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Books & Bytes – Issue 69

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The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 69, May–June 2025

In this issue we highlight a new partnership, Citation Watchlist and, as always, a roundup of news and community items related to libraries and digital knowledge.

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A bot should...

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A bot should have noticed you (here at your user talk page) of the GA pass already. Dunno what happened. MathKeduor7 (talk) 14:32, 3 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@MathKeduor7, the bot is down at the moment. Thank you for the review! —Kusma (talk) 14:33, 3 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It was a pleasure! MathKeduor7 (talk) 14:35, 3 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Vorlesungen über die Entwicklung der Mathematik im 19. Jahrhundert

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The article Vorlesungen über die Entwicklung der Mathematik im 19. Jahrhundert you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Vorlesungen über die Entwicklung der Mathematik im 19. Jahrhundert for comments about the article, and Talk:Vorlesungen über die Entwicklung der Mathematik im 19. Jahrhundert/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 MathKeduor7 -- MathKeduor7 (talk) 09:41, 4 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – July 2025

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

Administrator changes

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Your GA nomination of Walther von Klingen

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Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Walther von Klingen you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of ImaginesTigers -- ImaginesTigers (talk) 12:24, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Walther von Klingen

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The article Walther von Klingen you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Walther von Klingen for comments about the article, and Talk:Walther von Klingen/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 ImaginesTigers -- ImaginesTigers (talk) 18:24, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Versuch

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Hello, as you might remember, I recently wrote Attempt (German penal code), which passed the initial DYK review and was then pulled by Gatoclass due to concerns about the sources exclusively being primary (which was not the case IMO). There were also discussions at their talk page, my talk page, and RSN. Unfortunately, Gatoclass likely cannot continue to work on this and asked me to look for a different person to follow up with (see my talk page). Would you be willing to confirm that the issue has been resolved (and that either the current source or the alternative placed on my talk page is acceptable for the hook), and if so, add the article back to the prep area? FortunateSons (talk) 07:59, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@FortunateSons, I have returned the nomination to Template talk:Did you know/Approved and commented on the nomination. I think it is OK for DYK, but personally I would wish to have a few more accessible sources for the general reader and perhaps also some comparison to what other legal systems think about the issue. I attempted (haha) to search a little; five minutes gave me this. —Kusma (talk) 11:37, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you! I also share that concern, but I was less successful when it came to searching. Your text is promising, I‘ll look for a place to put it in the article when I have the time to properly read it! FortunateSons (talk) 14:59, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Vorlesungen über die Entwicklung der Mathematik im 19. Jahrhundert

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On 13 July 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Vorlesungen über die Entwicklung der Mathematik im 19. Jahrhundert, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the first volume of Felix Klein's books on the history of mathematics does not mention the three women who originally transcribed his lectures? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Vorlesungen über die Entwicklung der Mathematik im 19. Jahrhundert. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Vorlesungen über die Entwicklung der Mathematik im 19. Jahrhundert), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

—Ganesha811 (talk) 00:03, 13 July 2025 (UTC) [reply]

story · music · places

Thank you, featured at Portal:Germany - If you like Brahms, I recommend the streaming of yesterday's concert. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:43, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I see it is Rheingau Musik Festival again. Hope you enjoy many concerts! —Kusma (talk) 20:51, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, I do. Today was a free one, for the friends of the festival. The others are listed here. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:25, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Three Ukrainian topics were on the main page today, at least at the beginning, RD and DYK, - see my talk. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:16, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for accepting a bold link for Robert Lewis Baker. Is there a way to give credit to those who helped in the making, 842U for the text, AirshipJungleman29 for the split, and Andrew for giving a qpq, and to leave a credit on the person's article talk? - I added the link to the current credits. - Completely different topic: I have a FAC open, for BWV 79. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:41, 24 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Gerda Arendt: not sure we need to do something there, as you have already mentioned thanked the relevant users. For bookkeeping reasons, perhaps there could be a link on article talk and a comment on the nomination page. —Kusma (talk) 10:53, 24 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for thinking. We had a similar question for the composer of Kateryna, and while I'm not counting DYK, a credit would have doubled the figure for the author who began it, and it was my mistake to bold the person in the nom but not add credits. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:57, 24 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Béatrice Uria-Monzon and her story, Julia Hagen and her no story --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:57, 26 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
On Bach's day of death, I decorated my user pages in memory of his music, and my story ends on "peace". --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:58, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I didn't know it was the anniversary of Bach's death. I will be in Leipzig for a short visit in a few weeks, maybe I'll get to say hi to statue and tombstone. —Kusma (talk) 12:09, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Dragostea din tei

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Hey there :) I have put all my heart and sweat in the article above, and it's now nominated to be a FA here. If you have time, you are dearly welcomed to leave some comments on how I can further improve the article. Greets and have a nice day, Cartoon network freak (talk) 21:12, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Cartoon network freak: I will try to comment some more. Best way to get more reviews is usually to do some FA reviews of your own (just mention that you have an open review somewhere in the review). —Kusma (talk) 09:39, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note

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I have not forgotten about the pledge review, I'll get my hands on one of the GANs (with support from IAWW) by the end of the month. AlphaBetaGamma (Talk/report any mistakes here) 13:58, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your nomination of Emil Utitz is under review

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Your good article nomination of the article Emil Utitz 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 AirshipJungleman29 -- AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 12:44, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Clarifications on Talk:Time Lord/GA2

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Thank you for the review! Admittedly, I'm a bit confused on several aspects of the review, so if I could clarify a few points and clarify a few things with you, I'd greatly appreciate it.

-I'm very confused how the plot summary is supposed to be Wikipedia:OR, as all I've done is summarize each Time Lord television appearance. I didn't exactly pick and choose, or draw any original conclusions of my own. I find this being weighed against the article is just very confusing, and I'm not quite sure how this is even factoring into the article in the first place. If you feel it's an issue of how the individual Time Lords are handled in comparison to Time Lords as a species, then I'd appreciate some advice on how best to handle that.

-"so perhaps you shouldn't even try to describe what Time Lords are like in-universe, but focus on how every new writer changes them quite a lot" I'm a bit confused on what the latter bit means. The conception and development section already covers the out of universe information like how writers change the Time Lords, so I'm not quite sure how this is meant to apply to the plot.

-Plot information doesn't need to be cited per MOS:PLOT, so I'm a bit confused why the lack of citations there is inherently problematic. Additionally, for spin-offs, the Time Lords did not have any significant pieces of media discussed by secondary sources, who mostly focused on their television appearances, and any primary sources I found didn't describe any either. They appear in a lot of stuff, so I feel like including a ton of unnecessary in-universe information wouldn't be too helpful for readers when it isn't relevant to the rest of the article.

-The scholarly analysis in the article is basically all I could find that was significant and not strictly about some other concept; beyond this is just trivial mentions and the like. Regeneration in particular is not mentioned because there isn't much on it specifically, which was a major issue brought up in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Regeneration (Doctor Who), which led to its redirection to Time Lord in the first place, and the only potential significant coverage brought up there was solely about how regeneration affected the Doctor, not the Time Lords. I'm not sure what you'd want me to do to improve that section when I've exhausted most of the major discussion sources as is.

-I'm also a bit confused how you mean about putting "Time Lords in context of other sci-fi stories". Do you mean comparing it to other franchises? Other episodes of the show? On the former, there's not really much of it from what I saw during my searches, and the latter is already being done in the article.

The rest of your tidbits about some grammar issues are valid and were things I missed while formatting the article, so I'll get on those shortly. Thanks again! Magneton Considerer: Pokelego999 (Talk) (Contribs) 16:22, 19 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for checking back and sorry I couldn't come to a more positive result. I am happy to believe that I haven't been entirely clear, as my thoughts about the article and its scope changed while I was reviewing. I will try to clarify, but it might not happen today. —Kusma (talk) 18:47, 19 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Kusma no worries! I appreciate the review regardless; even if it's a fail the first time, all it'll mean is a better article as the final result, especially when it's for a bigger subject like this. Feel free to take your time with responding to the above. Magneton Considerer: Pokelego999 (Talk) (Contribs) 00:58, 20 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Salted page title

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I see you have fully protected Draft:黎进, which has been repeatedly created by a persistent sockpupeteer. The page has also been repeatedly created under other titles, by a number of sockpuppets. That being so, I think we can take it as pretty well 100% certain that the person in question will be back to create it again. Salting the title will do nothing at all to stop them doing so, since, as history shows, they are both able and willing to create it under another title; the only difference that salting will make is ensuring that future creations will be under different titles, which means that we won't see it on watchlists. Maybe, therefore, you would like to reconsider salting. (I am aware that there are people who don't accept that reasoning, and think that salting is a good idea even if there is a known history of switching to other titles. If take that view, I won't quarrel about it, but you may like to consider my suggestion. ) JBW (talk) 15:06, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]


I have now seen that you have done the same at Draft:Li Jin Sean. I feel that makes what I said even stronger: shutting down all the titles used in the past guarantees that any future creations must be at a title we haven't seen and therefore can't watch. JBW (talk) 15:14, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The things is that attacks against a specific person are most efficient at that person's name, so salting the page title helps slightly against the attack, even if the creator moving to different pages makes it slightly more difficult to catch them. Salting also means they have to think of a new page title, perhaps slowing down the attacker a tiny bit. —Kusma (talk) 15:22, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, what you say about the use of the person's name is true, and of course I should have thought of that; thanks for pointing it out. As for slowing the person down, though... a few seconds, maybe? Not, in my opinion, significant enough to be taken into consideration. JBW (talk) 22:52, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Overall, we only have limited tools at our disposal. You are right that salting has downsides that often outweigh its advantages, and that may be especially true in draft space where visibility is limited anyway. —Kusma (talk) 11:30, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@JBW: I haven't salted the most recent bunch; the page titles are less and less obvious variations of the name now. But I am starting to wonder if we need a filter for this person. —Kusma (talk) 09:23, 24 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I've just looked at your block and deletion logs, and yes, I think a filter is called for. JBW (talk) 10:49, 24 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@JBW, I have emailed the filter mailing list. (I don't have the headspace to figure out how to write a filter myself). —Kusma (talk) 12:26, 24 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
No, nor do I. JBW (talk) 12:33, 24 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Request to recover deleted article: A.S.O.

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Hello Kusma, I noticed that my article was recently deleted about the band **A.S.O.**, I understand that it did not credibly indicate importance or significance (G7), but I would like to request a copy of the deleted draft so I can work on improving it in my sandbox. Would you be willing restore it to my user space or send me the wikitext via email? Thank you for your time and your moderation! Rickyguero (talk) 00:48, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Rickyguero: Done, now at User:Rickyguero/A.S.O.. Happy editing, —Kusma (talk) 05:59, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

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The Brilliant Idea Barnstar
You're full of them at the moment! Pledges particularly were great. and I hope they catch on even more! IAWW (talk) 11:35, 24 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
+1 AlphaBetaGamma (Talk/report any mistakes here) 13:20, 24 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your nomination of Emil Utitz has passed

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Your good article nomination of the article Emil Utitz 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 AirshipJungleman29 -- AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 19:29, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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.
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    • 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.

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Some stroopwafels for you!

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Thanks for trucking through my comments following your review on Time Lord. I really hope I didn't get on your nerves too much. Your input was highly valuable and it's led to an even better article than when I nominated it the first time, and caught multiple issues I hadn't noticed. Thanks again and happy editing! Magneton Considerer: Pokelego999 (Talk) (Contribs) 23:16, 8 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Pokelego999: Thank you! You were absolutely right to question my Time Lord review, I had not been clear in some of my critique. Good luck with your other GA noms, I am happy you still like the pledge system. —Kusma (talk) 06:11, 9 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Good Article Gazette, Issue 1

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Issue 1, 8 August 2025
News
Current statistics
  • Number of GAs: 42,304
  • Number of nominations: 814
  • GAs for reassessment: 89

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Some WikiLove

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 A can of Grain Belt (beer) for you
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@Darth Stabro: Cheers! I miss Minnesota. I used to live in the Marcy-Holmes neighborhood so I know the Grain Belt sign well. —Kusma (talk) 16:22, 9 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Might it be better to leave the Regular icosahedron GA review open for a while?

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I feel like turning the review red and closing it from further edits kind of cuts off further discussion about the concrete criticisms raised or possible improvements. Maybe it helps the reviewer move along to the next thing, but it might be frustrating for the person requesting the review. –jacobolus (t) 16:24, 10 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Jacobolus, it is still visible on the talk page, where all further issues can be discussed. We could undo the "archiving" to make it easier to discuss individual points by responding inline (I have no strong feelings about that), but I do not want to keep the review open; it is generally good that these things have an end when it becomes clear there is substantial work to do, more than can be expected in a couple of days. The standard way forward is for the nominator to fix the issues and renominate. (I know that it is frustrating because GAN has a long backlog. I am working on that by reviewing a lot more than I nominate, and recently I created a new process that encourages more reviews at WP:GARP). —Kusma (talk) 16:45, 10 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Anyway, I thought the review itself was good. I don't care much about the green badges, but close reviews are pretty helpful; please do take on as much reviewing as you have time for :-). I wish the GA reviews were consistently careful/thorough; Talk:Cube/GA1 would have also benefitted from closer examination. –jacobolus (t) 17:22, 10 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I started another thread on the talk page. How's that? Hopefully it's not too hard if anyone wants to dredge up any of the specific feedback or topics from the review. –jacobolus (t) 05:13, 11 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Good Article Gazette, Issue 2

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Issue 2, 22 August 2025
Ongoing discussions
News
  • No news for today!
Current statistics
  • Number of GAs: 42,352 (+48)
  • Number of nominations: 812 (–2)
  • GAs for reassessment: 61 (–28)

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Thomas & Friends: The Great Discovery

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I'm approving Draft:Thomas & Friends: The Great Discovery and would like to move it into place. What is the proper procedure here?Naraht (talk) 14:36, 29 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Naraht: I don't know what the proper procedure is for dealing with the AFC parts, but I think I figured out something that works. Try it now. —Kusma (talk) 14:45, 29 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It appears to have moved. thanx.Naraht (talk) 14:47, 29 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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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Your nomination of Solanum baretiae is under review

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Your good article nomination of the article Solanum baretiae 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 Icepinner -- Icepinner (talk) 10:26, 5 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your nomination of Solanum baretiae is on hold

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Your good article nomination of the article Solanum baretiae has been placed on hold, as the article needs some changes. See the review page for more information. If these are addressed within 7 days, the nomination will pass; otherwise, it may fail. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Icepinner -- Icepinner (talk) 14:25, 6 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – September 2025

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

Administrator changes

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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.

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Arbitration

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A goat for you!

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Please take good care of them.

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Your nomination of Solanum baretiae has passed

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Your good article nomination of the article Solanum baretiae 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 Icepinner -- Icepinner (talk) 01:07, 7 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 9 September 2025

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Revoke TPA?

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Can you please revoke TPA for Special:Contributions/142.126.248.200 per Special:Diff/1311274993? Thanks! Chaotic Enby (talk · contribs) 12:30, 14 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oooh, I haven't heard something like that for a while. "Worshipper Of The Fell Dragon Grima Who Would Bring About The Apocalypse", I'll keep that in my collection together with Sockpuppet of Jimbo Wales and Hitler. CoconutOctopus took care of the TPA. Thank you for letting me know! —Kusma (talk) 13:24, 14 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Understandability guideline workshop

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Hi Kusma. I believe I've seen you talk about understandability before and would value a mathematician having a look over the new workshop text for the understandability guideline. Context of the rewrite: the old guideline lacks practical tips on how to achieve understandability, and is dated in some aspects. I'd like to get feedback from a few more folks before moving to RfC stage. Would you be willing to provide feedback?

Happy to trade for a review at DYK, GA or FAC if you've got something nominated! —Femke 🐦 (talk) 14:14, 14 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'll try to have a look, but I must admit I have never properly read the old version of the guideline. My way to make my articles understandably usually is to write about topics where I am an amateur. But it is on my to do list to write a proper GA about a 20th century mathematical theory at some point. —Kusma (talk) 13:14, 15 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Books & Bytes – Issue 70

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The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 70, July–August 2025
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October 2025 GAN Backlog Drive

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October 2025 GAN Backlog Drive

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October thanks

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story · music · places

Thank you for finding words on WT:DYK to reply to an edit that left me so speechless that I replied above it. Thank you also for new quality content, but it was the appeal for kindness that made me come over. My story today is about a woman and her husband who played Bach's Sonatina for us (Rheingau Musik Festival, long ago) on an upright piano, and it made me cry, and I still remember. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:09, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A good story for a Sunday: Martin Neary conducting Purcell. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:21, 5 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Happy 50th birthday, Alain Altinoglu!) - I let the video begin with a closeup of the octobass ;) Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:52, 9 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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

Administrator changes

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Arbitration

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Good Article Gazette, Issue 3

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Issue 3, 10 October 2025
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DYK for Solanum baretiae

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On 11 October 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Solanum baretiae, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Solanum baretiae was named after Jeanne Baret, who circumnavigated the world disguised as a man? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Solanum baretiae. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Solanum baretiae), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to nominate it.

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The Signpost: 20 October 2025

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It's really not that deep but it came across as a bit rude at [1]. Maybe a more polite message could be helpful in the future :). I'm not going to challenge the removal of the RfC tag, feel free to remove this from your user talk page. —Matrix ping mewhen u reply (t? - c) 21:21, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I wanted to be really clear that you should stop removing comments you do not like, so I deliberately chose to template you. I wish we could all stop debating IAR, but it seems to be hard to completely ignore Larry's attention seeking. —Kusma (talk) 13:23, 25 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Good Article Gazette, Issue 4

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Issue 4, 24 October 2025
News
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:51, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

AeroRoutes at WP:RSN

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I have started a new discussion on whether Aeroroutes is a reliable source because i am feeling that there are things missed out that werent mentioned in the first one, if you wanna join the discussion to mention on if its a reliable source feel free to do so, the discussion is at WP:RSN#WP:AEROROUTES, if you want the source to be counted as a reliable source again id recommend you to join Metrosfan (talk) 15:31, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:Capybara

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Hi there! I see you reverted my speedy deletion tag here, so why do you think the redirect should be kept? There is no need for it that I can see. ScrabbleTiles (talk) 20:14, 29 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@ScrabbleTiles, the redirect doesn't meet the speedy deletion criteria, so it should not be speedily deleted. I don't know whether it should be deleted in a non-speedy way, as I'm not sure that the history of the redirect is useful, but it certainly seems harmless so. If you want to argue that the redirect should be deleted, use WP:RFD. —Kusma (talk) 22:07, 29 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Guide to temporary accounts

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Hello, Kusma. 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).
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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.
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  • 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

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Useful tools for patrollers

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Videos

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Further information and discussion

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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!

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Administrators' newsletter – November 2025

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

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