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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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70.183.230.83 44 minutes ago N/A N/A N/A 70.183.230.83 43 minutes ago 331dot 95 minutes ago
76.167.122.195 16 hours ago N/A N/A N/A Nemov 4 hours ago Drmies 16 hours ago
216.200.240.180 No timestamp found N/A N/A N/A 216.200.240.180 7 days ago Yamla 8 days ago
301fieriw 3 months ago Graham87 5 months ago indef 301fieriw 8 days ago Yamla 9 days ago
Abdulazeez Taufeeq No timestamp found Drmies 2 months ago indef Abdulazeez Taufeeq 36 days ago Yamla 36 days ago
Alex C at The Techtonics No timestamp found BethNaught 8 years ago indef Yamla 15 days ago Yamla 15 days ago UsernameChange
Alexiscoutinho 19 hours ago Ymblanter 20 hours ago 10 hours' time Alexiscoutinho 19 hours ago Ymblanter 20 hours ago
ALittleCuriousFanatic2020 No timestamp found Ferret 2 months ago indef ALittleCuriousFanatic2020 44 days ago Deepfriedokra 2 months ago
Andreacerasoni 2 months ago Cullen328 2 months ago indef Andreacerasoni 2 months ago 331dot 2 months ago UsernameChange
Anime Fusion Updatesz No timestamp found Deb 47 days ago indef 331dot 23 days ago 331dot 23 days ago UsernameChange
Anohthterwikipedian 48 days ago Extraordinary Writ 5 months ago indef Anohthterwikipedian 10 days ago Extraordinary Writ 5 months ago
AshyPants 2 months ago Widr 11 months ago indef AshyPants 29 days ago Drmies 37 days ago
Ayaena 16 days ago Girth Summit 7 months ago indef Ayaena 16 days ago Deepfriedokra 2 months ago
BAABNRRBBORB1 54 years ago Graham87 2 years ago indef BAABNRRBBORB1 19 days ago Yamla 32 days ago
Benjaminkirsc No timestamp found NinjaRobotPirate 4 years ago indef Benjaminkirsc 2 months ago NinjaRobotPirate 2 months ago
Buzzy123 28 days ago Bbb23 37 days ago indef Dennis Brown 15 days ago Dennis Brown 15 days ago
ByTheDarkBlueSea No timestamp found Bbb23 21 days ago indef ByTheDarkBlueSea 5 days ago Bbb23 6 days ago
CaptJayRuffins 2 months ago Diannaa 2 months ago indef PrimeBOT 26 hours ago Diannaa 2 months ago
Caucasian127 No timestamp found Ivanvector 6 months ago indef Caucasian127 10 days ago Yamla 40 days ago
Caxwax 6 hours ago N/A N/A N/A 331dot 4 hours ago 331dot 4 hours ago
Cbelli92 2 days ago Dreamy Jazz 12 days ago indef CoffeeCrumbs 2 days ago Yamla 6 days ago
Chamaemelum 33 days ago Lourdes 10 months ago indef Liz 25 days ago Liz 25 days ago
CHAMP1UK No timestamp found Alexf 22 days ago indef CHAMP1UK 21 days ago 331dot 22 days ago UsernameChange
CherylMayo No timestamp found Yamla 2 months ago indef CherylMayo 2 months ago 331dot 2 months ago
Christophori No timestamp found Cullen328 20 days ago indef Christophori 20 days ago Cullen328 20 days ago UsernameChange
CIJ PRINT No timestamp found Secretlondon 11 days ago indef CIJ PRINT 2 days ago Secretlondon 10 days ago UsernameChange
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ClifV No timestamp found Bbb23 3 months ago indef ClifV 2 months ago Yamla 3 months ago
Cmsmith93 2 months ago Cullen328 3 months ago indef Cmsmith93 47 days ago Muboshgu 47 days ago
Cyber.Eyes.2005 57 days ago RoySmith 2 years ago indef Cyber.Eyes.2005 57 days ago Jpgordon 57 days ago
Daanial 20 days ago Alexf 21 days ago indef Daanial 20 days ago Alexf 21 days ago
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Dbigs 39 days ago Discospinster 39 days ago indef Dbigs 37 days ago 331dot 38 days ago
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Dianaareginaa 47 days ago Widr 2 years ago indef Dianaareginaa 44 days ago 331dot 44 days ago
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DisneyMetalhead 15 hours ago NinjaRobotPirate 4 days ago 9 days' time CoffeeCrumbs 13 hours ago Yamla 2 days ago
DoIHaveToExplainThis No timestamp found Jake Wartenberg 13 days ago indef DoIHaveToExplainThis 12 days ago Yamla 12 days ago
Dsnewmedia No timestamp found Bbb23 13 days ago indef Dsnewmedia 12 days ago 331dot 12 days ago UsernameChange
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Edgenut No timestamp found Dennis Brown 3 months ago indef StarTrekker 19 hours ago Rosguill 21 hours ago
Emdad Tafsir 9 days ago Deepfriedokra 6 months ago indef Emdad Tafsir 9 days ago Deepfriedokra 10 days ago
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FailedMusician 14 days ago ScottishFinnishRadish 22 days ago indef FailedMusician 7 days ago ScottishFinnishRadish 9 days ago
2600:387:F:781B:0:0:0:B 54 days ago N/A N/A N/A Yamla 9 days ago Yamla 9 days ago OnHold

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MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition (request) 2024-05-28 11:56 MediaWiki page (log)
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Electric current (request) 2024-05-30 15:20 Semiprotected (log) Modified by Spinningspark on 2015-09-05: "Persistent vandalism. Page has been repeatedly protected for many years and last month's edits are all entirely vandalism"
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Place requests for new or upgrading pending changes, semi-protection, full protection, move protection, create protection, template editor protection, or upload protection at the BOTTOM of this section. Check the archive of fulfilled and denied requests or, failing that, the page history if you cannot find your request. Only recently answered requests are still listed here.


Dominican Restoration War

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

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)

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

Imad al-Alami

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

1997 World Series

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

1924 World Series

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

Jake Westbrook

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

Roy Halladay's perfect game

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

Manny Ramirez

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

Coimbatore Suburban Railway

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

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

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

DSB Class MF

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

Frederik X

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

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

Infanticide

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)

Gabriel Martinelli

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

Johann van Beethoven

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)

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

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)

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

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

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

Dominican War of Independence

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

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

Matías Ramón Mella

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

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Internet forum

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

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

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)

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