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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, have an existing protection level lowered or an edit request, please follow the following steps:

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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}}
'''Reduction in protection level:''' 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. ~~~~
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Administrator instructions

Current requests for increase in protection level[edit]

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.

Asian Canoeing Championships[edit]

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – This page, among others, is currently being vandalized by RowingAsia socks. RickinBaltimore (talk) 16:15, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

Hockey Asia Cup[edit]

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – This page, among others, is currently being vandalized by RowingAsia socks. RickinBaltimore (talk) 16:16, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

Asian Men's Handball Championship[edit]

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – This page, among others, is currently being vandalized by RowingAsia socks. RickinBaltimore (talk) 16:16, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

Asian Amateur Boxing Championships[edit]

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – This page, among others, is currently being vandalized by RowingAsia socks. RickinBaltimore (talk) 16:16, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

Badminton Asia Championships[edit]

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – This page, among others, is currently being vandalized by RowingAsia socks. RickinBaltimore (talk) 16:18, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

2012 European Universities Games[edit]

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – This page, among others, is currently being vandalized by RowingAsia socks. RickinBaltimore (talk) 16:19, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

Asian Cycling Championships[edit]

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – This page, among others, is currently being vandalized by RowingAsia socks. RickinBaltimore (talk) 16:19, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

Asian Wrestling Championships[edit]

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – This page, among others, is currently being vandalized by RowingAsia socks. RickinBaltimore (talk) 16:19, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

Asian Weightlifting Championships[edit]

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – This page, among others, is currently being vandalized by RowingAsia socks. RickinBaltimore (talk) 16:20, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport[edit]

Semi protection massive/persistent edit warring regarding new routes, date, and sources among IPs. TravelLover37 (talk) 18:55, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

Korean Air destinations[edit]

Semi protection IPs continue to add irregular charters which should not be included per WP:AIRLINE-DEST-LIST. IP ranging 223.62.XXXX rapidly undoing edits without explanation (possible sock puppetry).TravelLover37 (talk) 19:01, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

Adam Larsson[edit]

Temporary semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism. – Sabbatino (talk) 20:57, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

Marc Bergevin[edit]

Temporary semi-protection: High level of vandalism from IP and new users, due to recent events (hockey player trades) causing a high level of media interest. Roujo (talk) 21:05, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

  • Automated comment: One or more pages in this request appear to already be protected. Please confirm.—cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online 01:22, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

Pretty Little Liars (TV series)[edit]

Temporary pending changes: Advertisement spamming by IP and newly registered users, who are adding links which are supposedly to new episodes for this show. Not sure whether just pending changes or clear out semi-protection is warranted here. Similar activity was happening at Pretty Little Liars (season 7), where it is currently semi-protected. MPFitz1968 (talk) 21:54, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

Héber Lopes[edit]

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Previous protection expired and vandalism started straight away. AIRcorn (talk) 22:08, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

Greer, South Carolina[edit]

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – Recent edit warring regarding the History section has gotten out of control. NJ (talk) 22:20, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

Free State of Jones (film)[edit]

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – IP-hopping editor(s) persistently removing a See Also link on both pages. See [1] for more info. clpo13(talk) 23:17, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

  • Automated comment: One or more pages in this request appear to already be protected. Please confirm.—cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online 23:51, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

Nolito[edit]

Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism. Page has been semi-protected three times in last ten months. '''tAD''' (talk) 01:06, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

2013 El Reno tornado[edit]

Pending changes: Persistent disruptive editing – Persistent changing of EF3 to the incorrect EF5 by numerous IPs and new editors. This has been going on off and on for quite sometime. Don't think semi-protection is necessary; PC should do as it is just this one issue. United States Man (talk) 01:14, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

Game of Thrones[edit]

Temporary Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism from IP users. It has not stopped and it keeps happening, every day for years. It takes time to keep undoing vandalism edits from IP users. Game of Thrones is the most succesfull and popular show today and of all time. It needs a semi-protection. User:AffeL (talk)

  • 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 01:22, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

Adventure Time (season 7)[edit]

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – IP hopper is targeting Sro23's edits on this page. EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 02:24, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

List of Adventure Time episodes[edit]

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – IP hopper is targeting Sro23's edits on this page. EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 02:24, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

Madonna (entertainer)[edit]

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring. Editor is sabotaging the current RfC by adding content to article in question at the RfC while refusing to discuss and follow RfC protocol. Edit warring report also filed. Request that if FPP activated, the version of the article as it was at the time the RfC was filed be restored. -- WV ● ✉ ✓ 02:25, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

  • Automated comment: One or more pages in this request appear to already be protected. Please confirm.—cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online 04:23, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

Derek Siow[edit]

Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations. Binksternet (talk) 03:35, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

The Conjuring 2[edit]

Semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing. Dane2007 (talk) 04:06, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

Battle of al-Hasakah (June–August 2015) as well as four other articles[edit]

Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism. An anonymous IP editor has been removing sourced information and its sources and replacing it with wording that is ether: contradictory to the sources he removed; is highly favorable to one particular beligerent over the others (ISIL in this case); or is per a source that is unverifiable/questionable (pro-ISIL). The IP editor has been reverted by me and several other editors on numerous occasions, but still he keeps continuing to make the edits which are highly POV in nature. PS the Manbij article had also several other IP POV-pushers that have been regularly reverted by other editors. EkoGraf (talk) 05:02, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

WQUN[edit]

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Continued image removal vandalism by an IPv6 anon user. Warnings have been issued but to no avail. Requesting temporary semi-protection and a block (or range block) of the IP user. Neutralhomer • Talk • 05:24 on June 30, 2016 (UTC) 05:24, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

Proposed Book of Mormon geographical setting[edit]

Semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – We have either one person with 2 IP addresses or meat puppetry, can this be protected? . Doug Weller talk 05:24, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

Modh Brahmins[edit]

Indefinite full protection: Please SALT as being repeatedly recreated. Arun Kumar SINGH (Talk) 06:10, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

Current requests for reduction in protection level[edit]

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

Template:Editnotices/Page/List of bioinformatics companies[edit]

Unprotection: I spoke to Dennis Brown about the current TE protection level, which is not actually doing anything because the title matches an entry on the blacklist already (before I realized he voluntarily gave up his sysop bit). — Andy W. (talk · ctb) 00:43, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

Current requests for edits to a protected page[edit]

Further information: Wikipedia:Edit requests
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Ideally, requests should be made on the article talk page rather than here.

Handled requests[edit]

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

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