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Section sizes in Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard

Section size for Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard (46 sections)
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Section name	Header	Total	Header	Total
(Top)	949	949	0	0
Open tasks	230	230	1	1
Unban request from Elijah Wilder	3,463	3,463	271	271
Ban appeal	5,948	5,948	141	141
A plea to admins to increase efficiency	6,893	6,893	246	246
Request for fixing the double redirects in Jon Blake (broadcaster)	669	669	23	23
Report of user @Phoenixxfeather	5,505	5,505	227	227
GrandKokla rename request	3,864	3,864	173	173
BLP problems	7,101	7,101	87	87
Hipal blanked sourced dob, says United Press International is "unreliable"	1,304	1,304	68	68
Twinkle block reason field	1,367	1,367	67	67
User:LAyub12	1,034	1,034	29	29
Page in main namespace needs to be deleted/moved to other namespace, but can't be edited?	2,522	2,522	55	55
2025 Arbitration Committee election preliminary results	469	469	51	51
Master Editor user breaking guidelines	2,473	2,473	84	84
Here to socialise, not to build an encyclopedia	1,043	1,043	81	81
Administrator Elections - Discussion Phase	2,980	2,980	311	311
TMNT	3,601	3,601	17	17
Assistance with COI editor at Barclay Tagg	1,404	1,404	140	140
ANI case needs action	1,827	1,827	70	70
user:162 etc. removing move request for no reason	2,531	2,531	55	55
Arbitration enforcement action appeal by Lt.gen.zephyr	1,535	19,557	93	386
Statement by Lt.gen.zephyr	3,097	3,097	155	155
Statement by Tamzin	7,086	7,086	138	138
Statement by (involved editor 1)	40	40	0	0
Statement by (involved editor 2)	40	40	0	0
Discussion among uninvolved editors about the appeal by Lt.gen.zephyr	7,759	7,759	0	0
Peter Southwood and close paraphrasing, again	42,103	55,723	396	708
Arbitrary break	13,620	13,620	312	312
Assistance with creating a new article!	1,265	1,265	109	109
Editor using account on English language Wikipedia to breach block in other language version	3,947	3,947	345	345
ChronoEditor1 repeated use of LLM in talk pages, FORUM-y, legal threats?	2,602	2,602	50	50
User Names(s) with format "~2025-XXXXX-XX"	1,013	1,013	88	88
Discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals) § Removing the GS authorization for United Kingdom systems of measurement	814	814	30	30
Continuous personal attacks	3,016	3,016	43	43
Change of iban	1,058	1,058	95	95
RfC closure review request at :Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Infoboxes#RFC: Baltic states birth infoboxes	925	7,998	27	103
Closer (Beland)	231	231	19	19
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Participants	20	20	0	0
Discussion	6,798	6,798	57	57
Draft:North Korea and African Decolonization	1,328	1,328	46	46
Administrators' newsletter – December 2025	2,921	2,921	18	18
2026 Arbitration Committee	1,153	1,153	78	78
Administrator Elections - Voting Phase	2,808	2,808	279	279
Removal of verified content	1,471	1,471	77	77
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Section sizes in Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents

Section size for Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents (59 sections)
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LLM use, denial of said use, lots of hallucinated references	37,225	37,225	134	134
Phuc Truong Dinh - CIR issues	4,982	4,982	107	107
AverageSkiptar	19,181	19,181	82	82
ConanHighwoods	14,201	23,385	65	124
Proposal of Categories TBAN	9,184	9,184	59	59
Orlando Davis: LLM use, dishonesty, generally NOTHERE	21,804	56,919	171	243
Proposal: Orlando Davis blocked for 1 year	16,397	16,397	52	52
Orlando Davis response	18,718	18,718	20	20
Editor reverting after Third Opinion and implying paid editing on Brant Pinvidic (BLP)	13,650	13,650	172	172
LLM use and COI by User:Thetransitguru	11,169	11,169	250	250
Persistent MoS violation and failure to communicate	2,651	2,651	57	57
Disruptive temp	9,735	9,735	117	117
Cambial Yellowing on Scientology	42,572	66,446	496	510
Proposal: Topic ban (Cambial Yellowing)	23,874	23,874	14	14
Conduct Report (TA)	28,369	28,369	25	25
5 December 2025	8,884	8,884	53	53
User:Ahmeddahir1	4,585	4,585	112	112
Unexplained removals and other disruptive edits in SA CTOP	2,656	2,656	81	81
User:Lamp21 and AI	3,662	3,662	326	326
Dispute: Mass Reversions, Personal Attacks, and Threats by User:SportsGuy789	8,497	8,497	159	159
Is this Islamophobic?	4,429	4,429	85	85
Persistent incivility, personal attacks, and disruptive editing by user Hogshine in ACAS topics	30,582	30,582	412	412
Donation	3,613	3,613	60	60
Vandalism by Chrisahn	8,558	10,131	209	231
Evidence of socking	1,573	1,573	22	22
Bad-faith edits from Horse Eye's Back... again	26,627	32,864	691	842
Proposal: Indefinite block + standard offer for HEB	6,237	6,237	151	151
Anjukkanju777	10,061	10,061	163	163
Orange Jones continued AI edits after several warnings	4,267	4,267	48	48
User:Maazoz English CIR issue & problematic page creations	3,671	3,671	216	216
Livelikemusic's long-term history of biting newcomers and WP:BATTLEGROUND behavior	11,699	15,271	183	203
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User report: Lack of competence and disruptive editing by Aradicus77	64,956	69,445	1,511	1,561
Break	3,436	3,436	50	50
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ChronoEditor1 repeated use of LLM in talk pages, FORUM-y, legal threats?	7,367	7,367	53	53
User:SteeledDock541's possibility of using temporary accounts to evade their block.	1,562	1,562	61	61
Gross violation of WP:BLP policy on article talk page.	2,775	2,775	48	48
User:MetalGod80's	1,545	1,545	32	32
Edit-warring at Fortran	7,647	7,647	152	152
Repeated removal of ill links and unresponsive to discussion	1,590	1,590	70	70
Falsehood and non-neutral editing at the Bonnie Pointer biography	1,927	1,927	83	83
Create User:Harold Foppele/Archive-2025	1,198	1,198	13	13
Abuse of LLM by Paleorthodox	5,098	5,098	109	109
Idris Shirazi	17,471	19,025	48	85
Proposal: Boomerang	1,554	1,554	37	37
Alex132219georgia	3,874	3,874	473	473
Sirfurboy needs to blocked from editing the Kisii people article.	5,816	5,816	172	172
Competence concern - Jaredryandloneria	6,521	6,521	99	99
Legal threats on User talk:Cinch1965	1,822	1,822	19	19
Continuous personal attacks	8,124	8,124	179	179
TA mass restoring sock edits	613	613	28	28
Large-scale copyright violations	7,286	7,286	139	139
Autopatrolled & NPR editor inserting hoax references/using a LLM to generate mainspace content	7,450	7,450	410	410
Saifyalakmar	1,330	1,330	27	27
R3YBOl is banned on three Wiki projects, socking, racial slurs (N word), constant sourcing problems	17,831	17,831	1,024	1,024
User:Paulie302 reported by Woovee	929	929	104	104
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I was wondering; should the other parameters of Template:ANI-notice and Template:AN-notice be pointed out in the header? Specifically the |thread= parameter might be useful to make it more obvious to editors what the thread they are being notified of is called. 45dogs (they/them) (talk page) 23:30, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it would save having to guess or ctrl+f what one might be involved in. —Fortuna, imperatrix 12:21, 9 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I've boldly added the parameter. It doesn't affect ANI, which is unfortunate, though I'm not sure how to change that. 45dogs (they/them) (talk page) 13:05, 9 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Well 45dogs, it doesn't seem to have bricked anything (yet) :) But can't the ANI one be done as well? I thought they'd be more or less the same thing? —Fortuna, imperatrix 18:36, 9 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Fortuna imperatrix mundi, it doesn't seem so. AN's template is translcuded with {{Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Header}}, while ANI's is with {{/Header}}. I believe a separate template would need to be made for ANI. 45dogs (they/them) (talk page) 20:47, 9 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Nevermind, I found it just by typing in Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents/Header. Don't know why that I didn't figure to do that before, but the parameter has been added. 45dogs (they/them) (talk page) 21:08, 9 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Block in violation of site's rules

