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 vandalism problems like George W. Bush, 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.

Boston Red Sox (|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

indefinite semi-protection Vandalism, Subject to lots of vandalism from IPs. .Shapiros10 ^{contact me}_{My work} 12:23, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected indefinitely. — E ↗^TCB 12:45, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Sonny Bill Williams (|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protection Request protection from ips as there is rampant speculation about whether he will break a 5 year rugby league contract to take up a multi-million dollar offer to play 2nd division French rugby union.Londo06 10:58, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm (|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protection Anon users continually putting in speculation and fancruft in the article. NeoChaosX (talk, edits) 08:15, 26 July 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. This is also not the place to dispute a protection.

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

Tom Ato (|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Unprotect - This page must redirect users to that of Ash Ketchum because Tom Ato is a name he used to conceal his true identity in Pokémon.PikachuSnowman (talk) 07:35, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Note: Can you please provide a reference for those unfamiliar with the subject? Synergy 08:00, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

An episode summary for the unfamiliar. It's a one-off joke from one Pokémon episode. The same user has suggested that we move Caesar salad to Caesar salad (food) to disambiguate the humorously bad name chosen by another character. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 08:16, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

I'd advise against it, as the name is only used once. Wikipedia is not an archive of information irrelevant to understanding the character. (Not taking because I am involved in discussion with the user on a separate subject.) -Jéské ^{(v^_^v Mrrph-mph!)} 09:08, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Agreed. I'd recommend someone keep an eye on it for when the protection expires. Unless someone objects, this should be rejected promptly. Synergy 09:29, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Declined, per the above. Rjd0060 (talk) 14:25, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Current requests for significant 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

Fulfilled/denied requests

List of Star Wars books (|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Full protection. Users continuously mark Jedi Prince series as non-canon without consulting talk page discussion. Request protection to force them to do so.172.163.219.227 (talk) 04:44, 26 July 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. This is a content dispute not needing protection. Try leaving messages on the editors' talk pages, or inserting an HTML comment within the article which tries to persuade or directs them to the talk page. —EncMstr (talk) 07:22, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Serena Ryder (|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Full protection. Request temporary block over a dispute that "Sciencebucket" is ignoring NuclearWarfare (talk) 04:15, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Declined WP:3RR warnings given. Relist if consensus cannot be reached. Report 3RR violations to WP:3RRN. —EncMstr (talk) 07:16, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

User:NuclearWarfare/Welcome (|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

indefinite semi-protection , It is used as a welcome tag and I don't want anonymous users to be able to upload some inappropriate things that I won't be able to catch while I go on a "welcoming user rampage".NuclearWarfare (talk) 03:16, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected Indefinitely protected. —EncMstr (talk) 07:12, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Noelle Donfeld (|talk|history|links|watch|logs) and Noelle Donfeld, lyricist (|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

full protection Autobiography created three times in three days. Speedied each time. Please protect to prevent re-creation.--Aervanath lives in the Orphanage 03:16, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Protected to prevent recreation Both articles. —EncMstr (talk) 07:10, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Katy Perry (|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

temporary semi-protection Vandalism, She is in the news a lot right now and this page has been subject to non-stop vandalism from various IP addresses in the last few days..Chexmix53 (talk) 03:08, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 7 days. After 7 days the page will be automatically unprotected. —EncMstr (talk) 07:04, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Bottom Dollar Food (|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

semi-protect. High level of repeat IP vandalism. Knowledgeum (talk) 02:44, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected for 2 weeks. CIreland (talk) 02:54, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

User talk:Yourmombot (|user page|history|links|watch|logs)

indefinite cascading full protection User talk of blocked user.Hacker2000 (talk) 01:43, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Declined, Nothing happening so far. A block is not a reason for protection. -Royalguard11(T) 02:05, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Chip Berlet (|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Unprotect - the talk page is dead, so there is really no reason for it to be protected. Sceptre ^(talk) 22:50, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Unprotected -Royalguard11(T) 02:07, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Image:Angel locsin.jpg (|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

temporary create protection. User:Gerald Gonzalez sockpuppets have repeatedly recreated this image page with copyvio or insufficiently licensed non-free images. Blake Gripling (talk) 00:25, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Declined, It has only been created 2 times in a few months. I don't think protection is necessary at this point. Rjd0060 (talk) 00:47, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Adrenaline Rush (|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

semi-protect. Constant IP vandalism. Page has been protected before, but vandalism always restarts as soon as it ends. Andrea (talk) 23:46, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks. After 2 weeks the page will be automatically unprotected. Thanks, PeterSymonds (talk) 23:53, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Noelle North (|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

temporary semi-protection Vandalism, Previous prot expired 24 July, however disruption continues. Request temporary semi-protection for a longer period than the last time..Cirt (talk) 23:25, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Would appreciate prompt action on this one. Cirt (talk) 23:42, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Thank you to PeterSymonds (talk · contribs). Cirt (talk) 23:44, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week. After 1 week the page will be automatically unprotected. Thanks for your efforts as always, PeterSymonds (talk) 23:45, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Camel spin (|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

temporary full-protect. Edit war. Kolindigo (talk) 21:13, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Fully protected for a period of 9 days. After 9 days the page will be automatically unprotected. Rjd0060 (talk) 23:41, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Brass Knuckles (album) (|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Fully protect because my edits are getting reverted for no reason and being called "vandalism". XxJoshuaxX (talk) 20:50, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Fully protected for a period of 9 days. After 9 days the page will be automatically unprotected. Rjd0060 (talk) 23:40, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

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

semi-protect. Repeated IP vandalism accompanied by biased personal attacks on race and religion. Thrindel (talk) 19:27, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days. After 3 days the page will be automatically unprotected. I've warned a few of the more prominent vandals as well. Happyme22 (talk) 20:17, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Paul Daniels (|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Semi-protect. Seems to be an ongoing target of vandalism from IPs. Most of recent edits are anon vandals and consequent reverts.Circusandmagicfan (talk) 19:22, 25 July 2008 (UTC)Circusandmagicfan

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. Happyme22 (talk) 20:15, 25 July 2008 (UTC)