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Kwame Augustine

Indefinite create protection: Repeatedly recreated – The article was created by an undisclosed paid editor and was draftified but it was recently moved to the main namespace by a spa after gaining the autoconfirmed status. Since it include paid edits and was created in a violation of WP:PAID this must go through the AfC process. GSS 💬 04:49, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: Technically it has only been recreated once, if at all, as I can find no deletions....it's more a moving back and forth from main to draftspace. PAID also doesn't forbid users to create pages or modify them, they just need to declare themselves. Lectonar (talk) 06:37, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Andhra Pradesh Council of Ministers

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent addition of unsourced or poorly sourced content – Speculative portfolios without citations are being heavily added by IPs. Temporary semi protection at-least for 2 days is requested. Thewikizoomer (talk) 09:11, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Doesn't look like they're being reverted. Try that first. Daniel Case (talk) 19:10, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

CSA Steaua București

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent POV-pushing in the conflict who is the real Steaua. The Banner talk 16:06, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Today's burst and then the last one was almost a month ago. Daniel Case (talk) 19:21, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Forever Living Products

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. ImTheAvidPheasant (talk) 17:24, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected indefinitely. Daniel Case (talk) 19:45, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Rampal (spiritual leader)

Reason: IPs have returned to editing the page to insert unsourced "titles" and other information to the article. — The Hand That Feeds You:Bite 17:32, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected for a period of one year, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Will log at CTOPS. Daniel Case (talk) 19:48, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Dan Friedkin

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent Vandalism. — Alien333 (what I did & why I did it wrong) 18:31, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected for a period of three days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Daniel Case (talk) 19:40, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Charles Leclerc

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Continued vandalism in the same form as led to the page being protected recently: adding family members that are not family members as a reference to an ongoing meme. Cerebral726 (talk) 18:37, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected for a period of three weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Daniel Case (talk) 19:42, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Censorship of YouTube

Semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – China subsection has been jumping around and getting duplicated over the past week. It appears that an admin needs to step in. Skywatcher68 (talk) 18:55, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected indefinitely. Daniel Case (talk) 19:52, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hyperia (roller coaster)

Semi-protection: Persistent addition of unsourced or poorly sourced content – Continuation of unsourced content and vandalism after previous temporary protection. Pending changes protection might be best here, but I'm not sure. Suntooooth, it/he (talk/contribs) 18:56, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Pending-changes protected for a period of ten days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Let's see what this does. Daniel Case (talk) 19:56, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Capital punishment in the Gaza Strip

Indefinite extended confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement – WP:ARBPIA. Josethewikier (talk) 19:19, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Extended confirmed protected indefinitely. Will log at CTOPS. Daniel Case (talk) 19:29, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Alphabet Task Force/Popular pages

Indefinite full protection: Potentially unorthodox request here: I am requesting that this page be fully-protected. Here's the explanation: This page was originally moved to be a subpage of its proper page back in 2019-ish; however, the bot that maintains this page, Community Tech bot, rather than following the redirect to update the live page, overwrote the redirect (the page I'm asking to be fully protected) with the most recent results ... so I recently had to move the pages again (see the edit histories for this page and its target for further information.) For this reason, and in the event the bot operator may not be able to fix this error with its bot in a timely manner, I'm requesting this page be fully protected so the problem ... which occurred 5 years ago and apparently had continued to occur after that until now ... does not occur again. (For the record, I did confirm that Community Tech bot is not flagged as an administrator.) Steel1943 (talk) 19:37, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

List of Smosh cast members

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Recent surge of IP editing related to social media posts by Smosh staff asking for edits to be made to page, seems to have devolved into minor vandalism. Request temp. protection until it blows over (2 weeks or so). Rambling Rambler (talk) 19:47, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Just your one big revert so far today; last revert was a month or so ago. Daniel Case (talk) 19:59, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

T-Series (company)

Indef 30/500 protection: High level of autoconfirmed user vandalism. This has been persisting for a long time since the Pewdiepie vs T-Series war, and I think that it’s about time to protect T-Series’ article. Oshawott 12

Golan Heights

Long-term indefinite extended protection: 30/500 Arbitration enforcement. Related to the Arab–Israeli conflict and Syrian Civil War per WP:ARBPIA and WP:GS/SCW. Boulevard of broken dreams (talk) 14:59, 2 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: Sorry, but this request gives me pause. An account with only 18 edits is requesting 30/500 protection on a list of articles and citing Arbitration enforcement as the reason? Granted, the account is two years old, but all of their edits have been made today (minus two edits back in 2017 on their user space). Either this user has edited for quite some time before creating this account (which prompts me to look into things deeper and at all angles), or this user lacks the experience to make these requests accurately. ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 15:04, 2 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
DlohCierekim
The articles listed either don't appear to require 30/500 protection due to urgent matters, or aren't part of the topic areas where remedies exist that call for 30/500 protection for simply being within the given topic areas. The general sanctions cited in the request ('Syrian Civil War' and 'ISIL') do not state that 30/500 protection must be applied, nor does it restrict editing by any accounts that are less than 30 days old and have less than 500 total edits. It does state that the remedies (in general) "mirror those of WP:ARBPIA", but the remedies are all clearly detailed and outlined further down the page. These articles may have sections that relate to this topic area, but they do not fully do so. If you look at the enforcement logs for this general sanction, only one page has had protection applied since its enactment in 2013. I don't see protection here as necessary, but I'll leave this request open for other admins to review and provide input. ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 15:16, 2 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Note:Angling sounds reasonable. Not seeing the need. Ain't broke. DlohCierekim 15:43, 2 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Note: I reverted an unsourced pair of edits on Status of the Golan Heights made by Boulevard of Broken Dreams (great song BTW). Pending changes applied to Syria 'cause though W is the encyclopedia anyone can edit, it isn't the encyclopedia everyone should edit DlohCierekim 15:52, 2 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • I agree. But would leave this discussion open for a while longer. El_C 09:04, 3 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • "All IP editors, accounts with fewer than 500 edits, and accounts with less than 30 days tenure are prohibited from editing any page that could be reasonably construed as being related to the Arab-Israeli conflict"—It doesn't say to wait for disruption. El_C 09:19, 3 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • "Uninvolved administrators are encouraged to monitor the articles covered by discretionary sanctions in the original Palestine-Israel case to ensure compliance. To assist in this, administrators are reminded that:

(i) Accounts with a clear shared agenda may be blocked if they violate the sockpuppetry policy or other applicable policy;

(ii) Accounts whose primary purpose is disruption, violating the policy on biographies of living persons, or making personal attacks may be blocked indefinitely;

(iii) There are special provisions in place to deal with editors who violate the BLP policy;

(iv) Administrators may act on clear BLP violations with page protections, blocks, or warnings even if they have edited the article themselves or are otherwise involved; (v) "Discretionary sanctions permit full and semi-page protections, including use of pending changes where warranted, and – once an editor has become aware of sanctions for the topic – any other appropriate remedy may be issued without further warning." Lectonar (talk) 09:22, 3 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The preferred method of enforcement is "This prohibition is preferably enforced by the use of extended confirmed protection, but where that is not feasible, it may also be enforced by reverts, page protections, blocks, the use of pending changes, and appropriate edit filters" WP:ARBPIA3#500/30. The alternative enforcement measure here is to take editors who break ARBPIA3's general prohibition to AE - which happens a few times a year - and generally results either with a very strong warning or a TBAN+block (if editor is aware). ECP protection is better, for all involved, than kicking this can to AE (I can drag up a few case files for this - I've filed some ). Icewhiz (talk) 09:27, 3 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
As you say: preferred. I am somewhat loath to protect articles which have not been disrupted....last IP edit in Quneitra Governorate was sometime in August last year, no IP edits in Status of the Golan heights... Lectonar (talk) 09:33, 3 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
ECP isn't just IPs - it's also low-edit accounts (which are, actually, often a bigger problem in the topic area). this edit is in breach of the restriction. The alternative route to ECP (which is a simple request to implement - and is obvious in applicability here) is AE - here is an example of how that drama plays out - TBAN + block, appeal declined, appeal-#2 declined. IIRC I ended up going AE in one case where I had an ECP request declined - but I might be remembering things wrong (generally - I'd take an editor to AE over this only if they are "hopping" to new articles not ECPed yet or if they're doing "other stuff" (e.g. PAs) as well - but if articles don't get ECPed, well....). Icewhiz (talk) 09:41, 3 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Note: Note that I protected Status of the Golan Heights due to recent disruptive edits (and a likelihood of more disruption coming due to recent developments in the real world)--Ymblanter (talk) 07:29, 4 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Disruptive edits were made by the nominator as I see it now.--Ymblanter (talk) 07:30, 4 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Whigs (British political party)

Temporary extended confirmed: Persistent disruptive editing – Several IP's (probably the same person) are removing sourced information from the infobox and swapping it with unsourced information. This has been going on for a few days! . Vif12vf/Tiberius (talk) 10:33, 4 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Communist Party of Thailand

Indefinite extended confirmed: Persistent vandalism – This is either the 3rd or 4th time recently that i have to ask for protection. As soon as protection runs out, the 55-vandal comes back, always using different IP's and thus practically impossible to ban. I think it is necessary to give this article indefinite protection! . Vif12vf/Tiberius (talk) 10:40, 4 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Suite PreCure

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – IPs and new users are back at it again with more disruptive edits - either the article is vandalized, or changes are made to character names without prior discussion nor consensus. Suggest protection duration of 2 weeks or more. Sk8erPrince (talk) 11:25, 4 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

List of Impact Wrestling personnel

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Anon IPs removing sourced info. Vjmlhds 11:31, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

Sati (practice)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Disruptive editing by random IPs and IP hoppers. ML talk 12:16, 4 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Please note that I have only tagged information that is not in the citations added by another editor in the article. I have very legitimate reasons. My Lord earlier accused me of deceiving on its talk page (now he has removed that accusation). Now he accuses me of being disruptive when that's far from the truth. 203.134.197.23 (talk) 12:23, 4 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Already protected by administrator Oshwah. Airplaneman ✈ 14:54, 4 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

User talk:Favonian

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – vandalism my multiple ip users . Jeb3Talk at me here 15:14, 4 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Already protected by administrator NinjaRobotPirate. I'll enjoy the next 24 hours' peace and quiet. Favonian (talk) 15:36, 4 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/F1F2F2

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Sockpuppet report being vandalized by troll who closes sockpuppet reports. Robert McClenon (talk) 16:00, 4 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Megan Thee Stallion

Indefinite semi-protection: This page is relatively new but experiencing high levels of IP vandalism as the article subject has moved into the mainstream. I think an indefinite length of protection would be appropriate. Citrivescence (talk) 16:09, 4 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Philip Gale

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – multiple new accounts vandalizing today. Nat Gertler (talk) 16:28, 4 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Millie Bobby Brown

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. CLCStudent (talk) 16:55, 4 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Done ~ Amory (u • t • c) 17:26, 4 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Israel–Hamas war

At present we have "On 24 May, the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel must immediately halt its Rafah offensive.[1]"

I suggest changing it to include a longer, semantically-complete, quotation, to read: "On 24 May, the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel must immediately halt its military offensive, and any other action in the Rafah governorate, which may inflict on the Palestinian group in Gaza conditions of life that could bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.[2]"

As the Guardian article points out, and reports judges as arguing, the last comma is critical to the meaning of the ruling. Hunc (talk) 10:49, 12 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Done - AquilaFasciata (talk | contribs) 13:09, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Actually changed to a version which does not give the same meaning as the full text. I hope that you can change:

On 24 May, the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel's military offensive and anything "which may inflict on the Palestinian group in Gaza conditions of life that could bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part" must be halted."

to

On 24 May, the International Court of Justice ruled that "Israel must immediately halt its military offensive, and any other action in the Rafah Governorate, which may inflict on the Palestinian group in Gaza conditions of life that could bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part."

The precise grammar, in particular the last comma, is critical to the meaning.

Hunc (talk) 17:18, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ "ICJ orders Israel to halt its offensive on Rafah, Gaza in new ruling". Al Jazeera. 2024-05-24. Retrieved 2024-05-24.
  2. ^ How a single comma is allowing Israel to question ICJ Rafah ruling. Israel is among those arguing that international court of justice directive is ambivalent and far from a blanket order to halt its offensive. Patrick Wintour, diplomatic editor. The Guardian. Wed 29 May 2024 https://www.theguardian.com/global/article/2024/may/29/how-a-single-comma-is-allowing-israel-to-question-icj-rafah-ruling

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