Wikipedia:Requests for page protection

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Welcome—request protection of a page, file, or template here.

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 protection Request unprotection of a page, or reducing the protection level Request unprotection Request a specific edit to a protected page Please request an edit directly on the protected page's talk page before posting here Request edit

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Current requests for protection

Place requests for new or upgrading pending changes, semi-protection, full protection, move protection, create protection, template editor protection, or upload protection at the BOTTOM of this section. Check the archive of fulfilled and denied requests or, failing that, the page history if you cannot find your request. Only recently answered requests are still listed here.

Iran at the 1976 Summer Olympics (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary full protection dispute, User:Mohsen1248 keeps removing BLP required note (see ticket:2010081710002656), and inline citations; ignoring article talk and user talk page messages trying to explain wp:v. -- Jeandré, 2011-04-10t23:43z 23:43, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Talysh people (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protect. High level of IP vandalism. Khodabandeh14 (talk) 23:28, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Safavids (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protect. High level of IP vandalism. Khodabandeh14 (talk) 23:28, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

List of YouTube personalities (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protect Please restore previous semi-protection that was disabled after full protection finished. It's a target for frequent spamming by people who want to promote their favorite YouTube artists. Regards SoWhy 20:14, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Semi-protected. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:23, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Communications in India (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protect. temporary semi protection as major changes have been made to remove covert advertisement from the article recently. devx101 [TALK] 18:41, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Declined – Pages are not protected preemptively. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:21, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

User talk:OlEnglish (edit | user page | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary Semi-protection – (6 to 12 hours) IP vandalism today. Acps110 ^{(talk • contribs)} 17:53, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Declined, I'm sure if he wants his talk apge protected, he'll protect it. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:54, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Portadown_F.C. (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protect. High level of IP vandalism. --Eamonnca1 (talk) 17:43, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. It was only one IP and they've been blocked by Edgar181 (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA). HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:53, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

The section has been blanked by the following IPs - 82.71.43.104, 194.74.190.34, 78.148.47.21, 89.242.109.5, 90.222.70.24, and 89.242.110.162. --Eamonnca1 (talk) 19:08, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Vi (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protect. An editor identified only by a changing IP address is edit warring. Please see discussion on talk page. Msnicki (talk) 17:40, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. 210.77.8.0/22 blocked for a week. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:51, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Domestic partnership (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protect. High level of IP vandalism. BMRR (talk) 17:21, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of a week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:47, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Drashti Dhami (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection vandalism, a lot of activity today on this page, several accounts and IP's adding unsourced negative info into this BLP. The Interior (Talk) 17:04, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 5 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Dabomb87 (talk) 17:13, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

User talk:Tbhotch (edit | user page | history | links | watch | logs)

semi-protection, Editor is being harassed by an IP editor who is now resorted to switching IPs. —Farix (t | c) 16:55, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Already protected by administrator Gfoley4.. Dabomb87 (talk) 17:03, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Hard disk drive (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary full protection dispute, Edit-warring over the inclusion of a table while an RfC over the issue is ongoing. Dabomb87 (talk) 16:49, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Fully protected for a period of a week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:44, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Delhi (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Indefinite semi-protection, Its a level-3 vital article and need protection because of several incidents of disturbing edits. . Bill william compton^Talk 13:55, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

Can you give some examples of the problem edits? They're not jumping out at me. Also, the article is very slow to load, so it might be worth removing some of the citation templates. SlimVirgin ^{TALK|CONTRIBS} 22:47, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

Reply: The biggest problem is that ips are fighting for their controversial edits 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 (don't know this ip's motive, but he/she was stick to add this secondary reference). They don't like to discuss anything on talk page 10 11 12 13 14 15. Most recent 16, 17 and 3; and these things are common now. Due to these types of conflicts and disturbing edits, many edits like this, which should be provided with external source, remain untouched (note, it was a FA for more than 3 years but lost its status because of such unsourced and improperly cited edits); article is full of many such things. As i said this article is a level-3 vital article (only 14 more cities' articles are in this list) for which Wikipedia should have a high-quality, and ideally a featured status; but if these kind of edits remain active than i don't think it would ever be able to achieve Feature status. So it's my request to make this article semi-protected or at least provide Pending-changes level 2 protection. Bill william compton^Talk 04:38, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Why it is here, it is neither denied nor accepted..Bill william compton^Talk 16:41, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

I've moved the request back up. Dabomb87 (talk) 16:43, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Murder of Meredith Kercher (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary full protection; it is barely out of full protection and there is already an edit war over an image. --Errant ^(chat!) 16:28, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Fully protected for a period of a week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 16:45, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Template:Non-administrator observation (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

full protection high-visibility template, This template links to 145 pages and can easily be abused and vandalized. Crazymonkey1123 (Jacob) ^(Shout!) 15:55, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Semi-protected. Do you realise the irony of asking me to protect this template so that only administrators can edit it? ;) Semi should suffice. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 16:00, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Template:Miranda Cosgrove (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary semi-protection vandalism, Repeated addition of the claim that Cosgrove is in The Muppets (film). Addition is made by changing IP who ignores talk requests and warnings. On The Muppets (film) the claim usually includes a cite to an existing source which does not mention Cosgrove. SummerPhD (talk) 15:10, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Semi-protected. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 15:58, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

The Muppets (film) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection vandalism, Repeated addition of the claim that Cosgrove is in The Muppets (film). Addition is made by changing IP who ignores talk requests and warnings. On The Muppets (film) the claim usually includes a cite to an existing source which does not mention Cosgrove. SummerPhD (talk) 15:09, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of a month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 15:47, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Diego Forlán (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

semi-protection vandalism, Several Vandalism edits in the last 24 hours, they were reverted. Winner 42 Talk to me! 15:06, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of a week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 15:45, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Brookwell McNamara Entertainment (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection Persistent promotional and unsourced additions by account purporting to be company representative. I'm bringing this here only because virtually no administrator pays any attention to the COI noticeboard.... 99.168.85.28 (talk) 04:18, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Declined, the account is autoconfirmed, so semi won't do any good. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 15:41, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

I Wanna Go (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection vandalism, IPs adding unrealible sources, unsourced information, etc. Xwomanizerx (talk) 08:47, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 15:40, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Current requests for unprotection

Before posting, first discuss with the protecting admin at 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.

Gasherbrum I (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Unprotection, Last edited by Nangparbat back in September 2009, protection seems excessive at this time. -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 16:11, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Unprotected HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 16:19, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Gasherbrum III (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Unprotection, Last edited by Nangparbat back in December 2009, protection seems excessive at this point. -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 16:11, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Unprotected HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 16:17, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Ghanche District (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Unprotection, Edited a couple of times by a possible Nangparbat editor, as Nangparbat no longer appears to be active protection seems excessive at this time. -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 15:59, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Unprotected Dabomb87 (talk) 16:04, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Germany–Israel relations (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Unprotection, Edited by Nangparbat back in January 2010, as its been protected for over a year unprotection seems reasonable. -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 15:55, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Unprotected Dabomb87 (talk) 16:06, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Gojra (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Unprotection, A single edit by Nangparbat - though looking through the edits by the user in question that status isn't clear to me.

Suggest unprotection. -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 15:47, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Unprotected Dabomb87 (talk) 16:07, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Gippsland Grammar School (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Unprotection, A good number of good IP edits as well as vandalism, suggest pending changes or unprotection. -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 15:44, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Not unprotected This article attracted quite a bit of childish vandalism, and I saw at least one damaging BLP violation. Even the good-faith IP edits introduced unsourced or improperly formatted content. Dabomb87 (talk) 16:12, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Hindutva (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Unprotection, Edited by Nangparbat on a single occassion to add an external link in May 2009, protection seems excessive at this time. -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 15:41, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Unprotected HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 16:09, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Human rights in Pakistan (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Unprotection, Last edited by Nangparbat back in May 2009, other similar targets have been unprotected successfully. -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 15:39, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Unprotected HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 16:08, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

India national cricket team (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Unprotection, Protected after what looks more like a content dispute than vandalism involving the protecting admin. -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 15:33, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Not unprotected Even with the semi, there seems to be vandalism. I can't see this attracting much more than nationalist POV pushing and vandalism if it's unprotected. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 16:06, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Indo-Pakistani wars and conflicts (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Unprotection, Unprotection. Protected since December 2009, problematic user was auto-confirmed at the time. -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 15:32, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Unprotected HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 16:03, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Rice and curry (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Unprotection, This article is fully protected infinitely so I request that to change the level to semi-protection.I think full protection should be only as a last resort. Suri 100 (talk) 10:53, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Declined, please talk to the admin who protected the apge, Jimfbleak (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA), and not that indefinite does not mean permanent. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 16:01, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Current requests for edits to a protected page

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.

Fulfilled/denied requests

RMS Titanic (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection vandalism, Single editor hopping across an IP range adding WP:NONENGEL spamlink. Old Moonraker (talk) 12:30, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of Indef- Quite more than one problematic anon here. , after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Courcelles 12:50, 10 April 2011 (UTC)