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
Please request an edit directly on the protected page's talk page before posting here | ||
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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: Daily disruption by new, single purpose accounts. ATP is a neo-nazi group and these new accounts uniformly want to obscure that. RKT7789 (talk) 07:26, 8 April 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent vandalism. BOVINEBOY2008 07:32, 8 April 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Active politician, persistent vandalism. Requesting protection until 3 May (the day of the election) GMH Melbourne (talk) 08:57, 8 April 2025 (UTC)
Declined Disruption isn't that great yet, and the article is at AfD; I wouldn't want to curtail edits, as this might hinder improvement of the article. Lectonar (talk) 12:18, 8 April 2025 (UTC)
Temporary protection: Persistent vandalism. ~ Junior5a (Talk) Cont 10:14, 8 April 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Recurring vandalism and edit warring. Borgenland (talk) 14:14, 8 April 2025 (UTC)
Reason: High level of IP vandalism. Kaan Morais (talk) 15:13, 8 April 2025 (UTC)
- I Reply. Kaan Morais (talk) 15:14, 8 April 2025 (UTC)
Reason: a capital city that can be vandalized due to anger against laws/policies Lukasmajukaspvpa (talk) 16:01, 8 April 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Government organizations can be vandalized due to the rearmament of Europe causing some unrest Lukasmajukaspvpa (talk) 16:08, 8 April 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Tarlby (t) (c) 16:29, 8 April 2025 (UTC)
- good reason I vouch to approve it Lukasmajukaspvpa (talk) 18:36, 8 April 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Repeated IP vandalism. Trailblazer101 (talk) 16:45, 8 April 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations – Unsourced death. LilianaUwU (talk / contributions) 17:38, 8 April 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations. S0091 (talk) 17:39, 8 April 2025 (UTC)
- Automated comment: One or more pages in this request appear to already be protected. Please confirm.—cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online 17:54, 8 April 2025 (UTC)
Permanent semi-protection: Persistent violations of WP:NOTFORUM and nonsensical additions by multiple IPs since 2023. Koshuri (グ) 17:48, 8 April 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Disruption by ips behind vpn, proxy or botnet. Shadow4dark (talk) 18:10, 8 April 2025 (UTC)
Reason: High level of vandalism and is complete no further edit will be needed for years Lukasmajukaspvpa (talk) 18:35, 8 April 2025 (UTC)
Reason: High level of vandalism and WP:BLP violations. TylerBurden (talk) 18:43, 8 April 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.
Unprotection: Redirect was protected years ago. It now leads to a broken anchor. RanDom 404 (talk) 18:39, 8 April 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.
Handled requests
A historical archive of previous protection requests can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive.