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    Welcome—request protection of a page, file, or template here.

    Before requesting, read the protection policy. Full protection is used to stop edit warring between multiple users or to prevent vandalism to high-risk templates; semi-protection and pending changes are usually used to prevent IP and new user vandalism (see the rough guide to semi-protection); and move protection is used to stop pagemove revert wars. Extended confirmed protection is used where semi-protection has proved insufficient (see the rough guide to extended confirmed protection)

    After a page has been protected, it is listed in the page history and logs with a short rationale, and the article is listed on Special:Protectedpages. In the case of full protection due to edit warring, admins should not revert to specific versions of the page, except to get rid of obvious vandalism.

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    List of foreign-born samurai in Japan

    Reason: Edit warring between autoconfirmed users (and one IP). Requesting temporary ECP. RomeshKubajali (talk) 12:29, 19 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    • Automated comment: A request for protection/unprotection for one or more pages in this request was recently made, and was denied at some point within the last 8 days.—cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online 12:31, 19 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Australian Republic Movement

    Reason: High amount of unconfirmed edits from ip users, to much vandalism DeadlyRampage26 (talk) 12:49, 19 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Unless I am missing something, there has not been an edit since late December 2023. -- LuK3 (Talk) 12:52, 19 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Ibn Khaldoun

    Reason: Persistent IP disruption over the past at least year Makeandtoss (talk) 13:55, 19 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    World Union of Jewish Students

    Temporary full protection: Content dispute/edit warring – Anonymous IP has reverted edits two times, it will undoubtedly continue. Trying to avoid edit warring. skarz (talk) 14:53, 19 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    2024 in Philippine sports

    Reason: Ongoing insertion of unsourced material by IP. Borgenland (talk) 15:22, 19 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Atomic Cartoons

    Reason: Persistent disruptive editing. Waxworker (talk) 15:34, 19 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    List of Touchstone Pictures films

    Reason: Persistent addition of unsourced content. Waxworker (talk) 15:45, 19 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    2024 Varazqan helicopter crash

    Temporary semi-protection: It's going to be contentious due to the Israel-Hamas war and has had IP vandalism. Kiwiz1338 (talk) 15:51, 19 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    2024 Varzaqan helicopter crash

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent vandalism. Bedivere (talk) 15:55, 19 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Current requests for reduction in protection level

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    Before posting, first discuss with the protecting admin at their talk page. Post below only if you receive no reply.

    • To find out the username of the admin who protected the page click on "history" at the top of the page, then click on "View logs for this page" which is under the title of the page. The protecting admin is the username in blue before the words "protected", "changed protection level" or "pending changes". If there are a number of entries on the log page, you might find it easier to select "Protection log" or "Pending changes log" from the dropdown menu in the blue box.
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    Check the archives if you cannot find your request. Only recently answered requests are still listed here.

    january 20

    The article is simultaneously semi-protected as well as pending protected, both with indefinite deadlines. I thought there should be only one type of edit-protection, if not one indefinite and the other time-based like the page kate Ryan.102.159.242.79 (talk) 20:43, 17 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    • Automated comment: One or more pages in this request appear to already be protected. Please confirm.—cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online 20:43, 17 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    • Regarding Kate Ryan, I have removed the semi-protection as that was what was intended.
      @Deb: Would you be open to removing the semi-protection here and seeing how it fares under pending-changes? It has been five-and-a-half years since your protection. Sdrqaz (talk) 02:58, 18 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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    Israel–Hamas war

    Change "Since the start of the Israeli operation, more than 35,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed,[86] including over 15,000 children and 10,000 women.[87][88]" to "Since the start of the Israeli operation, nearly 35,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed,[86] including over 7,000 children and nearly 5,000 women.[87][88]." This is based on the data recently revised by the UN, accessible here: https://www.ochaopt.org/content/hostilities-gaza-strip-and-israel-reported-impact-day-215. ConDissenter (talk) 21:21, 14 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Is there another place to request this change? The talk page for Israel-Hamas war is restricted as well. The current source for casualty data is palinfo.com, which describes itself by saying it "does not lay any claim to neutrality for it blatantly sides with the oppressed Palestinian people." https://english.palinfo.com/about-us/. Recognizing that reliable sources do not need to have a neutral POV, why should we use this as a source rather than a less biased source like the United Nations? ConDissenter (talk) 18:28, 16 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @ConDissenter Please go check Talk:Israel–Hamas war for earlier discussions and to see why your request is unlikely to succeed. FYI, the lower numbers refer not to the killed overall but to the killed who have additionally been identified by name. Besides, all the numbers are sourced to Gaza MoH anyway. — kashmīrī TALK 09:45, 17 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks for the reply, Kashmiri. I recognize the data is all coming from the same place. (I've tried to access but can't find a reliable site for the Gaza Health Ministry to find the data directly, so I assume the UN is accurately presenting the data.) I agree it hasn't changed the total number killed which is why I didn't suggest a change to that -- beyond fixing the "more than" to "nearly" 35,000. But I don't see any basis for keeping outdated numbers on women and children. The old ratio was 72% and the new ratio was 52%. The talk page suggests we need to wait for more RS, but at this point there are plenty:
    https://www.npr.org/2024/05/15/1251265727/un-gaza-death-toll-women-children
    https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/13/middleeast/death-toll-gaza-fatalities-un-intl-latam/index.html
    https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/gaza-women-children-death-toll-1.7203167
    Is there any way to flag this for the editors of that page, even on the Talk page? ConDissenter (talk) 23:40, 17 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Ebrahim Raisi

    helicopter crash Iyielikes (talk) 14:53, 19 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Talk:Ebrahim Raisi is not protected, and there is a section about this there. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v threads critiques 15:44, 19 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Handled requests

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