Requests for page protection

Shortcuts: WP:RFPP WP:RFP WP:RPP WP:PADLOCK This page is for requesting that a page, image or template be fully protected, create protected (salted), semi-protected, move-protected, or unprotected. Please read up on the protection policy. Full protection is used to stop edit warring between multiple users or to prevent vandalism to high-risk templates; semi-protection is usually used only to prevent IP and new user vandalism (see the rough guide to semi-protection); and move protection is used to stop pagemove revert wars. After a page has been protected, the protection is listed in the page history and logs with a short description indicating why it was protected, and the article is listed on Special:Protectedpages. Further discussion should take place on the Talk page of the article. In the case of full protection due to edit warring, admins do not revert back to specific versions of the page, except to get rid of obvious vandalism. Instructions If you would like to request a page to be protected or unprotected, please follow the following steps: If you are requesting unprotection, it is almost always a good idea to ask the protecting admin first before listing a page here. Add a level 4 header (i.e. ==== {{lx|Example}} ====, where "x" stands for the namespace) at the TOP of either the protection or unprotection list and place one of the templates from the table below within the header. Please make sure you have spelled the name of the article properly; a common error stems from mistaken requests for the protection of redirects, particularly capitalised ones. If you are requesting protection, place the type of request (full protection, semi-protection, move protection) and a brief reason for your request below your header. Please do not add arbitrary requests for a protection expiry time to your request, or request indefinite protection arbitrarily. If there is a reason for a page to be protected for a certain amount of time, such as protecting a usertalk page until the user is unblocked, please make this clear. If you are requesting indefinite semi-protection, be aware that it is only applied to articles with endemic and endless vandalism problems which multiple increasing periods of temporary semi-protection have failed to stop. Note that different expiry times can now be set for edit and move-protections, so an article can, for example, be semi-edit-protected for a week and full-move-protected indefinitely. Sign your request with four tildes ~~~~ and save. Note: this is not a venue for continuing an argument from elsewhere. If a request contains excessive arguing, is being used for edit-warring or content disputes, contains personal attacks or uncivil comments, or any other unrelated discussion, it will be removed from this page. Namespace To request protection / unprotection To request protection / unprotection of talk page Generic {{ln|NAMESPACE|PAGE NAME}} {{lnt|NAMESPACE|PAGE NAME}} Article {{la|ARTICLE}} {{lat|ARTICLE}} Template {{lt|TEMPLATE}} {{ltt|TEMPLATE}} Wikipedia {{lw|PAGE}} {{lwt|PAGE}} User {{lu|USER}} {{lut|USER}} Category {{lc|CATEGORY}} {{lct|CATEGORY}} File {{lf|FILE}} {{lft|FILE}} Portal {{lp|PORTAL}} {{lpt|PORTAL}} Help {{lh|HELP}} {{lht|HELP}} MediaWiki Protected by MediaWiki cannot be unprotected {{lmt|MESSAGE}} Should not be protected Book {{lb|BOOK}} {{lbt|BOOK}} Examples ===={{la|Example Article Name}}==== '''Semi-protection:''' High level of IP vandalism. ~~~~ ===={{lt|Example Template Name}}==== '''Temporary semi-protection:''' High level of IP vandalism. ~~~~ You can subscribe to a web feed of this page in either RSS or Atom format.

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[edit] Current requests for protection

Place requests for semi-protection, full protection, move protection, or create protection at the TOP of this section. Check the list of denied requests if you cannot find your request. Only recently answered requests are still listed here.

[edit] Suvajit gupta (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Create Protection The article has been created 3 times in the past few days and has been speedy deleted all times. There appears to be no legitmate subject for an article of this name. Ducknish (talk) 02:08, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

[edit] Rory McIlroy (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protection: By looking at the history of this article, since 5 March 2012, over 95% of all IP edits are vandalism. PwilliamQ99 (talk) 00:40, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

[edit] Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Too much vandalism. Almost all edits since the previous semi protection ended have been vandalism or reverts. . -- Luke (Talk) 00:30, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

[edit] Jadran Film (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protection: Floating IP user persistently deletes huge chunk of text without explanation . Staszek Lem (talk) 00:19, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

[edit] Causes of World War I (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Constant IP vandalism since early March. -- Luke (Talk) 23:45, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month. After 1 month the page will be automatically unprotected. Rjd0060 (talk) 00:10, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

[edit] Bertie Blackman (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

• Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism in last two days from multiple accounts. 99.12.242.126 (talk) 23:30, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

[edit] Luke Kuechly (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

• Brief semi-protection: Same as with Tannehill. Please semi-protect for next 6-12 hours. --bender235 (talk) 23:28, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

[edit] User:Whenaxis (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary full protection: until 00:00, 1 July 2012 (UTC). On wikibreak, no editors should be leaving a message. Regards, Whenaxis talk (contribs) ^{DR goes to Wikimania!} 23:26, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Declined, Per UPROT, semi-protection seems sufficient. Rjd0060 (talk) 23:34, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

[edit] User talk:Whenaxis (edit|user page|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary full protection: until 00:00, 1 July 2012 (UTC). On wikibreak, no editors should be leaving a message. Regards, Whenaxis talk (contribs) ^{DR goes to Wikimania!} 23:26, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Declined, Not a valid reason for page protection. Rjd0060 (talk) 23:27, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

[edit] Ryan Tannehill (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Brief semi-protection: 2012 NFL Draft is looming, vandalism already started. Please semiprotect for the next 6-12 hours. Thanks. --bender235 (talk) 23:24, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

[edit] G5 (education) (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry and POV-pushing by IPs – This article has a long history of sockpuppetry and POV-pushing by a sockmaster closely connected to the University of Edinburgh. Very soon after the page protection icon was removed from the article, a University of Edinburgh based IP has again popped up to push exactly the same. The individual has clearly stated their intention to change the article to suit their POV by fair means or foul: [1]. Rangoon11 (talk) 22:52, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

[edit] N.W.A (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Within the past several days, people have been editing the page by adding their own name or someone else's name as a member. Most but not all have been IP editors. Request temporary protection until it mulls over. ChadH (talk) 21:44, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

[edit] Sloterdijk train collision (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Moderate level of vandalism and test edits. Simply south...... going on editing sprees for just 6 years (as of 28/03/2006) 21:24, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

[edit] Global city (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism. Unidentified users consistently add their own criteria for the global cities, and change lists of cities in different sections, much of which is unreasonable and very subjective. Many people want to be cheerleaders for whatever city they like but that should not mean changing the Global Cities page. Some cities are recognized more than others for a reason. Wikkedout (talk) 21:08, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Semi-protected Interesting one. I was initially going to decline but there is a high degree of patriotic jostling. I'll give it a month. Casliber (talk · contribs) 21:35, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

[edit] Falun Gong (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protection: High level of IP and new user vandalism. Page is a B-class article under ArbCom. Over the last month and a half, large amount of non-constructive edits and vandalism from over a dozen unique IPs and new users. With the exception of two minor IP edits, all have required reverting. Seems to have become more common over the last week, with a possibility of sock-puppetry. Not sure on advisable time frame. Homunculus (duihua) 20:32, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Semi-protected For three days, but I have no objection to a longer period; I did block the latest IP for edit-warring. Drmies (talk) 20:54, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

[edit] Perry the Platypus (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. JDDJS (talk) 19:49, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Sorry, not even close. Drmies (talk) 20:55, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

[edit] Orissa (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP edits over the name change to Odisha (recent official name). Need semi-protection for indefinite period to prevent such non-constructive edits. Amartyabag ^TALK2ME 18:13, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Semi-protected Drmies (talk) 20:59, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

[edit] Army Geospatial Center (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protection: Army Geospatial Center staff continues finding edits to the page that starts editing wars. There seems to be no resolution because the page continues to get reverted back by two users. I have made my statements on their talk pages about the changes they keep making on the Army Geospatial Center page. I would like to request semi-protection to ensure that the information being added to the page does not send users to mis-informed/opinionated information and also keeps the integrity of the agency. Army Geospatial Center is working to improve the page by supplying proper information to wiki users but it seems that we are in a road block due to two wiki users constantly changing information/adding verification tags. AGC-webmaster (talk) 18:02, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Declined None of the editors involved are IPs or non-confirmed, so semi-protection would not have any effect on the current dispute. Full protection would prevent the dispute, but is too much at this stage. I suggest you discuss the issue with the other editors involved on the talk page, rather than request page protection. I will also warn you that, should you continue to revert their edits (especially on a page which you have a conflict of interest over, you may be blocked for edit warring or disruptive editing. ItsZippy ^{(talk • contributions)} 19:47, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

[edit] Euphoria (song) (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent IP-vandalism.--BabbaQ (talk) 15:53, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

[edit] Kıtalar Arası Derbi (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 1886kusagi (talk • contribs)

Question:, What's the problem? Nyttend (talk) 05:35, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Yes, I'm somewhat confused as to what's going on here as well. (Note: I'll ping the original requester to see if they can provide more information.) Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 17:48, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

[edit] Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism. Persistent vandalism of page– Addition of unsourced picture of some individual claiming to be a 'senior leader' with his supporters & attempted vandalism.Poorly worded and deliberate revertion of genuine information to promote self individuals.In India, only current Constitutional Office Holders are relevant(or the first Office Holders like the first PM, CM, Deputy CM etc.); The IP Address 121.245.34.160 is promoting a deceased former office Holder's Son who is little and seldom known and has never ever held any public/legislative office ever. His picture has been forcefully added time and again while it is quite obvious that it is a bonafide case of overplaying and exalting a common person to an unworthy stature.Even after repeatedly intimated by multiple users,added picture from various IP addresses while deleted other's names on private preference.

[edit] Bad Girls Club (season 9) (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Full protection or semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism. Junebea1 (talk) 16:00, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

[edit] Current requests for unprotection

If you simply want to make spelling corrections or add information to a protected page that is not disputed, and you are not involved in any disputes there, consider simply adding {{Editprotected}} to the article's talk page, along with an explanation of what you want to add to the page. See the list of current {{Editprotected}} requests.

If you want an existing page unprotected, please try to ask the protecting admin first before making a request here.

Check here if you cannot find your request. Only recently answered requests are still listed here.

[edit] Dave Winer (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Every edit I have made has listed refrences. EdJonston and others simply want to make the article a biased entry by never allowing anything that critizes Mr. Winer, in their views. I don't see how anything that comes from a major blog and lists refrences is vandalism..--Irelan12(talk)

Since I imposed the semiprotection I won't take action on this. But the editor has previously been blocked for abuse of multiple accounts, per WP:Suspected sock puppets/Nirelan. See also the discussions of Nirelan in Talk:Dave Winer/Archive 2. Since he has a registered account which is not currently blocked I cannot grasp the purpose of this request unless he wants to resume adding criticism to Dave Winer's article using his IP socks. Or perhaps it's a misunderstanding of how protection works. Here is one of the IP edits in the last two days which triggered the edit filter as 'possible vandalism or BLP issue.' EdJohnston (talk) 22:47, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

EdJohnston (talk) dosen't seem to understand the meaning of vandalism. He can't respond to the comment regarding the fact that everything I have posted has been cited. Further, I do not have multiple accounts. I had one that was blocked simply because people who personally know Dave Winer are allowed to edit the article. In my defense, all of the changes they were unhappy with are currently featured on in the article. For example, the page used to claim that Mr. Winer invented rss. It now says he contributed to it. Protecting a page is meant to keep people from destroying information or posting untrue information. This process is not intened to prevent people from posting TRUE and REFERENCED information. If EdJohnston (talk) finds the imformation insulting to the person the article is about he can't simply say its vandalism. I still would like to hear what makes information on Gawker unuseable in the article when Gawker is apparently considered noteworthy enough to have a Wiki. Irelan12(talk) —Preceding undated comment added 23:00, 25 April 2012 (UTC).

The contributors to the Winer article know the person and purposefully put untrue statements in the article. For example, it lists Dave Winer as the creator of Editthispage.com when the reference linked to for that portion of the article states that Userland Software made the site. (Link From Winer Article) Please unprotect this article so I can remove the parts that are not true, as long as I give refernces. --Irelan12 (talk) 17:59, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

[edit] Current requests for edits to a protected page

Ideally requests should be made on the article talk page rather than here

• Unless the talk page itself is protected, you may instead add {{Editprotected}}, {{Editsemiprotected}} or {{Request edit}} to the article's talk page if you would like to make a change rather than requesting it here.
• If the discussion page and the article are both locked, this project page is the right place to request an edit. If you can, please use the {{la|article name}} template to describe the article you wish changed at the start of your request.

[edit] Fulfilled/denied requests

[edit] Web hosting service (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – too much link spam... mabdul 18:07, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 months. After 3 months the page will be automatically unprotected. Rjd0060 (talk) 18:47, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

[edit] Besart Berisha (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protection: if not higher. This page was protected recently but no sooner was it lifted than the very same old non-constructive editing returned[2], [3], [4], and this undo. This is a footballer who apparently made a dive - nothing no other footballer has done - but in this subject's case, it just attracts apologetic attempts at humour and I fear if the page be open for anonymous users and new accounts, this will continue. Evlekis (Евлекис) (argue) 17:22, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Declined for now. It's been a couple days since the protection expired but I can't see from the (few) edits since then that it needs protection again. Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 18:53, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

[edit] KUVM-CD (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Continued vandalism by IP sock of banned user, resuming just after previous semi-protection ended. Gridlock Joe (talk) 02:16, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. It took 10 days after protection expired for there to be an edit and there have been none in two days. Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 18:47, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

[edit] HJawad (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

This page does not need to be protected. It's only about car class'cation.

(Non-administrator observation) Umm. That article doesn't exist. Are you requesting for the title to be de-salted? Hghyux (talk to me)(talk to others) 15:18, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Declined, A page with that title never existed. Feel free to make a new request with the correct spelling. Rjd0060 (talk) 19:17, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

[edit] Serbia (Territory of the German Military Commander) (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – This dispute has three users reverting and disagreeing with others. Minima© (talk) 17:51, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Declined - I've left messages/warnings for all the involved editors and it appears they have agreed to cease and move their efforts to the talk page. No need for protection when we can just block those who continue to chose to be disruptive. Tiptoety ^talk 17:55, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

[edit] Flora (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protection - Persistent vandalism by IPs over course of 6 years causing removal of original content during reverts by other editors. - M0rphzone (talk) 06:04, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. (Emphasis on the "recent" part.) Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 17:16, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

[edit] Fauna (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protection - Persistent vandalism by IPs over course of 6 years causing removal of original content during reverts by other editors. - M0rphzone (talk) 06:04, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. (Emphasis on the "recent" part.) Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 17:16, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

[edit] Chelsea Clinton (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protection: Persistent IP SPA vandalism, picked up by 2nd IP, adding POV biased material. Tvoz/talk 16:58, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of two weeks. After two weeks the page will be automatically unprotected. Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 17:12, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

[edit] Denver Nuggets (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Recent spats of IP vandalism. DPH1110 (talk) 16:44, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 10 days. After 10 days the page will be automatically unprotected. Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 17:03, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

[edit] User talk:Willdude123 (edit|user page|history|links|watch|logs)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Vandalism. Willdude123|Ƹ21ɘbublliW (talk) 16:39, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Declined – User talk pages are not protected except in response to severe or continued vandalism. Jac16888 ^Talk 16:46, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

[edit] East Perth, Western Australia (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Nonsense being added by IP users. Hack (talk) 16:03, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

User(s) blocked If the IP comes back then we can look into protection. Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 16:30, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

[edit] Shihabudheen moothedath (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Indefinite create protection: Repeatedly recreated – alternative spelling of salted autobio Shihabudheen Moothedath. Scopecreep (talk) 09:50, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Protected to prevent recreation indefinitely. Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 16:36, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

[edit] Trouble Man (T.I. album) (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Continuous addition of unsourced material by numerous IPs, requesting protection until more information is released about the album. SE KinG. ^{User page.} _Talk. 06:18, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of six weeks. After six weeks the page will be automatically unprotected. I will be more than happy to unprotect the page before then if more information is released. Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 16:57, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

[edit] Joseph Kony (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protection Persistent vandalism. Tbhotch.^™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions. 05:07, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of six months. After six months the page will be automatically unprotected. Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 15:59, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

[edit] Hydroimplantation (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Creation protection: An article originally created earlier this month by User:Harshultak (talk, contribs), consisting entirely of copyrighted material. The article has been CS'd four times, on 13, 15, 17, and 26 April. The creating user has been temporarily banned, but in order to ward off sockpuppetry and other unfortunate events, I suggest we salt it for a significant period of time. Evanh2008 (talk) (contribs) 06:46, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Protected to prevent recreation indefinitely. Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 15:52, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

[edit] Cassiopeia (mythology) (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Tot12 (talk) 15:42, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week. After one week the page will be automatically unprotected. Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 15:54, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

[edit] Carlos Condit (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – A lot of vandalism today, please protect this page so i can fix it please. Just 1 day. Simeondahl [This user is patrol] (talk) 12:54, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, it is not needed, the vandalism IP has ben banned, and i have fixed it. --Simeondahl [This user is patrol] (talk) 14:38, 26 April 2012 (UTC)