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.
Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Skitash (talk) 02:28, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of 10 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. El_C 14:08, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
Reason: People have re-ordered the ranking of Barbie versus The Super Mario Bros. Movie, adjusted the gross numbers for various movies so that they're inconsistent with all of:
- The Numbers
- Box Office Mojo
- the mean of the two figures reported by those sources, and/or
- the Wikipedia pages
and removed the Chinese movies from the list entirely.
Clearly this is vandalism. Vonvorx (talk) 07:30, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
Reason: Semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing. Vbbanaz05 (talk) 09:29, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
Reason: Extended (~month) edit-warring involving multiple IP addresses, potentially coordinated. I'm just coming across this now but see [1] --Richard Yin (talk) 11:39, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
- Semi-protected for a period of 6 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. As WP:ARBMAC / WP:BALKANS. El_C 14:03, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent addition of unsourced or poorly sourced content – Multiple IP editors and newly-registered COI/paid-for editors adding unsourced content in past couple of days. Needs to be semi-protected for a few days. 10mmsocket (talk) 12:27, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
- Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. El_C 13:57, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
Reason: Edit war initiated by IP user BlameRuiner (talk) 12:46, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
Reason: WP:ARBPIA Isi96 (talk) 14:07, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
Declined – Pages are not protected preemptively. No edits this month. El_C 14:27, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: IPs repeatedly putting large test edits on the talkpage. The Banner talk 14:16, 23 December 2024 (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: Protection is too high and it was for sockpuppetry in 2018. It's nearly 2025 now so if it needs protecting just do pending changes or semi-protection but unprotection would be better I think. 147.10.234.99 (talk) 23:19, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
- Pinging protecting admin User:Ponyo, who might or might not wish to have input. I looked at the history of disruption and it looks pretty bad. I'm inclined to give semi protection a shot (this would eliminate 95% of the disruption in page history), but I'd rather hear from the sysop who made the call first. BusterD (talk) 14:24, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
Reason: Very temporary unprotection of this redirect, so as a non-admin importer I can history-merge the 2001/2002 edits there in to userspace, where they arguably belong much better. I created a redirect at User:Jimbo Wales/old2 before running in to this problem. I'll ping the protecting admin when I'm done. Or indefinite extended confirm protection would arguably work here; that option certainly didn't exist when the protection was implemented in 2008. Graham87 (talk) 10:15, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
- Extended confirmed protected indefinitely. I have retained the move full protection but relaxed the editing to extended confirmed indef as requested. Please ping me or any other admin to have this reinstated. Many thanks for your continued dedication to the project. BusterD (talk) 14:14, 23 December 2024 (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.
Change 16,000 civilians (May 2024)[43] to 16,000 civilians (May 2024)[42]
Source 42 has these numbers and source 43 doesn't Alderman pained dios finnish (talk) 18:48, 15 December 2024 (UTC)
Hayden Panettiere artricle: Joe Somebody (2001) with Tim Allen
Why have you unreverted my revision on the Hayden Panettiere artricle by removing Joe Somebody (2001) with Tim Allen? 86.130.33.243 (talk) 22:31, 16 December 2024 (UTC)
Handled requests
A historical archive of previous protection requests can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive.