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Comment: I don't see any vandalism there. And reported after one first-level warning? signed, Willondon (talk) 17:23, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

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WP:UAA / WP:RFPP[edit]

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User-reported[edit]

This is probably Aryan as India not Nazis. Secretlondon (talk) 14:29, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
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Current requests for increase in protection level[edit]

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Dominican Restoration War[edit]

Extended confirmed protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Socks now circumventing semi-protection. TornadoLGS (talk) 03:35, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

DoneFavonian (talk) 17:06, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

2024 New Brunswick general election[edit]

Reason: Repeated IP edits treating website placeholder text as meaningful announcements. Another editor's warning on IP's Talk page was ignored repeatedly. G. Timothy Walton (talk) 04:39, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Mohammad Taha (Hamas)[edit]

Reason: WP:ARBPIA Ccole2006 (talk) 04:51, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Imad al-Alami[edit]

Reason: WP:ARBPIA Ccole2006 (talk) 04:53, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

1997 World Series[edit]

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Belteshazzar. Leijurv (talk) 06:01, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

1924 World Series[edit]

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Belteshazzar. Leijurv (talk) 06:01, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Jake Westbrook[edit]

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Belteshazzar. Leijurv (talk) 06:02, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Roy Halladay's perfect game[edit]

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Belteshazzar. Leijurv (talk) 06:03, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Manny Ramirez[edit]

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Belteshazzar. Leijurv (talk) 06:03, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Coimbatore Suburban Railway[edit]

Temporary extended confirmed protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Persistent NPOV and MOS violations by editor who thinks that reverting him means you're part of a conspiracy to destroy the subject transit system. - Sumanuil. (talk to me) 06:16, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Beowulf[edit]

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – A series of IPs have since March this year persistently made joke/vandalism edits changing the heading "Form and metre" to "Form and meter" despite the British English setting and a comment beside the heading; Drmies has blocked an IP for this but at least 2 others are continuing the assault. A temporary protection will not be enough given the persistence and multiple IPs, so this mature article (it's a GA) needs permanent protection at this point. Chiswick Chap (talk) 06:58, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Pending-changes protected indefinitely. – Annoying, but fairly low-frequency vandalism, probably a side effect of the subject being taught in schools. If PC proves insufficient, semi is an option. Favonian (talk) 17:11, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Leonard Cheshire[edit]

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – IP-hopper having an issue with the word "softly". The Banner talk 09:29, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Favonian (talk) 17:40, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

DSB Class MF[edit]

Reason: Persistent disruptive editing by multiple IPs Tammbecktalk 11:06, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Frederik X[edit]

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Under attack from rotating IP for the last few days. Celia Homeford (talk) 11:37, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Montana Jordan[edit]

Reason: Repeated IP attempts to add name of infant child to the page Qflib (talk) 12:21, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Infanticide[edit]

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent vandalism by an IP user (using different IP addresses) that fails to engage in discussions or respond to warnings. Gawaon (talk) 12:21, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

So it really is Sockpuppetry 70.50.199.125 (talk) 17:25, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
I'd say it's just a single not logged in user, whose address changes from time to time. I count the following IP addresses, all making the same two non-constructive edits, often repeatedly: 81.18.84.213, 2A02:2F0E:510B:A500:9105:1146:1E36:EE54, 2A02:2F0E:610B:6600:3881:E5A3:E19E:35FE, 2A02:2F0E:610B:6600:3CC7:5443:45F0:2543, 2A02:2F0E:610B:6600:6001:D309:299:F6F3, 2A02:2F0E:610B:6600:7D43:A64E:BE08:6B5B, 2A02:2F0E:610B:6600:847C:6D53:717:F3B2, 2A02:2F0E:610B:6600:E58C:1A4:630C:2D5A, 2A02:2F0E:610B:6600:F05B:D7BF:98DB:559A. Gawaon (talk) 17:39, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
User(s) blocked: 2a02:2f0e:4000::/34 (talk · contribs). Also 81.18.84.213 (talk · contribs · WHOIS). Partial blocks from the article in question. Favonian (talk) 17:58, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Gabriel Martinelli[edit]

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Idiosincrático (talk) 13:16, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Johann van Beethoven[edit]

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent & ongoing sockpuppetry/vandalism from IPs & named accounts regarding Johann van Beethoven birthdate. Cited sources only state a circa year, not the unsourced November date that various accounts keep on adding to this article - see this and this etc. Shearonink (talk) 13:29, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Hero Wars (video game)[edit]

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – A dynamic IP has been reverting against an AfD consensus without making improvements. I'm nominally involved, so filling this as a request. It may be possible to rangeblock the IP, but it seems like there's some unrelated activity on the range (still, p-blocking it from this page in particular may be the cleanest solution). signed, Rosguill talk 14:34, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Battle of Kursk[edit]

Indefinite extended confirmed protection: Persistent and non-stop IP vandalism. Random IPs keep on deleting source information, saying Boris Sokolov is not a historian despite giving no source nor using proper grammar, and ignoring the multiple other sources which cite his numbers and find them to be reliable, including Frieser and Toeppel.Reaper1945 (talk) 14:59, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

MTV 90s (British and Irish TV channel)[edit]

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Targeted by Bulgarian IPs. WP:LTA/DTHD. –LDM2003 talk to me! 15:34, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

User talk:Rockingstar11234[edit]

Indefinite full protection: Inappropriate use of user talk page while blocked – Recreating hoax Vizag Victors following their block: please see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Vallabharebel. Wikishovel (talk) 15:45, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Dhaka Cantonment [edit]

Reason: IP vandalism 37.111.211.145 (talk) 16:09, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Dominican War of Independence[edit]

Extended confirmed protection: Persistent sockpuppetry. TornadoLGS (talk) 17:04, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

DoneFavonian (talk) 17:24, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Matías Ramón Mella[edit]

Extended confirmed protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Suckpuppetry by confirmed accounts. TornadoLGS (talk) 17:05, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Scheana Shay[edit]

Temporary semi-protection: BLP Policy Violations. Gottagotospace (talk) 17:34, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

1971 Indian general election[edit]

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Editing from Srimonbanik2007 socks, named and IP. Ravensfire (talk) 17:38, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

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Internet forum[edit]

Reason: The protection here seems to date way back to 2012 due to spam, something which would presumably be much lessened now as forums are a less widespread format Iostn (talk) 16:22, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Unprotected Wikipedia:TRYUNPROT. – Muboshgu (talk) 17:27, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

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Electric current[edit]

Change "An electric current is a flow of charged particles,[1][2][3] such as electrons or ions, moving through an electrical conductor or space." to "An electric current is the flow of a charge around an electrical conductor or through space." Reason: The DRIFT section lower down has it right. Up here, it's very wrong. Wiki should not promote wrongness or contradict itself. Please see here: "Drift speed The mobile charged particles within a conductor move constantly in random directions, like the particles of a gas. (More accurately, a Fermi gas.) To create a net flow of charge, the particles must also move together with an average drift rate. Electrons are the charge carriers in most metals and they follow an erratic path, bouncing from atom to atom, but generally drifting in the opposite direction of the electric field. The speed they drift at can be calculated from the equation: v = I n A Q {\displaystyle v={\frac {I}{nAQ}}} where v {\displaystyle v} is the drift velocity I {\displaystyle I} is the electric current n {\displaystyle n} is number of charged particles per unit volume (or charge carrier density) A {\displaystyle A} is the cross-sectional area of the conductor Q {\displaystyle Q} is the charge on each particle. Typically, electric charges in solids flow slowly. For example, in a copper wire of cross-section 0.5 mm2, carrying a current of 5 A, the drift velocity of the electrons is on the order of a millimetre per second. To take a different example, in the near-vacuum inside a cathode-ray tube, the electrons travel in near-straight lines at about a tenth of the speed of light. Any accelerating electric charge, and therefore any changing electric current, gives rise to an electromagnetic wave that propagates at very high speed outside the surface of the conductor. This speed is usually a significant fraction of the speed of light, as can be deduced from Maxwell's equations, and is therefore many times faster than the drift velocity of the electrons. For example, in AC power lines, the waves of electromagnetic energy propagate through the space between the wires, moving from a source to a distant load, even though the electrons in the wires only move back and forth over a tiny distance. The ratio of the speed of the electromagnetic wave to the speed of light in free space is called the velocity factor, and depends on the electromagnetic properties of the conductor and the insulating materials surrounding it, and on their shape and size." 2003:E3:EF1C:62AA:25FC:EBCA:B8B7:B6EE (talk) 08:33, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Not done – You have, correctly, made an edit request at Talk:Electric current#contradictory, sadly - entry paragraph is at odds with an excellent section further down to which I have added an {{edit semi-protected}} template to attract some attention. Favonian (talk) 15:23, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Israel-Hamas War[edit]

I would like to request that... (the map be updated to show that Israel now controls the entire Gaza-Egypt border) . LordOfWalruses (talk) 15:25, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Handled requests[edit]

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Protected edit requests

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MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition (request) 2024-05-28 11:56 MediaWiki page (log)
Updated as needed. Last updated: 03:14, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
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User:AmandaNP/UAA/Blacklist (request) 2024-05-29 03:33 Template-protected (log) From User:DeltaQuad/UAA/Blacklist: Modified by AmandaNP on 2016-02-12: "we are going to try letting template editors edit"
Module:RFX report/colour (request) 2024-05-30 04:53 Template-protected (log) Modified by MusikBot II on 2022-01-28: "High-risk template or module: 5693 transclusions (more info)"
Template:Map requested (request) 2024-05-30 16:23 Template-protected (log) Modified by Primefac on 2018-02-23: "high-risk template with 4000+ transclusions"
Updated as needed. Last updated: 16:27, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
RfA candidate S O N S% Ending (UTC) Time left Dups? Report
DreamRimmer 0 0 0 10:02, 4 June 2024 6 days, 13 hoursno report
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