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.

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

temporary semi-protect. Within hours of the protection template being removed, innaccuarate rumours around this players transfer has started again. Will likely continue until the transfer window closes on 1 September. Ged UK (talk) 11:47, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Marine Corps Air Station Miramar (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

temporary semi-protect. High level of IP vandalism and reverts. Student7 (talk) 11:41, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Keppen-Lubinsky Syndrome (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protection. A lot of IP vandalism and reverts. TVK (talk) 11:34, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

TNA Impact! (video game) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protection - Previous request rejected, heavy IP vandalism. D.M.N. (talk) 10:51, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

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

temporary semi-protection Vandalism, 6 revision in 24 hours, plus many more infantile vandalism prior to that is just going to justify itself a page protection.Jay Pegg (talk) 09:57, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

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

indefinite semi-protection , Preventing IP vandals from vandalizing my userpage..Arbiteroftruth (talk) 07:44, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected Alexf⁴² 12:28, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

User talk:58.178.150.64 (edit | user page | history | links | watch | logs)

temporary semi-protection User talk of blocked user, User changes the tag images to the image of the Mexican flag. Also, user has a 31-hour block.E Wing (talk) 07:25, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected 31 hours, duration of the IP's block. GlassCobra 07:33, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

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

semi-protection the page has heavy vandalism Diaa abdelmoneim (talk) 06:53, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. GlassCobra 07:36, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

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

full move protection, page move vandalism by Grawp. Cunard (talk) 06:18, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Move protected. --PeaceNT (talk) 06:30, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for all the protections! Cheers, Cunard (talk) 06:33, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

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

full move protection, page move vandalism by Grawp. Cunard (talk) 06:15, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Move protected. --PeaceNT (talk) 06:30, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

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

full move protection plus semi-protection, page move vandalism by Grawp. Cunard (talk) 06:13, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Move protected. --PeaceNT (talk) 06:28, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

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

full move protection, page move vandalism by Grawp two times now. Cunard (talk) 06:07, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Move protected. --PeaceNT (talk) 06:31, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

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

protection from creation, repeated recreation of non-notable company. Cunard (talk) 05:55, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Creation protected —EncMstr (talk) 07:15, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

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

long-er term semi-protect. The vandalism activity isn't high but there has not been one IP edit that has contributed positively to this article in many (6+) months. All the edits by registered users have been reverting 'farting'/'poop' related edits and its getting a little old. Check the protection log for this article if you wish. Thanks for the consideration. Katanada (talk) 03:37, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 10 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Timed to expire when northern hemisphere school is out again. —EncMstr (talk) 07:19, 22 August 2008 (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.

Template:Railway line header (edit | [[Talk:Template:Railway line header|talk]] | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Though in common use, this template does not deserve high level protection (semi is more proper.) And recently there's request from normal account to edit the template syntax. -- Sameboat - 同舟 (talk) 02:04, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Declined I don't think it's wise choice, as it has over 2000 transclusions. Maxim (☎) 02:16, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

But there's no vandalizing record in the history before the protection. The edits that were reverted aren't malicious. Isn't its risk for being vandalized overestimated? -- Sameboat - 同舟 (talk) 02:28, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Comment: I agree with the decline. Some recent sophisticated vandals have targeted templates which affect many pages, yet are hard to find in the affected articles. With this many transclusions (I count over 4000), the job queue load occurring from the vandalism plus a revert is significant enough that additional protection is warranted. There seem to be enough admins handling {{editprotected}} and WP:RFPP requests that it shouldn't be very inconvenient. —EncMstr (talk) 07:11, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Template:NavigationBox (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

I would like to request unprotection of {{NavigationBox}}, which has been protected per Wikipedia:High-risk templates. That template is not in high use any longer. --fryed-peach (talk) 09:32, 22 August 2008 (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.

Template:Film (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

As per talk page request. Many thanks! Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 23:13, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Just so I don't muck up a highly-transcluded template, I am right in thinking you want the whole contents of that page put into the template? That page isn't multi-purpose or anything? :) Thanks, PeterSymonds (talk) 23:18, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

I just want a change identical to the cited diff added. However, simply overwriting the template with a cut-paste of my user subpage should be the exact same thing. Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 23:35, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

List of National Basketball Association top individual scoring season averages (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

There is a necessary edit to make on this page, which provides misinformation on NBA history. In fact, the page appears to have been protected in the first place due to an edit war involving the change that needs to be made. However, there was no type of discussion - by either party involved - on the talk page made during that edit war, which perhaps explains why the page was protected in the first place.

Declined What specifically do you want the administrators to add? -Jéské ^{(v^_^v Bodging WP edit by edit)} 04:40, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

I think that you misunderstand. There is not a need for an addition, but rather a piece of content should be removed from the page because it does not actually belong there. A particular player's season is listed there when it is not acknowledged by the NBA in its record books. For some more detail, I have commented on this on the talk page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.31.252.152 (talk) 05:02, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Deferring to another administrator here as this involves editing a section previously the focus of an edit-war. I'm unwilling to make the change, but it does sound reasonable. -Jéské ^{(v^_^v Bodging WP edit by edit)} 18:19, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

So what happens now? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.31.252.152 (talk) 07:13, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

You'll have to wait for another administrator. Another suggestion I could make is to use {{editprotected}} on the talk page and be specific about the edit you want to make; RFPP is rather sleepy at times. -Jéské ^{(v^_^v Bodging WP edit by edit)} 20:56, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Done. Looked right to me; I imagine if other editors have conflicting information/sources, they'll sound off. Tan ǀ 39 04:15, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Fulfilled/denied requests

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

temporary full-protect for the entire day of August 24. This page will be today's featured article on the 24th. Without protection for at least the duration of the TFA the page will be flooded with messages of the type Pluto-is-a-planet. Nergaal (talk) 04:28, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

- Peripitus (Talk) 04:46, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

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

temporary semi-protection. High level of IP vandalism. One user from a specific ip continues to add false content to the page and reverts any effort to remove the false information. User has been provided links to documentation indicating the information is false. Scapefan (talk) 02:53, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Happyme22 (talk) 04:50, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

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

full protection - we're having a bit of an edit war. While the issue is discussed, I'd like to see this page protected from further modifictation. - Denimadept (talk) 00:08, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Fully protected for a period of 4 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. —EncMstr (talk) 02:31, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Shrek (film series) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

It has come to my attention that the film series 'Shrek' is desperately in need of Move Protection as the discussion page has gone rampant and has not been updated for at least 9 months. Messages on the page also seem to be secretly asking for protection and are apparently on the brink of giving up. Veraladeramanera (talk) 01:19, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Declined I don't see why move-protection is needed. There hasn't been any move-warring nor pagemove-vandalism. Maxim (☎) 02:23, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Autumn Tone Records (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

I would like to request unprotection of this page. It is my understanding that, in the past, the fear has been that the page was used in a promotional manner, or with blatant copyright infringement. I believe that there is now enough media coverage, in addition to enough releases and artists on the label, that the page can be created fairly and without copyrighted material. The page was given a very short life and is, now, I feel, able to be a better, comprehensive page. Also, I have attempted to contact the administrator who protected the page, but have not received communication back.At the zoo (talk) 22:18, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Declined It was deleted 4 times in April: twice for copyright violations and twice for not asserting notability. If you like, create a proposed page in your user space (like user:At the zoo/Autumn Tone Records), then come back here and request it be moved into article space. —EncMstr (talk) 02:27, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

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

I'd like to request unprotection of several dozen Dungeons & Dragons related articles. These articles were permanently semi-protected over 6 months ago by Jéské Couriano, as a preventive measure to deter the vandalism of various Grawp IP socks. However, rather than attacking the articles themselves specifically, these IP's seemed mainly involved in harassment in the form of reverting the edits of Jack Merridew, and to a lesser extent, harassment of Gavin.collins and Jéské as well. However, Jack Merridew has been blocked since March, and Gavin.collins has been inactive on D&D articles for a few months as well; not unsurprisingly Grawp has therefore not been harassing either of them on any D&D articles in some time that I am aware of. It does not seem like any of these articles are currently or likely to be under any threat from Grawp's IP attack, so it does not seem to make sense to keep them semi-protected any longer. If any of them do get vandalized in this manner again, it would make sense to return them to a state of permanent semi-protection on a case-by-case basis, and I would offer my sincere apology for suggesting this in the first place. :)

22 Jan: Saurial, Skeleton (Dungeons & Dragons), Drizzt Do'Urden, Ghost (Dungeons & Dragons), Beholder, Carrion crawler, Daemonfey, Celadrin, Catoblepas (Dungeons & Dragons)

25 Jan: Plane (Dungeons & Dragons), Wrackspawn, Vampire spawn, Ghast (Dungeons & Dragons), Kurell, Moonsea, Kor (Dungeons & Dragons), Ilmater, Ibrandul, Ghaunadaur, Garyx, Gargauth, Garagos, Finder Wyvernspur, Fenmarel Mestarine, Gond (god), Gwaeron Windstrom, D'hin'ni, Dark tree, Helm (Forgotten Realms), Hoar, Araumycos, Eilistraee, Eldath, Eshowdow, Planetouched, Choldrith, Weave (Forgotten Realms), Spellfire (Forgotten Realms), Unapproachable East, Calimshan

2 Feb: Brain in a Jar (Dungeons & Dragons), Ghoul (Dungeons & Dragons), Shadow (Dungeons & Dragons), Monk (Dungeons & Dragons), Hook horror, Bhaal, Moonstars, Red Wizard, Shadow Thieves, The Chill, The Kraken (D&D), Zhentarim, Bloodhulk, Ulutiu, Cowled Wizards, Cult of the Dragon, Harpers (Forgotten Realms), Bigby (Greyhawk), Agathos Daimon (Forgotten Realms), Alaghi, Amn (Forgotten Realms), Auril, Cold Lands, The Bloodstone Lands, Deneir, Evermeet, Halruaa, Iyachtu Xvim, List of minor Silver Marches characters, House Do'Urden, Northmen (Dungeons & Dragons), Ostoria, Mythal, Tempus (Forgotten Realms), Torm, Tymora, Talona, Geshtai, Tiamat (Dungeons & Dragons), Ubtao, Umberlee, Uthgar, Valkur, Corellon Larethian, Ssendam, The City of Ravens, The Sellswords, Paths of Darkness, The Parched Sea, Maztica Trilogy, Legacy of the Drow, The Threat from the Sea, War of the Spider Queen, The Wyvern's Spur, Selvetarm, Selûne, Cormanthor, The Knights of Myth Drannor Trilogy, The Elminster Series, The Dark Elf Trilogy, The Cleric Quintet

4 Feb: Orc (Dungeons & Dragons)

67.162.108.96 (talk) 23:59, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

I unprotected the first batch; Drizzt Do'Urden was not edit protected, but is only move protected. I'll nibble away at this later today. —EncMstr (talk) 15:28, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Hey, thanks!  :) At least a couple of the ones you unprotected have already been edited by anons, apparently constructively. This proves nothing one way or the other, of course, but there you have it. 67.162.108.96 (talk) 22:59, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Unprotected There were 89 articles or redirects in the last batch and 9 in the first: 98 articles unprotected. —EncMstr (talk) 02:23, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Wow, more than I thought! Thanks again. 67.162.108.96 (talk) 12:18, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

World Wrestling Entertainment (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

temporary semi-protection Vandalism, The article keeps being vandalized by anonymous users; IPs are mostly vandalizing the article. Too much reverting. I think the article needs to be protected..--  ThinkBlue  (Hit BLUE) 01:41, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

• Semi-protected Acalamari 01:44, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

TNA Impact! (video game) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

temporary semi-protection Vandalism, IP vandalism .-- iMatthew _T.C. 00:19, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Maxim (☎) 02:13, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

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

semi-protection Vandalism, Recently un-protected, now beset by vandalism by IP Addresses, new users, and sockpuppets (pretending to revert vandalism, only to keep large amounts of it in the article).RJC ^{Talk Contribs} 00:17, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Maxim (☎) 00:20, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

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

temporary semi-protection , Article has been under increased attack over the past several days from random IPs and from "red vandalism only" accounts..Libs (talk) 23:41, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 6 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry (talk) 23:43, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

User talk:Sleeping Beast (edit | [[Talk:User talk:Sleeping Beast|talk]] | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

User Sleeping Beast made several malicious page moves today. [1] However, his or her talk page is under full protection (with no reason given), so he or she cannot be warned. JCDenton2052 (talk) 23:55, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Declined Since he is indefinitely blocked, a warning would appear to be redundant. CIreland (talk) 23:57, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Talk:Grawp (edit | [[Talk:Talk:Grawp|talk]] | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protection A couple of IPs keep vandalising this talk page. (Grawp already is fully-protected). – sgeureka ^t•c 22:29, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

• Semi-protected Acalamari 22:32, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Windows 7 (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

temporary semi-protection , I suggest a lock until release, otherwise this page is going to be filled with Rumours, etc..Message from XENU^{u, t} 21:25, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Declined – Pages are not protected preemptively. —EncMstr (talk) 21:29, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

No Mercy (2008) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), Cyber Sunday (2008) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), Survivor Series (2008) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), Armageddon (2008) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protection - IP vandalism. D.M.N. (talk) 14:01, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 7 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. —EncMstr (talk) 15:14, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

I was requesting it for all four articles, not just the No Mercy (2008) article. D.M.N. (talk) 15:20, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 7 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Sorry, got the rest of them now. —EncMstr (talk) 21:28, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Template:Sprotected2 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

full protection redirect to a protected template; no need for it to be edited. --Snigbrook ^(talk) 20:37, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Fully protected Target is semi, so I only semi'ed the redirect to it. DMacks (talk) 21:00, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Fully protected Actually it's full...upgrading prot (not sure what I was mis-reading). DMacks (talk) 21:10, 21 August 2008 (UTC)