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.


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Current requests for increase in protection level

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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.

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Reason: Edit for only registered users, till the problem is dealt with. An anonymous user keeps reverting obviously faulty edits without substantiating his revert/edit with a source. I can't be the only one taking care of the page. No time. Esperfulmo (talk) 12:38, 27 October 2026 (UTC)

Declined – Content dispute. Please use the article's talk page or other forms of dispute resolution. Yue🌙 (talk) 06:41, 28 October 2026 (UTC)

Caruaru

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Persistent disruptive editing by various IPs and sockpuppet accounts. Relatively recently, the page was protected for the same reasons. FromCzech (talk) 13:51, 27 October 2026 (UTC)

Mrunal Thakur

Reason: High Level of Vandalism Arjan866 (talk) 15:18, 27 October 2026 (UTC)

Tamannaah Bhatia

Reason: High Level of Vandalism Arjan866 (talk) 15:18, 27 October 2026 (UTC)

Shahjahanabad

Reason: Disruptive editing of the article Wikipedian reader 1234567 (talk) 15:43, 27 October 2026 (UTC)

IP address(es) blocked. Curbon7 (talk) 05:22, 28 October 2026 (UTC)

Iranian Revolution

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Filmssssssssssss (talk) 17:39, 27 October 2026 (UTC)

List of Kapamilya Channel original programming

Reason: Persistent addition of unsourced content. Waxworker (talk) 18:05, 27 October 2026 (UTC)

List of All TV original programming

Reason: Persistent addition of unsourced content. Waxworker (talk) 18:06, 27 October 2026 (UTC)

Multinational corporation

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. dualcerbtalk 18:54, 27 October 2026 (UTC)

Amherst, Nova Scotia

Temporary extended confirmed protection: Persistent vandalism – Page under attack by IP User(s). Three in the past 4 days.   Aloha27  talk  19:05, 27 October 2026 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. Yue🌙 (talk) 06:10, 28 October 2026 (UTC)

Asante people

Reason: high level of temporary vandalism ~2026-57419-74 (talk) 19:40, 27 October 2026 (UTC)

Joe Mitchell (politician)

Reason: Candidate in current election, high level of coordinating WP:SPA accounts persistently adding poorly sourced/unsourced negative information. Requesting extended confirmed protection through the election. Marquardtika (talk) 20:13, 27 October 2026 (UTC)

Survivor 51

Temporary pending changes: BLP policy violations – Attempts to frame something as what one TA editor had wanted have been reverted. Not just editing dispute, this is also BLP-related and borderline BLP violation. George Ho (talk) 21:32, 27 October 2026 (UTC)

¿Quién es la máscara? (Mexican TV series) season 1

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Temporary accounts are persistently changing contestant names. Blocking these accounts is not helping as new ones continue to vandalize the page. Telenovelafan215 (talk) 22:18, 27 October 2026 (UTC)

Joseph Gregori High School

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Flood of silly vandalism from multiple accounts. Entranced98 (talk) 22:56, 27 October 2026 (UTC)

Victorious

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing. MPFitz1968 (talk) 23:24, 27 October 2026 (UTC)

@Anachronist Looks like your TRYUNPROT trial for this article has failed. I think it's now time to reinstate the old indef protection. Giovanni Potage (talk) 23:29, 27 October 2026 (UTC)
@MPFitz1968 I'd like to point out that this article used to have indefnite protection until last year. Giovanni Potage (talk) 23:32, 27 October 2026 (UTC)
Yeah, I saw that after requesting the protection. I'd be OK with upgrading to indefinite. MPFitz1968 (talk) 00:17, 28 October 2026 (UTC)
Semi-protected indefinitely. Again. ~Anachronist (who / me) (talk) 05:42, 28 October 2026 (UTC)

Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins

Reason: high level of temporary account vandalism. TheAaronBurrSir (talk) 00:01, 28 October 2026 (UTC)

Talk:Whopper

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Viewing the history shows entirely vandalism and reverts. St☆rlet! (Talk to me!) (Library) 00:05, 28 October 2026 (UTC)

List of foreign MLS players

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Incessant IP vandalism. LPHaddleburg (talk) 00:31, 28 October 2026 (UTC)

Vaquita

Reason: In the past year the page has had its protection removed twice, and every time it is removed a slew of temporary accounts go in to have their edits be reverted over and over again. Requesting indefinite semi-protection or extended-confirmed protection. Anthropophoca (talk) 01:08, 28 October 2026 (UTC)

Cooper Pratt

Temporary semi-protection: Violations of the biographies of living persons policy. MakaylaHippo1998 (talk) 04:57, 28 October 2026 (UTC)

Indefinite pending changes: Persistent disruptive editing. a wondrous raven (talk) 05:18, 28 October 2026 (UTC)

2026 Israeli legislative election

Reason: Ongoing edit-warring. Borgenland (talk) 05:18, 28 October 2026 (UTC)

Dutertismo

Reason: Hello everyone please put protection padlock in this article to avoid disruptive edits and vandalism. Thank you!!! Toniker0501 (talk) 05:50, 28 October 2026 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Yue🌙 (talk) 05:54, 28 October 2026 (UTC)

Template:Trumpism sidebar

Reason: Hello everyone please put protection padlock in this template to avoid disruptive edits. Thank you!!! Toniker0501 (talk) 05:52, 28 October 2026 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Yue🌙 (talk) 05:54, 28 October 2026 (UTC)

List of Mushoku Tensei characters

Reason: An anonymous user keeps making nonsensical edits and seems unable to comprehend why they need to stop. Smeagol 17 (talk) 06:09, 28 October 2026 (UTC)

List of earthquakes in 2026

Reason: Recurring vandalism by LTA. Borgenland (talk) 07:01, 28 October 2026 (UTC)

Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi

Reason: Living BLP, continuous vandalism by temporary and newly registered accounts. FactCheckerBharath (talk) 08:54, 28 October 2026 (UTC)

Current requests for reduction in protection level

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Current requests for edits to a protected page

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Further information: Wikipedia:Edit requests


User:Mcchurch26/Williams v. Saxbe?action=edit&redlink=1/Bibliography

I am trying to edit this page to add a bibliography for one of my classes. The following information will be added.

Anna-Maria Marshall, “A Spectrum in Oppositional Consciousness: Sexual Harassment Plaintiffs and Their Lawyers,” in Oppositional Consciousness: The Subjective Roots of Social Protest, ed., Jane J. Mansbridge and Aldon Morris (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001), 99–145.

Anna-Maria Marshall, “Injustice Frames, Legality, and the Everyday Construction of Sexual Harassment,” Law & Social Inquiry 28, no. 3 (2003): 659–689, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-4469.2003.tb00211.x.

Carrie N. Baker, “Race, Class, and Sexual Harassment in the 1970s,” Feminist Studies 30, no. 1 (2004): 7–27, https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/race-class-sexual-harassment-1970s/docview/233178053/se-2.

Catharine A. MacKinnon, Sexual Harassment of Working Women: A Case of Sex Discrimination (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979).

Donald P. Baker, “Proving Sexual Harassment Is a Struggle,” Washington Post, October 24, 1979, https://www.proquest.com/newspapers/proving-sexual-harassment-is-struggle/docview/147167296/se-2.

Edith Netter, “Employer Solicitation of Sexual Favors from Employees: Sex Discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,” Urban Law Annual 14 (1977): 251–262, HeinOnline.

Joanna Stromberg, “Sexual Harassment: Discrimination or Tort?” UCLA Women's Law Journal 12, no. 2 (2003): 317–354, HeinOnline.

J.P. Minson, “Social Theory and Legal Argument: Catharine MacKinnon on Sexual Harassment,” International Journal of the Sociology of Law 19, no. 3 (1991): 355–378, EBSCOhost.

Justin S. Weddle, “Title VII Sexual Harassment: Recognizing an Employer's Non-Delegable Duty to Prevent a Hostile Workplace,” Columbia Law Review 95, no. 3 (1995): 724–748, https://doi.org/10.2307/1123228.

Margaret A. Crouch, Thinking About Sexual Harassment: A Guide for the Perplexed (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000). *This is a physical book checked out from the library.

McKenzie T. Meade, “Title VII and Title IX: Sexual Harassment in Employment and Higher Education,” American Journal of Trial Advocacy 44, no. 2 (2021): 431–456, HeinOnline.

Sheelah Kolhatkar, “46.Sexual Harassment,” Bloomberg Businessweek, no. 4406 (2014): 56–57, EBSCOhost.

Mcchurch26 (talk) 02:30, 28 October 2026 (UTC)
Hi Mcchurch26, there is no page at Williams v. Saxbe. Please reach out to your instructor to clarify what you are meant to do, and the intended methods for doing so. CMD (talk) 02:41, 28 October 2026 (UTC)

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User:Edlectro28

Hi, this is the account of my deceased friend, and as he recently got a DYK on the front page I would just like to add the top icon to his page Sunshinezguy (talk) 09:08, 28 October 2026 (UTC)

Handled requests

A historical archive of previous protection requests can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive.