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Place requests for protection increases at the BOTTOM of this section. If you cannot find your request, check the archive of requests or the page history. Only recently answered requests are still listed here.

• Salami (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Filmssssssssssss (talk) 01:48, 20 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

User(s) blocked: ~2026-11200-76 (talk · contribs) blocked by Discospinster. for 31 hours. Daniel Case (talk) 03:14, 20 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

• Korean New Year (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Reason: Constant vandalism from multiple IPs and new accounts, requesting protection. Sunnyediting99 (talk) 02:20, 20 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

User(s) blocked: ChineseNewYearNotLunar (talk · contribs) blocked by PhilKnight. indefinitely. Daniel Case (talk) 03:17, 20 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

• Eric Dane (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Reason: There has been over a dozen vandalism edits and comments by IP users. I've been reverting them all. Bloxzge 025 (talk) 02:47, 20 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Declined It looks like a lot of these were premature announcements of his death. Now that that's been confirmed, this may (ahem) die down by itself, as usually happens in this situation. Daniel Case (talk) 03:25, 20 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

• User talk:LuniZunie (edit | subject | history | links | watch | logs)

Semi-protection: Long-term abuse. NightWolf1223 <Howl at me•My hunts> 03:02, 20 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The user themselves requested protection be removed a few days ago. Do they want it back now? Daniel Case (talk) 03:29, 20 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Ping @LuniZunie: See above NightWolf1223 <Howl at me•My hunts> 03:33, 20 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

No, I like people being able to message me freely, not to mention it won't stop the issue at hand, just redirect it to someone else. But thank you. I stand by, unless it starts getting disruptive for other users, I really don't mind what is currently going on. – LuniZunie_(talk) 03:47, 20 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Not done by user request. - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 04:28, 20 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

• Toni Fowler (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Indefinite pending changes: BLP policy violations – Persistent and repeated addition of unsourced content; see page history for details. Blake Gripling (talk) 04:10, 20 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

• Olivia Dean (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Reason: Frequent unsourced edits from temporary accounts. Some experienced editors are attempting to handle it but the unhepful edits are increasing in volume. Semi-protection should be fine. Thanks. I like octopuses^{talk to me, talk to me} 04:12, 20 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

• Toy Story (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Vandalism immediately after two-year protection expired. MakaylaHippo1998 (talk) 04:46, 20 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

• Efforts to impeach Bongbong Marcos (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Persistent copy-pasting of news article text. This has happened involving at least two temporary accounts. Hariboneagle927 (talk) 06:13, 20 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

• 2026 efforts to impeach Sara Duterte (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Persistent copy-pasting of news article text. This has happened involving at least two temporary accounts. Hariboneagle927 (talk) 06:13, 20 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

• Zufer Avdija (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary semi-protection: BLP Policy Violations. Disruptions regarding nationality immediately after expiry of previous protection. User3749 (talk) 07:21, 20 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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• ...you are being prevented from editing the page. A desire to change content is not a valid reason for unprotection. Instead:
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• Iran–Iraq War (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Reason: The page was extendedconfirmed due to WP:CT/IRP, which is about Iranian politics. Here, WP:CT/IRP has been incorrectly used to protect the Iran-Iraq War page. The Iran-Iraq War page is about a military conflict, not about post-1978 Iranian politics. KiddKrazy3 (talk) 13:52, 19 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Not unprotected – Military conflict involving one particular country is relevant to its politics. I see no problem about its protection. Go D. Usopp (talk) 16:23, 19 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

FWIW, CT/IRP doesn't mandate EC protection by default. Nevertheless, the application in November 2025 seems to have been prudent, and a mere 4 months later with Iranian politics still at the forefront of international daily news doesn't seem like the most appropriate time to revisit this. _signed, Rosguill ^talk 16:33, 19 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

If we are to view WP:CT/IRP this way, then it is still unfair to use in this circumstance. The Iran-Iraq War is also relating to Iraqi, Arab, and Global politics as well as Iranian politics. It is unfair to protect a page based on it being partly related to Iranian politics when it also is related to so much else. KiddKrazy3 (talk) 19:11, 19 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

That's how CTs work. It's related to Iranian politics, and that's the end of it. It doesn't matter what else it's related to, it falls under the contentious topic. - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 22:13, 19 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@KiddKrazy3: Whether or not an article falls into a contentious topic largely depends on if the subject of the article is connected to it in any significant way, shape, or form. As an example, Ms. Rachel doesn't fall into the Arab-Israeli conflict area despite her comments on the matter because said comments are literally the only thing even remotely tying her to the area. Iran-Iraq War falls into post-1978 Iranian politics because the casus belli was quite literally post-1978 Iranian politics. To argue otherwise is disingenuous. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v ^{threads critiques} 02:10, 20 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

• Wikipedia:Article wizard/version1 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Reason: Page hasnt been edited since 2021. ~2026-36939-5 (talk) 18:48, 19 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Declined Not a reason to protect it. Daniel Case (talk) 03:33, 20 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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• Israel (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Change the sentence "while Israeli independence prompted antisemitism in the Arab world" to "while Israeli independence increased antisemitism in the Arab world". The implication that antisemitism only appeared in the Arab World after the establishment of Israel is incredibly ahistorical. GeminiHeron (talk) 03:17, 20 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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