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Kim Woo-jin

Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations – IPs and newly registered persistent removal of WP:NOTCENSORED content. — Paper9oll (🔔 • 📝) 12:13, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

List of Storm Prediction Center high risk days

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – High risk being issued for OK today, please protect page for at least 48 hours. BryceM2001 (talk) 12:22, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yusufzai

Reason: IP users have came into the page for months on end adding random content. My previous request (here) for a long duration ban was ignored because... ? So these are IPs that have been tampering around for months, perhaps approaching half a year of this now. I request a months long duration ban on IP users, the sole source of the article being messed around. High protection isn't needed but atleast some level of protection is, for a long duration of time as this just happens to be one of those articles that need it. This article literally degrades over time when left alone thanks to these IP users. RevolutionaryPatriot (talk) 12:24, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yeh Hai Chahatein

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – IP socks from Entertainment4Reality after named accounts blocked. Ravensfire (talk) 13:21, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Liver King

Reason: Frequent BLP vio and unconstructive editing Orchastrattor (talk) 13:33, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Roti canai

Reason: Persistent disruptive content removal by unregistered user(s). Revirvlkodlaku (talk) 14:25, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

List of Sony Pictures Animation productions

Reason: Addition of unsourced content, high level of IP vandalism, and disruptive editing. 216.208.153.194 (talk) 14:47, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:Hook (2022 TV series)

Semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – The IP keeps requesting a review without addressing the issue. —Saqib (talk | contribs) 15:25, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

User:Saqib has misused the rights as reviewer and is biased in his judgments as expressed in User_talk:Liz#Request_for_Investigation_of_User:Saqib. 182.182.97.3 (talk) 15:29, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
These pages seriously need locking down because the IP keeps asking for re-reviews without addressing the issues raised on the relevant talk page which is akin to Wikipedia:DISRUPTIVE. —Saqib (talk | contribs) 18:47, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have not looked close enough to determine if a request to protect this draft is valid. However, I will say this IP is part of a larger UPE sock farm and we will be dealing with their bludgeoning of this draft (and others) unless a protection is made. And while it is unlikely to stop them, hopefully it will slow them for a while.--CNMall41 (talk) 19:33, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:Wonderland (Pakistani TV series)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – The IP keeps requesting a review without addressing the issue. —Saqib (talk | contribs) 15:26, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

User:Saqib has misused the rights as reviewer and is biased in his judgments as expressed in User_talk:Liz#Request_for_Investigation_of_User:Saqib. 182.182.97.3 (talk) 15:29, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Om Parvat

Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring. Classicwiki (talk) If you reply here, please ping me. 16:05, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Rangiya railway division

Indefinite extended confirmed protection: Persistent sockpuppetry. Classicwiki (talk) If you reply here, please ping me. 16:14, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

KCBS-TV

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Suggested by User:Mer764Wiki. Mvcg66b3r (talk) 17:29, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for mentioning me. Byt no seriously, Broadcasting stations are not a joke. mer764KCTV5 / Cospaw (He/Him | Talk • Contributions) 18:19, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Update: LITERALLY an minute after Mvcg66b3r's revert was reverted, that revert by the vandal was reverted by someone else. (Mvcg66b3r is not an vandal). mer764KCTV5 / Cospaw (He/Him | Talk • Contributions) 19:51, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Julen Lopetegui

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent vandalism by numerous IPs to BLP following press speculation. Egghead06 (talk) 18:44, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Neuro-linguistic programming

Reason: Full protection - an editor refuses to observe WP:REFVAR, repeatedly changing the reference style, badly, leaving multiple citation errors each time. They have been warned repeatedly on their talk page for disruptive editing, but continue to WP:CANTHEARYOU. Skyerise (talk) 20:30, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

While I had some citation errors, I also fixed the majority of issues. That current referencing makes it hard to read the source let alone verify the sources cited. In the process of adding page numbers and checking sources I found numerous content issues as well. I explained on multiple occasions that I was in the middle of correcting the citation errors when I was reverted by Skyerise. I needed to save those edits otherwise would have lost hours of work. —Notgain (talk) 22:01, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
What you are doing is prohibited unless you get consensus on the talk page first. It doesn't matter whether you make errors or not. You aren't supposed to be doing it in the first place. Skyerise (talk) 22:34, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wars of the Roses

Reason: High level of IP vandalsim. Kansas Bear (talk) 21:20, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Rebekah Jones

Semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Majority of recent edits are anon IP, and more often than not reverted due to policy violations. It's getting hard to find a reliable past version to revert to... cheers. anastrophe, an editor he is. 21:39, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected for a period of 4 years, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 22:16, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Drake–Kendrick Lamar feud

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent Vandalism. Persistent IP vandalism on high-profile rap feud Chaotıċ Enby (talk · contribs) 23:33, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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2024 University of California, Los Angeles pro-Palestinian campus occupation

Reason: Please reduce it to semi protection. I am a UCLA prof, my students have learned to edit Wikipedia and are keen to contribute. I created the article. But they are new so extended confirmation has blocked their edit access. Noopur28 (talk) 17:56, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Noopur28, the article is protected by an arbitration decision (WP:CT/A-I) and can't really be unprotected. Or rather, if it was technically unprotected so that your students could edit it, their edits would be immediately reverted by others enforcing the still-existing prohibition on their editing.
Encourating students relatively new to Wikipedia (less than 500 edits or less than 30 days account age) to jump into such a contentious topic is almost certainly a bad idea; you'd either need to supervise them in a way that would make them an army of meatpuppets of your own account, or let them edit without such supervision and end up in various heated Wikipedia conflicts due to their lack of experience.
The protection serves a useful purpose and those students who actually possess the needed Wikipedia experience to edit such pages are already able to do so.
You may already be aware of Wikipedia:Student_assignments#Advice_for_instructors, but I'll link it here for the sake of completeness. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 22:33, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Not done ~ ToBeFree (talk) 22:33, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for picking up the slack, ToBeFree. I tried to advise them on my talk page, but I'm just swamped today, so probably did a poor job at it. El_C 22:59, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
No worries, El_C. I guess depending on how the advice was taken, we may later see a request at WP:PERM/EC from a 5-edit account which can't really be answered in another way than "Sorry, no, this is too early", but that's quickly done. I'm currently a bit worried about the "Unknown author" Wikimedia Commons uploads from Noopur28's account and would normally have marked them with "No source" tags, but I don't want to come down like a ton of bricks endlessly lecturing someone who outside of the Wikipedia bubble would be in a good position to explain the world to me. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 23:07, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I hear ya, hard to find that sweet spot between overwhelming and laconic. But your advice above is a informative and well-rounded, so kudos. El_C 23:20, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
😄💚 ~ ToBeFree (talk) 23:22, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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ChatGPT

New URL Change from chat.openai.com to chatgpt.com 122.104.176.219 (talk) 06:54, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

(Not an Admin but...) The main url is chat.openai.com, chatgpt.com redirects you to there. No reason to change it Me Da Wikipedian (talk) 14:43, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
probably an A/B test 122.104.176.219 (talk) 06:11, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Israel–Hamas war

A grammar fix is required for a sentence in the second paragraph of the article:

"During this attack, 1,139 Israelis and foreign nationals including 766 civilians and 373 security personnel were killed, while 252 Israelis and foreigners were taken captive to the Gaza Strip with the stated goal to force Israel to release Palestinian prisoners"

Change "goal to force Israel to" to "goal of forcing Israel to" Aadamwaheed (talk) 20:57, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:Israel-Hamas war

I would like to request the addition of a talk page on the Israel-Hamas war article that points out that the map on said article doesn’t show the Israeli evacuation order from Rafah and should be updated. LordOfWalruses (talk) 21:45, 6 May 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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