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 get rid of obvious vandalism.
Request protection of a page, or increasing the protection level
Request unprotection of a page, or reducing the protection level
Request a specific edit to a protected page
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Current requests for increase in protection level
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.
Juan Pablo Duarte
Extended confirmed protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Edits from apparent sockpuppets have continued despite semi protection. TornadoLGS (talk) 03:26, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
Dominican Restoration War
Extended confirmed protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Socks now circumventing semi-protection. TornadoLGS (talk) 03:35, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
2024 New Brunswick general election
Reason: Repeated IP edits treating website placeholder text as meaningful announcements. Another editor's warning on IP's Talk page was ignored repeatedly. G. Timothy Walton (talk) 04:39, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
Mohammad Taha (Hamas)
Reason: WP:ARBPIA Ccole2006 (talk) 04:51, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
Imad al-Alami
Reason: WP:ARBPIA Ccole2006 (talk) 04:53, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
Hassan Yousef (Hamas leader)
Reason: WP:ARBPIA Ccole2006 (talk) 04:53, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
- The article has been extended confirmed protected since October 2023. Ymblanter (talk) 05:19, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
1997 World Series
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Belteshazzar. Leijurv (talk) 06:01, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
1924 World Series
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Belteshazzar. Leijurv (talk) 06:01, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
Jake Westbrook
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Belteshazzar. Leijurv (talk) 06:02, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
Roy Halladay's perfect game
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Belteshazzar. Leijurv (talk) 06:03, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
Manny Ramirez
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Belteshazzar. Leijurv (talk) 06:03, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
Coimbatore Suburban Railway
Temporary extended confirmed protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Persistent NPOV and MOS violations by editor who thinks that reverting him means you're part of a conspiracy to destroy the subject transit system. - Sumanuil. (talk to me) 06:16, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
Azercell
Reason: Azercell Telecom LLC is a leading telco company in Azerbaijan serving more than 5 million customers. Therefore, Azercell’s public image is very crucial issue for us as it has direct impact on how our customers, partners and other stakeholders perceive us. In order to protect our image, we constantly publish updates and share important news on public channels including Azercell’s Wikipedia page. Our Wikipedia page is one of the go-to sources of our stakeholders while building partnerships or collaborations. Thus, we frequently update our Wikipedia page with relevant and updated information. However, we recently face some issues where some Wikipedia users make irrelevant edits in our page misleading page visitors to inaccurate or false information. Continuous disruptive edits have compromised the quality and accuracy of the information provided. Since it is our priority to protect our brand as a leading telecommunications company and ensure our Wikipedia page remains a reliable source of information for readers, we request for page protection allowing for more controlled and accurate updates by verified contributors to avoid any attacks or biased edits made by some groups aiming to harm our image. Riyad Aliyev Azercell (talk) 06:39, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
Comment: I think you have us confused with Facebook. Please read WP:BOSS and WP:NOTSOCIAL. - Sumanuil. (talk to me) 07:01, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
Beowulf
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – A series of IPs have since March this year persistently made joke/vandalism edits changing the heading "Form and metre" to "Form and meter" despite the British English setting and a comment beside the heading; Drmies has blocked an IP for this but at least 2 others are continuing the assault. A temporary protection will not be enough given the persistence and multiple IPs, so this mature article (it's a GA) needs permanent protection at this point. Chiswick Chap (talk) 06:58, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
Shota Abkhazava
Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. — GhostInTheMachine talk to me 09:01, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Ymblanter (talk) 09:17, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
अनभुलेवाडी
Reason: This is my Personal page Pranaykisaningale (talk) 09:21, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
अनभुलेवाडी
Reason: Personal Page Pranaykisaningale (talk) 09:22, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
Current requests for reduction in protection level
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.
- 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.
Current requests for edits to a protected page
Please request an edit directly on the protected page's talk page before posting here
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.
Electric current
Change "An electric current is a flow of charged particles,[1][2][3] such as electrons or ions, moving through an electrical conductor or space." to "An electric current is the flow of a charge around an electrical conductor or through space." Reason: The DRIFT section lower down has it right. Up here, it's very wrong. Wiki should not promote wrongness or contradict itself. Please see here: "Drift speed The mobile charged particles within a conductor move constantly in random directions, like the particles of a gas. (More accurately, a Fermi gas.) To create a net flow of charge, the particles must also move together with an average drift rate. Electrons are the charge carriers in most metals and they follow an erratic path, bouncing from atom to atom, but generally drifting in the opposite direction of the electric field. The speed they drift at can be calculated from the equation: v = I n A Q {\displaystyle v={\frac {I}{nAQ}}} where v {\displaystyle v} is the drift velocity I {\displaystyle I} is the electric current n {\displaystyle n} is number of charged particles per unit volume (or charge carrier density) A {\displaystyle A} is the cross-sectional area of the conductor Q {\displaystyle Q} is the charge on each particle. Typically, electric charges in solids flow slowly. For example, in a copper wire of cross-section 0.5 mm2, carrying a current of 5 A, the drift velocity of the electrons is on the order of a millimetre per second. To take a different example, in the near-vacuum inside a cathode-ray tube, the electrons travel in near-straight lines at about a tenth of the speed of light. Any accelerating electric charge, and therefore any changing electric current, gives rise to an electromagnetic wave that propagates at very high speed outside the surface of the conductor. This speed is usually a significant fraction of the speed of light, as can be deduced from Maxwell's equations, and is therefore many times faster than the drift velocity of the electrons. For example, in AC power lines, the waves of electromagnetic energy propagate through the space between the wires, moving from a source to a distant load, even though the electrons in the wires only move back and forth over a tiny distance. The ratio of the speed of the electromagnetic wave to the speed of light in free space is called the velocity factor, and depends on the electromagnetic properties of the conductor and the insulating materials surrounding it, and on their shape and size." 2003:E3:EF1C:62AA:25FC:EBCA:B8B7:B6EE (talk) 08:33, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
Handled requests
A historical archive of previous protection requests can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive.