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 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.
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing. Myrealnamm (💬Let's talk · 📜My work) 23:49, 12 December 2024 (UTC)
User(s) blocked. Their username has been redacted, so I won't repeat it here; the block was, suffice it to say, indef. Daniel Case (talk) 03:40, 13 December 2024 (UTC)
Reason: Increase to extended-confirmed, Related to the Arab World, and the Arbitration Committee enforcements ѕιη¢єяєℓу ƒяσм, ᗰOᗪ ᑕᖇEᗩTOᖇ 🏡 🗨 📝 04:36, 13 December 2024 (UTC)
- Also, please apply to the Syrian transitional government, per above. ѕιη¢єяєℓу ƒяσм, ᗰOᗪ ᑕᖇEᗩTOᖇ 🏡 🗨 📝 04:38, 13 December 2024 (UTC)
- North Korean involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Indefinite extended confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement – Per Active Community Sanctions in placed for articles related to the Russo-Ukrainian War. TarnishedPathtalk 05:01, 13 December 2024 (UTC)
Reason: Request to be semi-protected; high levels of IP vandalism, especially after The Game Awards had occurred. MimirIsSmart (talk) 05:54, 13 December 2024 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP vandalism. Nobody (talk) 06:32, 13 December 2024 (UTC)
- Appears to be in connection with this. Nobody (talk) 12:39, 13 December 2024 (UTC)
Extended confirmed protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Contentious page, constantly vandalized by editors. Removing well cited contents. GrabUp - Talk 09:21, 13 December 2024 (UTC)
- Opinion polling for the next Israeli legislative election (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Indefinite extended confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement – WP:ARBPIA. '''[[User:CanonNi]]''' (talk • contribs) 10:11, 13 December 2024 (UTC)
Reason: multiple IPs edit warring with a registered editor despite being invited to the talk page. ~ IvanScrooge98 (talk) 10:30, 13 December 2024 (UTC)
- User(s) blocked: 2603:900a:1500:480f::/64 (talk · contribs). 3-day partial block from the article in question. Favonian (talk) 12:23, 13 December 2024 (UTC)
Reason: IP vandalism with no sources provided Replayerr (talk) 10:49, 13 December 2024 (UTC)
Reason: IP vandalism by same character, he's been doing this across multiple articles Replayerr (talk) 10:50, 13 December 2024 (UTC)
Reason: High level of IP vandalism Replayerr (talk) 10:52, 13 December 2024 (UTC)
Reason: Persistent vandalism. Still coming after three months of pending changes protection expired. Entranced98 (talk) 11:23, 13 December 2024 (UTC)
Pending-changes protected for a period of 1 year, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Favonian (talk) 12:09, 13 December 2024 (UTC)
Reason: High level of IP messing with his ethnicity information DareshMohan (talk) 11:48, 13 December 2024 (UTC)
Reason: Persistent IP soapboxing from a block-evading editor, continued restoration of links to blogs/Reddit posts about their grievances with Wikipedia. CoffeeCrumbs (talk) 12:27, 13 December 2024 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP adding fake airlines, a semi-protection of a week or so will stop his fun. The Banner talk 12:42, 13 December 2024 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP adding fake airlines, a semi-protection of a week or so will stop his fun. The Banner talk 12:46, 13 December 2024 (UTC)
Reason: High IP vandalism changing boxoffice figures and rankings without citing reliable sources. RangersRus (talk) 12:53, 13 December 2024 (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:Article is in a poorly written state and barely gets meaningful contributions since it was last protected. No signs of disruptive editing for a long time either.Axedd (talk) 14:45, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
- @Axedd: Is the long-term abuser that caused the article to be ECP'd still active on other articles? —Jéské Couriano v^_^v threads critiques 16:46, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
- Last time this specific user was active was 4 years ago according to his case page. I believe another sock caused this page to locked over an year ago for edit warring, but they weren't solely interested in this particular page. Axedd (talk) 16:52, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
- The case page is not a reliable indicator of if an LTA is active or not, especially if they're reveling in the attention. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v threads critiques 08:28, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
- Last time this specific user was active was 4 years ago according to his case page. I believe another sock caused this page to locked over an year ago for edit warring, but they weren't solely interested in this particular page. Axedd (talk) 16:52, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
- Pinging @Yamaguchi先生 --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 20:18, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you Axedd for being in touch and Jéské for the ping. Axedd, you are already able to edit this article in the currently protected state. For context, there have been over 18 different page protections applied over the years due to long term abuse, block evasion, and persistent disruption in general. In light of this, was there any specific reason that you're looking to see this page unprotected? Regards, Yamaguchi先生 (talk) 23:34, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
Reason: The protection is no longer necessary because i believe that the metaverse is now less associated with crypto and the blockchain - especially after the rise of spatial computing. 67.209.128.24 (talk) 15:46, 8 December 2024 (UTC)
- Suggested action: Lower to WP:WHITELOCK/WP:PCPP to prevent disruptive editing from cryptospammers while still allowing for broader contribution from legitimate editors (especially IPs like me). Otherwise, if no cryptospam is expected, remove protection completely. 67.209.128.24 (talk) 15:51, 8 December 2024 (UTC)
- Pinging @El C. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 16:19, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
- Pinging @El C. --Ahecht (TALK
Unprotection: Requesting a reduction to indef WP:ECP, per conversation on talk page of imposing administrator. Move protection can remain at indef sysop. — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 23:17, 11 December 2024 (UTC)
- I'll have to disagree. Just look at the page history. LilianaUwU (talk / contributions) 05:28, 12 December 2024 (UTC)
- I looked at the page history and the deleted contributions prior to making this request. — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 02:05, 13 December 2024 (UTC)
Reason: The season is completed. 2A02:C7C:A01:3E00:6416:9E81:7DAB:2ECD (talk) 13:07, 12 December 2024 (UTC)
- The protection expires in less than two weeks. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v threads critiques 16:45, 12 December 2024 (UTC)
Reason: No distruptive editing, page has been protected for a long time. Main article is not protected Heyaaaaalol (talk) 01:42, 13 December 2024 (UTC)
Not unprotected As the admin who imposed that protection ... first, "no disruptive editing" is not a good reason to unprotect since it is almost always easily explained by "article has been protected for a long time".Second, and more specifically, before I imposed this protection two years ago the page was getting regular joke edits like this. The article does not get that attention. This is not the only situation where we've had to protect the talk page more than the article—I think we had to do the same at Talk:Artificial intelligence. And, relatedly, we had to protect Talk:Taylor Swift indefinitely along with the article not because of cantankerous discussion among Swifties but rather due to people thinking, perhaps because they had Googled "talk to Taylor Swift" and that page came up, that she would respond to whatever they wrote there. Daniel Case (talk) 03:57, 13 December 2024 (UTC)
Reason: The page was protected due to BLP, and is still protected for that reason despite Flagg dying in 2014. 100.7.34.111 (talk) 12:42, 13 December 2024 (UTC)
Reason: I want to fix area size = 35.9 and entire area size is 14850 and some other corrections kindly remove protection for now 103.204.33.67 (talk) 12:47, 13 December 2024 (UTC)
Reason: Khot is a largest valley in Upper Chitral District which is currently protected and redirected to Upper Chitral District kindly decrease protection level of this page. 103.204.33.67 (talk) 12:54, 13 December 2024 (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
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{{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.
This, I think, is the first time I've made a suggestion. Hopefully, I'm doing this correctly.
The lateral fricative voiced retroflex, as an example, has an IPA representation of ɖɭ˔ according to its Wikipedia page, but the IPA Pulmonic table and other tables use the Unicode representation in the table and any font I have found just doesn't handle that character,
Would it be better to use the IPA representation which I think many fonts handle since the table has 'IPA' in its title and its link points to the Wikipedia page with both representations? The linked article each cell in the table states that the representation the IPA version and that the Unicode character is implied from that.
I'd be happy to make a list of each table and cell where this occurs if that is necessary and you think these will be worthwhile changes. BLWBebopKid (talk) 19:51, 8 December 2024 (UTC)
- Pinging @Kwamikagami as they are likely to have some insight to these issues. For me personally, I'm not sure. I happen to have fonts installed that handle the extIPA symbols, but I'm in the stark minority there. Remsense ‥ 论 01:46, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
- ExtIPA is IPA. It's just a specialized subset. For example, extIPA can be used in the 'Illustrations of the IPA' published in JIPA.
- The issue is one of font support. The letters in question date to 2015, though they weren't added to Unicode until 2021. There are websites that list fonts that support various characters. These are supported by the SIL fonts, which are the best free IPA fonts available. If you don't have a good font installed, you're not going to be able to view IPA correctly anyway. That's why we have the IPA notice in articles, that you may need to install an IPA font to view the article properly. — kwami (talk) 05:32, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
Add Luenell as Milly, one of the cops alongside Dog Man and Chief 2403:4800:38A1:B400:DC55:C7D9:E919:620D (talk) 06:01, 13 December 2024 (UTC)
- Providing a source would ensure this gets dealt with more quickly. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 12:28, 13 December 2024 (UTC)
Handled requests
A historical archive of previous protection requests can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive.