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    Welcome—request protection of a page, file, or template here.

    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

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    Please request an edit directly on the protected page's talk page before posting here



    Current requests for increase in protection level

    Request protection of a page, or increasing the 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.


    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Genre-related vandalism from Morocco IPs. NØ 22:10, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Gotitbro (talk) 13:00, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Long-term hijacking by new editors. Jalen Folf (Bark[s]) 13:25, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Reluctantly. Seems to be occurring in two-year intervals. Sdrqaz (talk) 01:50, 6 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Consistent removal of content. – Pbrks (t·c) 15:11, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Frequent vandalism in the last week, will likely persist. Carlinal (talk) 17:14, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Reason: Ips vandalism on the page changing film budget and boxoffice numbers. This is going on for some days now. RangersRus (talk) 17:29, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Reason: Recently I asked for protection of articles Kunti amd few others due to block evasion by User: NairaMahiHDPaakhiAadhya. Similarly, these pages are in constant vandal attack by sockpuppets and IPs of the same user. Banning the user doesn't help as they make similar disruptive edits using diff IPs and alt accounts.245CMR.👥📜 17:42, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Reason: POV-pushing and edit warring. Borgenland (talk) 18:45, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Archived GA. Leonidlednev (T, C, L) 20:05, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    User(s) blocked: 81.177.126.27 (talk · contribs) blocked by PhilKnight. Sdrqaz (talk) 01:50, 6 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Reason: After the previous protection expired, the pseudo-Ukrainian POV pushers returned to replace Kiev with Kyiv and Russian by Ukrainian. This has been going on for years, and the article is covered by WP:RUSUKR. We are clearly ready for an indefinite semi-protection. Ymblanter (talk) 20:43, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection: Large amounts of speculative editing from unregistered and new users. Firestar464 (talk) 20:54, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Indefinite extended confirmed protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Not sure how many sock puppets we have..... But it seems to be endless. Moxy🍁 21:23, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Mostly by IP user(s). 98𝚃𝙸𝙶𝙴𝚁𝙸𝚄𝚂[𝚃𝙰𝙻𝙺] 21:31, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Reason: IP vandalism as we don't know who will announce the race. 45BearsFan (talk) 21:44, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations – Persistent unreferenced additions to BLP since 20:27, 27 July 2024‎. Panian513 22:32, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry. Leonidlednev (T, C, L) 22:43, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent addition of unsourced or poorly sourced content – IP user keeps adding unreferenced content. See the last edit of the page. MaplesyrupSushi (talk) 23:03, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Resumption of IP-driven vandalism after the expiry of the last protection template on 21:12, 21 July 2024. Panian513 23:16, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    User(s) blocked: 85.172.88.0/21 (talk · contribs). Sdrqaz (talk) 01:50, 6 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Indefinite extended confirmed protection: No need for non-auto confirmed editors on the page..... Main template is template only editors. Moxy🍁 23:18, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection.
    Declined – This template is not used widely enough to be considered a high-risk template. The actual template is protected because it's transcluded in 196,525 places. The documentation page is transcluded in three places. Sdrqaz (talk) 01:50, 6 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary extended confirmed protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Block evasion by User:Steptacular12 with lots of Vietnam IPs. See Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Hanoi vandal. Binksternet (talk) 01:51, 6 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry. Jdcomix (talk) 02:19, 6 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Reason: High level of disruptive editing due to officially unconfirmed possible title name of upcoming Jurassic film. BattleshipMan (talk) 03:14, 6 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Current requests for reduction in protection level

    Request unprotection of a page, or reducing the 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

    Request a specific edit 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.


    Remove "the Israeli government has historically interpreted any criticism of its actions as antisemitism" from the last sentence of the last paragraph of the opening section.

    This specific text should be removed, as it makes a poorly founded and sweeping statement via the wording of "any criticism", hence hurting the neutrality and quality of the page. None of the cited sources prove that the Israeli government claims "any criticism" of Israel is antisemitism.

    Aside from the problematic wording of "any criticism", the text also links to another article on "Weaponization of antisemitism", which itself is a deeply contested and controversial discussion. The IHRA working definition of antisemitism has been widely adopted by numerous governments, academic institutions and NGOs and specifies instances where unfair criticisms of Israel, under certain circumstances, may be considered as antisemitic. The text in the article serves to directly dispute/discredit the IHRA working definition of antisemitism, which is inappropriate and biased for a Wikipedia article, particularly on such a contentious topic.

    The text should instead mention the Israeli government's claims of antisemitism, while not claiming that it labels all criticisms as such. It is in fact incorrect to claim so, as numerous figures within the Israeli government itself, as well as prominent figures from Israeli society, are openly critical of Israel's current policies. Neutral Editor 645 (talk) 20:17, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Handled requests

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