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: Persistent unsourced edit-warring from IP address hundenvonPG (talk) 00:01, 9 February 2025 (UTC)
- Pinging Daniel Quinlan, this might be related to the previous disruptive IPs reported here. hundenvonPG (talk) 00:04, 9 February 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – This has happened at several other pages. IPs and single-issue editors are making the same incorrect edit against long-standing consensus based on a news story. Anwegmann (talk) 04:26, 9 February 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. KH-1 (talk) 06:28, 9 February 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Gross violations of WP:BLP. Sjö (talk) 06:53, 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)
Temporary Semi Protection Block Evasion with the IP returning under a similar range to its previous 2 banned IPs after the last Page Protection had lifted. Coastie43 (talk) 08:34, 9 February 2025 (UTC)
- NOPE 103.241.38.208 (talk) 08:37, 9 February 2025 (UTC)
- DONT YOU DARE TO ADD THIS 103.241.38.208 (talk) 08:38, 9 February 2025 (UTC)
- Comment 103.241.38.208 was banned under the 103.241.37.255 IP. ---- Coastie43 (talk) 08:45, 9 February 2025 (UTC)
- Comment The IP user in question was believed to be originally banned under 103.241.38.204 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) for similar behaviour as sighted above. The blocking admin also tagged it as an open or VPN Proxy Coastie43 (talk) 10:14, 9 February 2025 (UTC)
User(s) blocked: 103.241.36.0/22 (talk · contribs). Favonian (talk) 10:50, 9 February 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent vandalism by numerous IP users. Areaseven (talk) 09:49, 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)
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)
Reason: persistent addition of unsourced non-neutral pov content from ip editors Mikewem (talk) 13:36, 9 February 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Frequent disruptive editing from anonymous editors, including the addition of speculative contestant placements and information derived from so-called "spoilers" for episodes not yet aired. 80.41.103.194 (talk) 13:45, 9 February 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Nearly every IP/newbie edit to this article has been, for years, a restoration of the 2014 hoax claim about the cake being invented in New Zealand rather than Australia. Belbury (talk) 13:45, 9 February 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. 🔥YesI'mOnFire🔥(ContainThisEmber?) 14:06, 9 February 2025 (UTC)
Reason: IP disrupting editing, it's not a forum talking about Shrek 5 cast. 98.97.25.26 (talk) 15:55, 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.
- @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 misleadingly 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.