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.
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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.
Indefinite extended confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement – ARBPIA. PlotinusEnjoyer (talk) 00:03, 28 March 2025 (UTC)
Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Before yesterday, last edited several months ago. Not a primary topic in the current conflict. Daniel Case (talk) 04:12, 30 March 2025 (UTC)
- Sefid-Rud (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Ethnicities in Iran (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Caspiane (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Constantly targeted by Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Caspidarya. HistoryofIran (talk) 12:36, 28 March 2025 (UTC)
User(s) blocked: 163.5.198.20 (talk · contribs) blocked by ScottishFinnishRadish. for three months. Daniel Case (talk) 04:15, 30 March 2025 (UTC)
Temporary extended confirmed protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent addition of unreliable box office figures by Autoconfirmed users coming out of hibernation after years just to edit the BO figure. A temporary ECP would be better. — Benison (Beni · talk) 03:03, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
Reason: POV-pushing and vandalism. Borgenland (talk) 03:38, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
- Not Borgen, but I'll also add it's a high traffic page as it's currently on the main page. Wildfireupdateman :) (talk) 03:46, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
Temporary extended confirmed protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Persistent disruptive editing; requesting ECP since it is a contentious topic. Ekdalian (talk) 07:07, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Repeating disruptive editing by a IP user, this user has been using various IPs for block evasion as Dujara22, who is blocked for disruptive editing for adding the same information. User have also been causing disruptive editing on Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 article. TheDeviantPro (talk) 07:31, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
Reason: See Tony Hawk's Pro Skater article request above. TheDeviantPro (talk) 07:32, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
Reason: previous edits was based on assumptions. Revival108 (talk) 08:32, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
- Automated comment: This user who requested protection has been blocked from editing Wikipedia.—cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online 04:26, 30 March 2025 (UTC)
- Declined per above. Daniel Case (talk) 05:23, 30 March 2025 (UTC)
Reason: This article is frequently targeted by vandalism and disruptive edits, which hinder the accuracy and reliability of the content. Protection is requested to maintain the integrity of the page and ensure it reflects accurate, verifiable information. 5.195.112.170 (talk) 12:44, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
- Sockpuppet IP address of blocked accounts Rohan Rathod R, Naikvarsha08 and Srmd1136 disrupting the page. 2409:4081:893:2BBF:386A:4538:A9C1:B0C1 (talk) 13:01, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Repeated insertion of poorly-sourced content. Borgenland (talk) 13:02, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Persistent disruptive editing by anonymous editors for the past several months. livelikemusic (TALK!) 14:34, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent addition of unsourced or poorly sourced content. Favre1fan93 (talk) 14:36, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent Disruptive edits – Persistent original research by IP users. AlvaKedak (talk) 15:15, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – vandalism. 36.78.197.219 (talk) 16:59, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – vandalism. 36.78.197.219 (talk) 17:04, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
Indefinite pending changes: Persistent disruptive editing – I have been watching this article a lot lately. IPs keep inappropriately adding official numbers to columns dedicated to NGO's. The Knowledge Pirate (talk) 17:49, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 18:07, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Annh07 (talk) 18:36, 29 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 18:38, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Looks like this is going to need the same protection as Talk:ChatGPT, from people who think that Wikipedia's talk page is a direct interface to the AI. It's had five IPs asking for AI-generated Studio Ghibli artwork, today. Belbury (talk) 19:00, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
Temporary pending changes: BLP policy violations – Previous protection expired & an IP returned immediately to change the actor's pronouns (MOS:NB). Sariel Xilo (talk) 21:01, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
Reason: High level of WP:DE edits by IP users. Brat Forelli🦊 22:12, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Reason: There is an ongoing edit war that violates Wikipedia's guidelines. Ungathering (talk) 22:20, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Incessant IP vandalism. Anwegmann (talk) 22:34, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
Reason: When you click on the "many pages" link (in the high-risk notice box) you see more than 200,000 transclusions. The bot hasn't updated as of this writing. This page is "high risk" and should be template-editor protected. Thank you very much! P.I. Ellsworth , ed. put'er there 22:41, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
For example, at Template:Taxonomy/Hexapoda, for which Allotriocarida is the parent taxon, the protection edit summary reads "Changed protection level of Template:Taxonomy/Hexapoda: Highly visible template: Over 5000 tranclusions ([Edit=Allow only template editors and admins] (indefinite) [Move=Allow only template editors and admins] (indefinite))" P.I. Ellsworth , ed. put'er there 23:41, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
Update: the bot has updated the transclusions to 214,000. P.I. Ellsworth , ed. put'er there 05:33, 30 March 2025 (UTC)
Indefinite extended-confirmed protection: Community sanctions enforcement. WP:GS/GENSEX, person uses they/them pronouns RaschenTechner (talk) 22:51, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Filmssssssssssss (talk) 23:22, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
Reason: High level of IP vandalism. There is an ongoing edit war that violates Wikipedia's guidelines. User Ttam9392 keeps over linking, undos every time when I fix the page. Alextigers (talk) 23:46, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
- Automated comment: @Alextigers: This request cannot be parsed. Please ensure it follows formatting consistent with the current or previous methods of submission.—cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online 23:52, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Repeated vandalism from different IPs over the past 3–4 days, all adding roughly the same thing. Iiii I I I (talk) 00:42, 30 March 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Studio Ghibli has been in the news recently, and the article has been getting a spike of trivial vandalism from anonymous users. I think a week should be enough for things to settle down. —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 01:35, 30 March 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing. Remsense ‥ 论 02:53, 30 March 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Insertion of dubious and poorly-sourced content by IPs. Borgenland (talk) 03:12, 30 March 2025 (UTC)
Temporary extended confirmed protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/MdeFdelaS – this is the latest in a sixteen-year-old sockpuppet investigation. Dawnseeker2000 03:26, 30 March 2025 (UTC)
- My testicles are going back and forth and back and forth and back and forth and back and forth (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Indefinite create protection: Offensive name – Long-term abuse (Fuerdai vandal). Aspening (talk) 03:42, 30 March 2025 (UTC)
Note: Leaving it available makes it easier to detect this LTA. I’m tempted to leave it unprotected, though I’ll understand if another admin differs. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 03:53, 30 March 2025 (UTC)
Temporary extended-confirmed protection: Persistent vandalism and sockpuppetry. Personal attacks also existed in the article. 🗽Freedoxm🗽(talk • contribs) 03:47, 30 March 2025 (UTC)
Temporary protection: Edit warring Adakiko (talk) 03:48, 30 March 2025 (UTC)
Temporary protection: Edit warring Adakiko (talk) 03:49, 30 March 2025 (UTC)
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. 🗽Freedoxm🗽(talk • contribs) 04:05, 30 March 2025 (UTC)
Indefinite extended confirmed protection: Persistent sockpuppetry. IanDBeacon (talk) 05:29, 30 March 2025 (UTC)
Indefinite extended confirmed protection: Persistent sockpuppetry. IanDBeacon (talk) 05:29, 30 March 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: uncontrollable IP activity and too few eyeballs. --Altenmann >talk 07:34, 30 March 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Returned after three weeks of protection. Entranced98 (talk) 07:39, 30 March 2025 (UTC)
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. soetermans. ↑↑↓↓←→←→ B A TALK 08:07, 30 March 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. soetermans. ↑↑↓↓←→←→ B A TALK 08:15, 30 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.
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.
"Israeli soldiers have summarily executed Palestinian civilians, often in front of their families." This is one citation that leads to another citation (why not list the original reference?) where it describes a single alleged incident that has been disputed. The original citation is careful to use the term 'alleged' and 'still under verification' and yet the wiki page does not say 'alleged' or 'accused of' - and goes on to add the word 'often', even though only one alleged incident is referenced. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 169.230.248.39 (talk) 02:19, 28 March 2025 (UTC)
Handled requests
A historical archive of previous protection requests can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive.