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.

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

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism by an IP; vandalism has continued since February of this year. And continual removal of the CeX trading section has been happening since January of this year. The removals are likely the company removing material they don't want in the article. Flyer22 (talk) 14:26, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

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

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – recent persistent removal by IP editor(s) of the obvious, and similar to protection on Mafia state. Widefox; talk 13:58, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

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

Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations – Maybe PC also work here. T4B (talk) 13:12, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Materialscientist (talk) 13:14, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

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

Semi-protection: Daily removal of BLP content by IPs and new users; whyTF! isnt a BOT reverting these removals and why do I have to keep reverting them?! Dan56 (talk) 12:58, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Content dispute. Please use the article's talk page or other forms of dispute resolution. Fvasconcellos (t·c) 13:07, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Distinguished Service Cross (United States) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection: Request one week semi. Since 9 March there have been 16 attempts by two newly created apparent SPAs Special:Contributions/Johnwuein and Special:Contributions/Jacksonbbb to add unreliably (at best) sourced information to this article. The SPAs are probably a sockmaster and sock, but they have not responded to repeated requests to comply with WP policies and guidelines and policing this is getting to be a nightmare for a number of editors. A week would give time for the SPAs to lose interest. If they return to the same activity after the semi we can deal with it fulsomely at that point. Peacemaker67 (send... over) 12:01, 13 March 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 »  12:07, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Declined The remaining unblocked account is autoconfirmed, so protection won't work. A block may be more appropriate, but that's not for this board. I don't think pending changes will be effective either as it's not obviously vandalism, and I suspect pending changes patrollers would approve the edits anyway. GedUK  12:41, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Template:Zh icon (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Indefinite full protection: Highly visible template – 6748 transclusions. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 11:50, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Declined Normally that's more than enough for me, however there's a reference to an ANI discussion that lowered it to semi, and I'm not prepared to go against community consensus without a discussion. GedUK  12:35, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

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

Semi-protection: This article is being targeted by multiple websites, and is pending more changes from multiple ip addresses. While not all of them are vandals, most of them don't understand that original work cannot be published on wikipedia, and requiring them to make an account to edit would be in their best interests Countered (talk) 09:41, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. What you say above is true for almost all articles which are of actual interest for viewers and editors. But I really do not see that much vandalism, only people not familiar with our policies. Protection is not the way to go here, imho. We can just explain and offer help and advice, patiently, and yes, again and again. If it really becomes disruptive, then we can act. Lectonar (talk) 09:52, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

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

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – looking at the history, over the past month or so, the history is almost solid vandalism and reversion.. Merocks9 (talk) 08:38, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Declined Make that a: over the past 3 days the history is....There was one IP vandalising on march 10th, and the rst is way under the threshold for semi-protection. Lectonar (talk) 08:40, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

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

Pending changes: Persistent vandalism. ~ satellizer ~ talk ~ 07:35, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Declined I have looked at the about last 4 months of editing, and vandalism stays under the threshold for pc-protection. Lectonar (talk) 08:51, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

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

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring. ◅ PRODUCER (TALK) 20:46, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Consider the edit warring noticeboard – This is a case of possible edit-warring by one or two users. Fvasconcellos (t·c) 00:43, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Stone of the Pregnant Woman (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry. Saddhiyama (talk) 19:18, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

• Requesting that the sourced content, persistently removed by aforementioned accounts, be restored when protecting. 99.137.210.226 (talk) 20:59, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

User(s) blocked.. Feel free to relist if other socks/IPs show up. Fvasconcellos (t·c) 00:39, 13 March 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.

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

Unprotection: Protected in 2009 for edit warring. Open up?. Crazynas ^t 19:29, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

Not done This is a page on a highly contentious topic, and I don't think indefinite semi-protection is being harmful. Nevertheless, I'll leave this up for another admin to assess and endorse/disagree. Fvasconcellos (t·c) 01:15, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Question: Would pending changes be appropriate (Seems almost low traffic enough to warrant it)? Crazynas ^t 04:22, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Declined I agree with Fvasconcellos here; and the low traffic is, imho, coming from the fact that this has been semiprotected for so long. Lectonar (talk) 08:43, 13 March 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

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

Talk pages

I'm not sure if this is the correct place for this question, but is it possible to get protection for a project's talk page? We are trying to minimize the effects of abusive commentary on our Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cricket and Englishness from an outside editor. I'm not sure what the protocol is in this situation. --Oline73 (talk) 14:29, 13 March 2013 (UTC)