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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.

September 11 attacks (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary full protection dispute, Edit war between one current Admin, one former Admin and another user. No use of talk page yet. The Resident Anthropologist (talk) 23:04, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

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

Temporary semi-protection vandalism. T H F S W (T · C · E) 22:39, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Dabomb87 (talk) 23:00, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

2010–2011 Tunisian revolution (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Move protection This page keeps getting moved alot without consensus. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 22:11, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Already done. Tbhotch* 22:45, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

User:Gfoley4/Articles (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

semi-protection, user request. →♠Gƒoley↔Four♣← 21:51, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Move protected indefinitely, just drop me a line if you'd like it unprotected again. 5 albert square (talk) 22:42, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Semi-protected indefinitely as well now. 5 albert square (talk) 22:51, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Smallville (season 10) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection, Sudden flood of unsourced episode titles. _Xeworlebi  20:45, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:00, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

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

create-protection, Repeatedly recreated as a copyright infringement. —KuyaBriBri 20:39, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:58, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

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

Semi-protect. High level of IP vandalism, continued, sock puppetry w/IP users. Dan56 (talk) 20:14, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Declined – Content dispute. Please use the article's talk page or other forms of dispute resolution. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:52, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

List of Presidents of Egypt (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

full protection dispute, An active edit war. Jack Merridew 18:46, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Both users blocked. NW (Talk) 18:53, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Works for me; nb: I don't much like either version of the page they're fussing over. Cheers, Jack Merridew 19:13, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. For archiving. -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 20:21, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Johnny Rebel (singer) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protect. High level of IP vandalism. Unregistered users repeatedly insert advertisments for audio recordings in the article's text; this has gone on every few days for well over a month. Skb8721 (talk) 18:46, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. All the IPs were on two very small ranges, which I've blocked. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:50, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

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

Repeated recreation without consensus. NW (Talk) 18:43, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Fully protected. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 20:43, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection TFA excessive vandalism. Tbhotch* 18:18, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Done by HJ Mitchell. NW (Talk) 18:44, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

L. Ron Hubbard (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Temporary semi-protection, getting hit with vandalism today, lets say 7 days worth?. The Resident Anthropologist (talk) 16:31, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.--rgpk (comment) 16:49, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Indefinite semi-protection vandalism, There has been persistent edits from persons with vested interest. They are unregistered users and do not reply to discussion in talk pages. Since it is not possible to talk to these unregistered users, I am requesting semi protection i.e. blocking edits from unregistered users. R.Sivanesh ✆ 16:29, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. --rgpk (comment) 16:53, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Ctrl+Alt+Del (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Salt. After this articles-for-deletion discussion, consensus decided to remove the article and make it a redirect to Control-Alt-Delete instead. The problems are a complete lack of sources, and lack of NPOV because of "ownership" of the article. These issues have not changed, but one of the "owners" has simply restored the article after the AFD. Also applies to the redirect Ctrl+Alt+Del_(webcomic). 15:50, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Done --rgpk (comment) 16:44, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

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

Temporary semi-protection vandalism, For today, till 12:00 UTC on the 15th, so it applies globally. Perseus8235 15:48, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Already protected. --rgpk (comment) 16:17, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

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

Temporary Semi protection vandalism, content removal vandal ip is back.page was protected before uses dynamic ip from saudi.flimsy excuses for removal of sourced content.was reverted thrice.same ip uses an account called PDheeru.likes to edit war LinguisticGeek 07:56, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

I don't believe that I could be seen to be impartial on this, so I'm leaving it for another admin. GedUK  13:14, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

• Fully protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. It looks more like a content dispute than vandalism so I've fully protected it for a week to figure things out. --rgpk (comment) 17:04, 14 February 2011 (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.

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

Unprotection, Protected due to speculation with unconfirmed details. Now it is confirmed that he has signed with the Yankees, and the corresponding transaction has been announced . --Muboshgu (talk) 22:00, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Unprotected Dabomb87 (talk) 22:58, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

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

Unprotection, Protected due to a single edit changing the location of some glaciers near K2 from India to Pakistan. Given that according to K2 the mountain is actually in Pakistan this appears to be correct.

Additionally it has been protected since November 2009, and there are 180 watchers of the article. -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 21:25, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Unprotected But note that the glaciers may be in India even though K2 is in Pakistan. The plane in the picture has Indian markings. --rgpk (comment) 21:36, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

That is possible :). -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 21:51, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Highvale Secondary College (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Unprotection, Only a single IP vandalised this page - who was blocked for 6 months. Protection seems excessive at this time, especially as its been protected for nearly a year. -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 21:01, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Unprotected HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:11, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Heathdale Christian College (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Unprotection, Protected due to an IP edit that while arguably inappropriate was pretty clearly in good faith.

Has been protected for over a year now. -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 20:59, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Not unprotected Indef may be overkill in this instance, but it probably would have got there eventually. It's one of those school articles that are always going to be probelmatic and there did seem to be a lot of problems in the weeks before the protection. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:05, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Unprotected Although I echo HJM's sentiment above. I have unprotected the article because the edit history reveals few edits by any established users; most of the constructive edits (as well as all of the unconstructive ones) have been by anons or new accounts. We'll give it a try, but the article will likely reach indef semi eventually anyway. ~Amatulić (talk) 21:12, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

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

Unprotection, Vandalism from a single IP who was warned but wasn't blocked - ironically the vandalism was reverted by other IP editors within a couple of hours. Has also been protected since December 2009. -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 20:57, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Unprotected HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:08, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Current requests for edits to a protected page

• WP:RFED

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• 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.
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Fulfilled/denied requests

2010–2011 Tunisian revolution (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Move-protect. Consensus has been made and closed, yet people are moving it around to what they seem to prefer. (as an aside im not protecting my view, i was agaist the grain of consensus that moved it to its current incarnation) Suggest a move lock for 2-4 weeks till the issue calms down. Lihaas (talk) 14:10, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Move protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. GedUK  14:21, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

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

Semi-protect. iriver is a company which makes consumer products. Unregistered or new users keep replacing most of the content of this page with promotional literature. Mezigue (talk) 11:47, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. GedUK  13:12, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

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

Semi-protect. Considerable number of IP editing/vandalism. Wolcott (talk) 06:20, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Declined Most of the recent IP additions have been constructive. We don't protect articles because of a large number of IP edits generally. GedUK  13:07, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

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

Temp semi-protection. Being hit with lots of vandalism from several IP editors and one new named editor. Corvus cornix_talk 07:14, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Rami R 12:49, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

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

Semi-protect. Continuous addition of non-notable content.--WillC 06:04, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. GedUK  13:03, 14 February 2011 (UTC)