Wikipedia:Requests for page protection
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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.
Request protection of a page, or increasing the protection level
Request unprotection of a page, or reducing the protection level
Request a specific edit to a protected page
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Current requests for increase in protection level
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.
Semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Army of socks and logged out users harassing me. FMSky (talk) 02:36, 25 March 2025 (UTC)
- Automated comment: One or more pages in this request appear to already be protected. Please confirm.—cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online 02:41, 25 March 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of one month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 02:42, 25 March 2025 (UTC)
- Automated comment: @Rsjaffe: One or more pages in this request have not been protected.—cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online 03:57, 25 March 2025 (UTC)
UnprotectedSee Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement#Result concerning FMSky. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 04:02, 25 March 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Requesting semi-protection for the article due to repeated, unexplained reverts by IP users (e.g., 106.215.149.224) and the use of inappropriate, personalised edit summaries. These edits are undoing good-faith contributions based on valid Wikipedia policies (e.g., WP:BLP, WP:POV, WP:EVENT).
The IP editors have not engaged on the article's Talk Page despite invitations to do so. This pattern of disruption has occurred multiple times between 19 and 25 March 2025, as shown in the article's revision history.
Requesting semi-protection to ensure collaborative editing and prevent further disruption.
Thank you. Optss (talk) 02:59, 25 March 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Admin is getting his userpage spammed. Valorrr (talk) 03:10, 25 March 2025 (UTC)
Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. No edits in three days, and most of those recent edits have been by SFR himself. Daniel Case (talk) 03:26, 25 March 2025 (UTC)
- I believe they mean the user talk page, which has been subject to anonymous defacing. Departure– (talk) 03:30, 25 March 2025 (UTC)
User(s) blocked: 122.118.110.127 (talk · contribs). by User:Paul Erik. I agree with Departure-'s assessment of the situation. DMacks (talk) 03:59, 25 March 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations – Edit warring/insertion of BLP violations by multiple IP addresses. TarnishedPathtalk 04:49, 25 March 2025 (UTC)
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Kailash29792 (talk) 05:01, 25 March 2025 (UTC)
Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – 3 weeks these guys have been editwars over one image. See Talk:Belgrade#Full protection Moxy🍁 05:17, 25 March 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Launchballer 05:18, 25 March 2025 (UTC)
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Show is getting popular higher chance of vandalism and expired yesterday. Valorrr (talk) 06:23, 25 March 2025 (UTC)
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Article is repeatedly being vandalized by IPs, each time it must checked and reverted seems a waste of time. Moribundum (talk) 06:36, 25 March 2025 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Mentioned on a YouTube video. Parksfan1955 (talk) 08:55, 25 March 2025 (UTC)
Reason: Addition of long plot again and again by IPs. Media Mender 📬✍🏻 08:57, 25 March 2025 (UTC)
Current requests for reduction in protection level
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.
Unprotection: 14 years of protection with little vandalism or disruption. Thepharoah17 (talk) 23:34, 20 March 2025 (UTC)
- @Black Kite: pinging protecting admin. Daniel Case (talk) 02:30, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
Drop to previous indef semi: This page was ECP'd indef by Ritchie333 on Sunday because of America1257's vandalism. Today, I found out that Ritchie333 ECP'd Jimmy Carter for a second, and then switched it back to semi because he "misread activity of sleeper socks, autoconfirmed suffices for now". Jimmy Carter was also targeted by America1257. I think autoconfirmed is enough for Africa since the LTA sock is already blocked. Please drop Africa to semi to match the protection level of all the other continent articles. 24.55.33.220 (talk) 04:21, 25 March 2025 (UTC)
- @Ritchie333:...as mentioned. Lectonar (talk) 07:28, 25 March 2025 (UTC)
- Done, also to note that this same IP requested ECP two days ago. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 09:13, 25 March 2025 (UTC)
Indefinite pending changes: Requesting a downgrade to test the waters. The protecting admins are inactive. (CC) Tbhotch™ 05:00, 25 March 2025 (UTC)
- Pending-changes protected for a period of 6 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. I have watchlsited too. Lectonar (talk) 07:53, 25 March 2025 (UTC)
Current requests for edits to a protected page
Please request an edit directly on the protected page's talk page before posting here
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.
There are citations needed for the section "For the fiscal year 2021, Amazon reported earnings of US$33.36 billion, with an annual revenue of US$469.82 billion, an increase of 21.7% over the previous fiscal cycle. Since 2007 sales increased from 14.835 billion to 469.822 billion, due to continued business expansion.[citation needed]"
I have found three references from bloggingwizard, investing.com and wallstreetnumbers.com that back those claims but I don't have permissions to add them.
For some reason I can't add full URLs here because I get a "spamblacklist" but happy to share. Joanfihu (talk) 15:43, 23 March 2025 (UTC)
- Investing.com is locally blacklisted. The other two don't seem to be on the local or global blacklists. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v threads critiques 16:14, 23 March 2025 (UTC)
Handled requests
A historical archive of previous protection requests can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive.