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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by 71.175.53.239 (talk) at 14:03, 3 May 2012 (→{{lw|Articles for deletion/Forward (generic name of socialist publications)}}: fixy siggy). 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.

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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.

    Temporary semi-protection: Constant SPAs, socks, canvassing, trolling, etc., similar to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Forward (Obama-Biden Campaign Slogan) the hidden IP address (talk) 14:02, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent level of IP vandalism. —Al E.(talk) 13:20, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection Repeated vandalism by multiple unregistered users, including page blanking and the addition of irrelevant material. Debbie W. 12:29, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Suspect company reps are reverting posts saying there defunct when all evidence says otherwise. And one of the people involved with this defunct company is a banned director http://nds.coi.gov.uk/content/Detail.aspx?ReleaseID=422566&NewsAreaID=2

    (Ruth-2013 (talk) 09:25, 3 May 2012 (UTC)). Ruth-2013 (talk) 09:25, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

    (Non-administrator comment): Not much vandalism in past few days, hence doesn't warrants protection. Will be preferable to warn and block the vandalizer. -- ♪Karthik♫ ♪Nadar♫ 09:35, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

    Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Pretty heavy vandalism over the last couple of days. ˜danjel [ talk | contribs ] 09:23, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

    (Non-administrator comment): Only a couple of IP seems to be working on this page, it is better to warn them and then block instead of peotecting the page. -- ♪Karthik♫ ♪Nadar♫ 09:30, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protection: IP trying to turn page into a soapbox by adding lot's of original research and by misrepresenting sources. duffbeerforme (talk) 07:48, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

    Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Review it!. -- ♪Karthik♫ ♪Nadar♫ 07:29, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

    Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – A anon from Lima, Peru has been changing the results of FIFA football articles for several months. The anon's tactic is to change IPs when discovered to avoid blocks. The only solution seems to have been to protect pages. Anon then attacks pages shortly after protection has been lifted. See history of this article and other similar. Walter Görlitz (talk) 07:13, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

    (Non-administrator comment): Not much recent vandalism, you can prefer blocking the user instead. -- ♪Karthik♫ ♪Nadar♫ 07:30, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism, seems to be User:CumberBunch on multiple IPs. Yunshui 雲‍水 06:59, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

    (Non-administrator comment): Warrants temporary semi-protection. -- ♪Karthik♫ ♪Nadar♫ 07:34, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protection: (Somewhat) High level of IP vandalism. One of the vandals has also vandalized Tamagotchi: Happiest Story in the Universe!, Tamagotchi: The Movie, and List of Tamagotchi characters in the past. Mainly focuses on adding DragonBall stuff, so easily recognizable as the same person. Also, based on Contribs, has also vandalized Chloe's Closet and the Diary of a Wimpy Kid movie.The other IP for this guy is somewhere in my Contributions page as a talk page, but when I didn't know that vandal warning templates existed. User:Umbreon126--「talk」 ~from 05:11, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

    (Non-administrator comment) Not enough sustained activity to warrant protection. —James (Talk • Contribs) • 4:14pm • 06:14, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
    (Non-administrator comment): Semi-protect it temporarily, may be just for a week. -- ♪Karthik♫ ♪Nadar♫ 07:33, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection: Edit warring by a possibly-COI-compromised IP. A week or so should help. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 01:42, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

    (Non-administrator comment): yes, warrants semi-protection for a week. -- ♪Karthik♫ ♪Nadar♫ 07:36, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protection - Requesting semiprotection due to IP vandals continually trying to add politically motivated content to the article. Requesting ONLY semiprotection specifically since there is an editor trying to rewrite the current WP:POVFORK to be WP:NPOV and appears to be doing so in good faith. SkepticAnonymous (talk) 13:44, 2 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Trending on Twitter, so a lot of vandalism as a result. JMHamo (talk) 13:41, 2 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

    (Non-administrator comment): Warrants semi-protection for couple of days. -- ♪Karthik♫ ♪Nadar♫ 07:47, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – Slow editwar over last two weeks.. needs a protection that suits the editwar delay. lTopGunl (talk) 11:51, 2 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

    (Non-administrator comment) There's not enough sustained activity or substantial disruption to the article, full protection is only rarely applied to articles. Consider raising the issue at WP:AN3. —James (Talk • Contribs) • 4:17pm • 06:17, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

    Indefinite move protection: Highly visible page – This template has been substituted into many task forces of parent projects, such as WP:TV. How about semi-protection if this request is insufficient?. George Ho (talk) 05:10, 2 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

    Indefinite semi-protection: from any amount amount of endless promotion, copyright vio and IP socking activity, looks like from production companies. Protection and more help needed for clean up. Span (talk) 23:48, 1 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

    Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Repeated efforts by IP editor to insert inflammatory, non-NPOV material. DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 18:54, 1 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

    Update: the same IP user is now inserting extraneous material in the related page, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Thanks, DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 13:56, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

    Indefinite semi-protection: Page was temporarily semi protected to avoid vandalism by user that changes IP. Now the protection's been lifted the user has begun his vandalism again. Alinblack (talk) 13:25, 3 May 2012 (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.

    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

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Single IP adress keeps changing the page for unknown reasons 67.122.136.85. Connor2349 (talk) 04:38, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined. Blocked that IP - one account/IP can not be a reason for protection. Materialscientist (talk) 04:42, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Short-term IP vandalism. -- Luke (Talk) 02:33, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of two weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. --Bongwarrior (talk) 02:55, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – People can't stop obsessing about Dragon Ball Z and over 9000. Connor2349 (talk) 02:13, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Vandalism here is surprisingly infrequent. --Bongwarrior (talk) 02:27, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism from a single user with dynamic IP address traced to Suriname. Blocking IP won't help (one previously blocked) as he or she can just use another IP address. Most recent edits are by this same person or reverts of his or her edits. Page protected once from same person but he/she returned afterwards. Also affects to a lesser extent Lauren Alaina and American Idol (season 9). Hzh (talk) 01:42, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Rjd0060 (talk) 02:58, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protection: Sporadic BLP vandalism. Jasper Deng (talk) 00:21, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 1 fortnight, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Courcelles 00:32, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Frequent recent vandalism. 1966batfan (talk) 23:14, 2 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 1 fortnight, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Courcelles 00:33, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protection: BLP policy violations. Cntras (talk) 12:16, 2 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of ten days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. --Bongwarrior (talk) 02:51, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

    Indefinite semi-protection Persistent IP vandalism/sockpuppetry after last protection expired. Snoozlepet (talk) 03:14, 2 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 1 year, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Enough whack-a-mole. Courcelles 00:35, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – There is an on-going dispute regarding the content of the Introduction that is bordering on edit warring; locking the article can prevent an edit war from arising. SMP0328. (talk) 00:14, 2 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for 3 months for vandalism. The edit warring seems to have subsided. If it resumes, please place another report here or at AN3 (whichever is appropriate). Thanks. Rjd0060 (talk) 03:01, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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