Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Decrease

Requests for page protection

You are currently viewing the requests for decrease in protection level subpage of Wikipedia:Requests for page protection. 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. Instructions To find out which administrator protected the page, go to the page's edit history and click on the "View logs for this page" link (located underneath the page's title). The protecting administrator is listed in the protection log entry, next to the words "protected", "changed protection level", or "configured pending changes". If there are a large number of log entries on the page, use the drop-down menu near the top of the page and select "Protection log" or "Pending changes log" to filter the logs accordingly. DO NOT request a reduction in protection if... ...you are being prevented from editing the page. A desire to change content is not a valid reason for unprotection. Instead: If you can edit the article's talk page, use the Edit Request Wizard to propose a change on the article's talk page. Include an explanation of the exact content that you want to change, and what the content will be afterward. If the article's talk page is also protected and you cannot edit it, you may propose a change at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Edit. ...your reasoning for reducing protection is that the article has not been vandalized. That simply means the protection is working as intended. ...your reasoning for reducing protection is basically "a long time has passed" without supporting details. ...you haven't contacted the protecting administrator. ...the current protection is logged as an arbitration enforcement action made within the last year. Such actions may only be appealed to the protecting administrator, at WP:AE, WP:AN, or WP:ARCA. You may request a protection reduction below if... ...you want to change the protection level of a template or module from full protection to template protection. You may add the request to this page without having to discuss it with the protecting administrator first. ...you need to remove creation protection from a location where no page exists (redlinked pages) after a draft version of the intended article is prepared beforehand and ready to be published. ...you are proposing a trial reduction in protection for a page that has been protected for several years, provided the proposal is supported by evidence such as talk page activity, page views, page traffic, number of watchers, frequency of edit requests, and prior history of vandalism. ...the protecting administrator is inactive or has not responded to you in several days. If you cannot locate your request, make sure to check the request archives to see if it's been moved there. Only requests that have been recently answered will still be listed here. Request removal of protection from a page, or reducing the current protection level Request unprotection

Hagger

• Hagger (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

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)

Wikipedia:Deceased Wikipedians/2018

• Wikipedia:Deceased Wikipedians/2018 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

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)

Arvanites

• Arvanites (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Unprotection: WP:TRYUNPROT. It was indefinitely protected in 2010 by a now deceased admin due to "problems with a banned user." I think that after 16 years the disrupting user has lost interest on this page. MrCleanAd (talk) 08:46, 1 August 2026 (UTC)

Gillette

• Gillette (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Unprotection: WP:TRYUNPROT. Semi-protected since March 2015 due to vandalism, though disruptive edits were not coming through at a particularly high rate, and there is no history of any other previous protections being needed. Given this and the page traffic (averaging 367 daily views over the past month), a period of PCP could be trialled. Protecting admin is deceased. Entranced98 (talk) 14:20, 1 August 2026 (UTC)

Johnny Gilbert

• Johnny Gilbert (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Unprotection: Article was protected in 2021 over sockpuppetry and edit warring on subject's DOB. The issue seems to have long since been settled, so there does not appear to be any need to keep the article protected any longer. Ten Pound Hammer (they/them) • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 16:49, 1 August 2026 (UTC)

(Non-administrator comment) Pinging protecting admin @Connormah. Entranced98 (talk) 16:53, 1 August 2026 (UTC)