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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    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.


    Juan Pablo Duarte

    Extended confirmed protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Edits from apparent sockpuppets have continued despite semi protection. TornadoLGS (talk) 03:26, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Extended confirmed protected Ymblanter (talk) 12:34, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Dominican Restoration War

    Extended confirmed protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Socks now circumventing semi-protection. TornadoLGS (talk) 03:35, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    2024 New Brunswick general election

    Reason: Repeated IP edits treating website placeholder text as meaningful announcements. Another editor's warning on IP's Talk page was ignored repeatedly. G. Timothy Walton (talk) 04:39, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Mohammad Taha (Hamas)

    Reason: WP:ARBPIA Ccole2006 (talk) 04:51, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Imad al-Alami

    Reason: WP:ARBPIA Ccole2006 (talk) 04:53, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Hassan Yousef (Hamas leader)

    Reason: WP:ARBPIA Ccole2006 (talk) 04:53, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    The article has been extended confirmed protected since October 2023. Ymblanter (talk) 05:19, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Already protected. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 09:38, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    1997 World Series

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Belteshazzar. Leijurv (talk) 06:01, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    1924 World Series

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Belteshazzar. Leijurv (talk) 06:01, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Jake Westbrook

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Belteshazzar. Leijurv (talk) 06:02, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Roy Halladay's perfect game

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Belteshazzar. Leijurv (talk) 06:03, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Manny Ramirez

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Belteshazzar. Leijurv (talk) 06:03, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Coimbatore Suburban Railway

    Temporary extended confirmed protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Persistent NPOV and MOS violations by editor who thinks that reverting him means you're part of a conspiracy to destroy the subject transit system. - Sumanuil. (talk to me) 06:16, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Azercell

    Reason: Azercell Telecom LLC is a leading telco company in Azerbaijan serving more than 5 million customers. Therefore, Azercell’s public image is very crucial issue for us as it has direct impact on how our customers, partners and other stakeholders perceive us. In order to protect our image, we constantly publish updates and share important news on public channels including Azercell’s Wikipedia page. Our Wikipedia page is one of the go-to sources of our stakeholders while building partnerships or collaborations. Thus, we frequently update our Wikipedia page with relevant and updated information. However, we recently face some issues where some Wikipedia users make irrelevant edits in our page misleading page visitors to inaccurate or false information. Continuous disruptive edits have compromised the quality and accuracy of the information provided. Since it is our priority to protect our brand as a leading telecommunications company and ensure our Wikipedia page remains a reliable source of information for readers, we request for page protection allowing for more controlled and accurate updates by verified contributors to avoid any attacks or biased edits made by some groups aiming to harm our image. Riyad Aliyev Azercell (talk) 06:39, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

     Comment: I think you have us confused with Facebook. Please read WP:BOSS and WP:NOTSOCIAL. - Sumanuil. (talk to me) 07:01, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    I laughed so hard. Auzandil (talk) 11:42, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Declined Ymblanter (talk) 12:32, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Beowulf

    Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – A series of IPs have since March this year persistently made joke/vandalism edits changing the heading "Form and metre" to "Form and meter" despite the British English setting and a comment beside the heading; Drmies has blocked an IP for this but at least 2 others are continuing the assault. A temporary protection will not be enough given the persistence and multiple IPs, so this mature article (it's a GA) needs permanent protection at this point. Chiswick Chap (talk) 06:58, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Shota Abkhazava

    Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. — GhostInTheMachine talk to me 09:01, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Ymblanter (talk) 09:17, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    अनभुलेवाडी

    Reason: This is my Personal page Pranaykisaningale (talk) 09:21, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined This page does not exist on en.wikipedia. If you mean the page on mr.wikipedia, there is nothing we can do for that. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 09:32, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Leonard Cheshire

    Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – IP-hopper having an issue with the word "softly". The Banner talk 09:29, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    DSB Class MF

    Reason: Persistent disruptive editing by multiple IPs Tammbecktalk 11:06, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Frederik X

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Under attack from rotating IP for the last few days. Celia Homeford (talk) 11:37, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Montana Jordan

    Reason: Repeated IP attempts to add name of infant child to the page Qflib (talk) 12:21, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Infanticide

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent vandalism by an IP user (using different IP addresses) that fails to engage in discussions or respond to warnings. Gawaon (talk) 12:21, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Irish Civil War

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Looks like school vandalism, so a few hours semi-protection will be enough to spoil the fun. The Banner talk 12:26, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    User(s) blocked., ping me if they continue from a different IP, I will protect then. Ymblanter (talk) 12:31, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Gabriel Martinelli

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Idiosincrático (talk) 13:16, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Johann van Beethoven

    Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent & ongoing sockpuppetry/vandalism from IPs & named accounts regarding Johann van Beethoven birthdate. Cited sources only state a circa year, not the unsourced November date that various accounts keep on adding to this article - see this and this etc. Shearonink (talk) 13:29, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Gua sha

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Dynamic IP editor POV-pushing/deleting sourced content. Alexbrn (talk) 18:36, 14 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    • Automated comment: A request for protection/unprotection for one or more pages in this request was recently made, and was denied at some point within the last 8 days.—cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online 18:40, 14 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    Semi-protected for a period of 2 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Dlohcierekim (talk) 18:45, 14 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    Note: warned user Dlohcierekim (talk) 18:45, 14 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    Effeminacy

    Temporary full protection: Persistent poorly explained changes without discussion. Should be discussed. Request about 36 hour lock. Robert McClenon (talk) 20:46, 14 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 36 hours, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Dlohcierekim (talk) 21:27, 14 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    Note: I warned the edit warrior, who is ripe for a block but was not waned Dlohcierekim (talk) 21:27, 14 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    Jay Rock

    Semi-protection: Repeated attempts to add that the artist is Grammy award winning to the first sentence of the article by IP editors. This is not done per WP: PUFF. You'll notice articles like Beyonce do not lead with "Grammy award winning". StaticVapor message me! 21:11, 14 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    @STATicVapor: Though that may be the case, I think it'd be appropriate to mention the Grammy somewhere in the lead (like Beyonce's article). I personally don't see a need to protect the page for this reason, just a need to mention the Grammy somewhere in the lead (but not the first sentence). Airplaneman ✈ 21:17, 14 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    Talk:Mark Dice

    Extended confirmed as SP has not stopped the disruption. Dlohcierekim (talk) 22:01, 14 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    I'm involved here, but I was also about to come and request this as a WP:AC/DS under either AP2, PS, or BLP (BLP probably fits best, imo, but any works.) He's continuing his Twitter campaign, has a 5 minute YouTube video, and now the Washington Times is all but advertising it as well. Quite frankly, based on sheer numbers, we can't deal with this. We normally don't like protecting talk pages, but I think under discretionary sanctions it would be within an uninvolved admins remit. TonyBallioni (talk) 01:24, 15 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    Done Enigmamsg 04:31, 15 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    Palestine Solidarity Movement

    Indefinite long-term extended protection: 30/500, WP:ARBPIA enforcement. 2607:FEA8:A75F:F823:60A8:58E5:34BD:8901 (talk) 22:16, 14 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    Extended confirmed protected indefinitely. Samsara 02:22, 15 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    Greater Israel

    Indefinite long-term extended protection: Arbitration enforcement – This article that is related to Arab–Israeli conflict. ---2607:FEA8:A75F:F823:60A8:58E5:34BD:8901 (talk) 22:23, 14 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    Note: Since I've made an edit, it's best that someone else assesses this. Samsara 02:49, 15 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    Columbia University

    Permanent semi-protection: Persistent Edit warring and vandalism. This level-5 vital article is semi protected almost every week for a period of 1 week, twice in January for vandalism and 3RR. Due to the name recognition, it is subject to consistent vandalism from trolls and competing institutions. Disputed contents are added and warred regularly. It's sister college's page is already locked due to vandalism so I am requesting permanent semi-protection as it is already classified as a good article. (Nochorus (talk) 23:55, 14 February 2019 (UTC))[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Dlohcierekim (talk) 00:03, 15 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    Pending-changes protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Dlohcierekim (talk) 00:03, 15 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    Note: Someone look it over and see if you agree. Can't go with indef. Not yet. Dlohcierekim (talk) 00:03, 15 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    I think the solution here is okay but maybe increasing the semi-protection till April will be helpful. There seems to be a lot of vandalism from IPs and users getting banned for wikipuffery. But they rise up during admission seasons anyway. I do think semi-pretoection till April is better as most rejected candidates will stop caring around then. And people who don’t care about facts or reasoing will find ways to get around it anyway and WP community can take care of it then.(TF Munat (talk) 03:54, 15 February 2019 (UTC))[reply]
    Done Dlohcierekim (talk) 03:56, 15 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant

    Indefinite extended confirmed: Arbitration enforcement. Banana19208 (talk) 01:10, 15 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined not part of the conflict reasonably construed. TonyBallioni (talk) 01:49, 15 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    Oru Adaar Love

    Temporary semi-protection: Film has just been released and has been subject to a lot of promo edits and fancruft in the past. That rubbish has started again. I guess a week or so of semi would do it. Sitush (talk) 04:44, 15 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected Dlohcierekim (talk) 04:46, 15 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    List of programs broadcast by Jeepney TV

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing. LG-Gunther :  Talk  05:16, 15 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    Current requests for reduction in protection level

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    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.

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    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.
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    Daniel Brandt

    While page protection, by policy, is to used in a reactive measure and to stop disruption that's currently in progress and occurring at a rate that justifies its application, there are rare situations and circumstances where applying page protection outside of this realm is legitimate, justifiable, and beneficial to the project given the circumstances involved. Given this discussion and the arguments and input given as a whole, there's an overwhelming consensus by the participants that the semi protection applied to the article by WJBScribe was for reasons that fell into one of those rare circumstances where its use outside the realm of being reactionary was appropriate and warranted, and that the semi protection currently applied to the article should not be removed. Hence, I am closing this discussion and declining the request for unprotection and due to the consensus reached. ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 05:20, 15 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

    Unprotection: As of the time of this posting,

    • The article receives about 22 daily views
    • The article is watched by 250 editors

    Samsara 15:51, 12 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    Can of worms time. Unless we are seeing legitimate edit requests, I'm disinclined. Too much history and disruption to take the risk. Further thoughts appreciated. Dlohcierekim (talk) 17:25, 12 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    I saw the discussion on WJB's talk and while I see Samsara's point, I'm inclined to agree with WJB's protection. Enigmamsg 20:27, 12 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    I still remember the times :)....no unprotection imho. Lectonar (talk) 08:45, 13 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    I do too (I even created the Wikipedia Review article) and yes this should definitely remain semi protected. Fish+Karate 10:36, 13 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    A note that if anyone is looking for the old article the deleted history is at Daniel Brandt (activist). Fish+Karate 10:41, 13 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    There is no vandalism on article or in its history so their should not be protection Abote2 (talk) 11:28, 13 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    @Abote2: That is because the subject of the article is not what led to the protection in the first place...have a look at the permalinks provided above. Lectonar (talk) 11:39, 13 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    The musician himself isn't actually the problem — but unfortunately he happens to share the same name as somebody else who comes trailing an extremely problematic history, and certain people are very likely to try to hijack this article given half of one per cent of a chance to try. Bearcat (talk) 23:15, 13 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    Seriously. The amount of disruption over the former subject is staggering. AfD's, ArbCom, admin's driven off Wikipedia. Probably the most damaging series of events in Wikipedia's history. Most of its been hidden. But if you search in the Wikipedia namespace for this name, you'll find enough to curl your hair. And yes, that legacy is the past disruption that justifies create protecting that page for this long and semi protecting that page now. That's why so many people still watch that page more than a decade later. Dlohcierekim (talk) 23:24, 13 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    We have no evidence that this will continue. And if we keep it at semi, we'll likely never know and may be keeping an innocuous article under an iron dome. With PC1, at least we'll know whether there is a problem. Samsara 02:41, 14 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    I wish we had something like a ping|admin.... let's hear some more opinions, folks. Lectonar (talk) 08:04, 14 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    Just post a notice about this discussion on the article talk page. That would be a place to start. And if there are a gazillion watchers, we should have a good discussion-- or crickets. Dlohcierekim (talk) 14:59, 14 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    In so far as the possibility of disruption goes, there has already been a checkuser block because of a comment on the talk page. This article is a powder keg. Having said that, I have placed notice of this discussion here. Dlohcierekim (talk) 15:06, 14 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    @TonyBallioni and Risker: Or did I just strike a match? Dlohcierekim (talk) 15:09, 14 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    • Noting with disappointment that @Samsara: opened this discussion seeking to overturn my protection of the article without (a) notifying me by ping or on my talkpage and (b) without setting out the full explanation I had given for the protection on my talkpage. The reasons given in this unprotection request fail to mention the problematic history of this page and could have had an unfortunate result if those responding to it had been newer users who were not been aware of that history. For ease of reference, I reproduce the central part my explanation for the protection (thank you @Dlohcierekim: for linking to the discussion):
      "I'm familiar with the general policy against pre-emptive protection, but I don't agree that this is pre-emptive. An article of this name has been the subject of sustained problematic editing and the protection is justified on that basis. The move protection is in effect just a continuation of my salting of the page post deletion, designed to prevent recreation of the article about the former subject. The semi protection is intended to reduce the chance casual reinsertion of material about the former subject, or a wholesale rewriting of the article. The protection is not speculative, it reflects my assessment of the particular risks posed by this article in the context of its wider history. In response to your point, leaving the page unprotected has already proved infeasible. The fact that the page history of problematic editing has been deleted, moved and oversighted does not mean that it should be disregarded when considering appropriate steps to protect the subjects of BLPs (and/or, for that matter, Wikipedians)."
      I stand by the protection, especially in light of the incident on the talkpage, and believe it would be reckless to unprotect. WJBscribe (talk) 15:55, 14 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
      • Do you acknowledge that the more discussion this takes, the worse it's likely to get, and that if you had simply never protected the article, it might still happily be sitting there, just as it did for the first 37 hours? Samsara 16:03, 14 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
        • I don't. The thing to do was to not create this unnecessary drama. To just accept the reasons given and move on. In fact, I think the thing to do now is to leave it be. Dlohcierekim (talk) 16:09, 14 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
          • That should have been the first (non-)move - to leave it be. Samsara 16:18, 14 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
        • Despite all that, the emerging consensus seems to be to let the protection stay. Lectonar (talk) 16:20, 14 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
          • No point changing it now that it's received so much attention. Would have been great if this business could have been conducted quietly. Samsara 16:29, 14 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
            • Indeed, you could have emailed me instead of raising the issue on my talkpage. And you could have kept the discussion on my talkpage instead of raising it here on a prominent noticeboard. Or indeed you could have just respected my exercise of discretion and not concerned yourself unduly with this article at all... WJBscribe (talk) 16:35, 14 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
              • I'll leave it to others to draw their conclusions about how successful our communication was, and whether emailing you instead could have resulted in a different outcome, given the evidence on your talk page. As for concerning themselves unduly... did you? Are you? Samsara 17:28, 14 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

    Template talk:WikiProject Republic of Macedonia

    Unprotection: This is Admin only which is getting in the way of correcting the page per the decision to move the parent page to North Macadonia (see that talkpage). Legacypac (talk) 22:19, 14 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    • Automated comment: One or more pages in this request appear to have already been unprotected. Please confirm.—cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online 22:26, 14 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    Already done. The page has never been protected. — JJMC89 (T·C) 05:07, 15 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    Languages of the Republic of Macedonia

    Unprotection: Per [1] and the fact the main page for the topic was moved to North Macadonia this is inappropriately protected so only admins can edit or move it. Legacypac (talk) 23:03, 14 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    Wait for BrownHairedGirl to respond. — JJMC89 (T·C) 05:10, 15 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    Christian Distefano

    Unprotection: Create a redirect for Paw Patrol actor. Banana19208 (talk) 01:08, 15 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined Banana19208 is now blocked. — JJMC89 (T·C) 05:13, 15 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

    Current requests for edits to a protected page

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    • 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.
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    Electric current

    Change "An electric current is a flow of charged particles,[1][2][3] such as electrons or ions, moving through an electrical conductor or space." to "An electric current is the flow of a charge around an electrical conductor or through space." Reason: The DRIFT section lower down has it right. Up here, it's very wrong. Wiki should not promote wrongness or contradict itself. Please see here: "Drift speed The mobile charged particles within a conductor move constantly in random directions, like the particles of a gas. (More accurately, a Fermi gas.) To create a net flow of charge, the particles must also move together with an average drift rate. Electrons are the charge carriers in most metals and they follow an erratic path, bouncing from atom to atom, but generally drifting in the opposite direction of the electric field. The speed they drift at can be calculated from the equation: v = I n A Q {\displaystyle v={\frac {I}{nAQ}}} where v {\displaystyle v} is the drift velocity I {\displaystyle I} is the electric current n {\displaystyle n} is number of charged particles per unit volume (or charge carrier density) A {\displaystyle A} is the cross-sectional area of the conductor Q {\displaystyle Q} is the charge on each particle. Typically, electric charges in solids flow slowly. For example, in a copper wire of cross-section 0.5 mm2, carrying a current of 5 A, the drift velocity of the electrons is on the order of a millimetre per second. To take a different example, in the near-vacuum inside a cathode-ray tube, the electrons travel in near-straight lines at about a tenth of the speed of light. Any accelerating electric charge, and therefore any changing electric current, gives rise to an electromagnetic wave that propagates at very high speed outside the surface of the conductor. This speed is usually a significant fraction of the speed of light, as can be deduced from Maxwell's equations, and is therefore many times faster than the drift velocity of the electrons. For example, in AC power lines, the waves of electromagnetic energy propagate through the space between the wires, moving from a source to a distant load, even though the electrons in the wires only move back and forth over a tiny distance. The ratio of the speed of the electromagnetic wave to the speed of light in free space is called the velocity factor, and depends on the electromagnetic properties of the conductor and the insulating materials surrounding it, and on their shape and size." 2003:E3:EF1C:62AA:25FC:EBCA:B8B7:B6EE (talk) 08:33, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Create a level 3 header with a link to the article in question, then a {{Pagelinks}} template and then the reason. It looks like this: Example (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) your request here. ~~~~

    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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