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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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    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 full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – Multiple editors edit warring over country icons. Jnorton7558 (talk) 22:58, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Command and Conquer Expert! speak to me...review me... 22:44, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Pending Changes:Currently indefinitely semi'ed, sparsely edited BLP.Crazynas t 22:43, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Pending Changes:Currently indefinitely semi'ed, sparsely edited BLP.Crazynas t 22:43, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Pending Changes:Currently indefinitely semi'ed, sparsely edited BLP.Crazynas t 22:43, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Pending Changes: or unprotect, low traffic page. Crazynas t 22:25, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Pending Changes:Currently indefinitely semi'ed, sparsely edited BLP. Crazynas t 22:25, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Pending Changes:Currently indefinitely semi'ed, sparsely edited BLP. Crazynas t 22:25, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Pending Changes:Currently indefinitely semi'ed, sparsely edited BLP. Crazynas t 22:25, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Pending Changes: or just unprotect, page was indefinite semi'ed in 2008, one edit in 2013 so far. Crazynas t 22:06, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Pending Changes: or just unprotect, page was indefinite semi'ed in 2008 (presumably because of the election) has one edit in the last 3 months. Crazynas t 22:06, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – vandalized numerous times in the past month . Aunva6 (talk) 20:43, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protection. Persistent additions of unsourced (except by YouTube links), unencyclopedic fan cruft. I can't revert anymore. Reporting for edit-warring won't help because of IP-hopping.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:50, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Indefinite semi-protection: BLP policy violations – Repeated changes by IP editors, resulting in a version that is manifestly a BLP violation (identifying a living person as a "Filipino journalist" when in fact he has not lived there since a child and has certainly never been a journalist there). This is a sensitive issue that needs to be addressed by editors who understand BLP policy and can work out the right way forward via discussion; the history of IP edits on this article show that editing needs to be restricted here. . Nomoskedasticity (talk) 19:38, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary pending changes: Persistent vandalism. TBrandley (what's up) 17:50, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Ruslik_Zero 18:09, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism. Constantly changing of "List of Combined Reigns" from actual wrestlers to fake names. TySoltaur (talk) 16:02, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Ruslik_Zero 18:08, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection - maybe for a week or two for now - to fend off an IP-hopper who insists on turning the article into a personal forum. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 16:06, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Ruslik_Zero 18:06, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    User talk:27.252.21.212 (edit | user page | history | links | watch | logs)

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism, or reblock with talk page access revoked. Makecat 14:19, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism, BLP violations. 99.136.254.88 (talk) 13:46, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    User(s) blocked. Ruslik_Zero 18:02, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Excessive IP vandalism, surprised this hasn't been requested earlier. —MelbourneStar☆talk 12:45, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 3 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Materialscientist (talk) 12:49, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – Statements in total disregard of administrative warnings [[1]] protection seems to be in order to avoid having to hand out blocks to anyone. The article in question is under dispute resolution but statements that an editor will continue edit warring to force people to the table seem to be immature at best and supremely disruptive at worse. . Hell In A Bucket (talk) 12:17, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protection:: An editor using IP addresses 212.183.140.* and 212.183.128.* (who has the style of the banned editor DeFacto) is persistently trying to push his point of view, ignoring the WP:BRD process even though a number of auto-confirmed editors disagree with him. If I revert him, he threatens a 3RR block, knowing that he cannot receive one. Martinvl (talk) 11:26, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Materialscientist (talk) 12:33, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protection:: An editor using IP addresses 212.183.140.* and 212.183.128.* (who has the style of the banned editor DeFacto) is persistently trying to push his point of view, ignoring the WP:BRD process even though a number of auto-confirmed editors disagree with him. If I revert him, he threatens a 3RR block, knowing that he cannot receive one. Martinvl (talk) 11:26, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Materialscientist (talk) 12:33, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Indefinite pending changes: Persistent vandalism – Ongoing at various Cole Sprouse related articles. Apparently, last year Sprouse upset tumblr supporters,[2] and since then they've been vandalising articles by changing his name to "Satan", "Peasant", "He who shall not be named" etc. This seems like it will be going on for some time based on edits to date so PC seems to be the best option - no need to punish legitimate IPs by indefinite semi-protection. AussieLegend (✉) 11:18, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Pending-changes protected for a period of 1 year, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.. Ruslik_Zero 18:14, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary full creation protection: Persistent recreation by the same user. Please also note that this user has created a sister (deleted) article CIeNET technologies which should receive the same treatment if the request is granted. I see short term protection as valid. In due course another editor may create a decent article and there should be no bar to re-creation. Fiddle Faddle (talk) 10:15, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Creation protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Ruslik_Zero 18:23, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. mgiganteus1 (talk) 08:35, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 6 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Materialscientist (talk) 08:40, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Indefinite create protection: Repeatedly recreated. Vacation9 06:31, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Creation protected for a period of 18 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Materialscientist (talk) 08:42, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protection: Persistant IP vandalism. This user in this IP address 67.86.242.174 has been doing disruptive editing on this article non-stop. The history of that show will show you that this user with that particular IP address has been doing vandelism and disruptive editing on this article BattleshipMan (talk) 04:53, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Content dispute. Please use the article's talk page or other forms of dispute resolution. Ruslik_Zero 18:26, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protection. Persistent vandalism. I have removed the vandalism that has been added by numerous IP addresses and request semi protection of the page. The history show the vandalism that has been added. Skamecrazy123 (talk) 04:13, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Materialscientist (talk) 04:16, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Pending Changes protection: Page is currently indefinite semi with a very low edit rate (<10 edits in the last month). Page was protected February 2009. Crazynas t 03:37, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Pending-changes protected indefinitely. Ruslik_Zero 18:21, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Pending Changes protection: Page is currently indefinite semi with last logged change by HJ Mitchell as Excessive vandalism: PC trial has ended. This page seems low traffic enough that PC would be appropriate. Crazynas t 03:07, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Pending-changes protected indefinitely. Ruslik_Zero 18:19, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Adding of unsourced content and major copyright violations by IP and unconfirmed editors. Page has a very long protection history, so it's time for indefinite protection. Qwyrxian (talk) 02:39, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 6 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 04:51, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. ~ satellizer ~~ talk ~ 02:12, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Ruslik_Zero 18:16, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Pending changes or block. An SPA, User:MalibuSurfKing, has appeared sporadically since September 2012 to prod this BLP or to remove key details from it. Dempsey is a journalist who wrote a book about the murder of Meredith Kercher. As a result, she came under attack on the Web from anonymous people who disagreed with her conclusions. The attacks have been sustained, sexist and very undermining. Within that context, it's a concern that one account keeps appearing to claim she isn't notable enough for an article. I'd therefore like to ask that an admin consider either applying pending changes so that MalibuSurfKing is unable to make further changes, or to block the account as an SPA causing BLP problems. Many thanks, SlimVirgin (talk) 01:45, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent vandalism and removal of content. Jetstreamer Talk 01:08, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – IP sock of ana susac . Darkness Shines (talk) 21:47, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Ruslik_Zero 18:14, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protection: Edit war involving a recently created account.--Eduen (talk) 20:07, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Content dispute. Please use the article's talk page or other forms of dispute resolution. Also note that you are edit warring as much as they are. —GFOLEY FOUR!— 00:35, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – as well as violations of BLP. Webclient101talk 19:27, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. —GFOLEY FOUR!— 00:34, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    temporary semi-protection: - IP edits against community consensus.--BabbaQ (talk) 18:38, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    It is not against community consensus. Please see talk page: "She is claiming self defence, the trail has not yet finished yet you say it is a 'fact' that he was murdered. How do you know this??" Thanks. 87.232.1.48 (talk) 18:59, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    Are we honestly going trough the same procedure as yesterday. The article was protected at the article name Murder of.. for a reason.--BabbaQ (talk) 19:00, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    Yes, the reason is because you requested it citing an ongoing discussion in the talk page. The discussion has reached a consensus. You have not added any points to support your position, just keep saying "consensus" which is now in favour of "death of" if you see the talk page. So lets go with the current consensus and not your view. You aren't even contributing to the discussion any more, just being very stubborn. Please let it go, thanks 87.232.1.48 (talk) 19:10, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    Semi-protected - action taken and protected already.--BabbaQ (talk) 20:42, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism. I have looked back in the history as far as november and the page is recieving persistent vandalism many times a month. I can't work out how far back it has to be reverted to. But there are "endemic and endless vandalism problems" too much for me to pick out. Please lock the page so that no further vandalism is done. And ask an admin to find a suitable older version to revert the page to. Main points to notice are buddhism is currently written as 1.9 billion, which it should not be. And past vandalism is continually putting christianity as 3.6 billion and islam as 2.1 billion which they also are not, although they have currently been corrected in the first table. In the "Adherents.com estimates" section, it still shows christianity at 3.6 billion and islam at 2.1 billion. So these need to be corrected. Also the first table is called "four largest religions". But it lists five religions which doesn't add up. These and other things are continually being edited and reverted over the past few months. It seems a battle between several people. So correction and locking is necessary in my view. 2.97.34.125 (talk) 18:42, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Indefinite full protection: Deceased Wikipedian (WP:RIP#2012 deaths) ; please fully protect per WP:DWG. TJRC (talk) 18:22, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Fully protected - Nabla (talk) 23:58, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism in recent days. See also the request for protection of Harlem shake (song). Knight of Truth (talk) 18:07, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. -Rschen7754 00:17, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Dubious unsourced edits. STATic message me! 16:55, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 6 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. —GFOLEY FOUR!— 00:37, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protection: BLP policy violations. STATic message me! 16:55, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Indefinite semi-protection: Article is the long term target of single edit (most often IP) editors who object to the inclusion of the word Basque in reference to Elcano's ethnicity. The fact is referenced and ought to be non-controversial. This page has had time limited protection before but I'm requesting indefinite protection because this is really wasting a lot of time that could be spent better elsewhere. Akerbeltz (talk) 16:32, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Indefinite semi-protection: Article (one of several on Sri Lanka schools) has been the subject of long term IP edit warring, often accompanied by personal attacks on User:Cossde. The IPs may even be right about the content, but refuse to engage in dialogue and just edit war and attack instead. Qwyrxian (talk) 15:42, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism. Junebea1 (talk) 14:54, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protection: High level of IP/Sock puppet vandalism. Repeated alteration of size figures which are much higher than the supplied references. Djapa Owen (talk) 14:49, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Rschen7754 00:31, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection: Frequent recent IP edits inserting factually incorrect information about same-sex marriage legislation in Illinois. The article needs a little protection until the legislation is passed by the Illinois house. - MrX 14:40, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Qwyrxian (talk) 03:56, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Because It's a high risk template. Any word missing can break this template. Also can break the assessment of the hole project. So before anything this page should be semi-protected. Pratyya (Hello!) 14:25, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    It's far from high-risk, relatively new and isn't transcluded anywhere enough times. tutterMouse (talk) 18:02, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    Declined I agree with TutterMouse here. Most templates can break with any word missing. The "high risk" means "high risk of significant damage if changed." Here, if something changes, it just messes up a number of user pages and talk pages. Qwyrxian (talk) 03:53, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protection: High level of IP/Sock puppet vandalism. Cossde (talk) 13:23, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protection: High level of IP/Sock puppet vandalism. Cossde (talk) 13:23, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protection: High level of IP/Sock puppet vandalism. Cossde (talk) 13:23, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism. Case in point. Dan56 (talk) 13:14, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. —GFOLEY FOUR!— 00:25, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – The page is a permanent cruft-magnet with people adding links that 99% of the time don't go anywhere. The odd editor comes back time-after-time with a different IP and adds the same link. Semi-protection, either permanent or relatively long term would stop this rot. . Biker Biker (talk) 10:25, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 6 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Miniapolis 22:28, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection: Intermittent but persistent IP vandalism - silly kids. Ghmyrtle (talk) 09:50, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Materialscientist (talk) 10:59, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Perm Semi - Repeated IP additions of links to non-existent articles or links to outside pages. --Jeremy (blah blah • I did it!) 04:45, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Let's see if this settles things down. Miniapolis 22:19, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Can we change this to Semi protection, I'm the original filer and I thought I asked for that and if I didn't was a mistake. A SPI will be filed in a little bit. . Hell In A Bucket (talk) 04:33, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Miniapolis 15:53, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Short term anon vandalism. -- LuK3 (Talk) 02:40, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected indefinitely. -- Dianna (talk) 16:37, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. GotR Talk 02:26, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected indefinitely. -- Dianna (talk) 16:33, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Indefinite semi-protection: Long-time has bands been added to the list with unreliabe sources and I removed those unreliable content but it seems that people keep adding bands with unreliable sources (ONE OF THEM was wiki though) and it's been like that for a long time, protect just in case of any edit warring.

    Ihy34 (talk) 01:43, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Pages are not protected preemptively. No consensus that Allmusic is not a RS. Miniapolis 17:14, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection: Repeated vandalism by multiple IPs and users with zero or few past edits. – 2001:db8:: (rfc | diff) 01:30, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. (IPs also seem to be making constructive edits.) Miniapolis 16:13, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – A template about the largest cities in Turkey should mention the population of the cities. Mr. Maurice keeps adding the population of provinces and seems to fail to see the difference. The Banner talk 00:47, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    I have requested help on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Turkey#Template:Largest cities in Turkey to get this dispute sorted out. The Banner talk 01:29, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    Request withdrawn, request for help seems to work. The Banner talk 10:24, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
     Requesting immediate archiving... Miniapolis 16:56, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Indefinite semi-protection: Almost every recent edit is vandalism (and reversion of vandalism) by an IP adress or a user with very few edits. 069952497a (talk) 01:38, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Pending-changes protected Let's try two weeks of pending changes before we suddenly jump to indefinite semi-protection. Qwyrxian (talk) 03:49, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection. High level of IP vandalism/joking around. I would have semi-protected it myself but I've just edited it. --Yngvadottir (talk) 14:25, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. In future, please list new requests at the top—thanks! Miniapolis 15:47, 17 February 2013 (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.

    Temporary semi-protection. Protection based on false reporting by a user with own agenda/POV: the controversy has already been made by another scientist's claim, and it was in the news. We can't use our own POV to go into establishing whether the claim itself is valid or not. 46.167.245.138 (talk) 08:25, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Consider the edit warring noticeboard – This is a case of possible edit-warring by one or two users. Miniapolis 16:08, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection. Protection based on false reporting by a user with own agenda/POV. The controversy has already been made by another scientist's claim, and it was in the news. We can't use our own POV to go into establishing whether the claim itself is valid or not. 46.167.245.138 (talk) 08:25, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Consider the edit warring noticeboard – This is a case of possible edit-warring by one or two users. Miniapolis 16:07, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection. Protection based on false reporting by a user with own agenda/POV. The controversy has already been made by another scientist's claim, and it was in the news. User stubbornly engages in revert war on the Talk Page! We can't use our own POV to go into establishing whether the claim itself is valid or not. 46.167.245.138 (talk) 08:25, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Consider the edit warring noticeboard – This is a case of possible edit-warring by one or two users. Miniapolis 16:02, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection. Protection based on false reporting by a user with own agenda/POV. The controversy has already been made by another scientist's claim, and it was in the news. We can't use our own POV to go into establishing whether the claim itself is valid or not. 46.167.245.138 (talk) 08:25, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Consider the edit warring noticeboard – This is a case of possible edit-warring by one or two users. Miniapolis 16:01, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Can we change this to Semi protection, I'm the original filer and I thought I asked for that and if I didn't was a mistake. A SPI will be filed in a little bit. . Hell In A Bucket (talk) 04:33, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Done Semi-protected for 2 weeks (see above). Miniapolis 15:56, 16 February 2013 (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.
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    • 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.

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