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
Please add an edit request to the talk page of the protected page before adding an edit request here | ||
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: Active edit war Solaire the knight (talk) 19:15, 4 December 2025 (UTC)
- Upping the protection to ECP would only serve to prevent one editor from editing the page, and not for long given their edit count. Do you have any more specific suggestions? Maybe someone should be talking to this editor at their talk page? Daniel Case (talk) 18:26, 5 December 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Temp Account Edit warring. LunaHasArrived (talk) 17:51, 5 December 2025 (UTC)
Consider the edit warring noticeboard – This is a case of possible edit-warring by one or two users. The user has already been warned as such. Daniel Case (talk) 03:46, 6 December 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Sugar Tax (talk) 19:44, 5 December 2025 (UTC)
User(s) blocked: ~2025-38845-5 (talk · contribs) blocked by Joyous. indefinitely. Daniel Case (talk) 03:56, 6 December 2025 (UTC)
- Underlying IP blocked 2 weeks. Daniel Case (talk) 03:57, 6 December 2025 (UTC)
Reason: This page was recently vandalized by a temp account. I'm requesting protection in order to prevent a recurrence. JHD0919 (talk) 23:40, 5 December 2025 (UTC)
Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. That was almost two weeks ago. Daniel Case (talk) 04:02, 6 December 2025 (UTC)
Reason: High level of IP editing. ZP (talk) 23:55, 5 December 2025 (UTC)
- Declined Which is not by itself a reason to protect the page. And there doesn't appear to have been much disruption. Daniel Case (talk) 04:04, 6 December 2025 (UTC)
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Temporary account persistently attempting to add a dab template for Jeffrey Epstein without regard of reverts, in addition to more disruptive edits. Go D. Usopp (talk) 00:55, 6 December 2025 (UTC)
- Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. This hasn't happened in two weeks. Daniel Case (talk) 04:17, 6 December 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Anon editor edit warring and making legal threats. Apocheir (talk) 04:38, 6 December 2025 (UTC)
- User(s) blocked: ~2025-36860-94 (talk · contribs). The Bushranger One ping only 06:16, 6 December 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent edit filter triggering - same vandalism every time with name change. MakaylaHippo1998 (talk) 07:25, 6 December 2025 (UTC)
- User(s) blocked: ~2025-38598-15 (talk · contribs). The Bushranger One ping only 08:03, 6 December 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent Disruptive Editing. IP editors are contunially changing the party's political position in the infobox from "centre-right to right" to "centre-right" only, with neither consensous nor and edit description. The Kora Person (come say hi!) 07:35, 6 December 2025 (UTC)
- Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Has occured twice. If it continues, please re-request. - The Bushranger One ping only 08:04, 6 December 2025 (UTC)
Temporary pending changes protection: Persistent vandalism. ✾✾ 🙞 quái hoa 🙝 (talk) (contribs) ✾✾ 07:36, 6 December 2025 (UTC)
Current requests for reduction in protection level
Before posting a request for unprotection, please discuss it with the protecting administrator first. You can create a request below only if you receive no response from them.
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 WP: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 protected, 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.
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.
Current requests for edits to a protected page
Please add an edit request to the talk page of the protected page before adding an edit request here
Requests for specific edits should be made on the talk page of the protected article. You can create an edit request below only if the talk page is also protected, preventing you from adding a request there.
- You may add the appropriate template (
{{Edit protected}},{{Edit template-protected}},{{Edit extended-protected}}, or{{Edit semi-protected}}) to the article's talk page if you would like to request an edit be made. Doing so will automatically place the page in the appropriate category for the request to be reviewed. - For edit requests being made due to the editor having a conflict of interest with the article subject (see Wikipedia:Suggestions for COI compliance), the
{{Edit COI}}template should be used instead of the others listed above. - Requests to move pages that are currently move-protected should be made at Wikipedia:Requested moves, not on this page.
- This page is not for holding discussions regarding content. Please make a request only if you have a specific edit that you wish to be performed.
Otherwise, this is the correct place to use in order to add an edit request if you are unable to add one to the article's talk page. Please see the top of this page for instructions on how to properly add a request.
Handled requests
A historical archive of previous protection requests can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive.