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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.


    Museum of West African Art

    Temporary semi-protection: Repeated COI / paid-for editing by employee of the museum that is the subject of the article. 10mmsocket (talk) 11:41, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined, protection is not a correct instrument to use in this case. Ymblanter (talk) 12:26, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Declined User has now been appropriately warned. If they don't comply with COI/PAID, a partial block would be better than page protection. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 12:31, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force

    Reason: Arbitration enforcement GiraffeLover19 (talk) 18:14, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Sue Sisley

    Reason: Requesting semi-protection due to repeated vandalism and unsourced or defamatory edits from anonymous IP addresses. Examples include: - June 5, 2024: IP 138.4.130.137 added slanderous material labeled “controversy” - January 2023: IP 2600:1011:b068:5d37:795b:e01d:2956:3c7a made similar edits, repeatedly reverted - Edits have violated BLP (Biographies of Living Persons) policy Semi-protection would help maintain neutrality and article integrity. Emfrie (talk) 20:07, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 12:57, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Dillon Brooks

    Reason: Upgrade to extended-confirmed protection until July 6th, when leaked trade to the Phoenix Suns can be confirmed official or not. MakaylaHippo1998 (talk) 22:35, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    2025 NBA draft

    Reason: Protect until at least Friday to avoid any vandalism, which is extremely common on Wikipedia during drafts. MakaylaHippo1998 (talk) 03:58, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Materialscientist (talk) 16:23, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    2025 South Korean presidential election

    Reason: Vandalism by non-responsive IPs from the UK. Borgenland (talk) 10:38, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 7 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Materialscientist (talk) 16:19, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    How to Train Your Dragon (2025 film)

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Sushidude21! (talk) 10:38, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Latifa al-Droubi

    Reason: Constant vandalism 185.84.70.222 (talk) 11:06, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Materialscientist (talk) 16:25, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    T.O.P

    Temporary pending changes: Persistent vandalism – Slow but steady trickle of IP vandalism since semi-protection expired. Entranced98 (talk) 11:42, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 6 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Materialscientist (talk) 16:30, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent Disruptive Editing. HolyArtThou (talk) 12:15, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    List of Syrian flags

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent Disruptive Editing. 𐩣𐩫𐩧𐩨 Abo Yemen (𓃵) 12:24, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Nancy Wohlforth

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Repeated sockpuppet activity over last month. Related to ongoing issues with Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/SharkFinSoupEater. Rambling Rambler (talk) 12:38, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Materialscientist (talk) 16:32, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Rationalist community

    Reason: An administrator of a website associated with this community (LessWrong) posted about the article on the website, calling some passages "inane", accusing editors of editing despite being topic banned, and encouraged his followers to edit the article (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/EQJfdqSaMcJyR5k73/#bfzEHGiiNtnRerujL). Since then the article has seen several SPAs show up making disruptive edits that need to be reverted, wasting editors' time. Some diffs: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rationalist_community&diff=1297131380&oldid=1297113741 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rationalist_community&diff=1297056458&oldid=1297033565 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rationalist_community&diff=1296762013&oldid=1296528241 Eigenbra (talk) 12:39, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Houthi-controlled territory of Yemen

    Semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing. Skitash (talk) 12:44, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Persecutory delusion

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing. Persistent disruption since April. RaschenTechner (talk) 12:54, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Materialscientist (talk) 16:13, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    File URI scheme

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Janhrach (talk) 13:27, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 12 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Materialscientist (talk) 16:07, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    J. P. Dutta

    Reason: Persistent addition of unsourced content. Waxworker (talk) 13:55, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Materialscientist (talk) 16:12, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Anil Sharma (director)

    Reason: Persistent addition of unsourced content. Waxworker (talk) 13:55, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 12 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Materialscientist (talk) 16:09, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Hello Monsters World Tour

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent addition of unsourced or poorly sourced content – Persistent addition of unsourced attendance figures by various IP ranges and newly registered accounts. — Paper9oll (🔔 • 📝) 14:01, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Latifa al-Droubi

    Reason: High level of IP vandalism. RamiPat (talk) 14:08, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    User(s) blocked. Materialscientist (talk) 16:06, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Talk:Amy Duggan

    Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations – Repeated addition of unsubstantiated "question" which appears to be intended to disparage subject of article. Same IPs doing similarly on Talk:Asa Akira. Dorsetonian (talk) 14:09, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Materialscientist (talk) 16:02, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Talk:Asa Akira

    Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations – Repeated addition of unsubstantiated "question" which appears to be intended to disparage subject of article. Same IPs doing similarly on Talk:Amy Duggan. Dorsetonian (talk) 14:10, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Materialscientist (talk) 16:02, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Atmozfears

    Semi-protection: Persistent addition of unsourced or poorly sourced content. Skyshiftertalk 14:11, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 6 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Materialscientist (talk) 16:01, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Industrialization in the Soviet Union

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Also IP-hopping. Mellk (talk) 15:48, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Materialscientist (talk) 15:59, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Don Bluth Entertainment

    Reason: Persistent vandalism 2605:59C0:204E:FB08:719A:45D4:99CF:F4FD (talk) 16:36, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – UPE(I think would be the appropriate term here?) bouncing between account and IPs. See article talk page as well as Wikipedia:Help desk#Change of page. Taffer😊💬(she/they) 16:48, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Current requests for reduction in protection level

    Request unprotection of a page, or reducing the 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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    Independent State of Croatia

    Unprotection: Protection no longer needed after 16 years, which was semi-protected back in 2009. Absolutiva (talk) 10:57, 20 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Pinging protecting admin @Future Perfect at Sunrise. Entranced98 (talk) 15:56, 20 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Noting that the article falls under Wikipedia:Contentious topics/Balkans or Eastern Europe.-- Ponyobons mots 16:25, 20 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Template:Anonblock hard

    Reason: Only 12 transclusions. Not used in block summaries, unlike {{anonblock}}. 2A0E:1D47:9085:D200:5AF:9096:9EC1:275E (talk) 16:45, 20 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

     Comment: Is there any reason why the average editor would need to edit this? Sumanuil. (talk to me) 05:28, 21 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Presumably the IP intends to nominate this and the below for deletion based on their other edits. But that doesn't require an unprotection; they can just request that the TfD tag be added using {{edit template-protected}}. However, what makes you think Not used in block summaries, unlike {{anonblock}}? Do you have any actual evidence of this, or are you just guessing? * Pppery * it has begun... 05:02, 22 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Template:School block hard

    Reason: Only 7 transclusions. Not used in block summaries, unlike {{school block}} 2A0E:1D47:9085:D200:5AF:9096:9EC1:275E (talk) 16:46, 20 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Captain Pugwash

    Reason: This article about this fondly remembered British children's animated series has been semi-protected for ten years, with little vandalism. Frankster04 (talk) 18:42, 21 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    (Non-administrator comment) To this day the article's subject is plagued by rumours about character names being sexual innuendos, which appear to have inspired the vandalism that warranted the protection. Furthermore, there are a lot of vandalism edits made between May 2012 and February 2015 that look similar enough to be a possible case of long-term abuse. If unprotection is on the cards here, it might be wise to err on the side of caution and drop to PC. Entranced98 (talk) 14:58, 22 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

     Comment:: Are you sure that that's not because of the protection? Sumanuil. (talk to me) 20:37, 21 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    (Non-administrator comment) Normally I'd agree, the "there's no vandalism so no protection is needed" logic is regularly a flawed request, but ten years is certainly long enough to consider for a valid WP:TRYUNPROT request. Zinnober9 (talk) 22:15, 21 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Malbolge

    Reason: This was indef-semied via this request by Daniel Case (his talk page is also protected, hence asking here first). This was probably inappropriate; the report said "repeated IP vandalism over the last 6 months", but there were a mere 2 vandalism edits over that time frame, both on the same day by the same IP. I don't see anything here that ever really rose to protection being needed. Thanks in advance. 35.139.154.158 (talk) 12:48, 22 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    @Daniel Case: I'm going to leave this to you. Perhaps indefinite pending changes would be fine, but I would also be fine with leaving it unchanged. Daniel Quinlan (talk) 06:25, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Current requests for edits to a protected page

    Request a specific edit to a protected page
    Please request an edit directly on the protected page's talk page before posting here
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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.
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    Iran–Israel war

    The Israeli casaulties have changed over the night with new Iranian strikes. I want to change the Current Casaulties from 24 Killed to 53, i have the sources needed. And to change the 2,345 injured to 2,585 injured for which i also have sources. Pkk123477 (talk) 18:53, 19 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Iran–Israel war

    The join date of the US should be changed to 21 June, the strike Bombers took off from the US right after midnight Eastern Daylight Time on 21 June which would be 21 June 07:30 AM Iran time 2603:300B:E4D:8000:F08A:B088:141E:465F (talk) 13:09, 22 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Iran–Israel war

    Add jd vance and marco rubio to american leaders 2600:387:F:560E:0:0:0:2E (talk) 18:26, 22 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    St. Thomas Orthodox Cathedral, Mulanthuruthy

    The title has been blocked to read this when it should be Mulanthuruthy Marthoman Syrian Church. This needs to be fixed. JvathBdan (talk) 20:31, 22 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    @JvathBdan: Start a requested-move discussion on the talk page, making sure to provide sources that can support the name. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v threads critiques 15:22, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Iran–Israel war

    The statement that : "9,000+ Israeli civilians displaced" and "8,000+ Israeli civilians homeless" at the bottom of the "Casualties and losses" panel is misinformation by omission. Civilian infrastructure was also destroyed in Iran (example https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/13/shock-fear-in-tehran-after-israel-bombs-residential-military-areas) and I think we should either remove the statement about Israeli civilians, or add one for Iranian civilians in case any estimate exists. Otherwise it makes it sound only Iran targeted civilian infrastructure. Chalchiutlicue (talk) 12:56, 24 June 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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