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Current requests for protection

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

Semi-protect Repeated, unexplained deletion of material against consensus by a changing IP anon. Might need long term. / edg ☺ ☭ 11:20, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

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

semi-protect until the end of the month. The vandalism in that page is crazy (calling Mayour Jejomar Binay "feces" in Tagalog, Uncyclopedia-like stupidity written in the page, etcetera). I may have opposing viewpoints with the mayor and have a level of distaste against that city BUT I HAVE TO KEEP WIKIPEDIA SANE. I will thank you later. iaNLOPEZ1115 TaLKBaCK Vandalize it UBX 09:59, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

• Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Rudget. 10:03, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

User talk:65.87.185.73 (edit | user page | history | links | watch | logs)

Semi-protect IP blanking content and causing disruption after multi-month block. — Save_Us † 09:26, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Alison 09:30, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

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

Semi Protect The same nonsense paragraph being added by the same editor using an IP range. Old Moonraker (talk) 08:14, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of for a period of 7 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Rudget. 08:51, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

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

Semi Protect Constant IP vandalism.--The Dominator (talk) 06:20, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 10 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. - see how that goes. -- Anonymous Dissident 08:42, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

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

Temporary semi-protect A lot of people keep adding the recent news of Nicole Richie's child, dispite the content already existing elsewhere within the article. -AbJ32 (talk) 06:00, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

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

semi-protect Under fairly heavy attack by both named accounts and random IPs HalfShadow (talk) 04:46, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected due to heavy vandalism. Mr.Z-man 08:41, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

United States Declaration of Independence (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

semi-protect. A magnet for continuous IP vandalism. JNW (talk) 04:26, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Already protected. Mr.Z-man 08:39, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Technical Surveillance Counter-Measures (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi protect a target for commercial companies in "bug sweeping" adding their corporate web links in the External links section. I keep removing them, they keep adding them back. Edit history shows the clear pattern. Thanks for your consideration to assist. Mikebar (talk) 19:05, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mr.Z-man 08:36, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

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

Semi-protection - Apparently one anonymous user repeatedly adds his own points of view as well as unsourced information to the article. Registered authors have asked him to provide proof for his claims but to no avail. He refuses to discuss the issue on the article's Talk page. The article has been semi-protected twice for two weeks each time and it apparently hasn't motivated this author to register an account and participate in the discussion. Maybe an IP address ban is an option in this situation. I have reason to believe that he regularly uses the internet connection of the Central Sydney Health Care Services in Sydney, News South Wales, Australia. A frequent IP address of his is 152.76.0.130 - which permanently resolves to the subdomain *.cs.nsw.gov.au. According to a DNS lookup at domaintools.com the server with this IP addresses hosts various sites of the Central Sydney Health Care Services. Besides this IP address he apparently uses Australian Internet service provider Telstra BigPond during his edits. But while addresses such as 121.218.212.194 and 58.168.87.30 resolve to the News South Wales area this part of his anonymous edits is probably unstoppable. It's too general since it'd affect millions of users. Is semi-protection and a ban of the Health Care Services IP address appropritate? -- Aexus (talk) 13:03, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Already protected. Mr.Z-man 08:34, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

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

semi-protection heavy IP vandalism. It is not ready for unprotection. Footballfan190 (talk) 08:24, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected - let's see how that goes, no set expiry. -- Anonymous Dissident 08:44, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Current requests for unprotection

• WP:RFUP
• WP:RFPU

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Jack the Ripper (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Note that I am an admin myself, but have history with one of the involved edit warriors (DreamGuy) that prevents me from taking admin actions myself on the article.

The Ripper article has been fully protected since late October because several editors were blanket-reverting each other. (I filed the RFPP request to get it originally protected.) Since the protection, progress has been made at User:Jaysweet/Jack the Ripper, and compromizes have been made on a number of the key issues. Not all issues have been worked out, though. But one of the key people in the discussion has not posted to the JTR talk page in almost a month, and absolutely no edits have been made to the user space version in a similar time frame. So the article has been fully protected for over two months, and any sort of progress is stalled by the absence of the one editor (DreamGuy).

Given the progress that *has* been made, and the lack of any discussion for several weeks, I'm not sure that the page protection is still necessary. But I cannot act myself given my history with DreamGuy.

Do note that, if the page is unprotected, a history merge from User:Jaysweet/Jack the Ripper back to Jack the Ripper should also be performed, so that the progress made at that version can be worked back into the main article. - TexasAndroid (talk) 16:49, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Unprotected for now. J-ſtan_{User page} 01:01, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

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Fulfilled/denied requests

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

Semi-Protection - IP vandilism~ IP's frequently are adding speculation that he will be returning to WWE. They are posting "dirtsheet" websites as their sources, this has been occuring for the past 24 hours. Semi-Protect until end of month if possible. Thanks.--TrUcO9311 / _SiGn 03:23, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected until the end of the month.   jj137 03:31, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Thank You--TrUcO9311 / _SiGn 03:33, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

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

Temporary semi-protect. Users from the website GameFAQs are vandalizing this page by posting fake death information and other nonsense. KJS77 02:37, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

• Semi-protected for two weeks. Acalamari 03:09, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

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

semi-protect. Lots of IP vandalism lately, the bots do a good job reverting but they don't catch everything, users have been policing the article but the frequency of these attacks remain. --AeronPrometheus (talk) 02:17, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection.   jj137 03:14, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Mariah Carey's eleventh studio album (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

temporary semi-protection , The article seems to have become an unreferenced/false rumour target for anon IPs recently. Requesting protection (instead of protecting it myself) for the sake of transparency..Kurt Shaped Box (talk) 01:07, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. -- Anonymous Dissident 01:22, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks muchly. --Kurt Shaped Box (talk) 01:25, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

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

indefinite semi-protection Vandalism, This article is vandalised daily with childish comments by anon editors. One guesses that it is linked on some school curriculum. .Wwwhatsup (talk) 01:05, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. - we'll just see. -- Anonymous Dissident 01:08, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. Wwwhatsup (talk) 01:18, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

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

Temporary Semi-Protect - Page has been vandalized multiple times over the past several days by unregistered users. Increased vandalism to this page is due to increased media attention on the subject matter. Requesting a temporary block on unregistered users from editing the page. Ihateaubergine (talk) 00:25, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. -- Anonymous Dissident 01:09, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

World Wrestling Entertainment roster (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-Protect - it apparently has semi protection status but IP's have been editing, apparently the semi-protection status has expired. With this, IP's have been disrupting this page heavily in the past week.--TrUcO9311 / _SiGn 21:31, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. J-ſtan_{User page} 01:07, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Tony Hawk's Project 8 (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protect IP user on the 86.x.x.x range keeps repeatedly adding unsourced information to the article, despite warnings to the various IPs they have used. NeoChaosX (talk, walk) 08:45, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. -- Anonymous Dissident 01:10, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

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

Protected for too long, protection no longer necessary. Solumeiras 11:05, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Not unprotected — heavy vandalism every time the page is unprotected, has been protected recently before. --Oxymoron 11:23, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

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

Protected for too long, protection no longer necessary. Solumeiras 11:03, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Not unprotected — high level of vandalism although semiprotected. --Oxymoron 11:26, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

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

Protected for too long, protection no longer necessary. Solumeiras 11:03, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Not unprotected This isn't the place to make requests about that article. It really needs to be taken to arbcom - see Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Regarding The Bogdanov Affair Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry (talk) 16:19, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

University of California, Riverside (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Reposting with correct tag as per below. Amerique 20:07, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

• Unprotected Acalamari 20:10, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Barney & Friends (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protection (maybe full protection??) Spate of IP vandals, now supplemented by usernames with less-than-helpful edits. Gladys J Cortez 23:18, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

• Update: IP vandalism continues.Gladys J Cortez 20:54, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
  • I'm re-adding this because I think it just got overlooked; after all, 45 requests have been listed since the original request, and I wouldn't imagine anyone's looking that far down the list! Gladys J Cortez 22:42, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. It was just turned off, and the drive-bys started up again almost immediately. "I love you, you love me" is just too tempting... :-o) SkierRMH (talk) 23:40, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Hehehe...yeah, if I was vandaciously-inclined, I'd hafta say Barney'd be one of the first places I'd go for. :) Thanks! Gladys J Cortez 00:25, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

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

Semi-protection Spamming has been present on this article for a while now by many IP addresses. Intent of continued disruption by spamming is stated on the talk page. — Save_Us_229 22:14, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 5 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Spebi 22:16, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

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

indefinite semi-protection Vandalism, Incessant vandalism, multiple times daily.Mlouns (talk) 21:42, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected Acalamari 21:46, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

User talk:Pope Sheila Morse (edit | user page | history | links | watch | logs)

Full Protection -Indef blocked user is vandalizing their talk page. Icestorm815 (talk) 21:08, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

• Fully protected by AuburnPilot. Acalamari 21:59, 11 January 2008 (UTC)