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.
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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.
Pending changes: Persistent disruptive editing. Niasoh ❯❯❯ Wanna chat? 20:50, 27 July 2026 (UTC)
Pending-changes protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Daniel Case (talk) 21:25, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
Extended confirmed protection: Please see WP:GS/RUSUKR. Most recent edits are about the war. Mellk (talk) 20:54, 27 July 2026 (UTC)
- Extended confirmed protected indefinitely. Daniel Case (talk) 21:38, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
- Logged at RUSUKR Daniel Case (talk) 21:50, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent addition of unsourced or poorly sourced content – TA hopping unsourced birth year change; possible logged out editing involved. In solidarity, Jalen Barks (Woof) 21:19, 27 July 2026 (UTC)
Indefinite semi-protection Page has been protected multiple times throughout 2024 and 2025 due to an IP editor constantly changing sourced information about the band’s name. This month, the edits began again. Their reason provided for the changes is that the sources provided are wrong but no other source is provided to back their claim. NJZombie (talk) 21:56, 27 July 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent addition of unsourced or poorly sourced content – Same user (different TAs) is repeatedly adding unsourced polling information, the user has resorted to just spamming random references to make the polling appear sourced. Traumnovelle (talk) 03:27, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
User(s) blocked: Underlying IP range (talk · contribs). p-blocked. Epicgenius (talk) 18:43, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 03:35, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
Reason: consistent vandalism by fresh accounts. Someone seems to be really annoyed that there is a reactions section. and has been trying to remove it repeatedly over the past few days. CautiousHabliut (talk) 04:26, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent addition of unsourced or poorly sourced content. Danners430 tweaks made 05:22, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Danners430 tweaks made 09:15, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
Reason: Recurring and persistent sockpuppetry by WP:YAYSMAY15 sock. This is probably the 5th time this has to be raised this year and it would be better if long term protection be granted. Borgenland (talk) 09:42, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
- Tough call. In response to your edit, I was referring to contact this edit summary written by a different user... just to let you know. — B.J (talk) 09:53, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
- Another round of sockpuppetry today [1]. Borgenland (talk) 14:51, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
Reason: High IP level of vandalism, claiming its return of the defunct late-night newscast on ABS-CBN, 6 years after the shutdown. The infobox got ruined but I already manually revert them to this[[2]] edit. BeemoKincaid (talk) 10:26, 28 July 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 10:33, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
Reason: Both TAs and registered editors have repeatedly attempted to expand this redirect into a full-fleged article without demonstrating evidence of notability. I recommend reading WP:BFDI (an essay) for the full context. Giovanni Potage (talk) 12:53, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
Reason: Request temporary protection due to frequent vandalism from unregistered user Deepsnowi80 (talk) 13:08, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
Reason: High level of ip vandalism and POV pushing Myuoh kaka roi (talk) 13:25, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring. - FlightTime (open channel) 14:31, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
- Please return original text per WP:STATUSQUO. Thank you, - FlightTime (open channel) 15:59, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
Reason: Someone keeps adding unsourced additions regarding the upcoming Series 4, so requesting protection for article until mid-late January (which is usually when a new series airs) Visokor (talk) 15:40, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Ban evasion by User:Giubbotto non ortodosso. Binksternet (talk) 15:48, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Persistent TA DUCK. See also SPI. — Paper9oll (🔔 • 📝) 16:35, 28 July 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 16:36, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
Reason: Persistent sockpuppetry/block evasion, ongoing for several years now. Magitroopa (talk) 17:01, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
Indefinite extended-confirmed protection: Contentious topic restriction. Arab Israeli conflict, broadly defined 2x2x2x2x2 (talk) 17:23, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
Declined – Pages are not protected preemptively. While portions of the page could indeed be argued to fall under PIA broadly construed, the mandatory extended confirmed protection only applies to pages that fall strictly under PIA, which this does not. The Bushranger One ping only 19:12, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) 17:27, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry from a large UPE/sockfarm just blocked at WP:Sockpuppet investigations/NC2020. See last 100 edits for how persistent this has been. These 20+ accounts were primarily low edit-count (often sub-10 total edits) SPAs, examples [3][4][5][6] etc., making longer-term semi-protection a useful option here. NicheSports (talk) 17:45, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Resumption of vandalism from various new and temp accounts upon expiry of last protection template at 23:08, 22 July 2026. Alith Anar 18:37, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
- Semi-protected for a period of one month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. The Bushranger One ping only 19:09, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Page was recently protected for 1 week, disruption resumed, IP was then blocked, and now a new IP is disrupting the page. GoneIn60 (talk) 18:38, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. – LuniZunie(talk) 19:51, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
- Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CoconutOctopus talk 19:54, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
Reason: Persistent disruptive editing. This article was semi-protected following a request nearly two months ago. After the protection expired, TAs continued to add "Brazilian" to the lead sentence. Requesting semi-protection. Thanks in advance, Thedarkknightli (talk) 21:01, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent addition of unsourced or poorly sourced content. -- Alex talk 21:10, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. ᴸᵃᶠᶠʸTaffer💬(they/she) In solidarity 21:27, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent addition of unsourced or poorly sourced content – Articles relating to American Horror Story often have issues with sourcing content as we approach a new season. -- Alex talk 21:29, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
Reason: IP abuse (see edit history). Beshogur (talk) 21:37, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
Reason: IP abuse (see edit history). Beshogur (talk) 21:37, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
Reason: Disruptive Editing Hoya2025 (talk) 23:07, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – It is me that saves the day again, Higstudios3333 will never catch me! Unfortunately, I'm a mentor, so my mentees will have to gain autoconfirmed rights in order to ask me questions. —. SimpleObjects-9ei 🏖️/☀️/🥵 (see talk) 23:22, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Nswix (talk) 23:41, 28 July 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)
Reason: The controversy involving him isn't really discussed anymore, he's not as active as he was two years ago, and the amount of unsourced content added has rapidly decreased in the past two years. So why is ECP still needed? MathMan4 (talk) 00:04, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
- (Non-administrator comment) Pinging protecting admin @Ymblanter. Entranced98 (talk) 17:14, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
Done, reduced to indefinite semi--Ymblanter (talk) 20:43, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
Current requests for edits to a protected page
Please add the following comment to the ongoing talk page discussion regarding the lead section phrasing and Political Zionism on my behalf:
Hi everyone. I have followed this whole thread closely, and it seems the discussion is losing focus with the debate over Cultural versus Political Zionism. The core issue here is WP:NPOV and how we accurately reflect historical facts in the lead section without synthesizing a narrative.
Zero argues that because the Basel Program had underlying political goals like a future state and an army, the word "settlement" is incorrect and "colonization" is justified. With respect, this is a massive leap and borders on WP:NOR. Seeking political sovereignty and the ability to defend oneself does not retroactively turn a movement into a colonial enterprise. Those are the standard characteristics of a national liberation movement.
Let us look directly at the primary source being discussed. The First Zionist Congress (1897) formulated the Basel Program using explicit German phrasing regarding "Besiedlung". The direct and accurate translation for "Besiedlung" is "settlement". If the early Zionist movement viewed itself purely as an imperial colonial project, the German language has the word "Kolonisation". They chose Besiedlung. Insisting on translating Besiedlung as colonization in the lead section simply to force a modern critical framework onto the text is a severe violation of neutrality.
Furthermore, equating Political Zionism with colonization directly contradicts Tier 1 mainstream scholarship. A defining feature of actual colonization is the existence of a metropole or a mother country that extracts resources. Scholars like Derek Penslar clarify that Zionism fundamentally lacked a metropole, as it was a movement of refugees and diaspora Jews returning to their ancestral homeland, not an empire expanding its borders. Similarly, Gideon Shimoni thoroughly demonstrates that Zionism is fundamentally an ethno-nationalist movement for self-determination and national revival, rather than an imperialist venture.
Yes, Political Zionists wanted a state. But seeking self determination in a historical homeland without a mother country is national revival, not colonization.
Presenting the term "colonization" as an undisputed fact in the lead gives WP:UNDUE weight to the Settler Colonial paradigm. That paradigm is a highly debated critical theory in sociology, not the primary historical consensus of what Zionism is. The lead must reflect the mainstream consensus. We need to replace the word with "settlement" or "national revival" so the article finally complies with WP:NPOV.
- References:**
1. The First Zionist Congress, *The Basel Program* (1897): "Die zweckmäßige Förderung der Besiedlung Palästinas mit jüdischen Ackerbauern, Handwerkern und Gewerbetreibenden." 2. Penslar, Derek. *Zionism: An Emotional State*. Rutgers University Press, 2023. 3. Shimoni, Gideon. *The Zionist Ideology*. Brandeis University Press, 1995. Idand34 (talk) 07:45, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
Not done The restrictions exist for a reason, and you are not allowed to request someone proxy-edit to end-run around them. - The Bushranger One ping only 16:54, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
I want to create the page from the scratch. I am a fan of Arash Dabestani's literary work. He is a blind Iranian writer with tremendous short stories, podcast project, etc. I would like to have the permission to write an entry for him. I just submitted the English draft of the page. Now I want to write the Farsi version. Sulzbi-240 (talk) 21:36, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
- This is English Wikipedia so all articles need to be in English. If you wish to write the article in Farsi, please use the Farsi Wikipedia project. Spiderone(Talk to Spider) 21:48, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
- Not done Even if the page was protected (it isn't) this is, as mentioned, not the Farsi Wikipedia. - The Bushranger One ping only 21:58, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
Handled requests
A historical archive of previous protection requests can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive.