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.
Request protection of a page, or increasing the protection level
Request unprotection of a page, or reducing the protection level
Request a specific edit to a protected page
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Current requests for increase in protection level
Place requests for new or upgrading of article protection, upload protection, or create 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.
Reason: Continued sockpuppetry. See Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/TyMega. HorrorLover555 (talk) 06:57, 16 January 2025 (UTC)
- 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 08:03, 16 January 2025 (UTC)
- The previous request was denied at 03:39 with the following comment: "Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Since PC was imposed there has been one disruptive edit, and that IP has been blocked." At 05:51, the vandal came back with a new VPN IP and made dozens of nonsense edits. PLEASE SEMI-PROTECT THE PAGE. Everything else is a total waste of our time. — Chrisahn (talk) 10:48, 16 January 2025 (UTC)
- Pinging Daniel Quinlan, who added the PC protection. Isabelle Belato 🏳🌈 12:08, 16 January 2025 (UTC)
Reason: There has been an increasing influx of vandalism from unregistered users. I request the implementation of semi-protection for this page. ItsFeL (talk) 15:19, 16 January 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Repeated IP edit warring and parts of the article falling under WP:ARBPIA. ~ IvanScrooge98 (talk) 15:53, 16 January 2025 (UTC)
Reason: High traffic and common amounts of IP vandalism. SleepDeprivedGinger (talk) 16:00, 16 January 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.
Check the archives if you cannot find your request. Only recently answered requests are still listed here.
Reason: The page was protected due to BLP, and is still protected for that reason despite Santos dying in 2022. If the page is to stay protected, the protection reason should be changed. 100.7.34.111 (talk) 16:02, 16 January 2025 (UTC)
Declined as you have not discussed this with the protecting administrator. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 16:12, 16 January 2025 (UTC)
Reason: The page was protected due to BLP, and is still protected for that reason despite Benedict dying in 2022. If the page is to stay protected, the protection reason should be changed. 100.7.34.111 (talk) 16:02, 16 January 2025 (UTC)
- Declined as you have not discussed this with the protecting administrator. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 16:14, 16 January 2025 (UTC)
Reason: The page was protected due to BLP, and is still protected for that reason despite Carter dying in 2022. If the page is to stay protected, the protection reason should be changed. 100.7.34.111 (talk) 16:03, 16 January 2025 (UTC)
- Declined as you have not discussed with the protecting administrator. As it says at the top of the page when you edit, this section is for removing or reducing the protection level of a page if the protecting admin is inactive or you have already asked them. Please stop posting requests like this when the administrator is active and you have not asked them first. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 16:16, 16 January 2025 (UTC)
Current requests for edits to a protected page
Please request an edit directly on the protected page's talk page before posting here
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.
Add “by June 30, 2024” to the sentence: The Lancet has estimated 70,000 deaths due to traumatic injuries.[8] Seahumidity (talk) 23:09, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
I would like to add more information regarding his legacy. KiddKrazy2 (talk) 21:00, 15 January 2025 (UTC)
- Edit requests should take the form, for example, of change X to Y. What specific edit would you like to be made? — Malcolmxl5 (talk) 22:25, 15 January 2025 (UTC)
Not done – Please use an edit request to request specific changes to be made to the protected page. Talk:Saddam Hussein is not protected. Favonian (talk) 12:09, 16 January 2025 (UTC)
In paragraph 4 is this assertion: "In private, White House staffers and Biden's family took measures to conceal and compensate for apparent declines in his acuity." There is no source cited for this consequential claim. The "apparent decline" of mental acuity in Biden, a lifetime stutterer, is a topic of contention. Rnperry (talk) 15:10, 16 January 2025 (UTC)
Handled requests
A historical archive of previous protection requests can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive.