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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.
Namespace To request page protection / unprotection To request talk page protection / unprotection
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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}}
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===={{lx|Intentionally permanent red link}}====
'''Semi-protect'''. High level of IP vandalism. ~~~~

Where x is "a" for articles, "t" for templates, "ct" for category talks, etc.

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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] Dan lamb (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Salt due to four creations/deletions this month (vandalism/BLP/attack page) --SquidSK (1MC•log) 17:21, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

Pictogram voting support.svg Fully protected for three months. Tan | 39 17:31, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Alex Ellery (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protection for two weeks. Ongoing anonymous vandalism by multiple IP addresses of BLP article.- Wolfkeeper 16:30, 11 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. tedder (talk) 18:28, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Cardcaptor Sakura (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection vandalism, Continually being vandalized by sockpuppets of User:Jdfielder in an extremely pathetic attempt to harass me. As the article is the one suffering, protection seems the best bet. Check user already confirmed his IP range is too dynamic to range block. . -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 16:05, 11 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) 18:25, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] User talk:92.230.85.188 (edit|user page|history|links|watch|logs)

semi-protection user talk of blocked user, Banned User MutterErde, he made an unblock request but I think there is no point in trying to talk to him if possible. Momo san Gespräch 15:37, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

I asked Daniel Case to protect it at his talk page and he did, could someone just tag it for the bot instead? Momo san Gespräch 16:18, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
Pictogram voting wait.svg Already protected by Daniel Case (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · moves · rights). SoWhy 16:34, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Fuego (producer) (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Indefinite semi-protection. Vandalism from IP users since last week. Afp1 (talk) 14:10, 11 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. SoWhy 14:17, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Whatcha Say (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary full protection. Continuous vandalism from various IP users ever since the creation of the page that post false information and I'm tired of cleaning it up. Afp1 (talk) 14:10, 11 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. SoWhy 14:17, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Child labor laws in the United States (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection vandalism, Not sure why we are getting an apparently uncoordinated attack by vandals, but a weeks spite might help. Thanks. Student7 (talk) 12:58, 11 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. SoWhy 14:16, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Middle Schools of Arlington County, Virginia (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Indefinite semi-protection vandalism, Because of the articles extent, it is an attractor to many middle school students in Arlington, an urban area. Nearly all of their "contributions", unlike high school students, is vandalism. They do not yet have the maturity to make a useful edit to this section which is sufficiently mature in its current form as to require few updates. . Student7 (talk) 12:46, 11 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. SoWhy 14:15, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Current requests for unprotection

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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] John Bambenek (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

John Bambenek is a known political activist and information security expert who has published a few books, many articles and book chapters and mentioned in media frequently. He's been the subject of some dispute here which has long since passed. Requesting unprotection to move the draft article (User:CharlesJohnson22/JohnBambenek) in to place. CharlesJohnson22 (talk) 20:23, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Pictogram voting delete.svg Declined, the sourced cited in the draft are not sufficient to show notability.   Will Beback  talk  00:24, 11 December 2009 (UTC)


[edit] Persian people (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

I fully protected this article yesterday as I felt there was an edit war in progress (though some of the accounts involved were blocked by someone else for sockpuppetry). I have been asked on the talk page to review the protection. As I've rather been drawn into the issue, could another admin give their opinion. If they feel unprotecting the article is fine, then just go ahead and do it. Thanks! GedUK  08:50, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

Pictogram voting comment.svg Note: Since a number of those edit-warring have been blocked, I think the protection was not needed. I'd suggest unprotection for now, with a strong reminder to everyone that blocks for edit warring are an definite option if unprotecting results in further such activity. Regards SoWhy 14:23, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Current requests for edits to a protected page

Shortcut:
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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] Talk:Global warming (edit|article|history|links|watch|logs)

In light of recent events and factual evidence, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Global_warming should be unprotected. The global warming zealots are censoring and demeaning all contributions and discussion about the recent revelations of falsified data and research out of pure bias. They have no right to "own" the article or the talk page. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editing_policy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Wikipedia_is_not_a_soapbox_or_means_of_promotion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Do_not_disrupt_Wikipedia_to_illustrate_a_point http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_do_not_bite_the_newcomers

And especially:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ownership_of_articles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Talk_page_guidelines Be Conscise.

68.167.94.179 (talk) 18:18, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Question: Has admin Wknight94 been contacteda about this? Cirt (talk) 19:16, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
I don't think so, I think the page was protected because it was to stop sockpuppets of Scibaby, see the page log. Momo san Gespräch 19:18, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
How convenient for the AGW lie protection staff, huh? 64.53.136.29 (talk) 05:07, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
I've brought this back out of the fulfilled section, and notified Wknight94 of the request. GedUK  08:56, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
I don't see much new here. Oppose unprotect. Wknight94 talk 12:14, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Climatic Research Unit e-mail hacking incident (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

This page was full protected for the second time due to, apparently, edit warring / content disputes. The rationale for full protection in these kinds of cases is that it "can force the parties to discuss their edits on the talk page, where they can reach consensus", but the talk page is being owned by several editors pushing pro-CRU (the organization embroiled in the controversy) content and quashing critique, at the expense of accuracy and in tension with Wikipedia's policies on, e.g., primary sources. I don't know what the solution is, but I don't think full protection is it. --Heyitspeter (talk) 11:28, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

Pictogram voting delete.svg Not unprotected - you're saying the dispute is so bad that even the talk page is a mess - therefore the article itself should be unprotected? That makes no sense to me at all. It's been protected for all of 1 out of 7 days - have some patience. Wknight94 talk 12:11, 11 December 2009 (UTC)


[edit] Henderson High School (Auckland) (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary full protection vandalism, Addition of inappropriate stats and phrases being added in by an IP. Was previously protected for vandalism by the same IP. Fbifriday (talk) 08:06, 11 December 2009 (UTC) Comment Meant to be Semi. Still trying to figure out twinkle for this purpose, sorry. --Fbifriday (talk) 08:07, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

Pictogram voting support.svg Semi-protected for a period of 1 week. After 1 week the page will be automatically unprotected. Blocked the main troublemaker IP also. tedder (talk) 08:15, 11 December 2009 (UTC)


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

Temporary semi-protection vandalism, 8 occurrences of IP vandalism in the last 14 hours. .  7  06:14, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

Pictogram voting support.svg Semi-protected for a period of 3 days. After 3 days the page will be automatically unprotected. tedder (talk) 07:15, 11 December 2009 (UTC)


[edit] Bow Wow (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Indefinite semi-protection vandalism, Since protection last expired on December 2, hardly anything constructive has come from the many IP users who have edited this article. In fact, this article has a long history of protection due to vandalism. Andrewlp1991 (talk) 06:13, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

Pictogram voting support.svg Semi-protected for a period of 1 year. After 1 year the page will be automatically unprotected. Final non-indef length. tedder (talk) 07:14, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

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

semi-protection user talk of blocked user, Posted fake "request to be unblocked has been granted..." template here. Momo san Gespräch 06:10, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

Stop x nuvola with clock.svg User(s) re-blocked with talk page editing disallowed tedder (talk) 07:12, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Detox (Dr. Dre album) (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

semi-protection vandalism, Article is about upcoming album, and IP trolling is escalating. Andrewlp1991 (talk) 06:09, 11 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) 07:10, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Cash Money Records (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

semi-protection vandalism, Most IP users in recent history have been unconstructive. Andrewlp1991 (talk) 06:07, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

Pictogram voting support.svg Semi-protected for a period of 1 month. After 1 month the page will be automatically unprotected. tedder (talk) 07:04, 11 December 2009 (UTC)


[edit] Dave Grohl (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection vandalism, Repeated violations of BLP policies by anon IPs. Terrillja talk 05:09, 11 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) 05:29, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] The Top 500 Heavy Metal Songs of All Time (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

semi protect. To stop annoying IPs from adding whatever they think should be on the list. As if we care.Д narchistPig (talk) 03:23, 11 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. Dropped a note on WP:CIVIL to AnarcistPig's talk page. tedder (talk) 05:28, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

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

Indefinite semi-protection vandalism, The history of this disambig page is 95% "giggle hee hee, it's about sex, I'm an idiot" × 245 million. A waste of everyone's time who babysits it via watchlist. The application of some brains will be much appreciated!. — ¾-10 02:20, 11 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. tedder (talk) 05:21, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Angels Cry Tour (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Indefinate full protection, both IPs and unexperienced users keep reverting my redirect of this page. This page is based on hearsay and rumoured information. The poster picture used in the article is for a one-off gig but is somehow being claimed under non-fair use as promotion for an unconfirmed world tour. The only sources given are blogs. This article breaks so many rules. Please protect permenantly until it is officially annouced or even IF it is officially announced. (Lil-unique1 (talk) 23:38, 10 December 2009 (UTC))

Pictogram voting comment.svg Note: While sources are not the best, the claims do appear to likely be true. A click-through from one of the references to Ticketmaster show ticket on sale, evidence that supports the tour. I'd suggest editing out the unsourced rumours, leaving a trimmed-down version. -- Tom N (tcncv) talk/contrib 01:02, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
My issue is that these are individual shows. there is not continuity and there is no mention of Mariah Carey's Angels Cry Tour. The user has used a blog which posted rumours which themselves claimed that an official announcement would be made in 2010. Is it not best to remove such information under WP:crystal. It would be ridiculous to create a whole tour page for 3 dates which are even linked by a common theme or under a tour schedule. If that's the case should we start making pages each time an artist performs at a show? or each time they give a scheduled performance? (Lil-unique1 (talk) 02:02, 11 December 2009 (UTC))
Pictogram voting delete.svg Declined, take it through AFD if the article is developed (i.e., is made into more than a redirect). tedder (talk) 05:20, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
(edit conflict) On further review, I agree that a collection for concerts does not make a tour, and WP:CRYSTAL probably applies. That said, I have decided not to pass judgment in this case, since I consider this to be a content dispute rather than vandalism and my opinion counts no more than any other single voice. The other editors appear to be making good-faith edits based on what they believe to be true. I would suggest contacting them and inviting them to discuss the issue on the article/redirect talk page where you can make your case regarding verifiability, reliable sources, and WP:CRYSTAL. If you cannot reach an agreement, I'd suggest soliciting additional opinions from [WP:WP MUSIC]], WP:RSN or via an WP:FRC. or as Tedder suggests above, the WP:AFD process. Good luck. -- Tom N (tcncv) talk/contrib 05:54, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Brandon Marshall (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Full protection, I'm a Third Opinion Wikipedian considering a request to issue a third opinion on this page, but it looks like there's a slow-motion edit war going on over the nickname, mostly conducted from ip addresses, but I have requested full protection because there are claims on the history page that one or more of the disputants are ip-hopping or switching between usernames and ip addresses. TRANSPORTERMAN (TALK) 21:10, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Pictogram voting support.svg Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks. After 2 weeks the page will be automatically unprotected. Seems to be an IP-based war, so I've semi-protected it. The level isn't terribly high, but hopefully this will help resolve (since I see the issue has been open almost a month). tedder (talk) 05:18, 11 December 2009 (UTC)


[edit] User talk:A8UDI (edit|user page|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection vandalism, This is getting really annoying. 6 hours pls and thanks. A8UDI 04:17, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

Pictogram voting support.svg Semi-protected for a period of 6 hours. After 6 hours the page will be automatically unprotected. DMacks (talk) 04:19, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] User talk:121.6.236.4 (edit|user page|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary full protection user talk of blocked user.  7  03:51, 11 December 2009 (UTC) Blocked user continues to abuse unblock request and posts personal information. LovesMacs (talk) 04:05, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

Stop x nuvola with clock.svg User(s) re-blocked with talk page editing disallowed DMacks (talk) 04:20, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
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