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    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Constant pushing of the unsuitable source SimpleFlying contrary to WP:SIMPLEFLYING. The Banner talk 12:32, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    I do not think protection is the right instrument to use here. Ymblanter (talk) 20:47, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing. SNUGGUMS (talk / edits) 22:53, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protection: Persistent addition of unsourced or poorly sourced content. Dieter Lloyd Wexler 22:57, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Persistent disruptive editing from multiple IPs. Annh07 (talk) 23:50, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Reason: High level of IP Vandalism and POV push Vedant Katyayan (talk) 00:16, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Indefinite semi-protection: Arbitration enforcement, WP:AP2. LilianaUwU (talk / contributions) 03:01, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Please also enforce WP:CT/GENSEX. IanDBeacon (talk) 03:22, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. And I am also wondering how this could come under GENSEX. Though anything's possible. Daniel Case (talk) 05:56, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Reason: Repeated reverts of WP:GF edits by Mlb8589 who adds unverified/unverifiable location information to past champions table. Primary sources used for championship history do not include localities, though some added by Mlb8589 can be assumed to be correct—but not all. To verify would require parsing 40+ years of score recaps to determine which champions are from where… which has yet to be completed. Requesting revert to [1] and locking page to prevent WP:EW. Thosbsamsgom (talk) 03:03, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Reason: Averaging vandalism every 5.3 hours for the past 47.5 hours. — Fourthords | =Λ= | 03:05, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Reason: Contentious topic, per WP:PIA. Zinderboff(talk) 03:08, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – This page has been plagued with disruptive edits (all involving the content being replaced with "Emulador de xbox para gamecube") on this wiki and multiple other wikis. It has become more persistent in October. German Wikipedia has already protected the page on their wiki. QuantumFoam66 (talk) 03:32, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary extended confirmed protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – User is continuously using different IPs to edit. User then made an account and made 10 quick edits to get autoconfirmed status. I cannot revert further as I've already reverted three times. — Your local Sink Cat (The Sink). 03:44, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection: Disruptive editing. HorrorLover555 (talk) 05:59, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Reason: High level of IP vandalism and false informations. 2RDD (talk) 06:09, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – A few socks have been blocked (not autoconfirmed) and they are back editing using IPs. Please apply protection to stop wastage of time. Veldsenk (talk) 07:01, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary full protection: Persistent sockpuppetry and harassment. Personal attacks have continued beyond the extended confirmed protection. 120.142.140.148 (talk) 09:28, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Looks like a sock puppet, long-term abuser, vandal, and troll who spammed the articles on Africa, Black People, African Americans, China with huge numbers of racist material. The revisions have been RD2’d and RD3’d. Who is this vandal and troll? We need to start a long-term abuse investigation. Looks like this guy is from Conroe, TX, according to Simple Wikipedia, in which he also added racist stuff.

    List of trolls

    Saturnium119

    Waluigi1737

    MrRooster23

    Ice Cream Truck Boy

    Americanman231

    Greatest Goat

    Hat12346

    Susman77

    Hydrogen88

    Poker311

    Hellocat99

    Minecraftgamer55

    2600:100C:B0AA:C978:BDB8:EB40:557E:B44A (talk) 13:21, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    I have reset ECP, which should have caught the autoconfirmed LTA. I will make inquiries at VPT if it doesn't work. Acroterion (talk) 13:29, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @Acroterion Btw, a few hours ago, two, maybe three or more accounts started making 500 dummy edits, then goes straight for spamming on that talk page and the associating user page. Those accounts were made exactly a month ago, so they had the extended confirmed permission. Those were blocked, but if they return, go ahead and make the request . Myrealnamm's Alternate Account (talk) 15:48, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    The attempts to get around ECP are usually tolerably easy to spot, fortunately, but yeah. Acroterion (talk) 15:51, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Reason: High level of IP vandalism by what is likely a single IP user, whose edits have required multiple editors to revert. Please increase to semi protection

    I believe these different IPs all belong to the same user, who has taken to griefing the page:

    2A02:1808:87:6A5F:692B:8BD8:B5D4:D81

    2600:6C40:5B00:48B3:4C12:BC24:394A:E653

    2A0D:6FC0:745:D000:B8DF:82C9:355B:197

    2001:818:E279:DA00:C553:EB98:74BE:F9C1

    Xland44 (talk) 09:44, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    

    Indefinite extended-confirmed protection: Contentious topic restriction. WP:ARBPIA. 💽 LunaEclipse 💽 ⚧ 【=◈︿◈=】 11:43, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protection. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 11:50, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Indefinite extended confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement – CTOP - Arab-Israeli conflict. AntiDionysius (talk) 12:21, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent addition of unsourced or poorly sourced content – Anonymous IP making unsourced edits and affecting the neutrality of the article. StevePrutz (talk) 12:31, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – WP:LTA/ARARAT at it again. HistoryofIran (talk) 13:37, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 1 year, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Favonian (talk) 14:53, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection: Nearly all edits to this article are spam links from box retail websites. Belbury (talk) 14:16, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    I want indefinite, not temporary

    2600:100C:B0AA:C978:BDB8:EB40:557E:B44A (talk) 14:19, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Persistent changing of Infobox image to copyrighted image. Have also requested for blocking at WP:AIV and at Commons for the registered account however the various logged out editing WP:DUCK IPs is not yet warned sufficiently to fulfil AIV requirements hence requesting for page protection instead. Paper9oll (🔔📝) 14:43, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP vandalism. Nxcrypto Message 15:08, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Continuous vandalism by caste warrior IP. Nxcrypto Message 15:10, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Caste warrior IP disruptive editing. Nxcrypto Message 15:31, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing. Aintabli (talk) 15:40, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Very broad-topic article, high spot for vandalism. Myrealnamm's Alternate Account (talk) 15:44, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Temporary semi-protection: Persistent addition of unsourced or poorly sourced content – IPs edit-warring to include unsupported genre categories. DonIago (talk) 16:03, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Reason: Can we have full protection please? Beshogur (talk) 16:12, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Pending changes: Persistent vandalism – Slow vandalism. Filmssssssssssss (talk) 16:28, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Filmssssssssssss (talk) 16:49, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 1 week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Elli (talk | contribs) 16:51, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Reason: High level of whitewashing and IP editing 12.202.180.135 (talk) 16:53, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Vandalism continues right after recent protections expired. Filmssssssssssss (talk) 17:03, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. GoodnightmushTalk 17:07, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Reason: Multiple accounts, which upon examination of their edit histories are found to solely focus on this page, have been used to whitewash well-cited and established content, sourced from reputable outlets such as Reuters and the Associated Press, concerning sports corruption controversies that are of public interest. Daftard (talk) 17:03, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Filmssssssssssss (talk) 17:12, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Reason: Disturbance by ip address Peachyo (talk) 17:14, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Filmssssssssssss (talk) 17:20, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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    Reason: No longer necessary low profile article ModernDaySlavery (talk) 02:37, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    @Airplaneman: last protecting admin...any thoughts on that? Lectonar (talk) 09:13, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Reason: Page was given an indefinite protection in June 2014 when the subject agreed to move club, effective from July; there was disruptive editing jumping the gun. This is quite clearly not an ongoing issue. IPs can do well with updating things. The page was demoted from GA in 2019 due to lack of update and maintenance. Subject has gone from a high-profile player to an average manager, so risk of vandalism is decreased. Protecting admin has 50 edits in last two years. Unknown Temptation (talk) 17:13, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Unprotection: The edits prompting protection were made in good faith after the subject complained about inaccuracies on the page. I've used the post as an WP:ABOUTSELF source, so it should be good now. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 04:09, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Please consider this carefully. The primary source disagrees with itself, as noted even by Thebiguglyalien, while the secondary source that was usurped was quite clear. The clearly contentious name and birth dates need to be more thoroughly investigated and solidly sourced before the article contains them; I have removed them for the time being. Since the Facebook post is likely the source of the sudden attention, it is fair to assume more ill informed attempts will continue, at least for a while, and I suggest maintaining the protection until we have consensus and accuracy. Fred Gandt · talk · contribs 05:22, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    P.S. a heads-up next time might be nice; as a currently and directly involved editor, I only saw this request for unprotection when looking at Thebiguglyalien's contribs. Fred Gandt · talk · contribs 05:26, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Be aware that this issue is now being discussed on the talk page of Devin the Dude and (because having the same conversation in multiple places is a great idea) on the Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard. Fred Gandt · talk · contribs 15:21, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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    My suggestion is to leave out the following 2 sentences in the "German complicity" paragraph as they seem to be based on misunderstandings:

    "She also highlighted police suppression of pro-Palestine protests throughout Germany[509] as evidence of state complicity.[508] Karen Wells et al. highlight how Germany has entrenched its complicity in Israel's actions by banning use of the word "genocide" in reference to Israel.[471][better source needed]"

    1. In general violent protests are not allowed in Germany. As some of the first pro-Palestine protests were violent, they were sometimes forbidden by courts, if they were expected to turn violent. But that is common policy in Gemany with all subjects and not special for pro-Palestine protests.

    Meanwhile, there even is a calendar concerning pro-Palestinian protests[2] with daily up to 20 protests all over Germany. Thus, there is no general police suppression of pro-Palestine protests as is suggested by the current wording.

    2. The word “genocide” is not banned in reference to Israel in Germany - maybe that was a misunderstanding: What is not allowed in Germany is to call for genocide against Jews. The slogan “From the river to the sea” is seen as such call and banned. Gilbert04 (talk) 15:34, 11 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    @FortunateSons: A quick browse shows at least for the first part support for removal, can you add any additional incite? -- Cdjp1 (talk) 12:38, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I can confirm that both statements are broadly true. IMO, the best resource for this discussion (in the contemporary context) is probably Steinberg: Versammlungsfreiheit nach dem 7. Oktober - NVwZ 2024, 302. Direct citation: “Die Subsumtion unter diesen Tatbestand bereitet aber auch sonst Probleme. Die Stadt Frankfurt a. M. hatte dem Anmelder einer Versammlung „Frieden in Nahost" am 2.12.2023 untersagt, während der Versammlung zur Vernichtung Israels aufzurufen, dem Staat Israel das Existenzrecht abzusprechen, sowie die Aussagen „Israel Kindermörder", „Juden Kindermörder", „Israel bringt Kinder um" sowie „From the river to the sea" zu tätigen. Diese Beschränkungen hob das VG Frankfurt vollständig auf. Auf die Beschwerde der Stadt differenzierte der VGH Kassel Aufrufe zur Vernichtung Israels verstießen - wie gesagt - gegen § 111 StGB und die Aussage „Juden Kindermörder" erfülle den Tatbestand der Volksverhetzung (§ 130 StGB). Demgegenüber wurden andere Außerungen wie „Kindermörder Israel" oder die Bezeichnung der israelischen Militäroperationen in Gaza als „Genozid" nicht beanstandet und die Entscheidung des VG insoweit aufrechterhalten. Es sei davon auszugehen, dass bei den militärischen Verteidigungshandlungen Israels auch Kinder zu Schaden kämen. Eine solche laienhafte Zuspitzung sei im Rahmen der Meinungsfreiheit hinzunehmen. Anders hatte der VGH Mannheim am 21.10.2023 ein Verbot der Parole „Israel Kindermörder" und „Israel bringt Kinder um" durch die Versammlungsbehörde trotz bestehender Zweifel über deren Strafbarkeit aufrechterhalten; im Verfahren des vorläufigen Rechtsschutzes sei nur eine summarische Prüfung möglich; eine einmal getätigte Äußerung könne nicht rückgängig gemacht werden. Die Unterscheidung zwischen antisemitisch und antiisraelisch stellt sicherlich eine Gratwanderung dar, die hier im Einzelnen nicht beschrieben werden kann“autotranslated: “However, the subsumption under this offense also causes other problems. On December 2, 2023, the city of Frankfurt am Main had prohibited the person registering a meeting "Peace in the Middle East" from calling for the destruction of Israel during the meeting, from denying the State of Israel the right to exist, and from making the statements "Israel, child murderer," "Jews, child murderer," "Israel kills children" and "From the river to the sea." The Administrative Court of Frankfurt completely lifted these restrictions. In response to the city's complaint, the Administrative Court of Kassel differentiated that calls for the destruction of Israel violated - as mentioned - Section 111 of the Criminal Code and that the statement "Jews, child murderer" constituted incitement to hatred (Section 130 of the Criminal Code). In contrast, other statements such as "Israel, child murderer" or the description of Israeli military operations in Gaza as "genocide" were not objected to and the Administrative Court's decision was upheld in this respect. It can be assumed that children would also be harmed in Israel's military defense actions. Such a lay exaggeration must be accepted within the framework of freedom of expression. On October 21, 2023, the Mannheim Higher Administrative Court upheld a ban on the slogans "Israel, child murderer" and "Israel kills children" by the assembly authority despite existing doubts about their criminal liability; in the interim legal protection procedure, only a summary examination is possible; a statement once made cannot be reversed. The distinction between anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli is certainly a balancing act that cannot be described in detail here.” There is no broad ban on pro-Palestinian protests either, and they were even allowed to happen on Oct. 7 of this year (in some cases). While there are legal disputes on specifics for both, I’m pretty confident that no reasonable person would disagree with “broadly permitted” regarding both claims. FortunateSons (talk) 16:54, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Bonus: there can be cases where something isn’t criminal, but can be restricted in other ways, for example due to different burdens of proof or social pressures. FortunateSons (talk) 17:11, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I've removed #2. But there does seem to be evidence that pro-Palestine protests have been banned in parts of Germany at times.[3][4][5].VR (Please ping on reply) 14:55, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Thank you. Maybe the following article gives a bit more clarity.[[6]] Gilbert04 (talk) 18:10, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Unfortunately that source seems incomplete. Germany has indeed suppressed peaceful criticism of Israel.[7] And Washington Post says "A planned photo exhibit in southwestern Germany was canceled as a result of social media posts by its curator, including one describing “genocide” in Gaza."[8] VR (Please ping on reply) 22:32, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Well, I do not think that any source will ever be complete. Let me add two more.[[9]][[10]] Gilbert04 (talk) 20:44, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Consider changing "The Israeli government rejected South Africa's allegations, and accused the court of being antisemitic, which it often does when criticised" to "The Israeli government has been accused of consistently weaponizing antisemitism against it's critics, including in the ICJ ruling." Ecco2kstan (talk) 23:12, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    The Weaponization of antisemitism page hyperlinked over "often done" has many sources to draw from regarding the accusations' consistency and nature.
    My main concern with the original text is that it's voiced as if it's an observation made by a Wikipedian. The benefit here is that the weaponization of antisemitism has a clearer consistency grounded outside of Wikipedia. Perhaps other ways to word this out include adding a time scale (increasingly accused since Oct. 7th) or specifying the critique (against critiques of their actions since Oct 7th).
    If a lead paragraph change is necessary, there may be reason to outline Israeli motives and conditions for the genocide, including Zionism and anti-Arab racism. Ecco2kstan (talk) 23:25, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @Ecco2kstan, how about: "The Israeli government rejected South Africa's allegations. Supporters of Israel say that accusing Israel of genocide is both antisemitic[11][12] and a form of Holocaust erasure[13], but others argue antisemitism shouldn't be exploited to shield Israel from such allegations.[14][15][16][17]".VR (Please ping on reply) 00:12, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I'm not as familiar with the Holocaust erasure claims, but I'm happy with that reworking! If that weaponization of Holocaust denial detail isn't on the weaponization of antisemitism page already, it might be a worthwhile phenomenon incorporate if there's more citations you can find. I might look into it myself. Thanks! Ecco2kstan (talk) 03:10, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    That does sound quite balanced. +1 from me. Neutral Editor 645 (talk) 18:02, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    Inform readers of the distinction between the dagger symbol and the cross symbol in the infobox.

    Under "Commanders and leaders" in the infobox Yahya Sinwar has a dagger next to his name, but others such as Marwan Issa have a cross next to their name. The distinction between these symbols is not immediately clear to someone reading the article, I feel that this should be explicitly noted on the page. The Elysian Vector Fields (talk) 20:27, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    @TheElysianVectorFields: That isn't the article page, that's the infobox template. I changed the target for you above. It seems the dagger means "killed in action" (KIA) and the cross means "assassinated". I honestly don't know how I'd add a note to that effect. Maybe someone smarter than me can figure it out. ~Anachronist (talk) 01:52, 18 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    For power bi analysis

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