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Administrators' newsletter – February 2025

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

Administrator changes

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CheckUser changes

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Oversighter changes

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Technical news

  • Administrators can now nuke pages created by a user or IP address from the last 90 days, up from the initial 30 days. T380846
  • A 'Recreated' tag will now be added to pages that were created with the same title as a page which was previously deleted and it can be used as a filter in Special:RecentChanges and Special:NewPages. T56145

Arbitration


Feedback request: All RFCs request for comment

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January 2025 NPP backlog drive – Points award

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The Working Man's Barnstar
This award is given in recognition to Kline for accumulating at least 10 points during the January 2025 NPP backlog drive. Your contributions helped play a part in the 16,000+ articles and 14,000+ redirects reviewed (for a total of 19,791.2 points) completed during the drive. Thank you so much for taking part and contributing to help reduce the backlog! Hey man im josh (talk) 19:37, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Pascal Dupuis

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The article Pascal Dupuis you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Pascal Dupuis for comments about the article, and Talk:Pascal Dupuis/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of GhostRiver -- GhostRiver (talk) 20:05, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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ITN recognition for Dick Jauron

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On 12 February 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Dick Jauron, which you nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Black Kite (talk) 12:28, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Images

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How can I add images (jpg photos) to the article about me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_DiBella

The images are stored in https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=josephdibella&title=Special:MediaSearch&type=image Josephdibella (talk) 21:41, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Feedback request: All RFCs request for comment

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Notice

The article Giovanni Conti (windsurfer) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Concern over notability under WP:NOLY and WP:SIGCOV

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Lajmmoore (talk) 09:27, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

WikiCup 2025 March newsletter

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The first round of the 2025 WikiCup ended on 26 February. As a reminder, we are no longer disqualifying the lowest-scoring contestants; everyone who competed in round 1 will advance to round 2 unless they have withdrawn or been banned from Wikipedia. Instead, the contestants with the highest round-point totals now receive tournament points at the end of each round. Unlike the round points in the main WikiCup table, which are reset at the end of each round, tournament points are carried over between rounds and can only be earned if a competitor is among the top 16 round-point scorers. This table shows all competitors who have received tournament points so far.

Round 1 was very competitive compared with previous years; two contestants scored more than 1,000 round points, and the top 16 contestants all scored more than 500 round points. The following competitors scored more than 800 round points:

The full scores for round 1 can be seen here. During this round, contestants have claimed 18 featured articles, 26 featured lists, 1 featured-topic article, 197 good articles, 38 good-topic articles and more than 100 Did You Know articles. In addition, competitors have worked on 23 In the News articles, and they have conducted nearly 550 reviews.

Remember that any content promoted after 26 February but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2, which begins on 1 March. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, feel free to review one of the nominations listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:12, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – March 2025

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

Administrator changes

removed

CheckUser changes

removed

Oversighter changes

removed AmandaNP

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • A new filter has been added to the Special:Nuke tool, which allows administrators to filter for pages in a range of page sizes (in bytes). This allows, for example, deleting pages only of a certain size or below. T378488
  • Non-administrators can now check which pages are able to be deleted using the Special:Nuke tool. T376378

Miscellaneous


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Administrators' newsletter – April 2025

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

Administrator changes

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Bureaucrat changes

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New pages patrol May 2025 Backlog drive

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May 2025 Backlog Drive | New pages patrol
  • On 1 May 2025, a one-month backlog drive for New Pages Patrol will begin.
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WikiCup 2025 May newsletter

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The second round of the 2025 WikiCup ended on 28 April at 23:59 UTC. To reiterate what we said in the previous newsletter, we are no longer disqualifying contestants based on how many points (now known as round points) they received. Instead, the contestants with the highest round-point totals now receive tournament points at the end of each round. These tournament points are carried over between rounds, and can only be earned if a competitor is among the top 16 round-point scorers at the end of each round. This table shows all competitors who have received tournament points so far. Everyone who competed in round 2 will advance to round 3 unless they have withdrawn or been banned.

Round 2 was quite competitive. Four contestants scored more than 1,000 round points, and eight scored more than 500 points (including one who has withdrawn). The following competitors scored at least 800 points:

In addition, we would like to recognize Generalissima (submissions) for her efforts; she scored 801 round points but withdrew before the end of the round.

The full scores for round 2 can be seen here. During this round, contestants have claimed 13 featured articles, 20 featured lists, 4 featured-topic articles, 138 good articles, 7 good-topic articles, and more than 100 Did You Know articles. In addition, competitors have worked on 19 In the News articles, and they have conducted nearly 300 reviews.

Remember that any content promoted after 28 April but before the start of Round 3 can be claimed in Round 3. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, feel free to review one of the nominations listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:02, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Administrators' newsletter – May 2025

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

Administrator changes

added Rusalkii
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Administrators' newsletter – June 2025

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

Administrator changes

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added 0xDeadbeef

CheckUser changes

readded L235

Oversight changes

readded L235

Guideline and policy news

  • An RfC is open to determine whether the English Wikipedia community should adopt a position on AI development by the WMF and its affiliates.

Technical news

Arbitration

  • An arbitration case named Indian military history has been opened. Evidence submissions for this case close on 8 June.

Miscellaneous


Feedback requests from the Feedback Request Service

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WikiCup 2025 July newsletter

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The third round of the 2025 WikiCup ended on 28 June. This round was again competitive, with three contestants scoring more than 1,000 round points:

Everyone who competed in round 3 will advance to round 4 unless they have withdrawn. This table shows all competitors who have received tournament points so far, while the full scores for round 3 can be seen here. During this round, contestants have claimed 4 featured articles, 16 featured lists, 1 featured picture, 9 featured-topic articles, 149 good articles, 27 good-topic articles, and more than 90 Did You Know articles. In addition, competitors have worked on 18 In the News articles, and they have conducted more than 200 reviews.

Remember that any content promoted after 28 June but before the start of Round 4 can be claimed in Round 4. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, feel free to review one of the nominations listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:49, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2025

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

Administrator changes

removed NuclearWarfare

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Guideline and policy news

Miscellaneous

  • The 2025 Developing Countries WikiContest will run from 1 July to 30 September. Sign up now!
  • Administrator elections will take place this month. Administrator elections are an alternative to RFA that is a gentler process for candidates due to secret voting and multiple people running together. The call for candidates is July 9–15, the discussion phase is July 18–22, and the voting phase is July 23–29. Get ready to submit your candidacy, or (with their consent) to nominate a talented candidate!

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Administrators' newsletter – August 2025

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

Guideline and policy news

  • Following a request for comment, a new speedy deletion criterion, G15, has been enacted. It applies to pages generated by a large language model (LLM) without human review.
  • Following a request for comment, there is a new policy outlining the granting of permissions to view the IP addresses of temporary accounts. Temporary account deployment on the English Wikipedia is currently scheduled for September 2025, and editors can request access to the permission ahead of time. Admins are encouraged to keep an eye on the request page; there will likely be a flood of editors requesting the permission when they realize they can no longer see IP addresses.

Technical news

Arbitration

  • The arbitration case Indian military history has been closed.
    • South Asia (WP:CT/SA) is designated a contentious topic. The topic area is specifically defined as All pages related to the region of South Asia (India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal), broadly construed, including but not limited to history, politics, ethnicity, and social groups.
    • The contentious topic designations for Sri Lanka (SL) and India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan (IPA) are folded into this new contentious topic.
    • The community-authorized general sanctions regarding South Asian social groups (GS/CASTE) are rescinded and folded into this new contentious topic.
  • The arbitration case Article titles and capitalisation 2 has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case closed on 31 July.
  • The arbitration case Transgender healthcare and people has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case will close on 11 August.

Miscellaneous

  • Wikimania 2025 is happening in Nairobi, Kenya, and online from August 6 to August 9. This year marks 20 years of Wikimania. Interested users can join the online event. Registration for the virtual event is free and will remain open throughout Wikimania. You can register here now.

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New pages patrol September 2025 Backlog drive

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September 2025 Backlog Drive | New pages patrol
  • On 1 September 2025, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin.
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WikiCup 2025 September newsletter

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The fourth round of the 2025 WikiCup ended on 29 August. The penultimate round saw three contestants score more than 800 points:

Everyone who competed in Round 4 will advance to Round 5 unless they have withdrawn. This table shows all competitors who have received tournament points so far, while the full scores for Round 4 can be seen here. During this round, contestants have claimed 9 featured articles, 12 featured lists, 98 good articles, 9 good topic articles, more than 150 reviews, nearly 100 did you know articles, and 18 in the news articles.

In advance of the fifth and final round, the judges would like to thank every contestant for their hard work. As a reminder, any content promoted after 29 August but before the start of Round 5 can be claimed in Round 5. In addition, note that Round 5 will end on 31 October at 23:59 UTC. Awards at the end of Round 5 will be distributed based on who has the most tournament points over all five rounds, and special awards will be distributed based on high performance in particular areas of content creation (e.g., most featured articles in a single round).

Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, feel free to review one of the nominations listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges – Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), Epicgenius (talk · contribs), Frostly (talk · contribs), Guerillero (talk · contribs) and Lee Vilenski (talk · contribs) – are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck!

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Administrators' newsletter – September 2025

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

Administrator changes

readded Euryalus
removed

Interface administrator changes

readded Ragesoss

CheckUser changes

readded AmandaNP
removed SQL

Oversight changes

readded AmandaNP

Guideline and policy news

  • An RfC is open on whether use of emojis with no encyclopedic value in mainspace and draftspace (e.g., at the start of paragraphs or in place of bullet points) should be added as a criterion under G15.

Technical news

Arbitration

  • The arbitration case Article titles and capitalisation 2 has been closed.
  • An RfC is in progress to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the Arbitration Committee election and resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.

Feedback request: All RFCs request for comment

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Temporary account IP viewer granted

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The temporary account IP viewer logo, composed of the Wikipedia globe with a user and an IP address

Hello, Kline. Per your request, your account has been granted temporary-account-viewer rights. You are now able to reveal the IP addresses of individuals using temporary accounts that are not visible to the general public. This is very sensitive information that is only to be used to aid in anti-abuse workflows. Please take a moment to review Wikipedia:Temporary account IP viewer for more information on this user right. It is important to remember:

  • You must not share IP address data with someone who does not have the same access permissions unless disclosure is permissible as per guidelines listed at Foundation:Policy:Wikimedia Access to Temporary Account IP Addresses Policy.
  • Access must not be used for political control, to apply pressure on editors, or as a threat against another editor in a content dispute. There must be a valid reason to investigate a temporary user. Note that using multiple temporary accounts is not forbidden, so long as they are not used in violation of policies (for example, block or ban evasion).

It is also important to note that the following actions are logged for others to see:

  • When a user accepts the preference that enables or disables IP reveal for their account.
  • Revealing an IP address of a temporary account.
  • Listing the temporary accounts that are associated with one or more IP addresses (using the CIDR notation format).

Remember, even if a user is violating policy, avoid revealing personal information if possible. Use temporary account usernames rather than disclosing IP addresses directly, or give information such as same network/not same network or similar. If you do not want the user right anymore then please ask me or another administrator and it will be removed for you. You may also voluntarily give up access at any time by visiting Special:Preferences. Happy editing! – robertsky (talk) 16:22, 10 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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A barnstar for you

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The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
I apreciate you for reverting vandalism, you've been getting there before me so I don't have to revert it, it's less work for me. Thanks for that and contributing to Wikipedia! Wikipedia wouldn't be as good without you!

Dylan Hackworth1 (talk) 01:15, 16 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Dylan Hackworth1 Thank you very much for the anti-vandalism barnstar :). I really appreciate it, means a lot to me that someone is recognizing the silent work that happens with AV, and the fact that you're getting in on it to is even better. Keep doing what you're doing and spread the cheer! Klinetalkcontribs 01:20, 16 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Important information about an LTA

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If you didn't already know, the recent vandals at the Donald Trump article (Yarizzi v, as well as Дильмурат Кадиров) are sockpuppets of a particularly nasty LTA known as Salebot1. They create dozens of accounts using proxies, game extended confirmed, and then vandalize Wikipedia:Popular pages. If you see anything like this happen again, I recommend not giving them any warnings so to deny recognition; just report the account(s) to WP:AIV and request locks at SRG. More info can be found at WP:LTA/SB1.

Thank you for helping to clean up their vandalism, by the way! SuperPianoMan9167 (talk) 16:14, 16 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much for the info, @SuperPianoMan9167! I knew the name but I looked for an LTA page but never ended up finding it for some reason, thanks for the instructions. Cheers, Klinetalkcontribs 19:41, 16 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Edit-Tomasz Golka

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The edit was accurate. He is her boss and employer. He is the concertmaster and she is the assistant concertmaster. I'm not sure why you're censoring. 2600:1700:AEE0:CD0:2155:7EE2:953C:9E82 (talk) 04:14, 5 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, it is not regarding the content but rather the way you worded the relationship. Perhaps I misread it, but it seemed like you were trying to make it into something more nefarious than it needed to be. Both of their roles were already stated; I didn't see a need to have "employee and subordinate" worded in the article. Let me know if I misread it, cheers. Klinetalkcontribs 04:16, 5 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
You must have misread it. Pointing out that he married a subordinate is factual. You drawing inferences that facts are nefarious is your subjective. Not sure why you're opposed to clear factual communication. 2600:1700:AEE0:CD0:2155:7EE2:953C:9E82 (talk) 04:20, 5 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Just to note, I am not opposed to clear and factual communication; if I was, I would not be talking to you right now. In my personal experience, people who word their edits (or anything else related like that) have had the intention to mislead or villainize the person they were writing about. I also found it unnecessary since both their roles were already previous mentioned. Klinetalkcontribs 04:24, 5 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I have no intention of villainizing him, as you suggest. Simply because the roles "were mentioned" at different points in the page doesn't help the reader connect the dots. Quit shifting the goalposts. Either you're saying that edits are designed to be nefarious or they're designed to mislead and villainize. Pick a narrative, and stick with it, so I can respond appropriately, please. 2600:1700:AEE0:CD0:2155:7EE2:953C:9E82 (talk) 04:27, 5 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I must have misunderstood your intention, and that's a fault on my part. Personally, I think right now with just subordinate is good enough wording for me to drop the stick and move on. Cheers, Klinetalkcontribs 04:29, 5 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – October 2025

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

Administrator changes

removed

CheckUser changes

removed Vanamonde93

Arbitration

  • After a motion, arbitration enforcement page protections no longer need to be logged in the AELOG. A bot now automatically posts protections at WP:AELOG/P. To facilitate this bot, protection summaries must include a link to the relevant CT page (e.g. [[WP:CT/BLP]]), and you will receive talk page reminders if you forget to specify the contentious topic but otherwise indicate it is an AE action.

Jakub Dobeš

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Hi there,

I noticed that you recently restored some information to the Jakub Dobeš page; thanks for that!

With that said, I believe there is a slight typo with respect to GA for the 2019 World Junior A Challenge as included under the International table within the Career statistics section.

This should read as "12" and not "14" as per stats drawn from official tournament site:https://www.hockeycanada.ca/en-ca/national-championships/men/world-junior-a/2019/stats/player-profile?playerid=15424

Do you mind facilitating this change?

Take care. 24.224.209.8 (talk) 17:31, 15 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Kline fair warning that this IP is likely WP:LTA/HABS. The Kip (contribs) 19:19, 15 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@The Kip I figured, but it is worth changing as it is incorrect. Stuck between a rock and a hard place Klinetalkcontribs 22:24, 15 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Alt account creation?

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Hi Kline! It's good to talk to you again! I noticed that an account was just created with the username Kline (alt) and a user page stating that this is an alt account of yours. Is this correct and true? I just want to make sure so that no bad faith impersonation attempts make it through and are able to cause confusion. ;-) Cheers - ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 22:48, 15 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Oshwah Yuppers, that's me. Probably would've sent this over the Wikimedia Discord.. but my account is in a pickle right now. Cheers, Klinetalkcontribs 23:04, 15 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
No worries, thanks for letting me know! :-) ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 23:05, 15 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

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The Original Barnstar
Thanks for your fantastic work on Colten Ellis! BeanieFan11 (talk) 17:35, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for the barnstar @BeanieFan11! I'm glad you started the draft; otherwise, I don't think I would've started doing some work and end up missing it in time for his NHL debut tonight. Cheers, Klinetalkcontribs 23:07, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Guide to temporary accounts

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Hello, Kline. 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

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 → Tick 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

Further information and discussion

Most of this message was written by Mz7 (source). Thanks, 🎃 SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 02:47, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your nomination of Colten Ellis is under review

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Your good article nomination of the article Colten Ellis is under review. See the review page for more information. This may take up to 7 days; feel free to contact the reviewer with any questions you might have. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of MediaKyle -- MediaKyle (talk) 14:25, 1 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

WikiCup 2025 November newsletter

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The 2025 WikiCup has come to an end. Our top scorers, based on the tournament point rankings (which can be seen here), are:

  1. Delaware BeanieFan11 (submissions) with 1,604 tournament points, will receive the 1st place award.
  2. English Island, South Australia Gog the Mild (submissions) with 1,075 tournament points, will receive the 2nd place award.
  3. Arconning (submissions) with 860 tournament points, will receive the 3rd place award.
  4. Canada History6042 (submissions) with 804 tournament points
  5. Sammi Brie (submissions) with 635 tournament points
  6. Oklahoma TheDoctorWho (submissions) with 386 tournament points
  7. AirshipJungleman29 (submissions) with 373 tournament points
  8. Thebiguglyalien (submissions) with 362 tournament points

Our high scorers in the final round were:

  • Delaware BeanieFan11 (submissions) with 1,035 round points, mostly from 19 good articles and 21 did you know articles about athletes
  • vigilantcosmicpenguin (submissions) with 819 round points, mostly from 13 good articles and 11 did you know articles about a wide range of topics from abortion topics to African cities
  • TheNuggeteer (submissions) with 508 round points from 9 good articles, 4 good topic articles and 6 did you know articles mainly about Philippines topics, along with 19 good article reviews

The final round was very productive, and contestants had 2 featured articles, 4 featured lists, 106 good articles, 5 good topic articles, 178 article reviews, 76 did you know articles, and 9 in the news articles. Altogether, Wikipedia has benefited greatly from the activities of WikiCup competitors all through the contest. Well done everyone!

The top eight scorers will receive awards shortly. The following special awards will be made, based on high performance in particular areas of content creation. These prizes are awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field during the competition.

  • English Island, South Australia Gog the Mild (submissions) wins the featured article prize, with 12 featured articles total, and the featured topic prize, with 9 featured topic articles in total
  • Canada Hey man im josh (submissions) wins the featured list prize, with 10 featured lists total
  • AirshipJungleman29 (submissions) wins the featured picture prize, submitting the only featured picture in the entire contest during round 3
  • Canada History6042 (submissions) wins the featured content reviewer prize, with 127 featured content reviews. He will also share the ITN prize, with 20 in the news articles in total.
  • Delaware BeanieFan11 (submissions) wins the good article prize, with 100 good articles total, and the DYK prize, with 147 did you know articles in total. He will also share the ITN prize, with 20 in the news articles in total.
  • Oklahoma TheDoctorWho (submissions) wins the good topic prize, with 16 good topic entries in total
  • Arconning (submissions) wins the good article reviewer prize, with 68 good article reviews in total

A special mention also goes to these users who scored the highest in a particular category in a single round:

Next year's competition will begin on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate. The WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to see you all in the 2026 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement!

On behalf of the judges, Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email), Epicgenius (talk · contribs · email), Frostly (talk · contribs · email), Guerillero (talk · contribs · email) and Lee Vilenski (talk · contribs · email):

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:24, 1 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Nomination of Juho Pietola for deletion

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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Juho Pietola is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Juho Pietola until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.

Joeykai (talk) 05:23, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Turns out that the IP editor you reverted was actually right, though it didn't matter without sources. This looks to be a huge deal - surprised I haven't seen anything about it elsewhere. -- Reconrabbit 21:58, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Reconrabbit: Well that sure is interesting. Unfortunately that edit flat out fails BLP so I think you can see why I reverted it. Cheers, Klinetalkcontribs 22:07, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your nomination of Colten Ellis has passed

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Your good article nomination of the article Colten Ellis has passed; congratulations! See the review page for more information. If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of MediaKyle -- MediaKyle (talk) 13:02, 4 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yay, new good article! If you're looking for inspiration, there's a fellow by the name of Nathan MacKinnon whose article is just dying to be developed, for a large readership at that... Not quite so much as Sidney Crosby but as far as Nova Scotian hockey legends go, MacKinnon isn't far behind. He might not interest you at all, but I thought it was worth putting the bug in your ear. Cheers, MediaKyle (talk) 13:52, 4 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@MediaKyle Thanks! I might take a stab at MacKinnon as there is actually more content than I expected but I can't promise I'll be able to bring it to GA.. because all that info is a LOT! Anywho, thanks for the pass and the suggestion. Cheers, Klinetalkcontribs 13:54, 4 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – November 2025

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

Administrator changes

added Toadspike
removed

CheckUser changes

added asilvering

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous


ArbCom 2025 Elections voter message

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Thanks for your help at Kenai Central High School, I was trying to avoid 3RR. Do you know if there is any process where I could go in future to deal with a niche disruptive edit like that? I started a talk page discussion but on a low traffic article and with someone who isn't engaging in substantive discussion I'm not sure how to handle it other than leave it there and go through the whole wp:RFC process? -- Lenny Marks (talk) 22:52, 20 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Lenny Marks There is always the 3RR noticeboard.. and the great dismal swamp, although I don't know if you'd enjoy that experience. Cheers, Klinetalkcontribs 22:53, 20 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]