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