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 increase in protection level

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.

Sudarshan News

• Sudarshan News (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent removal of source content by ips, subject being a controversial and propaganda news channel in India, some are trying to remove the controversies. It was prviously being protected for a temporary period but now a indefinite protect is evident. Drat8sub (talk) 02:51, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Very little vandalism, and no evidence of previous protection. MelanieN (talk) 20:44, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Hetton-le-Hole

• Hetton-le-Hole (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Indefinite extended confirmed protection: Persistent disruptive editing – persistent disruptive changing from town to city or village. Atlantic306 (talk) 02:56, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

• Automated comment: This user who requested protection has been blocked.—^{cyberbot I}_{Talk to my owner:Online} 20:01, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Declined The user requesting protection has been given a partial block, just from this article, because of edit warring. Their request for protection appears to be an attempt to win that edit war because the other party is an IP. MelanieN (talk) 20:48, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Hydroxychloroquine

• Hydroxychloroquine (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary full protection and indefinite move protection: edit warring/content dispute amongst extended confirmed users. 180.242.9.91 (talk) 06:32, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Already protected by administrator El C. Applied ECP to the article.  MelanieN (talk) 20:56, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Declined move protection. I see no evidence for any need for this protection. MelanieN (talk) 20:59, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

File:Google Play.png

• File:Google Play.png (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. CLCStudent (talk) 11:58, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected indefinitely. Problems go back years, and the image is non-free so there's not much collaborative editing that can be done to it anyway. — Wug·a·po·des​ 23:42, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Disappearance of Vanessa Guillen

• Disappearance of Vanessa Guillen (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. CLCStudent (talk) 12:11, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Declined – Likely collateral damage as one or several users who are making improvements would be affected by the requested protection. MelanieN (talk) 21:06, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

RNS Institute of Technology

• RNS Institute of Technology (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. CLCStudent (talk) 12:35, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. MelanieN (talk) 21:09, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

United Macedonian Diaspora

• United Macedonian Diaspora (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary extended protection: Other rationale. Persistent copyright violations by an (auto)confirmed account. Given that this was previously part of a content dispute, full protection (or closing the AfD) may be necessary Username⁶⁸⁹² 14:16, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Extended confirmed protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. MelanieN (talk) 22:36, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

MelanieN - thank you for extending temporary protection because every edit I made got deleted within a minute of being posted for no apparent reason. I was the editor who made the edits to the article citing two reports from the Parliament of Australia. Username6892 alleged that my edits infringed on copyright. I checked the Parliament of Australia website and they have a disclaimer that allows anyone to use their materials, which are public, so long as cited back to the Parliament. However, just to make sure, I took the text and paraphrased it as a result of a suggestion from the Help Desk. The paraphrase was deleted again. My personal belief is that this organization has been targeted by several (auto) confirmed accounts and one of these (auto) confirmed accounts submitted a deletion request. This is a classic case of WP:BULLY. Given that I made edits, and added reliable sources as citations, I have been a target, as well as my edits on other articles. This should not be tolerated on Wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Macedonia1913 (talk • contribs) 00:05, 4 July 2020 (UTC)

Ph1LzA

• Ph1LzA (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent Vandalism. 73.213.167.81 (talk) 18:16, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

José Altuve

• José Altuve (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent Vandalism. All edits after previous semi-protection recently expired have been vandalism. 73.213.167.81 (talk) 18:16, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 6 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. — Wug·a·po·des​ 23:30, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Teresa Leger Fernandez

• Teresa Leger Fernandez (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary extended protection: Persistent removal of sourced information from IP and unregistered users. KidAd (talk) 19:32, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Declined – Content dispute. Please use the article's talk page or other forms of dispute resolution. — Wug·a·po·des​ 23:32, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

World Soccer (magazine)

• World Soccer (magazine) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Semi-protection: Every month I am having to check and fix persistent vandalism to this page by IP users especially among Cristiano Ronaldo/Lionel Messi fans trying to change the tables to reflect who they prefer. It looks like the page has been vandalised consistently for over 5 years. I asked for this page to be protected 3 months ago and because I and others fix it, the protection was denied. We're not paid to constantly deal with vandalism so it would be really appreciated if you could just add a simple protection to stop wasting everyone's time please, else I am just going to give up and leave the page to the vandals.Sudiani (talk) 22:52, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of 6 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Too soon for semi, but seems like a good PC candidate. If that doesn't help we can try semi protection next. — Wug·a·po·des​ 23:38, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

List of The Powerpuff Girls episodes

• List of The Powerpuff Girls episodes (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Indefinite extended confirmed protection - This list has a long history of vandalism from editors adding in WP:OR and unreferenced claims to others changing color schemes and altering airdates. Page protection for the list was recently removed and ever since then editors have had to undo contributions. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 22:56, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 year, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. — Wug·a·po·des​ 23:11, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Doria Ragland

• Doria Ragland (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Repeated vandalism. FozzieHey (talk) 23:20, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. — Wug·a·po·des​ 23:39, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Current requests for reduction in protection level

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.

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.

january 20

• January 20 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

The article is simultaneously semi-protected as well as pending protected, both with indefinite deadlines. I thought there should be only one type of edit-protection, if not one indefinite and the other time-based like the page kate Ryan.102.159.242.79 (talk) 20:43, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

• Automated comment: One or more pages in this request appear to already be protected. Please confirm.—^{cyberbot I}_{Talk to my owner:Online} 20:43, 17 May 2024 (UTC)
• Regarding Kate Ryan, I have removed the semi-protection as that was what was intended.
  @Deb: Would you be open to removing the semi-protection here and seeing how it fares under pending-changes? It has been five-and-a-half years since your protection. Sdrqaz (talk) 02:58, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

Susie Boniface

• Susie Boniface (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Unprotection. The page was fully protected on an indefinite basis by User:David Gerard on 11 June. The protecting admin was concerned about off-wiki activity and the fact that the subject had phoned him about it. I cannot see any reason why protection is needed on this article. The original reasons, as given by the protecting admin, are quite vague. If there are any BLP violations (unlikely), I'm sure plenty of editors are watching the article and will quickly revert. I've contacted the protecting admin twice to ask for unprotection. No response has been forthcoming to either request. See here. Arcturus (talk) 17:24, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

I didn't respond because you seemed very keen to quickly unprotect an article on a subject who was actually known to be under outside attack (see BLPN discussion), and yet hadn't proposed whatever edits you were so keen to make. What edits were you so keen to make, and why aren't they on the article talk page? - David Gerard (talk) 18:26, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Not unprotected Well within BLP policy for this to remain full protected until David believes the BLP threats have subsided, and given the nature of the issues I would prefer leaving unprotection to either him or the arbitration committee. @David Gerard: I would suggest making this a discretionary sanction so that other administrators do not have discretion to overturn your protection. Let me know if you need help with this. — Wug·a·po·des​ 23:08, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Current requests for edits to a protected page

Further information: Wikipedia:Edit requests

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.

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.

Further information: Wikipedia:Edit requests

Israel–Hamas war

• Israel–Hamas war (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Change "Since the start of the Israeli operation, more than 35,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed,[86] including over 15,000 children and 10,000 women.[87][88]" to "Since the start of the Israeli operation, nearly 35,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed,[86] including over 7,000 children and nearly 5,000 women.[87][88]." This is based on the data recently revised by the UN, accessible here: https://www.ochaopt.org/content/hostilities-gaza-strip-and-israel-reported-impact-day-215. ConDissenter (talk) 21:21, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Is there another place to request this change? The talk page for Israel-Hamas war is restricted as well. The current source for casualty data is palinfo.com, which describes itself by saying it "does not lay any claim to neutrality for it blatantly sides with the oppressed Palestinian people." https://english.palinfo.com/about-us/. Recognizing that reliable sources do not need to have a neutral POV, why should we use this as a source rather than a less biased source like the United Nations? ConDissenter (talk) 18:28, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

@ConDissenter Please go check Talk:Israel–Hamas war for earlier discussions and to see why your request is unlikely to succeed. FYI, the lower numbers refer not to the killed overall but to the killed who have additionally been identified by name. Besides, all the numbers are sourced to Gaza MoH anyway. — kashmīrī ^TALK 09:45, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply, Kashmiri. I recognize the data is all coming from the same place. (I've tried to access but can't find a reliable site for the Gaza Health Ministry to find the data directly, so I assume the UN is accurately presenting the data.) I agree it hasn't changed the total number killed which is why I didn't suggest a change to that -- beyond fixing the "more than" to "nearly" 35,000. But I don't see any basis for keeping outdated numbers on women and children. The old ratio was 72% and the new ratio was 52%. The talk page suggests we need to wait for more RS, but at this point there are plenty:

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/15/1251265727/un-gaza-death-toll-women-children

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/13/middleeast/death-toll-gaza-fatalities-un-intl-latam/index.html

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/gaza-women-children-death-toll-1.7203167

Is there any way to flag this for the editors of that page, even on the Talk page? ConDissenter (talk) 23:40, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Create a level 3 header with a link to the article in question, then a {{pagelinks}} template and then the reason.

Handled requests

If you are looking for a rolling archive of the last seven days of protection requests, then it can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Rolling archive.