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
Request unprotection of a page, or reducing the protection level
Request a specific edit to a protected page
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Current requests for increase in protection level
Place requests for new or upgrading of article protection, upload protection, or create protection at the BOTTOM of this section. Check the 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.
Reason: High level of IP vandalism. MHD1234567890 (talk) 20:37, 6 January 2025 (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 ITalk to my owner:Online 20:44, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. @MHD1234567890: The article has never been edited by an IP address. Please stop making unnecessary protection requests. Daniel Quinlan (talk) 20:47, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Donald Trump will take office as President of the United States. I fear that this article will be distorted in a manner that favors him and his followers. Americans and people around the world should never forget this event in history. This article should also be protected out of respect for the Capitol Police officers that died during that time and their families. Correditor56 (talk) 21:01, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Second request: persistent addition of unreferenced genres by unregistered user who refuses to engage in dialogue. Revirvlkodlaku (talk) 00:08, 7 January 2025 (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 ITalk to my owner:Online 00:15, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Repeated IP vandalism and addition of poorly sourced or contentious content. ser! (chat to me - see my edits) 00:10, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Some users keep making it as an article when it is clearly not yet meet WP:BAND. 𝙳.𝟷𝟾𝚝𝚑 (𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚔) 00:11, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – In light of recent political events in Canada whole series of articles have had trouble today. Let's lock this up for a couple of days. Moxy🍁 00:46, 7 January 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: sandbox was mistakenly used by main module. Please unprotect. — hike395 (talk) 15:21, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
- @Hike395
Done --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 21:06, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
- Automated comment: One or more pages in this request appear to have already been unprotected. Please confirm.—cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online 21:14, 6 January 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.
Handled requests
A historical archive of previous protection requests can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive.