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Administrators' newsletter – July 2025
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2025).
Administrator changes
Interface administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
- Following a talk page discussion, speedy deletion criterion G13 has been amended to remove "Userspace with no content except the article wizard placeholder text."
- WP:Manual of Style/Superscripts and subscripts was upgraded to a guideline following a RfC discussion.
Miscellaneous
- The 2025 Developing Countries WikiContest will run from 1 July to 30 September. Sign up now!
- Administrator elections will take place this month. Administrator elections are an alternative to RFA that is a gentler process for candidates due to secret voting and multiple people running together. The call for candidates is July 9–15, the discussion phase is July 18–22, and the voting phase is July 23–29. Get ready to submit your candidacy, or (with their consent) to nominate a talented candidate!
Speedy deletion nomination of Category:12th-century BCE Judaism
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A tag has been placed on Category:12th-century BCE Judaism indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz Read! Talk! 19:17, 18 July 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks, Liz. Deleted with a link to the cause, Marcocaplle's nomination at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2025_July_6#Ancient_Hebrew_people. – Fayenatic London 19:02, 19 July 2025 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – August 2025
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2025).
Administrator changes
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
- Administrators can now restrict the "Add a Link" feature to newcomers. The "Add a Link" Structured Task helps new account holders get started with editing. Administrators can configure this setting in the Community Configuration page.
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.
- South Asia (WP:CT/SA) is designated a contentious topic. The topic area is specifically defined as
- 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.
CfD nomination at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 August 17 § Category:Algerian writers in French
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Categories you have created have been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 August 17 § Category:Algerian writers in French on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 12:33, 17 August 2025 (UTC)
Category question
[edit]Hello, Fayenatic london,
I hope you can help me with a problem I've got with some categories. There are some empty categories that are popping up on my Empty Categories Quarry query for the past few days:
- Category:Sports in Newfoundland and Labrador by year
- Category:Sports in Quebec by year
- Category:Sports in Alberta by year
- Category:Sports in Ontario by year
- Category:Sports in Manitoba by year
- Category:Sports in Saskatchewan by year
- Category:Sports in New_Brunswick by year
- Category:Sports in British_Columbia by year
It looks like these categories all went through CFD Speedy rename process but the bot didn't recategorize the contents which are still sitting in the old, deleted categories. I went to the Working page to see what the issue might be but I don't see these categories listed there so I think they fell through the cracks. I find the Working page bewildering, which is why I don't close CFDs, but I saw you and User:Ymblanter editing the Working page so maybe you know where to list these to indicate that the bot still has some work to do here, recategorizing some categories from the old, deleted categories to the new ones. Thanks, in advance, for any assistance you or Ymblanter can provide. Liz Read! Talk! 01:10, 25 August 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks Liz for noticing this, one of us (most likely me) must have screwed up while checking the categories before removing them from Working. I have now edited the template so that it adds new categories, and these listed above should become empty in a few hours when the cash gets cleaned up. For safety, I will check them again later. No need to list them anywere. Ymblanter (talk) 05:34, 25 August 2025 (UTC)
- I figured out that I listed them here: Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working/Large. They were processed but not yet checked back, so nobody (yet) screwed up. Anyway, they should be fine by now. Ymblanter (talk) 07:57, 25 August 2025 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – September 2025
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2025).
Administrator changes
Interface administrator changes
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
- Administrators can now access the Special:BlockedExternalDomains page from the Special:CommunityConfiguration list page. This makes it easier to find. T393240
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.
Template:Oceania topic
[edit]Hello, Fayenatic london.
In Template:Oceania topic, can you remove East Timor (also called Timor Leste)? Unlike neighboring Indonesia, which has territory in Oceania (Western New Guinea), East Timor is entirely located in Asia (in Southeast Asia to be precise).
See also the Oceania and Southeast Asia articles.
Yours sincerely, Oratas (talk) 12:40, 14 September 2025 (UTC)
- Hi @Oratas: Thank you. The map at Wallacea says you're right, so I've made the change to the template.
- I added it there because of the country's inclusion in the article Women in Oceania. Content about Timor-Leste had been included there since this edit in 2013 by AnakngAraw, who has not edited enwiki or tlwiki since 2014. I have moved the content about Timor-Leste from that page to Women in Asia. – Fayenatic London 21:24, 14 September 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you very much. Oratas (talk) 12:57, 16 September 2025 (UTC)
NACs by User:QalasQalas
[edit]Hi, sorry to pick you at random, but your name came up in a list of recent admins online, and yours is familiar to me through past interactions. I'm a little concerned by the NACs being applied at TfD by this user. If you look at their talk page, it seems any that they have closed have been contentious, and I have seen some not past the 7 days. I'm not sure that they have the experience required to close these, and wasn't sure how to proceed. --woodensuperman 11:47, 16 September 2025 (UTC)
- @Woodensuperman: Good call. I have asked them to stop closing discussions in enwiki. I did not bother reopening them all, though, even if closed early, as some look as if they would have been closed that way. – Fayenatic London 21:53, 16 September 2025 (UTC)
- Cheers, thanks for your attention! --woodensuperman 07:52, 17 September 2025 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – October 2025
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2025).
Administrator changes
CheckUser changes
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.
CfD nomination at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 October 29 § Roman Catholic church buildings
[edit]Categories you have created have been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 October 29 § Roman Catholic church buildings on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mclay1 (talk) 15:17, 29 October 2025 (UTC)
Guide to temporary accounts
[edit]Hello, Fayenatic london. 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?
- 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
- 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
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How to use Special:IPContributions
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How automatic IP reveal works
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How to use IP Info
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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) 02:48, 31 October 2025 (UTC)
Epilepsy
[edit]This should never have been a speedy. This is the most abused procedure on WP imo. Johnbod at ILAE (talk) 17:01, 31 October 2025 (UTC)
- @Johnbod and Johnbod at ILAE: I'll reverse this, as Speedy is meant only for non-controversial cases. This makes the cat once again consistent with Category:Seizure types, which I excluded from the nominated set [1] because of the article Seizure types. Please note, however, that the phrase "types of epilepsy" is used in Epilepsy syndromes, Epilepsy in animals, VNS, Automatism, Automatism (medicine), Infantile epileptic spasms syndrome, Phenobarbital, Saclofen, Tetrahydrodeoxycorticosterone and 15 other pages, whereas "epilepsy types" is only used in Epilepsy in children and Reading epilepsy, so I'm not going to beat myself up too badly. – Fayenatic London 15:23, 1 November 2025 (UTC)
- Well, I didn't ask for that, and am equivocal on the wording used - the two are synonyms, but ET might be found slightly more easily than TofE by readers. My main objection was the Speedy - I think this procedure is mis-used much too often. Little to do with epilepsy is safely non-controversial. Thanks for the reply anyway. Johnbod (talk) 17:27, 1 November 2025 (UTC)
- Well, it does read as if you were accusing me of abusing procedures.
- In stating my rationale for reversing this, I forgot that you don't value consistency anyway. Ah well. – Fayenatic London 17:38, 1 November 2025 (UTC)
- Well, I didn't ask for that, and am equivocal on the wording used - the two are synonyms, but ET might be found slightly more easily than TofE by readers. My main objection was the Speedy - I think this procedure is mis-used much too often. Little to do with epilepsy is safely non-controversial. Thanks for the reply anyway. Johnbod (talk) 17:27, 1 November 2025 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – November 2025
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2025).
Administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Guideline and policy news
- The speedy deletion criteria U5 has been repealed, with U6 and U7 replacing it. See the FAQ for more clarifications.
- Community-designated contentious topics may now be enforced and appealed at the arbitration enforcement noticeboard (AE) as a result of an RfC.
Technical news
- You can enable a handy user info card next to usernames, which when clicked displays edit count, blocks, thanks, and other information. To enable this feature, visit Preferences → Appearance → Advanced options → Enable the user info card
Arbitration
- The arbitration case Transgender healthcare and people has been closed
- Uninvolved administrators may impose an AE participation restriction on any thread at the Arbitration Enforcement noticeboard.
Miscellaneous
- An unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in November 2025 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!
Category:Muslim communities of the Caucasus has been nominated for renaming
[edit]Category:Muslim communities of the Caucasus has been nominated for renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether it complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:16, 4 November 2025 (UTC)