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.

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

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – The Agriculture page has been receiving persistent vandalism. See page history. Northamerica1000^(talk) 08:56, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

History of the race and intelligence controversy (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Too much recent revert warring by anonymous IPs. Mathsci (talk) 08:13, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Hamed Haddadi (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protection Chronic ENGVAR edit-warring by a non-communicative IP-hopper. The last period of semi-protection just expired, but he's back at it. Zagalejo^^^ 05:31, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Pisgat Ze'ev (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protection. Persistent addition of npov content from multiple IPs, possibly one user IP hopping. RA0808 ^talk_contribs 05:07, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Dumbledore's Army (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Some vandalism the past few weeks by anonymous editors. -- Luke (Talk) 03:53, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Sleeping with Sirens (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. GunMetal Angel 03:23, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Star Trek canon (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Edit war. Hghyux (talk) 03:08, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Declined Phasers were holstered about 14 hours ago and they went into the neutral zone (ie the talk page). Skier Dude (talk) 07:29, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Division by zero (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. JohnBlackburne^words_deeds 03:04, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 10 days. After 10 days the page will be automatically unprotected. Skier Dude (talk) 07:23, 2 March 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.

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

Kevin Jonas (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. JayJay^{Talk to me} 00:31, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Already protected by Materialscientist (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights) until 4 March 2012. Whenaxis talk · contribs | DR goes to Wikimania! 01:36, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Matt Taibbi (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Even though it is two IP's I have reverted them both multiple times. JayJay^{Talk to me} 00:04, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 10 days. After 10 days the page will be automatically unprotected. Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 00:15, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

CN Tower (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Indefinite move protection: This article had been moved protected indefinitely until the indefinite semi-protection was applied. Johnny Au _{(talk/contributions)} 23:50, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

Move protected indefinitely. Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 00:11, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Taylor Wilson (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – such as: 1, 2 and3. Whenaxis talk · contribs | DR goes to Wikimania! 23:02, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 23:29, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

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

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Article keeps getting vandalized. Please protect it to help deter the vandalism. . Tinton5 (talk) 22:05, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

User(s) blocked by an admin. Armbrust, B.Ed. ^{Let's talk}_{about my edits?} 22:52, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

Computer-aided design (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. - Happysailor ^(Talk) 22:04, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

Already protected by Materialscientist (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights) for a period of one day. Armbrust, B.Ed. ^{Let's talk}_{about my edits?} 22:50, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

Robert W. Harrell, Jr. (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

I have included a number of facts about the Speaker of the South Carolina House of Representatives. These are documented on an investigative website that I work for, along with other journalists. An individual using the name EricJ1995 has repeatedly removed anything detrimental to this individual’s Wikipedia entry, and also accused me of vandalism. I believe that my edits are in the public interest, while it appears this individual likely works for or with the person who the Wikipedia entry is about. Carolina cotton (talk) 21:30, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

Declined, content dispute; use dispute resolution, and note that unsubstantiated allegations of a conflict of interest are tantamount to a personal attack. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:36, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

Rainbow Dash (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Indefinite semi-protection: Repeatedly recreated despite previous deletion discussions. See: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rainbow Dash (3rd nomination). – Confession0791 ^talk 21:29, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

Fully protected indefinitely. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:31, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

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

Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism. Dan56 (talk) 21:03, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three days. After three days the page will be automatically unprotected. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:16, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

NATO phonetic alphabet (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection: On main page.

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20:18, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

Declined, being lined from the Main Page is not, in and of itself, a valid reason for protection. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:13, 1 March 2012 (UTC)