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
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Current requests for increase in protection level
Place requests for new or upgrading of article protection, upload protection, or create 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.
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent Vandalism. Continuous vandalism of IP Address, and might have a edit war ROY is WAR Talk! 05:13, 29 January 2025 (UTC)
Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. It looks like things have calmed down a bunch for now but if there is a pick up in vandalism please feel free to return and request page protection again. Dr vulpes (Talk) 17:48, 29 January 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent addition of unsourced or poorly sourced content – Disruptive edits by Anonymous IP Address. Gunther : Talk 11:53, 29 January 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of two months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. This was a longer than normal protection since the page has been protection quite a few times over the last year. Dr vulpes (Talk) 17:50, 29 January 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Continued vandalism after protection expired. Annh07 (talk) 12:36, 29 January 2025 (UTC)
- Semi-protected for a period of two months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Dr vulpes (Talk) 17:51, 29 January 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Anon IPs engaged in disruptive editing. Karst (talk) 13:37, 29 January 2025 (UTC)
- Semi-protected for a period of two months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Dr vulpes (Talk) 17:52, 29 January 2025 (UTC)
- Forgot to note that this was a longer than normal page protection due to the page receiving a high amount of traffic and being a BLP. Dr vulpes (Talk) 17:53, 29 January 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Some IPs keep restoring an inappropriate external link. StephenMacky1 (talk) 14:26, 29 January 2025 (UTC)
User(s) blocked. IPs are blocked. Jauerbackdude?/dude. 15:23, 29 January 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Repeated target of IP and new account vandalism. ser! (chat to me - see my edits) 14:26, 29 January 2025 (UTC)
- Semi-protected for a period of two months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Longer than normal protection period due to high traffic and BLP. Dr vulpes (Talk) 17:55, 29 January 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Page is being attacked again after recent protections expired. Filmssssssssssss (talk) 14:50, 29 January 2025 (UTC)
- Pending-changes protected for a period of Permanent, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Has been protected several times at one year each. Unfortunate vessel name. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 16:30, 29 January 2025 (UTC)
Semi-Protection: Persistent targeting by IP account listing Euromaidan revolution as a coup. Bird244 (talk) 15:04, 29 January 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 15:09, 29 January 2025 (UTC)
Indefinite semi-protection: vandalism by IP account alleging the President of Romania Klaus Iohannis launched a self-coup. Bird244 (talk) 15:06, 29 January 2025 (UTC)
Extended confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement. Filmssssssssssss (talk) 15:11, 29 January 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Repeated insertion of unsourced or improperly sourced data by user Abdallah413, who refuses multiple requests to make his case on the subject's talk page Arlo3415 (talk) 15:20, 29 January 2025 (UTC)
- Automated comment: This user who requested protection has been blocked from editing Wikipedia.—cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online 16:39, 29 January 2025 (UTC)
- User(s) blocked. Several combatants have been sent off for edit warring. Favonian (talk) 17:42, 29 January 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Filmssssssssssss (talk) 15:36, 29 January 2025 (UTC)
- Semi-protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Dr vulpes (Talk) 17:57, 29 January 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Vandalism by IP-hopper from Romania over the past ten days. Skywatcher68 (talk) 15:40, 29 January 2025 (UTC)
- User(s) blocked. Both IPs blocked for 1 month. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 18:14, 29 January 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Same IP-hopper from Romania and an IPv6 range from the UK. Skywatcher68 (talk) 15:41, 29 January 2025 (UTC)
- User(s) blocked. Romanian IPs blocked 1 month, UK IPv6 2 weeks. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 18:17, 29 January 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Page is being attacked again after recent protections expired two days ago. Filmssssssssssss (talk) 16:11, 29 January 2025 (UTC)
- Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Favonian (talk) 17:44, 29 January 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Repeated addition of copyrighted material copied and pasted from their website Dormskirk (talk) 16:51, 29 January 2025 (UTC)
- Semi-protected for a period of six months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 17:03, 29 January 2025 (UTC)
Reason: vandalism Tahomaru (talk) 17:57, 29 January 2025 (UTC)
Extended confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement. Filmssssssssssss (talk) 18:21, 29 January 2025 (UTC)
- List of Israeli strikes and Palestinian casualties in the 2014 Gaza War (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Extended confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement. Filmssssssssssss (talk) 18:22, 29 January 2025 (UTC)
Extended confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement. Filmssssssssssss (talk) 18:22, 29 January 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Filmssssssssssss (talk) 18:38, 29 January 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.
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.
Handled requests
A historical archive of previous protection requests can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive.