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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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    Current requests for increase in protection level

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    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.


    2014 Little League World Series

    Reason: I am requesting protection for 10 articles: 2010 Little League World Series through 2019 Little League World Series, inclusive.

    There has been, and continues to be (as recently as today), intermittent but persistent long-term vandalism by an anonymous editor who uses various IP addresses. This person (or perhaps bot) continues to demonstrate a clear determination to corrupt the information in these articles. Most edits to these articles over the past year have been vandalism and reverts thereof. As these articles are about events that happened 5+ years ago, few to no future legitimate changes are expected. Requesting page protection for an indefinite amount of time. Dmoore5556 (talk) 21:57, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Pashtuns

    Indefinite extended confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement – Arbcom: India Pakistan articles. Heyaaaaalol (talk) 01:31, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Hi Heyaaaaalol, contrary to the very similarly named WP:ARBPIA, the WP:ARBIPA area has no automatic extended-confirmed protection. There has been some disruptive editing in the history of this article, but no recent incident. Is there a specific reason for requesting this today? ~ ToBeFree (talk) 03:01, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Bigg Boss (Telugu TV series) season 8

    Temporary semi-protection: There is a high level of IP vandalism occurring. The season’s grand finale has not yet concluded, but the winner and runner-up statuses are being deliberately altered. IP addresses are misleading information about the winners and runner ups.

    Despite repeated attempts to undo the changes, persistent disruptive edits from IP addresses continue. I had raised this request yesterday but did not properly convey the extent of the problem caused by those edits. MySlack1222 (talk) 03:13, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Stellar Blade

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – persistent vandals. ZimZalaBim talk 03:15, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    User(s) blocked: BlessLewd (talk · contribs) blocked by Chris G. — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 05:11, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba

    Reason: Persistent disruptive editing in the last weeks. Xexerss (talk) 03:34, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Syria

    Indefinite extended confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement – Related to the Israeli-Palestinian and Arab-Israeli Conflict. 🗽Freedoxm🗽(talk • contribs) 06:29, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Current requests for reduction in 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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    Metaverse

    Reason: The protection is no longer necessary because i believe that the metaverse is now less associated with crypto and the blockchain - especially after the rise of spatial computing. 67.209.128.24 (talk) 15:46, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Suggested action: Lower to WP:WHITELOCK/WP:PCPP to prevent disruptive editing from cryptospammers while still allowing for broader contribution from legitimate editors (especially IPs like me). Otherwise, if no cryptospam is expected, remove protection completely. 67.209.128.24 (talk) 15:51, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Pinging @El C. --Ahecht (TALK
    PAGE    )     16:19, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Syria Palaestina

    Pending changes: Reduce protection: Israel/Palestine wasn’t even a thing until thousands of years after the romans. Heyaaaaalol (talk) 01:49, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Heyaaaaalol, did you already ask Daniel Case? I mean, now that we're here, I think we can also discuss this here, but you'd normally need to contact the protecting administrator first (see the edit notice of this page). ~ ToBeFree (talk) 02:42, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @Heyaaaaalol: Additionally, please note that because extended confirmed protection was applied to this article as a contentious topic page restriction (in the Arab–Israeli conflict topic area – logged at Special:Diff/1261818158), the protection can only be overturned with the consent of the enforcing administrator (Daniel Case) or if successfully appealed to arbitration enforcement, the administrators' noticeboard, or the Arbitration Committee. See Wikipedia:Contentious topics § Changing or revoking a contentious topic restriction for details. — Newslinger talk 02:50, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Daniel Case, this came from AIV, right? I thanked you for the protection but I think semi-protection would do equally well here unless I've overlooked recent disruption related to the war. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 02:44, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Yes it did. Editing like this, reverted here, suggests to me a subtext distantly related to the current conflict. Daniel Case (talk) 02:52, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks – yeah, that edit may well be an attempt to display the history of the region in a light favorable to one's own side in the current conflict. To me personally that's infrequent and distant enough not to apply extended-confirmed protection indefinitely, but I see the point and as Newslinger has described above, unless you agree with lowering the protection level, this needs to be declined here. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 02:58, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Not done ~ ToBeFree (talk) 02:59, 15 December 2024 (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.
    Further information: Wikipedia:Edit requests


    Template:IPA pulmonic consonants/table

    This, I think, is the first time I've made a suggestion. Hopefully, I'm doing this correctly.

    The lateral fricative voiced retroflex, as an example, has an IPA representation of ɖɭ˔ according to its Wikipedia page, but the IPA Pulmonic table and other tables use the Unicode representation in the table and any font I have found just doesn't handle that character,

    Would it be better to use the IPA representation which I think many fonts handle since the table has 'IPA' in its title and its link points to the Wikipedia page with both representations? The linked article each cell in the table states that the representation the IPA version and that the Unicode character is implied from that.

    I'd be happy to make a list of each table and cell where this occurs if that is necessary and you think these will be worthwhile changes. BLWBebopKid (talk) 19:51, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Pinging @Kwamikagami as they are likely to have some insight to these issues. For me personally, I'm not sure. I happen to have fonts installed that handle the extIPA symbols, but I'm in the stark minority there. Remsense ‥ 论 01:46, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    ExtIPA is IPA. It's just a specialized subset. For example, extIPA can be used in the 'Illustrations of the IPA' published in JIPA.
    The issue is one of font support. The letters in question date to 2015, though they weren't added to Unicode until 2021. There are websites that list fonts that support various characters. These are supported by the SIL fonts, which are the best free IPA fonts available. If you don't have a good font installed, you're not going to be able to view IPA correctly anyway. That's why we have the IPA notice in articles, that you may need to install an IPA font to view the article properly. — kwami (talk) 05:32, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Handled requests

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

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