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.

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

semi-protection SEVERE vandalism. This article has had lots of high profile vandalism from IP edits today and yesterday. The vandalism goes beyond factual inaccuracy in that it is malicious towards the subject of the article, defamatory and down-right unacceptable language for wikipedia (encyclopedic content). I request several weeks semi-protection to monitor the situation if not indefinate semi-protection given the previous history of the article. (Lil-unique1 (talk) 20:27, 18 April 2009 (UTC))

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. One IP today, that is not severe. The IP can easily be blocked instead. Regards SoWhy 20:40, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

I just noticed that Acalamari (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) has done so. SoWhy 20:41, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

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

semi-protection vandalism, Probably due to recent comments, lots of IP vandalism yesterday and today. Should cool off in a few weeks. Loonymonkey (talk) 19:03, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. AlexiusHoratius 19:12, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

St Cuthbert With St Matthias School (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary full protection, Removal of AfD tags and uploading media with problems as per STBotI - almost certainly good faith actions so a user block seems inappropriate but the user doesn't appear to be looking at their talk page so no way of asking them to desist. ~Zoe O'Connell~ (talk) 14:54, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Declined, sorry, but good faith or not, if it's only one user, then they should be blocked instead. Maybe they will read their talk page then. SoWhy 20:39, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Talk:Stephen Barrett/Archive 13 (edit | article | history | links | watch | logs)

Indefinite cascading full protection dispute. Naohiro19 revertvandal (talk) 13:57, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. SoWhy 20:37, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

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

Semi-protection IP vandalism, unlikely that the redirect will need to be changed. —Snigbrook 13:43, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--RegentsPark (My narrowboat) 14:45, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

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

Semi-protection IP vandalism, unlikely that the redirect will need to be changed. —Snigbrook 13:43, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--RegentsPark (My narrowboat) 14:47, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Talk:Tony Buzan (edit | article | history | links | watch | logs)

semi-protection vandalism IP vandalism An anonymous editor who deletes his own IP address and calls himself The Tony Buzan Organization removes tags on the main article and the talk page and deletes all comments, announcing: 'the page has been blanked', while another anonymous editor, also deleting his IP address and calling himself 'Arnold', leaves hostile messages. The article itself is clearly a puff. Page history speaks for itself.Sartoresartus (talk) 13:26, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. SoWhy 13:30, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

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

full protection vandalism, IP vandalism every now and then. . Miacek (t) 13:01, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. —Wknight94 (talk) 13:11, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

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

semi-protection vandalism, IP hopper adding unsourced nickname despite consensus on talk page, Blocking won't work neither will warnings to the IP. Page history basicly tells the story here. Momusufan (talk) 02:45, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of two months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--chaser - t 04:15, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

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

Temporary full protection - page is under attack from a vandal who seems to have no problem getting around IP blocks and regsitering new accounts. Only one constructive edit in the last month, almost all others were his socks or other assorted vandalism. McJeff (talk) 02:45, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three days. Tiptoety ^talk 03:10, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

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

Temporary semi-protection vandalism, no constructive edits within one week; all are IP vandalism and reversion. Johnny Au _{(talk/contributions)} 14:40, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 24 hours, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. — Kralizec! (talk) 15:11, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

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

Temporary semi-protection vandalism, Has come under recent content removal from a dynamic IP. ∗ \ / (⁂) 01:42, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 72 hours, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Skier Dude (talk) 01:52, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Thankyou. :) ∗ \ / (⁂) 01:53, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

List of Desperate Housewives episodes (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protection: A lot of recent unconstructive edits have been made to the page. -- Luke4545 (talk) 01:24, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Skier Dude (talk) 01:49, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

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

Semi protection. Persistent vandalism. ^LeaveSleaves 00:58, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of six months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. — Kralizec! (talk) 01:01, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

New Wave Music (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Reapplication for semi protection Continued attempts to inject the group Modern Talking into a sentence describing groups that were successful in the United States. The group never charted and was not well known in the U.S. according to the Wikipedia article on them.

Note: Warned user. — Kralizec! (talk) 12:38, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

2009 Tea Party protests (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protect. A decent amount of vandalism and POV from ips and newly registered users, along with some edit wars. Showtime2009 (talk) 00:34, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. — Kralizec! (talk) 01:00, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Invaders Must Die (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protect. Moderate but persistent level of IP vandalism. At least once a day it has needed to be reverted. Andrzejbanas (talk) 23:49, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Icestorm815 • Talk 05:27, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Beşiktaş J.K. (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protect. Moderate but persistent level of IP vandalism. Ericoides (talk) 22:26, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one day. Tiptoety ^talk 22:28, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, but wouldn't a month be better? Ericoides (talk) 22:30, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

There is simply not enough activity or history history of protection to justify a one month lock. Tiptoety ^talk 22:43, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Veruca Salt (band) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Indefinite semi-protection, BLP problems: 2007, 2008, 2009. m:OTRS Ticket:2009041710051827. -- Jeandré, 2009-04-17t21:04z 21:04, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 30 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.. I also will had a hidden comment re: unsourced speculation about the band's line up changes. Xymmax ^{So let it be written} _{So let it be done} 21:26, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

User talk:Galorr (edit | user page | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary full protection, redirect to main talk page check edit summery . Staffwaterboy ^{Critique Me Guestbook Hate Comments} 16:02, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Declined - as noted when the page was un-protected, if something is going on, we need to contact you now rather than wait for you to log into your main account. — Kralizec! (talk) 23:53, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

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

Semi-protection. Persistent vandalism. Galorr ^{Critique Me} 15:27, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

IP behind most of the vandalism has been blocked 24h; is semi still necessary? KuyaBriBri^Talk 16:19, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. — Kralizec! (talk) 23:53, 17 April 2009 (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.

User:WebHamster (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Unprotection, The protecting admin edited the page and then protected his preferred version, in defiance of a recently concluded MfD. DuncanHill (talk) 17:24, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Already done. Majorly talk 17:27, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Already unprotected. (for the bot). Thanks, PeterSymonds (talk) 18:00, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Stuck

I NEED TO MAKE A SECTION. BUT I CANT EDIT IT! PLEASE UNPROTECT IT!

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

Unprotect. This is a protected redirect link to an obscure World War II ship that only operated from 1943-1945. It should be unprotected to allow a redirect to the Mirth (disambiguation) page, as there are other (more current) uses of the word Mirth. Perspectoff (talk) 14:50, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Not unprotected - given the number of times this article has been deleted, unprotecting it does not strike me as being the best idea. — Kralizec! (talk) 15:14, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Matt Smith (British actor) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Unprotection, No reason for move protection. Sceptre ^(talk) 02:34, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Unprotected —Wknight94 (talk) 02:37, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

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

Unprotected Tim Vickers (talk) 17:23, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

• Unprotection, Downgrade to semi: the edit war is one IP against a multitude of editors, no reason to lock everyone else out. Sceptre ^(talk) 01:36, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Note: Please contact the protecting admin, Viridae (talk · contribs). –Juliancolton | ^Talk 01:59, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

The protecting admin appears to be offline. SunCreator (talk) 02:27, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

• Unprotect, Remove entirely. No reason to lock. SunCreator (talk) 02:04, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
• Unprotection: Change to semi-protected. Full protection was/is not needed. IP75 (talk) 05:56, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
• Note Logged in users in any good-faith content dispute (which this appears to be at a glance) do not get any special preference over IP users. If two IP users are dueling, then semi is appropriate. If an IP is dueling a logged in user, then full is required. Semi is not intended to give logged-in users an edge. It's primarily meant to stop vandalism. Letting Viridae, the protector, know about this thread too. rootology (C)(T) 06:09, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
• What Root said, that was the purpose of the full protection. Viridae^Talk 09:20, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
  • We're not allowing anyone to edit the article so as not to give an advantage to signed in users over IP's?! That's ridiculous. --Anewpester (talk) 11:48, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
• 'What Root said', is why there is a good case to unprotect the article rather then semi-protect. Leaving this article fully protected is the worse possible outcome. Wikipedia is looking stupid under the spotlight. SunCreator (talk) 10:41, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
• Unprotect it; this is ridiculous. If any user, IP or logged in, violates 3RR in an edit war simply warn/block that user... not everybody else. Semi protection is reasonable as it is a high visibility entry, but I do not agree with full protection. R3ap3R.inc (talk) 13:52, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

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

Unprotect. Trying to get a wiki page up for my fraternity. I've been working on a wiki page for it at User:Hawee/Gamma_Beta. I don't see the reason for protecting this. Please let me know what I can do to unprotect it or any edits I may need.(Hawee (talk) 00:25, 18 April 2009 (UTC))

Not unprotected in light of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gamma Beta and discussion at User talk:Hawee/Gamma Beta. The better avenue for contesting article deletions is deletion review, rather than this page. But as others have pointed out, that's not likely to be fruitful either given the absence of reliable secondary sources. The organization is just not yet notable enough for a Wikipedia article. Sorry.--chaser - t 04:03, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Abuse filter/Requested (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Unprotect. As the primary victims of this filter, new and unregistered users ought to be able to make suggestions for improvement rather than only being able to report false positives. There is no history of vandalism to the page other than one instance of page move vandalism, and I'm not suggesting you allow page moves. Gurch (talk) 17:23, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Unprotected. Agreed. Kept move-protection though. —Wknight94 (talk) 02:44, 18 April 2009 (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.
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Name-dropping (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Please insert two names: Angelique Carrington, Tamara Harrington. --58.178.154.112 (talk) 02:21, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Declined This request doesn't make any sense.--chaser - t 04:11, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Fulfilled/denied requests

Paul Myners, Baron Myners (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Indefinite semi-protection against Babylon93, presently 86.165.65.125 (talk · contribs). Kittybrewster ☎ 18:18, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection.--GedUK  20:29, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Girl Got Game (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection vandalism, Heavy IP vandalism, particularly from the User:Bambifan101 IP socks. -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 17:48, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--GedUK  18:20, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

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

Indefinite create-protection, Repeatedly re-created. KuyaBriBri^Talk 18:00, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Creation protected –Juliancolton | ^Talk 18:05, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

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

Indefinite create-protection, Repeatedly re-created. KuyaBriBri^Talk 17:47, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Creation protected One month. (Unclear that the subject is completely non-notable.) --RegentsPark (My narrowboat) 18:12, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

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

Temporary semi-protection vandalism, IP vandalism. Willking1979 (talk) 17:36, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 18:08, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

User talk:Ckilla021994 (edit | user page | history | links | watch | logs)

Indefinite full protection user talk of blocked user, User blocked indefinite by Academic Challenger, but continuing to perform disruptive and rude edits. Broccoli (talk) 15:20, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 16:00, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

technically user was blocked before, but I reblocked with a more restrictive block. ;) Syrthiss (talk) 16:20, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

The block was tweaked so that the user cannot edit its own talk page. Why is full protection necessary? Shouldn't it be semiprotection at most? Enigma^msg 17:29, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

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

Indefinite create-protection, Repeatedly re-created. KuyaBriBri^Talk 16:18, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Creation protected. Fvasconcellos (t·c) 16:37, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

School District 43 Coquitlam (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protection. Persistent anonymous vandalism. Greg Salter (talk) 15:30, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

User(s) blocked.. Fvasconcellos (t·c) 16:41, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Knights of Columbus (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protection. Persistent vandalism. Galorr ^{Critique Me} 15:13, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 15:16, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

PlayStation_3_system_software (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection vandalism, 2.70 update release date has been changed numerous times from different anonymous IP's.Pardthemonster (talk) 14:46, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Only you've edited in a week. --GedUK  14:52, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

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

Temporary semi-protection vandalism, way too much. Enigma^msg 13:49, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Rjd0060 (talk) 14:18, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

List of hollows in Bleach (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection vandalism, Extremely heavy IP vandalism of late. -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 13:47, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--GedUK  14:35, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

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

Remove move protection. Article at Republic of Macedonia was recently moved to the Macedonia page and move protected at that location by one rogue admin whose actions are currently being viewed by the Arbitration Committee. Request removal of move protection so article can be returned to its previous location, where it had steadily been for several years without incident, so that discussion regarding the name dispute can continue and involved editors can have more faith in the effectiveness of policies and guidelines to all editors, including admins. John Carter (talk) 13:55, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Declined - while there may be a case for reversing the move, there certainly is no reason to expect that allowing non-admins to move the article will improve the situation. Admin moves of the article shouldn't be discussed here, but using the various other more discussion-friendly options of either WP:RM or dispute resolution. This is the wrong forum to ask for a re-rename. Kusma (talk) 14:19, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

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

Semi-protection. various IPs being used to repeatedly change cited date of death (12/22) to one day later. - SummerPhD (talk) 13:00, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection.. I agree that this probably is one user who disagrees, but it not enough of a dispute to lock the page from all ip edits. It seems as if the easiest thing to do who be to find another source or two that lists her date of death, the NYT article seems a bit vague. Xymmax ^{So let it be written} _{So let it be done} 13:21, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

List of instruments in Wii Music (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protection. IP vandalism has been growing recently. – ThomasO1989 (talk) 12:14, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--GedUK  13:30, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

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

Semi-protection. Sockpuppets of banned user User:Kuntan both with registered usernames and IPs is vandalising the page again and again. Even cited text is being deleted and abusive comments are being pasted on another editor's talk page.--Radhakrishnansk (talk) 14:02, 18 April 2009 (UTC)