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Question from Williamchan2 (04:51, 5 August 2025)

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Williamchan2's mentor Martin Urbanec is away.

Hi Martin, I would like to know what is a semi-protected page and how to know if my account has the privilege to edit that semi-protected page. --Williamchan2 (talk) 04:51, 5 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Williamchan2! Yes, you can edit semi-protected pages because you are autoconfirmed (your account is more than 4 days old and you have made 10 or more edits). Cheers, Sdkb talk 09:23, 5 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Question from Jhon025 (09:45, 11 August 2025)

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Hi SKD,

My article "Dinesh Victor" has been nominated for deletion. Could you please help me improve it so it meets Wikipedia’s notability guidelines?

I’m looking for advice on:

What reliable sources should I add? How to make sure the article is neutral and well-cited. How to respond in the deletion discussion. --Jhon025 (talk) 09:45, 11 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Jhon025! The page Help:My article got nominated for deletion! I hope will have some useful advice. Cheers, Sdkb talk 13:59, 11 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Request for help creating an iceDQ Wikipedia page

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Hello Sdkb,

I hope you are doing well. I noticed your edits on Wikipedia and wanted to ask if you might be open to helping create a page for a company called iceDQ, which works in the data validation.

I understand that Wikipedia has strict guidelines for neutrality, verifiability, and notability, and I’m happy to provide reliable, independent sources for the content.

If you’re interested, I can share more details and references so the article can be built in line with Wikipedia’s standards.

Thank you,

iceDQ Team Icedq (talk) 13:33, 13 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked by Writ Keeper. Sdkb talk 14:08, 13 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from LFKMP (21:33, 15 August 2025)

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Hello mentor. My paper "A College Algebra Proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra (FTA)" has been declined for publication by Amer. Math. Monthly, Math Magazine, College Math Journal, PRIMUS, and AMS Open Math Note. I can probably get my paper accepted by J. Math & Stat. Science without editing. My paper is a manuscript for William Kingdon Clifford's abstract (1870) of a proof of the FTA. Clifford's proof is not cited or discussed in Wikipedia FTA. My paper explains and lifts Clifford's elementary (i.e. undergraduate) proof from obscurity. You can access my paper at URL: sections.maa.org/okar/papers/2025/indexa.html. Franklin Kemp --LFKMP (talk) 21:33, 15 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@LFKMP, do you have a question about editing Wikipedia? Sdkb talk 14:47, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Gannetcelluloid999 (14:08, 18 August 2025)

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Hello! We want to create a wiki page for our movie. Need your kind help with this. --Gannetcelluloid999 (talk) 14:08, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Gannetcelluloid999, see Help:Your first article, and kindly note that you have a conflict of interest for your own movie. Sdkb talk 14:46, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Ousman bangura on John W. Colloton (23:07, 19 August 2025)

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Hello, how can I know how to edit --Ousman bangura (talk) 23:07, 19 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Ousman bangura! See Help:Introduction. Cheers, Sdkb talk 23:20, 19 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Robert Resnik

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Hi! I just learned of the death of Robert Resnik, a long time Vermont folk musician, radio host, and contemporary of Pete Sutherland. I had started a draft back in 2021. Wish I had gotten it into mainspace then. Thought you might be interested! Best, Thriley (talk) 02:48, 20 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sad to hear the news. I took a glance at Resnik's article and fixed up a few things. Sdkb talk 05:15, 20 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

New pages patrol September 2025 Backlog drive

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Question from Nateiac7 (00:44, 27 August 2025)

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I'm supposed to do the wiki training, and I can't find where that is. Can you help me? --Nateiac7 (talk) 00:44, 27 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Nateiac7! There's a response to your question at the help desk here, and the main tutorial is here. If you're part of a student program or something, you should ask your instructor, since sometimes there are specialized tutorials for those situations. Cheers, Sdkb talk 01:05, 27 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you! Nateiac7 (talk) 01:08, 27 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

changes to my wiki page

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Hello, there is a Wiki page about me but it is out of date. How can I add have some facts updated? 76.50.103.25 (talk) 20:06, 3 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

my contact info

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Hello, I just send a message about updating my Wiki page. Here is my email jamie@jamierosecoaching.com 76.50.103.25 (talk) 20:07, 3 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Jamie; thanks for reaching out! We discuss issues about Wikipedia article on talk pages rather than via email in order to be transparent. I'd suggest creating an account for yourself to make it easier to communicate.
Is the article you're looking to update Jamie Rose? In order to help you with it, I need to know what info you're looking to change. Cheers, Sdkb talk 20:51, 3 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Nomination for discussion of Template:Less than or equal to

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Template:Less than or equal to has been nominated for discussion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. BodhiHarp 15:35, 8 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Fred Bendheim

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Hi. In June you moved the article Fred Bendheim to mainspace as an approved AFC submission. The IP address who created it seems anxious for it to be indexed by Google.

Looking at it with a mind to patrol it, I couldn't. I can't decide whether it should be moved back to draft or nominated for AFD. The first source is an interview, others are announcements or mentions, one source isn't verifiable, and coverage seems restricted to the artist's two hometowns, Phoenix and Brooklyn, when coverage should be national or even regional for notability purposes.

What do you think? ~Anachronist (talk) 00:45, 11 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for reaching out, @Anachronist. When I'm reviewing AfC submissions, I'm looking just at whether they'd be likely to survive a deletion nomination per WP:AFCPURPOSE. I think Bendheim would be likely to survive an AfD because:
  • The Brooklyn Downtown Star interview contains a substantial biographical introduction before the interview itself, and also contains secondary material in the journalist's queries, so would appear to count toward notability under WP:Interviews#Notability.
  • The Jewish News profile looks like a standard notability-qualifying source. The outlet focuses on Arizona, so it's regional, but the NBIO standard does not have restrictions on how local sources can be (unlike NORG, which requires at least one regional or national source).
  • Lastly, the Artdaily coverage of the installation of two of his works also seems like clearly SIGCOV.
Any two of those would be sufficient to pass GNG/NBIO. Doing a WP:BEFORE search now, I found additional notability-qualifying coverage from Bklyner and brief coverage in The New York Times that would be SIGCOV per WP:100WORDS but that personally I'd consider borderline. I've added these to the article.
And lastly, beyond all that, the article appears to indicate that he would pass WP:ARTIST criterion 4 because of the institutions that hold his work, although that info would need to be sourced to confirm.
The article has a bunch of redundant sourcing and other issues that merit cleanup, but neither AfD nor draftication would be appropriate remedies. Given that, I would focus on cleaning it up enough for it to be marked as patrolled by NPP standards.
Cheers, Sdkb talk 22:14, 12 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for the thoughtful analysis. I will leave the article alone, maybe clean it up a bit if I have time.
As I grow more curmudgeonly in my years on Wikipedia, I am starting to appreciate the policy of print encyclopedias, to have articles only about people who are no longer alive. I feel our bar for living persons is way too low, resulting in articles about truly notable individuals like Nobel Prize winners and inventors of world-changing technology, alongside articles about obscure artists and youtube influencers who happened to get some local coverage in a regional publication that the rest of the world wouldn't care about. But it is what it is, I'm just growing to disagree with our inclusion criteria more as time goes on.
That's certainly a fair perspective on notability! The main question in my mind is whether raising the notability threshold so that people like Bendheim would no longer qualify would actually do anything to make articles on Nobel laureates any better. It's not necessarily clear to me that it'd be possible to redirect that editorial energy as opposed to it just being lost. And from a reader perspective, it's not like the Bendheim article is distracting from articles on Nobel laureates when both are most likely being found via search engines by people looking specifically for them. Sdkb talk 22:52, 12 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Question from Motiurbd01 (23:47, 14 September 2025)

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How can i start --Motiurbd01 (talk) 23:47, 14 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Motiurbd01, see Help:Introduction. Cheers, Sdkb talk 00:03, 15 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from MnemonicaS on Victor A. Lundy (15:36, 20 September 2025)

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Hi, this is my first time editing. I read an article in Chron.com today highlighting architect Victor A. Lundy's home in Bellaire, Tx that is set to be demolished. I want to add that residence, a house and studio he designed, to his list of work. I'm operating from my phone, and I am new at this. How do I go about adding this work of architecture to his page?

I tried adding the article I read for reference, but I'm not sure it was published. It's a piece by Gwen Howerton from Chron.com titled "He remade modern architecture. His Houston home is about to be demolished." I'm afraid I may have not added that reference to the correct place if I added it at all. Any help or advice is much appreciated. Thanks in advance. --MnemonicaS (talk) 15:36, 20 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Mahsheedalofteh (01:39, 22 September 2025)

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hi I have two drafts and can not tell if they will be reviewed. Can you please advise? --Mahsheedalofteh (talk) 01:39, 22 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Doober doob (07:45, 22 September 2025)

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Note: Doober doob's mentor Ixtal is away.

Hii can you help me with some basic knowledge about editing because i was planning to create articles about people who are on red link in deaths in 2025, thank you in advance <3 (also would love to know about my mentor as well! Introduction, flexes about how good at editing you are) --Doober doob (talk) 07:45, 22 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for discussion of Template:Accessibility editnotice

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Template:Accessibility editnotice has been nominated for discussion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:35, 23 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Burnt food

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I was wondering what information about burnt food you were looking for? [1] Did you mean flambé or did you mean food that has been ruined by charring due to overcooking? Thanks. --Jameboy (talk) 21:46, 26 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The inspirational sandwich
The latter! I once received a mildly burnt sandwich from Mobtown Ballroom and Cafe that I uploaded to Commons and I was looking to represent its burnt-ness in the structured data. That led to the RfD you linked and to the creation of burnt food (Q130681202). Sdkb talk 22:09, 26 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Ah, I hope they replaced it for you! I was asking because I was about to create the same redirect that had been deleted but I noticed the discussion. It seems like an unusual situation as I agree that the food meaning would be the primary topic, but one that doesn't actually have anywhere to point to. For the episode, I have created the redirect Burnt Food (The Good Doctor) instead. It seems strange to create x (dab) when there is no x, though possibly not unprecedented. Hopefully there will be some burnt food content added to the wiki at some point, and you can add your photo to it. --Jameboy (talk) 23:25, 26 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from StarviewResearch (22:35, 1 October 2025)

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Hello Sdkb! I added all the citations to Tiffany Lily Walker's draft page and wanted to ask if there's anything the page needs for a speedy acceptance. Thank you for your time. --StarviewResearch (talk) 22:35, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Davidpinkstonjr (12:10, 3 October 2025)

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how do I create a page --Davidpinkstonjr (talk) 12:10, 3 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Davidpinkstonjr, see Help:Your first article. Cheers, Sdkb talk 13:48, 3 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Question from Raja Khurram Khan (15:43, 13 October 2025)

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hi why are my drafts being deleted for no reason while im trying my best it doesnt sound promotional in any way. --Raja Khurram Khan (talk) 15:43, 13 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Raja Khurram Khan! Thanks for reaching out; I'm conferring with other editors about the deletion.
In the meantime, I'd suggest you look at Wikipedia:Autobiography. Also, regarding our notability standard for publishing an article, please note that trivial mentions, such as the one in Dawn, do not contribute, so it is necessary to have multiple reliable sources covering a topic with significant coverage.
Best, Sdkb talk 16:03, 13 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
hey @Sdkb it wasnt really a trival mention to begin with i wanted to put it as an major event that occured, that was led by him second of all they keep saying its promotional on the next draft i removed everything that even had a hint of looking promtional and when we talk about notability isn’t president of supreme court bar association, a person whos incharge of all the lawyers in the region of kashmir notable? its actually pretty saddening as i spend so much time on this and someone keeps deleting it if you could help me fix it or somehow help me get it restored i will be very grateful to you. Raja Khurram Khan (talk) 16:07, 13 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanking You

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Hey @Sdkb i just saw that my draft page is back, i was wondering if you could help me improve it a bit or tell me if it requires any improvements, i will be very grateful to you! Raja Khurram Khan (talk) 15:29, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Raja Khurram Khan, it looks like many of the promotional language elements have been fixed; glad to see that.
When the reviewer comes by, they will be looking to see whether the sources in the article establish notability under the WP:NBIO standard. Particularly, they will be looking to see that there are at least two sources that each meet all of the following criteria:
Are there two sources in the article that you think meet that standard? (It's alright if they're in Urdu.)
One concrete suggestion I'd make is, if the newspapers used as sources have their own articles, link to them within the references. (If they only have an article in Urdu, you can use the {{ill}} template or ask me for help by providing a link to the Urdu Wikipedia article.)
Cheers, Sdkb talk 17:44, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Sdkb, Thank you so much i have applied the necessary changes,if you could take a moment to view them it woild be very nice. again thank you so much you have helped me improve alot. Raja Khurram Khan (talk) 17:59, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

File:OOUI icon userAdd-ltr.svg

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As long as the change in license sticks at Commons, that's fine with me. If they revert, we'll have to figure out something else. But I note you didn't remove the c:Template:MIT license template, so now the image there claims to be both public domain and MIT-licensed. Anomie⚔ 19:28, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds good, although I think someone would be very hard-pressed to argue that File:OOUI icon userAdd-ltr.svg rises above commons:COM:TOO.
Regarding the MIT license, I recently encountered a situation where there was an argument for keeping redundant licenses, so I've been a little more cautious about removing them. But I think you're right that, in this case, if it's PD it's PD and there's no need for any backup license. Sdkb talk 19:42, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for fixing it. I wish the WMF people making all these new icons would look for when they're PD from the start, or just CC0 them all instead of MIT, so we don't have to run into this sort of thing. But I'm not going to try to argue it out with them. 🤷 Anomie⚔ 19:52, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I just noticed that c:Template:PD-ineligible allows you to do something like {{PD-ineligible|MIT}} to specify what license it would be if not PD-ineligible. Other templates such as c:Template:PD-shape and c:Template:PD-textlogo don't seem to have that functionality though. Anomie⚔ 14:32, 29 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I noticed you also noticed the issue with the Commons logo licensing. That came up recently here, and I've been meaning to follow up off-wiki with some WMF folks about that.
Cheers, Sdkb talk 19:46, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah (re the bit you deleted in Special:Diff/1316838030), I don't want to get involved with possible licensing discussions on Commons, I got tired of people there years ago. I'm happy for you to do it if you want. 🙂 What's behind all those edits is that I recently rediscovered that the Commons license templates, and most of ours too, have metadata licensetpl_attr_req and licensetpl_link_req that indicate whether the license needs the link-back. And with fresh eyes I realized I could fix my old User:Anomie/unattributed-image-finder script to actually work reliably by reading that metadata directly, so I did it. Anomie⚔ 19:52, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Feel free to ping me if there are any other licenses that should be PD; I'm happy to help with that at Commons.
Overall, glad we're coming into compliance with licensing, but also this is such an annoying thing to have to comply with, since links to icon file pages are firmly detrimental to usability. Hopefully this is a chance for us to identify overly restrictive licensing on Commons that should be commons:template:PD-simple (and for us to update any outdated iconography to modern flat design that's less likely to be above the TOO). Appreciate your diligence!
Cheers, Sdkb talk 20:11, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I'll do that. Thanks!
Personally I'm not a fan of the flat style, I find it ugly, brutalist, and too reminiscent of Corporate Memphis and other corporatese design. Anomie⚔ 20:20, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I'm somewhere in the middle — I think it can work for very simple applications (such as icons like in {{please ping}}) but don't like it for anything more complex. For better or worse, we seem to be reentering a gradient era. Sdkb talk 20:29, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, tiny icons you can't do much else with and still be recognizable. When we have people pushing for flat style on 40×40px message box icons though, ugh. Personally what I think it comes down to is that design in general attracts the kind of people who like to follow fashion trends, they're always looking for how they can be trendy and different at the same time. I, on the other hand, have been using the same desktop environment with the same wallpaper and such since 1999. 😀 Anomie⚔ 20:42, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Here's one for you for today 🙂: c:File:Disambig.svg has GFDL, two versions of CC BY-SA, and a public domain claim all on it. Anomie⚔ 21:02, 15 October 2025 (UTC) Also File:Ionicons_duplicate-sharp.svg looks like it might be PD. Anomie⚔ 21:05, 15 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Fixed both! Sdkb talk 21:17, 15 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

File:Flag of Cameroon.svg, File:Europe (orthographic projection).svg, File:Complex-adaptive-system.jpg, and File:Flag of Togo.svg have both PD and non-PD licenses where the PD claims seem possible. File:Flag of Queensland.svg is iffy, depends on whether the October 2018 update (or an earlier change by that user) really did add copyrightable SVG code. Same for File:Flag of Victoria (Australia).svg and the December 2018 update. As for File:Coat of arms of San Antonio.svg, the PD tag there is probably wrong as the SVG certainly wasn't published before 1977. Anomie⚔ 16:18, 16 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

File:OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg could use the same treatment as File:OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg. Anomie⚔ 15:19, 18 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The various colors of File:Codex icon check color-success.svg and File:Codex icon close color-error.svg should probably be marked as PD too. Anomie⚔ 22:54, 19 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

More that seem simple enough they might be PD, as they're basic symbols on a pretty basic colored oval: File:Symbol rename vote.svg, File:Symbol possible vote.svg, File:Cancelled process mini.svg, File:Symbol Translate.svg. Anomie⚔ 03:30, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Also File:Not facebook not like thumbs down.png has conflicting licenses, both a PD-simple and a CC BY-SA. Anomie⚔ 03:30, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

File:Information icon dark green.svg could probably be PD to match File:Information icon4.svg. Also, are you regretting offering for me to ping you with all of these yet? 😅 Anomie⚔ 04:19, 25 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not regretting it, just busy recently! Will get to it, likely after this weekend. Sdkb talk 05:23, 25 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Came across File:Puppeter template.svg which is labeled both CC BY-SA and public domain. Unclear what the real deal should be: back in February 2007 one source image was (apparently incorrectly) labeled CC BY-SA, so it may be that this inherited the license from that. But maybe the uploader really did intend CC BY-SA. Anomie⚔ 18:25, 25 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

File:OOjs UI icon caretDown.svg is another basic symbol. Also all the icons at Template:Rfd top#Context awareness (except which is already CC0). Anomie⚔ 17:12, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Some more that can probably be PD: File:VisualEditor citoid Cite button-en-gb.png, File:Transparent bar.svg, File:Journal Icon.svg. Anomie⚔ 19:23, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

File:Echo chat icon.svg has both PD-ineligible and MIT tags. Seems likely the PD one is correct. Anomie⚔ 19:23, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

OTOH, File:NoCommons.svg seems to have an incorrect PD template, as it's derived from a non-PD source image. Anomie⚔ 19:23, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

File:Standard Model of Elementary Particles.svg is confusing. Apparently the current versions (since 2013?) are PD, but the earlier ones are CC BY? Anomie⚔ 23:21, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, also, you might be interested in Template talk:Taxobox#Linking to CC-BY images and Wikipedia talk:Reliable sources/Perennial sources#Icon image licensing. Anomie⚔ 23:25, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Out of all the images on Template:Color classifications, I have no idea why File:CyanIcon.png / File:Color icon cyan.svg, File:MagentaIcon.png, File:Shades of spring green.svg, and File:Shades of azure.svg aren't PD while the rest are. Anomie⚔ 14:22, 30 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Also, all of the little icons on Template:Metabolic metro/caption. Unless the overcomplicated SVG code qualifies? Maybe File:interactive icon.svg too. Anomie⚔ 14:40, 30 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

File:Star half.svg somehow is not, even though File:Star full.svg is. Anomie⚔ 23:40, 5 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Need A Little Help.

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Hi @Sdkb my draft still hasnt been reviewed by anyone, as its my first time im not sure how much time it takes, if you could tell me how much time it would take so i could get started on writing some other drafts too, i would be really grateful to you. Raja Khurram Khan (talk) 13:58, 16 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Raja Khurram Khan, as the notice says, there isn't any defined timeline, since it depends on when a reviewer takes it up. But it's fairly normal for it to take a few weeks or longer, so patience is helpful! Feel free to start other drafts in the meantime, though. The more news coverage a topic has about it, the easier it'll be to get the article published. Cheers, Sdkb talk 16:26, 16 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Felixmgx (06:21, 20 October 2025)

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Hello, do you know about editing --Felixmgx (talk) 06:21, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Felixmgx, I do! Feel free to ask questions. Sdkb talk 13:39, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Tetrameles (05:24, 22 October 2025)

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Hi Sdkb! I really happy to have someone like you to ask questions! So I signed up in July and announced that I'm a paid contributor.

Since then, I've been able to get one page updated on behalf of my employer. (Yay!) However, one edit request has been pending since 24 September — I've seen the request number drop during that time and now it's higher than what it was when I first submitted it. (I took a screenshot then and it said 199, now it's 200.) It follows the same COI template I used for the page that got approval, except duplicated for 5 requested changes.

This is the request: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Alien:_Earth#Five_edit_requests:_Producers,_Production_Company,_Filming,_Design,_Production

Is it a thing for editors to pick and choose which request they respond to? If so, is there something I can do to get them to read my (admittedly very long) request? I did my best to be straightforward and organized about what was needed for approval.

Thanks so much! --Tetrameles (talk) 05:24, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Tetrameles! The requested edit backlog is unfortunately often, as you're experiencing, quite high; it's a result of there just not being enough of us editors able to handle it all. Larger requests do tend to take longer.
But the good news is that the things you can do to increase the odds of a quick review — namely being specific about the X to Y changes you're requesting and providing concise rationales for each — are things you've already done. All requests do eventually get reviewed, so if you continue to be patient you will eventually get a response. Cheers, Sdkb talk 05:56, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you so much for the quick response! I figured as much, but I had to ask :) Cheers! Tetrameles (talk) 05:59, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Growth News #35

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English Wikipedia gets "Add a Link" Structured Task

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We released the "Add a Link" Structured Task to 100% of accounts at English Wikipedia on Tuesday, September 2nd (before then it was available to 20% of accounts).

Growth features for Wikidata

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After examining if the Growth features and Mentorship could be adapted to Wikidata, we activated the Growth features on Beta Wikidata to allow for testing and discussion (T400937). Although some features, like Suggested Edits, are Wikipedia-specific, the Growth team designed most features to be more wiki-agnostic.

Work in progress

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Revise Tone Structured Task

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The Growth team is making progress on the technical architecture, onboarding design, and early user testing. We are targeting an A/B test before the end of this year, with constructive edits by newcomers as the primary success metric.

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The machine learning team has been working on a new model that can suggest links to more languages, including Urdu, Chinese, and Japanese Wikipedias. We are starting to release the “Add a Link” feature to Wikipedias that weren’t supported by the previous model.

Add a link, which can be configured by the community locally, increases the chance that a new contributor will make their first edit and then continue to participate in Wikipedia.

Research

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The Growth team is involved in several research initiatives to help guide our future work:

Progression System – We have published initial findings from interviews with 10 English and French Wikipedia newcomers. The research examined motivations, challenges, and feedback on a prototype system intended to help editors build confidence, develop skills, and contribute more constructively over time.

Mobile Web Editing Research – This project combines quantitative and qualitative data, community feedback, and user journey analysis to identify possible ways to enhance the mobile editing experience.

Newcomers Survey – This project surveys successful newcomers on English Wikipedia to understand their early editing experiences, tool use, and community interactions.

Community events

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The Growth team participated in several community events to listen, share, and collaborate on improving newcomer experiences across Wikimedia projects.

Wikimania - Organizers as key partners to support newcomers' growth in our movement

This session invited organizers to share how they introduce newcomers to Growth features and the challenges they encounter. The discussion focused on common newcomer questions and opportunities to strengthen collaboration in supporting new editors.

Wikimania - Lightning Talk: Structured Tasks

This talk demonstrated how Structured Tasks help newcomers take their first successful steps on Wikipedia. It shared impact data, community configurations, and a demo of “Add a Link,” illustrating how these tasks make editing more accessible and sustainable, particularly for mobile contributors.

Wikimania - Building a Sustainable Future for Wikimedia Contributors

With active editor numbers declining, the Contributors Strategy aims to create a clearer, more engaging path for participation. This session, led by the WMF Contributors group with involvement from the Editing, Growth, Moderator Tools, and Connection (formerly Campaigns) teams, highlighted efforts to streamline contributor experiences, offer structured and mobile-friendly workflows, and foster meaningful engagement. Participants learned about ongoing initiatives and shared feedback to help shape a more inclusive and sustainable future for Wikimedia contributors.

CEE Meeting - Retaining beginners and improving content moderation: an inclusive and sustainable future for Wikipedia contributors

Many communities face a decline in volunteer engagement. Newcomers often leave soon after joining, while experienced editors struggle to manage increasingly complex workflows and overwhelming backlogs. We presented the Contributors Strategy and the different features and workflows that can help communities to address these challenges. We listened to the specific needs of the CEE communities to help guide the Contributors teams' work.

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10:23, 22 October 2025 (UTC)

Guide to temporary accounts

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Hello, Sdkb. 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]

Nomination for discussion of Template:British barrelled name

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Template:British barrelled name has been nominated for discussion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. U-Mos (talk) 12:47, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @U-Mos! Is there a reason you're notifying me about this? I don't appear to have ever edited that template. Cheers, Sdkb talk 15:28, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Sdkb, as you created Template:Family name footnote and were instrumental in establishing that and Template:Family name hatnote as wrappers of Template:Family name explanation, which overlap the usage of the template in question, I thought you may wish to have an input into the discussion. U-Mos (talk) 15:50, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Ah, that makes sense; thanks! Sdkb talk 16:06, 2 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]