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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Azimsultan (talk | contribs) at 18:57, 4 December 2008 (Requesting full protection of Sandbox. (TW)). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.


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    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.

    Request protection of a page, or increasing the protection level
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    Please request an edit directly on the protected page's talk page before posting here
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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.

    Indefinite full protection vandalism.azimsultan (talk) 18:57, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary full protection vandalism, Page keeps getting vandalized and blanked by numerous IP users. .MOOOOOPS (talk) 18:51, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Ioeth (talk contribs friendly) 18:54, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi protection Highly visible page (currently linked from the in the news section on the main page) under heavy IP vandalism. -- Scorpion0422 18:41, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Ioeth (talk contribs friendly) 18:50, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection vandalism, There has recently been a significant amount of vandalism from IP's as such i think a temporary block would be of value .安東尼 TALKies 16:19, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Ioeth (talk contribs friendly) 16:27, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection vandalism, Random IP and new user vandalism from disgruntled fans; primarily removing content, but also adding false content. .-- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 15:13, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Ioeth (talk contribs friendly) 16:10, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection vandalism, Random IP and new user vandalism from disgruntled fans; primarily removing content, but also adding false content. .-- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 15:12, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Ioeth (talk contribs friendly) 16:10, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Indefinite semi protection vandalism, High amount of IP vandalism..ṜedMarkViolinistDrop me a line 14:55, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected indefinitely. Ruslik (talk) 15:11, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection heavy IP vandalism since Keane left manager's post at Sunderland AFC earlier today. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 13:28, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Ruslik (talk) 14:22, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Two week semi-protection I missed these two articles in my last request. Part of a long-running edit war that began on November 4, when User:Howard the Duck removed charts that violate WP:BADCHARTS from I Belong to Me. Since then, multiple anonymous IPs (190.43.33.197, 190.43.147.102, 190.232.156.19, 200.106.16.107, etc) have been edit-warring the charts back in. When I removed some bad charts from A Public Affair on November 30, the war simply expanded. Punkox (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) has joined in, as well: he looks like the named account associated with the anonymous edits to me.

    This has been a widespread problem: it has already resulted in protection of

    —Kww(talk) 13:11, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Ioeth (talk contribs friendly) 16:29, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary-semi protection, dispute over manager's position, which is now confirmed to be vacant, IPs readding caretaker managers that are unconfirmed. Sunderland06 (talk) 12:43, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined I see only one case of vandalism, which is not enough for protection. Ruslik (talk) 13:28, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    I think Sunderland06 is referring to an edit war of sorts rather than vandalism. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 16:08, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    long term semi-protect. Sock-puppets whitewashing the page removing validly cited information that is critical or negative. Admins have run CheckUser, found a lot of sock-puppets and banned them (as you can see in the talk). Yet for some reason the page is not semi-protected, so new sock-puppets keep being created, and they come and revert the page from a consensus version to a whitewashed version. Please semi-protect it (if not indef full protect) for a couple of months at least, in the hope that those using sock-puppets will see sense. Also note, this page has been under indef full-protect in the past for months at end. The whitewshers ignore any appeals made on talk page to discuss, and when the page is unprotected, return to their games. Makrandjoshi (talk) 15:34, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Indefinite full protect. We had this before, and then an admin decided to remove it. Semi protection will not help, because all the vandal edits are registered users. Some have been long-term sockpuppets. This article will not improve until those who want to make drastic edits come to the talk page and explain themselves. Please look at the protection history. Full protection is the only way to achieve stability. Let the community request unprotection when appropriate discussion has taken place. ~Amatulić (talk) 15:48, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Ioeth (talk contribs friendly) 16:23, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Current requests for unprotection

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    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.

    Unprotection , Was protected as sub judice - it is no longer. [1].Scott Mac (Doc) 16:11, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Note: Already unprotected. Protection was lost when Rodhullandemu (talk · contribs) deleted and restored the page. - auburnpilot talk 16:17, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    Why must this specific page be closed off to those who may be able to improve and/or expand it? If knowledge is not mentioned on this page and someone wants to help the write(s) of this article they cannot. Therefore I request that the information on this page be unprotected. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mccleskeygenius1 (talk • contribs) 19:27, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    This page is already unprotected. Ioeth (talk contribs friendly) 19:33, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Current requests for edits to a protected page

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    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

    long term semi-protect. Daily and often fairly severe IP vandalism since the article was started in July 2007. The only good edits from anons have been a handful of minute grammar and spelling fixes. Peter Isotalo 09:05, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 3 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Ruslik (talk) 09:40, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]


    Temporary semi-protection vandalism, IP/anonymous vandalism. Frequency escalating in recent days. Also building number of blank edit summaries.Smatprt (talk) 06:21, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Ruslik (talk) 07:29, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection vandalism, SPA and anon IP vandalism continues. Well over 50% threshold. (second request).Beeblebrox (talk) 06:01, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined The level of vandalism is pretty low. Ruslik (talk) 07:25, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protect - Very recently released (and popular) movie; high level of IP vandalism immediately after last protection ended. Andrea (talk) 22:31, 3 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Ruslik (talk) 07:22, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]


    A KAS school faculty has been discovered attempting to remove the truth here at KAS. Allow the student body to edit. If you do not believe that we are misrepresenting our edits, you may contact us using the talk page or a visit to KAS to see the torn walls that we have here. Wikipedia should not be censored and we do not want to vandalize. We are only here to talk about the truth. Please unprotect.Thank you. 211.21.238.26 (talk) 04:13, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    The IP, and various SPA socks, are inserting attack material without sources, then reverting removal with false edit summaries. When told to provide sources, they produced a home-made website called "KAS SUCKS" and believe this is reliable. They are insistent that their material is true but it's not our job to decide that, it's our job to require reliable sources, and those they won't produce. ➨ ❝ЯEDVERS❞ a sweet and tender hooligan 07:21, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]


    Long term semi-protection -- ALL edits by new/unregistered accounts are vandalism, libel, personal attacks, or unsourced gossip. Wow. Just wow. JBsupreme (talk) 06:49, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    User(s) blocked. - as such protection is not needed. Tiptoety talk 06:54, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protection: Numerous unconstructive edits have been made to the article as of late. -- Luke4545 (talk) 05:18, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of five days. Tiptoety talk 06:26, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection vandalism. Recurrent vandalism (check history). PBP (talk) 05:02, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Tiptoety talk 06:23, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protection vandalism. Recurrent vandalism (check history). Khullah (talk) 04:24, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Tiptoety talk 06:22, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Unprotection Page was protected by an administrator who was under the impression that there was an edit war between myself and another editor that first needed to be resolved. The other editor in question turned out to be a sockpuppeteer; his accounts are now blocked. Administrator recommended I request article unprotection here. Middayexpress (talk) 02:01, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Unprotected Tiptoety talk 06:41, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]


    Temporary semi-protection vandalism, Heavy IP and non-autoconfirmed vandalism. Frequency escalating in recent days.--Work permit (talk) 02:44, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. {{Nihiltres|talk|log}} 04:42, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]


    Indefinite semi-protection vandalism, Wouldn't a lot of blankers be attracted to this page? .Jonathan321 (talk) 03:58, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Pages are not protected preemptively. One might think so (refering to requestor's hypothesis), but apparently they aren't. DMacks (talk) 04:00, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]


    Temporary semi-protection vandalism, Continuous vandalism after last protect..Icy // ♫ 01:45, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for 2 weeks. Thingg⊕⊗ 02:17, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]


    Temporary semi-protection vandalism, This page has seen quite a few vandalism attack recently. .The New Mikemoral (talk) 02:05, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of three months. Tiptoety talk 02:07, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]


    Semi-protect - This is a BLP, and his son was recently arrested on suspicion of murder. Anons are trying to insert salacious information about the son on the father's article. 23:22, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

    Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Ioeth (talk contribs friendly) 00:34, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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