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 new or upgrading of article protection, upload protection, or create 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.
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing. (CC) Tbhotch™ 10:24, 2 February 2025 (UTC)
- Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Bbb23 (talk) 16:18, 2 February 2025 (UTC)
Reason: High level IP of vandalism Normal rookie (talk) 11:52, 2 February 2025 (UTC)
- Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Bbb23 (talk) 16:18, 2 February 2025 (UTC)
Reason: High level IP of vandalism Normal rookie (talk) 12:07, 2 February 2025 (UTC)
- Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Bbb23 (talk) 16:19, 2 February 2025 (UTC)
Reason: High level IP of vandalism Normal rookie (talk) 12:10, 2 February 2025 (UTC)
- Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Bbb23 (talk) 16:19, 2 February 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – persistent addition of unsourced or poorly sourced content to BLP due to subject being in the news regarding a potential transfer. ser! (chat to me - see my edits) 12:14, 2 February 2025 (UTC)
- Opinion polling for the 2025 Polish presidential election (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Reason: High level of IP vandalism. Octilllion (talk) 12:40, 2 February 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 12:56, 2 February 2025 (UTC)
Reason: High level of IP vandalism by caste fanatics. They are reverting previous edits and adding new edits without any sources to cite. Minakshi Pillai (talk) 12:44, 2 February 2025 (UTC)
- Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Bbb23 (talk) 16:20, 2 February 2025 (UTC)
Temporary pending changes protection: Persistent disruptive editing. Back and forth dispute with an IP editor who seems to view my language templates for Chinese terms and removal of the existence of a film as a reference to...itself as "vandalism". I'd like to nip this simmering edit war in the bud. They have already come to my talk page to yell at me about it without making any material improvements to the page, which I have done in the form of references, language templates, a new section, and removing unreferenced material. Kazamzam (talk) 12:51, 2 February 2025 (UTC)
Reason: High level IP of vandalism Normal rookie (talk) 13:44, 2 February 2025 (UTC)
- Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Bbb23 (talk) 16:25, 2 February 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IPs continually adding unsupported/unreferenced information after previous protection expired. Mellk (talk) 14:06, 2 February 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Constant vandalism and edit warring by several new accounts to exert a baised POV, with possibility of sockpuppetry. TheInfernoX (talk) 14:13, 2 February 2025 (UTC)
- Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 18:19, 2 February 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Persistent vandalism (3 IPs and 1 registered account): https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abdullah_II_of_Jordan&diff=1272428244&oldid=1272408681,
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abdullah_II_of_Jordan&diff=1272897162&oldid=1272865725,
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abdullah_II_of_Jordan&diff=1273011531&oldid=1273011314,
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abdullah_II_of_Jordan&diff=1273459752&oldid=1273459215
Wafflefrites (talk) 14:50, 2 February 2025 (UTC)
- Semi-protected indefinitely. Several recent BLP protections. Also, at the very least a WP:PIA-adjacent bio page, so setting the duration not to expire this time. El_C 18:00, 2 February 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Niasoh ❯❯❯ Wanna chat? 15:29, 2 February 2025 (UTC)
Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – Semi didn't work @Daniel Case:. - FlightTime (open channel) 16:10, 2 February 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 16:12, 2 February 2025 (UTC)
- User(s) blocked: 13enedict (talk · contribs) blocked by Bbb23. for a week. Daniel Case (talk) 18:48, 2 February 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent addition of unsourced or poorly sourced content – IP hopper repeatedly adding unsourced diplomat claims. Jalen Barks (Woof) 16:19, 2 February 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent Vandalism. 💽 🌙Eclipse 💽 🌹 ⚧ (she/they) talk/edits 17:15, 2 February 2025 (UTC)
Reason: because anyone cant edit page info Jagirani110 (talk) 18:07, 2 February 2025 (UTC)
Extended confirmed protection: Disruption from an auto-confirmed account and an IP (possibly a sockpuppet) who persist with copyright violations. SNUGGUMS (talk / edits) 18:19, 2 February 2025 (UTC)
- Question: Is this still an issue now that the copyrighted image has been deleted from commons? — rsjaffe 🗣️ 18:21, 2 February 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Frequent disruptive edits by anonymous IP users. The subject's birthplace is not officially disclosed, yet multiple users are repeatedly changing it without any reliable sources. This has led to persistent vandalism. To prevent further unsourced changes, semi-protection is requested. AstuteFlicker (talk) 18:41, 2 February 2025 (UTC)
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – page just got unprotected and already two ip vandalisms. ―Howard • 🌽33 18:53, 2 February 2025 (UTC)
- Automated comment: One or more pages in this request appear to already be protected. Please confirm.—cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online 18:58, 2 February 2025 (UTC)
- Already done by administrator . charlotte 👸♥ 19:00, 2 February 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent sockpuppetry. EF5 18:58, 2 February 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent sockpuppetry. EF5 18:59, 2 February 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Considering the recent news and recent repeated attempts to edit by new users, this page should be protected. m a MANÍ1990(talk | contribs) 19:01, 2 February 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: is there incorrect information that needs to be corrected. Mahmood2026 (talk) 17:04, 2 February 2025 (UTC)
- Even disregarding that this is in a contentious topic, this article was constantly protected over the years before its most recent and indefinite protection three years ago. Use the talk page to suggest edits or talk with El C to see if he is willing to lift protection. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v threads critiques 17:19, 2 February 2025 (UTC)
Reason: been enable iPhone lost mod 103.109.59.41 (talk) 18:43, 2 February 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Kevin marino 96.93.159.29 (talk) 18:45, 2 February 2025 (UTC)
Reason: The protection isn't necessary because the article is in really bad shape and needs a lot of improvement. There's a ton of original research, and I checked seven sources, none of them support the claims in the article. A lot of it is also unsourced or just poorly written. I won’t go into every issue here because it would take too long, about 50% of the article needs work. 185.187.78.216 (talk) 18:57, 2 February 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.
Add that 80 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed since the “ceasefire” began (i.e. genocide direct deaths have continued albeit at a slower pace) https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/death-and-destruction-returning-to-rafah https://news.antiwar.com/2025/01/29/israeli-forces-have-killed-more-than-80-palestinians-in-gaza-since-ceasefire-went-into-effect/ Seahumidity (talk) 09:46, 30 January 2025 (UTC)
Add info about 35 year reduction in life expectancy according to UPenn study http://www.thedp.com/article/2025/01/penn-study-gaza-life-expectancy-drop Seahumidity (talk) 10:53, 31 January 2025 (UTC)
I want to talk the on discussion page about the name of the conflict Xenomire (talk) 20:07, 1 February 2025 (UTC)
- No. Get some experience editing topic areas that aren't contentious first. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v threads critiques 06:50, 2 February 2025 (UTC)
Handled requests
A historical archive of previous protection requests can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive.