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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.

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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 increase in protection level

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    Request protection of a page, or increasing the protection level
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    Place requests for protection increases at the BOTTOM of this section. If you cannot find your request, check the archive of requests or, failing that, the page history. Only recently answered requests are still listed here.


    2025 New York City shooting

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    Reason: IP removes formatting even after having it explained to them, multiple reverts from different IPs, requesting semi-protection. —Locke Cole • t • c 14:06, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Socialist Party (Ireland) ROSA (organisation) International Socialist Alternative

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    Reason: Edit war, other editor refuses to read relevant citations. Keeps trying to find excuses to engage in vandalism. 188.65.190.67 (talk) 01:43, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

     Requesting immediate archiving... Favonian (talk) 09:12, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Lyman front of the 2022 Kharkiv counteroffensive

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    Indefinite extended confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement – Russia Ukraine Contientious Topic. 8bit12man (talk) 04:07, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Mark Carney

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    Indefinite semi-protection: Major political leader of a country that frequently makes global headlines, some acts of vandalism since unprotection and will likely not stop anytime soon. MakaylaHippo1998 (talk) 04:12, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Russian occupation of Mykolaiv Oblast

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    Indefinite extended confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement – Russia Ukraine Contentious Topic. 8bit12man (talk) 04:14, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Battle of Marinka (2015)

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    Extended confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement – Russia Ukraine Arbitration Sanctions. 8bit12man (talk) 04:17, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    America's Got Talent season 20

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    Reason: Persistent addition of unsourced content/information. Magitroopa (talk) 04:37, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Ymblanter (talk) 07:34, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Tiny Toons Looniversity

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    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent addition of unsourced or poorly sourced content – disruption resumed after previous protection expired. — 🪫Volatile 📲T | ⌨️C 05:24, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 6 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Ymblanter (talk) 07:32, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    2025 Sydney Harbour Bridge protest

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    Indefinite extended confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement – New WP:PIA article. Raladic (talk) 08:23, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Qastina

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    Indefinite extended confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement – per recent edit and wording in the lead. — 🪫Volatile 📲T | ⌨️C 08:31, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    forgot to mention WP:ARBPIA — 🪫Volatile 📲T | ⌨️C 08:32, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Springfield, Queensland

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    Reason: Ongoing IP vandalism over many months. Persistently changing the local government area from Ipswich (which is true) to Brisbane (not true). Why? Obviously nobody knows what is in the heads of vandals, but being in Brisbane rather than Ipswich is better for real estate values and a number of other nearby suburbs have had similar vandalism which suggests this is not totally random. Kerry (talk) 09:04, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Current requests for reduction in protection level

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    Request unprotection of a page, or reducing the protection level
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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.

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    October 6 and days of June

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    Reason: Semi-protected indefinitely over a year. Can they be downed to WP:PCPP? Also, one of the users who protected the pages does not seem to be an administrator anymore. Meanwhile, the other appears to have been notified about the matter about a month ago but no response had been taken.154.107.12.95 (talk) 00:45, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Just because someone isn't an admin anymore doesn't mean they can't have an opionion. @Materialscientist: @MelanieN: What do you think? In many cases I see PCP as increasing the burden on regular editors to review and decline edits that normally would not appear with a normal protection level. ~Anachronist (talk) 08:01, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Current requests for edits to a protected page

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    Request a specific edit to a protected page
    Please request an edit directly on the protected page's talk page before posting here
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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.
    Further information: Wikipedia:Edit requests


    Gaza genocide

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    In the section about UK support, I understand the photo of Keir Starmer within the image, on the poster, has recently been blurred for copyright reasons, but I think this is quite distracting without context or any explanation. Could someone who has editing privileges there either update the image to one where blurring is unnecessary, or simply add to the end of caption something like "(the image of Keir Starmer on the poster has been blurred as it is copyrighted separately)" 2600:1700:A5E0:11F0:303A:1732:84A3:83EB (talk) 03:20, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Handled requests

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    A historical archive of previous protection requests can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive.