Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Decrease
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Pending protection was imposed literally 8 years ago by acalamari. It seemed to be applicable until February 2023 when disruptive edits arose. The incident resulted in a week-long protection, followed by a 3-month long protection, followed by a 3-day long protection before being resorted to a year long protection. Well, the year long protection recently expired, only to allow the same disruption. Wouldn't that have already defeated the purpose of PC? Why in the world do we have to wait for another year before the decision to reset pending changes is approved?197.2.212.136 (talk) 16:01, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
Automated comment: @197.2.212.136: This request cannot be parsed. Please ensure it follows formatting consistent with the current or previous methods of submission.—cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online 16:09, 20 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 16:56, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
- Oh, Bot! You need a larger language model. Favonian (talk) 17:06, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
- This doesn't make much sense, but I think you mean that pending changes settings should be removed because the page is also extended confirmed protected. I agree BombCraft8 (talk) 20:59, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
- The usual reason we leave PC in place underneath semi and EC is as fallback for editors to cope with disruption after a protection expires ... often admins don't have W-Ping and forget that protections they set have expired. The only reason I would remove it under ECP is if the protection were to be made indefinite, eliminating that issue.
I also think that we are overdue for bringing back PC2, which now would be applied to auto-confirmed editors as well (and perhaps automatically semi-protecting the page in the process), which would also solve this problem. Daniel Case (talk) 21:15, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
- The usual reason we leave PC in place underneath semi and EC is as fallback for editors to cope with disruption after a protection expires ... often admins don't have W-Ping and forget that protections they set have expired. The only reason I would remove it under ECP is if the protection were to be made indefinite, eliminating that issue.
Declined – No changes to the current protection level are required at this point in time. Daniel Quinlan (talk) 22:01, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
Reason: The protection is no longer necessary because ....... . GiorgiosAnatolitid (talk) 20:33, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
- Declined – Muboshgu (talk) 20:35, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
Reason: Protection no longer needed over a decade. 49.150.14.10 (talk) 22:56, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
- Declined – No changes to the current protection level are required at this point in time. Unfortunately, these "zoo animal" articles need to be protected due to continual vandalism and previous unprotection attempts on similar articles have failed. All of these are semi-protected: alligator, giraffe, lion, tiger, elephant, zebra, bear, shark, wolf, leopard, cheetah, and many more. You might consider registering an account so you can edit articles like this in the future. If you don't want to register an account, you can also make an edit request on the article talk page. Daniel Quinlan (talk) 23:42, 20 July 2024 (UTC)