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Unreferenced articles November 2025 backlog drive

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:28, 19 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Concern regarding Draft:Sheet metal worker

Hello, PhilKnight. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Sheet metal worker, a page you created, has not been edited in at least five months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 09:06, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User talk:47.31.240.45

You should revoke TPA at User talk:47.31.240.45. They're making PAs. 🪷 nahida 16:36, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Done. PhilKnight (talk) 16:41, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A cup of coffee for you!

Here you go, so you don't fall asleep while fighting vandalism. Thank you for your hard work here on Wikipedia. Literally every single one of us appreciates it. Hacked (Talk|Contribs) 18:26, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. PhilKnight (talk) 18:28, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

		The Admin's Barnstar
		For taking care of that vandalism to my user talk page while I was away (as well as this account that triggered the edit filter attempting to vandalize my user page). I highly appreciate it. JeffSpaceman (talk) 20:00, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. PhilKnight (talk) 21:30, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

24.51.233.167

24.51.233.167 (talk · contribs · WHOIS)

Would you mind blocking for a little longer? Their previous 72 hour block only expired at the beginning of the month: [1]. Looking at their editing pattern, they'll probably come back to vandalize again shortly after the block expires. Thanks. ConnerTT (talk) 17:40, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi ConnerTT, I have upped the block to a month. PhilKnight (talk) 17:42, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A Barnstar for you!

		The Admin's Barnstar
		I think you've handled almost all of my admin requests today. Thank you and keep up the great work! – LuniZunie ツ_(talk) 17:44, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. PhilKnight (talk) 17:49, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	For reverting all those anti-Cebuano edits that that one anonymous user did! - OpalYosutebito 『talk』『articles I want to eat』 13:48, 26 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. PhilKnight (talk) 13:49, 26 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sockpuppet Concern: User:Abubakadd / User:Abubakad

Hi Philknight, Kindly take a look at the ongoing discussion here: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/The BO77!. Your attention on this matter would be appreciated, as it involves possible cross-wiki activity and suspected connection between multiple accounts. Thank you for your time. Bech07 (talk) 14:25, 28 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have nothing to add to DatGuy's close of the Sockpuppet investigation report. PhilKnight (talk) 15:19, 29 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User talk:Scrimbley winnings

Hi, please could you revoke TPA as well? Clear abuse —Matrix _{ping me}^{when u reply} (t? - c) 16:59, 29 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Nvm thanks User:Ingenuity —Matrix _{ping me}^{when u reply} (t? - c) 17:01, 29 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wow

Every time I come here to give you an admin barnstar, I see one (or two) already given. Today, I decided I must drop at least a message. I think the brainpower you possess is awesome, I think you're an admin hardworker, and I appreciate the work you do for the encyclopaedia. The work you do requires some sort of special brainpower and you happen to be in possession of it. Thanks for being a hardworking and reasonable administrator and functionary. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 17:31, 29 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. PhilKnight (talk) 17:32, 29 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Guide to temporary accounts

Hello, PhilKnight. This message is being sent to remind you of significant upcoming changes regarding logged-out editing.

Starting 4 November, logged-out editors will no longer have their IP address publicly displayed. Instead, they will have a temporary account (TA) associated with their edits. Users with some extended rights like administrators and CheckUsers, as well as users with the temporary account IP viewer (TAIV) user right will still be able to reveal temporary users' IP addresses and all contributions made by temporary accounts from a specific IP address or range.

How do temporary accounts work?

Editing from a temporary account

When a logged-out user completes an edit or a logged action for the first time, a cookie will be set in this user's browser and a temporary account tied with this cookie will be automatically created for them. This account's name will follow the pattern: ~2025-12345-67 (a tilde, year of creation, a number split into units of 5).
All subsequent actions by the temporary account user will be attributed to this username. The cookie will expire 90 days after its creation. As long as it exists, all edits made from this device will be attributed to this temporary account. It will be the same account even if the IP address changes, unless the user clears their cookies or uses a different device or web browser.
A record of the IP address used at the time of each edit will be stored for 90 days after the edit. Users with the temporary account IP viewer (TAIV) user right will be able to see the underlying IP addresses.
As a measure against vandalism, there are two limitations on the creation of temporary accounts:
- There has to be a minimum of 10 minutes between subsequent temporary account creations from the same IP (or /64 range in case of IPv6).
- There can be a maximum of 6 temporary accounts created from an IP (or /64 range) within a period of 24 hours.

Temporary account IP viewer user right

How to enable IP Reveal

Administrators may grant the temporary account IP viewer (TAIV) user right to non-administrators who meet the criteria for granting. Importantly, an editor must make an explicit request for the permission (e.g. at WP:PERM/TAIV)—administrators are not permitted to assign the right without a request.
Administrators will automatically be able to see temporary account IP information once they have accepted the Access to Temporary Account IP Addresses Policy via Special:Preferences or via the onboarding dialog which comes up after temporary accounts are deployed.

Impact for administrators

It will be possible to block many abusers by just blocking their temporary accounts. A blocked person won't be able to create new temporary accounts quickly if the admin selects the autoblock option.
It will still be possible to block an IP address or IP range.
Temporary accounts will not be retroactively applied to contributions made before the deployment. On Special:Contributions, you will be able to see existing IP user contributions, but not new contributions made by temporary accounts on that IP address. Instead, you should use Special:IPContributions for this (see a video about IPContributions in a gallery below).

Rules about IP information disclosure

Publicizing an IP address gained through TAIV access is generally not allowed (e.g. ~2025-12345-67 previously edited as 192.0.2.1 or ~2025-12345-67's IP address is 192.0.2.1).
Publicly linking a TA to another TA is allowed if "reasonably believed to be necessary". (e.g. ~2025-12345-67 and ~2025-12345-68 are likely the same person, so I am counting their reverts together toward 3RR, but not Hey ~2025-12345-68, you did some good editing as ~2025-12345-67)
See Wikipedia:Temporary account IP viewer § What can and can't be said for more detailed guidelines.

Useful tools for patrollers

It is possible to view if a user has opted-in to view temporary account IPs via the User Info card, available in Preferences → Appearance → Advanced options → Enable the user info card
- This feature also makes it possible for anyone to see the approximate count of temporary accounts active on the same IP address range.
Special:IPContributions allows viewing all edits and temporary accounts connected to a specific IP address or IP range.
Similarly, Special:GlobalContributions supports global search for a given temporary account's activity.
The auto-reveal feature (see video below) allows users with the right permissions to automatically reveal all IP addresses for a limited time window.

Videos

How to use Special:IPContributions
How automatic IP reveal works
How to use IP Info
How to use User Info

Further information and discussion

For more information and discussion regarding this change, please see the announcement from the Wikimedia Foundation at Wikipedia:Village pump (WMF) § Temporary accounts rollout.

Most of this message was written by Mz7 (source). Thanks, 🎃 SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 02:48, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Former Cartoon Network original programming

Good evening. May I please request a long-term, temporary protection to the Template:Former Cartoon Network original programming article? I have reviewed the page's history and there are a whole bunch of random IPs that have done nothing but vandalized the article by falsely changing the original air dates of each program. It's gotten out of hand as of late. I first noticed it on the Grim & Evil article but I managed to fix the page. Thenostalgiaman (talk) 23:10, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Use WP:RPP to request page protection. In addition, please review the content you're reverting since what I added into the template was not part of the vandalism. Go D. Usopp (talk) 00:32, 1 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Go D. Usopp, okay thank you. I also apologize for mistaking your edit as vandalism. Thenostalgiaman (talk) 22:30, 1 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It's fine, we all make mistakes. Go D. Usopp (talk) 02:44, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

TPA removing

Hi PhilKnight. Could you revoke TPA for Special:Contributions/Ushoma? 45dogs (they/them) (talk page) 04:15, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks.

Done. PhilKnight (talk) 04:15, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Clarification re. artist usernames

Hi @PhilKnight! I saw your response to my report over at WP:UAA and wanted to make sure I cleared my understanding of the policy. I was under the impression that stage names could only be used by that particular person, and because the user in question was making promotional edits to a draft, I thought that was not permitted. In future, would these cases be better handled by WP:COIN instead (as you mentioned in the reply), because the ultimate issue is the promotional editing?

Thanks for your time. Best, Staraction (talk | contribs) 19:45, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Staraction, the user was almost certainly creating an autobiography. The best way to handle situations like this is to advise the user with {{uw-coi}}. Thanks. PhilKnight (talk) 03:25, 4 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I'll keep this in mind for the future. Best, Staraction (talk | contribs) 03:34, 4 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – November 2025

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2025).

Administrator changes

Toadspike

CheckUser changes

asilvering

Guideline and policy news

The speedy deletion criteria U5 has been repealed, with U6 and U7 replacing it. See the FAQ for more clarifications.
Community-designated contentious topics may now be enforced and appealed at the arbitration enforcement noticeboard (AE) as a result of an RfC.

Technical news

You can enable a handy user info card next to usernames, which when clicked displays edit count, blocks, thanks, and other information. To enable this feature, visit Preferences → Appearance → Advanced options → Enable the user info card

Arbitration

The arbitration case Transgender healthcare and people has been closed
- Uninvolved administrators may impose an AE participation restriction on any thread at the Arbitration Enforcement noticeboard.

Miscellaneous

An unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in November 2025 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:35, 4 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Indefinite IP blocks

Hi PhilKnight!
Following a yearly reminder by Oshwah at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard, I checked the log of indefinite IP blocks and found a few that you made – were these intentional, and can they be turned into temporary blocks? Some of them don't have a lot of information beyond the block log, so there might be some technical explanation I'm missing.

152.56.145.212 (talk · contribs · WHOIS)
180.75.235.233 (talk · contribs · WHOIS)
108.28.101.250 (talk · contribs · WHOIS)
158.120.124.245 (talk · contribs · WHOIS)
82.139.107.163 (talk · contribs · WHOIS)
212.93.153.69 (talk · contribs · WHOIS)

Chaotic Enby (talk · contribs) 06:28, 5 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Chaotic Enby, I have unblocked all of them. Thanks. PhilKnight (talk) 06:34, 5 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a lot for that very quick reply! Chaotic Enby (talk · contribs) 06:48, 5 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of User:Chika666 PiaVsJillian TanggolVsWayKurat

A tag has been placed on User:Chika666 PiaVsJillian TanggolVsWayKurat requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

Per WP:RBI and WP:DENY, we shouldn't leave shrines to obvious trolls.

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, pages that meet certain criteria may be deleted at any time.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Blake Gripling (talk) 09:46, 5 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of User:WayKurat BINATIKOS Dahil kay Jillian Mayabang

A tag has been placed on User:WayKurat BINATIKOS Dahil kay Jillian Mayabang requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

Per WP:RBI and WP:DENY, we shouldn't leave shrines to obvious trolls.

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, pages that meet certain criteria may be deleted at any time.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Blake Gripling (talk) 09:46, 5 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Toonlash

Could you yank TPA? Thanks. Lynch 44 11:31, 6 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Thanks. PhilKnight (talk) 11:39, 6 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]