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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.

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

Semi-protection Rogue user continues to vandalize page despite efforts to reason with user. Multiple editors have reverted edits, to no avail. Enigmaman 02:52, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

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

Semi-protection requested for vandalism. I haven't seen a truly constructive IP edit in months. Kla'quot 02:49, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

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

Semi-protection Continuous vandalism from IP's. Many people on talk page agree protection is required. Omega Archdoom 02:25, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Semi-protected for 1 week due to vandalism. - auburnpilot talk 02:43, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

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

full protection +expiry 1 week, Full protection, DRV, contentious, may be overturned, DRV template added, please protect and restore history too. Wooyi 01:07, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Done History restored and fully protected. Just ask one of the admins at DRV to unprotect at the end of it. -Royalguard11(Talk·Review Me!) 01:18, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

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

Semi-protection. Continuous vandalism again. Anthony Rupert 00:55, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Semi-protected due to heavy vandalism for 3 weeks. -Royalguard11(Talk·Review Me!) 01:15, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Reformed Presbytery in North America (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

semi-protection. High level of anonoymous POV edits from changing IP addresses. StAnselm 00:42, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

There is not enough recent activity to justify protection at this time. Just watchlist and revert any vandalism. First 50 go back to Dec 05. -Royalguard11(Talk·Review Me!) 01:19, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

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

semi-protection Semi-protection: Vandalism, Heavily vandalised page that would save a lot of time if sprotected. User:Krator (t c) 00:14, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Semi-protected for 1 week. Slightly borderline, but it has a history of vandalism. bibliomaniac15 00:25, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

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

semi-protect. High level of IP vandalism, and vandalism of all sorts. Constantly disruptive. THEPROMENADER 23:36, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Sean William 00:02, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

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

Full Protection from full-blown edit war. — The Future 23:12, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

But don't forget: Protect the correct version. :-) --Diluvien 23:20, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Fully protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Sean William 23:59, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Spider-Man 4 (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protection. - The article is currently in an AfD, but is getting heavy loads of unsourced speculation, rumors and vandalism. If the AfD fails, it's going to be like this for quite awhile, because of the third film being in the box office and performing well. Requesting semi protection to keep anonymous editors from strolling in and adding huge speculated plots, casts, and other unsourced information. The article has only been up for a day and it's been hit almost relentlessly.  BIGNOLE  (Contact me) 23:03, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Let's Rock the House (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Full protection. This article is about a single by La Toya Jackson that was re-issued by 2007 under DEAD END! Records, a small record label owned by myself. However, copies have been sold, and continue to be sold and manufactured, and this classifies as an official release. Vandals who know me outside Misplaced Pages (and don't like me) continue to remove any reference to the 2007 release, simply because I'm associated with it. Also, they decided to change "DEAD END! Records" to "Robert is a Gay Twat" in the article, and at one point, even adding my photograph to the article. Not only should this page be fully protected against further vandalism, but administration should consider having the users involved, specifically User:HelenRail, 82.34.226.152, User:J9306, AND User:Vinylcollector82. Rhythmnation2004 22:39, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Metros232 23:03, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

I disagree. See the following:

Record label changed to "Robert is a Gay Twat"

My photo is added to page

Info removed without justification

Info removed without justification

Info removed without justification

Info removed without justification

And this is all within the last month. This should be reconsidered.

Rhythmnation2004 23:37, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Declined. Last 50 edits go back to July. That's not enough activity by anyone's standards. – Steel 23:51, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, I didn't realize that it's within Misplaced Pages policies to call other users gay twats and remove legitimate information. Rhythmnation2004 01:58, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

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

Semi-protection. This page is a very frequent victim of anonymous vandalism. Job L 22:12, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Semi-protected – Steel 23:47, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Protection - This is the umpteenth edit war on this article. In previous cases I have protected the article myself, but I would prefer if an uninvolved admin protected the article this time. Aecis 22:09, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Fully protected -- tariqabjotu 22:55, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Special Service Group (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

semi-protection Page is repeatedly being reintroduced with a paragraph of copyrighted information from a specific website by one anon (202.83.173.122) who has previously vandalised my userpage thrice and launched personal attacks on my talk page and continues to remove sourced statements. Despite repeated talks with him warning him about this, he continues to add one copyrighted image and a para. The main reason for requesting a semi-protect thus, is to prevent the copyvio of an entire paragraph. Idleguy 19:50, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. for 24 hours. Sr13 21:49, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Dubai International Airport (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

semi-protection +expiry 2 weeks, Semi-protection: Vandalism, The article is not of a NPOV, with changes that are not of a NPOV added frequently by IP adresses Y4kk 19:16, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Have you tried to talk to the anon editor about it? -Royalguard11(Talk·Review Me!) 19:19, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

I have not, the edits of the non NPOV material come from at least 2 ips, one of them has received warnings about various Dubai related issues and the other has an ip from "Emirates Internet, an Internet service provider through which thousands of individual users may connect to the internet. This IP may be randomly assigned to a different person when the current user disconnects". Therefore I propose the only way to keep this article NPOV is semi protection. Y4kk 19:28, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Eurovision Song Contest 2008 (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

The user ADRy07 keeps changing the page for the worse, and myself and AxG are really trying hard to keep it nice and neat and to have cited references. We'd like it Semi-Protected so that if ADRy07 is a new user, he will not be able to change it. If this keeps happening we may end up asking for a user ban. ¡иąтнąи! | Talk | Email| 18:59, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

User:MariusM/Heaven of Transnistria (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

full protection +expiry 1 week, Full protection, Deletion review in process, DRV template added, request protection and restore history. Wooyi 17:52, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Declined for now, as the DRV looks as though it's heading for an endorsement of deletion. -Royalguard11(Talk·Review Me!) 01:26, 14 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.

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

A compromise solution to the edit war that led to page protection has been made on Talk. The editor who originally inserted the problematic text that led to the edit war has been banned from WP. Isarig 01:49, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

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

I previously requested unprotection due to the fact that the "Edit war" didn't even remotley constitute an edit war however admin Royalguard11 (talk · contribs) put the unprotection on hold choosing to instead post on the protecting admin (Myleslong (talk · contribs)) talk page inquiring how it constituted an edit war. Myleslong has not answered Royalguard's question, depite his contributions showing he has editted his talk page a fair few times in the time period. The situation is still the same, I have no willingness to revert the article at all in the future and still see the protection as very far in advance of what constitutes an edit war with no previous warning. –– Lid 00:10, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

RMS_Titanic (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)User:smithjd (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

"Although sealing off the watertight bulkheads with watertight decks would have increased the survivability of a vessel such as Titanic, it would have by no means ensured the survival of a ship with as much underwater damage as Titanic sustained in her collision with the iceberg; it was a big iceberg."

Yes it would. It saved later vessels, including Cole. This section requires an update.

Unprotected John Reaves (talk) 02:01, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

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

The page content was blanked for lack of sources and references, then reverted and restored back and forth until it was editprotected to stop people from re-adding unsourced material. I went through and edited the article to provide full sources, in the course of editing the article I also made significant changes to the blanked out version of the article (including removing several comments that were "contentious") - I posted a sourced version with a link on the talk page to ask for it to be edited in instead of the severly cut down version of the article. A comment was made that I should post here as well since the article I'm asking to be edited in differes vastly both from the current version and the unsourced version that was blanked. I ask that the protection be removed so that the sourced article can be added. The source of the edit war was sourcing, people kept readding unsourced text instead of sourcing it - so I did the sensible thing and provided a fully sourced version, hopefully this will prevent further edit wars and give Misplaced Pages a much better article than the current "stubby" version. Thanks in advance. MPJ-DK 19:49, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Deferred to Alkivar. – Steel 23:56, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Done  ALKIVAR™ ☢ 00:46, 14 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.

Template:Afd (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

When you tag a page with this template, instead of coming up with this article's entry and linking that to the AfD argument, it comes up with ]. I'm not sure what's wrong. I think it might be the use of the substitution in a link. For an example, see here. Cool Blue 22:57, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Declined - no edits required, you just forgot to subst the template. Ryan Postlethwaite 23:06, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

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)

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

There is much contention about what a government report is on this page, which is based on the confusion of some as to the nature of the US government. I feel that the source is valid, and found that the opinions on Misplaced Pages talk:Reliable sources#If the...FBI and GAO don't write Government Reports... who does? agreed (Don't let the title fool you, CRS was discussed too). I have tried to explain how the government works, but I think I may have just confused them more.

I'm asking for this addition but continued protection because those who believe it not to be a valid source would likely remove it. Of course if you (the reviewer) feel it should not be added I can accept that but would simply ask for an explanation why the confusion of some should keep a valid source out? (A note on the box, I'm still trying to figure these out but for this one to work you have to click on the hide/show button twice) Anynobody 00:05, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Thats the entire point of the debate, isn't it? Now you're asking an admin to decide the discussion? Lsi john 00:15, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Anynobody, besides trying to get an uninvolved admin to decide this issue, you are pointing at a one-sided chat at Misplaced Pages talk:Reliable sources#If the...FBI and GAO don't write Government Reports... who does?. I just brought the group at that site up to date. If the admin wanted to see both sides, a visit to Talk:Groups referred to as cults in government reports is suggested but actually the better action is to let the involved editors work it out. --Justanother 00:50, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

And jeez, I just caught a load of your smarmy condescension that we'uns donna unnastan how da gubmint works and you maya confused our poor addled brains even more with your efforts to explain. How does that explain that the actual Director in charge of CRS had his Communication chief clarify for us and, lo and beyond, we'uns was right and yu'uns was wrong. Guess us poor confused puppies get lucky now and then. --Justanother 00:58, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Declined – Steel 01:00, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

As I said, Steel I can accept your decision but I'm curious to know why it shouldn't be put back.

• Are you saying it's not WP:V,WP:RS, or in violation of another rule?
• Are you saying it is but can not be added until the confused editors have been satisfied?

Thank you, Anynobody 01:13, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Closer to the second one. Declined per WP:PROT#Content disputes and The Wrong Version. – Steel 11:50, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Fulfilled/denied requests

Jackie Healy-Rae (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Partial protection Page is being repeatedly vandalised by college students User:136.206.1.17. I'd like it semi-Protected until they go away. Snappy56 19:06, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Only one user, and he's one more edit away from being blocked (for at least 2 months). -Royalguard11(Talk·Review Me!) 19:11, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. - main anon vandal is now blocked - Alison ☺ 19:20, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Introduction/Header (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Semi-protection, indefinite shouldn't ever need to be edited, and was vandalised for 90 minutes before I noticed/reverted just now. Thanks. --Quiddity 19:03, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

I'd like to hear what some other admins think about this request first. I'm not sure it needs to be edited (really ever) by anons. -Royalguard11(Talk·Review Me!) 19:06, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Sure thing. Full-protection would be good.

Also, I've just added all the other subpages for this and Misplaced Pages:Tutorial/TabsHeader to my watchlist, but perhaps they could all be included in this request? (possibly via cascading, I don't know yet how that works though) Thanks. --Quiddity 19:25, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Semi-indefinite sounds good. It's an ideal candidate for sneaky transcluded vandalism. If it was extended to full, I wouldn't object - Alison ☺ 19:28, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Can't do cascading, because that would f-protection Misplaced Pages:Introduction. -Royalguard11(Talk·Review Me!) 19:33, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Semi-protected by the way. -Royalguard11(Talk·Review Me!) 19:36, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Never mind, I seemed to forget there how cascading works. Works on what's trancluded on it, not what it's transcluded on. So I've gone and Fully protected it +cascading. -Royalguard11(Talk·Review Me!) 19:41, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Tampa Catholic High School (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Partial protection Page is being repeatedly vandalized by high school kids on anon accounts either from that school or a rival school. Its just a stub but it is annoying to keep reverting. If they want to contribute to their school's page, they need to get an account and thus be accountable. Blue Tie 18:21, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Semi-protected for 1 week. Hopefully that will dissuade them. -Royalguard11(Talk·Review Me!) 19:14, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

User:The Sunshine Man (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) and User talk:The Sunshine Man (edit | user page | history | links | watch | logs)

Semi - shared IP keeps vandalising. Will 17:30, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Semi-protected – Riana_ऋ 17:34, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Semi-protected - heh. Protected before I saw this request :) - Alison ☺ 17:36, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Sheffield United F.C. (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protection (for a few days). Due to the recent relegation of SUFC (1640 today) there has been a spate of POV anon ip edits. -- roundhouse 17:03, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Declined, not that bad. – Steel 17:09, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Organization of Chinese Americans (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Semi-protection Due to the recent cancellation of shock jock radio show The Dog House, there have been and probably will be vandalism at Organization of Chinese Americans. The show's cancellation was spearheaded by the organisation for what it felt was the airing of racist speech. Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 16:47, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Declined, protection is not pre-emptive. Leave me a message if anything happens. – Steel 17:06, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

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

semi-protection Semi-protection: Vandalism, After it was unprotected, this article has been vandalised multiple times over the past few days by IPs. Funpika 15:11, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Alison ☺ 16:23, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

G8 (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

semi-protect. IP editors keep changing the infoxbox, despite it being made quite clear that President-Elects don't go in there until they are officially President. One Night In Hackney₃₀₃ 12:46, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Fully protected — from editing (not moves) (see below) - semi-protecting would prevent one party in the dispute over the infobox from editing. Full protection prevents changes by all parties until the dispute is resolved ~ Anthony 13:22, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

 Note: fully protected from moves in addition to editing ~ Anthony 13:24, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

There is no dispute. Nicolas Sarkozy takes office on 16 May, until then he is not the President. The last edit even changed Tony Blair to Gordon Brown, yet Brown doesn't even hold the position of Prime Minister. One Night In Hackney₃₀₃ 13:28, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

I've lowered it to semi. – Steel 13:30, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Agreed. This isn't a content dispute. WjBscribe 13:31, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

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

Barely any vandalism from registered accounts. The page is currently semi-protected. Weird Al's White & Nerdy song has sort of lost its vibe, and people are moving on. It's not the subject of replacing the page with YOU SUCK anymore. Right now, the semi-protection is probably hurting the page from valuable information on the subject, than it is protecting it from vandalism. Any vandalism will get reverted, eventually. Cool Blue 21:56, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Declined, unprotecting this page doesn't work. – Steel 00:25, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

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

full protection +expiry 1 day, Full protection: Vandalism, LOTS of vandalism from many ips. see the articles talk page history as well Lmc169 12:22, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Fully protected — page fully protected from editing and moves until 15 May 2007 (UTC) ~ Anthony 13:06, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

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

Semi-protect- The page is constantly vandalized by anon-users. --DrBat 11:21, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. – Steel 11:46, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

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

Semi-protect- never ending target of vandalism. Malcourno 11:10, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Semi-protected – Steel 11:46, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

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

Semi-protection. Ridiculous vandalism several times today that makes it hard to determine which version of the article to revert to. Anthony Rupert 04:24, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. – Steel 11:47, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

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

Unprotect- Been protected since around November. Not set with an expiring protection. Malcourno 11:11, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Declined, unprotection was tried a month ago. – Steel 11:48, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Hidden Lake Academy (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Full-protect. High level of vandalism from all corners.

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. – Riana_ऋ 11:11, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

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