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 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.
Reason: Recent death of subject is causing a ton of traffic to the article, which may lead to vandalism. Thatoneguylol101 (talk) 02:46, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
Declined – Pages are not protected preemptively. And it looks like it's doing fine anyway for a page in this situation. Daniel Case (talk) 18:17, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing. SNUGGUMS (talk / edits) 03:04, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Daniel Case (talk) 18:28, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
Full protection: Edit-warring / content dispute. Left guide (talk) 03:38, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
- Declined – Warn the user appropriately then report them to AIV or ANI if they continue. I already did it once, which would have been a better idea than requesting protection. Daniel Case (talk) 18:32, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing. NXcrypto Message 03:49, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
- Semi-protected for a period of two weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Will leave CTOPS notice on talk if there isn't one. Daniel Case (talk) 18:34, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Persistent addition of unsourced a poorly sourced information 2001:8003:5130:2601:3478:348A:DBCE:8257 (talk) 04:28, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Disruption to this page by IP users edit warring over the target demographic (probably the same IP user as before) has persisted. silviaASH (inquire within) 04:40, 22 March 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 04:53, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
- Semi-protected for a period of two weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. OK, this time, you get it. Daniel Case (talk) 18:38, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – The temporary protection may need to be extended for a bit. IP vandalism persists shortly after the protection was lifted. Hariboneagle927 (talk) 05:29, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
Temporary extended confirmed protection: High level of vandalism happening in this article Myuoh kaka roi (talk) 07:15, 22 March 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 07:24, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
Ligier European Series and child articles
- Ligier European Series (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- 2020 Ligier European Series (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- 2021 Ligier European Series (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- 2022 Ligier European Series (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- 2023 Ligier European Series (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- 2024 Ligier European Series (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Reason: Editing war by IP users that changes his IP. He was originally block due his conduct here. He kept changing his IP to evade block and kept editing using IP's 83.determined mostly on the above articles talk pages, on of his talk page (and also on Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Help desk 17 of march) mostly attacking other users. One of the IP's was taken to ANI and determined to be a sock (User talk:83.142.111.2). He keeps edit warring trying to reinstate content written during the block and that seeks conflict and just that.Rpo.castro (talk) 09:15, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
I’d like to point that the it is the talk pages of these articles that the IP keeps disrupting with their most recent edits.Tvx1 12:08, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Requesting indefinite protected status due to removal of WP:RS information without sufficient reasoning. England–Germany football rivalry likely to influence future standard of edits and editors who contribute to the page. M48SKY (talk) 09:23, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Despite the fact that in [this revision] from 6/29/2024 which added a note to "stop putting information about a Geometry Dash level", there are still some attempts to add information about the Geometry Dash level "Tidal Wave" - at that time, the attempts aren't frequent but I think it would still qualify as some kind of WP:DE. 79.191.88.38 (talk) 10:24, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing. Kajmer05 (talk) 11:18, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent removal of logo by different IPs. —CX Zoom[he/him] (let's talk • {C•X}) 12:05, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
Indefinite semi-protection: User request. Myrealnamm (💬Let's talk · 📜My work) 12:29, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Lots of spammy links being added over the last week or so. Multiple reverts. Mainly by IPs. Worth a go at temp semi protection to try to stop it in the run up to this year's competition. Blue Square Thing (talk) 12:58, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry. Mellk (talk) 13:12, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Someone added a picture of her from a website called "fappeningbook.com" - what in the actual hell. RossEvans19 (talk) 14:46, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
Reason: IP vandalism. WP:BLP and WP:NPOV violations. Boardwalk.Koi (talk) 15:27, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. E6400 (talk) 15:50, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
User(s) blocked: 2600:4808:42b0::/44 (talk · contribs). Three months. Favonian (talk) 16:05, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Persistent disruption from banned User:MariaJaydHicky who has used many socks and IPs to evade her ban. Binksternet (talk) 16:16, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
- Automated comment: One or more pages in this request appear to already be protected. Please confirm.—cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online 16:29, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
- User(s) blocked: Lil'brightstar (talk · contribs). as well as Theamazinglyamazingamazebles.
Already protected by administrator Ymblanter. Favonian (talk) 16:31, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Repeated sock/IP edits from blocked user User:Twilightsparklesnelly. Belbury (talk) 16:25, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Persistent sockpuppetry by LTA. ProClasher97 ~ Have A Question? 17:21, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Persistent Vandalism Heerasmani (talk) 17:35, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Persistent LTA/sock target, stemming from Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Zjholder / Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Zjholder Magitroopa (talk) 18:05, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Someone is continuously readding an uncited damage estimate and vandalizing the article over the past 10 days. Hoguert (talk) 18:24, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. soetermans. ↑↑↓↓←→←→ B A TALK 18:25, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Same as my above request for User:Magitroopa/sandbox: persistent LTA/sock target, stemming from Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Zjholder / Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Zjholder Magitroopa (talk) 18:37, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
Reason: WP:BLP and WP:CT/A-I issues. Subject was born in East Jerusalem and there is an ongoing talk page discussion about what country, if any, the infobox should mention. Nobody at all has contributed to the discussion - I shared it on the Israel and Palestine WikiProjects - but there are still IPs who add that he was born in "Israel", which is highly contentious and thoroughly disputable. Unknown Temptation (talk) 18:52, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent addition of unsourced or poorly sourced content. Dieter Lloyd Wexler 18:56, 22 March 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.
Unprotection: 14 years of protection with little vandalism or disruption. Thepharoah17 (talk) 23:34, 20 March 2025 (UTC)
- @Black Kite: pinging protecting admin. Daniel Case (talk) 02:30, 22 March 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.
in the section Uncontroversial technical requests, put {{subst:RMassist|Eclipse (software)|Eclipse (IDE)reason="software" says nothing about what it does}} - 2600:4040:AE89:A00:6CE3:2E6F:4377:C354 (talk) 18:16, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
Handled requests
A historical archive of previous protection requests can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive.