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 remove obvious vandalism.
Request addition of protection to a page, or increasing the current protection level
Request removal of protection from a page, or reducing the current protection level
Request a specific edit be made to a protected page
Request the non-urgent protection of multiple pages that do not require immediate administrator attention
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Current requests for increase in protection level
Place requests for protection increases at the BOTTOM of this section. If you cannot find your request, check the archive of requests or the page history. Only recently answered requests are still listed here.
Reason: Requesting protection to be raised to extended-confirmed due to persistent disruptive edits despite existing semi-protection also considering the case that the article is likely to receive heavy volume traffic and repeated inaccurate edits in the coming days. Kaeez06 (talk) 07:57, 14 May 2026 (UTC)
- @Kaeez06: Please put a clear explanation on article talk. Then put a link to the explanation in the next edit summary that reverts a problem. Then ask again if problem repeated. Johnuniq (talk) 01:25, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
- Did the same (Talk:Chief Minister of Kerala#Addressing edit war regarding the current seat holder) yet people still keep reverting. The swearing in ceremony happens on Monday, it would be advisable to raise protection till then. Kaeez06 (talk) 16:39, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
Reason: Contentious topic VitoxxMass (talk) 11:49, 14 May 2026 (UTC)
Temporary extended protection: BLP Policy Violations. BLP violations following end of term in government. TylerBurden (talk) 20:06, 14 May 2026 (UTC)
- @TylerBurden: What is the BLP problem? There is nothing on article talk. The reverting user states that your source fails verification. Johnuniq (talk) 01:38, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing. Junosangleave a message 22:31, 14 May 2026 (UTC)
Reason: Continuing problems from temp and spa accounts. - Hipal (talk) 00:24, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
Reason: Spillover of problems at Peebles Corporation that appears to be a result of past protection of that article. - Hipal (talk) 00:37, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
Reason: Requesting temporary or indefinite semi-protection. Persistent disruptive edits from temporary accounts likely tracing to the same individual responsible for the article's most recent page protection lock in February. dap 💅 01:24, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Pretty persistent vandalism for the last 20 years with basically zero good IP/TA edits in the page's history. MakaylaHippo1998 (talk) 02:34, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
Reason: Promote compliance with policies on biographies of living persons and contentious topics Pikkupapupata 💌 🌷 04:49, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
Temporary extended confirmed protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Temporary user insisting on unsourced possibly LLM-generated content. Temporary user refuses to engage in the talk page. Same content has been pushed weeks ago under a different account which I have cleaned out for being unsourced/improperly sourced. Some sources on the head coach/managers do not corroborate with the given years. The LLM mistakes the coach as a head coach/manager when they are actually consultants, "a coach", assistant coach with the dates sometimes not even matching. Hariboneagle927 (talk) 06:49, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
- @Hariboneagle927: Why does it have to be extended confirmed protection? The "disruptive editing" you are claiming is coming from temporary accounts and not autoconfirmed ones. --Prothe1st (leave me a message)-- 10:58, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
- @Prothe1st Please revised to a standard temporary semi-protection instead. I mis-clicked.Hariboneagle927 (talk) 12:15, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
Create protection: Repeatedly recreated – Attack page. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 09:04, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
Reason: Personal attack from sockpuppet Trade (talk) 09:10, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Continuous disruptive edits by IP user(s). Sricsi (talk) 10:27, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
- @Sricsi: By a single IP user, which doesn't warrant protection. See WP:DDE. Why should every new user be punished over one person's behaviour when we can easily just block them? --Prothe1st (leave me a message)-- 10:53, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
- Fair enough. If you think a block would be more appropriate here, feel free to decline the protection request and handle the IP directly instead. My concern was mainly the ongoing disruption rather than protection as the only possible solution. If I need to submit anything else, let me know. Sricsi (talk) 11:01, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
Reason: Frequent removals of cited and sourced content since at least late April. Pikkupapupata 💌 🌷 11:00, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Vandalism resumed after protection lapsed. TurquoiseGoose (talk) 11:01, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
- Automated comment: One or more pages in this request appear to already be protected. Please confirm.—cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online 13:31, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of 2w, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. qedk (t 愛 c) 13:32, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
Indefinite extended confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement – WP:ARBPIA. ApexParagon (talk) 12:16, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
- Automated comment: A request for protection/unprotection for one or more pages in this request was recently made, and was denied at some point within the last 8 days.—cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online 12:16, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
- (Non-administrator comment) ArbCom has clarified that Eurovision Song Contest articles do not fall under PIA. SuperPianoMan9167 (talk) 13:13, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – This article experienced periods of disruption in the past, mostly in February and early April of this year. Disruption of precisely the same type - trying to reframe the article entirely without source or consensus, repeated deletion of sourced information with no more justification than saying "it's wrong" - has now returned. This is a CTOP.
It is possible there is sockpuppetry going on, but it's very hard to say for sure. The edits are quite consistent, but they could just have the same bone to pick. AntiDionysius (talk) 13:13, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
- Automated comment: One or more pages in this request appear to already be protected. Please confirm.—cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online 16:02, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Page is having plenty of vandalism over the last few hours. Jabba550 ✉ Talk to me :D 13:22, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
Reason: Persistent addition of unsourced content by block evader Bladedate. MrRingtail (talk) 14:06, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Canvassing. This caught my attention after Special:AbuseLog/44216364 and Special:AbuseLog/44216378: someone is apparently trying to make accounts solely for the purpose of advocating to keep the page. SuperPianoMan9167 (talk) 14:49, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
- And now there's TungTungSahurWebPageAdvocate. SuperPianoMan9167 (talk) 14:52, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
Extended confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement – WP:CT/IMH. Toast1454TC 15:05, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
- Maybe consider protecting everything in Category:Battles of Indo-Pakistani wars. Toast1454TC 15:17, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Recent surge of TA vandalism. Entranced98 (talk) 15:33, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
Reason: Persistent vandalism by IPs and newly registered accounts on a BLP. —👑PRINCE of EREBOR📜 15:35, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
Reason: The discussion on the talk page was the topic of a news article on an off-wiki site. Already temporary accounts have come to revert edits. Think a temporary semi-protection would be helpful. Edittttor (talk) 15:44, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
Indefinite extended confirmed protection: WP:GS/KURD. 45dogs (they/them) (talk page) (contributions) 15:53, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
Reason: Persistent edit warring going on. Please raise protection to extended till swearing in ceremony on Monday. Kaeez06 (talk) 16:40, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
Current requests for reduction in protection level
Reason: to add mammals introduced ~2026-29282-81 (talk) 09:12, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
Not unprotected – Please use an edit request to request specific changes to be made to the protected page. Favonian (talk) 12:20, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
Reason: The protection is no longer necessary because it is being used to justify false political views and not evidence-based fact . Adamw111 (talk) 15:17, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
This is for the Nakba page. Information provided in the article is false and is locked by the author so that they may promote their own political views. It's specifically refers to ethnic cleansing which is completely false and an anti-semitic stereotype that's used quite frequently unfortunately.
- Automated comment: A request for protection/unprotection for one or more pages in this request was recently made, and was denied at some point within the last 8 days.—cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online 15:32, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
- This page is protected as a consequence of Arbitration remedies and cannot be unprotected, full stop. You also do not have the standing to appeal either of those remedies, assuming arguendo that either would be lifted at present. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v MUSHROOM 15:38, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
- Not unprotected – Please use an edit request to request specific changes to be made to the protected page. @Adamw111: You failed to read the instructions above. ~Anachronist (who / me) (talk) 16:27, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
Current requests for edits to a protected page
Handled requests
A historical archive of previous protection requests can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive.