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 remove obvious vandalism.
Request addition of protection to a page, or increasing the current protection level
Request removal of protection from a page, or reducing the current protection level
Request a specific edit be made 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 the page history. Only recently answered requests are still listed here.
Reason: Repeated temporary-account edits are adding unsourced elimination results for episodes whose elimination has not yet aired. This occurred last week, when Aaron Potts's elimination was added before the August 6 broadcast revealed it, and temporary accounts are again adding the unresolved Episode 5 result before next week's episode. Requesting temporary semi-protection or pending-changes protection to prevent continued addition of unaired, unverifiable results. Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Project_Runway_season_22&diff=prev&oldid=1368224200 ~2026-43604-12 (talk) 21:33, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Is the concern "unaired and unverifiable" or are these results in fact verifiable (through sources other than the actual episodes,s of course) and the concern spoilers? Because we do not remove information due to the latter. - The Bushranger One ping only 00:57, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. No edits in two days, little reverting, and most importantly the above question makes it possible that this may be a content dispute. Daniel Case (talk) 21:44, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
Reason: Temporary account/IP vandalism like putting a inaccurate information. Typhoon Contributor (talk) 10:39, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
- Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Please be mindful that weather events is a contentious topic. WP:CT/WX Dr vulpes (Talk) 20:41, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
- Posted CT notices on a few talk pages and the article page. Dr vulpes (Talk) 20:50, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
Reason: So it can be protected for the future BookThing8 (talk) 16:51, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
- I’m pretty sure this account looks suspicious, given that a TA requested protection for Serena Williams for pretty much the same reason earlier today XXXX6666XXX (t · c) 16:53, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
- Im not an bot BookThing8 (talk) 16:57, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
- Nobody is saying you are ... in fact a bot would have used English better. Daniel Case (talk) 21:48, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
- Im not an bot BookThing8 (talk) 16:57, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
- Declined – Pages are not protected preemptively. Staraction (talk · contribs) 18:55, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
Reason: This article has been subject to edit warring by sockpuppets and temporary accounts since August 1. See relevant SPI page and thread on WikiProject Medicine talk page. The editors need to go talk it out on the talk page instead of reverting each other, and a bit of page protection would encourage this. Dreamyshade (talk) 23:43, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing. AriuCH (talk) 23:46, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
Reason: WP:LOUTSOCK editwarring by WP:UNCIVIL and WP:NOTHERE user BashoTanka (talk · contribs). See Borgenland (talk) 00:54, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
Current requests for reduction in protection level
Unprotection: Was suddenly indefinitely protected in 2015 by an admin who's not so active anymore. Even then vandalism was pretty sparse and could be mitigated, and it absolutely did not require an indefinite page protection. And the page doesn't seem to be a target for school kids anyways. If it was, the page for the author, Anna Sewell, would also be protected. MrCleanAd (talk) 17:28, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
- Looking at its pre-protection edit history it looks a good candidate for pending changes protection rather than semi protection.
- Gourleyo (talk) 17:46, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
- Let's try temporary pending changes, if disruption still occurs make it indefinite. MrCleanAd (talk) 19:31, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
- Even though they were desysopped by ArbCom six years ago, the admin who protected it edited as recently as a couple of days ago. Their thoughts on the matter and why it was protected might be worth taking into consideration. Pinging @Kudpung Daniel Case (talk) 22:05, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
- @MrCleanAd, @Daniel Case: The instruction on the top of this page, highlighted in yellow, is: Before posting a request for unprotection, please discuss it with the protecting administrator first. You can create a request below if you receive no response from them. If those posting here had done their homework (rather than citing irrelevant background information), it would have been clear why the decision to semi-protect was taken 11 years ago, as Fluffernutter, Materialscientist, Moe Epsilon, Gilliam, Claidheamhmor, Eyesnore, Wtmitchell, TheEpTic, Passengerpigeon, Drmies, Gilliam NebY, Vacation9, Denisarona, and Dubmill, who are still around will attest, as well as dozens more reverts by ClueBot, during the the pre 2015 period -
pretty sparse
?. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 23:48, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
Current requests for edits to a protected page
I request the following sentence be removed from the lead's 2nd paragraph:
"and subsequently annexing the Strait of Hormuz"
This sentence was recently added but is completely unsourced, not in the body, and POV pushing. Although Iran has claimed sovereignty over the strait, there are no sources claiming that it has actually successfully annexed it during the ongoing war or even attempted officially to do so. The linked page on sovereignty in the text which is a new page created by the same user also doesn't even support this wording of annexation. Current talks between Iran and Oman are about shared administration as well, not annexation. ~2026-43592-81 (talk) 07:20, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Section: Ideology Requested edit: Replace the current wording with the proposed sourced wording below. Reason: The proposed wording provides a more neutral description of the movement's stated and reported political themes and adds citations for the claims. The change is intended to improve accuracy and sourcing, not to alter the article's neutral point of view. Author In India (talk) 21:28, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
Not done No actual description of the desired change has been provided. - The Bushranger One ping only 22:06, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
- Furthermore @Author In India: Talk:Cockroach Janta Party is not protected and is the appropriate place for a non-autoconfirmed editor to make editing requests on a protected page. - The Bushranger One ping only 22:12, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
Моля фотографията да се смени поради грешка не е на фотографията Мануш Романов а друг човек и т Текста да се допълни с точна за Мануш информация.
~2026-43841-16 (talk) 23:08, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
- Not done Manush Romanov or the Bulgarian version are not protected. Tbhotch™ (CC BY-SA 4.0) 23:25, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
Handled requests
A historical archive of previous protection requests can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive.