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Question from Tryingtocorrect (17:54, 11 October 2025)

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Hi. I speak tigrinya and there are some minor mistakes in some english pages about Eritrea --Tryingtocorrect (talk) 17:54, 11 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Tryingtocorrect! That article is protected, which means very new accounts can't edit it, but you can make an edit request to suggest changes for another editor to review. Rusalkii (talk) 18:28, 13 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Jed Panes (04:42, 13 October 2025)

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Hi, how can i create a content? --Jed Panes (talk) 04:42, 13 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Jed Panes What kind of content do you mean? Rusalkii (talk) 18:28, 13 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

National cricket team redirects

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When you closed Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 September 29#Unmentioned national cricket teams as delete, you deleted all the listed redirects except four (Sudan, Syria, Tahiti and Yemen). Is this just accidental oversight or is there some specific reason for leaving them? Thryduulf (talk) 15:12, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That was absolutely not on purpose, thank you for the catch. I was doing them via the XFDC script and it must've misfired somehow, I will try to review more carefully for big nominations. Should be all cleaned up now. Rusalkii (talk) 19:40, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Everythinglolo on Help:Introduction to editing with VisualEditor/1 (15:27, 17 October 2025)

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Hello. How do I create Citation? --Everythinglolo (talk) 15:27, 17 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Everythinglolo take a look at Help:Introduction to referencing with VisualEditor/2, and let me know if you have any further questions :) Rusalkii (talk) 17:58, 17 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

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The Original Barnstar
Thank you for reviewing 'Through The Never' as a redirect! Babysharkb☩ss2 I am Thou, Thou art I 18:55, 17 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Amba The Therapist (12:58, 20 October 2025)

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Look I wanna edit my page write articles and put a Picture for the profile and possibly link --Amba The Therapist (talk) 12:58, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, we generally don't recommend making a page about yourself: you might want to review the advice for editors with a conflict of interest. If you decide you still want to write a page, make sure you write in a neutral tone and provide sources for everything. Help:My first article has some more information. Rusalkii (talk) 21:12, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

RfD closing question

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Hi there, sometimes I see an RfD nomination that includes a specific retarget proposal. If no one else participates, is it ok to simply close it as retarget after one week's time as an uncontested proposal? Left guide (talk) 20:16, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, if it's a clear retarget (sometimes it's sort of fuzzy whether the nom wants to retarget or delete and I try to clarify first) that's totally fine, especially since they could've retargeted unilaterally in any case. Rusalkii (talk) 21:10, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Ok thanks! Left guide (talk) 21:40, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Report of Liozhao (talk · contribs) for racial slurs

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Hello Rusalkii,

On the talk page of Matcha, while I was discussing the origins of matcha with Liozhao (talk · contribs), they repeatedly engaged in personal attacks and eventually resorted to racial discrimination.

They wrote statements such as:

Finally, they explicitly used the slur “Japs”, which is a derogatory and racist term against Japanese people.

Could this be reported here for administrator action?

Thank you. Xjptankman (talk) 22:05, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please take this to WP:ANI, I don't have the time to review this issue right now. Rusalkii (talk) 22:09, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for your response. I will take this matter to WP:ANI. Xjptankman (talk) 22:19, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Nyamburaavery (00:26, 21 October 2025)

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Hey Rusalkii! My name is Nyamburaavery. I am so happy to be part of Wikipedia! If I were to ask you for 3 tips on how to go about copyediting, what would they be? I am about to start copy edits, but I am not so sure about the best approach, and would like some guidance on that, thank you! --Nyamburaavery (talk) 00:26, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Nyamburaavery, you might want to check out Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors, which has several pages of advice and a list of articles in need of work. Personally I started with WP:Typo Team/moss, a project that collects a list of spelling errors to fix, which I think is a good place to get some relatively straightforward work while getting to see different parts of the encyclopedia. Rusalkii (talk) 00:49, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you!
Nyamburaavery (talk) 01:31, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

76.157.118.61

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Hello, this is the IP I reported earlier to ANI and that you blocked. They're still making unsourced edits. Also, edits like This one are a shade ridiculous. Please consider re-blocking them. Thanks! Graham87 (talk) 11:19, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked for a month. Rusalkii (talk) 16:40, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Media to the Executive Chairman, Numan Local Government Adamawa State (20:12, 26 October 2025)

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So how can I be posting into the website and also the website and also with pictures --Media to the Executive Chairman, Numan Local Government Adamawa State (talk) 20:12, 26 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from LeamValley (21:15, 27 October 2025)

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Hello An update I have just made to the article Scooby-Doo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooby-Doo

has been removed. Perhaps because the edit was formatted clumsily, but maybe because it was considered inaccurate. My edit was accurate : the name Scooby-Doo is most likely derived from the 1958 Sasha Distel song Scoubidou (for which there is already a wikipedia entry by someone else) :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoubidou_(song)

Sasha Distel performing the song on Youtube :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUDgGSje4Ew --LeamValley (talk) 21:15, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page watcher) @LeamValley: The edit you made was reverted for only referencing another Wikipedia article, which in and of itself is not a reliable source. If there are citations to external sources from the Scoubidou (song) article that are both reliable and verify the material, consider simply copying them over to Scooby-Doo. Left guide (talk) 05:50, 1 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Guide to temporary accounts

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Hello, Rusalkii. 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]

Welcome to the drive!

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Welcome, welcome, welcome Rusalkii! I'm glad that you are joining the November 2025 drive! Please, have a cup of WikiTea, and go cite some articles.

Fix a random page lacking sources

Cielquiparle (talk) 06:40, 1 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Devonstanton (13:37, 3 November 2025)

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Hi Rusalkii,

Maybe you can help me, I'm trying to make some updates to the Unity and Unity Engine pages. Full disclosure I work for Unity so I haven't made direct edits I've posted them on the talk sections of both pages as I believe that's the accepted way but I haven't had any feedback since posting.

What do I do? --Devonstanton (talk) 13:37, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

If you add the {{edit COI}} template to your request, it'll put it in the queue for someone who reviews those to come take a look. It might still take a while, though, there's a large backlog. WP:Edit requests has some more information. Rusalkii (talk) 17:57, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Cha. 3 RfD close

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Hello. Regarding your close of the Cha. 3 RfD: new information has since come to light. Cha. 3 is used as an abbreviation in legislation (e.g. SBC statutes where chapter numbers are cited in that format), which was not raised in the discussion and indicates a legitimate navigational use.

Would you be willing to reconsider the close in light of this usage? If not, I will take it to DRV as suggested. Many thanks, ‑‑Neveselbert (talk · contribs · email) 01:34, 4 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm fine with reopening and relisting this but I'm traveling this week and can't undo the deletion myself, I'd want to be at my computer for that. Any other admin should feel free to do so, I think if you ask again at Requests for undeletion and link this as my permission that should be fine. Sorry for the bother! Rusalkii (talk) 17:26, 4 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:35, 4 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Mark Marshall Peters (22:50, 7 November 2025)

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Good day mentor I want to start my profile how can I go about it --Mark Marshall Peters (talk) 22:50, 7 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

If you mean an article about yourself, it's generally discouraged, since you have a conflict of interest and might have trouble writing neutrally about yourself. But if you'd like to try, there are instructions at Help:My first article. Rusalkii (talk) 23:21, 7 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]