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Before requesting, read the protection policy. Full protection is used to stop edit warring between multiple users or to prevent vandalism to high-risk templates; semi-protection and pending changes are usually used to prevent IP and new user vandalism (see the rough guide to semi-protection); and move protection is used to stop pagemove revert wars. Extended confirmed protection is used where semi-protection has proved insufficient (see the rough guide to extended confirmed protection). After a page has been protected, it is listed in the page history and logs with a short rationale, and the article is listed on Special:ProtectedPages. In the case of full protection due to edit warring, admins should not revert to specific versions of the page, except to remove obvious vandalism.
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Current requests for increase in protection level
[edit]Place requests for protection increases at the BOTTOM of this section. If you cannot find your request, check the archive of requests or the page history. Only recently answered requests are still listed here.
Indefinite full protection: Inappropriate use of user talk page while blocked – Will be a target, no reason to be unprotected as the user is globally locked. – LuniZunie(talk) 17:39, 17 February 2026 (UTC)
User(s) re-blocked with talk page editing disallowed by Daniel Case. That's all that's necessary. Daniel Case (talk) 21:42, 17 February 2026 (UTC)
Indefinite extended-confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement. Apple's face ID is influenced by PrimeSense, an Israeli military-created face detection; therefore, I see every reason why it should be under ECP. NeoSyria\Freedoxm (talk · contribs) 20:05, 17 February 2026 (UTC)
Declined "Israel" is mentioned once in the body of a 42K article. Therefore, I see no reason for ECP under ARBPIA. There also hasn't been much disruption, and no editing whatsoever in the last couple of months. Daniel Case (talk) 23:13, 17 February 2026 (UTC)
Indeed; a reminder that WP:CT/PIA is about the Arab-Israeli conflict. Pages that are merely "related to Israel" (or Palestine, or Arab countries, or...) do not fall under it just for that. - The Bushranger One ping only 00:17, 18 February 2026 (UTC)
semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing. 🍕BP!🍕 (🔔) 20:06, 17 February 2026 (UTC)
Indefinite extended-confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement. NeoSyria\Freedoxm (talk · contribs) 20:08, 17 February 2026 (UTC)
Declined – Pages are not protected preemptively. Only one paragraph of the page falls under WP:CT/PIA. In cases like this, enforcement of ECR is done by manually reverting edits made by non-XC editors to the covered content, not by protecting the page. - The Bushranger One ping only 00:18, 18 February 2026 (UTC)
Reason: Recent disruptive editing and edit warring- see Talk:Matt Amodio#Mathematician? (long story short, recent disruptive editing/edit warring is likely a result of this recent clip on Jeopardy!). Magitroopa (talk) 21:26, 17 February 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Andrew5. SuperPianoMan9167 (talk) 22:20, 17 February 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Andrew5. SuperPianoMan9167 (talk) 22:21, 17 February 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Consistent vandalism over the past few months. Similar waves have occurred in 2022, 2023, and 2025. Chariotsacha (talk) 23:04, 17 February 2026 (UTC)
- We don't protect for vandalism in the past, but we do block for a long time. Drmies (talk) 23:43, 17 February 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing. WP:EDITWAR, warned an involved TAI user but they won't stop manually reverting. NeoSyria\Freedoxm (talk · contribs) 23:56, 17 February 2026 (UTC)
+1 two TAI users edit-warring with each other. NeoSyria\Freedoxm (talk · contribs) 00:52, 18 February 2026 (UTC)Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. NeoSyria\Freedoxm (talk · contribs) 00:03, 18 February 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing. TAI user edit-warring and falsely claiming and implying that Ukraine was always an independent country NeoSyria\Freedoxm (talk · contribs) 00:43, 18 February 2026 (UTC)
+1 two TAI users edit-warring with each other. NeoSyria\Freedoxm (talk · contribs) 00:52, 18 February 2026 (UTC)Indefinite extended-confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement. NeoSyria\Freedoxm (talk · contribs) 01:19, 18 February 2026 (UTC)
Current requests for reduction in protection level
[edit]Before posting a request for unprotection, please discuss it with the protecting administrator first. You can create a request below only if you receive no response from them.
To find out which administrator protected the page, go to the page's edit history and click on the "View logs for this page" link (located underneath the page's title). The protecting administrator is listed in the protection log entry, next to the words "protected", "changed protection level", or "configured pending changes". If there are a large number of log entries on the page, use the drop-down menu near the top of the page and select "Protection log" or "Pending changes log" to filter the logs accordingly.
DO NOT request a reduction in protection if...
- ...you are being prevented from editing the page. A desire to change content is not a valid reason for unprotection. Instead:
- If you can edit the article's talk page, use the WP:Edit Request Wizard to propose a change on the article's talk page. Include an explanation of the exact content that you want to change, and what the content will be afterward.
- If the article's talk page is protected, you may propose a change at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Edit.
- ...your reasoning for reducing protection is that the article has not been vandalized. That simply means the protection is working as intended.
- ...your reasoning for reducing protection is basically "a long time has passed" without supporting details.
- ...you haven't contacted the protecting administrator.
You may request a protection reduction below if...
- ...you want to change the protection level of a template or module from full protection to template protection. You may add the request to this page without having to discuss it with the protecting administrator first.
- ...you need to remove creation protection from a location where no page exists (redlinked pages) after a draft version of the intended article is prepared beforehand and ready to be published.
- ...you are proposing a trial reduction in protection for a page that has been protected for several years, provided the proposal is supported by evidence such as talk page activity, page views, page traffic, number of watchers, frequency of edit requests, and prior history of vandalism.
- ...the protecting administrator is inactive or has not responded to you in several days.
If you cannot locate your request, make sure to check the request archives to see if it's been moved there. Only requests that have been recently answered will still be listed here.
Current requests for edits to a protected page
[edit]Please add an edit request to the talk page of the protected page before adding an edit request here
Requests for specific edits should be made on the talk page of the protected article. You can create an edit request below only if the talk page is also protected, preventing you from adding a request there.
- You may add the appropriate template (
},},}, or}) to the article's talk page if you would like to request an edit be made. Doing so will automatically place the page in the appropriate category for the request to be reviewed. - For edit requests being made due to the editor having a conflict of interest with the article subject (see Wikipedia:Suggestions for COI compliance), the
}template should be used instead of the others listed above. - Requests to move pages that are currently move-protected should be made at Wikipedia:Requested moves, not on this page.
- This page is not for holding discussions regarding content. Please make a request only if you have a specific edit that you wish to be performed.
Otherwise, this is the correct place to use in order to add an edit request if you are unable to add one to the article's talk page. Please see the top of this page for instructions on how to properly add a request.
Google Dalpatgohil4 (talk) 19:45, 17 February 2026 (UTC)
Not done --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 21:50, 17 February 2026 (UTC)
Handled requests
[edit]A historical archive of previous protection requests can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive.