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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.

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Instructions

If you would like to request a page to be protected or unprotected, please follow the following steps:

  1. If you are requesting unprotection, it is almost always a good idea to ask the protecting admin first before listing a page here.
  2. 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.
  3. If you are requesting protection, place the type of request (full protection, semi-protection, or move protection) and a brief reason for your request below your header.
  4. 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.
  5. Sign your request with four tildes ~~~~ and save.
  • Note that 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.
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Contents

Administrator instructions



[edit] Current requests for protection

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

Today's featured article will not usually be protected except in the event of extremely high levels of vandalism.

[edit] Coldplay (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection vandalism. Andrewlp1991 (talk) 05:00, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] The Fame (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

semi-protection, protection expired yesterday; alteration of accurate information and general vandalism have returned. Andrewlp1991 (talk) 04:56, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Shiho Miyano (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection, People disagreeing over character name. DragonZero (talk · contribs) 04:30, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Pictogram voting question.svg Question: why not provide a WP:RS of the actual character name? tedder (talk) 04:41, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Home Improvement (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

semi-protection, Spamming by Wallflowers98 socks, adding "4shared" links, although it's blacklisted, he's getting through by putting it in nowiki tags. Momo san Gespräch 04:29, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Pictogram voting support.svg Semi-protected for a period of 1 week. After 1 week the page will be automatically unprotected. No other articles are being targeted? tedder (talk) 04:36, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
Give me a minute, I can look those up for you, but yes there are more. Momo san Gespräch 04:40, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
Sent a message to your talk page regarding other pages. Momo san Gespräch 04:49, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Nokia N97 (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection, frequent/numerous forum-type quality edits resulting from new-user or IP edits. issue recognized by some editors (Editor: 86.22.230.56 Page Revision Description: Deleted a load of ranty, badly written, non-encyclopedic criticisms. The N97 might have many flaws and you might be irritated by it, but don't do this.) Temporary protection would reduce non-constructive criticisms until a time where issues with the page's subject is fixed (may seem too case-specific, but it is incorporating bias towards angry users, and is adding, as stated above, many poorly written criticisms. 6 month protection should be sufficient (yes, if it does get protected, it would need to be at the very least, 3 months). Viet|Pham (talk) 04:16, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Pictogram voting delete.svg Declined – There is not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection at this time. If there's significantly more disruptive activity in the future, consider relisting. Try communicating on the talk page and in edit summaries, give user warnings, etc. tedder (talk) 04:21, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Bad Romance (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protection for a long time Continuous IP addition of WP:BADCHARTS, changing chart peaks, and adding Component charts. Total messing up of the page. --Legolas (talk2me) 04:09, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Pictogram voting support.svg Semi-protected for a period of 3 months. After 3 months the page will be automatically unprotected. tedder (talk) 04:19, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] User:Vintagekits/Charlie Zelenoff (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Indefinite semi-protection, This is a subpage created by a user who is currently indefinitely blocked. It would seem this person has a lot of enemies and they are vandalizing his page while he is blocked. I'd normally say the page should be deleted, but I don't know its history, and there is a chance that some people might be reading it and/or making legitimate edits. (Note that there is currently no Charlie Zelenoff article on Wikipedia.) . Soap Talk/Contributions 03:06, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Pictogram voting keep.svg Done Meh. Invoking WP:IAR to delete this, especially since it was deleted as a questionable BLP issue. I'll watch and protect if necessary. If the user is unblocked I'll be happy to discuss recreation with them- but I'm worried it is cyberbullying. tedder (talk) 03:17, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Deborah hirst (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Indefinite create-protection, repeatedly re-created attack page. MuffledThud (talk) 22:58, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Pictogram voting support.svg Protected to prevent recreation. Also salted Deborah Hirst. tedder (talk) 23:05, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Deaths in 2009 (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi protection repeatedly being attacked by IP editors. Woogee (talk) 22:49, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Pictogram voting support.svg Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks. After 2 weeks the page will be automatically unprotected. tedder (talk) 23:03, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Medieval Warm Period (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary full protection dispute, More climate change edit warring. . Off2riorob (talk) 22:46, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

It's just an SPA. He can be blocked and the problem will go away. Semiprotection would also work. --TS 22:50, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
But you are also a single propose account tony. Off2riorob (talk) 22:53, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
In a way, aren't we all? tedder (talk) 23:02, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
Pictogram voting support.svg Semi-protected for a period of 1 week. After 1 week the page will be automatically unprotected. tedder (talk) 23:02, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary full protection dispute, Climate change edit war. Off2riorob (talk) 22:11, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

I posted this last night but the edit war continues after an editor was blocked. I've decided to post about it at WP:ANI. --TS 22:14, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
Pictogram voting support.svg Fully protected by Jayron32. NW (Talk) 23:06, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] UFC 112 (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protection vandalism, unsourced speculation/fancruft (Justinsane15 (talk) 21:38, 29 December 2009 (UTC))

Pictogram voting support.svg Semi-protected for a period of 1 week. After 1 week the page will be automatically unprotected. See you in a week. tedder (talk) 22:03, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Thomas Sprigg Wootton High School (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection vandalism, a lot of vandalism by different IPs. Caltas (talk) 20:50, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

I second this. (actually, most of these are students vandalizing from home out of boredom, i personally know people who do this). Many school pages need semi-protecting, ironically, from their own students. Viet|Pham (talk) 04:16, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
Pictogram voting support.svg Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks. After 2 weeks the page will be automatically unprotected. --JForget 20:57, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Brittany Murphy (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection vandalism by IPs.--♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 20:40, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Pictogram voting support.svg Semi-protected for a period of 1 month. After 1 month the page will be automatically unprotected. --JForget 21:00, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Chikhodra (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection vandalism, deletion of content. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ompuri1115 (talk • contribs) 20:39, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Note that the user that made this request mostly did this, reverted and warned for making test edits. Momo san Gespräch 20:44, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
Pictogram voting delete.svg Declined As stated above. --JForget 21:02, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
Though if there is an edit war starting, it will have to be protected or one or more will be blocked. --JForget 21:07, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
It appears he's using an IP sockpuppet for further disruption, i'll let it go from here. Momo san Gespräch 21:10, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Sorry but i was just trying to fix it.72.187.149.41 (talk) 21:20, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Making test edits in the article is not a good idea. Please use the WP:Sandbox to test before placing anything in the article otherwise your edit tests will be perceived as vandalism. Momo san Gespräch 21:29, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] France (disambiguation) (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection vandalism, edit-warring from IP .  fetchcomms☛ 20:28, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Possibly 4chan, saying the word "meme". Momo san Gespräch 20:32, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
Pictogram voting support.svg Semi-protected for a period of 3 days. After 3 days the page will be automatically unprotected.. Protected by User:Prodego --JForget 20:59, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Adi Dharm (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

I request short duration semi-protect for the article Adi Dharm. The single anonymous IP range vandal (geolocate is Kolkatta:India) is also commenting on my user-talk page. Annette46 (talk) 17:10, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Pictogram voting question.svg Question: let me ask an ignorant question. Is this truly vandalism? Or just a difference in opinion? tedder (talk) 19:15, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
Answer In my opinion (volunteered to provide context) the IP editor appeared to be confused between "Adi Dharm" (a religion which is not Hinduism) and "Ad Dharm" (which is a notified Scheduled Caste - like untouchable scavengers - in Hinduism). It is a not uncommon confusion. The IP editor did not attempte to engage in content dispute (if any) resolution with me, instead he/she left some more nonsense on my user-talk page. Repeatedly reinserting "nonsense" into an article and failing to give reasons for reverting or even discussing reversions, indicates a degree of vandalism - which my edit summaries sufficiently cautioned the IP editor against. If it was a difference in opinion then the IP editor must include his citations and references. Previously the IP range has been used to vandalise articles on Brahmo Samaj such as here [1] and also for vandalism like this [2] Annette46 (talk) 20:41, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
Pictogram voting support.svg Semi-protected for a period of 1 week. After 1 week the page will be automatically unprotected. Gotcha. Thanks for the context. tedder (talk) 22:02, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Current requests for unprotection

Shortcuts:
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WP:RUP

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 do want a page that exists 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.

[edit] Current requests for edits to a protected page

Shortcut:
WP:RFED
When making requests here, either:
  • Provide a good reason for a substantial edit to a protected page. These are only done in exceptional circumstances, or when there is very clear consensus for an edit and continued protection. Please link to the talk page where consensus was reached.
  • Demonstrate that there is a clear dispute over a protected page, and that a specific dispute tag would be appropriate to add. Please link to the talk page where the dispute exists.

Note: 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 an inconsequential change rather than requesting it here, though most of these should simply wait for unprotection.

See also:

[edit] Fulfilled/denied requests

[edit] Dexpel.com (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Indefinite create-protection, Repeatedly recreated. . Unioneagle (talk) 19:48, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Pictogram voting delete.svg Declined, User:Sarimnadeem, who was the only one who has created the page, has been blocked. Rjd0060 (talk) 20:13, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Jason Bay (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection Persistent vandalism has only begun. As you may recall from other reported baseball signings and trades, every anonymous user wants to be the one to break the news on Wikipedia, though the source of this signing himself said it won't be official until Monday or Tuesday of next week. Therefore, I'd like a one-week protection. --Muboshgu (talk) 19:31, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Pictogram voting support.svg Semi-protected for a period of 1 week. After 1 week the page will be automatically unprotected. The context is much appreciated. tedder (talk) 19:36, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Mark David Chapman (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection vandalism, persistent vandalism . Caltas (talk) 19:28, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Pictogram voting support.svg Semi-protected for a period of 1 week. After 1 week the page will be automatically unprotected. tedder (talk) 19:35, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Matt Smith (actor) (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection vandalism Repeated vandalised, with violations of WP:BLP - some of these comments are potentially libellous. Stormcloud (talk) 19:24, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Also, This is the first time I've asked for a semi-protect - can somebody check I've got the procedure right? —Preceding unsigned comment added by StormCloud (talk • contribs) 19:27, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Pictogram voting delete.svg Declined – There is not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection at this time. If there's significantly more disruptive activity in the future, consider relisting. The addition here is correct, but the number of vandalisms isn't high enough, nor do any recent edits by IPs appear to be far in violation of WP:BLP. Also, there are plenty of editors watching and reverting changes to the page. tedder (talk) 19:33, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Beyoncé Knowles discography (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection vandalism, users inflating certifications despite warnings to cease, also adding inflated chart positions. Mister sparky (talk) 18:45, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Pictogram voting support.svg Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks. After 2 weeks the page will be automatically unprotected. tedder (talk) 19:19, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Mann Act (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Indefinite semi-protection vandalism, Mann act has been semi-protected four times for this vandalism (the repeated addition of Michael Jackson to the list of prosecuted individuals with a fake reference). Each time the vandal, who has a large pool of IPs, just waits out the protection and starts again. MrOllie (talk) 17:19, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Pictogram voting wait.svg Already protected by Beeblebrox (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · moves · rights). tedder (talk) 19:16, 29 December 2009 (UTC)


[edit] Up (2009 film) (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Full protection Continued edit warring and assumption of Muntz's death (although I know it is true, one other user continues to deny, so as a favor to him, protection of the article is the only answer). WikiLubber (talk) 14:51, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Pictogram voting support.svg Semi-protected for a period of 1 week. After 1 week the page will be automatically unprotected. Only semiprotecting; logged-in users should be able to follow the policies. tedder (talk) 19:11, 29 December 2009 (UTC)


[edit] Akmal Shaikh (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

semi-protection over the last few hours there have been several edit wars caused by anonymous IPs adding POV comments. --Philip Stevens (talk) 17:38, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Pictogram voting delete.svg Declined, High traffic article and linked to from the main page. I would rather we keep it unprotected for as long as possible NW (Talk) 17:53, 29 December 2009 (UTC)


[edit] User talk:86.178.134.37 (edit|user page|history|links|watch|logs)

semi-protection user talk of blocked user, Inappropriate unblock request Diff. Momo san Gespräch 16:36, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Pictogram voting delete.svg Declined While lame, it is not exactly abuse. — Kralizec! (talk) 17:13, 29 December 2009 (UTC)


[edit] Good for Your Soul (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

semi-protection, spamming by Wallflowers98 socks adding 4shared links but getting around the spam filter by putting the links in nowiki tags. Momo san Gespräch 15:33, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Pictogram voting support.svg Semi-protected for a period of 36 hours. After 36 hours the page will be automatically unprotected. — Kralizec! (talk) 16:06, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Stitch! (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protection Unsourced addition/revision of cast of English voices by a vandal using multiple IDs (96.239.238.246 and 71.172.211.224; the guy previously used 96.239.234.216 and 96.239.231.189) still continues after expiration of last block. Again, the sources for the confirmed list are ANN and this gallery of screenshots showing the credits for the English version. - 上村七美 (Nanami-chan) | talkback | contribs 15:31, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Pictogram voting support.svg Semi-protected for a period of ten days. After ten days the page will be automatically unprotected. — Kralizec! (talk) 16:04, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Twilight (novel) (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection vandalism, Looks like a concerted vandalism attack by multiple IPs going on. Oscroft (talk) 15:10, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Judging from that, looks like 4chan to me. Momo san Gespräch 15:18, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

semi-protection, see history lots of IP vandalism, last good version is here. Thank you! --HappyInGeneral (talk) 15:54, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
Merge duplicate request with this one Momo san Gespräch 15:56, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Pictogram voting support.svg Semi-protected for a period of three days. After three days the page will be automatically unprotected. — Kralizec! (talk) 16:03, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] User talk:71.239.23.70 (edit|user page|history|links|watch|logs)

semi-protection user talk of blocked user, ranting on talk page after being blocked. Also violations of WP:CIVIL and refactoring other users comments. Momo san Gespräch 15:09, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Stop x nuvola with clock.svg User(s) re-blocked with talk page editing disallowed — Kralizec! (talk) 16:00, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Andrew "Muzic" King (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Indefinite create-protection, Repeatedly re-created vanity page for non-notable person. MuffledThud (talk) 14:43, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Pictogram voting support.svg Fully protected — Kralizec! (talk) 15:59, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Template:CUR (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Full protection high-risk template. Most country templates are fully protected due to wide-spread use, but a few aren't, including this one that I just reverted vandalism on. Perhaps protection policy should be consistent? (Edits to these templates should be very very rarely required.) Other country templates that lack the protection that most have are: Template:ARU, Template:BAH, Template:MAF, Template:NZ, Template:NZL, Template:UAE. Tcnuk (talk) 12:43, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

All Pictogram voting keep.svg Done Rjd0060 (talk) 14:37, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Tom Fordyce (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection vandalism, Currently subject of a discussion on bbc website http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/8432885.stm. Basement12 (T.C) 12:27, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Pictogram voting support.svg Semi-protected for a period of seven days. After seven days the page will be automatically unprotected. NW (Talk) 15:03, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Posušje (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection vandalism, Constant IP vandalism by block evading user Aradic-es. ◅ P R O D U C E R (TALK) 12:23, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Pictogram voting delete.svg Declined The article has only been edited by two IPs in the past 25 days. — Kralizec! (talk) 15:58, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
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