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 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.

South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Taylor Trescott - ^{my talk} + _{my edits} 22:15, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

Türkvizyon Song Contest 2014‎ (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism and non-constructive editing. Wes Mᴥuse 20:53, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

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

Temporary semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism. Snood1205 (talk) 19:42, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

List of free and open-source Android applications (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Indefinite semi-protection: Long-term spamming of links for promotional purposes. Stuartyeates (talk) 19:38, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

Swift (programming language) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protection: Lots of anonymous edits right now for this new Apple programming language. Husky ^{(talk page)} 19:01, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

• Automated comment: This page appears to already be protected. Please confirm.—cyberbot I ^Notify_Online 21:34, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

Already protected. by another admin. kelapstick^(bainuu) 22:13, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

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

Semi-protection: BLP policy violations – BLP in the news cycle. lots of IPs and SPA new accounts making BLP violations. Gaijin42 (talk) 18:56, 2 June 2014 (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.—cyberbot I ^Notify_Online 19:03, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

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

Create protection: Repeatedly recreated. Sir Sputnik (talk) 18:36, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

Creation protected for a year, maybe he will meet the guidelines by then, maybe not. kelapstick^(bainuu) 22:15, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

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

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Vandalism persists after recent page protection period had ended. Hoops gza (talk) 18:10, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

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

Indefinite move protection: Highly visible page – Been subjected to two undiscussed moves, despite there being no reason to move it on the basis of views and over-arching importance. "My master, Annatar the Great, bids thee ^welcome!" 17:47, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

Declined, Not required any more, the non-disambuguted name can no longer be moved over the redirect except by any administrator.kelapstick^(bainuu) 22:22, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

‪Doctor of Chiropractic‬ (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Move protection Persistent edit-warring over whether to keep this as an article or redirect it to Chiropractic Education. The article has been redirected without consensus three times in the past month; eleven times in the past two months. --MelanieN (talk) 16:55, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

Come to think of it, this isn't a situation where move protection would be appropriate. Sorry, my bad. Is there any kind of protection that would help? The edit warring is being done by autoconfirmed users, so semiprotection is of no use. --MelanieN (talk) 17:10, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Move protection wouldn't work as there is a redirect in place, and it is basically blanking/redirecting, not moving. Also, user blocked.kelapstick^(bainuu) 17:20, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

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

Temporary semi-protection: This player has signed a contract to move on 1 July. Editors are applying the change immediately. Walter Görlitz (talk) 16:47, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

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

Temporary semi-protection: The club's most notable player agreed to leave for a rival team over a year ago and the transfer will take effect a month from now but editors are applying the change here now. Walter Görlitz (talk) 16:43, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

Current requests for reduction in protection level

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.

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

Unprotection: This is a plausible search term and I'd like to create a redirect at this title. . gobonobo ^{+ c} 19:42, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

List of New York University alumni (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Unprotection: All major large universities have their "list of alumni" page unprotected or semi-protected for a brief period. As can be seen from the talk page of the article, alumni like Sally Kohn were never added despite being asked to do so. Many people don't want to create account, let alone make 10 edits to get themselves autoconfirmed status. NYU has at least 1,859 alumni with Wikipedia articles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:New_York_University_alumni Unprotect the page and then keep an eye on the page if you think it's warranted.--65.51.205.72 (talk) 20:46, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

• Automated comment: This page appears to have already been unprotected. Please confirm.—cyberbot I ^Notify_Online 21:34, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

Current requests for edits to a protected page

Further information: Wikipedia:Edit requests

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.