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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 protection increases at the BOTTOM of this section. If you cannot find your request, check the archive of requests or, failing that, the page history. Only recently answered requests are still listed here.


    Flag of South Vietnam

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Months of persistent dynamic IP WP:LTA WP:BLOCKEVASION. — MarkH21talk 07:09, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 1 year, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Ymblanter (talk) 20:36, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Months of persistent dynamic IP WP:LTA WP:BLOCKEVASION. — MarkH21talk 07:10, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    La Liga

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Entranced98 (talk) 07:57, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Kesari Chapter 2

    Semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing. TheWikiholic (talk) 10:16, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    NewsBreak

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Recent string of IP vandalism at play here. Amigao (talk) 10:31, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Bbb23 (talk) 17:27, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Benji Joya

    Reason: Persistent IP vandalism. Koshuri (グ) 10:32, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Warn the user appropriately then report them to AIV or ANI if they continue. Has not edited since the one warning they got. Daniel Case (talk) 18:34, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Ray Vaughn (rapper)

    Semi-protection: Persistent addition of unsourced or poorly sourced content – Constant additions of unverifiable facts to article by IP editors. Roasted (talk) 13:50, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.. Daniel Case (talk) 19:47, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Talk:TikTok Shop

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Persistent WP:NOTFORUM violations since 01:07, 8 December 2024, which is almost the entire edit history of this talk page. Alith Anar 14:10, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of six months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Daniel Case (talk) 19:45, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Suchir Balaji

    Reason: Contentious, unsourced/poorly sourced content added by IP editors and new accounts. Page is a biography of a recently deceased person (death date November 26, 2024). Said editors change the entry to say that he was murdered, or shot twice etc.. Page has fewer than 30 watchers, and was pending changes protected until recently when the protection expired. Wikiuser815 (talk) 14:29, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of six months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Will log at CTOPS as BDP. Daniel Case (talk) 19:16, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Mamluk Sultanate

    Reason: Edit warring by multiple IPs over flags in the infobox Wowzers122 (talk) 14:57, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    First premiership of Mahathir Mohamad

    Reason: Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Thegreatrebellion (talk) 14:57, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    User(s) blocked: 218.208.8.0/24 (talk · contribs). One-month partial block from the articles in question. Favonian (talk) 16:56, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Devon Rodriguez

    Reason: While the frequency of edits to this page is low, it appears that a controversial 2023 incident involving this living person means IP edits are being made attempting to remove mention of the incident to protect the subject's reputation (despite no source problems) or reframe the issue in favour of one party or another in the dispute. In the former case I'd hazard that the first-name reference to the article's subject in the edit message is an indication of a personal connection.

    I think long-term semi-protection of this article would be appropriate. Daphne Preston-Kendal (talk) 15:07, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Bbb23 (talk) 17:29, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Kesari Chapter 2

    Reason: There has been a consistent pattern of disruptive editing, including numerous unsourced edits and bad-faith changes coming from multiple IP addresses and newly registered accounts. The level of disruption is affecting the quality and reliability of the article, and reverting the edits is becoming increasingly difficult. A higher level of protection would help maintain the integrity of the page. Morekar (talk) 15:22, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Pakistan Army

    Reason: Increase to Extended Confirmed, at least temporarily, due to a swath of throwaways being created to insert comments like "Terrorist Army" by Indian nationalists, due to recent events. ⛿ WeaponizingArchitecture | yell at me 16:23, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Not done Insufficient disruption. However, did add editnotice and talk page notice for ARBIPA. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 17:14, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Scouting for Girls

    Reason: Persistent vandalism — The article is being repeatedly edited with false information regarding the band's drummer, changing his name from the correct "Peter Ellard" to "James Rowlands." This has occurred multiple times from anonymous and unregistered users. Requesting semi-protection to prevent further disruptive edits. Caperock1 (talk) 16:29, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Note: Corrected capitalization – the request clearly concerns the band, not girlguiding. Favonian (talk) 17:05, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. The most recent disruptive edit (Special:Diff/1283471575) occurred 26 days ago. Suggest that you leave a note on the IP's talk page. Favonian (talk) 17:11, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Vijayawada Airport

    Reason: High level of IP vandalism and persistence unsourced changes and IP edit warring. 456legendtalk 17:35, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Merab Dvalishvili

    Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP's changing nationality, adding images that don't exist... Nswix (talk) 19:11, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia

    Reason: Semi-protection recently ended, and now we have IPs inserting false information and edit warring in attempts to make huge non-consensus edits to the lead. The article topic is still very much in the news, with the Trump admin still defying a Supreme Court order. Requesting continued semi-protection. FactOrOpinion (talk) 19:20, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    was gonna post too but fact or op beat me to it.
    should be protected for a bit while this is in news cycle, especially as part of a ctop area Bluethricecreamman (talk) 20:16, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Ymblanter (talk) 20:41, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Georges Pompidou

    Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – LTA. Mellk (talk) 19:33, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Already protected by administrator Paul Erik. Favonian (talk) 20:01, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    History of Vietnam

    Permanent semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – LTA. This article has been vandalized too much by Phạm Văn Rạng's IP addresses persistently, of course this has stopped recently because this article is protected until October. Since this is an important article and is at risk of being vandalized again, I suggest that this article should be permanently protected. 2401:D800:290:98FE:F925:80BF:43EB:6C98 (talk) 20:07, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    James McDivitt

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent Vandalism. Captainllama (talk) 20:16, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of one month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 20:19, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Ed White (astronaut)

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Gommeh (t/c) 20:19, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of two weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Paul Erik (talk)(contribs) 20:21, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Vietnamese nationalism

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Months of persistent dynamic IP WP:LTA WP:BLOCKEVASION. — MarkH21talk 20:25, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 1 year, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Ymblanter (talk) 20:31, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    2025 Vancouver car attack

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. m a MANÍ1990(talk | contribs) 20:29, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    I blocked the IP, but right now I do not think protection is needed, since most IP edits are constructive. Not declining, since things can still change rapidly. Ymblanter (talk) 20:34, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    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.
    • 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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    Bob the Builder

    Reason: This article has been semi-protected due to vandalism for 11 years, so it would be unprotected afterwards. 2803:C600:8101:9EC4:2461:6BB1:FD03:F36D (talk) 04:20, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    This is not a logical conclusion, no. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 15:09, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Practically every request for this article to be edited/unprotected has come from a IP sockpuppet. I imagine this is more of the same. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v threads critiques 17:29, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Declined – Special:Diff/1287578046 rather blew your cover. Favonian (talk) 17:36, 27 April 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.
    • 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.
    Further information: Wikipedia:Edit requests


    Gaza war

    The textbox, in [f]. change "US intelligence estimate: 10,000–15,000 militants (as of January 2025)" to "US intelligence estimate: Hamas reduced to 9,000–12,000 militants (as of June 2024)"

    reason: The current claim relies on an article by The Print that says " The Palestinian militant group Hamas has recruited between 10,000 and 15,000 members since the start of its war with Israel" (emphasis on recruited, not killed) The Reuters article https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/diminished-hamas-switches-full-insurgent-mode-gaza-2024-06-06/ claims "The enclave's ruling group has been reduced to between 9,000 and 12,000 fighters, according to three senior U.S. officials familiar with battlefield developments, down from American estimates of 20,000-25,000 before the conflict. By contrast, Israel says it has lost almost 300 troops in the Gaza campaign" Therefore, it will be best to either subtract the two ranges (which was rejected before) or claim that Hamas has been reduced to 9000-12000 members, as written in the article. It is also possible to write "US intelligence estimate: Hamas reduced from 20,000-25,000 to 9,000–12,000 militants (as of June 2024)" just as written in the article, but that might be too long Stone fridge (talk) 21:06, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Paul Walker

    Listed partner is incorrect, change Rebecca Soteros to Jasmine Pilchard-Gosnell. Alternatively, list Gosnell as a secondary partner, a la the spouses section on other pages. He separated with Soteros prior to 2006 and began dating Jasmine around that time and until his death. Source: https://ca.news.yahoo.com/omg/blogs/the-juice-celeb-news/paul-walker%E2%80%99s-distraught-girlfriend-jasmine-pilchard-gosnell-resurfaces-034409728.html 2600:8800:1586:1600:4D3C:3356:2EB5:4314 (talk) 17:51, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined - Talk:Paul Walker is not protected. Make your request there. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v threads critiques 18:23, 27 April 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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