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I first registered this account - my first - April 20, 2007. Since then, I've gotten involved pretty deeply in AfD work. I see it as a chance to triage articles that are flawed, but may yet have potential. If you need access to a Wikipedia article that has been deleted, ask me. If it's not a copyright violation, libel, or personal information, and has not been deleted as a suspected biographies of living persons violation, I will userfy the article for you.

Note that using the text to recreate any deleted article may automatically qualify them for speedy deletion, and copies of previously deleted content that are being used solely for long-term archival purposes may be subject to deletion because Wikipedia is not a free web host. We have a list of alternative sites which may be used to host your content.

I maintain a sock account AVPW primarily for use on public networks. In the event of a compromised account, I specifically request any administrator to honor a request from AVPW to block this account, and absolve you in advance of any repercussions.

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    Immediate requests Entries
    Candidates for speedy deletion as attack pages 0
    Wikipedians looking for help 0
    ...from administrators 1
    Requests for unblock 64
    Wikipedia semi-protected edit requests 26
    Wikipedia template-protected edit requests 9
    Wikipedia fully protected edit requests 1
    Wikipedia conflict of interest edit requests 170
    Candidates for speedy deletion as copyright violations 0
    Candidates for speedy deletion 11
    Open sockpuppet investigations 233
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    AB = Administrative Backlogs[edit]

    Administrative backlog[edit]

    WP:AIV[edit]

    AIV= Administrator intervention against vandalism

    Administrator intervention against vandalism

    Reports[edit]

    Bot-reported[edit]

    User-reported[edit]


    CSD / PRODs[edit]

    CSD= Candidates for speedy deletion ; PROD= Proposed deletions

    Candidates for speedy deletion Entries
    User requested 1
    Empty articles 0
    Nonsense pages 0
    Spam pages 3
    Importance or significance not asserted 1
    Other candidates 9

    The following articles have been proposed for deletion for around 7 days:
    ( source / chronological order / expired )

    WP:UAA / WP:RFPP[edit]

    UAA= Usernames for administrator attention ; RFPP= Requests for page protection

    Usernames for administrator attention

    Bot-reported[edit]

    User-reported[edit]

    See Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Brettandelle. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 20:45, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
    Thanks, let's see what the SPI turns up. -- Euryalus (talk) 10:18, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
    Requests for page protection


    Current requests for increase in protection level[edit]

    Request protection of a page, or increasing the protection level

    Place requests for new or upgrading pending changes, semi-protection, full protection, move protection, create protection, template editor protection, or upload protection at the BOTTOM of this section. Check the archive of fulfilled and denied requests or, failing that, the page history if you cannot find your request. Only recently answered requests are still listed here.


    List of genocides[edit]

    Reason: Extremely high contentiousness of this topic leading to edit wars and inclusion of misleading or contentious information without sufficient caveats. For example, the inclusion of the estimate of 186,000 deaths as an estimate of deaths in Gaza even though even the source this comes from says this primarily includes potential future deaths and the deletion, un-deletion of the section on Gaza by extended confirmed users. 128.12.122.220 (talk) 04:31, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

    It is already extended confirmed protected, and I do not see why the full protection would be needed here. Ymblanter (talk) 06:15, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
    Declined – No changes to the current protection level are required at this point in time. Lectonar (talk) 08:09, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

    Jordin Canada[edit]

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Warm Regards, Miminity (talk) (contribs) 06:50, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

    Patriots for Europe[edit]

    Reason: (Temporary semi-protection) Edit war continued by two IP users [1] [2] which started yesterday

    See: Talk:Patriots for Europe#Motorists Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring#User:FellowMellow reported by User:Fm3dici97 (Result: Blocked 36 hours) Braganza (talk) 07:20, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

    Kingswood_College,_Kandy[edit]

    Reason: The user name Viru96 is always removing content without explaining why he removing that content. I undo his changes several times. But he always as usual remove those things. Please Semi Protect or at least Pending changes Protection. IDB.S (talk) 07:20, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. I think it might be worth a try to talk to said user directly, but without using templates. Lectonar (talk) 08:11, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
    Already tried to contact the user but no answer. What to do? IDB.S (talk) 08:26, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

    Lingayatism[edit]

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Warm Regards, Miminity (talk) (contribs) 07:34, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

    Operation Azm-e-Istehkam[edit]

    Indefinite pending changes protection: Contentious topic restriction. Warm Regards, Miminity (talk) (contribs) 09:22, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

    Maldives national football team[edit]

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP-hopping vandal. Wikishovel (talk) 09:31, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

    NATO Rapid Deployable Corps – Italy[edit]

    Reason: Persistent addition of copyrighted material from the website. The copyrighted material has been removed multiple times by different editors. Dormskirk (talk) 09:52, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

    Shein[edit]

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Warm Regards, Miminity (talk) (contribs) 10:14, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

    Banana language[edit]

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Warm Regards, Miminity (talk) (contribs) 10:35, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

    Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Ymblanter (talk) 10:37, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
    • Automated comment: One or more pages in this request appear to already be protected. Please confirm.—cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online 10:50, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

    Popular Mobilization Forces[edit]

    Reason: Persistent IP vandalism and sockpuppetry. Skitash (talk) 10:40, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

    Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted[edit]

    Reason: Persistent ip vandalism Fieryninja (talk) 11:37, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

    Current requests for reduction in protection level[edit]

    Request unprotection of a page, or reducing the protection level

    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.
    • Requests to downgrade full protection to template protection on templates and modules can be directed straight here; you do not need to ask the protecting admin first.
    • Requests for removing create protection on redlinked articles are generally assisted by having a draft version of the intended article prepared beforehand.
    • If you want to make spelling corrections or add uncontroversial information to a protected page please add {{Edit fully-protected}} to the article's talk page, along with an explanation of what you want to add to the page. If the talk page is protected please use the section below.
    Check the archives if you cannot find your request. Only recently answered requests are still listed here.

    Brenda Biya[edit]

    Reason: Biya has recently received international media coverage (see below) over her coming out. She already has an article on the French Wikipedia, which I have translated at Draft:Brenda Biya. Coverage:

    Declined If the draft is accepted (and I do not see that happening at the moment, going by the comments above), then we can easily unprotect mainspace page. Lectonar (talk) 10:08, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

    Brianna Wu[edit]

    Reason: I understand the need for protection with regard to the GamerGate harassment, but she's gone on a radical Zionist bent ever since Oct 7th making increasingly racist/Islamaphobic statements, so much so that's she's been shunned by progressive allies and even began courting members of the far-right who previously slandered her. I feel it's only appropriate that this be reflected in the article. Spymaster Cosades (talk) 17:21, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

    @Spymaster Cosades: And this request underlines precisely why the article is protected. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v threads critiques 19:29, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
    Not unprotected Lectonar (talk) 10:10, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

    Max Ram[edit]

    Reason: The protection is no longer necessary because i have now learned how to navigate editing sources. The appearances and goals for hungerford town need to be updated is they incorrect. Giantsnowangel (talk) 09:55, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

    Not unprotected – Please use an edit request to request specific changes to be made to the protected page. Favonian (talk) 11:34, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

    Current requests for edits to a protected page[edit]

    Request a specific edit to a protected page
    Please request an edit directly on the protected page's talk page before posting here

    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. Doing so will automatically place the page in the appropriate category for the request to be reviewed.
    • Where requests are made due to the editor having a conflict of interest (COI; see Wikipedia:Suggestions for COI compliance), the {{Edit COI}} template should be used.
    • Requests to move move-protected pages should be made at Wikipedia:Requested moves, not here.
    • If the discussion page and the article are both protected preventing you from making an edit request, this page is the right place to make that request. Please see the top of this page for instructions on how to post requests.
    • This page is not for continuing or starting discussions regarding content should both an article and its discussion page be protected. Please make a request only if you have a specific edit you wish to make.


    Khot town[edit]

    please now grant me edit request i want to add more information 2404:3100:1044:3E5B:1:0:ACFF:FE05 (talk) 11:37, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

    Handled requests[edit]

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

    1 protected edit request
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    Page Tagged since Protection level Last protection log entry
    Battle of Dewair (1582) (request) 2024-07-09 11:33 Fully protected (log) Protected by JBW on 2024-02-25: "Persistent editing contrary to the outcome of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Battle of Dewair (1582)"
    Updated as needed. Last updated: 11:36, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
    9 template-protected edit requests
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    Page Tagged since Protection level Last protection log entry
    Template:Infobox Chinese (request) 2024-06-07 08:07 Template-protected (log) Modified by Primefac on 2018-02-23: "high-risk template with 4000+ transclusions"
    Template:Infobox officeholder (request) 2024-06-20 06:11 Template-protected (log) Modified by Mark Arsten on 2013-10-18: "Allowing Protected Template editors"
    Template:Rail-interchange (request) 2024-06-20 07:17 Template-protected (log) Modified by Primefac on 2018-02-23: "high-risk template with 4000+ transclusions"
    Template:Infobox Christian leader (request) 2024-06-28 12:36 Template-protected (log) Modified by WOSlinker on 2013-10-19: "allow template editors to modify"
    Template:Infobox language (request) 2024-06-30 06:30 Template-protected (log) Modified by MusikAnimal on 2021-08-16: "Highly visible template: transclusion count now over 9,000; most recent editors are still able to edit"
    Template:Translated page (request) 2024-07-01 21:01 Template-protected (log) Modified by Mr. Stradivarius on 2015-05-18: "Highly visible template: allow template editors"
    Template:Infobox software (request) 2024-07-04 04:23 Template-protected (log) Modified by Mark Arsten on 2013-10-18: "Allowing Protected Template editors"
    Template:Div col (request) 2024-07-07 21:02 Template-protected (log) Modified by NeilN on 2015-09-01: "Highly visible template"
    Template:Editnotices/Page/User talk:AP 499D25/AltSpace (request) 2024-07-09 04:40 Title blacklist (log) Matching line: Template:Editnotices\/.* <noedit|errmsg=titleblacklist-custom-editnotice>
    Updated as needed. Last updated: 05:44, 9 July 2024 (UTC)


    WP:RFA[edit]

    RFA= Requests for adminship

    WP:RFP[edit]

    RFP= Requests for permissions

    Autopatrolled[edit]

    User:Xegma[edit]

    Hello there, I have created 30 articles as of now and i am requesting for Autopatrolled right. Xegma(talk) 07:34, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

    Could anyone look into my request ? It is now been couple of days of the request ? Xegma(talk) 06:24, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
    Re-send the request SuperMightyBoy (talk) 10:09, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

    User:C1K98V[edit]

    Hello, I have created 100+ articles, primarily focused on television series. And I plan to keep doing the same. Thanks for your consideration C1K98V (💬 ✒️ 📂) 08:51, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

    Link to previous request. (I have no opinion at this time.) Extraordinary Writ (talk) 05:36, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
    Extraordinary Writ, I appreciate it. Thanks for looking into my request. — C1K98V (💬 ✒️ 📂) 05:50, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
    Joe Roe, you declined this previously. Do you want to have another look? Schwede66 06:42, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
    I'm sorry I don't have time to look at this properly right now. I'm happy for another admin to process it as they see fit. – Joe (talk) 09:33, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
    Joe Roe, I appreciate it. Thanks for looking into my request. — C1K98V (💬 ✒️ 📂) 09:47, 29 June 2024 (UTC)

    User:Sir MemeGod[edit]

    I have created over 85 (or something like that) articles in the last few months, and am requesting the autopatrolled right. Sir MemeGod ._. (talk - contribs - created articles) 06:29, 6 July 2024 (UTC) Sir MemeGod ._. (talk - contribs - created articles) 06:29, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

    User:GMB205[edit]

    Hello, I have created over 105 articles in total and I am requesting the autopatrolled right. GMB205 (talk) 15:06, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

     Done DanCherek (talk) 02:38, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

    User:AjayDas[edit]

    They have created 67 articles, please give the right SuperMightyBoy (talk) 10:14, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

    Page mover[edit]


    User:KingSkyLord[edit]

    I have been editing for over 7 years and I plan on using this permission in order to help with discussions on WP:RM and deal with cross-redirects for articles that should have more disambiguated titles. KingSkyLord (talk | contribs) 12:46, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

    Mass message sender[edit]


    Pending changes reviewer[edit]

    User:CrazyPredictor[edit]

    I've been actively editing in different topic areas (mainly politics/civics) on Wikipedia for a few years and have created some new article pages. In this time I have gained a strong understanding of Wikipedia guidelines and would like to apply that to review edits to articles to identify vandalism / inappropriate edits. CrazyPredictor (talk) 01:30, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

     Done DanCherek (talk) 02:40, 9 July 2024 (UTC)


    Rollback[edit]

    User:S-Aura[edit]

    I've been editing on Wikipedia for more than three years and i have developed the expertise to identify vandalism and familiarize myself with Wikipedia's content policies and copyright laws. I'm requesting the rights and responsibilities that come with this experience. 𝒮-𝒜𝓊𝓇𝒶 13:39, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

     Not done I noticed you started actively editing about a week ago. While I appreciate your enthusiasm, I'd like to see you spend at least a month gaining experience editing Wikipedia before assigning you advanced permissions. Thanks, Fastily 20:45, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
    Ok, Thankyou for your guidance! 𝒮-𝒜𝓊𝓇𝒶 06:41, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

    User:Garsh2[edit]

    Good day! I am requesting rollback rights to speed up the process of reviewing recent changes. I meet the mainspace edit count requirement and have been patrolling recent changes for over month. My track record of reviewing shows that I can quickly and effectively differentiate between vandalism and good faith contributions. Thank you. Garsh (talk) 17:39, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

     Done -Fastily 08:04, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

    User:Pinakpani[edit]

    I am requesting rollback rights after making regular efforts towards combatting vandalism and disruptive editing. After previous denial, I sent messages in the users talk page multiple times as norms. Hope, the rollback permission able me enough to fight against vandalism edits on Wikipedia. Pinakpani (talk) 07:22, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

     Not done I reviewed your contributions and found little to no recent anti-vandalism work. If you're still interested in this tool then please spend at least a month actively patrolling RecentChanges (Twinkle & Ultraviolet can help with that) before reapplying. Also, please ensure that you are consistently warning editors when you revert their edits. Thanks, Fastily 08:04, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

    Template editor[edit]

    User:Jackdude101[edit]

    I am heavily involved with editing route diagram templates and adding new items to template:rail-interchange, with a special focus on rail lines in France for the upcoming 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris starting later this month. I have made multiple edit requests there in the past, and very recently after refamiliarizing myself with the process, I've started to do it again. I would like the ability to edit that template directly so I don't have to rely on others to do it for me. Jackdude101 talk cont 07:46, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

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