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Wikimedia noticeboard for requesting protection of pages
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.
Indefnite pending-changes: Persistent vandalism from non-autoconfirmed sources–Given the subject matter, this article has long been a routine pit stop for drive-by juvenile trolling on a occasional basis, but not enough to warrant full-blown semi protection. Giovanni Potage (talk) 07:35, 25 October 2026 (UTC)
Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. You do realize that literally every form of protection would cause you to be unable to edit the page and most would still let the people who are edit warring against you ... * Pppery *it has begun... 21:13, 26 October 2026 (UTC)
Reason: He's famous and i think he deserves his legacy to be locked so random people dont edit it to random stuff. ~2026-57076-37 (talk) 15:43, 26 October 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. dualcerbtalk 16:05, 26 October 2026 (UTC)
Automated comment: One or more pages in this request appear to already be protected. Please confirm.—cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online 22:05, 26 October 2026 (UTC)
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – In the last month this page has had ten temporary accounts make edits that were immediately reverted. This page has had protection in the past but it expires and then the vandals come back. Due to the young nature of the saint, I think a lot of impious Catholic teens think it's funny to vandalize the page. An indefinite logged-in-only protection seems appropriate. ~Darth StabroTalk•Contribs 16:25, 26 October 2026 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Continued nationality-related disruption as soon as protection expired. The longest the page was protected was one year and we are still having problems. Mellk (talk) 16:28, 26 October 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Somebody is using multiple temporary accounts to try to add a mistaken (grandparent) category; they never read warnings given to the previous account, and they ignore the comment in the text. You could either temporarily protect the page, or block a range of temporary accounts (qua, IP addresses I guess) until they quieten down. Chiswick Chap (talk) 16:28, 26 October 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Since the article is on the front page, it's been subject to quite a bit of vandalism. I might be late to the party with this request... - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 20:44, 26 October 2026 (UTC)
