Wikipedia:Requests for page protection
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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
Request unprotection of a page, or reducing the protection level
Request a specific edit to a protected page
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Current requests for increase in protection level
White Africans of European ancestry
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism and moving of article without discussion by user with political agenda --BenBezuidenhout (talk) 13:27, 15 December 2019 (UTC)
Windows 7
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Various IPs are being used to insert the same incorrect information to the page, and this has been going on for months now. It started with a user called "Иван Стефановски", who was blocked shortly after starting his shenanigans. See: 1 - support for Windows 7's 32-bit edition never stopped, and the "2012-07 Security Update" doesn't exist; the citations added here are fake links (yes, the user went through all that effort to make it look genuine). Since the block, there has been a slew of IPs inserting the same incorrect info over the past few months: see 2, 3, 4, 5.
By the way, I know that the page is already review-protected, but that's apparently not enough. See 6 and 7 as instances of times when the IPs' insertion of incorrect info got accepted by reviewers.
In my opinion, considering how unrelenting these IPs are, the page should be protected for a long while. --Sek-2 (talk) 18:58, 14 December 2019 (UTC)
Declined Pending changes is doing its job sufficiently. Anarchyte (talk | work) 08:36, 15 December 2019 (UTC)
Windows Server 2012 R2
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – See Windows 7 above. Examples of insertion of incorrect info: 1, 2, 3. Sek-2 (talk) 18:59, 14 December 2019 (UTC)
Windows Server 2008 R2
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – See Windows 7 above. This is a different case, though - I don't think there's been any obvious vandalism, but it's still being edited by the very same IPs that vandalize the other Windows articles, which is why I think this article should be protected too. See: 1, 2. Sek-2 (talk) 19:00, 14 December 2019 (UTC)
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Amkgp (talk) 20:01, 14 December 2019 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of 6 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--Ymblanter (talk) 11:47, 15 December 2019 (UTC)
Anton du Beke
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. CLCStudent (talk) 20:32, 14 December 2019 (UTC)
Hilton Coliseum
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. CLCStudent (talk) 20:36, 14 December 2019 (UTC)
Mara Junot
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. CLCStudent (talk) 20:39, 14 December 2019 (UTC)
Montreal
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing. Moxy 🍁 21:34, 14 December 2019 (UTC)
Akonda
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent recreation of an article that was AfDed and the result was a redirect. Willbb234Talk (please {{ping}} me in replies) 22:53, 14 December 2019 (UTC)
Sorry, ignore "Persistent vandalism" and replace with "Persistent disruptive editing". Thanks, Willbb234Talk (please {{ping}} me in replies) 22:55, 14 December 2019 (UTC)
Monsters, Inc.
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Carl Tristan Orense 01:39, 15 December 2019 (UTC)
Wii Play: Motion
Semi-protection: In the last day two IP vandals have changed link from "umbilical cable" to "umbilical cord," I suspect as the result of a recent Scott the Woz video making a joke about it - the video's new and I expect there'll be more in the near future. Would this be an appropriate situation for temporary semi-protection? Thanks. Darthkayak (talk) 01:39, 15 December 2019 (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.
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
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.
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.
Electric current
Change "An electric current is a flow of charged particles,[1][2][3] such as electrons or ions, moving through an electrical conductor or space." to "An electric current is the flow of a charge around an electrical conductor or through space." Reason: The DRIFT section lower down has it right. Up here, it's very wrong. Wiki should not promote wrongness or contradict itself. Please see here: "Drift speed The mobile charged particles within a conductor move constantly in random directions, like the particles of a gas. (More accurately, a Fermi gas.) To create a net flow of charge, the particles must also move together with an average drift rate. Electrons are the charge carriers in most metals and they follow an erratic path, bouncing from atom to atom, but generally drifting in the opposite direction of the electric field. The speed they drift at can be calculated from the equation: v = I n A Q {\displaystyle v={\frac {I}{nAQ}}} where v {\displaystyle v} is the drift velocity I {\displaystyle I} is the electric current n {\displaystyle n} is number of charged particles per unit volume (or charge carrier density) A {\displaystyle A} is the cross-sectional area of the conductor Q {\displaystyle Q} is the charge on each particle. Typically, electric charges in solids flow slowly. For example, in a copper wire of cross-section 0.5 mm2, carrying a current of 5 A, the drift velocity of the electrons is on the order of a millimetre per second. To take a different example, in the near-vacuum inside a cathode-ray tube, the electrons travel in near-straight lines at about a tenth of the speed of light. Any accelerating electric charge, and therefore any changing electric current, gives rise to an electromagnetic wave that propagates at very high speed outside the surface of the conductor. This speed is usually a significant fraction of the speed of light, as can be deduced from Maxwell's equations, and is therefore many times faster than the drift velocity of the electrons. For example, in AC power lines, the waves of electromagnetic energy propagate through the space between the wires, moving from a source to a distant load, even though the electrons in the wires only move back and forth over a tiny distance. The ratio of the speed of the electromagnetic wave to the speed of light in free space is called the velocity factor, and depends on the electromagnetic properties of the conductor and the insulating materials surrounding it, and on their shape and size." 2003:E3:EF1C:62AA:25FC:EBCA:B8B7:B6EE (talk) 08:33, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
Create a level 3 header with a link to the article in question, then a {{pagelinks}} template and then the reason. It looks like this: Example (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) your request here. ~~~~
Handled requests
A rolling archive of the last seven days of protection requests can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Rolling archive.