Requests for page protection

Shortcuts: WP:RFPP WP:RFP WP:RPP This page is for requesting that a page, image or template be fully protected, 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 Wikipedia: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. Skip to table of contents • requests for protection • unprotection • edits • (purge cache) Instructions If you would like to request a page to be protected or unprotected, please follow the following steps: Add a level 4 header at the TOP of either the protection or unprotection list and place one of the templates from the table below within the header. (for example, for an article use: ===={{la|ARTICLE}}====) If you are requesting protection, place the type of request (full protection, semi-protection, or move protection) and a brief reason for your request below your header. If you are requesting unprotection, it is almost always a good idea to ask the protecting admin first before listing a page here. Please do not add arbitrary requests for a protection expiry time to your request. 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, and not to articles with half a dozen IP vandalism edits in the last fortnight. Sign your request with four tildes ~~~~ and save. Note that 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 page protection / unprotection To request talk page protection / unprotection 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|PAGE}} {{lut|PAGE}} Category {{lc|CATEGORY}} {{lct|CATEGORY}} Image {{li|IMAGE}} {{lit|IMAGE}} Portal {{lp|PORTAL}} {{lpt|PORTAL}} MediaWiki cannot be unprotected {{lmt|MESSAGE}} You can subscribe to a web feed of this page in either RSS or Atom format.

Example

===={{la|Intentionally permanent red link}}====
'''semi-protect'''. High level of IP vandalism. ~~~~

Administrator instructions

Current requests for protection

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

Windows 7 (|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

temporary semi-protection , I suggest a lock until release, otherwise this page is going to be filled with Rumours, etc..Message from XENU^{u, t} 21:25, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Declined – Pages are not protected pre-emptively. —EncMstr (talk) 21:29, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Template:Sprotected2 (|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

full protection redirect to a protected template; no need for it to be edited. --Snigbrook ^(talk) 20:37, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Fully protected Target is semi, so I only semi'ed the redirect to it. DMacks (talk) 21:00, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Fully protected Actually it's full...upgrading prot (not sure what I was mis-reading). DMacks (talk) 21:10, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Template:Rs (|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

full protection redirect to a protected template; no need for it to be edited. --Snigbrook ^(talk) 20:37, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Fully protected DMacks (talk) 21:07, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Royal Rumble (2009) (|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

semi-protection. IP Vandalism. IPs continue to remove part of the lead section after many have been informed of the change by WP:PW.--WillC 20:26, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month. After 1 month the page will be automatically unprotected. Feel free to come back if the problem reoccurs when prot expires. DMacks (talk) 20:51, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for protecting it, I became tired of all the ips.--WillC 20:58, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Georgia (country) (|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

semi-protection. There is a continuous vandalism by IPs and certain accounts that want to undermine the long standing consensus about the geographic location of the country. Right now it is fully protected but it expires in several hours. The problem is that the dispute is not likely to be solved anytime soon, that is why I need to ask you to permanently semi-protect the page. The IP edit warring as you could see in previous days' editing history is not likely not stop.Editors are tired of having to revert things over and over again. The protection Has to be permanent and not some 24 hour or 3 day protection.I would love if something temporary was possible so that new editors dont have any obstacles however,it does not seem to work. --Satt 2 (talk) 19:38, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Declined Asking for pre-emptive reprotection before a previous protection expires (as intended by the admin who set that prot) is pretty poor form. You're welcome to ask that admin for an extension, but there was a clear intent for expiration, so let that happen and see what happens before asking for more protection. I'll watchlist it for a while. DMacks (talk) 20:56, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Yahoo! (|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

indefinite semi-protection Vandalism, High level of IPvandals..Message from XENU^{u, t} 18:17, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Declined – There is not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection at this time. If there's significantly more disruptive activity in the future, consider relisting. - Rjd0060 (talk) 18:33, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Helen Darville (|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

semi-protect. High level of IP vandalism on this and Carbone (PZ) (below) Maccy69 (talk) 17:46, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Declined – There is not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection at this time. If there's significantly more disruptive activity in the future, consider relisting. Húsönd 17:49, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Carbone (PZ) (|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

semi-protect. High level of IP vandalism on this and Helen Darville (above) Maccy69 (talk) 17:46, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Declined – There is not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection at this time. If there's significantly more disruptive activity in the future, consider relisting. Húsönd 17:48, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Blackburn Rovers F.C. (|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

semi-protection. A banned user keeps returning with new sockpuppets within hours of previous sockpuppet being banned. Semi protection is needed to stop his new accounts from pushing his point of view in the article (and hopefully persuading him to take part in discussion). Bill ^{(talk|contribs)} 17:08, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

User above seems to think he has full monoploy over page content. It was agreed to keep the order in question alphabetical but user above went back on his word. Getstan ^{(talk|contribs)} 17:17, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks. After 2 weeks the page will be automatically unprotected.. Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry (talk) 17:26, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

No Mercy (2008) (|talk|history|links|watch|logs), Cyber Sunday (2008) (|talk|history|links|watch|logs), Survivor Series (2008) (|talk|history|links|watch|logs), Armageddon (2008) (|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protection - IP vandalism. D.M.N. (talk) 14:01, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 7 weeks. After 7 weeks the page will be automatically unprotected. —EncMstr (talk) 15:14, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

I was requesting it for all four articles, not just the No Mercy (2008) article. D.M.N. (talk) 15:20, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 7 weeks. After 7 weeks the page will be automatically unprotected. Sorry, got the rest of them now. —EncMstr (talk) 21:28, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

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 do want a page that exists unprotected, please try and 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.

Autumn Tone Records (|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

I would like to request unprotection of this page. It is my understanding that, in the past, the fear has been that the page was used in a promotional manner, or with blatant copyright infringement. I believe that there is now enough media coverage, in addition to enough releases and artists on the label, that the page can be created fairly and without copyrighted material. The page was given a very short life and is, now, I feel, able to be a better, comprehensive page. At the zoo (talk) 22:18, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Teresa Sue Bratton (|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

I am requesting full unprotection for the article "Teresa Sue Bratton." I would like to write an objective biography of Teresa Sue Bratton, who is running for US House of Representatives in North Carolina's 6th District, and explanation of her positions on issues. Please email me if you have any questions. Thank you.

Rootsdj (talk) 16:01, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Declined Wikipedia is not a soapbox. caknuck _° is not used to being the voice of reason 17:41, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Saurial (|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

I'd like to request unprotection of several dozen Dungeons & Dragons related articles. These articles were permanently semi-protected over 6 months ago by Jéské Couriano, as a preventive measure to deter the vandalism of various Grawp IP socks. However, rather than attacking the articles themselves specifically, these IP's seemed mainly involved in harassment in the form of reverting the edits of Jack Merridew, and to a lesser extent, harassment of Gavin.collins and Jéské as well. However, Jack Merridew has been blocked since March, and Gavin.collins has been inactive on D&D articles for a few months as well; not unsurprisingly Grawp has therefore not been harassing either of them on any D&D articles in some time that I am aware of. It does not seem like any of these articles are currently or likely to be under any threat from Grawp's IP attack, so it does not seem to make sense to keep them semi-protected any longer. If any of them do get vandalized in this manner again, it would make sense to return them to a state of permanent semi-protection on a case-by-case basis, and I would offer my sincere apology for suggesting this in the first place. :)

22 Jan: Saurial, Skeleton (Dungeons & Dragons), Drizzt Do'Urden, Ghost (Dungeons & Dragons), Beholder, Carrion crawler, Daemonfey, Celadrin, Catoblepas (Dungeons & Dragons)

25 Jan: Plane (Dungeons & Dragons), Wrackspawn, Vampire spawn, Ghast (Dungeons & Dragons), Kurell, Moonsea, Kor (Dungeons & Dragons), Ilmater, Ibrandul, Ghaunadaur, Garyx, Gargauth, Garagos, Finder Wyvernspur, Fenmarel Mestarine, Gond (god), Gwaeron Windstrom, D'hin'ni, Dark tree, Helm (Forgotten Realms), Hoar, Araumycos, Eilistraee, Eldath, Eshowdow, Planetouched, Choldrith, Weave (Forgotten Realms), Spellfire (Forgotten Realms), Unapproachable East, Calimshan

2 Feb: Brain in a Jar (Dungeons & Dragons), Ghoul (Dungeons & Dragons), Shadow (Dungeons & Dragons), Monk (Dungeons & Dragons), Hook horror, Bhaal, Moonstars, Red Wizard, Shadow Thieves, The Chill, The Kraken (D&D), Zhentarim, Bloodhulk, Ulutiu, Cowled Wizards, Cult of the Dragon, Harpers (Forgotten Realms), Bigby (Greyhawk), Agathos Daimon (Forgotten Realms), Alaghi, Amn (Forgotten Realms), Auril, Cold Lands, The Bloodstone Lands, Deneir, Evermeet, Halruaa, Iyachtu Xvim, List of minor Silver Marches characters, House Do'Urden, Northmen (Dungeons & Dragons), Ostoria, Mythal, Tempus (Forgotten Realms), Torm, Tymora, Talona, Geshtai, Tiamat (Dungeons & Dragons), Ubtao, Umberlee, Uthgar, Valkur, Corellon Larethian, Ssendam, The City of Ravens, The Sellswords, Paths of Darkness, The Parched Sea, Maztica Trilogy, Legacy of the Drow, The Threat from the Sea, War of the Spider Queen, The Wyvern's Spur, Selvetarm, Selûne, Cormanthor, The Knights of Myth Drannor Trilogy, The Elminster Series, The Dark Elf Trilogy, The Cleric Quintet

4 Feb: Orc (Dungeons & Dragons)

67.162.108.96 (talk) 23:59, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

I unprotected the first batch; Drizzt Do'Urden was not edit protected, but is only move protected. I'll nibble away at this later today. —EncMstr (talk) 15:28, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Good Articles/recent (|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

I want to add Monty Python's Flying Circus to the page, but it won't let me.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.1.4.241 (talk)

I believe you mean Wikipedia:Good articles/recent. Besides, that article isn't currently a good article, it is only at B-Level, so even if it was unprotected, it couldn't get added to the list. D.M.N. (talk) 18:37, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Declined According to WP:GAN and the article talk page, the article has not yet undergone a GA review. Wikipedia:Good articles/recent is semi-protected because GA reviewers need to be experienced editors with a thorough knowledge of content policies & guidelines. If the article passes its review,, the reviewer will add it there shortly afterwards. caknuck _° is not used to being the voice of reason 18:41, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Template:Navigation (|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

I would like to request unprotection of {{Navigation}}, which has been protected per Wikipedia:High-risk templates. That template is not in high use any longer. --fryed-peach (talk) 18:43, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Unprotected I also suggest listing this at WP:TFD to propose a redirect to {{navbox}}. caknuck _° is not used to being the voice of reason 20:30, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Current requests for edits to a protected page

When making requests here, either:

• Provide a good reason for a substantial edit to a protected page. These are only done in exceptional circumstances, or when there is very clear consensus for an edit and continued protection. Please link to the talk page where consensus was reached.
• Demonstrate that there is a clear dispute over a protected page, and that a specific dispute tag would be appropriate to add. Please link to the talk page where the dispute exists.

Note: Unless the talk page itself is protected, you may instead add {{Editprotected}} to the article's talk page if you would like an inconsequential change rather than requesting it here, though most of these should simply wait for unprotection. See also: Category:Wikipedia protected edit requests

Template:Film (|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

As per talk page request. Many thanks! Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 23:13, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Just so I don't muck up a highly-transcluded template, I am right in thinking you want the whole contents of that page put into the template? That page isn't multi-purpose or anything? :) Thanks, PeterSymonds (talk) 23:18, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

I just want a change identical to the cited diff added. However, simply overwriting the template with a cut-paste of my user subpage should be the exact same thing. Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 23:35, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

List of National Basketball Association top individual scoring season averages (|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

There is a necessary edit to make on this page, which provides misinformation on NBA history. In fact, the page appears to have been protected in the first place due to an edit war involving the change that needs to be made. However, there was no type of discussion - by either party involved - on the talk page made during that edit war, which perhaps explains why the page was protected in the first place.

Declined What specifically do you want the administrators to add? -Jéské ^{(v^_^v Bodging WP edit by edit)} 04:40, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

I think that you misunderstand. There is not a need for an addition, but rather a piece of content should be removed from the page because it does not actually belong there. A particular player's season is listed there when it is not acknowledged by the NBA in its record books. For some more detail, I have commented on this on the talk page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.31.252.152 (talk) 05:02, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Deferring to another administrator here as this involves editing a section previously the focus of an edit-war. I'm unwilling to make the change, but it does sound reasonable. -Jéské ^{(v^_^v Bodging WP edit by edit)} 18:19, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

So what happens now? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.31.252.152 (talk) 07:13, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

You'll have to wait for another administrator. Another suggestion I could make is to use {{editprotected}} on the talk page and be specific about the edit you want to make; RFPP is rather sleepy at times. -Jéské ^{(v^_^v Bodging WP edit by edit)} 20:56, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Done. Looked right to me; I imagine if other editors have conflicting information/sources, they'll sound off. Tan ǀ 39 04:15, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Fulfilled/denied requests

Lewis Hamilton (|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

'Short term full protection Heavy vandilism with a note "This is the Zodiac speaking. Do you still think you can stop me? Do you still think I have a soul? I do know that you people do not have souls, for I have destroyed them." 15:41, 21 August 2008 (DST) —Preceding unsigned comment added by snorri788 (talk • contribs)

Not according to the history. If you did really see the Zodiac thing on the page, the Zodiac vandal most likely attacked one of the templates. D.M.N. (talk) 14:49, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Declined – There is not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection at this time. If there's significantly more disruptive activity in the future, consider relisting. See WP:DISPUTE. —EncMstr (talk) 15:32, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Bowser (Nintendo) (|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi protection. A lot of anonymous edits, vandalism etc. --Soetermans | is listening | what he'd do now? 13:45, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Declined – There is not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection at this time. If there's significantly more disruptive activity in the future, consider relisting. Not only vandalism minimal, but most of it is being fixed by anonymous editors. —EncMstr (talk) 15:16, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Spanair Flight 5022 (|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

semi-protection , since the accident this article has undergone a series of non-constructive edits by several IP addresses. .Alexnia (talk) 14:34, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks. After 2 weeks the page will be automatically unprotected. —EncMstr (talk) 15:04, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

UFC 2009 Undisputed (|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

semi-protection Vandalism, Heavy IP-vandalism.--aktsu ^(t / c) 14:15, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 6 months. After 6 months the page will be automatically unprotected. Hopefully when it is released, protection won't be needed? —EncMstr (talk) 15:11, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Template:Asia topic (|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Short term full protection. Edit warring on a highly-used template by registered users, without participating in discussion. Request for it to be reverted to its most stable recent version and protected until consensus can be reached. --Joowwww (talk) 10:21, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Fully protected Template is heavily used and warrants ongoing protection. Use {{editprotected}} on the talk page, or request edits in the section below. —EncMstr (talk) 15:00, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Major League Baseball 2K9 (|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protect - vandals keep posting idiotic, much less unsourced, information like Charlie Sheen being the cover athlete (Jose Reyes was signed to a 3 year deal.) JAF1970 (talk) 06:48, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

User(s) blocked caknuck _° is not used to being the voice of reason 07:07, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

ALso protected for one week by Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry (talk). 07:11, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, there was more than one anon IP. JAF1970 (talk) 07:15, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

It looks like the vandal may have reappeared as Jwjkp. That user 1) installed Twinkle 2) made a bunch of null edits to autoconfirm and 3) made the same Charlie Sheen edit. I issued a final warning, and if they keep it up, it'll result in full protection and/or a range block. caknuck _° is not used to being the voice of reason 13:59, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Gene Upshaw (