::On the issue of page protection, wikipedia is in the constsnt state of dynamic evolution; new policies and guidelines are constantly implementedbut a select few could be removed if a new batch of users find it no longer relevant, they could always vote it out. These guidelines and policies are meant to suit the conditions of wikipedia during a specific periodtake wikipedia five years back. Dont you think that it was smaller, and was not as popular as nowthe breadth of ideological disparities between users would be lower than that as is now. Take Liancourt Rocks for example. Repeated consensus has resulted in the move between "Dokdo" and "Liancourt Rocks"it is just a matter whether it could get a majorty vote and then the move is made. Okay, if you may want something like semi-protected for Iskandar as with Barack Obama I would not be totally disagreeable, but provided that you may state clear and explicit reasons in the talk page to explain the move's rationale and why it needs the protection. Maybe you can take a look at Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines on more about guideline/policy deletion and implementations. 

 ::There is nothing much to state about Iskandar's name; he was not Ho Chi Minh or Miss Cleo who had ever used formal aliases in his lifeeven these articles do not have a special section dedicated to the various names that they use. You are mistaken that he has numerous names. Again, Sultan Iskandar's name is "Mahmud Iskandar", while the "Ismail Al Khalidi" is his father's name (Sultan Ismail), with ibni denoting "son of" in most Islamic cultures. Again, because that the press had used to address him "Tunku Mahmood" in the past and did not use "Iskandar" at the present, the 2nd lead paragraph is meant to state the varying ways that the press had used to mention him. Just as the four examples of the people with "rarely used names" which I have given, the important factor is to set a precedent to inform readers that he is only known as "iskandar" and not "Mahmud Iskandar" or "Mahmud". Again, to leave out this paragraph, users would no doubt question whether "Mahmud Iskandar" should be used to address him in the rest of the article? Inconsistencies will invariably emerge with time as different new editors make their contributions. To correct you, the second paragraph is not about stating his "several names" that he had, but rather to set a precedent and explaining Media's-both local and western ones-changing attitudes in their mode of address to the Sultan, which I believe has to stem from his personal sentiment that he requested to be addressed as "iskandar" at some point of time rather that "Mahmud Iskandar" or "Mahmud", which was commonly seen during his younger days.