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Current requests for protection

Place requests for new or upgrading of article protection, upload protection, or create protection at the BOTTOM of this section. Check the archive of fulfilled and denied requests or, failing that, the page history if you cannot find your request. Only recently answered requests are still listed here.

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

Full-protect. High level of IP vandalism. I am a Moderator of the fansite, and am currently working on an official post for it, however with all this users posting and editing deleting changing and everything. Its imposible, the edits have gone from 2 - ~500 under an hour. K3y-J 06:29, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Note: Article does not exist. ^demon 06:55, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Sorry about that, it should work now.

Corrected name. Note that its a speedy candidate and is under heavy vandal attack from forum members. Extremely high edit count - Alison 06:58, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Yes, i completely understand this. This is why, as one of the Moderators for SRF, i would like it protected. Or would it be better that it is deleted and i create a new one when i have completed the Official post? K3y-J 07:07, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

As one of the mods of the forum, there's a certain conflict of interests. Misplaced Pages is not a directory of links and I also suspect the forum is non-notable. Right now, the article will probably be speedy-deleted as same. As this is Misplaced Pages and anyone can edit, the concept of there being an "official post" doesn't really apply - Alison 07:09, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Fully protected - solely to prevent disruption. A very clear message has been left for the speedy review admin to indicate that prot does not endorse either keeping nor deleting article - Alison 07:19, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Note: - now deleted by another admin as non-notable - Alison 07:26, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Understood, will be contacting appropriate Admin when done. Thankyou for your help. K3y-J 07:37, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

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

Semi-protect. I have just had to revert the same vandal twice in less then to minutes. I don't want to violate WP:3RR, but don't want the article to keep being vandalized. Kaiser matias 05:30, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. - also some constructive anon edits - Alison 05:46, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Hannah Montana (TV series) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protect. Incessantly vandalized by anons and new users alike. It's getting very tiring. bibliomaniac15 05:05, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. - Alison 05:45, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

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

Semi=protect. This is kind of a pre-emptive RFPP, as Vonnegut passed away tonight (:-(), and there has been vandalism already. I would anticipate much more to come. Kntrabssi 04:30, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Declined I see quite a few good edits from anon editors there, as well as some vandal reverts. There's high traffic, but that's not a valid reason to block anons and, as news comes in, they'll want to contribute, too. - Alison 05:42, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Sports forum msn convos (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

semi-protect. High level of vandalism from new users. Walter Görlitz 04:24, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Note: Is there a reason it shouldn't just be deleted instead? -Amarkov moo! 04:27, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

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

semi-protect. Persistant spam/vandalism from a comercial site. Whitehatnetizen 03:50, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection.. The article was only spammed once. -Amarkov moo! 03:54, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

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

Semi-protection Persistent vandalism. nearly all edits are anon vandalism & subsequent reverts. Ripe 03:32, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Two or three vandal edits since yesterday, and even an anonymous helped revert vandalism. -- ReyBrujo 03:59, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Jonathan Taylor Thomas (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protection. There were several edits today from various IPs stating (incorrectly) not only that he died, but also adding bizarre scenarios about how he died (as well as NPOV violations). Anthony Rupert 02:59, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Note: Right now, I see one revert per day, which is not enough. And some anonymous are also helping revert the vandals, so it is (in all) a controlled situation. I would not protect it, however let's wait for a second's opinion. -- ReyBrujo 04:02, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Curtis S.S.K. (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protect, also requesting move protection. This article has been the subject of numerous instances of IP vandalism. Additionally, until recently, the album's name was questioned. There are now multiple sources stating that the name is Curtis S.S.K. Because of the number of times the page has been moved (to incorrect titles), I'm requesting move protection. Semi-protecting the article would stop the IP vandalism (which comprises the majority) as well as prevent re-occurring unconfirmed, and purely speculative track listings.--NPswimdude500 02:24, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

As a frequent editor, I recognize the constant vandalism and I am in support of protection. --- Efil4tselaer 02:33, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Note: I see some useful anonymous edits, reverting vandalism and stuff. Since nobody uses edit summaries, I cannot tell in a fast way which edits are good faithed, which reverts, and which vandalism. As for moving, I see only one move. -- ReyBrujo 04:06, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

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

semi-protect - non stop vandalism, with 17 rvv on the 11th April. Long history of vandalism and with 3 rvv in the first 40 minutes of the 12th April. - Ctbolt 00:43, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Semi-protected — Malcolm 02:11, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Scooby-Doo (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

semi-protection Semi-protection: Vandalism, IP edit war _z 01:19, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Declined Today's featured article. Not to be protected.--Húsönd 02:03, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

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

full protection Full protection: Dispute, Happened across an edit war while page patrolling. RJASE1 00:52, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Fully protected--Húsönd 02:06, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Current requests for unprotection

• WP:RFUP
• WP:RFPU

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.
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User talk:67.163.193.239 (edit | user page | history | links | watch | logs)

Cascading semi-protection bug strikes again. Please remove the cascading part. -Amarkov moo! 04:46, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Unprotected - cascading off. Left indef semi on - Alison 05:30, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

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

Unprotect. Has been protected as a form of topic censorship. Editor states here his personal position of "not allowing" critical opinion (in his words: "muggers") to be included. 203.217.18.9 04:46, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Attribution/Poll/header (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

An admin is revert warring in defense of this edit, widely deprecated here. If it were unprotected, he might actually have to discuss his version on talk. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 04:17, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

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

Request to unprotect Todd Goldman: Reason being that there is faulty information on the page. He stole most of the art he then used on the shirts he is selling. To grant him protection is somewhat supporting that art thievery. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.222.200.227 (talk • contribs)

Note: - sounds libellous - Alison 01:52, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Declined Article will stay in this way. Please use the talk page and check this report in the future. Since the accusations appear to come from a very popular board (Something Awful), it is better to keep it semiprotected (if not fully protected) until discussion ensues. -- ReyBrujo 02:07, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Template:Rfa-notice (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Unprotect. Virtually unused – used only on one one discussion archive – and broken anyway. (I'm pretty sure the image isn't meant to be that big). Protected since 2005, never heavily used or vandalised – Gurch 20:42, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Unprotected -- zzuuzz 02:04, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

ProtectionBot subpages

Unprotect. User:ProtectionBot/Uploaded (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) and User:ProtectionBot/Protected (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) were both created and fully protected some time ago, but ProtectionBot was never used (and is now obsolete thanks to cascading protection). I have no objection to the pages staying where they are, as they're in userspace, but we shouldn't have two pages protected without reason, and they also shouldn't be in Category:Protection templates (I can remove them myself once the page is unprotected) – Gurch 19:54, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Unprotected - Alison 05:35, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

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

Unprotect. Admin previously interjected herself into a content dispute, may be striking back for harsh criticisms made by a now-blocked editor. Yakuman (数え役満) 07:59, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Current requests for significant edits to a protected page

• WP:RFED

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

• Unless the talk page itself is protected, you may instead add the appropriate template among {{Edit protected}}, {{Edit template-protected}}, {{Edit extended-protected}}, or {{Edit semi-protected}} to the article's talk page if you would like to make a change rather than requesting it here. Doing so will automatically place the page in the appropriate category for the request to be reviewed.
• Where requests are made due to the editor having a conflict of interest (COI; see Misplaced Pages:Suggestions for COI compliance), the {{Edit COI}} template should be used.
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MediaWiki:Recentchangestext (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Could we get a link on the page to Special:Recentchangeslinked/Category:Living people (piped of course to a descriptive name) to better patrol edits of BLP articles? This would help reduce the possibility of "Sinbad-is-dead type" incidents. In the "utilities" section, or more preferably, a prominent place near the bottom, below "Challenges." Mr.Z-mantalk¢ 22:42, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Nice idea... but where on the page? I suggest you get the source for that page, edit it to what you want, stick it on a page somwhere (usersubpage) then I'll save it for you. --Deskana (ya rly) 22:51, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

I was thinking something like User:Mr.Z-man/Recentchanges (note, that does not include the interwiki links). I would put it into the "Utilities" row, but that would make it too long. Mr.Z-mantalk¢ 23:08, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Discussion is ongoing on MediaWiki talk:Recentchangestext. --ais523 16:16, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Page edited by CMummert. WinHunter 15:25, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

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

This article recently fully protected following edit war and vandalism (content deletion under pretense of spam) from Russeasby (now 24-hr blocked for 3RR violation). The deleted content in question is sourced and perfectly NPOV. Third party opinions in Talk:Anchor are against this deletion, e.g. that from Hoof Hearted, and advice from one other solicited third party (Shell Kinney) warned cessation of these edits. Protection fell upon final revert by Russeasby before revision could take place. Suggest this be rolled back. Badmonkey 15:31, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Declined The consensus is hard to see on that page, all I see is arguments. In addition, if a consensus is reached, asking for unprotection is better. This section is for non-controversial edits to protected pages; unprotection may be more appropriate. --Deskana (ya rly) 21:26, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

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

Add links Under Two Flags (1936) and Let's Make It Legal (1951) to Filmography section. Svsvtkag 23:00, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Done Michaelas10 13:39, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Add tag to the categories. Svsvtkag 13:36, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Fix spelling to the beginning of Comedy in Stardom section. Claudette was not enthused → Claudette did not enthuse Svsvtkag 23:34, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Add "Oscars" co-host to the succession box of Fimography section. 29th Academy Awards: (Succeeded by) Celeste Holm Svsvtkag 22:24, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Template:Tv-screenshot (edit | ] | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Hi. Can someone add this Arabic interwiki: ]? Thanks. - Omar 180 07:36, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Done Michaelas10 13:35, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Fulfilled/denied requests

Mao: The Unknown Story (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Full Protect Persistent edit warring. Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 00:25, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Fully protected for a period of 14 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. -- ReyBrujo 00:59, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

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

semi-protect.

An unknown user under several different IP addresses is consistently adding a vandalistic paragraph on both the David Oistrakh and Jascha Heifetz articles. The Paragraphs are named either “Oistrakh’s Political Controversy” and “Russian Defector” in the mentioned articles above. The information in this paragraph is at best speculatory and is weakly backed up by a rather obscure article that can be found here:

http://www.josephcurtinstudios.com/news/strad/jan90/friedman4.htm.

The charges made in both the paragraph and website have not been found or proven by other scholarly texts found else where in the web and serious academic institutions. In addition, the paragraph should be considered plagiarism of the above URL. Despite several attempts at contacting this unknown user does the following things.

1.)The person consistently re-instates a vandalistic paragraph after repeated attempts to omit and revise it by other Misplaced Pages editors and users.

2.)The person repeadedtly ignores attempts at disccusion asked from other editors.

3.)The person removes the comments of other users from the talk pages that concern the person’s contribution.

One of the IP addresses that the unknown person used was: 67.101.196.59. For the reasons above, I ask on behalf of other users on Misplaced Pages who have attempted to contact this person, that the articles of Jascha Heifetz and David Oistrakh be granted semi-protection. Vilmosgelb 23:08, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

• I'm not seeing vandalism here, only a content dispute. Heimstern Läufer 23:38, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Only one edit in March, none in April. -- ReyBrujo 01:03, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

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

semi-protect multiple reverts by multiple editors, most anonymous BaldPete 20:26, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

• This looks like a content dispute, not vandalism. I don't think we could justify semi-protection, but full protection to stop the edit war might be doable. Heimstern Läufer 23:33, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

  Fully protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Agreeing with Heimstern, I have fully protected the article for three days. Please give a good argument in the talk page and contact all the users who were adding the content. If by the time the protection ends the war continues, report back. -- ReyBrujo 00:15, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

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

semi-protection constant, daily vandalism and nonsense edits by anons --AW 18:27, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 7 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. -- ReyBrujo 00:17, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

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

Unprotect. I have no idea why this article is being protected, but it's left the article looking horrid and tattered--and protected. The history shows *gasp* a whopping three redirect vandalisms in the past three days, which apparently justified a unilateral protection of this page. without so much as a notice on top. Good heavens, people, is it that hard to revert a simple blankpage edit? Matt Yeager ♫ (Talk?) 21:08, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Declined Page has been protected today by User:Nick, please talk to him. As for the "looking horrid and apparently", remember that the protection does not endorse the current page. -- ReyBrujo 00:43, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

List of light gun games (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

I looked over the most recent edits and they all can be backed up by such websites as the Killer List of Video Games and the Time Crisis 4 information is even found on EBGames' official website. So, I don't see where the vandalism was on this page. If it's because of some specific user or something, the edits on this page at least appear to be highly verifiable and relevant and so this page really shouldn't be affected. So, I'm just confused. --172.132.56.140 19:52, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Declined The article was protected today by User:Durova, please contact her directly. -- ReyBrujo 00:21, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

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

Semi-protect high level of vandalism, or people fooled by a fake news site reporting his death today. Bad edits are also from registered users, but semi-protect should help considerably. -SpuriousQ (talk) 23:46, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Three days should be enough for the "real" news to overcome the fake one. -- ReyBrujo 00:09, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

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

semi-protect. This article has been protected for a LONG time, we had requested permanent semi-protection for good reason. Protection was removed by someone about 24 hours ago and the vandals are already back. It is a total waste of time to leave this article unprotected, we have enough trouble with registered users. It doesn't look like much now, but it's going to get worse. We've been down this road. Please restore the status quoMontanabw 23:23, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Semi-protected - Alison 23:31, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

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

Semi-protect. The edit history is full of constant vandalism that only seems to be getting worse.--h i s s p a c e r e s e a r c h 22:42, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. - just a handful of edits, sorry - Alison 23:32, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

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

Semi-protect. Suffers from daily vandalism on a constant basis. Arrow 22:36, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

• Semi-protected due to extensive vandalism. Heimstern Läufer 23:43, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

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

Semi-protect. Over 25 35 instances of IP vandalism today alone. --Mary quite contrary 21:55, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of two weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. - ludicrous levels of anon vandalism. Prot only lifted two days ago - Alison 23:35, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

My Chemical Romance (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

semi-protect. Alot of IP vandalism going on lately. RobJ1981 21:26, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

• Semi-protected for six fortnights. Heimstern Läufer 23:58, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

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

semi-protect. High level of IP vandalism from various IPs. One Night In Hackney₃₀₃ 20:02, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 7 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. -- ReyBrujo 00:07, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

semi-protect. High level of IP vandalism, including many by from many different IP addresses. Nimur 21:52, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Semi-protected for 2 weeks. Waggers 21:56, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

User:Keylay31 (edit | ] | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

semi-protection I am tired of my user page being vandalized. IMHO, no one except me should be able to edit my user page. I do not want the talk page to be protected, just the main user page. KEYLAY31 17:36, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Semi-protected - Alison 18:02, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

• Suspected Misplaced Pages sockpuppets of User:70.229.197.120