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This page is for requesting that a page, file or template be fully protected, create protected (salted), extended confirmed protected, semi-protected, added to pending changes, move-protected, template protected (template-specific), upload protected (file-specific), or unprotected. Please read up on 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 only 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, the protection is listed in the page history and logs with a short description indicating why it was protected, and the article is listed on Special:Protectedpages. Further discussion should take place on the Talk page of the article. In the case of full protection due to edit warring, admins do not revert to specific versions of the page, except to get rid of obvious vandalism.

Instructions

If you would like to request to have a page protected, have a page's existing protection level lowered or raised, or would like to submit an edit request for a protected page, please follow these steps (note: if you enable the Twinkle gadget for your Wikipedia account, this process can be largely automated for you):

  1. If you are requesting unprotection, the correct protocol is to ask the protecting administrator first for unprotection (the admin's user account name can be found in the page's edit history). If for any reason he or she is unresponsive, unwilling, or unable to lower protection then you may list your request on this page.
  2. Add a level 3 header (i.e. === [[Example title]] ===) with the exact title of the page you would like (un)protected. If the page is not in the article namespace, include the namespace prefix (e.g. Template:Example template or User:Example user). Place your request at the bottom of either the protection or unprotection list, depending on the nature of your request. Please make sure you have spelled the name of the article properly; a common error stems from mistaken requests for the protection of redirects, particularly capitalised ones (Twinkle can make sure this never happens to you!)
  3. Place the pagelinks template below the header, in the form of * {{pagelinks|Example title}} (note the asterisk).
  4. If you are requesting protection, write the type of request (full protection, semi-protection, pending changes, move protection) and a brief reason for your request below your header.
  5. Please do not add arbitrary requests for a protection expiry time to your request, or request indefinite protection arbitrarily.
    • If there is a reason for a page to be protected for a certain amount of time, such as protecting a user talk page until the user is unblocked, please make this clear.
    • If you are requesting indefinite semi-protection or pending changes, be aware that it is only applied to articles with endemic and endless vandalism problems which multiple increasing periods of temporary semi-protection or pending changes have failed to stop.
    • Note that different expiry times can be set for edit- and for move-protections— thus, an article can, for example, be semi-edit-protected for a week and also fully-move-protected indefinitely.
  6. Sign your request with four tildes ~~~~ and click Publish changes.
  • Note: editors should not consider requesting page protection as a method for continuing an argument from elsewhere nor as a venue for starting a new discussion regarding article content. If a request contains excessive argument, appears to be intended to resolve a content dispute, includes personal attacks or uncivil comments, or has any other unrelated discussion, it will be removed from this page and no action will be taken.
Examples
For single page requests
=== [[Example Article Name]] ===
* {{pagelinks|Example Article Name}}
'''Semi-protection:''' High level of IP vandalism. ~~~~
=== [[Template:Example Template Name]] ===
* {{pagelinks|Template:Example Template Name}}
'''Reduction in protection level:''' From full protection to template editor protection. ~~~~
For multiple page requests with the same criteria
=== Short descriptive header ===
* {{pagelinks|Wikipedia:Example Page Name 1}}
* {{pagelinks|Wikipedia:Example Page Name 2}}
'''Temporary semi-protection:''' High level of IP vandalism. ~~~~
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Current requests for increase in protection levelEdit

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 rolling 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.

LM5: The TourEdit

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent vandalism over the past 12 hours. livelikemusic talk! 00:36, 20 April 2019 (UTC)

  • Automated comment: A request for protection/unprotection for one or more pages in this request was recently made, and was denied at some point within the last 8 days.—cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online 00:39, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
No activity for the last half day or so. Might be going stale. Samsara 19:50, 20 April 2019 (UTC)

People of AssamEdit

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – User:Chao_Arunav is changing the correct values and deleting correct information.

This type of user should be blocked from wikipedia. . PerfectingNEI (talk) 10:53, 20 April 2019 (UTC)

Looks like content dispute to me.--Ymblanter (talk) 11:02, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
I seem to recall that a similar conflict about Dravidian and other linguistic/ethnic things came around a few months ago. Might be a new area for ECP. Hesitating to ping Sitush as he hasn't been active the last two days. Samsara 19:40, 20 April 2019 (UTC)

Bobby soxer (music)Edit

Semi-protection: Every once in a while a new boss comes to town. This one wants remove almost all content wherever they see a cn tag. Also Leathercoated Minds. SlightSmile 17:46, 20 April 2019 (UTC)

I'm inclined to side with Slightsmile here as the reason the IP is removing the content is not that he's disputing it, but rather, that he's opposed to it not having a source. To my mind, that's not a sound reason to remove (except on BLPs, which this isn't). Samsara 19:43, 20 April 2019 (UTC)

MasterChef Junior (U.S. season 7)Edit

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Restore semi protection please, the vandalism from unregistered users restarted almost immediately after last RPP ended. SanAnMan (talk) 22:55, 20 April 2019 (UTC)

  Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. SarahSV (talk) 06:21, 21 April 2019 (UTC)

List of American railroad accidentsEdit

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent addition of unsourced or poorly sourced content – IP users have been editing this article for quite some time without any regard to sources. Daybeers (talk) 01:26, 21 April 2019 (UTC)

  Semi-protected for a period of 7 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Daybeers, I suggest you add a few sources to show how it's done. Otherwise they're just going to continue when protection is lifted. This is the third time the article has been protected against it. SarahSV (talk) 06:16, 21 April 2019 (UTC)

Hawaiian pizzaEdit

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Mélencron (talk) 01:30, 21 April 2019 (UTC)

  Semi-protected for a period of 7 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. SarahSV (talk) 06:10, 21 April 2019 (UTC)

Jaden SchwartzEdit

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – by multiple IPs - similar vandalism/evidently incorrect changes to Winnipeg Jets. theinstantmatrix (talk) 01:33, 21 April 2019 (UTC)

  Semi-protected for a period of 7 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. SarahSV (talk) 06:08, 21 April 2019 (UTC)

The Lion King 1½Edit

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Deliberate addition of fake info. Original IP blocked for a year March 5, IP socks of that editor continue adding same crap since then. Geraldo Perez (talk) 01:41, 21 April 2019 (UTC)

  Semi-protected for a period of 14 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. SarahSV (talk) 06:03, 21 April 2019 (UTC)

IDBI BankEdit

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – IP editor making same edits as recently blocked editor . Ravensfire (talk) 06:02, 21 April 2019 (UTC)

  Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. SarahSV (talk) 06:24, 21 April 2019 (UTC)

Current requests for reduction in protection levelEdit

Shortcuts
Please post requests in this section for removing or reducing the protection level of a page if the protecting admin is inactive or you have already asked them.
  • 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 rolling archive if you cannot find your request. Only recently answered requests are still listed here.

Current requests for edits to a protected pageEdit

Further information: Wikipedia:Edit requests
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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 {{request edit}} 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.

Create a level 3 header with a link to the article in question, then a {{Pagelinks}} template and then the reason. It looks like this: Example (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) your request here. ~~~~

Handled requestsEdit

A rolling archive of the last seven days of protection requests can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Rolling archive.

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