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.
Indefinite extended-confirmed protection: High-risk template or module. Wikan Boy 123 (talk) 02:59, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Bbb23 (talk) 19:34, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent addition of unsourced or poorly sourced content – Persistent addition of unsourced content by IP addresses and new accounts since 01:43, 4 January 2025. Possibly WP:CTOP enforcement due to topics regarding India and caste. Alith Anar 05:34, 11 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 05:41, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
User(s) blocked: 183.83.232.0/21 (talk · contribs) blocked by Daniel Case. for a week. This supersedes an earlier single-address block I made; the range has been disruptive on a number of articles in the IPA topic area. Daniel Case (talk) 20:33, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – No need for User:Belteshazzar ip accounts to edit this next time around. Moxy🍁 05:39, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
- Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Bbb23 (talk) 19:36, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – No need for User:Belteshazzar ip accounts to edit this next time around. Moxy🍁 05:43, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
- Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Not seeing a lot of disruption since the last IP was globally blocked. Daniel Case (talk) 20:50, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – No need for User:Belteshazzar ip accounts to edit this next time around. Moxy🍁 05:44, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
- Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Again, not seeing much of it recently. Daniel Case (talk) 20:52, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
Temporary extended confirmed protection: A lot of recent spam. Requesting temp protection. Imcdc Contact 09:31, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
- Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Bbb23 (talk) 19:37, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Persistent vandalism by user using multiple different IP's. Has some type of fixation on the phrase "B57" and repeatedly replaces it with nonsensical phrases like "Sch-b570 sch-b640 sch-w810" across multiple articles, but mostly on BMW B57. A temporary page protection would be enough I think.
If an admin could also assist in banning that would be appreciated. G3560 (talk) 10:09, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Daniel Case (talk) 20:54, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing. Remsense ‥ 论 10:35, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
- Semi-protected for a period of three months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Daniel Case (talk) 20:58, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. WiiUf🐉 10:43, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
- Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Bbb23 (talk) 19:38, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – User:Supporter33 has persisted in adding unsourced and fringe information into this article. They have been reverted by four editors and refuses to address the concerns brought up on the article talk page. They have now resorted to attacking me by deleting my user page and attacking me on the article talk page. freshacconci (✉) 12:31, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
- User(s) blocked: Supporter33 (talk · contribs) blocked by Daniel Case. for 24 hours. Daniel Case (talk) 20:47, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent addition of unsourced or poorly sourced content – The IP user keeps adding something which is not supported by the sources and he also doesn't answer in his talk page. just reverting edits. Sports2021 (talk) 15:20, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
Consider the edit warring noticeboard – This is a case of possible edit-warring by one or two users. I have warned them already to that effect. Daniel Case (talk) 21:01, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations – Persistent changes to surname from "Im" to "Yim" by various IP ranges since 8 January 2025. — Paper9oll (🔔 • 📝) 15:49, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
- Semi-protected for a period of 10 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Daniel Case (talk) 21:04, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
Temporary extended confirmed protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Persistent disruption by adding controversial additions [1] constantly edit warring, instead of taking it on talk page. Garuda Talk! 15:56, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
- Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Since the user was only just alerted to CTOPS, and there does seem to be some discussion on talk, and imposing ECP when Tiipu is the only participant without that access level so doing that would essentially grant victory (albeit temporarily) in the content dispute, I am reluctant to protect as of yet. Daniel Case (talk) 21:11, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
Temporary extended confirmed protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Same case here as well, the recent controversial undue additions [2] are nowhere near to constructive. Garuda Talk! 16:12, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
- Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. And for the same reasons I have declined at Nanda dynasty. Daniel Case (talk) 21:12, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Recent, persistent, ongoing vandalism from multiple unregistered accounts. Possibly could be a single IP-hopping SPA/LTA. Can we please just go ahead and give it permanent or a year-long WP:SEMI?. Shearonink (talk) 16:13, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
- Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Daniel Case (talk) 21:14, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
- Put CTOPS notice on talk page. Daniel Case (talk) 21:15, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Persistent disruptive editing; editing while logged out; WP:CASTE. Ekdalian (talk) 16:33, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
- Extended confirmed protected indefinitely. Will log at WP:GS/CASTE. Daniel Case (talk) 21:38, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Petty vandalism by IPs; subject is taking part in the 2025 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election. ―"Ghost of Dan Gurney" (hihi) 16:38, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Nearly 50% of the last 500 edits have been vandalism or reverting vandalism. Page has seen about this same level of vandalism for over 20 years, and has been semiprotected 10 times during that period. Was protected for 30 months from Sep 2017, expiring Mar 2020, which helped a lot during that period, but vandalism returned in full force afterwards. I believe it needs indefinite protection to permanently solve the problem. Plighting Engineerd (talk) 16:57, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
- Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Bbb23 (talk) 19:40, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Persistent unconstructive edits (either unreferenced or incorrect information). A new season of the series is about to premiere this month, and the article would likely attract more unreferenced edits in the next few weeks. Hotwiki (talk) 17:43, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Individual is subject to news regarding allegations of sexual offences. Given BLP violations being made, request page protection. Rambling Rambler (talk) 18:18, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
+1 Reason: Semi-Protection: BLP vandalism due to photos published on social media alleging criminal activity. The C of E God Save the King! (talk) 19:04, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
- Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 20:56, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent content change by ip. BlueboyLINY (talk) 18:26, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
Indefinite extended-protection: Persistent vandalism. Moderate Vandalism throughout the page's history- also an edit war occuring a few days ago that was triggered by an autoconfirmed user 🗽Freedoxm🗽(talk • contribs) 18:52, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
Reason: This page was previously protected from Jan 4 until Jan 11 (today); the vandalism started up again soon after it expired. Iiii I I I (talk) 19:47, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Awami League kept being removed and BNP's leader being changed to Tarique Rahman despite a whole notice being placed warning users not to change anything until further confirmation. Ilhamnobi (talk) 20:00, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. soetermans. ↑↑↓↓←→←→ B A TALK 20:03, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
- Witness: Passing the Torch of Holocaust Memory to New Generations (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Reason: re: Mass Deletion of Holocaust Survivor Quotes & Images from Witness: Passing the Torch of Holocaust Memory to New Generations
hello,
I have a few important issues to raise with this latest deletion. I'm addressing this post both to the author of the deletions as well as to any neutral observers will be viewing this at a later date.
1. This page has been up for many years (since 2015) with no objection to the quotes and images that were up prior to January 2, 2025, despite having been seen by thousands of people, including Wikipedia editors.
I have seen a lot of pages being unjustly attacked or ones with content deleted without proper explanation, and I have noticed that some pages get some protection from this. On Jan 2 this year, a user (Moxy) deleted over 13,000 characters and some pictures with no explanation except "mass copy and pasting," which was untrue. Over the last decade, this content has been filled with survivor testimony and was wiped out in seconds.
2. The editor who deleted over 13,000 words claims these quotes were mass copied and pasted. This is untrue. Each quote was sourced and excerpted from a different review and was pasted individually
3. The editor who deleted the 13,000 words also deleted all the references below (under "See Also"), including the references to the USC Shoah Foundation, among other references. This organization is intimately tied to the book because every picture of a Holocaust survivor or Righteous among the Nations in the book is linked to the testimony found on the USCSF website. One of the significant features of the book is that the testimony on the printed page becomes alive when one uses a smartphone (hovering over the image in the book) to access the testimony on the USC Shoah Foundation.
4. All the quotes and images from the Holocaust survivors (Elie Wiesel etc.) and other individuals (Steven Spielberg (founder of USC Shoah Foundation), Pop Francis, Pres. Barak Obama etc) mentioned in the book have been removed.
One of the stated goals of the book is to keep the memories and stories of the Holocaust survivors alive. So it is indeed ironic that whoever is removing these images is doing the exact opposite of the purpose of the book.
The title of the book is: Witness: Passing the Torch of Holocaust Memory to New Generations. By deleting these crucial testimonies to the Holocaust, the editor is, in fact, extinguishing the "torch of Holocaust memory" for current readers and generations to come if these deletions are allowed to stand.
To put this point as succinctly as possible - directly to the editor - why would you or anybody else want to remove a picture of a Holocaust survivor from the book whose entire family was murdered in the Holocaust? To end and to what purpose does this serve?
My last point:
This is not the first time that Holocaust pages have been unfairly targeted, even after the pages were up for many, many years on Wikipedia - seen by thousands without objection.
One has to wonder if there is a political agenda at play or if some individuals are simply intent on disrupting the flow of human understanding of significant events in human history, and this case, the history of the Holocaust.
It is beyond frustrating when one is trying to educate the public with pure knowledge and help people understand the enormity of events like the Holocaust when individuals come along randomly, for no apparent reason - or perhaps even worse - and delete these important sources of the history of humanity. Write this now.
As this is becoming a worrisome trend, especially in this hyper-politicized environment, I am wondering if there's a way we can get protection for this page to forestall these kinds of unjustified mass deletions.
When I wrote on the person's wall and explained these points, the user wrote back, " This is not grade 7..."
As someone whose own great-grandmother was deported to Auschwitz in 1944 at 84 years of age, this is not just a question of academic knowledge but deeply personal to me as well. But I keep things subjective for Wikipedia. Is there some actual help Wikipedia can provide to stop people form erasing 3/4 of a page that has been up for a decade instantly?
thanks you so much
Uiaeli (talk) 20:13, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
- Declined If you're writing something this long, it's better to take it to AN/I. Daniel Case (talk) 20:38, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
Reason: High level of IP vandalism Ed Oppty (talk) 21:38, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Continued long-term abuse after page protection set in. See WP:LTA/HANOI. HorrorLover555 (talk) 21:46, 11 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.
Indefinite pending changes protection: Is not even a real thing it is just a fictious project as other pages such as celebrities WolfeReAds (talk) 04:32, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
- @WolfeReAds:I highly doubt this will be done as you have provided no legitimate reason to lower the protection. Dronebogus (talk) 04:44, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
- @WolfeReAds: Did you read the article? Even the preview popups I use make it clear the article is about works of fiction. This is like arguing a page about a celebrity should be unprotected because the article states the guy was only popular in Oak Grove, Kentucky. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v threads critiques 07:48, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Subject 2600:1700:F991:9E50:F923:CBAA:724D:8AFE (talk) 04:59, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
- Previously page did not meet musical notability criteria but after winning a grammy with Tennesse State Marching Band title meets said criteria 2600:1700:F991:9E50:F923:CBAA:724D:8AFE (talk) 05:03, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
- I believe Robert McClenon's response to you at Del Rev (11 Jan) was along the lines of "create a notable draft first, then we'll deal with unprotection". Zinnober9 (talk) 05:48, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
Temporary pending changes protection: Reduce the protection to pending changes, as all vandals that triggered the temporary semi-protection are all ip users. It would be greatly appreciated if the semi-protection is reduced to pending changes for the remainder of the duration. 🗽Freedoxm🗽(talk • contribs) 18:57, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
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