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    Welcome—request protection of a page, file, or template here.

    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 get rid of obvious vandalism.

    Request protection of a page, or increasing the protection level

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    Please request an edit directly on the protected page's talk page before posting here



    Current requests for increase in protection level

    Request protection of a page, or increasing the 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, failing that, the page history. Only recently answered requests are still listed here.


    Temporary extended confirmed protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Persistent disruptive editing; requesting ECP since it is a contentious topic. Ekdalian (talk) 07:07, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of six months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Will log at CTOPS. Daniel Case (talk) 17:40, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Reason: See Tony Hawk's Pro Skater article request above. TheDeviantPro (talk) 07:32, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of two days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. If this recurs report it again and we'll start escalating the protection periods. BusterD (talk) 11:08, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Reason: Repeated insertion of poorly-sourced content. Borgenland (talk) 13:02, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Question: This has the appearance of a content dispute with one new contributor. Is there some reason you don't have a thread on talk discussing the disagreement(s)? BusterD (talk) 11:14, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    In my judgement, I have reason to suspect given their recent behavior that suggests unencyclopedic writing, linkspam and soapbox. Borgenland (talk) 11:24, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    And apparently it’s not the first time someone has raised this issue on their talk. Borgenland (talk) 11:25, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Anyway, I have added a few maintenance tags because there are preexisting issues there that have been exacerbated by user in question. Also, I don't know but they may be trolling users involved in editing the article with a targeted barrage of messages on their talk pages. Borgenland (talk) 14:22, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – vandalism. 36.78.197.219 (talk) 16:59, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – vandalism. 36.78.197.219 (talk) 17:04, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Reason: When you click on the "many pages" link (in the high-risk notice box) you see more than 200,000 transclusions. The bot hasn't updated as of this writing. This page is "high risk" and should be template-editor protected. Thank you very much! P.I. Ellsworth , ed. put'er there 22:41, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    For example, at Template:Taxonomy/Hexapoda, for which Allotriocarida is the parent taxon, the protection edit summary reads "Changed protection level of Template:Taxonomy/Hexapoda: Highly visible template: Over 5000 tranclusions ([Edit=Allow only template editors and admins] (indefinite) [Move=Allow only template editors and admins] (indefinite))" P.I. Ellsworth , ed. put'er there 23:41, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Update: the bot has updated the transclusions to 214,000. P.I. Ellsworth , ed. put'er there 05:33, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Reason: High level of IP vandalism. There is an ongoing edit war that violates Wikipedia's guidelines. User Ttam9392 keeps over linking, undos every time when I fix the page. Alextigers (talk) 23:46, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Content dispute. Please use the article's talk page or other forms of dispute resolution. Daniel (talk) 11:27, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary extended confirmed protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/MdeFdelaS – this is the latest in a sixteen-year-old sockpuppet investigation. Dawnseeker2000 03:26, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Indefinite create protection: Offensive name – Long-term abuse (Fuerdai vandal). Aspening (talk) 03:42, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Note: Leaving it available makes it easier to detect this LTA. I’m tempted to leave it unprotected, though I’ll understand if another admin differs. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 03:53, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Declined per rsjaffe Daniel (talk) 18:20, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Indefinite extended confirmed protection: Persistent sockpuppetry. IanDBeacon (talk) 05:29, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Indefinite extended confirmed protection: Persistent sockpuppetry. IanDBeacon (talk) 05:29, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protection: uncontrollable IP activity and too few eyeballs. --Altenmann >talk 07:34, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Returned after three weeks of protection. Entranced98 (talk) 07:39, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent addition of unsourced or poorly sourced content – BLP violation[1] and unsourced edits[2][3][4][5][6] by IP users since February. Mann Mann (talk) 12:16, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Reason: Multiple uncited edits based on mere speculations and rumors, harming the credibility of the page. Sayhikanak (talk) 13:13, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent addition of unsourced or poorly sourced content. Jetstreamer Talk 13:47, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Extended confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement – per ARBPIA. ser! (chat to me - see my edits) 14:03, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Indefinite semi-protection: An LTA is creating accounts to harass me and i dont want any of that 𐩣𐩫𐩧𐩨 Abo Yemen (𓃵) 14:44, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – User talk pages are not protected except in response to severe or continued vandalism. Daniel (talk) 17:11, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    User(s) blocked. Daniel (talk) 17:11, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protection: Repeated vandalism (particularly changing "oppose" to "support"), and adding false information. GN22 (talk) 16:30, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. High profile article like this will have lots of eyes, and there really isn't that much editing relative to its high profile. Daniel (talk) 17:12, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Reason: Temporary semi-protection - persistent disruptive edits from IP users. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bowling is life (talkcontribs) 16:58, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    User(s) blocked. Daniel (talk) 17:30, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Multiple Sock accounts are attacking the AfD. GrabUp - Talk 17:38, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Daniel (talk) 18:17, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Block evasion by User:TRCTheRaulChannelProductionsInc2021 from Brazil. The range Special:Contributions/2804:1A68:10E:BDAE:0:0:0:0/64 has been active recently. Special:Contributions/186.137.232.172 was blocked in January. Binksternet (talk) 18:39, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Reason: Persistent addition of unsourced content. Waxworker (talk) 18:44, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Persistent block evasion by IP from Shwapneel ahnaf 1999 (talk · contribs). MrOllie (talk) 18:56, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Persistent block evasion by IP from Shwapneel ahnaf 1999 (talk · contribs). MrOllie (talk) 18:56, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Indefinite extended confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement – ARBPIA. PlotinusEnjoyer (talk) 20:01, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Extended confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement – ARBPIA. PlotinusEnjoyer (talk) 20:01, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Extended confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement – ARBPIA. PlotinusEnjoyer (talk) 20:03, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Extended confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement – ARBPIA. PlotinusEnjoyer (talk) 20:03, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Indefinite extended confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement – ARBPIA. PlotinusEnjoyer (talk) 20:09, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Extended confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement – ARBPIA. PlotinusEnjoyer (talk) 20:13, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Indefinite extended confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement – ARBPIA. PlotinusEnjoyer (talk) 20:14, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Reason: 誰にも私のページを編集してほしくありません。(I don't want anyone to edit my page.) ApplePumpkin2345 (talk) 20:21, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Current requests for reduction in protection level

    Request unprotection of a page, or reducing the protection level

    Before posting, first discuss with the protecting admin on their talk page. Post below only if you receive no reply.

    • To find out the username of the admin who protected the page, click on "history" at the top of the page, then click on "View logs for this page," which is under the title of the page. The protecting admin is the username in blue before the words "protected", "changed protection level" or "pending changes". If there are a number of entries on the log page, you might find it easier to select "Protection log" or "Pending changes log" from the dropdown menu in the blue box.
    • Requests to downgrade full protection to template protection on templates and modules can be directed straight here; you do not need to ask the protecting admin first.
    • Requests for removing create protection on redlinked articles are generally assisted by having a draft version of the intended article prepared beforehand.
    • If you want to make spelling corrections or add uncontroversial information to a protected page, please add {{Edit fully-protected}} to the article's talk page, along with an explanation of what you want to add to the page. If the talk page is protected, please use the section below.

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

    Reason: Page has been protected for about 15 years as of 2025, and there hasn't been much vandalism if at all since. Given the success of downgrading the page protection of shark recently, I think we could try pending changes for some time. Filmssssssssssss (talk) 13:53, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Reason: Should redirect to Dax Flame as it is the subject's name on YouTube. Sahaib (talk) 14:36, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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    "Israeli soldiers have summarily executed Palestinian civilians, often in front of their families." This is one citation that leads to another citation (why not list the original reference?) where it describes a single alleged incident that has been disputed. The original citation is careful to use the term 'alleged' and 'still under verification' and yet the wiki page does not say 'alleged' or 'accused of' - and goes on to add the word 'often', even though only one alleged incident is referenced. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 169.230.248.39 (talk) 02:19, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Revert the change on 07:26, 29 March 2025 Uhtregorn talk contribs 34,032 bytes +232

    This has been discussed on the user's talk page however I don't have the power yet to edit it myself nor edit the talk page on the main page so putting in the request here. The source does not back up the claim at all. It has already been removed by a different user (twice since it was put back with 2 different sources neither of which substantiate it) but was put back a third time.

    Thank you. Manamanadodododo (talk) 18:50, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Handled requests

    A historical archive of previous protection requests can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive.