Wikipedia:Requests for page protection

"WP:RFP" and "WP:RPP" redirect here. You may also be looking for Wikipedia:Requests for permissions, Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission, or Wikipedia:Random page patrol.

Requests for page protection

This page is for requesting that a page, file or template be fully protected, create protected (salted), semi-protected, added to pending changes, move-protected, template protected (template-specific), upload protected (file-specific), or unprotected. Please read up on 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 only to prevent IP and new user vandalism (see the rough guide to semi-protection), and move protection is used to stop pagemove revert wars. After a page has been protected, the protection is listed in the page history and logs with a short description indicating why it was protected, and the article is listed on Special:Protectedpages. Further discussion should take place on the Talk page of the article. In the case of full protection due to edit warring, admins do not revert to specific versions of the page, except to get rid of obvious vandalism. Instructions If you would like to request a page to be protected or unprotected, please follow the following steps: If you are requesting unprotection, you must ask the protecting administrator first for unprotection. If the admin is unable to respond and/or lower protection then you can list your request on this page. Add a level 3 header (i.e. === [[Example title]] ===) with the namespace if not an article. Place your request at the bottom of either the protection or unprotection list, depending on the nature of your request, and place the pagelinks template below the header in the form of * {{pagelinks|Example title}}. Please make sure you have spelled the name of the article properly; a common error stems from mistaken requests for the protection of redirects, particularly capitalised ones. If you are requesting protection, write the type of request (full protection, semi-protection, pending changes, move protection) and a brief reason for your request below your header. Please do not add arbitrary requests for a protection expiry time to your request, or request indefinite protection arbitrarily. If there is a reason for a page to be protected for a certain amount of time, such as protecting a user talk page until the user is unblocked, please make this clear. If you are requesting indefinite semi-protection or pending changes, be aware that it is only applied to articles with endemic and endless vandalism problems which multiple increasing periods of temporary semi-protection or pending changes have failed to stop. Note that different expiry times can be set for edit and move-protections, so an article can, for example, be semi-edit-protected for a week and full-move-protected indefinitely. Sign your request with four tildes ~~~~ and save. Note: this is not a venue for continuing an argument from elsewhere nor starting a new discussion regarding content. If a request contains excessive arguing, is being used for edit-warring or content disputes, contains personal attacks or uncivil comments or any other unrelated discussion, it will be removed from this page. Examples For single page requests === [[Example Article Name]] === * {{pagelinks|Example Article Name}} '''Semi-protection:''' High level of IP vandalism. ~~~~ === [[Template:Example Template Name]] === * {{pagelinks|Template:Example Template Name}} '''Unprotection:''' From full protection to template editor protection. ~~~~ For multiple page requests with the same criteria === Short descriptive header === * {{pagelinks|Wikipedia:Example Page Name 1}} * {{pagelinks|Wikipedia:Example Page Name 2}} '''Temporary semi-protection:''' High level of IP vandalism. ~~~~ You can subscribe to a web feed of this page in either RSS or Atom format.

this header: view • edit

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 rolling 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.

Template:Location map USA Vermont

• Template:Location map USA Vermont (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Indefinite semi-protection: More than two hundred transclusions. George Ho (talk) 21:13, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Note: also see User_talk:Airplaneman#Template:Location_map_USA_Hawaii Airplaneman ✈ 21:43, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

• Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent addition of unsourced or poorly sourced content – news reports of an airstrike on his convoy leading to him being declared dead on wikipedia - yet again. Meanwhile extra traffic to page by people looking for info because he is in news again. Legacypac (talk) 21:55, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. KrakatoaKatie 22:33, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Babe Carey

• Babe Carey (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary Semi-protection: Persistent non-constructive IP edits by the same editor (returning again and again using different IPs). Thank you, Cebr1979 (talk) 22:08, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Pending-change protected for a period of one month. After one month the page will be automatically unprotected. KrakatoaKatie 22:41, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Krakatoa: Please don't do that! They tried it here and it didn't work!Cebr1979 (talk) 22:54, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

In what way is it not working? Pending changes does not prevent anonymous users from editing. Instead it hides the edits from the majority of readers until they are reviewed. The idea is that disruption is infrequent and uninvolved editors can still contribute. — MusikAnimal ^talk 01:00, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

Because someone who clearly doesn't know the show went and accepted nonsense edits without knowing they were nonsense edits. If these pages would just be semi-protected, it would prevent these edits from being made in the first place and nobody would be able to accept them. This has been going on for weeks and weeks! It's the same person using multiple IPs and the pages are not being edited heavily enough because he knows to do a different block of pages each time! He's outsmarted wikipedia and you're all (not you specifically but, admins in general because I never seem to get the same one twice) falling for it. Can you see my frustration here? I spend 5+ hours a day fixing this guys nonsense and all I ever get back is "semi-protect for *not enough* days" or "allow someone who doesn't even watch this show to accept nonsense edits because they don't know any better."Cebr1979 (talk) 01:10, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

He's had two accounts indef blocked and he knows not to bother creating another one because he knows wikipedia will never block a million different IP addresses.Cebr1979 (talk) 01:13, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

Why not requesting sockpuppet investigation? George Ho (talk) 01:55, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

I inquired about that and, because it's all IPs... what would that accomplish? The world is not running short of new IPs for this guy to go find so... we'd be right back here where we started.Cebr1979 (talk) 02:01, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

Sharon Watts

• Sharon Watts (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary Semi-protection: Persistent non-constructive IP edits by the same editor (returning again and again using different IPs). Thank you, Cebr1979 (talk) 22:20, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Brooke Logan

• Brooke Logan (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary Semi-protection: Persistent non-constructive IP edits by the same editor (returning again and again using different IPs). Thank you, Cebr1979 (talk) 22:20, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Bill Spencer, Jr.

• Bill Spencer, Jr. (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary Semi-protection: Persistent non-constructive IP edits by the same editor (returning again and again using different IPs). Thank you, Cebr1979 (talk) 22:20, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Paul Robinson (Neighbours)

• Paul Robinson (Neighbours) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary Semi-protection: Persistent non-constructive IP edits by the same editor (returning again and again using different IPs). Thank you, Cebr1979 (talk) 22:20, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Sharon Newman

• Sharon Newman (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary Semi-protection: Persistent non-constructive IP edits by the same editor (returning again and again using different IPs). Thank you, Cebr1979 (talk) 22:24, 12 October 2015 (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 I}_{Talk to my owner:Online} 22:38, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
  • Yep, and it shouldn't have been denied.Cebr1979 (talk) 22:43, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Kit Hunter

• Kit Hunter (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary Semi-protection: Persistent non-constructive IP edits by the same editor (returning again and again using different IPs). Thank you, Cebr1979 (talk) 22:24, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Lily Winters

• Lily Winters (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary Semi-protection: Persistent non-constructive IP edits by the same editor (returning again and again using different IPs). Thank you, Cebr1979 (talk) 22:31, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Lindsey Butterfield

• Lindsey Butterfield (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary Semi-protection: Persistent non-constructive IP edits by the same editor (returning again and again using different IPs). Thank you, Cebr1979 (talk) 22:34, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

List of Fudge series characters

• List of Fudge series characters (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism. rotating IP keeps changing items without gaining consensus from talk page as requestedBagna cauda (talk) 23:55, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Urdu alphabet

• Urdu alphabet (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent IP vandalism from 90.209.182.144. —ШαмıQ✍ @ 00:29, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

Halloweentown (film)

• Halloweentown (film) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Long-term vandal using multiple IPs. Binksternet (talk) 00:29, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

Made in the A.M.

• Made in the A.M. (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Extreme vandalism from IP's and anonymous editors. livelikemusic ^{my talk page!} 00:52, 13 October 2015 (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 I}_{Talk to my owner:Online} 00:53, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

Thai Chinese

• Thai Chinese (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Disruptive POV pushing IP removing cited information. Requesting temporary protection of article for now. . Backendgaming (talk) 02:44, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

Current requests for reduction in protection level

Please post requests in this section for removing or reducing the protection level of a page if the protecting admin is inactive or you have already asked them.

• To find out the username of the admin who protected the page click on "View 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 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 here if you cannot find your request. Only recently answered requests are still listed here.

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 {{Edit protected}}, {{Edit template-protected}}, {{Edit semi-protected}} or {{Request edit}} 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 Category:Wikipedia fully-protected edit requests, Category:Wikipedia template-protected edit requests, Category:Wikipedia semi-protected edit requests or Category:Requested edits respectively.
• Page move requests should be made at Wikipedia:Requested moves, not here.
• If the discussion page and the article are both locked, this page is the right place to request an edit. 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 locked. Please make requests as long as you have a specific edit you wish to make.

Fulfilled/denied requests

A rolling archive of the last seven days of protection requests can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Rolling archive.