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: Ongoing edit warring over box office data. Multiple unverified and unsourced edits by IP users and other editors, repeatedly reverting sourced changes. Semi-protection requested to prevent further disruption. Roger250908 (talk) 06:13, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Persistent distributive/unhelpful edits from IPs (very possibly the same individual every time). Contributor19 (talk) 06:40, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Request move protection: repeated move to former title of The Right Person Will Stay, sourced in article that the album name has been changed. U-Mos (talk) 09:55, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Vandalism 101.188.58.40 (talk) 11:20, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Materialscientist (talk) 12:13, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: vandalism 101.188.58.40 (talk) 11:26, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
- Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Materialscientist (talk) 12:12, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: vandalism 101.188.58.40 (talk) 11:27, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
- Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Materialscientist (talk) 12:12, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: High level of IP vandalism 101.188.58.40 (talk) 11:29, 4 May 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 11:33, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
- Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Materialscientist (talk) 12:12, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: vandalism 101.188.58.40 (talk) 11:30, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
- Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Materialscientist (talk) 12:12, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: vandalism 101.188.58.40 (talk) 11:32, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
- Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Materialscientist (talk) 12:12, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: vandalism 101.188.58.40 (talk) 11:33, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
- Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Materialscientist (talk) 12:12, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: vandalism 101.188.58.40 (talk) 11:34, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
- Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Materialscientist (talk) 12:12, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: vandalism 101.188.58.40 (talk) 11:35, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
- Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Materialscientist (talk) 12:12, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: vandalism 101.188.58.40 (talk) 11:36, 4 May 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 11:48, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
- Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Materialscientist (talk) 12:12, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: vandalism 101.188.58.40 (talk) 11:37, 4 May 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 11:48, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
- Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Materialscientist (talk) 12:12, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: vandalism 101.188.58.40 (talk) 11:38, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
- Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Materialscientist (talk) 12:12, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: vandalism 101.188.58.40 (talk) 11:40, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
- Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Materialscientist (talk) 12:12, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Request for Semi-protection, page is of a BLP who have had a recent high level of media interest. It is being vandalised by anonymus unregistered user, making the with a negative bias viewpoin. Unregisterd user edits have been flagged for BLP issue or vandalism Junekramer1 (talk) 12:30, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Remsense ‥ 论 13:56, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Edit-warring in an ongoing election. Borgenland (talk) 14:11, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: High level of genre warring, particularly from IPs CleoCat16 (talk) 14:27, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – A lot of speculation whether Pakistan might be excluded from the tournament following the tensions between India and Pakistan - but this is massively speculative at present and nothing seems to have been formalised. famous ex-Indian cricketer was quoted in the press this weekend, so we're getting lots of edits removing Pakistan and adding Nepal - all from IPs. Blue Square Thing (talk) 14:44, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Original research used multiple times on page and no citations for nationality 2603:7000:2300:1697:1CA1:4660:B22:8111 (talk) 15:02, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Last time a protection has been removed from the page, it got vandalized every night for a week. Was it an expiration? Selbsportrait (talk) 15:12, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing. Persistent disruption by IPs, please enforce WP:GS/GENSEX RaschenTechner (talk) 15:22, 4 May 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: The protection is no longer necessary because there are changes needed without any protection. Geordy Wibisana (talk) 16:23, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Page has been protected since 2008, given it's been this long, I think we can try downgrading to pending changes Filmssssssssssss (talk) 14:30, 4 May 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.
Handled requests
A historical archive of previous protection requests can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive.