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Say stuff here.--Mike Selinker 12:45, 1 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Redirecting categories

Happy New Year, Mike!

When speedily renaming categories where the old name should be redirected, e.g. Category:Gracie-King family, please include the code REDIRECT in the nomination, as this is a lot easier than making the redirect afterwards. – Fayenatic London 22:47, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Wax (American band) members

A tag has been placed on Category:Wax (American band) members indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 07:45, 26 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello!

Hello @Mike Selinker, Your CfDs here and here have been deleted. I have removed the templates. Thank you! Ned1a Wanna talk? Stalk my edits 23:36, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry! They were meant to refer to a different nomination and I forgot to clean it up. My apologies. Gonna fix it now! Mike Selinker (talk) 03:51, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No worries! :) Nedia Wanna talk? Stalk my edits 22:58, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

CfD nomination at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 February 5 § Category:Eponymous categories

A category or categories you have created have been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 February 5 § Category:Eponymous categories on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 08:17, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Baylor Bears gymnastics

A tag has been placed on Category:Baylor Bears gymnastics indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 16:53, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hi Mike Selinker. Thank you for your work on Bedroom (video directors). Another editor, Rodney Baggins, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:

Please note that ref.5 is a dead link that can't be rescued (I've tried finding a good archive but found none) so it would be good to replace that with an alternative reliable source. It would also be nice to see an infobox on this page. Other than that, it's good to go. Rodney Baggins (talk) 16:28, 6 February 2025 (UTC)

To reply, leave a comment here and begin it with {{Re|Rodney Baggins}}. (Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.)

{{Re|Rodney Baggins}}Whoops. I fixed that link and will get an inbox together. Thanks! Mike Selinker (talk) 20:28, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar!

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		For your ongoing work with categories and at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion over the years. - jc37 09:35, 23 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I think your work has been exemplary. - jc37 09:35, 23 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! You too! Mike Selinker (talk) 22:57, 23 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

lol, I didn't expect that, but thanks : ) - jc37 02:14, 24 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Mandy Moore

Hello Mike. Could you please tell me why you deleted all the information on the Mandy Moore page explaining the reason for the backlash against her for her GoFundMe. I going to assume you are not trying to vandalize this page and are acting in good faith.

I await your explanation. Kevinspark1983 (talk) 23:18, 8 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I just thought it was a lot of information about a relatively minor element of the artist's life. I kept the basics but just trimmed it down. If you think that's wrong, feel free to restore it. Mike Selinker (talk) 04:00, 9 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:One Buck Short albums

A tag has been placed on Category:One Buck Short albums indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 07:13, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Bomb Factory (band) video albums

A tag has been placed on Category:Bomb Factory (band) video albums indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 18:21, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fishers has been nominated for renaming

Category:Fishers has been nominated for renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether it complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Marcocapelle (talk) 15:12, 10 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Little Fish (band) songs

A tag has been placed on Category:Little Fish (band) songs indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 18:50, 29 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Precious anniversary

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:21, 4 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Macabre (band) video albums

A tag has been placed on Category:Macabre (band) video albums indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 20:40, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Yellowcard video albums

A tag has been placed on Category:Yellowcard video albums indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 17:42, 19 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Giraffes has been nominated for splitting

Category:Giraffes has been nominated for splitting. A discussion is taking place to decide whether it complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 07:52, 7 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Real-time card game

The article Real-time card game has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Probably a made up phrase

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. Chidgk1 (talk) 14:04, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Happy First Edit Day!

Hey, Mike Selinker. I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee!
Have a great day! DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 05:14, 9 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Lennon family has been nominated for renaming

Category:Lennon family has been nominated for renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether it complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Gonnym (talk) 15:40, 17 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:McCartney family has been nominated for renaming

Category:McCartney family has been nominated for renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether it complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Gonnym (talk) 15:40, 17 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Band member categories

Hi Mike, I've found a few single-member categories that you created within the "musicians by band" scheme. I assume these had more but articles on other band members at one point but have since been redirected. I was wondering if you could empty/delete these rather than having us go through the process of a CfD. Here's the list:

Category:Debate Team (band) members

Category:Electric Boys members

Category:The Europeans (band) members

Category:Tilly and the Wall members

Thanks. Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars^{Talk to me} 07:35, 27 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Some of the redirect activity seems a little overzealous, but that doesn't much matter to me. If the articles get reinstated, it's easy to recreate the categories. Mike Selinker (talk) 20:29, 27 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Policy on photos on Wikipedia

Hello,

Just wanted to ask about the photos on these articles and whether in your opinion these are appropriate / comply with Wikimedia/Wikipedia policies?

Specifically talking about the photo of the "modern Sinaloa" player on the "Mesoamerican ballgame" article and the photo at the top of the article on "Darra, Queensland".

I appreciate there are cultural contexts to consider in relation to Mexican games so I may be overreacting but I just wanted to run it by someone anyway, thanks for your help.

Thanks Cantankeroussloth (talk) 15:29, 30 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

My recommendation is to start a discussion on the talk pages of those articles and see how people think about it. If the community thinks a thing on Wikipedia is cultural biased, it's usually swiftly dealt with. Mike Selinker (talk) 01:25, 1 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Red Harvest (band) video albums

A tag has been placed on Category:Red Harvest (band) video albums indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:51, 9 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Shooting of Charlie Kirk

I dislike your close of the RM on the article. I think the discussion should be allowed to breathe, and at its conclusion can be kept or moved to a Killing/Murder/Assassination of. Additionally, I feel the "killing" move, despite my belief in it being logical, is also unilateral, and bad practice to perform while a multifaceted discussion involving many editors is ongoing. DatGuy^Talk_Contribs 06:36, 11 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

As I said in my close, it's almost certainly an intermediary move. The discussion will very likely be re-initiated within a day or two as details come to light, and it might change from there. If you feel strongly about it, I encourage you to call for it to be reopened. Mike Selinker (talk) 06:42, 11 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

CfD nomination at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 September 24 § Category:Bangladeshi sports broadcasters

Categories you have created have been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 September 24 § Category:Bangladeshi sports broadcasters on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 20:41, 24 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Austrian skydivers

Please see Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2025_October_24#Skydivers. – Fayenatic London 19:53, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Guide to temporary accounts

Hello, Mike Selinker. 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) 02:47, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for discussion of Template:R to diacritic/Explanation

Template:R to diacritic/Explanation has been nominated for discussion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 07:04, 13 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]