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.

Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Requesting pending changes protection. These IPs regularly remove "unreferenced" etc templates, add same old unsourced content from old copy. Since there are not to many active watchers, these often remain unnoticed. . Tito Dutta (talk) 03:18, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

Long March (Pakistan) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent IP vandalism, not one IP edit which is productive.Lihaas (talk) 02:47, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. This is a recent article, and the situation might change, but the current IP activity does not justify protection. Materialscientist (talk) 02:57, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

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

Temporary pending changes: Persistent vandalism. §haun 9∞76 ^༆ 01:07, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of five months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. --Bongwarrior (talk) 01:13, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

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

Temporary pending changes: BLP policy violations. Webclient101^talk 01:03, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of three months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. --Bongwarrior (talk) 01:18, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

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

Temporary semi-protection: Anon IP editor repeatedly coming in and making the same change, despite obvious consensus against it. The Red Hat of Pat Ferrick ^t 00:49, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

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

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. StringTheory11 (t • c) 00:27, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. --Bongwarrior (talk) 01:24, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

Randy J. Goodwin (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary Semi-protection: Individual associated with subject of page or subject of page continues to make changes to personal life information they don't want published in the biography. Changes to this section are either from individual with the same name as a page or an IP whose only edits are the same changes made by the associated account. May be possible case of IP-hopping by using a different computer. Also being recommended to keep from engaging in Edit Warring and possible The three-revert rule Silver Buizel (talk) 23:10, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

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

Indefinite full protection: Highly visible template – Many companies mentioned on Wikipedia that trade on Euronext, makes sense to protect alongside Template:NYSE. Fairly OddParents Freak (Fairlyoddparents1234) C 22:48, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

(Non-administrator comment)Template:Euronext has 478 transclusions, probably not enough for full protection to be necessary but maybe semi. Template:NYSE has 907 and is a redirect which is unlikely to need editing, and the template it redirects to has more than 5,000 transclusions. Peter James (talk) 01:58, 18 January 2013 (UTC) Also many of the edits have been from non-administrators, and a few have been IP edits although not recently. The template has only been vandalised once and that was in 2008. Peter James (talk) 02:12, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

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

Indefinite protection: Page survived an AfD with the finding that it be merged; in the meantime it's an unsourced BLP, with persistent addition of unsourced content and copyright violations. Perhaps a simple redirect would suffice. 99.136.252.89 (talk) 22:40, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

User:Eyesnore/CSD log (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Indefinite semi-protection: My list of my pages tagged with speedy deletion may be vandalized excessively. Eyesnore (talk) 22:27, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Done Materialscientist (talk) 22:29, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 23:42, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

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

Temporary semi protection: Content dispute/edit warring – IP disruption (blanking of content) for POV reasons. E4024 (talk) 20:55, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. AlexiusHoratius 01:29, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

Template:Largest cities of Bosnia and Herzegovina (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP massively inflating the number of inhabitants of Sarajevo, in conflict with the source given. IP did this 3 times in last 5 days, so semi-protection of max 2 weeks should be enough to spoil the fun. The Banner talk 20:15, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Fully protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. AlexiusHoratius 01:15, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

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

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP-hopper edit warring to include copyrighted material. Elizium23 (talk) 19:09, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. AlexiusHoratius 01:16, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

Danny Graham (footballer) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Transfer speculation. Mattythewhite (talk) 18:37, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of two weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. AlexiusHoratius 01:18, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

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

semi protection/pending revision - the article for Dual Survival has been placed under "pending revisions" due to BLP violations about one of the former cast members. For some reason until now, the stand alone article about the former cast member had been largely ignored, but now that article is getting repeated attacks, too. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 18:12, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of two weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. AlexiusHoratius 01:19, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

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

Semi-protection: Persistent, high level of IP vandalism by numerous IPs. At least 90% of latest 50 edits reverted; most of previous 500 edits reverted, although some are flagged as "good faith" reverts. ~E:74.60.29.141 (talk) 18:08, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of three months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. AlexiusHoratius 01:21, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

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

Create protection: Repeatedly recreated – This article has been G4'd three times in the last six months. Sir Sputnik (talk) 17:53, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Creation protected indef. AlexiusHoratius 01:23, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

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

Semi-protection: Persistent, high level of IP vandalism by numerous IPs 78.26 (I'm no IP, talk to me!) 15:47, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. AlexiusHoratius 01:25, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

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

Temporary full protection: Since India is having a diversified culture, the state related topics are introduced in the main topics. For Eg: The word 'Makara' for 'Makar' is used only in 1 or 2 states of India but the article was overall vandalise (AGF) with the word. Secondly, the article had texts (Mythological or a custom followed in a particular village / region & not overall country) without any references & hence had to be removed. Please consider the request for protection on priority. Ninney (talk) 14:00, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Connacht GAA Under-21 Football Championship (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary move protection: Page title dispute/move warring – Moving the article is controversial and still in discussion. Still it was moved (and reverted). Please protect against moving till this wider discussion is finished. The Banner talk 13:32, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

• Automated comment: A request for protection/unprotection was recently made for this page, and was denied at some point within the last 8 days. Snotbot  t • c »  13:42, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
• Object: this article on a football competition was moved, as were many others, away from its long-established common name, Connacht Under-21 Football Championship which is the complete and official title of the competition, without consensus or even discussion. I reverted that move and requested at the talk page that it not be moved without discussion and consensus. The requester reverted my revert, again placing the article under a title that does not correspond to its WP:COMMONNAME, and is now attempting to have that move protected. Rather than protect the moved title, I request that an admin revert this back to its proper place at Connacht Under-21 Football Championship and protect that page from further moves pending discussion. Brocach (talk) 13:58, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Leinster GAA Senior Football Championship (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary move protection: Page title dispute/move warring – Moving the article is controversial and still in discussion. Still it was moved (and reverted). Please protect against moving till this wider discussion is finished. The Banner talk 13:25, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

• Object: this article on a football competition was moved, as were many others, away from its long-established common name, Leinster Senior Football Championship which is the complete and official title of the competition, without consensus or even discussion. I reverted that move and requested at the talk page that it not be moved without discussion and consensus. The requester reverted my revert, again placing the article under a title that does not correspond to its WP:COMMONNAME, and is now attempting to have that move protected. Rather than protect the moved title, I request that an admin revert this back to its proper place at Leinster Senior Football Championship and protect that page from further moves pending discussion. Brocach (talk) 14:00, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

The Suite Life on Deck (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Ongoing problem with articles related to actor Cole Sprouse. Single edit accounts and IPs persistently changing actor's name to "Satan Sprouse" or "He who shall not be named". They've already had their fun at The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, which has been protected, and have moved onto this article. AussieLegend (✉) 04:33, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. AlexiusHoratius 01:31, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

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

Semi-protection: Continued promotional edits by IPs associated with the company. "Pending changes" doesn't seem effective. --CliffC (talk) 03:53, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protection: High level of vandalism on current event article.Lihaas (talk) 00:21, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 02:18, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

Bad Girls Club (season 8) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism. Junebea1 (talk) 23:00, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 02:16, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

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

Temporary semi-protection: An IP editor is repeatedly changing Meldrum's year of birth from 1943 to 1946 despite the best evidence available being that he was born in 1943. The IP has already been reverted by a number of experienced editors but is continuing to engage in an edit war on the issue. Afterwriting(talk) 09:30, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

Note: I've warned the IP user for edit warring, and noting their wording in edit summaries plus stopping at their 3rd revert, it's likely they know exactly what they're doing. Please report to WP:ANEW if this particular IP resumes edit warring, or re-request protection if it becomes more widespread. —Darkwind (talk) 20:29, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

Declined So the bot will archive ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 02:19, 18 January 2013 (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.

2019 AFC Asian Cup (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

I would like to request unprotection for the page 2019 AFC Asian Cup. User:Bearcat protected it indefinitely about a year ago: [1], but I would like to make edits due to recent announcements about the tournament. For details, see Talk:2019 AFC Asian Cup#Edit request on 16 January 2013. I have made a request at the talk page of User:Bearcat but have yet to get a response. Chanheigeorge (talk) 08:58, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents/Bishonen-FT2‎ (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

So it can be moved into the IncidentArchive space; this will make it searchable from the standard search box {{Administrators%27_noticeboard_navbox/Search}} NE Ent 14:26, 17 January 2013 (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.

Fulfilled/denied requests

Please see Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Rolling archive for a rolling archive of the last 7 days of protection requests.