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
Request the non-urgent protection of multiple pages that do not require immediate administrator attention
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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: Persistent disruptive editing by socks. Johnj1995 (talk) 15:10, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
User(s) blocked. signed, Rosguill talk 18:04, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Chrisahn (talk) 19:24, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Chrisahn (talk) 19:32, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Several temporary accounts have been adding material on "corporate catfishing" that is poorly sourced and a COATRACK aimed at a Russian businessman, Dmitry Volkov (entrepreneur). There *are* allegations against him from investigative journalists, but "Corporate catfishing" is a neologism. Protection for some months might be proportional. Fences&Windows 21:30, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
Reason: Temporary account vandalism GeographicAccountant (talk) 21:45, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
Reason: Persistent vandalism by IPs and new accounts stretching back years, including an unregistered LTA who has been actively vandalizing for years every time page protection expires. Every recent anon edit in the last several months save for one has been some kind of vandalism, including from the LTA mentioned earlier. LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 23:43, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
Reason: Vandals are back after protection period expired four hours ago MathMan4 (talk) 00:56, 1 August 2026 (UTC)
Current requests for reduction in protection level
Reason: Like my last request, this is no longer needed as this was mostly used to prevent LTAs to moving the page to Grawp-like titles (e.g. H..A..G..G..E..R..?). This is how Grawp spells Hagrid's name in the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix film from 2007. Because JarlaxleArtemis is an LTA that is no longer active, I recommend and suggest removing the protection or even a step further to removing the move protection of this page (extended confirmed would be okay for the Hagrid request). — SimpleObjects-9ei 🏖️/☀️/🥵 (see talk) 21:39, 27 July 2026 (UTC)
- (Non-administrator comment) Pinging protecting admin @Number 57. Entranced98 (talk) 17:15, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
Unprotection: 8 years have passed since this should have been an issue, seeing how there's been no disruption basically on the other lists of deaths of Wikipedians by year in more recent years, unprotection should be okay. MakaylaHippo1998 (talk) 07:07, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
- See the instructions. You're supposed to contact the protecting admin before making a request here. In this case that admin is Oshwah, who is active today. ~Anachronist (who / me) (talk) 14:34, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
Current requests for edits to a protected page
Handled requests
A historical archive of previous protection requests can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive.