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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: Two IPs edit warring a lot AlexBobCharles (talk) 13:54, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Daniel Case (talk) 21:38, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
Reason: Persistent edit warring AlexBobCharles (talk) 13:57, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
Reason: Extended-confirmed restriction per Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/American politics 2#Contentious topic designation. 49.150.13.247 (talk) 15:31, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Daniel Case (talk) 21:42, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
Reason: Continued unsourced editing by various users Zamekrizeni (talk) 15:55, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. — Czello (music) 18:49, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Vandalism by IP user. 2601:646:9982:E590:6853:28DB:A8A1:EDEA (talk) 20:18, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Sock keeps making new edits from different ips to numerous articles related to Indian politics. — Your local Sink Cat (The Sink). 20:24, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Sock keeps making edits from new ips to articles related to Indian politics. — Your local Sink Cat (The Sink). 20:25, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Sock keeps making edits from new ips to articles related to Indian politics. — Your local Sink Cat (The Sink). 20:26, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Sock keeps making edits from new ips to articles related to Indian politics. — Your local Sink Cat (The Sink). 20:27, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Sock keeps making edits from new ips to articles related to Indian politics. — Your local Sink Cat (The Sink). 20:29, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Sock keeps making edits from new ips to articles related to Indian politics. — Your local Sink Cat (The Sink). 20:30, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Sock keeps making edits from new ips to articles related to Indian politics. — Your local Sink Cat (The Sink). 20:32, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
Indefinite extended-confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement. Per WP:ARBPIA, many non ECP users changing things related to the conflict even with the huge warning Wiiformii (talk) 21:14, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Disruptive editing, block evasion IP address. 🛧Midori No Sora♪🛪 ( ☁＝☁＝✈) 21:21, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
- Automated comment: One or more pages in this request appear to already be protected. Please confirm.—cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online 22:06, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Persistent spam promoting a change.org petition related to this topic. ZLEA T\C 21:30, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
Reason: High level of IP vandalism. Githubwiki (talk) 21:52, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
- Looking at the page history, the IPs appear to have been making good-faith edits. I have my reservations about whether Githubwiki is editing in good faith or within the guidelines about (ab)use of multiple accounts. —C.Fred (talk) 22:01, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Severe amount of IP address vandalism. 🛧Midori No Sora♪🛪 ( ☁＝☁＝✈) 21:57, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – BLP violations. 🛧Midori No Sora♪🛪 ( ☁＝☁＝✈) 22:10, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
Reason: Indefinite extended confirmed protection per WP:ARBPIA Rainsage (talk) 22:18, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Prince Gharios El Chemor of Ghassan Al-Numan VIII (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Reason: AfD is being swarmed by SPAs and IP users whos activity is unlikely to be legitimate Hemiauchenia (talk) 22:47, 23 July 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: Blocking to-be-accepted AfC draft. C F A 💬 03:29, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
- @CFA: I reduced it to ECP, just because I'm curious if that's going to work. If it doesn't let me know and I'll remove the protection. ~Anachronist (talk) 03:33, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
- Yes, that's fine. I just needed to tag it for speedy deletion. C F A 💬 03:35, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
- OK, I deleted it.
Done. ~Anachronist (talk) 03:37, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
- This now new article should almost certainly be at minimum, semiprotected (equivalent to that of penis), just to keep the driveby juvenile vandals off it, no? Zinnober9 (talk) 03:59, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Anachronist: would you be willing to decrease the protection of weenis and weenus as well so redirects may be created? Mbdfar (talk) 04:26, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks! I forgot to mention wenus as well. Mbdfar (talk) 10:09, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
- Lectonar, you create-protected them. I have applied EC edit protection just now. ~Anachronist (talk) 22:09, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
- Done as well, ec-protection. Lectonar (talk) 11:04, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
- OK, I deleted it.
- Yes, that's fine. I just needed to tag it for speedy deletion. C F A 💬 03:35, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
- Automated comment: @Lectonar: One or more pages in this request have not been protected.—cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online 07:28, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
Reason: It's been a year since this article was upgraded to EC protection. Daniel Case (discussion) has told me to put the request here to decide whether or not it should be dropped to semi. I think it should be dropped to semi since the UK was also ECP protected, but has since been dropped to semi. I think it's worth a try to reduce the protection level here as well. JuniperChill (talk) 20:45, 23 July 2024 (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.
Handled requests
A historical archive of previous protection requests can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive.