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.

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

Semi Protection The article is constantly beuing vandaliserd, at least 8 incidences in last 10 days, always with same information being changed, eg. the sex of the characters, and always by IP editors, so block and ban are hopeless. This is the 2nd request for protection to this article - admins, please note number of reverts on this article in the last month or two. Thor Malmjursson 16:29, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

La Salle College (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protection The article, especially the section La Salle College#The first layman principal is nearly always being vandalized by removing the entire paragraph within 24 hours since the previous restoration of the article. The vandalists were clever and made the vandalism look like a cleanup of the article and thus Tawkerbot2 cannot sort out this vandalism and revert it (eg [1]). Every time the vandal come in a different IP because the IP range, which is situated in Hong Kong, is intentionally redistributed on every re-connection (that's why I myself as a Hongkonger has to use a proxy - my IP is always blocked due to legacy of these vandals). However, it's nice to see all vandalists come with an IP, not a username. So semi would do very well to stop the vandalism. --Deryck C. 15:36, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

History of New Jersey (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protection This article has been heavily vandalized by anon IPs over the last couple of days for some reason, involving partial or full blanking of the article, replacing the text with things like "New Jersey sucks". --Coredesat talk. o.o;; 13:24, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

It's getting vandalized because it's on the main page today. This is par for the course and as a rule the main page feature is never protected. It is often the first article people experiment with, sign up accounts because of, etc. Marskell 13:41, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

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

Full Protection please because continue vandalism of the other portuguese pretender Duarte Pio supporters (also is he most famous in Portugal is correct rispect also other pretenders as Hilda Toledano, her real name is Maria Pia and was daughter of the king Charles of Portugal). But the enemyes continue to change informations about Maria Pia and continue to put dubt in the autenticy of her documents in her official site only to put doubts in the readers. Please stop with this vandalism. Users: Manue,4 July 2006 (UTC)

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

Semi-protection please, because of persistent vandalism, as may be expected with this sort of topic. Anthony Appleyard 05:57, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

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

Full Protection - Assuming good faith, per guidelines, I believe User:HolyRomanEmperor should be protected because reports indicate that the user is deceased. See WT:RFA for more information. Although it is skeptical at this point if he really is gone, the first half of the procedure was already done when his account was indef blocked. — The King of Kings 03:47 July 04 '06

Fully protected. Voice-of-All 03:51, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Iglesia ni Cristo (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Requesting "Semi-Protection" for the Iglesia ni Cristo article. An edit war between editors and proxy IP addesses believed to be emico (talk · contribs) in violation of an ArbCom decision. This edit war has also caused Coffeemaker (talk · contribs) to deliberately disrupt the article by replacing the entire article with this edit.

There is not enough recent activity to justify protection at this time. Just watchlist and revert any vandalism. Voice-of-All 22:28, 30 June 2006 (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.

Template:Otheruses4 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

This template was not subject to recent vandalism or edit warring. Protecting it is against the spirit of Wiki. =) Powers 14:55, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Un-protected. Only because Duarte Pio supporters want no insert in this page a truth thata is the last monarchic contitution excluded to succession the miguelist branch of Duarte Pio, so they protected this page. This is not democratic and correct. User:Manuel 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Islam and anti-Semitism (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Page protected for one month. No discussion of issues on talk page. Calwatch 07:42, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Un-protected. Its been protected for long enough. Hopefully things have calmed down since then. Voice-of-All 07:55, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

List of Virtual Boy games (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Dispute not technically settled, but discussion has died down. There are a few minor edits I need to make and the protection is getting in the way. I have agreed to not return the images and will enforce to the best of my ability that other's don't do so either without discussion. --SeizureDog 00:36, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Current requests for significant 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.

Fullfilled/denied requests

Human rights in the People's Republic of China (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Page protected for one month. Very little discussion on talk page, aside from some unspecified threat that POV-pushing types will edit the page. Calwatch 07:41, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Un-protected. Its been protected for long enough. Hopefully things have calmed down since then. Voice-of-All 07:55, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

User talk:141.154.236.87 (edit | [[Talk:User talk:141.154.236.87|talk]] | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

I don't get it. Their test messages worked and they block me and my talk page for several days. This is crazy.

• First of all, please sign your remarks with ~~~~. Second of all, you do not own your user page; in this case, the fact that you vandalized and were warned about it should remain for a time until you can prove you're more than a guy who adds "penis" randomly to articles. --Golbez 21:53, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
  • What happened was someone left some kind of "test" message on my talk page. Odd, so I removed it. Then several other "test" messages popped up, I can't remove them from my talk page and I can't edit. I think Wikipedia has been hacked.
  • We need to rectify this today.
    • What happened is this: You changed the text "head" in an article to "[[Penis|head]]", either as a test or as a joke. That's vandalism, but to be charitable to new users (such as yourself), we assume good faith and call it a "test" in the first warning. However, regardless of the terminology used, it was still a warning to you not to do it again. Generally, we like to keep those warnings around so that other editors can drop by your talk page and see that you've vandalized in the past. That's why your removal of the warning message was reverted. HOWEVER, I note to those who continually re-added the warning, blocked the user, and protected the talk page, that Wikipedia:Talk pages#Etiquette says that re-adding warnings is not generally good behavior. I think protecting the talk page and blocking the user was out of line and therefore support unprotecting the talk page. Powers 15:04, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Portugal national football team (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Since the controversial victory for Portugal's national football team over England two days ago their page has seen repeated vandalism. Many editors have done a superb job reverting the asinine edits by disgruntled english fans yet the vandalism continues unabated. The two principal players involved (wayne rooney and Christiano Ronaldo) already have their pages semi protected for what I see as being less vandalism - can we please semi protect the page for the Portugal national football team until the animosity dies down. Adam777 22:39, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Edits restricted.Voice-of-All 03:51, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Harry Magdoff and espionage (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Page protected for one month. No discussion of issues on talk page. Calwatch 07:40, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Un-protected. Its been protected for long enough. Hopefully things have calmed down since then. Voice-of-All 07:55, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Arabs of Khuzestan (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Discussion is nonexistent. Page has been protected for almost four months (!) The parties either need to be moving towards mediation, or the article needs to be opened up to see what happens before it's frozen again. Calwatch 07:38, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Complied; I've changed it to semiprotected. Lectonar 07:41, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

User:Onikage725 (edit | [[Talk:User:Onikage725|talk]] | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Page is being repeatedly vandalised by user with multiple sock puppets and an apparent vendetta. Onikage725 20:28, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Semi-protected, though there is not really enough for vandalism it is a user page. Voice-of-All 07:52, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

J._Philippe_Rushton (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Any edit wars ocurring seem to have been cooled. Unprotecting the page would make things easier.--Nectar 20:13, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

The issues that started the revert war have not yet been resolved and the edits also appear to be in good faith. It is also too soon to assume that the editors have just left for good, so the page is better left protected for now. Voice-of-All 00:53, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

User:Tobias Conradi (edit | [[Talk:User:Tobias Conradi|talk]] | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

was semi-protected with the comment "Protected User:Tobias Conradi: IP sockpuppetry" [2]

this violates WP:SPP#When_to_use_semi-protection which requieres vandalism. But there was no vandalism ( WP:VANDAL ) on this page. Hauke 17:56, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Auh...no.Voice-of-All 23:33, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

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

Semi-protection requested for this banned-user page due to persistent vandalism by IP 4.248.245.172. ... discospinster _talk 23:27, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Already protected by User:Can't sleep, clown will eat me.Voice-of-All 03:53, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

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

Requesting semi-protection, for fear that General Tojo sockpuppets will attack this page. --Sunholm(talk) 21:57, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Please read WP:SEMI or the above header of this page.Voice-of-All 03:43, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

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

Request semi-protection. Has always been a target of vandalism (usually either something like "FURRIES ARE FAGGOTS" blanking, copies of the Encyclopedia Dramatica article, or personal attacks against contributors like this). Such vandalism comes from IP address users or users created specifically for the purpose of trolling this and other pages on the topic. Over the last few months "the fursecution vandal" has haunted this and related articles. Administrators block them, but they just keep getting a new IP and making new accounts, often coming back several times in one day. I think semi-protection is a good response to this, because they hit furry fandom first, and if they can't get at that one then they are unlikely to bother with the rest. While constructive additions to the article do come from unregistered users, they are rare, and are usually from people who are already long-term users (so creating an account is not going to be a significant impediment to them). GreenReaper 18:04, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

There is not enough recent activity to justify protection at this time. Just watchlist and revert any vandalism. The reason being that Tawkerbot2 is picking most of this stuff up.Voice-of-All 03:42, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

User talk:195.8.171.130 (edit | user page | history | links | watch | logs)

Reducing to Semi-protection because the currently settings blocked the issurance of warnings. Also, the page was only vandalized by IP only. --WinHunter ^(talk) 09:57, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Done.Voice-of-All 03:40, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

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

Requesting semi protection for this article. It is being vandalized by the same persons with different IP addresses.Mythologia 07:40, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Semi-protected due to heavy vandalism. Voice-of-All 03:39, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Grand Theft Auto IV (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Requesting semi protection for this article. It is being vandalized by the same persons everyday several times aday. Seeing as it is a game not released, having a semi protection won't dither it's growth in any way, but might discourage sockpuppets and vandals from making changes that are undesirable. Havok (T/C/c) 05:30, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

There is not enough recent activity to justify protection at this time. Just watchlist and revert any vandalism. Voice-of-All 03:37, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Andorra the band (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Requesting Full Protection, since the current tag placement is useless without full protection. Yanksox 05:13, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Its a deleted page now.Voice-of-All 03:36, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

But it's not protected - I thought any page with {{deletedpage}} is meant to be fully protected? (and I think that's what Yanksox was getting at) :) nice work clearing this backlog btw --james _{// bornhj (talk)} 03:45, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, I meant to clarify on that. The page can still be edited despite it's being a deleted page. Yanksox 03:57, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Protected.Voice-of-All 04:05, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

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

Requesting semi protection for this article. This article is edited many times a day with links to commerical sites, non-offical spam sites relating to the article, and numerous acts of general vandalism. This request is in response to activity on the talk page of the article. -glasnt^<3 04:08, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Semi-protected due to heavy vandalism. Voice-of-All 03:36, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

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

Requesting semi protection for a few days whil I am away. An AOL vandal has taken exception to my reverting spam on other peoples userpages and has taken it upon themselves to repeatedly hit my page. Rather than blocking lots of useful users, I am requesting semiprotection of a page that should only be edited by me anyway. Viridae^Talk 03:43, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Edits restricted.Voice-of-All 03:34, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Vanguard News Network (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Requesting semi-protection; Various IPs have been replacing the Vanguard News Network article with a blatantly POV and self-promotional diatribe highly favorable to Vanguard News Network. The vandal appears to select a new IP for nearly every edit, and the vandalized version is often retained for hours before being reverted. John254 03:24, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

There is not enough recent activity to justify protection at this time. Just watchlist and revert any vandalism. Voice-of-All 03:32, 4 July 2006 (UTC)