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 extended confirmed protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Many WP:NOTNEWS and WP:TRIVIA addition as the tournament is set to begin tomorrow. Vestrian24Bio 10:05, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
Move protection: Page-move vandalism – Page constantly moved for no reason. CycloneYoris talk! 10:16, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
- Declined, reluctantly. This last occurred over a month ago and is due to a single user. I've added the page to my watchlist and will block them if it occurs again. Sdrqaz (talk) 18:01, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP Vandalisms. Vestrian24Bio 11:55, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
- Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Bbb23 (talk) 17:21, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Persistent unreferenced edits from IP users. Hotwiki (talk) 11:56, 18 February 2025 (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 12:00, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing. Kajmer05 (talk) 14:17, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
- Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Isabelle Belato 🏳🌈 19:46, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing. Annh07 (talk) 14:22, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing. Kajmer05 (talk) 14:43, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
- Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Isabelle Belato 🏳🌈 19:52, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Repeated, extremely similar promotional edits [1][2] immediately after the previous sockpuppet [3] protection expired.[4] Vegantics (talk) 14:46, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
- Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Bbb23 (talk) 17:22, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Persistent addition of unsourced content. Waxworker (talk) 14:47, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
- Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Isabelle Belato 🏳🌈 20:44, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
Reason: All text and images on the page was removed in one edit on 12 February with no reason given. it was replaced with the phrase "TOO BAD NO INFO FOR YOU". Extended confirmed protection is needed. Bird244 (talk) 15:25, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
- Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Bbb23 (talk) 17:24, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: BLP policy violations – Persistent BLP violations by IPs. – Recoil16 (talk) 16:38, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
- Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Bbb23 (talk) 17:26, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
- (edit conflict) User(s) blocked: 2600:8801:4404:300:0:0:0:0/64 (talk · contribs). That covers most of the recent IPs. Looking at pending changes, though. Sdrqaz (talk) 17:32, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Ongoing edit war over "legitimacy" of the government. Erudite Veteran (talk) 16:43, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
- Declined – Content dispute. Please use the article's talk page or other forms of dispute resolution. Bbb23 (talk) 17:28, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Persistent disruption. Kautilya3 (talk) 16:52, 18 February 2025 (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 17:03, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Edit warring about the inclusion of infoboxes (IP adresses) Trade (talk) 17:01, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
- Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Bbb23 (talk) 17:29, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Killing_of_Brian_Thompson&diff=prev&oldid=1276403327
- Edit warring continued after you left this message
- How many reverts do we need for you to reconsider your declining? Trade (talk) 17:41, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
- When the last occurrence at the time of declination was over a week ago, declination was more than reasonable (and I edit-conflicted with Bbb23 doing so). I will leave this for another administrator to evaluate. Sdrqaz (talk) 18:01, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – This page has been the subject of frequent COI editing and possibly sockpuppetry. See Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Joslyn Rose Lyons for initial incident report. Kylemahar902 (talk) 17:32, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
Reason: High level of IP vandalism. Marco raiden (talk) 17:33, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
- @Marco raiden. We don’t have this article on the English Wikipedia. — Malcolmxl5 (talk) 17:42, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
- Declined This relates to an article on my.wikipedia. We are unable to do anything about an article on my.wikipedia. — Malcolmxl5 (talk) 17:51, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
- @Marco raiden: Please either contact one of the administrators at my:Special:ListUsers/sysop or make your request at m:GSR. Sdrqaz (talk) 18:01, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Banned editor User:DooksFoley147 has been using IPs from Ireland to evade their ban. The page Oasis discography needs the same protection. Binksternet (talk) 18:21, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
- Israeli passage through the Suez Canal and Straits of Tiran (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Indefinite extended confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement – WP:ARBPIA5. Leonidlednev (T, C, L) 18:49, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: BLP policy violations – IPs regularly changing subject's name with poor/no source, immediately resumed after last protection expired. Taffer😊 💬(she/they) 19:01, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
- Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Isabelle Belato 🏳🌈 19:36, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
Temporary extended confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement – Contentious topic restrictions in accordance with WP:ARBPIA. Trailblazer101 (talk) 19:13, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
- Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Isabelle Belato 🏳🌈 19:39, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent addition of unsourced or poorly sourced content – IPs have been repeatedly (for months) adding names of characters for upcoming films without any source to backup hence WP:CRYSTALBALL. Some of the diff [5] [6] [7] [8]. Fylindfotberserk (talk) 19:16, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Permanent semi-protection Large amounts of past 50 edits over a long time have been vandalism. Wildfireupdateman :) (talk) 20:05, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
- Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Isabelle Belato 🏳🌈 20:38, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Ongoing disruption, maybe sccks. win8x (talk) 20:32, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
- Semi-protected for a period of 4 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Isabelle Belato 🏳🌈 20:43, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
Indefinite extended confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement – Relevant to WP:ARBPIA, should be ECP even with the ongoing AfD. Thanks!. Smallangryplanet (talk) 20:36, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
Reason: The page has been targeted with repeated disruptive edits and unsourced changes. To maintain accuracy and prevent further vandalism, I request semi-protection for Mark Talukdar MarkTalukdar (talk) 20:36, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
Reason: IP vandalism Iranian112 (talk) 20:45, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations – Persistent BLP violations. Perception312 (talk) 20:57, 18 February 2025 (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: The page no longer attracts vandalism as the subject is no longer contentious. The person is no longer active in politics and the page view is low compared to previous data. The page is only protected due to one vandalism attempt by an IP address which had not edited wikipedia since. I see no reason why there could be persistent vandalism once the protection is decreased. Therefore, I request that the page be no longer protected. CS012831 (talk) 20:17, 15 February 2025 (UTC)
- @CS012831: Biographies of still-living people are themselves a contentious topic. Have you spoken with the protecting admin? —Jéské Couriano v^_^v threads critiques 07:08, 16 February 2025 (UTC)
- The protection wasn't an AE action. DatGuy has been active on Meta recently; perhaps he has some input here? Maybe pending changes could work as a trial. Sdrqaz (talk) 18:25, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
- The protection will expire later this year anyways, and Hancock is still in and out of the news (e.g. [9], #Bridgen v Hancock libel case). I'd say it's fine to let it expire naturally. DatGuyTalkContribs 20:29, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
- The protection wasn't an AE action. DatGuy has been active on Meta recently; perhaps he has some input here? Maybe pending changes could work as a trial. Sdrqaz (talk) 18:25, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
Reason: There is so much false information in the content of these articles, it is unacceptable, please unprotect it to correct it Mahmood2028 (talk) 17:32, 17 February 2025 (UTC)
- @Mahmood2028: Even if this weren't protected under the auspices of WP:CT/HORN, the protecting administrator noted this article has had a history of constant protection, which is in the logs linked above. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v threads critiques 18:12, 17 February 2025 (UTC)
- @Mahmood2028. If you have suggestions for improving the article, you can make them on the article talk page. The talk page is not protected. — Malcolmxl5 (talk) 01:05, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
- Not unprotected for now. Please follow the advice above and discuss with El C if you want it unprotected afterwards, though the CT prohibitions no longer apply. Sdrqaz (talk) 18:25, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Buck has been protected since 2011 but I think he has gotten significantly less polarizing in recent years. Probably best to relax this one. Esolo5002 (talk) 17:29, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
- @Zzyzx11: Do you have any objections to reducing the protection? Sdrqaz (talk) 18:25, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
- @Sdrqaz: No, feel free to reduce it for now. Zzyzx11 (talk) 21:04, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
Reason: wrong content regarding to his arrest and confinement. which needs to be removed. for the same need access to edit and remove wrong information. Omkarjoshi1989 (talk) 17:49, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
- This page was protected under the auspices of a contentious topic and cannot be unprotected at this venue. Request unprotection at User talk:Daniel Case or, assuming your account becomes autoconfirmed (4 days + 10 edits) appeal at WP:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v threads critiques 17:57, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
- Not unprotected – Favonian (talk) 18:01, 18 February 2025 (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 section header:
"Gulf of America"
to:
"Gulf of America"
so that the redirect to the section still works (I can't edit either the page nor the redirect). Or the redirect can change from #REDIRECT [[Gulf of Mexico#Gulf of America]] to #REDIRECT [[Gulf of Mexico#"Gulf of America"]] (although I am unsure if that works). Altendo 16:07, 17 February 2025 (UTC)
Forced to do some rewriting, lest the bot run amok. Favonian (talk) 16:20, 17 February 2025 (UTC)
change wrong disputed narrative which is provided by wrong refferals BigReads2000 (talk) 14:59, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
- Not done - Vague requests like this and the one above will not be entertained. Please read WP:EDITREQ and submit a more targeted request, with sources. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v threads critiques 17:49, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
Handled requests
A historical archive of previous protection requests can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive.