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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Request a specific edit to a protected page
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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.
Reason: Persistent unsourced reverts – Sinhala script
- Requesting semi-protection
- Reason: Ongoing edit warring and repeated reintroduction of unsourced or contradictory material.
Before I made these edits (diff), I reviewed the cited references and found that several directly contradicted the article's prior claims. After updating the article with properly sourced content, multiple users (including an IP and User:Kiojimsa) reverted back to versions that had already been flagged on the article's talk page for possible WP:OR.
Despite attempting to conduct the discussion transparently on the talk page, it was redirected to my user talk (User talk:Luigi Boy#About the connection between Tamil brahmi and Sinhalese brahmi), where arguments have increasingly relied on anecdotal or unverifiable claims rather than published secondary sources - violating WP:V and WP:RS.
This topic touches on nationalistic sensitivities, and recent edits appear to be driven more by emotional or ideological positions than evidence. Semi-protection would help prevent further disruption and encourage resolution through proper talk page consensus.
Luigi Boy 09:11, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: preservation of information of out of use service. Theknoledgeableperson (talk) 09:55, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
Full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – Restoration of unsourced and unverified contents, a failure to assume good faith. Unnecessary stonewalling basic cleanup. AɭʋaKʰedək (talk) 10:49, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
- This request should be declined. You don't get to ask for protection right after you have restored the new edits (that have no consensus) even after knowing that another editor got blocked because of edit warring over the same reverts.[1] AlvaKedak you should make a self-revert and focus on gaining consensus on talk page. CharlesWain (talk) 13:07, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – Edit war. – Meena • 12:50, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: High level of IP Vandalism SOCTV (talk) 14:10, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Gommeh ➡️ Talk to me 15:08, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: IP address continues to vandalize the article and make WP:NPOV-violating edits, changing details about certain parties without sources or justification. IP user is currently engaged in an edit war and has reverted two of my edits where I undid their edits.
I have warned them twice on their talk page now. Not Wlwtn (talk) 15:16, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations – Repeated addition of unsourced biographical content by an IP editor. Tacyarg (talk) 15:28, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
User(s) blocked. qedk (t 愛 c) 19:15, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Content dispute/Edit warring Khirurg (talk) 15:50, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
Temporary extended confirmed protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Persistent back-and-forth editing from various accounts disputing the film's title. Multiple discussions are underway at the talk, but an increase in protection is warranted. Trailblazer101 (talk) 16:40, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
Extended confirmed protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. qedk (t 愛 c) 19:12, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Vandalism based off of the Kanye West song "PROBLEMATIC" which one of the lines is, "Used to shop at Aldi". Scarredskinn (talk) 16:51, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Vandalism RowanJ LP (talk) 17:14, 5 May 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 17:28, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
Indefinite extended confirmed protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Content removal/blanking of entire subsections with unsubstantiated claims/reasons of deletion. CallumPaxton (talk) 17:56, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Long-standing disruption from multiple IPs. See various ANI threads eg: Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/IncidentArchive1145#Birotron,_redux. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 19:43, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Repeated vandalism by proxy. Nahida 🌷 19:56, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
- Automated comment: One or more pages in this request appear to already be protected. Please confirm.—cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online 19:59, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
Indefinite extended confirmed protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Ban evasion; see Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Demographics vandal. Blocked as Special:Contributions/92.118.188.0/22, recently blocked as Special:Contributions/216.225.207.200, and active today as Special:Contributions/194.164.123.112. Binksternet (talk) 20:22, 5 May 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.
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.