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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

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    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.


    Talk:Flow (2024 film)

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent vandalism by multiple IP users. Areaseven (talk) 10:55, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. There is a fairly high bar for protecting talk pages. Ad Orientem (talk) 21:37, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Socialist Party (Ireland)

    Semi-protection - edit warring Wellington Bay (talk) 18:20, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined It's already being discussed at BLPN and AN/I. Anyway, protection would favor one party to the war, which is unfair. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 21:28, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Battle of Lysychansk

    Extended confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement – Russia Ukraine Contentious Topic. 8bit12man (talk) 22:58, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Sigismund I the Old

    Reason: High level of IP vandalism/WP:OR Kansas Bear (talk) 23:18, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Konrad III Rudy

    Reason: High level of IP vandalism/WP:OR. Kansas Bear (talk) 23:19, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Asgore

    Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – vandalism without a hint of variety. they could at least do better!!. consarn (grave) (obituary) 23:27, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Draft:Battle of Urmia (April 1918)

    Semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry. Kajmer05 (talk) 00:13, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Grooming gangs scandal

    Reason: edit warring by IP editors. Bluethricecreamman (talk) 01:04, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Mars Needs Moms

    Semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Multiple IPs, same user. Geraldo Perez (talk) 02:52, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Donald Peter Mojuntin

    Reason: Vandalism - 110.159.194.155 Normal rookie (talk) 03:14, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Millennium Transmitter

    Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Unsourced changing information by IPs. 158.140.164.16 (talk) 03:28, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Harun Durabi

    Reason: Vandalism - 2001:E68:540F:5DE7:1715:5F1E:46A4:3B5B Normal rookie (talk) 03:39, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Samad Jambri

    Reason: vandalism - 1.9.226.97 and 2001:E68:540F:5DE7:1715:5F1E:46A4:3B5B Normal rookie (talk) 03:46, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Aaron Boone

    Semi-protection: BLP policy violations.   –Skywatcher68 (talk) 04:10, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    WSVN

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – High level of interest and some vandalism/unsourced edits due to an affiliation switch. Request that this semi and that of WPLG expire at the same time. Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 04:13, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Current requests for reduction in protection level

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    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.

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    October 6 and days of June

    Reason: Semi-protected indefinitely over a year. Can they be downed to WP:PCPP? Also, one of the users who protected the pages does not seem to be an administrator anymore. Meanwhile, the other appears to have been notified about the matter about a month ago but no response had been taken.154.107.12.95 (talk) 00:45, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Just because someone isn't an admin anymore doesn't mean they can't have an opionion. @Materialscientist: @MelanieN: What do you think? In many cases I see PCP as increasing the burden on regular editors to review and decline edits that normally would not appear with a normal protection level. ~Anachronist (talk) 08:01, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Alligator

    Unprotection: As with crocodile, we can try pending changes, since it seemed to work on that page. Thepharoah17 (talk) 22:20, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Current requests for edits to a protected page

    Request a specific edit to a protected page
    Please request an edit directly on the protected page's talk page before posting here
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    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.
    Further information: Wikipedia:Edit requests


    Gaza genocide

    In the section about UK support, I understand the photo of Keir Starmer within the image, on the poster, has recently been blurred for copyright reasons, but I think this is quite distracting without context or any explanation. Could someone who has editing privileges there either update the image to one where blurring is unnecessary, or simply add to the end of caption something like "(the image of Keir Starmer on the poster has been blurred as it is copyrighted separately)" 2600:1700:A5E0:11F0:303A:1732:84A3:83EB (talk) 03:20, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    The latter would be redundant with the image description page, where the revision history explicitly notes the blurring. Assuming another image from that protest exists which includes a sign calling him out, replacement would require that image being uploaded under a compatible licence (per WP:NFCC). —Jéské Couriano v^_^v threads critiques 15:43, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Facebook

    I think that the supposed co-founder 'Andrew McCollum' should be removed. The initial Business Insider article used to cite the founders of Facebook makes not reference to him, and references to him as the co-founder of Facebook in the media only seem to have happened once he was edited into the article. His own article is also sloppily written which might indicate a very elaborate form of vandalism? The claim in one of the pictures that he was the designer of the original Facebook logo also seems to inaccurate, with the logo being attributed to 'Mike Buzzard' and 'Joe Kral' in other articles. Gersttt (talk) 16:12, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Handled requests

    A historical archive of previous protection requests can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive.

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