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01 August 2014

Indefinite semi-protection: To match Template:Syrian Civil War detailed map which it is replacing. Jackmcbarn (talk) 21:23, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

Already protected. by Callanecc. Diannaa (talk) 18:28, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection All IP edits are original research edits of incredibly dubious quality. --Mr Fink (talk) 01:05, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Diannaa (talk) 18:33, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: A single IP keeps deleting content that is properly sourced without providing explanations in their edit summaries. No echoes from their part at the article's talk as well. Jetstreamer Talk 23:11, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

Declined - Please report the IP to the appropriate noticeboard, WP:AIV, WP:AN3, WP:ANI. Protection should not be used when there is only a single problem user. Tiptoety talk 14:53, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism by IP's. Request 2 weeks. Niteshift36 (talk) 15:29, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Diannaa (talk) 18:25, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – PC ineffective on continuous vandalism. George Ho (talk) 20:58, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Tiptoety talk 14:25, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing. Jetstreamer Talk 19:05, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Tiptoety talk 14:23, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite template protection: Highly visible template – just in case... is not a valid page protection reason. There is no reason to not lower this to  Template editor and the protecting admin has been inactive for four months except for one 3 minute action a month ago. — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 15:25, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Template protected Mike V • Talk 17:26, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. QED237 (talk) 20:46, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three days. Tiptoety talk 16:20, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Unconstructive edits being made with non-RSes being added. Taylor Trescott - my talk + my edits 02:17, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

CONSIDERING that he's been recently banned AND has an AfD out I HAVE to agree with this except that Tyler is also editing the page as he likes it to look and not how it should be. Ravelair (talk) 16:59, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, should it not be deleted at least. Tiptoety talk 15:32, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Remove Semi-protection Request for Userpage to be Semi-protection was due to an IP user continuously vandalizing the page, however that user is currently neutralized and is under a one year editing suspension and since then there has been no incidents of vandalism, therefore the protection of the page is moot and no longer necessary. TheGoofyGolfer (talk) 17:07, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Unprotected Mike V • Talk 17:14, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent unsourced edits by multiple IPs over transfer speculation of this footballer. Request for one-week's PP. Thank you. LRD NO (talk) 10:22, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. GB fan 12:33, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent unsourced edits by multiple IPs over impending transfer of footballer, ignoring explanation given in edit page. Request for one-week's PP. Thank you. LRD NO (talk) 06:35, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. GB fan 12:36, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of vandalism by anon IP editors and new users. STATic message me! 16:43, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three weeks. Tiptoety talk 14:22, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persisant vandalism from IPs. RWCasinoKid (talk) 00:35, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. Protection is no longer necessary. Tiptoety talk 04:53, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – An IP has made repeated attempts to remove an image from this article. It is from a single static IP and continued even after warnings and attempts to discuss have been made. The IP editor refuses to engage. Dates of removal are May 8, May 17, May 28, June 1, June 2, and today. The edit is questionable is apt to get the image speedily deleted if not caught quickly and has been challenged by other editors. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 00:27, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

If the disruption is from a single static IP, wouldn't a block be more appropriate than indef semi? Jackmcbarn (talk) 00:53, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection.. Please consider reporting the IP at WP:AN/I. Tiptoety talk 04:55, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism. Koala15 (talk) 00:13, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Tiptoety talk 04:56, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. QED237 (talk) 23:20, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one month. Tiptoety talk 05:02, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Unprotection: Either complete unprotection or drop to semi - only one autoconfirmed account has ever caused disruption here, so further disruption would be better handled with blocks than full protection. I asked the protecting admin on their talk page over a week ago and got no response. Jackmcbarn (talk) 01:05, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Done - Lowered to semi for another week. Tiptoety talk 05:06, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection. Repeated violations of WP:BLP, basically the same material over and over again for at least four years. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 23:52, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of six months. Tiptoety talk 04:58, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. QED237 (talk) 20:49, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three weeks. Tiptoety talk 23:06, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: hopping IP is edit-warring against multiple editors in good standing and refuses to discuss anything. The pieces they do not like were discussed at the talk page multiple times.--Ymblanter (talk) 06:59, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

The edit-warring continues from different IPs. The user started to give out "warnings", but still did not care to read the talk page.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:50, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Range of Ip vandals editing page. Amortias (T)(C) 19:55, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three days. Tiptoety talk 22:46, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of vandalism by anon IP editors and new users. STATic message me! 17:42, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week. Tiptoety talk 22:44, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

Pending changes: Persistent vandalism – I would suggest this or semi-protection. JayJayWhat did I do? 17:21, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three months. Tiptoety talk 22:42, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. QED237 (talk) 17:09, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:51, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – Content dispute, edit war. Blackknight12 (talk) 07:40, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

Fully protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected., if the problem has been sorted out pls unprotect without my content (I am still on wikibreak till Sunday)--Ymblanter (talk) 19:48, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

02 August 2014

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Again the same old disputed edits to the article. There are more people attacking the Controversies section. . Vacationlandman (talk) 15:14, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Content dispute. Please use the article's talk page or other forms of dispute resolution. —Eustress 16:50, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: IP POV pushing. APerson (talk!) 14:14, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Content dispute. Please use the article's talk page or other forms of dispute resolution. —Eustress 16:48, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite pending changes: Persistent vandalism – Persistent vandalism from IPs and new users. The article is often targeted along with Euphoria by reddit. Lewis Hulbert (talk) 11:16, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. —Eustress 13:39, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
The last 5 pages of history are full of vandalism. --Lewis Hulbert (talk) 14:11, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Downgrade to template protection, please. — OwenBlacker (Talk) 19:42, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Done —GFOLEY FOUR!— 20:52, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent addition of unsourced and unencyclopedic content by IPs. Blake Gripling (talk) 12:27, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – User talk pages are not protected except in response to severe or continued vandalism. —Eustress 13:40, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary pending changes: Persistent vandalism – Still ongoing for months. George Ho (talk) 03:09, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. —Eustress 13:38, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: I don't know if reviewers have COI or not, but I'm seeing content disputes. George Ho (talk) 21:16, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. —Eustress 13:36, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism, especially during transfer windows. Hansi667 (talk) 19:28, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. —Eustress 13:21, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism. The issue of the death section has been visited by many admins and decided it was not appropriate. Ramya20 (talk) 19:16, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Content dispute. Please use the article's talk page or other forms of dispute resolution. —Eustress 13:19, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – The history shows it enough. Continuous removal of valid content, addition of false certifications and peak changes etc. —Indian:BIO · [ ChitChat ] 09:03, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – User talk pages are not protected except in response to severe or continued vandalism. —Eustress 13:18, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – repeated content removal without valid reasoning. Dogmaticeclectic (talk) 15:10, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. —Eustress 13:15, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: unch of IPs that don't match up officiallyLihaas (talk) 14:24, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

Declined – User talk pages are not protected except in response to severe or continued vandalism. —Eustress 13:13, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Unexplained removal by 49.151.99.44 and additional information by some of the unknown IP users. Alphonsewan (talk) 05:27, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Warn the user appropriately then report them to AIV or ANI if they continue. —Eustress 13:10, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IPs (219.91.135.66 for example) and user Jackthomas321 keep conforming the article to their own POV. Today, they are interested in removing a negative review from the article, calling it "false". They're also personal attacking another user, Flyer22, which is completely uncalled for. "lyer22, I only edit pages which has greatness written on it. Ex, Hercules=real man, true strength&courage,has heart. But You, loser FlyerLucy(opposite of greatness=low life shit). U r only good at putting shit on greatness. Ok dung, carry on with it" Requesting protection from IPs and non-autoconfirmed for a few days, although I think his account may be autoconfirmed. Thank you. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 15:42, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Fully protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. —Eustress 16:53, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Pending changes: Persistent vandalism – There has been vandalism for several years. George Ho (talk) 06:59, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. kelapstick(bainuu) 11:12, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism by 174.117.107.33 ―― LNP75 1:57 AM, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Consider the edit warring noticeboard – This is a case of possible edit-warring by one or two users. It doesn't look like clear cut vandalism, unless if I'm missing something. NativeForeigner Talk 05:45, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Magnet of vandalism, last time it was not protected long enough. 3 months minimum is needed. Vaypertrail (talk) 13:17, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Feedback protected for a period of 1 year, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. —Eustress 13:45, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – PC ineffective, and edits frequent. George Ho (talk) 21:14, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. —Eustress 13:35, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Move protection: Page title dispute/move warring – Someone renamed this page without discussion; the proposed name was rejected twice. George Ho (talk) 20:00, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Move protected for a period of 6 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. —Eustress 13:28, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Requesting that the article be semi-protected for at least a few days, as opposed to one day. There is an IP who keeps returning to the article to engage in WP:Disruptive editing and who is disregarding a hidden note about the matter, and the talk page discussion regarding it. If the IP won't engage in talk page discussion about the matter, the only alternatives I see is for me and other editors to keep reverting the IP (which keeps the article disturbed due to WP:Edit warring), the page being protected to stop the IP, the IP being blocked, or us letting the IP have his way. If the IP were engaging in clear-cut WP:Vandalism, I'd report him to Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism, but he isn't...except for perhaps this change to the aforementioned hidden note. Flyer22 (talk) 09:01, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 96 hours, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. kelapstick(bainuu) 11:10, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Going on for months after protection ended. George Ho (talk) 06:58, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. kelapstick(bainuu) 11:15, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Multi IP editor introducing errors, not putting in references when necessary, not using edit summary - starting to look like vandalism of an extreme nature. Has been warned more than once, edits have been reverted en masse more than once. Editor will not stop. All he needs is a newly-issued IP address and he will be back doing the same. -- Winkelvi ● ✉ ✓ 03:49, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of a fortnight, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. kelapstick(bainuu) 11:16, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Shrike (talk)/WP:RX 09:34, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of a fortnight, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. kelapstick(bainuu) 11:05, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IPs adding unsourced content, again. —Ryūlóng (琉竜) 09:20, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. kelapstick(bainuu) 11:06, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent IP vandalism. ―― Phoenix7777 (talk) 22:20, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. by Elockid. Please re-report if they come back —GFOLEY FOUR!— 05:53, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Pending changes: BLP policy violations – People keep adding references or categories related to his sexuality. George Ho (talk) 21:37, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. —GFOLEY FOUR!— 06:02, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Hello, I have requested a reduction in the protection of this article (It's now archived), it was reduced from semiprotected to pending change protected, but I don't think that it meets the corresponding policy, specifically, the page isn't undergoing vandalism, and the aforesaid policy says: “Pending changes protection should not be used as a preemptive measure against violations that have not yet occurred”. I request that this page is changed to unprotected, if then we find persistent vandalism then I'd support and possibly propose it myself to be protected again, otherwise this protection is against Wikipedia policy. Wikipedia is the encyclopedia that anyone can edit, let's not apply protection unjustifiably. Regards. QrTTf7fH (talk) 21:11, 30 July 2014 (UTC).

The protection level was just lowered on a trial basis 2 days ago, and you're already asking for it to be dropped completely? Also, PC doesn't keep anyone from editing it. Jackmcbarn (talk) 00:57, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
I agree; no point on requesting to quit eyeing on IP editors. Have you forgotten that, if that rule prevents us from protecting Wikipedia, we should ignore it? --George Ho (talk) 10:38, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
The protection policy (Which I already quoted) explicitly discourages using pending changes protection in a preemptive way; that is it, exactly what is being done here. I repeat: This is Wikipedia policy. The appeal to WP:ignore all rules is your opinion since it talks about “improving or maintaining Wikipedia“, and it's not an objective truth (And again, against the Wikipedia policy) that using pending change protection preemptively constitutes an improvement. QrTTf7fH (talk) 16:16, 1 August 2014 (UTC).
Does it not constitute "maintaining" Wikipedia either? --George Ho (talk) 17:10, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
I didn't make an assertion about that; if you that it does, then it's you the one who has the burden of proof on it. Of course, I may choose to disagree and argue your point. QrTTf7fH (talk) 19:25, 1 August 2014 (UTC).
I'm not using it preemptively, there has been vandalism and disruptive non-autoconfirmed editors hence the indefinite semi protection. I would have been quite justified in leaving it at semi, however instead I chose to make use of a new type of less restrictive protection. My default when you made this request would have been to replace the semi not unprotect it. Let's give pending changes some time and see if we can instead unprotect it. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 05:09, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
In other words, Declined --George Ho (talk) 06:55, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism. Premthanjavur (talk) 04:33, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. —GFOLEY FOUR!— 05:44, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – persistent long-term vandalism, IP and new editors . Widefox; talk 01:34, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Under control to me. Re-report if it picks up. —GFOLEY FOUR!— 05:46, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite Semi-protection/ pending changes: Frequent IP/new user vandalism. 31 July, 17 July, 16 July, 21 June. Redtigerxyz Talk 17:37, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Still mostly good faith edits, only a few vandalism edits per month. NativeForeigner Talk 05:40, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: 182.23.156.149 has recently been adding disruptive, unsourced statements to the article. — Cheers, JackLee –talk– 10:38, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 05:36, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite pending changes: Persistent vandalism – Persistent addition of unsourced and possibly fan-fictional content from various users/IPs. I played through both games, and I could tell that the fluff those users add are nothing but hot air. Blake Gripling (talk) 05:31, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

Declined Looks like it's stopped, if it continues please fill in another report. Not enough vandalism to warrant pending changes at the moment. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 05:31, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Dispute over official name "Orthodox Catholic Church" lapsing into IP-hopping edit warrior. Elizium23 (talk) 03:24, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

Declined Looks like it's stopped, if it continues please fill in another report. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 05:29, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Vandalism, unexplained removal and unsourced changes. This has been happening since last month. Here are some examples: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]. —Lightsout (talk) 23:16, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Warn the user appropriately then report them to AIV or ANI if they continue. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 05:29, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – vandalism from dynamic IP. QED237 (talk) 22:19, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

Declined Looks like it's stopped, if it continues please fill in another report. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 05:27, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – PC inappropriate for this frequently-edited article. George Ho (talk) 21:07, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

Declined No urgency with this one as it's slowed down, so please discuss with protecting admin. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 05:25, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Who thought that PC is appropriate for this frequently-edited article? I still see reverts on unsourced data lately. George Ho (talk) 21:05, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

Declined Looks like it's slowed down so probably best to discuss it with the protecting admin. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 05:20, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Recent vandalism from anons about how he is a Premier League player , when he is not, and how he was born in the new state of Telengana, when he was not. ArsenalFan700 (talk) 20:31, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

Not done: It looks like it's stopped now, please feel free to request semi again if they continue. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 05:18, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Disruptive editing by IP users who seem unaware of protocol or use of talk page. Unable to leave message or engage in discussion. 20:08, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

Not done: It looks like it's stopped now, please feel free to request semi again if they continue. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 05:13, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Request protection until 31.08 (end of transfer window) due to repeated BLP vandalism from unregistered users. C679 00:19, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 30 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. NativeForeigner Talk 05:57, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite move protection: Highly visible page – 300+ transclusions. George Ho (talk) 23:51, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Move protected indefinitely. NativeForeigner Talk 05:49, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent unsourced edits and vandalism by multiple IPs over transfer speculation of this footballer. Request for one-week's PP. Thank you. LRD NO (talk) 13:08, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. NativeForeigner Talk 06:00, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Should be temporary protected due to many speculations of his new team. GoPurple'nGold24 21:28, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. NativeForeigner Talk 05:59, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent IP and new user vandalism, notably people who aren't fans of the series. Callmemirela (talk) 01:47, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Re-report if vandalism continues, it seems like it picked up a lot in the last 3 weeks. NativeForeigner Talk 05:47, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Highly visible, and there have been reverts lately. George Ho (talk) 19:59, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. I've watchlisted, if it continues I'll extend. NativeForeigner Talk 05:43, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Logged out users persistently adding unsourced material. —Ryūlóng (琉竜) 07:32, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of ten days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 05:34, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of vandalism and dubious unsourced additions by anon IP editors and new users. STATic message me! 07:23, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of six months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 05:32, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite move protection: Frequently substituted template. George Ho (talk) 16:18, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected indefinitely. I don't think move protection is warranted, the only issue will be if it's moved and the redirect blanked. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 05:16, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite move protection: Frequently substituted template. George Ho (talk) 16:18, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected indefinitely. As above. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 05:17, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Less than 200 transclusions; Anomie is taking a wikibreak at this moment. George Ho (talk) 00:20, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Done. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 05:05, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Attack by multiple persons. BollyJeff | talk 02:36, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected Attack seems to be over, but protecting for 12 hours just to be sure. Please re-report if the activity resumes when the block wears off. Diannaa (talk) 03:04, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Immediate action needs - over 15 attacks in the course of 30 minutes - Persistent vandalism – Persistently attacked by an IP and account jumper. YuMaNuMa Contrib 02:23, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Already protected. ~ by C.Fred. Diannaa (talk)

Temporary semi-protection: A recent AFD Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Frankie Grande was closed as keep. Blocked editor JHUbal27 (talk · contribs) has shown that they intend to sock to redirect the article in spite of consensus. This resumed as soon as the previous protection expired so we may need several days to prevent more socks doing the same. MarnetteD|Talk 02:00, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Diannaa (talk) 03:20, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent level of IP vandalism, (Redacted). Aerospeed (Talk) 22:56, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for one week. I have removed a BLP violation from your post above. Diannaa (talk) 03:30, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. ~Frosty (Talk page) 07:18, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mike V • Talk 00:07, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. JayJayWhat did I do? 17:30, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 10 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. —Eustress 20:11, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Continued fancruft editing that violates the commonname policy. livelikemusic my talk page! 16:52, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. —Eustress 20:01, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Letting autoconfirmed users edit won't hurt, will it? Currently used by 3,000 pages. George Ho (talk) 16:41, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected Miniapolis 23:08, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

03 August 2014

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mike V • Talk 19:31, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: An IP-hopping user is persistently editing this disambiguation page against MOS:DAB. The IP user is engaged in an edit war, but blocking is not likely to be effective against an IP-hopper. So, temporary semi protection should be the most effect strategy in this case limiting the disruption. I am One of Many (talk) 17:07, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. —Eustress 18:26, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: ongoing unsourced/poorly sourced additions. Snuggums (talk / edits) 19:50, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined, the only IP user adding poorly sourced info did not edit after the last warning. If they continue they should be block rather than the article semi-protected.--Ymblanter (talk) 14:51, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Requesting 30 day protection from IPs and non-autoconfirmed users. Various Disney articles have been hit by a variety of Vietnam-based IP addresses. User is trying to establish a hoax that a Beauty and the Beast animated series will air in 2015. If you look at the edit history, you'll notice that the article was mostly quiet, with only three legitimate IP edits since October 2013. The rest of the IP edits, which begin in July 2014, are all from Vietnam and are all vandalism, from the very first set of edits to the most recent one. For this reason I am requesting a much longer protection than I would for heavily traveled articles. Thank you, . Cyphoidbomb (talk) 17:02, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Feedback protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. —Eustress 18:13, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite full protection: Content dispute/edit warring: anonymous IPs keep adding an extra (unsourced) definition to the word Topor. Topor is used as a derogatory nickname for a specific football player. This shouldn't be on Wikipedia. --Txuriurdin (talk) 13:38, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Fully protected for a period of 2 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Despite the fact that this probably qualifies for WP:LAME. Shirik (Questions or Comments?) 18:11, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection requested because of interference of the integrity of this article concerning the upcoming event: https://wiki.riteme.site/w/index.php?title=SummerSlam_(2014)&action=history Johnsmith2116 (talk) 18:30, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Feedback protected for a period of 3 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. —Eustress 17:57, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection Disruptive editing by IP users who seem unaware of protocol or use of talk page. Unable to leave message or engage in discussion. 20:08, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

This was not done per It looks like it's stopped now, please feel free to request semi again if they continue. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 05:13, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Second request. .Despite continued requests there remains no engagement to even have a discussion, let alone reach consensus. Personal attacks and accusations are being made.Djflem (talk) 18:21, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Fully protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. —Eustress 17:52, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – The history shows it enough. Too much IP additions going on. —Indian:BIO · [ ChitChat ] 04:50, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Feedback protected for a period of 6 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. —Eustress 17:34, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: I request one week. Another IP editor and I keep having a dispute over whether SAT scores should be included in the article. Whoever keeps removing the information is sneaky, and waits around a while and removes it later. Info was gone from the article for a year because of this.50.185.86.64 (talk) 02:59, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--Ymblanter (talk) 14:02, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Disruptive editing IPs persistently are adding chart-peaks that are not supported by the sources provided. The disruption especially began just recently as the singer is going to release a new material.--Harout72 (talk) 17:45, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--Ymblanter (talk) 13:59, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – User repeatedly removes speedy deletion tags. Tchaliburton (talk) 07:16, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Not done Page deleted instead, under G11, and salted. Shirik (Questions or Comments?) 07:46, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Player's current club and information about the footballer is continuously getting changed without any reliable sources backing the changes up. Jemdt (talk) 23:47, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Rjd0060 (talk) 01:40, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Full-protection: The page is been used as a forum to discuss the Israeli/Palestinian conflict

Declined – Content dispute. Please use the article's talk page or other forms of dispute resolution. —GFOLEY FOUR!— 00:33, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Constant spamming - request 24 hours of semi protection until the event has passed. C759 (talk) 01:26, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 10 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. —GFOLEY FOUR!— 01:47, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: BLP policy violations – Addition of unsorced negative content. Latest edits need to be hidden. . Sjö (talk) 23:18, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Rjd0060 (talk) 23:20, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Article has been a magnet for IPs to mess with the names of the teams playing. Tutelary (talk) 23:00, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined, Of course this will be a high-traffic article for the time being but I see a lot of productive edits from anonymous users as well. Keeping in mind that there are already tons of eyes on this page, I don't see enough disruption to justify protection at this time. It would only deny those productive users the ability to edit. Rjd0060 (talk) 23:23, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP keeps adding unsourced promo. The Banner talk 22:26, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined, only a single IP that's doing it... they can be warned further/reported to AIV if it continues —GFOLEY FOUR!— 23:19, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent vandalism from multiple IPs and SPAs. gobonobo + c 23:44, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of two weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. --Bongwarrior (talk) 23:51, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of vandalism by anon IP editors. STATic message me! 19:55, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined, Besides recent spurt of vandalism which seems to have stopped, there hasn't been much. —GFOLEY FOUR!— 20:26, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Binksternet (talk) 18:26, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined, User(s) blocked. —GFOLEY FOUR!— 20:29, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. QED237 (talk) 23:14, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Rjd0060 (talk) 23:19, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. QED237 (talk) 22:42, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Rjd0060 (talk) 23:22, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Full-protection: The subject of this BLP is persistently deleting sourced and valid content on an article covering their own life. The user refuses to engage on the talk page. Please lock this page to encourage the user to attempt a consensus process. See example edit war: https://wiki.riteme.site/w/index.php?title=Del_Yocam&diff=619316285&oldid=619289339 Gbickford (talk) 06:33, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Fully protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. kelapstick(bainuu) 11:24, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
Already protected by administrator kelapstick. Semi-protected for one week. --George Ho (talk) 21:29, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

04 August 2014

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Google Doodle related vandalism. Particularly in the last couple of hours, the IP vandalism has been picking up. Safiel (talk) 18:40, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Bishonen | talk 19:00, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. QED237 (talk) 11:13, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:09, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – A contributor from Islamabad, Pakistan with different IP addresses vandalising the article, it seems someone fan or subject itself is persist WP:I don't like it. Justice007 (talk) 08:16, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--Ymblanter (talk) 08:30, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Subpages of Template:Sockpuppet category

Downgrade to template protection, please; the parent template ({{Sockpuppet category}}) was downgraded but its subpages weren't. APerson (talk!) 15:05, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Template protected Mike V • Talk 18:03, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: High level of spamming, request semi-protection until the event has passed (August 10). Thanks. C759 (talk) 02:14, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. —GFOLEY FOUR!— 04:52, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of spamming, request semi-protection until the event has passed (August 15). Thanks.C759 (talk) 02:14, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. —GFOLEY FOUR!— 04:51, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Edit-warring recommenced as soon as protection expired. Elizium23 (talk) 01:17, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 10 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. —GFOLEY FOUR!— 04:56, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. ///EuroCarGT 00:00, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Done Rjd0060 (talk) 00:25, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism, addition of commercial/advertisement links. This festival is on August 10, and page traffic and disruptive edits are increasing as the festive day approaches. A 2 week protection through August 18 should suffice. Abbey kershaw (talk) 21:02, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. —GFOLEY FOUR!— 04:53, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – recently signed a one-day ceremonial contract to finish career; several new accounts are screwing with the article unconstructively ... 3 days should do the trick. Go Phightins! 20:53, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. —GFOLEY FOUR!— 05:01, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Vandalism from self-proclaimed fans/friends of Albert Pyun (the film's director) or the director himself, who has/have a long history of twisting related articles. HkCaGu (talk) 19:07, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Already done. by another admin. —GFOLEY FOUR!— 04:53, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Vandalism and dubious unsourced additions by anon IP editors and new users. STATic message me! 17:42, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Warn the user appropriately then report them to AIV or ANI if they continue. —Eustress 18:17, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Season about to start and vandalism has started, last season got longterm protected very fast. . QED237 (talk) 11:21, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Pages are not protected preemptively. —Eustress 18:05, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – PC ineffective and inappropriate for occasionally-edited (not infrequently-) article. George Ho (talk) 21:26, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. —Eustress 18:02, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Disruptive editing by IP users who seem unaware of protocol or use of talk page. Unable to leave message or engage in discussion. I keep reverting his page back as there is not a source that states he has been released from the WWE. Kiraroshi1976 (talk) 19:57, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. —Eustress 17:59, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

05 August 2014

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – 5 IPs and 3 new accounts have added stuff about Yu-Gi-Oh so far today. : Noyster (talk), 16:08, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. —GFOLEY FOUR!— 19:35, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IPs posting unsourced material, specifically regarding contestants. Cheetah255 (talk) 19:35, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Come back in 8 to 10 days if this continues. Bearian (talk) 16:02, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Content disputes have gotten out of hand. Mass changes without explanation by IPs. Recollected (talk) 19:26, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Bearian (talk) 16:06, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent addition by IP editor(s) of a POV statement, presented as fact rather than opinion: [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] — Mudwater (Talk) 11:06, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Bearian (talk) 14:27, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – registered user+his IP keep adding double information. The Banner talk 20:02, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--Ymblanter (talk) 06:49, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Eventually some bullies at school had vandalised my userpage and I am annoyed at it. I really don't want my internet life to be as bad as real life is for me. Jackninja5 (talk) 11:09, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Bearian (talk) 15:58, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
Move protected indefinitely. Bearian (talk) 15:58, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
Users given final warning. Bearian (talk) 15:58, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Create protection: Repeatedly recreated. STATic message me! 00:55, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Creation protected. Rjd0060 (talk) 02:14, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Long term vandalism by unregistered users, possibly by same individual hopping between IPs. Wiki-Ed (talk) 20:52, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 10d, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Rjd0060 (talk) 02:14, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Full-protection: The page continues to be used as a forum to discuss the Israeli/Palestinian conflict which is not an appropriate forum. The suggestion to consider dispute resolution is welcomed but would not work in this case. Please reconsider.

User(s) blocked. —GFOLEY FOUR!— 19:38, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: 2 week period Persistent vandalism. Various IP addresses in NYC vandalizing article, believed to be from a certain NYC editor that made non-constructive edits to the article originally.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 09:35, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Content dispute. Please use the article's talk page or other forms of dispute resolution. That's not vandalism as well. —GFOLEY FOUR!— 19:43, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing against the source by an IP and a newly registered account over the last couple of days: [13], [14], [15], [16], [17], [18], [19]. Editor has been reverted several times by myself, another editor and a Cluebot. Betty Logan (talk) 23:48, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Rjd0060 (talk) 02:16, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – The same person keeps on removing/changing genres. He/she has used three IP addresses so far: User talk:85.76.38.42, User talk:85.76.113.65, and User talk:85.76.101.86. Could this article be protected as the history is becoming unstable with edits/reverts, or could the IP or sock puppet be blocked.  — ₳aron 08:30, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Already protected. by another admin. —GFOLEY FOUR!— 19:43, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Bearian (talk) 22:23, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

2 week full protection: Content dispute plus one of the top Buddhist editors on Wikipedia, Joshua Jonathan, is on vacation for 2 weeks. Also 3 month semiprotection may be a good idea due to IP vandalism going back years.VictoriaGrayson (talk) 19:12, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined: I'm not seeing any attempt to engage on the talk page. Full protection is a step to be used after an attempt to engage with other users on the article talk page and their user talk pages has been tried and failed. —Tom Morris (talk) 15:43, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

06 August 2014

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Editors changing his club without a deal made. Kante4 (talk) 15:57, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Wifione Message 17:36, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – ongoing vandalism in build up to New Zealand general election, 2014. Stuartyeates (talk) 06:43, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

User(s) blocked.--Ymblanter (talk) 07:33, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Vandals and trolls could search a query on "Crimea" "Russian Millitary/Army" "Combat" and locate this page and vandalise it. IrritatingCobalt (talk) 20:41, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined, we do not protect articles pre-emptively, and the history does not have a single vandal edit.--Ymblanter (talk) 07:40, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Continuous addition of the word flop from IPs starting with 151.*.*.* range. Cannot block the IP as it keeps changing. —Indian:BIO · [ ChitChat ] 10:28, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Bishonen | talk 10:56, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent WP:Disruptive editing, perhaps WP:Vandalism as well, and certainly WP:Edit warring; all of this is primarily due to an IP-hopper. Several of his IPs were recently blocked, created an account as CoUser1 (talk · contribs) (also blocked) as you can see here and here. I request also protection for:

Pending-changes protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Pending changes for both the articles. Please see my note on ANI for why I'd rather not semi them. Feel free to alert me on my page if there are further problems, for instance from autoconfirmed users. Bishonen | talk 10:51, 6 August 2014 (UTC).

Extend pending changes: There is still vandalism. I contacted the protecting administrator, but he hasn't responded. --George Ho (talk) 04:57, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. (Extended by 1 month) NativeForeigner Talk 09:17, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – 3RR violation committed by NerfersUnited, as this is a non-notable article. Areaseven (talk) 13:12, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Not done Please address the issue with the user, who is autoconfirmed anyway. -- John Reaves 03:42, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – on going vandalism in build up to New Zealand general election, 2014. Stuartyeates (talk) 06:43, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected., pls ping me if vandalism resumes.--Ymblanter (talk) 07:32, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent blanking of content. Jevansen (talk) 01:55, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

Already done. by another admin. —GFOLEY FOUR!— 04:26, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – 3RR violation committed by NerfersUnited, as this is a non-notable article. Areaseven (talk) 13:12, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Not done Please address the issue with the user, who is autoconfirmed anyway. -- John Reaves 03:41, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary pending changes: Persistent vandalism – This article should be temporarily pending changes protected as there is frequent vandalism occuring in this article. Param Mudgal (talk) 11:42, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. -- John Reaves 03:39, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

Unprotection: Could you please un-SALT this page as I will be creating a new article over the coming month. Thanks. JMHamo (talk) 22:56, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

 Not done. If you'll be creating it over the period of a month, please do so in a sub-page of your user space, your sandbox, or in Draft namespace. Drop me or any other admin a note and your new article can be moved into main space when you think it's ready. ~Amatulić (talk) 23:11, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
Declined --George Ho (talk) 01:12, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Repetitive vandalism and insertion of false information as a result of this reddit thread. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 01:54, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 day, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. -- John Reaves 03:45, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry. -- dsprc [talk] 23:20, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Materialscientist (talk) 03:13, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Continued vandalism by sockpuppets of User:Altimgamr. Bahooka (talk) 22:35, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected -- John Reaves 03:48, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Has been hit by three different sockpuppet accounts vandalizing the article in the last 5 hours. —Farix (t | c) 11:37, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Bearian (talk) 16:22, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
Consider the edit warring noticeboard – This is a case of possible edit-warring by one or two users. Bearian (talk) 16:22, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary Admin only protection Content dispute and edit warring by User:Chealer. User:Chealer is apparently edit warring against a book by User:Pundit (an administrator) who has written a new book about Wikipedia whose contents are disputed by User:Chealer. However, User:Pundit has asserted that COI does not allow him to ethically intervene. Requesting 10-14 day Admin only protection in order to start BRD and/or RFC to determine if User:Chealer's 120 (one hundred twenty edits) from the last 3 days should be reverted for bias and edit warring. LawrencePrincipe (talk) 05:23, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

This one may be controversial. Can another sysop look at this one, please? Bearian (talk) 16:17, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
Fully protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. —Eustress 01:36, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite pending changes: This article has been infrequently edited for years before semi-protection, which is inappropriate. There has been vandalism, but amount is too small to justify such protection. I tried to discuss with the protecting administrator, but s/he hasn't responded. George Ho (talk) 16:39, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

 Done. Apologies for the delayed response. In this case the vandalism (actually promotion of a non-notable self-published book) was spread out over multiple articles by multiple IP addresses. It was protected for a brief period, and the activity resumed right after the first protection period expired. We can experiment with PCP here, although in my observation and experience, it created needless work for reviewers if none of the anonymous edits are constructive. ~Amatulić (talk) 23:08, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
Already done by administrator Amatulic.. --George Ho (talk) 01:12, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. --Mdann52talk to me! 16:45, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined, Just a single IP, who can be warned and reported to the proper venue. —GFOLEY FOUR!— 19:39, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Snuggums (talk / edits) 14:59, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Bearian (talk) 16:16, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
User(s) blocked. IP 99.130.163.144 blocked for 31 hours: also vandalized Prescott Bush after being warned! Bearian (talk) 16:16, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
Very persistent IP! Snuggums (talk / edits) 16:18, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – There have been reverts lately, a few similar edits reverted more than three times. George Ho (talk) 14:41, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined, PC seems to be working fine —GFOLEY FOUR!— 19:47, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Anon with rotating IP address repeatedly (re)introducing unsourced information,3RR vio, will not engage on talk page. Brianhe (talk) 14:08, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. —GFOLEY FOUR!— 19:37, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – This page should be Semi Protected due to high vandalism. Param Mudgal (talk) 11:51, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. —GFOLEY FOUR!— 19:41, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

07 August 2014

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Days of IP vandalism (and to be fair, vandalism repair), altering "Star Trek" to "Star Wars" and back. TJRC (talk) 18:57, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Shirik (Questions or Comments?) 19:29, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Vandalism occuring because it is Today's Featured Article. JayJayWhat did I do? 18:19, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:39, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent vandalism from IP users . —Indian:BIO · [ ChitChat ] 05:45, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Shirik (Questions or Comments?) 19:52, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – a few days should help to get past the recent rash of unconstructive edits. Walter Görlitz (talk) 04:23, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Shirik (Questions or Comments?) 19:47, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – PC-protection ineffective on stopping vandals. George Ho (talk) 14:46, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined Sorry for not reacting in a timely manner, but the attack has been stopped, and there were no edits for two days.--Ymblanter (talk) 14:12, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent addition of unsourced/poorly sourced/unconfirmed statements. Jetstreamer Talk 10:29, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Seems more like a sourcing or content dispute. May we get a second opinion, please? Bearian (talk) 16:18, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
Declined, I am closing this since there were no edits for two days. Which info is correct can be discussed at the talk page.--Ymblanter (talk) 14:10, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism this article. SaməkTalk 14:04, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined, looks like edit warring to me, certainly not vandalism.--Ymblanter (talk) 14:08, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations – IP/new editors changing team for player who is *reportedly* involved in a (rumored and widely reported but unconfirmed) trade that can't happen until August 23. Mosmof (talk) 14:28, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--Ymblanter (talk) 15:01, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Since April an editor from Irvine California has been using IPs to make major edits which disrupt the list. Problems range from adding dab links instead of links to articles to major attempts to change the scope of the article, removing hidden comments, adding links to images that don't eixst, and adding pastries, cookies, etc to it (there are separate articles for all of these). Attempts to discuss have failed, eg at User talk:72.211.200.91 and User talk:72.211.205.119. Dougweller (talk) 09:30, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

I endorse protection. Also, the IP registered and is now the blocked User:17williamdo. Protection may be required soon for similar articles shown here: [21][22]. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 12:59, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
List of breads (and the others) do get a lot of good edits from anons, so I hope the protect can be as short as possible. I'll leave it to others to decide how long. I will watch and reprotect for as long as is needed. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 13:07, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. —Tom Morris (talk) 14:28, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – Hi I request that the page is protected, and an ip wanted to start edit wars, to add texts in Spanish and irrelevant information Article. Damián (talk) 04:14, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Consider the edit warring noticeboard – This is a case of possible edit-warring by one or two users. Users warned of three-revert rule. — MusikAnimal talk 04:37, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection - repeated violations of NPOV - in the list of alumni of the U of S College of Law, there's an entry for Premier Redford of Alberta, a living person, who resigned in the spring over an expenses scandal. Some editors have been adding "disgraced" in front of her name, which doesn't seem consistent with either NPOV, or the concern about references to living persons. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 06:25, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

an editor has re-inserted "disgraced". I'm not going to get into an edit war over the issue, but I think it warrants a look. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 14:16, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--Ymblanter (talk) 14:26, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite move protection: A sockpuppet has moved the page with various accounts. GoPurple'nGold24 04:40, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Move protected--Ymblanter (talk) 14:14, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Anonymous and registered users constantly alter the information, adding unreferenced data. Although I correct these vandalism, persist with their actions. Jaam0121 (talk) 05:52, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined I see many good IP edits, and it would be unreasonable in my opinion to semi-protect the page. I could have introduced pending changes, but I am not sure it is justified at this level of vandalism.--Ymblanter (talk) 07:53, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry, IP-hopping, block evasion by banned editors. --188.158.79.50 (talk) 04:13, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 4 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. — MusikAnimal talk 04:43, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: I feel this article could bait a potential vandal into inserting POV information into this article and claim, for example that climate science is manipulated they could say. IrritatingCobalt (talk) 21:10, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Pages are not protected preemptively. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 01:47, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: This is a highly visible page and a controversial topic, and I have also observed some vandals who were placing huge walls of irrelevant information and in a different language so it would obviously stand out and obstruct the page. IrritatingCobalt (talk) 20:52, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 01:44, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Full Protection Content dispute/edit warring between and IP and a registered user regarding fleet section. Rzxz1980 (talk) 18:20, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 01:36, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Protect from vandalism. ViperSnake151  Talk  01:29, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Already protected by administrator Mike V. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 03:25, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – IP hopper discussed at WP:ANI#Disruptive Editions of IP-hopper and boomeranging at WP:ANI#Disruptive Editions of User. —Ryūlóng (琉竜) 00:52, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 03:20, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – IP hopper discussed at WP:ANI#Disruptive Editions of IP-hopper and boomeranging at WP:ANI#Disruptive Editions of User. —Ryūlóng (琉竜) 00:52, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 03:18, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Current topic, IPs removing the photographs during the pending court case. —Ryūlóng (琉竜) 00:44, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 03:08, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: There is currently a discussion regarding what is the current name of Thomas M. Cooley Law School. An IP/anon insists on changing the school's name in the article. Semi-protection will stop this IP/anon from being disruptive and may get him to participate in the discussion. SMP0328. (talk) 00:34, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 02:58, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Article has been attacked repeatedly and frequently by logged-in socks of HoshiNoKaabii2000 and various IP socks. Vandal has been operating for well over a year, and he has been editing at this article for at least 9 months. Recommending long-term protection from IPs and non-autoconfirmed users. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 23:23, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 6 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 02:56, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – There is one ip eliminating false information and adding things in the article. Damián (talk) 21:47, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 02:53, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – https://boards dot 4chan dot org/b/thread/560978173/69-decides-which-wikipage-we-edit-go is evidence of an anonymous mass raid on this article and must be stopped. IrritatingCobalt (talk) 20:48, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

Comment: archived thread of raid [23]. I'd recommend 2-3 hours protection til they're gone. 2Flows (talk) 21:00, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 02:48, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Previous protection comes off, the vandals come out. Favre1fan93 (talk) 20:05, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 02:38, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary full protection. A couple of editors, who acknowledge that they don't understand current policy language concerning A7, have decided to rewrite key language that has been in place for years and has enjoy broad consensus. The claim consensus based on a brief, unpublicized talk page discussion with negligible participation. This is inconsistent with both policy and practice, but they're determined. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 18:45, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

Actually, three editors have agreed on the proposed content and one has reverted three times without articulating any actual objection to the content itself in the talk page discussion. Usually, one person is not allowed to block consensus, especially on such an uncontroversial change.- MrX 19:17, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
So what? If you're going to make a non-trivial change to an important policy page, you need to publicize the discussion, allow ample opportunity for participation by other editors, and allow consensus to be assessed by an uninvolved editor, preferably an admin. You did none of that. The language in question has been in place for years and enjoys broad consensus. Changing it to an incoherent text one of you made up a day or two ago shows no respect for the community. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 19:25, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
Oppose per User:MrX. Dogmaticeclectic (talk) 19:19, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
@Hullaballoo Wolfowitz: First, it is a trivial change to clarify the intent. This is important for new 'new page patrollers' who are frequently confused as to the qualifying criteria for CSD. Second, there is no such think as "enjoys consensus" that automagically freezes content. Third, no, policy changes do not necessarily need to publicized. Fourth, you have yet to explain what you mean by "incoherent text". It's perfectly coherent.- MrX 20:35, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
If you think that policy changes don't need to be publicized in advance and be supported by WP:CONSENSUS, you fail basic WP:COMPETENCE standards for editing policy-related pages. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 21:07, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
WP:AVOIDEDITWAR much? HW, you should know better. In any case, what makes you think your version would be the one protected? VQuakr (talk) 20:42, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
Because it's policy language that's been in place since since 2008, has enjoyed broad consensus, and hasn't been the subject of any serious, appropriately publicized change discussion. "Policy is what we do", not what a couple of editors who don't understand long-standing slide through without giving any kind of meaningful notice to the community. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 21:02, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
Fully protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 02:34, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection and page revert Edits by new user with username appearing to indicate being the subject's father. Repeated addition of content violating BLP, notability and article structure, where any further reverts by me would violate 3RR. JaeDyWolf ~ Baka-San (talk) 14:45, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined I've left a note on the user's talk page to encourage discussion. Also, removing qualified BLP violations is exempt from 3RR, provided they are noted appropriately. Mike V • Talk 22:34, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. QED237 (talk) 17:10, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 02:23, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Quite a lot of vandalism from unregistered users - often racially-motivated / racially-abusive way (e.g. replacing large amounts of text with "Indian"). tranquility2007 (talk) 12:44, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 02:16, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Genre warring by an IP, who refuses to adhere to consensus or discuss. Radiopathy •talk• 23:45, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

  • I have discussed. I am not editing against consensus. You do not get to decide what consensus is on your own. Semi-protection of the page would simply be a malicious way to block me from editing the page so that you can define "consensus" on your own. 79.97.226.247 (talk) 07:04, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
Fully protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. I see no current discussion. Also after the last discussion in 2011 it seems to have included "emo" in the infobox. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 02:06, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Reports/Rumuors say this BLP footballer is about to change club. A lot of unsourced edits. QED237 (talk) 22:22, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 01:49, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Joke edits are inspired by an AMA on Reddit by Sean Bean, which has also been linked to a high-profile subreddit. Further attempts are very likely. Silvrous Talk 20:47, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 01:43, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary pending changes: Persistent vandalism – Seems to be a pattern of new users vandalizing the article with offensive POV material. Auric talk 20:06, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 01:40, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection. And anon editor continues to remove sourced pertinent information about one of the champions, because the match which he won the title was taped and hasn't aired yet (will air this Thursday in the US). Reverted many times, attempts to discuss have been ignored, as have vandalism warnings. Has reverted numerous times within the last 20 minutes alone, despite the warning. oknazevad (talk) 17:10, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Already protected by administrator Ronhjones. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 01:32, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: IP user(s) persistently reverting fixes to the date format. Nick Number (talk) 15:59, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 weeek, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 01:30, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary pending changes: Frequent IP/new user vandalism/POV pushing. 4 August 4 August, 31 July, 17 July, 16 July, 21 June. This article has 24 K hits every month and a High importance article for Hinduism. --Redtigerxyz Talk 15:35, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Changed from semi-protection to Pending changes. --Redtigerxyz Talk 18:48, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of 6 moths, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 01:27, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Is being subjected to repeated change of sourced content to WP:OR by IP users, either protect it or make it pending changes. —Indian:BIO · [ ChitChat ] 14:21, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 6 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 01:24, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Anonymous and registered users constantly alter the information, adding unreferenced data. Although I correct these vandalism, persist with their actions. Jaam0121 (talk) 18:45, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 6 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 01:00, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Downgrade to template editor, please. Sister templates are mostly TE, semi, or not protected. APerson (talk!) 14:24, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

Done —GFOLEY FOUR!— 19:16, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

Unprotection: I requested it to the protecting admin a week ago, but there is no answer. The page was protected due to recreation per AFD, but this article is totally different to then version. It is now unneeded to have it protected. © Tbhotch™ (en-2.5). 04:19, 6 August 2014 (UTC). © Tbhotch™ (en-2.5). 04:19, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

Unprotected —GFOLEY FOUR!— 19:17, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

08 August 2014

Semi-protection: Persistent BLP violations by IPs, bordering on vandalism (problem has been going on for awhile though with different IPs).Volunteer Marek (talk) 18:48, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. I only protected because of BLP violations, but this is only one IP with an empty talk page. I will no explain them our BLP policy, but it is unfortunate nobody tried to do it before. I can not even block them since they have never been warned.--Ymblanter (talk) 21:19, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. czar ♔ 17:17, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Already protected by administrator Salvidrim!.. —GFOLEY FOUR!— 20:58, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – A lot of IP vandalism due to the game being re released on next gen consoles. A least 2 vandals a day, that's a lot for a sub page. URDNEXT (talk) 13:57, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Already protected by administrator Salvidrim!.. —GFOLEY FOUR!— 20:57, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent addition of content that is not supported by sources already in the article. Jetstreamer Talk 17:46, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Already protected. by another admin. —GFOLEY FOUR!— 20:52, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Steve Lux, Jr. (talk) 17:31, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Courcelles 17:46, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Steve Lux, Jr. (talk) 17:30, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Courcelles 17:46, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Create protection: Repeatedly recreated. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 14:49, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Creation protected. Courcelles 14:54, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – A lot of IP vandalism due to Celtic FC being reinstated in the Champions League because this player was suspended. JMHamo (talk) 13:16, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--Ymblanter (talk) 14:40, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – The article is constantly subjected to vandalism by new accounts or IPs. - Phill24th (talk). 11:56, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Already protected by administrator Randykitty.. Courcelles 14:35, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: large-scale edit-warring involving multiple users.Ymblanter (talk) 17:50, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

I should perhaps add that this article has a difficult editing and protection history, and the protecting administrator is likely to be taken to ANI as already happened in the past.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:02, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
Reported to 3RR noticeboard. My very best wishes (talk) 19:50, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
Declined, handled via the 3RR route.--Ymblanter (talk) 05:54, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Another target of the user described here. —Ryūlóng (琉竜) 18:44, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 05:31, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Another target of the user described here. —Ryūlóng (琉竜) 18:44, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 05:30, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Another target of the user described here. —Ryūlóng (琉竜) 18:43, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 05:29, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Another target of the user described here. —Ryūlóng (琉竜) 18:43, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 05:27, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Another target of the user described here. —Ryūlóng (琉竜) 18:41, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 05:25, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Target of an individual I describe here. —Ryūlóng (琉竜) 18:38, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 05:24, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Target of an individual I describe here. —Ryūlóng (琉竜) 18:37, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Diannaa (talk) 03:31, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. QED237 (talk) 15:02, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Diannaa (talk) 03:01, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Target of an individual I describe here. —Ryūlóng (琉竜) 18:37, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Diannaa (talk) 02:41, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Constant target of an individual I describe here. —Ryūlóng (琉竜) 18:37, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Diannaa (talk) 02:39, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Anonymous and registered users constantly alter the information, adding unreferenced data. Although I correct these vandalism, persist with their actions. Jaam0121 (talk) 05:52, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Many IP edits are being retained, and we don't want to drive away those productive editors. Diannaa (talk) 02:44, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Multiple IPs are blanking/vandalizing this page. ~Frosty (Talk page) 06:21, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 06:33, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of vandalism and dubious unsourced additions by anon IP editors. STATic message me! 02:22, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--Ymblanter (talk) 05:57, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Favre1fan93 (talk) 01:39, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 06:30, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – random vandalism in lead up to New Zealand general election, 2014. Stuartyeates (talk) 00:42, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 06:28, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of vandalism by anon IP editors. STATic message me! 00:31, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 06:25, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. QED237 (talk) 23:40, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 06:23, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite template protection: Highly visible template – This template has 924 transclusions and has recently been the scene of breaking edits and forth-and-back reverts without appropriate sandbox testing in advance. Codename Lisa (talk) 23:36, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

  • Actually, the "breaking edits and forth-and-back reverts" concerns you.
(Personal attack removed)
  • You were engaged in disruptive editing on this very same template and was reported to WP:ANI for it. (You promised to be cautious but you didn't keep it, as evidenced by your edits today.)
  • And the part about being the maintainer of the template is false; your first edit on it was on 9 July 2014 and is the beginning of the same disruptive behavior for which you were reported to ANI.
Codename Lisa (talk) 03:53, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
I am a general template maintainer - I move around and help to update and standardize many templates. My change to this template was cautious and fully in keeping with the guidelines I linked above. How about instead of levying personal attacks and casting aspersions, you actually explain your issue with this edit specifically rather than continue in this battleground-mentality. -- Netoholic @ 05:10, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
Fully protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 05:42, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite full protection: Persistent vandalism – Same reason as for Shannon Sixx. Repeated creation of a hoax page. —Largo Plazo (talk) 03:32, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Creation protected indefinitely. Diannaa (talk) 05:46, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Edit-warring by co-located IPs, refusal to engage on talk page. Mutt Lunker (talk) 22:19, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. by Cambridge Bay Weather. Diannaa (talk) 05:50, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Vandalism is rasing due to the Slater v. Wikimedia case. © Tbhotch™ (en-2.5). 20:00, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 05:36, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 05:38, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Angry Birds articles

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent insertion of nonsense by shifting IP. Too much collateral damage for a rangeblock. Black Kite (talk) 19:55, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 05:34, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – This article is a target for perennial vandalism. Its subject is the Filipino actress Dianne dela Fuente. It is frequently co-opted by IP editors trying to turn it into an article on Mexican actress Diane dela Fuente. The article on the Mexican actress (last version prior to deletion here) see-sawed back and forth between bios of the two actresses. The Mexican actress's article has since been deleted for lack of references and notability; but in what is possible "good-faith vandalism", if there is such a thing, IP editors continue to replace the notable Filipino actress's page with an article on the Mexican actress; most recently at [24].

As the comment at the top of the page makes clear, there's no objection to an article on the Mexican actress, if she can be deemed notable, but all we are seeing is the defacement of the article on the Filipino actress. TJRC (talk) 19:10, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Comment: I would also like to point out that this also falls under the umbrella of the long term vandal for which I've requested protection on the other pages below.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 19:12, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
Not done These incidences seem to be months apart. The IP gets blocked and the article is then stable for a long time after. I think blocking the vandal(s) is better than indef semi-protection. Indef protection of any sort needs to be in response to problems that cannot be solved another way. Revert, block, ignore. Chillum 23:41, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Mutiple IPs and new users vandalising the article. --. Rsrikanth05 (talk) 11:55, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined The disruption is coming from registered edit warring users, not IPs. I have warned these people about our edit warring policy. Diannaa (talk) 02:52, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of two days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Diannaa (talk) 05:47, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: this is a highly viewed FA that has recently seen a spike in unconstructive editing (and has had other vandalism before); it came off a three-day semi, and had an immediate resurgence in addition of unhelpful content ... thus I request a longer term semi-protection (i.e. >1 month). Thanks --. Go Phightins! 02:51, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Diannaa (talk) 03:34, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Tricycle Theatre and related article on its director

Temporary semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism on a currently evolving accusation of anti-semitism against this theatre and person. Numerous IP addresses involved who do not engage with talk page or any Wikipedia norm. Entries against Indhu Rubasingham are often inflammatory and highly PoV. Request that only confirmed editors be allowed to edit until situation resolves.Pincrete (talk) 17:03, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Diannaa (talk) 03:26, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: These are the list of articles which have been disrupted by hopping IPs introducing factual errors (changing height/weight). They never use an edit summary and once they've been all reverted before, hop to a new IP to do it tomorrow. Tutelary (talk) 15:56, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Diannaa (talk) 03:19, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection required. I realize since I am new this will prevent me from editing it for some time but there really is no other choice as the article has come under heavy attack from IPs and new "hit and run" accounts throughout the 6th and 7th August. It took me a long time to work out that the incoming details (this footballer signing for either Sheffield Utd or Sheffield Wed) are a complete hoax. Can the administrator carrying out this task also ensure my revision is on display while the article is closed off to new accounts as I will not be able to touch it in this time. --The Old Boy In Town (talk) 15:37, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Your account is auto-confirmed, by the way (you have your 10 edits and 4 days). Good times. Diannaa (talk) 03:08, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Severe vandalism by anonymous IPs relating to current event involving professional wrestler. TySoltaur (talk) 23:44, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Already protected. by Material Scientist. Diannaa (talk) 02:48, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent unsourced edits by multiple IPs over transfer speculation of this footballer. Request for one week's PP. Thank you. LRD NO (talk) 13:36, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Diannaa (talk) 02:58, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent unsourced edits by multiple IPs over transfer speculation of this footballer. Request for one week's PP. Thank you. LRD NO (talk) 13:36, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Diannaa (talk) 02:57, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent vandalism and unsourced entries. Egghead06 (talk) 12:54, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Diannaa (talk) 02:55, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection Disruptive editing The page constantly draws IPs who repeatedly add unsupported chart peaks. The page was semi-protected for a period of a few days, but disruptions resumed immediately after the semi-protection expired.--Harout72 (talk) 05:42, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Diannaa (talk) 02:37, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry. Erick (talk) 01:11, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Already protected. by Chillum. Diannaa (talk) 02:34, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Target of an individual I describe here. —Ryūlóng (琉竜) 18:37, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

User(s) blocked.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:46, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
It's an IP hopping long term vandal who has made it his goal to vandalize this page and others. There needs to be a protection put in place.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 19:03, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
The last IP edits to that article before today are from September, 2013. Before that, July 2013. Before that, December 2012. None of those edits appear to have been blatant vandalism, either. If there's some sort of long-term vandalism going on here at such a rate that indef semi is called for, it's not obvious to me. Can you explain some more? A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 20:38, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary pending changes. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 14:59, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

Question: Can you give me some idea as why it needs it. I'm not seeing a lot of problems there. If someone else thinks that it should be done then please go ahead and don't wait for me to come back. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 02:21, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Constant target of an individual I describe here. —Ryūlóng (琉竜) 18:37, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

User(s) blocked.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:46, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
It's an IP hopping long term vandal who has made it his goal to vandalize this page and others. There needs to be a protection put in place.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 19:03, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
We do not preemptively protect articles. This would be against policy.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:08, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
It's not a preemptive protection when this page has been hit by this same long term vandal multiple times in the past several years.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 19:09, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Still receiving vandalism from an anonymous editor, 182.23.156.149, I'm afraid: see [25]. Callanecc blocked the IP for 31 hours on 2 August, but the person went back to his or her old tricks once the block expired: see also this diff of "National service in Singapore". — Cheers, JackLee –talk– 09:02, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. Shirik (Questions or Comments?) 19:55, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Frequent team changes of professional basketball free agent. TM 12:00, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

Question: @Namiba: It already has pending changes. Do you feel that's not enough? CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 02:14, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

09 August 2014

Semi-protection Anonymous and newly-created users have been continuously changing template information without providing sources—making it extremely frustrating for dedicated users who are trying to maintain the best-quality information to try and track sources for their changes. The template already has a 1RR ArbCom rule in effect, but this has not deterred users from arbitrarily changing information and forcing others to revert. I suspect a few users have been IP-hopping or mass-creating new accounts to get around the 1RR rule. -- Veggies (talk) 13:07, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--Ymblanter (talk) 14:56, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

semi-protection A long history of single purpose accounts trying to add in the same negative nonsense from YouTube. [26] [27] [28] [29][30] Some have no edits outside this article, some have a few elsewhere. One notorious often banned sockpuppet had a lot of edits there before their current sock being banned. [31] Notice that it recently came off protective status, and as soon as that happened two new user single purpose accounts started to edit war the same negative nonsense into the account. The sock master who is determined to attack this article, is not likely to give up ever, so please make it permanent page protection. Dream Focus 11:56, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Diannaa (talk) 12:35, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

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

There was a suggestion that was made by Salvidrim! see here and the request was closed too soon. I do not understand why. Salvidrim! can you do what you suggested and I agreed? Thanks . Hanay (talk) 13:02, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

Yes I an doing it in the next few minutes. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 13:04, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
Done tutterMouse (talk) 14:20, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Disruptive hopping IPs. Nymf (talk) 10:56, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 day, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.. Please come back if it continues. Wifione Message 11:15, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Reaction to Hunter Pence Signs meme. ONR (talk) 10:39, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--Ymblanter (talk) 11:17, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite template protection: Highly visible template – I request template protection to disallow subversion of template protection for derivative template – {{citation needed span‎}}. — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk•track) 08:15, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

Template protected for a period of 1 year, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.. Wifione Message 11:05, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection - genre warring by IPs. Radiopathy •talk• 04:00, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 05:45, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Creed90952 (talk) 17:39, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 05:41, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary pending changes: Persistent vandalism – Multiple users are vandalising the page. Rameshnta909 (talk) 16:47, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 05:39, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent unsourced edits and vandalism by multiple IPs over transfer speculation of this footballer. Request for one week's PP. Thank you. LRD NO (talk) 06:24, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. —Tom Morris (talk) 07:07, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary Full Protection: Repeated addition of copywritten material, despite repeated requests for owner to seek WP:OTRS ticket. Source of copyvio at http://www.rehs.com/aboutus.html?contemporary=N The Dissident Aggressor 21:53, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Note: Recommend the reviewing admin checks the discussion on my talkpage first - this is not a copyright violation, as the Wikipedia text predates the cited website claiming copyright. Yunshui 雲水 22:12, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
See discussion. Wayback records are not conclusive. Besides the page still says copyright. The Dissident Aggressor 22:20, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
Declined The text in question was copied from Wikipedia, not the other way around. Diannaa (talk) 04:06, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: As far as I am aware, templates with similar transclusion counts are normally semi-protected, not template-protected. Please lower the protection level of this template. (The protecting administrator has refused to do so, citing instances of vandalism, yet this template has been vandalized extremely rarely compared to numerous other pages.) Dogmaticeclectic (talk) 18:08, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined I endorse the protection imposed in December by Fluffernutter and do not believe unprotecting it would be a good idea. Rjd0060 (talk) 01:45, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – Talk page consensus is against adding content without secondary sources showing significance, as is consensus at WP:POPCULTURE. Needs page protection for current version until other editors agree that addition is encyclopedic. Dennis Bratland (talk) 22:05, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Fully protected for a period of 10 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. However it will be re-protected and/or blocks will be issued if edit warring continues after that. Additionally, it would appear that in your opinion the wrong version has been protected. Note that protection is not an endorsement of the current version. It is simply meant to stop disruption and force discussion. Rjd0060 (talk) 01:43, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: New article about a politically motivated hacking group, seems to meet WP:GNG so I can't recommend outright deletion, has been edited by various brand new accounts of group members (or people claiming to be them) persistently adding in unsourced content in an attempt at self-promotion. Edits have already been reverted by ClueBot with a high vandalism score. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 19:34, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 05:43, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary pending changes: Persistent vandalism – Multiple users are deleting source content and conducting edit test. Page was protected for sometime earlier. Now it started again. Pending changes is necessary. Rameshnta909 (talk) 16:42, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 05:37, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: IP users are repeatedly adding promotional as well as unsourced content. Rameshnta909 (talk) 15:36, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 05:34, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

Full protection: High level repeat violations WP:V, 3rd party sources. WP:NPOV, edits by Proper Stranger, Interests: Scientific Skepticism. Article section Novella Lawsuit, Novella “best known for his involvement in the skeptical movement.” -WP Rjwrjw100 (talk) 11:03, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Fully protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 05:31, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent addition of unreliable sources/references that do not support the content. No replies at talk. Jetstreamer Talk 10:47, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 05:25, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. QED237 (talk) 22:37, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Already protected. Courcelles 01:18, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

Move protection: This page has been moved randomly multiple times, now. It could use move protection, as it is in a sensitive area, and because its present title is the result of recent consensus in a requested move discussion at Talk:War in Donbass. RGloucester — ☎ 22:34, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Done Rjd0060 (talk) 01:40, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

Foreign relations articles

Temporary semi-protection: These articles are being disrupted by multiple WP:DUCK WP:SOCKs of User:Koov. (See Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Koov.) Unfortunately, the wheels of WP:SPI turn very slowly, so it will likely be some time before the socks are actually blocked. Could we get protection in the meantime? TDL (talk) 17:25, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

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

My talk page was vandalised several times by troll from He:wiki. Its happened also in Commons and Meta-wiki. And it will happen again. Thanks Hanay (talk) 14:07, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined, JUst not seeing this as frequent or persistnet enough to protect a user talk page, sorry. Courcelles 14:38, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
This is so strange. The administrators in Commons and Meta-wiki thought differently, and even I did not ask them to do it. maybe because I am very active there but not here. You encourage a troll instead of supporting a fellow administrator in Hebrew wiki. Hanay (talk) 14:47, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
I actually only see one vandal edit this year. I don;t support trolls, I';m obliged to local protection policy (even though I think it is too weak here) which says "User talk pages are rarely protected, and are semi-protected for short durations only in the most severe cases of vandalism from IP users." Italics are mine, and it is the reason for declining here. It just doesn't look severe here, though I haven't looked on Meta or Commons (which have different protection policies to enwp anyhow) Courcelles 15:01, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
Look at User:Hanay all of the IP adress is the same troll. Hanay (talk) 15:09, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
He vandalised your user page once and your user talk page once. Now, your user page I can protect, and just did. But unless I'm totally blind, I only see one IP edit on your user talk page in the last couple years, which isn't enough to protect one. Courcelles 15:15, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
My user page was vandalised 5 times. The troll knows how to change IP adress. Now you will see that she is going to vandalised my talk page. Since I am not very active here, the chance that an anonymous will ask me somthing is so rare, so no harm is to protect it Hanay (talk) 15:21, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
Hanay, how about this compromise: if you say your en.wiki talkpage is rarely used, would you agree to have it soft-redirected to your Hebrew Wikipedia user talk page? That way, all messages would go over there, and I would be happy to semi-protect the page afterwards since it will not be meant to receive messages. If that works for you, please provide me with a link t the page where you want the soft-redirection to be targetted to. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 16:22, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
Salvidrim, It seems as a good idea. We can try it, and if I will see that it cause problems, can I revise my decision? If I can, see a link to my talk page in He:wiki here. Thanks Hanay (talk) 18:54, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
Courcelles see here as I predicted. Hanay (talk) 20:54, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

10 August 2014

Semi-protection:vandalism by anon IP editors. It's been protected before but after 48 hours vandals come back Txuriurdin (talk)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. —Eustress 17:23, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection:vandalism by anon IP editors Azirann (talk)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. —Eustress 17:30, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite full protection: Long-standing editors engaging in an edit war. Stuartyeates (talk) 09:03, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Content dispute. Please use the article's talk page or other forms of dispute resolution. —Eustress 17:21, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite template protection: Highly visible template – Used by Module:Protection banner which is high-risk. Jackmcbarn (talk) 19:24, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Template protected indefinitely. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 20:42, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. QED237 (talk) 13:33, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. —Eustress 17:34, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of vandalism by anon IP editors. STATic message me! 07:51, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined, there are a lot of ip edits. A few are vandalism, more are well-intentioned but unhelpful. I don't think there's enough disruption to prevent them from editing . Xymmax So let it be written So let it be done 13:22, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Shrike (talk)/WP:RX 13:32, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. The indefinite move protection will remain in place. Note this is an article under 1RR. Xymmax So let it be written So let it be done 13:57, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection:High level of vandalism by anon IP editors and new users. There has been a user repeatedly vandalizing the page https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Premakeerthi_de_Alwis to make personal attacks on a living person. The content has been repeatedly refused by many independent administrators and the user's account and a sockpuppet account have been blocked. Unfortunately, as I have predicted on the associated talk page, the user is anonymously vandalizing the page. I am confident that this user will repeatedly change the page to include his refused content by Wikipedia and therefore requesting an indefinite block on the page.--Ramya20 (talk) 12:57, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Xymmax So let it be written So let it be done 13:36, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Mark Arsten (talk · contribs) applied pending changes to Warangal at a time when people were repeatedly adding a mention of the state of Telangana well before that state came into existence - a WP:CRYSTAL situation, driven by a separatist movement. Telangana does now exist as a separate state, the article reflects the changed status and there is no longer any need for PC. Mark has not edited since March 2014. - Sitush (talk) 12:28, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Unprotected Xymmax So let it be written So let it be done 14:04, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
Ha! And there has just been a spot of vandalism. My above comment holds true, though. The rationale for introducing PC is now obsolete. - Sitush (talk) 14:03, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Create protection This article has been speedy-deleted 3 times each time been re-created. It has recently been created a fourth time and is a current speedy deletion nom. NickGibson3900 - Talk - Sign my Guestbook 07:54, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Creation protected by Shirik (talk · contribs). Xymmax So let it be written So let it be done 13:19, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of vandalism by anon IP editors and new users. STATic message me! 05:37, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mike V • Talk 06:02, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Create protection: Repeatedly recreated. STATic message me! 05:36, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected indefinitely.--Ymblanter (talk) 09:41, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: An apparent IP-hopping editor edit-warring and ignoring talk page discussion. jhsounds (talk) 05:08, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 05:34, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection. IP continues to insert unsourced content. brewcrewer (yada, yada) 03:54, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 05:32, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Pending changes: Persistent vandalism – I would suggest PC or semi-protect. This page is a frequent target for vandalism. JayJayWhat did I do? 02:56, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 6 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 05:31, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary Protection: Persistent disruptive editing involving adding an unnecessary category. BattleshipMan (talk) 03:08, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 05:28, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: A spate of new account vandalism. Apparently it's a thing to add that he has three brothers, when all sources say he only has two. There's even an account named for the (fictional?) third brother Eli Posey (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). ‖ Ebyabe talk - General Health ‖ 02:03, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Since different new user accounts are adding it, there's likely sockpuppetry or meatpuppetry involved as well. --‖ Ebyabe talk - Union of Opposites ‖ 02:09, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Rjd0060 (talk) 02:15, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 01:58, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Rjd0060 (talk) 02:15, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. JayJayWhat did I do? 00:54, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 18 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Rjd0060 (talk) 02:15, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – As the Cavs have made a trade which by NBA rules isn't official until 8/23/14, I just wanna prevent edit wars by people who want to jump the gun. Vjmlhds 21:59, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Rjd0060 (talk) 02:15, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary pending changes: BLP policy violations. George Ho (talk) 20:45, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

Done (PC for 1 week) Rjd0060 (talk) 02:09, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism, which mainly consists of removing Justin Bieber from the list. Aikclaes (talk) 20:45, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Rjd0060 (talk) 02:06, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Extend pending changes: Protecting administrator is not very active currently. There is still vandalism. --George Ho (talk) 19:53, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

Already protected. until the 13th of August. No need to do anything just yet. Diannaa (talk) 01:09, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent IP vandalism, removing the single cover from the infobox without edit summaries or talk page discussions, consistently leading to the image appearing in orphaned fair use categories. Aspects (talk) 18:00, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Diannaa (talk) 01:12, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent IP vandalism the unregistered users ongoing unconstructive/unsourced edits and provoking of war the editors. If you dont protect this template then many not registered editors which using only IP address will continue to distort information and make unjustified editings. Hanibal911 (talk) 14:04, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite template protection: Highly visible template redirects – These template redirects will remain adequately protected while allowing template editors the ability to edit. In particular I want to ask a TE colleague of mine from WikiProject Redirect to add the appropriate {{Rcat}}s. Thank you.—John Cline (talk) 00:11, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Template protected ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 01:15, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

11 August 2014

Temporary semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism of politician running in August 12 primary election. Kablammo (talk) 18:28, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of 10 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. --j⚛e deckertalk 18:38, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Editors changing his club without a deal made and vandalism. Kante4 (talk) 14:28, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. in part due to longer term patterns of vandalism. --j⚛e deckertalk 18:42, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Downgrade to template editor, please; all (or almost all) of its sister template-linking templates are at TE already. I guess this one was missed since it was directly migrated from metawiki. APerson (talk!) 18:40, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Template protected--Ymblanter (talk) 20:12, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent unsourced edits by multiple IPs with transfer speculation over this footballer. Request for one week's PP. Thank you. LRD NO (talk) 16:26, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent IP vandalism gutting the article. Softlavender (talk) 16:16, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism from multiple IPs. As I nominated the article for deletion, I'm taking a wide reading of WP:INVOLVED and would prefer that another admin apply semi-protection. While the semi-protection would also lock the original author out of the article, I believe that the vandalism is too persistent to leave the article unprotected. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 16:08, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 10 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Unfortunately, I must agree, frustrating as it is on an article at AFD. Too frequent for PC1 to be a good candidate. --j⚛e deckertalk 18:22, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: recurrent problem with vandalism/WP:BLP violations from IP-hopper. AndyTheGrump (talk) 18:05, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:14, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism. The page has probably been vandalized over fifty times this year. The disruptive edits are generally genre and personnel changes, as usual.--Retrohead (talk) 17:54, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:21, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

User talk:Pessimist2006 (edit | user page | history | links | watch | logs)

Semi-protection to year. System harrasment from new accounts in russian language. --Pessimist 17:44, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. I blocked the user as vandalism-only account, and protected the page for a month (since it has been previously protected for a month), but since it was last time before today vandalized in 2011, this is about all I can do within our protection policy.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:19, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

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

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – David Beals socks keep adding links to fan videos (not sure why). Jinkinson talk to me 11:31, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Usually we do not protect talk pages for such long terms, but here vandalism has been excessive and of long duration.--Ymblanter (talk) 13:47, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: IPs and new users constantly adding premature information about a reported transaction regarding Papanikolaou and the Houston Rockets. DaHuzyBru (talk) 09:37, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--Ymblanter (talk) 13:50, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: No one but me ever needs to edit this page. —Ryūlóng (琉竜) 07:22, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected--Ymblanter (talk) 07:40, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of vandalism by unauthorized IP editors. Prem Talk 05.15 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--Ymblanter (talk) 07:42, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Protection requested while discussion for deletion of article takes place. Specific user requesting deletion appears to be motivated by a personal agenda, considering that the request for deletion was removed and the article was updated, then the user in question moved it to discussion for deletion - which demonstrates an unspecified bias after proof of notability and non-trivial information. Requesting Administrator intervention to review Article. Currently building cites and improving the high quality of the article. Unionyes420 (talk) 00:07, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined, articles generally are not protected during deletion discussions. Part of the puropose of AFD is to permit improvement articles under consideration. I don't see vandalism right now, so protection is inappropriate. Xymmax So let it be written So let it be done 01:08, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Constant vandalism. Koala15 (talk) 18:37, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected by Xymmax. Mike V • Talk 03:37, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – There has been vandalism by ips and new users. Damián (talk) 16:47, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Already protected. by DMacks. Diannaa (talk) 22:26, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – On-going vandalism by IP hopping vandal. SummerPhD (talk) 16:28, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected by Xymmax for 2 weeks. — MusikAnimal talk 01:57, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

12 August 2014

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry. - MrX 16:34, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Already protected. by another admin. —GFOLEY FOUR!— 18:53, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Someone with a very similar name recently died in controversial circumstances and people are adding content to the wrong article. . Stuartyeates (talk) 07:15, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected., currently I do not see any reason for full protection.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:05, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

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

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Erick (talk) 07:10, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. Mike V • Talk 14:06, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Since the last protection level was lifted on 28 July 2014 after BLP violations, the article has continued to suffer from a large number of BLP violations. I counted up at least 8 acts of vandalism alone on the day of 11 August 2014 (UK time), including some grossly offensive vandalism. There have been a number of previous temporary protection measures put in place due to persistent vandalism and BLP violations. Regrettably those temporary measures have not stopped the persistent vandalism. McIlroy is currently ranked as the World Number One golfer and as one of the highest profile sportsmen in the world this article has suffered from persistent violations. Kind Tennis Fan (talk) 06:21, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Honestly, he JUST won a major 36 hours ago. A month should get us, well, shoot, right to the Ryder Cup. I'll go back and make it two, and the golf season will be over. Courcelles 15:59, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary Admin only protection Content dispute and edit warring by User:Chealer. User:Chealer is continuing edit warring against a book by User:Pundit (an administrator) who has written a new book about Wikipedia whose contents are disputed by User:Chealer. However, User:Pundit has asserted that COI does not allow him to ethically intervene. Requesting 14-21 day Admin only protection in order to start a new RFC to determine if a topic ban against User:Chealer is needed, or, if User:Chealer's 120 (one hundred twenty edits) from the last 2 weeks should be reverted for bias and edit warring. Four editors have tried without success to engage with User:Chealer on the Talk page, including admin, and User:Chealer has asserted dissent against needing to follow WP:BRD and WP:Lede. An RFC was foreshortened by an editor who did not know that the RFC posted there was time sensitive, though 4 responding editors were in SUPPORT of an extension for Admin only page protection for at least 2 weeks (two other editors requested eval of a topic ban against User:Chealer). LawrencePrincipe (talk) 01:53, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined, page is currently under protection —GFOLEY FOUR!— 06:29, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – repeated removal of a specific piece of content over a long period of time by various IPs and throwaway redlink accounts. John from Idegon (talk) 04:15, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. —GFOLEY FOUR!— 06:36, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations – Repeated insertion of unsourced BLP information by IPs. : Noyster (talk), 08:01, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--Ymblanter (talk) 08:08, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Now and again, this page has been disrupted by IPs who either partially, or fully, censor a sourced news item in this article containing a swear word and a mention of a pornographic website, saying that it is a "link to uploading pornography". This has been done 4 times by different users since 10 July. UPDATE: The IP who kept censoring the page has been blocked, but is threatening to obtain meat puppets. https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/User_talk:71.32.161.91#Notice_of_Edit_warring_noticeboard_discussion '''tAD''' (talk) 18:28, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined Can't protect because we think the IP might obtain meat puppets. If the IP returns to edit war report to WP:AIV or WP:AN3. Meanwhile the talk page appears to be serving it's purpose. — MusikAnimal talk 04:14, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Disruptive point of view pushing by a IP hopper. STATic message me! 17:26, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Content dispute. Please use the article's talk page or other forms of dispute resolution. Edits seem constructive. If after discussion edit war persists protection may be needed. — MusikAnimal talk 03:40, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Pointy IP editors attempting to edit-war an unsourced "controversy" section into the article. betafive 17:05, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

And more recently, going well beyond 3RR to blank most of the article in a pique of sour grapes. - Wikidemon (talk) 17:24, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
Not sour grapes (which is an expression reserved people who have lost in a competitive pursuit). Merely applying your editorial policy that you requested, consistently, across the article.
Either way, protection no longer necessary as another editor with the ability to be rational has fixed it as a compromise. 94.15.82.228 (talk) 18:51, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
Not done Happy to see civil compromise. — MusikAnimal talk 03:31, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Block evasion: Drizzyruiz. Erick (talk) 06:33, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--Ymblanter (talk) 07:16, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite full protection: Like List of most populous cities in India page, this page is also updated with 2011 census and should be a reference to other AP state pages. So, in order to protect from IP's, required page protection. Vin09 (talk) 15:51, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. List of most populous cities in India is semi-protected, not fully protected, and had a long history of disruption. — MusikAnimal talk 03:25, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Maybe PC is not appropriate for this well-known topic. George Ho (talk) 15:33, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. — MusikAnimal talk 03:19, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite template protection: Highly visible template – To allow TE's. Mlpearc (open channel) 18:31, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Template protected--Ymblanter (talk) 07:19, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Reduce to template editor, user would like to make minor but relevant changes to External Links section. This is not possible because the talk page is also protected from editing. Number 33 (talk)

Not done You are welcome to make a specific edit request in the section below, someone will review it, and if not objectionable, make the edit on your behalf. Also, template editor is a higher level of protection than the current semi-protection found on both the article and talk page. Monty845 02:48, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Page is being targeted by banned editor Russavia using multiple proxies. Binksternet (talk) 05:32, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. —GFOLEY FOUR!— 06:31, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Excessive vandalism and incessant unorganized additions of unsourced information due to breaking news of an altercation with a well-known pornographic actress Samsoncity (talk) 00:31, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. by Discospinster — MusikAnimal talk 04:52, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Incessant additions of unsourced information due to recent deaths of actors. JOJ Hutton 00:22, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. — MusikAnimal talk 04:55, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism due to nature of the page (high-profile football team attracting constant vandalism). Gefetane (talk) 08:18, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. —GFOLEY FOUR!— 06:40, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite move protection: Highly visible page – 300+ transclusions; semi-protection also if possible. George Ho (talk) 06:47, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected. —GFOLEY FOUR!— 06:42, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Lots of BLP violations and vandalism by IP's. We need to protect this for a month at least until the season ends. Thank you very much. ~~JHUbal27 05:42, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary pending changes: Persistent vandalism. 74.103.250.78 (talk) 02:30, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for 1 week. Xymmax So let it be written So let it be done 03:44, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – BLP vandalism. C759 (talk) 00:03, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. — MusikAnimal talk 02:51, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: persistent genre warring by IPs. Radiopathy •talk• 18:09, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Fully protected for a period of 2 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. IPs and confirmed users going against apparent long-standing consensus. — MusikAnimal talk 03:55, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Reduce to template editor or semi-protection, not widely used and I would like to make it substitutable. Frietjes (talk) 16:29, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Done Frankly, I don't see why it needs to be protected at all, but in case I've missed something I've just dropped it to template protection per your request. Monty845 02:44, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

13 August 2014

Semi-protection: High level of vandalism by anonymous IP editors, who vandalise also slovak version of article. Informations in article are relevant and verifiable, notable enough to remain in present state. It is only pure speculation, that erasing and vandalising coming from ms. Stefankova herself (or person close to her), who doesn't like published information about her, or (perhaps) ceased further professional career, but even it would be such case, it's unacceptable way of show her wish. --Magy357✉ 21:00, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:57, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of vandalism by anon IP editors and new users to a BLP. STATic message me! 20:35, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:52, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Carniolus (talk) 20:00, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:51, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Sockpuppets of user Skyhook1 are trying in version against consensus. McSly (talk) 17:43, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Already protected. by another admin. Courcelles 19:37, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Repeated vandalism by various IP's. JayJayWhat did I do? 17:21, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:48, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. As with many quality control-related articles, resentful workers like to take out their frustrations by adding random characters, blanking sections of text, replacing terms with ones that are nonsensical, but close in spelling, etc. Suggest a "cooling off" period of four months, which, by the way, has worked well with Six Sigma. Thanks. DanielPenfield (talk) 11:34, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:43, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP hopping vandal repeatedly adding fake future film. SummerPhD (talk) 14:18, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mike V • Talk 16:18, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: This article needs semi-protection in order to comply with 1R rule as per Syrian Civil War sanctions. ~Technophant (talk) 01:26, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

It does not sound to me as a good reason for protection. Vandalism is exempt from 1RR rule, everything else needs to be discussed.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:02, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Per Ymblanter. — MusikAnimal talk 14:58, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary pending changes: BLP policy violations – This guy's just died and a lot of changes are being made to the page. We're under semi-protection at the moment, but those changes are still happening and a lot are being done without proper references. Perhaps increasing to PendingChanges will slow things down to ensure that we're displaying proper information. Dusti*Let's talk!* 20:48, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Contact Callanecc first; he changed it from six months to indefinite. --George Ho (talk) 09:45, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
Not done Pending changes would be a decrease in protection level, as non-confirmed users would then be able to contribute, their contributions pending review. Semi-protection is the only option anyway as the edit rate is far too high (it would clutter Special:PendingChanges beyond belief). — MusikAnimal talk 14:54, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – On-going vandalism by IP hopping . SummerPhD (talk) 14:17, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--Ymblanter (talk) 15:02, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Target of long term vandal. —Ryūlóng (琉竜) 07:29, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent unsourced edits by multiple IPs with transfer speculation over this footballer. Request for one week's PP. Thank you. LRD NO (talk) 16:23, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--Ymblanter (talk) 07:34, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary Admin only protection Full Page Protection expires in 24 hours and requesting short temporary extension [expires 01:35, 13 August]. Content dispute and edit warring by User:Chealer. User:Chealer is continuing edit warring against a book by User:Pundit (an administrator) who has written a new book about Wikipedia whose contents are disputed by User:Chealer. However, User:Pundit has asserted that COI does not allow him to ethically intervene. Requesting 14-21 day Admin only protection in order to start a new RFC to determine if a topic ban against User:Chealer is needed, or, if User:Chealer's 120 (one hundred twenty edits) from the last 2 weeks should be reverted for bias and edit warring. Four editors have tried without success to engage with User:Chealer on the Talk page, including admin, and User:Chealer has asserted dissent against needing to follow WP:BRD and WP:Lede. An RFC was foreshortened by an editor who did not know that the RFC posted there was time sensitive, 4 responding editors were in SUPPORT of a temporary extension for Admin only page protection for at least 2 weeks (two other editors requested eval of a topic ban against User:Chealer). LawrencePrincipe (talk) 13:15, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Pages are not protected preemptively. Diannaa (talk) 03:14, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary Semi-protection: Precautionary/Preventable measure. Featured as Google Doodle for 2014, link to Wikipedia article on first couple results. Ryan (talk) 04:35, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined Doodle event is over, and vandalism was managed without protection. Diannaa (talk) 03:18, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – Long term edit war between two users, both autoconfirmed and established users. Tutelary (talk) 01:10, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. No edits for 24 hours. Diannaa (talk) 03:16, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Snuggums (talk / edits) 20:02, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Only 1 IP recently, who hasn't vandalized after final warning. —GFOLEY FOUR!— 21:25, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Multiple IPs adding linkspam. Auric talk 11:11, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for one week to start. The page has never been protected before, so we'll start with that. Diannaa (talk) 03:24, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite template protection: Highly visible template – Less than 15000 transclusions, no need for full prot. Jackmcbarn (talk) 17:08, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Done Courcelles 06:11, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruption by the same user (often editing under IP addresses) promoting a very very fringe and completely OR view of the topic. Repeatedly reverted by everybody else, he keeps coming back after a while. Constantine ✍ 11:16, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Bearian (talk) 20:18, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
User(s) blocked. See User talk:99.33.208.26 for the 31-hour block. Bearian (talk) 20:18, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of vandalism by anon IP editors to a BLP returns in waves. STATic message me! 04:28, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Unsure. Please, can another sysop look at this one? Bearian (talk) 22:41, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
Semi-protected for two weeks. I hope that is okay with you, Bearian; it looks as though there has been a lot of unsourced editing and vandalism going on for the past few weeks, so a couple of weeks protection seems appropriate. Acalamari 23:07, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
That's fine, thank you, [User:Acalamari|Acalamari]]. I'm just not familiar with the facts, even after reading the article. Bearian (talk) 23:12, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: This article needs indefinite semi-protection because many incorrect edits have been made and some contents have been removed, since very long time by IP address users. There are many confirmed users contributing to edit this article. I believe required edits to the article will be made by confirmed users and the article will improve as it should be, even by restricting ip address users to edit it. Asheshneupane95 (talk) 03:48, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Bearian (talk) 19:57, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

14 August 2014

Create protection: Repeatedly recreated. Sir Sputnik (talk) 21:38, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Creation protected Mike V • Talk 21:40, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive activity by newly-registered SPA accounts. Had to be protected a couple of weeks ago for the same reason. The original accounts were blocked at SPI but a couple more have materialised in the last 24 hours and the article has become unstable. Betty Logan (talk) 14:10, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 21:43, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: A BLP that is always a vandalism target. Another recent spur of vandalism by anon IP editors and new users. STATic message me! 14:09, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 21:39, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of vandalism or other disruptive edits by anon IP editors and new users. STATic message me! 14:04, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 21:33, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of vandalism and dubious unsourced changes by anon IP editors and new users. STATic message me! 12:12, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 21:31, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. QED237 (talk) 11:51, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 21:30, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of vandalism by anon IP editors and new users. STATic message me! 11:22, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 21:27, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of vandalism, unsourced additions and speculation by anon IP editors and new users. STATic message me! 10:44, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 21:23, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – rather slow moving edit war over a picture. The Banner talk 08:51, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Fully protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 21:17, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations – I am requesting temporary semi-protection or PC. Anonymous has released the (alleged) name of the officer involved in the shooting. The addition of that name to this article before reliable sources have vetted it could have very serious WP:BLP consequences. . - MrX 14:09, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Additionally, there are a number of anonymous accounts that are adding unsourced information and engaging in revision warring. Also, there seems to be a bit of vandalism occurring. Jab843 (talk) 18:10, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
I came here to request the same. IP editors are inserting unsourced content and commentary like this:[32] and there has already been a revdel on the talk page for a BLP violation. Isaidnoway (talk) 18:36, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Skarz (talk) 07:06, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 21:01, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Page is being vandalized by User_talk:203.117.131.8. Skarz (talk) 07:04, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 20:58, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – a number of IP vandals. C933103 (talk) 15:36, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Done Monty845 15:39, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Persistent spamming. . доктор прагматик 06:16, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Already protected by administrator Edgar181. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 20:46, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Addition of unsourced content, spam, and disruptive editing. Jinkinson talk to me 01:05, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 20:41, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection Some of the new/IP users are claiming that Yedlin's transfer to Tottenham Hotspur included a loanback to Seattle Sounders FC. However the sources are saying that he will stay with Seattle through the 2014 MLS season. So it could mean two things. Either it was indeed a loanback or the transfer won't take effect until 2015. If there wasn't anything mentioned about a loan, then it would mean the transfer won't take effect until 2015. I think this needs to be semi-protected for a week. – Michael (talk) 22:37, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 20:38, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – I'm loath to request this on such a high-profile article that people are working on productively, but I'm not sure what else to do. We've had four or five different users (myself included) revert the addition (or removal) of Williams' childrens' individual names (rather than just the notable ones) just in the last 24 hours (7 reverts in the last hour, and more in the last 24). Nobody other than myself seems interested in discussing, rather than just reverting (see Talk:Robin Williams#Children, though there was another thread yesterday (UTC) that was rapidly archived). —/Mendaliv/2¢/Δ's/ 02:51, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Multiple IPs are being used to edit war some coatrack off-topic text into the article. Binksternet (talk) 00:02, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--Ymblanter (talk) 07:20, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – See here: http://www.cbc.ca/newsblogs/yourcommunity/2014/08/robin-williams-daughter-zelda-leaves-twitter-due-to-cruel-comments.html (and there is some vandalism here as well). Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 23:28, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Pages are not protected pre-emptively. Please re-report if situation changes. Diannaa (talk) 02:11, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Only the "Litigation" Section. Section Blanking, and misrepresentation: User: Cinosaur merged the Litigations section with Internal Controversies, deleted Litigation history and misrepesented information. The litigation section has been facing periodic section blanking, probably by ISKCON supporters. The article already has NPOV issues, as discussed on the talk page.KatieRoses (talk) 17:45, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Content dispute. Please use the article's talk page or other forms of dispute resolution. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 22:59, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Full protection: High level of edit warring by User talk:Showmethedoor as he tries to put same things again and again in the article which have already been mentioned[[33]]. Saladin1987 13:43, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Content dispute. Please use the article's talk page or other forms of dispute resolution. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 22:46, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Full protection: High level of edit warring by User talk:Showmethedoor as he tries to put same things again and again in the article which have already been mentioned[[34]]. Saladin1987 13:43, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Content dispute. Please use the article's talk page or other forms of dispute resolution. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 22:45, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: slow burn of daily edit warring by an IP who refuses to use the talk page, despite requests on all four of their talk pages and opening the thread for them. - SchroCat (talk) 21:57, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Diannaa (talk) 02:01, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism and removal of sourced content from IP User. Malayala Sahityam (talk) 21:24, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of two weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Diannaa (talk) 01:58, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite move protection: Highly visible page – 200+ transclusions. George Ho (talk) 06:02, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Template protected for a period of Infinite, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 22:12, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
Already protected by administrator CambridgeBayWeather.. --George Ho (talk) 00:12, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite move protection: Highly visible page – 500+ transclusions; semi-protect also. George Ho (talk) 06:02, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Template protected indefinitely. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 22:11, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
Already protected by administrator CambridgeBayWeather.. --George Ho (talk) 00:13, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Full protection: My userpage has recently been vandalized, so I'd like to have it protected to avoid future vandalism. Shandck (talk) 20:40, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of infinte, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 23:57, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Racist troll. Troll is blocked, but IP address may shift. Request a few days of semi for troll to blow over. May request semi again if troll pops up again. Robert McClenon (talk) 12:31, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined, Protecting a reference desk is something done for short periods in dire necessity, and I don't think this qualifies Courcelles 19:51, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations – Several IP users are adding unsourced statements about her recent death. IPadPerson (talk) 23:54, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined unfortunately has been confirmed in the meanwhile--Ymblanter (talk) 19:54, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – Banned user CensoredScribe has been targeting this article via socks for a while now. The two current accounts he is using are auto-confirmed and have yet to be blocked, so full protection is needed. —Farix (t | c) 01:09, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

User(s) blocked.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:41, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – Banned user CensoredScribe has been targeting this article via socks for a while now. The two current accounts he is using are auto-confirmed and have yet to be blocked, so full protection is needed. —Farix (t | c) 01:09, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined, the disruption has been stopped, sorry for not acting in a timely manner.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:29, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: The content dispute that cause the last protection has been settled but now the article is under regular attack with all manner of nonsense being added. If we could get a few days to see if that helps settle things down that would be great. MarnetteD|Talk 20:58, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined, the user has been warned, and if disruption continues, they should be blocked, I do not see any reason for full protection in this case.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:27, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – Edit warring. Jetstreamer Talk 19:00, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined, seems to have stopped, sorry fof not handling this request in time.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:25, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP hopping vandal repeatedly adding fake future film. SummerPhD (talk) 14:18, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 22:50, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. QED237 (talk) 14:12, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 22:49, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – High level of IP vandalism. . SummerPhD (talk) 12:06, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. — MusikAnimal talk 22:42, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: IPs removing sourced content without a valid reason. Babita arora 11:12, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 22:40, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Saban troll target. See my sandbox page for more details. —Ryūlóng (琉竜) 07:17, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 22:25, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: IP editors continuously try to change his current club due to media speculation. Also a lot of vandalism. Cashewnøtt (talk) 07:11, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 22:24, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of unsourced additions by anon IP editors and new users. STATic message me! 06:49, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 22:22, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Constant IP vandalism over the past few months, also no useful and/or constructive edits in that time either. DaHuzyBru (talk) 06:24, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 22:21, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent unsourced edits by multiple IPs. Request for one week's PP. Thank you. LRD NO (talk) 06:21, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 22:18, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent BLP violations/vandalism over a sustained period of time. —MelbourneStar☆talk 05:36, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 21:59, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Ongoing removal of a particular sentence, which is sourced. Thank you. Magnolia677 (talk) 02:47, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 22:00, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of editwarring, failed Wikipedia:FRINGE and removal of referenced text by IP user. भास्कर् Bhagawati Speak 02:42, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 21:56, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruption over past week. Single purpose account has been substituting the official names of several zones of Ethiopia with unofficial ones. Thought edits were made in good faith until user started getting rude ([35]), misrepresenting the bordering nations (changed Somalia to its constituent Somaliland region [36], [37], [38]), replacing or removing outright government links ([39], [40], [41]), while simultaneously claiming to be a government representative ("dude we are the government" [42]). Middayexpress (talk) 18:47, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

You might also want to protect Somaliland since several single porpouse accounts and ips have should up these past few months. AcidSnow (talk) 19:10, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
Declined – Warn the user appropriately then report them to AIV or ANI if they continue. Consider talking to the user and trying to reason with them. I've warned them about edit warring. Account is autoconfirmed anyway, so semi-protection would do no good. — MusikAnimal talk 16:30, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

15 August 2014

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent IP vandalism. Timbouctou (talk) 21:13, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected., although I do not see any vandalism—only poorly sourced content. Ruslik_Zero 19:20, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Please protect due a lot of IP vandalism being made to this BLP. JMHamo (talk) 20:46, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Ruslik_Zero 19:15, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Very high level of vandalism by anon IP editors. STATic message me! 14:28, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Ruslik_Zero 19:01, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite pending changes protection: This article has a long history of vandalism edits done by primarily IP address editors, most likely due to the popularity of the subject at Wolverine (character). However, I have seen a few instances of when an edit by an IP address has been constructive, so I don't think that semi-protection is the solution, if there is one. Steel1943 (talk) 15:05, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of 1 year, after which the page will be automatically unprotected., if disruption continues after one year, we can make pending changes indefinite.--Ymblanter (talk) 15:20, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Stub article (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Indefinite create protection: Repeatedly recreated – No need for a CNR to WP:Stub here. Jinkinson talk to me 13:06, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected--Ymblanter (talk) 15:18, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Vandalism, this is one of the most visited articles these days. -- Bkouhi (talk) 17:30, 14 August 2014

Pending-changes protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. I see a lot of constructive edits from IP, except for that, this is a specialized article where expert contributions are welcome, and experts often edit from IP. Therefore semi-protection is not appropriate. I configured pending changes for three months instead.--Ymblanter (talk) 15:32, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Full protection expired a few hours ago. It was on indefinite semi before then. Looking to get that restored. —/Mendaliv/2¢/Δ's/ 14:54, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one year, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. In my opinion I don't think there's justification for an indefinite duration, just yet. — MusikAnimal talk 15:12, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

User talk:123.2.223.96 (edit | user page | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Inappropriate use of user talk page while blocked – See Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Legal_threat_to_sysop_Bearian_and_User:HelenOnline and Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#IP_harassment_of_editor and [43], [44]. NeilN talk to me 03:51, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

User(s) re-blocked with talk page editing disallowed. Mike V • Talk 04:03, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: BLP policy violations – Repeated WP:BLP violations by several IP's and new users. IPadPerson (talk) 20:13, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined A source has been provided, so I believe the issue has been resolved and I don't anticipate any BLP issues in the near future. Mike V • Talk 04:09, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Dwpaul Talk 05:22, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mike V • Talk 06:51, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. QED237 (talk) 15:42, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--Ymblanter (talk) 07:52, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Or unprotection; less than 50 pages use this template. George Ho (talk) 08:27, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined Please discuss with the protecting admin first. Mike V • Talk 04:12, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
I did; the protecting administrator hasn't been active very much. --George Ho (talk) 04:33, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
Unprotected Mike V • Talk 06:48, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – This page is to stop Lowercase sigmabot III to work. However, IPs have been vandalising the page with no reason to stop the bot. DEW. Adrenaline (Nahnah4) 03:18, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Done Materialscientist (talk) 04:04, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite move protection: Highly visible page. George Ho (talk) 20:45, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Done Materialscientist (talk) 04:06, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – The Some of the Ip users are continuosly trying to vandalise the page by changing the names of actors and adding inappropriate content. Some others are adding spam external links for trailers and song downloads. Rameshnta909 (talk) 16:56, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Already protected by administrator DMacks.. George Ho (talk) 04:36, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of IP user vandalism. -ANG- (talk) 10:12, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 21:20, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite move protection: People have been moving this article to "Dance Again... The Hits", but the "The" is supposed to be lowercase. DEW. Adrenaline (Nahnah4) 08:06, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 21:12, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of IP/new user vandalism; repeated unsourced additions by possible sock/multiple IPs of same user. Dan56 (talk) 07:44, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 21:05, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level vandalism and unsourced additions by anon IP editors and new users. STATic message me! 04:52, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 20:43, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Reduce from full-protection to semi-protection: There seems to be editor consensus that this wasn't the right move here. It's been fully protected for over 12 hours now; I'd urge consideration on lifting this ASAP. Thank you. --CrunchySkies (talk) 19:56, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

You've asked on Ymblanter's talkpage already less than ten minutes before requesting here, let them respond there instead as I doubt it's that urgent and it's not like the details are going to change much. tutterMouse (talk) 20:17, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
Declined Let's wait until less than 11 hours, which full protection expires. Just wait... --George Ho (talk) 20:22, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent disruptive activity, changing the list of examples. Request to either lock the entire list of Multiplayer games currently featuring permanent death or exclusively lock Path of Exile, Diablo 2 and Diablo 3 - reasoning can be found on Talk Page.

Already protected by administrator Mike V.. Courcelles 22:41, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – COI user keeps deleting massive chunks of sourced content. A complaint has been posted at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard. —Largo Plazo (talk) 14:14, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. and user blocked 48 hours. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 21:50, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations – political campaigning in run up to NZ general election. Stuartyeates (talk) 22:45, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

I was about to do the same due to contentious and disruptive editing. Hager is a controversial figure in New Zealand permanent semi-protection may be better. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 23:18, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. The page hasn't been protected since '09, so there's no justification for jumping to indefinite protection. Please re-apply if the activity resumes when the protection wears off. Diannaa (talk) 02:05, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
Already protected by administrator Diannaa. --George Ho (talk) 00:09, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

16 August 2014

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. QED237 (talk) 22:17, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.. I see a lot of good edits from new users and IPs, and only a small share of vandal edits. In this situation, pending changes are preferred. I configured pending changes for one week, hopefully after one week the wave caused by his announcement of retirement has subsided. If problems persist after one week, pls reapply here or contact me.--Ymblanter (talk) 08:52, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
Ferguson Police Department (Missouri) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Shooting of Michael Brown (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Please extend the termination date for 3 articles until September 1 to allow heated issue to cool down. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 00:52, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined As pages aren't protected preemptively, I'm disinclined to extend the protection unless there's demonstration that it's needed. Mike V • Talk 01:36, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: I asked protecting admin, but he said that he's too busy right now. Currently, 2,000 pages use this template. George Ho (talk) 06:55, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Template protected, should be fine for the time being--Ymblanter (talk) 08:47, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: I asked the protecting administrator to lower protection settings, but he responded that he has no time on doing so. This template is transcluded by less than 1,000 pages. George Ho (talk) 06:51, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Why not template protection? Ruslik_Zero 19:34, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
... I'll let the administrator decide. --George Ho (talk) 20:37, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
Template protected--Ymblanter (talk) 08:45, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism and less frequent original research. The high visibility of this page due to the recent 2014 World Cup is probably a cause, or current news stories critical of its host Russia. '''tAD''' (talk) 21:59, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mike V • Talk 00:49, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: The reason for this request is not due to persistent vandalism, but due to serious violations by editors inserting the name of an individual into the article without foundation or a reliable source. Since the protection level for the article was lifted on 11 August 2014, the violations have again occured, with two edits for the article having to receive suppression by oversight on 14 August 2014. Before that, suppression for violations occured on 9 July 2014. Kind Tennis Fan (talk) 07:36, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mike V • Talk 02:14, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations – Previous 2-day protection ran out less than a day ago. That protection was for BLP-violations and vandalism as a result of the break-up with Christy Mack and assault-speculation/accusation. Since then, the great majority of edits to the page have been of trollish nature, vandalism, BLP-inappropriate remarks, encyclopedia-inappropriate remarks and the reversion of those. AddWittyNameHere (talk) 02:52, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mike V • Talk 03:40, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – An IP user revert wars over a non-notable incident, talking to it is fruitless as seen in it's other edit behaviour under multiple IPs. Blocking just the IPs would be fruitless as well. Denniss (talk) 08:54, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Content dispute. Please use the article's talk page or other forms of dispute resolution. Ruslik_Zero 19:27, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent vandalism. Lewis Hulbert (talk) 22:54, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Ruslik_Zero 19:24, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary pending changes: One or more IP user insists on removing list of Indian states from leed, claiming that Bengali diaspora residing there are illegal; fails to understand that, Wikipedia is bound to represent the fact that they live there, and their legal rights to live there can be discussed in due place, elsewhere. . » nafSadh did say 18:09, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Content dispute. Please use the article's talk page or other forms of dispute resolution. Ruslik_Zero 19:13, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
Problem is IP address of this user changes and they are not interested in TALK. --» nafSadh did say 19:36, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. 7Sidz (talk) 20:57, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Paul Erik (talk)(contribs) 21:25, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Favre1fan93 (talk) 18:54, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected., although I do not see any vandalism—only poorly sourced edits. Ruslik_Zero 19:37, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP users are continuously vandalising the page by blanking sections and adding derogatory words. There is a march going on in his country Pakistan by his party and it is a heated topic of discussion. So we should expect more. Protect the page for at least 1 week until the incidents are over and settled. Rameshnta909 (talk) 17:37, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Ruslik_Zero 19:06, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

17 August 2014

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Amortias (T)(C) 21:24, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. --Bongwarrior (talk) 21:27, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations – IP based BLP issues in lead up to national election. Stuartyeates (talk) 01:37, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of 1 year, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. I've also semi-protected for a week. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 21:27, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Full protection: High level of IP vandalism, death threats, racism, antisemitism, from wide variety of anonymous IPs. Please revert and lock. 50.161.100.141 (talk) 13:14, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

Already protected by administrator FreeRangeFrog. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 21:20, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Multiple SPA's and Ip vandals working on page at present. Amortias (T)(C) 19:57, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected by Smalljim. Mike V • Talk 20:57, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Continued disruptive edits by IP hoppers over genres. IPs are also removing the article's image for no reason. TheOnlyOne12 (talk) 16:39, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

Withdrawn by requestor Disruptive edits and content dispute seems to have ceased. TheOnlyOne12 (talk) 17:00, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Vandalism and content blanking by IP users. Rameshnta909 (talk) 12:32, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 21:10, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection:--Amir.Temur (talk) 18:25, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Fully protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. @Amir.Temur: This is a content dispute, and you need to discuss it on Talk:Emirate of Bukhara to find a consensus on how the article should be worded. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 21:04, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Unprotection: The protecting administrator did not provide any reasoning for the indefinite duration of the protection. Dogmaticeclectic (talk) 19:54, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

Unprotected Mike V • Talk 20:48, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite full protection: Recreation of a repeatedly deleted article. Ad Orientem (talk) 14:58, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Creation protected. Courcelles 17:23, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Updates being made without providing reliable sources. Snuggums (talk / edits) 13:44, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 50 houra, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Courcelles 17:22, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of vandalism by anon IP editors.--Amir.Temur (talk) 18:21, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:28, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection:--Amir.Temur (talk) 18:25, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:30, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – WP:EW and WP:BLP violations by IP-hopper. Elizium23 (talk) 15:49, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. — Kralizec! (talk) 16:09, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Kept getting vandalised by new accounts, shall we consider protecting?. DSCrowned(Talk) 11:16, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – long-term history of IP vandalism. Qxukhgiels (talk) 20:09, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined. There are also good IP edits, and vandalism is not so intense and get reverted promptly. If you feel it is still a seriuos problem, apply for pending changes protection.--Ymblanter (talk) 10:35, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP users are constantly vandalising the page. Need at least 1 week protection. Rameshnta909 (talk) 09:11, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--Ymblanter (talk) 16:47, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Pending changes: BLP policy violations – I don't know how one source "confirmed" the divorce, but that source no longer exists. Also, there are no other sources confirming the divorce. Somehow, the error was overlooked. Months ago, contentious rumors about his sexuality was removed. This time, I managed to remove the divorce and fix the article as if the subject and his wife are still married. George Ho (talk) 06:20, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 09:20, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Create protection: Repeatedly recreated. Sir Sputnik (talk) 19:30, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected--Ymblanter (talk) 10:37, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary pending changes: Persistent vandalism. George Ho (talk) 01:49, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. — MusikAnimal talk 06:22, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of dubious unsourced additions by anon IP editors and new users. STATic message me! 05:11, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--Ymblanter (talk) 10:08, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP users are continuously vandalising and adding spam links. Rameshnta909 (talk) 09:01, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 4 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 10:09, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: This article needs moderation. A lot of copyedit chunks being put here by armenian users so article needs clean-up. Moreover, some users trying to revert when u add clean-up tags. Yacatisma (talk) 01:28, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. — MusikAnimal talk 06:21, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Barrage of vandalism over the last 24 hours. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 20:49, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--Ymblanter (talk) 09:55, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Target of a slow edit war - IPs adding unsourced content and then reverting when they feel like it without any discussion or regard to edit summaries or warnings on talk pages explaining the problem with their edits. AussieLegend (✉) 19:30, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

WP:SEMI explicitly prohibits using semi-protection "to privilege registered users over unregistered users in (valid) content disputes". Please apply temporary full protection to this page instead. Dogmaticeclectic (talk) 19:41, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
Protection has not been requested for that purpose. It has been requested to protect the article from unresponsive editors who persistently make inappropriate edits to the article without explanation or discussion. The aim here is to maintain the integrirty of the article. Full protection is certainly not warranted. There is no need to protect the article from editors who are making appropriate edits. --AussieLegend (✉) 05:09, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. We usually semi-protect if there is edit warring from multiple different IPs as opposed to one IP - see Wikipedia:PP#Semi-protection, in the "guidance for administrators" section, bullet point three. @AussieLegend: it would have been helpful if you could have started the talk page discussion yourself though - often if you do that and link it from your edit summaries, it's enough to get the IPs talking. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 09:58, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi/full protection: The thing that I was afraid of has happened. About 5 hours after the article full protection expired, the year of foundation was again changed without giving a source. I don't know if it is VladShev logged out or somebody else, but I am sure that the article must be protected again. Cricrucra (talk) 06:25, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 10:02, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing by two (likely same editor) SPA's and an IP or two. Request 2 weeks. Niteshift36 (talk) 01:20, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 09:49, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Random blanking of content by IPs. Hoops gza (talk) 22:17, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--Ymblanter (talk) 09:37, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary pending changes: Persistent vandalism – tendentious editing by partisan IPs and new users. Chris Troutman (talk) 04:13, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 09:47, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

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

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Personal attack, Sock / IP 46.55.41.204 . After recent protection removed. [45]. Widefox; talk 19:52, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 09:43, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Every recent edit has had to be reverted. Hoops gza (talk) 22:18, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--Ymblanter (talk) 09:38, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
 Requesting immediate archiving... — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 09:51, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – Edit warring on whether the game should be categorised as a Grand Theft Auto clone or not. Blake Gripling (talk) 04:11, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

Fully protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 09:26, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite move protection: Highly visible page – 300+ transclusions. George Ho (talk) 03:46, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Wouldn't that actually be a reason for full protection? I think it would. Digifiend (talk) 20:00, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
Not with that low a transclusion count, whole point of template protection. tutterMouse (talk) 20:13, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
Semi-protected indefinitely. I've also template-move-protected it indefinitely. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 09:17, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of vandalism and dubious unsourced changes by anon IP editors and new users. STATic message me! 02:20, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. — MusikAnimal talk 06:28, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of vandalism by anon IP editors and new users. STATic message me! 23:56, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. — MusikAnimal talk 06:18, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary pending changes: Persistent vandalism. Jinkinson talk to me 01:52, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined The edits look to be almost all positive to me - I'm not seeing much vandalism at all. If vandalism picks up, please make another request here. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 03:08, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Recently released film of a major star, so fans/haters keep vandalising. In addition to that, some anonymous user (using many IP addresses beginning with 112.135, eg: ([46]) keeps adding the unencyclopedic term "bagged" to the article, while also adding information on its censor rating (we avoid this as per WP:FILMRATINGS.) Warnings are ineffective on him. Kailash29792 (talk) 11:37, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. — MusikAnimal talk 06:15, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent violations of BLP-policy. Multiple IPs and user accounts keep adding unreferenced info. Crboyer (talk) 08:10, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. — MusikAnimal talk 06:12, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of vandalism and dubious unsourced additions by anon IP editors and new users. STATic message me! 07:25, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. — MusikAnimal talk 06:03, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection. Persistent vandalism. I recently was just successful in the discovery of some sock puppetry on the page, and despite the ban of the sockpuppet and related accounts, there is no way to ban the IP addresses, which it is a certainty it is the same person every time. The IP's (it's really only one person, using two different IP's) keep removing the image for no reason whatsoever and similar facts on the page. Increasing this page to be semi-protected and thus only be edited by auto-confirmed users would drastically help me out and not have to keep policing the page from trollish vandals ruining the page. I would appreciate some help. Thank you. Peetlesnumber1 (talk) 03:40, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. — MusikAnimal talk 05:28, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Over the past two hours, 15 vandalizing edits and counting from different IP addresses. Egsan Bacon (talk) 02:41, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of two days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 05:11, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: no need for IPs to edit this template. Qxukhgiels (talk) 20:12, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined It only has three transclusions, so it's not high-risk, and it hasn't ever been vandalised, so there doesn't seem to be any need for protection for that reason. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 01:06, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: no need for IPs to edit this userbox. Qxukhgiels (talk) 20:10, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined Not high-risk, and has never been vandalised - doesn't seem to be any need for protection. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 01:07, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. QED237 (talk) 19:07, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

Done by another admin. Mark Arsten (talk) 05:06, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Nationalist vandalism from intermittent IP hopper. —Ryūlóng (琉竜) 13:33, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

Done by another admin. Mark Arsten (talk) 05:05, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Talk:Myx (edit | article | history | links | watch | logs)

Semi-protection: The IP hopping vandal User:Dan Joshua B. Apura started to restore his hoax version of the Myx article again in its talk page after the one month semi-protection expired. -WayKurat (talk) 06:54, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

@WayKurat: I've semi protected the article for a month. As this is the 4th time, I suggest requesting an edit filter to deal with it. The alternative of indefinite talk page protection is undesirable. If they do put in an edit filter, have them remove the protection once its turned on. Monty845 17:41, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
Done (For the bot.) Mike V • Talk 03:42, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection:

War Machine has been charged and is on the run. His case is attracting a lot of media attention and vandalism to his page. I request semi-proection for at least a month until the media attention dies down. --Harizotoh9 (talk) 21:54, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected until 30 August 2014. Mike V • Talk 03:43, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Edit warring by IP range. VQuakr (talk) 00:54, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 03:03, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Two IPs adding the same POV-content in poor English. Source given does not back up the edit. The Banner talk 21:45, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. ping: The Banner. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 02:52, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

The page Stateless nation needs to be semi-protected to prevent vandalism. Some people react to the issue of stateless nations very hostile and refuse to recognize the stateless nations. Stateless nations as Palestinians, Tamils or Spanish Nations were often removed from the list without any reason. Help to protect the page and rights of the stateless nations. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vatasura (talk • contribs) 14:12, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

It looks like a content dispute to me.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:45, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
Fully protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. As Ymblanter says, this is a content dispute, and should be solved through discussion, not revert warring. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 02:45, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite create protection: Repeatedly recreated – Formerly created at Fucfa. —Frosty ☃ 00:57, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Creation protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 01:10, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Edit warring over WP:NPOV issue. Elizium23 (talk) 00:34, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 01:20, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

West Side Story (film) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Ongoing disruption by IPs. Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 22:36, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 01:23, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism by multiple IPs (suspected editor using VPN) over transfer speculation of this footballer after recent one-week PP expired. LRD NO (talk) 17:25, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.
 — Berean Hunter (talk) 21:16, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Repeated vandalism by an IP-address hopping editor involving a BLP-issue. Recommend a temporary page protection to deter future problems. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 07:53, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Withdrawn by requestor Vandalism and edit warring seems to have ceased. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 20:54, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

Unprotection: Please un-SALT this page as he will be making his professional debut soon. JMHamo (talk) 22:04, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Question: @JMHamo: Have you asked the protecting admin first? Mike V • Talk 00:42, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

18 August 2014

Indefinite create protection: Repeatedly recreated – See deletion log. ukexpat (talk) 12:43, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected--Ymblanter (talk) 14:55, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – widely-watch TV soap character dies and the trolls arrive. . Stuartyeates (talk) 08:11, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined There have been a couple of unconstructive edits, but the majority seem constructive so far. Please file another request if the rate of unconstructive edits increases. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 09:33, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite pending changes: Continued and persistent addition of unencyclopedic listcruft content by IPs and newly-registered users, i.e. channel listings and the like. Blake Gripling (talk) 01:52, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 06:57, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
Comment - Just wanted to let you know that there has been some recent activity, more specifically WayKurat reverting similar cruft edits from an IP. Blake Gripling (talk) 09:42, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistant vandalism and addition of unsourcd content. XXX8906 (talk) 11:24, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected indefinitely. Long history of issues with this article. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 12:18, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Vandalism from dynamic IP. QED237 (talk) 11:04, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected indefinitely. Long history of vandalism. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 12:13, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection, for at least a month or so. History if this and related articles show anon IP and single-purpose accounts since about July 25 repeatedly adding linkspam to commercial sites in violation of WP:NOADS. Montanabw(talk) 03:37, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Editor has been warned. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 07:11, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection. I do a lot of anti-vandalism work using Huggle, and so my userpage is especially prone to vandalism by IP users or vandalism-only accounts. Just within the last few days, I had a vandal continually deface my userpage for about 20 minutes straight. Indefinite semi-protection would prevent this from re-occurring in the future, while still allowing legitimate edits by established users when necessary. Thanks! -BloodDoll (talk) 05:30, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected indefinitely. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 07:15, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary pending changes: Lots of recent vandalism. In addition, over 100 cases of vandalism since March 2013. --gdfusion (talk|contrib) 05:25, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 07:14, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection, for at least a month or so. History if this related articles show anon IP and single-purpose accounts repeatedly adding linkspam to commercial sites in violation of WP:NOADS. Montanabw(talk) 03:37, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. I have also left the editor a warning. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 07:04, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Swarm vandalism. Dwpaul Talk 02:35, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of ten days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. --Bongwarrior (talk) 03:14, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

semi protection - The dynamic IP [47] does not intend to follow our BLP policies. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 01:41, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Already protected by administrator Bbb23.CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 06:47, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring. Angelo Michael (talk) 00:38, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 06:44, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Favre1fan93 (talk) 23:59, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 06:41, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Full protection please. Current is TE level (with 650k transc's). I request this for self-protection (I have TE access). I am editing heavily in the support pages: /doc, subpages, examples, old versions. This could easily lead to a save-by-mistake (throwing 650k pages in the WP:JQ, and not bug-free knowing me). While we are at it and for the very same reason, one could protect Module:Convert (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) and its /data subpages (but not module:Convert/extra). Ping chief engineer editor: @Johnuniq:. -DePiep (talk) 19:45, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined We're supposed to use template protection rather than full protection for situations like this, and it would prevent Johnuniq from making updates. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 20:51, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
I object. Later more. -DePiep (talk) 21:08, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
Latest edit to the template was Dec 2013 [48], by user:Trappist the monk. Not by Johnuniq, who had build the module (I'm not interested in the actual rights of Johnuniq). I'm fine that this WP trusts me for TE edits, but I ask that same WP to help me in preventing bad TE edits. (As for the modules, the topic is split). -DePiep (talk) 21:22, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
I add: I can't find the edit, but for that December 2013 edit (big move into module), Johnuniq asked an admin (U:Trappist the monk answered). I'm sure, any next time this Johnuniq asks an admin for such an edit, no serious admin will question. So far for protection against bad edits. -DePiep (talk) 21:46, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
The point is that we're supposed to be able to trust template editors to not mess up templates like this. If there are any template editors that we can't trust to do this, then we should probably remove their template editor rights. Also, this is getting a little long for RFPP - probably best to continue this on my talk page if you want to. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 22:35, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
I'm fine talking here. The point is, as I said: trusting me is ok, now I ask for help in what you expect: when I'm heavy-editing in related pages (subtemplates &tc., as mentioned), I can make a mistake and save a 650k template. While there is no need for this. Even Johnuniq (TE non-admin assumed) can ask for an admin action and be fine with that. (now I need to find that Johnuniq edit with that question, sigh). Again: nice that enWP trusts people like me, but in this case enWP could help me for the same intention, and skip that trust. When you write: trust template editors to not mess up templates like this - that's exactly what it is about. I could mess it up by mistake, however much you trust & trusted me. -DePiep (talk) 23:12, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
I don't follow this. It turns out that the job queue plays its own tune and doesn't seem to care much when convert is updated, so even if someone blunders it's probably not a great issue. I do not want the modules protected until after a disaster shows that it is necessary. Perhaps some personal Javascript cleverness could offer DePiep safety (I have a Greasemonkey script that disables the Save button when I'm logged out). Johnuniq (talk) 00:00, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
OK then, and no there is no protective script (I & Strad talked earlier about). But don't ever come complaining about me "abusing trust put upon me" when I mistake. -DePiep (talk) 00:24, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism. Continual removal of content regarding band's history. Penderworth Ha-ha! You'll know when I've left once I've been here. (talk) 14:23, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. @Penderworth: It's the same IP editing the page each time, so it would probably be better to warn them as per WP:VAND, and then to report them at WP:AIV if they continue after the warnings. Best — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 22:29, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Pending changes: BLP policy violations – Consensus agreed on February 2014, 30 days after heavy editing in January 2014, not to inserting anything that violates WP:BLP. Some exceptions have been made, but they were still inserted carefully. Recently, one person tried to insert contentious content back in, but it was reverted. George Ho (talk) 05:47, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 22:23, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of vandalism by anon IP editors. STATic message me! 04:13, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined There seems to be more constructive editing than not, and the film has only just come out. Let's give this a few more days to see if the vandalism rate gets worse. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 22:11, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Persistant ROC nationalist vandal who has been on other IPs in the past. —Ryūlóng (琉竜) 01:45, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 21:33, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – The edit warring has continued despite the semi-protection. Dogmaticeclectic (talk) 18:47, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined There's only been one edit since the semi-protection. I don't think full protection is needed as of now. Mike V • Talk 20:54, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
(edit conflict) @Dogmaticeclectic: That's only one edit - let's give it a little more time to see if the semi-protection works. Also, it would be very helpful if you could start a discussion about the disputed content on the talk page, and perhaps leave a note on the page of the editor who made the most recent edit. Best — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 20:57, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – Unresolved talk page discussion of NPOV questions. Dennis Bratland (talk) 15:28, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined It's premature to protect, since you and the other editor have engaged in talk page discussion since your edit at 15:27 today. Further disruption might be better handled with blocks as it's limited to only a few users. Mike V • Talk 20:51, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Persistant ROC nationalist vandal who has been on other IPs in the past. —Ryūlóng (琉竜) 01:45, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. Doesn't seem like enough disruption at that particular article to justify protection as well as the block. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 21:32, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Lots of IPs making disruptive and vandalism edits to the page. Check the page history.  ΤheQ Editor  Talk? 01:30, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. @TheQ Editor: This one is right on the threshold of what's necessary to protect a page, in my opinion. Please file another request if the vandalism continues. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 21:18, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Vandalism by multiple IP editors immediately following page's temporary semi-protection expiring. Dyrnych (talk) 00:02, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Looks like this was a preemptive request for an extension of protection denied as premature. Protection has expired and vandalism is happening, so this is a different issue. Dyrnych (talk) 00:23, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. --Ekabhishektalk

Indefinite template protection: Highly visible template – I thought that I could edit and modify this template. In fact, I wanted to insert Mongolian Cyrillic and Traditional Mongolian alphabet into this template. However, that could require a lot of work. Oh, it was lowered to semi-protection, as I requested in protecting admin's talk page. George Ho (talk) 09:14, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined Semi-protection should be fine for a template with 1000 transclusions. My rule of thumb for requiring template protection is 10,000 translusions, perhaps a little less if it is used in articles a lot. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 20:46, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Please add <noinclude>{{Delrevxfd|date=2013 December 21}}</noinclude> to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/United Tournament. The AfD was listed at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2013 December 21#United Tournament. Cunard (talk) 21:51, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Done — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 23:50, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP editor warring over genre. Binksternet (talk) 23:00, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. This is the page's first protection, and we don't usually do indefinite protections the first time. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 23:28, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent IP vandalism of BLP footballer caught up in recent violent conduct. '''tAD''' (talk) 22:57, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. — MusikAnimal talk 23:28, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations – IPs and new accounts persist in changing the religion of the actor to either Hinduism or Sikhism, without any source for either of these, and contrary to the existing sources. bonadea contributions talk 21:49, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 6 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 22:47, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring. Elizium23 (talk) 21:15, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Fully protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 22:41, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of vandalism to a BLP by anon IP editors and new users. STATic message me! 04:55, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 6 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 22:19, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection:--Amir.Temur (talk) 18:25, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined, no vandalism, content dispute.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:31, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Full protection: They were many incorrect edits by various users since he joined Arsenal. Alexis Sánchez played in pre-season friendlies, but these games don't count as a league match. However, people think otherwise & constantly make bad edits. What is more, the player currently plays for Arsenal, which makes him a target for some rival supporters of the Premier League teams. When the league started, some fans (or fanboys/trolls as I call them) from Tottenham made some incorrect edits, e.g. that he joined the rival team or put irrevelant sentences. I'm tired of these notorious vandals and probably the rest of serious editors can agree with me. Cheers. User:BartSmith

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 22:13, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Constant vandalism and reverted changes by an unregistered user/IP address/genre warrior. David James Young || davidjamesyoungwrites@gmail.com (talk) 03:32, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Fully protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. @Valkyrie Missile: This seems like a content dispute to me, not vandalism, and should be discussed on the talk page. Plus, the user in question has been autoconfirmed since April 2013. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 21:43, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Page under attack from multiple IPs, adding unverifiable data and removing well-cited data. Editors cannot keep up. A short-term semi-protection could do the trick. —hike395 (talk) 02:39, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Please make another request if the vandalism continues after the protection expires. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 21:36, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

19 August 2014

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent vandalism by multiple IPs in the range 39.53.*.* (Pakistan). A short duration will probably do. Dwpaul Talk 20:32, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Favonian (talk) 21:13, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Incessant position-related edit-warring. Δρ.Κ. λόγοςπράξις 13:05, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Diannaa (talk) 16:00, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – An IP hopper keeps adding incorrect content to this page. Their edits are well intentioned, but still disruptive, leading to several reverts. Hoops gza (talk) 22:26, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 07:42, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Shrike (talk)/WP:RX 10:18, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--Ymblanter (talk) 11:00, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Large amount of referenced material was removed and replaced with a protest mission statement.Mjw1990 (talk) 06:57, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection., and you guys both have red talk pages.--Ymblanter (talk) 07:02, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary pending changes: Persistent vandalism. George Ho (talk) 20:02, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. @George Ho: Please stop making frivolous protection requests - this really isn't anywhere near the threshold necessary for protection. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 06:11, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of IP link spam for UrgeUSA sales. Need ruling on if this is ok or not. Ilikenwf (talk) 19:31, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. There haven't been any recent edits here at all. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 06:04, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: See rationale given for article below. Samsara (FA • FP) 06:50, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 08:10, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: This is not a typical request, and so I'm trying to gather some consensus rather than enacting the protection myself. I have been watching this article for some time now, and have noticed that it is subject to extreme sprawl, and not in a good way. We now have almost a complete synopsis of the entire series, in one article, with highly variable prose quality. It is my understanding that an established editor, ProtoDrake, tried to clean up this article two years ago but was ultimately frustrated at the avalanche of uncoordinated edits coming from non-autoconfirmed users. He has detailed some of this on the article's talk page. It does not help that many of these contributing editors are probably fairly young. While there may be merit in allowing these users to contribute, and thereby keep them interested in the project, ProtoDrake is right in pointing out that we should be aiming to maintain this article at comparable level to similar articles. I think there could be merit in longer-term sprotection - a year at least I would think - to give this article a chance of getting into decent shape. However, I should also mention that I have no expertise in the area and will likely not be a great help in fixing the article up. I have no means, for instance, of verifying that anything in this article is in fact accurate, and I'm not familiar with sourcing guidelines for TV series. With all that said, please give it a second pair of eyes, or more. Thanks. Samsara (FA • FP) 06:50, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 08:08, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite full protection Target of constant vandal who has an axe to grind against this admittedly controversial figure; since the main article has been locked down for years they instead throw their barbs at the subject here on this redirect page (note 'duke' isn't capitalized). No other David Duke outside the footballer so there isn't a point to keep this open at this time to further attacks. Nate • (chatter) 05:16, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected indefinitely. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 08:05, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite move protection: 275 transclusions. George Ho (talk) 04:58, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Move protected indefinitely. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 08:01, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Favre1fan93 (talk) 02:18, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 07:50, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent changing of the infobox image to copyright violations and ignoring the purpose of the infobox image. CRRaysHead90 | #RaysUp 23:38, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 07:48, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations – IPs/new users keep adding the weasel word "allegedly", against talk page consensus, and just after the previous page protection expired. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 05:56, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Other BLP violations by the same set of users include adding claims that the subject of the article has committed infidelity and sabotaged events, either unsourced or referencing Twitter and Reddit.Euchrid (talk) 06:01, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. given it has just been unprotected.--Ymblanter (talk) 06:05, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
Thank you, though I predict that the vandals will be back immediately, just as they were this time. Euchrid (talk) 06:13, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
In this case ping me, and I would apply a longer-term semi-protection. Or reapply here.--Ymblanter (talk) 06:49, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – BLP vandalism. C759 (talk) 01:39, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mike V • Talk 06:17, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Please mind the page's previous protection log. Hoops gza (talk) 22:50, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 07:44, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

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

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – I am being disturbed by a blocked user (using multiple IPs). I have replied to him many times, but he continue to ignore the advice and now just posting some non-sense messages. . Vigyanitalkਯੋਗਦਾਨ 05:29, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mike V • Talk 06:07, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

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

Temporary semi-protection Longtime IP vandal who just won't give up deciding tonight's tactic is to attack my userpage and call me a facist and cyberbully for reverting their vandalism. Two days please; thanks. Nate • (chatter) 00:58, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of two days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Bishonen | talk 01:11, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Full-protection:--5.251.159.181 (talk) 18:39, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Fully protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 06:08, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Also has high level of IP link spam for UrgeUSA sales. Need ruling on if this is ok or not. Ilikenwf (talk) 19:31, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected indefinitely. I've semi-protected the page for a week as well. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 06:03, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: An unknown user insists that the lowest official temperature recorded in Mexico (Ciudad Madera, Chihuahua state) was -42 Celsius, but the source given (in Spanish) says the temperature is unofficial: "Vivir en Madera, un pequeño municipio de Chihuahua, equivale a permanecer en un congelador seis meses al año, pues se trata del lugar más frío del país; aunque pocos lo saben porque aquí no hay medidor oficial, pues los que había, se congelaron." The Spanish article (Anexo:Lista de récords meteorológicos) is currently protected due to the same reason. Scheridon (talk) 22:45, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 06:00, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. QED237 (talk) 23:26, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 00:33, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. QED237 (talk) 23:18, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 00:35, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – ROC nationalist vandal IP hopper moved here when Taipei got protected. —Ryūlóng (琉竜) 18:05, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Done by another admin. Mark Arsten (talk) 00:34, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

20 August 2014

Temporary semi-protection: IP hopper. If you look at the talk page you'll see many posts detailing disruption from the range. NeilN talk to me 15:18, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected., given the previous disruption--Ymblanter (talk) 15:22, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Continuous addition of WP:POV and deletion of content and total mayhem from IP users. —Indian:BIO · [ ChitChat ] 09:36, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. It's really not that bad for the voulme of edits the page has, and there've been constructive IP edits too.GedUK  11:35, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Full protection' In the edit page, there is a notice that said that you must be a administrator to reset the timer, but the template is only Semi-protected. To prevent non-admin users to edit this time stamp, I recommend full protection on this page. Gerry.y.ma (talk) 09:11, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined, I can't see the need for it. There's no history of anyone other than admins editing it. Potentially, it could be template protected, but I don't think it's high enough visibility GedUK  11:28, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Transfer rumours. QED237 (talk) 14:28, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--Ymblanter (talk) 15:04, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

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

Indefinite semi-protection: User request. Edgars2007 (talk/contribs) 11:08, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined Firstly, there's hardly been any IP edits to the talk page; there's been one problematic IP that was over a week ago and hasn't edited anywhere else, nor since. Secondly, user talk pages are almost never indef semi protected because IP users need to be able to communicate with you some way.

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – High profile figure in the NZ media. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 06:41, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 07:01, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

"Temporary semi-protection." Edits from unverifiable sources and heavily biased tone. Zedtwitz (talk) 05:00, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 06:43, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – I have an ongoing sockpuppet investigation for a user that was banned twice and I have so far found 2 accounts they may be puppeting. I believe they will continue to create new accounts and vandalize the page. Additionally and separately, many IP addresses keep editing the page making good faith but ultimately wrong edits as they have not read the rules. WhereAmI (talk) 06:16, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary Semi-protection should do the trick, I requested the wrong one. WhereAmI (talk) 06:45, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 06:50, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations – BLP vandalism. C759 (talk) 05:28, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 06:48, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP blanking . Dusti*Let's talk!* 02:13, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined If that's really Russavia then we should probably do the kind thing and delete the pages for him. I'd like some proof that it's him before I go through with it, though. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 02:52, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP blanking. Dusti*Let's talk!* 02:12, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined As above. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 02:52, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Binksternet (talk) 02:49, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 06:39, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Persistent vandalism – This was already semi-protected due to vandalism and BLP violations, but we are still seeing vandalism by autoconfirmed accounts, many who registered years ago and only made a few edits. This doesn't seem to be a sock/sleeper situation - it's more likely to be (formerly) legitimate users who have chosen to vandalise the article due to recent publicity on 4chan and Reddit. I think a few days of full protection may unfortunately be necessary. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 02:40, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

The Talk page is getting seriously out of hand, with IPs posting BLP violating material, I believe that semi-protecting this for a while may be necessary as well.Euchrid (talk) 04:59, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
Fully protected for a period of 6 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. I just changed the settings but left the original date. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 06:38, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Create protection: Repeatedly recreated. Sir Sputnik (talk) 00:25, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Creation protected for a period of 6 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 06:34, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Persistent vandalism – Please up this to full until his deal has become official. Hoops gza (talk) 21:12, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined There's a reliable source now from USA Today, so I don't think protection will be necessary at this point. Mike V • Talk 00:11, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

He merely agreed to sign a contract. That is not the same thing as the deal being officially done. People keep changing the page because of this. - Hoops gza (talk) 00:20, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

The current level of editing isn't enough to justify full protection. I would encourage you to raise your concerns on the article talk page and invite others to engage in discussion. Mike V • Talk 00:43, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – The telenovela just started recording on August 18, 2014, and Article are already adding misinformation and unconfirmed. Damián (talk) 22:35, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Content dispute. Please use the article's talk page or other forms of dispute resolution. Mike V • Talk 00:20, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – As per the outcome of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of secret police organizations: the closing Wikipedian, Seddon, quotes that the article should be semi-protected to limit the addition of unsourced material, after I raised concerns about anonymous editors constantly addding US organisations to the article, like the FBI and NSA, without supporting citations. I recommend indefinite semi-protection because the history of such incidents stretch back very far, and given recent events over the ethics on spying, it is a controversial topic. Marianian(talk) 16:08, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected indefinitely. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 03:25, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Protecting admin has been inactive for years: Can't sleep, clown will eat me (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA)
After more than six years of semi-protection its time to take the protection off. Thanks. 72.244.204.103 (talk) 02:49, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Unprotected I've lowered it to pending changes protection. Completely unprotecting seems unwise due to all of the past controversy. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 03:30, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP vandalism. Hoops gza (talk) 21:15, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 03:20, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent vandalism from new accounts and IPs. Hoops gza (talk) 16:47, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. Mike V • Talk 23:06, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. KonveyorBelt 15:58, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Mike V • Talk 23:07, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent vandalism by multiple non-confirmed accounts. Dwpaul Talk 02:09, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Already protected. by NawlinWiki. -- Diannaa (talk) 02:50, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Multiple instances of vandalism. For previous instances of protection, see previous title. czar ♔ 01:34, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected indefinitely. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 02:45, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Please look at the edit history in August. Hoops gza (talk) 23:40, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Diannaa (talk) 02:47, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of vandalism and additions of unsourced BLP content. STATic message me! 16:08, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mike V • Talk 00:24, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary pending changes: Persistent vandalism – aside from a lot of IP vandalism, there have also been a lot of constructive IP edits. Qxukhgiels (talk) 22:32, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of 3 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mike V • Talk 00:15, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism and blanking. Doyna Yar (talk) 19:17, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mike V • Talk 00:07, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Content dispute. IP is not engaging in talks and pushing his own version relentlessly. Requesting temporary semi or full protection. . Vigyanitalkਯੋਗਦਾਨ 15:57, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of two weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Miniapolis 23:58, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – POV pushing and addition of poorly sourced content by IPs and new editors. Jinkinson talk to me 18:35, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected by MusikAnimal. Mike V • Talk 23:05, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Continuous malicious additions and IPvandalism. —Indian:BIO · [ ChitChat ] 15:43, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 4 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. — MusikAnimal talk 21:51, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Pending changes: Persistent vandalism – IP-hopper repeatedly adding promotional material to article (a long list of shops and companies in Sonipat). Thomas.W talk 13:45, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. — MusikAnimal talk 21:49, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

21 August 2014

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent IP edit-warring over uncited and NPOV material. --TBM10 (talk) 18:30, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:49, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Some short-term IP vandalism/. -- LuK3 (Talk) 18:09, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 18:15, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Most of the IP activity at this article since January 2014 has been vandalism originating from Lompoc, California. This is almost certainly the same vandal. They've been disrupting the article for about four days. Requesting a 7 day protection from non-autoconfirmed users and from IPs to hopefully help them channel their hormonal confusion into the improvement of their hometown of Lompoc. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 17:18, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:51, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Repeated addition of fake future role by IP-hopping vandal. . SummerPhD (talk) 16:05, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. — MusikAnimal talk 16:47, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Repeated addition of fake future role by IP-hopping vandal. SummerPhD (talk) 16:04, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. — MusikAnimal talk 16:46, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Being protected indefinitely. King Flight (talk) 10:19, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. GedUK  11:51, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – 1 week perhaps? There was a previous edit war going on between two editors, and now two other editors seem to be in the beginning stages, already showing signs of incivility. I think full protection would force discussion on the talk page with admin intervention and help the collaborative process. . Dusti*Let's talk!* 22:40, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. At this point, it's not an edit war. The first two editors have already been blocked. These two could be too if necessary, that's a better approach. GedUK  11:49, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations. Binksternet (talk) 14:44, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. — MusikAnimal talk 14:54, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Recent unsourced additions based on speculation, and vandalism referring to alleged part in ongoing scandal. '''tAD''' (talk) 12:46, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 15:04, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – persistent spamming. Request semi protection until the end of the said event (August 29). C759 (talk) 08:21, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

User(s) blocked.--Ymblanter (talk) 10:29, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – This was full-protected before by CambridgeBayWeather due to vandalism from autoconfirmed accounts, but they lowered it again to semi-protection. In the five or so hours since the protection level was lowered we have had reverts over three separate pieces of content. Full protection may or may not have been justified for the vandalism (disclaimer - I was the one who requested it), but I think it is justified for the edit warring. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 03:58, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Note: This has now made its way to ANI as well. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 04:49, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
I've blocked User:Crisis concerning this.--v/r - TP 05:02, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
User(s) blocked. for the bot--Ymblanter (talk) 10:25, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Highly visible template transcluded on more than 350 pages. Admittedly preventative rather than reactive. CRRaysHead90 | #RaysUp 12:50, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite pending changes: Persistent vandalism – If you take a look at the history of the article, a vast majority of the last fifty edits are removals and reverts of well sourced information, or addition of unsourced information, likely because this is a somewhat sensitive topic. Placing this on pending changes will deal with this issue, while still allowing constructive contributions from IPs. Vanamonde93 (talk) 05:16, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. There's nowhere near enough protection history to go indef at this point. GedUK  11:50, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Pending changes: Vandalism: disruptive edits by IP users overtime including negative hate-speech against living persons and the subject matter. History of vandalism has come primarily from IP addresses, and edits have been reverted or corrected by Wikipedia Administrators and registered users alike. Some screening would be good. Proboynow3 (talk) 10:10 16 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined It seems to me that this has the character of an edit war rather than vandalism as you describe it. While the insertions aren't always, reliably, or consistently sourced (at least one refers to a TV programme, FWIW), it seems some of your own edits present a religious text as truth, which also falls short of our standards (e.g. this edit). Protection is not to be used to support your own side in an edit war. Also, since the edit war proceeds very slowly, there are no grounds yet for serving a warning to either party. However, seeking consensus on the contents of the article would be a better approach, and I would encourage it. There is already a reasonably worded complaint on the talk page that has not received a reply. Samsara (FA • FP) 03:51, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism. Hi I just don't know what to do. Numerous IP addresses keep vandalising these pages High level of IP vandalism. CourtneyBonnick (talk) 02:55, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined} As long as the IP editors are also the ones improving the article, there's not much we can reasonably do in terms of protection. This is a case for vandalism warnings and possible eventual blocks on individual vandalising IPs. Samsara (FA • FP) 03:59, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Being vandalised, and spammed with link to bike riders forum! 86.164.200.175 (talk) 08:55, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Pending changes, temporary semi-protection etc. all have been tried. It's not working, the article continues to be the target of malicious edits by IP users. Its time to indefinitely protect it. —Indian:BIO · [ ChitChat ] 05:49, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 07:13, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Polarizing Public figure in tech community. Claims previous page was taken down without authorization. Should at least have temporarily semi-protection. Mhannigan (talk) 05:32, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined Persistent vandalism from who? Anyway all the current editors of that article are autoconfirmed and semi won't stop them. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 07:11, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

semi-protection: For at least one month, please. Previous semi-protection applied by John Reaves (talk · contribs) on the 5th was apparently not long enough, as edits to add promotional content by apparent socks restarted immediately after the protection expired. This is apparently an attempt to whitewash the fact that his son is a convicted (and notable) murderer by people connected with this politician. <span?style="color:#151B54;font-family:comic sans ms">Reventtalk 07:24, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection Persistent content dispute/edit warring regarding placement of reference for American Airlines's service at the airport (the airline is operating this route as a seasonal service instead of year-round). IPs inappropriately calling edits as "vandalism". A user already made a note at the article's talk page. Rzxz1980 (talk) 05:00, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. The edit summary was not great but that particular IP seems to be doing good work. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 06:44, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Vin09 (talk) 11:32, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

@Vin09: Could you tell me what about the recent edits to that article are vandalism? I may just be being dense, but I can't see it. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 04:28, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
@Mr. Stradivarius: Some IP edits like [49], [50], [51], [52], [53] are tampering of original info. The page is perfectly standardized and unless next census is released it does not have to be changed.--Vin09 (talk) 05:37, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
Declined @Vin09: I see, and I agree we shouldn't be messing with the figures until the next census. All in all, though, it doesn't look like there is enough recent disruption to justify page protection. Remember that there are legitimate things that IPs may add that don't involve changing the figures around. Having said that, if there is significant vandalism to the article in the future, please don't hesitate to file another request here. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 05:45, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Several IP editors changing it to say he is dead, with no reliable source 88.104.22.9 (talk) 05:24, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 07:04, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Csatlos (talk · contribs) was recently blocked for WP:Vandalism/WP:Disruptive editing at this article and elsewhere. It seems that he has returned to this article as this IP to engage in more WP:Disruptive editing there. Flyer22 (talk) 19:51, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Never mind. No current activity at this time. Flyer22 (talk) 21:17, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
Declined Procedural decline, for the bot. Diannaa (talk) 01:17, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Still unverified in RS sources about his death and soem BLP violations are being added. Something for about a few days should do it as more sources verify or deny it.Lihaas (talk) 16:14, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined Situation has stabilised in the last 12 hours or so, and normal editing is underway. Please re-report if the situation changes. Diannaa (talk) 01:10, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Numerous IP addresses keep making edits to this article claiming the New York City subway car model R160 does not operate on the F service, but we have sources that support the fact that the R160 does operate on the F. . Mysteryman557 (talk) 22:17, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

@Mysteryman557: It's only one IP address, or one set of IP addresses. Epicgenius (talk) 23:48, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of one month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Diannaa (talk) 01:38, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Requesting 48 hour semi-protection from non-autoconfirmed accounts. Three vandals (perhaps the same individual) have attacked the article today. A brief protection might get us through the flare-up. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 20:32, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Already protected. by NawlinWiki until 30 August. Diannaa (talk) 01:39, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Full-protection: Looming edit war with another user, based upon a disagreement concerning country infobox details. Requesting full-protection in order to open the matter for discussion and reach a consensus. GrahamNoyes (talk) 22:35, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined Please get the talk page discussion underway instead. There's been no talk page discussion since 2010.Diannaa (talk) 00:55, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite full protection Persistent vandalism/sock puppeting. There is a concerted effort by IP addresses in the same subdomain (89.110.*.* and 92.100.*.*) to censor/remove criticism from the "Modern Assessments" section. Page was previously temporarily protected in Dec 2011 for this reason by actions from the same subdomain. See article Talk page and under heading "The scientific validity of Sheldon's concept has been tested and confirimed by all known studies" for further information on the history of this vandalism. 64.111.172.6 (talk) 21:54, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Diannaa (talk) 01:23, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Has been a subject of much IP edit warring and disruption recently, as well as from other users. This may have damaged this article's WP:GA status. Qxukhgiels (talk) 21:29, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected indefinitely. The level of vandalism in the unprotected week shows that this level of protection is warranted. -- Diannaa (talk) 01:05, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – 12 hour prot expired 14:13, 20 August 2014 (UTC) and vandalistic edits to musical genres were immediately repeated by probable sock of users blocked 19 August. Dwpaul Talk 14:59, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Already protected. by NawlinWiki until 30 August. Diannaa (talk) 01:06, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite full protection Persistent vandalism/sock puppeting. There is a concerted effort by IP addresses in the same subdomain (89.110.*.* and 92.100.*.*) to censor/remove criticism from the "Modern Assessments" section. Page was previously temporarily protected in Dec 2011 for this reason by actions from the same subdomain. See article Talk page and under heading "The scientific validity of Sheldon's concept has been tested and confirimed by all known studies" for further information on the history of this vandalism. 64.111.172.6 (talk) 18:47, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Diannaa (talk) 01:24, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite full protection: Repeatedly recreated WP:SPAM article. Ad Orientem (talk) 21:53, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Creation protected indefinitely. Diannaa (talk) 00:59, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Persistent WP:VANDAL,WP:DE, WP:EW, WP:JUSTDONTLIKEIT, WP:OWN, WP:POV, WP:HA, WP:PERSONAL and deletions of sourced contents by numerous IPs and users. The page was semi-protected by an admin a few days ago but it occurs again and again. I think, semi-protection doesn't work because of "registered" pov-warriors. Thus, it would be better to fully-protect this page at least for a month. 149.140.40.10 (talk) 11:15, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Let's go with this, since this rush is largely IP driven. As the crisis tides over, this should subside. If this doesn't help, you can ask for full protection after a few days. --Ekabhishektalk 16:12, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
OK. I hope it works. But remember, Wikisupporting and Ahmetyal are registered users who involved in edit-wars and content deletions. If it occurs again, can you apply a topic-ban for them? And, ok, if this doesn't help, I will ask for full protection. Regards...149.140.40.10 (talk) 16:32, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi protection persistent vandalism by Bangladesh Airport Vandal. 71.12.206.168 (talk) 08:21, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 6 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 08:25, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
Already protected. by Cambridge Bay Weather. Article title contains an en-dash, not a hyphen. Diannaa (talk) 00:51, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

22 August 2014

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism by unregistered user(s), possibly same individual hopping IPs. Previous page protection (4 August) has not discouraged. Wiki-Ed (talk) 11:24, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. — MusikAnimal talk 16:47, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Target of ProfessorJane sockpuppets. —Ryūlóng (琉竜) 09:11, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--Ymblanter (talk) 20:59, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite pending changes: BLP policy violations – Repeated additions of contentious material over periods of time and goes unchecked sometimes. The page of the singer Nicholas McDonald has been semi'd for the same reason. Need an admin to delete some of the revisions too.  NQ  talk 08:57, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. No point in pending changes protection when nearly every edit from an unconfirmed user in the past five months has been vandalism. I've revdel'd a great deal of the edits per WP:RD2. — MusikAnimal talk 14:48, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
Thank you ! Appreciate it.  NQ  talk 15:05, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Person hasn't died. He is admitted to hospital. Vandalism underway. Please undo today's revisions and protect . Harish / talk / Contributions 10:07, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for 1 week by Tinucherian — MusikAnimal talk 14:40, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

3 Day Full Protection: Content dispute and edit warring.VictoriaGrayson (talk) 05:02, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Fully protected Mike V • Talk 05:13, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
This notice appeared due to a capitalization error in the header, the right page is protected. Mark Arsten (talk) 05:39, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
Already protected. Corrected section header, for the bot. Hopefully this will archive now. Diannaa (talk) 14:40, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent vandalism by IPs. The Banner talk 23:18, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. — MusikAnimal talk 14:37, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Favre1fan93 (talk) 23:15, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. — MusikAnimal talk 14:34, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: IP constantly changing roller coaster models to "Giga" even though Bolliger & Mabillard does not have a "Giga Coaster" model. Roller coasters that are over 300 feet are considered "Hyper Coasters" according to B&M. Requesting for semi-protection for 1 - 2 weeks.--Dom497 (talk) 19:14, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Clarification The roller coaster enthusiast community calls any roller coaster that is 300' in height or taller a "giga-coaster". However, the manufacturer that's the subject of the article does not refer to these rides by that term. Instead, they use the model name "Hyper Coaster", per the manufacturer. Also, RCDB, considered a very reliable source by consensus of WikiProject Amusement Parks, which helps improve articles involving both parks and the rides within them, also uses this term. Attempts to get the IPs to talk on the article talk page have failed. --McDoobAU93 21:47, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. — MusikAnimal talk 14:30, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. —Frosty ☃ 08:45, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Already protected. by Materialscientist. Mike V • Talk 11:49, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 07:10, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

User(s) blocked.. Please ping me or reapply here if they hop to a different IP.--Ymblanter (talk) 07:37, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
Thanks. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 07:46, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: 2,000+ transclusions. George Ho (talk) 19:14, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Done —GFOLEY FOUR!— 06:09, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Pending changes: Steady stream of vandalism, not as bad as before which previously needed semi-protection. Possible sockpuppetry as vandalism is often in the same place and the same theme, libel against a BLP '''tAD''' (talk) 17:49, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--Ymblanter (talk) 11:26, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Repeated vandalism. IPadPerson (talk) 00:57, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 01:27, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: 872 transclusions. George Ho (talk) 19:12, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected Mike V • Talk 04:17, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – There is a content dispute which is being discussed in talk. Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 18:54, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Fully protected Mike V • Talk 04:22, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – Dispute over inclusion of certain forms of content. Recommend protection until resolved. ViperSnake151  Talk  00:25, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Fully protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 00:51, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Vandalism and addition of unsourced content. Jinkinson talk to me 22:18, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 00:46, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – On-going vandalism by disposable accounts and IPs. SummerPhD (talk) 20:43, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 00:42, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: article appeared in http://what-if.xkcd.com/ today with the note "I was so tempted to vandalize this article to put a [citation needed] after every claim that the night sky was dark." and has since been vandalised in this way several times. Garemoko (talk) 19:30, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Done, protected for a week by another admin. Mark Arsten (talk) 00:41, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent changing of "human" to "moose" (IDK why). Jinkinson talk to me 18:55, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 year, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Favonian (talk) 18:58, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

23 August 2014

Indefinite create protection: Repeatedly recreated. Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 10:53, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Creation protected for a period of indefintely, but of course this means that the next creation of an article will use a slightly different name and be harder to spot., after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Dougweller (talk) 11:29, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Permanent and constant vandalism. Zozs (talk) 02:22, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 09:23, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Most of the time this page is just vandalized by ip users, not much contributions (except for a few registered users) on this page anymore. VeNeMousKAT (talk|contribs) 00:20, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 09:20, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Edit-warring. Johnmoor (talk · contribs) has ceased to participate in talk page discussions, and when he has they've been WP:IDHT. I'll go ahead and repeat what I did with Grammarly (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views): List all the sources, identify them by type and quality, and indicate what we should and should not include in the article based upon those sources. Then I'll use an RfC to get consensus for the changes.--Ronz (talk) 21:26, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Most contributors do not agree with Ronz (talk · contribs) here—Talk:Nofel Izz#Puffery, but he had gone ahead reverting everyone else who challenges his contributions. Most of the sections on the article talk page were started by him, wanting other contributors to address his concerns or support them, but when others gives a contrary view, he ignores them and pushes on with his views. —JOHNMOORofMOORLAND (talk) 21:40, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
Please don't disrupt this with your accusations. You had the same complaints with Grammarly. We'll use the same solution that worked there. --Ronz (talk) 21:50, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
Allowing some of your views to stand on Grammarly does not mean that I agree with you on them, it only means that I want a stable version to let other contributors improve upon it. Thank you. —JOHNMOORofMOORLAND (talk) 22:29, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
Declined – Content dispute. Please use the article's talk page or other forms of dispute resolution. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 07:47, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: IP provides tags and restores them but does not take part in discussion. Thnx Serten (talk) 18:36, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 07:28, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Within 2 hours of page protection being lifted, an IPv6 editor submitted this deliberate misinformation. Note for example they change the airdates for "The Dress" to September 19, 2011 and "The Genius" to February 7, 2012, though TVGuide confirms the previous dates (May 23, 2011 and October 10, 2011) were correct. No explanation or source from vandal. Please also note that all the Gumball articles were protected for persistent vandalism, so if any are set to expire, I'd like to ask they be renewed as well. That would include: The Amazing World of Gumball, The Amazing World of Gumball (season 2) and The Amazing World of Gumball (season 3). I'm not sure what a reasonable amount of protection would be, but given how quickly the article was vandalized after protection was lifted, I think protection for a longer term might be warranted. Thank you!. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 17:49, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

The Amazing World of Gumball (season 1) - Semi-protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 07:26, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
The Amazing World of Gumball - Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 07:26, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
The Amazing World of Gumball (season 2) - Semi-protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 07:26, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
The Amazing World of Gumball (season 3) - Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 07:26, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent anonymous IP vandalism. Page was semi-protected from 23 April 2013 to 23 April 2014. Semi-protection was very effective. Since the protection's expiration there has been continued removal of properly formatted and referenced/sourced information from the page. My edit/revert on 16:44, 22 August 2014‎ restored the information which has been most vulnerable to vandals. Mrwhite22 (talk) 17:06, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 07:16, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism by user YoYoSud. Here are some revision where this user added nonsensical content. [54] , [55] and [56]. Moreover the film is an upcoming release of September. Prior release and before, the page must be protected. Melodious Warrior (talk) 14:12, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 07:01, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Block until the game's release on November 11th as an IP keeps adding that it is on PC even though it has been confirmed to be Xbox One exclusive and he provides no source that backs up that it will be on PC. Ditto51 (My Talk Page) 09:01, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 09:30, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Add to pending changes: long running disruptive activity going back to at least November 2012. Look at the article history [57]. One red linked account or IP address after another. Don't know if this is a single person (and without check user, can't tell) or just an article that invites disruptive editing.Volunteer Marek (talk) 06:22, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 09:25, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism from an IP editor, changing company ownership status (Ektron has not been bought/sold), changing competitors to list partners and agencies, changing product offerings to include very old products, changing leadership staff information. These edits have occurred multiple times over the past week. Egandalf (talk) 12:57, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 06:46, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism from an IP editor, changing Lewis Hamilton's number from 44 to 1 - this implies Hamilton is the 2014 champion, which he is not. Requesting semi-protection for a week, as the page has received a high volume of these edits in the past two hours and shows no signs of stopping. Prisonermonkeys (talk) 11:33, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 06:43, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Addititon of unsourced material as well as changes made against current sources. QED237 (talk) 23:40, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 08:07, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Move protection: Page title dispute/move warring – The album has been called both "Pinkprint" and "Pink Print" in sources. There was a request for move which got consensus to use the title "Pinkprint". Since then two editors have moved the page to the other name, against consensus and ignoring the new discussion, which is also in favor of the first name. It would be good to protect the page until an official source comes with the final name of the album, to prevent move warring. 2Flows (talk) 22:53, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Move protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 08:04, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – Ongoing edit warring. I participated in a few reverts, but have confined my more recent interventions to the talk page. ImprovingWiki (talk) 22:50, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Fully protected for a period of 3 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Just continued the semi that was already there. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 07:57, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism of a BLP, which has ranged from silliness with statistics to quite malicious defamation which I obviously shan't repeat here. IPs and new accounts have being serving more harm than good, as well as possible sockpuppetry of a (positive) POV nature (recurring addition of the adjective "clever"). '''tAD''' (talk) 19:39, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 07:36, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. NeilN talk to me 19:03, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Already protected by administrator Mark Arsten. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 07:33, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Favre1fan93 (talk) 18:57, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 07:30, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Pending changes: Vandalism: Reapplying for Pending Changes. After initial request was denied an IP address removed the majority of the article's content and replaced with non-neutral content. IP address also removed all of the article's references. Can you please re-look at this issue? Proboynow3 (talk) 11:30 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 07:20, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Rumors about pending transaction. TM 16:47, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 07:09, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Player rumored to be part of transaction. TM 15:49, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 07:05, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. RolandR (talk) 02:01, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. --Bongwarrior (talk) 02:13, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection IP continuously vandalising. NickGibson3900 - Talk - Sign my Guestbook 02:00, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. --Bongwarrior (talk) 02:13, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Target of ProfessorJane sockpuppets. —Ryūlóng (琉竜) 09:12, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 06:38, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Target of ProfessorJane sockpuppets. —Ryūlóng (琉竜) 09:11, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 06:36, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Target of ProfessorJane sockpuppets. —Ryūlóng (琉竜) 09:11, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 06:34, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Target of ProfessorJane sockpuppets. —Ryūlóng (琉竜) 09:10, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 06:32, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Target of ProfessorJane sockpuppets. —Ryūlóng (琉竜) 09:10, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 06:31, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Target of ProfessorJane sockpuppets. —Ryūlóng (琉竜) 09:10, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 06:28, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

24 August 2014

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Vandalism and disruptive editing, particularly since a Congressional IP recently added the phrase "real man pretending to be a woman" to this article. . Jinkinson talk to me 14:06, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Diannaa (talk) 19:46, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Metro and tram lists

Temporary semi-protection: A sock attack, socks replace the China flag with the Hong Kong flag in the HK entry. There is consensus of editors in good standing at the talk pages that this should not be done. Ymblanter (talk) 10:25, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Already protected. by The Anome, until 24 November. -- Diannaa (talk) 19:40, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Unprotection: Official announcement of Windows 9. I came in to find out details about it, to find the page non-existent and protected. Unprotect to allow goodfaith creation, please. Rehman 04:28, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Ask Mike V (talk · contribs) regarding unprotection. tutterMouse (talk) 06:14, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
Not done The source provided is not an official press release from Microsoft and does not resolve the concerns raised in the deletion discussion. Mike V • Talk 15:08, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – reinsertion of improperly sourced content. ViperSnake151  Talk  15:56, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 24 hours, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. — MusikAnimal talk 16:12, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Pending changes clearly not working. C759 (talk) 15:05, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Should revert to PC when the semi expires. Favonian (talk) 15:26, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: BLP policy violations – Also sock puppet target . —Ryūlóng (琉竜) 04:41, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 08:39, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. QED237 (talk) 12:06, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--Ymblanter (talk) 12:12, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of vandalism by anon IP editors and new users. STATic message me! 01:48, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 08:21, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary pending changes: Persistent vandalism – While there has been much IP vandalism, there have also been constructive edits. Qxukhgiels (talk) 21:16, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 08:10, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Full protection: article is subject of a merge discussion with Fyi (TV network) in which has not gotten a consensus yet. Editors are ignoring that there isn't a consensus yet or a discussion all together are creating a redirect. --Spshu (talk) 18:55, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. It was one editor. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 07:51, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism from unknown IP editors. Premthanjavur(talk) 12:10, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 07:07, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Kollision (talk) 07:33, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 08:45, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Motion picture rating articles

Lengthy semi-protection: These three articles have been the target of a very persistent editor over the last few weeks who has registered muliple accounts to disrupt the articles (see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Djmex9205/Archive and Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Djmex9205). The latest sock has been blocked just a little over a week after the last three. Is there any possibility that we could semi all three article for a couple of months to try and persuade the editor to move on? If his MO is anything to go by he will be back again in a few days. Betty Logan (talk) 05:17, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 08:42, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – This is being hit with the same vandalism to add a fictional character to the list as it was months ago. This idiocy will never end so this page should be permanently protected. —Ryūlóng (琉竜) 04:37, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 08:25, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: The past week has seen an influx of IPs and new users make unconstructive edits, including vandalism, unsourced, irrelevant trivia, and bad image uploads.LM2000 (talk) 02:38, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 08:23, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – Hello I ask protection for this article, as there are a number of IP addresses using ips to impose editing. Some days ago I asked for help, but nobody did anything. Please someone do something, because it takes several days and the same, and nobody does anything. Leaves a message to the IP that initiated the edit war, but ignored. Damián (talk) 01:35, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Fully protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 08:17, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations – Continued vandalism, BLP violations, and unsourced additions after the previous protection expired. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 00:24, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 08:14, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Disruptive IP editing. Hoops gza (talk) 22:04, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 08:13, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP editor repeatedly, pointedly misinterpreting a source book to say that Carlos Gardel was French-Uruguayan rather than French-Argentine, having been born in France and raised in Argentina where he became famous. Gardel is very much associated with Argentina, not Uruguay. Binksternet (talk) 21:37, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 08:11, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Permanent violation of Wikipedia:NOTNEWS policy by multiple IPs and new users. This list is to be updated once per month with new official manufacturer data, all those IPs read something in their local newspaper and find their way to edit this page. Especially tiresome if a big airshow like in Dubai is held. Page history is filled with reverts over and over due to this misuse. Denniss (talk) 20:56, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. try it for a while and see if it works. It can always be changed. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 07:53, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – This page has been semi'd a few times already, and the vandalism keeps coming. Favre1fan93 (talk) 18:53, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 07:20, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

semi-protection Persistent vandalism from random IPs, introducing erroneous figures contrary to refs e.g. [58] [59] [60] [61] etc. Dl2000 (talk) 17:42, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 07:16, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

semi protection long term disruption by dynamic IPs inserting unsourced promotional content. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 17:06, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 07:15, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Continued unsourced additions after last protection. Freshh! (talk) 15:44, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 07:13, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary pending changes: BLP policy violations – Fringe theories that the video depicting his death was faked are being repeatedly posted on the page. 331dot (talk) 12:33, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 07:11, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Protection for a longer time please. Vandalism started the moment last protection expired. —Indian:BIO · [ ChitChat ] 12:16, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 07:08, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Short term protection to recover from my vandal fighting. I dream of horses (T) @ 02:56, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. --Bongwarrior (talk) 03:33, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Pending changes: BLP policy violations – Request PC for a month or longer. Repeated unsourced and unexplained edits by IP-hopper(s) on a BLP, both adding and removing material. Many of the edits with an obvious COI. Thomas.W talk 09:47, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 07:05, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – Content dispute / persistent edit warring by experienced editors including an admin. Consensus sought on talk page. dab project informed for more opinions. Widefox; talk 09:45, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

This (and Isis) are navigation paths to a high usage article, which the edit warring is sometimes breaking or making more difficult. An innocent misconception about not allowing redirects on dabs / hatnotes seems to be the cause, and not solved by edit summaries, markup comments, dab project members or attempt at consensus building at talk page. Widefox; talk 20:39, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
Fully protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 07:03, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Satellizer (´ ･ ω ･ `) 01:56, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 day, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Materialscientist (talk) 02:31, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Edit warring by IP-addresses. Alex2006 (talk) 18:43, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Favonian (talk) 19:36, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Widr (talk) 15:38, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Favonian (talk) 15:54, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

25 August 2014

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Not sure what is happening here, but we suddenly have a number of IPs making approximately the same edits (deleting sourced text, adding text which is OR interpretations of sources). Obviously ordinary editors will hit 3RR and these won't as they keep changing. Dougweller (talk) 07:53, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

See for instance this latest series of edit.[62] That's a major change. I think it needs longer protection than last time. Dougweller (talk) 08:29, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--Ymblanter (talk) 09:54, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Vandalism after recent conclusion of the show. Fans of non winning contestants are probably doing this actions. Temporary protection of at least a week for the fans to settle down their dismay. AR E N Z O Y 1 6A•t a l k• 15:30, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined It looks like there is are a number of good and good faith edits by non-autconfirmed editors so I'd rather not protect at this stage. I have warned two users for edit warring though. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 04:23, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Full protection: Persistent vandalism, removal by possible socks (User:Talal.talal1, User:Mc010, user:Nuhad014, User:Philanthropist 1001) of mentions of corruption on politician's page, as well as mentions of Wikileaks cables. Last year, similar edits were made by User:Samar Layoun and User:MariaFrangieh, who turned out to be linked to Beirut-based digital marketing firm AddBloom, upon Google search. The page should be fully protected because parliamentary elections are due this year, and the politician in question seems to have hired marketing agency to whitewash online record. Callsfortruth (talk) 18:19, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. I blocked for 24h the user causing the main disruption yesterday, and I hope we can proceed for a while without page protection. If the user returns and continues reverting, they should be blocked indef as they do not have any other contribution. If new socks appear, the page will indeed need to be protected.--Ymblanter (talk) 07:01, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. FutureTrillionaire (talk) 02:15, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 04:19, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Unprotection. There's no evidence of excessive IP vandalism requiring this protection level and for this length. I checked all the IP edits and there was only one minor disruptive edit here.. The other IPs were making positive contributions here, here, and here. I asked the admin to go to pending changes, but she put it on the talk page as an "either pending changes or semi-protection" question. But actually, neither is needed at this time. I commented on the talk page to that effect. SW3 5DL (talk) 01:28, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined Looks like it's being discussed with the protecting admin. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 04:10, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Unprotection template protected 27th May by AGK@ as "Highly visible template". In fact it is only used on one Wikipedia: page, effectively, which is transcluded on some 9 user pages. All the best: All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 00:18, 25 August 2014 (UTC).

Declined Please ask the protecting admin first. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 04:10, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Unprotection: The article was protected this March due to edit warring and persistent sock-puppetry. No need to protect anymore. 107.77.75.55 (talk) 16:47, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Not done Disingenuous request. Mike V • Talk 02:24, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Unprotection: No more need for protection so long since 5 February 2011. Uishaki (talk) 18:11, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Please check with @Bearcat:. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 08:50, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
Declined Please ask the protecting admin first. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 04:10, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – For awhile, several IPs (likely the same person) has blanking sections and removing content for no reason at all. Caldorwards4 (talk) 02:35, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 04:17, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – I've had to revert an IP hopper four consecutive times now. Hoops gza (talk) 02:31, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 04:17, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

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

Semi-protection: Too much sock-puppetry. No reason for IPs (and new users) to edit anyway. 107.77.75.55 (talk) 16:56, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Also User:Bahooka should be the one to ask. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 22:54, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite move protection: 200+ transclusions. George Ho (talk) 19:13, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected indefinitely. I don't think any higher than the default (autoconfirmed) move protection is required in this case. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 04:04, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Unprotection: The article was protected in November 2013 for one year due to an IP adding incorrect information to it. I would like to add information such as this to the article, and also make spelling corrections throughout the article. Spasibo. 86.57.199.103 (talk) 19:47, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Did you ask @Yunshui:? CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 08:47, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
Done Given Yunshui is on holidays (per the message on their userpage) I've dropped the protection down to pending changes so see if the problem has passed. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 04:15, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Infinite semi-protection: User page protect request to keep from getting vandalized by another IP. --Allen talk 02:18, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected Mike V • Talk 02:28, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Binksternet (talk) 23:11, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. — MusikAnimal talk 23:21, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – edit war. The Banner talk 21:45, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 22:34, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent vandalism by IP. Editor2020 20:35, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 22:43, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – temporary, but quite long. The Banner talk 19:54, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Fully protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 22:49, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite full protection: user page transcluded from subpage. Thank you.  NQ  talk 18:46, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Fully protected indefinitely. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 22:51, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
Thanks Alan. Appreciate it  NQ  talk 22:54, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Favre1fan93 (talk) 18:27, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 22:53, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism starting as soon as the previous protection expired, such is the weekly nature of football '''tAD''' (talk) 22:30, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 22:33, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent edit-warring (IP's and others, but full protection is overdoing it, I think). Ongoing since 22 August, likely to continue for a while. הסרפד (call me Hasirpad) 22:24, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 22:38, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of dubious unsourced additions by anon IP editors and new users. STATic message me! 21:29, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 22:40, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Deliberate unsourced additions by anon IP editors and new users. STATic message me! 21:28, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 22:41, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Recently died, please protect from IP vandalism . JMHamo (talk) 21:09, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 22:45, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Vandalism started the moment article was unprotected . —Indian:BIO · [ ChitChat ] 16:34, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of two weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Diannaa (talk) 20:03, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Protection (type uncertain) - edit warring over content with no discussion on talk page. --‖ Ebyabe talk - Border Town ‖ 16:28, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined Disruption seems to stem from a single user. Warned about edit warring. — MusikAnimal talk 18:21, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary full-protection: Unreferenced sections stayed in the article for over 5 years. I removed the sections per NOR. 107.77.75.55 (talk) 16:23, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. — MusikAnimal talk 18:14, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

26 August 2014

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

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – IP-hopper (probably David Beals) keeps adding a picture of or link to a ceiling fan to my talk page. Previous short-term protection was insufficient. Jinkinson talk to me 19:04, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Favonian (talk) 19:08, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Repeated vandalism and disruptive editing by IP addresses and unautoconfirmed users. IPadPerson (talk) 19:02, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected. Courcelles 20:08, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – 11 vandalism attempts in past 24 hours (BLP). : Noyster (talk), 14:55, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--Ymblanter (talk) 20:10, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – There's one user who comes from several IPs who insists on adding a variant of this phrase to the article, with the best source given as "my dad and grandad said this". The article was recently protected for a month as a result, and as soon as the protection expired, he picked right back up. The history shows this better than I can explain, and several users have tried to explain this to the IP. I suggest a lengthy protection, so he'll see that and go away. Or failing that, that an admin or 5 watch that page and block the IPs as he swaps them. . CrowTalk 18:19, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 year, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Let us try one year before going for the infinite semi-protection.--Ymblanter (talk) 20:07, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Many, many recent stupid edits to refer to her as a 'power ranger' and various other inanity. Reventtalk 04:56, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--Ymblanter (talk) 06:59, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – A dynamic IP editor is persistently adding future air dates without providing any sources to verify them. This has been going on for some time despite multiple warnings. —Farix (t | c) 18:09, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--Ymblanter (talk) 07:02, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Spate of Ip vandalism on the page, best to nip it in the bud. Amortias (T)(C) 16:57, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Already protected. by Smalljim until 27 August. Diannaa (talk) 00:53, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection Repeatedly disruptive editing from perhaps one user, but using several IP addresses. PaleCloudedWhite (talk) 14:58, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:37, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Repeated unsourced and very dubious edits made by a very persistent IP-hopper geolocating to Visakhapatnam, who refuses to stop even after receiving multiple warnings (see page history). Thomas.W talk 12:25, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:35, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – A lot of unsourced content added and some disruptive edits. QED237 (talk) 15:36, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:29, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP users keep adding ratings with sources that don't support those numbers. General non-constructive editing. EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 22:10, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 22:16, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Binksternet (talk) 21:10, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:15, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – addition of unsourced content by IP addresses and without edit summary or anything. It was protected before for this same reason, but immediately the protection expired, it continued. Jamie Tubers (talk) 20:16, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 6 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:13, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection:New article created and already there are random edits by IPs with no supported links. Kevon100 Talk! Mail 20:00, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 10 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:18, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent edits against curent sources. QED237 (talk) 18:45, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of 10 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. ...let's try this to faciliate keen fans' involvement. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:22, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

27 August 2014

Semi-protection: High level of vandalism and disruptive editing by anon IP editors. STATic message me! 19:04, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of a fortnight, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:29, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP hopper persistently adding incorrect information. —Ryūlóng (琉竜) 18:04, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of a month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:23, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Unprotection: Now that Nerdfighteria is its own page I want to turn this (like Nerdfighters) into a redirect to the aforementioned page. Jinkinson talk to me 16:39, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Unprotected HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:41, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Unprotection: Now that the template is no longer used, users won't be ending up here, so there won't be a problem with so many random misplaced postings. Jackmcbarn (talk) 14:18, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Unprotected HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:39, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection - persistent addition by SPAs of fan site to external links. JohnInDC (talk) 17:13, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of a month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:18, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP-hopping user (186.192.*.*) has been vandalizing the template lately. Requesting 1 week protection to dissuade them. Thanks. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 17:02, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of a week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:11, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of IP and newby editor re-adding un notable references to local people despite requests to read guidance and discuss on talk page. Tmol42 (talk) 14:51, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 hours, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. WaggersTALK 15:05, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
 Requesting immediate archiving... HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 18:50, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent blanking from multiple IP addresses beginning 17 August, 2014. —    Bill W.    (Talk)  (Contrib)  (User:Wtwilson3)  — 14:37, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 14:46, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent addition of unsourced fan material (OR, commentary, ridiculously excessive POV descriptions). I'm moderately involved as an editor or I'd do it myself. . Drmies (talk) 14:18, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 14:42, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Article was briefly famous for having over a hundred joke entries in the list of band members. It's now under pending changes, but editors unfamiliar with the history occasionally wave through a redlink addition. Straightforward semi-protection might be better here. McGeddon (talk) 09:35, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of two weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. I've put a 2 week semi on it, let's see if that works first. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 11:27, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
It's already been semi-protected for a week, then a month, then three months, in the past, and IP vandalism has been slow but constant whenever that protection has been absent. This isn't a temporary spate of coordinated vandalism, it's a joke that's been blogged about over the years and always has a trickle of IPs wandering in to try their hand at it. --McGeddon (talk) 11:48, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
It hasn't been semi'd in over 18 months so this might be unrelated to an extent. Though Tom Morris might have a different opinion. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 12:00, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
I'd be okay with putting it on indef semi-protection at some point. I've set myself a reminder to check it every three months. —Tom Morris (talk) 12:45, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent slow-motion vandalism. Occurs once a day from random IPs and new accounts. —Farix (t | c) 10:37, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of two weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 11:21, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent Vandalism with several IP's. 10 changes, due to vandalism since i last edited 2-3hrs ago. Luxure (talk) 08:42, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of six months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Not enough for indef just yet. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 11:19, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent genre vandalism since June. A number of IP users have edited the genres for numerous times, occasionally adding unsourced material and removing the cover art. Currenly, the same IP user that vandalized the Technique (album) and Republic (album) is insisting on removing the sourced genres and changes IP address possibly by proxy when warned. Myxomatosis57 (talk) 08:08, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. GedUK  11:34, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent genre vandalism since late June. Currenly, the same IP user that vandalized the Technique (album) and Republic (album) is insisting on removing the sourced genres and changes IP address possibly by proxy when warned. Myxomatosis57 (talk) 08:08, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 10 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. GedUK  11:29, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Unprotection. There's no evidence of excessive IP vandalism requiring this protection level and for this length. I checked all the IP edits and there was only one minor disruptive edit here.. The other IPs were making positive contributions here, here, and here. I asked the admin here to go to pending changes, but she put it on the talk page as an "either pending changes or semi-protection" question. But actually, neither is needed at this time. I commented on the talk page to that effect. SW3 5DL (talk) 15:51, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined Doc James has shown some examples of IP vandalism while it was unprotected, which suggests it's still needed for the time being. The talk page discussion also suggests that it's supported. Mike V • Talk 06:03, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection persistent IP sock puppetry on this page by blocked User:ProfessorJane. 71.12.206.168 (talk) 06:24, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Not enough to justify longer term protection at this stage. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 07:25, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent vandalism by ip. Blackknight12 (talk) 05:05, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

User(s) blocked.
Pending-changes protected for a period of three months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 07:29, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Recent end of page protection has not stopped the page from being vandalized. Hoops gza (talk) 21:42, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 03:36, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations – Hopping IPs calling him an antisemite with poor sourcing. Nymf (talk) 04:33, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 07:09, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of vandalism and unsourced additions to a BLP. STATic message me! 04:23, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of ten days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 07:14, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of vandalism by anon IP editors and new users. STATic message me! 04:10, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of two weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 07:12, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Disruption, vandalism and unsourced additions by anon IP editors and new users. STATic message me! 03:57, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 07:16, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent vandalism by IP's. Editor2020 03:16, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 03:05, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

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

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Recent IP edits to my talk page have been vandalism, I would like it protected. Haven't checked on this IP yet, but they have a long edit history, might be on a vandalism spree. Hoops gza (talk) 23:21, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined Seems to have stopped. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 03:03, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Permanent template-editor protection: This is a WP:High-risk template with many thousands of inclusions (the {{Resolved}}-type talk page hatnote templates use it as their meta-template). I can't believe this hasn't been massively vandalized already. Best-kept secret or something?  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  11:41, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

 Done tweaked now. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:31, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
Template protected indefinitely. For the bot. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 07:08, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Genre-warring over various IPs. . Binksternet (talk) 19:11, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection.CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 02:47, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Consistent levels of IP vandalism. Especially given the current events surrounding the Scottish Independence debate. Andrew Henderson 19:01, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 02:44, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary full protection. Repeated addition of unsourced information by editor under the guise of "Copy edit (major)" while ignoring discussion at talk page regarding his edits. Spshu (talk) 16:25, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 02:33, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – some ip are continuing to vandalize this article, even by swearing. Pellilavije (talk) 16:24, 26 August 2014 (UTC)"

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Mark Arsten (talk) 01:19, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism. Some people are just putting their names without a reliable source and the red links.

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 03:20, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection Mild case of edit warring, one time refused to agree to my good faith edits. Please leave message on User:raphael.concorde (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) talk page. 15:21 25 August 2014, (UTC).

  • Flagrant misuse of page protection to subvert WP:BRD, so that user's POV (the current version of the article) is protected. User illegitimately reverted one of my edits on the basis that I didn't explain my edits on their talk page, even though I started a discussion on the article's talk page. User hasn't responded to this discussion in spite of urging from myself and from admin Smalljim. The "dispute" involves my removal of trivia from episode synopses, which I first did in April 2014, and which they keep restoring, although they haven't yet explained why in any coherent way. My arguments are based on existing guidelines like MOS:TV as well as on my extensive experience editing TV articles and participating in the WikiProject Television community. I don't know if sanctions are appropriate to be issued for this user, but I'll mention it, since they are deliberately trying to game the system. User has attempted to force POV into articles before, using IP socks along with their logged-in account. See March 12-15 edits. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 17:33, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Anyway, semi wouldn't stop either of you. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 02:32, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary create protection: Repeatedly recreated – Created three times within 18 minutes, speedied three times. I dream of horses (T) @ 02:19, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Already protected by administrator Discospinster. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 03:50, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Permanent template-editor protection as high-risk template. It doesn't do any good protect Template:R from scientific name if its subtemplate is wide open to vandalism.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  00:09, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

It is transcluded by 390+ pages. --George Ho (talk) 03:09, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
Template protected indefinitely. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 03:49, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IPs been adding unsourced content despite numerous helpful edit summaries & warnings, Cheers,. –Davey2010 • (talk) 21:45, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 03:38, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
Thanks :) –Davey2010 • (talk) 03:49, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – editor makes new accounts and keep vandalising. QED237 (talk) 23:25, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 03:46, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism - subject to high level of disruptive editing by IPs over a sustained period, regarding trivial and unencyclopedic information about certain presenters and reporters. Hughpugh 22:30, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 03:42, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Photo of Louis C.K. gets removed every other day almost. Aristophanes68 (talk) 22:28, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 03:40, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Transfer rumours. QED237 (talk) 18:22, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 03:34, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary pending changes: Persistent vandalism – Lots of IP's are adding just adding themselves or random people on to the list that do not meet the criteria for inclusion. . JayJayWhat did I do? 17:45, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Already done by administrator CambridgeBayWeather. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 03:33, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Recurring IP vandalism of BLP. Paul Erik (talk)(contribs) 16:48, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 03:31, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary pending changes: Persistent vandalism. WNYY98 (talk) 15:34, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 03:30, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Request semi for a month or more because of a large number of unexplained and unsourced edits by IPs and newly created user accounts, including repeated copyright violations. Semi is requested since it would reduce the number of "interventions" needed compared with PC. Thomas.W talk 12:35, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 6 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 03:22, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Repeated attempts by IP(s) to insert unsourced POV wording against long-established consensus, and no willingness to discuss despite requests. Ghmyrtle (talk) 10:24, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 03:17, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Tempoarary semi-protection: Persistent IP vandalism, particularly unsourced genre additions and removal of sourced genres. Similarly, many other New Order-related articles have been vandalized by genre-warriors recently, even causing the main New Order article to be fully protected twice. Myxomatosis57 (talk) 09:25, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 03:15, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent IP vandalism, particularly unsourced genre additions and removal of sourced genres. Myxomatosis57 (talk) 09:25, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 03:13, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Mindless editing, wrong players are added based on rumours. RRD13 (talk) 05:49, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 03:12, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry. --k6ka (talk | contribs) 02:50, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 03:07, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Disruptive editing continues immediately after the page protection period has ended. Hoops gza (talk) 23:08, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 02:50, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary pending changes. WNYY98 (talk) 22:25, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 02:48, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Per concerns at my talk page. There has been persistent disruption by a few editors since the article was moved over the past couple of days given the revival of the series. Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 18:23, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Fully protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 02:42, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – Edit warring at page under discretionary sanctions. A day or two of full protection might help move discussion to the talk page. RGloucester — ☎ 17:41, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Edit warring is still ongoing. Can we please get some administrative action at this article? RGloucester — ☎ 02:37, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
Fully protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 02:36, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Long-term vandalism and BLP violations. -- LuK3 (Talk) 22:55, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 01:15, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP user keeps changing dates without sources. Though I don't believe the existing dates are accurate, user refuses to source their edits, and they have edited repeatedly yesterday and today. Requesting 48 hour protection from IPs and non-autoconfirmed. . Cyphoidbomb (talk) 22:08, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 01:17, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism. Dan56 (talk) 14:28, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 01:21, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Persistent vandalism – Lots of it I can barely keep up. Bobherry talk 00:31, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Note: all the vandalism is coming from new accounts, so semi protection would suffice. RWCasinoKid (talk) 00:44, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of one month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 01:12, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Short term vandalism. -- LuK3 (Talk) 23:55, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Done protected for one day by another admin. Mark Arsten (talk) 01:13, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. QED237 (talk) 11:41, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--Ymblanter (talk) 20:12, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. --k6ka (talk | contribs) 01:55, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Done protected for three days by another admin. Mark Arsten (talk) 01:14, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

