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.

Template:Compact ToC (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Indefinite semi-protection: This is the only A~Z table of contents template. Others were deleted per TFD, so this could be vulnerable to unconstructive edits that have not yet happened. If "indefinite" doesn't work, how about temporary? If "semi-protection" is not enough, how about full protection?. George Ho (talk) 08:06, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Semi-protected indefinitely.. Vandalism to it should be fairly easy to detect, so semi should suffice. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 08:31, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

User:7265 (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Protection: See history and User:Semifreddo (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) and Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Gnetwerker : sockpuppet template being repeatedly removed, the same thing on wikipedia.org/wiki/user:Semifreddo?action=history too, it's Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Gnetwerker that there appears to have been a (rather successful) campaign to hide the evidence... I'd say you should probably do the lead one too or stuff is just going to keep getting removed when no one is watching, he knows what he is doing. :/ --Mistress Selina Kyle ^{(Α⇔Ω ¦ ⇒✉)} 02:30, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Semi-protected indefinitely. I've also fully protected User:Semifreddo, and I'll gladly up this one to full protection, but the account isn't blocked, so either it needs to be or the tag currently on there needs to be replaced with something more accurate. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 07:19, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Big Bang (South Korean band) (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism. Millyyyy (talk) 06:03, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Declined – Consider dispute resolution. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 07:12, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Rashad McCants (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protection Recent wave of vandalism and sarcastic edits, inspired, to some extent, by a sports talk radio event: [1] Zagalejo^^^ 04:06, 9 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? 07:11, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Lee Corso (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection Persistent sockpuppetry. Tbhotch.^™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions. 03:50, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 day. After 1 day the page will be automatically unprotected. Materialscientist (talk) 04:06, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

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

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Binksternet (talk) 03:22, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Already protected by Ged UK (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights). — HelloAnnyong ^{(say whaaat?!)} 04:18, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Bashar al-Assad (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Breawycker (talk to me!) 03:08, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of a year. After a year the page will be automatically unprotected. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 07:08, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

2012 Italian shooting in the Arabian sea (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Indefinite semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism and POV pushing deleting contents and page blanking. Please allow only auto-confirmed users to edit the article..
Anish Viswa 02:12, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Semi-protected — Two weeks. EdJohnston (talk) 05:48, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

List of DirecTV channels (United States) (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Indefinite semi-protection IP vandalism on a daily basis. Has been semi-protected for same numerous times in the past. TomCat4680 (talk) 02:04, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Semi-protected — Two months. EdJohnston (talk) 05:41, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

List of programs broadcast by Disney Junior (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protection Numerous IP addresses continuously remove content without proper edit summary. WikiLubber (talk) 01:28, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Semi-protected — Two months. Heavy volume of IP edits, usually lacking sources, edit summaries or talk comments. EdJohnston (talk) 05:35, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Gemma McCluskie (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protection A particularly sensitive case, since she is missing and a body which may be hers has been pulled from a canal, but this has not been officially confirmed, and IPs are trying to change her status to dead without confirmation. PatGallacher (talk) 00:42, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Semi-protected — One month. EdJohnston (talk) 05:31, 9 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.

Shuffle Master (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Please unprotect. This page was salted back in 2009 after being speedied twice (once for copyvio, once for no claim of notability). A Google News search turns up plenty of sources for notability, and I'd like to start an article. The protecting admin is no longer active. Toohool (talk) 22:31, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Unprotected Reaper Eternal (talk) 22:32, 8 March 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

List of best-selling singles worldwide (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protection Persistent vandalism. Tbhotch.^™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions. 23:38, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of a year. After a year the page will be automatically unprotected. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 00:15, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Talk:Republic of China (edit|article|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent return of IP socks attributed to blocked editor User:Instantnood, who likes to make large numbers of edits and alters talk page content each time. This has been going on for more than three months now and is particularly frustrating for editors trying to reasonably discuss the page and its current move request. NULL (talk) 21:58, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Declined, there appear to be IPs making legitimate contirbutions to the discussion. Unfortunately, protecting the apge would stop this sockmaster making a nuisance of himself, but it would also bar legitimate contributions, and that's too high-a-price. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 00:09, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Agreed, I wasn't sure if this would be the best solution. There's also an SPI open on the sockmaster so hopefully that will resolve today's particular issue. NULL (talk) 00:11, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Jackson Guthy (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Full Protection: Persistent page vandalism. False information being provided. Jackson Guthy (talk) 21:56, 8 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? 00:05, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Priority date (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. SD5 20:59, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Declined, not enough vandalism givethat there appear to be constructive (or at least good-faith) IP edits. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 00:02, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Bad Girls Club (season 4) (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism. Junebea1 (talk) 20:51, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three weeks. After three weeks the page will be automatically unprotected. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 00:00, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Bad Girls Club (season 6) (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism. Junebea1 (talk) 20:47, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three weeks. After three weeks the page will be automatically unprotected. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 23:59, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Bad Girls Club (season 7) (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism. Junebea1 (talk) 20:41, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three weeks. After three weeks the page will be automatically unprotected. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 23:57, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Randi Zuckerberg (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protection: Remarkably persistent vandalism by dynamic IP editor 182.182.*.* (changing 'sister' to 'wife'). Few other recent edits. Qwfp (talk) 20:26, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Non-admin reply Template:Tld:RFPP User warned. Please re-file if warnings aren't enough. -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 20:38, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

You do realize there have been dozens of edits by multiple IP dresses? Not by just one. JayJay^{Talk to me} 20:40, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

True enough, but given the lack of warnings I think we need to try that first. The warnings should have been escalated cross-IP from the beginning of January. -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 20:48, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

I don't believe giving a warning to ONE IP adress will help, since there are so many dynamic IP addresses. JayJay^{Talk to me} 20:52, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Treat them as one individual. When the next IP comes along give them the next level warning, then block them, then semi-protect. -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 22:05, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of six months. After six months the page will be automatically unprotected. This has been going on for a long time. The IPs are all from the 182.182.0.0/17 range, but there are borderline constructive edits coming from that range, and I can't tell if it's the same person responsible for these edits. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 23:51, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Template:Republican Party presidential primaries, 2012 (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protection: Highly visible template. JayJay^{Talk to me} 22:36, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Declined – This template is not used widely enough to be considered a high-risk template. Armbrust, B.Ed. ^{Let's talk}_{about my edits?} 22:52, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Critical race theory (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 22:14, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three days. Tiptoety ^talk 22:20, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Kawasaki W800 (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Repeated insertion of copyright violating material by IP-hopping user who refuses to accept that copyvio is not permitted. Biker Biker (talk) 21:39, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Already protected by Drmies (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights). Tiptoety ^talk 21:57, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Muffin Spencer-Devlin (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism emanating from what appears to be a single Columbus, Ohio, area anon editor. JohnInDC (talk) 21:26, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Already protected by Drmies (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights) for a period of three months. Armbrust, B.Ed. ^{Let's talk}_{about my edits?} 22:56, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Jewish lawyer stereotype (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism emanating from what appears to be a single Columbus, Ohio, area anon editor. JohnInDC (talk) 21:26, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Already protected by Drmies (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights) for a period of three months. Armbrust, B.Ed. ^{Let's talk}_{about my edits?} 22:56, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

List of Jewish economists (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism emanating from what appears to be a single Columbus, Ohio, area anon editor. JohnInDC (talk) 21:26, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Already protected by Drmies (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights) for a period of three months. Armbrust, B.Ed. ^{Let's talk}_{about my edits?} 22:57, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

List of All Grown Up! characters (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism emanating from what appears to be a single Columbus, Ohio, area anon editor. JohnInDC (talk) 21:26, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Already protected by Drmies (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights) for a period of three months. Armbrust, B.Ed. ^{Let's talk}_{about my edits?} 22:58, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

This page received 3 months of semi-protection on 6 March 2012. However, someone with administrator privileges (DuncanSandy) re-entered the following slanderous comment on March 8: "Despite his role as an academic leader and representative of research institutes, Sheikh Nahyan has no academic or scholarly achievements himself. However, according to Emirati tradition, anybody with the appropriate beard and expression may informally refer to themselves as a 'professor' and undertake representative duties in scholastic and academic settings." Please significantly increase the level of protection and remove this malicious statement. Thank you.

(non-admin reply) A user does not need administrator privileges to revert such thing, only Autoconfirmed users can edit on that page. I also reverted his actions. JayJay^{Talk to me} 21:21, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Armbrust, B.Ed. ^{Let's talk}_{about my edits?} 23:00, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Category:Cite doi templates (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Indefinite semi-protection for the contents of the category. It currently contains almost 20,000 templates that are used as references for articles. They would rarely need to be modified and if they are it would probably be a bot or experienced user. Since they are tucked out of the way, and there are so many of them, and any edits would be disruptive they deserve a degree of protection. There are some other such categories that I would also like to have the same protection applied but lets see how this one goes first. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 20:45, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Declined – Pages are not protected pre-emptively. Also if there needs to protect 20,000 pages, than an admin-bot would be better suited for the job. Armbrust, B.Ed. ^{Let's talk}_{about my edits?} 23:25, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Thom Yorke (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. JayJay^{Talk to me} 20:34, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Already protected by Drmies (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights) for a period of three months. Armbrust, B.Ed. ^{Let's talk}_{about my edits?} 23:21, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

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

Temporary full-protection: Non-content related "edit war", I've reverted three times today, so I'm requesting eyes, preferably.—Machine Elf ¹⁷³⁵ 20:33, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Declined. Seems to be about over, but if it persists, one or both of you may end up blocked. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 23:36, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Allen Stanford (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protection. Allen Stanford just convicted of ponzi scheme much vandalisim Jim1138 (talk) 19:57, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Already protected by Drmies (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights) .--Pontificalibus (talk) 21:36, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Team Solomid (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Drmies (talk) 19:56, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Already protected by Gogo Dodo (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights). Tiptoety ^talk 21:55, 8 March 2012 (UTC)