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.
Reason: An edit war with many participants who, ignoring the topical discussion on the article's discussion page, regularly rewrite the preamble, including removing the source request for a phrase they regularly return to the text. The article has already reached compromises several times in the hope of moving the dispute into discussion, but each time new participants have re-established the conflict again. Solaire the knight (talk) 18:13, 9 June 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Same as usual. Once page is unprotected, IPs come right back and start adding unsourced information. CNMall41 (talk) 06:37, 10 June 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Persistent disruptive editing from IP addresses and Wikipedia editors. Hamasien (talk) 08:08, 10 June 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Skitash (talk) 13:17, 10 June 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Persistent edit-warring conduct by IP, similar to the previous case with the Rail transport in Malaysia article. Requesting at least temporary page protection while 3O process is requested. hundenvonPG (talk) 15:58, 10 June 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Entranced98 (talk) 17:45, 10 June 2025 (UTC)
Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Materialscientist (talk) 02:46, 11 June 2025 (UTC)
Indefinite extended protection: WP:GS/RUSUKR, concerning use of barrier troops in the Russian invasion of Ukraine. TylerBurden (talk) 18:43, 10 June 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Campaign by Zee to rebrand itself by using Wikipedia to assist. IPs adding logos, changing the name, etc. and I can only find minimal press on it. The logos also do not match what is on the website for each which shows it is clearly UPE. Constant reverts and edit warring despite the WP:ONUS being on the IPs. CNMall41 (talk) 19:11, 10 June 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent addition of unsourced or poorly sourced content – Consistent addition of unsourced info - IP editors have been making edits and claiming their edits are sourced with existing sources, which I’ve struggled to verify. Danners430 (talk) 19:34, 10 June 2025 (UTC)
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Perennial target of vandals/Boriqueño nationalists deleting sourced content. Sumanuil. (talk to me) 21:03, 10 June 2025 (UTC)
Extended confirmed protection: BLP policy violations. SNUGGUMS (talk / edits) 21:57, 10 June 2025 (UTC)
Extended confirmed protection: BLP policy violations. SNUGGUMS (talk / edits) 21:58, 10 June 2025 (UTC)
- Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Materialscientist (talk) 02:56, 11 June 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Persistent sockpuppetry after previous protection. Referentis (talk) 22:08, 10 June 2025 (UTC)
Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring. Binksternet (talk) 22:20, 10 June 2025 (UTC)
- Definitely worth full protection, especially since I was born in the Bay Area. Freedoxm (talk · contribs) 22:33, 10 June 2025 (UTC)
Indefinite extended confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement – Comes under WP:ARBPIA. Isi96 (talk) 00:05, 11 June 2025 (UTC)
Reason: edit warring; users unable to live with Talk voting 73.158.120.223 (talk) 00:34, 11 June 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Vandalism. CatchMe (talk · contribs) 01:12, 11 June 2025 (UTC)
extended-confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement per Palestine-Israel conflict 76.68.113.121 (talk) 01:49, 11 June 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 01:55, 11 June 2025 (UTC)
Reason: IP edit-warring PawPatroler (talk) 02:19, 11 June 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Persistent vandalism involving repeated attempts to add South Korean President Lee Jae-myung and South Korea as an Invited Country to the 51st G7 Summit article.
Initially, some domestic Korean media reports described South Korea as an invited participant. However, most recent reports have clarified that South Korea is attending as an Observer, not an Invited Country. Despite this correction, certain users continue to insert South Korea into the "Invited Countries" section, disregarding updated and verifiable information.
Given the repeated nature of this misinformation, I suggest removing South Korea from the list of Invited Countries and raising the protection level of the article to prevent further disruption, until a clearly verifiable and reliable source supporting its inclusion as an Invited Country comes out. 123.214.184.96 (talk) 02:20, 11 June 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Some weirdo with extremely strong opinions about particular tribes in Northern Africa. I haven't gone through the whole process but god I'm tired and I might as well give RPP a shot. Seems to fight with a bot a lot. Exhausting stuff. If you could throw an RPP that would be much appreciated just to get them to chill out but if not... well, fun times. Brycehughes (talk) 02:41, 11 June 2025 (UTC)
- Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Materialscientist (talk) 03:00, 11 June 2025 (UTC)
Reason: High level of IP disruption-it's best to use semi-protection for at least... a week. PawPatroler (talk) 03:13, 11 June 2025 (UTC)
Full protection: Edit-warring / content dispute. Left guide (talk) 03:47, 11 June 2025 (UTC)
Temporary pending changes: Persistent disruptive editing – The Graz article has faced edits and rollbacks to its lead section in regards to the recent BORG shooting, and the dispute over the city's image is quickly turning into an edit war. I for one don't think Google's Gemini AI assistant is a reliable source on this topic. Quibilia, et al. (talk) 03:59, 11 June 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Persistent vandalism from both IP and Wikipedia users; possibly due to recent events. Asvro (talk) 04:20, 11 June 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 04:27, 11 June 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Materialscientist (talk) 04:36, 11 June 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: Unprotection: This article has been semi-protected since 2010 due to apparent sockpuppetry by Bambifan101. Now that it seems that Bambifan isn't active for quite some time, and the other Land Before Time film articles are not protected, perhaps it's time to unprotect this one after 15 years have past? The protecting administrator has long retired since 2014. BriDash9000 (talk) 14:05, 10 June 2025 (UTC)
Comment: Bambifan isn't known for dropping the stick. He was active in January, and he'll likely be back. So this doesn't sound like a good idea to me. Sumanuil. (talk to me) 21:06, 10 June 2025 (UTC)
- Can you point me to the incident? The last report at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Bambifan101 was in January 2024. Sdrqaz (talk) 22:40, 10 June 2025 (UTC)
- My mistake. Regardless, unprotecting a low-profile LTA target seems like it would be tempting fate. Keeping it protected doesn't cost anything, and the requesting editor is extended-confirmed, so it's not like the protection affects them. If they need to edit it, they can. Sumanuil. (talk to me) 23:54, 10 June 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Incorrect protection scheme all together; Page was protected over a correct edit where a defined term was highlighted twice and many users kept insisting that the word be highlighted twice in the article against Wikipedia standards to only highlight a defined term once; also the standard on the page; and the original state of the edit in question was unhighlighted. It dealt with the term 'All Souls...' which is highlighted earlier in the article in a list and then someone try to highlight again and an edit war ensued and the blockers Daniel Case and Ed somebody didn't bother reading the actual edit being converted and reverted was actually correct to make. Literally, the article is listed as 'good' right now but it has a double highlighted text of 'All Souls...' making it a poorer article than the blockers advised it was. 73.158.120.223 (talk) 00:49, 11 June 2025 (UTC)
- Your concern may be about overlinking of All Souls College. The question of overlinking has some nuances and it would be best for you to get a talk page consensus for the change you propose. Edit warring over this point won't help. EdJohnston (talk) 01:20, 11 June 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.