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.
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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.
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Gross violations of WP:BLP. Sjö (talk) 06:53, 9 February 2025 (UTC)
Declined for now, as it seems to have died down. The edits are coming from two /64s: the one from around 10 hours ago, and yesterday's Special:Contributions/2a00:23c6:34ff:6300::/64. Sdrqaz (talk) 19:03, 9 February 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – See the history. Several IPs, appearing to be from the same range, are continually removing content and eventually blanking the article through multiple edits, apparently in an effort to request deletion. SK2242 (talk) 07:17, 9 February 2025 (UTC)
- Declined The last such deletion was made by the article creator, which is fine—it has been declined several times, and does not look like it's any closer to being ready for primetime. Daniel Case (talk) 19:38, 9 February 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Violations of the biographies of living persons policy. Disruptive editing editing by IP editors, removing material which is supported by sources and adding content which is not in violation of WP:BLP TarnishedPathtalk 09:57, 9 February 2025 (UTC)
User(s) blocked: 181.214.255.76 (talk · contribs) blocked by Malcolmxl5. for a year. Daniel Case (talk) 19:43, 9 February 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent addition of unsourced or poorly sourced content – Lot of IP users changing/adding information without any sources. United Blasters (talk) 10:45, 9 February 2025 (UTC)
- User(s) blocked: 2409:408A:8D1D:A37:0:0:0:0/64 (talk · contribs) blocked by Daniel Case. for two weeks. As well as the IP they had previously been using. Daniel Case (talk) 19:45, 9 February 2025 (UTC)
Reason: IP disrupting editing, not a forum. 98.97.25.26 (talk) 15:56, 9 February 2025 (UTC)
- User(s) blocked: b2a02:587:c800::/41 (talk · contribs). Partially from talkspace. Sdrqaz (talk) 19:03, 9 February 2025 (UTC)
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Repeated comments about "hitler particles" etc, irrelevant to Wikipedia. Electricmemory (talk) 17:33, 9 February 2025 (UTC)
- Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Two such comments in a day and nothing for a year beforehand. Talk pages are only protected in the most severe cases of disruption. Sdrqaz (talk) 19:03, 9 February 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Recently referenced by Elon Musk on Twitter, likely to get a lot of traffic, and erroneous editorialising has already taken place (describing the song as racist, which is subjective and not authoritative). Would ask for it to be temporarily protected while it is likely to be the centre of conversation. SouthAfricanTruth (talk) 18:30, 9 February 2025 (UTC)
- Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. There may, as you suggest, be a need to protect it in the future. But not right now when editing is still very light. Daniel Case (talk) 20:04, 9 February 2025 (UTC)
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Requesting arb enforcement, WP:CTOPS within post-1992 US politics and Israel-Palestine. IP edits are unconstructive and unlikely to be constructive. – Muboshgu (talk) 18:40, 9 February 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of six months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Will log at CTOPS under AP. Daniel Case (talk) 20:08, 9 February 2025 (UTC)
Extended confirmed protection: Vandalized by an IP, shall be protected in accordance with WP:ARBPIA. 142.113.180.165 (talk) 19:31, 9 February 2025 (UTC)
- Extended confirmed protected indefinitely. And logged at CTOPS. Daniel Case (talk) 20:14, 9 February 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent addition of unsourced or poorly sourced content. Skitash (talk) 19:32, 9 February 2025 (UTC)
- Please enforce WP:GS/SCW. IanDBeacon (talk) 19:52, 9 February 2025 (UTC)
- Semi-protected indefinitely. Will log. Daniel Case (talk) 20:18, 9 February 2025 (UTC)
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Persistent vandalism(see hist), high-risk page, temporary or indef semi-protection requested. RaschenTechner (talk) 19:58, 9 February 2025 (UTC)
- Indefinite is 100% a better option, and I don't see any point in asking for semi-protection to be temporary when vandalism comes up as that would just return once protection ends. SNUGGUMS (talk / edits) 20:21, 9 February 2025 (UTC)
- Semi-protected indefinitely. Will log at CTOPS under GENSEX. Daniel Case (talk) 20:23, 9 February 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent vandalism by a user who is hopping IPs. Opolito (talk) 20:09, 9 February 2025 (UTC)
- User(s) blocked: 2600:1700:3471:5010:0:0:0:0/64 (talk · contribs) blocked by Daniel Case. for a week. Daniel Case (talk) 20:29, 9 February 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing. SNUGGUMS (talk / edits) 20:19, 9 February 2025 (UTC)
- User(s) blocked: AbraGODabra (talk · contribs) blocked by Daniel Case. indefinitely as NOTHERE. Daniel Case (talk) 20:31, 9 February 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Requesting semi-protection. There's a pattern of un-cited material being added, from more than one user. A quote was also recently tampered with, and a very grammatically incorrect change was made to the lede, that could have been vandalism. Also, an incident occurred not long ago of a sock-puppet account deleting a large amount of material. Indefatigable2 talk 20:38, 9 February 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.
Reason: This page has been protected for *ten years*. It is the only engine page for major US manufacturers that is. It is not an *inherently contentious* page like many on religion, sexuality, ethnic strife, and such (which can remain persistently problematic). The page has had plenty of time to ride out a spate of probematic editing/unregistered editors. It needs the opportunity to be freely edited, and settle itself down. 2601:196:180:DC0:4842:76FD:4D84:35D5 (talk) 15:26, 7 February 2025 (UTC)
- FYI Biblioworm. There's certainly a lot of disruption on car articles generally, but I'm not sure about a specific engine nowadays – I checked in the archives and the last time we had an engine-related request was in October (note that I only did a Ctrl+F check and that the Ford IP seems unrelated to this one). Sdrqaz (talk) 17:17, 7 February 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.
In the lede of this article second paragraph, it mentions "prompting Israeli forces to fight back and apply the Hannibal Directive against its own citizens." The mention of the Hannibal directive is gratuitous and disputed by plenty of sources. At worst, the directive, according to disputed sources, led to 14 deaths. Given its extreme minor significance in the attack by Hamas, it should be removed from the second paragraph. The next sentence also makes it seem like it was the Hannibal directive and not Hamas which killed the majority of Israelis. (Personal attack removed) Apndrew (talk) 20:34, 8 February 2025 (UTC)
- @Apndrew: I would seriously reconsider using personal attacks when making any sort of WP:CT/A-I-related request. That's a good way to get hauled to WP:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement and have to answer pointed questions to the satisfaction of a tetchy administrator who has to deal with this shit yet again. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v threads critiques 07:26, 9 February 2025 (UTC)
- Doesn't change the fact the the page has been vandalized to include a fringe and disputed theory in the second paragraph of the entry and now implies that it was Israel who was responsible for the deaths of 1,195 Israelis. Apndrew (talk) 14:48, 9 February 2025 (UTC)
Handled requests
A historical archive of previous protection requests can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive.