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• Al-Sanadid Forces (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Reason: Vandalism 201.97.233.43 (talk) 21:52, 28 August 2025 (UTC)

Declined – Not enough recent disruptive activity to justify protection. Curbon7 (talk) 22:50, 28 August 2025 (UTC)

• Military junta (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing. Skitash (talk) 22:12, 28 August 2025 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of 1 month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Curbon7 (talk) 22:52, 28 August 2025 (UTC)

• Turkish winter campaign of 1994–1995 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Semi-protection: Arbitration enforcement WP:GS/KURD. Kajmer05 (talk) 22:29, 28 August 2025 (UTC)

Extended confirmed protected indefinitely. Curbon7 (talk) 22:53, 28 August 2025 (UTC)

• 2026 United States House of Representatives election in the District of Columbia (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – persistent addition of non-notable individuals; WP:CT/AP. tony 23:35, 28 August 2025 (UTC)

• Rylan Clark (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary semi-protection: BLP policy violations. Binksternet (talk) 23:59, 28 August 2025 (UTC)

• Ch (digraph) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing. Remsense 🌈 论 00:41, 29 August 2025 (UTC)

• Larry Fink (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent antisemetic vandalism. tony 01:00, 29 August 2025 (UTC)

...actually looking at page history I think indefinite semi might be more appropriate. --tony 01:02, 29 August 2025 (UTC)

• 1991 Halloween blizzard (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Temporary pending changes protection: Content Dispute/Edit Warring. Content dispute. A few other weather articles have Pending Changes, and this seems to relieve some of the content disputes. No higher protection is needed or being requested. The Weather Event Writer (Talk Page) 01:23, 29 August 2025 (UTC)

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I would like to request that... (Your edit request here) . Please update your referral in the Kristi Noem article to the ‘Gulf of Mexico’. It’s been the ‘Gulf of America’ for half a year already. Hope you’re not still calling Kinshasa Leopoldville nor Jakarta Batavia.23.119.138.239 (talk) 19:48, 28 August 2025 (UTC)

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