24 Hour Semi - Today's Google Doodle. So, pretty much the normal routine. The vandalism has already started and will only get worse as the West Coast starts to wake up.
TimothyJosephWood15:53, 1 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Comment. It's not anyone's official page - it is an encyclopaedia article. If it needs protecting then it needs protecting against actual vandals as defined by Wikipedia, not against "all users except for the administrator" - that is not how we work. And indefinite protection sounds like a long time - where is the actual vandalism? Best wishes
DBaK (
talk)
10:55, 1 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Declined Disruption here is from autoconfirmed users, and is promotion of the subject, rather than vandalism directed at it. OP provides no policy-based reason for protection.
Vanamonde (
talk)
11:12, 1 February 2017 (UTC)reply
There is no edit warring involved. The new information is just being ignored by
MBlaze LightningT and other users who still want to list Brahmos as the "fastest missile in the world" despite the contrary facts that the HsiungFeng III missile is now the fastest. Wikipedia should be accurate and not based on Indian national pride. Sorry, I don't mean to offend any Indian, as I like India very much and eat Indian Masala Dosas, Samosas alot but the facts are the facts. Please read here:
Fully protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.. Semi-protection is not used in such situations, as it would provide one side of the dispute an advantage.
Vanamonde (
talk)
11:05, 1 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent
vandalism – Could this page and its watchers be given a bit of a break, please? There are too many comedians keen to make their impact on 21st-century history with their searing witticisms...
DBaK (
talk)
10:47, 1 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Could be seen as a borderline case, with the last disruption in 2015; I've enabled it for now, but I'm open to discussion from other admins on this.
Samsara17:50, 31 January 2017 (UTC)reply
User(s)
blocked. The block is temporary, and they should be invited to create an appropriate user page when the block expires. If the disruptive editing continues, another block may be employed.
Mz7 (
talk)
14:25, 2 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protection. Persistent vandalism from IP's multiple times within the last week including unsourced content which is later reverted. Previously protected for 1 week but vandalism has continued.
Semi-protection: Persistent
disruptive editing – Persistent disruptive edits (persistent addition of unsourced highly dubious material by a long-term hoaxer in the Philippines). The article was semi-protected for three months on 2 November 2016, with the protection expiring today, and the same IP-hopper (see page history) is already at it again... - Tom |
Thomas.W talk11:27, 2 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Indefinite semi-protection: Recent persistent vandalism from IP editors. I am planning on taking this to FL, but the article is extremely vulnerable to vandalism from the
subject's strong fanbase, as well as an equal number of haters. —
Ssven2Looking at you, kid11:40, 2 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protection Persistent edits from unregistered IP's which have been reverted by multiple users. No attempt to build consensus on Talk page.
Adamgerber80 (
talk)
18:34, 1 February 2017 (UTC)reply
No, this user
Adamgerber80 (
talk) is consistently trying to delete information that is sourced and referenced from the original unaltered article. The original unaltered article contained legitimate sources that have been repeatedly ignored by the biased editor
Adamgerber80 (
talk) despite repeated attempts to show him the reference sources that Brahmos is not the fastest missile in the world. He continues to try to delete information from the page to push his nationalistic Indian agenda, and list the Indian made Brahmos as the "fastest missile in the world", when the indisputable facts are against that. His biased Indian nationalistic viewpoints violates Wikipedia official policies and does not maintain a neutral point of view that is based on real facts and not nationalism or emotional content of any kind. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia based on facts, and not India national pride or anything else except the facts. And the indisputable fact, based on several legit sources, is that the HsiungFeng III missile is currently the fastest missile in the world and the Brahmos is the second fastest. Please read this legit source from 'Indian Defence News', which specifically states the Hsiungfeng III missile is faster than the Brahmos, which the editor
Adamgerber80 (
talk) is repeatedly trying to delete from the article:
Please refrain from personal attacks here. Multiple other editors have reverted edits by the same user on the grounds that the sources are unreliable and have provided alternate sources that refute the said claims. Repeated attempts to get the unregistered user to build consensus on the Talk page of the article has resulted into similar behavior. Can we please protect the article until a consensus has been achieved. Thanks.
Adamgerber80 (
talk)
20:21, 1 February 2017 (UTC)reply
No, this is not true, please read the sources as they are self-explanatory. Only a few people, including
Adamgerber80 (
talk), are trying to delete information from the article. The original unaltered article was intact on Wikipedia due to consensus for almost a year until a few editors, who didn't like the information contained in the article, decided to start deleting sourced and reference information from the original article stating that the Hsiungfeng missile is the fastest missile in the world.
Adamgerber80 (
talk) please do put words in my mouth or slander me. You know just as well as I do what these articles say very clearly, they specifically state that the Hsiungfeng III at mach 10 is faster than the Brahmos which travels at Mach 3. And the fact that
Adamgerber80 (
talk) desperately wants protection on this article shows his ulterior motive. If a protection occurs
Adamgerber80 (
talk) is going to start rapidly deleting the legitimately sourced information on this article violating neutral point of view, which is the official Wikipedia policy. I do not have anything against India or their people as a matter of fact I am a big fan of India, I like India very much, a beautiful country, having traveled to Mumbai and Delhi multiple times, I'm only focused on making sure that the articles are based on facts. Thank you!
@
Lectonar: I would not usually second-guess the decision made by another admin, but I came across this page and the disruption seemed severe enough for me to full-protect it: I hope you don't mind.
Vanamonde (
talk)
11:41, 2 February 2017 (UTC)reply
@Vanamonde93. No, I do not mind, but on pages that are experiencing edit warring, temporary full protection should force the parties to discuss their edits on the talk page, where they can reach consensus. Isolated incidents of edit warring, and persistent edit warring by particular users, may be better addressed by blocking, so as not to prevent normal editing of the page by others. The parties are already discussing, so...I think full protection is rather heavyhanded and unnecessary. Regards.
Lectonar (
talk)
11:51, 2 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary Semi-protection: for three months. This is one of the chief purveyors of fake news and the article is hit constantly with trivial, promotional, silly content. Please semi so that IPs need to discuss their edits. thx
Jytdog (
talk)
02:00, 2 February 2017 (UTC)reply
FYI The Anonymous IP user in question has been blocked for three months but I would still feel more comfortable if the page is indefinitely protected in the event they evade the current user block by changing their IP address or using another source to start vandalizing again.
YborCityJohn (
talk)
05:12, 2 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Pending changes protection: Multiple cases of unsourced serious allegations placed on the page (claims of being a bystander to an assault).
Elisfkc (
talk)
21:35, 1 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protection: Persistent re-insertion of same text by first one IP (91.148.93.34), now a second (212.178.241.183), first IP refuses to engage on his own or article talk, text is opposed by at least two current page editors and supported by none.
Pincrete (
talk)
21:43, 1 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protection:BLP policy violations – Persistent vandal returning over and over again with different IPs, adding the same unsourced and inappropriate material while removing content and vandalizing the page. AlxeedoTALK19:15, 1 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Indefinite semi-protection: A variety of new accounts keep trying to create a promotional page here. Please protect the redirect.
Bradv05:38, 2 February 2017 (UTC)reply
@
Saqib:: They are independent. The article was heavily vandalized short-term but also less often on a regular basis throughout the year. We need to stop short-term vandalism, and it is currently editing too frequently for pending changes anyway. When the protection expires in a week, the pending changes will be still in force.--
Ymblanter (
talk)
08:08, 2 February 2017 (UTC)reply
I want to create this page, but it's been salted (even though it was only deleted once). It's notable as a pharmaceutical company because they have several drugs in development.
Natureium (
talk)
17:46, 1 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Template editor protectionJJMC89_bot has finished cleaning up taxonomy templates, but there are a few that have too high a protection level to be fixed. Please either lower the protection level, so I can make the fix, or do it yourself (completely remove |{{{1}}}).
Rkitko, who originally protected this template, doesn't seem to be around much these days.
Peter coxhead (
talk)
07:57, 2 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to
justify protection. I see only three edits which constitute vandalism since mid-November; not enough activity to warrant protection IMO.
Tabercil (
talk)
00:39, 2 February 2017 (UTC)reply
@
Boing! said Zebedee: And i am very glad to see you are back around Boing! The last thing i remember was that you left before i went on an extensive wikibreak myself. I suppose that is ancient history by now but either way i am glad to see you around.
Excirial(
Contact me,
Contribs)23:55, 1 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Note The one for Rebert is for the talk page, Those are not usually protected except in cases of vandalism or personal attacks and I can't fine any of that.
MarnetteD|
Talk02:20, 1 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Declined My condolences to those who knew them; but with due respect, I don't see why the userpage of a deceased Wikipedia needs protection. Indeed I can think of reasons why they shouldn't be protected: non-Wikipedians might use those pages to communicate, etc.
Vanamonde (
talk)
10:33, 1 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Note: Huh, wasn't aware of that. In which case, I will leave it up to the next admin, because I am not well-versed in the details of what constitutes verification of the death of a Wikipedian.
Vanamonde (
talk)
17:12, 1 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Pending changes: Unregistered editors have repeatedly added unsourced content to the page over the last few days. It appears to me that this is one person abusing multiple IPs to wage an edit war. Pending changes protection would help to end this.
Trut-h-urts man (
T •
C)
22:47, 1 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Pending-changes protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. If it were from one address, it'd qualify as 3RR and thus actionable on a smaller scale. But given that it keeps bouncing around, pending seems suitable. Protecting for 2 weeks to see if this is sufficient to deter the issue.
Tabercil (
talk)
00:32, 2 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protection: Persistent
sockpuppetry – Frequent unexplained deletions (specifically deletions of publicized factual information from RSs) by various IPs and non-autoconfirmed accounts, which are possible socks due to said IPs and non-autoconfirmed accounts all performing the same actions (all repeatedly remove Jafari's middle name, passing
WP:DUCK).
Blurp92 (
talk)
19:39, 1 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Please relist if it picks up after end of protection.
Lectonar (
talk)
Extended semi - Honestly I'm just tired of seeing this pop up on my watchlist, and the only reason it's there to begin with is because it's vandalized daily. Vandalism and reversion all the way down, and its an FA to boot.
TimothyJosephWood15:10, 3 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: Page has been altered with unsupported removal of content, possibly due to current event status from U.S. President related comments (National Prayer Breakfast) today.
LaEremita (
talk)
00:10, 3 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protected for a period of 2 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. True, but protection for talk pages is not to be used lightly...this case is bad enough to justify two days of semi, but not longer just yet, IMO.
Vanamonde (
talk)
09:32, 3 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Unprotection: This article has been protected since April 2012, as the name "Irene" has been retired, there is no reason to move this page to "Hurricane Irene (2011)". It is the time to unprotect this page.
219.79.227.57 (
talk)
02:48, 3 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Unprotection: This article has been protected since June 2012, as the name "Andrew" has been retired, there is no reason to move this page to "Hurricane Andrew (1992)". It is the time to unprotect this page. --
219.79.227.57 (
talk)
02:51, 3 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent
vandalism – Unsourced addition or removal of information and images by IP's and new editors due to publication of first look image recently after prolonged hibernation of production and filming details.
βα£α(
ᶀᶅᶖᵵᵶ)
23:09, 2 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protection: Persistent IP vandalism since April 2015 including repeated attempts to add fictitious characters to the "Notable people" section as well as non-notable local people. Seeking extended or indefinite protection from IP editors and non-autoconfirmed users given the lengthy history of vandalism. Article was protected previously on June 1, 2016 for two days.
Hwy43 (
talk)
02:13, 3 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: heavy disruptive editing/reverting for months now from a series of anon editors (or, more likely, same editor) in the Philippines. -
Brianhe (
talk)
20:17, 2 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent
vandalism – IP vandalism. Maybe a long "temporary" protection should be used before we consider making it permanent, given he was just sworn in yesterday to a super duper high profile role that will keep him in the news for the foreseeable future. –
Muboshgu (
talk)
20:44, 2 February 2017 (UTC)reply
I think date pages were subject to vandalism in 2007, and this dates from them. You could say that the vandal must be bored by now... but, if there was going to be page moves on year articles, it would involve many articles and so it would probably be best to reserve it to admins, so the can confirm there is consensus before changing so many pages.
Yaris678 (
talk)
18:32, 2 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Question:. The page has been in existence since 2003, so how would creation protection help? The last edit was 20 December 2016 and there has been no protection since 2011. The page has never been moved so I'm unclear on why this request.
CambridgeBayWeather,
Uqaqtuq (talk),
Sunasuttuq18:12, 2 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Declined I think the IP actually wants edit protection, to make it harder to turn this back into an article, from a redirect. However, I think that is unnecessary as there is no history of people editing that page against consensus after the RfC.
Yaris678 (
talk)
18:27, 2 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Indefinite pending changes: i am requesting that Extended confirmed protection be changed to for one so it would be easier for people to edit donald trump and for two i believe Pending changes protection accomplish the same purpose of suppressing vandalism and other things that are not wanted on wikipedia while still allowing anonymous users and registered users who have not reached 30/500 to edit the article productively .
Jonnymoon96 (
talk)
18:04, 2 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Declined Auto-confirmed vandalism was seen at the time the protection was upped to EC, which was only on Sunday. PC won't help against that. If we judge the risk of that has gone down at some point, we may reduce the protection then. The protecting admin expressed the opinion that ECP may be necessary for the duration of his presidency.
Yaris678 (
talk)
18:25, 2 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protection IPs have been changing this person's name and year of birth for months, but lately they are very insistent about it.
Debresser (
talk)
16:30, 4 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: A different Rob Stewart has passed away, extra traffic and error editing regarding the death on this wrong article.
Home Lander (
talk)
19:36, 4 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Indefinite pending changes: PC is the standard for articles of famous entertainers. Semi is too much here and prevents IPs for making useful contributions, especially seeing as the article is filled with expand section tags.
110.147.143.16 (
talk)
01:17, 4 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent
vandalism – Persistent vandalism, disruptive and promotional editing. The topic doesn't usually require much editing as it's about a magazine and an annual ranking list. - TheMagnificentist16:39, 3 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent
disruptive editing – Disruptive changes to the infobox map by IPs; seem to be aimed at bigging up (forgive the expression) the Empire and being rude to editors who disagree. There is a map agreed to on the talk page; perhaps temporarily being unable to change it would encourage the IP(s) to discuss the question. Happy days, LindsayHello09:51, 4 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent
vandalism – Repeated change of name in the lead and infobox. The article was move protected as it was constantly moved to names against naming conventions, but the edits haven't stopped yet. Please semi this page indefinitely. . —
LeoFrank Talk10:57, 4 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: Content dispute. IPs remove current sourced info and add some stuff which need to be reviewed. Needs to reach a consensus on talk page. .
Wario-Man (
talk)
09:25, 4 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Fully protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Semi-protection would give one side of the dispute an advantage, and is therefore not used in content disputes. Sort it out on the talk page, please.
Vanamonde (
talk)
10:00, 4 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent
sockpuppetry – Repeated sockpuppetry related to an LTA case over the last month. The whole month's history has pretty much been sock edits, reverts, repeat. Please semi-protect for at least a couple weeks. ~
Rob13Talk18:20, 2 February 2017 (UTC)reply
I'm inclined to disagree. This is certainly not at the extreme of slowness in terms of disruption; in fact, the editing rate of the article (~50 edits per month) is enough, in my view, for some form of protection, and Rob is correct that there has been a long-term pattern of disruption identified (namely, addition of unsourced content). A case with a similar issue and editing rate that readily comes to my mind was
Sonic Boom (TV series), back when it was protected with pending changes from May to November 2015. I don't think the pending changes need to last quite as long here, but I think that some duration of protection would be justifiable.
Mz7 (
talk)
15:25, 3 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protection: Disruptive editing and vandalism from unconfirmed users and IP addresses. No surprise, when a new tour starts, unconfirmed users and IP addresses are making unsourced edits.
Musicpoplover12 (
talk)
06:55, 4 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Is that possible to have the protection a lot longer, like until June 18, 2017? I've had experience where one a page gets unprotected during a tour happening, IP addresses will immediately rush to claim it's "sold out" when a source has yet to be confirmed those "numbers".
Musicpoplover12 (
talk)
07:45, 4 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Lower protection: I want to create the page as a redirect to
Kyode language. The person who protected the page is no longer an administrator. Therefore, I would ask that the page be reincarnated as a different page. --
George Ho (
talk)
02:04, 4 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Lower protection: Also, I want to create the page as a redirect to
Dead Hot Workshop. The person who protected the page is no longer an administrator. Therefore, I would ask that the page be reincarnated as a different page.
George Ho (
talk)
03:34, 4 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protection: Persistent
vandalism – Almost as soon as previous protection expired the LTA IPs started vandalising the vital statistics of the wrestler.
Dr.K.03:04, 4 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protection: Persistent
vandalism – Almost as soon as previous protection expired the LTA IPs started vandalising the vital statistics of the wrestler.
Dr.K.03:05, 4 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protection: Persistent
vandalism in
United States and other sections by anonymous editors due to recent events at Berkeley. Moreover, the paragraph being vandalized doesn't belong in this article in the first place, and was clearly added in bad faith. There were also a couple issues with plagiarism/copyright violation.
IgnominiousIbex (
talk)
03:12, 4 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protection: Persistent
vandalism – Almost as soon as previous protection expired the LTA IPs started vandalising the vital statistics of the wrestler.
Dr.K.03:01, 4 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent
disruptive editing – Req 3 month semi-protection. Pending changes protection wouldn't really work, because reviewers would have to have an understanding of the problem to deal with the matter. Agenda-pushing after recent expiration of protection, for instance
here and
here and
here.
It's a long story that requires an understanding of corruption in Indian film finances, but basically the producer was pushing some super-high gross figures, some sources called the figures fake, but die-hard fans/marketing teams are pushing these high numbers as incontrovertible fact. There may also be some ethnic pride issues here, since this is a Tamil film, and I'm sure Tamilians want to feel like they knocked one out of the park. Anyway, page protection is probably the only way to manage this, and if I hadn't participated in many of the discussions about this, I'd protect it myself. Thanks.
Cyphoidbomb (
talk)
18:05, 3 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary pending changes: Persistent
disruptive editing – There's an ongoing content dispute between Wikipedians and numerous Ontario-based IPs since O'Leary is a potential political candidate. I'd like to see one month of PC1 to allow discussion to reign over edit warring. Chris Troutman (
talk)20:06, 3 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Full protection: Full-fledged edit war in progress over the Bowling Green Massacre, with editors deleting references to properly cited events claiming that they never happened. The full Bowling Green Massacre article has already been protected.
Stephen Hui (
talk)
16:38, 3 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent
vandalism – Information in this article has been removed 9 times by an IP editor and three new SPA editors. Request page protection for the duration of the AfD discussion.
Exemplo347 (
talk)
17:59, 3 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Indefinite semi-protection: The page was recently unprotected after a long history of disruptive editing by IP editors and immediately returned to making the same edits.--
TriiipleThreat (
talk)
17:05, 3 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protection: Not a heavily edited article, but the vast majority of edits are vandalism by unregistered users, such that good-faith efforts to remove vandalism often catch only part of the problem. No strong opinion on the appropriate length of time, I've never requested page protection before and the issue does not appear recent in origin.
Darkmusashi (
talk)
00:41, 4 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Indefinitely semi-protected. I considered template editor protection, and that might end up being needed, but let's see how semi-protection works. Acroterion(talk)02:05, 4 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Indefinitely semi-protected. I considered template editor protection, and that might end up being needed, but let's see how semi-protection works. Acroterion(talk)02:05, 4 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to
justify protection. One such edit since end of last protection (27 November 2016) does not warrant protection. SoWhy13:55, 5 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: Sro's talk page is being trolled again. The IP has been reported to AIV but, as so often happens, they may start IP hopping after a block so a few hours protection will stop them for a time.
MarnetteD|
Talk05:30, 5 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to
justify protection. Four reverts in a week is not enough since the protection policy says that semi-protection should only be applied when handling the users in question is not an option. SoWhy13:16, 5 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Indefinite full protection: Persistent
vandalism – Persistent vandalism, disruptive editing, and adding of unsourced content - compounded by the fact that the topic of the page is controversial. The page needs to be protected. .
Tiger7253 (
talk)
12:13, 5 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Indefinite extended confirmed: Persistent
vandalism – Persistent vandalism and unnecessary edits due to her controversial views as a unique politician. Please make extended confirmed to ensure that page is null of potential unnecessary and derogatory information in the future.
Bear030702 (
talk)
23:11, 4 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Declined –
Warn the user appropriately then report them to
AIV or
ANI if they continue. Just a single editor making some, probably good-faith, changes who has not even been warned. Insufficient reason to assume that this article falls within the scope of the ArbCom ruling. The ruling also notes that such protection should not be used when not feasible and here dealing with the single user is a much easier way to fix it. Protection can be requested again iff this changes. SoWhy09:09, 5 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protection: Persistent
vandalism – Long-term semi is probably justified here: nothing constructive coming from IPs, and vandalism is quite frequent.
Semi-protection: Page is being attacked by an anonymous IP-hopping vandal. Perhaps semi-protection will cool the vandal's inane jets.--
Mr Fink (
talk)
04:22, 5 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Lower to semi-protection:Nominations for the show have been offically announced (the host, venue and date are also out in the open), so there's no longer a concern of the entire show being made-up out of whole cloth, though semi-protection should be retained so the usual vandalizing IPs have no chance to throw false nominations or ceremony information in. Nate•(
chatter)04:10, 4 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protection: Persistent
vandalism – Vandalism, vandalism and yet more vandalism. A lot of it is gaming/game teams related, incl. some subtler stuff. (Most of it is quite blatant, however)
~20 counts of vandalism in less than an hour.
AddWittyNameHere (
talk)
03:04, 5 February 2017 (UTC)reply
@
Shiesmine: The {{RFPP}} template is for use by the administrators who respond to this board to identify which requests have already been handled. Please do not add this template in yourself, as it may confuse administrators into thinking your request has already been handled, when it has not. I have deactivated the template by surrounding it with nowiki tags.
Mz7 (
talk)
20:18, 4 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent
vandalism – There is a long-term pattern of IP editors claiming that he has died and I am getting fed up with checking the news each time to check that it isn't true. I am not sure why this article is repeatedly targeted. He is hardly the sort of person who you would expect random IPs to have a grudge against.
DanielRigal (
talk)
22:00, 4 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protection: Multi-vector IP vandalism, following Atlanta Falcons loss at Superbowl LI. Recommend a week until things settle down and the recentism wears off. --
Hammersoft (
talk)
17:26, 6 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Fully protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. so that a meaningful discussion can take place over the content. I don't understand the subject matter well enough to make a judgement on the validity of the new account's contributions - please talk this through with them. If they are non-responsive or fail to be
civil in their responses let me know -- Samtartalk ·
contribs15:12, 6 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protection: Persistent
vandalism – Like the Nissan Armada article, similar occurring patterns of vandalism have taken place since the second half of 2016 and will not stop, as long as the offending person keeps logging through unregistered IP addresses.
Carmaker1 (
talk)
23:14, 5 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary full protection: Persistent
vandalism – For the past 12 months, various unregistered users through I.P. addresses have been abusing the privilege to edit this article by tampering with dates for unknown reasons. It is getting to be too much effort to continually "fix" their edits.
Carmaker1 (
talk)
22:08, 5 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent
vandalism – Requesting indefinite protection. Vandalism from multiple IP editors over a long time period. Tom (LT) 09:36, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent
vandalism – Persistent vandalism from multiple IP editors over a prolonged period. Tom (LT) 09:38, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent addition of unsourced genre by Spain-based (ever shifting) IP (88.24.96.189, 84.77.193.226, 83.32.96.91, 84.77.193.226), properly warned on every revert. Arrival of new IP6 with same edit. -
DVdm (
talk)
07:32, 6 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent
vandalism – User, with changing IPs, only makes edits to this talk page solely to change my signature into a vulgar name. Both a rangeblock and an edit filter to fix this have been declined; maybe page protection may help?.
JudgeRM(talk to me)21:13, 5 February 2017 (UTC)reply
@
JudgeRM:Declined. The problem I have with protection is that it would prevent anyone using this IP address from responding to concerns on their talk page in the event that it happens later on. As an alternative solution, since it seems that the warnings are stale and they're not doing much good for the encyclopedia as harm, I've gone ahead and blanked the page.
Mz7 (
talk)
22:16, 5 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection:BLP policy violations – Persistent IP and nonautoconfirmed anti-Semitic vandalism, promoting anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, or concealing real anti-Semitism that the family has been the victim of. Family has many living members so BLP applies. .
DuncanHill (
talk)
01:21, 6 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protection: Persistent IP edits with a clear conflict of interest, adding statements that violate NPOV and claims that are not in the references given. See talk page and version history.
mfb (
talk)
17:57, 5 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary Semi-protection: This will most likely go stale or otherwise, but there was a recent edit war going on that resulted on administrator intervention, two blocks and a discussion on
WP:MILHIST. Requesting semi protection so the situation can resolve and the edit war ceases to occur.
UNSC Luke 1021 (
talk)
16:44, 7 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Indefinite pending changes: Persistent
disruptive editing – There is persistent, long-term, disruptive editing on this infrequently edited BLP. Various IP editors consistently try to change his nationality to "Serbian" instead of "Croatian" in the lead. Attempts to dissuade this behavior by myself and others via edit summary don't appear to be effective, as different IP editors appear to show up and make the same change. I'm asking for Pending Changes to protect this BLP. This is a sensitive subject and arguably protected by sanctions on subjects related to Eastern Europe, broadly construed.
AlexEng(
TALK)20:43, 7 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Declined I'm not seeing enough sustained disruptive editing to justify such extreme protection. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. I may however post a reminder that discretionary sanctions apply.Ad Orientem (
talk)
16:25, 7 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent
vandalism – Recently confirmed and extremely controversial Secretary of Education was recently elected, prompting much vandalism from IPs making puns about her name and otherwise. Requesting indefinite as this goes on for a while, as seen on other 2016 election related pages.
UNSC Luke 1021 (
talk)
18:33, 7 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent
vandalism – Edit-warring by an IP user 80.136.... (6 accounts, not ducking, but clearly violating 3RR and edit-warring, details at
SPI here).
80.136... clearly knows and understands WP policies but gave up on seeking consensus on the Talk Page and resorted to just EWing on the page, which is now a major disruption.
JesseRafe (
talk)
17:23, 7 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protection: Repeated vandalism for years by banned user comming back with different names. This user tends to wait for protection to expire and vandalizes this particular page (same content) violating several wikipedia policies. The user was previously known and wipeouting, academiava, Premakeer (current user name) and other multiple usernames giving admins unnecessary load of work. Please apply protection for another year.
Ramya20 (
talk)
17:29, 7 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protection: Because of recent developments in the Sexual Assault case at the school there have been lots of edit wars and I fear that without protection this article will become a disaster.
Snood1205 (
talk)
17:41, 7 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Unprotection: unprotect right now so I can add that Caillou likes Chuck E Cheeses and he gets grounded all the time. This is the second time I requested this to happen because we need to talk about the episodes on YouTube!
Move protection:User:Evangp consistently reverts title moves with little to no justification. User has a history of moving articles based upon outdated images and materials. Yet he or she refuses to provide current/recent sources to support the move. Based upon the user's history, I strongly feel reasoning will be ignored and the user will consistently revent page move back to his or her desired choice. I have provided several sources to justify the article move within the article, along with social media sites and the official website acknowldgeing the new name.
Itsbydesign (
talk)
13:38, 7 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary extended confirmed: Persistent
disruptive editing – Clueless disruptive editing from autoconfirmed user: removal of sourced content, tangential talk page posts, original research of a non-neutral nature. Additionally, resumption of IP disruption upon expiry of previous protection. .
Vanamonde (
talk)
12:50, 7 February 2017 (UTC)reply
@
Vanamonde93: The IP disruption is very low level and
these edits by a new account look like improvements to me. I can see there is an issue with one auto-confirmed user who has a poor grasp of both English and the the norms of Wikipedia. I don't think page protection is the solution though. I have left a message on the user's talk page. If that doesn't work, dispute resolution or
WP:ANI may be more appropriate.
Yaris678 (
talk)
14:04, 7 February 2017 (UTC)reply
@
Yaris678:a priori I can see why it seems that way; but I'm afraid this is one of those areas (similar to hot topics in U.S. politics) that attracts a large number of clueless POV pushing. This is just the most recent edition of it; and poor english is not the only issue. I call it "disruptive" because the editor removes sources, and claims to be removing unsourced content. I would ask that you take one closer look at the page history. I will, of course, do my best to communicate with this user. Regards,
Vanamonde (
talk)
14:13, 7 February 2017 (UTC)reply
OK. Probably the most sensible option for a protection - some of the editors were extended confirmed. Hopefully all parties will now go to the talk page.
Yaris678 (
talk)
16:08, 7 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent
vandalism – Technical support scammers are changing the nature of the article to suit their scam. The same problem caused the need for semi protection last year - see page history and page protection log.
Deli nk (
talk)
12:57, 7 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Full Protection Persistent, Daily and Long Term vandalism and inappropriate reversion by editor
I urgently request that write protection be put back in place for the article on “The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina” and that poster “Strgzr1” be prohibited from any further editing of the article. It is a conflict of interest for this person to be editing the article first because he is a VMI grad with questionable motives and second because he has a long history of posting false, demeaning and misleading information and comments. Look at the edit history and you can see a long trail of changes and edits he has made that are questionable and for which he has been called out on by other editors including “BillCasey”. Now it appears that this person has also had himself made an editor just so he can revert any edits I make to his false narratives; also not in the edit history that recently when I revert his vandalism he then reverts my changes and also retaliates by adding even more misleading, false and demeaning comments to the article – under motto, “strikingly similar to the motto of West Point”; under cadet life “cadets who complete 4 years may choose to live off campus” (false). This person is well known to me since he for years has also been making false claims and posting inaccurate and derogatory comments on another website, I know its him because some of his comments on the wiki talk pages are almost verbatim from those on the other website. This vandalism began occurring routinely about 2 years ago so I requested write protection which was granted, a few months ago for some unknown reason the protection was removed and the vandalism immediately started up again, note in the comments on the talk page that ‘Strgzr1’ actually admits he is the one doing it. Enough is enough, he has been vandalizing this article for far too long and clearly has ulterior motives, he clearly has some deep seated hatred of The Citadel and is using the internet to play some kind of sick game. Please put a stop to this at once.
Bob80q (
talk)
15:32, 7 February 2017 (UTC)reply
No point in using the talk page, quite clear by now that Strgzr1 is intent on continuing his long history of disruptive and false posts; I know this person well enough to understand he cant be reasoned with, just a classless ass playing a sick game due to some unknown personal vendetta. His history should be justification for removing him as a wiki editor.
Bob80q (
talk)
18:07, 7 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Template protectedindefinitely. This is an increase in the edit protection but a decrease in the move protection. Template protection didn't exist at the time the protection was last changed for this template and I think this makes sense now.
Yaris678 (
talk)
11:06, 7 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent
vandalism – Looking at the History. There has been Consent Vandalism on this page. As this is considered one of WWE's past Championships. This page should be considered important and have only those with auto comfirm priveleges and above can edit the page.
Nhajivandi (
talk)
05:21, 7 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protection: The protection should be restored (or done). It was somehow deleted but then restored, affecting the protection. Also visible in opening sentences. --
George Ho (
talk)
09:57, 7 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Unprotection: This article was protected back in 2009 for "anonymous prancing around in progress". Well, I'm pretty sure that this "prancing" has stopped, and I don't see any reason for this page to continue to be protected about 8 years later (unless I'm mistaken or missed something).
JudgeRM(talk to me)03:52, 5 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to
justify protection. Please report to
WP:AIV if the vandalism continues, or re-report here if there are multiple IPs involved. Thanks,
Mz7 (
talk)
05:39, 7 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection:' Persistent vandalism by IP hopper. 1) 103.250.143.211, 2) 61.152.255.24, 3) 61.152.255.6, and now 4) 211.144.126.163
Jim1138 (
talk)
07:54, 7 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – Edit warring on an article under discretionary sanctions with the "consensus required" restriction. Please consider also sanctioning individual editors as an AE action. ~
Rob13Talk08:31, 6 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Note: I would not fully protect here for now, as I think that the back-and-forth in the article has died down more or less. Discussion on the talk-page is ongoing..... If another admin wants to protect, go ahead.
Lectonar (
talk)
10:09, 6 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Indefinite create protection: User has been deceased since 2008. (See
Sheldon Brown (bicycle mechanic): This editor is the subject of this article.) Usually, the standard is to fully protect a deceased editor's user page, but since their user page doesn't exist and never has existed, I suppose the standard here would be either creation protection ... or creating a redirect to the editor's talk page, then fully protecting that redirect.
Steel1943 (
talk)
03:32, 7 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection:BLP policy violations – Currently subject of very advanced trade talks that will likely result in WP:CRYSTAL violations .
WNYY98 (
talk)
22:02, 6 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent
vandalism – IPs making changes to reflect recent news in Australia, but misrepresenting sources and adding location specific edits to International article lead.
Flat Out (
talk)
00:45, 7 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protection: Page sees constant persistent
vandalism from vandal ips on a daily basis, often with deliberately misleading edit summaries. Semi-protection would cut the rate of vandalism by 90%--
Mr Fink (
talk)
23:53, 6 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary full-protection: Editor is insisting on re-inserting links while multiple ongoing discussions, but without having consensus for inclusion. --
Dirk BeetstraTC15:04, 6 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent addition of
unsourced or poorly sourced content – An anonymous user is edit-warring to restore vast amounts of text that is unsourced or poorly sourced (e.g. sourced only to online forums), contains links to copyright-infringing YouTube videos or goes into absurd levels of descriptive detail. The article has been in this bloated state for years and is tagged accordingly. Blocking is futile as the user simply hops from one IP address to the next. The PC protection that I imposed two months ago has been largely ineffective as many reviewers are simply waving these problematic edits through. The article already has a fairly extensive protection log. I would re-impose semi-protection for a few months but I'm probably too
involved now. SuperMarioMan–Talk00:03, 7 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: For two days, anon IPs have been vandalizing this comedian's page by adding references to dentists and dentistry. Ha ha, very funny. --
Tenebrae (
talk)
00:10, 7 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Fully protected for a period of 2 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. That's not vandalism, the IPs disagree on whether the source is required, thus it's
edit-warring and if the protection does not force you to discuss it, you will likely all be blocked next. Regards SoWhy21:30, 8 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: There has been a sudden spike in disruptive IP editors accusing all who disagree with them of being uncivil and carrying on about long debunked arguments after several popular articles drawing the attention of pro-acupuncturist to WP:
[9],
[10] and
[11]. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPantsTell me all about it.23:44, 7 February 2017 (UTC)reply
@
CambridgeBayWeather: The talk is where the disruption is occurring right now. I'm hesitant to suggest also including the main page because the new spate of POV pushing isn't really turning into edit wars there, just a highly disruptive presence at talk. That being said, I'd prefer to see both semi-d for a week. It would give this time to die down, and it wouldn't encourage IPs and new SPA's to try to push their POV at the article when they can't edit the talk page. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPantsTell me all about it.14:27, 8 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Declined For now...talk-page hasn't been used since yesterday....talk-pages should only be protected as a last resort anyway, and then only for short periods.
Lectonar (
talk)
15:46, 8 February 2017 (UTC)reply
The IP has now attempted to discuss the situation, but wiped the existing content of the talk page in the process. (I've now reinstated the previous content and added the new thread at the bottom of the page.) The IP's "discussion" essentially boils down to "I'm from Oman so I know better than you", which is not constructive. And I've just noticed that the talk page has been wiped again...
Bazonka (
talk)
11:56, 8 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Indefinite semi-protection: Presistant vandalism. Even semi-protection for 2 years does not have much effect on stopping the vandalism. Better to have indef semi-protection rather than another 3-year semi-protection.
219.79.250.146 (
talk)
13:07, 8 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protection: Persistent
vandalism – Vaibhav Kasyap is back - this time he is adding Vaibhav (Kasyap) possibly to avoid a spam filter put in place to stop his vandalism .
Kellymoat (
talk)
15:17, 8 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary move protection: Page title dispute/move warring – Can we get a few days of no moves on this article? It's been moved without discussion twice. I opened a discussion on the talk page and informed some wikiprojects for some input. Thanks.
Fyunck(click) (
talk)
06:02, 8 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protection: Persistent POV edits made by IP, not backed up by the content of the cited sources. The IP has been unwilling to discuss it on the talk page or provide edit summaries.
Doremo (
talk)
12:55, 8 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Protection before Doremo's deleting. The rest of Czechia:
Fully protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Clearly a content dispute with
edit-warring on both sides. Find consensus on the talk page, lest you will both be blocked for it. SoWhy13:34, 8 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to
justify protection. We typically need a higher rate of editing to justify protection. Here, there were only 20 or so edits in the entire year of 2016, nine of which were made on December 31.
Mz7 (
talk)
05:57, 8 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Extended confirmed:Arbitration enforcement – Consistent edit-warring and reversion by three SPAs to a BLP page that is under discretionary sanctions. Only one of the SPAs has engaged on the talk page, and the other two accounts have removed content or readded content against talk page consensus. Because two of the SPAs have acheived autoconfirmed status, I think that the best possible option to contain the disruption at this page is ECP that will allow the accounts to request and discuss potential edits on the talk page, without requesting formal sanctions against the accounts themselves. .
TonyBallioni (
talk)
02:06, 8 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. I've protected all of these (though this seems to be a dispute about the species of dinosaur in a children's tv show, and makes me want to hit my head on a wall :) )
Vanamonde (
talk)
07:53, 8 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Adamgerber80 (
talk) please refrain from academic dishonesty and trying to rewrite articles in your favor. The source of information is reputable from China News. Your are trying to pov push and change the original consensus as the article has stated for a very long time that "ROC successfully conducted its diminutive nuclear test in southern Taiwan in the 1980s", please confirm for yourself with China News.
http://www.chinanews.com/2000-1-7/26/14868.html
Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism. Judging from the history as well as the talk page, this article has been suffering from repeated vandalism for several years.
Mauricio Maluff Masi (
talk)
22:18, 7 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – An IP editor(who is hopping IP's) continues to disrupt the article and violate 3RR. Temporary protection would give everyone a chance to reach a consensus on the Talk page.
Adamgerber80 (
talk)
00:11, 8 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection:BLP policy violations – Article in question discusses a person dealing with political power conflict. Constantly edited to include defamatory content against several politicians.
RoCo(talk)00:30, 8 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent
vandalism – Essentially,
a post on their Facebook page where the leader of the group proclaimed "EDIT IT IN ANY HORRIBLE WAY YOU SEE FIT". This is the result of private emails with the subject trying to tell them that their article won't be deleted (in these private emails, they say that the page is slander; after trying to help them, they essentially decided to wage war on us).
SkyWarrior01:10, 8 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. I also blocked the latest IP vandal, but this seems to be IP hopping vandalism. Pretty persistent and bad case of it.
— Maile (
talk)
00:11, 8 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Permanent semi-protection: It's DAB-page, previously semi-protected multiple times. It's a permanent magnet for silly-vandalism. Over 80% of the last 200 edits were either vandalism, or vandalism-reverts. That vandalism rate has been roughly consistent for the entire history of the page. Vandalism&reverts drown out any legitimate edits in the page history. In order to clean up yesterday's vandalism I had to request oversight for the protection of a minor.
Alsee (
talk)
18:59, 9 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protectedindefinitely. The slow moving but constant vandalism I think warrants long term protection. Short protections won't gain much. If anyone disagrees, feel free to lower duration. --
ferret (
talk)
19:54, 9 February 2017 (UTC)reply
You beat me to this
Davey2010 :-) I will add that, since I stumbled on the problem edits, this is at least the third time that protection has been needed to stop the disruptive editing.
MarnetteD|
Talk19:41, 9 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Haha sorry :), You'd think this sad bunch would have better things to do than to jot down when the article protection expires and then vandalise it... Sad really. –
Davey2010Talk19:48, 9 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protected for a period of 1 year, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. The past 3 month protection expired in November, so we went awhile without the page being hit. However, if anyone else feels indef is warranted, feel free to increase. --
ferret (
talk)
19:51, 9 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: Repeated blanking of sourced sections from series of related IPs - current IP up to Level 4 but has used 3 others in the last 48 hours, so need to protect the page -
Arjayay (
talk)
19:17, 9 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Declined Protection is not the way to go here. Edting may be with spam- intent, but there are other ways to deal with this instead of locking the page down.
Lectonar (
talk)
14:54, 9 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Declined. Rereport if they do but currently it looks like a short spike in vandalism in the last two days that stopped after the block. SoWhy10:00, 9 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protected for a period of 5 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Normally I would be loath to protect articles which are being discussed at AfD, but this is purely disruptive.
Lectonar (
talk)
14:16, 9 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent
disruptive editing – This page has seen unsourced edits regarding Kashmir. Semi-protected from 4 Jan to 4 Feb, but the edit-warring started as soon as the semi-protection lifted. I think we have no choice but to extend indefinitely.
Kautilya3 (
talk)
14:15, 9 February 2017 (UTC)reply
@
SoWhy:The editor was already warned but the article should be protected like any other article in the area per
WP:ARBPIA3#500/30.There is no reason not to protect as it can't be edited by not qualifying users--
Shrike (
talk)
14:38, 8 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Note: @Shrike: and has the editor in question been reported? As
SoWhy said: it is easier to block one offending user instead of locking the whole page down.
Lectonar (
talk)
15:04, 8 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection:BLP policy violations – Ongoing IP running jokes that this British "rightwing agenda" talk show host starred in Diff'rent Strokes. All IP edits on this low-traffic article in the past year have been to add or revert BLP vandalism.
McGeddon (
talk)
12:01, 9 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protection: Ever-persisent BLP violations by a 180.xx IP who adds the same content every time the article comes off protection, which is twice now. Needs to be many months—maybe until June.
Mac Dreamstate (
talk)
22:46, 8 February 2017 (UTC)reply
indefinite full protection: Persistent edit wars and consistent lack of proper sourcing. The article goes back and forth towards skewing the bias for and then starkly against the technology. Requesting protection to balance the reputation of the technology. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Azar8991 (
talk •
contribs)
23:41, 8 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary full protection: This has not happened yet, but there is a huge discussion going on that could boil down to a massive edit war. With the best interest of both the article and the belligerents, I am requesting a temporary yet effective full protection to let this die down. This might seem like an over-the-top request but I feel it's the only thing preventing a massive edit war without users being blocked for extensive periods of time. One to two weeks seems like more than enough time to resolve any conflict.
UNSC Luke 1021 (
talk)
01:52, 9 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent
disruptive editing – Per template documentation, the season end date should remain as present until the final episode of the season has aired. The final episode for this season has not aired, and despite a hidden note explicitly stating not to change it, users keep changing it anyways. This has been going on for some time now; I request protection until the episode has actually aired, which should be February 20.
SkyWarrior03:00, 9 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary emi-protection: High level of IP vandalism going on in the last few minutes. Two IP users are edit warring vandalism of the introduction paragraphs.
Tar-Elessar (
talk)
18:33, 8 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Full-protection: Repeated attempts by a newish editor to add misleading information to the article (claiming that they won or contested the 2000 elections. Attempts to get them to discuss this on the talk page have failed. As they are an occasional editor, I suggest the protection be for a month in the first instance. Cheers,
Number5721:23, 8 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Indefinite extended confirmed: Persistent
disruptive editing – Although I would be O.K. with a "temporary" protection, I'd like to see this page be protected indefinitely (or a few years). I.P.s have been adding the [university's] preferred name of "Louisiana" or removing "ULL", which has been determined to be kept by a
consensus on the talk page. You can look at the
page history to see that we have been dealing with this for the past 6 months. It's time only confirmed editors can edit the page and any I.P.s/non-confirmed users can request an edit on the talk page. Corkythehornetfan (ping me)
21:27, 8 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary full protection: Persistent
vandalism – This IP hopping vandal has been trying to delete 586 bytes multiple times since January 21 (!!). Whitelock is nice, but it is wasting our time to have this ABF vandal/IPHUMAN spamming the change logs. Thanks.
L3X1My Complaint Desk23:04, 8 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism (especially by IP-users) over several years; page has had auto-confirmed protection for the same reason several times.
GELongstreet (
talk)
01:11, 9 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protection: Persistent
vandalism – This page has been linked on multiple forums and websites. Continuous edits attributing the gun to "Kraut Space Magic" are not constructive.
-LQN2 (
talk)
18:34, 8 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semiprotection. I'm honestly surprised this hasn't been listed here yet. A characteristically intoxicated Oakley just got into a fight in the crowd at Madison Square Garden and Barstool fans are wrecking his article.
2602:306:BC31:4AA0:519D:42CB:4DAE:E0F (
talk)
02:20, 9 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Question: Can you elaborate? There is no rule that archives should be protected and unless you can prove that this user is vandalizing such pages, no reason to do so either. SoWhy13:21, 8 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Long-term semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism. Got protected for shorter duration multiple times, vandalism always came back after the protection expired. --
mfb (
talk)
21:40, 8 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Indefinite extended confirmed: Persistent
sockpuppetry – There are five different sockmasters active in this article. I don't know which IP editor is a sock of which master.
Done. Full move protection has been in place since October 2011 and was initially imposed by administrator
Alison. I have taken the liberty of unprotecting it but I will watchlist the page to see if there is a problem.
MelanieN (
talk)
10:24, 10 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent
disruptive editing – This article has a long history where IPs have been adding spam links to it. I would recommend it to be indefinitely semi-protected. Alternatively, pending changes protection can also be done here.
Lemongirl942 (
talk)
02:50, 10 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – It seems the TV episode cabal are under the impression that
WP:V is irrelevant and have decided that references are only required for TV episodes that have not yet aired.
Walter Görlitz (
talk)
04:36, 10 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protection: The same user from different IPs is deleting sources and content. The user isn't using talk page and has continued his/her behavior 4 weeks.
Ferakp (
talk)
20:09, 9 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent
vandalism – Single user with dynamic IP's from same PoP persistently vandalizing; ignores warnings; denies discussions on any talk page.
AviNation (
talk)
22:18, 9 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Declined – Content dispute. Please use the article's talk page or other forms of
dispute resolution. This appears to be a content dispute over table syntax. IPs appear to be acting in good faith. Additionally, the IPs appear to be repairing some invalid markup. I see no vandalism. --
ferret (
talk)
22:32, 9 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to
justify protection. Only two cases of vandalism since August. IPs have been appropriately warned. --
ferret (
talk)
22:36, 9 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protection: The same user from different IPs is deleting sources and content. The user isn't using talk page and has continued his/her behavior 4 weeks.
Ferakp (
talk)
20:09, 9 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent
vandalism – Single user with dynamic IP's from same PoP persistently vandalizing; ignores warnings; denies discussions on any talk page.
AviNation (
talk)
22:18, 9 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Declined – Content dispute. Please use the article's talk page or other forms of
dispute resolution. This appears to be a content dispute over table syntax. IPs appear to be acting in good faith. Additionally, the IPs appear to be repairing some invalid markup. I see no vandalism. --
ferret (
talk)
22:32, 9 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to
justify protection. Only two cases of vandalism since August. IPs have been appropriately warned. --
ferret (
talk)
22:36, 9 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to
justify protection. Two IP vandals, both given final warnings. Third IP was cleaning up the first IP's vandalism. Feel free to ping me if it persists.--
ferret (
talk)
18:31, 9 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to
justify protection. Left warnings on IPs, both from the same school district. Feel free to ping if they continue. --
ferret (
talk)
17:41, 9 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to
justify protection. I'm not seeing enough disruptive editing. Seems to be an even mix of IPs edits being accepted and reverted. --
ferret (
talk)
18:04, 9 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: An edit-warring IP is consistently removing an edit stable for months to a non-consensus edit and refusing to discuss. It's a dynamic IP address, so blocking it for edit-warring would be difficult. --
Tenebrae (
talk)
03:50, 11 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Remove protection: This article, as it stands, is quite spotty and needs lots of minor improvements, such as a cleanup of links pointing into the projectspace. I have made many useful changes at
Talk:Wikipedia/sandbox, but an
editreq to incorporate it was denied due to an apparent requirement of consensus, even though the changes were all minor and non-controversial. The problem, I think, was that I rearranged the positions of some sections, and if such changes are also done in the same edit, it would be difficult for others to see exactly what changes have been made. As such, I am requesting that this page be temporarily unprotected to facilitate useful edits, which are simply inappropriate to be done with an edit request (for the reason described above). Having the ability to edit the page would allow me to incorporate my sandboxed changes over many edits which (i) enables to explain each change in the edit summary and (ii) relieves others from the trouble of having to look at diffs in too many changes have been made in one go.
Not done Vandalism is happening daily, in spite of semi-protection. Some of your amendments do not appear to be improvements (removal of citations, removal of useful internal links, making the prose worse instead of better). —
Diannaa🍁 (
talk)
14:07, 11 February 2017 (UTC)reply
The only citations I removed are Wikipedia project pages being used as refs. The "useful" links to project space are not allowed from mainspace, and were hence removed.
103.6.159.72 (
talk)
16:07, 11 February 2017 (UTC)reply
5 albert square I let them know of the urgency of a protection reduction on their talk page but they do not seem to be responding. The protection must be removed there's so much going on about this airport, its airlines and infrastructure, it all needs to be updated. Please reduce the protection level.
118.108.175.76 (
talk)
11:49, 11 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Declined for now - many of the anon contributions appear legitimate; the story is still unfolding and quick updates in cases like this can be useful.
AlexiusHoratius13:08, 11 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent
vandalism – The same nonsense gets added by an IP editor every single time the temporary semi protection expires. I strongly suggest that the protection be indefinite because the IP's persistence extends over years so any temporary term is useless. .
Roger (Dodger67) (
talk)
10:18, 11 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Extended confirmed: Persistent vandalism for extremely long time, almost like rapid fire, with defamation/bigatory references to real life living people as well(ex. Hillary Clinton, Cooper Andrus, and other living figures), as their names can be seen in the description on the page's history and/or on the vandals edits. The L in the Wikipedia article is being treated as the term 'looser', by vandals. Vandals are both users, and IP address (both IPv4 and IPv6), if looked care fully, in last 250-500 edits. Every second edit is nearly a revert due to un-usefulness, or a revert due to vandalism, the latter is more. I do not know how this page was never protected, even before the current 500 edits, which is just a glimpse of the entire vandalism. Its goes beyond the 500 latest edits to the page.
Aceing_Winter_Snows_Harsh_Cold (
talk)
08:27, 11 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent
vandalism – Although Armenian and Kurdish names take place in the etymology section, The editors are in the forefront of ethnicity.
Wikipedia:Neutral point of view and etymology section, They ignore this part and continue to do ethnic arrangements. This edit war continues for a long time. If necessary, I demand full protection to prevent this. --
88.243.166.236 (
talk)
10:59, 11 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent
vandalism – Continued vandalism by various IPs, primarily about her heritage. Perhaps pending changes protection would be appropriate, as this has been going on for some time now. ‖
Ebyabetalk -
Repel All Boarders ‖
09:57, 11 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism. Repeatedly info on this page regarding this person has been abused over and over again after the page became unprotected anymore. Request for full protection for this Malaysian legendary sportsperson. Thank you.
Shafiqabu (
talk)
17:28, 10 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to
justify protection. - honestly this is somewhere I wish we still had PC2 for as it is clear their is some disruption however I worry that extended confirmation protection is too restrictive. Best,
Mifter (
talk)
03:18, 11 February 2017 (UTC)reply
There was certainly some commonality between who was vandalizing those articles. Tracing the vandals' user contribution lists from one article to another is how I found the group of articles. —
BarrelProof (
talk)
00:20, 11 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – It seems edit war has been going on for some time, and the page has been reported to OTRS, and has a ticket. Will a page protection force the two to discuss on the talk page, and come in terms reg the content?. I have written a message for suggestion to discuss the article on the talk page, on both users talk page.
Dan Koehl (
talk)
17:24, 10 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Indefinite create protection: Repeatedly recreated – A page with this title is almost certainly going to be an attack page (implying the way a person or a group of people speaks seems "retarded").
MereTechnicality⚙20:50, 10 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Extended confirmed:BLP policy violations – User:0716pyhao has been censoring factual and sourced information: the footballer played for Benfica B. User has also been adding an unreliable source to the subject's "personal life" section.
SLBedit (
talk)
20:52, 10 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary Semi-protection: Article relates to
current news event, and there have been a number of disruptive edits made in the last half four. The article will attract more attention as the news story unfolds, with the potential for further nuisance edits.
Exxy (
talk)
21:58, 10 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protection: Persistent
vandalism – Going back at least several days, there are damaging edits from several IPs, though it can be difficult to definitively determine whether the intent is to vandalize or whether some could be very misguided but good-faith attempts.
EricEnfermero (
Talk)
19:35, 12 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Pending-changes protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Given the slow rate of editing to the article as of late, this seems sufficient to keep people from adding unsourced content without restricting anon editors too much. SoWhy18:35, 12 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism. Theres a certain IP address that made a disruptive edit on my article. It changes and I need to manually change it back. Please I need it until the series ends on March 4. So 3 weeks of protection enough. Thanks.
Leo kingston (
talk)
13:03, 12 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Indefinite semi-protection:BLP policy violations – long-term persistent multiple recreations of BLP always failing GNG . Instead of salting, an indef semi would prevent most recreations. Full protection would be better. Widefox;
talk10:51, 12 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: Continued insertion of unverified roles by dynamic IP. Some using copy pasted sources present on those pages despite them not supporting the claim. Range is too big to request a user block so requesting page protections.
SephyTheThird (
talk)
14:34, 12 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protection:BLP policy violations – Page protection has just been lifted with a surge of BLP violations as a result. She is evidently a controversial political figure at the moment, so a longer semi-protection seems like a good idea. If she becomes the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, maybe pending changes protections becomes necessary. bonadeacontributionstalk11:23, 12 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent
vandalism – The same nonsense gets added by an IP editor every single time the temporary semi protection expires. I strongly suggest that the protection be indefinite because the IP's persistence extends over years so any temporary term is useless. .
Roger (Dodger67) (
talk)
10:18, 11 February 2017 (UTC)reply
It has happened again. Please look at the whole page history, the IP is very persistent, it's been going on for years. I seem to be the only active editor watching this page so it invariably falls to me to clean it up.
Roger (Dodger67) (
talk)
06:57, 12 February 2017 (UTC)reply
AlexiusHoratius Unarchived for further consideration. This is not a matter of "frequent enough" - the IP is very patient and persistent, waiting for months at a time for the temporary protection to expire every time.
Roger (Dodger67) (
talk)
07:03, 12 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent
disruptive editing – IP-hopping editor keeps adding a large block of poorly-written and improperly cited information to the article. Repeated warnings and attempts to communicate have been ignored. No sign that he will either stop or make improvements to his editing. Protection seems the only route. The Old JacobiteThe '4523:36, 11 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: Let's try for a month? IP-hopping gender warrior cannot understand how gender is assigned at birth, etc. They actually came to talk and ranted, then went back to edit warring their changes. Please semi-protect for a while. thx
Jytdog (
talk)
08:39, 12 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection:, page has been receiving an increased level of vandalism in the past week or so from a variety of IP addresses. PKT(alk)01:31, 12 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: Unconfirmed reports in other languages on Twitter stating he has died; one edit already added this with no source.
Home Lander (
talk)
21:18, 11 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary pending changes: Persistent
vandalism – IPs had constantly added crystal info so it was protected for a year however this time an autoconfirmed account is now doing the exact same thing ... so I'm requesting PC to again stop the crystal crap, Could I ask that it be done to a year as well please?, Thanks, . –
Davey2010Talk21:01, 11 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection IPs (they are rotating so won't see any talk page warnings) is trying to insert a "joke" version of the estabpishments logo.
MarnetteD|
Talk19:13, 13 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Indefinite pending changes protection: High level of IP vandalism. This page has been protected four times already, and almost immediately after the protection expires, vandals comes back. Since this is a
BLP, I believe it is eligible for this protection permanently.
Elisfkc (
talk)
19:22, 13 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Today is Presidents Day national holiday in the USA. Hopefully, a week's protection will take care of this.
— Maile (
talk)
17:42, 13 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent
vandalism – Large amounts of over time vandalism by multiple IPs. As well, this page's vandalism has been tweeted about by a verified Twitter account, which means more vandalism is likely to come. I suggest this get protected and then someone take a look at all the sources and revision history to figure out if there's anything else that needs fixing. I simply reverted it to a much older edit that seems reliable. –
🐱? (
talk) (ping me!)18:02, 13 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Declined – Content dispute. Please use the article's talk page or other forms of
dispute resolution. What I see is disagreement, not necessarily disruptive editing. Explanations via edit summary are not always read, so please either use the articles talk-page (which has not been edited since 2015), or engage the IP-user on his talk-page(s) (I know he is hopping somewhat in the 77.xxx range, but IPs seem stable at least for some edits...and all those 77.xxx IP-talk-pages are redlinked too so far).
Lectonar (
talk)
12:10, 13 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protection: IP repeatedly adding an unsourced squad list, which are not generally considered a good idea at this level of football due to the lack of regular updates. Could
Bideford A.F.C. be semi-protected for the same reason. Cheers,
Number5713:10, 13 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to
justify protection. I don't think striking this through actually helps, so I'm formally declining it just to avoid confusion.
Vanamonde (
talk)
10:07, 13 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to
justify protection. Just 2 incidents in more than 5 months and not even vandalism. Instead, I have deleted the page, and salted
Lectonar (
talk)
11:37, 13 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. (in my opinion user talk pages shouldn't be semi-protected indefinitely - hopefully 1 month is enough to put them off though) -- Samtartalk ·
contribs08:21, 13 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent
vandalism – IP editors are back trying to add unsourced material that there is no consensus for. This has been going on for some time, other established editors have been combating it besides myself, and the page has been protected multiple times. Protection for at least a month is needed.
...William, is the complaint department really on
the roof?01:56, 13 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: One user (I believe) using multiple IPs to add unsourced info to the article. The actor has been cast in a musical, but there has been no confirmation about him leaving the show he is currently in.
JuneGloom07Talk03:10, 13 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – Content dispute over inclusion of Shaq/Big Show match. This has been reported by reliable sources and is constantly being removed by other editors without participating in the talk page discussion. -- Danetalk05:19, 13 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent
vandalism – Actually I'm requesting a salting, but since the article hasn't been deleted just yet, I can't request that at the moment. This has been deleted twice already for promotion, so once this is deleted, this should be salted.
Narutolovehinata5tccsdnew03:10, 13 February 2017 (UTC)reply
You ought to consider blocking everybody in 2601:48:c503:ee10 since this person will probably just switch identities to a different part of that range
again. CityOfSilver21:32, 12 February 2017 (UTC)reply
CommentMlpearc I was just looking at this and about to decline the request for the same reason. Looking at the page history I am seeing very little in the form of disruptive editing and there is no history of page protection at all. Are you sure this is the page you meant to request PP for? -
Ad Orientem (
talk)
21:04, 12 February 2017 (UTC)reply
@
Ad Orientem: There are other "Hoobastank" pages, the activity I discribed could be on another page, but the disruption is the same. No worries, I'll just remove all Hoobastank pages from my watch. - Mlpearc (
open channel)21:10, 12 February 2017 (UTC)reply
I see. Unfortunately there is not much we can do about this kind of low level "now and then" kind of vandalism. It comes with the territory. And short of requiring registration in order to edit, which the community has repeatedly rejected, we are just going to have to live with it. -
Ad Orientem (
talk)
21:18, 12 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Done I've cascaded the contact page so all templates on that page will inherit full protection. If any admin feels this was inappropriate, please feel free to override my action and let me know.—
CYBERPOWER(
Be my Valentine)01:13, 13 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Thanks for the heads up on this. Although the initial reason for protecting the redirect was based on a discussion from 2009, I still agree with the rationale -this should be kept at semiprotection level to prevent bad-faith moves.
GlassCobra20:30, 12 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent editing from several IP users claiming that Husky Tours has been bought by another company
Yanson Group of Bus Companies without any proof, citation or article. Please see also article "
Advanced Liner" which the logo was all made up from "
SriLankan Airlines". Thanks! Bumbl_loid 18:15, 12 February 2017 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of 2 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. As most of the recent socks have not been autoconfirmed lets try longer term semi first, if this does not work we can step up to ECP.
Mifter (
talk)
21:04, 12 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent
vandalism – Requesting 1 month semi. Article recently came off semi-protection to prevent POV editing at the article. The film's box office figures have been openly disputed by reliable sources, yet editors keep removing any indication of the dispute in favor of the higher, disputed figures. Most recent example after protection expired
here. Thanks,
Cyphoidbomb (
talk)
21:21, 12 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent
vandalism – An IP address is insisting that Husky tours was sold to Yanson Group of Companies.....which is not. Bumbl_loid 14:29, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to
justify protection.
Lectonar (
talk)
Temporary semi-protection:BLP policy violations – Persistent attempts by editors with an anti-Semitic agenda to insert quote with single source – and primarily perpetuated on anti-Semitic hate sites – on Israel.
Mélencron (
talk)
18:17, 14 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to
justify protection. Talk-pages, as a rule, a rarely protected anyway, and if so, only for short periods. The amount of disruption is far from the level needed for that.
Lectonar (
talk)
12:19, 14 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to
justify protection. This is way too slow for semi-protection. I have watchlisted to see if pending-changes protection might be useful.
Lectonar (
talk)
14:16, 14 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Declined. The high level of accepted edits by anon users shows that this is exactly why pending changes protection was created. SoWhy17:21, 15 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protection: Persistent distruptive IP editing. The problematic edits is exactly changing the religious affiliation of the facility to that another sect. I honestly think blocking the IPs wont do since the user(s) seems to hop across different IPs.
Hariboneagle927 (
talk)
18:09, 15 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent
disruptive editing – Disruptive editing, consisting of addition of unverified or improperly verified information, esp. promotional stuff such as philanthropy, awards, "social activities", all by IP editors and drive-by accounts. Preferably long-term semi-protection. Thanks.
Drmies (
talk)
18:27, 15 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Pending changes: Article is massively edited by user Gethoto
[22], who is adding a lot of unsourced material and changing stats in the infobox, despite the Soccerway source says otherwise. Like his last edit
[23] User Gethoto seems to be connected to Mirchev, since editing this article is his only activity on Wikipedia. He is adding false data to the article since 2011, and doesn't care about warnings I gave him
[24]. He forged stats again yesterday, just hours after I gave him a final warning
[25]Oleola (
talk)
DeclinedGethoto is already autoconfirmed, so neither pending changes nor semi-protection would keep him from editing the article if it was protected. That aside, the disruption is not big enough to warrant protection, see our
protection policy.
Lectonar (
talk)
09:02, 15 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent
disruptive editing – Since February 6th we've had 3 IP editors from Brigham Young University and an IP from Utah, probably the same person, add material to this article attacking the SPLC or removing critical material. .
Doug Wellertalk17:42, 15 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.Semi-protected for a period of 3 hours, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.. Didn't realize it was today's featured article, for which the policy mandates shorter protection. SoWhy18:03, 15 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent IP Vandalism- Of late, this page has been affected by high level of IP vandalism. Just see first 250 or 500 edits of the page history. Most of the IP users make disruptive edits and adversely affect the notability of article. The passenger statistics in infobox of article which inspite of being well sourced with official references and calculated from those sources become easy targets of IP vandals. They modify them as per their choice. Many other vandals often remove names of destinations from section "Airlines and Destinations" of this article after just perceiving those flights (mostly same aircraft stopping or via flights) as non-operational. Many others involve in removal of citations. This article needs immediate semi-protection for indefinite time period.
Vibhss (
talk)
13:23, 15 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Declined, this is one IP, they have been just warned for the second time, and if they continue, they must be blocked. Feel free to return here if they change the IP.--
Ymblanter (
talk)
07:56, 15 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Indefinite pending changes: Persistent
vandalism – Persistent and repeated addition of hoaxed content by an IP-hopping vandal, purporting that a number of characters were voiced by Filipino actors.
Blake Gripling (
talk)
11:25, 15 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Pending-changes protected With a heavy heart but since the three semis before didn't work, this seems to be necessary. With no prejudice against unprotecting in the future if too many good-faith edits by anon editors are caught in the PC. SoWhy13:20, 15 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism going back to January from a number of IP accounts. I believe the page was temporarily protected at the start of February but is no longer so, and the problems are all back in full force.
Snooganssnoogans (
talk)
10:14, 15 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Indefinite semi-protection: Daily vandalism since previous protection wore off two weeks ago. He's the starting quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys; this won't end any time soon. See
Tony Romo for a precedent.
Lizard (
talk)
06:40, 15 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent
vandalism – Vandalized twice in the 4 days since protection ended. Not likely to end until contract situation is settled.
TM17:45, 14 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to
justify protection. Two instances of vandalism in four days is not that bad. PP is intended for severe and persistent vandalism. If it picks up come back.
Ad Orientem (
talk)
23:59, 14 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent
vandalism – More nonsense vandalism from anon IPs. Vjmlhds 16:52, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to
justify protection. There has been some IP vandalism, but not a lot. And I am extremely reluctant to protect a page that gets so many IP edits, most of which appear to be good. If the situation gets really bad come back and we can discuss pending changes protection.
Ad Orientem (
talk)
23:49, 14 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protection: High level of IP and new user vandalism. 13 of 50 recent edits can be described as vandalism, and most of them more recent. Most constructive contributors are registered and active accounts. One IP is currently edit warring, and one instance of IP vandalism was left unreverted for over an hour. -- Firestar493 /
Nightstar64823:51, 14 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Extended or indefinite semi - You can find occasional constructive editing by newbies and anons if you look hard enough, but it's few and far between, with fairly constant long term vandalism and reversion in the interim. Divine Comedy is probably the single most famous 14th Century literary work (take your pick, this or Chaucer), and it should be a fairly stable article anyway, with no reason to expect the steady stream of, what are undoubtedly forlorn high school literature students, to end any time soon.
TimothyJosephWood18:22, 14 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. An examination of the editing history does show pervasive vandalism over a long period. Hopefully this will throw some cold water on their fun.
Ad Orientem (
talk)
00:04, 15 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Indefinite semi-protection The Continuation of vandalism & unsourced edits without heading the hidden warning - Requesting Full semi-protection until June of this year.
ZeEnergizer (
talk)
19:24, 14 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent
vandalism – A perennial magnet for vandalism, vastly outnumbering constructive edits. Previous protection for 30 or 60 days at a time was too little. Something substantially longer, please--preferably permanent.
Hertz1888 (
talk)
21:07, 14 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Unprotection: I'm currently working to cleanup and reorganize archived pages in the "Wikipedia:" namespace to allow easier navigation for readers and editors ... and in the process, ran across this protected page that needs moving. This page should be moved to a subpage of
Wikipedia:Featured article review, but I'm asking for the page to be unprotected instead of requesting a move via
WP:RMTR since I may need to move this page multiple times to resolve issues with already existing subpages of
Wikipedia:Featured article review/Bulbasaur. Disclaimer: This page was protected in 2006 and its protecting admin hasn't edited since 2013.
Steel1943 (
talk)
22:17, 14 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Unprotected It looks like this was protected in order to stop people commenting in a closed discussion, I don't think that's likely to happen over a decade later. Hut 8.522:23, 14 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Declined – No changes to the current protection level are required at this point in time. Already protected; last to the article was almost 2 weeks ago.
Lectonar (
talk)
07:46, 16 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Declined It seems to be the same user using different IPs, trying to make a good-faith change and being reverted without anyone explaining them why. None of the IPs as far as I see have ever been told on their talk page why they have been reverted. Explain it to the user and see if they still do it, then we can talk protection. SoWhy13:14, 16 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Declined – Content dispute. Please use the article's talk page or other forms of
dispute resolution. Per
WP:CRYSTAL this seems actually a valid article since the event is notable and almost certainly taking place in the near future. Regardless, without consensus there is no reason to protect. SoWhy11:12, 16 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent
disruptive editing – The actor himself has confirmed that the information currently on the page (as of 2/16/2017) is accurate. Certain individuals, however, keep on editing the page needlessly. This needs to be stopped. .
Djorn89 (
talk)
11:09, 16 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent
vandalism – Since this page has become unprotected there has already been a lot of vandalism - again, the only thing Marina Joyce is really notable for is her controversy, so now that that's over there isn't anything to update her page about, yet there's persistent vandalism: I think it'd save a lot of all of our time to just protect it. .
Romeowth (
talk)
00:00, 16 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Question: Is there any consensus on excluding some of the numbers like the note says? I cannot find any such rule or discussion and if there isn't, the displayed behavior is imho more a case of
edit-warring and not vandalism. SoWhy17:27, 15 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Pending-changes protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Not enough disruption for semi-protection, as disruptive editing is not really sustained, but comes in bursts. Let's see how pending-changes works.
Lectonar (
talk)
09:03, 16 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: Unregistered users violating
BLP policy, adding bias, unsourced items, and editing out lines and words that make content compliant with BLP, such as editing out the word "alleged". Cr@$h3d@t@t@1k t0 m302:52, 16 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Unprotect: Were semi-protected in 2008 and the protecting admin hasn't been active for a while. I really have no idea why they were semi'd in the first place.
Lizard (
talk)
00:40, 16 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Consider
the edit warring noticeboard – This is a case of possible
edit-warring by one or two users. Semi-protection is not for edit-warring and there is not really much to justify full protection (which is the correct response to edit-warring that cannot be contained by blocks). SoWhy17:19, 15 February 2017 (UTC)reply
For what it's worth, I agree as an "uninvolved" editor. (I started warning the other editors about the warring, but I am personally not in the war / have not edited the page in question).
J♯m (
talk |
contribs)
21:02, 15 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Declined The edit warring seems to have died down since warnings were issued. Come back if the problem returns or you can report it at the 3RR noticeboard.
Ad Orientem (
talk)
21:07, 15 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection. This page has been regularly visited by several IPs who are attempting to insert the partisan, unencyclopedic, and false prose "It is considered a Clinton outrage machine which has set a $40 million budget to oppose President Trump." These edits are probably all coming from the same person but who knows? CityOfSilver19:27, 15 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protection: Transcluded in 700+ pages, all of them orphaned talk pages of deleted (and redirected) pages, most of them file pages.
George Ho (
talk)
10:54, 15 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Note: Does 700 pages really make it a high-risk template per
WP:HRT? As far as I know, there has not been any new discussion to override the consensus (see
Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive638#Mass fully protecting templates and the discussion at
WT:HRT) that just because a template is used on hundreds of pages, it is not really a high-risk template if no vandalism occurred and the page is visible to many readers. Here, neither applies. I think this request should be declined but I am leaving it up for further input by other admins. Regards SoWhy15:41, 15 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Withdrawn by requestor. Hmm... you're right. Not adequately visible to many readers, despite high count. I'll re-request this when the transclusion amount is way higher than now. --
George Ho (
talk)
20:26, 15 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent
vandalism – Persistent disruptive editing by either one user with a dynamic IP or multiple IP editors. Article subject is the target of a recent political controversy and as such trolling may not slow down until the controversy does.
Pishcal (
talk)
22:22, 15 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent
disruptive editing – This happens every other day, and now I'm keeping my word of promising to request protection. A user is persistently attempting to pervert the information provided by the sources. I am tired of reverting them and think this would be a fitting instance of protection. dannymusiceditorSpeak up!13:19, 17 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Indefinite extended confirmed: Persistent
sockpuppetry – Given the nature of this page and the fact that it's already been attacked by Orchomen's socks a few times, this should be an indefinite extended confirmed protection, just like it is on my sock list
here.
BU Rob13 originally semi-protected the page indefinitely, but after socks who had registered accounts and who were making several edits in their user space in order to get confirmed status started getting through,
Callmemirela, who's also been helping us with this battle, requested extended confirmed protection, but only at a temporary level. I suggested an indefinite level, but the administrator who protected the page wasn't Rob, but rather Ad Orientem who, I guess, wasn't fully aware of the extent of the situation, which is understandable, and only temporarily extended protected the page.
Amaury (
talk |
contribs)
15:01, 16 February 2017 (UTC)reply
I only requested a temporary protection because Orchomen had been vandalizing the page under IP and new user accounts. I thought temporary would be more suited because I assumed that Orchomen would eventually give up on that page. However, based on Orchomen's MO, it is likely he will return to the SIP page and vandalize again. I think indefinite protection would be appropriate. Just thought I'd give my two cents should an admin need it.
Callmemirela🍁{Talk}♑16:56, 16 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Declined – No changes to the current protection level are required at this point in time. Pending changes is already in place and appears to be working fine; vandalism rate isn't high enough to warrant an increase to semi-protection.
Mz7 (
talk)
04:34, 17 February 2017 (UTC)reply
@
NeilN: Thank you, Nein. To explain, semi-protection is only 100% useful against IPs; however, not so much against registered accounts since they can easily make several edits in their user space to get around that by getting confirmed status, which our long-term sockpuppeteer has done in the past, and I wouldn't put it past them to do it again with only semi-protection on my talk page.
Amaury (
talk |
contribs)
15:07, 17 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent addition of
unsourced or poorly sourced content – Continuous addition of unsourced content . Den-Drater 21:01, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to
justify protection. This goes for the talk-page and the article, as I think you wanted to request the article to be protected.
Lectonar (
talk)
08:22, 17 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Pending-changes protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. I have reinstated the pending changes protection, which worked well while in place. Not enough disruption for semi-protection.
Lectonar (
talk)
08:24, 17 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protection: High level of IP disruption and vandalism, by block evader and sockpuppeter, which started up right after the previous protection expired.
Softlavender (
talk)
05:31, 17 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protection: Persistent
sockpuppetry – IP-hopper repeatedly adding a non-notable name to list of partners. They're currently blocked as three different IPs but obviously have no intention of stopping. - Tom |
Thomas.W talk17:20, 16 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent
vandalism – Could you please change the pending changes protection to semi. Some users with pending changes rights are accepting changes without even checking it with the source.
The Physician (
talk)
17:55, 16 February 2017 (UTC)reply
FULL SEMI won't help you with that, Doc. I was going ot ask for one week FULL because 3-4 junk edits daily are making find jewels a pain. Waiting untilt he fervour dies downa nd reliabel sources appear will imrpove article.
L3X1My Complaint Desk21:14, 16 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protected for a period of 3 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. No need for full protection, as almost all of the disruptive edits are made by IPs or unconfirmed users.
Lectonar (
talk)
07:45, 17 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Indefinite semi Another one of those pages that's only on my watchlist because it's vandalized daily. Protection log which is literally longer than my 4 month old daughter's arm.
TimothyJosephWood00:01, 17 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Note: I see very scant editing of the article, and the last disruptive edit on february 2nd. So while I acknowledge that articles have to be protected extended confirmed in certain cases, I do not see a need to do so when there is virtually no disruption. I'll leave the decision to another admin.
Lectonar (
talk)
11:33, 16 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Extended confirmed protected True, disruption is minimal, but as far as I can tell current consensus is that
WP:30/500 requires EC protection to be applied as soon as a violation actually occurs, which here was the case on Feb 2nd. There is a current request for clarification at
WP:ARCA that might result in a different handling in the future but for now I think our hands are bound in such cases. Regards SoWhy13:05, 16 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Create protection: Repeatedly recreated – Persistent recreation of copyvio page. It's potentially just about notable but I think if they want to create the article they can start from a non-copyvio draft.
Blythwood (
talk)
13:46, 16 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary pending changes: Persistent
disruptive editing – Requesting PC protection for a while because IPs are edit warring over the name of O'Neill's position. Her party refuses to use the term 'Northern Ireland' which is why there has been a lot of editing. There's also an election taking place, which is why she's currently high profile (and probably the reason why there are so many disruptive edits).
st170e13:55, 18 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Indefinite pending changes: Persistent
vandalism – Ongoing IP and new user vandalism of this BLP. Everytime protection ends vandalism starts again. I recommend indefinite protection since this has been protected almost ten times in the past few years. Chris Troutman (
talk)18:13, 18 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Because pending changes requires an editor to review and approve any changes having it protected indef runs the risk of generating unnecessary workload if future issues subside.
Mifter (
talk)
18:43, 18 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent
disruptive editing – Some disruptive edits are being made by an IP based user who is not taking concensus or communicating via talk page. The page this needs immediate protection from such editors. If suited. The protection should be a permanent one. .
wb_admin (
talk)
06:48, 20 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Indefinite semi-protection: High level of vandalism by mostly IP users. They ignore the consensus for this page and keep deleting what they do not like.
Sabbatino (
talk)
13:54, 20 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Pending-changes protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. I have watchlisted and will evaluate if semi-protection is necessary. For now disruption is not high enough for semi-protection.
Lectonar (
talk)
14:17, 20 February 2017 (UTC)reply
@
EdJohnston:@
MilborneOne: - “The reason for full protection is usually to force a discussion” – Would it not be fair to say that the act of full protecting a page (restricting that pages editing to admins only) is de-facto removing anyone’s ability to edit the article? This action of fully protecting an article and restricting its editing to sysops only is contentious of
WP:5P3. For an action, which by its nature, is contemptuous of a founding principle of Wikipedia it would seem to me that a rationale like “to force a discussion” is rather disingenuous. The action of fully protecting an article is dystopian and it is also an affront to the spirit of Wikipedia which can be surmised in its slogan “the
freeencyclopedia that
anyone can edit.” It would further occur to me that in circumstances which upholding the principle that “anyone can edit” could damage Wikipedia then restrictive protections ought to be placed; however, the action of placing this protection to protect an article would be counterproductive if the reasons for instituting it did not seek to prevent damage to Wikipedia. “The reason for full protection is to force discussion” seems invariably aimed at making a point and conveying a message to editors that they must discuss before editing an article. This point could be made without affronting WP:5P3. Furthermore, by applying full protection to make a point it is disrupting other editors (whom perhaps had not been involved in the original reason for protecting the article) ability to constructively contribute towards an article. Wiki-CoffeeTalk02:05, 20 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Declined 300 pages is not a large enough transclusion count to be considered a "high-risk" template (i.e. pre-emptive protection), and there appears to be no history of vandalism.
Primefac (
talk)
01:52, 20 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent
disruptive editing – IP editor claiming to be third-party candidate has continued pursuing their POV reverts after RfC and has indicated intent to continue edit-warring in their edit comments. Possible NLT vio's as well. .
Eggishorn(talk)(contrib)01:06, 20 February 2017 (UTC)reply
This is Kurt Evans. I'm not claiming to be a third-party candidate. The Constitution Party was denied ballot access and had no U.S. Senate candidate in the 2016 election. I'm also not making "reverts" to other edits. I'm removing unsourced, false and defamatory information. My "point of view" isn't the basis for removing the information. This is a matter of straightforward legal fact. I'm also not engaging in edit-warring. I'm explaining each of my revisions, and "Eggishorn" is the one edit-warring with unexplained "reverts" of those revisions. I'm not familiar with Wikipedia's "NLT" policies, but it's true that after months and months of dealing with this garbage, I'm now planning to pursue defamation lawsuits against Wikimedia and several regular Wikipedia editors.
208.53.231.242 (
talk)
01:43, 20 February 2017 (UTC)reply
I would endorse this request and even go as far as to suggest Indefinite. This has been a long running disruption for almost a year. -- Danetalk01:37, 20 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Pending changes: Most edits have been reverted regularly by some similar editors. Some of the edits were vandalism or probably BLP violations. --
George Ho (
talk)
02:23, 20 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Unprotection: The article is overdue for unprotection. It's been there for a while and it appears that there is no major activity on it anymore. . Wiki-CoffeeTalk00:28, 20 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protection: Persistent
vandalism – Problematic page, and now IP vandalism, removal of sourced information. Page must be protected again, we have days of ip reverts . Ąnαșταη (
ταlκ)23:28, 19 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Indefinite semi-protection: article is under full time vandalism by an IP-User with changing IP-Adress 84.148.------ User inserts wrong stuff, adding false information (pretends characters are death who clearly aren't, (verifyable source is found on tv channels pages as well as official social media pages for the serie). User does vandalism for month now, so longer protection is necessary.--
Robberey1705 (
talk)
00:00, 20 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Template protection: When it became semi-protected, the template was transcluded in 800–1200 pages. Currently, 3000+ transclude it, making it a high-risk template. --
George Ho (
talk)
17:32, 19 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Persistent reinsertion of unsourced roles by IP's despite being constantly reverted and the page already having been page protected due to their activity. This started up again just 60minutes after the previous protection expired. Requesting month long semi as this has been going on some time and the IP is clearly not interested in sourcing their additions or addressing the concerns. It's purely disruptive and they need some time off but have a wide Ip range preventing a block request.
SephyTheThird (
talk)
16:06, 21 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Persistent insertion of an unverified role (and minor, if they exist) by IP who has been causing issues on related pages recently. Has been going on for weeks.
SephyTheThird (
talk)
16:06, 21 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Indefinite semi-protection: A persistent but not-logged-in editor (very likely blocked user
Vujkovica brdo) keeps reverting to an unencyclopedic, puffed-up, and hagiographic version of the article. This has been going on since at least March 2016 when Vb first began editing the article. —
David Eppstein (
talk)
18:51, 21 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protected for a period of 1 year, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. No viable blocks so hopefully they'll have got the idea by then if not we can review.
