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
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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.
Reason: Repeated disruptive edits from single IP address, contentious subject matter Vosotros32 (talk) 06:04, 1 February 2025 (UTC)
- Can you actually read the talk page first? 2A02:810D:BCBF:FD88:487E:2CD7:E932:65D6 (talk) 06:19, 1 February 2025 (UTC)
Declined – Content dispute. Please use the article's talk page or other forms of dispute resolution. @Vosotros32: If they continue to edit war, please report to WP:ANEW. I have warned the IP editor. Daniel Quinlan (talk) 06:32, 1 February 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism from IP & sock abuse inserting Ukrainian heritage. sock ip ip 2 ip 3 . TiggerJay (talk) 06:37, 1 February 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 06:45, 1 February 2025 (UTC)
- May be related to this LTA account Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Abduvaitov_Sherzod_2 TiggerJay (talk) 06:53, 1 February 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing and Sockpuppetry. Kajmer05 (talk) 08:26, 1 February 2025 (UTC)
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Donald Trump proposal for displacement of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Indefinite extended confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement – WP:CT/A-I. Leonidlednev (T, C, L) 08:27, 1 February 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Aqurs1 (talk) 08:44, 1 February 2025 (UTC)
Reason: The Janata Party article has been repeatedly targeted by high levels of IP vandalism, particularly from mobile IPs and IPv6 addresses, even after being protected for a month. To prevent further disruption and maintain the integrity of the page, I request extended protection. The party is one of India’s oldest, with Navneet Chaturvedi as its current president. Kumar Amans (talk) 09:03, 1 February 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent addition of unsourced or poorly sourced content – Recent unhelpful and unsourced changes by some IP users; e.g. [1][2][3]. Mann Mann (talk) 09:48, 1 February 2025 (UTC)
Indefinite move protection: Highly visible page. Vitaium (talk) 10:58, 1 February 2025 (UTC)
Extended confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement – I'm actually unfamiliar with editing in this area (re Israel/Palestine-related issues), but have noticed the ARBPIA template being used on a few talk pages, so am just submitting this here as this seems a likely candidate, given the current hot topic re antisemitic attacks in Australia at the moment. Laterthanyouthink (talk) 11:43, 1 February 2025 (UTC)
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 12:12, 1 February 2025 (UTC)
Reason: High level of IP vandalism Tonyy Starkk (talk) 12:56, 1 February 2025 (UTC)
Indefinite extended confirmed protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Per WP:GSCASTE, disruptive editing by IPs belonging to LTA Truthfindervert. - Ratnahastin (talk) 13:09, 1 February 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Persistent tampering with the long standing result by new users/IPs, possible sockpuppetry. HistoryofIran (talk) 14:16, 1 February 2025 (UTC)
- Yup, there is definitely some sockpuppetry involved. At least the IP 31.146.123.47 is User:CeRcVa13. I'll file an SPI later today when I have time. HistoryofIran (talk) 14:18, 1 February 2025 (UTC)
Indefinite semi-protection: Arbitration Enforcement. WP:ARBPIA 💽 🌙Eclipse 💽 🌹 ⚧ (she/they) talk/edits 14:32, 1 February 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: This band is set to disband soon and IP users keep prematurely changing the years active from 1996-present to 1996-2025. There are notes next to years active asking editors not to change this until they officially disband in March and they keep ignoring it. Bowling is life (talk) 14:54, 1 February 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing and un-explained mass deletion of sourced contents by anon IPs in recent days. Shadowwarrior8 (talk) 15:05, 1 February 2025 (UTC)
Indefinite extended-confirmed protection: Community sanctions enforcement. WP:GS/CRYPTO RaschenTechner (talk) 15:12, 1 February 2025 (UTC)
Pending changes: Persistent disruptive editing – Repeated removal of content or addition of POV synthesis by IP users over the last week. Jonathan Deamer (talk) 15:43, 1 February 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP editor (possibly a blocked user as this behaviour is familiar) adding poor English to the article and editorializing. Lard Almighty (talk) 15:47, 1 February 2025 (UTC)
- Automated comment: One or more pages in this request appear to already be protected. Please confirm.—cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online 16:19, 1 February 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: Wikipedia, the article about itself has been indefinitely extended confirmed protected for nearly 1 year now (since March of 2024). This was in light of a sockpuppet who kept on vandalizing the article. I think that given the long timeframe, the person running the sockpuppet has likely lost interest in Wikipedia (no way he would be monitoring the page for an entire year just to vandalize it again and for it to be protected once more). GIven the few amount of users that have Extended Confirmed status and that it is the most important article on the website, it should be downgraded to indefinite Autoconfirmed Protection. SimpleSubCubicGraph (talk) 05:26, 1 February 2025 (UTC)
- Before posting, first discuss with the protecting admin on their talk page. — Malcolmxl5 (talk) 12:11, 1 February 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 that 80 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed since the “ceasefire” began (i.e. genocide direct deaths have continued albeit at a slower pace) https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/death-and-destruction-returning-to-rafah https://news.antiwar.com/2025/01/29/israeli-forces-have-killed-more-than-80-palestinians-in-gaza-since-ceasefire-went-into-effect/ Seahumidity (talk) 09:46, 30 January 2025 (UTC)
Add info about 35 year reduction in life expectancy according to UPenn study http://www.thedp.com/article/2025/01/penn-study-gaza-life-expectancy-drop Seahumidity (talk) 10:53, 31 January 2025 (UTC)
Create an article about the song "Loco" by Netón Vega. MC-123 (talk) 15:38, 31 January 2025 (UTC)
- @MC-123: Onus is generally on the person who wants the article to create it, not random editors on a noticeboard. If you think you have the sources to support an article, then see WP:WIZARD to get started. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v threads critiques 16:26, 31 January 2025 (UTC)
- I was going to create the article, but it seems that action is restricted to only administrators, template editors, and page movers, which is why I came here. MC-123 (talk) 17:20, 31 January 2025 (UTC)
- @MC-123: And which is why I pointed you at WP:WIZARD. Admins won't consider unprotecting a salted title without a good draft to put in its spot. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v threads critiques 18:11, 31 January 2025 (UTC)
- Not unprotected per above. Daniel Case (talk) 03:53, 1 February 2025 (UTC)
- @MC-123: And which is why I pointed you at WP:WIZARD. Admins won't consider unprotecting a salted title without a good draft to put in its spot. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v threads critiques 18:11, 31 January 2025 (UTC)
- I was going to create the article, but it seems that action is restricted to only administrators, template editors, and page movers, which is why I came here. MC-123 (talk) 17:20, 31 January 2025 (UTC)
Handled requests
A historical archive of previous protection requests can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive.