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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 Wikipedia: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. 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 vandalism problems like George W. Bush, and not to articles with half a dozen IP vandalism edits in the last fortnight. 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, or move protection at the TOP of this section. Check here if you cannot find your request. Only recently answered requests are still listed here.

[edit] <span id="Spanish-American War"/>Spanish-American War (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

temporary semi-protection Vandalism, Quite a bit of vandalism this week. Marlith (Talk)  23:25, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] <span id="David Archuleta"/>David Archuleta (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Can someone please review the protection? It's labelled as semi-protected but IP's are still editing. Same thing on the David Cook (singer) article. --MartinezMD (talk) 23:11, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week. After 1 week the page will be automatically unprotected. Protection expired yesterday, even though the tag was still up. Fvasconcellos (t·c) 23:29, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] <span id="Son Goku (Dragon Ball)"/>Son Goku (Dragon Ball) (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Long time semi protect too much nonsense and fancruft edits. This all re-started after the last semi-protection expired. Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 22:16, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 months. After 3 months the page will be automatically unprotected. PhilKnight (talk) 22:35, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] <span id="Yugoslavia"/>Yugoslavia (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

semi-protect. Persistent vandalism. Page was already temporary semi-protected.--Irić Igor -- Ирић Игор -- K♥S (talk) 21:18, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week. After 1 week the page will be automatically unprotected. I'll do a week because I don't want to extend it too much over a high-profile article like a country. Re-report if it becomes a problem after then. Regards, PeterSymonds (talk) 21:42, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] <span id="Morro de São Paulo"/>Morro de São Paulo (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

semi-protect. IP users constantly add spam links to the "External links" section. Me and some other users have been reverting those edits, but they don't seem to give up. Now there's almost an entire history page of the aticle filled with IP edits and our reverts. Victor Lopes (talk) 19:38, 26 May 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. PeterSymonds (talk) 19:46, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] <span id="Memorial Day"/>Memorial Day (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

semi-protect. Nine vandalisms from anon users this morning alone. Bots seem to be catching most of them, but a simple short term semi-protect at least until the holiday is over would give our hardworking anti-vandal bots the day off. Coradon (talk) 19:41, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week. After 1 week the page will be automatically unprotected. PeterSymonds (talk) 19:45, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] <span id="Ysgol Gyfun Gymunedol Penweddig"/>Ysgol Gyfun Gymunedol Penweddig (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

semi-protect. Daily vandalism by anonymous users including some offensive remarks - in general and directed at specific pupils of the school. Repeated small attacks make reverting the article difficult as you have to do it manually, only to be vandalized again. Thaf (talk) 18:33, 26 May 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. PeterSymonds (talk) 18:41, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] <span id="John Hugger"/>John Hugger (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

semi-protect. Constant vandalism by a range of anonymous users. Failure to use the article's talk page or respond to evidence presented there. McPhail (talk) 18:02, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Declined, Not enough activity. There appears to be a revert war going on between two editors that ended this morning, so I see no reason to protect at this time. PeterSymonds (talk) 18:06, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] <span id="Big N' Tasty"/>Big N' Tasty (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Full Protection or Admin Intervention or Both - Edit war over whether split tags to split the article should be added or not. It is only between two editors right now, but they are both reverting each other. Thanks for looking :) <3 Tinkleheimer TALK!! 17:42, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Declined, Both editors have now been warned. They haven't quite violated 3RR, but they're pretty close. A dispute between two editors is never really handled with full protection; blocking is preferred if 3RR is broken. Best, PeterSymonds (talk) 17:57, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] {{RussianPresidents}}

Full-protection. The semi]protection currently on here isn't working and something stronger needs to be done. The Quill (talk) 17:25, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected The protection had expired so that's why it was still being edited. I've restored the protection indefinitely, as there's no real need to edit this template. PeterSymonds (talk) 17:34, 26 May 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 and ask the protecting admin first before making a request here. This is also not the place to dispute a protection.

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

[edit] User:ThatWikiGuy/wikia:gng:Special:Recentchanges (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

unprotection , not needed.– ThatWikiGuy (talk) 20:32, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Unprotected PeterSymonds (talk) 20:47, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] <span id="De La Salle High School (Concord, California)"/>De La Salle High School (Concord, California) (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Unprotection. This was semi-protected about a year and half ago. 64.30.95.74 (talk) 20:28, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Unprotected PeterSymonds (talk) 20:52, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

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

unprotection , not needed anymore.– ThatWikiGuy (talk) 19:27, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Unprotected PeterSymonds (talk) 19:47, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] <span id="Terrorism"/>Terrorism (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protected since 2006; perhaps the vandals will have quieted down? -- Kendrick7^talk 17:27, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Unprotected Rudget (Help?) 18:02, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Current requests for significant 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}} 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

[edit] Fulfilled/denied requests

[edit] <span id="Raccoon City"/>Raccoon City (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protection IPs repeatedly adding unsourced speculation to the page. NeoChaosX (talk, walk) 16:43, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks. After 2 weeks the page will be automatically unprotected. PeterSymonds (talk) 16:55, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] <span id="Linux"/>Linux (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protection Heavy IP vandalism. JNW (talk) 15:24, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month. After 1 month the page will be automatically unprotected. PeterSymonds (talk) 16:02, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] <span id="John XXIII College, Perth"/>John XXIII College, Perth (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protection Much IP traffic, some presumably legitimate, but often impossible to distinguish from serial vandalism, and mostly concerning particular students, which is not grist for the encyclopedia to begin with. JNW (talk) 15:16, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks. After 2 weeks the page will be automatically unprotected. PeterSymonds (talk) 16:04, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] <span id="Aliana Lohan"/>Aliana Lohan (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protection. persistent vandalism happening this week sanawon 15:02, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week. After 1 week the page will be automatically unprotected. PeterSymonds (talk) 16:05, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] <span id="List of IIHF World Championship tournaments"/>List of IIHF World Championship tournaments (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Unprotect Protected because of an edit war, I think we've reached an agreement on the talk page so the page should be unprotected. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 16:04, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Unprotected PeterSymonds (talk) 16:07, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] <span id="George_Zimmer"/>George_Zimmer (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

unprotection , There were internet rumors about him a few years ago, but I believe these are long-forgotten. Page should be significantly updated. Admin who protected the page is no longer active. Anonymous 11:30, 26 May 2008 (EDT)

Declined, This page is still receiving vandalism from autoconfirmed users even though the page is protected. Unprotection would be unwise until the vandalism clearly dies down. PeterSymonds (talk) 16:10, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] <span id="Gorgoroth"/>Gorgoroth (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

temporary full protection Dispute, Constant edit warring regarding the members of the band - the subject is being talked out on the discussion page, but even though a consensus hasn't been reached, people are still edit warring - I request page protection until a consesus is reached on the talk page.≈ The Haunted Angel 13:28, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Declined Edit warring? I only see the IP making edits and then other editors reverting. The two uninvolved editors were adding to the article, one was fixing grammar, so was probably unaware of the dispute. The IP has been warned and has not edited the article since, therefore protection is unnecessary. PeterSymonds (talk) 14:24, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] User talk:Soappower23 (edit|user page|history|links|watch|logs)

full protection Blocked user vandalizing own talk page. JNW (talk) 13:00, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Fully protected PeterSymonds (talk) 13:41, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] User talk:Sahil4ubest (edit|user page|history|links|watch|logs)

full protection indef blocked as sock a month and a half ago. Since then, user has removed the sock notice twice, and IPs have three times replaced the content with the content that the sockmaster is pushing on an article. There is zero chance that the user is given an unblock on this account. --Enric Naval (talk) 11:29, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Fully protected PeterSymonds (talk) 12:16, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] <span id="Archimedes"/>Archimedes (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

semi-protection Nearly all of the recent IP edits have been vandalism and timewasting. --♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 08:09, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks. After 2 weeks the page will be automatically unprotected. PeterSymonds (talk) 08:17, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] <span id="Nicole Kidman"/>Nicole Kidman (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

semi-protect or full protection. Content dispute with multiple reversions that is not being resolved via the talk page. Michellecrisp (talk) 06:06, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Declined Users have been warned. There are only two that I see reverting each other. Let me know if they break it. PeterSymonds (talk) 08:16, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] <span id="Tribulation"/>Tribulation (edit|