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January 1970
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Trouted (incorrectly, for reverting COI on KWIC ↗)
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You have been trouted for: YOUR REASON HERE Bdweeja (talk) 11:29, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
Delay section is very old & the informations are incorrect
::Hello. First, please read conflict of interest ↗ and paid editing ↗ for information on required formal disclosures. You must disclose your relationship with this development.
::The information contained is supported by reliable sources. Even if the information is old, it is still correct, as it covers the history of the project, not the current state. Wikipedia articles contain all information found in reliable sources ↗, good or bad. If there is a reason based in Wikipedia policy to remove something, it should be discussed on the Talk:Kolkata West International City ↗.
::<span style="font-family: monospace;">BalaM314</span> (π ↗) (talk ↗) 11:34, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
:::The information which are given on the delay & opposition section in Kolkata west International city’s Wikipedia page are wrong & old.I’m a current employee of this organisation that’s why want to make the changes. Bdweeja (talk) 06:58, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
::::{{u|Bdweeja}} As an employee of the company, you are prohibited from editing the article. Your only avenue is to propose changes on the Talk page, so that a non-connected editor can implement or decline. Also you must first declare your paid status. See WP:PAID ↗. David notMD (talk) 09:43, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
Wrong reason?
You recently reverted an IP's edit ↗ with summary 'Rv addition of a racial slur'. But the actress seems to really have played the role as per the article ↗. Maybe reversion is still valid for 'unconstructive edit', but not for racial slur? <span style="background:Orange;color:White;padding:2px;">Exclusive</span><span style="background:black; color:White; padding:2px;">Editor</span> <sub>Notify Me!</sub> 14:43, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
:Got it, thanks <span style="font-family:monospace;color:#004;"><span style="color:#062;">BalaM314</span> 〘<span style="color:#062;">talk</span> ↗〙『<span style="color:#062;">π</span> ↗』</span> 14:44, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
Trouted (incorrectly, for reverting COI content removal on SETS ↗)
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You have been trouted for: YOUR REASON HERE
The Sydney Electric Train Society page needs to be cleaned of the current defamatory content against this organisation. You are restoring a page containing many falsehoods and politically motivated hate content against SETS. I suspect its being written by members or associates of a rival rail preservation group that split of SETS in 1997 (Historic Electric Traction) to cause reputational damage to the current SETS.
What is the process for having a page edited (happy to have admins vet the changes) and locked when under attack in this manner?
Do you or Wikipedia support have an email address?
Regards
Hugh Burns
120.154.50.154 ↗ (talk) 07:35, 24 February 2024 (UTC)
::Hello. First, please read Wikipedia's principles on conflict of interest ↗ for information on required formal disclosures. You must disclose your relationship with SETS. You should also read our principle for resolving content disputes ↗.
::The information contained is supported by sources. Wikipedia articles contain all information found in reliable sources ↗, regardless of whether it is positive or negative to the subject. Thank you for starting a discussion on the article talk page ↗ about the veracity of the content and reliability of the sources, let's continue there.
::You can propose a page be protected at WP:RPP ↗, but given the nature of this dispute it is extremely unlikely to be locked.
:<span style="font-family:monospace;color:#004;"><span style="color:#062;">BalaM314</span> 〘<span style="color:#062;">talk</span> ↗〙『<span style="color:#062;">π</span> ↗』</span> 08:10, 24 February 2024 (UTC)
::The errors of fact examples I noted (as just a sample) are not supported by sources. Many of the changes since August 2023 are at best hearsay, at worst fiction. Others are obviously written to cause reputational damage as I previously noted. I presume you have read the negative tone of the material. It appears the extensive changes made since August 2023 (check the extent of changes for yourself) have been written by people associated with a rival group with obvious visible hostility to this group.
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::Dare I also ask are you independent in this matter, or are you also needing to disclose a connection with SETS or another rival group? Where is the requirement for the anonymous hostile content adders to disclose their relationships? There is a logic flaw here.
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::The way a page can be corrupted like this basically says Wikipedia is going to be un unreliable source for information when AI is launched against it (pages will be filled with generated rubbish like this Sydney electric Train Society page is now full of). If your actions in this matter are representative of Wikipedia’s normal procedures, then it appears Wiki has no means to quickly remove false and defamatory content. My deletion of the post August changes was to quickly remove what appears to be false and defamatory content. You actions have blocked this remedy.
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::If you want to resolve this matter properly I would suggest you should be asking what sections are the problem and why, and resolving them, not just restoring the page to try to protect the integrity of a page filled with falsehoods and negative propaganda.
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::I will follow up the conflict dispute link. However there needs to be a clear path forward for Wikipedia to promptly clear pages of misinformation as on display here. Otherwise Wikipedia will become worthless, or will become the subject of legal action for defamation, as the publisher of such material.
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::Hugh Burns 120.154.50.154 ↗ (talk) 09:58, 24 February 2024 (UTC)
::: The information was removed by another user a few days after <span style="font-family:monospace;color:#004;"><span style="color:#062;">『π』</span> ↗<span style="color:#062;">BalaM314</span><span style="color:#062;">〘talk〙</span> ↗</span> 13:19, 7 September 2025 (UTC)
Concerning User talk:212.38.185.141
Thank you for notifying said IP. It wasn't strictly necessary, though. It's their 3rd block, but they only got templated for the first block. The "anonblock" template at the top of the page is usually enough notification. Cheers and happy editing. Lectonar (talk) 15:26, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
Thank you
This is the first time I done this. Thank you for informing me about me forgetting to explain it more in detail. Thank you. <!-- Template:Unsigned IP --><small class="autosigned">— Preceding unsigned ↗ comment added by 67.80.240.36 ↗ (talk) 17:40, 6 July 2024 (UTC)</small>
Wow that was fast!
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|style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | Nice revert on FBG Duck ↗ I had barely finished reading it when you fixed it.. <span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="text-shadow: 2px 2px 2px #F0F5E6"><i style="color: #197C5D;">Stickymatch</i></span></span> 02:40, 9 May 2025 (UTC)
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:Thanks! Whenever a user vandalizes more than 5 times, I patrol their contributions page ↗. <span style="font-family:monospace;color:#004;"><span style="color:#062;">『π』</span> ↗<span style="color:#062;">BalaM314</span><span style="color:#062;">〘talk〙</span> ↗</span> 02:44, 9 May 2025 (UTC)
Trouted
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You have been trouted for: YOUR REASON HERE AJzegerman (talk) 03:30, 20 May 2025 (UTC)
dont ban me you jack wad
A cupcake for you!
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|style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | Hey! I really liked how you’ve improved your stub article — your use of citations is awesome. Keep going! :) Raffkid (talk) 16:12, 2 July 2025 (UTC)
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Knock it off
Stop your ham-fisted, impulsive reversions of my edits to semelparity and iteroparity ↗. The article is not your property, and my edits are legitimate, and warranted.{{pb}}
12.75.128.8 ↗ (talk) 02:21, 7 September 2025 (UTC)
:My reversion was neither ham-fisted nor impulsive. You changed
:<pre>A species is considered semelparous if it is characterized by a single reproductive episode before death, and iteroparous if it is characterized by multiple reproductive cycles over the course of its lifetime</pre>
:to
:<pre>A species is considered semelparous if its individuals characteristicly experience only a single reproductive episode before death, and iteroparous if members of the species typicly have multiple reproductive cycles over the course of theirs lifetimes.</pre>
:which contains many spelling mistakes, is grammatically incorrect, and is unnecessarily long.
:See also WP:LLMTALK ↗ <span style="font-family:monospace;color:#004;"><span style="color:#062;">『π』</span> ↗<span style="color:#062;">BalaM314</span><span style="color:#062;">〘talk〙</span> ↗</span> 13:23, 7 September 2025 (UTC)
Your userpage
Please do not have blinking, moving, or otherwise obnoxious stuff on your userpage. I don't have a major problem with the stuff hidden in the collapsed section, but please think of the people who have disabilities and really struggle with that stuff—myself included. I'd ask you to consider its removal, or at the least, including it in the collapse box so it is not visible by default. Best, <span style="display:inline-block;">House'''Blaster''' ↗ (talk • he/they)</span> 02:00, 23 September 2025 (UTC)
:Would it solve the issue if I made it like, 50 times slower? Or would that still be distracting? <span style="font-family:monospace;color:#004;"><span style="color:#062;">『π』</span> ↗<span style="color:#062;">BalaM314</span><span style="color:#062;">〘talk〙</span> ↗</span> 02:05, 23 September 2025 (UTC)
::It would be better than the status quo, especially if it was no longer a full-screen animation. Best, <span style="display:inline-block;">House'''Blaster''' ↗ (talk • he/they)</span> 02:21, 23 September 2025 (UTC)
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(links with incidents of mentioned user, he is simply showing frustration) 93.143.172.227 ↗ (talk) 03:04, 26 September 2025 (UTC)
:I have seen this. Thanks for letting me know. <span style="font-family:monospace;color:#004;"><span style="color:#062;">『π』</span> ↗<span style="color:#062;">BalaM314</span><span style="color:#062;">〘talk〙</span> ↗</span> 03:05, 26 September 2025 (UTC)
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Opinion please 93.143.100.60 ↗ (talk) 13:10, 28 September 2025 (UTC)
:Thank you for finding good reliable sources ↗ for the claim you added. However, it is difficult for other editors to find these sources because they are only in the edit summary. You can use inline citations ↗ to add the links right next to the text, like this.<ref>WP:CS ↗</ref> <span style="font-family:monospace;color:#004;"><span style="color:#062;">『π』</span> ↗<span style="color:#062;">BalaM314</span><span style="color:#062;">〘talk〙</span> ↗</span> 16:50, 28 September 2025 (UTC)
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:Thanks! <span style="font-family:monospace;color:#004;"><span style="color:#062;">『π』</span> ↗<span style="color:#062;">BalaM314</span><span style="color:#062;">〘talk〙</span> ↗</span> 13:56, 6 October 2025 (UTC)
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:Thanks! <span style="font-family:monospace;color:#004;"><span style="color:#062;">『π』</span> ↗<span style="color:#062;">BalaM314</span><span style="color:#062;">〘talk〙</span> ↗</span> 13:56, 6 October 2025 (UTC)
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- All general sanctions ↗ imposed by the community may now be enforced at the Arbitration Enforcement noticeboard ↗ (WP:AE ↗) as a result of a recent RfC ↗.
- Due to the result of a recent RFC ↗, the administrator recall ↗ process is amended to extend the deadline for a re-request for adminship to 30 days or the next administrator election ↗, whichever is later.
- Changes ↗ to the Access to Temporary Account IP Addresses Policy ↗'s disclosure rules include broadening the consecutive-blocks exception to cover all admin actions and removing the requirement to revision-delete permissible disclosures once they become unnecessary (instead requiring only their removal). See WP:TAIVDISCLOSE ↗ for more information.
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- Following the 2025 Arbitration Committee elections ↗, the following editors have been elected to the Arbitration Committee: {{noping|Aoidh}}, {{noping|Asilvering}}, {{noping|Girth Summit}}, {{noping|Guerillero}}, {{noping|HJ Mitchell}}, {{noping|HouseBlaster}}, {{noping|Izno}}, {{noping|Sdrqaz}}, {{noping|SilverLocust}}.
- The arbitration case ''Pbsouthwood ↗'' has been suspended.
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Administrators' newsletter – February 2026
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (January 2026).
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- Due to the result of a recent motion ↗, a rough consensus of administrators at the arbitration enforcement ↗ noticeboard may impose an expanded topic ban on Israel, Israelis, Jews, Judaism, Palestine, Palestinians, Islam, and/or Arabs, if an editor's Arab-Israeli conflict ↗ topic ban is determined to be insufficient to prevent disruption. At least one diff per area expanded into should be cited.
- Voting in the 2026 Steward elections ↗ started on 06 February 2026 at 14:00 (UTC) and will end on 27 February 2026 at 14:00 (UTC). The confirmation process ↗ for current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility ↗ to vote.
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Administrators' newsletter – March 2026
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (February 2026).
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20px|alt= ↗ '''Guideline and policy news'''
- Following an RfC ↗, the web archival service archive.today ↗ has been deprecated; links to the site should be removed ↗.
- A request for comment ↗ is open to discuss retiring CSD criterion R3 ↗ in favour of handling such redirects through RfD ↗.
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- Following a motion ↗, remedy 9.1 ↗ of the ''Conduct in deletion-related editing'' case has been amended to limit {{noping|TenPoundHammer}} to one XfD nomination or PROD per 24-hour period.
- Following a motion ↗, the ''Iskandar323 further POV pushing'' motion has been rescinded.
- The Arbitration Committee has passed a housekeeping motion ↗ rescinding a number of outdated remedies and enforcement provisions across multiple legacy cases. In most instances, existing sanctions remain in force and continue to be appealable through the usual processes, while some case-specific remedies were amended or clarified.
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- Following the 2026 Steward Elections ↗, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: A09 ↗, AmandaNP ↗, Barras ↗, Count Count ↗, M7 ↗, SHB2000 ↗, Teles ↗ and VIGNERON ↗.
- An Unreferenced articles backlog drive ↗ is taking place in March 2026 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{tl|Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. '''Sign up to participate!''' ↗
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Administrators' newsletter – April 2026
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (March 2026).
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20px|alt= ↗ '''Guideline and policy news'''
- The content of Wikipedia:Writing articles with large language models ↗ has been updated following a request for comment ↗. It now prohibits using LLMs to generate content, with exceptions for translation and copy-editing.
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- Following a motion ↗, the GSCASTE ↗ extended-confirmed restriction in the ''Indian military history'' case has been narrowed. It now applies to caste-related topics in South Asia, and the preemptive protection remedy ↗ has been amended accordingly.
- The arbitration case ''Pbsouthwood ↗'' has been closed.
- The arbitration case ''Maghreb ↗'' has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case will close on 7 April.
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News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (April 2026).
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- Changes to user permissions made from Meta are now included in the local user permissions log (T6055 ↗).
- The autoconfirmed ↗ user group will soon be modified such that the four-day account age requirement begins when an account makes its first edit (T418484 ↗).
20px|alt= ↗ '''Arbitration'''
- The arbitration case ''SchroCat ↗'' has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case closed on 15 April.
- Per a recent motion ↗, appeals of blocks from the conflict-of-interest VRT queue ↗ are, by default, appealed on-wiki through the normal unblock process. However, they may be heard by the Committee if COIVRTers disagree on the interpretation of the evidence or believe ArbCom would be better suited to hear the appeal. Administrators are also advised that loosening or lifting such blocks without the consent of someone with access to the queue or ArbCom can be grounds for desysopping.
- Per a recent motion ↗, restrictions issued directly by the Committee may now be enforced with blocks which work exactly like contentious topic blocks.
- The arbitration case ''Maghreb ↗'' has been closed.
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- The May 2026 administrator elections ↗ are scheduled to run from April 29 to May 19. The call for candidates ↗ ends May 5.
- The 2026 Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election ↗ is scheduled to run from April 25 to June 1. Candidacy submissions ↗ close on May 10.
- A '''new noticeboard ↗''' for non-urgent, batch page protection requests has been created, primarily for the enforcement of contentious topic restrictions ↗.
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Administrators' newsletter – June 2026
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (May 2026).
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- Following an RfC ↗, the "persistent usage of large language models ↗" has been included as a common reason for a block ↗.
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- Mandatory 2FA for bureaucrats ↗: Bureaucrats ↗ without two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled have already lost access to their advanced rights on 26 May. Those who do not enable 2FA may be automatically removed from the groups in mid-June 2026, and from that point onward, new members must have 2FA enabled before they can be added. (T423119 ↗, T423120 ↗)
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- The arbitration case ''SchroCat ↗'' has been closed.
- The arbitration case ''Michael Jackson ↗'' has opened. Evidence submissions in this case closes on 1 June.
- Voting for the 2026 Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election ↗ closes on 1 June.
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News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (June 2026).
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- A request for comment ↗ asks whether the criteria for autoconfirmed and extended confirmed should be modified.
- A request for comment ↗ proposes an addendum for the Real name section of the Username policy ↗.
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- The special page Special:RangeCalculator ↗ has been created for any users to use to find an IP range. (phab:T268429 ↗)
- The "indefinitely" button in Special:Block ↗ for temporary accounts can be replaced with a preferred block duration stated on MediaWiki:ipb-indefinite-expiry-temporary-account ↗. (phab:T427125 ↗)
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- Following a series of motions ↗, changes to the contentious topics procedure ↗ to restructure awareness ↗ have been implemented.
- The arbitration case ''Michael Jackson ↗'' has been closed.
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- The 2026 Developing Countries WikiContest ↗ will run from 1{{nbsp}}July to 30{{nbsp}}September. '''Sign up now ↗'''!
- 10 candidates have been appointed ↗ to the U4C.
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