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: High level of IP vandalism and regular fan edits. IP’s and fans also put information that are yet to be broadcasted. Refer here, [1]. I request a temporary protection until show is airing. Thanks :) Tenshi Uisu (talk) 14:15, 24 July 2026 (UTC)
Checking to see if protection is necessary. there are a huge number of edits to sift through. Can you point to the most harmful ones. Otherwise and not hugely thrilled to remove access to IPs just yet. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 06:32, 26 July 2026 (UTC)
Temporary extended confirmed protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Persistent disruptive editing through the addition of unsourced material about the BLP's early life. WikiEnthusiast1001 (talk) 11:04, 25 July 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Persistent changes to the player's current club due to transfer rumors. Raskuly 🐰 11:30, 25 July 2026 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Meatpuppets adding promotional content. –Skywatcher68 (talk) 15:18, 25 July 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – IP/temp account on a years-long crusade to question Batman's ancestry, possibly due to an understanding of what the term "direct descendent" means:
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- [3]
- [4]. Hatman31 (he/him · talk · contribs) 16:19, 25 July 2026 (UTC)
- Hatman31 removed referenced edit. It is well established that John Batman did not have any descendants who carried his name. The source of the claim in the cited published article referring to Daniel Batman being a direct descendant of John Batman, was Daniel Batman himself. The claim needs to be identified as such and attributed to Daniel Batman, not stated as a fact. There is no published article that supports the claim that John Batman had any direct descendant by the name Batman. Other published sources overwhelmingly identify that Daniel Batman could not be a direct descendant of John Batman as John Batman’s only son died aged eight years old. Why did Hatman31 remove a referenced edit? ~2026-41487-56 (talk) 23:34, 25 July 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Repeatedly being restored as an article by anon despite AfD consensus to redirect. — Trailblazer101🔥 (discuss · contribs) 16:24, 25 July 2026 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 16:27, 25 July 2026 (UTC)
Pending changes: Persistent vandalism. –Skywatcher68 (talk) 18:40, 25 July 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. soetermans. ↑↑↓↓←→←→ B A TALK 18:48, 25 July 2026 (UTC)
Temporary extended confirmed protection: Persistent vandalism – Please provide extended confirmed protection for three months, there is persistent addition of unreliable sources and poor content in page even after multiple warnings. Imsaneikigai (talk) 20:50, 25 July 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Vandalism target that most users don't need to be editing anyway. Sumanuil. (talk to me) 21:21, 25 July 2026 (UTC)
Declined Recent vandalism appears to be all the work of one now-blocked TA, otherwise page seems pretty quiet. Rusalkii (talk) 17:16, 26 July 2026 (UTC)
Reason: High level of temporary account vandalism. Anita5192 (talk) 21:47, 25 July 2026 (UTC)
Reason: Persistent disruptive editing by socks. Johnj1995 (talk) 22:12, 25 July 2026 (UTC)
Reason: Persistent disruptive editing by socks. Johnj1995 (talk) 22:27, 25 July 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Persistent disruptive edits by temporary accounts. Telenovelafan215 (talk) 22:31, 25 July 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing. Edit warring by TAs. grapesurgeon (talk) 00:18, 26 July 2026 (UTC)
Temporary pending changes: Persistent disruptive editing – Edit-warring over inclusion of the country in the infobox. Adrez (talk) 03:07, 26 July 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing by unregistered IP addresses and new accounts. Pasados (talk) 04:26, 26 July 2026 (UTC)
Reason: Persistent addition of unsourced content. Waxworker (talk) 04:40, 26 July 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. EndzoneEnthusiast 05:02, 26 July 2026 (UTC)
Reason: IPs repeatedly removing sourced information without prior discussion. ~ IvanScrooge98 (talk) 06:53, 26 July 2026 (UTC)
Reason: Vandalism of the page is still ongoing Thenewonebanna7688 (talk) 08:45, 26 July 2026 (UTC)
Reason: High level of temporary account vandalism. They are engaging in editing war and removing long-standing content. Ayaltimo (talk) 10:00, 26 July 2026 (UTC)
Requesting Extended-Confirmed Protection: The article, which falls under CT/SA, was merged following its AfD. However, several accounts have since been repeatedly reverting the article back to its pre-merge. This has continued even after the article was placed under semi-confirmed protection. — EarthDude (Talk) 10:50, 26 July 2026 (UTC)
Reason: Temporary semi-protection: Frequent disruptive editing (joke edits) as having the same name as W.D. Gaster from the video game Undertale. Edits such as [5] and [6]. Fathir1081 (talk) 11:49, 26 July 2026 (UTC)
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Some1 (talk) 14:07, 26 July 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. In solidarity, Jalen Barks (Woof) 15:04, 26 July 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing. EndzoneEnthusiast 15:06, 26 July 2026 (UTC)
Reason: There is an ongoing edit war due to disputes about the political orientations/ideologies of various DSA caucuses and their relative positions to each other. Within DSA, these are longstanding debates, and with the advent of the creation of this article, many from across DSA's hundred-thousand members - as well as outsiders interested in learning and/or shaping the narrative about DSA - have decided to use Wikipedia to WP:BATTLE over these long-standing issues.
Given the high influx of edits, many of which are self-interested or from editors new to the subject and either not aware of these disputes or not aware of the actual positions and customs involved, I would request semi-protection for the page at this time. As the masses interested in editing the article are generally not semi-confirmed, I don't believe higher protection is warranted yet, albeit a close eye should be kept on the page just in case.
Disclosure, I am a (caucused) member of DSA, and thus have some interest here (which is why I am staying out of the debates as to the edits themselves); my submission of this request is solely for the good of the Wiki and its readers. Amyipdev (talk) 17:54, 26 July 2026 (UTC)
Reason: there has been vandalism and misinformation ~2026-41679-69 (talk) 18:41, 26 July 2026 (UTC)
Reason: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/~2026-41607-36 seems to be vandalising Ozan Ogreden (talk) 19:06, 26 July 2026 (UTC)
- Declined – Content dispute. Please use the article's talk page or other forms of dispute resolution. (ESkog)(Talk) 19:07, 26 July 2026 (UTC)
Current requests for reduction in protection level
Unprotection: WP:TRYUNPROT. Semi-protected since July 2011 as an "obvious target" for disruptive editing, though the history of vandalism etc. does not seem lengthy enough to support this. No associated talk page disruption. Low-traffic page (only 6 average daily views over the past month). Protecting admin is no longer active. Entranced98 (talk) 15:14, 26 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.