28 August 2014

Semi-protection: IP addresses making clearly partisan edits or unexplained removals, both relating to recent investigation of paedophile circles in this town. '''tAD''' (talk) 20:10, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of a fortnight, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:59, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Sudden surge in vandalism, started by vandalism-only account User:Bananana1234 and continued by various IPs from the range 168.10.63.*. 2Flows (talk) 18:53, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of a fortnight, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:58, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Unsourced edits, many IP adding points everywhere without source. QED237 (talk) 18:16, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of a fortnight, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:53, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Low-level but very persistent and long-term vandalism by a number of IP users. This is an article with a very low number of patrollers (one or two at most), and decays further from its GA status each time one of these minor vandalisms is done. Usually, these IP edits seem to be good intentioned but totally ignorant of basic grammar, spelling and/or Wikipedia guidelines. I really don't like semi-protection as a concept, but to my mind, in this situation it is the only way in which any quality of the article can be maintained. —Brigade Piron (talk) 16:44, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of a month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. And Pending-changes protected indefinitely. And watchlisted. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:49, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Ongoing edits that go against provided sources. Snuggums (talk / edits) 16:10, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of a week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:42, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Continuous ethnic related IP vandalism. Thehoboclown (talk) 14:24, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of a week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:33, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Appear to have a couple of new accounts replacing all content with the same three words. Amortias (T)(C) 12:25, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Already protected by administrator NawlinWiki.. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:27, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Because some IPs are adding snarky comments due to Hayden's recent arrest. Vjmlhds 12:11, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of a fortnight, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:30, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Increase in addition of unsourced content lately. Gloss • talk 03:16, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of a week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:26, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Intermittent instances of IP editor-based vandalism. The article was previously semi-protected until May 28 2014, and the vandalism seemed to start again around that point. Steel1943 (talk) 03:07, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of a month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:23, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

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

Temporary semi-protection: Short-term protection requested due to an edit war that erupted between login users and IPs. Jetstreamer Talk 13:35, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined Looks like it's been sorted out, in any case full protection would be needed. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 14:39, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: BLP policy violations – Persistent unreferenced changes to birth info. Geraldo Perez (talk) 00:46, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of a fortnight, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:15, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. I dream of horses (T) @ 23:18, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected until 28 September. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:12, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: serious accusations of personal, legal, and business interests made by IPs regarding each other's editing of this article of now disbarred lawyer, to wit:
a) "(Revisions by 68.119.143.104 & 24.205.53.200 should be undone because they are identifiable to to a litigation antagonist of subject, at law firm of Lawrence Beach Allen & Choi in Glendale, California, who stand to profit from editing entry negatively.)"
b) "(Undid revision 621514535 by 76.170.28.126 (talk) (76.170.28.126 is subject; whois reveals Venice, CA IP address; further manipulation by subject will be reported))"
c) see [63]
Quis separabit? 21:47, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of a week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:57, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: A single IP address of a perminantly banned user keeps making unconstructive edits to the page despite being told not to. 85.210.185.45 (talk) 15:17, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

The editor in question is blocked indefinitely, not banned. Yes, there is a difference, as they get treated differently by the blocking and banning policies. Regardless, I have Semi-protected for a period of 3 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. — Kralizec! (talk) 15:49, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
endorse request I actually conflicted on requesting this, page has been semi-pro twice in the last year, last time for a month. Three months this time? Reventtalk 15:46, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Long-term semi (though not permanent). Chronic IP deleting info, apparently due to a split in the people developing the script, with each claiming to be the only valid Si5s. Not addressed on talk page, so I have no idea who's right or if both are wrong, or if the info even passes notability. — kwami (talk) 21:04, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. — MusikAnimal talk 17:57, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Vandalism from several accounts and IPs over a few days. Ivanvector (talk) 20:03, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. — MusikAnimal talk 17:54, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations – He is a politician who has defected today from one party to another. His new party is controversial in nature and there has already been a number of negative edits to the article. More will happen if it is not protected. Gaia Octavia Agrippa Talk 11:18, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Seconded, I have witnessed numerous attempted negative edits in the last two hours. Twobells (talk) 11:54, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of two days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 13:05, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Extend pending-changes: Protecting admins. not active currently. There is still vandalism. --George Ho (talk) 03:30, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of six months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 11:41, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
Not an admin, but the level of vandalism lately has been pretty low. I don't exactly think going back to semi-protection is a good idea, given that the discussion on the talk page had a consensus to have PC, which has been working well for almost two years. Pinging @Callanecc: and @George Ho:. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 12:50, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
@Narutolovehinata5: Where there is long term vandalism, from memory there was only one non-autoconfirmed account whose edits were accepted in the last 50 edits, it shows that PC is largely ineffective at preventing the vandalism and is creating more work not just for regular editors on the page but also for reviwers generally. Long term histories of vandalism can and are taken into account when deciding which type of protection to apply. But if you still want it to be PC protected I'll restore it and see how it goes. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 13:03, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
It's probably for the best to restore PC. Many of the edits that were unconstructive were done in good faith (removing plot points from the article, though this violates WP:SPOIL). Or perhaps, as a compromise, we can try a shorter time of semi-protection, maybe two weeks at the most, then PC can be brought back, and it will be possible to compare the amount of activity. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 14:18, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
I've gone back to an indef PC, if it gets a bit more consistent a semi can be requested. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 14:24, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
Done For the bot. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 14:25, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – People seem to not realize that he has not signed with a team. This has resulted in many reversions. Hoops gza (talk) 01:58, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. by CambridgeBayWeather--Ymblanter (talk) 07:06, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
Fully protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. I've increased it to full as they're still edit warring @CambridgeBayWeather:. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 11:50, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – 'New' editor adding and reverting to un-sourced and unencylopedic information without any explanation. Removal of maintenance templates. Editor involved has same username as towns supposed Mayor 'Mohan Bose', so possible COI. Multiple IPs appearing to revert to Bose's version. . 220 of Borg 09:15, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Feel free to up the protection level though editor appears to be headed for a block.--220 of Borg 09:20, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
Already protected by administrator Ground Zero. Semi for one day. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 11:41, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Create protection: Repeatedly recreated. Sir Sputnik (talk) 00:52, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected--Ymblanter (talk) 07:00, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – General edition of non-encyclopaedic content.  [[ axg // ✉ ]] 21:42, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Already protected by administrator Black Kite. Semi three days. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 11:41, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – requesting temporary protection; vandalism from multiple accounts. gobonobo + c 21:41, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Already protected by administrator Mattythewhite. Semi for one week. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 11:41, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism and dispute/edit warring. There is no official statement about a move to Bayern Munich. Yoda1893 (talk) 06:35, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--Ymblanter (talk) 06:57, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: An admin fully protected the page due to an edit war going on, and now the protection expired, it was semi protected before, and we need this back. DSCrowned(Talk) 23:56, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected indefinitely. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 03:36, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

bg:Космин Моци

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – requesting temporary protection; vandalism from multiple accounts. Martin Bossev (talk) 23:30, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined Please file your request on the Bulgarian wiki; we can't help you. Diannaa (talk) 23:42, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

semi-protection - The page Stateless nation must be semi-protected to reduce vandalism. Some people react to the issue of stateless nations very hostile and refuse to recognize the stateless nations. Parts of the text and Stateless nations like Palestinians, Tamils, Catalans or Basques on list were often removed without giving any reasons. Help to protect the page and rights of the stateless nations. Thanks! Vatasura (talk) 21:24, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:34, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – Repeated unexplained edits/edit warring. ukexpat (talk) 19:04, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Diannaa (talk) 23:38, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – An unknown user insists that the lowest official temperature recorded in Mexico was -42 Celsius, but the source given states the temperature is unofficial. This article was protected for 1 week. However, after this period, the same user returned to vandalize the article. Scheridon (talk) 14:07, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of two weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Diannaa (talk) 23:27, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Dogmaticeclectic (talk) 17:05, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:17, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary pending changes: Persistent vandalism. WNYY98 (talk) 14:48, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:07, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: BLP policy violations – Biography of living person. WritingEnthusiast14 (talk) 14:23, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi protection declined, but there might be enough for PC, though I'd like a second opinion. (Don't feel the need to wait for me to get back before actioning). Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 14:45, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. I agree with Callan. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 18:57, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

29 August 2014

Create protection: Repeatedly recreated – Repeated attempts at recreation by sockpuppets. Lugia2453 (talk) 15:56, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected--Ymblanter (talk) 16:47, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Create protection: Repeatedly recreated – Repeated attempts at recreation by sockpuppets. Lugia2453 (talk) 15:55, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected--Ymblanter (talk) 16:48, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Multiple IPs changing content against policy of cast credit order, and blanking the page. Seems to be either concerted effort or the work of a sock. BollyJeff | talk 12:10, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Have you tried discussing with the user (seems to be done by a registered user who later started to use IPs) ? Maybe s/he could use some explaining. MikeLynch (talk) 18:04, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
I have now left a note with two registered accounts and the latest IP. Can we leave this open for a day or two to see what happens? BollyJeff | talk 18:41, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
Declined, Just relist it if necessary. Don't want to keep opened requests on here really. GedUK  12:07, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: IP vandalism restarted immediately after a short period of semi-protection lifted. Request semi for at least a month, in the hope that they will get bored waiting. Matruman (talk) 12:30, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. GedUK  13:01, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Request semi for a month or more because of repeated addition of material sourced only to blogs, forums and other self-published sources by a very persistent IP-hopper. Thomas.W talk 10:44, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. GedUK  12:57, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Tinton5 (talk) 03:40, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. GedUK  12:45, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations – Persistent addition of contentious claims about a non notable former member of the institution - issue raised at BLP/N.link.  NQ  talk 02:07, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. GedUK  12:29, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism by IP editors (specifically PewDiePie fans and those claiming the developer was "GB Games"). ViperSnake151  Talk  23:22, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. GedUK  12:32, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Users with only an IP address keep asserting information without sourcing it. Have looked for sources for said information with no luck. Multiple offenders have been issued multiple warnings. Requesting 3-6 months protection for this page because by that time we should know whether or not the information is accurate. --Jgstokes (talk) 21:41, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. There's not enough protection history to go longer at this point. GedUK  12:10, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – User keeps removing the sockpuppet tag from his userpage, Per WP:USERPAGES the tag is supposed stay, Thanks . –Davey2010 • (talk) 17:58, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined, I'm not going to protect a page so you can edit war on somebody else's userpage to force them to retain a badge of shame. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:52, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
@HJ Mitchell: - Hang on I would rather they didnt have the poxy tag but as far as I was aware they were supposed to have the tag on there userpage? ..... –Davey2010 • (talk) 21:04, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
Are you a robot? If not, use your common sense. You're (incorrectly, as it happens) "enforcing" a guideline, not a policy—common-sense exceptions are expected. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:20, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
No need to be funny over it!, We all make fucking mistakes you know!, . –Davey2010 • (talk) 21:23, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent unexplained removal of valid/sourced material by IP-hopping editor over the past few days. DAJF (talk) 15:06, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

User(s) blocked.. 1.115.192.0/21 blocked for a week. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:39, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Please return this article to semi-protection. The dispute was worked out on the talk page yesterday, and updates are needed given the rapidly developing events. RGloucester — ☎ 19:55, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Already unprotected by administrator CambridgeBayWeather. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 22:51, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
@CambridgeBayWeather: The edit protection change looks right now. But did you mean to also set move protection to autoconfirmed (move=autoconfirmed)? It was full move protection (move=sysop) for a while before your change. Superm401 - Talk 23:24, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
Yes. I had a problem the first time I tried to change the semi-protection. If it starts getting moved then it can be full protected for moves without asking me. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 23:40, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
@CambridgeBayWeather: Please restore the move protection. We've had severe problems with move warring on Ukraine related articles, which is why it was move protected in the first place. This title was decided by consensus at an RM, after many previous and horrible discussions. Any move should take place through an RM at this point. RGloucester — ☎ 23:46, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
Move protected for a period of 7 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 00:23, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: IP users are editing this page based on wrong information, I had to revert edits for so many times today, a short temporary semi-protection forces them to read the article first and understand the situation before editing. IP addresses ignoring clear indication that Medals won by these teams are included in the table as medals awarded to a mixed-NOCs team. Mohsen1248 (talk) 22:26, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined, seems to be getting quieter. Come back if it persists. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:06, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – There have been a number of small vandalism edits to this page in recent months, mostly by IP addresses. Tchaliburton (talk) 21:36, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:53, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Disruptive editing, IP addresses ignoring clear indication that statistics in the infobox are counted for league matches only. '''tAD''' (talk) 21:17, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:52, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

30 August 2014

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP edits changing subject's picture to nonsense, other vandalism. Bangabandhu (talk) 17:23, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mike V • Talk 17:35, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Continuous change of song chart peaks and content by random IP editors, which do not conform to WP:VERIFIABILITY. —Indian:BIO · [ ChitChat ] 09:59, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Mike V • Talk 15:40, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Please unprotect this as it says only "administrators" can edit it and updates need to be made.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.166.188.114 (talk • contribs)

This was protected due to long-term issues involving persistent sock-puppetry by an IP editor.__ E L A Q U E A T E 17:10, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

that looks like a pretty lame excuse to me reading the page comments, looks more like you argued with someone and then got them blocked because you just didn't like what they were saying. There is no reason this page should be sitting un-editable. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.166.188.114 (talk) 17:16, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Since you're new here, I'll assume you're not familiar with WP:AGF. I had exactly nothing to do with that block, an admin independently did a CU and blocked for sock-puppetry. As far as this page protection request, you're supposed to contact one of the protecting admins directly before making a request here. This is for if the protecting admin is inactive or you have already asked them. Start with your request there, as there looks like there's two protecting admins, they both seem active, and you haven't attempted contacting them yet. Happy editing and welcome to Wikipedia! __ E L A Q U E A T E 17:50, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

"What can I do? Discuss this page with others. For move-protected pages, see requested moves. Request unprotection of the page."

Your page writing sucks. I clicked to request unprotection here.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.166.188.114 (talk • contribs)

You're right, my page writing does suck. And Wikipedia can seem too bureaucratic at times. Here, I'll make it easier, just make a request at the protecting admin's talk page. You have to at least attempt to contact the protecting admin, or no one here will consider your request here. I looked it up for you, Here's the link. __ E L A Q U E A T E 18:21, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Fine I clicked on it and wrote one there but then I clicked where it says contributions and it says they haven't done anything since last night. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.166.188.114 (talk) 18:46, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Looks more like you, elaqueate, and chillum are tag teaming to block anyone you disagree with and delete the discussion evidence. Shameful abuse of admin power.

They shouldn't be deleting discussions and they shouldn't be locking the talk page, that's totally violation of policy in multiple ways. This needs to be remedied instead of just letting them abuse admin powers to WP:OWN an article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.134.190.149 (talk) 04:30, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

In case it is not very obvious this request has been made by a blocked user and all of these IPs are the same person. Chillum 04:33, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Not done Looks like the protection is working.  Requesting immediate archiving... to stop this mess. Mike V • Talk 15:51, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. QED237 (talk) 10:29, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--Ymblanter (talk) 12:49, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing by multiple IPs over transfer speculation of this footballer. LRD NO (talk) 10:01, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--Ymblanter (talk) 12:51, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Various poor edits ranging from unsourced to vandalism.LM2000 (talk) 06:49, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--Ymblanter (talk) 09:43, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Edit warring. 74.103.250.78 (talk) 00:14, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

User(s) blocked: 74.100.86.88 (talk · contribs). ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 02:05, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent nuisance vandalism. IP active on more than one page, could do with a block as well. --Drmargi (talk) 15:56, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

User(s) blocked: 92.0.193.242 (talk · contribs) blocked by Fennec. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 01:46, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations – page has history of anon ips adding and reverting BLP info, request user-only protection at least please. JacobiJonesJr (talk) 12:56, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. No anon edits in over 4 months. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 01:38, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Repeated vandalism. ImprovingWiki (talk) 02:24, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 02:28, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary pending changes: Despite the fact the US court considered the selfies to be PD, non-lawyers persist with the same. Perhaps a PC protection of a few months would help. © Tbhotch™ (en-2.5). 02:15, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of 2 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 02:18, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Repeated addition of unsourced and controversial material. —Farix (t | c) 01:30, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 02:08, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. 74.103.250.78 (talk) 00:24, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 02:06, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing by multiple IPs due to transfer speculation of this footballer. LRD NO (talk) 00:04, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 02:05, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing by multiple IPs due to transfer speculation of this footballer. LRD NO (talk) 00:04, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 02:02, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Hoops gza (talk) 23:25, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 02:01, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Jumping IP6 edit warring, asked to discuss in talk (via edit message). ☾Loriendrew☽ ☏(talk) 23:16, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 02:00, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary Semi-protection: Drive by IP nuisance vandalism repeatedly making unsourced edits from the recent media storm regarding Hello Kitty identity. Request semi-protection until media circus dies down MaxxD (talk) 22:54, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 01:59, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Infinite semi-protection: My userboxes page encountering infinite semi-protection request for anonymous IP vandalism and edit warring. --Allen talk 22:39, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected indefinitely. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 01:58, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Requesting page protection on this page, due to fancruft IP editing, and addition of improper, or unsourced content. livelikemusic my talk page! 20:48, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 01:57, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of edit warring by IP who refuses to discuss content before reverting. SLBedit (talk) 20:34, 29 August 2014 (UTC) Blocked IP address is back to reverts. SLBedit (talk) 21:08, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Already protected by administrator Materialscientist. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 01:56, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of vandalism and unsourced changes by anon IP editors. STATic message me! 20:01, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 01:55, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of vandalism to a BLP by anon IP editors and new users. STATic message me! 19:47, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 01:55, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of vandalism and unsourced additions by anon IP editors and new users to a BLP. STATic message me! 19:45, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 01:54, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of vandalism to a BLP by anon IP editors and new users returns immediately following the end of the last protection period. STATic message me! 19:29, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of 2 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 01:53, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Favre1fan93 (talk) 19:20, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 01:50, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – Identical additions by Stop5122 and 3 IPs (95.29.*.*) - opinion statement, not directly related to the magazine. (Please revert last edit before applying protection): Noyster (talk), 15:24, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Stop5122 is not (auto)confirmed. If disruption resumes from this account, it should be blocked instead. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 01:43, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent nuisance vandalism. EricSerge (talk) 14:56, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 01:48, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. WNYY98 (talk) 14:43, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of 1 year, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 01:48, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: A bunch of IP vandals (mostly coming from Singapore) have been editing this article since yesterday. The vandal adds his personal opinion that the team made a mockery in the Philippine Basketball Association after drafting Manny Pacquiao. -WayKurat (talk) 14:15, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 4 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 01:48, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Can we protect the page for a few days, an anon editor keeps adding WP:OR and refusing to discuss on talk page. . noq (talk) 13:36, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 01:47, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: IP keeps reinstating promotional material. --Mdann52talk to me! 12:51, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Already protected by administrator Mike V. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 01:47, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Multiple IPs changing content against policy of cast credit order and frivolous, needless edits. LLArrow (talk) 02:34, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Confirmed. Forgive my ignorance. LLArrow (talk) 02:53, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
Already protected by administrator HJ Mitchell. -Ekabhishektalk 11:51, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent anonymous IP user vandalism on this page. Could use a week of protection until transfer request is over for the player. Krazytea(talk) 19:09, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 01:46, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

31 August 2014

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP hopping vandal changing the official URL to an affiliate tracking URL. bonadea contributions talk 17:45, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1001 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:57, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: A lot of IPs adding non-notable artists. More than likely the IPs are in some way related to the record company. The Banner talk 17:17, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of a fortnight, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:51, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent addition of unverifiable claims. No discussions at talk. Jetstreamer Talk 13:27, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 15:17, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – 3RR violation committed by LeannJordan. Areaseven (talk) 05:54, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined it's not vandalism they are making the edits in good faith and they didn't violate 3RR. By the way a quick check looks to me as if they might be correct. See Alan Amron CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 15:09, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent harassment by IPs. User doesn't edit English Wikipedia much. Iselilja (talk) 17:01, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected indefinitely. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:48, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Multiple IP's vandalising article. Amortias (T)(C) 16:48, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of a fortnight, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:46, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Long standing history of vandalism from IP's over the changing hosts of the series, and violations of several policies, including (but not limited to) WP:COMMONNAME. livelikemusic my talk page! 16:23, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of a week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:44, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. QED237 (talk) 15:07, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 15:19, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary Semi-protection: IPs repeatedly adding unsourced info about marriage. Cannot find any sources that she is married to anyone. Also happening on French Wikipedia, fyi. --‖ Ebyabe talk - State of the Union ‖ 14:36, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 15:18, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite create protection: The page title has been used by the Terry Ananny vandal, a Canadian painter who keeps reposting an article about herself under many different sock accounts and page titles. This title should be protected as it was used to circumvent the salting of Terry Ananny and TERRY ANANNY. Passengerpigeon (talk) 13:56, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

Fully protected indefinitely. And the page creator is now blocked. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 15:15, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Edit war by anonymous user with dynamic IP, repeatedly introducing original research. --RJFF (talk) 11:19, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 15:11, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Article has been protected numerous times from IP users and non-autoconfirmed editors, and every time the protection lifts, the vandalism returns. In the following edits, one user in particular keeps changing ages in spite of an obvious source that I added to support the "Gumball is 12-years-old" claim. [64][65][66]. In this edit the user claims that the main character's best friend is a bully, and also claims that the character Gumball (not the show's creator) pitched the cartoon series to Cartoon Network. Obviously vandalism. Thanks. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 03:00, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 15:03, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – Edit warring and content dispute ongoing, talk page discussion is having no effect. . RGloucester — ☎ 17:56, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. by Bbb23 (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA). HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 22:54, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent IP vandalism throughout the article histort. The article has been (and is still being) vandalized for numerous times by IP users since its creation (who are mostly adding their own bedroom music projects or changing the infobox genres). Myxomatosis57 (talk) 17:37, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 22:53, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite move protection: 391 transclusions. George Ho (talk) 15:52, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined, 391 isn't that many, and what do transclusions have to do with move protection? HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 22:40, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry. Viriditas (talk) 00:31, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mike V • Talk 02:14, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Floating IP edit warring and disruptive editing. Bretonbanquet (talk) 22:53, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 23:05, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of vandalism and disruptive editing by anon IP editors and new users. STATic message me! 22:08, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of a fortnight, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 23:03, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Last protection period ended and unsourced or poorly sourced information was immediately added again. Also, I have a theory of why (but it may not be important in terms of protection); See this video; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_ECTnSZb34 The person who made had the account 'Fun Realms' which was blocked for promotional edits. But if you watch the video, he's actually editing Wikipedia to purposefully make a point of putting false information on Wikipedia. I feel that the viewers of this video are doing the same because 'monkey see, monkey do' effect. I feel that this may warrant a longer protection period than last time, too. Tutelary (talk) 20:55, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 23:00, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Long-term vandalism from multiple IPs and registered users. -- LuK3 (Talk) 20:01, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of a month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 22:58, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Roving IP from Columbia persists in adding dubious and unreferenced info to article - attempts to communicate futile as changes IP regularly. Geraldo Perez (talk) 19:18, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of a week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 22:56, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent vandalism – Multiple IPs and registered accounts STILL changing content against policy of cast credit order, after reasons and warnings given. BollyJeff | talk 16:58, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Yes, due to lack of communication with perpetrators. That has now be rectified, but the vandalism continues. BollyJeff | talk 17:52, 30 August 2014 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of a week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 22:50, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Repeated vandalism from IPs and some users. Hallows AG (talk) 16:45, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of a week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 22:47, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of IP and newbie addition of a "breaking story" conspiracy theory using very unreliable sources, and experienced editors are universally deleting that poor content. The theory has recently been exposed at Snopes (see here), among other places. Fighting this is getting very tiresome and it could take months to blow over. -- Brangifer (talk) 16:25, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of a fortnight each, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 22:45, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: - IP and new users adding 'King of Hell' to his occupation. Because people apparently are confusing his Supernatural character with reality. --‖ Ebyabe talk - Opposites Attract ‖ 16:00, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of a fortnight, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 22:42, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Ezaid Fabber (talk) 13:23, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Mike V • Talk 16:49, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Indefinite full protection: Persistent vandalism – The article has been consistently vandalised by sockpuppets of one or more users including IPs (atleast 12-15 suspected/confirmed socks have been blocked) over a period of time. The page has been full protected in past for a shorter period. As it is a persistent sock, I request full protect for atleast 6 months. Amartyabag TALK2ME 09:55, 30 August 2014 (UTC) test — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.209.253.59 (talk) 10:20, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Already protected by administrator Ground Zero.. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 22:38, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protection: High level of vandalism and unsourced additions by anon IP editors and new users. STATic message me! 08:05, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Already protected by administrator Salvidrim!.. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 22:36, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

2014 summer anime season articles

One month semi-protection: Dynamic British IP has repeatedly added or uncomments future episode dates without providing a single source in clear violation of WP:V and WP:CRYSTAL. Editor has ignored multiple warnings and has a clear case of WP:IDHT and has even been blocked once, only to come back under a new IP. Requesting a one month semi-protection of all affected articles. See Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive264#Sourcing, WP:CRYSTALBALLs, WP:IDHT and a British IP for specific diffs. Since the 2014 summer anime season will end in a little more than a month, semi-protection only needs to last until the end of the season. —Farix (t | c) 23:28, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of a month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 22:35, 30 August 2014 (UTC)
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