Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Increase: Difference between revisions

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User(s) blocked. ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 09:31, 12 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reason: Rampant WP:BLPCRIME violations, full please, all edits for now need to be admin gated on talk. — Very Polite Person (talk/contribs) 17:54, 11 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I see where a couple of reverts have occurred today and with the high volume of edits that are being made, but those reverts weren’t due to blatant WP:BLPCRIME issues, and there isn’t nearly enough problematic edits or violations of policy to justify changing the protection level to full. Extended-confirmed protection appears to be working just fine right now. ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 18:37, 11 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

but those reverts weren’t due to blatant WP:BLPCRIME issues

People keep adding CCTV still images of a suspect. — Very Polite Person (talk/contribs) 18:44, 11 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Very Polite Person – I’m taking another look at the article’s recent edit history. Stand by… ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 22:21, 11 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Very Polite Person – I went through the article’s recent edit history, and I do see an instance where an image of the “person of interest” was added to the article here, and then removed from the article here. I didn’t find any more edits where an image of the “person of interest” was added again, or done so repeatedly outside the two diffs that I provided here. Can you provide a list of diff links that show other instances where an image was added and removed from the article, causing WP:BLPCRIME concerns? ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 22:27, 11 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It’s been happening, me and others keep reverting it out (3RR exempt) under WP:BLPCRIME. Just had to again:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Killing_of_Charlie_Kirk&diff=1310861669&oldid=1310861560

That’s like the 4th or more times now I’ve had to remove different named images must myself. People aren’t even marking them in all their edit summaries–it goes in, it goes out, with everyone buried under non-stop edit conflicts.

I am unclear why the hesitation here given this is our most high-profile article today. It’s already up near 3M views. — Very Polite Person (talk/contribs) 00:53, 12 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

After having looked at this for some hours, I think we are going the same way as with the Killing of Iryna Zarutska article. My take is that we should fully protect now, and let article talk do its work,. Thoughts? Lectonar (talk) 11:37, 12 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. Simonm223 (talk) 11:57, 12 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reason: Continious unreferenced edits from ip users and newly created accounts.[1][2][3] This IP user used a fake reference, since not all content the Ip user posted were mentioned in the reference posted.[4] Hotwiki (talk) 07:48, 12 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected for a period of 6 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 09:44, 12 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Frequent vandalism target of Russia-based IP-hopper. Areaseven (talk) 08:31, 12 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 09:45, 12 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Frequent vandalism target of Russia-based IP-hopper. Areaseven (talk) 08:32, 12 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 09:45, 12 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Extended confirmed protection: Repeatedly removal of episodes summarises without any valid reason by a non-extended confirmed user and IP.[5][6][7] Media Mender (talk) 09:17, 12 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected for a period of 4 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Isabelle Belato ^🏳‍🌈 11:31, 12 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reason: Very high level of IP vandalism. 98.235.155.81 (talk) 10:59, 12 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not done. It appears the IP was removing duplicate content. Isabelle Belato ^🏳‍🌈 12:20, 12 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reason: A lot of transphobic violations of WP:BLP from IPs are now going to article talk since the page is protected. BLP violations and bigotry are just as disruptive on talk as they are in article space. Requesting logged-in editors only for talk for a little while. Simonm223 (talk) 11:27, 12 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Indefinite extended confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement – WP:ARBPIA. Entranced98 (talk) 11:57, 12 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Persistent Greek IPs edit-warring. Binksternet (talk) 12:15, 12 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]