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    Welcome—request protection of a page, file, or template here.

    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
    Please request an edit directly on the protected page's talk page before posting here



    Current requests for increase in protection level

    Request protection of a page, or increasing the protection level

    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.


    Temporary semi-protection: Same issue as led to the November 2024 protection, a variety of IPs trying to remove/overwrite sourced content from a particular section. Belbury (talk) 12:58, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 45 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Dr vulpes (Talk) 11:35, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Entranced98 (talk) 15:13, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of one month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Dr vulpes (Talk) 11:36, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – LTA sockpuppeting and adding personal phone numbers. Alith Anar 16:14, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Recent spurt of IP vandalism. Entranced98 (talk) 20:02, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of two weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Dr vulpes (Talk) 11:38, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Entranced98 (talk) 20:23, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Obvious target. Ormewood (talk) 20:38, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Please enforce WP:CT/AP. IanDBeacon (talk) 20:48, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary protection: Repeated addition of unsourced content, removal of citations. Adakiko (talk) 20:50, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Reason: Persistent disruptive editing KingArti (talk) 21:39, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 45 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Dr vulpes (Talk) 11:44, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Reason: Repeated IP vandalism Adumbrativus (talk) 23:37, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Reason: High level of IP vandalism(see hist) RaschenTechner (talk) 01:35, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Dr vulpes (Talk) 11:42, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Edit warring. Zinnober9 (talk) 01:59, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 6 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Dr vulpes (Talk) 11:21, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Indefinite extended-confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement. Partially related to the Arab-Israeli conflict: WP:CTOPS/A-I 🗽Freedoxm🗽(talkcontribs) 03:01, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Reason: Persistent disruptive editing 128.223.223.183 (talk) 03:10, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    +1 Reason: Presistent vandalism. Ccai2053 (talk) 03:37, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of one month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Dr vulpes (Talk) 11:30, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Indefinite semi-protection: BLP policy violations – Persistent history of vandalism and addition of unsourced content to BLP article. livelikemusic (TALK!) 03:10, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of six months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. I only really saw BLP violations happening recently so I put gave this article six months of edit protection. If another admin disagrees with this please feel free to change it. Dr vulpes (Talk) 11:27, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Reason: LTA. Departure– (talk) 03:30, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Already protected by administrator JJMC89. Favonian (talk) 11:27, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry. Leonidlednev (TCL) 03:42, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Already protected by administrator JJMC89. Favonian (talk) 11:05, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Disruptive/promotional editing by three accounts in the past few hours. Suspected sockpuppetry. TornadoLGS (talk) 03:54, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Incessant attempts by IPs and single-purpose editors to add a cover that doesn't exist.  Sumanuil. (talk to me) 03:59, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 2 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Dr vulpes (Talk) 11:19, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Temperory Semi-Protection: High level of IP vandalism, despite many warnings Imsaneikigai (talk) 04:19, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Reason: Keeps getting vandalized and negative info being added without proper citations, positive info being removed. It was protected before, but it expired. A more permanent or long term protection would be better. Main editor doing now is @3517MountainPark, but also there was an IP editor before. I suspect it is the same person with different accounts. Other prior accounts this person used are @EncoreTalent and @MikeLFaraday. Sharamoscar (talk) 04:30, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Reason: I wanna say that it was not produced by Paramount Animation, but other sources say otherwise. I do not believe it is due to the 2018 film Sherlock Gnomes' page saying it was Paramount Animation's first fully animated feature. Andy H Tisler (talk) 04:44, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Cassiopeia talk 05:08, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 2 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Dr vulpes (Talk) 11:16, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary protection: Persistent vandalism. Cassiopeia talk 05:10, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 2 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Dr vulpes (Talk) 11:17, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Might be worth a year on this one. Remsense ‥  05:10, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 1 year, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Favonian (talk) 11:17, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary create protection: Repeatedly recreated – This category should be protected until April 2 at the very least, when new information about the Nintendo Switch 2 will be announced by Nintendo. GSK (talkedits) 05:14, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Indefinite semi-protection: Inappropriate use of user talk page while blocked. JustSomeoneNo (talk) 06:05, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. None, in fact. Favonian (talk) 11:11, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Indefinite semi-protection: Inappropriate use of user talk page while blocked. JustSomeoneNo (talk) 06:09, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. None, in fact. Favonian (talk) 11:11, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Indefinite semi-protection: Inappropriate use of user talk page while blocked. JustSomeoneNo (talk) 06:19, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. None, in fact. Favonian (talk) 11:11, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Reason: Lots of IP disruptive editing MAL MALDIVE (talk) 06:53, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of two months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Dr vulpes (Talk) 11:41, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Cassiopeia talk 06:59, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of ten days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Dr vulpes (Talk) 11:34, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – High volume of financial vandalism for a newly released film. Krimuk2.0 (talk) 07:27, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of two months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Dr vulpes (Talk) 11:40, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Persistent disruptive editing by IP's over sporadic period. Page has been protected before. Noorullah (talk) 08:36, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of two months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Dr vulpes (Talk) 11:33, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – there is edit war happening between which language comes first. Constantly changing. Aadirulez8 (talk) 09:11, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 10:06, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of one month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. If you think this should be longer just let me know. Dr vulpes (Talk) 11:15, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – issue with unregistered users changing house name. a conclusion has been found in the talk tab of this article, but there is an issue with unregistered members editing it regardless. FransenVe (talk) 11:48, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Current requests for reduction in protection level

    Request unprotection of a page, or reducing the 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.

    No protection: Testing whether long-term protection is still needed. Nixovel (talk) 04:42, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined Protection expires 04:51, 25 January 2025. Johnuniq (talk) 04:52, 25 January 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

    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.


    Handled requests

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