Wikipedia:Requests for page protection

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Requests for page protection

This page is for requesting that a page, image or template be fully protected, create protected (salted), semi-protected, move-protected, 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 is 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. 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 back to specific versions of the page, except to get rid of obvious vandalism. Instructions If you would like to request a page to be protected or unprotected, please follow the following steps: If you are requesting unprotection, it is almost always a good idea to ask the protecting admin first before listing a page here. Add a level 4 header (i.e. ==== {{lx|Example}} ====, where "x" stands for the namespace) at the TOP of either the protection or unprotection list and place one of the templates from the table below within the header. 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. If you are requesting protection, place the type of request (full protection, semi-protection, move protection) and a brief reason for your request below your header. 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 usertalk page until the user is unblocked, please make this clear. If you are requesting indefinite semi-protection, be aware that it is only applied to articles with endemic and endless vandalism problems which multiple increasing periods of temporary semi-protection have failed to stop. Note that different expiry times can now be set for edit and move-protections, so an article can, for example, be semi-edit-protected for a week and full-move-protected indefinitely. Sign your request with four tildes ~~~~ and save. Note: this is not a venue for continuing an argument from elsewhere. If a request contains excessive arguing, is being used for edit-warring or content disputes, contains personal attacks or uncivil comments, or any other unrelated discussion, it will be removed from this page. Namespace To request protection / unprotection To request protection / unprotection of talk page Generic {{ln|NAMESPACE|PAGE NAME}} {{lnt|NAMESPACE|PAGE NAME}} Article {{la|ARTICLE}} {{lat|ARTICLE}} Template {{lt|TEMPLATE}} {{ltt|TEMPLATE}} Wikipedia {{lw|PAGE}} {{lwt|PAGE}} User {{lu|USER}} {{lut|USER}} Category {{lc|CATEGORY}} {{lct|CATEGORY}} File {{lf|FILE}} {{lft|FILE}} Portal {{lp|PORTAL}} {{lpt|PORTAL}} Help {{lh|HELP}} {{lht|HELP}} MediaWiki Protected by MediaWiki cannot be unprotected {{lmt|MESSAGE}} Should not be protected Book {{lb|BOOK}} {{lbt|BOOK}} Examples ===={{la|Example Article Name}}==== '''Semi-protection:''' High level of IP vandalism. ~~~~ ===={{lt|Example Template Name}}==== '''Temporary semi-protection:''' High level of IP vandalism. ~~~~ You can subscribe to a web feed of this page in either RSS or Atom format.

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Current requests for protection

Place requests for semi-protection, full protection, move protection, or create protection at the TOP of this section. Check the list of denied requests if you cannot find your request. Only recently answered requests are still listed here.

Amy Goodman (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Since 28 January, IP editors persistently adding unsourced material incorrectly asserting her death. Rostz (talk) 12:13, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Declined – Report the user(s) to AIV if the vandalism continues. -FASTILY ^(TALK) 13:10, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Please reconsider; page protection is appropriate for likely IP-hopping sock editing (64.223.170.61, 64.222.215.9, 64.223.170.61, 64.222.155.245, 70.20.37.65). Rostz (talk) 14:05, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Friends (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection: After latest expired protection, five IP vandalisms occured, and two by one registered user. George Ho (talk) 11:45, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Declined – Report the user(s) to AIV if the vandalism continues. -FASTILY ^(TALK) 13:10, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Second Intifada (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection - repeatedly being blanked by IP users. The Mark of the Beast (talk) 07:06, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

User(s) blocked - I went ahead and blocked the most recent IP for 12 hours. While I see that one other IP in that same range has vandalized the article, I do not feel that it justifies protection at this time. Additionally, I looked into a range block but the collateral damage would be far too great. If they hop to another IP, feel free to re-apply for page protection. Tiptoety ^talk 07:30, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Adam Sandler (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations – A recent barrage of IP vandalism. DPH1110 (talk) 05:58, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. -FASTILY ^(TALK) 13:10, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Incessant IP disruption in recent days, mostly Albanian nationalists changing the sourced "Greek" ancestry to "Albanian", in contradiction to the sources used. Athenean (talk) 04:00, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three days. Tiptoety ^talk 07:34, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Circumcision (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Full protection: Edit war involving at least 7 editors. Jayjg ^(talk) 03:27, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Fully protected for a period of 1 week. After 1 week the page will be automatically unprotected. -FASTILY ^(TALK) 13:10, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

2011–12 Arsenal F.C. season (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protection Page is a target for IP vandalism, mainly entering copyrighted information despite the warnings not to on the page. The C of E. God Save The Queen! (talk) 13:23, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Question:, The edit you have reverted; how is it a copyright violation? I'm sorry to ask as I'm not clear on this. Kind regards. Wifione ^Message 14:18, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

It's because Premier League fixtures are protected by copyright. A previous editor summed it up best in one of his edit summaries "Future PL fixtures are copyrighted to the Football DataCo Ltd, and cannot be publically reproduced without a licence". The C of E. God Save The Queen! (talk) 18:01, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week. After 1 week the page will be automatically unprotected. -FASTILY ^(TALK) 13:10, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Battle of Longewala (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – A movie Border was released about this battle, in which it boasted that 120 Indians with no tanks defeated 2800 Pakistanis with 65 tanks, and it is being frequently amended. Chitransh Gaurav 05:10, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. -FASTILY ^(TALK) 13:10, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Gujarat (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protection: High leval of unreferenced IP editing. The article is pretty messed up, and should be protected. --09:28, 12 February 2012 (UTC)--kondi ^{talk/contribs} 09:28, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. -FASTILY ^(TALK) 13:10, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Current requests for unprotection

If you simply want to make spelling corrections or add information to a protected page that is not disputed, and you are not involved in any disputes there, consider simply adding {{Editprotected}} to the article's talk page, along with an explanation of what you want to add to the page. See the list of current {{Editprotected}} requests.

If you want an existing page unprotected, please try to ask the protecting admin first before making a request here.

Check here if you cannot find your request. Only recently answered requests are still listed here.

User:Maunus/Userpage/About me (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Please unprotect my userpage?·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 16:05, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Unprotected Reaper Eternal (talk) 15:01, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Current requests for edits to a protected page

Ideally requests should be made on the article talk page rather than here

• Unless the talk page itself is protected, you may instead add {{Editprotected}}, {{Editsemiprotected}} or {{Request edit}} to the article's talk page if you would like to make a change rather than requesting it here.
• If the discussion page and the article are both locked, this project page is the right place to request an edit. If you can, please use the {{la|article name}} template to describe the article you wish changed at the start of your request.

Fulfilled/denied requests

Whitney Houston (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – This article is consistently under edit war. We need edits slowed down. Alin0Steglinski (talk) 04:09, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

What edit war? It's just that the death is so sudden that we expect a bunch of editors. There been some confusion yes, but nothing that requires full protection, just rapid editing. Secret ^account 04:11, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Declined. No sign of persistent edit-warring yet, just new information being processed. Jayjg ^(talk) 04:35, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Our Lady of Fatima University (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Other users keep on restoring deleted information that are not supposed to be on the page. Also, some are putting unreferenced data that may destroy the credibility of the said university. jmarkfrancia (talk) 04:07, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Declined. The only person who has made any significant edits to the article in the past 3 months is you. The last time an IP edited the article was November 5, 2011. Jayjg ^(talk) 04:38, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Nipsey Hussle (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations – BLP violations, same as last time unsourced birthday and such. Secret ^account 03:22, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks. After 2 weeks the page will be automatically unprotected. Jayjg ^(talk) 04:26, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

The Red Badge of Courage (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism.  ⊃°HotCrocodile...... + 03:20, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

It is WP:TFA, which we can only sprotect when it's getting too hard. Maybe not yet, but this can change any hour. Materialscientist (talk) 03:23, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Okay, thank you. For future reference, do you mind if I ask what you would consider a suitable amount of vandalism of TFA to require protection? The current policy is to treat TFA the same as any other article (but only for short periods of time), I count 10 instances of vandalism so far today, I would imagine that a non-featured article would receive protection at that level?  ⊃°HotCrocodile...... + 03:49, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 hours. After 3 hours the page will be automatically unprotected. Jayjg ^(talk) 04:32, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Boom! Studios (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Full-protection: Persistent edits/attempts by Njkaters to remove Andrew Cosby's long-standing status as co-founder, despite a preponderance of evidence from a number of reputable online and print sources supporting the position, including Boom's own comics and numerous interviews with both founders. A Los Angeles Times interview was cited in a response to a request by the editor for a reliable source, then promptly undone. Suspect malicious intent. Have tried contacting editor responsible multiple times and been ignored. 76.173.29.7 (talk) 02:46, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Declined. Last article edit was February 6. Jayjg ^(talk) 04:28, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Roy Oswalt (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Ongoing vandalism. – Muboshgu (talk) 02:27, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week. After 1 week the page will be automatically unprotected. Slon02 (talk) 02:51, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Test page (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Indefinite create protection: Repeatedly recreated – Common name for test pages. Ramaksoud2000 ^{(Did I make a mistake?)} 02:15, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Protected to prevent recreation Slon02 (talk) 02:50, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Template:Rescue (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Indefinite full protection: Highly visible template – Template deleted at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2012 January 13##Template:Rescue, the deletion was reviewed at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2012 January 27 so no reason for this page to be editable. Mtking ^(edits) 00:10, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Fully protected for a period of three days. After three days the page will be automatically unprotected. Salvio ^{Let's talk about it!} 01:12, 12 February 2012 (UTC)