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.
Semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing. 海盐沙冰 / aka irisChronomia / Talk 09:54, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Consider the edit warring noticeboard – This is a case of possible edit-warring by one or two users. Daniel Case (talk) 18:49, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Reason: Persistent vandalism from user who doesn't think specific fictional characters are notable enough, resulting in a pointless edit war. XF490 (talk) 11:46, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
User(s) blocked: XF490 (talk · contribs). 1 week from Cody (given name). signed, Rosguill talk 20:25, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Reason: Contentious topic, some controversial recipients mentioned. ~2026-43514-01 (talk) 12:11, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Extended confirmed protected indefinitely. per WP:PIA signed, Rosguill talk 20:29, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Perstistent vandalism from several newly created accounts. . - Otherwise (Antibacklog Aktion!) (talk?) 13:19, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Semi-protected indefinitely., extremely long history of vandalism that seems likely to continue indefinitely, as a lot of it is evidently done by young students of the district. signed, Rosguill talk 20:33, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Reason: Vandalism from IPs and random, newly-made accounts on the name of the communion and other information. Consistent for months. TheLionHasSeen (talk) 13:33, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Noting that over the past two months, while there's been some disruption, the TAs involve do not appear suggestive of sock- or meatpuppetry at this time. signed, Rosguill talk 20:39, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Reason: Long term IP edit war, now the IP uses a red account to continue his edit war, the IP/red account does not want use the talk page, it was requested many times OrionNimrod (talk) 14:24, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- User(s) blocked: Veladost (talk · contribs) blocked by Favonian. signed, Rosguill talk 20:42, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Itsekiri people (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Kingdom of Warri (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Yorubaland (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Yoruba people (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Reason: Ongoing edit-warring and repeated removal/restoration of disputed material across these four related articles while talk-page discussions and an RfC are ongoing. The recent back-and-forth editing has involved Itsekiriwriting (talk · contribs) and me. An uninvolved administrator, 331dot (talk · contribs), directed me to request page protection at here. I am requesting temporary semi-protection, if appropriate, to allow the dispute-resolution process to continue without further reverts. Agents47 (talk) 15:24, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- I would just note for the record that I directed them here, but did not advise them to undertake any particular course of action. 331dot (talk) 15:44, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Yes sorry. Agents47 (talk) 17:09, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- I have made the corrections. I just want to note that there may be further edits and reverts on Kingdom of Warri, which is another related page affected by the same dispute. Given the large-scale changes already taking place on Itsekiri people and the ongoing discussions on the other pages, I am concerned that the same cycle may continue here. I understand that you previously said no further admin action was needed, but I would appreciate it if you could keep an eye on the edits across these pages. If I also cross the line or contribute to the edit-warring, I accept that I should be held accountable as well. Agents47 (talk) 17:50, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Itsekiri people already semi-protected, not enough activity to justify increasing protected level.
- Kingdom of Warri Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection.
- Yorubaland Extended confirmed protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will revert to its previous protection level if it is still in effect, or become unprotected otherwise.
- Yoruba people Extended confirmed protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will revert to its previous protection level if it is still in effect, or become unprotected otherwise. signed, Rosguill talk 20:50, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Automated comment: @Rosguill: One or more pages in this request have not been protected.—cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online 21:15, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- I'm going to assume that I can ignore this. signed, Rosguill talk 21:18, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- If you don't protect them all, the bot gets confused.
Requesting immediate archiving... The Bushranger One ping only 01:57, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
- If you don't protect them all, the bot gets confused.
- I'm going to assume that I can ignore this. signed, Rosguill talk 21:18, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Seems like an edit war was broken out over page categories. Either it's an IP or its an editor that I warned about this using an IP. Armegon (talk) 16:13, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. signed, Rosguill talk 20:52, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Seems like a small edit war was broken out. Either it's an IP or its an editor that I warned about recently using an IP. Armegon (talk) 16:14, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. signed, Rosguill talk 20:53, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Reason: High level of temporary account vandalism. Arjan866 (talk) 17:46, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Declined – Content dispute. Please use the article's talk page or other forms of dispute resolution. signed, Rosguill talk 20:55, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Cicada1010 (talk) 18:59, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Done for 31 hours. Staraction (talk · contribs) 19:04, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. GSK 19:20, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Semi-protected for a period of 2 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. signed, Rosguill talk 20:57, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. GSK 19:21, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Semi-protected for a period of 2 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. signed, Rosguill talk 20:57, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Reason: High level of temporary account vandalism. ChefShinas (talk) 19:21, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Declined There have been zero edits to this article from temporary accounts CoconutOctopus talk 19:25, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Indefinite pending changes: Persistent vandalism. Niasoh ❯❯❯ Wanna chat? 19:30, 7 August 2026 (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 19:44, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Semi-protected for a period of 2 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. signed, Rosguill talk 20:59, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) 20:34, 7 August 2026 (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 20:45, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Semi-protected for a period of three weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Daniel Case (talk) 21:12, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Temporary pending changes: Persistent disruptive editing – Recent disruption after WNBA publicity stunt, including an attempt to change pronouns. Could be either PC or semi-protected. O.N.R. (talk) 20:39, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Ymblanter (talk) 21:05, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. MakaylaHippo1998 (talk) 20:40, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- No thanks. Staraction (talk · contribs) 20:42, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Declined Staraction is an admin and can lock their talk page themselves if they so choose. CoconutOctopus talk 20:42, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Reason: The user is engaging in an edit war by logging out of their account while also continuing from their main account. Kajmer05 (talk) 20:45, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Ymblanter (talk) 21:01, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Reason: To protect from vandalism by anonymous alt-right and anti-Islam accounts and IP addresses. IonicBreezeMachine (talk) 20:53, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- I do not see any vandalism in the article. Ymblanter (talk) 20:59, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Declined Per above. Daniel Case (talk) 21:13, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Temporary extended confirmed protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Article has been consistently targeted by sockpuppets; see this SPI. Previously protected due to vandalism/socking. Since protection expired in June, a series of temp accounts are once again repeatedly making unsourced edits or deletions, frequently reverted. Several of them have been blocked as socks, but new accounts come and go quickly and the overall activity is suspicious and fits the same pattern, with no indication of stopping. I think a longer semi-protection would be beneficial at this point, if that sounds reasonable. R Prazeres (talk) 21:06, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Extended confirmed protected for a period of 1 year, after which the page will revert to its previous protection level if it is still in effect, or become unprotected otherwise. signed, Rosguill talk 21:14, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Reason: Repeated vandalism/unconstructive edits by IP accounts (related to recent news stories) Robminchin (talk) 21:24, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- IP address(es) blocked blocked by Malcolmxl5. on the /64, which I've expanded to the /48 to cover all the relevant edits. The Bushranger One ping only 01:51, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
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)
Reason: High level of temporary account vandalism and loads of poorly unsourced content. Ruby Fortnite (talk) 22:22, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Reason: Temporary semi-protection due to persistent vandalism from several temporary user accounts who are changing the subject's birth date. Marchije•speak/peek 22:24, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Reason: Article is on a non-binary individual, referred to with they/them pronouns. While not super frequent, there have been multiple instances since its creation of the article being vandalized to swap out their pronouns with "he/him" and remove mentions of their gender identity with no explanation. As such, I request that the page be semi-protected (preferably indefinitely) to prevent this vandalism in the future. λ NegativeMP1 23:25, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Pending-changes protected indefinitely. The rate of disruption is not sufficient to justify semiprotection. This is, however, exactly what pending changes is for. The Bushranger One ping only 00:02, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Thepharoah17 (talk) 23:37, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing. Tbhotch™ (CC BY-SA 4.0) 00:06, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
Indefinite extended confirmed protection: Per Arbitration enforcement – WP:GS/KURD. Kajmer05 (talk) 00:07, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Repeated introduction of disinformation by multiple TAs evidently from the same IP address. Zingarese talk · contribs (please 
mention me on reply; thanks!) 00:14, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Slow motion vandalism from a variable IP that seems to be just one person. Howard the Duck (talk) 01:23, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
- Semi-protected for a period of ten days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. The Bushranger One ping only 01:48, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Ip vandalism again. User:Bluethricecreamman (Talk·Contribs) 01:43, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
Reason: Just in case vandalim might happen, it would be better to have that article protected. ErrrrrWhat (talk) 02:19, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
- Declined – Pages are not protected preemptively. Staraction (talk · contribs) 02:21, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
- Note I have added editnotice and talknotice for WP:CT/EE, which the article falls under. - The Bushranger One ping only 04:32, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
Reason: Arbitration enforcement. ~2026-43444-95 (talk) 03:40, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
- (Belarus) ~2026-43444-95 (talk) 03:40, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
- Declined – Pages are not protected preemptively. WP:CT/EE does not mandate any protection, and the small part of the article that falls under WP:CT/GG also has no mandated protection. The portion of this article that falls under WP:RUSUKR is small and will be noted using hidden notes; in the absence of active disruption there is no protection required here. The Bushranger One ping only 04:21, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
Temporary pending changes: BLP policy violations – Fairly slow-moving disruption from temporary accounts/new users. Article also falls under CTOPS/AP in addition to being a BLP. See Special:Diff/1354557537, Special:Diff/1355086035, and Special:Diff/1353105720, as well as today's disruption, for some examples of the disruption occurring over the last few months, which isn't confined to specific users, and thus blocking is not a solution to this problem. EggRoll97 (talk) 03:44, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
- Semi-protected for a period of four days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Those other diffs could be evidence for PC, but they read to me as generic, run-of-the-mill vandalism/nonconstructiveness not requiring PC. The Bushranger One ping only 04:18, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
Current requests for reduction in protection level
Unprotection: For a while I've been requesting the unprotection of films protected by Ronhjones >10 years ago. Many of them have been unprotected or PC-protected with no indications of disruption (Cyborg (film), Maximum Conviction, Walking Tall (2004 film), True Crime (1999 film), etc). I'm asking to lift the semi-protection knowing that this article won't have major issues if unprotected or PC-protected. Tbhotch™ (CC BY-SA 4.0) 08:26, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Unprotected Even in 2015, the level of disruption probably didn't warrant protection. signed, Rosguill talk 21:16, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Unprotection: For a while I've been requesting the unprotection of films protected by Ronhjones >10 years ago. Many of them have been unprotected or PC-protected with no indications of disruption (Cyborg (film), Maximum Conviction, Walking Tall (2004 film), True Crime (1999 film), etc). I'm asking to lift the semi-protection knowing that this article won't have major issues if unprotected or PC-protected. Tbhotch™ (CC BY-SA 4.0) 08:27, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Unprotected signed, Rosguill talk 21:19, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Unprotection: For a while I've been requesting the unprotection of films protected by Ronhjones >10 years ago. Many of them have been unprotected or PC-protected with no indications of disruption (Cyborg (film), Maximum Conviction, Walking Tall (2004 film), True Crime (1999 film), etc). I'm asking to lift the semi-protection knowing that this article won't have major issues if unprotected or PC-protected. Tbhotch™ (CC BY-SA 4.0) 08:27, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Unprotected signed, Rosguill talk 21:20, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Unprotection: Unrequired as it inherited the protection from a move. Tbhotch™ (CC BY-SA 4.0) 08:28, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Unprotected signed, Rosguill talk 21:21, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Unprotection: For a while I've been requesting the unprotection of films protected by Ronhjones >10 years ago. Many of them have been unprotected or PC-protected with no indications of disruption (Cyborg (film), Maximum Conviction, Walking Tall (2004 film), True Crime (1999 film), etc). I'm asking to lift the semi-protection knowing that this article won't have major issues if unprotected or PC-protected. Tbhotch™ (CC BY-SA 4.0) 08:28, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Unprotected signed, Rosguill talk 21:23, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Unprotection: For a while I've been requesting the unprotection of films protected by Ronhjones >10 years ago. Many of them have been unprotected or PC-protected with no indications of disruption (Cyborg (film), Maximum Conviction, Walking Tall (2004 film), True Crime (1999 film), etc). I'm asking to lift the semi-protection knowing that this article won't have major issues if unprotected or PC-protected. Tbhotch™ (CC BY-SA 4.0) 08:28, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Unprotected, although this one does seem to have had some more recent sockpuppetry but auto/extended-confirmed accounts. But this appears to have subsided a few years ago. signed, Rosguill talk 21:24, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Unprotection: For a while I've been requesting the unprotection of films protected by Ronhjones >10 years ago. Many of them have been unprotected or PC-protected with no indications of disruption (Cyborg (film), Maximum Conviction, Walking Tall (2004 film), True Crime (1999 film), etc). I'm asking to lift the semi-protection knowing that this article won't have major issues if unprotected or PC-protected. Tbhotch™ (CC BY-SA 4.0) 08:28, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Unprotected signed, Rosguill talk 21:25, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Unprotection: For a while I've been requesting the unprotection of films protected by Ronhjones >10 years ago. Many of them have been unprotected or PC-protected with no indications of disruption (Cyborg (film), Maximum Conviction, Walking Tall (2004 film), True Crime (1999 film), etc). I'm asking to lift the semi-protection knowing that this article won't have major issues if unprotected or PC-protected. Tbhotch™ (CC BY-SA 4.0) 08:28, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Unprotected signed, Rosguill talk 21:26, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Unprotection: For a while I've been requesting the unprotection of films protected by Ronhjones >10 years ago. Many of them have been unprotected or PC-protected with no indications of disruption (Cyborg (film), Maximum Conviction, Walking Tall (2004 film), True Crime (1999 film), etc). I'm asking to lift the semi-protection knowing that this article won't have major issues if unprotected or PC-protected. Tbhotch™ (CC BY-SA 4.0) 08:29, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Unprotected signed, Rosguill talk 21:26, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Unprotection: For a while I've been requesting the unprotection of films protected by Ronhjones >10 years ago. Many of them have been unprotected or PC-protected with no indications of disruption (Cyborg (film), Maximum Conviction, Walking Tall (2004 film), True Crime (1999 film), etc). I'm asking to lift the semi-protection knowing that this article won't have major issues if unprotected or PC-protected. Tbhotch™ (CC BY-SA 4.0) 08:30, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Unprotected signed, Rosguill talk 21:27, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Reason: Unprotecting admin incorrectly downgraded semi-protection to pending changes protection, see rfpp request: Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive/2026/08 § Kent School District and the logs. This article still has semi-protection applied to it. Requesting that the semi-protection be removed for the pending changes to be applied correctly. Justjourney (talk | contribs) 18:16, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Done signed, Rosguill talk 21:28, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- @Rosguill: While the TA comment was clearly by a old LTA friend, they were right in this case - you only removed the protection padlock, not removed the SP itself. I've done so. - The Bushranger One ping only 23:58, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Reason: Page has been protected for over 15 years with barely any vandalism, and most if not all of the edit requests by TA's and IP's are constructive, so there is no real reason for the page to be semi-protected anymore. MathMan4 (talk) 03:35, 8 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)
GPT 5.3 and GPT 5.4 are both Discontinued in chatgpt.com. Icetea36 (talk) 12:18, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Not done No reliable source provided. The Bushranger One ping only 23:55, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Please include detailed references to the history of Africans in pre- and post-colonial Mexico. What plants, religions, and customs did they bring to the land and its people? Their role in the formation of New Spain, slave revolts, connections to Indigenous peoples, established towns, demographics, customs, their role in the fight for independence, the Spanish-American and Mexican-American wars, past and current community involvement, past and current social societies, past and present involvement in politics, the recent official recognition of their and their descendants' existence, their lives in modern-day Mexico, the challenges they face and finally, their triumphs over marginalization. ~2026-43595-31 (talk) 23:15, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Not done This page is not a place to request users to create content for you. This page is to request X to Y changes. Also, Talk:Mexico is not protected. Tbhotch™ (CC BY-SA 4.0) 23:42, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Handled requests
A historical archive of previous protection requests can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive.