Wikipedia:Requests for page protection

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Welcome—request protection of a page, file, or template here.

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 protection Request unprotection of a page, or reducing the protection level Request unprotection Request a specific edit to a protected page Please request an edit directly on the protected page's talk page before posting here Request edit

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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.

The entire Born of Osiris discography

Indefinite semi-protection: Please indefinitely semi protect the entire Born of Osiris discography. It consists of these five pages as follows:

• The New Reign
• A Higher Place
• The Discovery (album)
• Tomorrow We Die Alive
• Soul Sphere

The IP editors never do anything except make rampant genre wars and try to insist that their first EP is instead a full length (thus corrupting the entire chronological lineup of their albums thereafter with edits like changing the text where it says their first full length to "second album" and second album to "third album" ect). there really is never any helpful IP edits to these pages and i don't think there ever will be. it's especially disruptive since im the only one that reverts these and im not on wikipedia every single day to babysit them . Second Skin (talk) 18:48, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

• Automated comment: @Second Skin: This request cannot be parsed. Please ensure it follows formatting consistent with the current or previous methods of submission.—^{cyberbot I}_{Talk to my owner:Online} 19:29, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Vanamonde (talk) 03:32, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

2017 EFL Cup Final

• 2017 EFL Cup Final (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – A lot of unhelpful edits that need fixing. JMHamo (talk) 19:14, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Vanamonde (talk) 03:29, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

Injection molding machine

• Injection molding machine (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Constant reinsertion of copyrighted material . - Happysailor ^(Talk) 21:31, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. Mifter (talk) 00:43, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Liquid Air

• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Liquid Air (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary full-protection: Non-admin is closing discussions in which he is involved, and has a history of restoring his own closures against WP:NACD. Unscintillating (talk) 23:39, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

Declined – Pages are not protected preemptively. Amortias (T)(C) 00:03, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

Motionless in White

• Motionless in White (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Home Lander (talk) 01:53, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mifter (talk) 03:05, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

Jehovah's Witnesses

• Jehovah's Witnesses (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Semi-protection: Please see Talk:Jehovah's_Witnesses/Archive_62#IP_Block for the consensus. Also see the recent history, where not only disruptive IP address edits are daily made, but also regular ones from brand-new single-purpose accounts (at least semi-protection would discourage this because of the delay)... The issue here is not the amount of problematic edits per day, where temporary protection may be warranted, but it is a very persistent long-term issue. Perhaps that permanent pending changes protection would be nice, if permanent semi-protection cannot be applied. Thank you very much, PaleoNeonate (talk) 02:17, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of 1 year, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. PaleoNeonate, protection is an admin decision (with a few exceptions) and cannot be dictated by local consensus. NeilN ^{talk to me} 02:55, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

Protection highly appreciated, many thanks. I understand that the administrator who processes the request has the final word, although I believed that showing consensus may be encouraging. Thanks again, PaleoNeonate (talk) 02:59, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

Maluuba

• Maluuba (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

full-protection: Set of non-admins are continuously making edits to remove two co-founders from the article. Such omission are invalid and damaging to the quality of the article. 2607:FEA8:520:361:F574:20BD:DF3F:5214 (talk) 02:36, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

Declined – Content dispute. Please use the article's talk page or other forms of dispute resolution. NeilN ^{talk to me} 02:57, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

Joshua Feuerstein

• Joshua Feuerstein (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Everymorning (talk) 03:56, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Mifter (talk) 04:38, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

Ian McDiarmid

• Ian McDiarmid (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Semi-Protection - Persistent vandalism by an unrelenting sock puppeteer. Not long after this same vandal already caused the page to get protected, the vandal started doing the same as before and is showing no signs of stopping. DarkKnight2149 04:06, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

Godswill Akpabio

• Godswill Akpabio (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Vandalism from account adding spam link. WikiThreatcontrol 04:50, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

Casey Affleck

• Casey Affleck (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism.  I dream of horses (My talk page) (My edits) @ 05:06, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

La La Land (film)

• La La Land (film) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Tiger7890 (talk) 05:18, 27 February 2017 (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.

Disappearance of Madeleine McCann

• Disappearance of Madeleine McCann (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Pending changes protection: Not a very high visible page. Let the new users edit it. 219.78.191.24 (talk) 03:05, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

Current requests for edits to a protected page

Further information: Wikipedia:Edit requests

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 rolling archive of the last seven days of protection requests can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Rolling archive.