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 get rid of obvious vandalism.
Request protection of a page, or increasing the protection level Request unprotection of a page, or reducing the protection level Request a specific edit to a protected page Please request an edit directly on the protected page's talk page before posting here | ||
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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, failing that, the page history. Only recently answered requests are still listed here.
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Continuous BLP violations. soetermans. ↑↑↓↓←→←→ B A TALK 20:30, 12 May 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of one month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected., due to the soapboxing. Dennis Brown - 2¢ 07:32, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
Indefinite full protection: It may be time to do this, given the long-standing consensus that any message posted to this page gets reverted. (I know this is a bit of an WP:IAR situation, but look at who posted the request to have all new messages removed from this page [Jimbo Wales]... and then you have editors like me who post a message generated by Twinkle ... just to have the message later reverted by another editor, which apparently has been happening for over 20 years per the talk page's edit history.). Steel1943 (talk) 21:05, 12 May 2025 (UTC)
Draft:West Camp Friends
Indefinite create protection: Repeatedly recreated – Hoax content from LTA. –Skywatcher68 (talk) 00:00, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Sushidude21! (talk) 01:09, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: High level of IP vandalism Normal rookie (talk) 02:29, 13 May 2025 (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 02:39, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: vandalism 118.101.143.217 Normal rookie (talk) 02:32, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: A user: Bilrit67 made several edits that messed up the page which included deleting a significant portion of the page HavanaHeat (talk) 02:52, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: User:JLStevenNgao consistently making disruptive edits; ÉC week commencing and therefore more such edits are expected Pdhadam (talk) 04:48, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
- Yes! Sir Mr. Pdhadam Thank You JLStevenNgao (talk) 04:49, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
Declined – Content dispute. Please use the article's talk page or other forms of dispute resolution. Lectonar (talk) 07:43, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP-hopping hijacker. Also targeting Disney's Princess Favorites and other album articles such as Brave (Jennifer Lopez album). Sumanuil. (talk to me) 04:50, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: The Cupid copyright for Attrakt agaisn Cupid is finally down and the court decided that Attrakt now can't use the song anymore but the user "Kpopfact" deleted that although i submitted a reliable source Linhphampham (talk) 05:14, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
- Declined – Content dispute. Please use the article's talk page or other forms of dispute resolution. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 05:55, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: IP vandalism Governor Sheng (talk) 06:30, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
'Governor Sheng' is just vandalizing article inserting unsourced category.
Reason: IP vandalism Governor Sheng (talk) 06:30, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
'Governor Sheng' is just vandalizing article inserting unsourced category.
Reason: IP vandalism Governor Sheng (talk) 06:30, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
'Governor Sheng' is just vandalizing article inserting unsourced category.
Reason: IP vandalism Governor Sheng (talk) 06:31, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
'Governor Sheng' is just vandalizing article removing reliable sourced content.
Reason: IP vandalism Governor Sheng (talk) 06:31, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
'Governor Sheng' is just vandalizing article inserting unsourced category.
Reason: IP vandalism Governor Sheng (talk) 06:32, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
'Governor Sheng' is just vandalizing article inserting unsourced category.
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Disruptive addition of content by numerous unconfirmed users and IPs over the past week or so. CycloneYoris talk! 06:51, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Persistent vandalism Nvmea (talk) 06:53, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Long-term problem of vandalism, a lot of which goes unchecked/unnoticed. For example, this vandalism from April 2024 went unnoticed for a whole year until I reverted it in April 2025. Hardly any useful edits from unregistered users on this page. Yuvaank (talk) 07:51, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
Indefinite pending changes: Persistent vandalism – The page is frequently vandalized and damaged with disruptive editing, page needs protection. BangladeshiEditorInSylhet (talk) 08:37, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Page needs protection to stop frequent vandalism. BangladeshiEditorInSylhet (talk) 08:39, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
- Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Lectonar (talk) 09:06, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
Current requests for reduction in protection level
Before posting, first discuss with the protecting admin on 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.
Reason: I would like to correct certain scientific data on the page as I am the leading researcher on size in Asian elephants. GDB tusker (talk) 20:58, 12 May 2025 (UTC)
- Then you should know that we require published sources and that you have a blatant conflict of interest if you cite your own papers. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v threads critiques 21:17, 12 May 2025 (UTC)
Current requests for edits to a protected page
Please request an edit directly on the protected page's talk page before posting here
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.
Add “Forensic Obliterated (including vaporized)” category (~10,000 bodies) in the Death infobox. From high temperature bombs mainly (15% - 25% of total dropped). It’s as important as the “under rubble” category. 2601:645:8500:5960:FDA0:7E8B:C170:A01F (talk) 07:23, 12 May 2025 (UTC)
- You need to provide a reliable source. See Wikipedia:Verifiability. Sean.hoyland (talk) 07:35, 12 May 2025 (UTC)
Tɕʰ
Requesting creation as a redirect to Voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate. The aspirated form of the consonant sound is represented in IPA as ⟨t͡ɕʰ⟩ or ⟨tɕʰ⟩. Readers looking this up via the search bar are currently routed to TCH, which is unhelpful. Paul_012 (talk) 08:04, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
T͡ɕʰ
Requesting creation as a redirect to Voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate. The aspirated form of the consonant sound is represented in IPA as ⟨t͡ɕʰ⟩ or ⟨tɕʰ⟩. Readers looking this up via the search bar are currently routed to TCH, which is unhelpful. Paul_012 (talk) 08:05, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
Handled requests
A historical archive of previous protection requests can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive.