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Shortcuts WP:RFPP WP:RFP WP:RPP Before requesting, read the protection policy. Full protection is used to stop edit warring between multiple users or to prevent vandalism to high-risk templates; semi-protection and pending changes are usually used to prevent IP and new user vandalism (see the rough guide to semi-protection); and move protection is used to stop pagemove revert wars. Extended confirmed protection is used where semi-protection has proved insufficient (see the rough guide to extended confirmed protection) After a page has been protected, it is listed in the page history and logs with a short rationale, and the article is listed on Special:Protectedpages. In the case of full protection due to edit warring, admins should not revert to specific versions of the page, except to get rid of obvious vandalism. Skip to table of contents requests to raise protection lower protection requested edits (purge) Request protection of a page, or increasing the protection level Request protection Request unprotection of a page, or reducing the protection level Request unprotection Request a specific edit to a protected page Please request an edit directly on the protected page's talk page before posting here Request edit

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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.

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

Semi-protection. Frequent unnesescary edits by anons requiring reverting by other users. Thanks. ~AH1 16:22, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Hi. On second thought, after looking through the history, a lot of anons are making helpful edits too. Thanks. ~AH1 16:28, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

• Declined for now, as requesting editor notes some constructive edits from anons. If vandalism ratio worsens, please come back for semi-protection. MastCell 17:30, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Mourning sickness (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) and Anna_Svidersky (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Request both move protection and full protection. A handful of editors persists in ignoring consensus. >Radiant< 14:51, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Fully protected until the problem is sorted out. PeaceNT 16:03, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Franz Ferdinand (band) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-prot Persistent vandal using multiple IPs to edit war and get around vandalism warnings. --lucid 13:55, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

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

Semi-protect - vandalism since 19th and increased heavily on 21st. Gamers are going nuts over a joke that some team made up. Probably going on for a week or so. --Johnny902 12:12 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. - silly meme thing & article is heavily vandalised - Alison ☺ 12:16, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

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

semi-protect. Brand new users like User:Nsk92 are changing content without any attempt to discuss changes, making the article into a soapbox page. Skporganic 12:05, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. - sorry. However, User:Nsk92 just got their one and only 3RR warning. Please report if they revert once more - Alison ☺ 12:14, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

User:Nsk92 has reverted the version again. Thank you Skporganic 14:04, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

• User(s) blocked. - Nsk92 (talk · contribs) blocked for 24 hours for edit-warring and 3RR violation. MastCell 17:33, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

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

Semi-protect - heavy vandalism since August 1, which increased during the last week, all coming from IP users.--Svetovid 11:59, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. - constantly gets trashed when prot expires. School's back - yayy!! - Alison ☺ 12:02, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

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

Semi-protect - serious revert-warring by multiple IPs over the last while, adding serious WP:BLP violations to a biographical article. Probably excaberated by today's New York Times article. Editor has been warned but just hops IPs - Alison ☺ 11:10, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

• Semi-protected Acalamari 15:44, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Scott Thomas Beauchamp controversy (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Full protection due to ongoing edit war. Several accounts involved are newly-created SPAs. Reversions are taking place without comment, despite requests to seek Talk Page consensus. --Eleemosynary 22:55, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

• Fully protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. MastCell 17:29, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Eurovision Song Contest 2008 (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Full protection Some members had been editing this page everyday without providing any sources at all. Like the fact that there will be 2 semifinals for next year (which the desicion will be taken on Sept. 28th) or that Italy had confirmed participation (when RAI had never mentioned anything about Eurovision in the past four years). Please overprotect this page, and edit it with sources from either ebu.ch, eurovision.tv, esctoday.com or esckaz.com. Thanks --Tony0106 10:09, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Semi-protected - it looks like the same WP:SPA account adding the same stuff again and again. Can we try semi and see how it goes. Full is a bit extreme - Alison ☺ 11:15, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

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

Full protection disuptive edit war. according to alphabetical order "dokdo"is ahead of "takeshima". also, this island governed by korea. japan is just claim. i revert from JPOV edit. please protect this page from edit war(especially JPOV edit). Dutyterms 12:08, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

This page has indeed had some trouble from newly registered users on both sides (including a couple proven sock puppet cases). There was a misunderstanding where some established editors had been involved, but we've sorted through that issue on the talk page and edit comments. The newly registered users continue onward, though... --Cheers, Komdori 13:51, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

He probably meant Liancourt Rocks (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views). Dokdo is a redirect to Liancourt Rocks and not edited since 31 May 2007. --Kusunose 13:59, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

• Fully protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. (Protected Liancourt Rocks). MastCell 17:24, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

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

Semi-protection - got another disruptive edit war coming from a WP:SPA, likely the same sockpuppet who has repetitively tried to get the page deleted. Dstumme 15:47, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

• Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. MastCell 17:22, 21 August 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.
• Requests for removing create protection on redlinked articles are generally assisted by having a draft version of the intended article prepared beforehand.
• If you want to make spelling corrections or add uncontroversial information to a protected page, please add {{Edit fully-protected}} to the article's talk page, along with an explanation of what you want to add to the page. If the talk page is protected, please use the section below.

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

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

Article no longer needs it, no major edit-war issues for quite some time. Justinm1978 05:08, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Unprotected Protected for a few months now. Sasquatch t|c 05:26, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

User:Krimpet/protected (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Please un-cascade; I can't edit {{Usercheck-short}} now because it is transcluded into this page. Melsaran (talk) 17:20, 21 August 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.
• Requests to move move-protected pages should be made at Misplaced Pages:Requested moves, not here.
• If the discussion page and the article are both protected preventing you from making an edit request, this page is the right place to make that request. Please see the top of this page for instructions on how to post requests.
• This page is not for continuing or starting discussions regarding content should both an article and its discussion page be protected. Please make a request only if you have a specific edit you wish to make.

Template:Infobox NFLactive (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

The wrong version was locked. The debated information was inserted about 30 minutes prior to linking (). As there was never consensus for the edits inclusion, it seems hard to say that we can get consensus to remove it. Please remove it until the discussions identify a consensus. Juan Miguel Fangio| ►Chat  01:06, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

• Edited to add - if you look through the talk page history and even the recent edit history - you can see that there was a great deal of "disagreement" over this. The information had been inserted and removed previously as well. Juan Miguel Fangio| ►Chat  01:08, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

• Admins will almost never revert back to previous versions when we are protecting a page unless there is obvious vandalism. If you can generate consensus to remove the information, please do so on the Talk page and then use the {{editprotected}} template to request a change to the page. - Philippe | Talk 01:10, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
• But the consensus was disputed for its inclusion in the first place. Template_talk:Infobox_NFLactive#Undrafted_free_agents speaks exactly to it. Not to mention that the archived tp shows the dispute as well. There can't be consensus to remove disputed content becasue that's why it is disputed. The wrong version has been linked and the eidtors are gaming the system by having it in place. Juan Miguel Fangio| ►Chat  01:12, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Declined, - (ec - thanks, Philippe :) ) it's inappropriate at this time for an admin to make such a unilateral change, especially one that's controversial. I note that a heated debate is continuing on the talk page until right now. The proper approach is to visibly submit the request, using the {{editprotected}} template on the talk page, to allow others to comment - Alison ☺ 01:12, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Note: - I actually got dinged yesterday (and rightly so) for doing exactly this. It's not something we should do and this is not the purpose of this section of WP:RPP - Alison ☺ 01:13, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

I did that and someone told me that was not the appropriate approach. Please read ]. This is sooo much more complicated than it needs to be. Please read that, see what happened. Juan Miguel Fangio| ►Chat  01:17, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

In that case, you're completely out of luck and you need to work through this with the other editors. If you guys cant' fix this, then WP:DR is probably your next port of call. An admin can't force through "your" version, after all, that's what protection is meant to resolve - Alison ☺ 01:20, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

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

Felix Trinidad has come out of retirement again to fight Roy Jones Jr. This needs to be added to his page. This is his second retirement and worthy of edit. Please research this information and add appropriately. I would have done so but do not have the ability.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Summerofsam (talk • contribs).

Declined - Nabla 16:12, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Or, alternatively, use {{editprotected}} to request an edit. Anthøny 18:38, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

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

Numerous requests have been placed into the talk page and nothing has been done. Kurt Angle recently won 2 more championship belts, became only the 2nd TNA wrestler in history to be a Triple Crown Champion, and is the only TNA wrestler to hold all belts at once, and yet 4 days after the event, no update has been made by an administrator. LessThanClippers 21:57, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Done - I added a line to the lead, and left an invitation for the active editors to draft something better on the talk page and let me know when they're ready to move it over. - Philippe | Talk 22:38, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

User:Essjay (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Please undo these revisions: . {{pp-usertalk}} is for protected talk pages of blocked users. Currently, when you mouseover over the protection icon, it says "This page has been temporarily protected from editing to prevent this blocked user to vandalize". Essjay isn't blocked. Melsaran 16:02, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Done Changed to {{pp-protected}}, not that I see any need for a protection template anyway. ~ Riana ⁂ 16:09, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Fulfilled/denied requests

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

Semi-protect – long-running petty revert war over Dog years from various anons including single use IPs. Talk page discussion not attracting their interest. / edg ☺ ★ 09:35, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. - It's really not that bad and a number of anon editors are making constructive edits and I don't want to lock them out - Alison ☺ 09:41, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

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

Semi-protection High levels of IP vandalism --MacMad (talk · contribs)  08:13, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Alison ☺ 09:27, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

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

Semi-protection indefinitely--edit warring, anonymous users acting as vandals. 71.114.6.117 05:13, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

It looks to me like it already is. --Haemo 07:29, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Already protected. --DarkFalls 09:14, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

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

Semi-protection indefinitely--Anonymous users subject the page to routine vandalism. Check the history just to see how much has been done recently.Grassfire 05:02, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Declined Only was vandalized twice on the 20th, 0 times on the 19th, once on the 18th... Seems to be on a fair amount of watch lists, reverts done fairly quickly, so just revert vandalism on sight. Sasquatch t|c 05:24, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

List of collegiate secret societies‎ (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

semi-protection - anon users keep reverting changes and not contributing to the article. Consensus was reached on the talk page regarding how articles should be referenced, but anon users won't heed. Justinm1978 04:37, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. - watchlist and revert, please. - Philippe | Talk 04:44, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

I'm requesting an appeal/second opinion (not sure if this is the right place for that). Please see the article's talk page for additional remarks. Not requesting the talk page be semi-protected, just the article until this settles down a bit, and I don't want to get hit with WP:3RR when I revert back to the non-vandalized version. Justinm1978 05:02, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

User:Mendror (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Salt User has re-created the page several times, even after his release of block. Cheers, JetLover 03:45, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Declined - I'm not fond of salting userpages. I'd rather just keep deleting it in case he wakes up and comes to his senses. Another admin should feel free to over-rule though. - Philippe | Talk 03:46, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

But will he use the page for anything good? Obviously not. Cheers, JetLover 03:56, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Not at the moment... but a salt is fairly permanent. I'm not going to pre-judge. Frankly, I'd wager that he gets blocked soon anyway. - Philippe | Talk 03:58, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

User talk:Heretic4000 (edit | user page | history | links | watch | logs)

Full protection Trolling on the talk page. Cheers, JetLover 03:43, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Fully protected - Philippe | Talk 03:45, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

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

Semi-protection for 1-2 days (possibly more) IP-hopping Anti-NDP persistant vandalism by again the AOL vandal.--JForget 01:21, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Declined - The IP hopper's edits are still manageable and there does not seem enough activity to justify protection at this time. Watchlist it for now.¤~Persian Poet Gal 01:24, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

E-40 (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Protected since May 30 due to "perpetual vandalism", no vandalism has occurred since the protection date. --Andrewlp1991 02:10, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Unprotected - let's give it a go. - Philippe | Talk 02:11, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Template:Infobox Album/No cover (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Full protection. Frequent-use template. --PEJL 00:58, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Semi-protected indefinitely. Most of the vandalism seemed to come from IPs, so let's try this first. If it doesn't work, feel free to re-request here. - Philippe | Talk 01:06, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

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

Semi-protection, with an expiry time of 1 week Heavy wave of vandalism, coming mainly from IP's. Cheers, JetLover 00:44, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Semi-protected for one week. - Philippe | Talk 01:04, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Full protection - this article is the subject of a war between PS3 and Xbox 360 fans and past that the amount of rumor and speculation is getting out of hand. The article should be locked with only sections with cited sources kept.

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. - feel free to re-request here if things pick up. - Philippe | Talk 01:02, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Princess Märtha Louise of Norway (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protection due to recent vandalism from dynamic IP user. 4 IPs used thus far. Someguy1221 22:30, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Semi-protected for one week. After that, protection will automatically expire. If necessary, please re-request here. - Philippe | Talk 22:40, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Fernando Collor de Mello (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Full protection due to ongoing edit war and dispute resolution pending an RfC.--Dali-Llama 22:15, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Fully protected with an expiry of one week. Ryan Postlethwaite 22:19, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

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

Semi-protection due to constant insertion of incorrect information by unregistered users. Valrith 21:54, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Declined - there is not enough recent activity to justify protection at this point. Ryan Postlethwaite 22:05, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

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

Semiprot repeated vandalism from multiple IPs, around ten-twelve times in the past few hours alone --lucid 21:52, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

• Semi-protected for one week. After the week has passed the page will no longer be semi-protected. Acalamari 22:01, 20 August 2007 (UTC)