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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.
Ideally, requests should be made on the article talk page rather than here. Unless the talk page itself is protected, you may instead add the appropriate template among {{Edit protected}}, {{Edit template-protected}}, {{Edit extended-protected}}, or {{Edit semi-protected}} to the article's talk page if you would like to make a change rather than requesting it here.
At the top of the page, click the Change protection link. [1] On the next page, you will see several confirm protection option boxes: Edit, Move, and Pending changes. In the edit box, select Allow all users. Next to Expires, you will see the existing expiry time. You do not need to change this. Next to Reason, type the reason you are ...
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.
If a page has only recently been protected, it may be best to wait a few days first, unless some resolution has been reached on the talk page. If you think that an edit needs to be made to a protected page, please discuss the change first on its talk page. If the page is only semi-protected, a logged-in user will make the change if necessary ...
Protection request dialog. RPP/PP, short for Request for Page Protection, is a module which sends a request for protection or unprotection to the page of the same name. It is commonly used for heavily vandalized articles, or for articles that are current and are likely to have high traffic due to real-life events.
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Administrator instructions for Requests for Page Protection: Review request to see if protection/unprotection is warranted under the Wikipedia:Protection policy Mark reviewed requests using {{ RFPP }} (see below ) so that a bot may recognize and archive those entries