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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 remove obvious vandalism.


    Request addition of protection to a page, or increasing the current protection level

    Request removal of protection from a page, or reducing the current protection level

    Request a specific edit be made to a protected page
    Please add an edit request to the talk page of the protected page before adding an edit request here


    Current requests for increase in protection level

    Place requests for protection increases at the BOTTOM of this section. If you cannot find your request, check the archive of requests or the page history. Only recently answered requests are still listed here.

    High School Musical

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. (CC) Tbhotch™ 18:43, 19 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined. No IP edits for 30+ hours‎. Pending changes protection seem to be working. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 03:29, 21 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    List of All Elite Wrestling personnel

    Semi-protection: Persistent addition of unsourced or poorly sourced content – Too many anon IPs doing "hit and run" edits with unsourced info which then are quickly reverted. Vjmlhds 19:09, 19 February 2021 (UTC)

    Max Branning

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. – DarkGlow (contribs • talk) 23:46, 19 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Tuesday Group

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – As you can see from 'history', the document originally contained only "conservative liberalism", but it is being modified to "liberal conservatism" by malicious wiki users. However, only "liberalism" is written in the source. --Storm598 (talk) 08:27, 20 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Content dispute. Please use the article's talk page or other forms of dispute resolution. Looks like a content dispute and edit warring to me. And those involved appear to be autoconfirmed so semi-protection would be of no benefit. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 23:46, 20 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    M. S. Golwalkar

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent POV pushing and vandalism. Firestar464 (talk) 08:47, 20 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Milky Way

    Indefinite pending changes protection: Persistent Vandalism. Ahmetlii (talk) 09:12, 20 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

    Indefinite pending changes protection: High level of IP and new user edits which violate content policies (particularly verifiability, NPOV, and NOR). The page has a high number of viewers and an edit containing medical advice could be taken seriously even if only up for a few minutes. The disruptive editing has been occurring at this pace since the seemingly accidental removal of permanent semi-protection in 2016. There has been no pushback on asking for protection for the article since I proposed it on the talk page a bit over a month ago. Sorry if this is too long. --Xurizuri (talk) 09:35, 20 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    List of Indian Nobel laureates

    Semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Disruptive additions by IPs to an FA-List article. Gotitbro (talk) 11:02, 20 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Kadir Mısıroğlu

    Temporary semi-protection: Content Dispute/Edit Warring. too many edit warring and disruptive edits since months and even years. please consider a high protection time. Ahmetlii (talk) 11:59, 20 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Palestinian enclaves

    Indefinite extended confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement – per Wikipedia:ARBPIA3. 🌸 1.Ayana 🌸 (talk) 12:19, 20 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Raja Ravi Varma

    Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. JRDkg (talk) 13:29, 20 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    2020–21 Premier League

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Flix11 (talk) 14:26, 20 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Süper Lig

    Indefinite Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism. Fatihoztrk950 (talk) 14:31, 20 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Music (2021 film)

    Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism. Page is coming off a one-week lockdown and already subject to unsourced or biased edits by IPs. TropicAces (talk) 14:43, 20 February 2021 (UTC)tropicAces[reply]

    • As an editor following this article, I find this claim of a "high level of IP vandalism" untrue. Since it got unprotected, IP editing has been extremely light. The only content that had to be removed was TropicAces's removal of reliably-sourced content here which was added by an IP editor who has made productive edits and has been actively participating in discussions on the talk page. Content disputes should be worked out without the need for such protections. I would recommend for diffs to be provided to support the claim behind the request. Erik (talk | contrib) (ping me) 16:18, 20 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Steffy Forrester

    Temporary extended confirmed protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Persistent sock-hopping anonymous editor with long-term history of abuse. livelikemusic (TALK!) 15:14, 20 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Rick Forrester

    Temporary extended confirmed protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Persistent sock-hopping anonymous editor with long-term history of abuse. See page history for further proof. livelikemusic (TALK!) 15:15, 20 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Phoebe Forrester

    Temporary extended confirmed protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Persistent sock-hopping anonymous editor with long-term history of abuse. See page history for further proof. livelikemusic (TALK!) 15:16, 20 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Note: Sockpuppeters as you complained actually are IPv6 IP users. See in the edit history. 110.137.166.20 (talk) 16:16, 20 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Licence to Kill

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – The return of a long-term contentious editor who edits against consensus and IP-hops when confronted or blocked. In the past they've also targetted other articles, but not as yet this time round. Chaheel Riens (talk) 16:12, 20 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    French colonization of Texas

    Temporary pending changes: Persistent disruptive editing – Some vandalism but mostly edits (some unreverted) of disruptively changing dates or facts, and adding information to a WP:FA that is either unsourced or unencyclopedic. Wretchskull (talk) 16:44, 20 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Rahul Vaidya

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. CLCStudent (talk) 18:29, 20 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Ali Sadpara

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Surge of disruptive editing by random IP users, requesting temporary semi-protection. ➤ Zᴇᴇx.ʀɪᴄᴇ ✪ (ᴛᴀʟᴋ) 18:37, 20 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Template:Three brand

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – User 151.24.81.123 keeps adding outdated information and changing links. CillBill (talk) 19:15, 20 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Kyle Busch

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Numerous IP edits to tables and the infobox that either break accepted consensus or the formatting it; every edit in the past week has been a reverted IP edit. Zappa⚡Matic 21:10, 20 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 03:53, 21 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Hobby Lobby

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP editor recently off a block is making disruptive changes to the Hobby Lobby article. Bahooka (talk) 21:13, 20 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Arsenal F.C.

    Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – One particular editor feels the need to impose his opinions over a certain section and delete it on his own, despite previous discussions agreeing to its inclusion in the article. Benjamin112 (talk) 21:33, 20 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    2019–20 Hong Kong protests

    Temporary semi-protection: Massive controversial changes without consensus on the talk page. Editors abusing multiple accounts and IPs to avoid warnings on edit warring. CentreLeftRight ✉ 22:56, 20 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Keith Gill (investor)

    Temporary extended-confirmed protection: Frequent unconstructive edits and BLP violations even at the current level of protection. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 23:09, 20 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined. I’m not seeing a need here and there would be likely collateral damage as one or several users who are making improvements would be affected by the requested protection. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 03:46, 21 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Ottawa Senators

    Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent Vandalism. NoahDavid771 (talk) 00:03, 21 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    GMA Network regional TV station/program articles

    Temporary semi-protection: An IP hopping vandal adds unsourced (possible hoax) information on the mentioned articles for almost a month. They change their IP addresses every day. Some of these articles were already semi-protected before but after the protection expired, the vandal resumed their activity. Kindly consider a one month protection on these articles. -WayKurat (talk) 02:26, 21 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Note: The problematic editor appears to be a IPv6 (Special:Contributions/2001:4450:83CD:7600::/64) that has been stable since October. I count 420+ edits in their contributions log that have been reverted out of a total of 570+ in that time, a pretty good sign of disruptive editing. There is one short block on their log; another of two weeks will hopefully improve the situation. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 03:14, 21 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    President of Myanmar

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Vandalism by IPs and new editors resumed immediately after protection expired. ― Tartan357 Talk 02:28, 21 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of two weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 02:37, 21 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Lewis

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Andrew nyr (talk, contribs) 04:09, 21 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    2024 United States presidential election

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent addition of unsourced or poorly sourced content – Persistent addition of unreferenced/poorly referenced content by IPs and new editors. ― Tartan357 Talk 04:19, 21 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Derrick Lewis (fighter)

    Temporary protection: Persistent vandalism. Cassiopeia(talk) 04:28, 21 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Chicago_XXXVI:_Now

    Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing and sockpuppetry over the last 2 plus years by user JoshuaArcilla2 and various IP addresses. User repeatedly adding the same non-notable trivia into article. AbleGus (talk) 04:32, 21 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Scooter Braun

    Indefinite semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism. He has an entire team of people adding PR crap into page. Clearly COI editors. I would suggest extended protection due to his PR team ruining the page with fluff and garbage. They delete any mention of Taylor Swift feud even though talk page discussion has determined that it's important to include in the page. Also many Taylor Swift fans have disrupted page in the past. Deltagammaz (talk) 04:39, 21 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Current requests for reduction in protection level

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    Before posting a request for unprotection, please discuss it with the protecting administrator first. You can create a request below only if you receive no response from them.

    To find out which administrator protected the page, go to the page's edit history and click on the "View logs for this page" link (located underneath the page's title). The protecting administrator is listed in the protection log entry, next to the words "protected", "changed protection level", or "configured pending changes". If there are a large number of log entries on the page, use the drop-down menu near the top of the page and select "Protection log" or "Pending changes log" to filter the logs accordingly.

    DO NOT request a reduction in protection if...

    • ...you are being prevented from editing the page. A desire to change content is not a valid reason for unprotection. Instead:
      • If you can edit the article's talk page, use the WP:Edit Request Wizard to propose a change on the article's talk page. Include an explanation of the exact content that you want to change, and what the content will be afterward.
      • If the article's talk page is protected, you may propose a change at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Edit.
    • ...your reasoning for reducing protection is that the article has not been vandalized. That simply means the protection is working as intended.
    • ...your reasoning for reducing protection is basically "a long time has passed" without supporting details.
    • ...you haven't contacted the protecting administrator.

    You may request a protection reduction below if...

    • ...you want to change the protection level of a template or module from full protection to template protection. You may add the request to this page without having to discuss it with the protecting administrator first.
    • ...you need to remove creation protection from a location where no page exists (redlinked pages) after a draft version of the intended article is prepared beforehand and ready to be published.
    • ...you are proposing a trial reduction in protection for a page that has been protected for several years, provided the proposal is supported by evidence such as talk page activity, page views, page traffic, number of watchers, frequency of edit requests, and prior history of vandalism.
    • ...the protecting administrator is inactive or has not responded to you in several days.

    If you cannot locate your request, make sure to check the request archives to see if it's been moved there. Only requests that have been recently answered will still be listed here.

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    Before posting a request for unprotection, please discuss it with the protecting administrator first. You can create a request below only if you receive no response from them.

    To find out which administrator protected the page, go to the page's edit history and click on the "View logs for this page" link (located underneath the page's title). The protecting administrator is listed in the protection log entry, next to the words "protected", "changed protection level", or "configured pending changes". If there are a large number of log entries on the page, use the drop-down menu near the top of the page and select "Protection log" or "Pending changes log" to filter the logs accordingly.

    DO NOT request a reduction in protection if...

    • ...you are being prevented from editing the page. A desire to change content is not a valid reason for unprotection. Instead:
      • If you can edit the article's talk page, use the WP:Edit Request Wizard to propose a change on the article's talk page. Include an explanation of the exact content that you want to change, and what the content will be afterward.
      • If the article's talk page is protected, you may propose a change at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Edit.
    • ...your reasoning for reducing protection is that the article has not been vandalized. That simply means the protection is working as intended.
    • ...your reasoning for reducing protection is basically "a long time has passed" without supporting details.
    • ...you haven't contacted the protecting administrator.

    You may request a protection reduction below if...

    • ...you want to change the protection level of a template or module from full protection to template protection. You may add the request to this page without having to discuss it with the protecting administrator first.
    • ...you need to remove creation protection from a location where no page exists (redlinked pages) after a draft version of the intended article is prepared beforehand and ready to be published.
    • ...you are proposing a trial reduction in protection for a page that has been protected for several years, provided the proposal is supported by evidence such as talk page activity, page views, page traffic, number of watchers, frequency of edit requests, and prior history of vandalism.
    • ...the protecting administrator is inactive or has not responded to you in several days.

    If you cannot locate your request, make sure to check the request archives to see if it's been moved there. Only requests that have been recently answered will still be listed here.

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    Battle For Dream Island

    Reason: The idea that a page cannot be unprotected because the user asking for the protection to be lifted is able to edit the page (as Favonian claimed) is very much inappropriate and not in accordance with Wikipedia:Protection policy hence why i am forced to fill this request once again

    "Pages are protected when there is disruption that cannot be prevented through other means, such as blocks. Wikipedia is built on the principle that anyone can edit, and therefore aims to have as many pages open for public editing as possible so that anyone can add material and correct issues." Trade (talk) 08:33, 4 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Thank you for the tirade, complete with lines of scripture. You seem to have overlooked the fact that the page was create protected, and that disappeared when you created the redirect. Please fulminate elsewhere! Favonian (talk) 08:46, 4 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Current requests for edits to a protected page

    Further information: Wikipedia:Edit requests
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    Requests for specific edits should be made on the talk page of the protected article. You can create an edit request below only if the talk page is also protected, preventing you from adding a request there.

    Otherwise, this is the correct place to use in order to add an edit request if you are unable to add one to the article's talk page. Please see the top of this page for instructions on how to properly add a request.

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    Requests for specific edits should be made on the talk page of the protected article. You can create an edit request below only if the talk page is also protected, preventing you from adding a request there.

    Otherwise, this is the correct place to use in order to add an edit request if you are unable to add one to the article's talk page. Please see the top of this page for instructions on how to properly add a request.

    Further information: Wikipedia:Edit requests


    Zionism

    Remove biased statement "Zionists wanted to create a Jewish state in Palestine with as much land, as many Jews, and as few Palestinian Arabs as possible.", which was written a user Levvich, who has now been banned from Wikipedia due to his disruptions. The statement was designed to demonize Zionism and has no room in an encyclopedia. Jacker1968 (talk) 11:15, 4 November 2025 (UTC) Create a level 3 header with a link to the article in question, then a {{pagelinks}} template and then the reason.[reply]

    Handled requests

    A rolling archive of the last seven days of protection requests can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Rolling archive.

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