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.

Hitman: Absolution (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism. Article has been protected many times. Vandalism always restarts when protection is lifted. X201 (talk) 14:07, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

List of Metal Gear characters (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection. Edit Warring or Vandalsim. Not sure about the nature of editing, but needs protection. SMS ^Talk 14:02, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

Hey Baby (No Doubt song) (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Upcoming TFA. Ankit Maity^Talk_Contribs 11:18, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

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

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – BLP violations and IP fans keep adding their favourite films in Notable filmography section without any valid rationale. —Vensatry _{(Ping me)} 09:39, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

Tsushima Basin (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protection: Persistent POV edits by IPs and un-autoconfirmed users since February 20. ―― Phoenix7777 (talk) 09:14, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 10 days. After 10 days the page will be automatically unprotected. Materialscientist (talk) 09:21, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

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

Semi-protection: Significant vandalism considering the word "bolas" means "balls" in Spanish, and therefore is a major target for IP vandalism as shown in the history. - M0rphzone (talk) 07:37, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

Declined - yet the activity is too low to justify protection. Materialscientist (talk) 07:46, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

1962 NBA Playoffs (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protection: Persistent IP vandalism — Myasuda (talk) 01:57, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

1962 NBA Finals (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protection: Persistent IP vandalism — Myasuda (talk) 01:57, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

Wayne Simmonds (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Blatant racism vandalism by IP's. —KRM ^{(Communicate!)} 01:40, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

Ricardo Fort (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Loved/hated man from the Argentinean gossip/scandal TV scene. Almost all contributions from IPs are vandalism and this isn't going to change in the near future. Neo139 (talk) 01:29, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

The Vue on Apache (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Davejohnsan (talk) 00:24, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

List of The Looney Tunes Show episodes (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Protection: IPs continue to try and add unsourced information while damaging the list template in the process. Sarujo (talk) 23:11, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

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

Semi protection. There is some feuding about the album's total length on the article, involving some IP users and some non-IP users. The total length has not been truly confirmed yet, but an "approximate" length is being added mainly by IPs, some of which have not discussed their changes. Backtable ^{Speak to me}_{concerning my deeds.} 22:48, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Jumong (TV series) (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protection: IP hopping edit warring of the addition of credits of a possible fake person from unregistered users with no verifiable sources from corporation. Possible graffiti and vandalism leading to libel and defamation of intellectual property. Technopaladin (talk) 22:27, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Emperor of the Sea (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protection: IP hopping edit warring of the addition of credits of a possible fake person from unregistered users with no verifiable sources from corporation. Possible graffiti and vandalism leading to libel and defamation of intellectual property. Technopaladin (talk) 22:13, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Emerson, Lake & Palmer (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protection: IP hopper consistently deleting content against consensus without edit summary or discussion. Radiopathy •talk• 22:06, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Percy Lavon Julian (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protection: IP hopping edit warring reintroduction of WP:OR and off-topic edits without edit summaries or talk page discussion. Lynn4 (talk) 20:43, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Director of National Intelligence (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protection, I recently reverted nearly two days worth of unsourced edits to this article by unregistered users, most notably changing the name of the current Director of National Intelligence in the article InfoBox without citing a source for the change. --TommyBoy (talk) 19:48, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Talk:Zadar (edit|article|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Concerns of sockpuppeting among IP addresses in discussions. An editor has suggested a SPI investigation, but instead of lasting sanctions, I think that semi-protection will do the trick for now. Whenaxis talk · contribs | DR goes to Wikimania! 19:18, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

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

Temporary full protection: Edit warring continuning (see the protection log as there's been a long history of edit warring) justifies protection as EW and 3RR failed previously (see the talk page). Whenaxis talk · contribs | DR goes to Wikimania! 19:18, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Pizza Ranch (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protection: Recent attempts by anon IP editor to whitewash the article. MikeWazowski (talk) 18:31, 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)

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)

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)

Not sure...It's fully protected so that people can't put submissions there, so I'm guessing there's some reason it's left blank and fully protected rather than deleted and salted. I would recommend asking User talk:Gfoley4 since he was the one who protected the page. I'd prefer another admin more aware of why it is the way it is decline or accept this request. Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 18:50, 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

Genesis creation narrative (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – New edit war is breaking out once again regarding the word "myth" in the article. Consensus was firm for a while but a current discussion is ongoing. Requesting PP until dispute is resolved. N^oformation ^Talk 23:21, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Fully protected for a period of 2 days. After 2 days the page will be automatically unprotected. Courcelles 23:23, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

FK Vojvodina (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Vandalism!. Nightwolf87 (talk) 22:33, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Courcelles 23:31, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Cinnamon challenge (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Per the revision page for the article here, it has been receiving vandalism from IP editors. Northamerica1000^(talk) 22:28, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 7 days. After 7 days the page will be automatically unprotected. Courcelles 23:32, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Adobe Photoshop (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Vandalism by various IPs.  ⊃°HotCrocodile…… + 22:01, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 7 days. After 7 days the page will be automatically unprotected. Courcelles 23:34, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Eric Chavez (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Pending transaction, but the player needs to pass a physical examination before it becomes official, and the player has an extensive injury history, making it not a slam dunk and a WP:CRYSTAL violation to say he'll pass. A day will probably do. – Muboshgu (talk) 20:06, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 day. After 1 day the page will be automatically unprotected. Courcelles 23:25, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

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)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 months. After 2 months the page will be automatically unprotected. Courcelles 23:30, 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)

Fully protected for a period of 2 days. After 2 days the page will be automatically unprotected. If that was sourced, I might follow this as vandalism (but I'm not sure), but since it isn't, it really looks like a content dispute to me. Courcelles 23:37, 23 February 2012 (UTC)