User talk:148.0.126.176

About page protection

Hello, 148.0.126.176, and welcome to Wikipedia. I understand your feelings, about wanting protection for the article Junko Minagawa. Let me explain. First, there is no need for extended confirmed protection; semi-protection is enough to block vandalism by IPs. Second, articles would not be protected for a year; more like a few days. Third, protection is only done if the vandalism is RECENT. You can read about Wikipedia’s protection policy here: WP:Protection policy. You can read about my personal approach to protecting here: User:MelanieN/Page protection.

When you asked for protection, I looked at the history of each of the articles separately, as we are required to do. On the Chie Nakamura article, the birthdate was changed three times in the past two days, but nothing before that; so I protected it for two days. The Michiko Neya article had the birthdate changed multiple times, going back to December, so I protected it for a week. The Kai Araki article also needed protection for a week. The Junko Minagawa was different. It had the birthdate changed once on Jan. 22, once on Jan. 19, and once on Jan. 12. Three vandalism edits, widely spread out over 10 days. During that 10 days there also was a lot of good editing done by several other IPs. I didn’t want to block the good editors (like you!) from editing, so I didn't protect the article.

After reading this explanation, if you want to ask again for protection, you can. Another administrator might look at the article differently. -- MelanieN (talk) 06:36, 24 January 2020 (UTC)

As another admin, I concur with my esteemed colleague here. Lectonar (talk) 07:33, 24 January 2020 (UTC)

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