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The page will undoubtedly be a continued source of biased, nationalistic edits, just like one I had to remove a moment ago. In its current form, the page is objective and respects the current naming dispute, and is of course useful for someone wanting fair information on the country, and shouldn't become an extension of an ongoing argument.] 06:10, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

:The page is already protected against moves. I don't see a huge edit war over the last few days. Going to hold off for now. --]<sup>]</sup> 08:08, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

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Persistent edit warring and POV pushing involving several editors. Mediation appears to be ineffective. Arbitration has been requested, however, the request for arbitration appears to have incensed some editors to push their POV even more. I think a page lock would cool things off until arbcom can accept or reject the request for arbitration. ] 05:10, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

:Protected. Will unprotect once things cool off. -]]]] 05:19, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

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Persistent reversion of page by one user plus probable sockpuppets, to a previous version, despite consensus for need for cleanup. ] 01:17, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
:Protected, and I've left a message on the IP user's talk page to come discuss the changes he's seeking. &middot; ]<sup>]</sup> 01:48, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

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Persistent, juvenile vandalism from several anonymous editors. ] 19:09, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
:Protected. &middot; ]<sup>]</sup> 01:33, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

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The <nowiki>{{Infobox Company}}</nowiki> template is used in more than 1,120 articles. The current template, layout and variables, should be considered '''stable''' given the lack of revolutionary activity. In order to prevent costly tampering of one of the most popular and widely used templates in Misplaced Pages, I recommend the template be permanently locked &mdash; at least, until a consensus is reached for administration of significant changes to the template. The version of the template that should be protected is Thank you. ] 16:03, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

: Please reach an agreement with the other editor, and stop edit warring. --]|] 10:56, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

::Also, please don't label edits as "vandalism" when they are not. Thanks. --]<sup>]</sup> 12:30, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

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Sorry, folks, but he (Igor Bogdanov, one of the subjects of the article) continues to repeatedly vandalize the article. This time he is spoofing WP admins like G-man or Snowspinner (and earlier Fred Bauder). Again, why not protect the article for a while, unprotect it for a short period of time allowing for legitimate edits (and more vandalism from the subject of the article), clean out the vandalism and POV edits, and reprotect it for another period of time? Protecting this article from the tenatious and repeated vandalism of Igor Bogdanov is very costly in hours of time of the admins and legitimate editors of Misplaced Pages. I realize that WP likes to keep the articles in an editiable state, but we first need to ride this out, so that the subject of the article (who is clearly a narcissist and doesn't like to read unflattering facts about himself, and is also banned from WP) might evenutally go away. ] 19:23, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

:OK done, it should probably be left protected for a week this time. ]</font> 19:45, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
::Strongly disagree with a week-long vandalism protection - vprotects should never be that long. ] 23:23, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

::Have you seen the edit history?. These guys dont give up. ] 01:48, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

If they don't give up then protection is inappropriate. Use reversion instead, to enable editing to proceed. I've unprotected as it's already been protected for about two days. --]|] 10:53, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

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Assorted edit wars between Georgian nationalists and anyone else who wanders by. Recent features include repeated removal of the dispute tag, despite the fact that there's rather clearly a dispute. The problem is unlikely to go away given that one participant declared "I WILL REMOVE DISPUTE TAGS". ] 05:01, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

:Not going to do anything for now. If this goes back to where it was, let us know. --]<sup>]</sup> 10:56, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

::It's back to where it is. I will protect it. --]<sup>]</sup> 12:47, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

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I've copied a very longwinded justification of one side of the content dispute from her to ] as it doesn't really seem to belong here. I hope the disputants will come back when they've made up their minds what they want. On the face of it there doesn't seem to be a good reason to protect the article. --]|] 10:36, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

Dear administrators,
I notice that since November 11th the D&N page has remained virtually unchanged with some minor improvements for which the administrators and other users should be thanked. The essence of the dispute was concentrated, at the end, on whether two members of the IAB (Bookchin and Castoriadis) should have special treatment with separate paragraphs dedicated to them, as opposed to the simple mentioning of the names of the rest. It seemed clear to everybody that both for reasons of principle (it is not right to discriminate in favour of two members just because a biased user thinks so) and for reasons of historical accuracy aptly exposed by the founder of the journal at:



there should simply be a list of names of all the IAB members. However, the biased user with the pseudonym Paul Cardan reappeared today and returned the disputed paragraphs. I therefore think that unless the administrators can produce a satisfactory explanation as to why the historical reasons and reasons of principle mentioned should be ignored, the page should be protected in the form it was finalised by SarekOfVulcan 15:59, 15 November 2005 ]

== Current requests for unprotection==
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I'm not sure how long a page is protected after people are temporarily blocked from editing the page, but could that page be unprotected? The info being added after it was locked has been erroneous. ] 02:58, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

:I will unlock it, but I will put it on my watchlist. If it needs to be reprotected, please leave a message on my talk page. Thanks. --]<sup>]</sup> 08:28, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

I have to agree... The wrestler "Superstar" Billy Graham performing Eddie's funeral service??? Hadn't this guy heard of the great evangelist Billy Graham...? Sorry but that's laughable...



