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    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.

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    Current requests for increase in protection level

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    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.


    Poison Ivy (character)

    Reason: Edit waring Sushidude21! (talk) 12:49, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Content dispute. Please use the article's talk page or other forms of dispute resolution. No one's used the talk page yet to try to discuss this, and imposing protection here is essentially awarding the EC-level editors victory in the edit war. Daniel Case (talk) 02:11, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    User talk:Kajmer05

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Persistent WP:LOUTSOCKing Kajmer05 (talk) 13:54, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    User(s) blocked: 185.84.70.108 (talk · contribs) blocked by Materialscientist. for a month. Daniel Case (talk) 02:14, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    British Museum

    Reason: High level of IP vandalism Murgatroyd49 (talk) 16:37, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Warn the user appropriately then report them to AIV or ANI if they continue. It's been over 20 hours and the user hasn't edited since receiving a final warning. Daniel Case (talk) 02:24, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    2025 Delhi Legislative Assembly election

    Reason: Repeated insertion of commentary by IPs. Borgenland (talk) 18:08, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Please enforce WP:CT/IPA. IanDBeacon (talk) 18:47, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Not much evidence of disruption in the history. Will leave CTOPS notice on talk page. Daniel Case (talk) 02:45, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Calito Soul

    Semi-protection: An IP address has been involved in disruptive editing as related to multiple WP:AFDs (see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Calito Soul (5th nomination) as latest example). See Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Alon9393/Archive#12 January 2025 and User talk:190.219.102.114 as well. It appears the anon IP is still periodically making edits to the page as a block evasion. To protect from sock editing this should be semi-protected. 4meter4 (talk) 20:02, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    @4meter4 I have also found WP:BLP violations in these AFD’s, clearly an disruptive behavior. Protoeus (talk) 20:43, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    4meter4, Protoeus, User:Geschichte He Calito Soul did not die in 2015 but in 2019. You know how to read in Spanish and it is not even known if he is still alive. ¿? https://m.metrolibre.com/cultura/calito-soul-esta-vivo-KCML10581 190.219.102.104 (talk) 22:40, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Again, not a reliable source. Protoeus (talk) 22:40, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    190.219.102.104 blocked for block evasion. Liz Read! Talk! 23:01, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks Liz. For the record, see Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Block evasion by anon IP 190.219.102.104.4meter4 (talk) 23:39, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    User(s) blocked: 190.219.102.104 (talk · contribs) blocked by Liz. for a week, as noted above. Daniel Case (talk) 02:53, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Seven Years' War

    Semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing. Remsense ‥ 论 22:32, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Daniel Case (talk) 03:19, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Gilbert Gottfried

    Indefinite extended confirmed protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – LTA by hopping IP. - FlightTime (open channel) 22:40, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    User(s) blocked: 184.98.209.0 (talk · contribs) blocked by Malcolmxl5. for three days. Daniel Case (talk) 03:21, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Left CTOPS notice on talk Daniel Case (talk) 03:22, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    George Town, Penang

    Reason: Persistent unsourced edit-warring from IP address hundenvonPG (talk) 00:01, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Pinging Daniel Quinlan, this might be related to the previous disruptive IPs reported here. hundenvonPG (talk) 00:04, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Anshul Jubli

    Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Nswix (talk) 00:23, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Daniel Case (talk) 03:25, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Left CTOPS notice on talk page. Daniel Case (talk) 03:27, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Zelim Bakaev

    Reason: Homophobic vandalism. Blepii (talk) 01:14, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. The one recent edit was self-reverted; I have appropriately thanked/warned the IP in question. Daniel Case (talk) 03:37, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Talk:Mayerhofer

    Reason: Despite previous temporary protection periods, IP user(s) have persisted since 16 October 2024 in reactivating a request to change page protection after it has been rejected on the grounds that it should be submitted here rather than on the talk page. -- Pemilligan (talk) 02:01, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of three months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Daniel Case (talk) 03:41, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    User talk:Z. Patterson/Editnotice

    Indefinite extended confirmed protection: This is an edit notice that is highly visible on my page. For a similar reason Materialscientist protected their edit notice, see Special:History/User talk:Materialscientist/Editnotice. Z. Patterson (talk) 02:49, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Daniel Case (talk) 03:43, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    User talk:Z. Patterson

    Reason: Disruptive edits from unregistered and new users. See the page's history and edit filter log. I am requesting pending changes protection so good-faith users can post, subject to review. Z. Patterson (talk) 02:54, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined Pending changes is not available for talk pages. Daniel Case (talk) 03:43, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    2020 Summer Paralympics

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 03:04, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Consider the edit warring noticeboard – This is a case of possible edit-warring by one or two users. Daniel Case (talk) 03:44, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Atishi (politician)

    Reason: High level of IP vandalism regarding her caretaker CM status. Multiple users are changing facts before an official announcement. Requesting semi/full protection until a new government is formed. UzairQazi25 (talk) 03:21, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined The page has never been created. Daniel Case (talk) 03:46, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Atishi Marlena

    Reason: High level of IP vandalism regarding her caretaker CM status. Multiple users are changing facts before an official announcement. Requesting semi/full protection until a new government is formed. UzairQazi25 (talk) 03:23, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. And those seem more like confused good-faith edits. Daniel Case (talk) 03:47, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Current requests for reduction in protection level

    Request unprotection of a page, or reducing the protection level
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    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.

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    Chrysler B engine

    Reason: This page has been protected for *ten years*. It is the only engine page for major US manufacturers that is. It is not an *inherently contentious* page like many on religion, sexuality, ethnic strife, and such (which can remain persistently problematic). The page has had plenty of time to ride out a spate of probematic editing/unregistered editors. It needs the opportunity to be freely edited, and settle itself down. 2601:196:180:DC0:4842:76FD:4D84:35D5 (talk) 15:26, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    FYI Biblioworm. There's certainly a lot of disruption on car articles generally, but I'm not sure about a specific engine nowadays – I checked in the archives and the last time we had an engine-related request was in October (note that I only did a Ctrl+F check and that the Ford IP seems unrelated to this one). Sdrqaz (talk) 17:17, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Current requests for edits to a protected page

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    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 Wikipedia:Suggestions for COI compliance), the {{Edit COI}} template should be used.
    • Requests to move move-protected pages should be made at Wikipedia: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.
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    Gaza war

    In the lede of this article second paragraph, it mentions "prompting Israeli forces to fight back and apply the Hannibal Directive against its own citizens." The mention of the Hannibal directive is gratuitous and disputed by plenty of sources. At worst, the directive, according to disputed sources, led to 14 deaths. Given its extreme minor significance in the attack by Hamas, it should be removed from the second paragraph. The next sentence also makes it seem like it was the Hannibal directive and not Hamas which killed the majority of Israelis.

    As an aside, this change was made by an extreme anti-Zionist who is clearly attempting to push his personal perspective on the article. Apndrew (talk) 20:34, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Qin Shi Huang

    Capitalize the word "dynasty" Rockstar1313FF (talk) 22:29, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Handled requests

    A historical archive of previous protection requests can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive.

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