Wikipedia:Requests for page protection

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• Adult human female (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Reason: Edit warring. Multiple instances of disruption by Molikog attempting to delete and vandalize content without consensus. Examples include: [1].

• Iran's third uranium enrichment site (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary extended confirmed protection: WP:PIA. HumanRight 00:01, 6 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Declined for now as it has been nominated for deletion. Daniel Case (talk) 20:11, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Clash in Paris (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Reason: Constant IP vandalism, one of the worst I've ever seen, so bad I'm requesting at least 2 months of semi-protectection. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] Lemonademan22 (talk) 18:44, 7 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Declined What makes these edits vandalism? In particular, reverting something as "unhelpful" implies it was still in good faith. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 14:11, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Ritchie333 I agree with you, but these good faith contributions are in too great a quanitiy, I can't just keep reverting edits when the best option is to just protect the article. In addition, I use "unhelpful" broadly, I sometimes call vandalism or unconstructive editing "unhelpful", so it really depends on the edit. Lemonademan22 (talk) 17:54, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You might find WP:PASG and WP:NOTVAND worth a read. Daniel Case (talk) 20:16, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• War 2 (film) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Frequent vandalism and unconstructive edits by unknown IPs. MNWiki845 (talk) 05:57, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Can't quite figure this out ... according to the log it was indef-ECP'ed a couple of months ago, but nothing about protection comes up when you open the edit window. Daniel Case (talk) 20:30, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

My indef ECP was of a page that was deleted, not the current version. That ECP should be disregarded here as the rules for protection of redirects are different than those for protection of articles. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 21:56, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Expo 2025 pavilions (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Reason: repeated ip reverts and edit warring (recurrent problem). -- Cl3phact0 (talk) 11:34, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User(s) blocked: 220.141.192.0/18 (talk · contribs) blocked by Firefangledfeathers. from article namespace for a week. Daniel Case (talk) 20:37, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• 2025 University of Cambridge Chancellor election (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Reason: High level of IP vandalism. Current event, should die down in 2 weeks. cagliost (talk) 12:16, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Daniel Case (talk) 20:38, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• List of CMT Music Awards ceremonies (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP keeps adding information that is incorrect based on sources in the article. Caldorwards4 (talk) 12:37, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Declined – Warn the user appropriately then report them to AIV or ANI if they continue. I gave them the warning they had not yet received. Daniel Case (talk) 20:41, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Clondalkin (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – This page was previously protected due to chronic disruptive editing by a sockpuppeteer on several IPs; now that the page has been unprotected, the same behaviour has re-ensued immediately. Requesting a year's protection due to the WP:LOUTSOCK issues with this page. ser! ^{(chat to me - see my edits)} 14:15, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• American Humane Society (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Vandalism by IP users over the past few days adding overlinks with unusal editing pattern. Nayyn (talk) 14:31, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• When You Wish Upon a Star (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Persistent vandalism/Disruptive IP edits similar to that experienced by Singin' in the Rain over an extended period of time, should Require autoconfirmed or confirmed access as cleanup necessary. Nayyn (talk) 14:37, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Peter Savaryn (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Stepan Lenkavskyi (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Indefinite extended confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement – The article is being disrupted by IPs who appear to be the same person. Falls under Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Antisemitism_in_Poland#Extended_confirmed_restriction. Same IP is white washing Stepan Lenkavskyi which falls under the same case. --K.e.coffman (talk) 14:55, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• List of English monarchs (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Reason: Persistent IP vandalism GiraffeLover19 (talk) 17:11, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Abdullahi Said Osman (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Reason: Unnecessary editing Nasserosman (talk) 17:38, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You're the one making unnecessary edits against the MOS and adding unsourced content, per this summary. MB2437 23:06, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Black women (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary pending changes: Persistent vandalism. Entranced98 (talk) 18:23, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• South Carolina (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary pending changes: Persistent disruptive editing – Sporadic vandalism and other nonconstructive editing since semi-protection expired. Entranced98 (talk) 18:41, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Edward Blum (legal strategist) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Reason: I am requesting title protection for "Edward Blum (legal strategist)" due to repeated or contentious attempts to change the disambiguation to less precise or potentially biased alternatives. These moves have been disputed based on WP:PRECISE and WP:NPOV, and discussions on the Talk page have shown a lack of consensus for any alternative. The current title is supported by reliable sources (e.g., Los Angeles Times, Reuters, bos)

Title protection will help prevent further edit warring and ensure stability while the consensus process continues. 8020EF (talk) 19:20, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@8020EF: You didn't bother to get a consensus before you moved the page. Now it's in the hands of the bold/revert/discuss cycle. Reap as you sow. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v ^{threads critiques} 19:24, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Declined – 8020EF, the article currently has the original ("activist") disambiguator. The only way it can be changed is through the process defined in WP:Requested moves/Controversial. If you try moving it again without consensus, it will be treated as move-warring. Favonian (talk) 19:46, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Favonian: It's already a slow-motion move-war; see the links I gave above. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v ^{threads critiques} 19:51, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Ethel Cain (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Reason: BLP violations. CatchMe (talk · contribs) 21:41, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• President (band) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Like 75% of the edits on the page are me reverting IP genre warring removing sourced content. RF23 (talk) 22:15, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Automated comment: A request for protection/unprotection for one or more pages in this request was recently made, and was denied at some point within the last 8 days.—^{cyberbot I}_{Talk to my owner:Online} 22:25, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Fionn McLaughlin (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Three-month semi-protection: Continual disruptive IP editing to change "County Londonderry" to "County Derry" over the past month against multiple users' reversions. MB2437 22:59, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Lucy Guo (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Reason: IPs repeatedly posting BLP violations and edit-warring. Since May 5 at least four IPs or IP-hoppers have been attacking this article, posting BLP violations and non-WP:RS citations, and repeatedly reverting neutral, properly RS-sourced text. Latest round (a five-edit round of BLP violations including removal of RS-sourced neutral facts, and adding non-RS-sourced NYPOST gossip): [10]. A.Blake.333 (talk) 23:05, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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.

• Chicago Bears (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Reason: Reduce to indefinite semi-protection since no other NFL teams' pages are ECP (been in place for 4 years), feels a bit unfair to new users who actually have good edits to make on the team. MakaylaHippo1998 (talk) 19:10, 1 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Pinging @El C Daniel Case (talk) 02:33, 2 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Daniel Case I don't think this username administrator El C is active anymore it has not responded for 3 days according to request lower protection or unprotection says if who ever is no longer administrator, inactive or doesn't respond it can be appeal unless is active then we have to contact username administrator who protect the page. 47.21.195.98 (talk) 04:07, 5 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

El C edits somewhat sporadically. Be patient. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v ^{threads critiques} 15:11, 5 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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.
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• Maharashtra (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Need to remove Hindi as the additional official language.

Please refer to Talk for justification. Amoljv (talk) 22:23, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Declined - The logic that a language allowed to be used for official purposes isn't an additional official language eats itself. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v ^{threads critiques} 22:32, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A historical archive of previous protection requests can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive.