Wikipedia:Requests for page protection
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Before requesting, read the protection policy. Full protection is used to stop edit warring between multiple users or to prevent vandalism to high-risk templates; semi-protection and pending changes are usually used to prevent IP and new user vandalism (see the rough guide to semi-protection); and move protection is used to stop pagemove revert wars. Extended confirmed protection is used where semi-protection has proved insufficient (see the rough guide to extended confirmed protection). After a page has been protected, it is listed in the page history and logs with a short rationale, and the article is listed on Special:ProtectedPages. In the case of full protection due to edit warring, admins should not revert to specific versions of the page, except to remove obvious vandalism.
Request addition of protection to a page, or increasing the current protection level
Request removal of protection from a page, or reducing the current protection level
Request a specific edit be made to a protected page
Request the non-urgent protection of multiple pages that do not require immediate administrator attention
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Current requests for increase in protection level
Place requests for protection increases at the BOTTOM of this section. If you cannot find your request, check the archive of requests or the page history. Only recently answered requests are still listed here.
Reason: This template is used in system message (those in the namespace “MediaWiki:”) and on almost 4 million pages (≈6% of all pages) at the time of writing, so why allow those who aren’t administrators to edit a system message, even those who are template editors? 2600 etc (talk) 13:06, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
Question: @2600 etc: Have you discussed this with Jo-Jo Eumerus, the admin who reduced the protection level from full to template protection? Epicgenius (talk) 13:51, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – Edit war gone on for a few days now. Multiple editors reverting each other. Escape Orbit (Talk) 20:08, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
Semi-protected – One month. User:Escape Orbit, consider engaging on the talk page since there is already some discussion there (even though there is nothing yet from the unregistered editors). EdJohnston (talk) 04:11, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) 20:11, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Several incidents within the last couple of days. Entranced98 (talk) 20:51, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Tbhotch™ (CC BY-SA 4.0) 21:39, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
Indefinite extended-confirmed protection: Repeatedly recreated. In solidarity Dafootballguy Want to talk? 21:39, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – unsourced reports going around about her death. CRBoyer 01:01, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
Reason: Persistent vandalism - adding copyrighted photos, changing her date of birth. Previously protected, which expired in May. Katzrockso (talk) 01:08, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism The person who loves reading (talk) 01:16, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
- Automated comment: One or more pages in this request appear to already be protected. Please confirm.—cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online 01:35, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
Requesting immediate archiving... – EdJohnston (talk) 04:02, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. srich0731 (talk) 01:35, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent Disruptive Editing. Bungle491 (talk) 03:57, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
Indefinite extended confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement – Community sanctions enforcement and WP:GS/CASTE. Cptabhiimanyuseven•[@píng mє] 04:02, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Recent spate of IP vandalism. Amigao (talk) 04:11, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
Reason: Requesting ECP per WP:GS/KURD (Kurds and Kurdistan sanctions), currently only semi-protected. Huyrutan (talk) 04:47, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
Current requests for reduction in protection level
Reason: Sanjay karir ~2026-44147-27 (talk) 03:51, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
Declined – This page isn't currently protected. Euryalus (talk) 04:04, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
Current requests for edits to a protected page
I request the following sentence be removed from the lead's 2nd paragraph:
"and subsequently annexing the Strait of Hormuz"
This sentence was recently added but is completely unsourced, not in the body, and POV pushing. Although Iran has claimed sovereignty over the strait, there are no sources claiming that it has actually successfully annexed it during the ongoing war or even attempted officially to do so. The linked page on sovereignty in the text which is a new page created by the same user also doesn't even support this wording of annexation. Current talks between Iran and Oman are about shared administration as well, not annexation. ~2026-43592-81 (talk) 07:20, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
The article lists under US casualties that there have been "42 aircraft lost", which is inaccurate as the sourced article states "42 aircraft lost or damaged", as it mentions examples such as an F-35 being damaged by missile fire, but surviving.
"42 aircraft lost" should be simply changed to "42 aircraft lost or damaged" Emkut7 (talk) 22:06, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
Handled requests
A historical archive of previous protection requests can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive.
