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Welcome!

Hello, Rlendog, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Also, I made some modifications to your edits to the howler articles. - UtherSRG (talk) 13:02, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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WIkiProject Doctor Who: March 2025 Newsletter

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The Space-Time Telegraph
Volume III, Issue I — March 2025
Brought to you by the editors of WikiProject Doctor Who
One hell of a newsletter.
Geronimoooo!
Apparently this newsletter the queen of outer space... wait... no, sorry; that's Belinda! Swashbuckle your seatbelts because this newsletter is full of information regarding recent happenings in the Doctor Who WikiProject. You'll also find updates on the upcoming series and elsewhere the expanded Whoniverse.

Series 15

The fifteenth series of Doctor Who is set to begin this Saturday with "The Robot Revolution" on 12 April and will conclude eight weeks later after "The Reality War" airs on 31 May. It will once again be accompanied by a new series of Doctor Who: Unleashed. Draft articles for all eight episodes have already been created, the links to which can be found here. New novelisations adapting the first three episodes of the series are set to be released on 10 July.

Recent Article Regenerations

Since the last Newsletter, we've had a whole heap of quality content added to the Project. The articles Thasmin, "Joy to the World", Vislor Turlough, "Space Babies", "Legend of the Sea Devils", Weeping Angel, Doctor Who series 13, Pyramids of Mars, "The Legend of Ruby Sunday", "The Power of the Doctor", The Twin Dilemma, "The Husbands of River Song", "Demons of the Punjab", Doctor Who Live, "The Return of Doctor Mysterio", and Attack of the Cybermen have all been improved to GA-level quality. List of Torchwood episodes and List of Doctor Who episodes (2005-present) have been improved to FL-level quality, while the Doctor Who specials (2022) and Doctor Who series 14 Good Topics have been successfully promoted.
An additional good topic covering the series articles from 2005–present has been nominated and is currently receiving feedback. Though content creation has slowed in recent months, content improvement should hopefully see an increase as series 15 ticks ever closer.

Future Project Goals

The WikiProject will once again be working in collaboration to complete a Good Topic encompassing the series and its related articles. Any contributions will be greatly appreciated. Several editors have planned upcoming work for Doctor Who-related character, episode, and performer articles. More information, as well as where you can find out how to help, can be found it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Doctor Who/Goals.

We Want You... To Help With The Newsletter

Due to the departure of previous newsletter contributors, the Newsletter is beaming out a message from Stonehenge requesting your help. If anyone would like to help actively contribute to the Newsletter's content updates, please let us know, as we are willing to accept anyone who is interested in helping with writing the Newsletter. We'll all stories in the end... make sure the newsletter is a chapter in yours.
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NYC: May 7 WikiWed + May 10 WikiCurious

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May 7: WikiWednesday Salon @ Prime Produce

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Please bring a laptop or the editing device of your choosing for hands-on training that will guide you through steps to take to make yourself safer online. While there will also be an online participation option, the meeting will not be recorded.

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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

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Concern regarding Draft:Bryce McConnell-Barker

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Information icon Hello, Rlendog. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Bryce McConnell-Barker, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 22:07, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

XFDcloser error; help needed

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Hi @Rlendog, Hope you are doing well, I was looking for active administrators and your reply came. I have a request unrelated to the that discussion. HilssaMansen19 (talk) 20:07, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

What is the request? Rlendog (talk) 20:09, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
There was a system glitch or error and closer also redirected two other pages including [1],[2] at the same time as you can verify it. I also took a screenshot as the process was slow and showing 3 talk pages instead of 1, the standard.
I have reopened the original discussion now which was meant to be closed. Can you please help in resolving this system error redirects back and also change redirect of Talk:Fusion Engine.
I can't undo it as it says the destination is the same.
Also, please guide me on how should I report this error and whether it is frequent and known. HilssaMansen19 (talk) 20:15, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@HilssaMansen19 I haven't used XfDcloser so I am not sure what the issue is. Do we just need to correct the redirect target? I was looking at the history of RfD list over the past couple of days and didn't see the item that was shown on your talk page, so I'm not sure where it should redirect to.Rlendog (talk) 20:20, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Apologies as I might have made it sound complicated. I am confused myself.
Issue
When XFDcloser is generally used, all the steps are done automatically with no errors on my uses until this one.
The discussion was Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fusion Engine. Only that page and it's talk page should have been redirected but 2 other pages were redirected along with it. They were deleted in their respective AfDs. [[3]move_redirect_back_req1], [[4]move_redirect_back_req2].
Request -
Please help by moving all the three redirects above back to the original form before redirect. I am really grateful for your time and help. HilssaMansen19 (talk) 20:31, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Third one is - [[5]move_redirect_back_req3] HilssaMansen19 (talk) 20:32, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Requesting @Liz here as well rather than copying it all again to tp -
Hi Liz, can you kindly check the above and help out.
Also, I was proceeding with NACD in an AfD, I have taken screenshot of the issue, and there seems to be either cleanup issues or XFDcloser maintainance error.
This time, I chose Keep per unanimous consensus of keep on the AfD, there was a Redirection warning template verifying whether I would like to proceed with redirecting the above mentioned unrelated pages to another unrelated page. HilssaMansen19 (talk) 22:12, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Liz can you spare a moment and help reverting the redirects.
I am in haste as this might cause confusion.
Articles which were deleted but have been redirected by XFDcloser. Even after causing error, it is continuously showing this option.
  • It notifies that already deleted pages (move_back_req1&2) will be redirected again to Fusion engine when choosing discussion consensus as Keep in unrelated AfD.
  • Whereas, it automatically redirects if automated redirect is chosen. The result of AfD does not matter as it is shown again and again in keep, redirect and redirect.
HilssaMansen19 (talk) 23:26, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Rlendog,
Just updating about this. @Star Mississippi reverted these glitches. Still, thank you for listening and engaging here. HilssaMansen19 (talk) 05:39, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry just seeing this. For future reference, @HilssaMansen19, Liz doesn't use pings. So you'd need to go right to her Talk Star Mississippi 02:14, 24 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for telling me that. @Star Mississippi. HilssaMansen19 (talk) 03:42, 24 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

June 11: Virtual NYC WikiWednesday

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June 11: WikiWednesday Salon (Virtual)

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our virtual WikiWednesday Salon. This month's WikiWednesday will be fully online and focused on Wikimedia global trends, neutral point of view, and the Wiki Loves Pride campaign for Pride Month. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome!

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2025

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

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CheckUser changes

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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

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The World Destubathon

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Hello. You're invited to participate in The World Destubathon. We're aiming to destub a lot of articles and also improve longer stale articles. It will be held from Monday June 16 - Sunday July 13. There is $3338 going into it, with $500 the top prize. If you are interested in winning something to save you money in buying books for future content, or just see it as a good editathon opportunity to see a lot of articles improved for articles which interest you, sign up on the page in the participants section if interested.♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:54, 14 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for You're Lost Little Girl

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On 25 June 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article You're Lost Little Girl, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Robby Krieger was unable to record his guitar solo for "You're Lost Little Girl" until he got stoned on hashish? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/You're Lost Little Girl. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, You're Lost Little Girl), 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.

Gatoclass (talk) 00:02, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Best damn article I think I've seen this year

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"You're Lost Little Girl" is among the most sublime, wacky articles I've read on this site, and I love it—weed and a blowjob contributing to a Sinatra impression that wants to be a tripped-out Seth MacFarlane when it grows up? I'm jealous that you had the privilege of writing that article! Take care.

The DYK Barnstar
For your submission of You're Lost Little Girl, truly one of the funniest stories in a recording studio to be documented on Wikipedia. BarntToust 02:17, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@BarntToust:Thank you. I had fun writing the article and coming up with DYK hooks. I had no idea of these things when I started writing in and as I was doing so I realized I needed to get this into a DYK somehow. Rlendog (talk) 14:41, 30 June 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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Guideline and policy news

Miscellaneous

  • The 2025 Developing Countries WikiContest will run from 1 July to 30 September. Sign up now!
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WikiNYC this week: Thursday Edit-a-thon + Sunday Wiki-Picnic!

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Two Wikimedia NYC 400 events

Please join us for the launch events to recognize the Wikimedia NYC 400!

Fulfilling Wikimedia NYC tradition, we'll start off the campaign with an edit-a-thon on Thursday and a Wiknic on Sunday, and will continue with Wikimedia NYC 400 events throughout the rest of this year.

Event details and registration link below:

When: July 17, 2025
Time: 5pm to 8pm (8pm to 10pm optional hackathon)
Where: In person at Prime Produce (424 W 54th St, New York, NY 10019)
When: July 20, 2025
Time: 12pm to 4pm
Where: In person in NYC at Washington Square Park

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WIkiProject Doctor Who: June 2025 Newsletter

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The Space-Time Telegraph
Volume III, Issue II — June 2025
Brought to you by the editors of WikiProject Doctor Who
People assume that a newsletters are a strict progression of stuff happening to author's writing,
but, actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of spacey-timey teley-graphy... stuff
This is my Space-Time Telegraph Detector: 🕹️
It goes *ding* when there's a new newsletter out
Welcome to the second 2025 issue of the Space-Time Telegraph. Apologies that we're a little late, sometimes this newsletter takes us when we need to go instead of when we want to go. In this edition you'll find everything that you need to keep you updated on things going on around the project as well as within the Whoniverse.

Am I a good (or featured) man Wikipedia article?

Since last Newsletter, many new GAs have been added to the Project. These include every individual episode in Doctor Who series 15 and a number of fictional characters, including Belinda Chandra, the companion of Series 15. A full list of Good promoted content can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Doctor Who#Articles with Good Article status. So far, we've promoted 33 GAs this year, and we're on track to beat our previous record of GAs promoted in a year (36 in 2012).
In terms of Good Topics, Wikipedia:Featured topics/List of Doctor Who episodes (2005–present) and Wikipedia:Good topics/Doctor Who series 14 were both promoted in May.
Additionally, with the promotion of Yeti (Doctor Who) to FA status just this past month, the project has gotten its first FA status article in nearly a decade, with the last FA promotion being From The Doctor to my son Thomas in November 2015.
Congratulations to all involved with these articles, and keep up the good work!

Space-Time Telegraph Materialization Schedule

With uncertainty surrounding when production of the parent show will resume, newsletter editors have decided to shift the publication schedule from quarterly to triannually for the time being. This means that the next issue will be published in December, and then every April, August, and December thereafter. When the future of the series is more certain, the schedule may update once more at that time.

Their songs have ended... but their stories, never end 🌹

Since the previous issue was published, some people related to Doctor Who have sadly passed away:
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  • The War Between the Land and the Sea, an upcoming Doctor Who spin-off released its first trailer at the conclusion of series 15. The 5-part mini-series is expected to be broadcast later this year. The BBC has also commissioned an animated Doctor Who spin-off series targeted towards younger audiences. The 52-part programme is set to air in two parts of 26-episodes each between 2027 and 2029.
  • In home media, the fifteenth series will be released on DVD, Blu-ray, and Steelbook in August. The Peter Cushing spin-off films, Dr Who And The Daleks and Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D., were recently colourised and re-released in June/July in 4K, along with new special features. Season 13 will be the next season to receive release in "The Collection" format, featuring remastered episodes and new special features.
  • In print, three new Doctor Who novels, written by Emily Cook, Hannah Fergesen, Kalynn Byron came out in May. Another, authored by Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson is due out in November. Dan Watters and Sami Kivelä are also collaborating on a new series featuring for Titan Coomics. Finally, Pete McTighe and Carole Ann Ford are authoring new shorts to expand on previously unseen stories to be released in August and November in larger collections.
  • Big Finish Productions have released several new Who-related audio dramas, and announced many more set to enter production soon. An audio vinyl release of The Moonbase, of which two episodes are missing, is expected to be out in September.
  • New action figure sets taking on the appearance of Fourteenth Doctor and the Meep became available in June. Mattel also collaborated with the BBC to create Barbie dolls taking on the appearance of the Fifteenth Doctor and Belinda, first making their appearance in May at MCM Comic Con. Doctor Who will also once again have a presence at the 2025 San Diego Comic Con, featuring photo-ops and other new exclusive products.

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NYC August: Wikimania Satellite Social + Roosevelt Island Wiknic

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Two informal Wikimedia NYC events

While Wikimania 2025 is underway in Nairobi, Kenya, you are invited to Wikimedia NYC's Satellite Social at Prime Produce on Thursday, August 7th, which will be an informal gathering of local Wikimedians and potentially feature editing, hacking, and board games. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome!

Additionally, a second Wiknic of the season, this time on Roosevelt Island, is planned for later in the month (August 24th). Stay tuned for further updates!

When: August 7, 2025
Time: 3pm to 7pm
Where: In person at Prime Produce (424 W 54th St, New York, NY 10019)
More info coming soon!

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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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WikiNYC Sun Aug 24: Roosevelt Island Wiknic 2025

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August 24: Wiknic @ Roosevelt Island
Southpoint Park, where we held Wiknics in 2019 and 2024

You are invited to the picnic anyone can edit on Roosevelt Island, at Southpoint Park. Please dress for the weather and bring a blanket or lawn chair for seating; we will be having this picnic on the grass. Bring some potluck as well as some board games to add to the fun!

All are welcome, new and experienced!

Sunday, August 24, 2025 Wiknic @ Roosevelt Island

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Just letting you know.

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Your reply to the Raiders-Seahawks rivalry AfD was formatted incorrectly. NotJamestack (talk) 23:31, 24 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I was using my iPad rather than a computer and I guess it doesn't work the same way. Rlendog (talk) 15:28, 25 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

September 10: Wikimedia NYC Annual Election Meeting

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September 10: Annual Election & Members Meeting

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our Annual Election & Members Meeting, in-person at Prime Produce in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan and also via Zoom.

The Members' Meeting is similar to other WikiWednesday meetups, except that its primary function is to elect new members to the Board of Directors. We will elect three board seats – half of the elected seats on the board – and the elected board can appoint up to five more board members. As part of the Members Meeting, we will also focus on the Wikimedia NYC Programs Plan for the coming year, our Financial Report, and Annual and Monthly event teams for the coming year.

Election info:

  • To run for election or to vote, you must be a dues-paying member of Wikimedia New York City, having renewed in the past 12 months.
  • Voting will be both online, via emailed ballots from the ElectionBuddy service, and in-person.
  • The poll will be open for the 48 hours between 8pm EDT on September 8 and 8pm EDT on September 10.
  • For additional information, please consult the Election FAQ.

Meeting info:

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P.S. Next event, September 19 — NYC 400 Edit-A-Thon: Nueva Yol

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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

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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.
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Fri Nueva Yol Editathon + Oct 3-5 WikiGameJam NYC

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You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our Wikipedia NYC 400 Edit-A-Thon: Nueva Yol on Friday Sep 19 from 5pm to 8pm, hosted with the NYU Latinx Project.

And if you're interested in the development of wiki-based games, we'd like to invite you to apply for the WikiGameJam on Oct 3-5 — we're hoping to publicly showcase some of the best projects at our next Wikipedia Day!

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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.
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Orphaned non-free image File:Chasin the Wind cover.jpg

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Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 17:10, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Replaceable non-free use File:Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere promo single.jpg

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Orphaned non-free image File:Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere promo single.jpg

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Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 17:09, 16 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Guide to temporary accounts

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Hello, Rlendog. 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

  • How to use Special:IPContributions
  • How automatic IP reveal works
  • How to use IP Info
  • How to use User Info

Further information and discussion

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

Orphaned non-free image File:Niagara Falls cover.jpg

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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

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Nov 15: Kelly Street Garden edit-a-thon

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November 15: Kelly Street Garden edit-a-thon
Kelly Street Garden in 2022

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for an urban gardening-themed edit-a-thon at the Kelly Street Garden in Longwood in the Bronx. This is the third event in the Community Garden series and is part of a collective project of remembrance. All are welcome, new and experienced!

All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct and Photography Policy.

Meeting info:

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--Wikimedia New York City Team via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:49, 9 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]