Wikipedia:Requests for page protection

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Welcome—request protection of a page, file, or template here.

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 protection Request unprotection of a page, or reducing the protection level Request unprotection Request a specific edit to a protected page Please request an edit directly on the protected page's talk page before posting here Request edit

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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.

Aghdara (town) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Indefinite move-protection, I would like to ask indefinite move protection for Aghdara town as it is de-facto part of Karabakh but internationally known and de-jure part of Azerbaijan, which means it goes under Aghdara name. Best Regards. NovaSkola (talk) 20:31, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

India and weapons of mass destruction (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

semi-protection vandalism, Repeated vandalism. Falcon8765 (talk) 20:08, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Apollo (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection vandalism, Heavy vandalism from IP editors. Immunize (talk) 20:06, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Convection (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Indefinite semi-protection vandalism, Excessive vandalism. Wizard191 (talk) 19:56, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Azerbaijani Land Forces (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Indefinite semi-protection vandalism, This article as some of different Azerbaijani article is often targeted by Armenian IPs who disinformate users. So I want semi-protection to protect from various IP vandalism. Best Regards. NovaSkola (talk) 19:29, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Rwandan Genocide (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protect. IP vandalism, several dynamic IPs. Big Bird (talk • contribs) 18:52, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 day, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. NW (Talk) 19:04, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

User:N419BH/Editnotice (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Indefinite semi-protection vandalism, no reason for new users to edit this besides vandalism. --N419BH (talk) 18:44, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Semi-protected Elockid ^(Talk) 18:49, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

United States Army (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection vandalism. The High Fin Sperm Whale 18:17, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. AlexiusHoratius 18:21, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Computer network (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection Some vandalism. Tbhotch^{Talk C.} 18:16, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. AlexiusHoratius 18:19, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Cheeky Vimto (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Indefinite semi-protection vandalism, Repeated vandalism by multiple IPs. Logical Cowboy (talk) 17:56, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. AlexiusHoratius 18:02, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Erich Mielke (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection Excessive sockpuppetry. Tbhotch^{Talk C.} 17:55, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 day, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.. Let me know if it needs extending. Keeping it at one day since the user has just been IP hopping for today. Elockid ^(Talk) 18:02, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Tove Jansson (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection nationalistic vandalism. Multiple IPs have been revert-altering the consensus-based text for nationalistic reasons for the last several days. -Thibbs (talk) 17:50, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. AlexiusHoratius 18:06, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

User:Jarkeld (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

semi-protection vandalism. The High Fin Sperm Whale 17:46, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one day, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. AlexiusHoratius 18:04, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Stalinism (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Indefinite move-protection, Series of IPs redirecting this, with offensive edit summaries. RolandR (talk) 17:40, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 day, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.. I've semi protected the article for one day. See Erich Mielke. There's no need to move protect at this point since they're not moving the page and the page is semi'd. Elockid ^(Talk) 18:02, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Current requests for unprotection

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.

Fulfilled/denied requests

Reflex (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection vandalism. The High Fin Sperm Whale 17:40, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Declined for now - not too heavy, and pretty quiet before a week ago. Re-list if situation worsens. AlexiusHoratius 18:07, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

East Germany (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semiprotection Vandalism. Multiple IPs keep adding redundant and badly-coded header to article. ☯ Z.S. ☠ ......(talk) 17:22, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Comment: same IPs also seem to target Stalinism (and, to a lesser extent, Erich Mielke). TFOWR^{This flag once was red} 17:27, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Elockid ^(Talk) 17:57, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Broccoli (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Indefinite semi-protection vandalism, This page is frequently vandalized by anonymous users (most likely by people who dislike the vegetable). There has been only one constructive edit to Broccoli in the past month by a anonymous user. Alpha Quadrant (talk) 17:21, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. AlexiusHoratius 18:11, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Backstreet Boys (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Indefinite semi-protection Continuous vandalism. The semi-protection was recently expired and the page began attracting number of vandals already. It seems that it would either need an indefinite semi-protection or another long temporary semi-protection.--Harout72 (talk) 16:42, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of six months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. AlexiusHoratius 18:10, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Miami Seaquarium (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Full Protection. High level of vandalism. SimplyNYC (talk) 15:43, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Elockid ^(Talk) 17:57, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Lolita (orca) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Full Protection. High level of vandalism. SimplyNYC (talk) 15:43, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Elockid ^(Talk) 17:57, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Guitar Hero (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection vandalism, This article keeps getting the same general nonsense phrase from IPs, something about the high score coming from a twelve-fingered monkey named Sheila or variants thereof; the edits come only about once a day or two, but they keep coming over the last several months. The IPs are all different, suggesting a slow 4chan-ism type attack. Request temporary semi-protection to see if this cools down the IP attacks. MASEM (t) 15:26, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.. Elockid ^(Talk) 18:05, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Japonic languages (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Unprotection, Related to Classification of Japanese protection. It has been protected for months over some edit waring. Has aging templates and uncited sourced which I can not fix. The other page Japanese people was fully protected as well at the same time but was lowered to semi protected in January. ZacBowling ^(user|talk) 04:22, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Unprotected SlimVirgin ^{talk contribs} 07:10, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Harry Reid (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection vandalism, repetitive vandalism from anon IPs Fat&Happy (talk) 14:58, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. --RegentsPark (talk) 17:21, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Bollywood films of 2010 (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection vandalism, This article is facing excessive daily vandalism and non-registered users are vandalizing figures specially the 'Top grossing films' section. Managerarc^(talk) 14:49, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--RegentsPark (talk) 17:05, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Tropical cyclone (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection vandalism. Bidgee (talk) 10:29, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 10:58, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Chris Uscinski (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

create-protection Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 ^{> haneʼ} 09:29, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Creation protected HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 09:40, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

User talk:Tanthalas39 (edit | user page | history | links | watch | logs)

Indefinite full protection, By his own proclamation he's retired. His talk page shouldn't turn into a discussion on how long before he should come back or if he should, and that seems to be the direction it's heading in. HarlandQPitt 07:48, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Declined. I can't see any issue here requiring protection. SlimVirgin ^{talk contribs} 07:50, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Classification of Japanese (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Unprotection, This is has been protected for months. It's impeding constructive editing. Was protected over some edit waring which I wasn't involved with. . ZacBowling ^(user|talk) 04:19, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Unprotected SlimVirgin ^{talk contribs} 07:11, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

New Testament (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Indefinite semi-protection, Edit warring and disruptive edits by user with a dynamic IP. They have disregarded consensus building and opposition to their edits by numerous editors, and have avoided blocks on their IP. Ari (talk) 06:50, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Already protected. by Tim Song (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA). SlimVirgin ^{talk contribs} 06:51, 10 May 2010 (UTC)