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
Request unprotection of a page, or reducing the protection level
Request a specific edit to a protected page
Please request an edit directly on the protected page's talk page before posting here |
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Current requests for increase in protection level
Place requests for new or upgrading pending changes, semi-protection, full protection, move protection, create protection, template editor protection, or upload protection at the BOTTOM of this section. Check the archive of fulfilled and denied requests or, failing that, the page history if you cannot find your request. Only recently answered requests are still listed here.
Timeline of the Israel–Hamas war (12 January 2024 – present)
- Timeline of the Israel–Hamas war (12 January 2024 – present) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Reason: Contentious topic Borgenland (talk) 01:24, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
- Extended confirmed protected indefinitely. And logged at CTOPS. Daniel Case (talk) 04:22, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
Ottoman–Hotaki War (1726–1727)
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Persistent disruptive editing from new users, ignoring consensus established on talk page as well. Noorullah (talk) 01:27, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
- Semi-protected for a period of six months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Daniel Case (talk) 04:19, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
Hazelwood School District
Semi-protection: Ongoing edit disputes over recent event. User:AlphaBetaGamma (Talk/Report any mistakes here) 01:55, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
- Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Last disruption was a couple of days ago. Daniel Case (talk) 04:34, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
Roseau
Reason: At some point last year an anonymous editor changed the population counts in the article Roseau without providing a new source. As a result, the numbers, purportedly for 2023 population, became "sourced" by the 2011 census data where the population count is completely different. This fictitious combination then found its way to at least one other language. When I reverted the edits to the actually sourced numbers, another (or maybe the same) anonymous editor reverted the revert, restored the source-contradicting numbers. Since I cannot discuss this topic with an actual person (the unreg who reverted me made no other edits, so I assume it is a random IP), it seems that a semi-protection is warranted. Deinocheirus (talk) 02:29, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
- Semi-protected for a period of one year, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Daniel Case (talk) 04:45, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
Lobotomy
Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism and disruption since the last protection expired. MaterialsPsych (talk) 02:35, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
- Semi-protected for a period of three months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Daniel Case (talk) 04:47, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
Copts
Reason: Extrended Confirmed-Protection: New user keeps deleting entire well-sourced sections. Fragrant Peony (talk) 02:50, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
- Semi-protected for a period of six months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.; existing PC extended to a year. Daniel Case (talk) 05:06, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
The New York Times
Permanent autoconfirmed protection: Consistent vandalism, particularly after the Israel–Hamas war. elijahpepe@wikipedia (he/him) 02:58, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
- Semi-protected indefinitely. Previous protection restored. Daniel Case (talk) 05:01, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
United States dollar
Pending changes: Persistent
- Pending-changes protected indefinitely. Daniel Case (talk) 05:11, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
John Collins (basketball)
Reason: High level of IP vandalism following this viral clip of him getting dunked on. Eg224 (talk) 03:32, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
- Automated comment: @Talk to my owner:Online 03:37, 19 March 2024 (UTC)]
- Semi-protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Daniel Case (talk) 04:41, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
SC Heerenveen
Reason: Same reason as another page—incessant disruptive IP edits outside of consensus. Anwegmann (talk) 04:07, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
- Semi-protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Daniel Case (talk) 05:13, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
Steve Halloran
Reason: Vandalism on the page after comments made by said senator caught statewide critism.
I recommend that page protection be increased to pending changes for the time being IamQuack23 (talk) 04:30, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
- Pending-changes protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Daniel Case (talk) 05:15, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
Sexual abuse in the American film industry
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent
- Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Used RevDel on BLP violations as well. Dennis Brown - 2¢ 05:49, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
Current requests for reduction in protection level
Before posting, first discuss with the protecting admin at their talk page. Post below only if you receive no reply.
- To find out the username of the admin who protected the page click on "history" at the top of the page, then click on "View logs for this page" which is under the title of the page. The protecting admin is the username in blue before the words "protected", "changed protection level" or "pending changes". If there are a number of entries on the log page, you might find it easier to select "Protection log" or "Pending changes log" from the dropdown menu in the blue box.
- Requests to downgrade full protection to template protection on templates and modules can be directed straight here; you do not need to ask the protecting admin first.
- Requests for removing create protection on redlinked articles are generally assisted by having a draft version of the intended article prepared beforehand.
- If you want to make spelling corrections or add uncontroversial information to a protected page please add {{Edit fully-protected}} to the article's talk page, along with an explanation of what you want to add to the page. If the talk page is protected please use the section below.
Check the archives if you cannot find your request. Only recently answered requests are still listed here.
Mallcore
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Unprotection: This is now a notable term even though it may not have been back when the page was protected last in 2012. There is currently a request at
- It's more likely that an admin will action the AFC/R request, in which case the protection becomes moot. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v Source assessment notes 03:22, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
- @Eejit43: I am not comfortable with unprotecting completely, and have no way to gauge that it is "now notable", which I doubt. However, extended-confirmed protection didn't exist back then, so I have reduced the protection to ECP so that extended-confirmed editors can create it. ~Anachronist (talk) 03:46, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
- Automated comment: One or more pages in this request appear to have already been unprotected. Please confirm.—Talk to my owner:Online 04:07, 19 March 2024 (UTC)]
- Marking Done for the bot. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 05:11, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
- Requesting immediate archiving... Favonian (talk) 06:33, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
Template:Uw-generic4
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Temporary semi-protected:
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
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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.Edit protected}},}}{{Edit template-protected}}
,{{Edit extended-protected}}
, or{{Edit semi-protected
- 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.
Handled requests
A historical archive of previous protection requests can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive.