri (talk) 08:05, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of two weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Diannaa (talk) 14:39, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: I'm requesting semi protection for this article for a duration of at least a week. This article was off too a great start when Itsbydesign (talk · contribs) kindly improved the article by adding sources on 5/28/13. Since then, various IP addresses have contributed and there have been a few vandalism edits. As this tour is currently ongoing, there is a risk of vandalism. If you see any concern that this temporary protection may be controversial, please feel free to contact me. Thank you. ~~JHUbal27 07:16, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Pages are not protected preemptively. We had only some vandalism edits in the last days, and before that there was a lull with no edits at all, neither constructive nor vandalism. If you have not done so already, please read our protection policy. Lectonar (talk) 07:21, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism by anonymous users. I, Flyer22 and Sonicyouth86 have reverted removal of content by users who are attempting to remove reference to various controversies. One of the anonymous users was blocked but he and others are now back and continue to vandalise the page. Tiller54 (talk) 09:37, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Lectonar (talk) 09:52, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Recent edit warring, adding of unsourced content, blanking and removal of the sourced content by some anonymous users (IPs). Zyma (talk) 06:43, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. Lectonar (talk) 06:54, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. SFK2 (talk) 04:59, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. Single user who I've now blocked. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 05:29, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent BLP violations since the previous protection expired in May. John of Reading (talk) 05:41, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Already protected by administrator Anna Frodesiak. Lectonar (talk) 07:07, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
Thanks. I got called away. Yes, 3 more months expiring Oct 5 because of very offensive nature of vandalism. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 07:26, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Kailash29792 (talk) 02:55, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Mark Arsten (talk) 03:43, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Per the NBA's CBA, which can be read here: http://www.nba.com/media/CBA101_9.12.pdf, all free agency moves that have been agreed to in principle (between July 1-9) will not be made official until July 10. However, there are some IPs not adhering to this moratorium period. The Writer 2.0 Talk 18:13, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Mark Arsten (talk) 03:46, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Temp-semi - Persistent vandalism from IP6 edit warrior who wishes to revert the article to an earlier format. Has been reverted by multiple editors several times already. --Jeremy (blah blah • I did it!) 06:30, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Lectonar (talk) 07:06, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary Semi-protection: This article has developing news and general copy edit problems so I am requesting a one week semi-protection so I can help Wikipedia and edit the entry to a better quality while avoiding IP editors ruining the grammar while I improve the quality. Also, generally speaking there is mild amounts of vandalism. Mjhtcarfan (talk) 02:14, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined - I'm not really seeing significant vandalism and IPs have equal rights to help improve the article. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 02:19, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection Disruptive editing Series of IPs keep inflating the number of Platinum-awards for U.S. (RIAA).--Harout72 (talk) 01:47, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined - I see only a couple of IPs in a couple of instances, so not enough considering other IPs are making legitimate edits. I'd say fight it off and make another request if it gets worse. I'll monitor it too. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 02:24, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Vandalism. People keep removing his title at the beginning of the article. 184.44.130.247 (talk) 01:52, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 02:10, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent modification of the infobox with content that does not match the one properly sourced in the article. Jetstreamer Talk 01:05, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 01:30, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. GSK ● ✉ ✓ 00:02, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 01:24, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection. Persistent vandalism by multiple IPs. Coasterlover1994Leave your mark! 20:13, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 21:32, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Vandalism from multiple IPs, calling her a bigot among other things. 71.199.125.210 (talk) 20:02, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 20:07, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Unprotection: Protected in 2011, nothing since then. This is the only time the article was protected.

Question: Have you contacted Kudpung, the protecting admin? Lectonar (talk) 17:15, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
Unprotected Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 23:30, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

06 July 2013

Temporary semi-protection: For maybe a week? Shahin (talk) 17:01, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 18:37, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: For maybe two or three days? Indian Movie, just released, and there is a very high level of IP vandalism (mostly blanking: [24]), changing article POV ([25]), and talk in article ([26],[27], [28],[29]). EBY (talk) 16:51, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 18:33, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Edit-warring by ip's to delete sourced material since May without any attempt to join discussions. Two ip's are blocked. A new one has appeared. --Ronz (talk) 16:25, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 18:35, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism. Constant violation of BLP policy. I request indefinite semi-protection due to constant vandalism. Also, remove Pending change protection as it doesn't help the article from vandalism.—Prashant 13:56, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Done Switched from pending changes to semi-protection. Mark Arsten (talk) 18:42, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Recent edits by I.P. addresses have been unconstructive as of late. I believe action should be taken, to allow the dust to settle. DarthBotto talk•cont 06:48, 06 July 2013 (UTC)

Already protected. for one year by User:Amatulic. Mark Arsten (talk) 18:44, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Dogmaticeclectic (talk) 18:22, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of one month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 18:31, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Continuous vandalism by the same IP below.--FS Italia (talk) 15:21, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 18:28, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Short term vandalism. -- LuK3 (Talk) 14:41, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 18:26, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Repeated violation of WP:BLP policy. AndyTheGrump (talk) 13:21, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Already protected. for one month by User:CIreland. Mark Arsten (talk) 18:22, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IPs have continued blanking and edit warring since the last protection was lifted. Psychonaut (talk) 12:45, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 18:21, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – IP socks of Nangparbat. Darkness Shines (talk) 11:24, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of three months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 18:15, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Constant waves of IP blanking vandalism. Auric talk 10:16, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 18:13, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Assorted IP vandalism/IP socks position-warring. Endemic to most K-pop articles. Δρ.Κ. λόγοςπράξις 10:00, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 18:09, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: - for about a week. We got some unregistered folks violating WP:CRYSTAL, saying that he plays for Sunderland when in reality, he hasn't officially signed for them yet. Mikemor92 (talk) 09:22, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Already protected. for one week by User:Mattythewhite. Mark Arsten (talk) 18:07, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – 2 Weeks please....persistent vandalism to box office figures . ƬheStrikeΣagle sorties 07:51, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 18:03, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite pending changes: WP:ENGVAR edit warring resumed soon after temporary protection expired. VMS Mosaic (talk) 02:05, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 17:56, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection. The vandal appears to be changing computers when one IP is blocked to circumvent the block Coasterlover1994Leave your mark! 01:42, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 17:52, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Several articles have been protected already by Drmies‎ due to frequent vandalism by unknown IPs (see The Biggest Loser Patrol Page) who are mostly coming from Israel. I would like to request to indefinitely protect the article due to this reason. Note that the article The Biggest Loser Australia (season 3) was already protected for six months less than 12 hours ago due to the same reason; The Biggest Loser Australia: Couples is currently pending for protection requests. AR E N Z O Y 1 6A•t a l k• 00:56, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of six months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Diannaa (talk) 17:04, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism that's been going on for quite some time. Could same duration of semi-protection be applied to it as Dean Winchester? It has worked very well on that article. Thanks ‖ Ebyabe talk - Welfare State ‖ 00:19, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Please re-report for further protection if the problem resumes Diannaa (talk) 16:57, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection - Various IP vandals have been continuously blanking sections on the page. Thegreyanomaly (talk) 21:29, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Diannaa (talk) 16:53, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Continuous vandalism by Werieth- deletion of File:Singapore Armed Forces Crest.svg on aforementioned page on grounds of non-compliance with rationale, when in fact a rationale is clearly provided. (talk) 15:23, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

File does not have a rationale for Singapore Army. Each use requires a separate rationale see WP:NFCC#10 Werieth (talk) 15:30, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
Fully protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Please resolve this matter on the talk page of the article. Diannaa (talk) 16:21, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Continuous vandalism by an IP.--FS Italia (talk) 15:19, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Anyway this IP talked about me as a "psychopath", "anti-south" and "strunz" (= shit). Please stop him.--FS Italia (talk) 15:50, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
IP has been blocked, but he came again with another IP-number...--FS Italia (talk) 16:03, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of 24 hours, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. The IP certainly vandalised this (RFPP) page, so I'm going with FS Italia here. Bishonen | talk 16:33, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Several articles have been protected already by Drmies‎ due to frequent vandalism by unknown IP (see The Biggest Loser Patrol Page) who are mostly coming from Israel. I would like to request to indefinitely protect the article due to this reason. Though the vandalism came from one IP only, other IPs will eventually vandalize the article in the coming days (this is what they are doing to the other articles). Note that the article The Biggest Loser Australia (season 3) was already protected for six months less than an hour ago due to the same reason. AR E N Z O Y 1 6A•t a l k• 16:31, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of six months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Diannaa (talk) 16:43, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism. In last few days, the article was constantly vandalized by IP users. Please, semi-protect it for at least one-two month as the article is nominated for FAC and it should be stable. Also, please remove the pending change protection as it doesn'thelp the article. Thank You. —Prashant 15:27, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected by Shirt58 until 20 July. I have removed the pending-changes-protection as requested. Diannaa (talk) 16:40, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Unprotection: Needs to be unprotected to move an AfC submission. ✉→Arctic Kangaroo←✎ 09:27, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Unprotected Diannaa (talk) 16:36, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Consistently unconstructive edits from anons. Either temporarily lock or require all anon and new edits to be reviewed as has been done on several other articles. Walter Görlitz (talk) 20:29, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Jezebel'sPonyobons mots 21:11, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring. The Banner talk 19:35, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined The main editor causing the disruption has been warned for edit warring. Jezebel'sPonyobons mots 21:00, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Repeated removal of uncontroverted information from article by (what appears to be) a single editor editing from various IPs, complaining of sourcing issues; accompanied by a complete refusal to discuss concerns on the Talk page. JohnInDC (talk) 15:45, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Editor has now begun to engage on the Talk page. I'm not quite prepared to withdraw this request but wanted to note this. JohnInDC (talk) 17:16, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
I will withdraw this request for now. The editor's putative concerns have been addressed and perhaps we have seen the end of it. In any case at this stage it is not worth an admin's attention. JohnInDC (talk) 18:50, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
Not done Request withdrawn. Jezebel'sPonyobons mots 20:52, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

07 July 2013

Temporary semi-protection: This has been here twice before, but both times it had an invalid rationale. At present, the article is consistently seeing IPs make unsourced edits, predominantly to the income the film generated - some increasing the revenue, others decreasing it. This has gone on long enough, please halt it. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 17:11, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Third time's the charm: Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 20:25, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Full protection: User CountryboyCS and an apparent sock puppet IP continue to insert poorly sourced material and recent edits are using the offensive phrase "colored people". Five different people have reverted the edits and the user has refused to participate in a discussion on the talk page. Tom (North Shoreman) (talk) 12:15, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. Will protect if socks continue the edit war. Mark Arsten (talk) 15:22, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – sockpuppet attack, same unconstructive edit done from different IP's that seem to be chanting the same lame edit summary. Hearfourmewesique (talk) 05:21, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Content dispute. Please use the article's talk page or other forms of dispute resolution. Looks more like a good-faith content dispute than vandalism. Mark Arsten (talk) 15:14, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite create protection: Repeatedly recreated – This and the associated AFC have been deleted 5 times through AFD and CSD and repeatedly recreated by multiple socks. Please salt this, it is wasting editors time. RadioFan (talk) 18:20, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Creation protected Mark Arsten (talk) 18:54, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Natural Sapphire Company (edit | project page | history | links | watch | logs)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – This and the target article Natural Sapphire Company have been repeatedly recreated by multiple socks . RadioFan (talk) 18:15, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Creation protected Mark Arsten (talk) 18:54, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent vandalism by multiple IP sockpuppets of a single person who claims that "God" told him the Porsche Panamera is the Crown Victoria's replacement. Areaseven (talk) 16:57, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

At the risk of displeasing The Almighty: Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 18:57, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent BLP violations from numerous IP vandals. Areaseven (talk) 16:44, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week. Tiptoety talk 17:11, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: BLP policy violations – The usual. Somchai Sun (talk) 15:36, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 15:39, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary pending changes: Persistent vandalism. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 15:33, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of one month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 15:37, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism by various IPs (occasionally registered editors), including BLP issues, regularly since 1 March 2013 (shortly after previous protection was removed on 23 February 2013‎). —sroc (talk) 09:52, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of one year, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 15:17, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistant vandalism from IPs adding incorrect info and original research, and, most recently, edit warring between auto confirmed user and one IP in particular (for which the IP has been blocked). Favre1fan93 (talk) 03:36, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of two weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 03:49, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: BLP issues. Koala15 (talk) 03:05, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one year, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 03:35, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Please merge User:Nathan2055/afc.js over this in order to update WP:AFCH. --Nathan2055talk - contribs 21:09, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Already done. by User:GorillaWarfare. Mark Arsten (talk) 18:47, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

 Requesting immediate archiving...

Please merge User:Nathan2055/afc stable.js over this in order to update WP:AFCH. --Nathan2055talk - contribs 21:09, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Done Courcelles 04:47, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

 Requesting immediate archiving...

Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism right now. Probably just needs a few hours since the vandalism is likely due to the event currently happening. Giants27(T|C) 02:50, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Already protected. for one day by User:Gilliam. Mark Arsten (talk) 03:03, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Now this person has been deported to Jordan there will and has been vandalism, poorly cited or uncited additions and statements of opinion.. . Egghead06 (talk) 02:27, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of one month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 02:43, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP adding incorrect information regarding VHS releases. Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 01:41, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Already protected. for one week by User:Kudpung. Mark Arsten (talk) 02:41, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Due to vandalism and other various unsourced IP edits. STATic message me! 00:47, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 02:39, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: There is speculation of him signing with a team from Qatar but as of now nothing official has been announced. GoPurple'nGold24 18:54, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. I only see a couple problematic edits within the past week. Mark Arsten (talk) 19:01, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: There's just been a major petrochemical train derailment, fire and explosion in the centre of this tiny town. [30] The situation is bad, but anon-IP contributions of "Lac-Mégantic was a village in Québec" are not helping. Likely the status of this as breaking news will be brief, so at most short-lived semi-protection should suffice. K7L (talk) 18:46, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. Please re-report if disruption continues. Mark Arsten (talk) 18:55, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Rapidly developing article with disruptive IP-hopping editor. Previous WP:ANEW discussion (which led to temporary semi-protection) here. Current talk page dispute here. Requesting longer-term semi-protection. --Nstrauss (talk) 22:23, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 22:49, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Current event that is being heavily edited with IPs repeatedly adding unconfirmed information in violation of a number of policies. Cat-fivetc ---- 21:32, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

  • Current version appears to be the best version as it points to the article for the flight which has the information on the crash itself. Cat-fivetc ---- 21:33, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 22:47, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection - Breaking news article with multiple IPs repeatedly adding unconfirmed information regarding injuries, fatalities, passenger counts, etc. Steven Walling • talk 21:16, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 22:45, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – repeated reinsertions of the same bogus claim by a string of sockpuppets. Hearfourmewesique (talk) 20:37, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of two weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 21:12, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected, coinciding with Wikipedia's policy of BLP. PrairieKid (talk) 02:21, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Mark Arsten (talk) 17:58, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

semi-protection Unsourced info being added for a season 3. 75.111.63.85 (talk) 22:50, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined This is a content dispute, not vandalism. Please discuss the proposed edits with the other user. Also, http://www.sidereel.com/jake_and_the_never_land_pirates/season-3/episode-1 Diannaa (talk) 16:51, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
That is not a season 3 episode, so it is invalid. 75.111.63.85 (talk) 17:51, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
Declined – Content dispute. Please use the article's talk page or other forms of dispute resolution. Mark Arsten (talk) 18:49, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

08 July 2013

Indefinite semi-protection Long term bevy of IP vandals continue to edit stations long sold off by these networks or their imaginary setups into a template that sees maybe 5-10 new additions every ten years. No reason an IP has to touch this. Nate • (chatter) 02:42, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. ‑Scottywong| squeal _ 21:36, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Sparse edits lately, but this is a long-term vehicle for promotional edits and copyright violations by several accounts, one having recently returned from a month-long block to renew their agenda. Requesting either protection or blocks of individual users. 76.248.144.216 (talk) 02:21, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. ‑Scottywong| prattle _ 21:32, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Many IPs try and add software in breach of WP:WTAF. . Stuartyeates (talk) 01:09, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. ‑Scottywong| squeal _ 21:11, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Short-term vandalism since early June. -- LuK3 (Talk) 20:48, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. PanydThe muffin is not subtle 20:56, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection. Persistent vandalism by multiple IPs Coasterlover1994Leave your mark! 19:58, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. PanydThe muffin is not subtle 21:02, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection. Persistent vandalism by multiple IPs Coasterlover1994Leave your mark! 19:56, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. PanydThe muffin is not subtle 21:06, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary full-protection: Edit warring. Frietjes (talk) 17:20, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Fully protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. ‑Scottywong| confer _ 21:03, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Short term vandalism today. -- LuK3 (Talk) 18:09, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 19:24, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – Edit Warring between CJK and User talk:Truthwillneverdie. 155blue (talk) 15:23, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Looking through the page history, there seems to be a spurt of vandalism edits recently from a wide range of IP users with quite a few reversions by a variety of other editors; there is no edit-warring nor legitimate argument, here, just vandalism and reversions, wasting everyone's time. I recommend short-duration semi-protection. Jackson Peebles (talk) 19:20, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. ‑Scottywong| confer _ 20:12, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – Content dispute. Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 16:24, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Fully protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 16:29, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – Player's team has agreed for a trade to another team but contract has not been signed. Multiple editors have been modifying article to reflect a state that does not exist. Walter Görlitz (talk) 14:17, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Already protected. for three days by User:Kudpung. Mark Arsten (talk) 16:36, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Constant vandalism by IPs. 155blue (talk) 13:58, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 16:35, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Since the beginning of this month, there's been five unexplained deletions of sourced genres from various IPs. And many IP edits before that have been unexplained changes to sourced genres for a while too. Kokoro20 (talk) 12:49, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 16:33, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Free! - Iwatobi Swim Club (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary pending changes: Persistent vandalism – For some time, editors have been vandalizing the article. The article already has a history of semi-protection, but since there are some constructive edits, it would probably be a good idea to experiment with PC. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 10:31, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of two months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Given the volume of vandalism I'm going with semi instead of PC. No complaints if someone wants to implement PC though. Mark Arsten (talk) 16:27, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Talk:North View Secondary School (edit | article | history | links | watch | logs)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Only three days after lifting the last block, the standard vandal/vandalism is back. IP belongs to the Lamrongpen5 sock farmThe Banner talk 09:08, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 16:31, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: strong possibility of edit warring with an IP user. Borsoka (talk) 06:21, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

  • You're aware that protection is not a mechanism designed to gain an advantage in a content dispute? As the IP is static, an edit warring block would be more in order. Regards, Crazynas t 06:38, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
Declined – Content dispute. Please use the article's talk page or other forms of dispute resolution. GedUK  12:33, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

User talk:LoyolaCollegeRocks (edit | user page | history | links | watch | logs)

Protection: Against vandalism by blocked user. 76.248.144.216 (talk) 02:00, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

User(s) re-blocked with talk page editing disallowed. Actually this was already done. FOr the bot. GedUK  12:37, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Continuing IP vandalism (unexplained changes that do not match the sources cited in the article). So far there have been 7 cases of vandalism starting at 12:18 on 1 July 2013, all but one by IPs starting with 5.14.xxx.xxx. Suggest semi-protection for a week or two to see if that will get the vandalism to stop. A shorter period would be OK too as long as semi-protection or some other measure can be reinstated if the vandalism does not stop. --Jeff Ogden (W163) (talk) 14:46, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 16:21, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

User talk:98.196.235.104 (edit | user page | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Inappropriate use of user talk page while blocked – The IP has used his talk page for reasons of defamation of an admin. Also violated the civility policy of Wikipedia. 155blue (talk) 14:06, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 16:23, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Unprotection: As far as I can tell, this page was protected because of a content dispute... which appears to no longer be relevant. Even if it is, PC is more than adequate to cover the level of attention this article is currently receiving. Crazynas t 06:47, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Done Changed from semi-protection to pending changes. Mark Arsten (talk) 16:18, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Unprotection: Page was protected in 2010 for vandalism ("IP disruption"). Seems slow now, even if protection is still justified for some reason, PC is more than adequate given the level of traffic. Crazynas t 06:45, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Done Changed from semi-protection to pending changes. Mark Arsten (talk) 16:19, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: massive edit war ongoing over whether Sabine is German, or German of Polish descent. One named account and either multiple IPs, or dynamic IPs. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 08:55, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. and Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. I've blocked the user for a couple of days. Their block is shorter than the protection though, so they may well be back first. If that happens, let me know and I'll block them for longer. GedUK  12:16, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite pending changes: BLP policy violations – Or just unprotect. The protecting administrator appears to be inactive, and the page is very very slow (more than enough to justify PC). Crazynas t 06:33, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected Last time it was unprotected it had to be protected again, so I'd rather try PC and see how we go. GedUK  12:21, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: 72 hours. Was called a "Fucking Fag" by a quite unhappy IP. Just precautionary as the IP seems to be the kind that'll come back for some more fun after the 48 hour block expires. I hate cleanup work and requesting RevDel's. Thanks :). Dusti*poke* 05:40, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 72 hours, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. —Soap— 05:42, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent, ongoing disruptive edits for about a month that boil down to an edit war over subject's dating life. (1, 2, 3, 4, etc.) EBY (talk) 00:52, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 01:56, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. - MrX 23:49, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 00:22, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent vandalism by multiple IP sockpuppets of a single person who claims that "God" told him the Panamera is the Ford Crown Victoria's replacement. Areaseven (talk) 16:59, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Right now I only see three problematic edits in the past two weeks. Mark Arsten (talk) 20:28, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – There are now multiple content disputes causing edit warring at this article. The discussion that I started at the talk page for one of these has now been ignored by others for over a week. Dogmaticeclectic (talk) 16:05, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. The edit warring seems to have dropped off in the past couple days. Feel free to re-report if it starts up again. Mark Arsten (talk) 20:37, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of IP revert war - Altenmann >t 21:59, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Fully protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 22:17, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – POV removal of sourced content for days. Lock page now for 5, 6 days in order to send slowmotion edit war on talk and/or RS/N. WhiteWriterspeaks 21:59, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Fully protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 22:24, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary create protection: Repeatedly recreated. Kudu ~I/O~ 21:31, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Creation protected Mark Arsten (talk) 22:13, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

09 July 2013

Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations – Repeated addition of unsourced/very poorly source POV in a BLP from dynamic IP (mobile). . SummerPhD (talk) 20:53, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of two weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Please re-report if the problem resumes. Diannaa (talk) 21:27, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Several articles have been protected already by Drmies‎ due to frequent vandalism by unknown IPs (see The Biggest Loser patrol page) who are mostly coming from Israel. I would like to request to indefinitely protect the article due to this reason. Note that the articles The Biggest Loser Australia (season 3), The Biggest Loser Australia (season 2), and The Biggest Loser Australia: Couples in the last couple of days for six months due to the same reason. If ever, can we indefinitely protect all the The Biggest Loser articles in order to prevent further vandalism? We keep protecting the said articles, but they always come back. AR E N Z O Y 1 6A•t a l k• 04:09, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of six months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Many of the pages have never been protected before, so we need to try temporary semi-protection first. Try it and see Diannaa (talk) 21:24, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. This article was previously temporarily semi-protected from 4 June to 4 July 2013, and vandalism from IP users and others has resumed. So, I'm asking for this article to be indefinitely semi-protected to avoid having to revert vandalism that is very tedious to do so. Thank you. Regards, Creativity97 02:06, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. I have given this another month, because the vandalism after the expiration of the last protection wasn't that heavy; and indefinite protection would be overkill, as we still are the encyclopedia that everybody can edit, so every protection is really an exception, and should not be the rule. Lectonar (talk) 20:34, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – Edit warring again, same editors as last time. (Hohum @) 22:42, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Checking to see if protection is necessary. I see fairly bad edit warring going on recently.... Bearian (talk) 20:05, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
User(s) blocked: 108.93.33.97 (talk · contribs). Bearian (talk) 20:17, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
Fully protected for a period of 10 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. This has been done only after a very careful investigation. Bearian (talk) 20:29, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: This page has always been a magnet for uncited, POV edits, both for and against Lumbee people; however, recently the personal opinions/POV screeds have ramps up. While some of these are registered users, at least providing semi-protection to the page would minimize some of the anonymous IP back and forth, allowing other editors to provide the copy editing, refining, and citing that this page desperately needs. Uyvsdi (talk) 18:26, 9 July 2013 (UTC)Uyvsdi

Pending-changes protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Lectonar (talk) 20:11, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism. Koala15 (talk) 14:31, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. I also blocked IP 108.239.159.31 for offensive, sexist, and homophobic vandalism. Bearian (talk) 20:02, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Genre warring. I call the big one bitey (talk) 05:03, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Bearian (talk) 19:42, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Page is fodder for children to vandalize. Continuous submission of unsourced content, airdates that occur months from now, fake episodes, etc. Recommending longer term of protection, as I believe this page has been protected before, yet the unsourced content and disruptions persist. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 18:37, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Bearian (talk) 18:55, 9 July 2013 (UTC) Changed to 3 months upon further research and analysis. Bearian (talk) 18:59, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: BIOGRAPHY OF LIVING PERSON; months-long consensus page being completely rewritten without discussion on talk page despite numerous requests to that effect. To stop edit/reversion wars, and regular attempts at non-neutral,unconstructive/irrelevant edits due to some users' dislike of the subject person, I request that the arduously arrived at consensus page be semi-protected, with any changes discussed before being made to article that was worked on very thoroughly over several months to obtain neutrality and accuracy. Therefore, discussion of any edits to the consensus would be much appreciated. Thank you. Regards,JohnKAndersen (talk) 06:37, 9 July 2013 (UTC)JOhnKAnderson

I was previously uninvolved in this dispute before seeing it here. The above user appears to have ownership issues with anyone else who edits the page in question, and is attempting to enforce his preferred version. I note that all the editors in question involved in this page are autoconfirmed, meaning that semiprotection won't really do anything. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 06:52, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
Declined – Content dispute. Please use the article's talk page or other forms of dispute resolution. Mark Arsten (talk) 15:28, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Many IPs are simply adding opinionated content to the article, without sources. PrairieKid (talk) 21:38, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. I only see one problematic IP edit. Mark Arsten (talk) 15:18, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Repeated blanking. Person identified as subject has contacted OTRS regarding deletion, but until that happens the page should be protected. §FreeRangeFrogcroak 21:35, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined Re-report if blanking continues, but the user hasn't blanked it since the Afd was opened. It seems they might have been unsure about how to get a page deleted. Mark Arsten (talk) 15:26, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – This article has a long history of vandalism. Dogmaticeclectic (talk) 13:41, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 24 hours, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. ItsZippy (talk • contributions) 15:41, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism on a BLP since the previous protection ended yesterday. STATic message me! 01:14, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one year, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 17:16, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary Semi-protection: Many IPs vandalizing. 108.56.233.10 (talk) 00:51, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Lectonar (talk) 13:43, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: BLP policy violations. Widr (talk) 10:28, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Legoktm (talk) 15:11, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Some kind of meatpuppet campaign to undermine the integrity of a picture caption. Elizium23 (talk) 04:36, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 15:19, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – burst of unconstructive edits. Scray (talk) 21:08, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 15:22, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Lock this article for vandalism IP--SaməkTalk 20:58, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Lectonar (talk) 13:44, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Create protection: Repeatedly recreated. Sir Sputnik (talk) 05:42, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined This is a special case insofar as the article was deleted as a creation by a banned user (meaning: the subject could have been notable, and we needed an AfD to ascertain the deletion). Lectonar (talk) 07:34, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent spamming of unrelated links and references. Article was recently protected for a week but problem continues. Dmol (talk) 00:56, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 10 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.. Also all the recent spamming was about Indian Railways, as it also uses the PNR number, so have added related text and official site link to the article, now spams can be avoided. PNR no longer restricted to airlines, as article already states.--Ekabhishektalk 04:37, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations – Repeated reinsertion of BLP-violating material, see talk page. ukexpat (talk) 20:33, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. - Protection is not necessary. Tiptoety talk 22:58, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary create protection: Page has been deleted 3 times today. --71.199.125.210 (talk) 19:36, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

The person creating it has been warned. If they do it again, they'll be blocked. I don't think SALTing is necessary. Enigmamsg 19:49, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
Declined I agree. Lectonar (talk) 20:28, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – consistent vandalism and malicious edits from multiple IPs. Grammarxxx (What'd I do this time?) 19:13, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. PanydThe muffin is not subtle 21:00, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Full protection (of redirect): The term Kayshap Rajput is a self-styled title of the Kahar caste in India. It is a very common case that a low/mid-ranking caste will claim some vague history for itself and label itself as kings/warriors/etc, so at WikiProject India we have frequent issues with POV-forking off to these self-identified alternate names. Users have repeatedly turned the Redirect Kayshap Rajput into its own article. Given that there is zero reason there should be a separate article for this term (or at least not without substantial discussion) can you protect this page so they'll stop forking it! MatthewVanitas (talk) 15:36, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined This sounds like a content dispute. Is there an AfD or other discussion that shows a consensus that an article about "Kayshap Rajput" would be a fork of "Kahar"? If not, please start one. If so, please make this protection request again (linking to that discussion) and it should be granted. However, I know nothing about the subject, and can't really make a determination regarding whether you're right or wrong. ‑Scottywong| comment _ 21:58, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Long protection history, mostly for IP vandalism and BLP concerns. -- LuK3 (Talk) 20:20, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three months. Tiptoety talk 22:43, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP vandalism throughout the day. -- LuK3 (Talk) 18:21, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Also User(s) blocked. and I applied a small rangeblock. Legoktm (talk) 18:28, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Esperanza (edit | project page | history | links | watch | logs)

Indefinite full protection: This is the talk page of an inactive Wikipedia project. 155blue (talk) 14:55, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Pages are not protected preemptively. Also, protecting it would be harmful as people have used it for valid reasons like discussion (see the Teahouse thread) as well as edit protected requests. Legoktm (talk) 18:30, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

10 July 2013

Indefinite full protection: Highly visible template. NYKevin 21:23, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Done Mark Arsten (talk) 21:28, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Edit warring by likely sock puppets. Requesting semi-protection per WP:SPP#Guidance_for_administrators third bullet: "Subject to vandalism or edit-warring where unregistered editors are engaging in IP-hopping by using different computers, obtaining new addresses by using dynamic IP allocation, or other address changing schemes such as IP address spoofing." Note the dynamic IP addresses used by the most recent IPs in the article edit history. Also, due to recent press, the page views for this article have spiked. - MrX 21:06, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. and Semi-protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 21:16, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
Thank you. Hopefully things cool down in a few days. - MrX 21:28, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Unprotection: The page had its last edits in the edit war that protected it 6 months ago. The article should be unprotected in order to re-allow constructive edits to the page. 155blue (talk) 21:25, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Done 8 months full protection is probably long enough. Mark Arsten (talk) 21:31, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Lugia2453 (talk) 20:54, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 20:59, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: IP vandalism in the 'Fleet' section due to SFO incident. Briguychau (talk) 20:50, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 20:58, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Getting hit with a lot of dubious unsourced content from multiple IP editors. The Devil's Advocate tlk. cntrb. 20:46, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 20:58, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary pending changes: (see talk page consensus and ANI etc) .. edit warring disruption on EXT, new accounts that are SPI (presumably socks of banned editors) - adding the official site URL is against WP:OUTING and page was fully protected, so PC1 would help prevent current disruption and these SPI (likely socks/disruptive editors). Widefox; talk 19:42, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected indefinitely due to concerns about BLP issues. Mark Arsten (talk) 19:53, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: BLP policy violations. This article could be outdated and has not been adding any baseball player's information at all for about 2 seasons except for the most recent that Alex Ríos had 6 hits in one game on July 9, 2013. PrivateMasterHD (talk) 15:42, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined If I understand you correctly, you wish the article updated? It is generally not a violation of our policy about BLPs if an article about a person is outdated; in any case, protection would not achieve anything. Lectonar (talk) 15:51, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent vandalism by an IP. 155blue (talk) 13:56, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 18:26, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – 92.10.184.198 has repeatedly blanked the page. To stop this blanking, the page should be semi-protected against this IP. 155blue (talk) 13:21, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Several articles have been protected already by Drmies‎ due to frequent vandalism by unknown IPs (see The Biggest Loser patrol page) who are mostly coming from Israel. I would like to request to indefinitely protect the article due to this reason. Note that the articles The Biggest Loser Australia: Families, The Biggest Loser Australia (season 3), The Biggest Loser Australia (season 2), and The Biggest Loser Australia: Couples in the last couple of days were all semi-protected for six months due to the same reason. AR E N Z O Y 1 6A•t a l k• 10:59, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Last vandalism edit was in May. Lectonar (talk) 11:29, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
Correction, the last vandalism edit was today.--AR E N Z O Y 1 6A•t a l k• 12:17, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
Yes, I was imprecise, the last vandalism edit before today, before the request, was in May, which means 2 months without vandalism. Lectonar (talk) 12:22, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: File page with a long history of test edits, vandalism and other misuse by IP and non-autoconfirmed users. SuperMarioMan 05:04, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected indefinitely. I've also added a message to help genuinely lost people. Harryboyles 15:49, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: A long listory of anon blanking. I believe a 1 month semi protection would be good enough. NintendoFan (Talk, Contribs) 03:46, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Warn the user appropriately then report them to AIV or ANI if they continue. Lectonar (talk) 08:01, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
It's best to prevent vandalism in the first place. NintendoFan (Talk, Contribs) 11:46, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
Then please read our protection policy; Wikipedia is built around the principle that anyone can edit it, and it therefore aims to have as many of its pages as possible open for public editing. Lectonar (talk) 12:03, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: an edit warring is developing with IP users who refuse to use Talk page. Borsoka (talk) 08:17, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Warn the user appropriately then report them to AIV or ANI if they continue. Lectonar (talk) 08:27, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
Not, strictly speaking, vandalism but yes, report to WP:AN3 if he continues to persist in edit warring without discussion. —Dark 08:33, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – A dynamic IP keeps on removing the AfD tag. SL93 (talk) 07:18, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

He seemed to have stopped for now, will review if he continues to persist in removing the tag. —Dark 08:02, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
Declined For now; articles at AfD should only be protected if strictly necessary. Lectonar (talk) 08:04, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: There are various non registered editors changing items without any source. I have reverted on several occasions and have posts on the talk page about the issues in question. The Australian Red Man (talk) 08:04, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined - Not enough activity to justify semi-protection. —Dark 08:07, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending changes: Due to high level of vandalism, unsourced or just generally unhelpful edits by IP editors. STATic message me! 05:16, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of 10 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Lectonar (talk) 08:29, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Long-term semiprotect; it was temporarily semiprotected, but the vandalism and BLP violation continues. –Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 03:35, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. The last protection ended July 6, the next and only vandalism edit was on July 10. Lectonar (talk) 08:00, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Please protect due to a high level of IP vandalism because of local Political Leadership Race and increased media attention. Thanks for reviewing this request. Canbrit01 (talk) 00:59, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Warn the user appropriately then report them to AIV or ANI if they continue. This is essentially one IP, which has not even been warned up until now. Lectonar (talk) 07:57, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite Semi-protection: Once again, an IP address with no other edits ever has removed the Reception section. [31] Another IP address did that on June 29th [32]. It was removed multiple times last year, no one noticing the last time, then I restored it on June 19th. [33] Since every time its been restored an IP address has kept randomly coming, weeks or months apart, and removing it, and no IP address has been making any decent edits in that article ever, please just block all IP addresses. The IP addresses edit warring to removing the Reception sections of the article has gone on for years, even back to 2011 [34]. Check the history of the article, and you'll see, not a lot of edits really, and a lot of them are just edit warring with random IP addresses removing the Reception section, and various editors reverting them sometimes. After edit warring with them in June of 2012, they then removed it again, no one noticing, and a year later I went about and restored it. So you can't just rely on someone being around to notice and revert this never ending problem. Check for "section blanking" in the edit history, and you see over a dozen results. Dream Focus 01:22, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of 6 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Lectonar (talk) 08:13, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite full protection: very visible. User:SmartyPantsKid 23:33, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Tiptoety talk 23:35, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Have a supposed alt user for an administrator, edit warring over the adding of a notability tag on the page. Also making personal attack by claiming that I am not acting in good faith and that I have a "Specious" argument that "no rational argument that is article is not notable". I have gone to the talk page but instead he has reverted for the third time. I guess I will have to report him to 3RR. Spshu (talk) 20:56, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined Semi-protection won't stop the other user from editing the article. 3RR is the place to go if there's an edit war. Otherwise, I suggest trying one or more of the dispute resolution processes. WP:DR gives advice on what to do. Diannaa (talk) 21:29, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
Hum, I didn't select semi-protection and delete it for the admin to select. I bascially need some one at higher level as this user profess to be an legitimate alt of an administrator account that user doesn't ID the admin AC. How do I know that you are not that user? Spshu (talk) 23:02, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
I don't understand what you're trying to say here. Could you rephrase yourself? In any case, I suggest you discuss the issue you have with the article on the talk page, or nominate the page for deletion if you think it isn't notable. Mark Arsten (talk) 01:39, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Full protection. Much vandalism by multiple IPs and registered users Coasterlover1994Leave your mark! 01:54, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Already protected. (semi) for 10 days by User:KnightLago. Mark Arsten (talk) 03:07, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Page was previously protected for about a month, various IPs have since returned to resume disruption of the page. AD (talk) 01:54, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of two months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 03:10, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Please protect due to a high level of IP vandalism because of a rumour in the media about a transfer to Newcastle United. JMHamo (talk) 22:05, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. 82.47.44.95 (talk · contribs) Gamaliel (talk) 23:07, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – This article has a long history of vandalism. Dogmaticeclectic (talk) 19:16, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Tiptoety talk 19:17, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent genre changing from ip hopper. I call the big one bitey (talk) 20:24, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Lectonar (talk) 20:35, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – Edit warring over nationality in lead. Talkpage shows larger consensus from similar articles to be Scottish in lead and British in infobox as Dario Franchitti uses amongst others, WP:CONLIMITED after his Wimbledon win is to over-ride this with British in lead. Murry1975 (talk) 13:42, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Checking to see if protection is necessary. Already semi-protected, I can't see any obvious problem. Bearian (talk) 19:46, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
Declined – Content dispute. Please use the article's talk page or other forms of dispute resolution. Lame edit-warring over whether he's Scottish or British. Bearian (talk) 19:49, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent genre warring from I.P editors. Flat Out let's discuss it 21:13, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for one week to start. Please re-report if the problem persists. Diannaa (talk) 21:33, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Mixture of generic vandalism and BLP violations have been ongoing throughout the day. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 21:11, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Diannaa (talk) 21:31, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

User talk:Lboken (edit | user page | history | links | watch | logs)

Indefinite semi-protection: Inappropriate use of user talk page while blocked – Abusing talk page while blocked. GSK ● ✉ ✓ 18:13, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined - Another administrator has already disabled talk page editing via Lboken (talk · contribs)'s block settings. Tiptoety talk 18:23, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
Account creation was blocked, but not talk page access. GSK ● ✉ ✓ 18:24, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
Right you are.  Fixed. Thanks, Tiptoety talk 18:26, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

11 July 2013

Temporary semi-protection: Once the recent protection lapsed, the wave of persistent, hi-volume IP vandalism over the critical reception of the movie (commonly changing ratings, reviews, and quotes from sources to more positive) began again. EBY (talk) 19:31, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 10 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Lectonar (talk) 19:33, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Please protect due to many IP vandals editing because of a transfer rumour in the media. JMHamo (talk) 17:36, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Lectonar (talk) 17:40, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Can we get a semi-protection on this article. There is a certain anon user who keeps reverting and enforcing his version despite the provided sources. Temporary semi-protect for a week or two may discourage him. Shokatz (talk) 20:34, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Fully protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Please discuss the issue on the talk page. Mark Arsten (talk) 20:44, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IPs have constantly vandalized the page for a long while. IP hopping is a possibility as some vandals were blocked but vandalism continued. 155blue (talk) 15:33, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected Mark Arsten (talk) 15:46, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. JDDJS (talk) 14:38, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 15:10, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations – Libellous allegations. BaldBoris 13:33, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 15:09, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

One month full-protection: Request full protection for one month while the community reaches a consensus on the changes. One user, rather than logically discussing his issue is applying his opinion and not citing any specific wiki policy to support it. This user has even rolled back the RFQ request on the page's Talk Page. As the editor who added the changes I want to resolve this dispute with a consensus and not be bullied by one individual's opinion.Paul2924 (talk) 11:29, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

User(s) blocked.. Paul2924 has been blocked based on a report at WP:ANEW.--Bbb23 (talk) 11:48, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Suddenly attracting a lot of attention, unsourced info added/removed by IPs and new editors, bordering on edit wars.  Yintan  12:40, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Lectonar (talk) 12:42, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Frequent addition of speculative/unconfirmed info by IP editors, as with the Total Drama: All-Stars article prior to it being semi-protected against IP editing. Creativity-II (talk) 11:31, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Lectonar (talk) 11:51, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Userpage protection. (contact) cybolton 07:59, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Pages are not protected preemptively. Legoktm (talk) 08:00, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
Semi-protected indefinitely. Actually, user pages are an exception to that - see WP:UPROT. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 10:08, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Same reason as Robots (film). IPv6 hopper vandalising. PantherLeapord (talk) 08:37, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Lectonar (talk) 08:40, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of sockpuppetry/advocacy/activism by parties on both sides of the conflict for months. The Brazil based Global Village Telecom IP Special:Contributions/186.212.115.218 looks like a User:Guinsberg IP sock (see User talk:186.212.143.98 for evidence). User:Elirhann Oraz89, User:IranitGreenberg and 190.232.207.217 are all User:AndresHerutJaim socks. No doubt there are more in that page history. Sean.hoyland - talk 07:04, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Lectonar (talk) 07:10, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Full protection: I am imposing a nearly two-month wikibreak on myself using Wikibreak enforcer. My user page has been the target of vandalism in the past and so I would like it protected while I'm gone. Would prefer full but semi is acceptable. . —KuyaBriBriTalk 04:44, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected indefinitely. Materialscientist (talk) 05:15, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection - IPv6 hopping vandal making same changes on every IPv6 address (3 so far). PantherLeapord (talk) 04:31, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 04:33, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Userpage protection. (chat) techatology 03:12, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Done Mark Arsten (talk) 04:31, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – The subject of this article is in the news regarding a reported transaction, awaiting an official announcement. —Chris!c/t 02:47, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Already protected. for three days by User:Zagalejo. Mark Arsten (talk) 03:05, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Would like to get at least semiprotection of this article. Quick flurries of actual vandalism are rare, but if you look at the article history, the vast majority of non-autoconfirmed edits are POV-pushing that contradicts the sources, and it is tedious for productive users maintaining the article. –Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 01:04, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 01:19, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism and adding of joke entries from various IPs. Related to the vandalism that lead to the protection of the Dean Winchester and Castiel (Supernatural) articles. AD (talk) 23:37, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 01:21, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: High level of edit wars by users not logged in. TheSeven (talk) 22:19, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Gamaliel (talk) 22:51, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite full protection: Highly visible template – Some people are manipulating the sources. They deleted the sources without showing any reason. I hope authorities understand the situation. . Shah-E-Zaman (talk) 17:09, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Not enough edit warring to justify full protection. I suggest discussing the issue on the talk page. I only see a few problematic IP edits, so I'm not sure semi-protection would be very helpful either. Mark Arsten (talk) 18:52, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism from editors reinserting huge section of COPYVIO content. Alansohn (talk) 17:06, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. for edit warring. I'm not sure that the source is actually copyrighted though. Mark Arsten (talk) 18:37, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent joke-related vandalism by various ips. This actor plays a "spoof" character, and it's a running joke online to pretend he is a real person. The most common edit to this article is to remove any mention of the character to further the joke. We've tried temporary semi-protection repeatedly; significantly longer term or indefinite protection might be appropriate.   — Jess· Δ♥ 15:20, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. It has only been vandalized twice in the past month. Mark Arsten (talk) 18:30, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Same reason as The Biggest Loser Brunei: The Spirit of Life protection request. AR E N Z O Y 1 6A•t a l k• 12:23, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. It has only been vandalized once in the past month. Mark Arsten (talk) 18:23, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

12 July 2013

Indefinite semi-protection: Ongoing edit war between 2 vandal block evasives IPs-173.63.176.93 & 66.108.119.85. Also persistent vandalism with mis-information by 173.63.176.93 who is actually blocked user Thmc1...Blocked in 2010 for excessive mis-information through sockpuppetting. Also blocked for sockpuppeting in 2012 when IP 173.63.176.93 was temporarily blocked along with permament blockage of all known usernames and other IPs. Please see WP:Sockpuppet investigations/Thmc1 for block log. MBaxter1 (talk) 21:01, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 21:13, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Module:Authority control

Indefinite full protection: 250,000+ transclusions.. — PinkAmpers&(Je vous invite à me parler) 20:35, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

There doesn't seem to be a template like {{la}} for modules. Someone should probably fix that. :P — PinkAmpers&(Je vous invite à me parler) 20:37, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
Done, I think. (I haven't protected a module before.) Mark Arsten (talk) 21:12, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. BenisonPBaby 15:56, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. It doesn't look like there has been any vandalism since the last protection expired. Mark Arsten (talk) 16:08, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent IP-hopping vandal(s) returned as soon as previous short-term protection expired. Fat&Happy (talk) 19:20, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 19:42, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Unsourced claims which has been resulted into edit war between IPs. Tolly4bolly 18:42, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of two weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 19:44, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Persistent disruptive editing by User:Kennedy1812, who appears to be a single purpose account. It keeps on adding an unsourced paragraph and deleting the information that is sourced by two books, as well as removing the stub notices, categories and aforementioned references. IP 99.36.190.80 appears to be the same guy (or girl)--Bellerophon5685 (talk) 15:25, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined I don't think semi-protection will do much here, since the problematic user is auto-confirmed and there's only been one IP edit in the past couple months. I suggest warning the user and reporting to WP:AIV or WP:AN3 if they continue blanking. Mark Arsten (talk) 15:50, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP editor keeps removing good UNICEF reference and the text derived from it. Binksternet (talk) 14:09, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. Mark Arsten (talk) 14:37, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Constant misinformation regarding a single detail - how long the videos are. Most of the contradictory edits are by IPs. No good refs have been found for their claims. BurritoBazooka (talk) 17:02, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 18:04, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Recently deceased person. Tolly4bolly 16:35, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 18:02, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary pending changes: Persistent vandalism. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 16:33, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 17:58, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Persistent IP stalking/threats agains photo subject. Temporary restriction lifted yesterday, threats made again today. 78.26 (I'm no IP, talk to me!) 14:48, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected Mark Arsten (talk) 15:43, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Full protection: Persistenly recreated please see The Pleasers. Hell In A Bucket (talk) 13:32, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Done Mark Arsten (talk) 14:30, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations – Repeated vandalism of a BLP. This wikipedia page is in the national news at the moment. See also Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#On-wiki_badness_moves_to_major_newspaper. . Stuartyeates (talk) 10:33, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 14:34, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Lsmll 08:54, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Lectonar (talk) 08:55, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
I wonder if you went through that page's history carefully,your decision to decline was made so fast(less than a minute).A section of that article is repeatedly removed by IPs since February,and I think semi-protection is needed.Lsmll 09:36, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
Yes, I did...let me quote from the protection policy..." administrators may apply temporary semi-protection on pages that are subject to significant but temporary vandalism or disruption (for example, due to media attention) when blocking individual users is not a feasible option...." The vandalism we have here is neither frequent nor especially malevolent. Protection should be an exception, and not the rule. Regarding my reaction time: please assume good faith. Cheers. Lectonar (talk) 09:40, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: User:Arsalan moni has been persistently adding promotional material copied from subject's web site, and since a final warning was given these edits have continued from IP editors. Phil Bridger (talk) 08:35, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Lectonar (talk) 08:48, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: There was edit warring over content that I believed to be a violation of several guidelines. One user was blocked and now there looks to be an IP that's starting to revert versions. Requesting TSP against IP editing, especially considering that some of the original content seemed pretty yellow. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 04:12, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined It is not that bad, and the article is at AfD to bboot; I always am somewhat more inclined to not protect articles at AfD, as IP-editors have more than once "saved" an article from deletion. If it gets worse, just relist please. 07:52, 12 July 2013 (UTC)Lectonar (talk)

Long-term semi-protection: A person is using various IPs to continually remove the name rimming from the article after valid reasons have been made to keep the name and there is WP:Consensus for keeping it. The person continually removes the name rimming, stating "No slang" or "No slang, please" without further clarifying his or her objections. He or she is repeatedly incoherent on the matter, associating the name with "Barracking the Obama" and calling it racist. See here for more detail. Very recently, he or she has been adding vulgar phrases to the article to make a point. I'm requesting long-term semi-protection because this person has been disrupting the article for months, and it makes more sense for this article to have long-term semi-protection like some of our other articles about sexual topics and/or sex anatomy (for example, the Penis article). Flyer22 (talk) 06:44, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected Lectonar (talk) 07:49, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
I'm sure that the person's edits will get through pending-changes protection because he or she will generally be stating "No slang" or "No slang, please." Not to mention, vandalism is often accepted through pending-changes protection. But I suppose pending-changes protection is better than nothing. Flyer22 (talk) 07:58, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
Well, then the problem does lie with the reviewers. And frankly: it was not enough vandalism to trigger semi-protection, in any case. Lectonar (talk) 08:04, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: A post referring to this article is currently on the front page of Reddit: [35]. Various Redditors are trying to vandalize the page, as well as adding information that conflicts with the existing sources. ProtossPylon 04:24, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Lectonar (talk) 07:56, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary pending changes: BLP policy violations – Requesting level two PC protection. BLP violations in relation to the subject being involved in Scientology. Currently being discussed on the talk page. -- LuK3 (Talk) 00:57, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

I've made a revert here (since adding pending changes the first time), so I think I might be too involved to protect again. Full protection for edit warring/content dispute might be an option though. Mark Arsten (talk) 02:28, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
Pending-changes protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. I was always a friend of pending changes lvl.2 for clearcut cases (this article is a good example for what I consider a rulebook-example), so I have indeed pd lvl. 2 protected; I am aware of the RfC which is still pending evaluation, so this is explicitly WP:IAR. And as usual: if any admin feels differently, just revert me. Lectonar (talk) 07:12, 12 July 2013 (UTC) Lectonar (talk) 07:12, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent genre warring by I.P editors. Flat Out let's discuss it 00:51, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Only one revert in the past six days, and that user is now User(s) blocked. for edit warring on another article. So I don't think further protection is needed for now. Mark Arsten (talk) 02:31, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent addition of unsourced content,. genre warring by I.P editors. Flat Out let's discuss it 00:48, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. Mark Arsten (talk) 02:23, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP user under various addresses has persistently been removing content while refusing to address any issues or talking about specific grievances. If protection is granted, please restore to a previous iteration, I left their latest edit up as I didnt want to edit war. JesseRafe (talk) 20:57, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Note: To be quite frank (and I might be wrong), but just reading the present version of the article and comparing it to the last version by you: the present version is much more neutral, while your version reads a bit like a fan-written-page. I would not protect, but encourage both of you to use the talk-page of the article to hash things out. If any admin wants to protect, go ahead. Lectonar (talk) 21:07, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
Declined I agree, I think the IP was actually the one upholding BLP here. Mark Arsten (talk) 02:25, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Unprotection for Kermit Gosnell feedback page (Special:ArticleFeedbackv5/Kermit_Gosnell) - I'm an editor on this one so I won't do it myself, but the controversy is long reverted to normal levels; its no longer a current issue. FT2 (Talk | email) 16:40, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Done (I think I did at least, I haven't modified article feedback before). Mark Arsten (talk) 16:43, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
Hmm, I peeked too, because I never did undo a protection on article feedback, but as far as I can see, the protection (implemented by Ged UK on May 10 2013 ran out by itself on June 10 2013....but I might be mistaken, too; anyway, the log only shows the protection but not the unprotection. Lectonar (talk) 19:01, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
Yeah, the semi-protection shows up in the log, but I don't see the disabling or enabling of article feedback in it. When I click here "enable all users" is highlighted in the article feedback section, so I think it works now. Mark Arsten (talk) 19:18, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
Yes, I tried it just now (on and off)...shouldn't it be logged somewhere? I did not look especially hard, though, to try and find if this is documented somewhere. Lectonar (talk) 19:23, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
I agree, logging would be a good idea. Mark Arsten (talk) 19:26, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
 Requesting immediate archiving... Lectonar (talk) 07:13, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection. Persistent vandalism by multiple IPs and users Coasterlover1994 01:47, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Harryboyles 01:56, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent vandalism,mostly by IPs.For example:123. Lsmll 00:25, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 02:20, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Ginsuloft (talk) 22:53, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 02:18, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

13 July 2013

Full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – Two IP users are engaging in an edit war over a cast member on the series. It's been dragged out over a few days now... – Recollected • 18:17, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 19:31, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Starting July 1st, frequent edits by IP anons only, all adding unsourced material, many deleting sourced material. Page had been stable for two years before that, with few edits, mainly by logged-in users. Friendly attempts to communicate via IP user talk pages and article talk page have been entirely ignored. Many different IPs, mostly but not all from one subnet. Arthur chos (talk) 17:04, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 19:29, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Upgrade to semi from pending changes -- vandalism is still persistent. Virtually all of the edits (of pending changes) is vandalism and its reversions and it's getting tiring. 2 weeks under semi should be enough. –HTD 16:42, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 19:27, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP editors putting scare quotes into organization name. Binksternet (talk) 16:41, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Seconded. These IP edits are disruptive and nonsensical. - MrX 18:41, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
Already protected. for one week by User:Barek. Mark Arsten (talk) 19:24, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent IP vandalism. JK (talk) 16:34, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 19:06, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Ongoing deletion of referenced section by non auto-confirmed editors, temporarily restricting to auto-confirmed editors would be appeciated. Flat Out let's discuss it 15:14, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 19:03, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations – Unregistered user(s) have been adding unreferenced and controversial information to this BLP for the last two months. obi2canibetalk contr 14:55, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 18:58, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Continued vandalism by IP sockpuppets of banned user Bertrand101 after recent protection was lifted. Areaseven (talk) 13:09, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 18:57, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Page attracts too much vandalism from IPs. It is difficult to always mop up the mess that is left as a result of this. It would be better if it is semi-protected from IP editors. Mar4d (talk) 12:00, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Diannaa (talk) 18:21, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

User talk:ZappaOMati/Archive 2 (edit | user page | history | links | watch | logs)

Indefinite full protection: Like my previous request, no reason to edit an archived page. ZappaOMati 04:24, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Fully protected Diannaa (talk) 18:14, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent and recurring insertion of made-up deaths by a certain anon. I don't exactly know the whole story by heart, but I swear that I never heard about certain characters like Norman or Francesca dying from natural causes or a plane crash. Blake Gripling (talk) 02:36, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Diannaa (talk) 18:10, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations. Gnome de plume (talk) 00:40, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected —Tom Morris (talk) 17:01, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Dynamic IPs edit-warring over past few weeks. One particular IP of the same series edit-warring intensively over past few days. Δρ.Κ. λόγοςπράξις 00:23, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected - Already semied per a complaint at WP:AN3. EdJohnston (talk) 17:40, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Unexplained content removal, lack of reliable sourcing for questionable new content, ignoring infobox documentation, the addition of an obviously broken link, and even a copyright violation are all issues that have been caused by recent edits by IP users. Dogmaticeclectic (talk) 18:35, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Diannaa (talk) 18:00, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Create protection: Repeatedly recreated – Deleted three times in as many weeks. Sir Sputnik (talk) 15:46, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Done Anna Frodesiak (talk) 15:53, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Unexplained removal of medal templates by IP address. Wolcott (talk) 15:37, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 15:58, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite create protection: Repeatedly recreated – Page has been created 4 times & each time being up at AFD or being CSD'd, Thanks. - →Davey2010→→Talk to me!→ 02:18, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Done kelapstick(bainuu) 03:47, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
Thanks :) - →Davey2010→→Talk to me!→ 12:41, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Constant unsourced additions of dubious content. STATic message me! 03:10, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined I'm not seeing very many unconstructive IP edits. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 07:41, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism. Koala15 (talk) 00:21, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined - Almost all IP edits cannot be deemed vandalism, and most seem constructive. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 07:51, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Constant genre warring and removal of sourced genres

70.192.197.121 (talk) 18:17, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of three months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. —Tom Morris (talk) 09:22, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

14 July 2013

Temporary semi-protection: Actor Cory Monteith, who played Finn Hudson, died yesterday, and the "Persistent disruptive editing" that caused the Monteith article to be protected for three days earlier today is occurring here as well. The same protection would be welcome here. Thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 13:10, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Lectonar (talk) 17:10, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Actor Cory Monteith, who played Finn Hudson on this series and was to start filming the fifth season later this month, died yesterday, and the "Persistent disruptive editing" that caused the Monteith article to be protected for three days earlier today is occurring here as well. The same protection would be welcome here. Thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 13:10, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Lectonar (talk) 16:50, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Mild amount of vandalism. This regards that a professional pitcher in the MLB has recently threw a no-hitter. Disruption and unauthorized edits are aplenty here. PrivateMasterHD (talk) 12:20, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Lectonar (talk) 16:21, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations – Influx of vandals as a result of the death of Cory Monteith. Nymf talk to me 14:25, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Vandalism has started again after the protection expired. . Tolly4bolly 09:22, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – There were hardly any constructive edits made to the page since semi-protection was lifted about two months ago. Recent activity on the page seems to suggest that IP vandalism is going to pose a problem again. LDS contact me 03:08, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Pages are not protected preemptively. Plus, what I see is only a little bit over many days. I think we should fight it off for a while. I'll monitor also and protect if it gets worse. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 07:24, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending changes: Persistent vandalism regarding the unconfirmed reports of this person's death.[1]FrickFrack 05:19, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 05:57, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Multiple IPs vandalizing page. The article isn't being edited regularly by established editors anymore. I've been cleaning up a lot of vandalism today. Would appreciate PP for a couple of weeks. Thanks. . Malke 2010 (talk) 03:16, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Only two instances of vandalism today by the same IP address. kelapstick(bainuu) 05:12, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

OK Go is one of the finest rock bands and it is a shame that since a while it had a crappy article and still do. I propose this article becomes primarily watched as it is repeatedly glutted with a lot of info (sourced) they say and the whole band is branded as a pop musical cultural revolutional fenomenon. If you wanna get the idea better come to the history page. I propose this article become watched semi-protected or locked to prevent further vandalism and revert wars!

Regards: The Mad Hatter (talk)
Declined – Content dispute. Please use the article's talk page or other forms of dispute resolution. There doesn't seem to be much of a problem with IP vandalism and the edit warring isn't at the stage where I'd feel comfortable full protecting. Mark Arsten (talk) 23:42, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Vandalism may occur as Nelson Mandela is in a critical state hospital, wrong information may be added or removed. Risk of vandalism. Kadzi (talk) 19:58, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Pages are not protected preemptively. --Bongwarrior (talk) 20:05, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Un-protect: Prior to a (long) wikibreak I had asked for my user page and talk page to be semi-protected as some anon IPs liked vandalizing them, and I wasn't going to be around to fix them. I have now returned to the land of the living, so my pages can now be un-protected to allow for a new generation of vandals and socks to come after me. Thanks. Wine Guy~Talk 03:14, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Unprotected Materialscientist (talk) 03:28, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

User talk:Wine Guy (edit | user page | history | links | watch | logs)

Un-protect: (see above) Wine Guy~Talk 03:14, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Unprotected Materialscientist (talk) 03:28, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Some of the house guests has a bad rep. among the viewers; in about the past two weeks, people keep vandalizing the page on those house guests. Texasboykc09 (talk) 20:53, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for three days. I don't want to go longer on this article as it is mostly being developed by IPs. Diannaa (talk) 21:33, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Days after the last half-month protection wears off, the same tireless IP vandal is back at it again. This editor is almost definitely a sockpuppet of a former disruptive editor, User:Rovers Forever. Thibbs (talk) 18:44, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of two months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 19:33, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Semi-constant vandalism from unregistered users. To be precise, plain removal of information and refusing to listen to reason: I linked to guidelines on the talk page but they keep insisting that spoilers should be removed. There's also a bit of abuse of tags going on and I'm starting to suspect sock/meat puppets (66.186.65.35 (talk · contribs) and 72.26.29.26 (talk · contribs) are especially suspicious, having only ever edited this article, and in the past day, and seem to be working together with one adding a tag and the other using it as an excuse to remove large amounts of info). In addition, similar edits have been done by (probably unrelated) unregistered users previously. 175.134.44.29 (talk) 08:15, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

I'd like to add that 74.196.206.200 (talk · contribs) has just pretty much admitted to sock puppetry, admitting to removing content when it was 72.26.29.26 (talk · contribs) that was doing so. 175.134.44.29 (talk) 08:31, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
Declined This article is being developed almost exclusively by IPs so I am not going to protect it. Edits seem to be done in good faith and are not vandalism per se. Please use the talk page / user talk pages to discuss changes to the content. 66.186.65.35 is in Ontario and the other two are in Texas, so some of these edits are likely done by one person and others are not. -- Diannaa (talk) 18:19, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Anons and new editors appear to have made this article a target over some rumours about a possible trade more than a year away. Walter Görlitz (talk) 22:21, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined Semi-protection won't stop autoconfirmed user:GorgeousAlex, and there aren't that many problematic edits by IPs. Please re-report if the situation worsens. -- Diannaa (talk) 18:05, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

15 July 2013

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – 170 of past 500 edits are reverts. Lots of vandalism from "fans". Jamesx12345 (talk) 21:16, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Gamaliel (talk) 21:39, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Continued Armenian-nationalist POV-pushing whack-a-mole sockpuppetry right after the last protection expired. Ian.thomson (talk) 20:29, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Jezebel'sPonyobons mots 20:37, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Create protection: Bizzlamichhane007 (talk · contribs) keeps re-creating the article, despite it being speedily deleted for A7 each time. 71.199.125.210 (talk) 19:38, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Creation protected by User:Lectonar. Mark Arsten (talk) 20:17, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Coin Toss (edit | project page | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary full protection: Persistent vandalism – Repeated submissions and declines without any marginal improvement. Article has been declined 12 times and submitted at least 13 (I deleted the most recent submission template). With the exception of a few edits in 2011, almost the entire history of this editor has been in promoting and pushing this movie. Hasteur (talk) 18:04, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Ideally, this proteciton should last ~6 months or so so we can use the Stale AfD drafts process to get rid of it. Hasteur (talk) 18:05, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
Done Mark Arsten (talk) 18:13, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing by IP user(s) inserting unsourced content (usually SHOUTING in mainspace) and/or removing sourced content without explanation or discussion. JayJasper (talk) 17:50, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 17:57, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Indef semi-protection: There's a persistent editor who was the subject of an ANI discussion here: WP:ANI_AUTISM_IP. That editor has gone back into the ANI archive that shortcut links to in order to modify the archived discussion regarding his behavior. Can that archive be protected against IP edits.... thanks. Zad68 17:46, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Done Mark Arsten (talk) 17:56, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Numerous The Biggest Loser articles are being vandalized since late 2011 or early 2012. Most of the articles are protected already due to heavy vandalism by unknown IPs mostly coming from Israel (see The Biggest Loser patrol page for the list of The Biggest Loser protected articles and list of IP vandalists). Lately the The Biggest Loser Australia (season 2), The Biggest Loser Australia (season 3), The Biggest Loser Australia: Couples,and The Biggest Loser Australia: Families were the latest articles protected for six months for the same reason. With this, I would like to request a semi-protection of the article for the same duration. I would also like to request for protection for the The Biggest Loser UK (series 4), which is also receiving vandalism from the same IPs, for the same duration. AR E N Z O Y 1 6A•t a l k• 17:25, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. It doesn't look like there's enough activity to justify protecting The Biggest Loser UK (series 4) at this point though. Mark Arsten (talk) 17:30, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – The last (3 month) semi expired and since then the IPs geolocating to Bangalore have returned. The ranges are wide and relate to two different dynamic ISPs in the 122.* and 117.* ranges. The repetitive unexplained removal of sourced content is consistent - possibly one person using home and work facilities?. Sitush (talk) 12:21, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 17:27, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Please protect for a few weeks.. Many unhelpful IP edits with guesses at unassigned Fulham FC squad numbers, that need continual reverting. JMHamo (talk) 12:02, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 17:25, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 09:38, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. GedUK  10:56, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Per the LGBT rights in Iraq section above. Flyer22 (talk) 09:34, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of 6 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. I'm going to try pending changes. It's a bit of faith because the patrollers might not realise that these edits should not be approved, however, hopefully they will because of the size of the edits. If it doesn't work, let me know and I'll semi protect. GedUK  10:51, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
Oh, and : User(s) blocked. GedUK  10:55, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
Thank you, Ged UK. That block of the IP for one month is a nice bonus. Yes, I'm also worried about pending-changes protection because some of his edits are likely to slip through it, and I've often seen vandalism accepted through pending-changes protection. But you did invite me to let you know if it doesn't work out, so thank you again. The pending-changes protection may generally prevent him from adding material to the articles, and that's good enough. I can revert whatever else makes it through. Flyer22 (talk) 12:32, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Short-term vandalism from multiple IPs. -- LuK3 (Talk) 01:29, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. Lectonar (talk) 08:00, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: I wasn't sure whether to report this here or at WP:ANI, especially considering that reporting this matter here is more complicated because the matter involves page protection requests for more than one article. Moonriddengirl indefinitely blocked Lionhead99 for extensive WP:Copyright violations; see this talk page post. She gave him a chance to continue editing under that account. He didn't take her up on that offer and instead started WP:Sockpuppeting; see this section and the one following it on his talk page. His edits are problematic outside of copyright violations as well; see this section for an example of that. I am requesting semi-page protection for the LGBT rights in Iraq article and the other articles he continually returns to and adds back the text Moonriddengirl or someone else removed. Requests for protection of the other articles follow this request, with a note pointing out that the backstory is in this one. The LGBT rights by country or territory article is already semi-protected, and so I did not have to request its protection. Flyer22 (talk) 09:34, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of 6 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. GedUK  10:54, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Per the LGBT rights in Iraq section above. Flyer22 (talk) 09:34, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of 6 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. GedUK  10:54, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Vandalism after end of recent long term protection. Has always been a BLP vandalism target. STATic message me! 04:40, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined for now. There were 2 IPs vandalising in as much days; this might me a target for pd lvl.1 protection. I will watchlist for now. Lectonar (talk) 06:59, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Cindy(talk) 04:25, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. --Bongwarrior (talk) 04:34, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: This article is subject to sudden spurts of vandalism during certain times of day or week. Theryx7 (talk) 23:28, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined - Need more information on the harm being done by IPs. In the last 50 edits in the history, I don't see any IP edits being reverted by others. I checked a couple of recent IP changes and they were beneficial. EdJohnston (talk) 01:41, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – People keep changing his club even though he has not officially signed with his new club yet. Mr. Mario (talk) 23:03, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined - If the deal is signed as per this report, doesn't that imply that he has officially signed with the new club? EdJohnston (talk) 01:36, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism and BLP issues to a recently unprotected page. STATic message me! 00:55, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected - Six months. Long term BLP problem due to IPs. Last semi was for three months. EdJohnston (talk) 01:49, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: As the result of a content dispute a new editor has been warned about breaching 3RR. Since that happened, the new editor has ceased editing and an IP appears to be editing for him, which is suspicious at best. AussieLegend (✉) 16:00, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. - Both the named user and their IP have been blocked making protection necessary. Tiptoety talk 23:30, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: As the result of a content dispute a new editor has been warned about breaching 3RR. Since that happened, the new editor has ceased editing and an IP appears to be editing for him, which is suspicious at best. AussieLegend (✉) 15:58, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. - Both the named user and their IP have been blocked making protection necessary. Tiptoety talk 23:28, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: This article touches on current events (Zimmerman verdict) and has been subject to some POV edits, and I expect will continue to be for a while. 97.89.17.164 (talk) 20:12, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 20:44, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism/test edits. When I checked Geolocate one of the IPs involved, their recent internet service was noted as spamming. This type of editing has been happening for the last couple of days according to the article history. The reason I'm requesting the page protection and not doing it myself is because I work for Samsung so there is a conflict of interest involved. 5 albert square (talk) 18:03, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected - 2 months. This article has a history of vandalism and it's been semiprotected in the past. EdJohnston (talk) 23:45, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: We have an IP who edit wars over several days, including using another IP. They need to be forced to stick to discussion until a consensus is reached. -- Brangifer (talk) 07:46, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 20:54, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: IP-hopping user(s) from Turkey keep blanking the Cyprus section without explanation, and occasionally other section(s). Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (talk) 15:29, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 day, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. 5 albert square (talk) 18:30, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: User vandalized page by changing names of drivers and teams to names that do not exist. Sonoflamont (talk) 15:27, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined This only happened a couple of times yesterday, other than that I cannot see any recent vandalism on the page. Only one IP involved, which has not edited since you placed the warning on their talk page, suggest if the IP returns and vandalises the page that this is reported to WP:AIV 5 albert square (talk) 18:25, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – Content warring during a discussion of the issues. Binksternet (talk) 15:03, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Not done - All editors involved have been warned. Monitoring situation. —Dark 15:57, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

16 July 2013

Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism. STATic message me! 19:57, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Ethnically driven vandalism again, we should have some longer protection for this page, obviously! 10, 15 days, and everything starts again... WhiteWriterspeaks 18:06, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of three months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 18:11, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
Bravo, great one! Thanks, i suppose that will do it! --WhiteWriterspeaks 18:14, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent joke-related vandalism by various ips. This actor plays a "spoof" character, and it's a running joke online to pretend he is a real person. The most common edit to this article, by far, is to remove any mention of the character to further the joke. 100% of ip edits since the last semi expired have been this vandalism. We've tried temporary semi-protection repeatedly, and it has always worked. These edits are clearly not going away any time soon, and significantly longer term or indefinite protection might be appropriate.   — Jess· Δ♥ 17:54, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected indefinitely. Mark Arsten (talk) 17:58, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Constant reverts. Parties involved need to sort things out through the talkpage. « Ryūkotsusei » 15:37, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Fully protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 16:40, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending changes: High traffic, vandalism hard to spot/detect. ✉→Arctic Kangaroo←✎ 15:35, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 16:08, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – Edit warring for the past few days now. –HTD 10:52, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Note: The dispute has spilled over to 2013 FIBA Asia Championship Group B‎. –HTD 11:46, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 16:03, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite full protection: Highly visible template – IP editor recently added height and weight parameters despite their deletion several years ago; I reverted; registered user constantly restoring despite requests to stop. Template is used nearly 700 times, although only on a handful of pages.—Ryulong (琉竜) 04:29, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Fully protected Mark Arsten (talk) 15:43, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Unprotect - indef semi-protected 2 years ago with the notice "Feel free to take down in a few months" -81.129.124.199 (talk) 16:01, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Unprotected Mark Arsten (talk) 16:47, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Unprotect - indef semi-protected for 5 years. -81.129.124.199 (talk) 15:43, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Unprotected Mark Arsten (talk) 16:42, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Unprotect - indef semi-protected for 4 years -81.129.124.199 (talk) 15:43, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Unprotected Mark Arsten (talk) 16:45, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending changes: Persistent vandalism. ✉→Arctic Kangaroo←✎ 15:30, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of two weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 15:34, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent removal of sourced content, addition of unsourced content with promotional tone copied directly from subject's website, by COI accounts representing the subject. 76.248.144.216 (talk) 12:28, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of two weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 15:26, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Dubious unsourced additions and adding factual inaccuracies. . STATic message me! 12:17, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of two weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 15:30, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of vandalism after end of recent semi protection. . STATic message me! 11:34, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 15:36, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Please protect... Jake Carroll was born in London, which makes him English until he plays for the Irish national team. Schoolboy appearances don't count . JMHamo (talk) 10:35, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Fully protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 15:41, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism (removal of sources) due to nationalistic motivation. IP in question (same with the ip affecting the article on Karamanlides) wants to remove any reference to Armenian identity although the latter is well documented in at least 2 appropriate sources.--Dipa1965 (talk) 14:58, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Fully protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 15:17, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: IP edit warring over inclusion of UKIP in the infobox template. Curent RfC ongoing on talk page to resolve this dispute, could use page protection to prevent IPs messing with consensus, as they have done. RGloucester (talk) 13:31, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

This page actually needs full protection not semi-protection due to IP and non-IP editing which is currently under discussion regarding the issue mentioned above.
Fully protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 15:22, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: BLP policy violations – Pretty regular spammy vandalism - being gay, IPs are attracted to him. Jamesx12345 (talk) 09:43, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 10:21, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Numerous The Biggest Loser articles are being vandalized since late 2011 or early 2012. Most of the articles are protected already due to heavy vandalism by unknown IPs mostly coming from Israel (see The Biggest Loser patrol page for the list of The Biggest Loser protected articles and list of IP vandalists). Lately the The Biggest Loser Australia (season 2), The Biggest Loser Australia (season 3), The Biggest Loser Australia: Couples,and The Biggest Loser Australia: Families were the latest articles protected for six months for the same reason. With this, I would like to request a semi-protection of the article for the same duration. AR E N Z O Y 1 6A•t a l k• 08:04, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Already protected by administrator Shirt58. (7 days) Armbrust The Homunculus 12:51, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent IP vandalism. IP editor continues to revert to old version of article. Bonnie (talk) 05:44, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Lectonar (talk) 08:19, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Moderate level of IP vandalism, some registered user vandalism, not sure why. Mercurywoodrose (talk) 05:39, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Article has had two edits in 2013, one act of vandalism and one revert. kelapstick(bainuu) 06:37, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – A biopic has just been released of this person and we are seeing numerous dreadful contributions, including plain vandalism and BLP violations, from anons and newly registered users. Sitush (talk) 10:00, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 10:14, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Recurring target by a Filipino hoaxer. Blake Gripling (talk) 08:52, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Materialscientist (talk) 08:55, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Anon keeps on changing the capacity of the arena from 50,000 to 75,000 and removes the sources attached to it. -WayKurat (talk) 08:10, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 day, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 10:17, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP hopper continues to manipulate content on article to include their own fictitious series. It's been happening since late June. – Recollected • 04:43, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Already done by administrator Edgar181. (2 weeks) Armbrust The Homunculus 10:25, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Create protection: After Adam Cavanagh was create-protected, Adam Cavanagh. was created. 71.199.125.210 (talk) 02:43, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Creation protected Mark Arsten (talk) 02:51, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Persistent vandalism – Numerous editors (possibly the same person) repeatedly adding uncited personal details (e.g. date of birth) to WP:BLP. Despite Talkpage advice, unsourced info. continues to be added. Egghead06 (talk) 23:28, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Fully protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Airplaneman ✈ 02:04, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite pending changes: Persistent vandalism – Obviously, this is going to forever be a major target for vandalism and has already been hit with vandalism several times. There have been some constructive edits and it's not highly active so PC protection should be sufficient. The Devil's Advocate tlk. cntrb. 22:52, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of indefinite amount of time, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Airplaneman ✈ 02:00, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Unprotection: A long term contributor thinks that he can make an article that is not promotional or a copyright violation [[36]]. Hell In A Bucket (talk) 15:06, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected I have downgraded to semi....to not tempt the recreators too much....Lectonar (talk) 15:54, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Request 6 month+ page protection. This page has been under constant attack by spammers and they returned once previous protection expired. v/r - TP 01:03, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 6 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Airplaneman ✈ 01:36, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent IP vandalism. -McGhiever (talk) 00:23, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of six weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. --Bongwarrior (talk) 00:41, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Permanent protection - Highly visible/heavily used template. 76.226.76.230 (talk) 22:32, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Fully protected. Airplaneman ✈ 01:41, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Subject has written almost the entire article from anonymous IP and has been editing to remove any critical content. Gmcssb (talk) 22:27, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Fully protected for a period of 7 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Airplaneman ✈ 01:43, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Please protect for a few weeks; many IP vandals are making changes that need reverting due to media rumours about a transfer. . JMHamo (talk) 00:04, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 00:10, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP vandalism of BLP, inserting POV and calling him sexy. kikichugirl (talk) 22:08, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Already protected. for three days by User:Rschen7754. Mark Arsten (talk) 23:23, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: New album, persistent addition of unsourced content. 76.248.144.216 (talk) 21:36, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 23:22, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

17 July 2013

Indefinite semi-protection: Repeated long term spamming, Just came off a two week protection and resumed. Werieth (talk) 19:11, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 20:21, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Protect. The article hit the news recently, and there is persistent edit warring going on. 188.78.54.227 (talk) 18:07, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Fully protected for a period of one day, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 18:33, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi protection: Content dispute/edit warring – This article has been disputed by anon IP editors for a while, reverts have been made several time often bordering 3RR. Prabash.Akmeemana 13:53, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. The IPs were not even properly warned. I gave out warnings, one of which was a final test edit warning. Please come back here in not sooner than 10 days if it continues. Bearian (talk) 16:15, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Some vandalism going on here, as I've looked through this page's edit history. EditorEat ma talk page up, scotty! 17:45, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 17:57, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Dubious additions of unsourced content. STATic message me! 17:36, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of two weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 17:59, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism and additions of unsourced content. STATic message me! 16:55, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of two weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 18:00, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Two editors who should know better not engaging and edit warring. I am a neutral third party, and have no preference over the version to keep, have warned the two to talk, but would request protection in the meantime. Chaheel Riens (talk) 20:17, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined, Better to take action against the two of them than protect the page. Report them to 3RRN if they continue. GedUK  11:50, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Unprotection: To make way for AfC submission. ✉→Arctic Kangaroo←✎ 10:13, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

The American IPs belong to a hosting range, and Morning277 is more than one person anyway, so geolocation is worth nothing. For further reasons I'm not going to disclose per WP:BEANS, there is every reason to believe that account is a sock. WilliamH (talk) 11:16, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
Declined and User(s) blocked. (checkuser block by WilliamH, who I asked to look at this). And as the AFC submission has been ☒N Deleted as a creation by a banned user in breach of ban, we're done. BencherliteTalk 11:32, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
I think Feerick is borderline notable, to be honest, and was trying to find out one way or the other when the AfC submission disappeared. Can I get confirmation that the AfC submission was only edited by the sock and not copyedited by anyone else on the AfC review team (since WP:CSD#G5 requires "no substantial edits by others")? Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 11:54, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
Checking the history, there were no copyedits by AfC reviewers. The only action apart from the AFCbot adding, and the reviewers declining (on seven occasions), the submission was a bot tweaking a citation date, so this was a valid G5 deletion by WilliamH. BencherliteTalk 12:00, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
Just a note that the author of the AFC contacted me off wiki, and I have unblocked his account, restored the page, and unsalted the article. I believe I misread something in the deletion log which made me come to the conclusion it was the banned user. WilliamH (talk) 12:34, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

"Baffler Meal" is an episode of the series Space Ghost Coast to Coast. The original article was redirected to a the series' episode list, and was locked for indefinite full protection, as a result of it having a lack of citations and featured predominately in-universe information. This particular episode features a significant role in the development of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, a long running successful spin-off series, and is mentioned in several articles relating to the series. I feel that since "Baffler Meal" has such a major role in the development of a prominent series an article should stand to discuss it in depth. If this is done I will strive in the upcoming weeks to find more citations and re-write the article completely in order to address and fix all previous concerns that lead to its deletion and do my best to make it a article that meets the site's standards. Grapesoda22 (talk) 04:33, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Not unprotected – Please create a sourced version of this article in a subpage or your userspace. When this is done, please make the request again, or ask any administrator to move the page for you. BencherliteTalk 11:32, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – New and IP users are repeatedly adding unsourced and non-neutral BLP info; some are claiming to be part of his staff, which of course does not absolve them of the need for sources. Qwyrxian (talk) 12:04, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

full-protection: High level of editing from multiple users, including the change of directors names and un-referenced facts. THis information is approved by the company's legal team. Clover.industries.limited (talk) 08:20, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. Actually OP blocked. boomerang. Lectonar (talk) 09:32, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Until August 19th, one day after the event. Perpetual vandalism or addition of unsourced content. — Richard BB 21:59, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected. GedUK  11:57, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. ✉→Arctic Kangaroo←✎ 09:39, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. GedUK  11:41, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – request two weeks semi, dynamic IPs (likely same person, repeated section blanking. Peacemaker67 (send... over) 09:38, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. GedUK  11:45, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary full-protection: BLP policy violations – This is an ongoing problem because of youtube footage of an old game show and a running meme. The article history will need to be erased for a couple of edits as well. It's not just IPs now. I've warned an editor about BLP violations but he doesn't seem to get it. freshacconci talk to me 23:54, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined This seems to have stopped for now, and we only have 2 reverts; I have revdel'ed the 2 edits and left a note on the users page. Lectonar (talk) 07:17, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Hi I would like the page Cory monteith to be unprotected thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Magnusladue (talk • contribs) 02:23, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Note: The page is not protected. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 11:33, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
Unprotected (edit conflict) The protection has expired since you placed this request. BencherliteTalk 11:35, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Lugia2453 (talk) 21:46, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Lectonar (talk) 09:37, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent vandalism as soon as protection removed. FunkyCanute (talk) 20:06, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Lectonar (talk) 09:36, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Apparently there is a long edit war on this page, and (at least) one of the sides use IPs to vague it. When the first edits of IPs are to take sides in an edit war, there is a puppet-master somewhere. First step would be to semi-protect it. Jeppiz (talk) 18:41, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations – Article was cleaned up this morning but unsourced text keeps getting put back . NeilN talk to me 17:53, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Content dispute. Please use the article's talk page or other forms of dispute resolution. Bearian (talk) 20:56, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
IP's and new editors are constantly adding unsourced puffery and it's suggested dispute resolution be pursued? Seriously? --NeilN talk to me 03:38, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

User talk:Nottruelosa (edit | user page | history | links | watch | logs)

Full protection: Inappropriate use of user talk page while blocked – erases block notice. DavidLeighEllis (talk) 00:09, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Not done. The user is entitled to do(almost) what they like with their talk page. The only inappropriate use of the page as far as I can see, are your own comments there. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 01:12, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Constant dubious unsourced additions since articles creation. STATic message me! 18:33, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism (removal of sources, OR) due to nationalistic motivation. Although the article leaves a lot to be desired (very small number of citations, insufficient coverage), removal of material or undocumented changes of wording is not the way to improve it. I have already proposed a new set of academic sources but, unfortunately, I still don't have enough spare time for using them (surely the IP in question does not care about any proper reference).--Dipa1965 (talk) 14:58, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. I only see two problematic edits in the past month. Mark Arsten (talk) 15:20, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
Since June 2013, there were 6 disruptive edits by this ip}, 1 by [http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Special:Contributions/78.184.213.219 this one, 1 by this one and 1 by this one. Total 9 disruptive edits in 2 months. Rest of article history is full of this thing. That is why I am proposing permanent semi-protection.--Dipa1965 (talk) 15:51, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
Let me know if disruption continues, but I'm hesitant to protect based on edits more than a month old. You can get a second opinion if you wish though. Mark Arsten (talk) 15:56, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
This is way under the threshold for semiprotection. OP, please read our protection policy. Oh and: this is the second opinion; I would not have protected either. Lectonar (talk) 18:16, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
Although it has become a bit tiresome to undo these edits in the past year, I understand that you both are far more experienced than me in judging when to protect or not. I read WP:Make protection requests sparingly but I wish it would be more specific. Keep up the good work.--Dipa1965 (talk) 19:04, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
 Requesting immediate archiving... Lectonar (talk) 07:11, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Ginsuloft (talk) 21:33, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 24 hours, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. kelapstick(bainuu) 22:00, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – highly controversial, but stable article, with massive increase in visibility due to news. Edit warring initiated by new previously uninvolved editors (although certainly responded to by veteran editors, myself included).

Needs a pause to allow integration of new editors via discussion, and how to deal with new information as a result of the verdict. Gaijin42 (talk) 18:40, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Fully protected for a period of one day, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 21:03, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Unprotect - protected for 3.5yrs and not an obvious vandalism target. -81.129.124.199 (talk) 22:20, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Unprotected Not a whole lot of editing over the last 3.5 years under semi-protection. Could be a spam target, will watchlist. kelapstick(bainuu) 22:41, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

18 July 2013

Temporary Pending Changes: An anon is constantly removing one former member, Miles Woodward, because listing them alongside another, Richey Edwards, apparently denigrates the memory of the latter. See [37], [38], [39], [40], [41], [42]. Hiding T 18:56, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 19:02, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – High levels of vandalism and unconstructive edits. Favre1fan93 (talk) 18:47, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Lectonar (talk) 18:52, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

User talk:Boomer Patrol (edit | user page | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary full protection: Inappropriate use of user talk page while blocked – continuing assumptions of bad faith and attacks . Hell In A Bucket (talk) 14:04, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

User(s) re-blocked with talk page editing disallowed. by User:Bwilkins. Mark Arsten (talk) 14:57, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection. Theopolisme (talk) 18:19, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Already done. Actually, it is already semiprotected since April....Lectonar (talk) 18:21, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: vandalism adding links to Mario to the notable alumni. Frietjes (talk) 17:00, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of two months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 17:08, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Upgrade to semi-protection: Article has long been subject to persistent vandalism. It has been semi-protected several times before for increasing periods: on 24 November 2011 (for one week), 10 June 2012 (for one month), 2 August 2012 (for three months), 22 November 2012 (for three months). I requested semi-protection again on 7 July 2013 following continued vandalism; the response was instead to activate pending-change protection on 8 July 2013 (for one year). In the eleven days since then, the article has continued to be subject to repeated edits (all by IP addresses) denied as vandalism.[43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50] In this time, there have been no legitimate edits. Pending-changes protection is not having the desired effect of preventing vandalism (attempts). Semi-protection is justified and would save reviewers having to continually revert vandalism; any legitimate edits by non-registered users (rare as they are) can be requested on the talk page. —sroc 💬 14:39, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Done Changed from pending changes to semi-protection of the same length due to high volume of vandalism. Mark Arsten (talk) 15:09, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
Thank you! —sroc 💬 15:14, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – Not too sure about this one, constant undoing by multiple autoconfirmed editors. -- LuK3 (Talk) 14:52, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. and page Semi-protected for three weeks by User:Reaper Eternal. Mark Arsten (talk) 15:06, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

User talk:Just James (edit | user page | history | links | watch | logs)

Indefinite semi-protection: Have left Wikipedia forever; do not want any messages posted here from unregistered users. Just James T/C 09:45, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Done Sorry to see you go. Mark Arsten (talk) 14:56, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary partial-protection: I am making request for this page to be placed on temporary partial protection due to continuing unsourced and inaccurate claims being made by what appears to be a single unregistered editor going between several ip's, all from the same location. The level of vandalism is almost identical to that which was happening on Robots (film), which received temporary protection. Cheers for looking at it. The Australian Red Man (talk) 14:29, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 14:50, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism by unregistered user in conflict with cited sources the article is based on, unilateral editing without gaining consensus from talk page resulted in edit war. -- Fifty7 (talk) 08:49, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. Lectonar (talk) 08:55, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

temporary full protection:. How to add the same-sex marriage in England and Wales (but not Schotland and Northern Ireland) to the template results in much discussion and a full fledged edit war amongst multiple users. There is no indication this will stop or that consensus will be achieved soonish (there have been some discussions on the topic for some weeks)... L.tak (talk) 19:17, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined This is more procedural, as it seems to have died down (and the talkpage discussion gives me hope...). Relist if necessary. Lectonar (talk) 09:13, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Unprotection: Protection was to expire today but it's still in effect. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.180.1.224 (talk) 03:13, 18 July 2013‎

Declined It is unprotected; article feedback is still disabled, and on good grounds, I'd say. Lectonar (talk) 08:28, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP vandalism unlikely to go away with all the hype and hoopla regarding Johnny Manziel's offseason activities. DPH1110 (talk) 04:43, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Lectonar (talk) 09:25, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

"Temporary full protection:""Persistent vandalism - vandalism. Techdude3331 (talk) 02:14, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined - The article is already semiprotected indefinitely, and I don't see any vandalism or disruption from autoconfirmed users that would necessitate full protection. --Bongwarrior (talk) 02:46, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: The addition of poorly sourced content resumed almost as soon as the last protection ended. There have been 5 explicit reversions of edits and 3 unstated reversions of edits in the 8 days it has been unprotected, so it is essentially happening daily. That alone should be enough for the protection to resume, but you should also consider that with Comic-Con starting today more rumors are going to be on the internet and it is only going to get worse. Spidey104 00:49, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Lectonar (talk) 09:22, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Short-term vandalism. -- LuK3 (Talk) 22:10, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Lectonar (talk) 09:14, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary pending changes: Persistent vandalism – Vandalism.  TOW  talk  23:28, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

User(s) blocked.. IP blocked by another admin. Bbb23 (talk) 00:22, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Dogmaticeclectic (talk) 23:18, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection.--Bbb23 (talk) 00:20, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Dogmaticeclectic (talk) 23:13, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection.--Bbb23 (talk) 00:19, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism. 017Bluefield (talk) 21:13, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection.--Bbb23 (talk) 00:15, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – persistant IP edits and vandalism regarding release dates and singles. — Lil_℧niquℇ №1 [talk] 19:09, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Warn the user appropriately then report them to AIV or ANI if they continue. This is "1" IP. Protection is not the tool of choice here, as it would be rather like using cannons to shoot down sparrows. Lectonar (talk) 21:18, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Talk:Australian flag debate (edit | article | history | links | watch | logs)

Unprotection: Protection was to expire in 2011 but it's still in effect. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.180.1.224 (talk • contribs)

Unprotected The page was indefinitely semi-protected for sockpuppetry, however Lowercase Sigmabot added the incorrect template. Requester geolocates to a different area of NSW than the IPs who were causing an issue on the talk page. I've unprotected itkelapstick(bainuu) 03:51, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations – See history - several users adding dubiously sourced material in breach of BLP. ukexpat (talk) 20:15, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 20:22, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite move protection: Page title dispute/move warring – Consensus was established for this page's name through a RM, but an editor has moved it three times in the past 24 hours despite this consensus. Editor is not engaging in discussion, but did post displeasure on the talk page, indicating awareness of said consensus. – Muboshgu (talk) 18:36, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. Mark Arsten (talk) 18:43, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – Edit warring over terminology; I have made at least six attempts in the last 24 hours to try to get a response from the user regarding the changes on his user talk page (see User talk:Black60dragon#Pokémon edits, diff) but he refuses to answer me outside of edit summaries on the article in question. I think 3 days would be a good minimum to attempt to foster discussion, otherwise I have a bad feeling someone is going to end up blocked. —Ryulong (琉竜) 05:37, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Consider the edit warring noticeboard – This is a case of possible edit-warring by one or two users. This might get more eyes on this. Lectonar (talk) 07:14, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
Will do if he reverts me for the third day in a row.—Ryulong (琉竜) 10:52, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

19 July 2013

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Return of persistent content vandal. See previous protection log. Requesting 3-6 months semi-protection. --EEMIV (talk) 20:15, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Done by Acroterion kelapstick(bainuu) 21:32, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary create protection: Repeatedly recreated. Akamovi (talk) 15:26, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined Maybe I'm missing something, but this request doesn't make sense. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 16:00, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Constant deletion request. Benfold (talk) 12:44, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

  • Declined A deletion request is not vandalism, and you are not allowed to continually remove it because you disagree. Please refer to my message on your talk page and let an admin consider the deletion request. Mark Arsten (talk) 17:47, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Long term, persistent attention from banned User:Chowkatsun9 and all of socks including the many IP addresses from Hong Kong starting with 218.xx. Binksternet (talk) 16:30, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of one month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 17:57, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection IP hopping vandal. Frietjes (talk) 16:21, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 17:56, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Hearfourmewesique (talk) 14:51, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 17:53, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent undiscussed genre changes by IP without explanation or sources. HrZ (talk) 13:38, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 17:50, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection. Content dispute. IP refuses to engage in discussion on talk page, keeps on moving content. Please semi-protect the article for a day or two. --bender235 (talk) 12:16, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined Single IP, since warned. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 12:39, 19 July 2013 (UTC)Anna Frodesiak (talk) 12:38, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection Disruptive editing IP's persistently inflate one of the sales figures without updating the source(s) provided for it. --Harout72 (talk) 11:27, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 17:41, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: IP using multiple IPs is persistently edit-warring, even after 3RR warning. Despite an attempt at discussion on the talk page, refuses to discuss. AussieLegend (✉) 09:56, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 17:39, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary pending changes level 1 protection: Repeated good-faith insertion of false information by new editors who confuse Australia and Ireland --Guy Macon (talk) 15:33, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Seems fair, I made that exact mistake, started editing, then caught myself and reverted. *headdesk* Will reviewers notice, though? I usually figure PC is best reserved for the sorts of problems that are most obviously problems to reviewers. I'll leave the protection to someone else, but perhaps no one will object if I add an edit notice in any case. --j⚛e deckertalk 15:48, 19 July 2013 (UTC)
Good idea about the edit notice. I plan on keeping up with the reviewing myself if nobody beats me to it. --Guy Macon (talk) 15:53, 19 July 2013 (UTC)
Pending-changes protected for a period of 7 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Sounds good, thanks! I've got an EN up, but fix or ask me to fix if it needs tweaking. --j⚛e deckertalk 15:59, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

User talk:TheChampionMan1234/Archive 2013-07-19 (edit | user page | history | links | watch | logs)

Indefinite full protection: This is an archive of my talkpage. TheChampionMan1234 07:12, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined Please read out protection policy; user talk-pages, even if archived, are almost never protected. And there was no vandalism. Lectonar (talk) 07:18, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: BLP policy violations – Unsourced BLP content is repeatedly added. Additionally, during the addition, properly sourced and linked content is deleted. Checkingfax (talk) 03:14, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. I see about 4 instances of vandalism in the last 10 days. Lectonar (talk) 07:15, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary pending changes: Since late June, IP change trivial aspects of the table. The frequency of these changes is not about daily and I think about a month of pending changes will be enough for them to loose interest. I am One of Many (talk) 00:04, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Lectonar (talk) 07:14, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Annonymous IP has been reverting edits with incorrectly formatted data.

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. kelapstick(bainuu) 22:13, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Repeated additions of unsourced information by Ips . — Lil_℧niquℇ №1 [talk] 21:47, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Only really four incidents in the last two days. kelapstick(bainuu) 22:23, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism beginning from December 2009. It appears to be the same person logging in from different IPs (occasionally registered accounts with offensive names which were banned almost immediately). The IP has recently gone on another round of reverts. I would like to request indefinite semi-protection. [51], [52], [53], [54], [55], [56], [57], [58], [59], [60], [61], [62], [63], [64], [65], [66], [67], [68], [69]. Parishan (talk) 20:40, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

(Non-administrator comment) IMO that's not frequent enough to warrant protection. Armbrust The Homunculus 20:57, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Right you are. Lectonar (talk) 21:12, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
To the OP: Wikipedia:Make protection requests sparingly, although "only" an essay, makes interesting reading in that regard. Lectonar (talk) 21:17, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism beginning from December 2009. It appears to be the same person logging in from different IPs (occasionally registered accounts with offensive names which were banned almost immediately). The IP has recently gone on another round of reverts. I would like to request indefinite semi-protection. [70], [71], [72], [73], [74], [75], [76], [77], [78], [79], [80], [81], [82]. Parishan (talk) 20:40, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

(Non-administrator comment) IMO that's not frequent enough to warrant protection. Armbrust The Homunculus 20:57, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Right you are. Lectonar (talk) 21:13, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism beginning from December 2009. It appears to be the same person logging in from different IPs (occasionally registered accounts with offensive names which were banned almost immediately). The IP has recently gone on another round of reverts. I would like to request indefinite semi-protection. [83], [84], [85], [86], [87], [88], [89], [90], [91], [92], [93], [94], [95], [96], [97], [98]. Parishan (talk) 20:40, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

(Non-administrator comment) IMO that's not frequent enough to warrant protection. Armbrust The Homunculus 20:57, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Right you are. Lectonar (talk) 21:14, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary full -protection: Due to the high level of edit disagreements, which led even to edit war I suggest temporary full protection of this page. After making edits through well sourced reliable historians I received 24h threats on my channel page and on talk page as well. --Tritomex (talk) 13:35, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined You and the other party have only made one revert each, so full protection would be premature. Please follow WP:BRD guidelines though and do not continue to revert. Mark Arsten (talk) 15:22, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

20 July 2013

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Amaury (talk) 09:00, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Warn the user appropriately then report them to AIV or ANI if they continue. Only one user, whom has just been issued a final warning is blocked. kelapstick(bainuu) 09:17, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Numerous changes, including a move, by sock-puppets of Morning277 (54.241.41.227, 54.241.46.42, 54.215.78.180, 54.215.58.143, 54.215.61.209, NaturalScholar (talk · contribs), Thecandymaker (talk · contribs), A1Abigail (talk · contribs), Josiah2013 (talk · contribs) and 54.241.89.228). Accounts used are autoconfirmed. —rybec 22:00, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Last edit to the page was a move one week ago, also accounts are blocked. kelapstick(bainuu) 03:41, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: - Unregistered users keep editing the page and sometimes mess it up which is really annoying as this is all the time, I think the protection will help the page as it will reduce vandalism and stop kids who don't know how to use wikipedia properly from accessing editing options. Thanks Dontforgetthisone (talk) 19:56, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Seems like only one or two events this week. kelapstick(bainuu) 03:40, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – This article has been vandalized by IPs and a new editor since July 13. SL93 (talk) 05:08, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of 10 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.. I also noted some constructive new/IP editing and that there's not an overwhelming level of vandalism, so pending changes should be adequate. Ks0stm (T•C•G•E) 07:11, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Controversial rape incident is triggering vandalism. NeilN talk to me 01:57, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. kelapstick(bainuu) 03:28, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: IPs keep jumping in to do a massive restoration of unsourced content. The Devil's Advocate tlk. cntrb. 21:02, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. kelapstick(bainuu) 03:24, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Please protect for a few days.. unsourced transfer speculation about a loan move. No official confirmation has been made by Liverpool. JMHamo (talk) 23:59, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 00:15, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Some sexually explicit vandalism recently from IPs and non-autoconfirmed accounts. Paul Erik (talk)(contribs) 22:26, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 03:00, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

User talk:Tomoni111 (edit | user page | history | links | watch | logs)

Full protection: Inappropriate use of user talk page while blocked. DavidLeighEllis (talk) 19:28, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. Talk page access revoked by User:Ponyo. Mark Arsten (talk) 19:43, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

21 July 2013

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring. SMS Talk 15:57, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Fully protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 16:14, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP editor and newly registered account belonging to said IP editor edit warring for the past several weeks. —Ryulong (琉竜) 15:33, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Already protected by administrator Mark Arsten. (1 week). Armbrust The Homunculus 15:58, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Repeated IP vandalism . Andrew327 13:03, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Mark Arsten (talk) 15:16, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Recent spate of IP editing (probably the same person, but a series of IP addresses so it isn't easily corrected with a block) with the aim of misrepresenting sources to promote an agenda. –Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 03:45, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected indefinitely. Mark Arsten (talk) 15:23, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – No matter how many times this page receives protection, the vandals always seem to make there way back. I've been dealing with the same Dynamic IP user from Brazil who keeps adding the fictitious content. – Recollected • 03:15, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 15:26, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Recent incident at a Six Flags park bringing in lots of original thought and bad-faith edits from anon IP users. Request short-term protection to allow registered editors to work on the article and for the news cycle to move on to something else. McDoobAU93 00:23, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 15:27, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Dubious unsourced additions. STATic message me! 18:29, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 15:31, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism related to removing sourced BLP content. STATic message me! 13:05, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 15:33, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Content dispute being discussed in ANI. Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 13:58, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Fully protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 15:09, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Addition of poorly sourced material and BLP violations.--♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 13:38, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 15:13, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending changes: Persistent vandalism. King Jakob C2 11:41, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 15:17, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: page protection for user page. tlksiryuseditor 07:35, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Done Mark Arsten (talk) 15:18, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism. --Plea$ant 1623 ✉ 06:09, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Will protect for longer if vandalism resumes upon expiry. Mark Arsten (talk) 15:20, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Persistent attempts by a registered user to push a fringe theory into the first sentence of the lead. Talkpage discussion shows that the mainstream view, including a reliably sourced review of the same source, gives a very diferent conclusion. 212.183.128.143 (talk) 17:40, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

Another reversion by the registered user (Martinvl) has just occurred, this time accompanied by false claims of the outcome of an, yet to be investigated SPI, which is itself based on scurrilous claims. 212.183.128.235 (talk) 08:08, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
Please see this SPI entry in respect of the proposer of this this request. Martinvl (talk) 08:10, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
More reverts by the registered user with no reliably sourced evidence of it being the mainstream view, and more bad-faith trouble-stirring. 212.183.128.233 (talk) 08:39, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Dennis Bratland (talk) 04:20, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 24 hours, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. kelapstick(bainuu) 07:26, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism from 3 IPs and 1 new user over the last couple days. Could be test edits, but they keep re-adding nonsense. x4? Looks like puppets or proxies.--R.S. Peale (talk) 03:19, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 Days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. kelapstick(bainuu) 07:31, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Unprotection: Article has been protected in one form or another because of edit warring/disputes/vandalism dating back to 2008 when the subject was involved in a scandal and resigned his judicial office. Given the passage of time, I think it would be safe to remove all protection from this page. Can always re-protect if problems start up again. Safiel (talk) 20:51, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

Not unprotected Given the history of BLP nonsense, I can't see any benefit to opening this article to IP's. Courcelles 00:24, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. This article couldn't even last for 24 hours. Please protect again for two weeks. ~~JHUbal27 20:42, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one fortnight, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. — xaosflux Talk 03:03, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary move protection: Highly visible page – Given that this article was prematurely created anyhow, and with the birth imminent, a temporary move protection would prudent to prevent premature moves based on rumor. Maybe SYSOP only until the child is born, named and a proper consensus has been reached on the talk page. Safiel (talk) 15:37, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

Probably would be prudent to add Temporary semi-protect as well. Given the high visibility and high profile of this event, this page is going to attract much interest. Safiel (talk) 19:02, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
Declined – Pages are not protected preemptively. Diannaa (talk) 23:41, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Being a recent incident, the article is attracting a lot of troublesome edits. SMS Talk 13:36, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined Article is being edited almost exclusively be established editors who are not impaced by semi-protection. Please be on the alert for copy-paste additions from sources in violation of copyright law. Thanks, Diannaa (talk) 23:32, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – Dispute over the reliability of sources used in the article. Jetstreamer Talk 23:54, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

Fully protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Diannaa (talk) 00:05, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP editors and probably their sock master TKdebnath have been repeatedly pushing a version which says that Gangadhar Nehru's birth name was Ghiyasuddin Ghazi, although it is not supported by any of the sources. Shovon (talk) 15:55, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Diannaa (talk) 23:51, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Edit warring over particular aspects of the article by registered and anon editors with no discussion on the talk page. McPhail (talk) 14:28, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. The problem is one IP removing sourced content, so semi-protection should do the trick. Diannaa (talk) 23:36, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

'Semi-protection: Continous vandalisim. Adding false volumes such as 67.87.140.155 did. ACMEWikiNet (talk) 21:49, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of two weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Also, the most recent IP used has been blocked for 48 hrs to keep them from moving to a different article. Diannaa (talk) 22:49, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Recent death. TRL (talk) 15:41, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

Already protected by administrator Xaosflux. Armbrust The Homunculus 21:54, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Slow burning edit war with IPs adding a massive amount of promo. The Banner talk 12:25, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Diannaa (talk) 22:59, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: History of vandalism by IP editors and original research. STATic message me! 11:18, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Diannaa (talk) 22:52, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

22 July 2013

Semi-protection: Persistent IP vandalism. Tanbircdq (talk) 17:20, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Requesting for protecting the last part of the article Mujaddid. The repeated abusive vandalism by anti-ahmadiyya by unknown (changing IPs). --Drali1954 (talk) 17:42, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 20:14, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: on going edit war - lets lockup the page so we force all to the talk page.Moxy (talk) 16:32, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 20:19, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Long-term temporary protection. I've already previously asked for this page to be protected from IP edits, that was granted yesterday by Anna Frodesiak for a period of 12 hours. As soon as that protection expired, we got another IP vandal. The article needs to be protected from IP edits long-term, until after Egypt has had elections and the coup is considered "over". I do not want to get in an argument about the terminology, there have already been dozens, but for as long as there is consensus at 2013 Egyptian coup d'état to refer to the event as a coup, the main article on coups should include Egypt. Fry1989 eh? 17:36, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 20:26, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Long-term semi-protection: There is a new case of an anon user enforcing his/hers POV. It wasn't long time before we had some other anon doing the similar thing and disrupting the infobox data, other sources and refusing discussion on talk page....which all BTW are well sourced and are result of a long discussed consensus. Now a week or so later there is another such case. Thus I am asking for a long-term or indefinite semi-protection to prevent these cases. At least if they register they will be forced to abide to the rules and discuss their changes. Shokatz (talk) 17:52, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one year, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 20:23, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Create protection: Repeatedly recreated. JetBlast (talk) 19:40, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Creation protected by User:Mufka. Mark Arsten (talk) 19:56, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary move protection: Page title dispute/move warring – Recent move warring after disputed discussion. Binksternet (talk) 18:01, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Move protected for three days by User:Dougweller. Mark Arsten (talk) 20:02, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: The recent announcement of the film's official title has lead to the addition of a lot of unsourced or poorly sourced content by IP addresses. Hopefully one week will be long enough for interest brought on by the recent news to subside. Spidey104 17:45, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 20:05, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Numerous anons and registered users are persistently changing changing the surname "Thatch" to "Teach", despite a reference and note asking them not too; these are good faith edits. I request semi-protection for the time being, possibly even up until the game's launch, in order to prevent us having to little the page history with reverts. --Jasca Ducato (talk) 08:41, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined The problem is, they're not only good faith, as far as I can see they're right. Blackbeard's most commonly used name IS Teach. If the game refers to him as something else, that should be properly explained in the article, not in a hidden note. "Real-life individuals that will be encountered include the pirates Edward "Blackbeard" Teach (though using the name Thatch)". You could also wikilink to the Blackbeard#Early_life section so people can read why there's a different name. GedUK  12:37, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
I must say I disagree. The article on Blackbeard states: "In contemporary records his name is most often given as Blackbeard, Edward Thatch or Edward Teach; the latter is most often used today." This suggests to me that the use of "Thatch" is no less correct than using "Teach", and the fact that he is known nowadays by the name Teach is besides the point, given that the developers' have clearly stated their intent to use the former. --Jasca Ducato (talk) 13:44, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Common target of SEO and spammers. Werieth (talk) 14:31, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of three months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 14:34, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – IP hopping editor reverting against consensus using a copyvio youtube clip as his reference. Murry1975 (talk) 14:18, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 14:24, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection.  TOW  talk  07:52, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Done Mark Arsten (talk) 14:25, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Removal of PC, indef, uneeded now. Tbhotch.™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions. 05:49, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Done Mark Arsten (talk) 14:38, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. SMS Talk 07:54, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. GedUK  12:29, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

User talk:NHRHS2010 (edit | user page | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary semi-protection My talk page is consistently being vandalized by block-evading IPv6 addresses possibly originating from a sock farm from two years ago. NHRHS2010 the student pilot ✈ 07:08, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. GedUK  12:27, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

The article has been continuously protected for over five years (save for a week of PC trial), the volume of edits is low. The protecting admin Caulde (talk · contribs) was blocked indefinitely. eh bien mon prince (talk) 22:24, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Unprotected GedUK  12:43, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Current event; expect a huge influx of IP edits and vandalism. — Richard BB 08:36, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 10 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. and 1 week for the mother. GedUK  12:18, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – There is persistent vandalism from random IP addresses. They add and take out little chunks and add random unreliable sources. . Ashermadan (talk) 05:24, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

(Non-administrator comment)Content dispute :Disputed source has been taken to Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard in attempt to reach conensus. I.P editors don't appear to be an issue. Flat Out let's discuss it 06:59, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
Not done Indeed, as mentioned by Flat Out the dispute is between autoconfirmed editors, semiprotection would have no effect. The last IP edit was (properly) italicizing the film title. kelapstick(bainuu) 07:06, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism to a BLP. STATic message me! 04:44, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. kelapstick(bainuu) 05:06, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent I.P vandalism over the club he plays for. There is no source to say he has signed for a new club since being released by Tranmere. Kidstylez (talk) 04:30, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined edits only really three unique edits including your own (with continuous blocks of edits by the same IP considered one edit). kelapstick(bainuu) 05:04, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent I.P vandalism over species. LittleJerry (talk) 00:57, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. kelapstick(bainuu) 04:54, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Repeated target of blocked editor with a long history of socking.SummerPhD (talk) 22:28, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined Sock IPs being managed. Other good IP edits made over past several months. Will monitor and protect if new sock emerges. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 02:02, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: persistent unsourced claims, possible edit warring. Matty.007 20:52, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. Mark Arsten (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) kelapstick(bainuu) 02:06, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Seeking temporary protection from I.P socks of User:Punkfishpat vandalising the article. Flat Out let's discuss it 00:37, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 24 horus, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. kelapstick(bainuu) 04:58, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

semi-protection: The article is getting vandalised it can be seen through history -- Kuwaity26 (talk) 22:52, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. kelapstick(bainuu) 05:02, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Protection The topics hit the news and are lots of edit warring there. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.138.252.139 (talk) 21:43, 21 July 2013

Declined Almost all of this involves 2.138.252.139, who is generally making constructive edits and is communicating at talk pages. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 01:56, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Block evasion by a IP hopping user. STATic message me! 02:33, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. by Anna Frodesiak (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) per your AIV request, if the IP changes again, just mention it under this note. kelapstick(bainuu) 02:39, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Persistent sockpuppetry. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 02:54, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – Ongoing edit war over the past month involving the plot; mostly one editor and a series of anons. Full protection needed until the matter is decided on talk page. The Old JacobiteThe '45 18:35, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Fully protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. kelapstick(bainuu) 01:55, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism. Continued efforts by IPs to remove Egypt from the list of countries. Fry1989 eh? 18:39, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 12 hours, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Tough call. Some good IP edits, and not a huge amount disruptive, so a short protect. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 01:47, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection. Persistent vandalism. Rinkle gorge (talk) 18:41, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Probably not relevant now that the vandal has been blocked. Rinkle gorge (talk) 18:46, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
User(s) blocked. by Kuru (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA). Relist if another IP continues this. Armbrust The Homunculus 21:18, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

User talk:Lboken (edit | user page | history | links | watch | logs)

Indefinite semi-protection: Inappropriate use of user talk page while blocked – The user is continuing to post as an IP. GSK ● ✉ ✓ 17:44, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

See also: [99] GSK ● ✉ ✓ 17:49, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
User(s) re-blocked with talk page editing disallowed. by Tiptoety (talk · contribs). -- kelapstick(bainuu) 21:13, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
IP User(s) blocked. by 5 albert square (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA). Armbrust The Homunculus 21:16, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Full-protection: Contentious editing. Removal of cited content. Lack of consensus.--Lhakthong (talk) 21:23, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Content dispute. Please use the article's talk page or other forms of dispute resolution. Mark Arsten (talk) 15:29, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

23 July 2013

Semi-protected five years ago by Alex Bakharev (talk · contribs) (last edit in 2012).--eh bien mon prince (talk) 18:27, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Unprotected and enabled Pending Changes. Gamaliel (talk) 19:41, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected four years ago by PeterSymonds (talk · contribs) (mostly inactive).--eh bien mon prince (talk) 18:27, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Unprotected and enabled Pending Changes. Gamaliel (talk) 19:43, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected three years ago by Aqwis (talk · contribs) (mostly inactive).--eh bien mon prince (talk) 18:27, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Unprotected and enabled Pending Changes. Gamaliel (talk) 19:44, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected four years ago by Gonzo fan2007 (talk · contribs) (mostly inactive). Is there still a very high risk of vandalism to these articles? If not, unprotection or WP:PC could be tried instead.--eh bien mon prince (talk) 18:27, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Unprotected and enabled Pending Changes. Gamaliel (talk) 19:45, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Previous page protection didn't work. Edit war still ongoing between 173.63.176.93 under username "MazaBukaBloke"(blocked for sockpuppetting as user Thmc1 after 3 separate SPIs!)& 66.108.119.85 with newly created id of "Jefflawrencenyc". RECOMMEND BLOCKING USERS AND THEIR IPs.MBaxter1 (talk) 17:59, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Recommend you bring this to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations. Gamaliel (talk) 19:22, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected five years ago by YellowMonkey (talk · contribs) (last edit in 2010).--eh bien mon prince (talk) 18:27, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Unprotected and enabled Pending Changes. Gamaliel (talk) 19:37, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected three years ago by YellowMonkey (talk · contribs) (last edit in 2010).--eh bien mon prince (talk) 18:27, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Unprotected and enabled Pending Changes. Gamaliel (talk) 19:38, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected three years ago by YellowMonkey (talk · contribs) (last edit in 2010).--eh bien mon prince (talk) 18:27, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Unprotected and enabled Pending Changes. Gamaliel (talk) 19:40, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Long term spamming. Werieth (talk) 17:11, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 17:38, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. This regards that a former living person has passed away recently. A short-term protection could be okay. PrivateMasterHD (talk) 15:11, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one day, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 17:39, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations – A shifting IP address is keen to state that children's TV presenter Hayes was a "close friend" of notorious sex offender Jimmy Savile, but is unwilling or unable to provide any kind of source for this. McGeddon (talk) 14:58, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Mark Arsten (talk) 15:44, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
There's no recent activity because nobody noticed the "close friend of notorious paedophile" statement being added a month ago. This seems to be a low-traffic, minimally-watched BLP article, and we have an IP on a slow and apparently libellous edit war - is it at least worth applying "pending changes" here? --McGeddon (talk) 16:20, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
Pending-changes protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. And watchlisted. Mark, if you want to unprotect, go ahead. And sorry about protecting here, but it seems adequate. Lectonar (talk) 16:33, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – long term history of vandalism and some past protections to go with it, requesting longer term protection perhaps 6 months to a year. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 12:29, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of three months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 16:05, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Constant level of dynamic IP vandalism from BEOTEL ISP, two weeks? Peacemaker67 (send... over) 01:30, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Lectonar (talk) 09:18, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
Great. And off they go again. Peacemaker67 (send... over) 10:54, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Make protection requests sparingly makes great reading. Lectonar (talk) 10:56, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
You clearly don't edit where I do. Peacemaker67 (send... over) 10:57, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
Pending-changes protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Sorry, Lectonar, but pending changes protection seems adequate here. Mark Arsten (talk) 17:37, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
Lectonar (talk) 17:45, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism by unregistered user in conflict with cited sources the article is based on, unilateral editing without gaining consensus from talk page. Attempting to avoid second edit war. -- Fifty7 (talk) 12:29, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Fully protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 15:58, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Creation protection: Repeatedly recreated with in the last few months. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 12:17, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Done Mark Arsten (talk) 16:01, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection for 3 months or more, please. IPs and red-faced users persistently insert junks, make unexplained removals or test edits (two reverted themselves), where [100] (insertion of a missing space) being the only their useful edit for two months. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 11:50, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of one month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 15:56, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent editing by banned user Peter Judge, who edits from dynamic IP addresses. See [101]. Jonathan Oldenbuck (talk) 11:14, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. GedUK  11:25, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations. Ginsuloft (talk) 10:36, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Also note the edit summary of one editor: While I have no doubt that many people would agree with this description, the language used is not sufficiently NPOV for Wikipedia. Ginsuloft (talk) 10:43, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of 3 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. GedUK  11:24, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Full Protection: The Writer's guild credited Writer's name is being edited out out of the article and the template. The edit placed by the WGA is being reverted by multiple IP addresses. No reason is given by any of these users why they are doing this. This is against WIki Policy as it is a factual edit placing information that improves the article in the article. The edit warring is not in the interest of the article and it should be stopped. The Writer's guild edit placing the writers name in the article should be protected from being edited out. 86.166.241.83 (talk) 05:03, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. This is not the correct venue. Engage discussion on the talk page of the article. Lectonar (talk) 09:20, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending changes protection: Several users have repeatedly come on to the page and posted irrelevant information regarding the recent arrest of Jeremy's brother, Jason. Gracefire (talk) 23:44, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

(Non-administrator comment) I can see only I user in the last ten days (Antifahistorian (talk · contribs)). Armbrust The Homunculus 07:21, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
Declined – Warn the user appropriately then report them to AIV or ANI if they continue. Lectonar (talk) 09:19, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – This pages suffers peristent vandalism from IPs. It's quite a complicate dpage so if the vandalism goes unnoticed for a while it can be difficult to correct. Harry the Dog WOOF 07:28, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Lectonar (talk) 09:22, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection. Persistent spam vandal. TRL (talk) 04:18, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. Single IP blocked by Vsmith. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 05:41, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Reportedly involved in a transaction, which has not yet taken place. – Muboshgu (talk) 21:28, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Not done - It looks like the trade has since been completed and everything has quieted down. --Bongwarrior (talk) 06:54, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite move-protection. Page-move vandalism. Tbhotch.™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions. 07:37, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Done. --Bongwarrior (talk) 07:52, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: The recent announcement of the film's official title has lead to the addition of a lot of unsourced or poorly sourced content by IP addresses. Hopefully one week will be long enough for interest brought on by the recent news to subside. Spidey104 17:45, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Already protected by administrator Mark Arsten. (1 week) Armbrust The Homunculus 07:12, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: on going edit war - lets lockup the page so we force all to the talk page.Moxy (talk) 16:32, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Already protected by administrator Mark Arsten. (1 week semi) Armbrust The Homunculus 07:09, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Seriously, an IP has made it his mission to label Pete a wolf or dog and refuses to stop. LittleJerry (talk) 05:53, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Materialscientist (talk) 06:07, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – In the news for having failed a drug test and being suspended, additions of insulting comments and the like. §FreeRangeFrogcroak 22:50, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of two weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. --Bongwarrior (talk) 06:49, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – The subject of this article is in the news regarding a reported transaction, awaiting an official announcement. —Chris!c/t 21:29, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Done by Zagalejo. --Bongwarrior (talk) 06:55, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent IP vandalism. Tanbircdq (talk) 17:20, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Requesting for protecting the last part of the article Mujaddid. The repeated abusive vandalism by anti-ahmadiyya by unknown (changing IPs). --Drali1954 (talk) 17:42, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
Done by Mark Arsten. --Bongwarrior (talk) 07:02, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Long-term semi-protection: There is a new case of an anon user enforcing his/hers POV. It wasn't long time before we had some other anon doing the similar thing and disrupting the infobox data, other sources and refusing discussion on talk page....which all BTW are well sourced and are result of a long discussed consensus. Now a week or so later there is another such case. Thus I am asking for a long-term or indefinite semi-protection to prevent these cases. At least if they register they will be forced to abide to the rules and discuss their changes. Shokatz (talk) 17:52, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Done by Mark Arsten. --Bongwarrior (talk) 06:59, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Slow burning editwar and POV pushing by a IP. The Banner talk 01:50, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. - just trying a month first - can revisit later. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 05:21, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary protection: A user is pushing for a specific version on the page, to improve the image of the author. It looks like a kind of PR agent of it. Unhappily the facts on the page are objective. 23:54, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. I reverted to last stable version. I told the autoconfirmed editor to stop and use talk. The IP (only other party) was informed to use talk. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 01:22, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending changes: Persistent vandalism – The vandals and spammers have come back to this page already. King Jakob C2 22:53, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. In the last day there have been four acts of vandalism by two editors, one of which is blocked. Last spamming was over a week ago. If spamming continues request again. kelapstick(bainuu) 23:37, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Widr (talk) 00:23, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 01:09, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite full-protection: The same sockpuppets are showing up again from User:Thesomeone987, they are making the same exact edits, including misspelling names, removing citations, blanking articles, I suggest Wikipedia:Duck and sockpuppet investigation is open.

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Mark Arsten (talk) 20:20, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Long-term temporary protection. I've already previously asked for this page to be protected from IP edits, that was granted yesterday by Anna Frodesiak for a period of 12 hours. As soon as that protection expired, we got another IP vandal. The article needs to be protected from IP edits long-term, until after Egypt has had elections and the coup is considered "over". I do not want to get in an argument about the terminology, there have already been dozens, but for as long as there is consensus at 2013 Egyptian coup d'état to refer to the event as a coup, the main article on coups should include Egypt. Fry1989 eh? 17:36, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Done by Mark Arsten Anna Frodesiak (talk) 01:08, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Repeated addition of a link that we are considering to be spam until the city confirms their involvement with the website in question. The account and IP in question are "consultants" apparently associated with a realty operation. See also ticket:2013072210007683. §FreeRangeFrogcroak 23:30, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. kelapstick(bainuu) 23:33, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection. Persistent vandalism. Lugia2453 (talk) 21:25, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. ... discospinster talk 23:17, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection - Apparently there are rumours surrounding this player's transfer to FK Partizan. However, the transfer is not yet complete, nor has it even been announced by either the player nor the club. I suggest a few days of semi-protection to stem the tide of IP contributors adding info pre-emptively. – PeeJay 21:08, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.kelapstick(bainuu) 21:24, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Numerous anons and registered users are persistently changing changing the surname "Thatch" to "Teach", despite a reference and note asking them not too; these are good faith edits. I request semi-protection for the time being, possibly even up until the game's launch, in order to prevent us having to little the page history with reverts. --Jasca Ducato (talk) 08:41, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined The problem is, they're not only good faith, as far as I can see they're right. Blackbeard's most commonly used name IS Teach. If the game refers to him as something else, that should be properly explained in the article, not in a hidden note. "Real-life individuals that will be encountered include the pirates Edward "Blackbeard" Teach (though using the name Thatch)". You could also wikilink to the Blackbeard#Early_life section so people can read why there's a different name. GedUK  12:37, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
I must say I disagree. The article on Blackbeard states: "In contemporary records his name is most often given as Blackbeard, Edward Thatch or Edward Teach; the latter is most often used today." This suggests to me that the use of "Thatch" is no less correct than using "Teach", and the fact that he is known nowadays by the name Teach is besides the point, given that the developers' have clearly stated their intent to use the former. --Jasca Ducato (talk) 13:44, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Talk:The Spamhaus Project (edit | article | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Currently, various users are being accused by STOPhaus-related IPs of being related to The Spamhaus Project. Almost all of their comments are disruptive, and leaving the talk page open for them to soapbox their views out, and attack various users, is not going to help anyone. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 07:43, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined I'm only seeing one IP causing trouble as of late. I'd suggest going to WP:ANI to discuss possible sanctions. Mark Arsten (talk) 14:32, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Extend temporary semi-protection: As a precaution. Discussion continues at this thread on reddit. I've linked to the article's history page, to serve as an example of what it looks like when a page falls under attack. I apologize for the attention I'm afraid this might garner... can we push the protection out another 24 hours, to be on the safe side? --Moralis (talk) 21:29, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined, Please ask Kuru, the protecting admin directly if they want to extend it. GedUK  12:21, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

24 July 2013

Semi-protection: High level of IP test (nonconstructive edit followed by revert) vandalism - various IPs beginning with 90.xxx AngusWOOF (talk) 15:56, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Bearian (talk) 16:29, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

Create protection: Repeatedly recreated. Hell In A Bucket (talk) 15:35, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

Creation protected Lectonar (talk) 15:58, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP editor continually removing sourced content . Darkness Shines (talk) 07:17, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. It's quite a high edit traffice article, and the disruption really isn't that high. If the same IP repeatedly removes stuff then better to take action against them individally if they're not hopping. GedUK  11:23, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary pending changes: A lot of IPs are making repeated nonconstructive edits, and are adding promotional headings. AsceticRosé 14:53, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Lectonar (talk) 14:56, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Very controversial man who since the Woolwich stabbing has been vandalised constantly. C. 22468 Talk to me 14:03, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Lectonar (talk) 14:05, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing. This regards that a baseball player has recently been traded to a different team. PrivateMasterHD (talk) 02:23, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. GedUK  11:18, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: This was previously semi-protected due to promotional editing by unregistered editors, but as soon as protection was lifted it started again. Maybe we need a longer period this time. Phil Bridger (talk) 07:12, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Lectonar (talk) 08:00, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of dubious unsourced content additions. STATic message me! 01:56, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. GedUK  11:17, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry. Darkness Shines (talk) 22:39, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Already protected by administrator Salvio giuliano.GedUK  11:15, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry. Darkness Shines (talk) 22:38, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Already protected by administrator Salvio giuliano.GedUK  11:15, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry. Darkness Shines (talk) 22:30, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Already protected by administrator Salvio giuliano.GedUK  11:15, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Frequent vandalism and addition of unsourced content. — Confession0791 talk 01:21, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Qwyrxian (talk) 04:54, 24 July 2013 (UT)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – User from Brazil has found a fascination with creating a fictitious cast and placing it on Bad Girls Club articles. It has become a daily occurrence. Requesting protection for this season as it's the latest victim of the vandal. . – Recollected • 01:17, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Qwyrxian (talk) 04:54, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary pending changes: BLP policy violations – At the request of User:GiggsIsLegend. This page is attacked on an ideological basis by both IPs and registered users. Before asking for permanent protection, I'd like to see if temporary protection quiets the crowd. Chris Troutman (talk) 23:01, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected indefinitely. I don't see any reason to ever use pending changes for a temporary period of time on a BLP, unless the problems are because of some time sensitive current event likely to fade away. My guess is, though, you'll need full semi-protection, and possibly even blocks. Qwyrxian (talk) 04:51, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Repeated removal of information on the article with no rationale and the removal of the information is of a controversial nature. Please protect the article and warn or block the IP. This is not the first time unregistered users have made these types of edits to this page.Sport and politics (talk) 21:29, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined for now. The IP editor has identified himself as a party in an incident discussed in the article, so I've brought this issue to BLPN. Gamaliel (talk) 22:05, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – Due to the constant edit warring between Truthwillneverdie (talk · contribs · count) and CJK (talk · contribs · count) it is needed that the Iraq war page be fully protected for a short while to let the edit war cool down. 155blue (talk) 20:27, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

  • Declined This has been protected a couple times recently (as you know) and the article need not be protected at the first inkling of edit-warring. If it truly becomes disruptive, the offending editor and editors can just be blocked. -- tariqabjotu 21:05, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Full protection for a few days. Editors are edit warring over a POV dispute, and in particular over two tags (fringe and undue weight). They need to take it to talk. --Tryptofish (talk) 20:07, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

The edit warring is still continuing. --Tryptofish (talk) 22:55, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
Fully protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 23:43, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected three years ago by NJA (talk · contribs) (last edit in 2012).--eh bien mon prince (talk) 18:27, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Note: Given the name of the article, indefinite semi-protection might not be a bad idea. Gamaliel (talk) 19:34, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
Declined I agree; this is a vandalism magnet. Lectonar (talk) 20:01, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Multiple vandals adding nonsense regarding Moffat killing a favorite character yet again. One IP and two SPA editors so far, with no signs of it stopping. This is an ongoing problem that has required repeated extended semi-protection. Semi stops it for a while, then it begins again. SPAs blocked; IP needs attention as well. --Drmargi (talk) 20:09, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 year, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. - article had just come out of a 3 month page protection for the exact same issue. Extended the protection due to the ongoing disruption. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 20:45, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Some IP is adding unconfirmed reports that HH is coming back october 2013. But it isnt coming back. The IP keeps adding that its coming back october 2013 and some editors are reverting the unsourced return. DDreth ask me questions! 14:48, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. Mark Arsten (talk) 16:08, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Unprotection: A few users adding some unsourced material that appears to be true to an unpopular page does not warrant semi-protection. 2.122.22.116 (talk) 16:33, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Have you contacted the protecting admin, Mark Arsten? Lectonar (talk) 17:27, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
Not done There are some sensitive BLP issues at play here, so I'm reluctant to unprotect early. Particularly since we want controversial claims (that a pedophile was applauded as a hero by schoolteachers) to be verifiable, rather than merely "appear[ing] to be true". Mark Arsten (talk) 17:46, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

25 July 2013

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Technopat (talk) 14:05, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Gamaliel (talk) 15:19, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Every edit is still either an IP vandal or a reversion of one – we've got better things to do. Try 6 months?. —[AlanM1(talk)]— 13:30, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Gamaliel (talk) 15:21, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism. STATic message me! 13:26, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. —Tom Morris (talk) 15:59, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: IP edit warring on article. Edgepedia (talk) 09:57, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. It is the first protection on this page. Lectonar (talk) 10:50, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Long-term semi-protection: Slow-burning, long-term mixture of IP vandalism, and removal of sourced content without explanation. There hasn't been much in the way of positive contributions by IPs for months. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 08:54, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. It's not so much slow burning as low level. Frequency is probably not high enough for semi-protection, and for the first protection in two years I can't justitfy anything long term at this stage. Let's try pending changes and see how that goes. Removal of sources usually gets rejected by the patrollers. GedUK  11:29, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Vandalism from different IP users. Astros4477 (Talk) 04:15, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Lectonar (talk) 07:02, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism. Koala15 (talk) 04:26, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Lectonar (talk) 07:03, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent insertion of spamlinks by IP user . Hot Stop talk-contribs 03:48, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Endorse - IP will simply continue once he's unblocked. 72 hours or a week should do the trick. Dusti*Let's talk!* 03:53, 25 July 2013 (UTC)
User(s) blocked. for 31 hours by User:Materialscientist. Re-report if disruption continues upon expiry. Mark Arsten (talk) 04:05, 25 July 2013 (UTC)
I believe a 72 hour semi protection would be preventative in nature, as it would discourage the IP from re-adding the information once unblocked. Dusti*Let's talk!* 04:09, 25 July 2013 (UTC)
Already protected by administrator Mark Arsten. Dusti*Let's talk!* 05:26, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent addition of an incorrect category. This article is about the character not a TV show. Tbhotch.™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions. 00:07, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. I only see two problematic edits in the past month. Mark Arsten (talk) 01:01, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Persistent vandalism. TRL (talk) 03:48, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Already protected. (semi) for two months by User:Materialscientist. Mark Arsten (talk) 04:02, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent reversion of a GFE on my part when I came across an unreadable block of "notable" Douglases in the in the nobility section, which were a solid block of red links and ad nauseum "son of..." "grandson of..." "nephew of..." and were not notable at all in their own right. Really, direct male descendants share the same surname as their forebear? The very definition of "notability is not inherited". Protection requested because two editors of this page insist that, despite being dead for centuries, the notability of certain Earls and Dukes etc is forthcoming. I suggested writing the articles first, and then added their links here, but was unceremoniously reverted. JesseRafe (talk) 02:59, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Fully protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 04:06, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – In fact, this request is for all articles "List of Bollywood films of ..." in the period 1970-1989. An IP is clearly deliberately removing correct links and creating links to disambiguation pages. An action like this on 1977 is clearly not accidental. User has had several IPs the last week, so semi protection for one or two weeks seems the best solution to spoil the fun. The Banner talk 22:41, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Elockid (Talk) 23:33, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending changes: Today's Google Doodle - vandalism already Globbet (talk) 01:03, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of two days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 01:12, 25 July 2013 (UTC)
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Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry. Tbhotch.™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions. 00:07, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected all for one week. In the future please use separate headings for each article though. Mark Arsten (talk) 01:10, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Dubious unsourced content additions. STATic message me! 21:41, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 00:59, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – High levels of vandalism from multiple IPs. Grammarxxx (What'd I do this time?) 23:24, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Elockid (Talk) 23:32, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection Persistent sockpuppetry. Refer to the currect ANI case at WP:ANI#190.137.36.40. Tbhotch.™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions. 22:24, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

Already protected by administrator Ponyo.. Elockid (Talk) 23:34, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism from IP-hopper. User keeps insisting that the game was never released outside of Japan, and is erasing references that state that it was. Crboyer (talk) 20:18, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Actually, just seeing the edit summaries was quite charming. Try to get the Ip's to the talk page and discuss this; this seems to be like a major disagreement. Lectonar (talk) 20:49, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Cindy(talk) 15:38, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Warn the user appropriately then report them to AIV or ANI if they continue. This is just one IP with a COI. Lectonar (talk) 16:00, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

26 July 2013

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – repeated additions of unsourced genres and changes to writing/production credits which are not backed up by a reliable source. — Lil_℧niquℇ №1 [talk] 14:38, 26 July 2013 (UTC). — Lil_℧niquℇ №1 [talk] 14:38, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 15:14, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing. There are trade rumors about this player that is not completely 100% official yet or the player may have already been traded. PrivateMasterHD (talk) 13:36, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 15:12, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations – new editor has been adding unreferenced, incorrect information repeatedly, including after level 4 warning was issued. Taroaldo ✉ 05:50, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. Lectonar (talk) 08:56, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: BLP policy violations – Repeated reverts to CV. Talk page has user comments from people obviously employed by Amen using IP addresses in near the location of one of his clinics. Indolering (talk) 07:20, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Materialscientist (talk) 07:44, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: The user, User:Huzair.whale, keeps extending the summaries of the episodes of Transformers: Prime, which make no sense whatsoever. AdamDeanHall (talk) 20:52, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined I see a case of biting a newcomer here, and no need for protection. The additions may be superfluous, but do not constitute vandalism per se. So try a softer approach on the users talk-page instead of accusing him of vandalism outright. Lectonar (talk) 08:47, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Request for at least 6 months of page protection. Vandalism has been happening in the article before and has happen many times. This type of vandalism are coming from unknown IPs (mostly coming from Israel). They were all given warnings but seemingly doesn't stop. As if they treat vandalism as a form of hobby. Other articles have already been semi-protected to six months with some others semi-protected indefinitely (see records here: The Biggest Loser patrol page). AR E N Z O Y 1 6A•t a l k• 18:05, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected Lectonar (talk) 08:53, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing from IP users, including release date changes, genre additions, and removal of summary in opening sentence. The1337gamer (talk) 09:30, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Lectonar (talk) 09:40, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP users keep adding inappropriate edits regarding a recent crash the airline has had. JetBlast (talk) 08:22, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of 3 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. This seems appropriate, as there are obviously some experienced users watching the page, and the main purpose is not to let it get into the article. Lectonar (talk) 09:08, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: much IP traffic changing the critical reception wording, according to their POV. This is despite a message requesting them to go to the talk page and despite the consensus on talk pages here, here and here. - SchroCat (talk) 08:02, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Lectonar (talk) 09:04, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: We're getting more unregistered IP users adding unsourced material to the article every time some kind of teaser comes out. If we protected it they might head to the Talk page to bring it up, at which point we could actually put there for all to see the reason why we're (and by that I mean mostly I'm) constantly reverting additions to the sequel's soundtrack. I think we should protect it at least until the release date of the game, for which region I don't know, but around then or close to it Ubisoft might post the actual full tracklisting on the site so by then it won't be a problem. LazyBastardGuy 07:05, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Lectonar (talk) 08:59, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary pending changes: BLP policy violations – The name and birth date of Fallon and Juvonen's newborn baby keeps getting introduced into the article. It is my understanding we don't add names and birthdates of non-notable minor children. Could the page please be changed at the least to pending changes for edits, or even protected until the fan furor subsides?. -- Winkelvi ● ✉ ✓ 05:47, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of 3 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Lectonar (talk) 08:54, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent BLP vandalism since the recent end of the long term protection. STATic message me! 04:35, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 year, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Lectonar (talk) 08:51, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Talk:Prince amine shail (edit | article | history | links | watch | logs)

Create protection: Repeatedly recreated – Prince amine shail was create-protected, but this page is still being created. Jackmcbarn (talk) 04:25, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Done by Bongwarrior. Materialscientist (talk) 07:45, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary pending changes: BLP policy violations – The name and birth date of Juvonen and Fallon's newborn baby keeps getting introduced into the article. It is my understanding we don't add names and birthdates of non-notable minor children. Could the page please be changed at the least to pending changes for edits, or even protected until the fan furor subsides?. -- Winkelvi ● ✉ ✓ 04:07, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of 3 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Lectonar (talk) 08:49, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Various IP users continue to submit unsourced, speculative episode titles for an episode that already has a sourced title. Requesting 2 week protection. . Cyphoidbomb (talk) 16:04, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Lectonar (talk) 08:42, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: repeated IP vandalism. I'm sick of undoing the edits. Moester101 (talk) 19:11, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

User(s) blocked.. Please feel free to contact me if they try to evade their block. Elockid (Talk) 01:05, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Heavy edit war going on over inclusion of section about Soviet stereotypes. I've removed section in question to have its inclusion discussed on talk page, but Phorus13's insistent on placement in the main page. Some anons are also using improper edit summaries. Eaglestorm (talk) 15:37, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Note Already requested below — Gmt2001 (talk) 15:47, 25 July 2013 (UTC)
Fully protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 03:38, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – Edit war over paragraph describing criticism stemming from accusations of Nazism and falsification of WWII history by the game.

The version of the page containing the removed text is at link

Related Revisions

Revisions by 194.44.102.70 (talk · contribs · WHOIS): 565680904 (Revert 1) (Revert of last users additions, plus removal of existing content), 565727901 (Revert 2), & 565737325 (Revert 3).

Revision by AyeBraine (talk · contribs): 565686228 (Counter to Revert 1).

Revisions by Phorus13 (talk · contribs): 565730074 (Counter to Revert 2) & 565743235 (Counter to Revert 3).

— Gmt2001 (talk) 12:44, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Additional Revisions

The edit war continues with other participants, here are the relevant additional revisions.

Revisions by Eaglestorm (talk · contribs): 565761675 (Revert 4) & 565765554 (Revert 5).

Additional revision by Phorus13 (talk · contribs): 565764531 (Counter to Revert 4).

Revision by 193.34.160.20 (talk · contribs · WHOIS): 565769818 (Counter to Revert 5).

— Gmt2001 (talk) 16:20, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Fully protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 03:38, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Editor with conflict of interest persists in adding inappropriate info. Refuses to heed guidance provided on his talk page. – S. Rich (talk) 23:07, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined This seems like a matter for Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring. Gamaliel (talk) 23:18, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Please protect, unconfirmed BLP changed being made that need reverting due to transfer rumours in the media. JMHamo (talk) 21:59, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 03:27, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: repeated IP vandalism that has continued for several days. Due to the name of the horse (and ease of Visual Editor) I doubt this problem will be going away anytime soon. Froggerlaura ribbit 19:32, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 03:31, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Create protection: Repeatedly recreated. Jackmcbarn (talk) 01:39, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Done Acroterion (talk) 01:45, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

User talk:50.162.87.53 (edit | user page | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Inappropriate use of user talk page while blocked – Blocked IP using talk page for defamatory attacks on living subjects and personal attacks on editors. The Devil's Advocate tlk. cntrb. 19:07, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

User(s) re-blocked with talk page editing disallowed. —GFOLEY FOUR!— 22:38, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

User talk:Example2 (edit | user page | history | links | watch | logs)

Indefinite full protection: gets spam from User:MediationBot due to being used as the default in an example. � (talk) 13:39, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined, I added {{nobots}}, which should work. —GFOLEY FOUR!— 22:49, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Create protection: Repeatedly recreated. Sir Sputnik (talk) 21:54, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Done Salted. Gamaliel (talk) 23:05, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations – Repeated addition and removal of subject's DOB, various dates that seem to make no sense whatsoever, and they insist on removing the single sourced DOB. Reported to WP:BLP/N and discussed with one of the editors, who is apparently related to the subject. §FreeRangeFrogcroak 20:39, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Gamaliel (talk) 23:04, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection Vandalism and BLP violations continuing after end of previous protection. 76.248.144.216 (talk) 12:02, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Jezebel'sPonyobons mots 23:09, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Unprotection: Please unprotect this and User:AutomaticStrikeout/right side as I have decided to unretire. AutomaticStrikeout  ?  16:07, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Unprotected Anna Frodesiak (talk) 16:15, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

27 July 2013

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism by multiple IPs over the past few days. Jackmcbarn (talk) 15:18, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 21:38, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism and OR-violations by dynamic IP. The IP inserts lots of unsourced OR-claims, remove fact tags if the claims are questioned, reinserts the claims if they are removed and refuses to discuss on the talk page. Semi-protection only possibility. Jeppiz (talk) 11:47, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 4 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 21:34, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent BLP vandalism by anon editors. STATic message me! 01:31, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. (Pending changes tag already there. Pls see log in case I did it wrong. Thanks.) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 21:11, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Anon IPs (likely one editor) is adding external links to Hollard Financial Services related insurance products (effectively spamming). Bidgee (talk) 22:58, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. (Done by Materialscientist) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 20:54, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Anon IPs (likely one editor) is adding external links to Hollard Financial Services related insurance products (effectively spamming). Bidgee (talk) 22:58, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. (Done by Materialscientist) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 20:54, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Anon IPs (likely one editor) is adding external links to Hollard Financial Services related insurance products (effectively spamming). Bidgee (talk) 22:56, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. (Done by Materialscientist) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 20:52, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Daily addition of fictitious content by IP hopper. – Recollected • 22:53, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 20:50, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

Mid-term semi-protection: First a brand-new account, and now an IP, insist on adding a whole bunch of names (8-9KB) to the "list of notable scholars" without any source, and the majority are non-notable. Decent edits by IPs are few and far between on this article. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 19:32, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 20:47, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: A user keeps creating new user accounts to avoid blocks in order to add a supposed birth name to this article. Please protect and ban/check user names. Thanks. Dismas|(talk) 18:05, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. January (talk) 19:29, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
Thank you! Dismas|(talk) 19:31, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Continued vandalism of the page, several previous temporary protections have already taken place, however when they expired vandalism initiated again, as it has this time. MThinkCpp (talk) 13:20, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. KTC (talk) 14:59, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: There is a lot of edit warring going on over which film poster to use in this article. I am requesting page protection until we can resolve the matter. Erik (talk | contribs) 21:33, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of a week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. I know WP:Pending changes is unpopular, but it's film, not a biography of a living person. Shirt58 (talk) 18:34, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism. Saykimcheese (talk) 0:53, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 02:19, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent, active IP's edit warring over the reviews and the box office take, changing the numbers sort of randomly (no relation to any RS)(14 times this morning so far).EBY (talk) 16:51, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 17:48, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent vandalism. Krystaleen 14:37, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection.. We generally require more than a couple of vandal edits in the last few months to semi-protect a page like this one. NW (Talk) 14:40, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

28 July 2013

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP editors constantly removing sourced content. Darkness Shines (talk) 15:35, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite full protection: user talk archive, no need for further editing, ever. DavidLeighEllis (talk) 15:20, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Done Gamaliel (talk) 17:36, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Saying there has been a lot of vandalism would be putting it lightly. STATic message me! 04:34, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 17:20, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

User talk:Ukexpat (edit | user page | history | links | watch | logs)

Semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry. ✉→Arctic Kangaroo←✎ 15:36, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 16:08, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

User talk:UranusBelongsToMe (edit | user page | history | links | watch | logs)

Semi-protection: Inappropriate use of user talk page while blocked – Nothing productive would seem to come from this user. After being blocked indefinitely, user immediately made personal attack against admin that blocked him. GrayFullbuster (talk) 14:01, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

 Done - I have revoked the user's talk page access. JohnCD (talk) 14:07, 28 July 2013 (UTC)
 Requesting immediate archiving... — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 16:11, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring. Δρ.Κ. λόγοςπράξις 06:20, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

There's only one obstinate editor. The page doesn't require full protecvtion, assuming the 3RR editor is fully cognisant of the 3RR rule going forward. TomPointTwo (talk) 06:32, 28 July 2013 (UTC)
Not quite. There is at least another editor who is currently at 3RR and yet others who are also actively edit-warring. Δρ.Κ. λόγοςπράξις 06:36, 28 July 2013 (UTC)
Apologies. It's late for me, I didn't see the fourth. Who else is over 3RR and can you send us a diff? TomPointTwo (talk) 06:41, 28 July 2013 (UTC)
There is one at 3RR and only one over 3RR. But being exactly at 3RR is not good either. Δρ.Κ. λόγοςπράξις 06:47, 28 July 2013 (UTC)
So we have one editor in violation of the 3RR rule, yes? TomPointTwo (talk) 06:48, 28 July 2013 (UTC)
Technically yes. But to be blocked one does not necessarily need to violate 3RR. Further, the one who is over did not get warned about it on time so being over 3RR in his case is not automatically a blockable offence. Δρ.Κ. λόγοςπράξις 06:55, 28 July 2013 (UTC)
3RR, esp in a BLP, is the closest thing we have to an immutable line. You're in violation of it or you're not. If you have a body of diffs to demonstrate an intentional gaming of the system then, again, please provide those diffs. Otherwise we're at a single editor in violation of 3RR and no need for a full protection. TomPointTwo (talk) 07:05, 28 July 2013 (UTC)
You cannot use diffs to prove intent of gaming the system. You can only use diffs to prove edit-warring. I don't have to provide you those diffs because I trust you can count as well as anyone. The fact remains that the material being added is doubtful if it is exempted by BLP, so edit-warring to remove it at least imo is not exempt from 3RR so everyone edit-warring is at risk of being blocked including you. Δρ.Κ. λόγοςπράξις 07:12, 28 July 2013 (UTC)
You don't have to provide me with anything, that's the nature of this place. I just presumed that since you were bringing this 3RR issue here instead of the 3RR notice board that you had a deeper issue warranting the full protection of the page. Since that seems to not be the case I suppose you'll just move this over to the 3RR board. Or am I not understanding something? TomPointTwo (talk) 07:17, 28 July 2013 (UTC)
Whenever an edit-war erupts on a page involving multiple editors the page needs protection. This is the reason I asked for protection of the page here. This request will therefore remain here because there are multiple editors edit-warring on that page. Since I also left a 3RR message on the page any further editors engaging in edit-warring will also be reported at 3RRN. Δρ.Κ. λόγοςπράξις 07:23, 28 July 2013 (UTC)
Again, we seem to have one obstinate editor making non-BLP complaint non-RS complaint edits that have been reverted by long established editors. This violator is also in violation of 3RR. This is not an "edit war". I'm not seeing your 3RRN addition. Could you provide me with a link? TomPointTwo (talk) 07:29, 28 July 2013 (UTC)
WP:3RRN. And yes it is an edit-war. I don't think the edit is a blatant violation of the BLP policy and imo it is not exempted from 3RR. So any editor, from either side, is still liable to be blocked for edit-warring if they continue the edit war. Δρ.Κ. λόγοςπράξις 07:34, 28 July 2013 (UTC)
Again, I don't see your addition to 3RRN. My presumption at this point is you haven't made one. There's also no edit warring since the lone 3RR offending editor has been made aware of his mistakes. With all of that in mind, unless I'm factually deficient somewhere, I'm not sure I have anything else to add. TomPointTwo (talk) 07:44, 28 July 2013 (UTC)
Way up above: I said Since I also left a 3RR message on the page any further editors engaging in edit-warring will also be reported at 3RRN. Since there has been no edit-warring since I said that, I have not made that report to 3RRN yet. So hopefully there will be no need for it going forward. And if that peace holds, then this report can be declined once peace has prevailed over some period of time. Δρ.Κ. λόγοςπράξις 07:52, 28 July 2013 (UTC)
Oh. So instead of reporting 3RR on the 3RR noticeboard you reported it on the requests for page protection board. You see I didn't immediately notice that, as it makes no sense at all and is exactly backwards. I'll take care of it for you. TomPointTwo (talk) 07:56, 28 July 2013 (UTC)
That's in your view. You are free to do as you please of course but please don't do me any favours. The other editor, who is a newbie, apparently stopped edit-warring after my warning. Unless he reverts again your report at 3RRN will be declined. Δρ.Κ. λόγοςπράξις 08:14, 28 July 2013 (UTC)
How do you know it will be declined? My God, you're a member of the cabal! TomPointTwo (talk) 08:23, 28 July 2013 (UTC)
Fully protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. By the way, the above thread isn't really suited for RFPP. If it's about the content it should go on the article's talk page, and if it's about conduct it should probably go on someone's user talk page. Best — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 14:23, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Contains important data about Indian space program. BenisonPBaby 07:48, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. —GFOLEY FOUR!— 07:54, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations – Repeated attempts by an IP to insert controversial, derogatory claims about a living person. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 05:30, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. Mark Arsten (talk) 03:48, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending Protection: Anonymous (IP address) users are adding fraudulent information to our Wikipedia page for EMP Museum. We would like to lock it down and require an authenticated user to approve any anonymous updates to our page. User:suzannebeal 14:48, 26 July 201324.18.140.58 (talk) 21:49, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Mark Arsten (talk) 02:32, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – This is about the fourth edit war on this article in the space of a month, better increase the protection to about a month,. Darkness Shines (talk) 15:28, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

Fully protected for a period of two weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 03:57, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Continuing spam of marketing fluff for the "Virtual Token" product. ViperSnake151  Talk  15:02, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one day, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 03:55, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP hopper has been reverting to a section's old version without discussion. —Ryulong (琉竜) 11:49, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 03:53, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations – Repeated insertion of subjective info, most especially by fans of Be Careful with My Heart. Blake Gripling (talk) 06:44, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 03:51, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection:My user page was recently vandalized.Lsmll 04:30, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined Once incident isn't really enough. It's best to leave your talk page open to IPs to communicate. But, if you insist, request again. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 21:22, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
Okay, I protected your userpage but not your talk page. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 21:26, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
Thanks,I just request that my user page be protected,not my talk page.If you read WP:PP,you should know that user page can be protected at user's own request,but talk page usually isn't protected.I'm surprised as an admin you haven't read it?Lsmll 23:50, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP vandalism. §FreeRangeFrogcroak 03:20, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 03:40, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Multiple reports of the subject's death earlier today. No independent third-party confirmation, as of yet. Suggest temporary protection. StrikerforceTalk Review me! 03:12, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one day, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 03:39, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – This article is a GA nominee, but IP users keep vandalizing the article by changing the box office figures, which is mostly not noticed. Kailash29792 (talk) 04:56, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of two weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 03:36, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – It seems that some people recently tried to go stray the article, it's happening constantly and regularly.The page, I guess, needs protection! . Skashifakram (talk) 04:43, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

I fully protected it due to an edit war on both sides. I see no vandalism, just a content dispute. Skashifakram you seem to have ownership issues regarding the article, please read WP:OWN and please discuss this on the talk page of the article. Canterbury Tail talk 15:23, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
Fully protected for a period of two weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. (adding this for the bot) Mark Arsten (talk) 03:34, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Addition of unsourced content from new users and IPs. Lugia2453 (talk) 21:57, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mfield (Oi!) 02:10, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Request for at least 6 months of page protection. The article was also semi-protected before for one year, but had expired last June 10, 2013. Vandalism has been happening in the article before and has happen many times. This type of vandalism are coming from unknown IPs (mostly coming from Israel). They were all given warnings but seemingly doesn't stop. As if they treat vandalism as a form of hobby. Other articles have already been semi-protected to six months with some others semi-protected indefinitely (see records here: The Biggest Loser patrol page). AR E N Z O Y 1 6A•t a l k• 16:32, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 year, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Agreed. Mfield (Oi!) 02:14, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

I'm taking a page from the CIA's handbook here... This is the single oldest entry in Special:Log/protect, but only has four incoming links. I was planning on filing an edit request to turn it into a redirect to WP:Fundraising (or a direct soft redirect to foundation:Fundraising), but it occurs to me that in the future there may be better targets, and it would be annoying for people have to file a request every time it needs to be retargeted. The protecting admin (User:Angela) is no longer very active. — PinkAmpers&(Je vous invite à me parler) 00:13, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

Note: I'd be wary of unprotecting this one without someone from the office approving it since it's listed under "Legal reasons". Legoktm (talk) 00:16, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
That page seems rather outdated itself, but fair enough. I've ping'ed Philippe. — PinkAmpers&(Je vous invite à me parler) 05:49, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
When I protected it, it was linked from the sidebar which wasn't editable at the time. It used to be a redirect to the donations page but now we have a direct link to that from the sidebar so I don't think this old page is needed anymore and definitely doesn't need protection. By the way, you can find pages protected before this one in the old logs at Wikipedia:Protection log. There may be others on the list of indefinitely protected pages which could be reviewed as well. Angela (talk) 09:36, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
Thanks so much for the response, Angela. Glad to know all of y'all at the top still have time to help out with a little tidying up. — PinkAmpers&(Je vous invite à me parler) 18:23, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
Unprotected Mark Arsten (talk) 02:34, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection. Persistent vandalism. WadeSimMiser (talk) 16:09, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 21:45, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection. Persistent vandalism. WadeSimMiser (talk) 15:38, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined Single IP User talk:86.144.213.1 agreed to stop, and has. Will monitor. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 21:43, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – This article keeps getting vandalized. Monterey Bay (talk) 05:09, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 21:20, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. STATic message me! 16:25, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 21:49, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism. Saykimcheese (talk) 0:52, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 21:00, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism. Koala15 (talk) 23:14, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined Probably no longer needed. Will monitor. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 20:58, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

29 July 2013

Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations – Continued vandalism from multiple IPs. Grammarxxx (What'd I do this time?) 20:29, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of two months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 21:26, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations – This article has only recently come off semi-protection but the glut of poor anon contributions keeps on coming, probably due to the interest engendered by the recent release of a biopic . Sitush (talk) 18:32, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Although there are many good faith edits being made, the sheer amount of unsourced information being added to this BLP makes it very difficult to ensure the veracity of the claims being made.Jezebel'sPonyobons mots 20:51, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Same reason as Diane Chambers. George Ho (talk) 15:20, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. Mark Arsten (talk) 16:04, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Create protection: Repeatedly recreated. Jackmcbarn (talk) 17:59, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Already protected by administrator Alexf. (1 week) Armbrust The Homunculus 18:26, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Despite being recently unlocksed and a long consensus discussion of the page name there are still many reversals to "revolution" by IPs or new accounts.Lihaas (talk) 17:50, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 18:12, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Someone is messing around with this article as well as Rebecca Howe. George Ho (talk) 15:18, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. Mark Arsten (talk) 16:03, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection. Multiple promotional edits and apparent copyright violations by four newly-created SPAs (User:GinstersCornwall, User:KateCorradi, User:Stevefearn, User:Hartopj) all apparently associated with the article subject (a UK company). No engagement by them on talk page. The previous version may itself be inaccurate (and unreferenced), but it needs independent editors to sort it out and reconstitute the article from, pretty much, scratch. Ghmyrtle (talk) 15:40, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 16:36, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Jackmcbarn (talk) 15:35, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 16:36, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism on a BLP after the end of the recent protection period. STATic message me! 15:26, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 16:37, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary Full-Protection: Since this page was unprotected yesterday there has been a consistent barrage of Edit-Warring, by established editors. This seems to be the same reason this article was protected a week ago. VVikingTalkEdits 11:26, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined It was only move-protected, afaiks, and the discussion on the talk-page is proceding. Lectonar (talk) 12:29, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending changes: Persistent vandalism. King Jakob C2 14:53, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 15:31, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: subject has died very recently, and anons are adding random unsourced causes of death. Struway2 (talk) 13:32, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 12 hours, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. This can always be reprotected if this proves too short. Lectonar (talk) 13:58, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Subject is on Big Brother Australia, pre-empting inevitable vandalism. Flat Out let's discuss it 11:09, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. One edit at the moment. Pages aren#t protected pre-emptively, and currently the vandalism isn't at protection levels. Relist if it picks up significantly. GedUK  11:32, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent bids to change a neutrally-worded article into an advertisement laced with peacock terms. ☯ Bonkers The Clown \(^_^)/ Nonsensical Babble ☯ 09:35, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined For now...this is at the edit warring noticeboard, and I see a block looming on the horizon. Lectonar (talk) 09:44, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite full protection: Deceased Wikipedian. Tito☸Dutta 08:41, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Done Materialscientist (talk) 08:44, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

PC. Persistent sockpuppetry. Tbhotch.™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions. 00:11, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Already protected by administrator Swatjester. Armbrust The Homunculus 07:38, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: until the fallout from today's Cambodian national election has passed. There has been IP vandalism and addition of false information regarding election results, number of seats, etc.--William Thweatt TalkContribs 20:57, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Pages are not protected preemptively. There is not much traffic. Lectonar (talk) 08:06, 29 July 2013 (UTC)
Also Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kate Garvey (5th nomination) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Create protection (autoconfirmed). Persistent sockpuppetry. Only non-banned good faith nominations should exist. Tbhotch.™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions. 00:11, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Created only once, not sure it is worth protecting Alex Bakharev (talk) 03:13, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection. Persistent vandalism. Tbhotch.™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions. 23:47, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Already protected by administrator Alex Bakharev. (1 week) Armbrust The Homunculus 07:35, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – I've opened a Sockpuppetry case against the user who IP hops and has created multiple accounts to spam this, and other, Bad Girls Club articles. It's become a daily issue this article is the most recent victim. Continuous addition of a fictitious cast. – Recollected • 23:14, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Already protected by administrator Alex Bakharev. (1 week) Armbrust The Homunculus 07:34, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection, possibly indefinite. Persistent addition of false information by an IP hopper. This begun like in 2010, and since then this person(s) insists to change sourced dates to unsourced ones, and add incorrect information. Tbhotch.™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions. 20:33, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Already protected by administrator Alex Bakharev. (1 week) Armbrust The Homunculus 07:33, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Binksternet (talk) 20:25, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Already protected by administrator Alex Bakharev. (3 days) Armbrust The Homunculus 07:32, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP-hopping disruptive editor going against MOS and his opponent IP are edit-warring over content. Elizium23 (talk) 02:38, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Done For the bot. Tbhotch.™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions. 03:16, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Dubious unsourced content changes and additions. STATic message me! 02:23, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Done For the bot. Tbhotch.™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions. 03:16, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Vandalism by brand-new accounts. Jackmcbarn (talk) 01:41, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Done For the bot. Tbhotch.™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions. 03:16, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Full protection. There are BLP issues. Those issues are being discussed on the article talk page and at WP:BLPN. I am WP:INVOLVED. Unfortunately, editors in favor of inclusion of the disputed material keep restoring the material without a clear consensus. User:January, who I think is uninvolved, has reverted once, and I just reverted myself. Because of the BLP issues, I request that the article be locked with the version that does not include the disputed material.--Bbb23 (talk) 01:15, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Done For the bot. Tbhotch.™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions. 03:16, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism, disruptive editing. Some say that there was controversy between this umpire and David Ortiz recently regarding Timmons missing a call and eventually Ortiz smashing a phone after striking out.

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Mark Arsten (talk) 20:16, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – There is a dispute regarding the content of this article and this dispute has reached DR. Until this dispute is resolved, the article should be locked. SMP0328. (talk) 18:56, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Fully protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 20:17, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – The article's subject recently made a controversial ejection, resulting in vandalism of the page by multiple IPs. Jackmcbarn (talk) 18:44, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of two days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 20:15, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

30 July 2013

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – This article has a long history of vandalism. Dogmaticeclectic (talk) 08:20, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Lectonar (talk) 15:56, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism, non stop adding countries such as Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Vatican by one IP address. --188.47.72.59 (talk) 08:06, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined Seems to have stopped; if it picks up again, report to AIV. Lectonar (talk) 15:51, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite pending changes: Persistent vandalism – Long history of vandalism by many IPs. Deadbeef 06:35, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Lectonar (talk) 15:53, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Request for at least 6 months of page protection. The article was also semi-protected before for three months, but had expired last June 19, 2013. Vandalism has been happening in the article before and has happen many times. This type of vandalism are coming from different unknown IPs (mostly coming from Israel). They were all given warnings but seemingly doesn't stop. There actions shows that they treat vandalism as a form of hobby (There is no week that they don't vandalize the articles). Other articles have already been semi-protected to six months to a year with some others semi-protected indefinitely (see records here: The Biggest Loser patrol page). AR E N Z O Y 1 6A•t a l k• 17:57, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. The activity here is much lower. Lectonar (talk) 15:52, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Multiple IP users have made guideline-violating, template documentation-violating, and otherwise controversial edits. Dogmaticeclectic (talk) 18:14, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 19:32, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IPs have made unsourced changes to this article waaay too many times. Insulam Simia (talk) 17:48, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one year, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 19:30, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IPs keep removing sourced sections. As soon as one was blocked, another started. Jackmcbarn (talk) 17:39, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 19:05, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Newly formed 29th state of India...high probability of vandalism and POV edits...requesting indefinite until the state is completely formed. Thanks. ƬheStrikeΣagle sorties 15:22, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

(Non-administrator comment)We don't usually preemptively protect pages. Jackmcbarn (talk) 15:36, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
Please see the article history....it has already started... ƬheStrikeΣagle sorties 15:37, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of 1 day, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. I have kept this short; not all IP edits are vandalism. Lectonar (talk) 15:40, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Create protection: Repeatedly recreated. Jackmcbarn (talk) 13:49, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Creation protected Lectonar (talk) 15:46, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Dubious unsourced content additions/changes. STATic message me! 07:31, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Lectonar (talk) 15:54, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. AutomaticStrikeout  ?  04:31, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 15:17, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Frequent violations of the WP:BLP policy. STATic message me! 03:47, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected Mark Arsten (talk) 15:13, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Removal of sourced content by multiple IPs. Also see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Rmorgan1234 Jackmcbarn (talk) 17:24, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 15:06, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Talk:SWAT (edit | article | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Last month some SPA IP addresses held a WP:NOTVOTE which was closed as unconstructive meat/socking, and the page was temporarily protected as a result. Today, some SPA IP addresses are agreeing with each other that there should be another "vote to establish a consensus" on the same issue. McGeddon (talk) 12:30, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Already protected. by myself....Lectonar (talk) 13:07, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
FYI, that's ProfessorJane (talk · contribs). See Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/ProfessorJane for more info. Elockid (Talk) 13:09, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism: This article has been repeatedly deleted without just cause, even though the article perfectly fits the notiability criteria and exists in multiple language versions. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anthony Fok (talk • contribs) 09:57, 30 July 2013‎

Already protected by administrator Mr. Stradivarius. (1 week) Armbrust The Homunculus 10:27, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
I think this is a misplaced unprotection request...Lectonar (talk) 13:15, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

User talk:Unorginal (edit | user page | history | links | watch | logs)

Indefinite full protection: Inappropriate use of user talk page while blocked – User has been blocked indefinitely, but came back to blank his talk page here. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 21:59, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

(Non-administrator comment)Isn't it generally better to reblock them without talk page access than to protect their talk page, for the sake of possible future SPI notices and such? Jackmcbarn (talk) 22:03, 29 July 2013 (UTC)
(Non-administrator comment)Hes allowed to remove the other notices. Only requirement is to keep the block notice.Lihaas (talk) 22:15, 29 July 2013 (UTC)
Not done One instance of blanking a page isn't enough to justify protecting the page. In these kinds of situations, it's usually best to just ignore it and move on. Mike V • Talk 01:33, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Two IPs' currently vandalizing this page. I dream of horses (T) @ 01:57, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Already protected. by Discospinster Alex Bakharev (talk) 02:49, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism. Koala15 (talk) 00:50, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mike V • Talk 01:49, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary pending changes: BLP policy violations – Persistent vandalism and BLP violations from multiple users, namely via images, over the past several months. Recently from User:Briguys1 and User:Blo8888, possible sockpuppets. The latter was never properly warned and should have been blocked a while ago as apparent vandalism-only account. Constructive edits from IP users so recommending pending changes protection, possibly indefinite?. — MusikAnimal talk 17:52, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. by NativeForeigner. I've watchlisted the page to ensure the disruption does not start up again. Jezebel'sPonyobons mots 20:46, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – edit warring over unsourced information. Karl 334 Talk--Contribs 14:20, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Consider the edit warring noticeboard – This is a case of possible edit-warring by one or two users. But it should be clear not to use unsourced information if this is vital for the article. Lectonar (talk) 14:24, 29 July 2013 (UTC)
Already protected by administrator Mark Arsten. (3 days) Armbrust The Homunculus 01:17, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
Yes, Lectonar's decline was the right call at the time, but later that day the edit warring picked up more. Mark Arsten (talk) 02:44, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

31 July 2013

reduce to semi-protection, template is currently broken, and not widely used (see User talk:Jimp#Convert/LoffAoffDbSoffImp. I would like to fix it. Frietjes (talk) 16:35, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Done - Tiptoety talk 17:54, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

reduce to semi-protection, template is currently broken, and not widely used (see User talk:Jimp#Convert/LoffAoffDbSoffImp. I would like to fix it. Frietjes (talk) 16:35, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Done - Tiptoety talk 17:54, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

reduce to semi-protection, template is currently broken, and not widely used (see User talk:Jimp#Convert/LoffAoffDbSoffImp. I would like to fix it. Frietjes (talk) 16:35, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Done - Tiptoety talk 17:54, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

reduce to semi-protection, template is currently broken, and not widely used (see User talk:Jimp#Convert/LoffAoffDbSoffImp. I would like to fix it. Frietjes (talk) 16:35, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Done - Tiptoety talk 17:54, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

reduce to semi-protection, template is currently broken, and not widely used (see User talk:Jimp#Convert/LoffAoffDbSoffImp. I would like to fix it. Frietjes (talk) 16:35, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Done - Tiptoety talk 17:54, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

reduce to semi-protection, template is currently broken, and not widely used (see User talk:Jimp#Convert/LoffAoffDbSoffImp. I would like to fix it. Frietjes (talk) 16:35, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Done - Tiptoety talk 17:54, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

reduce to semi-protection, template is currently broken, and not widely used (see User talk:Jimp#Convert/LoffAoffDbSoffImp. I would like to fix it. Frietjes (talk) 16:35, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Done - Tiptoety talk 17:54, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Dubious unsourced content additions and changes. STATic message me! 14:06, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 15:30, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: This article is under attack by an IP; it was semi-protected before for the same reason, and now the problem has returned. —Anne Delong (talk) 05:53, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Warn the user appropriately then report them to AIV or ANI if they continue. This really is just one IP, and the frequence of vandalism is rather low. Lectonar (talk) 09:08, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism - IP's constantly removing information that DOES NOT need to be removed. ChicagoWiz 02:31, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. DOES NOT need to be removed is not enough, I'm afraid. If you disagree with each other, use your or the articles talk-page to hash things out. Lectonar (talk) 09:07, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Rezonansowy (talk • contribs) 04:59, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Tiptoety talk 05:21, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: BLP policy violations – Repeated and recurring BLP violations from anons and new users. Blake Gripling (talk) 02:22, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Only 2 instances of vandalism in the last 3 days; the IPs (which have not been warned, btw) should be reported to AIV or another venue after warning. Lectonar (talk) 09:05, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection. Persistent copyright violations from school's website and addition of non-notable students with promotional intent, by multiple accounts. 76.248.144.216 (talk) 00:30, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. This is mainly IP 109....(apart from one incidence with 86...), and should be dealt with by AIV or another venue; protection would be too heavy handed. And the activity is not really high, to boot. Lectonar (talk) 08:59, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Vandalism just over an hour after protection ended. AutomaticStrikeout  ?  22:01, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined For now...let us wait a bit and see if it really picks up again. Lectonar (talk) 08:55, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry. nableezy - 21:13, 30 July 2013 (UTC) 21:13, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Lectonar (talk) 08:52, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Create protection: It's a special redlinked page, so it should be blank. Rezonansowy (talk • contribs) 05:02, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined - It has not been re-created since 2010. There is no need for protection. Tiptoety talk 05:13, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Rezonansowy (talk • contribs) 04:46, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Tiptoety talk 05:12, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Rezonansowy (talk • contribs) 04:44, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Tiptoety talk 05:04, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Articles on most popular topics like this, should be protected. Rezonansowy (talk • contribs) 04:40, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Pages are not protected preemptively. Tiptoety talk 05:03, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP editors keep adding copy that is out of guideline with school article guidelines. Will not talk about it, just keep re-adding it. Not fast enough to qualify as 3RR, but enough to be plenty irritating. Gtwfan52 (talk) 01:48, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. This page never was protected before, and even for short term semiprotection this is not enough. Irritating it may be, but that is not enough by itself. Wikipedia:Make protection requests sparingly is a good read as for when protection is needed. Lectonar (talk) 09:03, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Constant non-constructive and unsourced IP vandalism. Tom... the magic... TomatoTalk 21:04, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. A rangeblock would be a more suitable option. Tiptoety talk 04:54, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing, BLP policy violations. This regards that a free agent pitcher is signing for the Dodgers soon but the deal is not yet 100% official. PrivateMasterHD (talk) 20:42, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 10 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Lectonar (talk) 08:50, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Just came off of semi and vandalism started right back up. Jackmcbarn (talk) 02:17, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week. Tiptoety talk 05:01, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection: BLP policy violations – BLP vandalism. SFK2 (talk) 00:34, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected by Bwilkins (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA). Tiptoety talk 04:59, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection. Persistent vandalism on a WP:BLP article. Flyer22 (talk) 00:11, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week. Tiptoety talk 04:57, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – The subject is in the news regarding a reported transaction, which is awaiting an official announcement. —Chris!c/t 22:51, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Already protected. by Zagalejo (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA). Tiptoety talk 04:56, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – This template has a long history of vandalism. Dogmaticeclectic (talk) 12:16, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. And not a highly visible template. Lectonar (talk) 15:57, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
What does template visibility have to do with this? Dogmaticeclectic (talk) 16:10, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
See here. Lectonar (talk) 16:13, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
That does not state that templates that are not highly visible should not be protected, though. Dogmaticeclectic (talk) 16:19, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
Templates should be protected for two reasons, generally. Protection is given in response to persistent vandalism or because it is a highly visible template. What Lectonar is saying is that neither condition is the case here. Mark Arsten (talk) 17:25, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
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