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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 get rid of obvious vandalism.

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    Current requests for increase in protection level

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    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.


    L2: Empuraan

    Temporary extended confirmed protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent addition of unreliable box office figures by Autoconfirmed users coming out of hibernation after years just to edit the BO figure. A temporary ECP would be better. — Benison (Beni · talk) 03:03, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Likely collateral damage as one or several users who are making improvements would be affected by the requested protection. BusterD (talk) 10:59, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    List of ancient Indo-Aryan peoples and tribes

    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]

    Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2

    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]

    Sudanese civil war (2023–present)

    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]

    Sam Mitchell (EastEnders)

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Persistent disruptive editing by anonymous editors for the past several months. livelikemusic (TALK!) 14:34, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. One incident this month? BusterD (talk) 11:15, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Battle of Pilsud

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent Disruptive edits – Persistent original research by IP users. AlvaKedak (talk) 15:15, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Daniel (talk) 11:18, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Ang Panday (2017 film)

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

    Batang Quiapo (TV series)

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

    List of countries by total fertility rate

    Indefinite pending changes: Persistent disruptive editing – I have been watching this article a lot lately. IPs keep inappropriately adding official numbers to columns dedicated to NGO's. The Knowledge Pirate (talk) 17:49, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Daniel (talk) 11:19, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    The Rugrats Movie

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 18:07, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined I don't see this as blatant vandalism, at worst they are slightly undesirable edits, but therefore not being vandalism I don't see the justification for protection here. Daniel (talk) 11:21, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Talk:Grok (chatbot)

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Looks like this is going to need the same protection as Talk:ChatGPT, from people who think that Wikipedia's talk page is a direct interface to the AI. It's had five IPs asking for AI-generated Studio Ghibli artwork, today. Belbury (talk) 19:00, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Ping Elli as you placed the long-term protection at ChatGPT talk; thoughts on this one? Daniel (talk) 11:23, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Erika Ishii

    Temporary pending changes: BLP policy violations – Previous protection expired & an IP returned immediately to change the actor's pronouns (MOS:NB). Sariel Xilo (talk) 21:01, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Bbb23 (talk) 13:51, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Social Democratic Party (UK, 1990–present)

    Reason: High level of WP:DE edits by IP users. Brat Forelli🦊 22:12, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined IP is engaging at talk page. Daniel (talk) 11:25, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Template:Taxonomy/Allotriocarida

    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]

    Shea Couleé

    Indefinite extended-confirmed protection: Community sanctions enforcement. WP:GS/GENSEX, person uses they/them pronouns RaschenTechner (talk) 22:51, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Bbb23 (talk) 13:51, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    2024–25 Illawarra Hawks season

    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]

    Ancient Egyptian conception of the soul

    Semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing. Remsense ‥ 论 02:53, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. If you think this reaches the level of requiring admin intervention, all the IP's are on a narrow range so if you can convince an admin to block, they'll be able to fix this with block rather than protection. (No comment on whether a block would be appropriate or not.) Daniel (talk) 11:30, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    March 2025 South Korea wildfires

    Reason: Insertion of dubious and poorly-sourced content by IPs. Borgenland (talk) 03:12, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. This is a current event so the threshold for frequency of disruption is significantly higher, and I don't think this reaches it. Daniel (talk) 11:31, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Mariella Ahrens

    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]

    My testicles are going back and forth and back and forth and back and forth and back and forth

    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]

    User talk:TzarN64

    Temporary extended-confirmed protection: Persistent vandalism and sockpuppetry. Personal attacks also existed in the article. 🗽Freedoxm🗽(talk • contribs) 03:47, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    User(s) blocked. Daniel (talk) 11:31, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Kaura (dance)

    Temporary protection: Edit warring Adakiko (talk) 03:48, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Ghatu (dance)

    Temporary protection: Edit warring Adakiko (talk) 03:49, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    User talk:Freedoxm

    Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. 🗽Freedoxm🗽(talk • contribs) 04:05, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – User talk pages are not protected except in response to severe or continued vandalism. Daniel (talk) 11:32, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Skibidi

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

    Your Girl

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

    Chuvash language

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

    Berlin

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

    Shkreli (tribe)

    Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. soetermans. ↑↑↓↓←→←→ B A TALK 08:07, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    User(s) blocked. Bbb23 (talk) 13:54, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Talk:Shkreli (tribe)

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. soetermans. ↑↑↓↓←→←→ B A TALK 08:15, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    User(s) blocked. Bbb23 (talk) 13:54, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Google (disambiguation)

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent from various IPs since August last year. —Bruce1eetalk 09:28, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    User(s) blocked. Bbb23 (talk) 13:55, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    2018 Siirt raid

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry. Kajmer05 (talk) 09:30, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Julia Hart (wrestler)

    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]

    MTV Roadies

    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]

    2025 in Philippine television

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent addition of unsourced or poorly sourced content – Vandalism edits by Annonymous IP Address. Gunther :  Talk  13:29, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Air Algérie

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

    Watermelon Pictures

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

    User talk:Abo Yemen

    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]

    Current requests for reduction in protection level

    Request unprotection of a page, or reducing the protection level
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    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.

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    Crocodile

    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]

    Daxflame

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

    Current requests for edits to a protected page

    Request a specific edit to a protected page
    Please request an edit directly on the protected page's talk page before posting here
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    Ideally, requests should be made on the article talk page rather than here.

    • Unless the talk page itself is protected, you may instead add the appropriate template among {{Edit protected}}, {{Edit template-protected}}, {{Edit extended-protected}}, or {{Edit semi-protected}} to the article's talk page if you would like to make a change rather than requesting it here. Doing so will automatically place the page in the appropriate category for the request to be reviewed.
    • Where requests are made due to the editor having a conflict of interest (COI; see Wikipedia:Suggestions for COI compliance), the {{Edit COI}} template should be used.
    • Requests to move move-protected pages should be made at Wikipedia:Requested moves, not here.
    • If the discussion page and the article are both protected preventing you from making an edit request, this page is the right place to make that request. Please see the top of this page for instructions on how to post requests.
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    Gaza_genocide

    "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]

    Handled requests

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

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