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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 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.

    1980 in Germany

    Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Incessant socking problem from Europefan (talk · contribs) (see SPI) All the "<Year> in Germany" articles are affected. . Andy Dingley (talk) 00:20, 26 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Man, you're asking someone to protect 42 different articles? Does any admin here know of some sort of automated tool for this? I know that if I did this manually, it would take hours. Is there an alternative solution? ~Anachronist (talk) 05:47, 26 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    Twinkle has a tool for protecting all pages linked to from one page. Hut 8.5 07:41, 26 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    I would prefer a limited protection period if we're protecting 42 articles. Samsara 13:00, 26 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    • WP:PP says that cascading protection isn't available for semi, and isn't supposed to be used in this way. It's also not available for PC, but I wonder if PC isn't preferable here. I'm currently undecided about protecting this entire group of articles. If there isn't any pattern to which ones are affected, we also need to consider that new titles in this series may provide new cannon fodder when/if they are created without protection. Samsara 15:52, 26 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    • What we'd need to correctly resolve this per the cascading proposal is the ability to have semi-protection (or PC) cascade from a fully protected page. This type of cascading afaik has not been implemented or enabled yet. Samsara 16:04, 26 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    @Anachronist, Hut 8.5, and Vanamonde93: Any objections to me going through the list and protecting on a case-by-case basis as needed (and watchlisting any unprotecteds)? I see no reason why we shouldn't at least do that. We can then still continue the discussion of whether some sort of blanket protection should be applied based on expected behaviour of the vandal. Vanamonde, if you were hoping to do this, feel free. Samsara 17:15, 26 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    @Samsara: I have no objection, and I agree this shouldn't be indef, but something shorter term, starting with a month. The problem is, if we find ourselves needing to escalate the protection period, I am concerned that doing it manually one by one will waste a lot of someone's time, so doing it in an automated way would be preferable. ~Anachronist (talk) 17:26, 26 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    Absolutely no objections, Samsara. Please go ahead. Vanamonde (talk) 17:32, 26 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    Checking to see if protection is necessary. Samsara 20:00, 26 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    I've gone through about half of them at this point and found one clear case meriting longer term protection; I'm still hovering over a few others as I learn more about what kinds of insertions are being made, and on what schedule. Will continue going through them as I find time today. Samsara 13:33, 27 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    Following on from Hut 8.5's comment. If you have Twinkle installed go to User:Vanamonde93/sandbox/Temp and there should be a tab that says TW. The drop down menu has P-batch which will protect all the links on the page. Bee careful because right above the P batch is D-batch and that will delete them and it works real good. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 18:36, 27 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    No objections, but indefinite. At least not for all. I don't think some of them even need protection at all.—CYBERPOWER (Around) 02:37, 28 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    I agree, some of them will not need protection. Gotta dash right now, more in a few hours. Samsara 19:07, 28 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    @Andy Dingley, General Ization, and Sro23: Did you discuss these edits anywhere, in the sense of developing consensus that football players should not be included? I found them to be routinely included in the corresponding articles for France, Italy, and Turkey. Samsara 02:24, 29 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    Man, is this a mess. Samsara, if you've done a cursory look and gotten the obvious ones, I'd recommend closing/archiving this. If further attention is needed, an editor can nominate a single page and make the case for semi-protection. It's very difficult to review a mass-nom like this for page protection, since page protection is highly individual to each page. ~ Rob13Talk 01:22, 30 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    A mess indeed. There's about ten or so left that I've yet to look at in detail, but I can do that without keeping this thread open. Samsara 15:05, 30 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Falen Bonsett

    Temporary semi-protection: Repeated false and slanderous comments in the personal life section, can see in history of edits. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.44.186.127 (talk) 21:39, 30 January 2017‎ (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. -- ferret (talk) 22:29, 30 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Template:Disney XD Original Series

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Repeated moving of Gamer's Guide to Pretty Much Everything and Lab Rats: Elite Force to former series despite there being no official announcement/source claiming the series have ended. Amaury (talk | contribs) 00:29, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Flash (comics)

    Pending changes or semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Would personally lean towards semi. But I'll leave that decision to an admin. 172.56.39.73 (talk) 00:41, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Geometry Dash

    Indefinite pending changes: Persistent vandalism – no good edits for a long time. I say indefinite because page has been protected many times but they keep vandalizing it. DashyGames (talk) 01:42, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Kyle Shanahan

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent addition of unsourced or poorly sourced content – Repeated additions of unconfirmed rumors about Shanahan becoming the 49ers' new head coach. . A guy saved by Jesus (talk) 02:39, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Executive order

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. General Ization Talk 04:13, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    User(s) blocked. Mz7 (talk) 04:15, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Cindy Callaghan

    Indefinite create protection: Repeatedly recreated. Zackmann08 (Talk to me/What I been doing) 04:35, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined Multiple creations were seven years ago: no disruption since AfD closure. Vanamonde (talk) 06:49, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Toy

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Uptick in recent vandalism on this article. -- Dane talk 04:50, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 3 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Samsara 08:51, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Debbie Reynolds

    Semi-protection: Presistant disruptive editing. 219.79.226.196 (talk) 04:58, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Seth Curry

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Constant vandalism... Kante4 (talk) 05:09, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    DWAD-AM

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Vandalism edits as User:Bertrand101 Sock. LG-Gunther :  Talk  06:16, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Template:More plot

    Semi-protection: Used in 800+ articles. George Ho (talk) 06:59, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Template:No plot

    Semi-protection: Used in 1300+ articles. George Ho (talk) 07:07, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Template:Cleanup list

    Semi-protection: Currently unprotected after moved from Template:Cleanup-list, which is template-protected. Now transcluded in 800+ pages. --George Ho (talk) 08:14, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Troy Ave

    Pending changes protection: Persistent IP and unconfirmed user vandalism. Davykamanzi → talk • contribs • alter ego 08:32, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Monday Night Massacre

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – New article, under constant vandalism by dynamic IPs. Should be protected until controversy simmers down. Inploded (talk) 08:35, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Shubinator (talk) 09:35, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    There was very little vandalism. Request to have to page locked is an attempt to protect the page's biased and non-neutral point of view. 70.209.196.77 (talk) 09:40, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Boku no Pico

    Pending changes: Persistent vandalism – Long term history of vandalism, although there are a few constructive edits here and there, so it would probably be a better idea to try PC first, then raise to semi if it proves ineffective. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 08:49, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Habib University

    Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Official Habib University wikipedia page and should be protected from all users, except for the administrator. 09:14, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

    @Edward321: I saw your edit summary, "rv adcopy" - did you find copyvio here? Samsara 09:18, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    David Davies (Welsh politician)

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – 'Controversies' section keeps being deleted though it is well sourced. The matter was raised in Talk but the editor hasn't been forthcoming. RightSaidFred (talk) 09:40, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Current requests for reduction in protection level

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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

    Further information: Wikipedia:Edit requests
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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.

    Handled requests

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

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