Amortias (
T)(
C)
19:33, 21 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Declined –
Pages are not protected preemptively. As I understand policy as of now, we should have at least one edit which can be described as vandalism for it to be implemented. This I do not see while browsing the history of the article. If another admin wants to protect, go right ahead though.
Lectonar (
talk)
08:29, 22 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Previous vandals haven't been auto-confirmed so semi-protection should resolve the issue
Amortias (
T)(
C)
23:11, 21 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to
justify protection. I see some vandalism, but some good-faith edits as well. Allin all not enough for semi-protection.
Lectonar (
talk)
11:02, 21 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Fully protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. It's not "disruptive editing" if multiple editors revert each other over such issues but edit-warring. Reach consensus on the talk page, then request unprotection. SoWhy15:29, 21 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Unprotection: “The reason for full protection is usually to force a discussion” – Would it not be fair to say that the act of full protecting a page (restricting that pages editing to admins only) is de-facto removing anyone’s ability to edit the article? This action of fully protecting an article and restricting its editing to sysops only is contentious of
WP:5P3. For an action, which by its nature, is contemptuous of a founding principle of Wikipedia it would seem to me that a rationale like “to force a discussion” is rather disingenuous. The action of fully protecting an article is dystopian and it is also an affront to the spirit of Wikipedia which can be surmised in its slogan “the
freeencyclopedia that
anyone can edit.” It would further occur to me that in circumstances which upholding the principle that “anyone can edit” could damage Wikipedia then restrictive protections ought to be placed; however, the action of placing this protection to protect an article would be counterproductive if the reasons for instituting it did not seek to prevent damage to Wikipedia. “The reason for full protection is to force discussion” seems invariably aimed at making a point and conveying a message to editors that they must discuss before editing an article. This point could be made without affronting WP:5P3. Furthermore, by applying full protection to make a point it is disrupting other editors (whom perhaps had not been involved in the original reason for protecting the article) ability to constructively contribute towards an article. Wiki-CoffeeTalk02:28, 21 February 2017 (UTC)reply
@
Mifter: Warned again - however obvious multiple accounts owned by the same user (1 IP on Feb 2nd; 2 Users on Feb 5 and Feb 21) over multiple days this month, I think the article itself needs protection since both IPs and multiple accounts are involved. -- Danetalk06:24, 21 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary pending changes:BLP policy violations – IPs repeatedly adding the surprising and unsourced claim that this minor British comedian was "rated among the top ten best comics in Britain by the Stage newspaper". This is a low traffic article with few IP edits other than this repeated one.
McGeddon (
talk)
21:34, 20 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection:Disrupting editing by
The TV Boy. This user has a long history of unacceptable behaviour including but not limited to
edit warring, breaking the three-revert rule,
vandalism,
harassing and threatening other users, trolling football-related pages, speaking on behalf of admins without their knowledge and permission.
His newest field of activity is
Vivacom Arena Georgi Asparuhov. Being a supporter of a rival club he wants to impose an illogical title that sounds stupid. The stadium was known as Georgi Asparuhov Stadium until recently when the name of the principal sponsor
Vivacom was added. Due to fan pressure, the club decided to combine a commercial and non-commercial name, thus, instead of Vivacom Arena the stadium was called Vivacom Arena Georgi Asparuhov. The names of the football venues, including the
sponsored ones contain either arena or stadium but not both. Because of his history of counterproductive behaviour I'm asking TV Boy to be blocked from editing this article and the troll page
Vivacom Arena - Georgi Asparuhov Stadium to be deleted.--
Ivo (
talk)
00:39, 21 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary extended confirmed:BLP policy violations – semi protection not stopping team change edits...id say keep it this way until the trade is officially announced.
WNYY98 (
talk)
17:06, 20 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protection: Persistent
vandalism – Ip.s are creating mess in this article, nationalistic chaos, page should be protected as this article topic is "hot" for several days now. Protect article. Ąnαșταη (
ταlκ)18:00, 20 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Declined – This template is not used widely enough to be considered a
high-risk template. Not really a target for vandalism, further the template is primarily internal facing so even in the unlikely event something were to happen it would be reverted quickly and not directly appear to readers.
Mifter (
talk)
05:50, 21 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent
disruptive editing – Page has a 3-month history of persistent disruption from an IP trying to reinstall a hagiography rejected by all other editors (at least 5 including me); this continues a more slow-motion campaign to install similar material that had gone on for many months before that. Given the persistence of the IP/IPs I suggest semiprotection for 3-6 months. There's almost no other editing on the article, BTW. EEng20:36, 20 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Long-term semi-protection: Despite repeated indefinite blocks, someone creates a new user ID every few months to vandalize this high-quality article, with libelous criminal allegations against a living person. If you're also able to block the new user ID (HoleINSixGolfa) and suppress the libelous content (the article's two versions dated 20 February 2017), even better. —
Patrug (
talk)
04:51, 21 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protection: Recent target of the
Teenage Fairytale Dropouts vandal. Vandalized by several different TFD IPs today. Not previously protected, but this vandal customarily returns to protected articles after the protection expires. --
Finngalltalk22:19, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
BOI THIS ALL is weird stuff but seems like a cool articlereply
Temporary semi-protection:BLP policy violations – trade rumors, recommend protection until march 9 especially if traded (date it would become official).
WNYY98 (
talk)
23:14, 20 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary extended confirmed: Persistent
sockpuppetry – Persistent sockpuppetry, and puppetmaster has indicated more exist. ECP will discourage further disruptive edits from more socks, as previous socks have simply made enough edits to become autoconfirmed.
MereTechnicality⚙14:08, 20 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. The article appears to have been relatively quiet since the protection expired (excluding now), no need to lock long-term at present.
Mifter (
talk)
05:47, 21 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Indefinite semi-protectionDisruptive edits: The list's indefinite semi-protection was replaced by
sock puppetry protection. That expired just recently. Can the original indefinite semi protection be re-applied? The list constantly attracts anonymous IPs who make continuous disruptive edits.--
Harout72 (
talk)
02:26, 22 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to
justify protection. Users involved are blocked. Only one disruptive edit has been made in two days, in which no edits were made at all. Protection doesn't appear justified at this time.
~Oshwah~(talk)(contribs)07:17, 22 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: Would like to have temporary protection of the page during GA review over the next week to avoid disruptive IP edits.
Shaded0 (
talk)
04:36, 22 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protection: There is a lot of IPv4 and IPv6 vandalism. In some of them there is also, user vandalism. Some of the articles if the article history is looked properly, it will show that some of the pages have vandalism going back for a long time.
Aceing_Winter_Snows_Harsh_Cold (
talk)
08:05, 22 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent
vandalism – Request a change in protection level from Pending Changes: autoconfirmed to a more permanent level that does not require the input of editors to reject the constant attempts to remove valid, referenced information from this article. A quick look at the article's history will show that "Pending Changes" isn't really appropriate - semi-protection is the best option for this article. .
Exemplo347 (
talk)
10:34, 22 February 2017 (UTC)reply
I'm trying to keep it as consensus. There was then article written about "antisemitism on Wikipedia" and these accounts are now coming to vandalize the page.
Debresser and others are trying to converse with these editors but they blindly revert. (I also disagree with the closure, the closer misunderstood the question and it's clear that ALL Jews can't be labeled as Middle Eastern. Judaism is from the Middle East, but individual Jews are from wherever they are. I for example, am not from the ME, why would my page list me as ME descent then?)
Sir Joseph(talk)14:53, 22 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent
vandalism – This page is vandalized twice or thrice every day this article isn't protected. It's been protected almost ten times in the last several years. I recommend keeping this semi-protected for at least a few years this time. Chris Troutman (
talk)14:53, 22 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent
vandalism – Lots of silly vandalism of late. As the console is due in under two weeks, 2-3 weeks of semi would be appreciated (would do myself but am active on page).
MASEM (
t)
15:24, 22 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protection: Subject of article appears to be routinely attempting to scrub it of content they consider "defamatory", regardless of relevance, compliance, suitability within Wikipedia guidelines, etc.
131.137.245.208 (
talk)
16:56, 22 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Declined, the article is currently under pending changes and so far there is no evidence that the disruption is so intense that we should exclude IPs from editing at all.--
Ymblanter (
talk)
18:35, 22 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent addition of
unsourced or poorly sourced content – 8 IPs/unconfirmed bad edits in the last 6 days. They never use the talk page to follow the law re: consensus, and they always make unsourced edits. I'd still rather FULL for 6 or 8 months till all this stupidity dies downs. Beyoncé and Jay Z my foot. .
L3X1My Complaint Desk17:44, 22 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protected for a period of Indefinite, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. I just did this while Oshwah was posting. This is a high profile article, and it was Pending Changes protected since 2015, which resolved nothing. Just about every IP edit for years has been reverted for vandalism.
— Maile (
talk)
19:37, 22 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: The festival is later this week, with the article seeing a spike in traffic. IPs adding advertisement links, unsourced content etc. Requesting an appropriate semi. A week, or till March 2 should suffice.
Ms Sarah Welch (
talk)
18:28, 22 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Declined - Only one IP is making changes to the article, and the issue appears content-related or over things that can be discussed / educated with the user. Protection is not a way to get one user's attention; it's used as a result to stop disruption by multiple users and at a rate that justifies its use.
~Oshwah~(talk)(contribs)19:45, 22 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – There is currently an edit dispute going on at Teresa May, concerning whether the page should remain redirected to
Theresa May, or instead have it become a disambiguation page (despite the fact that we already have
Theresa May (disambiguation), rendering such a new dab superfluous). The persistent reverting back and forth has to stop, pending a consensus (i.e. at
Talk:Theresa May) for a change to the status quo. --
Nevé–selbert23:31, 22 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent
disruptive editing – Repeated addition of a redundant genre (mecha is a subset of science fiction) by an Indian IP from a cellular broadband service. Latest edits removed a citation that was added to support the mecha genre. . —Farix (
t |
c)
02:50, 23 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: Continued, almost-daily addition of unsourced content (pay-per-view figures) throughout the whole month. Always by the same 129.xx IP, and previously a user who was indef blocked. My last RPP request was denied on the basis of a content dispute, but this should not apply—there is nothing to dispute about the insertion of completely unsourced content, week after week.
Mac Dreamstate (
talk)
21:15, 23 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Indefinite semi-protection: Heavy vandalism. Pending changes is overly optimistic for the most contentious sports figure in the US.
Lizard (
talk)
20:24, 23 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – There seems to be an edit war on this article with the editor violating 3RR and refusing to build consensus on the talk page.
Adamgerber80 (
talk)
15:41, 23 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent
vandalism – One editor, using a long list of IP addresses, keeps making the same disruptive edits, over and over, and does not respond to requests that he stop. Semi-protection seems the only route to stop him. The Old JacobiteThe '4517:21, 23 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: Nothing but vandalism for months. Started up again after last protection ended. Possibly one person, but using multiple new accounts.
Meters (
talk)
19:13, 23 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent
vandalism – Article's been the subject of some recent & persistent IP vandalism from either a single changing IP or multiple users.
Pishcal (
talk)
16:00, 23 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Thank you,
Lectonar. But I am a bit confused. Are we looking at the same article? The article has had a large number of vandalism or disruptive edits, starting from the moment Luang Por was widely reported in English press, that is from 19 February onward. I have listed the edits below. Most of them are just adding random Thai or English text, or deleting a large part of the page. I request a temporary increase of protection for as long as the temple and its abbot are widely reported in the news, to protect the quality of the page.
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive edits by an IP. Not a content dispute: Jones is not recognised by any credible media outlet as a five-weight world champion, which is what the IP keeps pushing.
Mac Dreamstate (
talk)
15:02, 23 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Unsure that this disambiguation page needed to be semi-protected. The
user who set the status is no longer active, and the status seems to have been put in place due to a minor edit war between confirmed users (so, not sure what it accomplished) on 17th/18th/19th of Nov 2009. —
al-Shimoni (
talk)
22:56, 22 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Unprotection: Little bit confused as to why my request was archived and then upgraded to full protection. Said offending user which was the source of the issue has be given a softblock and myself and another user are attempting to improve the article, which we cannot do so when it has full protection. I requested "Extended confirmed protection" in the first place to prevent sock puppets and said CoI user from making vandalising. Now it's pointless, even more so the current protection level. Read said users talk page, I gave them enough warnings...
Uamaol (
talk)
03:23, 20 February 2017 (UTC)reply
When there appears to be an edit war, full protection is the norm. At the time of finding the article, I had no idea who was being disruptive, there were just too many reverts - so the usual thing is to stop the editing. I'll change it to ECP. There are quite a few tickets at OTRS, it's not going to go away easily...
Ronhjones (Talk)16:51, 20 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent
disruptive editing – Repeated addition of a redundant genre (mecha is a subset of science fiction) by an Indian IP from a cellular broadband service. Latest edits removed a citation that was added to support the mecha genre. . —Farix (
t |
c)
02:50, 23 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protection: There appears to be some people who keep messing with this page, it seems to have diminished now but with the possibility of it continuing, i would be happy if the page was semi-protected so that way no IP that just joined or account that was just created can vandalize right after creation. Thank you and have a nice day!
Wikipediauser123456 (
talk)
01:18, 24 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent
disruptive editing – Requesting one week temporary protection, PC or semi to stop the disruptive editing occurring. The election is next Thursday so it would help to have the protection extended until Friday.
st170e02:09, 24 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to
justify protection. It's all one IP who's been doing the vandalizing. They've now received a final warning. If it happens again, they can just be blocked. ~
Rob13Talk04:45, 24 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent
vandalism – A review of recent edits show that this article attracts vandalism and semi-protection is requested. It should enjoy the same level of protection as its nearest cousins in the articles "Domestic dog" and "Gray wolf".
William Harris •(talk) •04:19, 24 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Fully protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Actually,
SnapSnap, this is a content dispute. Including runtimes with tracks is not against any style guide. It is a matter of editorial discretion. Run times can be sourced to the album itself if it includes that information, similar to the plot of a movie. Discuss this on the talk page. ~
Rob13Talk06:13, 24 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: Repeated anon edits from multiple IPs messing with references and citations in nonsensical ways.
Reil (
talk)
21:00, 23 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to
justify protection. Appears to be one person using two accounts and an IP. The disruption has since stopped. Report again if it resumes. ~
Rob13Talk19:05, 23 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protection: Repeatedly unsourced edit warring with newly created users.(
T)
Declined Semi-protection would be one-sided here, and I'm not sure this rises to the level of EC or full protection: disruption is not severe, and the edits appear to be in good faith.
Vanamonde (
talk)
15:38, 25 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Comment I know this was declined by YMblanter a few days ago, but I would like to respectfully disagree. The trend that I have seen (so far) is that during the first month or so of the popularity of a Hindi film, IPs will come one nearly daily to change the profit amount (in either direction) without providing a source. This clogs up the PCR logs and the page history, because I always have to revert it to do lack of sources. If this is declined again, I will accept it and not bring this article forward for SEMI again. Thank you.
L3X1My Complaint Desk14:58, 24 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: I am requesting for a semi protection, being the creator of this article, because of persistent changes of formatting and partly deletions without discussion by unknown IP-User with multiple accounts [2605:6000:ef43:8500:b510:3d30:60d1:area3]. I am interested in standardized format according to all other national records in athletic pages. Thank you for comment if it is possible to protect or not.
2.247.244.49 (
talk)
13:26, 25 February 2017 (UTC)reply
I hope a timed protection will stop the issue. I dont't know other way to protect. Unfortunately i tried with revert but was immediately involved in an edit war. So now my creation account is blocked for 72 hours - after thousends of edits in past years... There are no edits to expected in next weeks cause this side is updated.
2.247.244.49 (
talk)
14:18, 25 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protection: I am requesting for a semi protection, being the creator of this article because I am anticipating high levels of IP vandalism in the coming days as the series of the phenomenal love team of the
Philippines,
AlDub will start. I am aware that there are people who will make errors on my article by putting wrong information of ratings, etc which was happened 4 days ago even the series didn't started yet. As a creator of this article, I want registered user who will supply correct information on this page. I hope my request would be granted. Thank you very much.
Leo kingston (
talk)
13:03, 25 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protection: Persistent
disruptive editing – One or more IP-hoppers repeatedly (see page history) adding unsourced right-wing propaganda to the article, claiming that it is the 'rape capital of the world', a claim that isn't supported by any reliable sources... - Tom |
Thomas.W talk17:43, 25 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent
vandalism – This page is frequently vandalised by anonymous by giving nonsense info and frequently reverted to the vandalised revision by anonymous.
Tiktomoro (
talk)
14:30, 25 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent re-addition of the same unsourced claims - first IP was given a short block, new account is on level 4 warning and 3RR, so a new IP is adding the same material - patently gaming the system -
Arjayay (
talk)
14:34, 25 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Indefinite full protection: Per user's request. There is no need for anyone, including me, to edit my user page, as all the content is stored on a subpage.
epicgenius (
talk)
16:48, 24 February 2017 (UTC)reply
@
NeilN: There is a specific need as there has been recent vandalism on my user page. Can I have a review of this? I would like to increase the protection level.
epicgenius (
talk)
02:30, 25 February 2017 (UTC)reply
@
NeilN: My point is that no one needs to edit it at all, and that the page is already semi-protected. Should I ask another admin to look at this? Because I'm not satisfied that user is going to stop vandalizing my page in the future. This is in no way a denial of your decision, but no one should be editing my page anyway except me, and I don't want to edit my page.
epicgenius (
talk)
02:40, 25 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Declined I have left notes requesting explanations from the editors who edited your userpage. For now, that should do. If this continues to be a problem, I'll happily review this decision. —
Coffee //
have a cup //
beans //
08:50, 25 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Full Protection: Vandalism - removal of a group member despite that member stating repeatedly they are still a member of the group (sourced); called "delusional" for adding him back into a group he and the group says he is in. It's probably the same anti who has been continuously smearing him on other social platforms, so I don't think they'll ever stop making false edits to remove him.
68.48.199.201 (
talk)
16:12, 24 February 2017 (UTC)reply
I hope it's okay for me to ask this here, but this seems like an odd request considering you just recreated this very article (along with several dozen other JG G5'd articles) and now you're asking from protection from a blocked sock master,
Luis Angel? Chrissymad❯❯❯¯\_(ツ)_/¯02:09, 26 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – user has changed IP addresses for each edit today. And has attempted to make the same change prior to today. .
Kellymoat (
talk)
18:21, 26 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Full protection: recent death of one of the stars has people wanting to include "in his final role" --- i don't know how to do a "recent death" request.
Kellymoat (
talk)
17:12, 26 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: Rash of unsourced additions - After a new account was warned for 3RR, 5 different IPs have added similar unsourced material, so appears to be "gaming" the system. New account will be auto-confirmed in 35 hours, so extended confirmed protection requested as is an Indian name/caste article. -
Arjayay (
talk)
17:28, 26 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent
vandalism since it was unprotected a week ago. Third request so far this season, requesting a longer protection period until NBA season ends (in June).
BillyBatty (
talk)
16:27, 26 February 2017 (UTC)reply
@
Amortias: I would suggest you protect him from his own signature, it might start growling. This is akin to asking facebook to block you from editing one’s own “about” section. Imagine that, once they implement that it will be people asking to be blocked from sending nudes of themselves in messages… then blocking one’s self from access to their ex’s profile page.
→ὦiki-Coffee(
talk to me!)(
contributions)13:40, 26 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Did not get the ping...odd. Yes, I'd like to protect againstmyself (and all other non-admins) from editing it (again), as it once was admin protected before. (
t)
Josve05a (
c)14:56, 26 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection:BLP policy violations – Controversial person in the news; spate of new SPA accounts showing up to make unsourced/poorly-sourced, often negative edits without discussion.
NorthBySouthBaranof (
talk)
07:02, 26 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent
vandalism – not much reason for anons to edit this especially since it could easily become a vandalism target due to subject.
WNYY98 (
talk)
04:19, 26 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Request for indefinite semi-protection requiring autoconfirmed or confirmed access as par to
Al-Ahbash
Since
Al-Ahbash got indefinite semi-protection requiring autoconfirmed or confirmed access, the Wikipedia page about
Abdullah al-Harari will bear the brunt of constant and continuous disruptive editing because it is directly related to
Al-Ahbash as
Abdullah al-Harari is the preacher / scholar the
Al-Ahbash follow. It doesn't mean that the
Al-Ahbash page will be left alone. Just recently, first
180.246.67.138 / 180.246.67.138(
talk·contribs·WHOIS) and then
36.79.65.55 / 36.79.65.55(
talk·contribs·WHOIS) made very similar edits to
Abdullah al-Harari. In their edits, they
improperly cited the first
article by misquoting it (The article clearly states "Islamic Scholars in Somalia’s northeastern state of Puntland have condemned Shiite books allegedly loaded from Iran which tries to gain foothold in the Horn of African nation, Garowe Online reports......Books spotted in Somalia’s Puntland were largely authored by controversial cleric, Abdullahi Mohamed Yusuf (Al Harari), Sunni scholars said.") and then in the second
source (a non-English one) they tried to
promote Nahdlatul Ulama Online. (i.e.
visiting Abdullah al-Harari's grave by chairman of Nahdlatul Ulama Online is irrelevant to this article on many levels). I am afraid such behavior will only increase in the coming days. Please, look into my request. Thank you. McKhan(
talk)07:35, 26 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Reduction in move-protection level: Please change move-protection from "sysop" to "template editor" (or lower). This was added at the same time that edit-protection was set to "autoconfirmed". Protecting admin is fairly inactive, with just one edit for all of 2016 and no edits in 2017. Thanks. --
Zyxw (
talk)
03:00, 26 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Regarding this automated comment, the current protection levels for edit and move are as specified in my request, which is to reduce the move-protection level from "sysop" to "template editor" (or lower). --
Zyxw (
talk)
03:31, 26 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Reduction in move-protection level: Please change move-protection from "sysop" to "template editor" (or lower). This was added at the same time that edit-protection was set to "autoconfirmed". Protecting admin is fairly inactive, with just one edit for all of 2016 and no edits in 2017. Thanks. --
Zyxw (
talk)
03:02, 26 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Regarding this automated comment, the current protection levels for edit and move are as specified in my request, which is to reduce the move-protection level from "sysop" to "template editor" (or lower). --
Zyxw (
talk)
03:31, 26 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary full protection: Full of warring and stuff. Also, it's been subject to
WP:ANI recently. I don't think ARBPIA3 applies as the category is too broad to be considered part of Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Or maybe I'm wrong. --
George Ho (
talk)
02:44, 26 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to
justify protection. It looks like for the most part that new editors and anons are editing somewhat constructively and as the page has such a high edit rate there is not enough activity to justify locking the page.
Mifter (
talk)
18:49, 25 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Editing somewhat constructively? Surely joking? Reliably sourced content continues to be regularly removed (this just happened, for example
[38]) and IP numbers continue to add Breitbart articles and other wacko sources. It is impossible to edit this article given the large number of new users and IP numbers who are intent on engaging on the same disruptive editing.
Snooganssnoogans (
talk)
19:19, 25 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent
vandalism – Persistent insertion of false material claiming non existing accreditation. References are provided to the front page I'd accreditation organizations but the school is not listed with either as accredited. .
John from Idegon (
talk)
18:58, 25 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Addition of information that ins't
reliably sourced by new account. Have semi'd it rather than blocking them so they can continue with the discussion on the talk page.
Amortias (
T)(
C)
17:20, 25 February 2017 (UTC)reply
@
Amortias: I know you're new to being an admin and all... but, we don't usually do that. Standard procedure is that if one person is disrupting an article then that one person gets blocked (until they can be trusted to stop). We don't prevent literally millions of people from being able to edit a page to stop 1 person (or even two people). Therefore, you should reverse the protection and institute a block. —
Coffee //
have a cup //
beans //
17:26, 25 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent
vandalism – IP edits have recently caused a lot of disruption to the page, people have been removing honours and incorrect editing the table following the recent League Cup final. A week's protection at least would be appreciated.
Mountaincirque12:23, 27 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection:BLP policy violations – Lots of new anon IP editors flooding this article. Need temporary protection to get things back under control. McDoobAU9320:56, 27 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: Heavy edit warring by dynamic IP 31.173.8x.xxx against several others to add a dubious alleged Twitter account
http://twitter.com/waltz1956. The account is unverified by Twitter and likely fake as explained in
[39]. Warnings like
User talk:31.173.80.107 to several of the IP addresses shortly after the edits (1 minute in the example) have no effect.
PrimeHunter (
talk)
17:20, 27 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Declined I do not see the need anymore; afaiks on the talk-page, the title has been agreed upon AND is reliably sourced. Is a formal closure of the RM really necessary, when clear consensus is there?
Lectonar (
talk)
10:31, 27 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent
disruptive editing – The AfD is being heavily targeted by socks of the article's creator - some sockpuppet !votes have been deleted by various people (especially those that simply duplicate the words of some other user) but it is becoming rather disruptive. A
SPI is underway, but I think semi protection would still be helpful since there are good, thoughtful arguments being made both in favour of keeping and against it, and they are getting lost in the flood of sock !votes. In addition, Nsmutte has discovered the AfD, and that can lead to a lot of cleanup work for a lot of innocent bystanders. bonadeacontributionstalk15:26, 27 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Temporary semi-protection:BLP policy violations – Another slew of anon drive-by BLP-violating edits misrepresenting or outright lying about what sources say about a living child.
NorthBySouthBaranof (
talk)
11:14, 27 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protection: Disruptive editing and vandalism from anonymous users and IP addresses. Use of "Qadayani" (various spellings) is deregotaory slang for
Ahmadiyya Community
Khavakoz (
talk)
11:27, 27 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-Protection - Persistent vandalism by an unrelenting sock puppeteer. Not long after this same vandal already caused the page to get protected, the vandal started doing the same as before and is showing no signs of stopping. DarkKnight214904:06, 27 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Declined. Troubled protection history (nearly 25) on an entry about a missing minor. Continue to use the talk page for proposals.
El_C05:59, 27 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semi-protection: Please see
Talk:Jehovah's_Witnesses/Archive_62#IP_Block for the consensus. Also see the recent history, where not only disruptive IP address edits are daily made, but also regular ones from brand-new single-purpose accounts (at least semi-protection would discourage this because of the delay)... The issue here is not the amount of problematic edits per day, where temporary protection may be warranted, but it is a very persistent long-term issue. Perhaps that permanent pending changes protection would be nice, if permanent semi-protection cannot be applied. Thank you very much,
PaleoNeonate (
talk)
02:17, 27 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Protection highly appreciated, many thanks. I understand that the administrator who processes the request has the final word, although I believed that showing consensus may be encouraging. Thanks again,
PaleoNeonate (
talk)
02:59, 27 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent
vandalism – Consistent vandalism. Began once again once previous protection was removed, and the article has a lengthy protection history, which I believe warrants an indefinite amount of protection.
Favre1fan93 (
talk)
00:54, 27 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Pending-changes protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. There looks to be legitimate edits being made by anonymous users; I don't want to shut them out of being able to continue to do so. Pending changes protection added.
~Oshwah~(talk)(contribs)00:21, 1 March 2017 (UTC)reply