Closing this as moved to correct location see Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#Block_in_violation_of_site's_rules Mfield (Oi!) 04:14, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Wikipedia:Administrators' guide/Blocking My rights as an editor were violated by User:Cullen328 as did not put a warning before block as the rules. Cladeal832 (talk) 03:39, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You were blocked for excessive edit-warring. GoodDay (talk) 03:48, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Definitely Not a violation of site rules, as you (Cladeal832) were Edit Warring which was excessive. Untamed1910 (talk) 03:53, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

At this point I’d support a site-wide block as you do not appear capable of editing in a collaborative manner. 173.22.12.194 (talk) 04:05, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

OCLC error in an ANI archive

Hello, all.

Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1205#Pattern of LLM edits on contentious topics contains an actual citation template with a relevant OCLC error. This is causing the archive to populate into Category:CS1 errors: OCLC, which is configured to ignore "/Archive#" subpages but not "/IncidentArchive#." Is there a way to stub out the category, so that we don't perpetually have a OCLC error floating around in the category? ~ Matthewrb ^{Get in touch · Breadcrumbs} 07:04, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Fixing archives to remove errors is ok (if there really is a benefit). I fixed that in diff. Johnuniq (talk) 07:29, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I figured so, I just wasn't sure the best way to go about it. I realize that a <nowiki> would make the most sense...

Thank you for taking care of it! ~ Matthewrb ^{Get in touch · Breadcrumbs} 07:51, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Temporary account warning

@Voorts @Sdkb: Disagreeing with the revert at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents/Header, we've already had a lot of spurious reports at WP:ANI and WP:AN and this notice could really be helpful. Also open to changing the example to ~2025-12345-67 to be easier for the pattern-matching eye. Chaotic Enby (talk · contribs) 20:37, 14 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Fine with me. Maybe what we really need is another talk page blast and another watchlist notice. voorts (talk/contributions) 20:38, 14 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The format change is fine with me. I think we should keep this up for the near future until people stop posting about this here. It's distracting to have every five topics be "these look like socks to me because they have the same name format". voorts (talk/contributions) 20:39, 14 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for the wording, I was agreeing with your addition of the notice and disagreeing with Sdkb's revert! Chaotic Enby (talk · contribs) 20:39, 14 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I think I was unclear. I disagree with the revert too. The notice should remain up here and at ANI. voorts (talk/contributions) 20:39, 14 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'd be fine with re-adding it iff we enclose it in {{Show by}} so that the notice is auto-removed, say, a month from now, and doesn't stick around forever. This is a problem now because of the transition, but (unless I'm missing something) I don't think it'll be a problem once we get used to temporary accounts. Sdkb ^talk 20:44, 14 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Agree with Voorts - do a talk page/watchlist message. Giant Snowman 20:47, 14 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Show by would be fine. Maybe another 2 months? voorts (talk/contributions) 20:49, 14 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Copying my revert message in case it's helpful: This feels like instruction bloat to me. Experienced editors will all be familiar with temp accounts shortly. And while they might show up here more than the average spot, there's still no intrinsic connection — if they need further explanation then they need it in a more general spot. Sdkb ^talk 20:46, 14 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]