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 increase in protection level

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.

The Founding Myths of Modern Israel

• The Founding Myths of Modern Israel (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Indefinite extended confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement – I/P CONFLICT. Shrike (talk) 05:33, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

Extended confirmed protected indefinitely. Johnuniq (talk) 07:50, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

DWKC-TV

• DWKC-TV (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Addition of unsourced or poorly content. SeanJ 2007 (talk) 11:24, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. HJ Mitchell has blocked the range. El_C 15:06, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

Hancock County, Tennessee

• Hancock County, Tennessee (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Heavy vandalism from IPs. Related to "sneed". Unsure what that means but IPs seem to be attacking anything with "sneed" in it. — Mikehawk10 (talk) 15:30, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

• Automated comment: A request for protection/unprotection for one or more pages in this request was recently made, and was denied at some point within the last 8 days.—^{cyberbot I}_{Talk to my owner:Online} 15:42, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. Airplaneman (talk) ✈ 19:31, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

Audrey Truschke

• Audrey Truschke (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. TrangaBellam (talk) 16:17, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

I suggest either permanent or a very long-term protection. This scholar is a target of the Hindu nationlists and I don't see it changing any time soon. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 16:47, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

Uyghur genocide

• Uyghur genocide (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary move protection: Page title dispute/move warring – Per the result of a proposal during a move discussion, there is a consensus to establish a moratorium on moving the page for one year in the absence of significant additional information. The page has been moved twice since the first move discussion that established the current title closed back in June 2020, and I see this as a useful preventative measure. The talk page has also been moved three times in that period (one of the moves only moved the talk page). Page move protection would serve as a preventative measure over the time that the consensus moratorium remains in place. — Mikehawk10 (talk) 16:21, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

Anthony Joshua

• Anthony Joshua (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism by IPs. – ².O.^Boxing 17:13, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

Wilbur Soot

• Wilbur Soot (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations – Numerous violations of BLP/living persons police and numerous vandalism attempts by unregistered users. Owen250708 (talk) 17:39, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

Grant Hanley

• Grant Hanley (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistant nonsense editing from various IP addresses. Samuel J Walker (talk) 18:05, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

• Semi-protected for a period of 3 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 18:07, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

Respect

• Respect (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – non-stop vandalism. Wretchskull (talk) 18:19, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

2021 Rock Hill shooting

• 2021 Rock Hill shooting (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism. P37307 (talk) 18:26, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

Nico Tortorella

• Nico Tortorella (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations – Persistent pronoun changes from IP editors. Woodroar (talk) 19:20, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Airplaneman (talk) ✈ 19:38, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

Selim I

• Selim I (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism. User needs to be blocked. Beshogur (talk) 19:33, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

Baikal International Airport

• Baikal International Airport (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing. Jetstreamer ^Talk 19:39, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

Current requests for reduction in protection level

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.

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.

Wikipedia:Requests

Template:Unicode

• Template:Unicode (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Unprotection: Doesn't appear to still need to be protected. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 03:45, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

User:MiszaBot/config

• User:MiszaBot/config (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Template protection: High-risk template – TE protection should be enough. Was fully protected long ago when TE group didn't exist. The userspace owner who is also the protecting admin (User:Misza13) is long inactive (and no longer an admin). – SD0001 (talk) 14:56, 8 April 2021 (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 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.

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.

Further information: Wikipedia:Edit requests

Electric current

• Electric current (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Change "An electric current is a flow of charged particles,[1][2][3] such as electrons or ions, moving through an electrical conductor or space." to "An electric current is the flow of a charge around an electrical conductor or through space." Reason: The DRIFT section lower down has it right. Up here, it's very wrong. Wiki should not promote wrongness or contradict itself. Please see here: "Drift speed The mobile charged particles within a conductor move constantly in random directions, like the particles of a gas. (More accurately, a Fermi gas.) To create a net flow of charge, the particles must also move together with an average drift rate. Electrons are the charge carriers in most metals and they follow an erratic path, bouncing from atom to atom, but generally drifting in the opposite direction of the electric field. The speed they drift at can be calculated from the equation: v = I n A Q {\displaystyle v={\frac {I}{nAQ}}} where v {\displaystyle v} is the drift velocity I {\displaystyle I} is the electric current n {\displaystyle n} is number of charged particles per unit volume (or charge carrier density) A {\displaystyle A} is the cross-sectional area of the conductor Q {\displaystyle Q} is the charge on each particle. Typically, electric charges in solids flow slowly. For example, in a copper wire of cross-section 0.5 mm2, carrying a current of 5 A, the drift velocity of the electrons is on the order of a millimetre per second. To take a different example, in the near-vacuum inside a cathode-ray tube, the electrons travel in near-straight lines at about a tenth of the speed of light. Any accelerating electric charge, and therefore any changing electric current, gives rise to an electromagnetic wave that propagates at very high speed outside the surface of the conductor. This speed is usually a significant fraction of the speed of light, as can be deduced from Maxwell's equations, and is therefore many times faster than the drift velocity of the electrons. For example, in AC power lines, the waves of electromagnetic energy propagate through the space between the wires, moving from a source to a distant load, even though the electrons in the wires only move back and forth over a tiny distance. The ratio of the speed of the electromagnetic wave to the speed of light in free space is called the velocity factor, and depends on the electromagnetic properties of the conductor and the insulating materials surrounding it, and on their shape and size." 2003:E3:EF1C:62AA:25FC:EBCA:B8B7:B6EE (talk) 08:33, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Not done – You have, correctly, made an edit request at Talk:Electric current#contradictory, sadly - entry paragraph is at odds with an excellent section further down to which I have added an {{edit semi-protected}} template to attract some attention. Favonian (talk) 15:23, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Israel-Hamas War

• Israel-Hamas War (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

I would like to request that... (the map be updated to show that Israel now controls the entire Gaza-Egypt border) . LordOfWalruses (talk) 15:25, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Further information: Wikipedia:Edit requests

Create a level 3 header with a link to the article in question, then a {{pagelinks}} template and then the reason.

Handled requests

A rolling archive of the last seven days of protection requests can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Rolling archive.