Before requesting, read the protection policy. Full protection is used to stop edit warring between multiple users or to prevent vandalism to high-risk templates; semi-protection and pending changes are usually used to prevent IP and new user vandalism (see the rough guide to semi-protection); and move protection is used to stop pagemove revert wars. Extended confirmed protection is used where semi-protection has proved insufficient (see the rough guide to extended confirmed protection)
After a page has been protected, it is listed in the page history and logs with a short rationale, and the article is listed on Special:Protectedpages. In the case of full protection due to edit warring, admins should not revert to specific versions of the page, except to get rid of obvious vandalism.
Place requests for new or upgrading pending changes, semi-protection, full protection, move protection, create protection, template editor protection, or upload protection at the BOTTOM of this section. Check the archive of fulfilled and denied requests or, failing that, the page history if you cannot find your request. Only recently answered requests are still listed here.
semi-protection - Can someone please protect my talk page for just a day or so from anon edits so I can log on at least once without receiving an offensive message from an anon IP who's been harassing me? Hopefully if my talk page is protected they'll just move on. Thanks! Somno (talk) 12:25, 31 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Okay, thanks for considering it anyway. I have already taken it to Wikiquette alerts; I just thought this might help me while waiting for a response from there. Somno (talk) 13:05, 31 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
temporary semi-protectionVandalism, Last night every 5-10 minuets & a few this morning semi-protect till off main page to avoid the drive-bys.Nate1481(t/c) 11:23, 31 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. I don't even want to semi-protect this, as there was a lot of good-faith IP activity recently. Kusma (talk) 12:31, 31 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
temporary semi-protectionVandalism, Frequent silly and vulgar vandalism during January - nearly all reversions are for undoing vandalism. .Wisdom89 (talk) 10:32, 31 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
temporary semi-protectionVandalism, Most of the reversions are due to vandalism, and cluebot has been particularly active in identifying and reverting incessant vandalism. Request semi-protect, perhaps into february. .Wisdom89 (talk) 10:27, 31 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
temporary semi-protectionVandalism, Due to subject and content, article has seen a barrage of recent vandalism. Semi-protection might be in order. .Wisdom89 (talk) 10:25, 31 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
temporary semi-protectionVandalism, January is seeing some heavy vandalism due to the controversial nature of the subject. Requesting a semi-protected page to see if it alleviates the problem.Wisdom89 (talk) 10:22, 31 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
temporary semi-protection , Official line-up of this years fest not due until Feb 6. Daily multiple rumors/spurious anonymous edits..Wwwhatsup (talk) 08:17, 31 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Mainly registered users it seems, with only a random few IPs over the last week. Jmlk1709:17, 31 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Before posting, first discuss with the protecting admin at their talk page. Post below only if you receive no reply.
To find out the username of the admin who protected the page click on "history" at the top of the page, then click on "View logs for this page" which is under the title of the page. The protecting admin is the username in blue before the words "protected", "changed protection level" or "pending changes". If there are a number of entries on the log page, you might find it easier to select "Protection log" or "Pending changes log" from the dropdown menu in the blue box.
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If you want to make spelling corrections or add uncontroversial information to a protected page please add {{Edit fully-protected}} to the article's talk page, along with an explanation of what you want to add to the page. If the talk page is protected please use the section below.
Check the archives if you cannot find your request. Only recently answered requests are still listed here.
It's been almost two years wince Jimmy Wales swung the ban hammer on this article, and almost one year since he invited the community to revisit it. If the page is going to remain verboten, its protection should probably develop an articulated reason.
01:40, 22 February 2006 Jimbo Wales deleted "Brian Peppers" (We can live without this until 21 February 2007, and if anyone still cares by then, we can discuss it)
unprotection , Page protected for far too long, should be unprotected for now because the subject is a current event and that the article's been protected for a while anyway..Solumeiras (talk) 11:03, 31 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Ideally, requests should be made on the article talk page rather than here.
Unless the talk page itself is protected, you may instead add the appropriate template among {{Edit protected}}, {{Edit template-protected}}, {{Edit extended-protected}}, or {{Edit semi-protected}} to the article's talk page if you would like to make a change rather than requesting it here. Doing so will automatically place the page in the appropriate category for the request to be reviewed.
If the discussion page and the article are both protected preventing you from making an edit request, this page is the right place to make that request. Please see the top of this page for instructions on how to post requests.
This page is not for continuing or starting discussions regarding content should both an article and its discussion page be protected. Please make a request only if you have a specific edit you wish to make.
Final reversion by Lawrence Cohen on 22 January was minutes before page was protected during edit war. Eschoir returned from 24 hour block for edit warring that morning and straightaway started edit war again. This time he recruited Lawrence Cohen from WP:RFAR. As shown on talk page final revert by Lawrence Cohen is not supported by consensus or by Wikipedia policy. Please restore previous version by Samurai Commuter. Shibumi2 (talk) 22:18, 25 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
In the article on al-Qaeda: I'd like to request that a separate level-2 heading be created to discuss the essential issue of al-Qaeda's numbers. Nowhere in the article, as currently protected, is there a systematic discussion of the number of operatives in the organization. From the text of the article as it currently stands, al-Qaeda could include tens of millions of operatives, or less than fifty. This needless, dangerous ambiguity to the article ought to be addressed and corrected forthwith. --TallulahBelle (talk) 19:57, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
A rather unorthodox request. An arbitrator has protected this page, but left a conditional in her edit summary. For details, see here. The current "pp-dispute" tag at the top of the talk page tells people to come here to request unprotection. What I would like is for an uninvolved administrator to change that link (you may need to substitute the template) to point to User talk:FloNight#Agreement regarding Wikipedia talk:Requests for_arbitration/IRC/Proposed_decision instead. This will allow any uninvolved editors passing by, and unaware of the situation, to go to the right place to ask for page unprotection. Carcharoth (talk) 06:00, 18 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Not sure if this is the right place for this request, but nowhere else seems as appropriate. I'd like to request that Medicine Show be (re?)created as a redirect to Medicine show, but not (necessarily) unprotected. Note also the existence of Medicine Show (album). I found the SALT tag when looking for the Big Audio Dynamite single, incidentally. Tevildo (talk) 21:39, 19 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
temporary semi-protection
the threat of vandalism about "United States Permanent Resident Card" article.
Due to recent event and issue about Taiwan's presidential election candidate Ma's "Green Card".
Frank Hsieh incited Wikipedia as a source of his evidence.
To prevent vandalism and Edit war to mislead the peoples who read this article,I request a temporary semi-protection to protect this article(request also filed to zh-tw version.)Hattonchiu1 (talk) 04:40, 31 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Semi-protection - Unsourced POV pushing and reverts have been going on for many, many months. Generally registered users are willing to discuss it (see talk page), but there is no end with the IP users. As a result, several editors have retired from the article. Request semi-protection for a several months. Bendono (talk) 02:32, 31 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
semi-protect. This article is high profile and is prone to vandalism by anons. Popcorn was protected twice in the last two months, during this protection the vandalism stopped. Please review the history page of this article and some of the contribution histories of those who had their edits reverted. 209.244.43.112 (talk) 02:27, 31 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Full-protecton - page has been under edit wars of no consensus merge since November. Page was fully protected since 12/13/07, due to this. Nominated for AfD "because the merge discussion didn't work," which also resulted in no consenus, which led to page being blocked. Requesting full page protection to allow for a new merge discussion to initiate and conclude. -66.109.248.114 (talk) 01:28, 31 January 2008 (UTC).[reply]
Semi-protect. Perpetual IP vandalism. Since this page was un-semi'd about 10 days ago there have been over 40 edits, almost half reverts for anon vandalism. At some point real content was <!-- hidden -->, tires was changes to tyres, and only 2 or 3 meaningful edits were made. This has ramped up over the last two days (diff shows 17 edits over 2 days, mostly reverting IP vandalism). Last time (Jan 14) page was semi'd for a week. R. Baley (talk) 01:16, 31 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
indefinite semi-protection , This article has been subject to additions of BLP-violating info by anon-IP's concerning smear tactics against a candidate in a major political election. It is likely to be vulnerable until Senator Clinton drops out of the presidential campaign..скоморохъѧ00:46, 31 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Temporary semi-protectionVandalism - Requesting my talk page to be semi protected temporarily due to IP vandalism from the 70.81.XX.XX range. This has happened multiple times, and will likely continue. Thanks. Milonica (talk) 00:38, 31 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. This is your talk page too, and there need to be more vandalism than that to warrant semi-protection. Acalamari00:48, 31 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]