Wikipedia:Requests for page protection

Welcome—request protection of a page, file, or template here.

Shortcuts WP:RFPP WP:RFP WP:RPP 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. Skip to table of contents requests to raise protection lower protection requested edits (purge) Request protection of a page, or increasing the protection level Request protection Request unprotection of a page, or reducing the protection level Request unprotection Request a specific edit to a protected page Please request an edit directly on the protected page's talk page before posting here Request edit

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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.

Semi-protection: High level of user vandalism. Persistent vandalism and tendentious and unreliable editing by wikipedia user.5.150.236.238 (talk) 14:58, 10 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Vandalism by IPs. Herald talk with me 14:13, 10 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Indefinite full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – Persistent edit warring. Alex ^{discussion ★} 13:40, 10 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Declined Appears to be mainly one editor changing the map without consensus and others changing it back. Main users involved have been warned. Thingg^⊕⊗ 14:21, 10 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – The Japanese sockpuppets are back to harass and vandalise my talkpage. Most of them are throw away accounts, so difficult to stop. Spoiling the fun with a temporary semi-protecting seems to be enough. Max. a week will do as they come and go in waves. The Banner talk 11:20, 10 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Japanese sockpuppets: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/PrideOfKorea The Banner talk 12:57, 10 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent IP vandalism, high-visibility page. Jinkinson talk to me 02:34, 10 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Declined Not seeing enough vandalism to justify protection. Quite a few helpful/well-meaning edits coming from IPs as well. m.o.p 03:27, 10 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Hell In A Bucket (talk) 02:15, 10 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Declined We'd prefer the user affected makes the request themself. m.o.p 03:20, 10 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Oops, I just protected it for 2 weeks. -- Diannaa (talk) 03:22, 10 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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: Protection was requested by User:Baseball Bugs, one of the more - controversial - Reference Desk regular contributors, and actioned without discussion on the Reference Desk talk page. Preventing questions from IP users will seriously compromise the functionality of the Reference Desks. There hasn't been a marked increase in the level of vandalism recently, and our normal procedures (use of the {{hat}} template) can deal with such vandals without requiring page protection. Tevildo (talk) 21:27, 9 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I should add that within four hours, Pending Changes has already led to the suppression of a legitimate question about microwave ovens, for the sake of contributing to some racist's persecution complex. I had engaged with perhaps the same racist at [1], and it is my feeling that a free-ranging interchange of ideas is the best response. Racism per se is not a crime, unless ignorance is a crime, and if ignorance is a crime then Wikipedia is a suitable punishment! Wnt (talk) 21:47, 9 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

 Done DES ^(talk) 03:22, 10 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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.

A rolling archive of the last seven days of protection requests can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Rolling archive.