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
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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.
Temporary extended confirmed protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Persistent editors failing to adhere to WP:NPOV with ill-intent directed towards painting the subject in an unflattering way. — Trailblazer101🔥 (discuss · contribs) 01:30, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Medium level of IP disruption PawPatroler (talk) 05:07, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Materialscientist (talk) 02:24, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
Semi-Protection: Disruptive editing and vandalism of unsourced information edit by IP users. Panda Arun (talk) 07:09, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Repeated COI / paid-for editing by employee of the museum that is the subject of the article. 10mmsocket (talk) 11:41, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
Reason: vandalism and biased editing due to his recent role in the Karen Read trial. Mikiko609 (talk) 15:02, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
- Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Materialscientist (talk) 02:29, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
Reason: IPs edit warring over whether or not to include an opinion piece. Simonm223 (talk) 16:56, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
Extended confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement. Skitash (talk) 17:46, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Arbitration enforcement GiraffeLover19 (talk) 18:14, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Persistent disruptive editing - changes to former band member without a source. HorrorLover555 (talk) 19:22, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
User(s) partially blocked: 23.123.173.233 (talk · contribs) (from The Cab). by User:Asilvering with reference to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Brettandelle. DMacks (talk) 02:25, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Requesting semi-protection due to repeated vandalism and unsourced or defamatory edits from anonymous IP addresses. Examples include: - June 5, 2024: IP 138.4.130.137 added slanderous material labeled “controversy” - January 2023: IP 2600:1011:b068:5d37:795b:e01d:2956:3c7a made similar edits, repeatedly reverted - Edits have violated BLP (Biographies of Living Persons) policy Semi-protection would help maintain neutrality and article integrity. Emfrie (talk) 20:07, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Medium level of IP disruption PawPatroler (talk) 22:05, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
- User(s) blocked. Materialscientist (talk) 02:26, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Upgrade to extended-confirmed protection until July 6th, when leaked trade to the Phoenix Suns can be confirmed official or not. MakaylaHippo1998 (talk) 22:35, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Seems to attract lots of IP addresses and new users adding purely promotional content. Not frequent changes, but this has been happening since at least 2020. SergioFLS (talk) 01:06, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
- Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Materialscientist (talk) 02:22, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
Long-term extended-confirmed protection - the article was repeatedly recreated by several sockpuppets of StayCalmOnTress. (Humraaz (TV series) was ec-protected due to that reason) ~SG5536B 02:32, 24 June 2025 (UTC) (updated at 02:43, 24 June 2025 (UTC))
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – content dispute / edit warring from multiple IP editors. Magic Fizz (talk) 03:12, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Protect until at least Friday to avoid any vandalism, which is extremely common on Wikipedia during drafts. MakaylaHippo1998 (talk) 03:58, 24 June 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: Protection no longer needed after 16 years, which was semi-protected back in 2009. Absolutiva (talk) 10:57, 20 June 2025 (UTC)
- Pinging protecting admin @Future Perfect at Sunrise. Entranced98 (talk) 15:56, 20 June 2025 (UTC)
- Noting that the article falls under Wikipedia:Contentious topics/Balkans or Eastern Europe.-- Ponyobons mots 16:25, 20 June 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Only 12 transclusions. Not used in block summaries, unlike {{anonblock}}. 2A0E:1D47:9085:D200:5AF:9096:9EC1:275E (talk) 16:45, 20 June 2025 (UTC)
Comment: Is there any reason why the average editor would need to edit this? Sumanuil. (talk to me) 05:28, 21 June 2025 (UTC)
- Presumably the IP intends to nominate this and the below for deletion based on their other edits. But that doesn't require an unprotection; they can just request that the TfD tag be added using {{edit template-protected}}. However, what makes you think
Not used in block summaries, unlike {{anonblock}}
? Do you have any actual evidence of this, or are you just guessing? * Pppery * it has begun... 05:02, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Only 7 transclusions. Not used in block summaries, unlike {{school block}} 2A0E:1D47:9085:D200:5AF:9096:9EC1:275E (talk) 16:46, 20 June 2025 (UTC)
Reason: This article about this fondly remembered British children's animated series has been semi-protected for ten years, with little vandalism. Frankster04 (talk) 18:42, 21 June 2025 (UTC)
- (Non-administrator comment) To this day the article's subject is plagued by rumours about character names being sexual innuendos, which appear to have inspired the vandalism that warranted the protection. Furthermore, there are a lot of vandalism edits made between May 2012 and February 2015 that look similar enough to be a possible case of long-term abuse. If unprotection is on the cards here, it might be wise to err on the side of caution and drop to PC. Entranced98 (talk) 14:58, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
Comment:: Are you sure that that's not because of the protection? Sumanuil. (talk to me) 20:37, 21 June 2025 (UTC)
- (Non-administrator comment) Normally I'd agree, the "there's no vandalism so no protection is needed" logic is regularly a flawed request, but ten years is certainly long enough to consider for a valid WP:TRYUNPROT request. Zinnober9 (talk) 22:15, 21 June 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Unprotection or pending changes protection: This article has been semi-protected since 2017, back when the subject was a popular YouTube star. Now that it's been almost eight years since the protection (and since his death), perhaps it's time to try unprotection or downgrade it to pending changes to see how it goes? The article has seen significantly less views recently (144,097 views in the past year compared to 449,007 in 2017) and just 12 edits so far this year. The protecting administrator hasn't been active since at least 2021. I'm fine if the current protection level is still necessary, since Samsara stated there had been "very few good changes from non-autoconfirmed." BriDash9000 (talk) 07:50, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
Reason: This was indef-semied via this request by Daniel Case (his talk page is also protected, hence asking here first). This was probably inappropriate; the report said "repeated IP vandalism over the last 6 months", but there were a mere 2 vandalism edits over that time frame, both on the same day by the same IP. I don't see anything here that ever really rose to protection being needed. Thanks in advance. 35.139.154.158 (talk) 12:48, 22 June 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.
The Israeli casaulties have changed over the night with new Iranian strikes. I want to change the Current Casaulties from 24 Killed to 53, i have the sources needed. And to change the 2,345 injured to 2,585 injured for which i also have sources. Pkk123477 (talk) 18:53, 19 June 2025 (UTC)
On hold: Hello, Pkk123477. Your edit request has been restored here as we need further input on this, as initially requested by Behappyyar. Would you be willing to post the sources that you have so that they can be reviewed and used to update the article? --Super Goku V (talk) 21:09, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
The join date of the US should be changed to 21 June, the strike Bombers took off from the US right after midnight Eastern Daylight Time on 21 June which would be 21 June 07:30 AM Iran time 2603:300B:E4D:8000:F08A:B088:141E:465F (talk) 13:09, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
Add jd vance and marco rubio to american leaders 2600:387:F:560E:0:0:0:2E (talk) 18:26, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
- Automated comment: This user who requested protection has been blocked from editing Wikipedia.—cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online 18:37, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
The title has been blocked to read this when it should be Mulanthuruthy Marthoman Syrian Church. This needs to be fixed. JvathBdan (talk) 20:31, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
- @JvathBdan: Start a requested-move discussion on the talk page, making sure to provide sources that can support the name. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v threads critiques 15:22, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
Handled requests
A historical archive of previous protection requests can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive.