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 protection increases at the BOTTOM of this section. If you cannot find your request, check the archive of requests or, failing that, the page history. Only recently answered requests are still listed here.
Reason: Since the returnal of semi protection (from extended protection), the vandalism from autoconfirmed accounts [just came back].
At the moment, there was only one day of vandalism since removal of extended protection but due to the usage of the word "Sigma" in popular culture, this page could be a victim of targetted vandalism in a long run. 79.191.87.5 (talk) 09:08, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
Declined Only one series of vandal edits, from an account who vandalized a lot of other things. You can't use protection to stop this kind of person, as they will always crop up somewhere. Logic like At the moment, there was only one day of vandalism since removal of extended protection but due to the usage of the word "Sigma" in popular culture, this page could be a victim of targetted vandalism in a long run.
is verboten per WP:NOPREEMPT. * Pppery * it has begun... 00:38, 17 May 2025 (UTC)
- Rasht (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Siahkal County (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Astara, Iran (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Galeshi (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Caspidarya is back again. As seen in the current SPI and archive, they usually farm edits to edit protected articles, so would be appreciated if this could be made more difficult for them to do. HistoryofIran (talk) 09:34, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Ymblanter (talk) 01:47, 17 May 2025 (UTC)
- Automated comment: One or more pages in this request appear to already be protected. Please confirm.—cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online 01:59, 17 May 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing. Kajmer05 (talk) 09:52, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
Indefinite extended confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement – Relevant to WP:ARBPIA, should be protected per those arbitration decisions. Thanks!. Smallangryplanet (talk) 09:57, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Vandalism 185.84.70.137 (talk) 10:25, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
- Declined – Warn the user appropriately then report them to AIV or ANI if they continue. The IP is now stale for blocking and doesn't have a long history of disruption, so I won't do so. Sdrqaz (talk) 00:46, 17 May 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Recent increase in vandalism. Entranced98 (talk) 11:06, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
User(s) blocked: 101.190.140.0/22 (talk · contribs). Sdrqaz (talk) 00:46, 17 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: High level of IP vandalism. Woxic1589 (talk) 11:17, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP hopper has been vandalizing the page since yesterday. CycloneYoris talk! 11:56, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
Extended confirmed protection: Persistent disruptive editing. Gommeh ➡️ Talk to me 12:39, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
- I would appreciate if these could get extended protection as well [1] [2] [3] thanks to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Caspidarya. HistoryofIran (talk) 14:15, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: High level of IP vandalism, this kind of article needs at least - Pending changes protection. Dasomm (talk) 13:44, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent addition of unsourced or poorly sourced content. ZergTwo (talk) 13:57, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Edit warring over whose opinions should and should not be in it. In fact, borderline edit waring in general since it began. Slatersteven (talk) 14:11, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
- There's also a relevant ANI discussion adjacent to this - Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#User:Ecrusized_and_unilateral_changes
- In that discussion, one proposal other than full page protection was to have "enforced BRD" similar to 2025_Pahalgam_attack Soni (talk) 17:18, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. --Another Believer (Talk) 14:13, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
Indefinite pending changes protection: Persistent vandalism. RaschenTechner (talk) 15:35, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
- Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Once every half year is not persistent enough, not even for pending changes. Sdrqaz (talk) 00:46, 17 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Since network do extensive coverage of the Israel-Palestine conflict - it should have indefinite ECP as per Wikipedia:Arbitration/Index/Palestine-Israel articles Cinaroot (talk) 15:37, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing and edit warring by IPs. Red Shogun412 (talk) 15:45, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
Indefinite extended-confirmed protection: Contentious topic restriction. per ARBPIA. Freedoxm (talk · contribs) 16:21, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
Temporary pending changes: Persistent disruptive editing – an IP user disrupt this page few days ago, and few weeks ago as well, temporary protection will be good. Drcarrot.phd (talk) 16:30, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Persistent disruptive editing by user Loaiza3 and an ever-growing list of IP sockpuppets. I recommend Extended Confirmed protection. Temporary protection did not work. The user resumed soon after the page was unprotected. (A sockpuppet investigation was ended because of the temporary protection; don't know if that would have helped anyway.) The article does need improvement, but this user is simply disruptive and uninterested in policy or education, often breaking things, adding Spanish instead of English, and other confused activities in rapid-fire bursts of editing. Jōkepedia (talk) 17:29, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Two IP editors have made disruptive/promotional edits in the past 24 hours. ForsythiaJo (talk) 18:19, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Also high-risk page RaschenTechner (talk) 20:18, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
- Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Nothing in a week. Sdrqaz (talk) 00:46, 17 May 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Page is repeatedly having large amounts of content blanked. Muirjohnnyes (talk) 20:36, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Addition of non-notable people to staff lists. Mvcg66b3r (talk) 20:45, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
Temporary extended confirmed protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Sockpuppets are bypassing the semi protection. Isla🏳️⚧ 20:51, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
Temporary extended confirmed protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Sockpuppets are bypassing the semi protection. Isla🏳️⚧ 20:53, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Frequent recent vandalism - well after recent protection expired, so may need to go for a month or longer. Departure– (talk) 20:57, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP vandalism. Trailblazer101 (talk) 21:03, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Can you please restore protection for Minneapolis indefinitely? Thank you very much for the long-term protection that was removed today. I believe the level was "require extended confirmed access". Disruptions started before the George Floyd protests in 2020, and the article has a prolific sockpuppet (more than 100 times). -SusanLesch (talk) 22:53, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
- Declined – Pages are not protected preemptively. Let's see if vandalism recurs before resuming protection. That's why it was time-limited before. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 23:22, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection (2 weeks): High level of IP vandalism since Briatore received a notable job promotion [4], [5], [6], [7], [8]. Namelessposter (talk) 23:41, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent addition of unsourced or poorly sourced content – IP edit wars over release date. wizzito | say hello! 23:59, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Consistent removal of the same content by different IPs. PersusjCP (talk) 02:35, 17 May 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Consistent removal of the same content by different IPs. PersusjCP (talk) 02:35, 17 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Persistent vandalism. Deadman137 (talk) 02:39, 17 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: High level of disruptive editing, IP and non IP. I would suggest semi protection for 18 Months.Servite et contribuere (talk) 02:43, 17 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Vandalism from newly registered users and IPs 2A00:FBC:EEDB:3685:CE0:66BB:63FD:711C (talk) 02:59, 17 May 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – IP edit warring. Trailblazer101 (talk) 03:11, 17 May 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.
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Current requests for edits to a protected page
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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
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- 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.
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ADD Lindsley Allen and Joie Shettler (Original and founding members of The Pussycat Dolls I have many links, people and photos as reference.)
1995–2002: Beginnings as burlesque dance troupe Antin began exploring the idea of a modern burlesque troupe during 1990 with Carla Kama, Lindsley Allen, Joie Shettler and Christina Applegate as performers. LindsleyAllen (talk) 19:53, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
Not done This request has already been made on the talk page of the article in question. --Kinu t/c 01:53, 17 May 2025 (UTC)
Handled requests
A historical archive of previous protection requests can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive.