User:TexasAndroid

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Computer programmer from San Antonio, Texas.

Reverter of vandalism, and wiki-link cleaner. (I'm no great author of Wiki pages, but I'm good at cleaning up other people's messes. :))

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This user has been on Wikipedia for 19 years and 18 days.
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East Pakistan

Reason: A IP is doing vandalism and unhelpful edits in these three articles, we are reverting them for three long days but they are continuously doing it. I reported them see here but looks like they are using more than one ips to vandalize these articles. In this situation it is important to protect these three articles for longer period because the person is persistent enough. No other action will not work as they are using many ips. Mehedi Abedin (talk) 08:59, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

Please enforce WP:CT/IPA across all three. IanDBeacon (talk) 21:37, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of three months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. all articles, although for now I have made that a regular admin action. The last one is in Bangladesh, not covered by IPA, and I could not see a sufficient nexus to justify adding the CTOPS tag to that page. Daniel Case (talk) 02:44, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

User:Iwaqarhashmi

Indefinite template protection: Requesting indefinte template protection for my user page because it was vandalized before, so I copied all the contents of the user page onto a ".css" subpage, but an extended confirmed user added the wrong COI template recently. Thanks! Waqar💬 16:27, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

Uh ... this is sort of a unique request. Anybody other regular reviewer here have a take on this? Daniel Case (talk) 02:14, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
I understand this is a unique request, but I'm hoping you can help. I would be incredibly grateful if you could consider fully protecting my user page to prevent any further vandalism once and for all. Waqar💬 05:32, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
Template-protection or full protection would make the userpage inaccessible for almost everyone, and also for the OP. I see the incident of adding a COI template as a one-time off which doesn't amount to enough disruption to warrant protection; I would not grant this request. Lectonar (talk) 06:42, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
While template protection can limit editing access, it doesn't necessarily render the user page inaccessible. Editors with appropriate permissions, like administrators or template editors, can still make edits if necessary. In the case of a COI template, a one-time incident can still be disruptive, especially if it affects the accuracy of the userpage. Waqar💬 07:04, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
Yes, that's why I wrote ' for almost everyone. But imagine you want a change made, and if the page was protected like you requested (so you can't edit it it yourself), you would then need an admin or template editor to implement the changes you want to make. I just gave my 2 cents here, and will let another admin decide. Lectonar (talk) 07:24, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
The content of my user page is still uneditable by most users, even without template protection, because it's been transcluding from a ".css" subpage on my user page, and whoever wants to make changes to my user page can leave a message on my talk page. That's a much better approach! Waqar💬 07:37, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
Also, if I wanted to edit my user page, I would just make changes to my ".css" subpage conveniently without needing any admin intervention ever. Waqar💬 07:49, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Abdul Qadir Gilani

Semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Persistent disruption by IPs and new users. HistoryofIran (talk) 02:40, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one year, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Daniel Case (talk) 02:48, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Talk:Garena

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – This is the talkpage of a mobile games company. While there are occasional normal contributions, the vast vast majority (see the recent revision history) is just spam related to various accounts and requests for free currency or account help etc. Some of these contain what I think is game profile info, I don't know to what extent this is a privacy concern, but it doesn't feel great. At any rate, due to the excessive and continuous disruption I am proposing it for one of the rare talkpage indefinite semis. CMD (talk) 03:01, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Lectonar (talk) 06:51, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
What is your yardstick here? It's literal years of disruption. CMD (talk) 07:43, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Long-term abuse/Meena Kurian

Indefinite create protection: Repeatedly recreated – Please restrict creation to autoconfirmed. LTA is known for disrupting his own LTA page, which has already been semi-protected, and various other LTA-related pages. He just created this page as pure vandalism. Very few non-autoconfirmed are aware of LTA pages in wikispace, let alone have a reason to edit the talk page. Air on White (talk) 03:03, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Scar (The Lion King)

Reason: Persistent vandalism over the past couple of weeks by numerous new and IP users. Sigma440 (talk) 03:49, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

List of All Elite Wrestling personnel

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Nonsense edits by anon IPs. Vjmlhds (talk) 03:56, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Hari Singh Nalwa

Indefinite extended confirmed protection: Persistent edit warring (spanning at least 2 years) pertaining to his caste. Constant addition of a caste contradictory to what sources state. Southasianhistorian8 (talk) 05:11, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Mewing (orthotropics)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Classicwiki (talk) If you reply here, please ping me. 06:46, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Foreign relations of Malaysia

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Dynamic IP disruption. May spill out into China–Malaysia relations. CMD (talk) 07:41, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Toofan (2010 film)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. -Lemonaka 07:51, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Current requests for reduction in protection level

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Montana Tucker

Reason: This page has been protected in 2008, after several attempts at COI biographies. In other words, very much justified at that time. 16 years have passed and by now she passes the GNG. I wish to undo what is by now an injustice. gidonb (talk) 22:43, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

@Gidonb: Do you have a ready draft article you could use to help justify unprotecting it? —Jéské Couriano v^_^v threads critiques 22:47, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
I have something on my machine I plan to use once unprotected. It's not very organized. I will add plenty of references and tie to the many pages where she is currently mentioned.[2] It's a similar effort really to the Brian Balmages article that I recreated. Was also understandably removed for peacock, yet notable. gidonb (talk) 22:53, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

Module:RFX report

Reason: Downgrade to semi-protection to match Template:RFX report, which is the only template that invokes this module. They are both transcluded on 389 other pages. (For a period of three months in 2022 the module was transcluded on >5000 pages because of this edit, later reverted, so the bot template-protected it.) If semi is too low, please increase Template:RFX report to match the module. SilverLocust 💬 06:24, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Module:Rfx

Reason: Downgrade to semi-protection from template-protection. Transcluded on 490 pages. It is invoked by Module:RFX report, so the bot template-protected it in 2022 for the same reason. SilverLocust 💬 06:24, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

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Israel-Hamas War

I would like to request that... (the map be updated to show that Israel now controls the entire Gaza-Egypt border) . LordOfWalruses (talk) 15:25, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

@LordOfWalruses this is not the place. Contentious topics should not be unprotected. 48JCLTALK 12:42, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
@48JCL: Unregistered and non-extended-confirmed editors are allowed to request edits to ARBPIA pages here. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v threads critiques 15:09, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
The talk page Talk:Israel-Hamas War is protected, therefore edit requests by non-extended-confirmed users land here. That is acceptable, and this request made above is reasonable. The people who actually do participate on that talk page should be reviewing requests here that remain open and haven't been declined for days. ~Anachronist (talk) 20:30, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

Handled requests

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

Protected edit requests

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2023–24 UEFA Champions League (request) 2024-06-03 12:22 Fully protected, expires 2024-06-05 at 08:19:09 UTC (log) Protected by Slakr on 2024-06-03: "Edit warring / content dispute"
Updated as needed. Last updated: 06:19, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
3 template-protected edit requests
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User:AmandaNP/UAA/Blacklist (request) 2024-05-29 03:33 Template-protected (log) From User:DeltaQuad/UAA/Blacklist: Modified by AmandaNP on 2016-02-12: "we are going to try letting template editors edit"
Template:Rfd2 (request) 2024-06-01 12:46 Template-protected (log) Protected by Fuhghettaboutit on 2014-12-31: "Highly visible template"
Template:Authority control (request) 2024-06-05 03:59 Template-protected (log) Modified by WOSlinker on 2013-10-19: "allow template editors to modify"
Updated as needed. Last updated: 04:35, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

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    Wikipedians looking for help 0
    Requests for unblock 160
    Candidates for speedy deletion as attack pages 0
    Candidates for speedy deletion as copyright violations 1
    Candidates for speedy deletion 14
    Wikipedia fully protected edit requests 1

    Deletion

    Category Entries
    Articles for deletion 719
    Templates for deletion 264
    Categories for deletion 409
    Wikipedia files for discussion 26
    All redirects for discussion 200
    Miscellaneous pages for deletion 21
    Possible copyright violations 27
    All articles proposed for deletion 180
    All files proposed for deletion 114
    Unsorted AfD debates 1
    All files with the same name on Commons 5

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    Replaceable non-free use images 15
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    Semi-protected user and user talk pages 1,219
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    Protected talk pages of blocked users 34
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    All articles needing rewrite 5,746 0.08
    All articles needing expert attention 1,302 0.02
    All Wikipedia articles in need of updating 38,246 0.56

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    All articles with unsourced statements 520,824 7.62
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    All unreferenced BLPs 941 0.09
    All articles needing additional references 455,827 6.67
    All articles needing references cleanup 4,353 0.06
    All articles lacking in-text citations 104,109 1.52
    All articles with dead external links 296,364 4.34

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    Wikipedia files lacking a description 140 -
    Wikipedia files with unknown source 17 -

    Other problems

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    All articles to be split 785 0.01
    Unsorted Stubs 0 -
    Stub categories 19,197 -
    All uncategorized pages 542 0.01
    All orphaned articles 57,011 0.83
    All articles needing copy edit 2,778 0.04
    All articles with style issues 19,842 0.29
    All Wikipedia articles needing context 2,736 0.04
    All articles that may contain original research 16,507 0.24


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    All articles to be expanded 66,162

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