Wikipedia:Requests for page protection: Difference between revisions

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Shortcuts WP:RFPP WP:RFP WP:RPP 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. Skip to table of contents requests to raise protection lower protection requested edits (purge) 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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Wollongong High School of the Performing Arts (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

temporary full protection Vandalism, Continued vandalism from shared IP. No response from admin to block request..Tcncv (talk) 06:22, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Who is a Jew? (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protection. High level of IP vandalism. It looks like the page was temporarily semi-protected, but was recently unprotected and subsequently vandalized. ← Michael Safyan ^(talk) 06:20, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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

semi-protect. High level of IP vandalism - looks like kids love to mess with article and not many people watch it. TestPilot 04:53, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. -MBK₀₀₄ 04:57, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, out of last 20 edits(mine excluded), whole 4 edits was not a vandalism or RV of vandalism. That's many. But what is more important - vandal edits stayed in the article at least for 2 weeks, with no one fixing them. Who cares? And yeah, I totally agree with you, those should not be considered "recent". TestPilot 05:40, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

List of Power Rangers episodes (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protection - Since this page has been unprotected, users have again, been adding speculative episode titles to this article (but are hidden comments, like before). Mythdon (talk) 03:10, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Mr. T (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

semi-protection IP vandalism. Only 1 edit in the past 6 days was not vandalism or a revert of vandalism. Footballfan190 (talk) 02:46, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected indefinitely. —Kurykh 03:01, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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

temporary semi-protection Vandalism, Vandalism/editing tests extend back for some time. Most of that vandalism is from IPs, and the amount of vandalism is disproportionate to the amount of good edits..Thinboy00 @151, i.e. 02:37, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• According to logs, it was unprotected last December. --Thinboy00 @154, i.e. 02:41, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected indefinitely. —Kurykh 03:06, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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

un-protected Would like to update his information with factual information.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Austin56 (talk • contribs) 02:26, March 24, 2008

• That page is not protected... nor was it ever. It's a disambig, perhaps you meant to refer to one of the pages to which it links? --Thinboy00 @155, i.e. 02:43, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • If you mean the rapper, that page was deleted and protected to prevent recreation... If not, I can't tell what you're talking about. --Thinboy00 @157, i.e. 02:46, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Declined; inability to discern request. —Kurykh 03:03, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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

semi-protection IP vandalism. Just the amount in 1 day

is heavy. Footballfan190 (talk) 01:22, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. -- Alexf⁴² 01:32, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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

temporary semi-protection Vandalism, Many IPs continue to vandalize or destroy much of the content. Would like possible two week semi-protection..crassic!^[talk] 00:41, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Already protected by administrator by Master of Puppets. -- ReyBrujo (talk) 01:06, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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

semi-protection Vandalism, A prominent journalist currently in the news for converting from Islam to Christianity...as such, the article has been a target for anon editors adding POV statements, factual inaccuracies, or just plain vandalism. A few days semi-protection until the news cycle moves on would be helpful..Nesodak (talk) 22:22, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. -- Alexf⁴² 00:16, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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

Semi-protect'. More or less daily vandalism and nonsense edits from anon users. Not anything organised, though, but the article seems to have a permanent appeal for random nonsense vandalism. --Soman (talk) 22:15, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Master of Puppets _{Call me MoP! :)} 00:26, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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

Full; BLP violations. Sceptre ^(talk) 21:07, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Declined Wrapped it up. Master of Puppets _{Call me MoP! :)} 00:21, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Big Brother 9 (U.S.) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

temporary semi-protection Vandalism, Due to recent amounts of vandalism. The show runs for twelve weeks normally so protection until the end of April would be great..♪♫Alucard 16♫♪ 20:52, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected for a period of 10 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Two months is awfully long. If vandalism starts up after protection is over, just submit it again. Master of Puppets _{Call me MoP! :)} 00:22, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

List of Espada in Bleach (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

temporary semi-protection Vandalism.Enigma ^msg! 20:30, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Master of Puppets _{Call me MoP! :)} 00:21, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Assemblies of God (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

semi-protection : Have noticed that recently there has been a lot of updates from unsigned and possible SockPuppet authors. Many of the edits are aimed at adding a section on Scandals to the page. I'm not fully sure what the procedure is, but would it be possible to Semi-Protect this page from unsigned and sock puppet contributions. As I have mentioned in the discussion section on the page, the information that keeps being added is already available on Wikipedia in a section on such scandals. Personally, it appears that the authors/editors in question seem to have an anti-Assembly of God agenda. Although there is merit in their views, I feel it is not appropriate on the main encyclopedia entry page for the organisation. Paulrach (talk) 20:19, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Master of Puppets _{Call me MoP! :)} 00:28, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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

semi-protection : Just look at the history : Dozens of nonconstructive edits by IPs consisting in reordering the list of schools. I suspect that the aim of these edits is only to make the IP's school appear first in the list. None of these changes are supported with references : Chances are that this constant "reordering" won't stop. NicDumZ ~ 20:16, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Master of Puppets _{Call me MoP! :)} 00:26, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Socialist Unity Centre of India (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

semi-protect. High level of IP vandalism by a banned user User: Kuntan (Puppets User: 59.91.253.7, User: 59.91.253.187, User: 59.91.253.11, User: 59.91.254.52). Sekharlk (talk) 19:13, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Master of Puppets _{Call me MoP! :)} 00:25, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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

semi-protect. High level of IP vandalism. Waiting for Informal MediationGeorgeKelsey (talk) 18:53, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Master of Puppets _{Call me MoP! :)} 00:25, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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

semi-protection IP vandalism. This page is the main spot of vandalism in the Philippines. Almost everyday there are vandalisms occured because of the popularity of the article, which also awarded as the most search personality in Google.com.ph click -->([1]here). We need a semi-protection of this article to prevent vandalism as soon as possible. We expect that our request will be granted. Thank You.{Kung Fu Master (talk) 03:55, 25 March 2008 (UTC)}[reply]

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Master of Puppets _{Call me MoP! :)} 04:54, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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

Inexperienced user is not a valid reason for protection. 70.20.96.23 (talk) 04:48, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Mexican-American War (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Protected for ~½ yr. for "disruption". 68.39.174.238 (talk) 22:32, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Unprotected bibliomaniac15 Midway upon life's journey... 00:26, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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

Reduce to semi-protected. Article was protected well over a month ago over a flame war that was not resolved, however, one of the participants is currently inactive on Wikipedia. Tucker Max has always been a target for drive by editors of both the fancruft-adding and vandal types, so I'm suggesting permanent semi-protection for it. McJeff (talk) 17:29, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected Well, this one is tricky. From the talk page, there hasn't been a single attempt at working out the issues between the editors. However, I believe articles should not be full protected for long periods of time unless there is a libel or legal problem with it. Therefore I am lowering it to semiprotection. However, if the edit war starts again, and considering the apparently lack of discussion about this matter in the talk page, blocking the users would be a better option than fully protecting it again. -- ReyBrujo (talk) 01:11, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ideally, requests should be made on the article talk page rather than here.

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User:RachelMarsden (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Tag it for G10 (or at the least, MFD) Consensus is that it's more vitriolic than most stuff. Sceptre ^(talk) 17:05, 23 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Already unprotected.. Hut 8.5 18:25, 23 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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

temporary full protection Dispute, nothing but vandalism from IPs.The Evil Spartan (talk) 23:33, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Semi-protected, no need for full here, as far as I can tell. 2 weeks. Heimstern Läufer (talk) 23:59, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

User talk:206.224.254.17 (edit | user page | history | links | watch | logs)

Semi-protect. Anonymous user is disrupting his own talk page. This user is currently on a one-year block for persistent vandalism. Someguy1221 (talk) 22:42, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Nousernamesleft^{copper, not wood} 23:25, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deh Siva Var Mohe (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

semi protection dispute disruptive edits[2] inspite of warnings[3]ThanksAjjay (talk) 17:37, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Declined; we don't generally semi for disputes, and it doesn't look like there's enough disruptive activity, anyway. Just one IP, can be blocked if it's being disruptive. Heimstern Läufer (talk) 00:11, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

2008 Summer Olympics (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protect. In general, vandalism of this article has only increased in the past few weeks. I don't know if protecting this page would be the absolute best thing to do, but it doesn't seem like any valuable contributions are coming from the population that generally keeps vandalizing it. Perhaps if this can be done with a discreet template ({{pp-semi-template|small=yes}}) for a substantial amount of time, it would reduce the vandalism in the long run? Jared (t)  21:56, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected for a period of 4 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. That should give things enough time to calm down. Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 22:38, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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

semi-protection User talk of blocked user, IP disruption..NonvocalScream (talk) 21:50, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note, there is just 1 IP doing this, and I just blocked it. _(1 == 2)^Until 21:58, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

User(s) blocked. - so the bot notices. Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 22:31, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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

permanent creation protection Spam page recreated six times today. Redfarmer (talk) 21:26, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done bibliomaniac15 Midway upon life's journey... 21:26, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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

temporary semi-protection Vandalism.Johnny Au (talk) 21:16, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected for 1 week. bibliomaniac15 Midway upon life's journey... 21:26, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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

temporary full protection Dispute, Content & reference dispute between User:Thegingerone & User:Kevin j. After protection was lifted yesterday (because of their edit warring), both resumed adding content, etc despite being asked to discuss changes first and reach some sort of consensus before making changes again. As the third party involved, I've been attempting to work with the users with very little cooperation..Pinkadelica (talk) 20:33, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Done. Fully protected for two weeks. Tabercil (talk) 22:01, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Alvin and the Chipmunks (film) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

semi-protect. High level of IP vandalism. 71.93.162.73 (talk) 19:18, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. -MBK₀₀₄ 20:16, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

User talk:98.194.118.152 (edit | user page | history | links | watch | logs)

semi-protection User talk of blocked user, Ok, Now there is vandalism, requesting semi.Momusufan (talk) 19:55, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected by Gogo Dodo   jj137 (talk) 20:01, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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

full-protect Edit war over content dispute.Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 19:51, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Fully protected for three days.   jj137 (talk) 19:54, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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

full protection User talk of blocked user, vandalism of talk page after being blocked, requesting full protection.Momusufan (talk) 19:43, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Fully protected   jj137 (talk) 19:45, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Cleanup (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

temporary semi-protection Vandalism, The article just came off sprotect and it's being vandalized again. While the volume isn't high today, the fact that it starts right back up again isn't promising. I don't think I've ever seen a productive IP edit to this page as it's not an easy to find, high use page. Any chance at further sprotect?.TRAVELLINGCARI^{My story}_{Tell me yours} 19:24, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.   jj137 (talk) 19:48, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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

temporary full protection Dispute, Requesting full protection for minimum of 24 hours. Due to edit warring-content dispute. I also intend to informally mediate this dispute on the talk page. Please protect for 24 hours at least, so I can mediate. Cheers .Steve Crossin (talk to me) 17:21, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Fully protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Ryan Postlethwaite 18:47, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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

Requesting semi-protection for 1-2 weeks. Edit-warring and insertion of off-topic material by a mildly dynamic IP who's at about 7RR today; given the dynamic status I think semi-protection would be more effective than a block to end the edit-warring and move things to the talk page. I'd do it myself, but I edit the page. MastCell ^Talk 17:16, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected for a period of 10 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Rudget. 17:26, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]