Wikipedia:Requests for page protection
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Before requesting, read the protection policy. Full protection is used to stop edit warring between multiple users or to prevent vandalism to high-risk templates; semi-protection and pending changes are usually used to prevent IP and new user vandalism (see the rough guide to semi-protection); and move protection is used to stop pagemove revert wars. Extended confirmed protection is used where semi-protection has proved insufficient (see the rough guide to extended confirmed protection) After a page has been protected, it is listed in the page history and logs with a short rationale, and the article is listed on Special:Protectedpages. In the case of full protection due to edit warring, admins should not revert to specific versions of the page, except to get rid of obvious vandalism.
Request protection of a page, or increasing the protection level
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Current requests for increase in protection level
Place requests for new or upgrading of article protection, upload protection, or create protection at the BOTTOM of this section. Check the archive of fulfilled and denied requests or, failing that, the page history if you cannot find your request. Only recently answered requests are still listed here.
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – CTOP violations. JayCubby 17:38, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
Reason: Semi: Nothing good has ever come out from IPs editing this controversial page Heyaaaaalol (talk) 19:42, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Isabelle Belato 🏳🌈 19:50, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
Indefinite extended confirmed protection: Persistent vandalism – Lots of dynamic IP vandalism which isn't letting up. Robenceic (talk) 21:14, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
- I am not sure - the article has been semi-protected since 2020, and there is no IP vandalism, at least not since 2020. I do not currently see any need for extended confirmed protection. Ymblanter (talk) 22:45, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
Reason: Repeated recent vandalism on a BLP article by IP/non-autoconfirmed users. Sigma440 (talk) 22:58, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of 10 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Favonian (talk) 23:10, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
Reason: Same unsourced/PoV content being added by multiple IPV6 addresses - Arjayay (talk) 23:02, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
User(s) blocked: 2409:4073::/33 (talk · contribs). One-week partial block from the article in question. Favonian (talk) 23:18, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
Indefinite extended confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement. Heyaaaaalol (talk) 23:10, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent addition of unsourced or poorly sourced content – Unsourced additions as soon as the protection expired. Aintabli (talk) 23:28, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
Reason: High level of IP vandalism, with multiple WP:SPIs removing content from the article for no reason GuardianH (talk) 00:38, 25 December 2024 (UTC)
Current requests for reduction in protection level
Before posting, first discuss with the protecting admin on their talk page. Post below only if you receive no reply.
- To find out the username of the admin who protected the page, click on "history" at the top of the page, then click on "View logs for this page," which is under the title of the page. The protecting admin is the username in blue before the words "protected", "changed protection level" or "pending changes". If there are a number of entries on the log page, you might find it easier to select "Protection log" or "Pending changes log" from the dropdown menu in the blue box.
- Requests to downgrade full protection to template protection on templates and modules can be directed straight here; you do not need to ask the protecting admin first.
- Requests for removing create protection on redlinked articles are generally assisted by having a draft version of the intended article prepared beforehand.
- If you want to make spelling corrections or add uncontroversial information to a protected page, please add {{Edit fully-protected}} to the article's talk page, along with an explanation of what you want to add to the page. If the talk page is protected, please use the section below.
Check the archives if you cannot find your request. Only recently answered requests are still listed here.
Reason: Protection is too high and it was for sockpuppetry in 2018. It's nearly 2025 now so if it needs protecting just do pending changes or semi-protection but unprotection would be better I think. 147.10.234.99 (talk) 23:19, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
- Pinging protecting admin User:Ponyo, who might or might not wish to have input. I looked at the history of disruption and it looks pretty bad. I'm inclined to give semi protection a shot (this would eliminate 95% of the disruption in page history), but I'd rather hear from the sysop who made the call first. BusterD (talk) 14:24, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
- The LTA sockmaster, who is still very active, creates new accounts, makes the required number of edits to to get auto-confirmed, then by-passes the semi-protection in their pet set of articles, including A-League Men records and statistics. The extended confirmed protection has been very effective against this sockmaster because they always tip their hand before they can reach EC status. No worries with given semi protection a shot BusterD, but it will likely have to be bumped up again in short order.-- Ponyobons mots 18:09, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
- I appreciate your view of the situation long term. BusterD (talk) 23:30, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
- The LTA sockmaster, who is still very active, creates new accounts, makes the required number of edits to to get auto-confirmed, then by-passes the semi-protection in their pet set of articles, including A-League Men records and statistics. The extended confirmed protection has been very effective against this sockmaster because they always tip their hand before they can reach EC status. No worries with given semi protection a shot BusterD, but it will likely have to be bumped up again in short order.-- Ponyobons mots 18:09, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
Not done This is why institutional memory is so important to Wikipedia. I have every reason to believe Ponyo is correct, since they've experienced these misbehaviors over a long stretch. I'm declining to change the protection level, based on my reading of the page history and Ponyo's working approach. BusterD (talk) 23:37, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
Reason: Lil Dicky was semi-protected back in 2019. Now that five years have passed, could the semi-protection be lifted? 174.93.89.27 (talk) 19:19, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
- Pinging @Materialscientist --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 19:43, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
Current requests for edits to a protected page
Please request an edit directly on the protected page's talk page before posting here
Ideally, requests should be made on the article talk page rather than here.
- Unless the talk page itself is protected, you may instead add the appropriate template among
{{Edit protected}},{{Edit template-protected}},{{Edit extended-protected}}, or{{Edit semi-protected}}to the article's talk page if you would like to make a change rather than requesting it here. Doing so will automatically place the page in the appropriate category for the request to be reviewed. - Where requests are made due to the editor having a conflict of interest (COI; see Wikipedia:Suggestions for COI compliance), the
{{Edit COI}}template should be used. - Requests to move move-protected pages should be made at Wikipedia:Requested moves, not here.
- If the discussion page and the article are both protected preventing you from making an edit request, this page is the right place to make that request. Please see the top of this page for instructions on how to post requests.
- This page is not for continuing or starting discussions regarding content should both an article and its discussion page be protected. Please make a request only if you have a specific edit you wish to make.
Change 16,000 civilians (May 2024)[43] to 16,000 civilians (May 2024)[42]
Source 42 has these numbers and source 43 doesn't Alderman pained dios finnish (talk) 18:48, 15 December 2024 (UTC)
Alicia Silverstone - news reporter/villainess Heather Jasper Howe in Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed in 2004.
In yes way is that a notable enough role to be mentioned in the lead. To me. 86.130.33.243 (talk) 21:49, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
- This is something better discussed on Talk:Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, not necessarily with Soetermans. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v threads critiques 22:03, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
- You have been asked to use talk pages. This is starting to feel like harassment. soetermans. ↑↑↓↓←→←→ B A TALK 22:34, 24 December 2024 (UTC)
Handled requests
A historical archive of previous protection requests can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive.