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• Elon Musk salute controversy (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Edit warring / content dispute. Multiple editors involved in edit warring. No great surprise given the content. TarnishedPath^talk 10:19, 26 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The article is already ECPed. Do we want to go to 1RR? Daniel Case (talk) 21:04, 26 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I see it recently EC move protected. I was going to indef EC as CT/AP. This is always going to be a contentious subject. Am I missing something obvious? BusterD (talk) 22:09, 26 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that this is always going to be a contentious subject. TarnishedPath^talk 00:54, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Zizians (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary semi-protection: BLP Policy Violations. 🌙Eclipse (she/they/all neos • talk • edits) 23:01, 26 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• 2021 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Indefinite pending changes protection: Persistent block evasion. 🗽Freedoxm🗽(talk • contribs) 23:33, 26 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Nicole Brown Simpson (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Reason: There has been a high level of vandalism and negative edits to this page from since the release of a Netflix documentary on the topic of the murder trial. Although I believe that there may be other pages that could use protection in this time, this is a murder victim's page and edits from IP addresses that do not have accounts on Wikipedia -- on either side -- provide risks to its stability at this highly-searched time. PickleG13 (talk) 23:35, 26 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Ron Goldman (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Reason: Similar to my request for protection for Nicole Brown Simpson, Ron Goldman's page needs protection in light of persistent addition of conspiracy theories. Although this has not been enhanced by the recent production of a documentary series, checking for confirmation only showed me how many IP addresses have made edits going back years that vandalize the page. Since this is a murder victim, especially one who was killed in a case under current scrutiny, we should make sure this page stays safe. PickleG13 (talk) 00:36, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Christopher Columbus (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary full protection: Content Dispute/Edit Warring. 🌙Eclipse (she/they/all neos • talk • edits) 00:45, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Haverford High School (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Multiple SPAs adding non-notable/possibly fictious people to the alumni section. I sincerely doubt that "Padston Griffin, Everything under the sun" is a legitimate alumni. Padgriffin ^{Griffin's Nest} 01:49, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Powelliphanta patrickensis (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Reason: It appears that VoidseekerNZ (talk · contribs) or an advocate therefor has returned. Based on precedent, this leads to edit warring over an image inclusion (detailed at here at enwp and at the Wikimedia Commons) until those accounts or IPs which are attempting to edit in contravention of community consensus are blocked. The pattern of disruptive editing is in the article history (and many associated pages here and at the Commons). — Fourthords | =Λ= | 02:07, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please note this is a years old copyright dispute where the author never intentionally uploaded this image to wikipedia and there are pre-existing non commercial licenses for the image which are correct. The license for this image wikipedia claims is invalid and disputed by the photographer. There is a group of editors determined to slander the author as a troll and vandal in aid of keeping this image on the website.

I suggest that if wikipedia wasn't stealing rare photographs explicitly against the authors wishes there would be no edits in the first place. TrentBuchet (talk) 02:21, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• List of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba characters (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Reason: Persistent disruptive editing in the last weeks. Xexerss (talk) 03:15, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• National Women's Soccer League (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Full protection: persistent edit-warring. Left guide (talk) 03:54, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• You Make It Easy (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry. TornadoLGS (talk) 03:56, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• 1960 United States presidential election (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Reason: High level of IP vandalism in which somebody keeps on changing the images in the infobox. This started on January 27 and has gone on for almost a month now. Jon698 (talk) 04:20, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• Whale shark (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Unprotection: WP:TRYUNPROT, last protected in 2019. :). MolecularPilot ^{🧪️✈️} 08:59, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Materialscientist:, the protecting admin, now notified in accordance with the bright yellow instruction at the top of this section. Favonian (talk) 09:41, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I use Twinkle and it usually does that for me but must have glitched this time, sorry! MolecularPilot ^{🧪️✈️} 21:52, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note that Materialscientist does not get pings. If you want their attention you will have to post to their talk page. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 17:24, 26 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• Kendrick Lamar (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Kendricks personal life tab was recently edited. The last person to edit was Saloni Jain22 as of now (5 hours ago). The incorrect information is under his personal life tab. "In an October 2012 interview, he stated that he once tried marijuana, but the blunt was laced with PCP". The drug last started is incorrect and should be replaced with "angel dust" or more commonly known as, cocaine. The link that is attached is a YouTube video with kendrick literally stating verbatim. he has also referenced this is two songs on his GOOD Kid MAAD city album. Once at the end of "Peer Pressure" and again in m.a.a.d city he refers to it making him "foam at the mouth". You're welcome 2601:98D:C182:7000:6040:86B0:1916:8063 (talk) 22:04, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Ramadan (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Please change "the Dawoodi Bohra believe that Laylat al-Qadr was the twenty-third night of Ramadan" to "majority Shias believe that Laylat al-Qadr was the twenty-third night of Ramadan Sffazal (talk) 16:16, 26 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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