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: Most of the article appears to fall underWP:CT/IMH. FDW777 (talk) 10:36, 1 August 2026 (UTC)
Indefinite pending changes protection: Persistent vandalism. Netstars22 (talk to me!) 11:24, 1 August 2026 (UTC)
- Given that this vandalism was from the world cup, it shouldn’t be indef. Toketaatalk 18:29, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
Reason: Still non-constructive IP editing polish ✹ kurd 12:04, 1 August 2026 (UTC)
Reason: Continued non-constructive IP editing polish ✹ kurd 12:05, 1 August 2026 (UTC)
Indefinite create protection: Repeatedly recreated – As one user has repeatedly recreated this template under multiple names, please set to require at least WP:TPE to create if not admin only. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 14:05, 1 August 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent addition of unsourced or poorly sourced content – Repeated addition of unsourced info mostly by TAs. As this is related to a recent event, they're like moths to a flame. 10mmsocket (talk) 15:58, 1 August 2026 (UTC)
Indefinite pending changes protection: Persistent Vandalism. Continuous vandalism by TAs and new users. I'm not sure whether pending changes protection or semi-protection is more appropriate, whatever you think is best. — Raihanur (talk) 16:10, 1 August 2026 (UTC)
Reason: TMZ reported his removal from metal band Slipknot (band) last night. As there is no other source, not even a statement by the band or Wilson himself, his membership status should not be changed in accordance with WP:TMZ. Nonetheless, IP editors keep making such changes, to the band's page and their members list at List of Slipknot band members as well. So I'm requesting protection for those three, at least from IP editors please. Seelentau (talk) 16:10, 1 August 2026 (UTC)
- Also, this page is having edit war. VitorFriboquen :] (Talk) 17:06, 1 August 2026 (UTC)
- Ladies and gentleman, what we have here is yet another case of Wikipedia:Verifiability, not truth. Giovanni Potage (talk) 19:40, 1 August 2026 (UTC)
This continues to happen, both at Sid Wilson and List of Slipknot band members on here. Mostly by IPs. Seelentau (talk) 22:28, 1 August 2026 (UTC)
Reason: Frequent vandalism from unregistered accounts and new accounts. - MJGTMKME123 16:13, 1 August 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Death hoaxes not stopping. Painting17 (talk) 16:27, 1 August 2026 (UTC)
Indefinite extended confirmed protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – LTA target. Taking Out The Trash (talk) 17:06, 1 August 2026 (UTC)
- Asilvering has WP:SEMIed this page from editing and WP:XCed it from moving for a year. --Prothe1st (leave me a message)-- 06:01, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent addition of unsourced or poorly sourced content – Persistent unsourced additions of a possible football transfer. • Quinn (talk • it/its) 17:19, 1 August 2026 (UTC)
Pending changes protection: Persistent addition of unsourced/poorly-sourced material + sockpuppetry + vandalism. TA edits are rarely consecutive in this article. So I think it would be a good idea to put all non-autoconfirmed edits under review. Giovanni Potage (talk) 19:31, 1 August 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – TA hopping vandal. at least 3 today. Jackjd0 (talk) 19:53, 1 August 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Vandalism by WMF-banned Astrawiki3203. SuperPianoMan9167 (talk) 20:04, 1 August 2026 (UTC)
- User:Astrawiki3203 now did sockpuppetry you mean? Loc863 (talk) 23:58, 1 August 2026 (UTC)
- I don't think one instance of disruption is enough for protection. Astrawiki usually moves on to other pages once it gets protected. --Prothe1st (leave me a message)-- 06:06, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. In solidarity, Jalen Barks (Woof) 04:14, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
- Automated comment: One or more pages in this request appear to already be protected. Please confirm.—cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online 19:02, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
Already protected by administrator Kinu. Favonian (talk) 19:21, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – This page has been the site of a month-long edit war involving users restoring the edits of a blocked user. The singular purposes of the subsequent accounts, the restorations of those specific edits, and the block imposed on the user whose edits they're restoring suggest that they're sockpuppets of that user being used to evade that block. In any case, however, I believe this behavior is disruptive enough to warrant page protection. Salmon of Knowledge (talk) 04:16, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent Vandalism. ~2026-42856-75 (talk) 04:43, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
- Thanks, but it's honestly a decent honeypot for finding Rgalo10's latest tomfoolery. - The Bushranger One ping only 04:59, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
Declined per owner's request. Favonian (talk) 10:22, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. 海盐沙冰 / aka irisChronomia / Talk 04:55, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Vandalism edits by TA/IP Address. Gunther : Talk 04:58, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Over the course of about a month and dozens of edits, several accounts have made and restored edits that add large amounts of what is likely AI-generated content to this article, as illustrated by this first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth edit from each associated account. These edits apparently introduce unverifiable claims, promotional content, fictitious citations, and formatting issues. Despite receiving several warnings and having the edits be reverted, new accounts emerge to restore the edits and make similar ones. Because of the length of time this has been occurring, as well as the large number of associated accounts, I request that this page be semi-protected. Salmon of Knowledge (talk) 08:56, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
- Automated comment: One or more pages in this request appear to already be protected. Please confirm.—cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online 14:59, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
- Already protected by administrator MCE89. Favonian (talk) 19:21, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. AriuCH (talk) 08:59, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
- Automated comment: One or more pages in this request appear to already be protected. Please confirm.—cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online 15:30, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
- Already protected by administrator PhilKnight. Favonian (talk) 19:21, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection, vandalism, persistent removal and distortion of the well-sourced content. Vuzorg (talk) 10:10, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry. Peterxy（talk） 10:24, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Constant spam. Imcdc Contact 10:42, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
Temporary pending changes: Persistent disruptive editing. Entranced98 (talk) 12:01, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
Reason: Recent level of account and IP vandalism with highly unproductive label removal and changing. WP:GS/ACAS applies. PresentlySuraye3 (talk) 12:03, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent addition of unsourced or poorly sourced content – Long term and persistent addition of unverifiable original research by temporary users. Go D. Usopp (talk) 13:00, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
- If you look thoroughly at the edits, you'll see the OP is actually the one doing the original research by attempting to change neutral content with POV-pushing material not even supported by the sources. ~2026-38398-77 (talk) 14:37, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
- Temporary editor's additions have repeatedly failed verification. An X link is a poor quality source, and there is no other source indicating that Data East is not involved in its development. Go D. Usopp (talk) 15:45, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
- Declined – Content dispute. Please use the article's talk page or other forms of dispute resolution. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 18:34, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
- Hyderabad Disaster Response and Asset Protection Agency (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – An IP user keeps on coming with different temporary accounts and continues bolding a certain section in the lead "Enforcement Vigilance and Disaster Management Department (EV&DM)" unnecessarily. It's not per MOS:BOLD. I tried contacting them in all instances to get their inputs on this. No response has been received. Even their edit summary doesn't say anything. Requesting temporary semi protection due to the disruptive editing by a non-responsive user. Wikipicked (talk) 13:26, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
Reason: Repeated addition of dubious and low quality "true color" image even with many discussions on why it should be not kept - anonymsiy.user - (talk) 14:31, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
Extended confirmed protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Doing promotions with new accounts. Niasoh ❯❯❯ Wanna chat? 15:31, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
Reason: High level of temporary account vandalism. LupusLiber (talk) 15:34, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. HanTsî (talk) 16:55, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
Indefinite extended confirmed protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – An account, that has been deleted; however, has a username that is not one that a user would use, has been making edits on this page. User:~2026-42591-98. its a bot. please see the accounts linked to this user: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/~2026-42591-98. The article that alerted me to this bot account was 5-Minute Crafts. best. To save you some work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth?target=~2026-42591-98. Dillard421♂♂ (talk to me) 17:08, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Excessive vandalism since July 29, nearly all edits are from sockpuppetry. -Lemonaka 17:18, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
Reason: The school has closed according to official sources but multiple accounts are edit warring and attempting to remove this factual and sourced information. I request that this page be protected as it's otherwise going to be tampered with, while I can understand why the staff and students feel distressed about this, Wikipedia must remain factual Have a great day , Sanjev Rajaram (talk) 17:26, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
Not done I don't see any recent edits other than yours. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 18:36, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Tbhotch™ (CC BY-SA 4.0) 18:27, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
Reason: High level of temporary account disruptive editing AnthonyTheGuy (talk) 19:01, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
Indefinite move protection: Highly visible page – EC move protection, highly visible page with recent move vandalism. – LuniZunie(talk) 19:06, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
- Automated comment: One or more pages in this request appear to already be protected. Please confirm.—cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online 19:18, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
Indefinite move protection: Highly visible page – EC move protection, highly visible page with recent move vandalism. – LuniZunie(talk) 19:07, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
- Don't forget, disruption from non-autoconfirmed editors also resumed immediately after the last block expired. Giovanni Potage (talk) 19:13, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent addition of unsourced or poorly sourced content – Repeated attempts at adding a Fandom-backed TV inclusion. In solidarity, Jalen Barks (Woof) 19:11, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
Reason: High level of temporary account vandalism due to edited hoaxes.
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Jon2guevarra (talk) 20:17, 3 August 2026 (UTC)
Current requests for reduction in protection level
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)
@Anachronist not necessarily only contact admin first you can also do – ping–@ to Oshwah he will respond on this page either this have two options either contact to protected admin or ping instead which ever one. ~2026-42820-77 (talk) 05:38, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
- Pinging is not approprate. You are only supposed to post here at all
only if the protecting administrator is inactive or after you have already asked them and have not received a response
, as the bright yellow highlighted text at the top of the page, that is still not read by far too many people, says. - The Bushranger One ping only 08:09, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
Unprotection: WP:PREEMPT violation. Zero history of disruption of any kind. An indef goldlock on a redirect with no history is ridiculous. Electricmemory (talk) In solidarity 11:47, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
- You had to experience the disruption lived in 2009 to understand the reason why it was protected. I'm not saying the protection is needed now, though. Tbhotch™ (CC BY-SA 4.0) 20:14, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
Current requests for edits to a protected page
In the lead paragraph it says "hostilities began after US–Israeli airstrikes...". The strikes were clearly a hostile act, so it should say something like "with" or "when" (depending on how the rest of the sentence is adjusted). I don't imagine this correction would be controversial. ~2026-42731-45 (talk) 05:36, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
- Not done Due to arbitration, "You must be logged-in and [have over 500 edits and be one month old] to edit or discuss this topic on any page, except for making constructive edit requests." If you have to add that you don't image it is controversial, probably is, and requires a discussion in which you cannot participate. Tbhotch™ (CC BY-SA 4.0) 20:03, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
Analysis section states: "Many experts argue that the war is illegal under US law because launching a war requires congressional authorization." That's WP:Weasel. ~2026-42655-54 (talk) 14:22, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
- Not done - Vague complaints with no concrete suggested edit will not be entertained. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v Look out it's Jimothy! 15:34, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
Remove: Zionists wanted to create a Jewish state in Palestine with as much land, as many Jews, and as few Palestinian Arabs as possible. ~2026-42586-51 (talk) 19:32, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
- Not done No consensus to remove the phrase. Due to arbitration, "you must be logged-in and [have over 500 edits and be one month old] to edit or discuss this topic on any page, except for making constructive edit requests.". Tbhotch™ (CC BY-SA 4.0) 19:59, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
Handled requests
A historical archive of previous protection requests can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive.