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.

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

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Unsourced speculation. Mattythewhite (talk) 18:03, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

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

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Tolly4bolly 18:03, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

Guba mass grave (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Armenian users like Yerevanci, Proudbolsahye and Ninetoyadome all of been which has been previously topic banned from editing Azerbaijani related articles and removing well referenced sentences, has been heavily adding biased information and removed good references, while adding none required tags. Moreover, their sockpuppet IP's heavily section blanking without reading talk procedure in articles which is against Wikipedia's guideline policy.

Furthermore, some of them have been section blanking this topic. I've request topic ban to them and 3 month temporary page protection to this article. NovaSkola (talk) 17:41, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

After School (band) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Inbound attacks by IP socks of Ryanjay1996 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). Please see also Category:Suspected_Wikipedia_sockpuppets_of_Ryanjay1996. Δρ.Κ. ^{λόγοςπράξις} 17:08, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

Man on couch (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Indefinite create protection: Repeatedly recreated – User:Eolise4356 keeps recreating & adding copyrighted content. –
→Davey2010→→Talk to me!→ 16:49, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

• Creation protected by Acroterion --j⚛e decker^talk 17:27, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

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

Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations – Blatantly misrepresenting sources to make extremely degrading claims. The Devil's Advocate _{tlk. cntrb.} 16:30, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 7 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. --j⚛e decker^talk 16:37, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

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

Semi-protection:‎ Persistent vandalism. Tbhotch.^™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions. 16:21, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 7 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. --j⚛e decker^talk 17:29, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

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

Semi-protection:‎ Edit warring with copyright violations and NPOV concerns. 99.149.85.229 (talk) 16:10, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

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

Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism and BLP issues. Koala15 (talk) 15:54, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

• User(s) blocked. one IP, who was ready for a block already for other reasons. There's one other incident of vandalism in the past dozen or days or so, but given the high level of constructive IP editing, I think it's best to not protect at this time. Please let us know if persistent problems recur. --j⚛e decker^talk 16:09, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

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

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring. — Abhishek  ^Talk 15:33, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

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

Semi-protection: It is under persistent atack from an IP. IP vandalism and edit warring. Jingiby (talk) 16:40, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

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

Full protection Indefinitely: Page was temporarily protected from sock user(s) in April which expired on the 25th of May and appears the same sock user(s) is back at it. --TwoNyce 06:24, 1June 2013 (UTC)

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

Semi-protection: Persistent IP vandalism/edit warring. Mangoe (talk) 12:35, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

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

Nintendo GameCube (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) and other redirects

Temporary move protection: Someone else renamed the article from "Nintendo GameCube" to "GameCube" last year, which was against the prior consensus. Then Talk:GameCube#Requested_move the new consensus agree with the new name, "GameCube", prompting the nominator to withdraw. George Ho (talk) 12:33, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

Eurovision Song Contest 1989 (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protection. Edit war in progress Moosehadley 12:23, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

• Declined With two edits by one editor in the past two weeks, I'm not seeing a live edit war. Was this the article you intended? --j⚛e decker^talk 16:48, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection: Fans of this series keep changing the name to an unofficial one, when this has clearly already been decided on the Talk page. . KirtZJ (talk) 12:17, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

Mental (2013 film) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Tolly4bolly 10:45, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

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

Semi-protection. Persistent vandalism. Jim1138 (talk) 07:20, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of six months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:58, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

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

Semi-protection: Persistent IP vandalism. The IP vandal has also been targeting other Japanese Emperor pages (Emperor Ichijō, Emperor Kazan, Emperor Sanjō) recently after I successfully requested a degree of protection to be added for Emperor Kōmei page - which was previously the IP user's favorite page to vandalize. Seems like the unregistered vandal has found a new favorite page. (Vandal has been editing from the following IPs so far: Special:Contributions/189.170.1.103, Special:Contributions/189.170.1.116, Special:Contributions/189.170.37.95, Special:Contributions/148.225.103.2 and Special:Contributions/189.170.19.139) Splitfusion (talk) 07:15, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

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

Temporary Semi-protection: Persistent addition of unconfirmed and unsourced transfer. Kingjeff (talk) 06:49, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. by Lectonar --j⚛e decker^talk 17:31, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

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

Temporary Semi-protection: Persistent sock puppetry. This guy is socking again and is editing from Special:Contributions/178.98.27.148 and Special:Contributions/31.109.111.104. This article was previously semi-protected twice to stop him‎, most recently to for one month, until May 25. Since he is back less than a week after the protection expired, I think the article should be protected for longer than one month.--Jahalive (talk) 06:22, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of two months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:43, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

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

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Tbhotch.^™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions. 06:11, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 5 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. --j⚛e decker^talk 17:24, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

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

Indefinite semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism and persistent vandalism, please protect this article from IP.--Soundwaweserb (talk) 05:39, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

• Note: I looked at this, but am putting it back for review by someone else. --j⚛e decker^talk 17:19, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

Please protect the page as well as Rafael Nadal, is constantly vandalized IP address, please stop them.--Soundwaweserb (talk) 17:23, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

Júlio César Soares Espíndola (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Unsourced transfer speculation. Mattythewhite (talk) 02:05, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Dianna (talk) 16:41, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

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

Semi-protection: Long term disruption by IPs and SPAs pushing WP:FRINGE papers. Sailsbystars (talk) 02:05, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Please re-report if the problem worsens. Please try to educate the users as to our sourcing requirements regarding medical articles. Dianna (talk) 16:39, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

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

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – BLP vandalism. SFK2 (talk) 01:21, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 10 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:57, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

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

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Now semi-protection has expired, the same childish vandalism has returned. Can we get it at least set to pending changes?. Biker Biker (talk) 20:52, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. There's been no edits worth keeping from unconfirmed users, so pending changes is not as good an option in this case. Dianna (talk) 16:34, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

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

Temporary pending changes: Persistent vandalism – Persistent long term vandalism by IPs and new accounts (twice since listed) Widefox; talk 17:53, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.. Semi-protection works better when there's few or no valid edits by unconfirmed users. Dianna (talk) 16:29, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

I was hoping for a year or more considering the history, and an obvious target. A stable DAB hence the PC1 suggestion. The talk page collects some too, but not as much. Widefox; talk 16:45, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

Iranian presidential election, 2013 (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary full-protection. Content dispute/edit warring.Farhikht (talk) 13:31, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

User(s) blocked.. Bbb23 (talk) 15:52, 1 June 2013 (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.

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

Unprotection: No recent vandalism or disruptive activity. KyleLandas (talk) 07:43, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

Declined The lack of vandalism and disruptive activity might simply be due to the fact that it is still protected. I do not feel safe enough for the moment to lift this; the article has been heavily vandalised since it is on wikipedia. Add to that that the topic is still quite controversial. Lectonar (talk) 08:46, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

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

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