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 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.
Temporary extended confirmed protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Persistent addition of unsourced material from even autoconfirmed accounts. ECP seems necessary at this point. Trailblazer101 (talk) 03:15, 2 May 2025 (UTC)
Temporary extended confirmed protection Article was protected for four days by Chetsford due to genre warring, edit warring, and general disruptive editing by IP editors, newly registered editors, and existing accounts that are rarely used. During that time, Chetsford acknowledged that another protection block would probably be needed after the four days and it absoulutely does as all of the previous behavior heavily continues. NJZombie (talk) 04:14, 2 May 2025 (UTC)
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Most of the recent edits (March-April) is vandalism by ip accounts and new accounts. —LastJabberwocky (talk) 10:43, 2 May 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. —Ganesha811 (talk) 15:38, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Persistent WP:DE from IPs.The article has had consistent disruptive editing from IPs for at least a year. It was protected in May 2024 for the same reason. An IP will continually add the same content over and over, all of it being violations of WP:V and against all guidelines at MOS:TV, will get reverted by multiple different editors, but will keep adding it over and over. These IPs have been a problem to several TV-related articles for years. They do not use edit summaries or respond to any talk page warnings. I've been monitoring this for several years, and dozens and dozens of IPs have been blocked from this. The only course of action is semi-protection to the article. The articles Zatima and Power Book IV: Force have also been targets of these edits and their semi-protection completely solved all the persistent disruptive editing. Please protect these articles for a long time. Thank you. Drovethrughosts (talk) 12:07, 2 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Please see my reason for The Chi, as it is the exact same here. This is another target that the IP(s) edit. Drovethrughosts (talk) 12:08, 2 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Please see my reason for The Chi, as it is the exact same here. This is another target that the IP(s) edit Drovethrughosts (talk) 12:09, 2 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Vandalism and lots of unsourced claims from IPs on the eve of an election. StAnselm (talk) 15:05, 2 May 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent, ongoing vandalism by anonymous editors of a highly publicized current music event. livelikemusic (TALK!) 16:00, 2 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: High level of contentious editing surrounding a naming dispute between Assyrian and Aramean (present for many years) Surayeproject3 (talk) 16:41, 2 May 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing. FMSky (talk) 17:09, 2 May 2025 (UTC)
Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Isabelle Belato 🏳🌈 13:14, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent addition of unsourced or poorly sourced content – Persistent change in sourced content by anonymous editor(s). livelikemusic (TALK!) 17:12, 2 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: IP is adding OR content Magherbin (talk) 17:25, 2 May 2025 (UTC)
- is not true, look at my action — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:387:15:4F1A:0:0:0:7 (talk) 22:13, 2 May 2025 (UTC)
Temporary move protection: Move protection for the duration of the AfD, please. Moved to draft by creating editor while still at AfD. No indication that this will not happen again. 🇵🇸🇺🇦 FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 🇺🇦🇵🇸 18:00, 2 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: High level of ip vandalism already warned by myself and other editor on their tp [[1]] Theonewithreason (talk) 19:17, 2 May 2025 (UTC)
Note: I am discussing this with the other editor. Daniel Case (talk) 20:03, 2 May 2025 (UTC)
Indefinite semi-protection: BLP policy violations – BLP-violating edits by IP users persist after protection expires. Roasted (talk) 01:01, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – sockpupperty by User:Peekautism. Untamed1910 (talk) 03:13, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing. Remsense ‥ 论 04:34, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: The page has been vandalized by the vandal (LTA:SA) for a long time Thyj (talk) 05:02, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing. Remsense ‥ 论 05:10, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Since the creation of this page, all edits are either vandalism or reverting vandalism. Lova Falk (talk) 06:07, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: I'm wondering if it is appropriate to pre-emptively apply protection to be ready for new or inexperienced users editing the article from 6pm AEST (Australian Eastern Standard Time) onwards when preliminary results start coming in. Looking at this article's edit history, I think the constant reversions of a certain revision are turning into an edit war now, such as this edit having been reverted frequently in the past hour. Qwerty123M (talk) 06:16, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Temporary semi-protection - Once again, page is exclusively being used either as a forum or in an attempt to contact the developers. S:N is all noise and no signal. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v threads critiques 06:17, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
Extended confirmed protection: Persistent disruptive editing. Jocelyn's Dance (talk) 06:53, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – WP:LTA/HTF. 82.77.77.96 (talk) 07:00, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Being vandalized by an IP user. Please semi-protect. 0x0a (talk) 07:12, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – sockpupperty by User:Yukitanooki. 0x0a (talk) 07:20, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: BLP policy violations. Geraldo Perez (talk) 08:10, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: High levels of vandalism. Anonymous users keep removing Male/Female wrestler statistics from the page. Kylo47 (talk) 09:31, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Disruptive edting by IP-hopper Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk! 10:44, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Constant vandalism 27.96.192.68 (talk) 10:54, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
- Automated comment: This user who requested protection has been blocked from editing Wikipedia.—cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online 11:45, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
- Declined – Well, protection would have kept you away from the article, but your 1-month block is a much better solution. Favonian (talk) 15:31, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing. Remsense ‥ 论 10:55, 3 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 10:59, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: High level of IP/Auto Confirmed users vandalism, requesting extended confirmed users level protection. Body Balram (talk) 11:03, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: WP:GSRUSUKR SaintPaulOfTarsus (talk) 11:14, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Semi-protection request. Page is getting some light IP vandalism due to him currently being on the panel for the ABC's coverage for the Australian election. Shouldn't need it for more than 24 hours, 48 at the most. Kaotac (talk) 11:53, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
+1 Reason: High level of IP vandalism Redbeansoup (talk) 13:04, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
- Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Favonian (talk) 15:28, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent removal of RfD templates from multiple IPs Zippybonzo | talk | contribs (they/them) 12:04, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
- Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Favonian (talk) 15:13, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
Temporary move protection: Article author continued to move the article to draftspace while the article is on AFD. Warm Regards, Miminity (Talk?) (me contribs) 12:20, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
- Move protected for a period of two weeks , after which the page will be automatically unprotected. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 15:07, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing. Louis (talk) (contribs) 12:58, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
Temporary extended confirmed protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Since prior protection lapsed, repeated unsourced additions have continued. Given that some newer autoconfirmed accounts are taking part, I am requesting ECP. Trailblazer101 (talk) 13:40, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
- Semi-protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. The unsourced contributions from auto-confirmed accounts have been few and far between since the last ECP expired – the most recent (Special:Diff/1287146745) on April 24. Favonian (talk) 15:25, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Disruptive IP editing. Subject is an active driver in Formula One. MB2437 14:19, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Recent string of IP vandalism. Amigao (talk) 15:32, 3 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 Wikipedia page for Reginald Wingate was semi-protected due to vandalism, but the issue has now subsided. I am requesting the removal of protection so that constructive edits can be made to improve the accuracy and completeness of the article. There has been no recent disruptive editing, and reducing the protection level will allow more users to contribute responsibly to the page. 2001:978:6402:37B6:4C1:F820:2800:4748 (talk) 12:55, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
- Declined – Of course there's been no disruption. That's what protection is good for. You're obviously the user whose contributions necessitated the protection, compare for instance 2001:978:6402:37b6:4c1:f820:2800:281c. Favonian (talk) 15:01, 3 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.
There is some permission error for the word "Loco" being misapplied to this page, I'm just creating a page for the German Bubblegum Dance group. AbsentPat (talk) 01:24, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
- Do you have a draft available? (CC) Tbhotch™ 01:46, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
Handled requests
A historical archive of previous protection requests can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive.