Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Increase
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Reason: The article has faced ongoing disruption and vandalism since September, which constitutes a WP:BLPVIO as it impacts the election results of living individuals. Extended protection, ideally six months would be ideal, as there is too much to handle. For more context, refer to Wikipedia talk:Requests for page protection#Upward of a thousand articles requiring protection. Sheriff | ☎ 911 | 20:55, 18 November 2024 (UTC)
- @SheriffIsInTown: This falls into two separate contentious topics (Indian Subcontinent, concluded (sub)national elections). Have you considered maybe requesting at WP:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement to maybe see if other actions besides protection could be taken? —Jéské Couriano v^_^v threads critiques 23:08, 18 November 2024 (UTC)
- @Jéské Couriano I can’t think of any effective measures they could take against random IPs causing disruptions to multiple articles at irregular intervals every few days. Sheriff | ☎ 911 | 23:44, 18 November 2024 (UTC)
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent addition of unsourced or poorly sourced content – Unsourced addition of caste by IPs. Jeraxmoira🐉 (talk) 07:25, 19 November 2024 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Multiple cases of IP vandalism within the past month EmotionalBruises (talk) 08:59, 19 November 2024 (UTC)
Extended confirmed protection: IP and brand new accounts disruption by random changes of the citizenship/nationality of this person ignoring what the cited source says and WP:BLP and WP:ETHNICITY violation. ---Wikaviani (talk) (contribs) 09:46, 19 November 2024 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. ABG (Talk/Report any mistakes here) 09:59, 19 November 2024 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Favonian (talk) 12:08, 19 November 2024 (UTC)
Reason: Continuous IP vandalism Columner (talk) 11:16, 19 November 2024 (UTC)
User(s) blocked: 2600:4808:4894:c600::/64 (talk · contribs). Favonian (talk) 11:35, 19 November 2024 (UTC)
Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Pretty much an endless target for vandalism at this stage as evident from page history. ser! (chat to me - see my edits) 11:54, 19 November 2024 (UTC)
Reason: Possible edit war and vandalism. 76.71.63.110 (talk) 12:09, 19 November 2024 (UTC)
Reason: Six months of semi protection 76.71.63.110 (talk) 12:16, 19 November 2024 (UTC)