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Requests for page protection

Shortcuts: WP:RFPP WP:RFP WP:RPP This page is for requesting that a page, image or template be fully protected, semi-protected, move-protected 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 is 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 back to specific versions of the page, except to get rid of obvious vandalism. Skip to table of contents • requests for protection • unprotection • edits • (purge cache) Instructions If you would like to request a page to be protected or unprotected, please follow the following steps: Add a level 4 header at the TOP of either the protection or unprotection list and place one of the templates from the table below within the header. (for example, for an article use: ===={{la|ARTICLE}}====) If you are requesting protection, place the type of request (full protection, semi-protection, or move protection) and a brief reason for your request below your header. If you are requesting unprotection, it is almost always a good idea to ask the protecting admin first before listing a page here. 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 usertalk page until the user is unblocked, please make this clear. If you are requesting indefinite semi-protection, be aware that it is only applied to articles with endemic and endless vandalism problems which multiple increasing periods of temporary semi-protection have failed to stop. Note that different expiry times can now 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 that this is not a venue for continuing an argument from elsewhere. 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. Namespace To request page protection / unprotection To request talk page protection / unprotection Generic {{ln|NAMESPACE|PAGE NAME}} {{lnt|NAMESPACE|PAGE NAME}} Article {{la|ARTICLE}} {{lat|ARTICLE}} Template {{lt|TEMPLATE}} {{ltt|TEMPLATE}} Wikipedia {{lw|PAGE}} {{lwt|PAGE}} User {{lu|PAGE}} {{lut|PAGE}} Category {{lc|CATEGORY}} {{lct|CATEGORY}} Image {{li|IMAGE}} {{lit|IMAGE}} Portal {{lp|PORTAL}} {{lpt|PORTAL}} MediaWiki cannot be unprotected {{lmt|MESSAGE}} You can subscribe to a web feed of this page in either RSS or Atom format.

Example

===={{la|Intentionally permanent red link}}====
'''semi-protect'''. High level of IP vandalism. ~~~~

Administrator instructions

[edit] Current requests for protection

Place requests for either semi-protection, full protection, move protection, or create protection at the TOP of this section. Check here if you cannot find your request. Only recently answered requests are still listed here.

[edit] List of television stations in North America by media market (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

temporary full protection Dispute, Constant edit warring.Emarsee ^{(Talk • Contribs)} 07:41, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Reincarnation (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

semi protection. Consistently high levels of vandalism and deletion of sourced material by anons. This is always happening with this article. Mitsube (talk) 07:16, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Aerosmith (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

semi protection. Consistently high levels of vandalism, page blanking, adding incorrect or miscellaneous information, and the like, especially recently. Mostly done by unregistered users and new users. This is a GA-class article and the vast majority of edits being made by new & unregistered users consist of vandalism or edits which reduce the quality of the article, which have to constantly be monitored and undone, and often not in time. Abog (talk) 06:50, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Domestic sheep (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

semi protection, preferably long term. FA-class article with no substantial work being done on it and a regular flow of IP vandalism in the recent past. Steven Walling (talk) 02:39, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three months. After three months the page will be automatically unprotected.. –Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 04:03, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Jesse McCartney (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

temporary semi-protection Vandalism, Excessive and often malicious vandalism..Synchronism (talk) 02:26, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month. After 1 month the page will be automatically unprotected. Skier Dude (talk) 05:00, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Football365 (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

temporary semi-protection , Suggest 1 week. Spamming f365nws.com - should perhaps investigate those accounts and/or blacklisting as well.. — Mike.lifeguard | ^@en.wb 00:32, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month. After 1 month the page will be automatically unprotected. Skier Dude (talk) 04:56, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Yay robots. But did you actually read what I suggested? There is a spamming problem here that page protection may not be the best solution for.  — Mike.lifeguard | ^@en.wb 06:40, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Current requests for unprotection

If you simply want to make spelling corrections or add information to a protected page that is not disputed, and you are not involved in any disputes there, consider simply adding {{Editprotected}} to the article's talk page, along with an explanation of what you want to add to the page. See the list of current {{Editprotected}} requests.

If you do want a page that exists unprotected, please try to ask the protecting admin first before making a request here.

Check here if you cannot find your request. Only recently answered requests are still listed here.

[edit] Hockerill Anglo-European College (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

unprotection , It appears that the arguement that caused this article to be protected has ended and thus protection is no longer needed. If it is decided to remove protection i will watch over the article as i have a personal interest in that i actualy went to this school .Kirachinmoku (talk) 18:20, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Declined, protection is quite recent and as it was protected for vandalism, of course it ended, that's why it was protected for. I suggest you ask the protecting admin, Shell Kinney (talk · contribs), to elaborate on why they chose to infinitely protect it and/or request unprotection. Regards SoWhy 21:35, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Current requests for edits to a protected page

When making requests here, either:

• Provide a good reason for a substantial edit to a protected page. These are only done in exceptional circumstances, or when there is very clear consensus for an edit and continued protection. Please link to the talk page where consensus was reached.
• Demonstrate that there is a clear dispute over a protected page, and that a specific dispute tag would be appropriate to add. Please link to the talk page where the dispute exists.

Note: Unless the talk page itself is protected, you may instead add {{Editprotected}}, {{Editsemiprotected}} or {{Request edit}} to the article's talk page if you would like an inconsequential change rather than requesting it here, though most of these should simply wait for unprotection.

See also:

• Category:Wikipedia protected edit requests
• Category:Wikipedia semi-protected edit requests
• Category:Requested edits

[edit] Template:Upgrading needed (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Categorization needs to be moved to inside the noinclude tags. Thanks! Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 18:46, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Done, by Nehrams2020. لennavecia 19:52, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Film (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

As per talk page, to add support for a new task force. Thanks! Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 18:21, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Done لennavecia 20:06, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Fulfilled/denied requests

[edit] Bakugan Battle Brawlers (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protect. An earlier request was denied because no one was reverting the vandalism on the article. However, since I've been keeping an eye on the article for the last couple of days, it has received a high amount of vandalism from IP accounts. --Farix (Talk) 00:14, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks. After 2 weeks the page will be automatically unprotected.AKRadecki^Speaketh 00:23, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Smallville (season 8) (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protect - IP address have been editing the page continually since last night, adding unsourced airdates to future episodes. Some are citing a trailer for the upcoming episode (which only aired on select broadcasts), but, given that the episode won't air to sometime in 2009, and that the studio has not released any real official statement regarding when the next episode will air, I have tried to explain that citing a trailer is not reliable.  BIGNOLE  (Contact me) 19:48, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks. After 2 weeks the page will be automatically unprotected. AKRadecki^Speaketh 00:25, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Julie Bindel (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

semi-protect. IP address edits repeatedly removing information - may be the subject of the item itself trying to suppress information. Zoeoconnell (talk) 19:45, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Declined – There is not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection at this time. If there's significantly more disruptive activity in the future, consider relisting. SoWhy 21:41, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Just for future reference, do you have any guidelines on how much and how recent disruptive edits have to be to warrant semi-protection? (Don't want to relist here if it occurs again and it hasn't gotten bad enough yet) Thanks. Zoe O'Connell ⚢⚧ (talk) 21:56, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Usually it needs a.) a long-term disruption for weeks and months or b.) a short-term surge of disruption, in both cases more vandalism/disruption than in this case (see this article's history for an example where semi-protection was necessary). I suggest you review the protection policy and consider warning and/or requesting a block for those users who disrupt the article. Regards SoWhy 22:20, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Rectal prolapse (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

temporary semi-protection Vandalism, This page is being continually vandalized .TheUnfortunate (talk) 21:39, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Declined – There is not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection at this time. If there's significantly more disruptive activity in the future, consider relisting. SoWhy 21:50, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] User talk:Cssiitcic/Archive 1 (edit|user page|history|links|watch|logs)

indefinite full protection , Nobody should edit my archives. They are archives. if they want to talk to me, tey can do so on my regular talk page..Cssiitcic (talk) 20:57, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Declined, userpages are only protected if they are subject to vandalism, see WP:SEMI. Regards SoWhy 21:46, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] User:Cssiitcic (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

indefinite semi-protection , I want to protect my userpage from unregistered vandals..Cssiitcic (talk) 20:54, 21 November 2008

Declined, userpages are only protected if they are subject to vandalism, see WP:SEMI. Regards SoWhy 21:46, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Fritzl case (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Unprotect. No sign that article is unstable and/or is receiving any vandalism. No vandalism over the past 5 months almost. Piebald Avarice (talk) 18:00, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Unprotected. Well, yeah, of course. That's because it was protected ;-) But let's see if it cooled down by now. SoWhy 21:29, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Parkview Baptist High School (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

temporary semi-protection Vandalism, multiple anon IP edits over the past 8 weeks including one that was not noticed (had "pedobear" as the mascot").VoxLuna (talk) 18:49, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Declined – There is not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection at this time. If there's significantly more disruptive activity in the future, consider relisting. seicer | talk | contribs 19:31, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] GU Comics (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

semi-protect. IP vandalism beginning in August. 70.55.180.162 (talk) 18:20, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks. After 2 weeks the page will be automatically unprotected. seicer | talk | contribs 19:29, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Battle of Marion (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

temporary semi protection Vandalism, Annoying IP vandalism..ṜedMarkViolinist^{Drop me a line} 17:13, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

• Apart from minor vandalism, from 138.87.161.42 (talk · contribs), I see no other vandalism. Full-protection should only be used in disputes and very heavy vandalism. This is neither. Suggest declining or semi-protecting instead. D.M.N. (talk) 17:17, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

I meant to semi-protect. Take a look at the 17 and 18 of November. ṜedMarkViolinist^{Drop me a line} 17:19, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Declined. The 138 IP has been blocked, and aside from that, the most recent vandalism was several days ago. –Juliancolton ^{Tropical Cyclone} 17:26, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Bella Swan (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

semi-protection: constant IP (or un-autoconfirmed) vandalism. Andrea (talk) 16:45, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of two weeks. After two weeks the page will be automatically unprotected. لennavecia 17:06, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Michael Jackson (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Full protection needed quite urgently: Huge edit war developing on this featured article. There is currently a court case going on and The Sun tabloid has spread a rumour that Jackson has converted to Islam (this is all linked to the court case). The rest of the media are reporting the Sun's story and editors are changing the whole article to say that Jackson is now Muslim. The article needs protecting until this latest rubbish dies down. — Realist² 16:37, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Declined Warned user. Claim not confirmed in reliable sources, only reporting the claim. لennavecia 16:58, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] User talk:Unpopular Opinion/Archive5 (edit|user page|history|links|watch|logs)

indefinite full protection , Archive should not be edited by anyone..--Unpopular Opinion (talk · contribs) 15:50, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Fully protected for a period of forever. After forever the page will be automatically unprotected. Ioeth _{(talk contribs friendly)} 16:16, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Cheetah (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

semi-protect. High level of vandalism within the past week or so. Ashbey (talk) 15:35, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one month. After one month the page will be automatically unprotected. لennavecia 17:02, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] User talk:Curps (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Unprotection. I couldn't figure out why this page is protected, and I just want to leave the guy a message. --Zvika (talk) 06:09, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Declined. Umm...why? The user left the project more than 2 1/2 years ago and has not edited since. I am quite sure there was a good reason for protection and I do not see why you want to leave a message to someone who will surely never read it. SoWhy 09:12, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Probably had to do with the article deletion notifications that were posted today. لennavecia 14:55, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Check your calendar, Jennavecia. ;-) - auburnpilot talk 15:16, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

O, look at that... it's November. >_> لennavecia 17:08, 21 November 2008 (UTC)