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.

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Image replacement vandalism, possibly 4chan associated. Suggest one week semi-prot. (Would have been a good candidate for PC-1). Ronk01 talk 02:45, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Klein Oak High School (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protection: Recent vandalism from more than one IP Edgepedia (talk) 02:34, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

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

Indefinite move-protection Recently removed. Tbhotch.^™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions. 02:31, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

List of Fairy Tail characters (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Ongoing vandalism by several IPs. Darth Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 22:51, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

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

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Shuipzv3 (talk) 22:06, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

(Non-administrator comment) Yesterday's TFA. Tbhotch.^™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions. 02:31, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Talk:University of Pristina/RfC: split proposal‎ (edit | article | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary or indefinite semi-protection: The page is supposed to be a request for comment on a topic of the fueled dispute, supposed to probe for opinions of the previously uninvolved editors. As one of the vocal editors believes that the sock puppet issues may arise, I want to request semi-protections as a way to make the outcome clear. Once the RfC is closed, the page is not supposed to be edited any more. — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk) 21:05, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Redistribution of wealth (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection: persistent IP blanking of refs. to Joshua Holland, who's cited at least 4 times in WP, and Dan Ariely et al. -Attleboro (talk) 20:38, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Military of Cameroon (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Long history of repeated addition of hoax/patent nonsense/silly vandalism by an IP hopping anonymous editor from Cameroon. Request for indefinite semi-protection to free up the regular editors from having to constantly monitor and/or verify edits performed by anon IPs, thank you. Dave ^{♠♣♥♦™№1185©♪♫®} 18:59, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

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

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 18:53, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

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

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism by various people specially by unregistered people,Srilanka has faced to a long running civil war therefore Srilanka still has LTTE enemies in overseas who wants to embarrass the Srilanka somehow. Thanks.! Gryphes (talk) 16:32, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

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

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – The page is subject to frequent IP vandalism. It was already protected several times but just for a week at a time. Someone needs to look into this and add a more significant IP vandalism protection, ideally indefinite. Contributors who want to change this high profile page, can always create accounts. This page is too much of a playground right now . Codrin.B (talk) 16:14, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Femme Fatale (Britney Spears album) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Unregistered and unconfirmed users doing edits without source or unreliable source constantly. Saulo ^{Talk to Me} 15:12, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. – Luna Santin (talk) 03:17, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

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

Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism. Only 11 of the last 50 edits (since 3 Jan) have been constructive, though 5 of those are from 2 IPs. RDBrown (talk) 12:37, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. – Luna Santin (talk) 03:17, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Special Air Service (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism. Jim Sweeney (talk) 00:03, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Declined for the time being; only a few IPs involved, all seem to have stopped. – Luna Santin (talk) 03:14, 16 February 2012 (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

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

Temporary semi-protection: Vandalism – This will probably bring more than a few vandals here. Furries (Talk) 22:45, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Materialscientist (talk) 00:28, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

M&M's (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – due to the new M&M commercial [1]. Whenaxis talk · contribs 23:53, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Declined: Most of the recent activity seems to have been from that one IP today...other than that I'm not seeing enough vandalism from IPs to outweigh the constructive edits. Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 01:09, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Carolina Forest High School (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent recent vandalism from IPs in 206.219.166.xxx range. Shearonink (talk) 23:23, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Declined. Looks like they've stopped. Materialscientist (talk) 23:56, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Dr. Seuss (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. SMS ^Talk 22:58, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of six months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 23:39, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

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

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. SMS ^Talk 22:02, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 10 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 22:13, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

List of tallest buildings in the world (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary full-protection - edit war between 4 registered users (yes, I include myself since I'm obviously part of the dispute) and 2 IPs. Need an uninvolved admin to step in and mediate the issue. Deryck C. 21:44, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Blocked the IP for edit warring, and other than the IP things seem pretty stable, so for now Declined. Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 22:22, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Sugarloaf Key Bat Tower (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection: Article is currently on the front page of Reddit, resulting in a lot of IP vandalism. - CompliantDrone (talk) 19:02, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Materialscientist (talk) 00:29, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

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

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – This page needs a short temporary semi protection. There are too many reverted edits at the moment... mabdul 12:47, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Materialscientist (talk) 00:20, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

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

Full protection It would be appreciated if the article could be protected for perhaps a week, so that (forced) discussion can occur on the talk page, instead of reverting by editors. The alternative is something more drastic, but hopefully protection will push people in the right direction. Russavia ^{ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)} 12:29, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Declined – Content dispute. Please use the article's talk page or other forms of dispute resolution. and engage on talk page more. Editors who violate 3RR can also be blocked if need be. —Eustress ^talk 22:57, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Template:Semi-retired (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – this is on many userpages, and its commonly vandalised to say "semi-retarded". Pinkie Pie 18:28, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Semi-protected. Salvio ^{Let's talk about it!} 18:34, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

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

Indefinite semi-protection: Continuous addition of false information by IP addresses, claiming the album is certified in Australia when its not stated in source. — Gabe 19 ^{(talk contribs)} 17:33, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Salvio ^{Let's talk about it!} 18:36, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Islam in Sri Lanka (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism by various people, their unbiased view tries to change the true facts. this should be stopped because it changes the legit history.this might embarrass the Muslim community in Srilanka. Thanks.! Gryphes (talk) 16:32, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Salvio ^{Let's talk about it!} 18:38, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Chennai International Airport (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Repeated removal of New York-JFK from the destinations list of Jet Airways by an IP, which happens to be a direct flight. — Abhishek  ^Talk 14:12, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. Salvio ^{Let's talk about it!} 18:40, 15 February 2012 (UTC)