Wikipedia:Requests for page protection

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Welcome—request protection of a page, file, or template here.

Before requesting, read the protection policy. Full protection is used to stop edit warring between multiple users or to prevent vandalism to high-risk templates; semi-protection and pending changes are usually used to prevent IP and new user vandalism (see the rough guide to semi-protection); and move protection is used to stop pagemove revert wars. Extended confirmed protection is used where semi-protection has proved insufficient (see the rough guide to extended confirmed protection) After a page has been protected, it is listed in the page history and logs with a short rationale, and the article is listed on Special:Protectedpages. In the case of full protection due to edit warring, admins should not revert to specific versions of the page, except to get rid of obvious vandalism. Request protection of a page, or increasing the protection level Request protection Request unprotection of a page, or reducing the protection level Request unprotection Request a specific edit to a protected page Please request an edit directly on the protected page's talk page before posting here Request edit

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Current requests for protection

Place requests for new or upgrading pending changes, semi-protection, full protection, move protection, create protection, template editor protection, or upload protection at the BOTTOM of this section. Check the archive of fulfilled and denied requests or, failing that, the page history if you cannot find your request. Only recently answered requests are still listed here.

Brumby (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

full protection - tempers are getting frayed, and it is a complex topic WRT their environmental impact. Feel we need to lock things down before it gets into a revert-war. I'd do it myself but have edited the page, although I can see both sides of argument. Just needs a day or three. Casliber (talk · contribs) 22:31, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Rich Harden (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protect. Another free agent signing and another deal which has been announced but is not official yet. TM 00:35, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Courcelles 00:38, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

Mute Magazine (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Indefinite create-protection, Multiple re-creations of an article about a non-notable magazine. andy (talk) 00:22, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

Creation protected. Courcelles 00:38, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

MacBook Air (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection vandalism, Spam link addition, unhelpful edits; PC1 might work as well (wink). • 00:04, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

Declined, One IP, 223.206.39.191, whom I just cautioned. Send him to AIV if problems continue. Courcelles 00:40, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

List of biblical commentaries (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary move-protection, There have been several moves without any discussion or explanation. This needs to stop. Suggest a one month move protect in whichever form it winds up in. The other side will have to justify a move back. Thanks. Student7 (talk) 23:45, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Move protected in the title I found it in. Courcelles 23:56, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Ben_Henderson_(fighter) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Full Protection until 11PM EST US, Minor vandalism (or a time traveler). the fighters record has been modified to show him loosing a fight that takes place tomorrow. I have corrected the record to show the fight has not taken place. The event is scheduled to be over by 11PM EST, so it seams reasonable to lock the page until then. --Sdamon (talk) 23:35, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 18 hours, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Courcelles 23:57, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Richard Littlejohn (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Long Term Semi protection', persistent long term IP Vandalism, This page suffers from large amounts of persistent IP vandalism. Please protect long-term or permanent. Christian1985 (talk) 23:10, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 250 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Courcelles 00:41, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

George Papandreou (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection vandalism, Continuing IP vandalism. Dr.K. ^{λogosπraxis} 22:38, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Fully protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Courcelles 00:43, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

This is a mistake. This is not a content dispute. It is vandalism. Please look at the edits more carefully. Last edit his picture was replaced by a Nazi war picture of Quisling. The other edits change his religion to Jewish. It is pure vandalism. Dr.K. ^{λogosπraxis} 00:50, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

Plus Casliber's note belongs in another section. It got shafted by mistake here. Dr.K. ^{λogosπraxis} 00:53, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

Magicianchristopher (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

create-protection, repeated recreation; no sign of notability; failure to understand basic requirements - WP:COMPETENCE problem.  Chzz  ►  22:11, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Creation protected. Elockid ^(Talk) 22:19, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

1953 Iranian coup d'état (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Full protection Ongoing dispute about an image caption, with a dozens reverts and partial reverts in the last week. Please protect for two weeks to allow sufficient time for a resolution, through consensus on the talk page. Kurdo777 (talk) 22:07, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Fully protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Courcelles 00:45, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

Articles of Confederation (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

semi-protection vandalism. MorganKevinJ^(talk) 21:18, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Courcelles 21:21, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Falklands War (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary Semi-protect. Vandalism, non Neutral point of view by UK editers and with Conflict of interest. MFIreland • ^Talk 21:01, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Note: Those involved in the budding edit conflict war are all registered, auto-confirmed editors. Semi-protection will do nothing. --GraemeL ^(talk) 21:09, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Fully protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. - After another couple of rounds, it looked to be a full blown edit war. --GraemeL ^(talk) 21:21, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Kösem Sultan (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary full protection dispute, Seems to be an edit war going on between an anon and user. Already surpassed the 3RR. ~ Matthew ^{Say hi!} _{How I've helped} 20:51, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Fully protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. - Will warn those involved about edit warring. --GraemeL ^(talk) 20:57, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Matt Damon (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protection very high amount of vandalism. Rusted AutoParts (talk) 16:37, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Semi-protected. -- Cirt (talk) 20:45, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Current requests for unprotection

Before posting, first discuss with the protecting admin at their talk page. Post below only if you receive no reply.

• To find out the username of the admin who protected the page click on "history" at the top of the page, then click on "View logs for this page" which is under the title of the page. The protecting admin is the username in blue before the words "protected", "changed protection level" or "pending changes". If there are a number of entries on the log page, you might find it easier to select "Protection log" or "Pending changes log" from the dropdown menu in the blue box.
• Requests to downgrade full protection to template protection on templates and modules can be directed straight here; you do not need to ask the protecting admin first.
• Requests for removing create protection on redlinked articles are generally assisted by having a draft version of the intended article prepared beforehand.
• If you want to make spelling corrections or add uncontroversial information to a protected page please add {{Edit fully-protected}} to the article's talk page, along with an explanation of what you want to add to the page. If the talk page is protected please use the section below.

Check the archives if you cannot find your request. Only recently answered requests are still listed here.

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 the appropriate template among {{Edit protected}}, {{Edit template-protected}}, {{Edit extended-protected}}, or {{Edit semi-protected}} to the article's talk page if you would like to make a change rather than requesting it here. Doing so will automatically place the page in the appropriate category for the request to be reviewed.
• Where requests are made due to the editor having a conflict of interest (COI; see Wikipedia:Suggestions for COI compliance), the {{Edit COI}} template should be used.
• Requests to move move-protected pages should be made at Wikipedia:Requested moves, not here.
• If the discussion page and the article are both protected preventing you from making an edit request, this page is the right place to make that request. Please see the top of this page for instructions on how to post requests.
• This page is not for continuing or starting discussions regarding content should both an article and its discussion page be protected. Please make a request only if you have a specific edit you wish to make.

Fulfilled/denied requests

Bed intruder costume (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary full protection dispute, Repeated deletion of speedy (and later prod) tags. E Wing (talk) 19:34, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Declined. It was blatant advertising with one abusive editor determined to keep their spam. I've speedy deleted it and blocked the creator as an advertising only account; I've also watchlisted it. --GraemeL ^(talk) 19:43, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

David Epstein (law professor) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection vandalism, This law professor has the same name as another professor recently indicted for criminal behavior. We've had a small spate of ip vandalism. Semiprotect for a week or so until the news blows over? . Ray^Talk 18:49, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Dabomb87 (talk) 19:11, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Jessica Maybal (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Create protection. Hoax article about a supposed actress with six Google hits that keeps gets recreated (and speedied) by the same editor. Erpert (let's talk about it) 18:31, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Creation protected. Dabomb87 (talk) 19:12, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Lalamon (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Indefinite semi-protection. Wikipedia, from what I understand, is a place to gather information and be as descriptive as possible. Several IPs on Lalamon keep removing information -- even legimate information, and, looking at my past behavior, I simply refuse to continue reverting. My revert that I did five minutes ago is my last one for that page, as I simply refuse to get into an edit war over something silly. - Zhou Yu (talk) 17:55, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. - Only ~50 edits in the last 12 months. Not enough activity to justify protection. --GraemeL ^(talk) 19:15, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Ostrich (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protect. Page is experiencing high levels of IP vandalism: currently, virtually every anonymous edit is vandalism, and almost every user edit is reverting IP vandalism. Mr Fink (talk) 17:13, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. --GraemeL ^(talk) 19:13, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

System of a Down (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Flagged revisions - Not sure if this is where I request this, but I can't find another venue. Looking to implement pending changes on this BLP to reduce the visibility of the daily IP vandalism the article receives. - ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ ^τ _¢ 17:00, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. - Reluctant to go longer with an experimental tool. Will renew if it's working. Ask for a switch to semi if it's causing problems. --GraemeL ^(talk) 19:10, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Oak Crest Middle School (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

create-protection, Repeatedly recreated. Pontificalibus (talk) 16:43, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Creation protected Admrboltz (talk) 18:14, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection vandalism, Page is being vandalised by anon IPs quite frequently. The article in question is of a politician who has been in the news recently, and this is attracting a lot of fanatics. I request page protection for a year at least, because it seems unlikely that this politician will go out of the news anytime soon. Regards. MikeLynch (talk) 16:26, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Dabomb87 (talk) 19:07, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

FBS Radio Network Inc. (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protect. Article has been repeatedly vandalized by the Philippine TV vandal using different IP addresses for the past month. -WayKurat (talk) 15:51, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Dabomb87 (talk) 19:05, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Luis Alberto Suárez (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection vandalism, IP-numbers places him in various clubs depending on favoritism. --> Halmstad, Charla to moi 15:49, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Dabomb87 (talk) 19:04, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Anna Ardin (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Indefinite create-protection, Repeatedly recreated. —KuyaBriBri^Talk 15:32, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Creation protected. Dabomb87 (talk) 19:19, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Time Person of the Year (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection vandalism, 4chan attack. Stickee (talk) 15:26, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Already protected. Stickee (talk) 15:37, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Kimba Wood (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Permanent Semi-protect. Consistent high level of IP vandalism due to recent court ruling against a P2P client distributor. Larryisgood (talk) 15:11, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Dabomb87 (talk) 19:13, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Nayantara (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary cascading full protection vandalism, Page protection lifted on 14-Dec-2010 and page was vandalised 25 times on 15-Dec-2010.
Anish Viswa 14:53, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Dabomb87 (talk) 18:58, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Newcastle High School (Australia) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary Full-Protection To prevent further edit-warring while a WP:THIRD opinion is sought. -Danjel (talk) 10:28, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

• For the record, Danjel has been reported for continued edit warring at this page[1] only 20 hours after being released from a block for edit warring. This request, which was made only a minute after his reversion, appears to have been made to ensure his removal of a citation is not reverted by anyone. The report is at WP:AN3#User:Danjel reported by User:AussieLegend (Result: ). --AussieLegend (talk) 13:09, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

• Also for the record, I'm going to maintain neutrality and simply point to my response to AussieLegends report on me also at WP:AN3#User:Danjel reported by User:AussieLegend (Result: ). -Danjel (talk) 13:26, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Declined – Content dispute. Please use the article's talk page or other forms of dispute resolution. and/or edit warring blocks; those are generally better when there are only two editors involved, as seems to be the case here for the most part. AlexiusHoratius 14:13, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Dale Roberts (footballer born 1986) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protection vandalism This football player has recently died and the page is now being hit with vandalism from IPs. The C of E. God Save The Queen! (talk) 12:38, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Declined - only a few IP edits in last 12 hours, and those haven't been terrible - I think I'm going to hold off for now. Re-list it if the situation worsens. AlexiusHoratius 13:50, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Paul Terry (footballer) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection BLP violations following sudden death of former teammate with whose fiancee the subject had an affair. Struway2 (talk) 11:32, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. AlexiusHoratius 13:46, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

All Day (album) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection, Repeated insertion of WP:OR into the article by anonymous and new users despite a drawn-out RFC on the article talk page showing no consensus to ignore all rules to include the OR. Strange Passerby (talk • contribs) 02:28, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of two weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. AlexiusHoratius 14:26, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Coca-Cola (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Whoever is doing that please stop deleting this discussion, it is hard to restore it every day over and over again

Please unprotect to see if the vandalism has ceased. Has been protected for >2yrs. Admin who protected the page is not an admin anymore. Kirils (talk) 13:13, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

Declined, Semi'ed for two years and it still gets vandalism. Let's save ourselves the hassle and just leave it as is. Courcelles 03:41, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

This essay states that the "only way to determine if ongoing semi-protection is still necessary is to remove the protection and see if the vandalism resumes at previous levels." I agree with that essay and don't see how semi-protection affects (or is affected by) vandalism from registered Wikipedia old-timers. This simply disallows unregistered editors from contributing. I'm not saying that vandalism would stop if we unprotect the page. I don't know. We have to try and see. Kirils (talk) 22:13, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

Essays are not rules, are just guides for users in some situations, and what they can do. As Courcelles stated, why a page should be unprotected when it still getting vandalism? Try unprotection on a high visited page will lead at the same as September 11 attacks and Paris Hilton, a very short time of unprotection. Tbh®tch^{Talk ©} Happy Holidays 01:08, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

This page gets less than one vandalism edit per month which is really low compared to vandalism we had when this was put in place.

It realy bothers me what we are becoming. Encyclopedia that anyone can edit? Not for two+ years they can't. There has to be a timelimit set here. No single article should be protected for that long unless the vandalism is ongoing on a regular basis. And once-a-month vandalism can be easily reverted. Your links only go to prove that - each time there was a vandalism it was revereted on average in 4 minutes and vandal went away - vandalism did not PERSIST, which is a requirement for protection.

Since no consensus is possible in discussion between mortal users an admin is there a platform we can bring this to that involves either more mortals or and arbiteration committee. Kirils (talk) 13:32, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

As an uninvolved admin, I endorse Courcelle's decision. Two years have passed, but there is no indication that if I unprotected the article right now, the level of vandalism would not go back to this. The long protection log shows that this article has an extended history of vandalism. As for "This page gets less than one vandalism edit per month which is really low compared to vandalism we had when this was put in place", I'm not sure I follow your logic there. The frequency of vandalism is low right now because the article is semi-protected! Sure, we may get the occasional helpful edit or two from an IP if I unprotect, but I'm quite certain the number of good edits will be dwarfed by the number of unhelpful edits. Dabomb87 (talk) 19:43, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Sophie Monk (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary full protection dispute, heavy IP edit warring recently. Guoguo12--Talk--  03:17, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Semi-protected I'll give it a month. Wow that is some heavy IP editing. Casliber (talk · contribs) 03:28, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Most certainly is. Thanks. Guoguo12--Talk--  20:12, 15 December 2010 (UTC)