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List of banned video games (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism, recent unprotection. Seaphoto 04:07, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

List of con artists (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations – We keep getting IPs adding BLP violations to the list, some presumably "jokes" about their schoolfriends, and some potentially libelous. All five additions so far in 2013 have been unsourced or blatant fakes. I think the edits should be rev-deleted too. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 03:41, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Tegan and Sara (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protection: Constant stream of IP vandalism/incompetence. Recent examples: time-wasting foolishness, self-reverting, clearly non-encyclopedic (and quickly removed) ramblings, non-RS tabloidism, invidious section blanking, etc. Hobbes Goodyear (talk) 03:30, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Vio (drink) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Tbhotch. Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions. 03:00, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Toronto Blue Jays (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary pending changes: Persistent vandalism. Johnny Au _{(talk/contributions)} 02:43, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Only three different IP vandalism reverts the past month, surprising considering the subject, I'll watchlist this. Secret 03:14, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Sojourner Truth (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Indefinite Semi-protection: persistent, daily, unending, IP vandalism. Jojalozzo 02:09, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Already protected by administrator Malik Shabazz. --Webclient101 02:43, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Adil Akbar (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary create protection: Repeatedly recreated – Continually re-created and deleted by user who doesn't understand the idea of context. Grammarxxx 02:05, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Indian astronomy (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary Full-protection: Persistent POV pushing Edit War involving registered users. Content Dispute moving towards DR following breakdown of extensive talk. Bad faith content additions during attempt at talk exacerbated dispute and will worsen if continues. Freezing page would allow for mediation to take course and get users to compromise on accurate consensus. Thank you for your assistance. Devanampriya (talk) 01:46, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

(Non-administrator comment) Reporting user is participating in a longterm edit-war on the article and just reverted edits by the other editor while engaging in egregious personal attacks. It appears that he wants to lock the article to his preferred version. So-called "Bad faith content additions" are well-referenced edits, using reliable sources, by the other editor. Δρ.Κ.  02:10, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

User Dr.K was never a party to this dispute (so curious to see comment and article revert by him) and never participated in talk and elected to revert my restoration of status quo ante to prolong edit war. Possible fellow nationalist pov pusher to or alias of Athenean seeking to keep his version.

Reporting user clearly cited the fact that other party made bad faith content additions while attempt at dispute negotiation was taking place. Please see . Dr. K not prev involved, but now reverting.

Reporting user unilaterally stopped edit war to encourage other editor to participate in negotiation and to stop more controversial content from being added while attempt at negotiation going on. Reporting User is merely restoring status quo ante before bad faith content additions during negotiation, as previously stated. Devanampriya (talk) 02:49, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

You say (so curious to see comment and article revert by him) What exactly do you find so curious? Is this a wiki or not? You come here at a highly visible forum like RFPP with "bad faith" accusations against other editors and you don't want to be discovered by other people? You say Possible fellow nationalist pov pusher to or alias of Athenean seeking to keep his version. Very classy. Attacking longstanding contributors in such a vile manner. I will not reciprocate. It just isn't my style. You are welcome to open an SPI against me though, if for nothing else but for the laughs. Δρ.Κ.  02:59, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

You are not a party to this dispute--you did not even previously edit or participate in article talks. So why are you reverting my restoration of the status quo ante of dispute and commenting here? You are coming out of nowhere to assist another user who happens to share the same nationality regarding a nationalism pov dispute. Not a coincidence. Now you are edit warring there and being disruptive here on his behalf. Please stop. Devanampriya (talk) 03:08, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

You have been edit-warring for days on end reverting proper and reliably-sourced edits. You should have been blocked by now, save for the fact that noone reported you at 3RRN for longterm edit-warring. And this does not count your continuing personal attacks. You have also been abundantly personally attacking me and other editors and calling their edits "eurocentric" at DRN. It is time you cooled down. By the way this not a forum for lengthy discussions. I will see you at DRN and RSN. Δρ.Κ.  03:15, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

White privilege (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Indefinite Semi-protection: consistent level of contentious edits from IP editors and single-use accounts. UseTheCommandLine (talk) 00:11, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

John Juanda (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Indefinite Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism due to an internet meme also this can be seen if you Google "John Juanda i had trips meme". this meme vandalism has done in multiple ways by multiple IPs for almost a year please take a look at the page history for dozens of examples. thank you ▪◦▪≡SiREX≡ 00:05, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

List of The Powerpuff Girls characters (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protection: Vandalism, this article has had problems in the past as well with the issue. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 23:49, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

List of speed metal bands‎ (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Indefinite Semi-protection: if not, semiprotection. Racer X continually added with out a source and long history of vandalism and other unsourced additions. Curb Chain (talk) 23:13, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Sorry we don't semi-protect inactive pages like that. Two reverts in 2013, before that last active editing was in November. Secret 03:22, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Oscar Pistorius (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary full-protection: - Edit disputes concerning lead.--BabbaQ (talk) 22:50, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Reeva Steenkamp (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary full-protection: - IP vandalism, edit disputes. Revert war..etc--BabbaQ (talk) 22:32, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Qubool Hai (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent removal of the {{copyvio}} template by IP accounts since mid-January. Psychonaut (talk) 22:04, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Purple (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Vandalism coming from multiple ip addresses . Thєíríshwαrdєn - írísh αnd prσud 22:01, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 4 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Materialscientist (talk) 00:03, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

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

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – See history for large scale attack by a sockmaster. Werieth (talk) 21:48, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Cloudo (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Indefinite create protection: Repeatedly recreated. Grammarxxx 21:09, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Creation protected for a period of 1 year, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Materialscientist (talk) 00:18, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Aliens: Colonial Marines (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism. The1337gamer (talk) 20:40, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Europe Business Assembly (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection: Recurring IP edit warring for weeks. Repeated attempts to direct discussion to talk page have failed. --Brindt (talk) 19:17, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Klondike Gold Rush (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection: vandalism. ~ Soerfm (talk) 17:10, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Toni Morrison (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection: from long term IP vandalism. Span (talk) 16:10, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Orson Scott Card (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary pending changes: BLP policy violations – A week or two until this DC Comics thing blows over, please. (I don't see what everyone's complaining about... more homoerotic subtext between Ender and Bean than between like... anybody.). — PinkAmpers& 15:56, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Selena (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Persistent vandalism – Nothing but IP vandalism and tests since unprotection. Secret 15:42, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Victorian era (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – It's like the whole world on this article is non-stop vandalism. Arctic Kangaroo 15:33, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Ted Nugent (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Pending changes: BLP policy violations – Due to recent political notability, getting massive BLP issues, several of which have been oversight deleted recently. Gaijin42 (talk) 15:20, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for 3 months. Pending changes protection is usually reserved for articles that do not have a high frequency of edits, therefore semi-protection would be more appropriate. Mike V • Talk 20:54, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Gateway Arch (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Arctic Kangaroo 15:05, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

• Declined – Warn the user appropriately then report them to AIV or ANI if they continue. other than those 4 recent edits, the article been rather stale. Secret 16:08, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Arnab Goswami (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Indefinite pending changes: Persistent test edits and vandalism on this BLP. Harsh (talk) 14:12, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for 1 week by Miniapolis (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) 16:20, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Star Trek Into Darkness (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Indefinite pending changes: Persistent vandalism – The page is persistently vandalized. It is primarily related to the naming issue earlier. I'm requesting indefinite protection, but if an administrator thinks a temporary timeframe is better, perhaps until a month or so after the movie release, I'm fine with that.  Ryan Vesey 13:58, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for 1 week by 28bytes (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) tutterMouse (talk) 14:13, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

List of highest-grossing films in the Philippines (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism - Most of the edits are from the unregistered IPs these past few days and weeks. Some of them gives the article a good edits but some are just vandalising or playing the article. The article needs protection in order to obey the proper list of highest-grossing films and their corresponding box-office. User:Alphonsewan | User talk:Alphonsewan 8:35, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Miniapolis 18:05, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Oscar Pistorius (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. BaldBoris 11:20, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

• Semi-protected for a period of two weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Ks0stm 11:23, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Bosnian Genocide (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – large number of IP vandalism edits in last 14 days. Peacemaker67 (send... over) 07:28, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of three months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Ks0stm 11:30, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Murder 3 (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Movie slated to release tomorrow, getting lots of IP edits that add unsourced info, randomly remove info, etc. A few days should help. Qwyrxian (talk) 06:20, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of 10 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Ks0stm 11:27, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Katherine Stewart (journalist) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protection: Future vandalism concerns. Abp9106 (talk) 06:14, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

We don't protect pre-emptively, when vandalism occurs you come right over but not now. tutterMouse (talk) 07:09, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Pages are not protected preemptively. Ks0stm 11:20, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Bicycle (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. ~ satellizer ~~ talk ~ 05:51, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mike V • Talk 06:01, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Nate Ruess (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Pending changes: BLP policy violations. ~ satellizer ~~ talk ~ 05:40, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mike V • Talk 06:07, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Pulamaipithan (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Recent spike in nonconstructive edits by multiple new accounts. Command and Conquer Expert! _{review me...} 05:31, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Materialscientist (talk) 05:34, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Princeton, Texas (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection: Edit warring over undue weighty, improperly referenced stuff about land/boundary dispute. No response to request to discuss on talk page. Please revert to my last version and semi. Thanks. ukexpat (talk) 05:01, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Would someone please review this request, the nonsense continues...--ukexpat (talk) 21:04, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Anyone, Bueller...Bueller?--ukexpat (talk) 01:44, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Declined Bueller here; while the edits aren't exactly improving the article, I don't feel they require protection. You may want to have a nice cup of tea. Miniapolis 02:45, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Happy Birthday to You (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary Semi-protection: Persistent IP vandalism. - ʈucoxn\ 04:47, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Mike V • Talk 06:03, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Needs immediate protection. ---zeeyanketu 04:16, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Miniapolis 00:22, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Vio (drink) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism from various IPs over the past six weeks. pmj (talk) 03:59, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

• Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. other than those 4 or so IP edits the past 6 weeks, it been stale since 2011. Watchlist it, and if vandalism continues, bring it back here. Secret 16:12, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection: TFA. Excessive vandalism (even for a TFA). Tbhotch. Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions. 03:34, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Miniapolis 00:39, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Paul Johnson (American football coach) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP users continue to make the same edit: an edit supplying his record for the 2013 season, which does not begin for 6 more months. —Ute in DC (talk) 02:42, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. May be a misunderstanding about what constitutes a football season; please discuss on article talk page. Miniapolis 00:30, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Traditional marriage (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporarily semiprotect: Continued POV edit-warring by IP-hopping user. –Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 01:02, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Airplaneman ✈ 01:50, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

The Weeknd (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism; seems like the nth RPP in the past few months. Dan56 (talk) 00:50, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Ask.com (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Protection Persistent POV edits - A lot of the page seems to be edited to slander Ask.com. A lot of editors have cited articles that are questionable or opinion-based in their use of the page. Just reading the Talk page gives you an idea of the edits that people are trying to make. A lot of "Ask.com installed this on my computer within a Java installer so we need to mention in the article that the company is doing illegal things" 70.27.86.216 (talk) 00:29, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Indicud (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Dubious unsourced additions. STATic message me! 23:03, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Miniapolis 02:32, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Golden Sparrow (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

temporary semi-protection - persistent IP spamming from what appears to be a range of addresses. Not sure whether range block or semi protection is the narrowest protection. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 22:11, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. GedUK  12:53, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent vandalism. Saddhiyama (talk) 21:56, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for one week by Anthony Bradbury. Mike V • Talk 06:19, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Meša Selimović (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – National struggle over ethnicity. WhiteWriter 21:56, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. GedUK  12:46, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Ivo Andrić (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – National struggle over ethnicity. . WhiteWriter 21:55, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. GedUK  12:49, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Blonde stereotype (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

semi protection Check the edit history and you'll see on the first page of results, its mostly vandalism or the reverting of vandalism by cluebot or various users. Dream Focus 21:34, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. While there are some vandalism edits, they are spaced over a wide range of time, and the only recent one was within the last month and isn't enough to merit protection. Mike V • Talk 06:22, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Townshend Acts (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary pending changes: Persistent vandalism. Webclient101 20:15, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of three months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 20:19, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

Marian Anderson (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Indefinite semi-protection: persistent vandalism. Toccata quarta (talk) 19:07, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Lectonar (talk) 20:12, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

Sam & Cat (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – I don't know why my request was denied. This article has already been protected three times and vandalism/non sense edits keep occurig. This obviously needs protecting. Astros4477 (Talk) 18:44, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

Already protected. TBrandley 04:44, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Rajesh Khanna (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP(s) and new user(s) has been adding unsourced materials. Torreslfchero (talk) 18:19, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Ruslik_Zero 18:27, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

Nymphomaniac (film) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Lady Lotus (talk) 17:01, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Fvasconcellos (t·c) 17:22, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

Michael Bourn (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations – Respectfully, I must say that this individual who declined my request was incorrect. From the article on the team's page: "Bourn -- penciled in as the Indians' new leadoff man and center fielder -- is scheduled to undergo a physical with the team later this week to complete the deal, which includes a vesting option worth $12 million for 2017." If he fails said physical, the deal is off. – Muboshgu (talk) 16:53, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

• Automated comment: A request for protection/unprotection was recently made for this page, and was denied at some point within the last 8 days. Snotbot  t • c »  17:06, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
  • Respectfully reassessed and Semi-protected until Monday. Fvasconcellos (t·c) 17:19, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

Kamal Haasan (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring.--Dravidianhero (talk) 16:12, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

Fully protected. Feel free to request unprotection/semi-protection once the dispute has been resolved. Fvasconcellos (t·c) 17:29, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

Deep Heat (heat rub) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism after last protection lifted. Pinethicket (talk) 12:44, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Not done Page is redirect to Mentholatum; no problems seen on either page. Miniapolis 02:22, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Olympia Snowe (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protection. This page seems to be a target of someone using University of Maine public computers; was warned on one IP address before switching to another; vandalizes by posting vulgar phrases on the article. 331dot (talk) 22:25, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. I don't think the frequency of vandalism justifies semi-protection at this time. Miniapolis 02:12, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

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George Runner (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Unprotection: Protected indefinitely since 2011 but very very little vandalism issue for this low-profile individual. Arbor to SJ (talk) 07:02, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Unprotected Miniapolis 16:57, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Carl Paladino (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Unprotection: Paladino is no longer as high-profile as he was in 2010 when he was a national political candidate. Arbor to SJ (talk) 19:25, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

Have you tried contacting Joe Decker (the protecting admin), as mentioned above? Lectonar (talk) 20:22, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

(edit conflict) Unprotected & Pending-changes protected. This was permanently put on pending changes, and was semi-d when we stopped doing PC. Now that we're back to PC I've restored that. Mark Arsten (talk) 20:24, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

I wasn't asked, but I have absolutely no objection. --j⚛e decker 00:07, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Saint Valentine (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Unprotection Page was protected even although there was no vandalism. This is preventing unregistered users from fixing errors right at the time of the year when there are more people looking at the article (and I guarantee you that the article is filled with small error and omissions!). Mother's Day is never protected in Mother's Day until/unless there is excessive vandalism, and as a result we get several additions and corrections every year. WP:PROTECT warns that protection is temporary and that this is the encyclopedia that anyone can edit, this is excessive. --Enric Naval (talk) 13:22, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

Already unprotected.. Are you sure you requested the right article? It hasn't been protected in some time. Mark Arsten (talk) 18:09, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

I misread one log entry. It was vandalized and now it's semi-protected. Thanks anyways. --Enric Naval (talk) 22:12, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Valentine's Day (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Unprotection This one was vandalized, but that was weeks ago! Same as above request. --Enric Naval (talk) 13:22, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

Have you asked the protecting admin, Drmies (talk · contribs), to consider unprotecting early? Mark Arsten (talk) 18:12, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

I asked him now. --Enric Naval (talk) 21:49, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

Yes it was weeks ago: it hasn't been vandalized because it was protected. I saw persistent vandalism going back at least to the beginning of January. If Mark thinks unprotection is OK, then go for it. Drmies (talk) 01:41, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Cyprus (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Unprotection: No reason for protection remains. Original dispute has died down. Δρ.Κ.  06:25, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

Declined The protection is in place to let people form a consensus on the articles talk-page. I looked, and I see no consensus having emerged. I think the dispute has died down because none of the edit warring parties is able to edit the article. Lectonar (talk) 10:04, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

The reason the article was protected in the first place was the edit-warring over the link to the article Bloody Christmas (1963) as shown here. Immediately after it got protected. The IP has not discussed this since December 2012. There has been no interest on that issue since December 2012. Δρ.Κ.  14:22, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

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Communist Party of China (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

talk page also seems locked, the page includes a notice that it is outdated, this edit will help highlight the party's recent work.

Propose:

In recent years, the CPC has taken over from governmental agencies the effort to increase China's human capital. China was already making greater efforts in this regard than other countries, but through the "Thousand Talents" program, the CPC has sought to attract many world-class researchers, including Chinese studying and working abroad, back to work in China. The CPC increasingly recognizes that reversing China's brain drain will require improving the climate for scientific research.

This could be added to the introductory section or to the history section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Socalcondor (talk • contribs) 20:49, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

Already done. Semi-protected until February 20, 2013. Talk page is unprotected. Miniapolis 18:37, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Fulfilled/denied requests

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1. David Zweig, "Video: The Role of the Communist Party's Organization Department in China’s Reverse Migration," Presentation at the USC U.S.-China Institute, Jan. 15, 2013. http://http://www.china.usc.edu/ShowArticle.aspx?articleID=3036