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    Welcome—request protection of a page, file, or template here.
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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 get rid of obvious vandalism.

    Request protection of a page, or increasing the protection level
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    Please request an edit directly on the protected page's talk page before posting here
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    Current requests for protection

    Place requests for new or upgrading of article protection, upload protection, or create protection at the BOTTOM of this section. Check the archive of fulfilled and denied requests or, failing that, the page history if you cannot find your request. Only recently answered requests are still listed here.

    temporary semi-protection , Requesting page protection in order to prevent 3RR. 3 different usernames are adding unsourced information. Requesting in order to have them take time away instead of sending me slightly uncivil messages.~Beano~ (talk) (contribs) 02:38, 8 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]


    temporary semi-protection , Continuous altercation of false peak positions by IP users.DiverseMentality 23:10, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]


    Semi-protect. Picking up lots of vandalism. Res2216firestar 22:45, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined Today's featured article is rarely semi-protected unless absolutely necessary. More information can be found at Wikipedia:Main_Page_featured_article_protection#Semi-protection. GbT/c 22:46, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protect. High level of IP vandalism in form of edit war. One last pharaoh (talk) 22:22, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. GbT/c 22:37, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protection: The article is being repeatedly vandalized again. -- Luke4545 (talk) 21:46, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. SoWhy 22:15, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protection. Persistent vandalism. Bogey97 (talk) 21:34, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. —αἰτίας •discussion• 22:06, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protection Vandalism, This page seems to be a constant target for vandalism from what appears to be school IPs..Nolookingca (talk) 21:07, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Tiptoety talk 21:10, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protection High level of vandalism recently. JNW (talk) 20:30, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 3 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. SoWhy 20:46, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protection saaave me... Excessive vandalism after last protection expired from IPs/un-autoconfirmed users. IceUnshattered [ t ] 20:25, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of one month. Tiptoety talk 20:40, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protection. Persistent vandalism. Bogey97 (talk) 20:13, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of six hours. Tiptoety talk 20:35, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    semi-protection Vandalism, This guy is famous iranian tv reporter some nights ago in one tv programms he talked about wikipedia after that some vandals are attacking this page . i wish this page to be protected for at least one week.actually i think protecting from ip's and newbibes would be enough .Mardetanha talk 19:59, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Sorry, but three edits in three days are not enough, especially because the user in question was blocked. SoWhy 20:16, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protect. High level of IP vandalism. From the 8th of October until today, the editing activity have been almost solely concerned with unregistered users vandalising by page spacing [[1]], wrong informations [[2]], and even statements that reflect inappropriate manner [[3]]. One last pharaoh (talk) 17:25, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. GbT/c 22:39, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Current requests for unprotection

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    Before posting, first discuss with the protecting admin on their talk page. Post below only if you receive no reply.

    • To find out the username of the admin who protected the page, click on "history" at the top of the page, then click on "View logs for this page," which is under the title of the page. The protecting admin is the username in blue before the words "protected", "changed protection level" or "pending changes". If there are a number of entries on the log page, you might find it easier to select "Protection log" or "Pending changes log" from the dropdown menu in the blue box.
    • Requests to downgrade full protection to template protection on templates and modules can be directed straight here; you do not need to ask the protecting admin first.
    • Requests for removing create protection on redlinked articles are generally assisted by having a draft version of the intended article prepared beforehand.
    • If you want to make spelling corrections or add uncontroversial information to a protected page, please add {{Edit fully-protected}} to the article's talk page, along with an explanation of what you want to add to the page. If the talk page is protected, please use the section below.

    Check the archives if you cannot find your request. Only recently answered requests are still listed here.

    A solution to the vexed question of how to list a President-Elect has been proposed on the talk page that seems to be acceptable to all parties. — ciphergoth 00:29, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

    Professor, marked as needed cleanup, was protected in September by NawlinWiki (talk • contribs • blocks • protects • deletions • moves • rights); NawlinWiki's talk page is protected so the preferred route for this request isn't available. Thanks — 67.101.6.150 (talk) 23:05, 7 November 2008 (UTC).[reply]

    Unprotected Tiptoety talk 03:00, 8 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Current requests for edits to a protected page

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    Ideally, requests should be made on the article talk page rather than here.

    • Unless the talk page itself is protected, you may instead add the appropriate template among {{Edit protected}}, {{Edit template-protected}}, {{Edit extended-protected}}, or {{Edit semi-protected}} to the article's talk page if you would like to make a change rather than requesting it here. Doing so will automatically place the page in the appropriate category for the request to be reviewed.
    • Where requests are made due to the editor having a conflict of interest (COI; see Wikipedia:Suggestions for COI compliance), the {{Edit COI}} template should be used.
    • Requests to move move-protected pages should be made at Wikipedia:Requested moves, not here.
    • If the discussion page and the article are both protected preventing you from making an edit request, this page is the right place to make that request. Please see the top of this page for instructions on how to post requests.
    • This page is not for continuing or starting discussions regarding content should both an article and its discussion page be protected. Please make a request only if you have a specific edit you wish to make.

    Fulfilled/denied requests

    semi-protection Vandalism, Unregistered user using various IP addresses has been placing slanderous text in the article.

    Semi-protected for one week. Tan | 39 19:21, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]


    semi-protection Vandalism, Has been vandalised alot recently and no one has requested for protection yet and i think it should be protected from Unregistered Users because most of the Vandalism has been from IP addresses and it is maining IPs in America causing the Vandalism. DJ MeXsTa (talk) 18:27, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. SoWhy 18:36, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    temporary semi-protection Vandalism, Often vandalized (and often protected) page getting hit particularly hard during several times of the day..NJGW (talk) 18:15, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for one week. Tan | 39 18:21, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Election is over. Probably safe to remove semi-protection. Jclemens (talk) 00:13, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Unprotected Tiptoety talk 00:47, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]


    indefinite semi-protection- Unpopular Opinion (talk) 17:58, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Done —αἰτίας •discussion• 18:05, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    User talk:Unpopular Opinion/Archive2 (edit | user page | history | links | watch | logs)

    indefinite full protection , Archive should not be edited by anyone..- Unpopular Opinion (talk) 17:56, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Done —αἰτίας •discussion• 18:07, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    User talk:Unpopular Opinion/Archive1 (edit | user page | history | links | watch | logs)

    indefinite full protection , Archive should not be edited by anyone..- Unpopular Opinion (talk) 17:55, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Done —αἰτίας •discussion• 18:08, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    User talk:Freewayguy (edit | user page | history | links | watch | logs)

    indefinite full-protection - User talk of blocked user: Abuse of the unblock process. --63.193.92.219 (talk) 16:47, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. --Rschen7754 (T C) 17:40, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]


    temporary semi-protection Vandalism, In last 100 edits, its about 34 IP edits, of which 23 get reverted (67%). Out of all edits about 46% are either IP vandalism or its reversion. Beyond this, there is still a fair amount of recent/redlink registered users named adam posting about themselves, but before addressing that, let's at least cut out the anonymous chatter. Here again, as an article about a first name, a fair amount of edits are unsourced and in the vein of "I know a guy named Adam" .KevinCuddeback (talk) 16:46, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. —αἰτίας •discussion• 16:46, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    temporary semi-protection Vandalism, In the last 100 edits, about 30 were anonymous and 22 have resulted in speedy reversion as vandalism. So about 50% of traffic here is vandalism and its reversion. While the remaining 10% of anonymous contributions are of small marginal value. Because the subject of the page is not particularly scholarly it seems to invite many casual edits from people who know someone named Connor in their lives. Because this problem is widespread with first names (see, for example, the page "Adam") where can I suggest a broader protection of first-name pages?.KevinCuddeback (talk) 16:35, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. —αἰτίας •discussion• 16:44, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]


    semi-protection : heavy vandalism. Thanks. DocteurCosmos (talk) 10:30, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. SoWhy 14:39, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    temporary semi-protection This has been a recent controversial article as it was current news for the past few weeks, and is apparently popular in the country. Seeing the article history, one can not all the reverts with the past few days/week. Lihaas (talk) 08:44, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. SoWhy 14:38, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    temporary semi-protection A new surge of vandalism and POV edits from various IP and not-yet autoconfirmed editors, contentious ballot issue with unofficial results, attempts to remove reference to unsettled status and outright vandalism. Mike Doughney (talk) 06:43, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Already protected. by Matthewedwards (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA). SoWhy 14:37, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    temporary semi-protection Vandalism, Increased vandalism with holiday approaching. Requesting semi-protection until the day after Thanksgiving in the US (November 27 is Thanksgiving, November 28 would be the day after). Thanks.Enigma message 03:52, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected until Nov 28, 12:00 (UTC). SoWhy 14:36, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi protection high levels of vandalism. Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 02:47, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. SoWhy 14:34, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protection: persistent and excessive vandalism since removal of temporary semi-protection on October 31, 2008.

    Note: if this request is declined due to lack of "recent" vandalism, please give the timeframe needed to qualify for this. I cannot find specific information. Thank you, mo talk 02:44, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. SoWhy 14:31, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    temporary semi-protection Vandalism, high level of vandalism over the last few days, probably due to assigned school reading. hbent (talk) 01:49, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. SoWhy 14:29, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    temporary semi-protection Vandalism, Regular IP vandalism over the last week or so..-- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 01:11, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. SoWhy 14:28, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    temporary semi-protection due to persistent edit warring from sockpuppeter Rtally3 (talk · contribs); when the sockpuppet accounts were blocked, he has continued to edit war (deleting sourced material from the page over and over) using various anonymous IP accounts all coming from the DC metro area. An accidental post of his own demonstrates that he was editing from the same ip address that was most recently used to delete material on the page. The page should be protected so that only established users can edit. csloat (talk) 00:15, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Already protected. by Georgewilliamherbert (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA). SoWhy 14:26, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    temporary semi-protection Vandalism, this page is sure to be a target of vandalism as soon as Obama names Dimon his First Secretary of Treasury.[1][2]

    1. ^ Weidner, David (14 October 2008). "The next Treasury Secretary is..." MarketWatch. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
    2. ^ Pethokoukis, James (22 October 2008). "Treasury Secretary Jamie Dimon: Don't Raise Taxes, Obama". USnews.com. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

    Stubbleboy (talk) 23:29, 6 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Pages are not protected preemptively. SoWhy 14:25, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    full protect. Edit-warring by multiple editors. Tim Vickers (talk) 23:11, 6 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Already protected. by Shell Kinney (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA). SoWhy 14:25, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]


    We have had to create this page in another namespace (User:Ocexpo/United States presidential election, 2012 (sandbox)) and now that it is pretty substantial, and new facts regarding the next election are coming out, I think its time to unprotect the page so that we can move this page into the actual article space. Ocexpo (talk) 04:36, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined, I'd say it's still mostly speculation, just speculation by sources. I rather suggest taking the previous AfD to deletion review to establish new consensus on the issue if possible (i.e. if the WP:CRYSTAL arguments would still validate the same outcome given the new sources). There has been a wheel-warring between two admins over it already and I refuse to take part in it. Consensus is clear and needs to be changed for this page to be unSALTed. Regards SoWhy 14:45, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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