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Dean Withers

I saw your edit to my Dean Withers photo. I understand your concerns. It's not a picture of my phone. It has been reduced to only show the relevant topic, so it isnt simply a pic of my phone. It is basically a photo similar to one taken during a press conference. It is simply a photo taken during a live event, without editorializing. If I can improve upon it, please let me know. Juneau Mike (talk) 01:01, 10 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Mike. Im not going to pretend that I know very much about image use policy. Ive just seen plenty of screenshots of web content get removed in the past over being incorrectly marked as "own work". A screenshot of a stream seems like a gray area, hence the edit summary rather than taking any action. You seem more familiar with these areas than me, so I trust you know what you're doing. Thanks :) ^LaffyTaffer💬(she/they) 04:50, 10 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A fox for you!

good job cleaning up vandilizers.

Agent0825 (talk) 21:07, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Agent0825 Thank you so much! ❤️ ^LaffyTaffer💬(she/they) 21:33, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tim Commerford

Why would you attribute all of the unsourced edits (see diff) to the Tim Commerford article to me? All I did was add a middle name attributed to him. And the other edits you made to articles I previously edited did not involve adding false or unsourced info as best I can tell. And why are you relaying messages to me through a third party (Adakiko)? 65.88.88.56 (talk) 20:12, 17 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I did not, the only unsourced claim you made was the subject's middle name. The other claims I removed had nothing to do with you. ^LaffyTaffer💬(she/they) 20:13, 17 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Edit

The page Sasha Colby has been vandalized again by the same IP user. Could you fix the edit and put this page on your watch list? 2600:387:15:5811:0:0:0:A (talk) 20:21, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done, in the future be bold and fix it yourself. Thanks for the heads up. ^LaffyTaffer💬(she/they) 20:30, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Undo changes to Wainlode Cliff

Hi, please can you revert your changes to Wainlode Cliff at Wainlode Cliff? I manage Wainlode Cliff on behalf of the Delaney Estate. The information you have removed is both valid and extremely useful to the locals who enjoy access to the private areas of the cliff and riverbank. I would appreciate if this could be done urgently, as this was brought the estate's attention when the removal of the detail of Shaun's Steps was noticed. This deeply upset Shaun when he was showing this page to his grandchildren only to find that the detail he was so proud of had been removed. Thanks in advance. Wainlode Fishing District (talk) 23:51, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You're free to make an edit request at Talk:Wainlode Cliff, but are strongly discouraged from editing the article yourself due to your WP:COI. Whent you make your edit request, you need to support your proposed changes with citations to reliable sources that are independent of the businesses in question. To put it bluntly: Wikipedia is not a travel guide and we dont care what businesses, etc. have to say about themselves. ^LaffyTaffer💬(she/they) 00:20, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I could point you at a village noticeboard or have you speak to many of the villagers who can confirm this, but the changes you've altered are known local facts; both within the village and county. We didn't have the local newspaper or contact the BBC to write an article on Shaun's Steps - we had a village presentation and the page was updated with local facts that you then changed. Please can you correct this? Thanks. 195.180.33.229 (talk) 01:26, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Information on Wikipedia must be verifiable and should not be used for promotion/advertising/etc, your word isnt enough. Without sources (ideally reliable and independent ones), the claims you want to add are almost certainly unsuitable for Wikipedia.

I appreciate you contacting me to try and get this resolved, but what you should do now is review the page on conflicts of interest (and more than likely paid editing as you appear to have a financial interest in Wainlode Cliff), and then review how to properly make an edit request at Talk:Wainlode Cliff with your conflict of interest in mind. Please take any further discussion there, or if you have more general questions about Wikipedia, head to the teahouse, a help channel for new editors. Thank you.

P.s. try not to edit while logged out ^LaffyTaffer💬(she/they) 01:39, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,

If you are not prepared to revert your changes, I will ask if somebody on the Parish Council has an account so that they can restore the page to be correct. None of the changes I made were financial; they were updating the page to be correct. This is not a COI, it was in response to local events.

You really have upset a dear man, who has given a lot to this village. Have you ever even visited Wainlode Cliff? Wainlode Fishing District (talk) 07:56, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That would be meatpuppetry which isn't allowed and could get both of your accounts blocked. Please review the pages linked above and make an edit request after you've taken time to find suitable sources to support your proposed changes. Your username indicates that you do have a COI by Wikipedia's standards and are probably a paid editor by those standards, as such you are under unique restrictions. And without sources, theres no chance you're convincing anyone the proposed content is suitable for the site. ^LaffyTaffer💬(she/they) 11:50, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have opened a discussion mentioning you at Talk:Wainlode Cliff, please take any further discussion on this matter there. ^LaffyTaffer💬(she/they) 15:37, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Taffy

Thanks Taffy for your diligent work. Next time I will wait for the draft to be approved to redirect names (salute emoji). Also I would imagine you to be banana Taffy. Would I be correct in that assumption? Colinkb (talk) 19:54, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Colin, no worries, understandable mistake!

_{(Oh boy I never get the chance to explain this!)} My username is actually a pun referencing both my actual name and the 90s PC game Thief: The Dark Project. No relation to John Taffer which many assume, I'm just a big dork who played too many computer games as a kid.

Anyhow as far as taff-y, I'm partial to blue raspberry flavored stuff, but I ironically don't eat very much candy. ^LaffyTaffer💬(she/they) 20:07, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I see, I see. My condolences that you didn't get to be a child when the masterful, flawless, universally loved Thief came out. And I'll accept Blue Raspberry. I do think you should remember though that anyone can see your answers here, and people could be upset if you don't praise banana, the absolute best flavour. Colinkb (talk) 19:27, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

universally loved^{[citation needed] Laffy}Taffer💬(she/they) 19:58, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Common knowledge doesn’t need a citation 😎 (it was not very good) Colinkb (talk) 20:13, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Fano

Thank you for respons about Fano! I've committed an error Anyway I want to do collage photos on all italian cities with population more than 50 thousands (more than 50.000) inhabitans in list of cities in Italy by population. Also you can do this with british, french and german cities Albypino7 (talk) 18:55, 28 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hey @Albypino7, I tend to steer clear of commons stuff, I find image use policies confusing on a good day. I will advise you though that Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. You should only upload images that are free to use or that you personally own the copyright for. I see you marked those images of Fano as your own work, if you weren't the one who took those photos, you've accidentally committed a copyright violation and should swiftly see about deleting those images from commons. If you are the photographer of those images, then no worries. I just often see well intentioned newbies uploading images they found on the internet, hence my warning. Thanks.^LaffyTaffer💬(she/they) 19:16, 28 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Request for advice

Hi, I was wondering if you might give me a little bit of feedback for my essay at WP:EXH. Specifically, I was looking at Alex Bertie and it seems at first glance like the textbook example of what I'm arguing against. However, given that he seems to be notable primarily for vlogging about his experience of transitioning, I wonder if such a detailed description might actually be due here. I'm really not sure which is why I'm asking for another opinion; do you think the current article has excessive detail, or do you think I should mention in my essay that this might not apply to people notable largely for autobiographical works? EDIT: I just saw your userpage update. Please don't feel any need to reply any sooner than you want to, and if there's any way I can help with your lack of enjoyment, let me know and I'll be happy to (: lp0 on fire () 19:20, 29 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

(Replying on my alternate account to not leave you hanging, promptly logging back out after this per Special:Diff/1319404096)

I personally think subjects like Bertie may largely be the exception to EXH where that kind of information is at least somewhat appropriate, but I can see where you feel it may be excessive. It feels relevant to note that I have absolutely no familiarity with his work beyond those edits to the page I made in April, so you may get more useful perspective at that article's talk page.

I appreciate the sentiment regarding my enjoyment of editing, I do think it's largely just stress from the holidays bleeding into other parts of my life. Will likely just try to be less active in the coming months to avoid losing my temper or being otherwise disruptive. LaffierTaffer (talk) 22:29, 29 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

of course theres always a "one more thing" lol Taking a look at Jamie Raines, another content creator known for documenting his transition, that article goes into a fair bit less detail. Im not sure if there's any Good Articles about trans vloggers, but that of course would be the ideal place to follow the example of. LaffierTaffer (talk) 22:44, 29 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly; I'm really sorry about that comment on your essay — doesn't seem like it's really the best time for that for you, so I hope it's not too upsetting. lp0 on fire () 07:18, 30 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Guide to temporary accounts

Hello, LaffyTaffer. 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]

November 2025

Hello! I'm Lukewarmbeer. I just wanted to let you know that your recent edit(s) to the page Woman have been reverted because they appear to have added incorrect information. If you believe the information you added was correct, please cite a reliable source, discuss it on the article's talk page, or leave me a message on my talk page. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. The health issues only apply to women who are biologically female. Lukewarmbeer (talk) 16:12, 5 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Happy to discuss in the appropriate talk page. Lukewarmbeer (talk) 16:13, 5 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough, thanks for the notice. Will head to the talk page. ^LaffyTaffer💬(she/they) 16:33, 5 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Impact Data

Hey, I just wanted to know how do you show impact data on your user page. Is it hardcoded or is there any tool for this? Overandoutnerd (talk) 13:47, 7 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Heya, that's a transclusion of the Special:Impact page. You can add yours with {{Special:Impact/Overandoutnerd}} ^LaffyTaffer💬(she/they) 14:25, 7 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]