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.
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Aleain (talk) 21:14, 29 July 2026 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Less Unless (talk) 08:32, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
- Automated comment: @Less Unless: One or more pages in this request have not been protected.—cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Offline 08:53, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
Reason: Resumed sockpuppetry/block eviasion via Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Son of Zorn. Also worth noting this resumed immediately following the most recent page protection lasting from April 29 to today. Magitroopa (talk) 01:51, 30 July 2026 (UTC)
- Semi-protected for a period of 6 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Staraction (talk · contribs) 16:06, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Info repeatedly changed, often without source and/or consensus. Junosangleave a message 02:14, 30 July 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Let's lock this up for a few months...see if the IP shocking just gives up. Moxy🍁 02:37, 30 July 2026 (UTC)
- I feel like this protection should be indefinite, given that it has needed protection 20 times in the past XXXX6666XXX (t · c) 03:20, 30 July 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing. Danners430 tweaks made 08:38, 30 July 2026 (UTC)
Reason: Persistent vandalism from unregistered users Adig-pt (talk) 09:32, 30 July 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing. – DreamRimmer ■ 12:22, 30 July 2026 (UTC)
- Automated comment: One or more pages in this request appear to already be protected. Please confirm.—cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Offline 14:11, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
Already protected by administrator Epicgenius. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 16:41, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
Reason: repeated POV edits whitewashing this organisation from a variety of probably linked new users, one of whom claimed to be an officer or employee of it. Morwen (talk) 14:41, 30 July 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Painting17 (talk) 14:45, 30 July 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. In solidarity, Destinyokhiria (talk / cont) 15:54, 30 July 2026 (UTC)
- I think indef is the more appropriate option here; last protection was 3 years. Also, you should've contacted the last protecting admin (@Materialscientist:, who is still active) before writing here. Giovanni Potage (talk) 01:01, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
Reason: Recent unsourced/disruptive edits from multiple temporary accounts within just the past few hours. Magitroopa (talk) 16:31, 30 July 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: For preventing the addition of unsourced, unreliable and unverifiable information on these pages like this:
~2026-42424-42 (talk) 16:41, 30 July 2026 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Repeated removal of content without explanation by various TAs. –Skywatcher68 (talk) 17:09, 30 July 2026 (UTC)
Reason: High level of biased and unsourced material repeatedly added Aboutnick (talk) 00:55, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
Reason: Repeated vandalism Top5a (talk) 03:01, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Thus far the TAs have only made 3 edits spread out across 2 days. They share an IP range, so a block may be sufficient to end the disruption if it continues. Epicgenius (talk) 14:02, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
Reason: Addition of unsourced content, and after it was reverted vandalism begun MathMan4 (talk) 05:21, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
Reason: WP:RUSUKR IiSmxyzXX (talk) 09:40, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
Reason: Disputed political motivated edits that could easily lead to edit war. . Bananakingler (talk) 10:44, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
Reason: Persistent disruptive editing – Info repeatedly changed. Specifically, repeated changes contrary to MOS:FILMCAST, that common nouns within roles should not be in capitals. Masato.harada (talk) 11:15, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent addition of unsourced or poorly sourced content – Maybe for at least around 7 days, the village is the location of an ongoing event. One temporary account has already made false claims regarding the incident. Fortek67 (talk) 11:51, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
Extended confirmed protection: User is WMF banned so I can't see any reason why this page needs to be edited. --Prothe1st (leave me a message)-- 12:25, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
- I'd suggest indef full protection to match talk page. – LuniZunie(talk) 15:33, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
- Fully protected indefinitely. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 15:37, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Persistent disruption from Alakmarsaify (WMF banned editor) socks - 3 different socks in the last 10 days have tried to make edits. Spiderone(Talk to Spider) 13:07, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
Indefinite extended confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement – [1], [2], [3], [4]. Should be ECP'ed if it falls under WP:CT/SA. Jeraxmoira🐉 (talk) 13:27, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Multiple changes to the subject's race and name have been occurring for multiple days across multiple accounts. Page protection is needed to restore a more stable version. DonnieⓃⓄⓋⒶ (talk) 13:38, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Continued disruption after previous protections expired. Painting17 (talk) 13:44, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
Reason: Persistent and repeated edit wars and vandalism by temporary accounts declaring individual deceased when official confirmation has not been given Whynotlol2 (talk) 14:10, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
Reason: Edit wars on unconfirmed death and removal of controversial sections in Personal Life Kamikazechaser (talk) 14:11, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing. Kajmer05 (talk) 14:21, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
Reason: Persistent disruptive editing by socks. Johnj1995 (talk) 15:10, 31 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)
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)
This page is semi-protected for an indefinite period already. Is there still a reason why the page is pending-protected beyond this point?~2026-42571-72 (talk) 13:20, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
Not done – Same reply as to your previous request regarding a different article. Favonian (talk) 13:30, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
- Then remove the PC and keep the SEMI in place.~2026-42571-72 (talk) 13:36, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
- You failed to read the instructions, which say you need to talk to the protecting admin. In any case, I have removed the overlapping protection and left it at indef-semi. ~Anachronist (who / me) (talk) 14:31, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
Current requests for edits to a protected page
Clarify this line. "As of December 2025, at least 70,117 people in Gaza had been killed,[35][17] with estimates ranging between at least 186,000 and 335,000 between June and the end of 2024"
If lower bound of the estimate is "at least 186,000" I didn't understand why the same line says "at least 70,117" - surely it is one or the other? StupidLookingKid (talk) 12:21, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
- Apologies - link was broken https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_genocide StupidLookingKid (talk) 12:22, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
- The context seems to be direct versus indirect deaths. See Gaza genocide#Indirect deaths and citation 187. I agree this could be clarified. The numbers 70,117 and 335,000 appear only in the lead, which violates WP:LEAD because the lead should be an overview of the body text, not introduce information that isn't available anywhere else in the article. ~Anachronist (who / me) (talk) 13:19, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
- Not done for now, because I am not sure how to change it. I have started a discussion at Talk:Gaza genocide#Nonsense in the lead. ~Anachronist (who / me) (talk) 14:27, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
- Many thanks - just struck me as odd as I was doing random browsing StupidLookingKid (talk) 15:03, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
Handled requests
A historical archive of previous protection requests can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive.