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.
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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.
Reason: Incredibly high level of vandalism, misinformation, or just bad edits. Not a week goes by without someone either adding "pro-Russian" in the infobox, removing Euroscepticism and replacing it with pro-Europeanism, or vandalizing the article by calling the party a "Russian Dream" or its founder "Borys Ivanishvili". I think this easily warrants extended confirmed protection as it is a very contentious article about a very controversial party and protection will save it from being stuck for hours with vandalism until someone notices and reverts. Zlad! (talk) 20:44, 1 September 2024 (UTC)
- Please invoke WP:CT/EE. IanDBeacon (talk) 15:45, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of 10 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Left CTOPS notice on talk. Daniel Case (talk) 03:09, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
Temporary pending changes: BLP policy violations – IPs making unhelpful edits to the page of a public figure. Pending would allow helpful edits through while restricting gossip/vandalism. Paris1127 (talk) 20:49, 1 September 2024 (UTC)
Pending-changes protected for a period of three months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. To get through the election, at least. Left CTOPS notice on talk. Daniel Case (talk) 03:12, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
Extended confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement – Per WP:ARBPIA. 🛧Midori No Sora♪🛪 ( ☁=☁=✈) 20:59, 1 September 2024 (UTC)
Extended confirmed protected indefinitely. Will log at CTOPS. Daniel Case (talk) 03:14, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
Extended confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement – Per WP:ARBPIA. 🛧Midori No Sora♪🛪 ( ☁=☁=✈) 21:38, 1 September 2024 (UTC)
Extended confirmed protected indefinitely. Will log at CTOPS. Daniel Case (talk) 03:18, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
Reason: Repeated unproductive IP edits 162 etc. (talk) 22:48, 1 September 2024 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Daniel Case (talk) 03:23, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
Reason: The experiment of this page being unprotected has failed as the edit warriors and vandals have since returned. The idea of a topic regarding the far-right not being CTOP is clearly short-sighted here overall. CNC (talk) 23:08, 1 September 2024 (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 23:20, 1 September 2024 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of 10 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. As for CTOPS, perhaps we should have post-2016 British politics and personalities. You're welcome to propose that to ArbCom (or, alternatively, as a community sanction), but we can't just up and do it ourselves here as much as many times we'd like to. Daniel Case (talk) 03:31, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
Indefinite extended confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement – WP:PIA. Chaotic Enby (talk · contribs) 00:13, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
Extended confirmed protected indefinitely. Will log at CTOPS. Daniel Case (talk) 03:24, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Warm Regards, Miminity (talk) (contribs) 01:10, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of two weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Joyous! Noise! 23:33, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Repated violations of WP:NOVELPLOT by IP-hopping editor. DonIago (talk) 03:39, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
User(s) blocked: 2601:547:1583:4450:0:0:0:0/64 (talk · contribs) blocked by Daniel Case. for a week. Daniel Case (talk) 04:08, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
Reason: High level of vandalism. Needs protection ASAPMikey551415 (talk) 04:21, 2 September 2024 (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 04:22, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
- Comment Reporter is trying to restore a logo they uploaded to the infobox without a proper Commons rationale and is being reverted for trying to restore it. Nate • (chatter) 18:31, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
Declined As I noted at ANEW, discussion is taking place on talk. Daniel Case (talk) 03:05, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Persistent IP edits repeatedly changing pronouns despite warnings. Has been protected previously for same reason. StewdioMACK (talk) 04:49, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
- Automated comment: One or more pages in this request appear to already be protected. Please confirm.—cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online 23:35, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
Already protected by administrator Joyous!. For two weeks Daniel Case (talk) 04:09, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
Reason: Hi, I'm renewing page protection for this month due to WP:VANDALISM and WP:CRIT. The Vice President of the Philippines Sara Duterte, is involved in several controversies, and her articles are prone, and bias. An IP user edited the name 'Shimenet' into Sara Duterte's article.
(For the context: The term 'Shimenet' related to VP Sara Duterte has become controversial and is often used in memes on social media, particularly following a Senate Hearing where she had a arguments with Senator Risa Hontiveros. Royiswariii (talk) 04:56, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
Semi-protected indefinitely. Will log at CTOPS. Daniel Case (talk) 03:33, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
Reason: Unfortunately, someone is still trying to add defamatory contents that violate WP:BLP. It might appear well-referenced at first, but if you take a closer look you'll see that the text is poorly written, negative in tone, and that the references are bogus (duplicates, Russian-language unreliable sources, web archives, blog-based content, paid attacks, and even English-language sources that discuss the subject completely differently from how the article does). It has also triggered the "possible BLP issue or vandalism" tag, see [1]. Originally, this was all added by an autoconfirmed SPA sock account (Special:Contributions/Παλαβός) which has now resumed the edit warring. I suggest that the edits be reverted and the page be bluelocked to prevent future BLP violations. Thanks. 2A02:8308:F:9900:DC4C:EE8E:F4F:471A (talk) 06:31, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
Already protected by administrator Ymblanter. For three days. The edits reverted were made before that. Daniel Case (talk) 03:39, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
Reason: Addition of unsourced content again and again by IPs. M S Hassan 📬✍🏻 11:23, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
Semi-protected indefinitely. Daniel Case (talk) 04:11, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
Temporary extended confirmed protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Persistent disruptive editing; WP:CASTE. Ekdalian (talk) 11:41, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
Extended confirmed protected indefinitely. Will log at WP:GS/CASTE. Daniel Case (talk) 03:42, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent disruptive editing. Mvcg66b3r (talk) 13:07, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of three months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Daniel Case (talk) 04:13, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
Reason: I am writing to request the semi-protection of the "Association of Malayalam Movie Artists" article. The page has become a hot topic recently and has been repeatedly targeted by vandalism. Despite a previous protection request that was granted, the protection lasted only a couple of days, and the vandalism has since resumed.
Given the article's current relevance and the frequency of disruptive edits, I believe that extending the semi-protection would help maintain the integrity and reliability of the content. A temporary protection period of 2-4 weeks should suffice until the topic cools down. Kaeez06 (talk) 13:25, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Daniel Case (talk) 03:46, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
Semi-protection. Frost 13:46, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – IP socks of User:SHUBHAM788 at work adding unsourced genre "action thriller film" en masse in many articles. Digg for this one, as well as other articles [2], [3], [4]. If possible please protect those articles as well. Thanks. Fylindfotberserk (talk) 14:20, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
Reason: Constant IP infobox vandalism (adding extraneous/incorrect detail). Nate • (chatter) 16:19, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
Reason: Persistent IP vandal 81.199.149.194 -- Pemilligan (talk) 16:25, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
Declined – Warn the user appropriately then report them to AIV or ANI if they continue. I have already given them a level one. Daniel Case (talk) 03:48, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
Reason: Requesting semi following sustained vandalism and brigading. ~ Pbritti (talk) 16:52, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
Reason: I've noticed that some edits from IP address users have been affecting the constructive development of the page. I've encouraged these users to participate in the Talk page discussions to share their perspectives and collaborate on making positive contributions, but they are failing to do and continue with their un-constructive edits. ReillyVega (talk) 17:11, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Block evasion by User:Giubbotto non ortodosso using IPs from Italy. Binksternet (talk) 17:25, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing. General Ization Talk 18:02, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
Note: I've partial-blocked the /64 for a week, and invited them to discuss the issue at the article's talk page. Please let me know if problems continue. Joyous! Noise! 19:15, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Persistent disruptive editing by IP editors. Bgsu98 (Talk) 20:21, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
User(s) blocked. Joyous! Noise! 20:35, 2 September 2024 (UTC):
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Repeated removal of sourced content. Trailblazer101 (talk) 21:38, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent addition of unsourced or poorly sourced content – Persistent addition of unsourced content to redirect, following Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hung Cao (2nd nomination) in July. Wikishovel (talk) 21:46, 2 September 2024 (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 21:49, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
Note: I previously requested full protection (since one of the attempts at recreation was made by an EC editor), which was declined as excessive given the very high bar needed for full protection. However, semi-protection could be more reasonable and still help with most of the disruption. Chaotic Enby (talk · contribs) 22:13, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
Reason: Persistent disruptive editing by IP editors. Adding unsourced genre and removing sourced genre without explanation. This has been going on since the article's creation. Here are a few examples: [5], [6], [7], [8], [9] Shout4Serenity (talk) 22:23, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Ongoing name vandalism from multiple IPs. gobonobo + c 23:43, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of one year, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Will log at CTOPS. Daniel Case (talk) 03:52, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
Reason: Major figure in the 2024 US presidential election not to have their page ECP'd. And it would be wise to do so for the next several months. Qutlooker (talk) 23:46, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
- It’s also to prevent sockpuppets of the banned user Buzzards-Watch Me Work from editing it 2603:8080:D03:89D4:F983:A52F:F09D:6622 (talk) 00:58, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
- Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Reason: Unfortunate abbreviation has resulted in high Battle-for-Dream-Island-related vandalism; last incident was on August 30; was unable to figure out if the Commissioner is aware of this 134.22.84.45 (talk) 23:48, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. related to some mod for Hearts of Iron 4 Daisytheduck quack quack 00:24, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
Reason: Addition of poorly unsourced content/false information. UndergroundMan3000 (talk) 01:44, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
- Comment Seems to be mainly one user over a span of one day. I advise warning the user appropriately, and consider bringing it to WP:AIV if they continue. GeorgeMemulous (talk) 01:47, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
Declined That was done, and the report was declined as they had made no edits since being warned. Daniel Case (talk) 03:06, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
- The same user just vandalized this page again and is doing this to several other pages such as Candlebox and Skid Row. UndergroundMan3000 (talk) 04:03, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
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Reason: Persistent attempts by the same user to vandalize this page for months - ever since the page was unlocked from last year, when it was locked due to high vandalism. Soon after it was unlocked, user "TBurnout" engaged in new attempts started to undo legitimate sources. The same user persistently posts "failed verification" and undoes legitimate, highly-credible links (i.e. links to national newspapers and the Government of Canada House of Commons) added to the page in order verify its content. Belladonna2024 (talk) 03:24, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations. General Ization Talk 03:35, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Daniel Case (talk) 03:56, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing. SNUGGUMS (talk / edits) 03:43, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Multiple violations of WP:LISTPEOPLE on the artist section by multiple IP users in the past month. Jalen Barks (Woof) 03:53, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Article redirect continued to be reverted back to a full scale article despite a successful deletion nomination and the original concerns not being addressed at all. Hariboneagle927 (talk) 04:05, 3 September 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.
Reason: Please consider page protection downgrade to Pending changes protection, there's no IP edits that are vandalism. 14.0.225.7 (talk) 04:10, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
Current requests for edits to a protected page
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,{{Edit template-protected}}
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{{Edit COI}}
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Handled requests
A historical archive of previous protection requests can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive.