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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.

Groups referred to as cults in government reports (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Fully protect. Slow-speed edit-warring among five or so editors has spiked with a contentious page move based on a fabricated "consensus". I have moved back and reverted to the last version by User:Jossi. Please protect pending a true consensus being reached. Thank you. Justanother 13:29, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

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

Semi-protect. This page has been a persistent target of IP vandalism attributable to permanently banned user Misplaced Pages:Long term abuse/Roitr. The page has been temporarily semi-protected at least twice before recently, and each time it's unprotected, the revert warring starts up again. I'm getting really tired of this. Dr.frog 13:04, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

List of gangs in Grand Theft Auto series (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-Protect. There is a currently a debate on whether parts of the names of each gang should be capitalised or not. Unregistered users seem to push their own preferences without first forming a concensus, and it is causing edit wars. .:Alex:. 10:26, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Daniel Bryant 12:00, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

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

full protect. High instance of user account vandalism. --Blake3522 08:25, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Michaelas 09:42, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

President of the Republic of China (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

semi-protect. These articles have been under almost constant attack by sockpuppets of banned User:SummerThunder (see Misplaced Pages:Long term abuse/SummerThunder). I would like to request that they be semi-protected for a week or two to help deal with the never-ending waves of vandalizing sockpuppets. The edit histories on some of those articles are just obscene. --Dynaflow babble 08:22, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Already protected. — by Awyong Jeffrey Mordecai Salleh. Michaelas 09:42, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Wexford Youths F.C. (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

semi protection; Page is being vandalised by range of anonymous vandals from other football club. GavinZac 08:09, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Michaelas 09:42, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

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

semi protection; this disambiguation page is honey to anonymous vandals. Legitimate edits of any kind are extremely rare as the page is essentially mature. — The Storm Surfer 08:03, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Michaelas 09:42, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

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

semi protection continual vandalism from IP addresses, but not by any one user in particular. This article seems to attract a lot of silliness. Good faith editors regularly revert the damage manually. Parzival418 _Hello 07:18, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Semi-protected for 2 weeks. Krimpet (talk) 08:14, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

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

semi protection constant vandalism from IP addresses. Ttguy 06:43, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Michaelas 09:42, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Genetically modified food (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

semi protection constant vandalism from IP addresses. Ttguy 06:43, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Michaelas 09:42, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Genetically modified organism (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

semi protection constant vandalism from IP addresses. Ttguy 06:43, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Michaelas 09:42, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Genetically modified food controversies (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

semi protection constant vandalism from IP addresses. Ttguy 06:43, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Michaelas 09:42, 12 May 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.

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Seems to have been protected as "high risk" a few months ago but there isn't any history of vandalism that I can see, and it's only used on one page that is constantly scanned by dozens of sysops so it's hardly high risk. I want to edit it. --Tony Sidaway Unprotected by User:Majorly. CMummert · talk 00:37, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Requests for investigation (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Was closed and marked historical by an MfD, but I'm not entirely sure if the MfD's result suggested protecting the essay which was used to replace it, or if this would be beneficial. There are reasons people might want to edit it, and no obvious reason to me why the protection is needed (it doesn't 'salt' the page as the protection log suggests because the essay that's there does that, and people are unlikely to post to a page with a big {{historical}} notice on it). --ais523 13:27, 12 May 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.

MediaWiki:Cascadeprotected (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Most recent edit is breaking the source code display on the Main Page. I'm not sure what's wrong. -Amarkov moo! 01:39, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Done Prodego 01:47, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Fulfilled/denied requests

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

semi protection - Too much vandalism, edit warring. 68.5.224.107 03:57, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. - o_O *blush* - main vandal blocked, also - Alison ☺ 04:19, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Romig Middle School (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

semi protection +expiry 2 weeks, semi protection: Vandalism, horror show of vandalism today, almost resulted in this article being speedied Blueboy96 03:33, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Alison ☺ 03:42, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Modern liberalism in the United States (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

semi-protection Semi-protection: Vandalism, Vandalized five times in less than 10 minutes Blueboy96 02:41, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Declined, the single vandal responsible (User:Meanpanda5) has already been indefinitely blocked. Krimpet (talk) 02:44, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

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

Full Protection users keep re-adding fair-use images without rationals and an anon is starting an edit war over the air date. --Malevious Userpage •Talk Page• Contributions 02:27, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. - also ongoing content dispute - Alison ☺ 02:31, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

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

semi-protection Semi protect. Several anonymous users putting unrelated nonsense onto user page. Two weeks of protect, please.--Takuyar 02:20, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Semi-protected Alison ☺ 02:28, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

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

Semi-protection . This article has received heavy IP vandalism. Purgatory Fubar or Snafu 01:17, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Alison ☺ 02:29, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

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

Semi-protection. Constant IP vandalism over the last few days. The way, the truth, and the light 01:30, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 4 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Sr13 01:35, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

French Wars of Religion (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

semi-protection +expiry 2 months, Semi-protection: Vandalism, Too much ip-vandalism over course of few days, one ip vandalized the page and reverted, it, then reverted his revert, etc. Elfin341 01:23, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Sr13 01:33, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

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

Semi-protection - Still a target for very heavy vandalism from multiple IP's--JForget 00:58, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Semi-protected for one month. bibliomaniac15 01:02, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

User talk:Steady 0CD (edit | user page | history | links | watch | logs)

semi-protection Summer Thunder sock vandalizing user page. Purgatory Fubar or Snafu 22:21, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

May need full protection since it is a regestered user.--ROASTYTOAST 23:23, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Already protected. — by NawlinWiki. Michaelas 00:05, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Oregon City High School (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

semi-protection: anonymous IPs have been vandalizing the page repeatedly. Bobabot1 20:46, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Michaelas 21:07, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

There have been approximately 200 edits by a single IP nearly all of which are vandalism. Who do I contact for blocking this IP address? Bobabot1 21:25, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

WP:AIV, I however fail to see how those edits are vandalism. Michaelas 23:55, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

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

semi-protection Semi-protection: Vandalism, large amount of vandalism today Blueboy96 21:01, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. — User:PAinLe$$. Michaelas 21:07, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

There is not enough recent activity to justify protection at this time. Just watchlist and revert any vandalism. -Royalguard11(Talk·Review Me!) 21:07, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

G-Unit (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

semi-protect: Continous vandalism and article reverting. Large sections of relevant and well-written text are being deleted by people who are not signing in. I have been reverting the pages back to the proper version constantly. it really does become annoying having to undo vandalism. The vandalism is so high because as you may know G-Unit are a very controversial rap group who have both fans as well as haters. Thanks Thee Boss 20:42, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Alison ☺ 20:57, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

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

semi-protection: repeated anonymous IP edits vandalizing the page; persistent despite reverts. mtffm 19:48, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. - you also need to warn/report those guys or they'll just keep vandalising - Alison ☺ 19:50, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

I've added warnings to their pages for now. mtffm 20:16, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Great! Just let us know here if it gets worse over the next while - Alison ☺ 20:21, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

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

semi-protection : An anonymous editor, user:84.159.95.149, keeps adding unsourced material in unencyclopedic format to Robin Cook. He will not source the uncited parts of his contribution. This page need semi-protection so that we can discuss with the user how much of his material is appropriate. BillMasen 18:46, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Michaelas 19:47, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

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