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'''Semi-protection:''' Sudden increase of multiple IP and new users spamming links. [[User:Yosemiter|Yosemiter]] ([[User talk:Yosemiter|talk]]) 14:50, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
'''Semi-protection:''' Sudden increase of multiple IP and new users spamming links. [[User:Yosemiter|Yosemiter]] ([[User talk:Yosemiter|talk]]) 14:50, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

=== [[User talk:Aditya Kabir]] ===
* {{pagelinks|User talk:Aditya Kabir}}
'''Indefinite Semi-protection:''' Repeated IP attacks, probably caused by an old gang of socks that has been disrupting the Wikipedia for many years. Every time one IP is blocked the sockmaster uses another IP. My talk page has enough discussions with two admins, four IPs been blocked and the page has been semi-protected for some time. None of that worked. Perhaps indef semi-protection will work. [[User:Aditya Kabir|<span style="font-family: Kristen ITC; color: deeppink;">Aditya</span>]]<sup>([[User talk:Aditya Kabir|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Aditya Kabir|contribs]])</sup> 16:13, 2 September 2020 (UTC)


== Current requests for reduction in protection level ==
== Current requests for reduction in protection level ==

Revision as of 16:13, 2 September 2020

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    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.

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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.

    High risk templates, IAR ECP protected

    Was doing some template category housekeeping and came across these. Group of templates which are either WP:HRTs with IAR ECP protection, likely originally to help a non-TE work on them, but don't appear to have (in the last year) a non-TE editor edit them actively (and, even if they did, imo said editor should just be encouraged to request TE & likely given it if they can handle HRTs). Overuse of ECP on templates kinda beats the IAR part imo. Few exceptions for where it seemed appropriate, so I've omitted them from the list (as well as any DS usages or vandalism from autoconfirmed). For the data templates, they're pretty infrequently edited, so TPERs for them seem suitable as standard. One or two low-usage templates which are pre-emptive ECP protections, which was rejected by RfC. Thoughts on fixing their protections? I've given a suggestion for each. Ping protecting admins: Primefac, Ymblanter, Lectonar, MSGJ, Xaosflux, ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 22:39, 29 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    whoops, forgot Johnuniq. In hindsight, I probably should've put your pings next to each template for ease of access... ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 22:44, 29 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    Template:Blocked user can be reduced to semi as far as I am concerned. Can not be unprotected due to a long history of disruptive edits.--Ymblanter (talk) 22:49, 29 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    Upgraded to TE for those as marked, as I agree. Primefac (talk) 23:28, 29 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    I'm not researching all of these, if you have a question about one - ask me about the specific one. "Overuse of ECP on templates " is a bit of a stretch, this is a minuscule list compared to all templates - and the IAR policy is well supported for edge cases of most anything. — xaosflux Talk 23:47, 29 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    I tagged you as the protecting admin for {{Country data Iowa}} but that's been sorted now. I'd say it's overuse when the use is not appropriate, I don't think the majority of these were special in any regard to (still) be treat as edge cases. Certainly such cases exist, and I omitted the ones I thought met that criteria.
    The remaining ones are actually for a decrease in protection level, which I guess is why Primefac hasn't touched them, so they need the protecting admin to look at them. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 10:49, 30 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Summarising the remaining ones with a ping to protecting admin, for ease of access amongst the clutter above:

    • Template:Medical cases chart (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) -> semiprotection. @Johnuniq:
    • Template:Gong (band) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) -> semi would've been suitable then, but none probably now? @Fish and karate:
    • Template:DYKproblem (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) -> semi or TE? @MSGJ:
    • Template:WikidataOI (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) -> @Primefac: (protection reason given was to match module; looks like the module is the generic Module:Wd currently at TE, although this template has 1k transclusions, either/or seems fine to me?).
    • Automated comment: This user who requested protection has been blocked.—cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online 22:01, 1 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    • The three Template:Medical pages are edit and move ECP protected. The respective transclusion counts are 371, 334, 670. If someone wants to decrease them to semi-protection, please do so. I would prefer firmer guidelines but in their absence I see no reason why someone under 500/30 should be encouraged to edit templates with hundreds of transclusions. I don't see any edit requests on the (single) talk page apart from feature suggestions. The time to decrease the protection would be when new editors put helpful changes in the sandbox. Johnuniq (talk) 04:41, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
      I'd challenge that personally. The guideline would be WP:HRT, particularly Note that a bot automatically template-protects pages with over 5000 transclusions and semi-protects pages with over 500 transclusions, and that a 2018 RfC identified rough consensus to permanently semiprotect templates with at least around 200-250 transclusions. It's policy to semi-protect for hundreds of transclusions, the numbers you cite aren't really extreme. It is explicitly rejected to pre-emptively or routinely EC-protect templates, and while there are such valid protections on a case-by-case basis, transclusion count alone should not cause rejection of semiprotection and EC-protection instead. I quote: There is a clear consensus against using extended confirmed protection preemptively on high risk templates. This leaves full protection, template editor protection and semiprotection as the three common protection levels, while extended confirmed protection can still be used when Arbcom specifies a 30/500 remedy, or when semiprotection has proven ineffective. After all, it's completely wrong to think that having 500/30 makes one automatically more likely to know more about templates. There is no evidence of disruption here, or wider disruption in the template namespace when semis are used, and I would further note as an example that the entire {{Gs}} system of templates was unprotected for years and had no disruption (although this does meet WP:HRT and thus is protected which I agree with, but the point is true nevertheless). Aside from HRT and the RfC, I guess we also have WP:NO-PREEMPT here. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 12:21, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Dwarkanath Kotnis

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Curbon7 (talk) 02:11, 1 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    What vandalism are you referring to? This IP edit is removing an unsourced claim. OhNoitsJamie Talk 03:42, 1 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    Declined – Likely collateral damage as one or several users who are making improvements would be affected by the requested protection. Lectonar (talk) 13:13, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Lupin III: Strange Psychokinetic Strategy

    Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – Persistent insertion of links to articles in draftspace. Binksternet (talk) 21:58, 1 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    List of programs broadcast by Playhouse Disney

    Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. IanDBeacon (talk) 22:12, 1 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Not done Since the article has no references whatsoever, it is difficult to know if the added items are good faith additions or vandalism. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:55, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Hindkowans

    Temporary full protection: Persistent edit warring – Continued deletion of sourced information in an article against the reversions of multiple users restoring the stable version (see Exhibit A, Exhibit B, Exhibit C, and Exhibit D). Given the long-term nature of this behaviour, I would kindly request at least one-month with respect to full protection to allow the reverting user to work out his/her issues on the talk page. AnupamTalk 03:29, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    User(s) blocked. Lectonar (talk) 14:01, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Umayyad tradition of cursing Ali

    Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Constantly being vandalized due to the sensitive religious nature of this article. James Richards (talk) 05:44, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    User(s) blocked. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 13:20, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    List of synthetic diamond manufacturers‎

    Indefinite Semi-protection: Spam magnet. For over a year the only edits are spam and reverts, with occasional bots tweaking something. Staszek Lem (talk) 06:24, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 13:25, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Nita Ambani

    Semi-protection:High level of vandalism. XRedParrot (talk) 06:36, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Lectonar (talk) 14:03, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Drew Pavlou

    Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations, plus general NPOV and citation violations – General NPOV and V violations in almost every edit as Pavlou is quite a controversial figure. Been NPOV tagged for a while, article pretty much rewritten, now there's enduring attempts to add undue and largely unsourced commentary. Several misrepresentations and opinions being thrown in about Pavlou being suspended for his anti-CCP protesting, even though that had nothing to do with his suspension (which was based on racist comments he made online, in-person and claiming to be a spokesperson for UQ). Violations from mainly IPs but also a seemingly SPA. ItsPugle (please ping on reply) 07:19, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Lectonar (talk) 14:05, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Donald Trump photo op at St. John's Church

    Semi-protection: High level of IP hijinks. Volunteer Marek 08:36, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Ni no Kuni

    Indefinite extended confirmed protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Persistent and repeated abuse from LTA. Indef semiprotection clearly doesn't work as the sockpuppeteer is known to abuse the Sandbox in order to circumvent the autoconfirmed restrictions. Blake Gripling (talk) 08:42, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Dragon Quest XI

    Indefinite extended confirmed protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Persistent and repeated abuse from LTA. Semiprotection (or heck, even indef semi) clearly doesn't work as the sockpuppeteer is known to abuse the Sandbox in order to circumvent the autoconfirmed restrictions. Blake Gripling (talk) 08:44, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Batangas City

    Indefinite extended confirmed protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Persistent and repeated abuse from LTA. Indef semiprotection clearly doesn't work as the sockpuppeteer is known to abuse the Sandbox in order to circumvent the autoconfirmed restrictions. Blake Gripling (talk) 08:44, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Baguio

    Indefinite extended confirmed protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Persistent and repeated abuse from LTA. Semiprotection clearly doesn't work as the sockpuppeteer is known to abuse the Sandbox in order to circumvent the autoconfirmed restrictions. Blake Gripling (talk) 08:45, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Stan Lippmann

    Semi-protection: BLP policy violations – IPv6 returns with BLP violations right after protection was lifted. Pikavoom (talk) 09:00, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Eastern Protestant Christianity

    Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring. Elizium23 (talk) 10:34, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Extended confirmed protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. OhNoitsJamie Talk 13:22, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Dorsett Wanchai Hong Kong Hotel

    Temporary pending changes: Persistent disruptive editing – persistent promotional editing by COI accounts. Citobun (talk) 10:36, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Adam B

    Semi-protection: Persistent (three IPs in last 24 hours) WP:DERRY violatons. FDW777 (talk) 12:18, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    • Automated comment: One or more pages in this request appear to already be protected. Please confirm.—cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online 15:16, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Fall Guys

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Short-term IP disruption since previous protection ended a few days ago. -- LuK3 (Talk) 12:52, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Articles that suffer edit warring

    Temporary full protection: High level of content dispute/edit warring. There are a edit warring between users that I was tired. 180.242.45.27 (talk) 12:55, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    User(s) blocked. Lectonar (talk) 14:06, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Gunna (rapper)

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Repeated vandalism by different IP's. Robvanvee 14:16, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. --Deepfriedokra (talk) 14:23, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    User(s) blocked. --Deepfriedokra (talk) 14:23, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    Note: Bloody Vikings --Deepfriedokra (talk) 14:23, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada

    Semi-protection: Sudden increase of multiple IP and new users spamming links. Yosemiter (talk) 14:50, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. OhNoitsJamie Talk 14:55, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Mexican Open (tennis)

    Semi-protection: Sudden increase of multiple IP and new users spamming links. Yosemiter (talk) 14:50, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    User talk:Aditya Kabir

    Indefinite Semi-protection: Repeated IP attacks, probably caused by an old gang of socks that has been disrupting the Wikipedia for many years. Every time one IP is blocked the sockmaster uses another IP. My talk page has enough discussions with two admins, four IPs been blocked and the page has been semi-protected for some time. None of that worked. Perhaps indef semi-protection will work. Aditya(talk • contribs) 16:13, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Current requests for reduction in protection level

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    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.

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    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.

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    Overprotected fully-protected templates

    Older copyright templates (standard is now TE, & here):

    All full protected templates which should be downgraded. Suggestion for new protection level given, per WP:HRT. Don't want to post on multiple different admin talks per template, so hope this works. Pinged protector in each case. Many of these are legacy pre-2012 protections. Others appear to be random. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 21:51, 29 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    I've dropped protection on the checkY-marked templates, as well as the older copyright templates. Primefac (talk) 23:29, 29 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    Cheers. Also, just realised Backslash Forwardslash and Aitias are inactive since 2010 & no longer admins, so can another admin take a look at their 2 templates? ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 10:48, 30 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    Done those two. Lectonar (talk) 11:40, 31 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    • Please unprotect the POTD template. I didn't even realize it was still protected, and I no longer have the mop to do it myself. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 17:22, 31 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    Done --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 20:21, 31 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    {{RFPP|ad}} for the bot (non-admin closure) © Tbhotch™ 19:31, 1 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    Deactivated. This request is not complete, as some templates in the list remain protected (lowering protection requires the protecting admin to address it, they've been pinged next to each template, i.e. the ones without ticks). ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 20:10, 1 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Current requests for edits to a protected page

    Further information: Wikipedia:Edit requests
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    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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    • 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.
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    Ideally, requests should be made on the article talk page rather than here.

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    • 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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    Further information: Wikipedia:Edit requests


    Israel-Hamas War

    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)[reply]

    @LordOfWalruses this is not the place. Contentious topics should not be unprotected. 48JCLTALK 12:42, 2 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @48JCL: Unregistered and non-extended-confirmed editors are allowed to request edits to ARBPIA pages here. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v threads critiques 15:09, 2 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    The talk page Talk:Israel-Hamas War is protected, therefore edit requests by non-extended-confirmed users land here. That is acceptable, and this request made above is reasonable. The people who actually do participate on that talk page should be reviewing requests here that remain open and haven't been declined for days. ~Anachronist (talk) 20:30, 2 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    So basically, I shouldn’t request an edit here but I should request an edit at the talk page (and the same goes for future edit requests)? LordOfWalruses (talk) 12:40, 6 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @LordOfWalruses:, it is unusual for talk pages within scope of the WP:PIA remedies to be extendedconfirmed protected (). That normally only happens after a high level of disruption. You can normally submit edit requests to talk pages. Edit requests most likely to succeed are those that are 'Specific, Uncontroversial, Necessary, Sensible' per WP:EDITXY. You can also submit them here if you prefer, there is nothing wrong with that. In fact, I think there are arguments in favor of centralizing all edit requests for WP:PIA to a single location as long as active editors add it to their watchlists (which is probably not the case right now to a large extent). Submitting edit requests to an article talk page obviously means that only a subset of the community who happen to have watch listed that particular page are likely to see it. Sean.hoyland (talk) 12:59, 6 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Israel-Hamas War

    Add the 90,000 displaced Lebanese to the infobox. Under the following section: 

       1,900,000 Palestinians displaced in Gaza Strip[87]
   200,000–500,000 Israelis displaced initially,[88][89] down to 60,000 by early 2024[90]

    Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68418012 And more up-to-date sources here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0OzIfLUTnw 181.98.62.149 (talk) 01:26, 6 June 2024 (UTC) Create a level 3 header with a link to the article in question, then a {{pagelinks}} template and then the reason.[reply]

    Handled requests

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

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