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    Welcome—request protection of a page, file, or template here.
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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

    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.

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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.


    History of India

    Indefinite full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – Persistent de-stabilization and please restore this stable version if the edit warring constant. Mr.Hanes Talk 14:04, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

    Declined. Pages will not be full protected indefinitely, period. The article was full protected 5 days ago because of edit warring, and the same editors resumed edit warring as soon as that protection expired. Our only remaining recourse is to block those editors. Ivanvector (/Edits) 14:38, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
    Then, I am requesting temporary full protection for the page because it is being disturbed repeatedly. Mr.Hanes Talk 15:00, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
    Consider the edit warring noticeboard – This is a case of possible edit-warring by one or two users. I agree that we usually do not fully protect indefinitely. But: there seems to be a (rough) consensus on talk on how to proceed... which is ignored by a single user; better to deal with this on a direct base instead of locking the whole page down. Lectonar (talk) 15:19, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
    Okay Mr.Hanes Talk 15:25, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

    Samanid Empire

    Semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Persistent removal/tampering of sourced info. HistoryofIran (talk) 15:18, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. There was a flurry of disruptive activity that seemed to die out more than a week ago. Please make a new request if sufficient disruptive activity resumes. Ivanvector (/Edits) 16:31, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

    Freedom Party of Austria

    Semi-protection: IP editor's consistent disruptive editing, use of WP:OR, and being WP:POINTY all without even attempting to open a discussion on the talk page. – GlowstoneUnknown (Talk) 16:07, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

    • I'm going to leave this for another admin, but from what I see nobody, including yourself, has attempted to open a discussion. At a glance, the edits you are reverting as "disruptive" are also adding citations from publications that are generally considered reliable, sometimes the same ones that you are using, which suggests to me that this is a content dispute. In these situations I would look for a discussion on the talk page to determine a consensus on how best to reflect the information in the article, and would determine who is being disruptive and edit warring inappropriately based on that. In the absence of such a discussion, I would be using admin tools to prejudice one side of a content dispute, and I would prefer not to. Ivanvector (/Edits) 16:48, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
    • Automated comment: One or more pages in this request appear to already be protected. Please confirm.—Talk to my owner:Online 18:53, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
    Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. @Ivanvector: I share your concerns about the most recent content dispute. I believe there is enough recent history of sockpuppetry on the article to justify protecting the article, though. Daniel Quinlan (talk) 19:09, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

    The Heritage Foundation

    Temporary semi-protection: Given recent reporting that The Heritage Foundation plans to dox Misplaced Pages editors, Heritage's own page will likely be an attractive target for unhelpful edits. Trivialist (talk) 16:09, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

    Declined – Pages are not protected preemptively. Ivanvector (/Edits) 16:18, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

    Palestinian liberation (disambiguation)

    Indefinite extended confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement. Heyaaaaalol (talk) 17:02, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. @Heyaaaaalol: The page hasn't been edited since 29 July 2024. Please stop making unnecessary requests until you have more experience as recommended by Callanecc on your talk page. Daniel Quinlan (talk) 19:13, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

    Pudukkottai

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Very strange edit war that's been active for around a month. Dawnseeker2000 18:37, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Also, one of the main accounts involved in the edit war has been blocked indefinitely. Daniel Quinlan (talk) 19:16, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

    Elyon

    Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent Disruptive Editing. Not long after the article came off semi-protection, vandalism resumed. They’re making accounts for the express purpose of repeatedly making the same disruptive edits. Logs show this has been going on for several years. Asking for indef. protection. Sinclairian (talk) 19:19, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

    Semi-protected for a period of 1 year, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Indefinite protection would be premature here, see WP:PREEMPTIVE. Daniel Quinlan (talk) 19:26, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

    Templates used in system messages

    Full protection Used in system messages. (Pinging the admins who added each template to the system messages it is used on: @TheDJ, Ruslik0, and MSGJ:) {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 01:30, 8 March 2019 (UTC)

    Template protected Vanamonde (Talk) 23:33, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

    RfA watchlist stuff

    Full protection Used in Template:RfA watchlist notice, which is used in MediaWiki:Watchlist-messages (Pinging relevant admins: Xaosflux, MSGJ) {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 01:31, 8 March 2019 (UTC)

    Added Full-protection for Template:RfA watchlist notice/text — xaosflux 02:35, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
    This is directly related to the WL notice, so admin-only is reasonable. — xaosflux 02:40, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
    Added template-protection for Module:ConvertNumeric. — xaosflux 02:37, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
    I suspect this can have other uses, and though it could break WL, it's not that bad, so am OK leaving it at TEP. — xaosflux 02:40, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
    Someone want to figure out what is going on with the 'to word' templates and their relation to Misplaced Pages:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2018_November_13#Template:Cardinal_to_word? — xaosflux 02:40, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
    Same note as with ConvertNumeric though, TEP protection should be enough if needed. — xaosflux 02:40, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
    @Xaosflux: What it looks like to me is that no one bothered to clean up the orphaned subpages after implementing the merge and luafication, but otherwise the TfD is done. {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 02:56, 8 March 2019 (UTC)

    Marc-André ter Stegen

    Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – lame edit war on "Spanish club Barcelona" or just "Barcelona". And being discussed in Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Football#Marc-André ter Stegen already. Matthew hk (talk) 10:56, 8 March 2019 (UTC)

    I for now blocked the IP for 3RR, and there was no warring for 12h, so that I suggest to wait a bit longer and then decline.--Ymblanter (talk) 11:53, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
    User(s) blocked. SoWhy 17:18, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
    It doesn't matter if you blocked an edit, because the attacker is cycling IPs, request protection on the article. Govvy (talk) 18:43, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
    Semi the article. The sockpuppeteer will just change IPs. --Kingerikthesecond (talk) 18:49, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
    Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Enigma 20:48, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

    BMW 3 Series (E36)

    Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – 1292simon and a few of his mates have constantly replacing the infobox image with Simons despite consensus on the talkpage for the red (current) one, Thanks, . –Davey2010 11:17, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

    Declined – Warn the user appropriately then report them to AIV or ANI if they continue. SoWhy 17:42, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

    Jahangir Khan Tareen

    Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Saqib (talk) 12:20, 9 March 2019 (UTC) I added content with sources. It’s not vandalism. Stop edit warring. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.160.97.241 (talk) 12:56, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

    Declined – Content dispute. Please use the article's talk page or other forms of dispute resolution. Ad Orientem (talk) 23:07, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

    Lizabeth Scott

    Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Moxy (talk) 14:46, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

    The IP did not edit after warning, and edits are not vandalism, they are apparently a good-faith attempt to introduce content which is however not base on reliable sources. We need to wait and see whether edit-warring resumes.--Ymblanter (talk) 17:38, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
    Declined per above. Ad Orientem (talk) 23:07, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

    Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Troll target. Crboyer (talk) 17:55, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

    User(s) blocked.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:30, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

    List of The Loud House episodes

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing and sockpuppetry – Persistent WP:DE by IPs that are likely the same person. Amaury (talk | contribs) 19:49, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

    Semi-protected indefinitely. Ad Orientem (talk) 23:20, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

    Strong Europe Tank Challenge

    Semi-protection: Months of IP vandalism. (Hohum ) 20:09, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

    Pending-changes protected for a period of 6 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Ad Orientem (talk) 23:24, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

    Illyria

    Semi-protection: there is an big increase of IP vandalism lately. A temporary semi-protection would be ideal. - ❖ SilentResident ❖ 20:23, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

    Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Ad Orientem (talk) 23:27, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

    Shamrock Shake

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. IanDBeacon (talk) 21:10, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. I did block the most recent vandal. Ad Orientem (talk) 23:30, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

    John Lundvik

    Temporary semi-protection: IP vandalism after winning Melodifestivalen 2019.--BabbaQ (talk) 21:34, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

    Already protected by administrator Alexf. Ad Orientem (talk) 23:32, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

    Misplaced Pages talk:No Nazis

    Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – I suggest we prevent IPs from posting on the talkpage or editing the essay, indefinitely. If someone wants to discuss this essay they can use their account not sock with an IP . Legacypac (talk) 21:39, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

    Declined – Pages are not protected preemptively. I am not seeing enough recent disruptive editing to justify protection. There are a handful of areas where the community has preemptively excluded IPs. But those are exceptions adopted on a case by case basis following community discussion. Ad Orientem (talk) 23:38, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

    List of online music databases

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent addition of unsourced or poorly sourced content – Frequent adds of unsourced content that then are reverted by diligent pagewatchers. UnitedStatesian (talk) 22:12, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

    Declined Much of this dispute is with one autoconfirmed editor, with whom you should discuss this, and whom you should report to AIV if they continue to add unsourced material. Vanamonde (Talk) 23:37, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

    Charlotte Flair

    Semi-protection: Vandalism and unsourced changes to a BLP. Page has been protected in the past. StaticVapor message me! 22:22, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

    Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Vanamonde (Talk) 23:38, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

    BMW 3 Series (E36) (1)

    Semi-protection: Persistent edit warring from 90.43.10.244. This is getting out of control and turn into a full blown edit war with this IP editor, they already been warned for their behaviour. There motive as they stated: "As anonymous wiki user,i won't let this unacceptable image represent the BMW E36". Vauxford (talk) 23:01, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

    Health care

    Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – Persistent disruptive editing by various IPs. . Zefr (talk) 23:26, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

    Current requests for reduction in 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.
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    • 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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    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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    Template:Abuse filter

    Reason: Template-protected redirects to semi-protected template doesn't make sense. Nobody (talk) 08:29, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

    @Ixfd64: last protecting admin. Lectonar (talk) 11:08, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

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    Ideally, requests should be made on the article talk page rather than here.

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    Handled requests

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