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Should Misplaced Pages's highest-profile article be protected? The vandalism isn't THAT big of a deal. Does Misplaced Pages stand for nothing? ] 23:57, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
Excuse, me but why should every other article except this one be allowed protection. You hypocritical left-wingers make no sense.. you'd be up in arms if it was your precious John Kerry's article... or abortion rights for lesbians...

: Unprotected. But as a matter of historical fact I think you'll find if you check that this article is seldom protected, although it is one of the most heavily vandalised. It's an article that attracts a lot of vandalism, but it's also on many watchlists. See ]. --]|] 10:08, 17 November 2005 (UTC)



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This page should use a different protection template; right now a talk page is telling people to go to the talk page's talk page to resolve a dispute on the talk page. And, yes, clicking on "discussion page" gets one to ]. Sort of like that ]. :) Maybe ] would work better, especially if BigDaddy777 or others are vandalizing the page in question. ] 05:27, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

:I agree with you. I'll change the tag to the rarely used protection tag that says why the page is being protected. And I'll remove the talk talk page. Otherwise, we would then need to protect THAT page and could end up with multiple talk talk pages. --]<sup>]</sup> 08:16, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

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    Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. -- Alex_21 TALK 00:58, 12 January 2025 (UTC)

    Declined – Warn the user appropriately then report them to AIV or ANI if they continue. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 01:21, 12 January 2025 (UTC)

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    Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – A number of IPs and sockpuppets have been disruptively editing this and several other pages for which I am requesting semi-page protection. I'm pretty sure it's the same person, because as soon as one is blocked, another reinstates the same changes. (Always about substituting Punjabi for other languages or cultures, such as Saraiki.). Laterthanyouthink (talk) 01:32, 12 January 2025 (UTC)

    User(s) blocked: 93.150.224.0/20 (talk · contribs). Blocked IP range for 1 month. — Newslinger talk 03:37, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
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    Thanks very much for doing these, Newslinger - much appreciated. Here's hoping the pest loses interest after a couple of weeks! Laterthanyouthink (talk) 04:28, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
    ​No problem! If the disruptive editing does reoccur, please submit another report. IP range blocks tend to be more effective than page protection when many articles are affected, so if any future disruptive editing comes from an IP address that looks close to one of the previously blocked IP addresses, a report on the vandalism noticeboard might be the best solution. — Newslinger talk 04:36, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
    Thanks - I have reported some of the individual IPs, and someone did block some related to a sockpuppet account, I think. Laterthanyouthink (talk) 04:42, 12 January 2025 (UTC)

    Caribbean Hindustani

    Reason: User is changing sources and including fictional names to spread his propaganda by giving false information. Adrikshit (talk) 02:33, 12 January 2025 (UTC)

    Declined – Warn the user appropriately then report them to AIV or ANI if they continue. I will be giving them a CTOPS alert. Daniel Case (talk) 03:52, 12 January 2025 (UTC)

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    Reason: Pending Changes for some time - Over the last year, it seems like there has been a fairly substantial amount of IP vandalism, but I don't think it's quite enough for semi-protection. 2601:343:4100:1E90:B913:2CAA:C102:E92A (talk) 03:51, 12 January 2025 (UTC)

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Not really much editing to begin with over the past year. Daniel Case (talk) 03:54, 12 January 2025 (UTC)

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    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. EggRoll97 03:58, 12 January 2025 (UTC)

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    Reason: Ongoing excessive editing of criminal conviction section nearly a week after his death. Misplaced Pages is not the news nor the morality police. 💥Casualty 04:45, 12 January 2025 (UTC)

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    Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – persistent disruptive editing as experienced in the past. Marincyclist (talk) 04:59, 12 January 2025 (UTC)

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    Temporary pending changes protection: Reduce the protection to pending changes, as all vandals that triggered the temporary semi-protection are all ip users. It would be greatly appreciated if the semi-protection is reduced to pending changes for the remainder of the duration. 🗽Freedoxm🗽(talk • contribs) 18:57, 11 January 2025 (UTC)

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