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.

United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, 2016

• United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, 2016 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary pending changes: Persistent addition of unsourced or poorly sourced content. George Ho (talk) 09:36, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 12:48, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

Eric Trump

• Eric Trump (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Violations of the biographies of living persons policy. 219.79.180.166 (talk) 10:12, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 year, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 12:52, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

Telephone numbers in Kosovo

• Telephone numbers in Kosovo (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – ok, protection is over, and vandalism started right away! please protect this again for a longer period of month. Axiomus (talk) 11:04, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Two edits by one IP in 24 hours isn't much. If it persists let me know. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 12:56, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Oscar DeRosa

• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Oscar DeRosa (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – I can't watch this page. An administrator please WP:IAR and semi-protect this page for two weeks. Marvellous Spider-Man 12:57, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 12:59, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

Jack Dalrymple

• Jack Dalrymple (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP-hopping vandal adding same vandalism for 4 days. Wikishovel (talk) 13:12, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. -- samtar ^{talk or stalk} 13:14, 5 December 2016 (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.

Amitabh Bachchan

• Amitabh Bachchan (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Indefinite pending changes: Subject:moving protection settings of this article.Please changes it's protection settings to pending changes so that good faith ip editors or new editors should be welcomed and bad faith edits should be deleted.Regards L.D. (talk). L.D. (talk) 18:33, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

Question:. Have you asked SpacemanSpiff? CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 07:06, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

It's a BLP vio magnet so I'm not inclined to change to PC which will just cause more problems. —SpacemanSpiff 11:59, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

Declined For the bot. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 12:57, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

Current requests for edits to a protected page

Further information: Wikipedia:Edit requests

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.

File:Commons-logo.svg

• File:Commons-logo.svg (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Edit request: The description page at Commons is tagged PD-ineligible, would it be possible to update the local copy here? Matt Fitzpatrick (talk) 12:22, 2 December 2016 (UTC)

Malia Obama (First Daughter)

• Malia Obama (First Daughter) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Edit request: Please replace the contents of the page with the following since this redirect has been nominated at WP:RFD (and to add a WP:RCAT):

{{subst:RFD|content=#REDIRECT [[Family of Barack Obama#Malia and Sasha Obama]]
{{R to section}}}}

Thanks! Steel1943 (talk) 23:50, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

Handled requests

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