South Asia protection request 

I saw your protection request for South Asia, though another admin acted on it.  I thought I'd let you know a little more about the issue, as I'm pretty sure why Fastily declined it.  In general, semi-protection is used only when an article is regularly being vandalizedusually, regularly means no less than once every few days.  Looking at the history of South Asia, I see only about 1 vandalism edit per week, which is not enough to justify semi-protection.  In fact, in all of August, I only see one revert for vandalism; plus I see productive edits by unconfirmed editors.   There are exceptions that might cause a page to be protected with less negative activity, like when the edits aren't just vandalism but also defamatory to living people (per WP:BLP), but that doesn't apply here. I hope that helps explain why that page shouldn't be protected at this time.