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Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Gif-unrelated talk! 03:43, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. © Tbhotch™ (en-2.5). 03:34, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  User(s) blocked. Mark Arsten (talk) 03:38, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – PC is not working. Bigpoliticsfan (talk) 03:00, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Paul Erik (talk)(contribs) 03:10, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protection: Large majority of edits on this page continues to be IP vandalism/hoaxing/self-promotion and reversions of same by bots and registered editors. Hobbes Goodyear (talk) 02:46, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  Semi-protected for a period of one month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 03:36, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Indefinite semi-protection: BLP policy violations. General Amos is a target of people opposed to his reconsideration of "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policies in the US military and this page is constantly being vandalized as a result.Dwpaul Talk 02:04, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  Semi-protected for a period of six months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Paul Erik (talk)(contribs) 03:15, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Indefinite template protection: Highly visible template – Vandalism of z-indexed images on an issue tag that would be difficult to find and revert (I had to use the web developer console). — {{U|Technical 13}} (t • e • c) 01:33, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  Semi-protected. Mark Arsten (talk) 03:36, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations – He just announced that he is gay, so there is going to be an incredible amount of attention to this page in this regard in the coming days. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 01:27, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  Semi-protected for a period of two weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Paul Erik (talk)(contribs) 02:55, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protection: Additions of unsourced content, speculation and original research. STATic message me! 01:24, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  Semi-protected for a period of one month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Mark Arsten (talk) 03:33, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP vandalism is rampant. Requesting either protection limited to autoconfirmed editors, or requiring that IP edits be reviewed before being submitted. Thanks. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 01:21, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 03:35, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Bigpoliticsfan (talk) 01:15, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Paul Erik (talk)(contribs) 03:16, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Repeated IP vandalism after registered vandal was blocked. WikiDan61ChatMe!ReadMe!! 01:13, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 03:32, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Article is being vandalized by IPs. Requesting temporary protection from IPs (say, 36 hours?) to get us a little further down the road so that maybe they lose interest. Thanks, . Cyphoidbomb (talk) 00:04, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 03:30, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 23:07, 9 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 03:18, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Continual edit warring of anon users re-adding individual results of episodes that were earlier removed based upon the following discussions:

Recent edits: [1], [2], [3]

This edit warring has continued for months despite article deletions & talk page discussions. A protection on the page is necessary to stop edit warring and re-addition of WP:OR. AldezD (talk) 23:05, 9 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 03:15, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Articles related to the children's animated show, The Amazing World of Gumball are attractive targets for persistent vandals because of the popularity of the series. This article is being attacked with date vandalism, and has been a frequent target of numerical vandalism for a long time, primarily from IPs. Requesting long-term protection. Thanks. . Cyphoidbomb (talk) 22:05, 9 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 03:12, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Article is vandalized on an on-going basis. It is a frequent target of date vandalism from IPs, mostly, though there are sock operators who vandalize as well. Requesting long-term block from non-Autoconfirmed users and IPs. Thanks. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 21:54, 9 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 03:10, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – PC is not working. Bigpoliticsfan (talk) 21:51, 9 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Mike V • Talk 23:41, 9 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. © Tbhotch™ (en-2.5). 21:42, 9 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  Semi-protected for a period of 3 months, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 01:48, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Temporary semi-protection. Bigpoliticsfan (talk) 21:34, 9 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  Declined – not clear what the reason for semi-protection would be. Paul Erik (talk)(contribs) 22:44, 9 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protection: Additions of WP:OR and WP:GWAR by anon IP editors and new users. STATic message me! 19:51, 9 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  Semi-protected for a period of 10 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 01:17, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 01:44, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protection: Same vandalism and WP:OR that resulted in the page being protected before. STATic message me! 19:29, 9 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 01:46, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations. Bigpoliticsfan (talk) 17:48, 9 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  Semi-protected for a period of 10 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 01:43, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – PC is not working. Bigpoliticsfan (talk) 15:55, 9 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 01:09, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Indefinite full protection: renewed edit warring with an editor who fails to refer to reliable sources in order to substantiates his/her claims; maybe we need some time to find a proper solution. Borsoka (talk) 15:22, 9 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

We cant indef it for everyone because of one ditor. If hes a continued problem then a block should suffice. If its a content problem and no attempt at DR is made then the editors in question should be blocked.Lihaas (talk) 15:30, 9 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  Fully protected for a period of 10 days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 01:02, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Edit war over album sales--change from 35 to 50 million by some IP. Also vandalism throughout page. CrowzRSA 15:19, 9 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 00:54, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Multiple instances of unexplained removal of sourced content by IP user(s) over last 48 hours or so, such as [4], [5], & [6] This has been a contentious article (multiple & current recent AfD attempts), so this is extra counter-productive as once again consensus to keep/delete is in question here... Please semi-protect at least until current Afd is resolved... Roberticus (talk) 11:49, 9 February 2014 (UTC). Roberticus (talk) 11:49, 9 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected.
 — Berean Hunter (talk) 15:26, 9 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  Fully protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. (by Berean Hunter) Mark Arsten (talk) 03:22, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Indefinite semi-protection: A template that doesn't need to be edited at all, prefer to play it safe with a semi-protection to avoid potential future issues. Gloss • talk 06:25, 9 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  Declined, unless I'm mistaken, it doesn't seem to be very highly transcluded. Mark Arsten (talk) 03:25, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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This was semi-protected nearly 3 years ago and never unprotected due to a page move in between.—Ryūlóng (琉竜) 03:20, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  Unprotected Paul Erik (talk)(contribs) 03:29, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Request un-protection as few users doing syndicate editing for OMICS Group page. Probably they are paid editors to other competitive open access publishers.Lizia7 (talk) 17:07, 9 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yep -- and you're one of them. Nomoskedasticity (talk) 17:31, 9 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  Declined, please discuss the issue on the talk page. Mark Arsten (talk) 03:20, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Unprotection: No BLP violations in three months. Bigpoliticsfan (talk) 19:16, 9 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  Not done Please consult with @Bagumba, the protecting admin, first. Mike V • Talk 23:50, 9 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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