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==Current requests for protection==
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'''temporary semi-protection''' ''Vandalism'', Persistent and recurrent new user and anon vandalism throughout much of October. Virtually no useful contributions from IPs/new users. .[[User:Wisdom89|'''<font color="#660000">Wisdom89</font>''']] <sub>([[User_talk:Wisdom89|<small><sub><font color="#17001E">T</font></sub></small>]] / [[Special:Contributions/Wisdom89|<small><sup><font color="#17001E">C</font></sup></small>]])</sub> 09:08, 3 November 2008 (UTC)



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"WP:RFP" and "WP:RPP" redirect here. You may also be looking for Wikipedia:Requests for permissions, Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission, or Wikipedia:Random page patrol.
    Welcome—request protection of a page, file, or template here.
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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 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.

    temporary semi-protection Vandalism, Persistent and recurrent new user and anon vandalism throughout much of October. Virtually no useful contributions from IPs/new users. .Wisdom89 (T / C) 09:08, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]


    Semi Protection - as soon as the protection is lifted vandals started attacking from anon IPs. Please protect it permanently! --GenuineMongol (talk) 03:40, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Tan | 39 04:15, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    That's of course. The protection has just been lifted. As soon as it was lifted, one vandal erased all the data in the article. I don't understand why you guys don't protect what should be protected from vandals.--GenuineMongol (talk) 06:56, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi Protection - various, frequent IP vandalism to article. Sillyfolkboy (talk) 03:18, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Tan | 39 04:23, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    RFP Request full protection - obvious, frequent vandalism.)

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. J.delanoygabsadds 04:08, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi Protection - Rotating IP address keeps insisting on reverting to his version against consensus, refuses to use talk pages and instead choses to attack editors whilst continuing to revert to his version. The IP has been previously blocked on other IPs, but since it's a rotating IP, I think it's time that the page needs semi-protection for a while. --[[::User:Arnzy|Arnzy]] ([[::User talk:Arnzy|talk]] · [[::Special:Contributions/Arnzy|contribs]]) 03:10, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

    Declined So far, it's from a pretty narrow IP range, and he is going pretty slowly. I should be able to get a rangeblock in. Right now, I just need to collect a small amount of additional data before I can do it. I am actively monitoring the page.J.delanoygabsadds 04:07, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    User(s) blocked. — 60.50.16.0/20 soft-blocked (account creation disabled) for 1 week. I will continue to watch it, though, because his ISP has a much larger chunk, and it is not impossible that he may be able to get another IP range. J.delanoygabsadds 04:29, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    Operating from a /14. Too big to block, so Semi-protected for 2 weeks. J.delanoygabsadds 05:03, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    Good call. Tan | 39 05:05, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    temporary semi-protection Vandalism, IP addresses keep adding Sarah Palin and John McCain to this list.♪TempoDiValse♪ 02:57, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for 3 days. J.delanoygabsadds 04:04, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    full protection High-visible template, It may receive greats amass of vandalism..Marshall T. Williams (talk) 01:52, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    note - Semi Production might be more appropriate. Wisdom89 (T / C) 01:54, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection.. And, it's not a template. No edits in two days. A very odd protection request... Tan | 39 02:40, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    48 hour full protection Death hoax time again.—Kww(talk) 01:25, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    48 hour full protection - Edit war (of which I am presently involved in) over the inclusion of controversial material about a fringe BLP issue that represents a very serious POV addition to this article 48 hours before Geoff Simpson faces re-election. I would ask for full page protection until after the article passes so that the dispute may be resolved without the risk of directly influencing public opinion ahead of a state election. Cumulus Clouds (talk) 01:17, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined, only for the reason that protecting this page effectively takes your side, and from the talk page discussion / edit summaries, there is no consensus to not have this information added to the article. Tan | 39 02:43, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protection IP edit warring, attempting to reinstate older version of article without any support from the talk page. Requesting uninvolved admin to to protect as I have reverted the IP a couple of times, although I feel that this is borderline vandalism. --Leivick (talk) 23:40, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    User(s) blocked., by yourself. Do you still feel protection is necessary? Tan | 39 02:39, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Story of the Year (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

    semi-protection , Anon users have continually removed sourced information in the past day..Hoponpop69 (talk) 22:16, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. There's only a couple edits a day so far, and the last two IPs aren't too far apart, so a small rangeblock may be possible. Hersfold (t/a/c) 00:04, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Ugh I hate this, it's obviously gonna just get changed again. How many times will it have to be vandalised before you will actually do something?Hoponpop69 (talk) 04:43, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    All pages get vandalized; it's comes with the territory of using a Wiki. Hersfold is an experienced administrator here at RFPP and I agree with him; this page isn't experiencing excessive vandalism and protecting it would unnecessarily stop anonymous editors from making useful contributions. The recent spate of anon edits you've been dealing with also aren't blatant vandalism. Tan | 39 04:47, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Whatever I'll see you in a few days when I have to file another request because I keep have to revert do to your incompetence.Hoponpop69 (talk) 06:38, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Current requests for unprotection

    Shortcuts

    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.

    Can this please be unprotected. This is not a content dispute, the original request was to protect the article from an IP vandal removing content and POV editing. The IP editor broke WP:3RR during that spree of editing, not to mention stomping all over WP:AGF, WP:NPOV and utterly ignoring WP:Consensus. The only reason a 3RR report was not filed was the IP vandal has used multiple IP addresses and a block seemed pointless. All editors want to do is restore the sourced content that was removed, and to re-add the source that had also been removed. It is very frustrating that the admins who've looked at this have not taken the time to realise that the IP vandalism's sole contribution to the talk page is to crow that the current locked version is his. Someone commented yesterday "Use the talk page and look for a consensus. If the IP editor refuses to participate, or is the only opposition, then you will have a consensus." Well, we have used the talk page, we have looked for consensus, he has refused to participate and he is the only opposition. Oh I'll grant you its an intelligent piece of vandalism, the first part of the edit looks quite reasonable (but in actually fact only adds a source to something already sourced) but the content removed further down is pure vandalism, not to mention separating a statement from its source, and then deleting it. A clever piece of POV editing by someone who knows how to game the system. Justin talk 21:25, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Unprotected Move protection remains. GbT/c 21:27, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    Many thanks. Justin talk 21:31, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Current requests for edits to a protected page

    Shortcut

    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.

    New Future-class tracking functionality as per requested diff in the talk page. Thanks, Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 20:22, 28 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Done لennavecia 12:38, 29 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    New request - minor error fix; see talk page for specifics. Thanks again! Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 04:53, 31 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    Done In the future, please try to test things in a sandbox to avoid multiple requests. Thanks. Hersfold (t/a/c) 19:35, 31 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Fulfilled/denied requests

    temporary semi-protection Vandalism, vandalism resumed immediately after unprotection--predictably due to that "Crank That (Soulja Boy)" atrocity of a "song"..Andrewlp1991 (talk) 00:49, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected indefinitely. Tan | 39 01:12, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    temporary semi-protection Vandalism, High level of new user/IP vandalism all throughout the the month of October. Page is already move protected. .Wisdom89 (T / C) 23:50, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.. Move protection remains indefinite. Hersfold (t/a/c) 00:22, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-Protection. Request permanent semi-protection or full protection for both cash gifting and cash gifting program, as both have had content promoting the scheme or "explaining" it in a promotional tone. Those wishing to profit from such schemes are likely to create new accounts in order to advertise in those articles in the future. Intention is to block new users from promoting the scam; not insisting upon full protection since someone might want to write a legitimate, in-depth explanation of this particular scheme (such as the Ponzi scheme article), though perhaps it should be added to the pyramid scheme article first until the section is large enough to warrant its own article. In that case, fully protect both articles and let someone ask for permission to split the cash gifting section into one of the protected pages. DOSGuy (talk) 10:33, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined. I understand your intention, but it doesn't happen often enough to protect the articles. Tan | 39 15:46, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    I understand what you're saying, but is there any reason not to protect them? Every edit so far has been negative, and it's unlikely that there will ever be enough constructive content on this topic to ever warrant an entire article, instead of adding a section to pyramid scheme. It seems unlikely that there will ever be a constructive edit to those articles, so they will never need to be anything but redirects, so there's no harm in protecting them, but potential harm in not protecting them. Normally that would only be a nuisance, but a lot of people (88.1% of participants apparently) lose a lot of money in these things. While I normally err on the side of unprotection, in this case it seems like there's no reason not to at least semi-protect. DOSGuy (talk) 16:47, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    The subjective reasoning of it being "unlikely that there will ever be a constructive edit" is not appropriate to apply to this situation. Per Wikipedia protection policy, "semi-protection should not be used as a pre-emptive measure against vandalism that has not yet occurred, nor should it be used solely to prevent editing by anonymous and newly registered users. In particular, it should not be used to settle content disputes." Non-constructive edits happen daily to almost every article on Wikipedia, and through the vigilance of vandal-fighters and watchlisters, almost all are reverted. This is the price we pay for a Wiki project. The fact that people lose money on these schemes seems rather irrelevant to the case; it is not for Wikipedia to decide whether or not editors or casual readers participate in Ponzi schemes. Tan | 39 17:18, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    I agree that vandalism shouldn't be predicted for normal pages, but not for redirect pages. Redirect pages are what they are because they are not intended to ever have any content, either because they contain spelling mistakes, are alternate names for the same subject, or otherwise duplicate the content of the page they redirect to. By their very nature, the only reason to edit a redirect page is to vandalize it. Redirect pages should be at least semi-protected by default. Protecting these pages is the logical thing to do, but the rules forbid it, so the rules must change! If the rules forbid logic, they can't be good rules! I won't argue the decline any further, but I hope you'll support my bid to change the rules concerning redirect pages. I see that Tombstone has already called for this to happen at Wikipedia talk:Protection policy#Permanently semi-protecting redirects. I hope everyone will join this discussion. :) DOSGuy (talk) 18:24, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    I notice these pages were permanently sysop protected by another admin - and in spite of the above discussion, I endorse this decision. Embarrasingly, I didn't realize that these were redirects. It should have been obvious, but as I just clicked through to get to the edit histories, I never noticed the redirect, and I didn't catch it in your response to my initial decline. I apologize for the confusion! Tan | 39 00:46, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]


    Semi-protection again. Anon vandalism. IceUnshattered [ t ] 23:05, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Hersfold (t/a/c) 00:14, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]


    Semi-protection frequent vandalism mainly by anon. IPs. Sssoul (talk) 21:43, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. GbT/c 21:49, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protection I notice page is being vandalized frequently by anon. IPs. Previous semi-protection has expired. Terrek (talk) 21:13, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Only one IP, warn and report for block if needed. SoWhy 21:16, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Please unprotect creating of this page. I wanna to add an article about this topic.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.255.202.230 (talk • contribs)

    DeclinedYou're not a registered editor, so cannot create articles anyway, but in any event if you were I'd tell you to create it in your userspace first...GbT/c 20:54, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    Ok I'll Register. Thank You and See You in my userspace then... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.255.202.230 (talk) 20:59, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    Only if you tell me what your username is...! GbT/c 21:01, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    ArhiMan. Where should I put the text for review. On my User:ArhiMan page or somewhere else? Thank You for your help on this! ;D — Preceding unsigned comment added by ArhiMan (talk • contribs)
    Put it at User:ArhiMan/Sandbox. No problem. GbT/c 22:09, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    I'm requesting this article to be unprotected because it was mainly a misunderstanding on both sides which caused the protection. The reason of protection was six reverts in less than two hours made by me. I misunderstood the intent of Yellow Evan and failed to notify him of his actions which I thought were not constructive. His intent was to improve the article to Featured status by adding more images, but the images were not that useful towards improving the article. Most of the reverts were just placement of images, left or right, nothing extreme. I've contacted Yellow Evan about this request for unprotection and hopefully this can be straightened out soon. My apologies for this incident. Cyclonebiskit (talk) 20:31, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    This would destroy everything, I was trying to get this to featured. This the first time this has happened to Cyclonebiskit and we all every now and then forget. True these were just a few words or an image for the MH. I took a comparison to Hurricane Ioke wchich has 5 images this one has three and this has a lot of info and many images thanks to Keith Ediks. Leave Message ,Yellow Evan home ,Sandbox[ 21:29, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    Erm, I think YE is agreeing to the unprotection...so Unprotected GbT/c 21:34, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]


    Requesting semi-protection Ongoing harrassment from anon IPs [1] TheRetroGuy (talk) 20:48, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. GbT/c 20:49, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    Editor is constant edit-warring, has had bans for 3RR violations, deleting requests to admin for intervention against him, tried to create new account while banned etc 189.19.250.9 (talk) 20:55, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    Whereas you, clearly, are not a sockpuppet....GbT/c 21:03, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    temporary semi-protection Vandalism, vandalism by numerous IP addresses. Ollie Fury Contribs 20:24, 2 November 2008 (UTC) [reply]

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. GbT/c 20:31, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-Protection - Long standing problems, check log. Lot's of unsourced info being added and violations of WP:BADCHARTS. — Realist2 20:02, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Already protected. GbT/c 20:20, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    Wow, really, lol, I'm sorry. Damn. Fully protection, pretty please? ;-/ — Realist2 20:24, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    Looking at the contribution history, my suggestion would be instead to take it to WP:RFCU - there's clearly a whole farm of socks in there somewhere... GbT/c 20:28, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    RFCU have a public holiday like every other day, that's a painfully slow process. — Realist2 20:37, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    Without weeding out the underlying issues, full protection is just papering over the cracks...in the meantime you could always see if anyone breaches WP:3RR, gets blocked, and then use the poor man's checkuser. GbT/c 20:40, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    OK, thanks anyway. Certainly a first, requesting protection on something already protected. We can pretend this never happen right. ;-) — Realist2 20:42, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    It happens more often than you'd think...and I'm sure no-one was watching anyway. GbT/c 20:45, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    Well, well! ;-) J.delanoygabsadds 04:11, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-Protection - Request for temporary semi-protection. Refereed a soccer/football match this afternoon and made a string of controversial decisions to deny Derby County the win - page is being IP vandalised presumably by Derby fans. Semiprot for a few days should be fine. Chavster01 (talk) 19:22, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. GbT/c 20:19, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks. I had to remove some non-NPOV comment as well, but my most recent edit should be fine. Chavster01 (talk) 20:23, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protection - Request for permanent semi-protection. Whenever unprotected the article is vandalized continuously by IPs. The article has been semi-protected three times in the past for periods of several months during which there has been no vandalism. The vandalism results from the nature of the readership and it not topical or transitory. Permanent semi-protection will save administrator time. Canon (talk) 19:04, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. GbT/c 20:18, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]


    URGENT!!! Semi prot should be fine tho.

    Done — Realist2 19:11, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-Protection. Vandalism from IP user 60.50.25.112(talk)/218.111.9.29(talk) who is unwilling to discuss the issue in the Talk page but prefers to take matters into his own hands. Planenut(Talk) 05:21, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    User(s) blocked. Tan | 39 15:38, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    IP user seems to have a dynamic IP address as seen with his latest revert 60.50.17.207. Planenut(Talk) 18:28, 2 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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