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Bot-reported edit

Edits adding phone numbers weren't adding spam numbers. Rest of edits not so good, but not block worthy, and hasn't been warned. PhilKnight (talk) 13:29, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

User-reported edit


CSD / PRODs edit

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Requests for page protection


Current requests for increase in protection level edit

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Eilean Donan edit

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Target of LTA. Air on White (talk) 08:28, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

  Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Mifter (talk) 16:41, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Frank Bainimarama edit

Reason: Vandalism and BLP violations. Former Fijian Prime Minister, recently arrested. I would go with extended-confirmed-protection if it was up to me. Schestos (talk) 09:51, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

  Pending-changes protected for a period of 5 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mifter (talk) 16:40, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Stellar Blade edit

Reason: Disruptive Editing by IPs, potentially the same person over and over. Talk page discussion was opened but ignored. Vestigium Leonis (talk) 09:54, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Lille OSC edit

Reason: Persistent vandalism by unregistered users. Needs an enhanced protection. Recent previous locking was insufficient. AideDésintéressée (talk) 10:15, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

  Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Mifter (talk) 16:39, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Illit edit

Reason: Recent events casuing vandals John123521 (Talk-Contib.) 10:31, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

  Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Mifter (talk) 16:39, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

List of Asian countries by GDP edit

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Dynamic IP has been repeatedly messing with the list. McSly (talk) 12:40, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Trillion dollar club (macroeconomics) edit

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Nearly all edits on this article this month have been to counteract the IP editors who have repeatedly added, or have replaced well established Trillion dollar countries (eg USA, Japan) with, Pakistan, a country that has never gotten anywhere close to 1 Trillion GDP according to the this article's main source (#3), with source 4 on Economy of Pakistan, and any basic web search for "current GDP of Pakistan". For a moment I thought it was possible that the IPs were confusing PPP (Purchasing Power Parity) with GDP, as Pakistan's PPP is 1.57 trillion (2023 est), BUT that is not how this article is presenting the data, or how the other entries are calculated, and the flat out replacement of the USA with Pakistan does not allow any good faith assumptions for any possible PPP/GDP confusion. Zinnober9 (talk) 13:16, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Boston Bruins edit

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Vandalism continued when protection expired. Wracking talk! 15:18, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Steve Buscemi edit

Temporary pending changes protection: Persistent Vandalism. Staraction (talk | contribs) 16:35, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

  Pending-changes protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mifter (talk) 16:38, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Janno Lieber edit

Reason: and related AFD Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Janno Lieber due to disruptive editing by a SPA and an IP editor repeatedly reopening an improper AFD by reversion. StreetcarEnjoyer (talk) 16:53, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Justin Shenkarow edit

Reason: High level of IP vandalism 104.35.8.48 (talk) 17:13, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Miss USA 2024 / Miss Teen USA 2024 edit

Reason: Continuous IP vandalism and/or changing material without references. Articles are subject to WP:GS/PAGEANTS general sanctions. ☆ Bri (talk) 17:14, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Current requests for reduction in protection level edit

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Talk:Israel-Hamas war edit

I would like to request the addition of a talk page on the Israel-Hamas war article that points out that the map on said article doesn’t show the Israeli evacuation order from Rafah and should be updated. LordOfWalruses (talk) 21:45, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

Eurovision Song Contest 2024 edit

Controversies of the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest insert Censorship of Portuguese performance on social networks due to Palestinian symbols on nails. "RTP’s President, Nicolau Santos said today that the broadcaster awaits "thorough" answers about the delay in posting Iolanda's performance during the #Eurovision final."

Broadcaster RTP will present a formal protest to the EBU in case foul play is detected by the delayed upload of iolanda’s performance. Danopt (talk) 19:48, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

Talk:Eurovision Song Contest 2024 is not protected. Note that the PIA General Sanctions are in effect here. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v threads critiques 20:00, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
  Declined Please use an edit request on article-talk. Lectonar (talk) 14:37, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Handled requests edit

A historical archive of previous protection requests can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive.
Protected edit requests

7 protected edit requests
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Page Tagged since Protection level Last protection log entry
Module:List (request) 2024-03-25 20:55 Cascade-protected from Wikipedia:Cascade-protected items/Main Page/5 (log) Protected by Mifter on 2017-03-25: "Considering the main page was unprotected by a compromised sysop semi recently, perhaps transcluding it to a cascade protected page will provide a small increase in protection"
Template:Wikipedia's sister projects (request) 2024-04-25 14:25 Cascade-protected from Wikipedia:Cascade-protected items/Main Page/5 (log) Protected by Mifter on 2017-03-25: "Considering the main page was unprotected by a compromised sysop semi recently, perhaps transcluding it to a cascade protected page will provide a small increase in protection"
Module:Message box/ombox.css (request) 2024-05-08 23:45 Cascade-protected from Wikipedia:Cascade-protected items/content (log) From Wikipedia/Protected templates: Protected by Rich Farmbrough on 2009-10-14: "Purpose of page - belt and braces."
Portal:Current events (request) 2024-05-13 09:12 Fully protected (log) Modified by Nihonjoe on 2017-06-02: "per prev: there is very little need for this to be edited, nothing that couldn't wait for an {{editprotected}} request and there's a fair bit of vandalism/test edits in the history"
MediaWiki:Wikimedia-globalblocking-blockedtext-ip (request) 2024-05-13 14:13 MediaWiki page (log)
MediaWiki:Wikimedia-globalblocking-blockedtext-range (request) 2024-05-13 14:13 MediaWiki page (log)
Template:Template link (request) 2024-05-13 16:47 Cascade-protected from Wikipedia:Cascade-protected items/content (log) From Wikipedia/Protected templates: Protected by Rich Farmbrough on 2009-10-14: "Purpose of page - belt and braces."
Updated as needed. Last updated: 16:50, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
5 template-protected edit requests
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Page Tagged since Protection level Last protection log entry
Module:College color/data (request) 2024-05-09 14:25 Template-protected (log) Modified by Galobtter on 2019-01-24: "High-risk Lua module"
Template:Inflation/fn (request) 2024-05-09 21:15 Template-protected (log) Modified by Primefac on 2020-08-29: "High-risk template"
Template:Inflation/year (request) 2024-05-09 21:17 Template-protected (log) From Template:Inflation-year: Protected by Zzuuzz on 2016-10-21: "High risk template 11k+ transclusions"
Template:Infobox Chinese/Chinese (request) 2024-05-11 04:03 Template-protected (log) Modified by Ad Orientem on 2019-01-07: "Highly visible template"
Template:Rail-interchange (request) 2024-05-12 13:09 Template-protected (log) Modified by Primefac on 2018-02-23: "high-risk template with 4000+ transclusions"
Updated as needed. Last updated: 18:08, 12 May 2024 (UTC)


WP:RFA edit

RFA= Requests for adminship

WP:RFP edit

RFP= Requests for permissions

Autopatrolled edit

User:Princess of Ara edit

I recently noticed this user, Princess of Ara. An editor who works mainly on Nigerian related articles and others. While trying to appreciate the user's effort, I got in love with the lovely articles, well sources, written from a volunteer in good faith and now, I am requesting that she be granted the auto patrol user right. It'll also help reduce heavy backlog of NPP. Thanks for your consideration! Safari ScribeEdits! Talk! 08:05, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

User:Prince of Erebor edit

I have created 76 articles, primarily focused on Sinophone cinema and fantasy literature, with 2 currently undergoing GAN. All of my articles have been promptly reviewed, and none of them have been deleted or marked for maintenance. I am requesting autopatrolled rights to alleviate the workload of the patrollers, especially those who actively review film articles and have reviewed the majority of my articles, allowing them to allocate more time to address articles that truly require attention. As a side note, I am a veteran editor with patroller rights on Chinese Wikipedia, having authored over 200 articles, including a dozen featured and good articles. While I fully understand that there are differences in policies and MOS across different Wikipedias, I believe this demonstrates my credibility and knowledge in assessing article quality.— Prince of EreborThe Book of Mazarbul 13:18, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

User:SheriffIsInTown edit

I frequently create articles on notable subjects, having authored 530 articles, with the majority facing no issues. Only three were deleted, mainly due to changes in election results affecting their notability. I'm requesting autopatroller rights to ease the burden on other editors reviewing my articles and help reduce the backlog of new article reviews. Sheriff | ☎ 911 | 23:36, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

User:Xoak edit

Hey, @Schwede66: I've done everything you have suggested me do here, and followed the edit summary instructions you've given such as default sorting my previous articles, fixing PP and P in citations, using SFN template and using Book or Journal templates in Bibliography, etc. I've also created half a dozen new articles as per your suggestion, and I believe they are unproblematic. Regards. X (talk) 05:17, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

  Automated comment This user has had 1 request for autopatrolled declined in the past 90 days ([1]). MusikBot talk 05:20, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
There are no outstanding requests for the confirmed flag.


Confirmed edit

There are no outstanding requests for the file mover flag.

File mover edit

Page mover edit


User:Soni edit

I started working at the WP:CR backlog recently and realised I need the pagemover permission to close some RM discussions. So far I requested CSD to effectively move the page, but I will probably close more discussions in the future. Soni (talk) 10:12, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

  Not done for now, while you have started working in this area, we prefer someone has a solid track record before applying. I'm not seeing any major issues from what I'm seeing, just not yet a large need. Primefac (talk) 12:37, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
Understood, thank you. Soni (talk) 12:52, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

User:ToadetteEdit edit

Reason for requesting page mover rights: multiple reasons including to swap pages (as a result of RM discussions) and suppress redirects, especially R2 eligible. I understood that I won't abuse this privileged right and read the instructions. ToadetteEdit! 15:41, 12 May 2024 (UTC)


Pending changes reviewer edit

User:Allan Nonymous edit

I have a history of cleaning up grammar, removing and refactoring uncited content and fixing citations. I'm hoping to maybe expand my editing scope a bit. Allan Nonymous (talk) 17:10, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

  Done. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 00:34, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

User:RowanJ LP edit

I've created many biographies and have a good understanding of Wikipedia policies. I've fixed vandalism many times and fixed many biography of living persons violations. RowanJ LP (talk) 15:20, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

User:2RDD edit

Pls I ask this permission granted because I've surpassed 500 edits; which means I'm extended confirmed user. Please I want to be a part of this one too. Thank You. 2RDD (talk) 06:39, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

  Not done Your request gives no indication that you even know what this user right is, it is not just a trophy given out after you have 500 edits. Just Step Sideways from this world ..... today 21:19, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

User:RITWIK MAHATA edit

I am requesting for pending changes reviewer rights so that I can review pending changes. Ritwik Mahatat@lk 15:16, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

User:AndrewThomasH edit

Have edited on and off as an IP, feeling I have learned enough in my time editing anon and with my account that I have a good idea for what is generally accepted here. AndrewThomasH (talk) 01:32, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

  Automated comment This user has had an account for 9 days and has 27 edits in the mainspace. MusikBot talk 00:30, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
  Not done You've only had an account for about a week and you have no track record with dealing with antivandalism, which is what this user right is usually intended for. I think you need some more time to learn about antivandalism and participate more in the mainspace so that we can get a track record of your understanding of our policies and guidelines (such as what vandalism is or is not) before you can be granted this user right. The Night Watch (talk) 20:41, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

User:Catly youtube edit

Reason for requesting pending changes reviewer rights I want to assist more. Catly youtube (talk) 18:21, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

  Automated comment This user has 10 edits in the mainspace. MusikBot talk 18:30, 11 May 2024 (UTC)
  Not done. You do not currently have "enough edits that a track record can be established". Extraordinary Writ (talk) 00:39, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

User:Lynch44 edit

Have been editing as an account for about two months, and even longer as an IP. I have also familiarized myself with the criteria and guidelines of reviewing as well. Lynch44 (talk) 17:55, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

  Done The Night Watch (talk) 21:13, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

User:Imsaneikigai edit

I have been editing for around 2.5 years now, with specialised focus on field of entertainment. I also often correct typos or do general fixes on articles of various subjects. I have a good knowledge of wikipedia policies and would like to get this pending changes reviewer rights to broaden by experience and get more expertise of Wikipedia. Imsaneikigai (talk) 12:15, 13 May 2024 (UTC)


Rollback edit

User:Kingsmasher678 edit

I would like to add another tool to my antivandalism toolbelt. I already use Twinkle and make a point to warn most if not vandals. This has resulted in a lower reoccurrence rate and helps the wiki. I will use the tool to assist in these efforts. Kingsmasher678 (talk) 16:13, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

  Not done I noticed you started actively reverting vandalism about 2 weeks ago. While I appreciate your enthusiasm, I'd like to see you spend more time gaining experience fighting vandalism before assigning you advanced permissions. Keep up the good work, and consider reapplying in a month. Also, please ensure that you are consistently warning editors when you revert their edits (I recommend using tools such as Twinkle or Ultraviolet which makes this extremely easy). Thanks, Fastily 19:23, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for the feedback, I’ll be back in a month or so!
Kingsmasher678 (talk) 14:03, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

User:Editmakerer edit

Would streamline the editing process for reversion when combatting vandalism or unnecessary additions on a handful of articles, as it is currently a pain on mobile (my main platform) Editmakerer (talk) 19:22, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

  Not done I reviewed your contributions and found little to no recent anti-vandalism work. If you're still interested in this tool then please spend at least a month actively patrolling RecentChanges (Twinkle & Ultraviolet can help with that) before reapplying. Also, please ensure that you are consistently warning editors when you revert their edits. Thanks, Fastily 00:22, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

User:Piscili edit

Have been patrolling Recent Changes and fighting vandalism for some time now and I think that having one or more advanced anti vandalism tools would help a lot in this trajectory. Piscili (talk) 12:12, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

  Automated comment This user has 144 edits in the mainspace. MusikBot talk 12:30, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

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