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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.


    U.S. Office of Palestinian Affairs

    Extended confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement. Filmssssssssssss (talk) 23:41, 23 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 15:18, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Riyad Mansour

    Extended confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement. Filmssssssssssss (talk) 23:41, 23 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 15:19, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    List of all-time NBA win–loss records

    Reason: Last year, I requested protection (see further discussion here); that request was ultimately denied and I let it go, believing that yes, they were frustrating edits, but that it would be better to err on the side of assuming good faith. However, once again an IP editor (from a newly-used IP) has made disruptive edits:

    Recently, other IP editors have just simply caused more work to be done through edits that have:

    Also, even before the massive amounts of IP edits that have been made since 2024, there has historically been vandalizing by IP editors on this page across several years; examples include: 2017 (1); 2018 (2); 2019 (4, 5); 2022 (6, 7); 2023 (8). The nature of this list being the win-loss records of NBA teams probably attracts some NBA fans to inflate or deflate a team's win-loss record based on their feelings about that team, which is something I've seen over on the analogous NFL list from my time editing that one.

    I previously nominated this list for featured list status in 2022, but withdrew the nomination at the time. I think the list is currently a lot closer to FL than it was when I withdrew that nom, but the IP edits have created a lot more work to then have to clean up. Considering that in 2024, there were more unregistered edits to this list than from 2015-2023 combined, and that already in 2025, there have been more unregistered edits than in any year prior to 2024, I do not have confidence that these unregistered edits will slow down or make things easier to maintain. So, I am once again kindly requesting any form of page protection. Soulbust (talk) 00:21, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Since I made this request, unregistered edits have once again:
    Please add a page protection to aid with this issue. Soulbust (talk) 09:24, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    User(s) blocked: 2401:E180:8000::/33 (talk · contribs). This editor has been disrupting related articles as well and has been blocked before, so I have blocked them for three months. I don't think that protection is warranted otherwise. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 15:32, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Delwar Hossain Sayeedi

    Temporary semi-protection. আফতাবুজ্জামান (talk) 00:56, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Content dispute. Please use the article's talk page or other forms of dispute resolution. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 15:36, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Fatima Hassouna

    Extended confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement. Zinderboff (talk) 01:14, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 15:38, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk

    Extended confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement. Zinderboff (talk) 01:28, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 15:41, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Talk:2025 Pahalgam attack

    Reason: Disruptive WP:FORUM, WP:ASPERSIONS and WP:DENY editing by IPs. Too bad a lot of well-meaning editors fell for dignifying them with replies. Borgenland (talk) 07:57, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined. The bar for protecting discussion pages is quite high, and there don't seem to have been that many disruptive off-topic comments since this request was made. Removing unconstructive posts is probably a better approach here. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 15:57, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    The Lifetimes Tour

    Reason: The page should be protected to ensure the accuracy and reliability of its content. Since it may be a high-profile or frequently visited page, allowing unregistered users to edit it increases the risk of vandalism, misinformation, or unverified changes. Editedit446 (talk) 09:54, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    (Non-administrator comment) This looks like a request for pre-emptive protection. Apart from today's featured page (the article that appears on the Main Page), that is not done. Protection is applied only when a page is disrupted so frequently that reverting and blocking individual editors is insufficient to manage the problem. QwertyForest (talk) 15:28, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Declined - duplicate request. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 15:59, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    List of Coronation Street characters

    Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent addition of unsourced or poorly sourced content – Requesting this is upped from indefinite pending changes to indefinite semi-protection. It would benefit reviewers from reverting numerous unsourced edits per week, and would bring it in line with List of EastEnders characters, where unregistered editors request for an edit to be made with a source. – Meena • 11:16, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined - as far as I can see there are more reviewed revisions accepted than reverted, other than maybe in the last few days. Those accepted edits would have been lost if the page was semiprotected instead; see WP:BATHWATER. I think this request is premature. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 16:06, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Template:Armenian genocide

    Reason: recent vandalism Oneequalsequalsone (talk | contribs) 13:45, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Isabelle Belato 🏳‍🌈 15:08, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Sexuality in The Lord of the Rings

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing. Robert McClenon (talk) 14:07, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Warn the user appropriately then report them to AIV or ANI if they continue. Isabelle Belato 🏳‍🌈 15:06, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Palestinian Democratic Union

    Extended confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement. Filmssssssssssss (talk) 14:48, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. There hasn't been any kind of substantive edit of any sort to the page in nearly three years. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 16:17, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    So Close to What

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Persistent disruptive editing by anonymous editors. livelikemusic (TALK!) 14:56, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Isabelle Belato 🏳‍🌈 15:12, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Soul Jah Love

    Semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Various IPs (hopper?) and one newly-registered editor continually trying to add the same unsourced quote.   –Skywatcher68 (talk) 15:04, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    User(s) blocked. Tag-teaming to edit war is still edit warring; the IP range and the new account have been blocked for a few days. I don't think that protection is needed, but please make a new request if problems continue. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 16:28, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Diana Fox Carney

    Temporary extended confirmed protection: BLP policy violations – Ongoing BLP vandalism from IP editors. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 15:14, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Category:Soviet cosmonauts

    Reason: Temporary semi-protection of ALL pages in the category. Persistent, disruptive, edit-hopping LTA. An edit filter might work as well. WFUM🔥🌪️ (talk) 16:16, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined - that's over a hundred articles, we're not going to go through them all. If this is a persistent and widespread problem you should post at WP:ANI along with diffs of the disruptive edits or links to specific pages being targeted. An edit filter may indeed be appropriate but we need more information. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 16:30, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Israel–PKK relations

    Reason: Vandalism 83.234.223.246 (talk) 16:33, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined, requester blocked. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 17:04, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Savalyachi Janu Savali

    Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – SOCKS and LOUTSOCKing continue to try to bludgeon this in the mainspace. CNMall41 (talk) 16:58, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Question: @CNMall41: why do you keep removing the article? Was there a deletion discussion I can't find? Or a sockpuppet investigation? Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 17:02, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    It was created by a now blocked UPE editor and the IPs have come back to remove the redirect and create the page after the user was blocked. If necessary, I can just go AfD. Let me know either way.--CNMall41 (talk) 17:34, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Extended confirmed protected indefinitely. We can't create protect a redirect but this achieves the same result. I've also blocked one of the IPs for a year. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 19:15, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Huda Fakhreddine

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Somewhat persistent removal of content related to the Israel-Hamas conflict. Gommeh (T/C) 17:09, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined. Please see WP:BLPEDIT and WP:DOLT. The content in question is indeed questionable, I have removed it. I expect to see a discussion about what to include on the talk page, along with a better variety of sources. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 18:27, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Africa

    Extended confirmed protection: Persistent vandalism – Page keeps being vandalized. Filmssssssssssss (talk) 17:31, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined for now, this sock was blocked two days ago. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 18:30, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    List of programs broadcast by ARY Digital

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Long term sock farm (WP:Sockpuppet investigations/StayCalmOnTress). While the accounts are usually AC, they also use IPs and hoping semi might slow them down some. The last protection ended in February. I also considered requesting EC protection but not sure what the bar is. S0091 (talk) 17:57, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Extended confirmed protected indefinitely. Getting pretty tired of this sockfarm. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 18:37, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Short

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Getting vandalized by 2 IP users. Gonna eatpizza (talk) 18:04, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    The vandalism for this page goes further back than just the 2 IPs today. Administrators need to consider this. Jalen Barks (Woof) 18:15, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Pending-changes protected for a period of 6 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 18:39, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    The Birth of a Nation

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – No investigation found for what I can simply call "Starship vandal". Jalen Barks (Woof) 18:10, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. There's no public investigation per WP:DENY, but the vandal is being tracked. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 18:42, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    List of English football champions

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – I think this needs protection until, perhaps, August when the new season begins. Spartathenian (talk) 18:22, 24 April 2025 (UTC). Spartathenian (talk) 18:22, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Protecting until the next season starts seems extreme for this level of vandalism, but if it continues then pending changes might be more appropriate over a longer term. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 18:46, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Kazaam

    Reason: Request permanent semi-protection. Continued vandalism from IPs who insist "Shazaam" exists (and other minor vandalism/bad edits). It was already protected earlier back in December 2023, but I believe the one-year expiry was a mistake because the vandalism has continued. Koopinator (talk) 18:25, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Pending-changes protected indefinitely. The expired protection was pending changes, not semi. Pending changes should be less disruptive to good faith users in response to this sort of occasional, drive-by disruption stemming from internet memes. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 18:58, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Maya S. Krishnan

    Reason: Multiple vandalism instances and edits that are misinformation/irrelevant. Oorthinnai (talk) 18:30, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined. You are the only person to have edited the article in the last month. There is no ongoing vandalism that requires page protection. Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) 18:32, 24 April 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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    Halo Burger

    Unprotection: Article was protected in 2019 for sockpuppetry/vandalism. I have found no evidence that this vandal is still active, and the article seems unlikely to become a vandalism magnet again over five years later. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 01:11, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Pinging protecting admin El C. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 12:30, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    The timing — within a day? Indirect is too insulary. Anyway, as I keep saying, any admin is free to take over this set of protections, so long as they're confident they could be around to keep an eye on em. Otherwise, you'd have to wait until I am available enough to test in more of a trickle. Either option is all the same for me. El_C 13:14, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Current requests for edits to a protected page

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

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    Սերժ Առուշանյան

    I would like to create a new article about Սերժ Առուշանյան, an individual I believe meets Wikipedia's notability guidelines. The article will include reliable, independent sources and follow a neutral point of view. Mariam Arushanyan (talk) 19:13, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    @Mariam Arushanyan: You'll have to follow the Wikipedia:Articles for creation process instead. (CC) Tbhotch™ 19:16, 24 April 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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