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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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.

Current requests for protection

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

Temporary semi-protect IP Vandalism, involves BLP attacks on the filmmakers by ever-changing IPs. - SummerPhD (talk) 13:21, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Big Brother 2010 (UK) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protect IP Vandalism, This page has been successfully semi-protected before, and progress on the page was good during that time. IP edits are starting back up again - mostly discreet vandalism which may go unnoticed. Can this page be semi-protected for at least another few weeks as the TV series is up and running, and vandalism is picking up. _Will^Dow (Talk) 13:13, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

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

Temporary semi-protection, There has been an recent upsurge in dubious unsourced edits to this BLP. William Avery (talk) 13:13, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Maicon Douglas Sisenando (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection vandalism, excessive vandalism by multiple IPs. Minimac (talk) 13:09, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Prime Minister of Australia (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary full protection dispute, Dispute over whether it should be "Prime Minister" or "prime minister" (pm.gov.au supports the former) - Both of the involved editors have breached 3RR and don't look like stopping any time soon. AussieLegend (talk) 12:47, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. I've blocked two editors for three hours: this was blatant edit warring, and both were fully aware of the talkpage but chose to supplement their discussion with frequent reverts. The argument is also very, very WP:LAME. TFOWR 13:10, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

I have unblocked one editor after receiving their assurance that they would not revert further, and would continue discussion. Naturally I would hope to be able to do this to the other editor involved, and have no objection to an unblock should they agree to the same conditions. TFOWR 13:24, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

This seems quite reasonable. --AussieLegend (talk) 13:27, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

I've received an identical commitment from the other editor, and am happy for them to be unblocked. Currently, both editors remain blocked. A little help from an admin-with-clue would be good ;-) TFOWR 13:56, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Isner–Mahut match at the 2010 Wimbledon Championships (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi protection vandalism, High-profile tennis match. Repeated IP vandalism. Request protection to established users only. — Timneu22 · talk 11:28, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of two days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Because the match can't continue for too much longer, right?! Blimey, I feel sorry for the players. If the match (and the vandalism) does continue beyond two days, report back here. TFOWR 12:54, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

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

Temporary semi-protection, Weird one is this - lots of newly registered users all making edits to the same section on the page. No other sections - just a long unsourced list of mobile phone products. I have already reverted the addition of large amounts of Korean text and am giving consideration to reverting to the last-known-good version from 21 June. I suspect all these users are the same person - not least because their only edits have been to this specific article and section - but don't really see what they would gain from this. In the meantime semi-protection for a couple of days would stop this. . Biker Biker (talk) 10:37, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Agree that it's weird! TFOWR 11:22, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

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

Semi-protect. High level of IP vandalism(possibly by sockpuppet). Sentinel R (talk) 10:30, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. It looks like it was one IP, over several days, and with a current final warning. I blocked them for 31 hours; let me know if the problem recurs when the block ends. TFOWR 11:18, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Off on a tangent (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Indefinite create-protection, repeatedly re-created article on band which asserts no notability . Empty Buffer (talk) 08:25, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Creation protected. Courcelles (talk) 09:17, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Off On A Tangent (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Indefinite create-protection, repeatedly re-created article on band which asserts no notability . Empty Buffer (talk) 09:06, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Creation protected. --Bongwarrior (talk) 09:25, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Comment: How about Off on a Tangent (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) as well? I don't think it got hit by these users, but it might not hurt to cover all bases. CycloneGU (talk) 12:07, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

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

Temporary semi-protection vandalism, BLP getting lots of hit-and-run action from IPs right now due to disallowing a goal at the World Cup. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 08:21, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Declined, pending changes is active on the article, and the vandalism level isn't so bad as to require semi-protection on top of that. NW (Talk) 09:29, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Somebody to Love (Justin Bieber song) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-Protect - Heavy vandalism target from multiple users, really bad today. (CK)Lakeshade✽talk2me 08:08, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Multiple IPs putting durty wurds into a popular article. Why do I have a funny feeling I should never touch articles involving the word "Bieber"? TFOWR 11:37, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Engineering college rankings in India (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protect. IP vandalism on factual data. There ought to be no harm in protecting factual data tabulated in the 2009 section. P vs np (talk) 06:46, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. The most recent IP edits look like they could be a misguided attempt to update the table with 2010's figures? (Don't know, haven't seen 2010). Regardless, previous recent IP edits were either deletions or replacing several schools with one ("my school is the best!") Hopefully short-semi will stop this. TFOWR 11:32, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

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

Semi- or Full protection We need semi-protection of some sort here, but I'm worried we may need full. Reviewers are reverting spammy edits to the point that we had 7 unaccepted edits at one moment (it was a mess, didn't want to convert back easily). More spam has just occurred since then. This woman just became the new Australian PM June 24 (today). CycloneGU (talk) 06:29, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. I've removed the pending changes from this article because I think it is better served by regular semiprotection right now, being a current event and all. --Bongwarrior (talk) 08:48, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Yup, that was the idea behind the request. Being a current event, a lot of regular users will want to legitimately edit, but with the potential for spam (again as a current event), those legitimate edits could be lost when a spam edit is reverted, or we have to roll back to the prior accepted version and don't notice the good user in between. It's better to cut out the spammy IP part. A month seems about perfect for the timeframe; reviewers can perhaps take over then after that if pending changes can be returned then. Thanks for setting. =) CycloneGU (talk) 12:03, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

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

Semi-protecion Ever since the article was unprotected two days ago their has been excessive vandalism from IP users. Crystal Clear x3 04:55, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Declined —Ed (talk • majestic titan) 06:10, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Removal of pending changes protection can be requested to any administrator, or at requests for unprotection. It may also be removed by any administrator who feels it is not providing sufficient feedback value in the trial, and in the usual cases where protection can be removed. If necessary, another kind of protection will replace the pending-changes status.

Since unprotection, the article had been vandalized a lot of times. Tbhotch^{Talk C.} 06:15, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Semi-protected. Pending Changes is clearly not providing enough value. NW (Talk) 06:22, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

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

Temporary semi-protection vandalism, High levels of vandalism. The Utahraptor ^Talk 03:13, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 03:18, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

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

temp semi vandalism - one user working across multiple IPs after blocks constantly adding "leg snapped like a twig" in reference to this article's broken leg last month. Disgusting edit and the page needs protection to prevent this BLP vio. Paralympiakos (talk) 02:05, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Only one disruptive edit since previous protection expired. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 03:20, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

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

Indefinite semi-protection vandalism, NUMEROUS revisions by IP users removing a member of the band that is confirmed and sourced. DAILY reverting (sometimes more) must go on because of this one issue even though there is an HTML comment explaining why the member is listed. ~ [ Scott M. Howard ] ~ [ Talk ]:[ Contribs ] ~ 00:15, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Already protected. by SlimVirgin -FASTILY ^(TALK) 00:59, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Degrassi: The Next Generation (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protection. Constant IP vandalism. 117Avenue (talk) 00:08, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. -FASTILY ^(TALK) 00:58, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

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

Long-term semi-protection. Article is on a high profile[1] internet celebrity, it is a split of an already long-term semi-protected article (Fred Figglehorn). 117Avenue (talk) 00:00, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. -FASTILY ^(TALK) 00:58, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

List of Pokémon (252–280) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protection - a fair bit of "Mudkip"-related vandalism over the past day; the page has been a target of vandalizers in the past. Melicans (talk, contributions) 23:28, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Declined If 207.81.36.234 starts to vandalism again. Report them to WP:AIV. -FASTILY ^(TALK) 00:57, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

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

Indefinite semi-protection vandalism, or at least for a very long time. This seems to be a long-term target. The High Fin Sperm Whale 23:21, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 year, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. SlimVirgin ^{talk|contribs} 00:20, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Template:Uw-blpprod4 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

semi-protection high-visibility template, And all the other warnings in the series. -- Marcus Qwertyus (talk) 23:19, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Declined – Pages are not protected preemptively. -FASTILY ^(TALK) 01:00, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

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

semi-protection vandalism, 4chan attack, protect immediately please.  – Tommy [message] 22:50, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Ok, I see it's done already. There are some IPs at AIV that should be blocked for attacks from 4chan as well. Thanks  – Tommy [message] 22:55, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Already protected. by MuZemike (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA). SlimVirgin ^{talk|contribs} 00:21, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Banning policy (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Indefinite move-protection, Wikipedia policy page, that should probably not be moved without discussion. Feinoha ^{Talk, My master} 22:42, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Move protected. SlimVirgin ^{talk|contribs} 22:49, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Peter Jones (entrepreneur) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection, High level of IP-additions of unsourced trivia about some game show (?). MrStalker ^(talk) 21:48, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. SlimVirgin ^{talk|contribs} 22:28, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

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

Semi-protect. Incessant POV-pushing by IPs. Some sort of action may also need to be taken against La chouffe (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), who appears to have stalked User:Killing Vector into this article. Illythr (talk) 20:53, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. SlimVirgin ^{talk|contribs} 22:31, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

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

Semi-protecion – Excessive vandalism. Yet another (completely unpredictable, I'm sure) rousing success story for removing protection to "test" this novelty. Fat&Happy (talk) 20:43, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Semi-protected indefinitely. SlimVirgin ^{talk|contribs} 22:32, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

2010 Central Canada earthquake (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary move protection - while consensus is worked out for proper name. It's being flip-flopped all about and that isn't good for harmonious editing. –xeno^talk 19:50, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

 Done--Patar knight - ^chat/_{contributions} 19:57, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Done (for the bot) SlimVirgin ^{talk|contribs} 03:33, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

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

Temporary semi-protection, IP editor keeps adding irrelevant and poorly sourced attack on an unrelated subject. Verbal chat 19:37, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Technically this is a content dispute, so Fully protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.. On the other hand if there is no conversation during those three days and the ip returns to edit war some more, re-report here. Beeblebrox (talk) 21:35, 23 June 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

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

Semi-protect. High level of anon vandalism. DVdm (talk) 21:02, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Pending changes failed with this too. Tbhotch^{Talk C.} 21:12, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

I don't know. Each time I tried to undo or revert, someone beat me to it. Selective pending changes seems to attract vandal fighters. DVdm (talk) 21:22, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. basically restoring the previous protection that downgraded for the flagged rev/pending changes/whatever thing. Beeblebrox (talk) 21:28, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

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

semi-protect Undergoing staged multi-ip attack. HalfShadow 20:50, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a short while (twice). -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 20:54, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

India versus Pakistan cricket rivalry (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Indefinite semi-protection vandalism, Plenty of vandalism, rigging of stats and addition of WP:OR by IPs to suit their side. Very sensitive article. Arjun^codename024 18:48, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Declined I only see two recent reverts, article has never been protected before to indefinite protection would be way out of line. Beeblebrox (talk) 21:31, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

2010 Central Canada earthquake (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection - juvenile vandalism on emerging event. –xeno^talk 18:18, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Already protected. by another admin. SlimVirgin ^{talk|contribs} 18:29, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

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

Indefinite/Long term semi protection false information is continually added by an IP - the IP is fairly static, so maybe a long term block of the IP addresses that have been used would be more effective. -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 18:02, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. for a month HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 18:16, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 19:56, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

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

Semi protection was removed, vandalism immediately went into overdrive. Semi protection was restored, and of course, vandalism ended, but almost immediately, without discussiion, the semi protection was removed again, and vandalism is back to its unacceptable level. Indefinite semi protection, vandalism is constant. Everard Proudfoot (talk) 17:42, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Declined Needless to say, this is a disaster. But the page is currently undergoing a Pending Changes test so vandalism shouldn't be a serious issue. -FASTILY ^(TALK) 17:50, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Republic of Ragusa (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection, excessive IP vandalism and sock activity. --DIREKTOR ^(TALK) 17:38, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. -FASTILY ^(TALK) 17:47, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Help:Pending changes (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Indefinite cascading semi-protection, High visibility page. monosock 17:28, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. -FASTILY ^(TALK) 17:45, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

WWE Money in the Bank (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection vandalism, There is high rate of vandalism on page. Max Viwe | Wanna chat with me? 16:57, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. TFOWR 17:03, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

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

Indefinite semi-protection vandalism, Enough is enough. Frank Fontaine (talk) 16:34, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Isn't that under Pending Changes Protection? The C of E. God Save The Queen! (talk) 16:41, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

I haven't been on here since FV was added. No idea! Haha. --Frank Fontaine (talk) 16:44, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Doesn't seem to be - it looks like PC protection was removed because it hadn't gone through the proper channels. Anyhoo... I'm taking a look now. TFOWR 16:46, 23 June 2010 (UTC) Ignore me, it quite clearly is: history shows PCs being accepted and unaccepted. TFOWR 16:47, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Already protected. I'm going to decline, on the basis that it is under pending changes protection, so vandalism isn't getting through to casual readers. Equally, vandalism is getting caught by reviewers. If there were legitimate IP edits caught up amongst the vandalism edits I'd be prepared to re-think, however. TFOWR 16:51, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Ah, I just semi protected it because there has been nothing but vandalism since the PC was implemented. I've brought it up at WT:Reviewing, but TFOWR, feel free to revert me. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:02, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Nope, no reverting necessary! No point creating unnecessary work for the editors there, which is what PC-not-semi was doing. TFOWR 17:05, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

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

Temporary semi-protection vandalism, Repeatedly seeing IP vandalism. — Zhernovoi (talk) 16:06, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Might be a bit short, but it's not been protected for some time. TFOWR 16:55, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

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

Temporary semi-protection vandalism, Referee in the America Algeirs match, the previous referee was attack for refusing a goal, this referee has also refused a goal and is under attack already. The previous wikipedia BLP of the previous referee was mentioned for the attacks in multiple press sources, the type of advertising we can do without. Please semi protect 48 hours. Off2riorob (talk) 15:28, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Semi-protected 7 days. Bencherlite^Talk 16:14, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

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

Temporary semi-protection. Anonymous users add an unreferenced dubious claim. X7q (talk) 07:38, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

 Pending changes protected. Please post back if semi-protection is required. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:24, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Done SlimVirgin ^{talk|contribs} 03:33, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

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

Indefinite semi-protection. I don't know why someone believe that ths article need help from IPs and non.confirmed users. Tbhotch^{Talk C.} 21:06, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

Semi-protected indefinitely. SlimVirgin ^{talk|contribs} 21:57, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

Can we maybe give it a little bit more time under pending changes? I'm going to AGF this one, and hopefully some constructive non-autoconfirmed edits will come along. I see one accepted edit already, maybe more will come along... Connormah (talk | contribs) 23:03, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

Might be worth raising on AN to get outside opinions, but I think unprotecting this was, well, I'll AGF and call it optimistic. I'm inclined to agree with Tbhotch and Slim. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 23:09, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

For Connormah, the only accepted edition I made it, the user reverted a vandalism he did, so Pending Changes was a waste of time. And sorry, the next time I'll say that the page is is pending changes. Tbhotch^{Talk C.} 00:31, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Now here's an interesting thing. When I saw the request to add protection, I looked at the protection log, not by clicking on "log," but by going to the top of the article and clicking on "protect." This is what I saw. The last two entries were:

1. (del/undel) 02:13, June 22, 2010 Yamamoto Ichiro (talk | contribs | block) changed protection level of Adolf Hitler [move=sysop] (indefinite) ‎ (hist | change)
2. (del/undel) 22:15, September 3, 2009 J.delanoy (talk | contribs | block) changed protection level of Adolf Hitler [edit=autoconfirmed] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite) ‎ (Unending stream of IP vandalism) (hist | change)

I wondered why Yamamoto would simply have removed protection, so I restored it, thinking he'd made a mistake. It's only when you go to the full log that you see Yamamoto's other entry:

1. (del/undel) 02:13, June 22, 2010 Yamamoto Ichiro (talk | contribs | block) configured pending changes settings for Adolf Hitler [Accept: require "autoconfirmed" permission] ‎ (hist)
2. (del/undel) 02:13, June 22, 2010 Yamamoto Ichiro (talk | contribs | block) changed protection level of Adolf Hitler [move=sysop] (indefinite) ‎ (hist | change)

File:Adolf Hitler protection log.JPG

Adolf Hitler protection log

I still would have wanted to restore semi-protection, but if I'd seen this I probably wouldn't have done it so quickly. SlimVirgin ^{talk|contribs} 00:17, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

I think Yamamoto just restored the move protection, rather than the semi, if I'm seeing things right.Connormah (talk | contribs) 00:46, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Another interesting point: compare the times between the PC protection and the first vandalism instance. I think it may have a little hope, but that's just me. Connormah (talk | contribs) 00:48, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

The first log entry shows him changing the protection level so that it's only move protected. This is the only one I saw when I clicked "protect" at the top of the article. But the second log entry, which you can see when you look at the full log for the article and not just the protection log, shows him adding PC protection after that. For some reason PC protection isn't showing up in the protection log. SlimVirgin ^{talk|contribs} 00:49, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

PC, irritatingly, has its own log. If you scroll down on the protection screen (below the move prot settings) you can see what the PC is currently set to. Apologies to Tbhotch and Connormah who, unable to access the protection screen, are probably wondering what the hell I'm talking about! HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 01:53, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

I've uploaded a screenshot so everyone can see the protection screen. You're right, HJ, it does show the PC1 in the pending changes box, but I just glanced at the protection log at the bottom, which doesn't show it. I'll know in future to look at both. Something else for my poor addled brain to have to worry about. SlimVirgin ^{talk|contribs} 02:35, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

By the way, as a side note, please don't forget to remove the WP:PCP status of the page when you elevate the protection back into semi, so people won't get confused. Thanks. 山本一郎 (会話) 07:51, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Done (for the bot) SlimVirgin ^{talk|contribs} 18:39, 23 June 2010 (UTC)