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.

List of current world boxing champions (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protection:' High level of IP vandalism. There are IP editors who vandalized the entire article, changing most of the informations to an unsourced informations. Thedarkdragon11 (talk) 16:54, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

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

Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism... a variety of IP editors seem to have turned this article into a battle over WP:ENGVAR. Almost all edits by IPs for the last week have been to turn storeys -> stories, metre -> meter, defence -> defense and so on. Astronaut (talk) 10:18, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

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

Semi-protection: High level of vandalism requiring many reverts. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 06:24, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Bellarmine College Preparatory (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protection. Persistent addition of puffery by multiple IPs RA0808 ^talk_contribs 06:04, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Alpha Phi (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protection. Persistent vandalism. Different IPs always the motto Jim1138 (talk) 05:34, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Barclays Center (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection: This article has been constantly vandalized by having the Islanders added to the info box.ObieGrad (talk) 04:42, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Victor Cruz (American football) (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. TM 01:41, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

UFC 144 (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protection: Persistent IP vandalism – rampant activity; removing sources and adding multiple unsourced entries.Ppt1973 (talk) 00:03, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Morton Deutsch (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Please semi-protect for a couple of days. 160.39.82.59 (talk · contribs · info · WHOIS) keeps adding WP:PUFFERY. --bender235 (talk) 22:47, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

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

Semi-protection: just look at the history... enough said lolz. Best, Jonayo! ^{Selena 4 ever} 21:31, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

Fair Labor Standards Act (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – 10 edit filters in the last 5 minutes have been tripped on Fair Labor Standards Act: [1]. Rcsprinter (natter) 17:26, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

• Note: I've blocked the responsible IP. I think that is sufficient for now. Thanks for reporting. -- Ed (Edgar181) 17:34, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
• User(s) blocked by an admin. Armbrust, B.Ed. ^{Let's talk}_{about my edits?} 10:58, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Borderlands_2 (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protection Constant changing of release date to non-cited information Imperialforces (talk) 16:44, 22 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.

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/ (edit|project page|history|links|watch|logs)

Unprotection: This page should be unprotected, deleted, and finally salted because the page is unused, but it's repeatedly recreated. -- SLV100 (talk) 05:07, 23 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

Ottoman Empire (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection: This article has been subject to much vandalism recently by anonymous IPs. Would be good to have some form of protection for this article. Uhlan ^talk 04:06, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 months. After 3 months the page will be automatically unprotected. Courcelles 04:56, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

1884 Colchester earthquake (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Lots of brand new accounts hitting the article for the last few months. Probably the same individual. Dawnseeker2000 02:37, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of five months. After five months the page will be automatically unprotected. Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 02:46, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Cee Lo Green (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP vandalism and WP:BLP policy violations. Last protection was back in February 2011. -- Luke (Talk) 02:15, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of two weeks. After two weeks the page will be automatically unprotected. Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 02:24, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

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

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Long-term IP vandalism. -- Luke (Talk) 02:13, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week. After one week the page will be automatically unprotected. I would go longer seeing as how it's long term but because of the amount of activity and the fact that it doesn't have an extensive history of needing protection I hesitate to go longer than this. Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 02:19, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Berkmar High School (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – recent consistent vandalism from IP address and non-autoconfirmed users justifies protection. Whenaxis talk · contribs | DR goes to Wikimania! 02:06, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks. After 2 weeks the page will be automatically unprotected. Materialscientist (talk) 02:07, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Kingdom (biology) (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. mgiganteus1 (talk) 00:35, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 10 days. After 10 days the page will be automatically unprotected. Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 01:48, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

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

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – There has been consistent vandalism multiple times in a day every couple of days. No IP users have made constructive edits in recent revision history. – Jonadin^(talk) @ 00:20, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month. After 1 month the page will be automatically unprotected. Favonian (talk) 00:43, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Frequent IP vandalism. Recurring issue; previously semi'd on numerous occasions. oknazevad (talk) 22:45, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of two weeks. After two weeks the page will be automatically unprotected. Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 23:12, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

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

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Long-term vandalism. -- Luke (Talk) 21:33, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one month. After one month the page will be automatically unprotected. Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 23:09, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

Stewie Griffin (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Frequent IP vandalism. Hearfourmewesique (talk) 21:30, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 10 days. After 10 days the page will be automatically unprotected. Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 23:02, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

Moves Like Jagger (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection or rangeblock. An user with IP dinamic is removing well-sourced and approved content. Tbhotch.^™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions. 21:28, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one month. After one month the page will be automatically unprotected. Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 23:00, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

Coup d'état (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Edit-warring by new accounts adding a coup without citations or discussion. BLP violation. Δρ.Κ. ^{λόγοςπράξις} 20:05, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three weeks. After three weeks the page will be automatically unprotected. Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 23:24, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

Thank you. Δρ.Κ. ^{λόγοςπράξις} 00:06, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

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

Temporary semi-protection Persistent BLP issues. Tbhotch.^™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions. 19:36, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three months. After three months the page will be automatically unprotected. Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 22:54, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

Epigram (newspaper)‎ (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent removal of a particular paragraph that may seem by some to reflect poorly on the article topic. Looks like a campaign of disinformation by many IPs.  Velella  ^{Velella Talk}   19:35, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

Declined I would recommend trying to engage in discussion with the IPs, and it may very well be that they leave it alone with the new version of the paragraph, so let's wait and see how that turns out. Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 23:19, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

Hosni Mubarak (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection Vandalism. Tbhotch.^™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions. 19:20, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of six months. After six months the page will be automatically unprotected. Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 22:50, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

File:Joe Frazier cropped.jpg (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Unprotection: No longer displayed on main page, local protected copy no longer needed. Kelly ^hi! 22:20, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

• Unprotected and deleted. Deryck C. 22:39, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

File:Lucas Papademos - Plenary Hall, Parliament 16 November 2011 (6) cropped.jpg (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Unprotection: No longer displayed on Main Page, local copy no longer needed. Kelly ^hi! 22:15, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

• Unprotected and deleted. Deryck C. 22:42, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

Talk:Murder of Meredith Kercher (edit|article|history|links|watch|logs)

Remove semi-protection. Subject gets less attraction by now as seen by rare vandalism at the article itself which is unprotected for some time now.TMCk (talk) 22:01, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

• Why not. Unprotected Deryck C. 22:44, 22 February 2012 (UTC)