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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.

KYLIEX2008 (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

full protection Vandalism IP vandalism for this article in the past 72 hours. Constant changes to setlist and other items within in the article although citations and credible reasoning have been provided. "Fans" of Ms. Minogue feel a need to constantly butcher the article so that it has no relevance at all. Dancefloor royalty (talk) 06:45, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Template:Mergefrom (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

full protection High-visible template. | 06:36, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

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

temporary semi-protection Vandalism, Nothing but IP vandalism to this article for the past few weeks. Considering that McCullough is probably the most prominent American historian alive today, and that several of the negative edits have come from academic institutions, we must pay WP:BLP seriously comes into play. If these are academics vandalizing a colleagues article, there is potential for real-world ugliness here. Would protect it myself if I hadn't been involved with the article..faithless () 05:49, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Featured pictures (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

semi-protection High-visible template, Featured Pictures should be semiprotected, because i'm sure those vandals would love to get to it.. | 04:54, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

2nd Demo (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

temporary create-protection , Until New users can muster up enough sources to get this to meet WP:MUSIC, then i suggest this be creation protected, it has been created and deleted 6 times.. | 04:48, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

East York, Ontario (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

temporary semi-protection Vandalism, much of the vandalism involves adding Crab Nebulans as part of the demographics of the former borough of Metropolitan Toronto. This type of vandalism is also evident in the York, Ontario page, which is another former municipality in Toronto. Johnny Au (talk) 04:18, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

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

Semi protection for two weeks Please see Misplaced Pages:Suspected sock puppets/Lookingheart. This user and a bunch of IP addresses have added the same spam-link to Rainbow Family and (less often) Rainbow Gathering over the last several months. Semi-protecting should amplify the message that this link is not wanted. I checked the page history and found almost no good anon edits over the last few months, compared to more than 10 reverted edits, most recently in late April. Shalom (Hello • Peace) 04:17, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

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

Semi-protection for two weeks Please see Misplaced Pages:Suspected sock puppets/Qiongeramber. Six IP addresses have added the same advertisement to this article in the last two weeks. It would also be appropriate to block Qiongeramber. Shalom (Hello • Peace) 04:03, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

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

semi-protection Protection needed, too many vandals and reverts. please protect. Dwilso 03:41, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

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

semi-protection Repeated IP vandalism. Protection worked in the past for this article, now it is down to constant IP abuse Fletch81 (talk) 03:19, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

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

semi-protection persistant vandalism by IPs. Please semi-protect the article for few weeks. Masterpiece2000 (talk) 03:08, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Harriet Beecher Stowe (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

semi-protection persistant IP vandalismAsher196 (talk) 02:21, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

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

semi-protection 9 cases of vandalism in past two weeks, conducted by at least 6 different vandals.Xyz7890 (talk) 02:12, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

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

semi-protection - frequent disruptive vandalism Shaliya waya (talk) 01:27, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Elk Grove High School (Elk Grove Village, Illinois) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

temporary semi-protection Vandalism, Under constant vandalsim by the school itself..Briguy9876 (talk) 00:34, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Malinaccier (talk) 00:36, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Template:Afc b (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

full protection High-visible template. CWii_{(Talk|Contribs)} 23:28, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Fully protected Tiptoety 01:28, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Template:Afc r (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

full protection High-visible template. CWii_{(Talk|Contribs)} 23:28, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Fully protected Tiptoety 01:28, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Template:Afc a (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

full protection High-visible template. CWii_{(Talk|Contribs)} 23:27, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Fully protected Tiptoety 01:28, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

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

Fully Protect. Edit warring over whether Zirin said Bonds used steroids or whether he didn't--based on the same interview! Fléêťflämẽ U-T-C 23:23, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Atlag United Methodist Church (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

temporary full protection Dispute, Edit warning, editors removing tags, 3R violations..Tiggerjay (talk) 23:21, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

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

Semi-protect Appears to be a lot of new users (mostly IPs, although an occasional new user) adding in their agendas about King's recent speech about the military. This is being discussed in the talk page but none of them are listening.--CyberGhostface (talk) 23:13, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Declined A lot of the IP edits are in good faith and this is largely a content issue. Consider requesting full protection if the reverting gets out of hand. CIreland (talk) 07:09, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

temporary full protection , 2 weeks if possible. A social sciences and society good article has been overrun by likely disciples of Falun Gong who have admitted their political motivation. For example, the main culprit, Dalip rajeev (who has a history of edit wars), has stated to long-time editor Ohconfucius on the article talk page, Oconfucious, with each passing day more people lose their lives , more innocent families suffer. By letting people know about the persecution, Falun Gong practitioners are only hoping that more good natured people getting to know the truth will result in the killings and torture being stopped. Although it may be the truth, such claims are not verified. I, and Ohconfucious, have said many times that the new information, which is sourced from advocacy groups such as Amnesty International (as per their own website), certainly do not meet verifiability guidelines which state that the source must be third-party and independent. No consensus on the radical changes was ever reached on the article talk page, and it was suggested by Dilip supporters that the new radical changes should be added first to the article before being discussed which is contrary to Misplaced Pages's general rule of thumb that added information in a good article is what the burden of proof is on. In fact, the Everything that has been written adds undue weight to one particular viewpoint, in this case, in favor of FLG. Indeed, even without the changes, the Good Article independent reviewer has stated that the article appeared to be pro-FLG. Therefore, I ask that the article, in the form it was originally in , be protected fully for 2 weeks until a consensus has been reached on the talk page, and new independent editors have shown up. Thanx EgraS (talk) 20:24, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Fully protected for seven days. CIreland (talk) 07:02, 9 May 2008 (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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Check the archives if you cannot find your request. Only recently answered requests are still listed here.

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

unprotection , This article was semiprotected several weeks ago due to vandalism, but all of it was from a single IP. That IP is blocked for a year, so I think this article should be unblocked. I plan on working on it and would enjoy the input of anonymous editors rather than locking them out..Gary King (talk) 03:05, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

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

unprotection , While highly transcluded, there has not been sufficient instances of vandalism to warrant full protection of this template. Semi-protection at most is appropriate based on the edit history of this template..Rtphokie (talk) 01:23, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Unprotection I can't understand why this is protected, or why its been protected for so long. It appears to have been protected almost 4 months ago without explanation (beyond 'terrible') and I can't find a more recent protection applied to it or an explanation given as to why . Given there are like 150+ edits a day to this page it will take far too long to scroll back and see if there was ever a request for protection that might give us insight as to why this was protected.--137.186.84.54 (talk) 00:22, 9 May 2008 (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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• 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.
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Template:Film (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Requested edit to add template code support for Japanese cinema task force. See talk page for exact diff requested. Thanks! Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 08:22, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Done by CapitalR (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA). CIreland (talk) 03:49, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Fulfilled/denied requests

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

temporary semi-protection Vandalism.Tiggerjay (talk) 22:49, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Tiptoety 22:59, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

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

temporary semi-protection Vandalism, Receiving quite a bit of ip vandalism tonight.Redfarmer (talk) 22:27, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected for 2 months. Malinaccier (talk) 22:59, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Discipline (Janet Jackson album) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

semi-protection - ips adding unsourced inflated sales figures, article is currently on GA review. The last semi protection was very helpful.--Realist ('Come Speak To Me') 21:54, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. VanTucky 22:09, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Cheers, the article passed GA just after you did it lol, still the protection will help. Yours. Realist ('Come Speak To Me') 22:22, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

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

temporary semi-protection Vandalism, Already been anonymous IP vandalism after unprotection.. | 21:55, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. VanTucky 22:11, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

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

semi-protection Persistent edit warring from dynamic IP. (Previously sprotected for 2 weeks; see User:Jakew/Problem IP for documentation of the IP's actions.) Jakew (talk) 21:35, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Declined VanTucky 22:10, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

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

temporary full protection Vandalism.Tiggerjay (talk) 21:22, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. _GB 21:24, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

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

temporary semi-protection Vandalism, Popular article for IP vandals to attack..Xp54321 (talk) 20:42, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. _GB 20:43, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

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

temporary semi-protection Vandalism, Plenty of vandalism in the past 24 hours, not enough people reverting, also.Gary King (talk) 20:18, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

• Semi-protected Acalamari 20:21, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Têtes à claques (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

semi-protection, same reason as Jacques Parizeau article. GoodDay (talk) 18:57, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Only one IP in action - protection isn't the way to deal with this. _GB 20:53, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

User talk:193.120.116.180 (edit | user page | history | links | watch | logs)

temporary semi-protection Vandalism.E Wing (talk) 18:50, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

• Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Acalamari 20:22, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

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

temporary semi protection Vandalism, anon ips keep adding weird russian garbage after non existing game titles..Nar Matteru (talk) 18:43, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected by Nakon.¤~Persian Poet Gal 20:51, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

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

Request semi-protection, as an anon (with multiple IP addresses) is vandalizing this & other Quebec related articles. GoodDay (talk) 18:43, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Note: Disruptive editing only coming from 2 IP addresses.¤~Persian Poet Gal 20:50, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

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

Request temporary semi-protection. About ten minor vandalism issues in last 48 hours, all by anons. A few days of semi-protection should be enough. --John Nagle (talk) 18:21, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Nothing for a while - relist if it persists. _GB 20:55, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

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

temporary semi protection Vandalism, Many acts of vandalism within the past week. Claims of UK goverment involvement with no proof, possibly backlash from users removal from site or marketing.

Mbhmirc (talk) 18:02, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection.¤~Persian Poet Gal 20:47, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

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

temporary semi protection Vandalism, Many acts of vandalism within the past 24 hours by several users .mm03gt

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection.¤~Persian Poet Gal 20:44, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Hayasa-Azzi (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Could you restore the long-term semi-protection to this page? It is a target of Ararat Arev, as well as other hit-and-run IP's. Thanks. Blueberrybuttermilkpancakes (talk) 13:22, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. _GB 21:01, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

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

temporary semi-protection , 2 weeks please, repeated insertion of unsourced statement (ref otrs otrs:1532686). Regards, .NonvocalScream (talk) 19:04, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected - Jredmond (talk) 19:17, 8 May 2008 (UTC)