Request for Page Lock

This page is where you can post to request that your page be locked. Typically this is done after a guide is finished to prevent unauthorized editing.

In this case we will be locking guides made for the wiki contest.

This page is for requesting that a page, image or template be fully protected, semi-protected, move-protected or unprotected. Full protection is used to stop edit warring between multiple users or to prevent vandalism to high-risk templates; semi-protection is usually used only to prevent IP and new user vandalism; and move protection is used to stop revert wars.

After a page has been protected, the protection is listed in the page history and logs with a short description indicating why it was protected, and the article is listed on Special:Protectedpages. Further discussion should take place on the Talk page of the article. In the case of full protection due to edit warring, admins do not revert back to specific versions of the page, except to get rid of inappropriate content

Instructions

If you would like to request a page to be protected or unprotected, please follow the following steps:

1. If you are requesting unprotection, it is almost always a good idea to ask the protecting admin first before listing a page here.
2. Add a level 3 header (i.e. ==== [[example]] ====, where "example" stands for the namespace) at the top of either the protection or unprotection list. Please make sure you have spelled the name of the article properly; a common error stems from mistaken requests for the protection of redirects, particularly capitalized ones.
3. If you are requesting protection, place the type of request (full protection, semi-protection, or move protection) and a brief reason for your request below your header.
4. Please do not add arbitrary requests for a protection expiry time to your request, or request indefinite protection arbitrarily.
   • If there is a reason for a page to be protected for a certain amount of time, such as protecting a usertalk page until the user is unblocked, please make this clear.
   • If you are requesting indefinite semi-protection, be aware that it is only applied to articles with endemic and endless vandalism problems which multiple increasing periods of temporary semi-protection have failed to stop.
   • Note that different expiry times can now be set for edit and move-protections, so an article can, for example, be semi-edit-protected for a week and full-move-protected indefinitely.
5. Sign your request with four tildes ~~~~ and save.

Protection Requests

Baby Pet Guide

REASON: Requesting full protection. Guide is finished and submitted for judging in the contest.

--Atheeni 23:27, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

Wizard Skills

REASON: Requesting full protection. Guide is finished and submitted for judging in the contest.

--Atheeni 23:27, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

Wizard Common Stat Builds

REASON: Requesting full protection. Guide is finished and submitted for judging in the contest.

--Atheeni 23:27, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

Example Protection Request

The above header would be a link to the page I want protected. REASON: Requesting full protection. finished my own guide to "example" topic, I would like it locked because there could be multiple guides for the same subject and I want to participate in the wiki contest. The next person to insert a request would do so above this one, and NOT deleting this one. Eatwithspoons 18:15, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Unprotection Requests

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