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Brownsea Island Scout camp Featured article review

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Railway station

Hi. I'm here to talk about what you did with Piaseczno Narrow-Gauge Railway ↗. It's a mess. You cannot just change he name of article (Wierzbno station) and pretend its entirely new article. You didn't write anything about the railway, you didn't change the interlanguage link, and you didn't mention any other railway stations. Not to mention it's not even the first time you took upon yourself to "delete" article about minor railway station without any discussion.Artemis Andromeda (talk) 12:20, 10 November 2023 (UTC)
:{{Ping|Artemis Andromeda}} I was going to AFD the railway station article during NPP (IMO clearly fails wp:notability) but instead thought of using it to start an article on the rail line. I though another station article (with the same problem which I would have also AFD'd) which I thought was on the same rail line and planned to put material from both articles into the rail line article. I knew that it would temporarily be a mess, which is what you noted. Then I noticed that the second article was not on the same rail line. That is as far as I got. I think that an article on the rail line (including details and images on the stations) would work out excellently and survive. At this point, what would you prefer to do? Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 14:00, 10 November 2023 (UTC)
:::Recapping, I was going to AFD the railway station article during NPP (IMO clearly fails wp:notability) but instead thought of using it to start an article on the rail line. There was another station article (with the same problem which I would have also AFD'd) which I thought was on the same rail line and planned to put material from both articles into the rail line article. I knew that it would temporarily be a mess, which is what you noted. Then I noticed that the second article was not on the same rail line. That is as far as I got. I think that an article on the rail line (including details and images on the stations) would work out excellently and survive. It turns out that the other station/article is not on this particular rail line. If I receive no response to my question below I plan to circle back and tidy the situation up a bit.<b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 21:36, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
:: {{Ping|North8000}} Don't start messes you don't intend to fix. Tell me, whose now gonna go and write an entire article about Piaseczno Railway? Me? You? Some third person who will stumble onto it in the next 10 years? You cannot just make messy articles like this and hope somebody else will fix it.Artemis Andromeda (talk) 15:27, 10 November 2023 (UTC)
:::{{Ping|Artemis Andromeda}} That's not an answer to my question, which seems a very reasonable one. In light of my response, what would like to happen next? Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 19:37, 10 November 2023 (UTC) <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 19:37, 10 November 2023 (UTC)
:::Also, as a sidebar, you had numerous implied accusations like "don't intend" which are pretty creative, particularly in light of what I wrote. <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 19:41, 10 November 2023 (UTC)
:: If you wanted to delete the article, you should have had just report it for deletion on the notability basis. If you wanted to creat article about the Piaseczno Railway, you should have had just made a new article. Instead, you just changed the name, without changing any content in the article itself. It's now unencyclopedical, contins wrong categories, is still linked to Polish Wikipedia article about Wierzbno station, and talks only about this one station, and has basically no information about the railway line itself. You cannot just do that, and hope that somebody else will notice, and ever come to fix that, and write a proper article, because most of the times, nobody does (it's to niche to be notices).Artemis Andromeda (talk) 19:50, 10 November 2023 (UTC)
:::{{Ping|Artemis Andromeda}} Again no answer to my very reasonable question. This is far simpler and easier to resolve than you seem to think. Again, what would like to happen next? <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 21:58, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

Request for feedback on two drafts

I have two drafts that I would like your feedback on

Draft:Owari clan ↗

Draft:Yamato no Kuni no Miyatsuko ↗

I feel both are currently in a good state but might need some improvement. I am planning on taking a break rather soon and hope I can get them through quickly before it '''Immanuel'''le ❤️💚💙 (talk to the cutest Wikipedian) ↗ 20:38, 13 November 2023 (UTC)
:{{Ping|Immanuelle}} I was off the grid for a few days and it will be a couple days before I get caught back up in Wikipedia. <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 14:18, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

===Owari clan article===

=As an experienced NPP reviewer (and more recent AFC reviewer)=

{{Ping|Immanuelle}} As an experienced NPP reviewer (and more recent AFC reviewer) I would pass it. The main criteria is "should this exist as a separate article in Wikipedia?", with wp:notability being the main question. There are no obvious GNG references to confirm this. However, taking into account the (very old) period and the more obscure topic, the apparent type and quantity of references, the large diversity of footnoted coherent content developed from the references, I would make a judgement call and pass it. <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 16:05, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

====General article notes====
From my limited knowledge of you past article, this looks much more readable and substantial that many of your previous ones. By readable" I've seen previous ones that as basicaly unreadable by a typical reader. In nearly every sentence they rely on knowledge of unfamiliar terms to understand what the sentence says. This article has far fewer of such problems. Alo0s it is more substantial and more content and source that your typical one.<b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 16:05, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

====As a typical AFC reviewer====

As a typical (more cautious) AFC reviewer I might fail it or skip reviewing it. I'd see no clear cut GNG sources; it would take days of research to see if any of those sources confirm GNG compliance, especially since you did not include page numbers and the sources are off-line. And since you've had some troubles at the notice boards, I would be particularly cautious and err on the safe side. <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 16:05, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

===Yamato no Kuni no Miyatsuko article ===

This article is a bit weaker in all of the areas I discussed above in the Owari section. I'll need more looking at it before I could say anything. Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 16:05, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
:To a typical reader, this article is nearly unreadable. Nearly every sentence relies on knowledge on some obscure term to even know what the sentence says. Having an internal link to a term does not change that, a reader should not have to read another article just to figure out what each sentences says. Internal links are generally more "for further reading". Also, you are creating redlinks for plan English words where the target of the redlink is not even in the sentence. I would not consider these items grounds to reject an article, but having an article with a severe problem in this area is a significant problem. Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 16:18, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
::{{ping|North8000}} I tried to fix the Yamato no Kuni no Miyatsuko ↗ article. I see both of them were recently accepted. I noticed somehow the reply function broke so I am unsure what happened (unsigned by Immanuelle)
:::{{Ping|Immanuelle}} Cool. Hope my comments helped even if they were friendly-blunt. Wish you the best and happy editing! Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 21:42, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
::::{{Ping|North8000}} Yeah they were helpful. Yamato no Kuni no Miyatsuko is pretty difficult I think to explain and I will want to do further rewriting of it to make it clearer. btw are your pronouns he/him or is wikipedia just not set up weith them? I thought you had a pic and were a girl.'''Immanuel'''le ❤️💚💙 (talk to the cutest Wikipedian) ↗ 21:48, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
:::::{{Ping|Immanuelle}} Cool. I have on my user page "I live in the USA and (to simplify the pronoun question for folks) am male." but beyond that I don't participate in stating pronouns. <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 21:57, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

thumb|200px| {{Ping|North8000}} I had thought this was a picture of you tbh ↗'''Immanuel'''le ❤️💚💙 (talk to the cutest Wikipedian) ↗ 01:51, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
:{{Ping|Immanuelle}} Nope, just an image that I liked due to a combination of several things. I'm a lot older and uglier than that. <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 03:08, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
:@North8000 I think your signature is broken since I can reply to my comments but not yours '''Immanuel'''le ❤️💚💙 (talk to the cutest Wikipedian) ↗ 01:52, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

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:Done. <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 13:13, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

Anand Srivastava ↗

FYI this was undeleted at REFUND recently due to it being a soft-deletion. Just a courtesy heads-up given you were the last AfD nominator, and may wish to re-nominate. Cheers, Daniel (talk) 20:31, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

{{Ping|Daniel}} Thanks for the post and heads up. My nomination was just under trying to do my NPP job properly. It's still tagged for wp:notability and awaiting another NPP review. I might just let a second set of eyes review it. Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 16:23, 10 December 2023 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

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Talk:Scientology ↗

Hello {{u|North8000}}, as described at the bottom of the recent edit-warring noticeboard discussion ↗, I have removed some examples of unproductive remarks by all mentioned editors in Special:Diff/1194995281 ↗. Best regards, ~ ToBeFree (talk) 20:38, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
:I don't agree that "I think it's time for you to mellow out. That would be much more pleasant for everybody, including you. " is an unproductive remark. Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 20:54, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

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Thank you for your comments on ANI about perspective (while I slept)! As you know, I have a DYK on the Main page, but my story would be different, about Figaro ↗, - this Figaro ↗. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:43, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

:{{Ping|Gerda Arendt}} My pleasure and they were well deserved! Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 00:04, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
:: Thank you! - On the Main page: the person ↗ who made the pictured festival possible --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:33, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
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:: Yesterday was a friend's birthday, with related music. - I'm on vacation - see places. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:09, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
:::{{ping|Gerda Arendt}} Thanks for that interesting note! <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 14:43, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

''Administrator Conduct Case 2024-1: Mzajac'' opened

You recently offered a statement in a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Administrator Conduct Case 2024-1: Mzajac ↗. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Administrator Conduct Case 2024-1: Mzajac/Evidence ↗. '''Please add your evidence by January 30, 2024, which is when the evidence phase closes.''' You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Administrator Conduct Case 2024-1: Mzajac/Workshop ↗. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration ↗. For the Arbitration Committee, Dreamy <i style="color:#d00">'''Jazz'''</i> <sup>''talk to me'' | ''my contributions ↗''</sup> 17:55, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

NPOVN

This is turning into quite a little rant ↗. I was considering a hat, but I think that honor should go to someone else. Do you have any further suggestions? Cheers. DN (talk) 02:59, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
:{{Ping|Darknipples}} I have some ideas but I'm buried in RL for the next 2 hours. <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 17:54, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
::No worries, thanks for looking in, I do appreciate it. DN (talk) 19:14, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
:::My pleasure. <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 19:25, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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:{{Ping|HeraTheGoddess}} Thanks! Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 17:36, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Group Otte

I replaced the notability tags you added to Group Otte with an expand German tag. When I was looking for additional sources I found the de.wikipedia article and the German name for the group. The de.wikipedia article has several German language sources in addition to the 3 or 4 now in the English article. Let me know if you still think it needs the tags. Ben Azura (talk) 18:05, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

{{Ping|Ben Azura}} Cool. Thanks for your work. I marked it as reviewed. Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 23:13, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

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Consistent reviewing query

Hi, it looks like you are only interested in reviews done after 2023. I've modified ↗ the query to support this. The new query runs much faster (14s vs 325s) and also gives much less results which would make your post-processing easier too. Please fork it. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 03:14, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
:{{Ping|MPGuy2824}} Thanks. I figured that we need to have it start somewhere, and in order to serve it's purpose, where interested people can be in and keep themselves in Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 18:20, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
::BTW if we went back farther, there would be only one person in the running. So we're trying to create more folks doing that. Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 21:46, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

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Repeat !voting

You've now double-voted on at least two proposals at Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/2024_review/Phase_I ↗ (in one case twice for the same position, in another case twice for different positions). --JBL (talk ↗) 22:41, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
:{{Ping|JayBeeEll}} Thanks. I'll go look and fix. <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 01:02, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
::It's hard to keep track with a gigantic page with about 40 proposals.<b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 03:45, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
::: No kidding! --JBL (talk ↗) 17:57, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
::::I felt better when I saw that I gave edge case answers ("weak ...." and "Neutral") on the one where I had different positions! <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 18:07, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
::::: Haha, indeed. In one of them it had been fully 3 weeks in between, I think very understandable. It does look to me like you still have two oppose votes in proposal 4 and two supports in 16, though. --JBL (talk ↗) 19:25, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
::::::Thanks. I fixed. <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 19:32, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

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RFA2024 update: no longer accepting new proposals in phase I

Hey there! This is to let you know that phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship (RfA) review ↗ is now '''no longer accepting new proposals'''. Lots of proposals remain open for discussion, and the current round of review looks to be on a good track towards making significant progress towards improving RfA ↗'s structure and environment. I'd like to give my heartfelt thanks to everyone who has given us their idea for change to make RfA better, and the same to everyone who has given the necessary feedback to improve those ideas. The following proposals remain open for discussion:

'''Proposal 2 ↗''', initiated by {{noping|HouseBlaster}}, provides for the addition of a text box at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship ↗ reminding all editors of our policies and enforcement mechanisms around decorum.

'''Proposals 3 ↗''' and '''3b ↗''', initiated by {{noping|Barkeep49}} and {{noping|Usedtobecool}}, respectively, provide for trials of discussion-only periods at RfA. The first would add three extra discussion-only days to the beginning, while the second would convert the first two days to discussion-only.

'''Proposal 5 ↗''', initiated by {{noping|SilkTork}}, provides for a trial of RfAs without threaded discussion in the voting sections.

'''Proposals 6c ↗''' and '''6d ↗''', initiated by {{noping|BilledMammal}}, provide for allowing users to be selected as provisional admins for a limited time through various concrete selection criteria and smaller-scale vetting.

'''Proposal 7 ↗''', initiated by {{noping|Lee Vilenski}}, provides for the "General discussion" section being broken up with section headings.

'''Proposal 9b ↗''', initiated by {{noping|Reaper Eternal}}, provides for the requirement that allegations of policy violation be substantiated with appropriate links to where the alleged misconduct occured.

'''Proposals 12c ↗''', '''21 ↗''', and '''21b ↗''', initiated by {{noping|City of Silver}}, {{u|Ritchie333}}, and {{u|HouseBlaster}}, respectively, provide for reducing the discretionary zone, which currently extends from 65% to 75%. The first would reduce it 65%–70%, the second would reduce it to 50%–66%, and the third would reduce it to 60%–70%.

'''Proposal 13 ↗''', initiated by {{noping|Novem Lingaue}}, provides for periodic, privately balloted admin elections.

'''Proposal 14 ↗''', initiated by {{noping|Kusma}}, provides for the creation of some minimum suffrage requirements to cast a vote.

'''Proposals 16 ↗''' and '''16c ↗''', initiated by {{noping|Thebiguglyalien}} and {{noping|Soni}}, respectively, provide for community-based admin desysop procedures. 16 would desysop where consensus is established in favor at the administrators' noticeboard ↗; 16c would allow a petition to force reconfirmation.

'''Proposal 16e ↗''', initiated by {{noping|BilledMammal}}, would extend the recall procedures of 16 to bureaucrats.

'''Proposal 17 ↗''', initiated by {{noping|SchroCat}}, provides for "on-call" admins and 'crats to monitor RfAs for decorum.

'''Proposal 18 ↗''', initiated by {{noping|theleekycauldron}}, provides for lowering the RfB target from 85% to 75%.

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'''Proposal 25 ↗''', initiated by {{noping|Femke}}, provides for the requirement that nominees be extended-confirmed in addition to their nominators.

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'''Proposal 28 ↗''', initiated by {{noping|HouseBlaster}}, tightens restrictions on multi-part questions.

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Vigraharaja IV's first war against the Muslims ↗

Hello, North8000,

I just thought I'd let you know that this article, which was just moved to this particular title, had the PROD tag you added last week removed. Editors used to be routinely notified if an article they tagged was de-PROD'd but that habit has kind of died out now that we have more articles being de-PROD'd than in the past. So, I just thought I'd alert you in case you wished to take it to WP:AFD ↗. Thank you. <span style="font-family:Papyrus; color:#800080;">'''''L'''''iz</span> <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">'''''Read!''''' ↗ '''''Talk!'''''</sup> 21:49, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
:{{ping|Liz}} Thanks for the heads up. It was sitting in the NPP que for almost 4 months and nothing was happening on problems (including a severe one with the title and thus title-defined subject) long noted by others. With the title change it would probably need hours of learning by me or involvement of someone more knowledgeable on the topic than me to figure out what to do next. Either way it still has "waiting for NPP" flag on it. Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 22:07, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Tokio Hotel's Your Christmas

I have found twice now this article redirected to the band's main article. This was down to "no evidence of notability", despite it charting at 42 on Official German Charts. Please enlighten me on what other evidence of notability is needed, because I thought if a song charted in at least one country, that's enough.

Bandit5660 (talk) 12:36, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

:{{Ping|Bandit5660}} The main idea of wp:notability, including the wording choices at N:Music is having the in depth coverage in sources from which to build an article from. Similarly in the discussions at other policies and guidelines even if one made points such as yours regarding the wp:notability condition. This article has no such coverage and no such content. IMO it should be merged into the band or album article. I'm going to step away from this one from a NPP standpoint (and also I'm not tagging it) and let someone else review it. Either way, happy editing!<b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 14:56, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

Draft:Livy Renata ↗

Hello! I am asking you to please review my article to see if it is worthy of being moved to the main page of the English Wikipedia. I have replaced some references that were not reliable sources and added careers to the article. If you don't think the article is worthy please feel free to make suggestions on the article's talk page or my user talk page. Thanks and regards Badak Jawa (talk) 07:07, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Feedback request: Closed-loop geothermal

Hi, Thanks for your note at AfC help desk. Appreciate your review/direct edits/comments on the draft page for closed-loop geothermal here: Draft:Closed-loop geothermal ↗ to improve probability of approval at submission. Thanks in advance. Nemesia345 (talk) 19:29, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

:{{Ping|Nemesia345}} I copied them into the talk page of the draft....is that what you meant? Also, just clarifying, if you wish I could do the AFC review when you resubmit if you pinged me. I'd probably also do the NPP review at the same time. Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 20:58, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

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{{ping|Tumbuka Arch}} Thanks! I try! <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 13:14, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

Feedback request: Closed-loop geothermal

Hi, the Draft:Closed-loop geothermal ↗ page has been resubmitted. Sections on Technology and Related Terminology were added to address your comments. Appreciate your AFC and NPP review per prior Talk topic if possible! Nemesia345 (talk) 03:28, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
:{{Ping|Nemesia345}} I did it. Nice work! Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 14:10, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

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Draft: Ami Dror ↗

{{ping|North8000}}, thank you for your review. Any chance you could look into Draft: Ami Dror ↗ as well? --Omer Toledano (talk) 15:48, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
:The core question is whether or not there are independent sources that cover him in depth. If you could pick out the two references that best do this and ping me I'd be happy to take a look. Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 16:51, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
:: {{ping|North8000}} Hi again. There is this article ↗ from "Shine News" in Shanghai, and this article ↗ (in Hebrew) in "Calcalist ↗", references 32 & 33 respectively on the current draft. There is also this article ↗ on Israe21c ↗, reference number 30 in current draft. In addition, Ami Dror is a prominent protest leader who is constantly sought after by television media, and radio. Your help would be greatly appreciated. --Omer Toledano (talk) 07:49, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

{{Ping|Omert33}} Those look very solid. My wiki-minutes are limited which is why I'm asking you to do legwork in order for me to help.
#Are all 3 of those references currently in the article? (please be sure to answer this question even if not)
#If not, can you put them in and then confirm to me?
Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 12:40, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
:{{ping|North8000}}, the answer is yes. All three references are in the article. --Omer Toledano (talk) 08:37, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
::{{Ping|Omert33}} Nice work. I moved it to article space and NPP reviewed.Left a post at talk referencing this thread regarding GNG sourcing. <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 13:22, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
:::{{ping|North8000}}, thank you so much for your help but I now see that it has been nominated for deletion. Why are they doing this? --Omer Toledano (talk) 14:23, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
::::I'm not going to hypothesize. See my comments at the AFD. Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 15:25, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

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Page Review Request

Hi North8000, Thank you for reviewing the page I wrote about ThirumaLi and leaving an appreciation note saying nice work :) Thank you. I was wondering if you would also be able to review a page I wrote about Masala Coffee's founder - Varun Sunil ↗, please? Thanks! 𝓡𝔂𝓭𝓮𝔁 15:11, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
:My Wiki minutes are limited, but if you could help a bit..... In your case it needs to have GNG sources, which means published independent sources that cover the ''topic of the article'' (Varun Sunil) In depth. Could you pick out the 2-3 sources in the article that you think best fulfill this requirement? Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 15:24, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
::Hi, Definitely. I understand. Sharing few GNG Sources for you to review them easier. Here's 1 ↗ (The Hindu Article - Considered a Reliable Source), 2 ↗, 3 ↗ Thank you for your time, North8000. 𝓡𝔂𝓭𝓮𝔁 17:55, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
:::I did the review. Happy editing! <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 21:11, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

I have sent you a note about a page you reviewed

Hi North8000. Thank you for your work on Amloki (TV series) ↗. Another editor, Sohom Datta, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol ↗ and left the following comment:

{{Bq|1=Hey, Just wanted to let you know, Times of India ↗ (and WP:CHURNALISM ↗ reporting from other Indian news sources) are generally considered fairly unreliable. (See WP:NEWSORGINDIA ↗).}}

To reply, leave a comment here and begin it with {{code|<nowiki>{{Re|</nowiki>Sohom Datta<nowiki>}}</nowiki>}}. <small>(Message delivered via the Page Curation ↗ tool, on behalf of the reviewer.)</small>

Sohom (talk) 00:44, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

:{{Re|Sohom Datta}} Thanks for the post and info. I'm a bit confused in a couple ways......I didn't work on / edit the article. I left a note but didn't review it and you did. But thanks for the info. <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 01:12, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
:{{Re|Sohom Datta}} Do you have much experience with Times of India. I can understand where they they might not be reliable enough for various purposes (such as sourcing something controversial for BLP). But my most common situation is where `I'm evaluating for GNG coverage in the customary degree of stringency. For example, if they have a substantive article on someone that looks like a real article (not posting a bio supplied by the person). So we're basically looking for puplished independent coverage. Do you think that they fall short for that type of thing? Enough so to not look at Times of India when reviewing for GNG coverage? <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 01:22, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
::(In response to your first question), PageTriage does list you as the reviewer (which is why I sent this note). Sohom (talk) 01:51, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
::My approach to looking at Times of India ↗ for notability purposes is to take each and every individual article on a case by case basis. In the case of Amloki (TV series) ↗ almost all of the articles are short (compare the size of https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/jee-examinees-get-heat-relief-as-gates-open-early/articleshow/109674271.cms ↗ vs https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tv/news/bengali/is-bhaswar-the-new-hero-in-amloki/articleshow/64806327.cms ↗ or even https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tv/news/bengali/when-amloki-meets-rajchandra-see-pic/articleshow/65946271.cms ↗ which is just a fluffy summary of a tweet), do not have an attributed author and are written in the style of a press release which makes me doubt their reliability and neutrality. For most BLPs, companies and TV shows (basically any topic where paid publishing can be a concern) I tend to approach TOI reporting with scepticism from a notability POV. Sohom (talk) 01:51, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

Help

{{ping|North8000}} Greetings again. Could you please take a look at this discussion ↗ on the talk page? Your view on the matter would be appreciated. --Omer Toledano (talk) 10:00, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

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{{Ping|Maliner}} Thanks! I try! Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 18:01, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

Re: AfDs

Hi North8000, I'd like to raise a concern regarding your AfDs and ask for clarification. I appreciate that you do a lot of review of new pages. However, I'm concerned about how thorough your WP:BEFORE ↗ searches are particularly as they relate to looking for native language sources ↗ are required under step B7 of the process. I notice that you've recently nominated articles for deletion where the primary language is Divehi ↗, Arabic ↗, Bengali ↗, Filipino ↗, Azerbaijani ↗, and Japanese ↗. These are quite varied languages and the probability that one person can do a competent WP:BEFORE search in all of these languages strikes me as unlikely. Understand you're a far more experienced editor than I am but it strikes me that in some cases articles may be getting deleted that would be kept if someone who spoke the language searched for sources. I appreciate that I was notified when you nominated a page I created but perhaps it would also be appropriate to somehow notify other editors who speak the appropriate language or consult them before making a nomination? Wikipedia is already known to have a systematic bias towards the Anglo world ↗ and I would hate for a pattern of AfD nominations to reinforce that bias. Just a note and appreciate that you help cull quite a bit of spam from the website. DCsansei (talk) 11:36, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

:{{Ping|DCsansei}} Thanks for that thoughtful post. I think that even the most thorough search in all languages would not result in a keep on the first 5 of those 6 and maybe also the 6th. Discussing all of them would be a long multi-faceted discussion on each of them I'm not able to do here right now. But maybe if you could pick one of theme to have a more in-depth discussion on I'd be happy to do that and I think it would be helpful. Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 12:13, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

::I also don't consider myself qualified to evaluate the notability of most of the examples I provided: I don't speak those languages. My interest was piqued by Shibata Takumi (fund manager) ↗, an article I started a few weeks ago with the intention of coming back to but didn't expect the notability to be questioned. I struggle to see how you could come to the conclusion that he isn't notable if a BEFORE search was conducted. I'm working to improve the article a bit now to at least head-off deletion (with the intent of return to it further later). I found your response ↗ when I provided numerous sources a bit dismissive particularly as it relates to perpetrating Wikipedia's tendency to focus entirely on American/English topics despite being a global resource. Shibata was described (in English) by Reuters as one of Japan's most high-profile financial executives ↗ and there are numerous sources describing his various career moves. If English-speaking editors don't view one of the most high-profile business leaders in what was then the world's second largest economy as obviously notable on Wikipedia it's no wonder we have systematic bias. DCsansei (talk) 12:41, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
:::{{Ping|DCsansei}} Well that was the "#6" that I referred to which could go either way. Long story short, structurally the current question is whether or not there are two (maybe one will do) published independent sources that cover ''the topic of the article'' (him) in depth. And the main point behind that is to see if there is enough published in-depth material to create a real wiki-article from. So the question isn't how "real world notable" he is, the question is whether or not those 2 sources exist. So if somebody googles a person and finds a whole lot of "hits" that doesn't answer that question. The real work is going through those hits to find the 2 (or maybe 1) sources that fulfill the relevant criteria (or find out that they don't exist). The flip side is that if those 2 (maybe one) sources exist to advise that keeping the article is far simpler than you think.....just identify those two sources and it's a "keep".

:::There might be a bit of a background thing that affected the shortness of my response. Which might be me (possibly mistakenly) assuming that you know all of the above. About the 20 most active NPP'ers need to do about 90% of the review work and right now we're struggling to get through / drowning in a 15,000 article backlog. With the "real work" part being sorting through a bunch of hits to find the 1-2 sources of the right type, your post could be taken as criticizing me for not doing that work while declining to actually do that work. Either way, thanks for your posts. Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 13:22, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
::::Admittedly, I was not pleased with being asked to do any "real work" since I'm on holiday this week so finding the 7-day AfD clock during time it would take away from vacation rather than work is not ideal. Not a knock on your work patrolling new articles which must run across a lot of craff. Could you take another look at the article now? I believe notability should be apparent now although I'll continue slowly reviewing Japanese sources. DCsansei (talk) 11:15, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
::::{{Ping|DCsansei}} Here's a copy of my post at that "#6"
:::::"'''Keep/withdraw''' The creator has increased it from 4 references up to 27 references. They've also asked me to take a look at those/the article as they are away on vacation/holidays. (IMO this mostly means analyzing all of the new references and finding the GNG-best ones per my request above)....happy to help someone enjoy their vacation/holidays and I did. Most of the best looking ones are behind paywalls, but as a minimum there are many near-GNG references by top tier sources. They have also expanded the article substantially with enclyclopedic content, also indicative of the addition of in-depth references. While I can't vouch for the most rigorous-interpretation GNG compliance, I have decided to switch to "keep/withdraw"."
::::Enjoy your vacation! Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 11:57, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
:::::Thank you. I appreciate your engagement here. DCsansei (talk) 07:29, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

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Monthly reviewers query

Hey North8000, I noticed you are having trouble with that monthly reviewers query. I can assist you, but first, I’ll need to create a page in your userspace. Once that’s done, you’ll be able to update data with just one click anytime you need to. – <b style="color:black; font-family: Tahoma">DreamRimmer</b> ('''talk''') 03:21, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

:{{Ping|DreamRimmer}} Great! Please do! Thanks. <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 14:03, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
::I've gone ahead and created User:North8000/New pages patrol/Reports in your userspace. Moving forward, a bot will take care of updating the data every 30 days. Plus, you can always grab the latest reports yourself by simply clicking 'Update the table now' whenever you want. – <b style="color:black; font-family: Tahoma">DreamRimmer</b> ('''talk''') 16:49, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
:::{{Ping|DreamRimmer}} Wow! Thanks. Is there a way I can export it to a file? Because that's how I was doing what I was doing. Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 12:33, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
::::Which format? – <b style="color:black; font-family: Tahoma">DreamRimmer</b> ('''talk''') 12:39, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
:::::{{Ping|DreamRimmer}} I import into MS Access, so almost any structured file will do. But let's say Excel or .csv. If this is possible, thanks!<b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 14:46, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
:::::: Exporting from there isn’t possible, but you can use this website ↗ to download it as a CSV file. Just copy and paste the URL of the table page, then click on the send button. That’s all. – <b style="color:black; font-family: Tahoma">DreamRimmer</b> ('''talk''') 17:45, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
:::::::{{Ping|DreamRimmer}} Thanks! <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 16:49, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

{{Re|DreamRimmer}} thanks for doing this while I was off-wiki.

{{Re|North8000}} is this good enough for your workflow? I notice that the report has been refreshed a few times. Hopefully, one of those times was you. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 06:29, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

:{{Ping|MPGuy2824}} {{Ping|DreamRimmer}} Yes, it worked out great and thanks to everyone. Just trying to learn a bit....what does that one run in seconds where the other one wouldn't complete even in hours. Or maybe I was doing something wrong. Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 12:57, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

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<td style="vertical-align:middle; padding:1px; text-align:center">'''You are a remarkable editor in many ways.''' You would be a good administrator, in my opinion, and appear to be well qualified. You personify an '''''administrator without tools ↗''''' and have gained my support already!</td></tr>
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:{{Ping|Maliner}} Thanks! I try! Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 18:01, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
::Seconding this, I've seen your work around in NPP, I've found most of your work to be pretty solid :) Sohom (talk) 19:12, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
:::{{Ping|Sohom Datta}} Thanks! <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 19:16, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
::::Why not, please? North8000 is an expensive editor and I admire your work at NPP. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 21:15, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
:::::North8000 is one of the remarkable page reviewers I've ever seen. The fast yet accurate is giving. You're now the third I'm owing a rock and I support all about you. <span style="font-family:Papyrus; color:#800080;">Safari Scribe</span><sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">'''''Edits!''''' ↗ '''''Talk!'''''</sup> 22:19, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

I have often and many times seen and been impressed by your competence, conduct, and clue North8000, and like the others here: I think you would be a very good administrator. I also believe that your RfA would easily succeed as your qualifications are readily obvious, robust and well rounded, and rock solid by any fair measure. Your temperament is as close to admin perfect as it can practically be. And it's unambiguously clear that your character traits are genuine (not a contrived cell in your body I'm certain). Wikipedia is better because of you and the gifts of your time given. Above all else, I sincerely thank you for that. And I would be thrilled to support you for adminship. Having said these things with best regards, I wish you wellness and good cheer.--John Cline (talk) 00:56, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

::{{Ping|John Cline}} Thanks. I'd be happy to serve but it's a big decision to go through the RFA process. <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 12:17, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
::{{+1}} – <b style="color:black; font-family: Tahoma">DreamRimmer</b> ('''talk''') 16:53, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
:::I'm only seeing this now, good idea! Didn't know you weren't an admin yet. My email is open if you'd like to get some private feedback or talk about about a nomination. —Femke 🐦 (talk) 18:35, 9 June 2024 (UTC)
::::I really believe that you will pass your RFA with flying colors. Regards! Maliner (talk) 15:17, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

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Adding a section to a closed discussion.

Hi, I do not think it is a good idea to continue a closed discussion, like what you have done at this section of the Jordan Peterson talk page regarding the Jubilee medal ↗ 14 minutes after the closure of that discussion. I have planned to revert it, but due to uncertainty over how appropriate the revision really is (and how appropriate it would be to revert it), I have found it better to instead discuss that revision here with you. CarlFilip19 (talk) 21:35, 17 May 2024 (UTC)
:{{Ping|CarlFilip19}} What I did was both OK and appropriate. Including responding to a comment/accusation about me wrongly implying that I was out of line because I participated in a discussion without an invitation. Or I could have reopened it to make it even more official. But it would be improper to revert it. :-) Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 14:07, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
::{{Ping|North8000}} Thank you for nice response. Well, now that you say it, I will let you keep that comment of yours, especially to use an answer to resolve a conflict. CarlFilip19 (talk) 14:23, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

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Review of Indian_Arm_Wrestling_Federation

Hi North8000. Thanks for reviewing this article ↗. Gardenkur (talk) 03:40, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
:{{ping|Gardenkur}} Nice to hear from you again! Looks like all is going well. <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 12:14, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

Hi North8000. Thanks for your response. Yes things are fine and hope the same with you. With other things on hand the contribution towards Wikipedia reduced, though efforts to improve this platform with guidance from all is always there. Gardenkur (talk) 02:52, 25 May 2024 (UTC)

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I had no idea that I did this ↗ until I got the ping. Must've hit revert with my fat fingers. – Muboshgu (talk) 22:09, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

:{{Ping|Muboshgu}} Thanks for the post. I was wondering about that. <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 22:12, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

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Greetings North8000, Hope you're having a great day! I was wondering if you could review a recent article I wrote about a record label Mass Appeal India ↗, please? Here's couple of independent sources - 1 ↗, 2 ↗, 3 ↗, 4 ↗

Thank you! 𝓡𝔂𝓭𝓮𝔁 13:04, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

:{{Ping|Rydex64}} Looks like someone already did it. Happy editing! Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 12:44, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

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Ami Dror

Why did you move that article to mainspace when rejected article to mainspace? '''<span style="text-shadow:7px 7px 8px black; font-family:Papyrus"><span style="color:#3399ff">scope_creep</span><sup>Talk</sup></span>''' 14:10, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
:{{Ping|scope_creep}} I don't know what you mean by the 2nd half of your sentence, but regarding the first half, IMO it's very solid that there is no reason for it to not be in mainspace. And on what is likely the main question, IMO has sourcing to solidly meet GNG, much more solid that a typical new article. In your AFD nom, you indicated that is has some low quality sources, I did not review all 57 sources, just enough to confirm GNG compliance. If some (or many) of the other 57 have the problems that you describe, that is not a reason to delete the article or preclude it from mainspace. BTW, I plan to move this thread to my talk page. Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 15:18, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
::Sorry, I posted this really quickly. I thought it was your talk page. '''<span style="text-shadow:7px 7px 8px black; font-family:Papyrus"><span style="color:#3399ff">scope_creep</span><sup>Talk</sup></span>''' 15:32, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
:::See what the Afd says I guess. I can't believe I posted to your user page. '''<span style="text-shadow:7px 7px 8px black; font-family:Papyrus"><span style="color:#3399ff">scope_creep</span><sup>Talk</sup></span>''' 15:33, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
::::{{Ping|scope_creep}} No sweat. Wish you the best and thanks for your work. Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 15:37, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

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Page Review Request

Hey @North8000, Hope you're having a great day! I wrote an article about Tech Panda & Kenzani ↗ back in March, and it's not reviewed yet. I'd really appreciate it if you can take a look! :) Thanks as always! 𝓡𝔂𝓭𝓮𝔁 09:50, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
:{{Ping|Rydex64}} Hello Rydex64. I really don't do "respond to request" reviews about current personalities/groups engaged in a business. This one would need a large amount of work going through all of the references to see if there some GNG references which it would need to have in order to pass wp:notability. But if you'd like to help pick out the references most likely to be GNG references, I'd be happy to review. This would be to select the 2-3 references which best meet the following criteria: Independent, published sources which cover Tech Panda & Kenzani in depth. Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 14:30, 18 June 2024 (UTC)
::Hey @North8000, Oh apologies, I forgot to mention they're an Electronic music group/band. And surely, I will select the 3 best references for you to review easily. Here - 1 ↗, 2 ↗, 3 ↗ Thanks!
::: Hey hey @North8000, Sorry for the ping! I think the previous message might have slipped through your mind. Could you please take a look when you have a couple of minutes? Thanks a lot! :)
::::{{Ping|Rydex64}} Sorry I missed that you already looked. The first is just to the article but I did review it. Happy editing! <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 19:58, 25 June 2024 (UTC)
:::::Oops! Sorry haha, It was an accident. But, thanks for the review. Appreciate it! Cheers.

Note regarding attribution of merges in page history

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:{{Ping|Red-tailed hawk}} Thanks for the note. I was thinking that it was obvious because I noted in the edit summary that it was implementing a merged decided at AFD, and the talk page discussed what the source article was. But better to also put it into the edit summary which I didn't do. <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 13:11, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

Request to review proposed undo

Greetings, @North8000. Grateful if you could kindly have a look at this suggestion about the Met page ↗ and let me know what you think. It's about a merger you made from In America: An Anthology of Fashion ↗ a couple of years ago. ↗ Thank you. —Protalina (talk) 11:01, 25 June 2024 (UTC)
:Happy to. I posted there. Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 13:46, 25 June 2024 (UTC)

Your random pages survey

Hello North8000, I stumbled across your survey of 1000 random articles. Would you mind if I add it to :Category:Random pages tests ↗? It seems to be among the largest conducted! – Tera'''tix''' ₵ ↗ 11:18, 4 August 2024 (UTC)

{{Ping|Teratix}} Thanks for asking. Please do! Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 12:33, 4 August 2024 (UTC)

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AfD

Double votes going on AFD Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Prashant_Kumar_(IPS) ↗. Special:Contributions/2409:4052:6DB5:4E1E:E854:79CD:AC15:7C77 ↗ is very much dsrprj (creator of the page). dsrprj says in vote, "Does not look like a BLP1E to me" and the IP says, "My only lingering concern would be WP:BLP1E." Dsrprj double voted before so won't be surprised by this. RangersRus (talk) 10:53, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

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:Done (5 of the 6) <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 14:03, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

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Duke Buchan

Hi North8000, I've been working on updating Duke Buchan ↗'s page. As you are a member of WikiProject Conservatism ↗, I thought you may be interested in reviewing my suggestions on the Talk page ↗. Thank you, appreciate your time and assistance. Debbie for Duke Buchan (talk) 13:14, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
:I didn't think I was a member of that project but I'd be happy to look at the article. <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 13:34, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
:Found it....got invited 13 years ago and said I was more libertarian. <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 13:39, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

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:{{ping|Cowboygilbert}} thanks! 15 years flew by. <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 02:33, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

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History section of Neural network (machine learning) ↗

Dear User:North8000, thanks for your efforts! On 15-16 September 2024 I edited Neural network (machine learning) ↗. You reverted and wrote: "You are doing massive reassignment of credit for Neural Networks based on your interpretation of their work and primary sources and deleting secondary sourced assignments. Please slow down and take such major reassignments to talk first." So that's what I am doing now. (Not quite sure whether this should be done on the article's talk page or your own.) Please note that most of my edits just resurrected important old references deleted on 7 August 2024 in a major edit when User:Cosmia Nebula (whose efforts I appreciate) tried to compress the text‎. I also fixed links in some of the old references, added a few new ones (both primary and secondary sources), corrected many little errors, and tried to streamline some of the explanations. IMO these edits substantially improved the history section of the article, although a lot remains to be done. Now I'd like to ask you: please check out the details and revert your revert! Best regards, Speedboys (talk) 16:42, 17 September 2024 (UTC)
:Hello {{Ping|Speedboys}} Thanks for your work and your post. The series of rapid fire edits ended up being entangled where they an't be reviewed/ potentially reverted separately. In that bundle were several which IMO pretty creatively shifted/assigned credit for being the one to pioneer various aspect. So I'm not open to reinstating that whole linked bundle including those. Why not just slow down and put those things back in at a pace where they can be reviewed? And the the ones that are are a reach (transferring or assigning credit for invention) take to talk first. You are most familiar with the details of your edits and are in the best position to know those. I'd be happy to discuss at either place, but may I suggest having this general discussion here and any more specific ones at the article? Happy editing! Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 18:09, 17 September 2024 (UTC)
::User:North8000, thanks! Well, all the edits are backed by important references, and most of them aren't novel, just resurrecting old stuff deleted in a massive edit of 7 August 2024 that (unlike mine) has remained unchallenged so far. At your suggestion, I put it in the article's talk page. Speedboys (talk) 21:35, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

NPPing species

I'm curious how NPP plans to patrol articles on animal species? To meet the proposed guidance of "valid name exists" a species only needs to be published (no restrictions on being academic or peer-reviewed) using the oldest available, non-invalidated name purporting to be that new taxon. This would mean even a single self-published journal article would be sufficient for a species to have a valid name and therefore warrant a standalone article. And since at least some curated databases do not assess scientific merit of species descriptions they will automatically designate such species as having a "valid name" unless and until someone else publishes something calling it into question -- which means we technically could also have a reliable source for this species even if it is not secondary, independent, or significant. JoelleJay (talk) 00:03, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

{{Ping|JoelleJay}} Thanks for the post. Didn't quite understand that last sentence. My first thoughts regarding the other items in your post:

Several folks who know this area a lot better than me spent a good amount of time developing the proposal. And so sooner or later it needs to go up for an RFC rather than dying under it's own weight like many discussions do. I think that it pretty clear that people would be open to tweaking it/ modifying it. IMO such a two-step process is probably even the best way to move forward. Get something reasonable in place and then have a separate conversation on where it needs changes. Or maybe it will go fine as currently written.

Regarding "how NPP plans to patrol articles on animal species", I don't think that there is an overall plan. Speaking for myself, I'll need to learn / get fluency on that area to evaluate that sourcing. I'm guessing that once I do, patrolling one of those will be 20 times easier than the kinds of situations that we are already dealing with. Like in gng-dependent sports articles where the standard is technically GNG but in practice it isn't.

After the (presumed positive) close, if you have an idea on a change to improve it, I'd be happy to work on it with you and support it.

Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 12:34, 19 September 2024 (UTC)
::Well, the issue as I see it is that the proposal claims that it's impossible to have a valid name without reputable academic sources when this is flatly false for millions of species. Before this proposal, you could dismiss self-published sources via WP:V; but if this passes we now have a guideline explicitly endorsing creation of articles based only on one self-published source. You could argue that WP:V overrides this, but then we're already actively flouting WP:PRIMARY so why should we expect people to observe the one policy but not the other?
:The point I was trying to make with the last sentence is that even if someone ''is'' trying to avoid self-published sources (even though they would satisfy the guideline), they may assume that the content in a database is RS and secondary when actually it isn't. I showed that mollusks have essentially zero oversight in the mollusk database -- some species get "valid name" status immediately on publication of the primary discovery paper because the author is also a curator for the database, and some species still get this status automatically despite being self-published by someone known to be a taxonomic vandal. We likely have hundreds (maybe thousands? we'd need @BilledMammal to query this) of articles sourced only to this database (or that plus the primary source) that have had no documented secondary evaluation at all and yet would be impossible to delete with this guideline in place. JoelleJay (talk) 22:25, 19 September 2024 (UTC)
::{{ping|JoelleJay}} Starting with the caveat that you have more expertise than me on this.... Let's be pragmatic on this. Positing that it passes, is there a recommended change that you would make? Or let's discuss to potentially develop one. <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 23:48, 19 September 2024 (UTC)
:I detailed some changes that should happen in a reply somewhere in that discussion. JoelleJay (talk) 23:35, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

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Hello, North8000,

I was looking into the situation of a blocked editor after seeing one of their drafts, see User talk:ⵟⵓⵔⴽⵉⵙⵀⴽⴰⴱⵢⵍ and noticed that you posted over 30 messages to their User talk page after they were blocked, encouraging them on their editing. While well-intentioned, this seems excessive to me. I'm not sure if these notifications happen automatically or whether you chose to post 30+ talk page messages but I think you should limit the messages to 2 or 3 per day or it easily could be overwhelming especially when it is the exact same message each time. I can see that perhaps you didn't know that the editor was blocked and couldn't respond but it's still just a helluva a lot of messages to an editor on the same day.

If this is editing behavior that you no longer do, then just ignore this message but I saw this flood of messages (and I've seen it on other user talk pages) and just thought I'd comment. But thanks to you for the encouragement you deliver, I just think you could dial it back a little. I hope you are having a great weekend. <span style="font-family:Papyrus; color:#800080;">'''''L'''''iz</span> <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">'''''Read!''''' ↗ '''''Talk!'''''</sup> 03:08, 22 September 2024 (UTC)
:Hello {{Ping|Liz}} Thanks for the post. I usually like to leave a quick nice note after a NPP review. That was sort of an freak occurrence, (being many reviews of articles by the same person at the same time ). With trying to help on the huge NPP backlog, I usually don't take any extra time to look into the editor or even notice the editor's name. But for the reasons I noted, it's no biggee and easy to do to avoid those unusual occurrences. Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 12:43, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

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Wondering if you minded creating a shortcut to this ↗ for easier reference. I didn't want to do it myself since you spent all the work creating it (which I thank you for by the way). CNMall41 (talk) 19:19, 29 October 2024 (UTC)
:{{Ping|CNMall41}} Thanks. Where would you like me to create the shortcut? Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 20:57, 29 October 2024 (UTC)
:I can also help make such a shortcut if you let me know what you want it to be called and where you want it to go to and from? Iljhgtn (talk) 15:11, 30 October 2024 (UTC)
::I think maybe a shortcut from WP:COIER ↗ or WP:COIREQUEST ↗ to that page would suffice. I found it useful yesterday and plan to use it a bit more so though a shortcut would make it easier. --CNMall41 (talk) 19:10, 30 October 2024 (UTC)
:::Both done. Iljhgtn (talk) 19:24, 30 October 2024 (UTC)
::::Perfect. Thank you. --CNMall41 (talk) 20:23, 31 October 2024 (UTC)
:::::You're welcome. Iljhgtn (talk) 21:43, 31 October 2024 (UTC)

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Overdoing it with notifications

Hello, North8000,

Please look at User talk:RandomMe98. You posted over 100 notices on this editor's talk page. It's overwhelming just looking at the page, I can't imagine being the editor. It's fine to send an encouraging note or two but do not plaster editor's user talk page with dozens and dozens of notifications. <span style="font-family:Papyrus; color:#800080;">'''''L'''''iz</span> <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">'''''Read!''''' ↗ '''''Talk!'''''</sup> 05:39, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

:That one was an anomaly. I just post something postive when passing a NPP review. Sometimes just a thanks for their work and sometimes with a suggestion for improvement. That one had both types (plus a third type...an AFD notice) and I was trying to help put a dent in the > 13,000 + article backlog by reviewing a whole bunch of similar articles. <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 14:57, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

Reviewing a page

Hey North8000, I just created a page on a biotechnologist based in Jamaica couple of days ago (M. H. Ahmad ↗). Could you please have a look and give your remarks. Warm regards. It’d be great if you could review it. Hamza A. Durrani (talk) 14:01, 10 December 2024 (UTC)
:Hello {{Ping|Hamza A. Durrani}} It's a well written article, particularly/given for one which does not have GNG type sources. The article content does look like routine resume/CV material for an academic. I don't see any sources which would qualify for meeting wp:notability under WP:GNG ↗. I'm guessing that he/the article would meet wp:notability under the Special Notability Guideline for Academics but I don't currently do reviews that require that because I haven't yet acquired the expertise / got fluent with that special guideline. Happy editing!!! Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 19:36, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

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Okay, okay, I get it. The amount of notification bells you're sending me is going to cause me to have an heart attack. I thought I was sent to ANI for some reason (this happened to me before!), pinged several times while I was asleep, then blocked. Jesus christ.... ABG <small> (Talk/Report any mistakes here) </small> 23:19, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
:{{Ping|AlphaBetaGamma}} Thanks for your work. Certainly nothing "ANI" related. I did four posts on articles which you created which a copy went to your talk page on. Three were a heads up on three train station articles which are unlikely to meet wp:notability criteria on. The fourth was on a train station article which IMO was an edge case and I marked as reviewed. On all 4 I made the suggestion on a way forward to up-merge or cover them on an article which is on the overall rail line. Either way, happy editing! Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 02:05, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
::(I'm aware WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS ↗ is a thing) I've been confused on what to do on train station articles ↗ which could just be sent to the railway line article and be called a day, because in the end I'd be yelled at when the massive infobox in the "Stations" section that would be placed if I merged everything and converted the train stations articles into redirects surpasses the rest of the article.

::The WP:N issue exists with thousands of TRAINSTATION articles, even if you limit the scope to trains in Japan ↗. Of course, some articles have been BLAR'd by some editors, but that's merely a fraction considering some can be improved to prove their point of having an article. (ex. Kominato Station ↗. Of course, not every articles have the history to be expanded up to GA, but older stations ↗ and newly built stations ↗ are usually easier to cover and cite and expand) Because merging literally every station articles is a move that destroys dozens of potentials of GAs and even FAs, (although, there aren't any FAs in the scope of WPTIJ, you can find plenty of GAs in jawiki related to trains) I've hesitated to do the "just mention it in the railway line article, this doesn't meet GNG!" move that everyone does (and should be doing).

::Considering that WP:TIJ ↗ is barely managing to do its work with the small fraction of the former members, a major change of mass BLARing articles with insurmountable WP:GNG ↗ issues and expanding stubs that can be covered and expanded to the point people won't question their notability anymore is impossible.
::ABG <small> (Talk/Report any mistakes here) </small> 02:34, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

:::{{Ping|AlphaBetaGamma}} Thanks for the post. Well, we both said our things. Rather than discuss those many angles, I'll just limit myself to two notes which might be useful: IMO it's not necessary (or even advisable) to list all of the stations in the info box of an article on the line. IMO it would be best to give each station a small subsection in the body of the article (or a row in a table) which would have the factoids that the text is derived from and the image. The other is that the issue of wp:notability (on these) isn't one of unexpanded articles, it's a matter of having a couple sources which cover ''the topic of the article'' in depth. The existence of these determines whether it is build-able into an ''enclyclopedia article'' vs where there are just some factoids in sources which the editor expands into sentences. Whether or not that building of the article has already occurred is not the question, except that it can be an indicator of whether or not the GNG sources have been found. Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 21:09, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

"Orphan" page

Dear North8000, thank you very much for your checking Stano Bubán's page. I really appreciate your work...

I would like to consult with you:

Admin Reconrabbit added tags to the page using Page Curation (orphan). Even though I studied the issue of "orphan" pages, I did not understand what I should change or redesign on the Stano Bubán's page to remove this bar.
Please, could you advise me, what exactly I should do? After all, the page has links to other internal pages of Wikipedia. For example, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava, Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, Velvet Revolution, Slovak National Gallery, etc. Should I add more links to other pages from Wikipedia?

I wish you a nice Christmas time... JoshuaHeri (talk) 10:17, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

:Dear North8000, thank you for your help... JoshuaHeri (talk) 13:59, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

Hello {{Ping|JoshuaHeri}},

Thanks for the post. ((As an aside, Reconrabbit isn't an admin.) If you want to remove the reason for that tag, find an article elsewhere) where it is appropriate to) create an internal link to the Stano Bubán page and create that link. It's not specifically a problem to not have those links so IMO another approach might be to consider it to be providing some info and say "Thanks for the info" and remove the tag. Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 13:22, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

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Review of Kaal Bhairav Jayanti

Hi North8000. Belated New Year Greetings for 2025. Thanks for reviewing this article ↗. Gardenkur (talk) 12:41, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

Review of Maha Kumbh 2001 Mela

Hi North8000. Sorry for belated reply and thanks for reviewing this article ↗ and sharing your inputs. Will improve in coming days. Gardenkur (talk) 12:44, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

L. David Mech

Hi @North8000, I don't appreciate your wholesale revert of my edits on the :L. David Mech ↗ page. I spent close to an hour proofreading the edits you made, including fixing bare urls and grammatical errors, and you just undid all of it in one click. This is both rude and inappropriate. If you disagree with specific changes I made, please take it up on the talk page instead. Revirvlkodlaku (talk) 00:12, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

:{{Ping|Revirvlkodlaku}} You did a massive bundle of controversial deletions of good informative material material and sourcing. Including deletion of a 10 page article by Chicago's largest newspaper and all of the cites to it and material citing it on giving the rationale that it is "sub par" Please take specific specific controversial proposed deletions to talk. Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 04:41, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
::My further notes are at the article talk page. <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 11:50, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

List of Hsinchu Toplus Lioneers head coaches ↗ at AfD

I am seeking an AfD consensus to redirect List of Hsinchu Toplus Lioneers head coaches ↗. Since you have participated in past edits related to this decision, I am notifying you of the discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Hsinchu Toplus Lioneers head coaches ↗. Dclemens1971 (talk) 14:43, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

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:{{ping|Hey man im josh}} Thanks! <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 02:57, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

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:{{Ping|Gerda Arendt}} Thanks for this January music post! Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 23:53, 31 January 2025 (UTC)

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Draft:Ain Jarfa ↗ could now be move to article space, no? cheers,Huldra (talk) 13:16, 4 February 2025 (UTC)
::ok, I moved myself, hope that is ok, Huldra (talk) 15:25, 4 February 2025 (UTC)
:::{{Ping|Huldra}} It probably still doesn't officially meet WP:NGEO ↗ but there's enough there that I woulld not have moved to draft and would have marked as reviewed. If it's not already marked, I'll mark it as reviewed. Hppy editing! Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 18:42, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

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Lebanese villages

Re: Your draftifying many of the Lebanese village-articles made by User:Syrian91: I looked at some of the ones in Sidon District ↗, and many (most) of them were also:

A. noted in Localiban,

B. have articles in 3 or more other wikipedia languages, </br>

As such, I would argue they are notable.
Now, I agree that that User:Syrian91 incommunicado hasn't helped, but would you consider "un-dratifying" those articles? cheers, Huldra (talk) 08:19, 5 February 2025 (UTC)

:{{Ping|Huldra}} I think that my own standard for wp:NGeo is more lenient than a thorough interpretation of NGeo which in turn is more wp:NGeo lenient than GNG. The above Ain Jarfa exchange I think illustrates this. I think that the two relevant possibilities are:

Historically recognized with a real identity as an inhabited place.

If based solely on modern times, a true village/city/municipality. Not just a neighborhood or subdivision, and not just a specialized tract/district such as an electoral or census tract.

If the article contains some sourcing and content developed from that sourcing that establishes the above, I'd be in favor of it existing as a separate article. If someone identifies any specific one(s) as such and points them out I'd be happy to review and move and also mark as NPP reviewed. Of course you can also move them although I would recommend expanding sourcing and content at least a bit before doing that. Others have also expressed concerns about those. Happy editing! Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 17:50, 5 February 2025 (UTC)
::Then can we agree that the villages which also are mentioned in Localiban should be kept? They are the "official municipalities" of Lebanon. All are mentioned here ↗.
::I have been trying (for years!) to "map" the places which Victor Guérin ↗ visited in the 19th century, published in 7 books, now freely available online, see User:Huldra/Guerin. I had basically put the Lebanese-part on hold, as too few places had their own articles. These village -stubs makes it a lot easier for me to map his path, Huldra (talk) 18:54, 5 February 2025 (UTC)
:::My previous post describes my current thoughts.Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 19:27, 5 February 2025 (UTC)
:::What exactly is Localiban? And why does your link to it need wayback? Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 19:27, 5 February 2025 (UTC)
::::Well, as you might know: the economy of Lebanon has been in a complete melt-down these last few years, and I assume paying for web-sites isn't a priority, Huldra (talk) 19:42, 5 February 2025 (UTC)

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Article flow

Hi North8000 ↗. We are working again on a project for NPP which exists practically all but the scripts and js tooltips. It will not only much reduce the number of new articles to review but it will also greatly reduce the blowback reviewers get. Please take a moment to have a look ↗ and let me know what you think and if you would be interested in the workshopping. Thanks. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 07:56, 5 March 2025 (UTC)
:{{ping|Kudpung}} |Thanks for the post and for the flattery of inviting me. Usually by the time I "write" I've pretty worked it out in my brain. Your project is so huge and broad (considering all of the possibilities that it has to cover and "make simple") I sure don't have that. But I'm happy to try to help. BTW two of the three most common forms of blowback I see are claims that I was too lenient or too strict. After thousands of articles I sort of go by when the community as a whole does, and if I'm hearing both that probably means I'm in the middle. The other one is most common is complaining/ questioning at AFD about having done (an impossibly huge) wp:before. Usually by someone who who says "coverage exists" but doesn't come up with any, and notably says "coverage" instead of "GNG coverage". But note that all three are someone who has already decided that it should be deleted/kept and is using the critiquing to pursue that goal. I was going to say that I don't see how your project could help that but one big way is to establish that finding and putting in suitable wp:notability sources for GNG-dependent articles is job one of creating an article. Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 21:00, 5 March 2025 (UTC)
::Are you sure you were looking at the right project? I don't mean the thread I started at WT:NPR ↗. I meant this one ↗. Something quite simple in concept and which is almost complete. It doesn't change anything in the way we work at NPP. It makes it much easier though because it will reduce the pages in the feed by anything up to 40% and give the reviewers an easier and more rewarding task. I want to get an online meeting together of those who will be the workshoping team. That's where you will be most valuable - only if you want to be on the work group. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 23:46, 5 March 2025 (UTC)
:::{{ping|Kudpung}} That's the one I was looking at although with just a 5 minute look it could be that I totally misunderstood. Or that my comment wandered too far off topic. The on-topic portion of my comment was that in "new editor guidance for new articles" is a good opportunity to emphasize that finding and including any needed GNG sources is an essential part of creating a new article. <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 14:48, 6 March 2025 (UTC)
::::{{tq|[f]inding and including any needed GNG sources is an essential part of creating a new article.}} It does all that and much more. It's its fundamental objective and in doing so it will significantly reduce the burden of decision making on NPPers. It's a very simple concept and easy in the making (much of it is done already), but your ideas will be an essential contribution to the content of some of the linked pages that will summarise in a few words the walls of text of PAGs which new users will ignore (every freshy of Communication studies ↗ knows this). I am familiar with them only because I've been around on Wiki for nearly 20 years with my main focus on NPP. DYK that our notability guidelines are 44,035 words (up to 5 hours reading time) and that there are a further 113 essays on the subject? But you'll need to take about 15 minutes to read the two pages to cover the essentials of the project. You'll then understand that rather than huge and broad, it is actually tight and concise. Bear with me, once we can discuss it in a voice meeting you'll see how it's just right up your street. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 20:36, 6 March 2025 (UTC){{reflist}}
::::Hi. I'm still not sure you went to the right pages ↗. I don't see a comment from you on the talk. We're just in the early stage of getting the project back on the road following my Wikileave. Please let me know if your are interested - your insights ''will'' be valuable. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 03:26, 14 March 2025 (UTC)
:::::{{Ping|Kudpung}} Thanks for the post. I said "huge and broad" because of the wide range of scenarios that it need to handle, and also it has to handle interactions with policies and guidelines, particularly the big fuzzy ecosystem of wp:notability. I sort of ration out my available Wiki minutes and to be honest I don't think that this is one of the most effective ways to tackle the NPP backlog and so I don't see myself as a major contributor to this big project. But I be happy to volunteer to help a bit and give my 2 cents. I'll post a shorter version of this at the talk page. Thanks again. Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 16:27, 16 March 2025 (UTC)

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Barr Theo is currently in the middle of a "streak of creations", so he asked me to ask you to pull off another January 9th, when you reviewed several of his pages in a short period of time. But this time try to not flood his talk page. Thank you. 89.214.121.88 ↗ (talk) 00:53, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

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Follow-up on Vasojevići RfC

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Just a quick note, the draft proposal in the Vasojevići RfC has been substantially revised following the earlier feedback, including your helpful comment. If you have time or interest, your thoughts on the new version would be very welcome.
Link: Talk:Vasojevići#Updated_RfC_proposal ↗ Thanks!
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Hello. Sorry for taking so long to reply. I was on the middle of a “insane streak of creations” (March edition).

You are hella confusing. On 7 March, I had my colleague ask you to review my pages just for you to refuse, and you even told me that you didn't “plan to do anything” about them, but then three weeks later, you changed your mind and decided to review everything. Not to mention that you once again flooded my talk page even though my colleague specifically told you not to do so on 7 March.

Anyways, have you ever heard of recency bias ↗? Around 98% of my articles are about subjects which were clearly notable in their time, but who are not covered by modern media because of recency bias. So yeah, you don’t need to worry about wp:notability ↗ in my articles.

I will even quote you a phrase from the renowned present-day Wikipedia reviewer JTtheOG: “While I think one should always strive to find the best sourcing available, I also think it's important to cover subjects which normally don't have a light shone on them”. So yeah, feel free to review all of my pages.

Kind regards. Barr Theo (talk) 02:30, 1 April 2025 (UTC)

:{{ping|Barr Theo}} I thought you would be happy. I passed a large amount of your articles and didn't AFD or PROD any and didn't tag any except for maybe 1 or 2. Despite them technically not meeting the wp:notability requirement. In this case wp:notability is about in-depth coverage in some sources, not real-world notability. And JTtheOG has been more strict than me, tagging many of your articles for lack of GNG sources and not marking them as reviewed. I don't agree with this post of yours or your rationale, argument and complaints. But you are doing a large amount of excellent work and was happy to mark those articles as reviewed and am happy that you are doing that work. Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 11:41, 1 April 2025 (UTC)
::And you can clear my posts from your user page in about 30 seconds. :-) <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 11:42, 1 April 2025 (UTC)
::{{ping|Barr Theo}} One more note, if you prefer that I don't do the NPP review on any more of your articles, just say so and I won't. Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 11:52, 1 April 2025 (UTC)
:::Don’t get me wrong, I’m extremely happy. I just got a little bit triggered about my talk page getting flooded again. I don’t mind the NPP reviews when they are constructive, like “more in-depth coverage would solidify” or “an image would be a nice addition”... But when they are just empty and flat, like those repeated series of “nice works” and “good starts”, I dispense.

:::Thank you once again for your leeway and kind regards. Barr Theo (talk) 23:09, 1 April 2025 (UTC)
::::{{Ping|Barr Theo}} Thanks and good point. My normal MO can be a bit whacky when I do a bunch of reviews at once for the same editor. Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 15:15, 2 April 2025 (UTC)

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Hi North8000.Hope you are keeping well. Thanks for reviewing 2016 Ujjain Simhastha ↗ . Few months I was away on personal work, so could not acknowledge. Nice to work with you.Gardenkur (talk) 13:36, 12 April 2025 (UTC)
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Hello! Hope you're well! Kindly review Albinism in Malawi ↗ Your expert input is welcome. Regards Paxromana69 (talk) 17:39, 23 April 2025 (UTC)

{{Ping|Paxromana69}} I don't normally respond to NPP review requests but that one is really solid and non-promotional and I was happy to. Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 17:59, 23 April 2025 (UTC)

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I noticed that you provided a comment on the Jung Lea article in October 2024. I would appreciate it if you could share your current commentary on the article. Your input would be most helpful. <b style="color:black; font-family:Garamond">''Btspurplegalaxy''</b> <b style="color:blue">💬</b> <b style="color:#9D9E9E">🖊️</b> ↗ 08:56, 25 May 2025 (UTC)

A cup of coffee for you!

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|style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | There is an open RfC which I helped organize at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Newspapers/Notability#Request_for_comment:_Notability_guideline_for_newspapers ↗ which got comment March-April.

You were the only opposition. Part of the reason was that the proposed guideline was too narrow.

I am not going to move fast on anything - maybe months more - but I wanted to check in on if and where we have agreement to broaden this.

You said that there should be a guideline for media notability. There are already several guidelines similar to media cited in that news RfC. Beyond that, the general guidelines which I would really prefer is something like Wikipedia:Notability of reliable sources ↗, where if a media source is good enough to cite in Wikipedia, then we deem it good enough for notability, with some line probably beyond one citation but still possibly with zero reliable third-party sources to cite.

Are you able to concisely say what you have in mind for a broader media notability guideline?

Do you do voice or video chat, or is remaining on wiki best for you? Thanks. <span style="background:#cedff2;color:#11e">''' Bluerasberry '''</span><span style="background:#cedff2;color:#11e">(talk)</span> 21:57, 6 June 2025 (UTC)
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:{{Ping|Bluerasberry}} My opposition started out mild and then went to milder/ near-neutral on the question. My comment was a general one.....with the proposal being a good idea but too narrow for it's one SNG, that the answer would be a broader media SNG. So I'm open to lots of different ideas.
:I do think that there are several structural problems in your "You said that...." paragraph above, but I don't think that there is a need to get into that.
:Thanks again. Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 14:23, 8 June 2025 (UTC)

Notability

Hello, North8000. The last time we spoke I was known as Barr Theo.

Two months ago, on 31 March, you reviewed A LOT of my articles; for instance, between 15:33 and 15:59, you reviewed a total of 37 articles. That is, 37 articles in just 26 minutes, which results in an average of 45 seconds per review, which means that you might have made some mistakes. And in fact, you did.

{{ping|Sirfurboy}} pointed out one of them at Talk:Carlos Ibáñez (Spanish footballer) ↗. Likewise, I think that some of your comments on "edge case regarding wp:notability" were a little bit harsh, but perhaps I'm wrong.

Alfred Compeyrat ↗: This secondary source https://www.chroniquesbleues.fr/les-premiers-bleus-Alfred ↗ treats him in depth as a historical subject, notable because he is a French international, so it meets GNG, right?

Albert Caillet ↗: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9538626n/f1.item.r=caillet.zoom ↗ Three paragraphs about the subject in a newspaper, how is this not SIGCOV from a secondary source?

Alejandro Acha ↗: This secondary source https://www.elcorreo.com/athletic/duenos-porteria-athletic-20241205010453-nt.html ↗ mentions the subject three times, so it's "beyond just a mere trivial mention", right?

Francisco Guzmán (shot putter) ↗: North8000's review was made before the page was expanded by Habst

Manuel Garriga (Spanish footballer) ↗: This https://www.sport.es/es/noticias/barca/fallecio-manuel-garriga-exportero-del-barca-7584466 ↗ is SIGCOV from a secondary source, right?

Solco Tromp ↗: This secondary source https://nha.courant.nu/issue/HFC/1919-01-01/edition/null/page/84 ↗ treats him in depth, so it meets GNG, right?

Kind regards. Luis7M (talk) 14:25, 8 June 2025 (UTC)

:See below for a general overview. Regarding the above (including your refactoring after I read it to write the below), note that the only articles which I reviewed quickly were the ones that I passed, and they all looked very similar in that respect. There is a confusing range of situations in your list above, including listing ones that I passed as a "mistake" while your argument is obviously that they should be passed. Sincerely,

===Summary & response for Luis7M, previously Barr Theo===

I did this as a section so that it can be linked to avoid duplication in the multiple places that this is being discussed. As an overview, you do a lot of work creating nice thorough articles on historic sports figures, with lots of sources. Most of these articles don't have the types of coverage needed to meet WP:GNG ↗ or what I call the "GNG-lite" in sportsbasic. Even the latter more lenient standard still requires '''''in depth''''' coverage by at least 1 source. Because of the good stuff I just described, plus other reasons which you've covered in your arguments I (and I think JTtheog) have bent the official rules to pass a lot of your articles. When I said "bent the official rules" I have another view on that. Which is that I try to apply them in the context of overall community type application of them, which I see as my summary at Wikipedia:How Wikipedia notability works ↗. But again, different people see things differently.

There's an additional area where I think that people are cutting you some slack. Many of your comments to other editors are what would be considered out of line, including what can be seen criticizing the people that you are conversing with personally. Including criticizing the people who are going out on a limb to bend the rules in your favor for not bending them enough. I think that people cut you slack there because that seems to be your (rough) friendly conversational style rather than having nasty intent. But you should still understand that you are doing that and different people will see it differently.

Finally, in some cases you are asking me to conflict with what other editors or reviewers has said or tagged. For me to do that would require meeting a much higher standard rather than edge case / benefit of a doubt, and the "much higher standard" is not the case on these.

Perhaps a way to sort this out would be to take a typical one of your articles as described above (which doesn't meet even the sportsbasic GNG lite) and go to AFD with it and ask for a very thorough and longer discussion, including pinging people that have been involved on these. I'd probably say somewhat the same thing as above. The result might provide a bit of a guide for all concerned. Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 15:12, 8 June 2025 (UTC)

:You are completely right about the second paragraph. I do indeed have a risky sense of humor that can be seen as "out of line", but most users already know that I am a good-faith editor, and that my way of talking is simply me channeling my inner Prince Charming ↗.

:"asking me to conflict with what other editors tagged", I'm assuming you are referring to {{ping|Sirfurboy}}'s tags, but please keep in mind that he only tagged those articles because of your feedback remarks, as per his edsums. Furthermore, I genuinely believe that the articles I listed above are not edge cases; for instance, the sources on Alfred Compeyrat ↗, Albert Caillet ↗, and Solco Tromp ↗ are straight up SIGCOV, because they describe the respective subject in depth.

:So, you want me to choose one of my articles as a representative of my overall work and throw it into a thorough AfD as a means to determine the future of my legacy? As in, a king choosing one of his knights as the champion of his kingdom and throwing him into a great duel as a means to determine the future of his empire. Hmm... that's risky. If it doesn't go my way, the consequences would be... enormous.

:I might already have a blueprint of what that AfD would look like, given that both you and JTtheOG participated in it: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gregorio Sena ↗. Oddly enough, this AfD had '''SIX''' votes to keep and only one to delete (from you of all people), and yet, the result was, quite inexplicably, "no consensus". So yeah, I'm understandably reluctant to pursue this plan, but what do you think? Kind regards. Luis7M (talk) 03:09, 9 June 2025 (UTC)
::Luis7M, you say the sources on three pages I tagged are "straight up SIGCOV". I disagree. And, of course, SIGCOV is just part of what is needed for GNG. Sources must also be independent, reliable and secondary. But North8000 will not appreciate the source discussion here, and it will lack visibility for other editors. Please open a section on the relevant talk pages, and feel free to ask why such and such a source does not meet the guidelines. I'll be happy to discuss sources with you there.{{pb}}Please also note that I did not tag these just because North had tagged them. I looked at various of your creations as listed on your talk page when I visited there, but North8000 knows the guidelines well, and I had no concerns with the majority of what you have written. I tagged the others not so much that they get deleted (I would just take them to AFD if that were my concern), but in the hope that drawing attention to the issue would lead to improvement of those pages, and more careful source assessment in your future creations. I don't want your work taken off the encyclopaedia - I would just like to see more encyclopaedic treatments.{{pb}}On that last point, I was aware of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gregorio Sena ↗ and decided not to participate (I only choose to participate in about a quarter of the AfD cases I watchlist as source review takes so long). This was once again a benefit of the doubt moment, although I agreed with North8000's comment there, which I read at the time. Your observation about the !votes is incorrect. You must always count the nom., so there were two delete !votes. Furthermore, it is not a vote. What matters at AfD is the arguments, and the keep arguments there were pretty poor. There was no source discussion at all. There was an "other stuff" argument and a benefit of the doubt argument, but no policy reason was given to keep that page at all. Looking at it now, I wonder whether it should have been relisted. It was definitely more no consensus than keep. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 07:04, 9 June 2025 (UTC)
::See below, again as a section for possible future linking.

WP:Notability analysis of an example Luis7M (previously Barr Theo) edge case article

This is for the Gregorio Sena ↗ article which was AFD'd at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gregorio Sena ↗. To understand this posting, please see my comments above under the above "Summary & response for Luis7M, previously Barr Theo" section as well as the article and it's AFD. Also ''everything'' in this section is just my opinion....so consider there to be an "IMO" before each sentence. The editor creates many historical sports figure articles. Here are some points from the AFD and regarding the article which are relevant to my opinion expressed at the end of this.
#The article has a substantial number of sources...eleven sources. Most were database-type sources but there were several sources of other types which had material on the subject. None met the Wikipedia notability standard of in-depth coverage to meet the coverage requirement in sportsbasic much less the general GNG standard.
#This is about athlete who was active about 100 years ago
#Many respondents said "keep" citing "common sense" as a reason, combined with noting some items about the subject. IMO what others call "common sense" are considerations that the community uses on wp:notability decisions which I described at Wikipedia:How Wikipedia notability works ↗
#In a field where contemporaneous coverage is the main type of coverage; this being over 100 years ago, there was less coverage then and so IMO based on these two things, the community lowers the bar a bit.
#The editor has developed a pretty well done substantial article. The community tends to count that a bit.
#The included sources establish that the athlete had a long, substantial, somewhat prominent career. A part of the "somewhat prominent" was because this was a pioneering period for the sport. Some sports-knowlegable people also made comments that concur with this
#The two "delete" weigh-ins were by myself and another experienced NPP'er; both were based on not having sources with in-depth coverage. The result of the AFD was "no consensus" and my guess is that if I had not weighed in it would have been "keep".
IMO, for an article which has all of the above special considerations, the community would decide "no consensus" or "keep" at AFD. In my NPP work I try to follow what the community would do at a hypothetical carefully. expertly thoroughly discussed AFD and so my current thought process is that I would tend to pass ones like this. Because it does not meet the prima facie / literal requirement I would probably note something......saying that it is an edge case or referring to this explanation but probably not tag it for wp:notability. Per my note above, this isn't solid enough to meet the higher bar of me contradicting another editor. Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 14:30, 9 June 2025 (UTC)
:Wow, great analysis! I certainly don't have the intellect to build such a well-crafted analysis about this delicate situation.
:"this being over 100 years ago, the community lowers the bar a bit", yeah, I had already noticed that. Players from 100 years ago are given much more leeway than those from the internet age, and rightfully so, given that players from the past are victims of recency bias ↗. It's almost an unwritten rule, that perhaps should actually become a '''written one'''. Because, personally, I feel like the GNG football policies should have a line that states something along the lines of “pre-internet footballers should be given more leeway than 21st century footballers due to recency bias”, or something like that, but I don't know where to take this discussion to...
:I will also ping {{ping|GiantSnowman}}, who voted keep in the Sena AfDs, because I'm curious about his opinion on this. Kind regards. Luis7M ↗ (talk ↗) 15:09, 9 June 2025 (UTC)
::It should be noted that my post also lists the ''conditions'' that it was based on/ is contingent on. <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 20:59, 9 June 2025 (UTC)
:::What do you mean? Luis7M ↗ (talk ↗) 00:09, 10 June 2025 (UTC)
::::That my listed opinion applies only when all of those attributes are present. Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 13:04, 10 June 2025 (UTC)

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After your latest reply acknowledged WikiProject Roots music as "somewhat inactive", I started investigating its recent activity. Other than our exchanges this week, its Talk page hasn't been used for any discussion between participants this year. Its revision history ↗ also shows no significant changes to the project page since last year. As a project participant, would you change the project's status to inactive ↗?

I suggest that's the first step to figure out if there really needs to be three music projects with overlapping scopes and if there's enough participants to actively maintain these projects. As my topics in the Talk page illustrate, the substantial overlap is confusing to determine which project should be interested in which orphaned article. I believe that former participants of all three projects shared some confusion about the overlapping scopes between the projects, because I see duplicated topics have been cross-posted by the same participant across more than one project's Talk archive. rootsmusic (talk) 03:05, 13 June 2025 (UTC)

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:Done. <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 18:06, 19 June 2025 (UTC)

Circumcision

Hi there,

just saw that you responded to the RFC for the circumcision ↗ article. Just wanted to check in real quick to hear if you've seen my response to you on the talk page. You said you'd oppose the RFC because it would be too broad and give carte blanche, but right now, there is a specific proposal on the table. That was discussed later in the section, so maybe you didn't see it. I would appreciate if you could have a look at it and see if you still oppose the RFC. Kind regards Chaptagai (talk) 19:07, 20 June 2025 (UTC)

Circumcision

Hi North8000,

as you have changed your verdict on the RFC, would it be ok for you if I unbold your earlier "oppose" verdict and bold your new "support" verdict for easier recognition of your stance by readers? Kind regards Chaptagai (talk) 11:47, 21 June 2025 (UTC)
:{{Ping|Chaptagai}} My position on the RFC question has not changed. My newer comment was about a specific idea in a post, not the RFC question. Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 13:23, 21 June 2025 (UTC)
:You did it without my OK and were reverted. Do not modify other people's talk page comments. <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 13:30, 21 June 2025 (UTC)
::Ok, sorry for that, I thought you wouldn't mind it. So as I understand you, you do support the proposal I made to revise the article, so if that's your position, currently with the "oppose" in bold, it looks to readers like you oppose it. That's why I thought maybe bolding the word "support" would be a good thing so your position doesn't get misunderstood. Chaptagai (talk) 13:40, 21 June 2025 (UTC)
:::{{Ping|Chaptagai}} Please note that there is no RFC for the revised proposal. <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 13:55, 21 June 2025 (UTC)
::::Is that a problem? Do you think we should terminate the old one and launch a new one for the proposed version? Chaptagai (talk) 17:43, 21 June 2025 (UTC)
:::::That's probably the best way. <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 14:57, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

The ''Edmund Fitzgerald'' and ''Wrecked''

I reverted your deletion, although of course you're welcome to tighten the wording up and maybe trim the quotes. This is one of the very few actual ''scholarly'' books about the ''Fitz'' and I think has a place there. --<span style="color:#F80">Orange Mike</span> | <span style="color:#FA0">Talk</span> 14:11, 27 June 2025 (UTC)

{{Ping|Orangemike}} Thanks for the post. Someone else removed it and instead listed the book as further reading. If the book has substantial content ''about'' the Fitz, then I think it would be a good source for the article. But content that you put in really isn't about the Fitz. It's about the author's views on the decline of American industry and shipping. And promotional type wording about the book. At best it says that the Fitz illustrates their theory, and at worst they might be using the popularity of the Fitz to gain publicity for their theory or book. Again, I'm only going by the content that you put in, I don't know what's in the book. If it has substantial content ''about'' the Fitz, I'd be happy to buy and read the book. Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 01:22, 29 June 2025 (UTC)
:It's not officially released yet, but the reviews I've seen specifically mention new interviews with families of the crew and insights derived from the authors' study of company and industry policies and behavior. I have advised the boss at the bookstore where I work part time that we should carry a couple of copies. --<span style="color:#F80">Orange Mike</span> | <span style="color:#FA0">Talk</span> 03:59, 29 June 2025 (UTC)
::{{ping|Orangemike}} Thanks. I'm going to buy and read it as soon as it's available. Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 14:37, 29 June 2025 (UTC)

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You may want to add your candidate statement, right now it's just the placeholder text. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 21:28, 9 July 2025 (UTC)

:{{Ping|ScottishFinnishRadish}} Thanks. I noticed that after I had written the answer to the questions and integrated much of that into those answer. Now I need to noodle on it bit to figure how to answer. Sincerely,
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::Wikipedia:Administrator_elections/July_2025/Candidates/North8000 ↗ <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 12:03, 10 July 2025 (UTC)

{{od}} Hello North8000, just my two cents. Q3 asked {{tq|Have you been in any conflicts over editing in the past}}. I was surprised to see that you did not mention your 2014-2016 siteban. Long in the past, yes. But still important to discuss, I personally think. Perhaps you simply missed it. '''<span style="color:#512888">starship.paint</span> (talk / cont ↗)''' 14:00, 10 July 2025 (UTC)
:{{ping|Starship.paint}} Thanks for the post. I would avoid being disingenuous and would call it a malfunction of the system / someone able to make it do that. Which would then take a very long post to credibly say that and get into it. I could do that if asked but it would be lengthy write-up about something that was 11 years ago. <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 16:28, 10 July 2025 (UTC)
::Hi North8000 ↗. I've got to be honest and say that even if it is not in response to that particular question, you're going to have to address this somewhere. In an RFA you can expect someone to raise the length of time in your defence, but in AELECT people vote without discussion, and a magnanimous spirit is less likely to prevail there just by itself. I think we generally agree on topics like GEOLAND and so I was happy to see you putting yourself forward, but I was also unaware of the previous siteban and TBan until I came here to congratulate you on putting yourself forward. I would not simply hope that this issue is not brought up: it is sure to be, and even if it isn't raised on WP, it will be raised off-Wiki. FOARP (talk) 21:12, 10 July 2025 (UTC)
::North8000, if it would take a long post, I think you should start (as soon as possible) writing that on a user subpage and link to it in your Q3 answer. By not mentioning the elephant in the room, it’s very possible that voters would see it as a lack of candor. '''<span style="color:#512888">starship.paint</span> (talk / cont ↗)''' 23:12, 10 July 2025 (UTC)
:::{{Ping|Starship.paint}} {{Ping|FOARP}} BTW, I don't see it as an omission for Q3 because it wasn't that type of thing. That epic and astounding mis-fire (I never did anything that merited even a 1 day block) was a combination of about 7 factors but a major one was a very nasty and clever editor using it as a weaponization in a content dispute. Any thorough description would need to include describing that role (11 years ago) I was so disgusted that that result could happen in Wikipedia that I decided to never come back but eventually changed my mind. That experience and understanding the wiki-realities was immensely impactful on me including on my current approach and vigilance. I did describe the latter somewhat thoroughly in my answers to the standard questions (note about trying to keep it from happening to other editors) . BTW I will be off the grid for 3 days. Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 11:01, 14 July 2025 (UTC)
::::Thanks for your response North8000. I wish you good luck in the elections. '''<span style="color:#512888">starship.paint</span> (talk / cont ↗)''' 00:01, 15 July 2025 (UTC)
:::::Sorry to see this turned out the way we warned it might. I actually think you might do better with an RFA than AELECT. In RFA it's a lot easier just to point out that things that were a long time ago aren't relevant. In AELECT there's apparently circa ~90 people who are just voting down nearly all the candidates, and it doesn't take much for others to join them. FOARP (talk) 17:09, 1 August 2025 (UTC)
::::::{{Ping|FOARP}} Thanks. I think that a more thorough venue would be better, but right now I have no plans to go through that. I was willing and able to help in that area. I'll probably be shifting where I spend my time but still contribute some to Wikipedia. Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 02:32, 2 August 2025 (UTC)

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:I have a few questions however. Historyguy1138 (talk) 14:59, 14 July 2025 (UTC)
::{{Ping|Historyguy1138}} Thanks for the post. Happy to answer. Where would you prefer to ask? Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 02:51, 19 July 2025 (UTC)

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I'm certain many others feel the same way. I appreciate your putting yourself forward, answering questions (including mine) with candor, and demonstrating BOLD while still maintaining AGF. Thank you, and good luck to you in the next phase. We've certainly learned more about all the candidates during the last few days. BusterD (talk) 22:50, 22 July 2025 (UTC)
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Help Request: Restoring Deleted Content from Articles about Bahauddeen Nadwi

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I’m seeking your assistance with restoring valuable content from several previously deleted articles that were already mentioned in the Bahahuddin Nadwi talk page. Hidaya Chemmad (talk) 14:54, 30 August 2025 (UTC)

:Not sure what this about. I'm not familiar with the subject and don't have access to deleted articles. <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 16:28, 30 August 2025 (UTC)

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On September 3rd, 2025 we will increase the sampling percentages of our group by toggle experiment ↗ of the <code>Special:RecentChanges</code>, <code>Special:Watchlist</code>, and <code>Special:RelatedChanges</code> pages on the Chinese, French, and Portuguese Wikipedias to 100 percent, allowing more editors to be part of this experiment. This adjustment is intended to ensure we have sufficient data to make informed decisions when evaluating the experiment results. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T402958 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T396789 ↗

Upon clicking an empty search bar, logged-out users will see suggestions of articles for further reading on English Wikipedia beginning the week of September 22. The feature will be available on both desktop and mobile. All non-English wikis received this change in June and July. The goal is to make it easier for users to find articles. Learn more ↗.

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The latest Readers Newsletter ↗ is now available. This edition includes: the formation of two new teams — Reader Growth and Reader Experience; insights into declining pageviews and account creations; highlights from the Wikimania Nairobi panel on improving the reading experience; upcoming experiments to engage new and existing readers; and more.

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* Identifying AI-generated text by searching for ISBNs whose checksums fail: Mathias Schindler of WMDE shared tools to help communities search for these ↗.

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 16

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'''Upcoming and current events and conversations'''<br/><small>''Let's Talk ↗ continues''</small>

'''Wikimedia Futures Lab''': Apply ↗ before Sep 4 to join The Wikimedia Futures Lab ↗, the in-person convening hosted on January 30 – February 1, 2026 in Frankfurt, Germany with participants from affiliates, contributors and external experts, to learn more about global trends and discuss potential movement-wide responses.

'''Wikimania 2026''': The theme and date for Wikimania 2026 ↗ have been decided: Liberté, Équité, Fiabilité (Freedom, Equity, Reliability). This edition will take place in Paris, from July 21 to July 25, 2026.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure ↗'''<br/><small>''See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps ↗ · Growth ↗ · Research ↗ · Web ↗ · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia ↗ · Tech News ↗ · Language and Internationalization ↗ · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org ↗''</small>

'''Tech News''': Some of the latest updates from Tech News week 34 ↗ and 35 ↗: An A/B test comparing two versions of the desktop donate link launched on testwiki and English Wikipedia for 0.1% of logged out users on the desktop site. The experiment will run for three weeks, ending on 12 September; Administrators can now access the Special:BlockedExternalDomains ↗ page from the Special:CommunityConfiguration ↗ list page. This makes it easier to find.

'''Spread Wikilove, thank comments''': A new improvement was added to the "Discussion tools ↗" Beta feature ↗; it is now possible to thank a user for their comment ↗. This new feature is released for a 3-months long test.

'''Community Wishlist''': Template authors can now use additional CSS properties, since the CSS sanitizer used by TemplateStyles ↗ was updated. These improvements are a Community Wishlist wish ↗.

'''Wikipedia Mobile Apps:''' The Android app team has launched a new experiment ↗ in Italy that lets logged-out readers of Italian and English Wikipedia set their own donation reminders based on how often they read. This new approach responds to feedback from donors who say their motivation to give is tied to their reading habits. Instead of one-size-fits-all banners, readers can now choose reminders that fit their own usage, all while keeping their privacy intact.

'''Wikipedia 25''': To celebrate Wikipedia’s 25th birthday ↗, the Wikimedia Foundation is adding several resources to the Wikipedia 25 Meta-Wiki hub ↗.

'''The Wikipedia Library''': Collections from Dow Jones & Company ↗, including the The Wall Street Journal ↗, are now available to editors who are eligible for The Wikipedia Library ↗.

'''Don't Blink''': The latest developments ↗ from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br/><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Affiliate recognition''': The recognition of new User Groups, Chapters, and Thematic Organizations is paused ↗ until March 31, 2026.

'''Board of Trustees selection''': The voting period for the upcoming Board selection process ↗ will now open on October 8 and close October 23.

'''New Board member''': Wikimedia Foundation welcomes incoming Board Trustee Mayree Clark ↗.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''See also:'' Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 16

'''Wikimedia Futures Lab''': Apply ↗ before Sep 4 to join The Wikimedia Futures Lab ↗, the in-person convening hosted on January 30 – February 1, 2026 in Frankfurt, Germany with participants from affiliates, contributors and external experts, to learn more about global trends and discuss potential movement-wide responses.

'''Wikimania 2026''': The theme and date for Wikimania 2026 ↗ have been decided: Liberté, Équité, Fiabilité (Freedom, Equity, Reliability). This edition will take place in Paris, from July 21 to July 25, 2026.

'''Tech News''': Some of the latest updates from Tech News week 34 ↗ and 35 ↗: An A/B test comparing two versions of the desktop donate link launched on testwiki and English Wikipedia for 0.1% of logged out users on the desktop site. The experiment will run for three weeks, ending on 12 September; Administrators can now access the Special:BlockedExternalDomains ↗ page from the Special:CommunityConfiguration ↗ list page. This makes it easier to find.

'''Spread Wikilove, thank comments''': A new improvement was added to the "Discussion tools ↗" Beta feature ↗; it is now possible to thank a user for their comment ↗. This new feature is released for a 3-months long test.

'''Community Wishlist''': Template authors can now use additional CSS properties, since the CSS sanitizer used by TemplateStyles ↗ was updated. These improvements are a Community Wishlist wish ↗.

'''Wikipedia Mobile Apps:''' The Android app team has launched a new experiment ↗ in Italy that lets logged-out readers of Italian and English Wikipedia set their own donation reminders based on how often they read. This new approach responds to feedback from donors who say their motivation to give is tied to their reading habits. Instead of one-size-fits-all banners, readers can now choose reminders that fit their own usage, all while keeping their privacy intact.

'''Wikipedia 25''': To celebrate Wikipedia’s 25th birthday ↗, the Wikimedia Foundation is adding several resources to the Wikipedia 25 Meta-Wiki hub ↗.

'''The Wikipedia Library''': Collections from Dow Jones & Company ↗, including the The Wall Street Journal ↗, are now available to editors who are eligible for The Wikipedia Library ↗.

'''Don't Blink''': The latest developments ↗ from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br/><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Affiliate recognition''': The recognition of new User Groups, Chapters, and Thematic Organizations is paused ↗ until March 31, 2026.

'''Board of Trustees selection''': The voting period for the upcoming Board selection process ↗ will now open on October 8 and close October 23.

'''New Board member''': Wikimedia Foundation welcomes incoming Board Trustee Mayree Clark ↗.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''See also:'' Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 18

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'''Upcoming and current events and conversations'''<br/><small>''Let's Talk ↗ continues''</small>

'''CEE Meeting''': Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2025 ↗ will be held in Thessaloniki, Greece, September 26-28.

'''Learning Clinic''': The next Let's Connect Learning Clinic ↗ will talk about "Mastering the Capacity Exchange (CapX) Tool" and will take place on September 30 at 13:00 UTC.

'''Big Fat Brussels Meeting''': The tenth in-person gathering of Wikimedians enthusiastic in free knowledge advocacy, Big Fat Brussels Meeting ↗, will take place on October 3-4.

'''Wikimedia Research Showcase''': "Celebrating 13 Years: Wikidata’s Role in Learning and Culture" will be the featured theme for the next research showcase ↗ taking place on October 15 at 16:30 UTC ↗.

'''Tech News''': Read updates from Tech News week 38 ↗ and 39 ↗.

'''Wikifunctions''': Wikifunctions is now available on 123 Wiktionary languages ↗ and have more than 3,000 functions ↗ available.

'''Collaborative Contributions''': A new feature, called Collaborative Contributions ↗, allows editors to see the impact of their collaborative editing activities. It was live demoed earlier ↗ and you can follow instructions to test it out ↗.

'''CampaignEvents extension''': The CampaignEvents extension was deployed to Wikimedia Commons ↗ and all Wikisources -80+ wikis.

'''Event registration''': Starting the week of October 6, on small ↗ and medium wikis ↗ that have the CampaignEvents extension ↗ enabled, all autoconfirmed users will be able to use Event Registration ↗ as an organizer. No changes will be made for large wikis ↗ unless requested in Phabricator. More information on Meta ↗.

'''Search Suggestions:''' Upon clicking an empty search bar, logged-out users now see suggestions of articles for further reading ↗ on all Wikipedias, in order to make it easier for users to find articles.

'''Datacenter server switchover''': A successful datacenter server switchover backup test ↗ took place on September 24.

'''Activity Tab now on Android:''' Beta users of the Wikipedia Android app can now try the redesigned Activity tab ↗, which replaces the Edits tab. The new tab offers personalized insights into reading, editing, and donation activity, while simplifying navigation and making app use more engaging.

'''Banners & Logos policies''': The Wikimedia Foundation has published draft proposals for policies related to the use of banners and logo changes for advocacy purposes ↗.

'''Wikipedia 25''': Wikimedia Foundation is creating playful, celebratory interventions ↗ on the Wikipedia portal page ↗, the Wikipedia app, and potentially any interested Wikipedias to celebrate Wikipedia’s 25th birthday. Please share your inputs ↗ and add your username on the Talk page ↗ if you think your community would be interested in participating.

'''Regional Funds''': Welcoming new ESEAP Regional Funds Committee Members ↗.

'''Peer Learning''': Reflections from Let’s Connect at Wikimania Nairobi 2025 ↗.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Progress on the annual plan ↗''</small>

'''Enterprise''': Structured Contents now supports Wikipedia tables as structured JSON ↗.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br/><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Wikimedia Georgia''': Wikimedia Georgia becomes the newest Wikimedia Chapter. ↗

'''Foundation statements'''

'''Knowledge integrity''': The Wikimedia Foundation launches a new series that explores how Wikipedia can inspire new standards of knowledge integrity for our times ↗.

'''Highlights from other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''See also:'' Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

'''National award''': Wikipedian and current chair of Wikimedia Deutschland, Alice Wiegand, receives the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany ↗ for her voluntary commitment to Wikipedia and the global Wikimedia movement.

'''Supporting admins and patrollers''': Motivating, training and networking – Wikimedia Ukraine’s plan to support Wikipedia admins and patrollers ↗.

'''Wikimania roundup''': A roundup of Wikimania and this year's Wikimedians of the year ↗ by the French-speaking community's newsletter, ''Regards sur l’actualité du mouvement Wikimédia'' (Views on Wikimedia movement's events, or RAW).

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 19

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'''Upcoming and current events and conversations'''<br/><small>''Let's Talk ↗ continues''</small>

'''Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Selection''': Announcement of the final ballot ↗ for the 2025 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election and more answers about the decision ↗. Eligible voters can vote between October 8 – October 23 ↗.

'''Wikipedia 25''': Are you planning to organize events to celebrate Wikipedia's 25th birthday ↗? The Wikimedia Foundation offers grants to support active Wikimedia groups in organizing short-term, low-cost projects to celebrate this milestone. Applications are open until November 1 ↗.

'''WikiConference North America 2025''': WikiConference North America ↗ will take place from October 16–19 in New York City, USA.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure ↗'''<br/><small>''See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps ↗ · Growth ↗ · Product Safety and Integrity ↗ · Readers ↗ · Research ↗ · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia ↗ · Tech News ↗ · Language and Internationalization ↗ · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org ↗''</small>
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'''Mobile Editing''': Insights on mobile web editing ↗ on Wikipedia in 2025 are now available. This report highlights that ~95% of IP mobile users editing via wikitext open the editor but make no changes at all, a vast untapped potential. It also pinpoints where contributors most often drop off.

'''Dark Mode''': Dark Mode ↗ user interface will be rolled out on all Wikimedia sites on October 29. All anonymous users of Wikimedia sites will have the option to activate a color scheme that features light-colored text on a dark background. This is designed to provide a more comfortable reading experience, especially in low-light situations.

'''Community wishlist extension:''' The new Community Wishlist extension has been released ↗. This will allow users to add tags to their wishes to better categorise them, and (in a future iteration) to filter them by status, tags and focus areas. It will also be possible to support individual wishes again, as requested by the community in many instances.

'''Paste Check''': 22 Wikis are now testing ↗ a new Edit Check feature, Paste Check ↗, to help avoid and fight copyright violations. When editors paste text into an article, Paste Check prompts them to confirm the origin and licensing of the content.

'''Tone Check''': The Wikimedia Foundation is working on a new check for newcomers: Tone check ↗. Using a prediction model, this check will encourage editors to improve the tone of their edits.

'''Search Suggestions''': Search Suggestions was deployed on English Wikipedia ↗. Upon clicking an empty search bar, logged-out users see suggestions of articles for further reading. The feature is available on both desktop and mobile.

'''Unsupported Tools Working Group''': A new Unsupported Tools Working Group ↗ has been formed to help prioritize and review requests for support of unmaintained extensions, gadgets, bots, and tools. The group has chosen Video2Commons ↗ as the first tool for its pilot cycle. The group will explore ways to improve and sustain the tool over the coming months.

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RFC on the "legally recognized, populated place" notability standard

Responding here because I don't want to bludgeon/bloat the discussion any worse than I already have - I actually pretty much agree with your caution surrounding changes to GEOLAND. My intent in having what amounts to a no-confidence !vote on the "legally recognized, populated place" standard is basically to try to overturn the incumbency bias that reigns in this field (which can be seen particularly in the proposals to ban any further discussion of changes that accompany every VPP discussion on it) and provide a suitable spring-board for change, rather than change the guide in a one-and-done fashion. Obviously I don't own this process, and people are free to decide what they want, but my idea here is, if this closes as "consensus that this is not fit for purpose" then that starts a WP:NSPORTS2022 ↗-like process where we consider a range of options for change, thus maximising the chance that we do ultimately end up with a proposal for change. FOARP (talk) 10:51, 19 October 2025 (UTC)

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Good article reassessment for Shortwave listening ↗

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Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Hi North8000; I've noticed you were involved in the FA upgrade of the Edmund Fitzgerald page and I thought I could mention that I've started doing similar upgrades for the Gordon Lightfoot song about it at The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald ↗. It may be an interesting idea to think about doing an upgrade there for the song about it as a co-nomination if this sounds remotely interesting to you. My initial edits seem to have had a reasonable response on the daily page counts spike over the last few days. Any interest? ErnestKrause (talk) 16:38, 7 November 2025 (UTC)

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Feedback request: Maths, science, and technology request for comment

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:Done <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 21:55, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

New article

Hello North8000, I know you've previously checked an article I started, which is why I'm coming back to you. This week I created the article Alexa Nisenson ↗ from the previous redirect. Since English isn't my native language, could you please check the article for me to see if it's correct? Greetings, RuedNL2 (talk) 13:36, 29 November 2025 (UTC)
:{{Ping|RuedNL2}} Lately my activity level on Wikipedia has been low and sporadic but I'd be happy to take a look. Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 18:50, 1 December 2025 (UTC)
::Thanks in advance, I would appreciate that. :) RuedNL2 (talk) 20:54, 1 December 2025 (UTC)
:::{{Ping|RuedNL2}} Looks like a good start. Looks like someone already did the NPP review. A good next move would be to expand the prose portion of the article using material from those sources. Happy editing! Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 21:45, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

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RfC - Airport destination lists

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:Done. <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 21:25, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

{{#if:||WikiProject Scientology}} invitation

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Thank you for your recent contributions to {{#if:|[[]]|one of Wikipedia's articles related to the Scientology topic}}. Given the interest you've expressed by your edits, have you considered joining '''{{#if:||WikiProject Scientology}}''' ↗? We are a group of editors dedicated to improving the overall coverage of the Scientology topic on Wikipedia. If you would like to join, simply add your name to the Participants|Members}}|list of participants ↗. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask at the project talk page ↗. We look forward to working with you in the future! <span style="text-shadow:#000 0em 0em 1em"><span style="color:#6a0dad">   ▶ I am Grorp ◀ </span></span> 22:34, 13 December 2025 (UTC)

: I have started a new thread at § Invitation and open discussion on Scientology-topic ↗. <span style="text-shadow:#000 0em 0em 1em"><span style="color:#6a0dad">   ▶ I am Grorp ◀ </span></span> 22:34, 13 December 2025 (UTC)
::Thanks for the invitation. Will do. <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 02:19, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

Automatic archiving method

I just noticed how large your user talk page is (over 400KB). In case you didn't already know how, you can add this sort of code to your page and it will automatically archive old threads for you.

<pre><nowiki>{{User:MiszaBot/config
|maxarchivesize = 200K 
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|minthreadstoarchive = 1
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It will automatically handle your archiving. You can modify the parameters to suit your needs. And you can always 'undo' an archiving, or move selected threads back if it takes something you wanted to keep. <span style="text-shadow:#000 0em 0em 1em"><span style="color:#6a0dad">   ▶ I am Grorp ◀ </span></span> 22:07, 15 December 2025 (UTC)
: P.S. You can start with old threads to test it out, such as changing "algo=old(365d)". Once you are comfortable with it, you can lower the number and the next 'run' it will archive more threads. <span style="text-shadow:#000 0em 0em 1em"><span style="color:#6a0dad">   ▶ I am Grorp ◀ </span></span> 22:09, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

Feedback request: All RFCs request for comment

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Tech News: 2025-52

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Latest '''tech news ↗''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations ↗ are available.

'''Updates for editors'''

From January, edit filters can be set ↗ to automatically suppress their details such as rules and list of attempted edits and actions. This will help oversighters use edit filters to prevent doxxing or other suppressible material. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T290324 ↗

The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 12 January 2026 because of the end of year holidays. Thank you to all of the translators, and people who submitted content or feedback, this year.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:16}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:16|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, the crash that occurred when tapping "First Steps" in the Wikipedia Android Year in Review has now been fixed, and the feature opens as expected. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T411546 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

Interface elements such as diffs and categories generated by MediaWiki used to have the attribute <code dir=ltr>data-mw="interface"</code> to distinguish from wiki content. The attribute has been replaced with <code dir=ltr>data-mw-interface=""</code>, to avoid potential conflicts with other <code dir=ltr>data-mw</code> attributes, which are generated by Parsoid. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T409187 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.

'''Meetings and events'''

The Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026 ↗ will take place on 13-14 March 2026 in Arnhem, the Netherlands. Applications just opened mid-December and will close in mid-January or earlier if capacity is reached. With space for approximately 100 participants, early application is encouraged.

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Happy Holidays!

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'''Hello North8000:''' Enjoy the '''holiday season ↗''' and '''winter solstice ↗''' if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, Iljhgtn (talk) 08:02, 27 December 2025 (UTC)
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<div style="padding-left: 2em; margin-top: 1em; font-size: 88%; font-style: italic">Spread the WikiLove; use {{tls|Season's Greetings}} to send this message</div>{{-}} Iljhgtn (talk) 08:02, 27 December 2025 (UTC)
:{{Ping|Iljhgtn}} Thanks. Wishing you the same and a great 2026! Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 14:29, 27 December 2025 (UTC)

New pages patrol January–February 2026 Backlog drive

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New Pages Patrol is hosting a one-time, two-month experimental backlog drive aimed at reducing the backlog. This will be a combo drive: both articles and redirects will earn points.

The drive will run from 1 January to 28 February 2026.

The drive is divided into two phases. Participants may take part in either phase or across both phases, depending on availability.

Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles and redirects patrolled during the drive.

Two-month drive-exclusive barnstars will be awarded to eligible participants.

Each article review earns 1 point, while each redirect review earns 0.2 points.

Streak awards ↗ will be granted based on consistently meeting weekly point thresholds.

Barnstars will also be awarded for re-reviewing articles ↗ previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive.

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Tech News: 2026-03

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'''Weekly highlight'''

The Wikimedia Foundation has shared some guiding questions for the July 2026–June 2027 Annual Plan on Meta ↗ and ''Diff ↗''. These focus on global trends, faster and healthier experimentation, better support for newcomers, strengthening editors and advanced users, improving collaboration across projects, and growing and retaining readership. Feedback and ideas are welcome on the talk page ↗.

'''Updates for editors'''

As part of the current work of Community Tech team on the Multiple watchlists ↗ project, the display of EditWatchlist ↗ will be updated as a first step towards multiple watchlists. Additionally, the pagination on Search ↗ will be updated too, as a part of the work on the Revamp pagination / page navigation ↗ wish. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T411596 ↗

The Global Watchlist ↗ is a MediaWiki extension ↗ that lets you see your watchlists from different wikis on the same page. It was recently updated to look more like the regular Watchlist ↗, such as preparing it for temporary accounts in IP masking (including rerouting user links to contributions pages), making page titles bold, and opening links in edit summaries and tags in new browser tabs. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T398361 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T298919 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T273526 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T286309 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:28}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:28|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, the issue where global blocks did not have the option to disable sending emails, has now been fixed, and will be available for use in the week of January 13. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T401293 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

The VisualEditor citation tool ↗ and Reference Previews ↗ now support "map" as a reference type. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T411083 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗/MediaWiki ↗

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 19:31, 12 January 2026 (UTC)

Feedback request: Biographies request for comment

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Airport destination lists sourcing RfC

Hi there,

I'm leaving this message because you contributed to the recent RfC regarding the inclusion of airport destination lists. As promised, now that that RfC has closed, I've initiated a further discussion about the sourcing standards to be applied to these lists.

If you wish to contribute to the discussion, please do so at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#Airport destination lists - sourcing requirements ↗.

Cheers! <span class="nowrap"><span style="color: RebeccaPurple">Danners430</span> <sub>tweaks made ↗</sub></span> 15:33, 19 January 2026 (UTC)

NPP ↗ Award for 2025

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{{Ping|MPGuy2824}} Thanks! Sorry I haven't been active lately. Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 18:55, 21 January 2026 (UTC)
:No worries. I assume that you are busy in your off-wiki life. Come back when you can. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 04:58, 22 January 2026 (UTC)

Feedback requests from the Feedback Request Service

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Good article reassessment for Jaco Van Dormael ↗

Jaco Van Dormael ↗ has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page ↗. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Roast (talk) 05:57, 8 February 2026 (UTC)

Feedback request: All RFCs request for comment

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Done <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 20:03, 9 February 2026 (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-07

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Latest '''tech news ↗''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations ↗ are available.

'''Updates for editors'''

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Wishlist item ↗ Logged-in contributors who manage large or complex watchlists can now organise and filter watched pages in ways that improve their workflows with the new Watchlist labels ↗ feature. By adding custom labels (for example: pages you created, pages being monitored for vandalism, or discussion pages) users can more quickly identify what needs attention, reduce cognitive load, and respond more efficiently. This improves watchlist usability, especially for highly active editors.

A new feature available on Special:Contributions ↗ shows temporary accounts ↗ that are likely operated by the same person, and so makes patrolling less time-consuming. Upon checking contributions of a temporary account, users with access to temporary account IP addresses can now see a view of contributions from the related temporary accounts. The feature looks up all the IPs associated with a given temporary account within the data retention period and shows all the contributions of all temporary accounts that have used these IPs. Learn more ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T415674 ↗

When editors preview a wikitext edit, the reminder box that they are only seeing a preview (which is shown at the top), now has a grey/neutral background instead of a yellow/warning background. This makes it easier to distinguish preview notes from actual warnings (for example, edit conflicts or problematic redirect targets), which will now be shown in separate warning or error boxes. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T414742 ↗

The Global Watchlist ↗ lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on one page. The extension ↗ continues to improve — it now properly supports more than one Wikibase site, for example both Wikidata ↗ and testwikidata ↗. In addition, issues regarding text direction have been fixed for users who prefer Wikidata or other Wikibase sites in right-to-left (RTL) languages. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T415440 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T415458 ↗

The automatic "magic links" for ISBN, RFC, and PMID numbers have been deprecated in wikitext since 2021 ↗ due to inflexibility and difficulties with localization. Several wikis have successfully replaced RFC and PMID magic links with equivalent external links, but a template was often required to replace the functionality of the ISBN magic link. There is now a new built-in parser function ↗ <code dir=ltr><nowiki>{{#isbn}}</nowiki></code> available to replace the basic functionality of the ISBN magic link. This makes it easier for wikis who wish to migrate off of the deprecated magic link functionality to do so. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145604 ↗

Two new wikis have been created:

* a {{int:project-localized-name-group-wikipedia}} in Jju ↗ (<code>w:kaj:</code> ↗) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T413283 ↗

* a {{int:project-localized-name-group-wikipedia}} in Nawat ↗ (<code>w:ppl:</code> ↗) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T413273 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:23}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:23|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗.

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

A new global user group has been created: {{int:group-local-bot}} ↗. It will be used internally by the software to allow community bots to bypass rate limits that are applied to abusive web scrapers ↗. Accounts that are approved as bots on at least one Wikimedia wiki will be automatically added to this group. It will not change what user permissions the bot has. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T415588 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

'''Meetings and events'''

The MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference, Spring 2026 ↗ will be held March 25–27 in Salt Lake City, USA. This event is organized by and for the third-party MediaWiki community. You can propose sessions and register to attend. https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/AZBWVI46SDEB65PGR5J6E4TYOQQEZXM7/ ↗

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 23:28, 9 February 2026 (UTC)

Feedback request: Politics, government, and law request for comment

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''The Signpost'': 17 February 2026

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Feedback request: Wikipedia policies and guidelines request for comment

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:Done <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 13:19, 23 February 2026 (UTC)

Feedback request: Politics, government, and law request for comment

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:Done. <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 15:54, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

Feedback request: Media, the arts, and architecture request for comment

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:Done. <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 22:18, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

User:North8001/Sandbox1 and User talk:North8001/Sandbox1

Hello, these pages are up for speedy deletion under the recently introduced CSD U6 ↗, because as you noted at User:North8001, they haven't made more than a few test edits in their userspace. Just thought you should know. Graham87 (talk) 14:14, 2 March 2026 (UTC)
:{{Ping|Graham87}} Thanks! Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 20:30, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 4

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'''Highlights'''<br/><small>''Let's Talk ↗ continues''</small>

'''Birthday mode''': This limited-time campaign feature celebrates 25 years of Wikipedia with a birthday mascot, Baby Globe. When turned on, Baby Globe is shown on ~2,500 articles, waiting to be discovered by readers. The feature is available for all Wikipedias to customise through Community Configuration until 6 April 2026. So far 17 Wikipedias ↗ have joined in the fun.

'''Wikipedia's 25th birthday party celebrated on Commons''': Content from the January 15th global birthday party selected as Media of the day ↗.

'''Etherpad cleanup''': For security and performance reasons, all current pads on Wikimedia’s Etherpad ↗ instance, the web-based "ephemeral" editor for real-time collaborative document editing, will be permanently deleted after 30 April ↗. We will continue running this Etherpad instance to support events and other short-term collaboration, but will be periodically deleting data going forward. If you have content in Etherpad you want to keep, please create local backups, as data will be permanently deleted and will not be able to be recovered.

'''Activity tab''': Wikipedia iOS app has rolled out the improved Activity tab ↗ to all users in version 7.9.0. A/B test results showed increased account creation among users with access to the feature. Updates include enhanced editing impact insights, module customization, and relocation of History into the Search tab.

'''Reference Check''': The feature Reference Check ↗ has been deployed to all Wikipedias. In A/B testing, the impact was substantial: newcomers shown Reference Check were approximately 2.2 times more likely to include a reference on desktop (or acknowledge/explain why they did not) and about 17.5 times more likely on mobile web.

'''Semantic search''': The Foundation has launched a limited Android mobile app experiment ↗ that tests hybrid search capabilities which can handle both semantic ↗ and keyword queries. The Phase 1 beta ↗ is now live on Greek Wikipedia. The goal is to understand whether combining meaning-based retrieval with keyword search helps readers find information more effectively. Testing will expand to English, French, and Portuguese Wikipedias in March.

'''Navigation experience''': The Foundation will run an experiment ↗ for mobile web users, that adds a table of contents and automatically expands all article sections, to learn more about navigation issues they face. The test will be available on Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias.

thumb|right|Screenshot of the current prototype of Abstract Wikipedia, showing a two sentence article about Kolkata. ↗

'''Site notices''': Site notices (MediaWiki:Sitenotice ↗ and MediaWiki:Anonnotice ↗) now will render on all platforms, not just on the desktop site. Users on mobile web will now see these notices and be informed.

'''Tech News''': Latest updates from Tech News week 08 ↗ and 09 ↗ include the new “Edit full page” button for people who are editing a page-section using the mobile visual editor. They also link to the 40 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

'''Wikifunctions''': Abstract Wikipedia is going to have its public preview within the next few weeks, here is the preview ↗.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support ↗'''<br/><small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗ · WikiLearn News ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · list of movement events ↗''</small>

'''Gender gap''': The Celebrate Women 2026 ↗ is coming! The Wikimedia Foundation will host a kick-off celebration that will work as a welcome session for both organizers and participants on March 5 at 13:00 UTC ↗.

'''Language''': New edition of the Language and internationalization newsletter ↗ highlights new feature developments and improvements in various language-related technical projects ↗.

'''Let’s Connect Learning Clinic''': Watch the recordings of past learning clinics ↗ about Wikipedia’s 25th Birthday Tool and Strengthening Local-Language Admin Communities.

'''Wikimedia Research Showcase''': You can watch the recording ↗ of this month research showcase whose theme is about "AI and Communities ↗".

'''Hubs''': Lessons from hub pilots ↗.

'''Banners & logo policies''': Wikimedia Foundation has adopted new and updated policies regarding the use of banners, logo changes, and blackouts ↗ on the projects, particularly for advocacy purposes.

'''Digital Safety''': The next edition of Digital Safety Office Hours ↗ will be on Mar 27 at 9:00 UTC and 19:00 UTC. The session will explore practical threat modelling: a structured way to think about risks, assess your exposure, and make informed choices.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Progress on the annual plan ↗''</small>

'''Wikimedia Enterprise''': Ecosia Enriches Search Results and AI Answers with Wikimedia Enterprise ↗.

'''Human centered AI''': Members of the Wikimedia Enterprise team presented on "Wikipedia in the Age of AI and Bots ↗" at the seminar of Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence.

'''Inclusive AI''': Advancing Open, Inclusive AI with Free and Open Knowledge at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 ↗.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''See also:'' Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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Feedback request: Politics, government, and law request for comment

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:Done. <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 18:59, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

''The Signpost'': 10 March 2026

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:Done <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 19:59, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

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:Done. <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 15:21, 23 March 2026 (UTC)

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:Done. <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 18:46, 23 March 2026 (UTC)

Bill Ackman request

Hi North8000. I'm looking for some help at Talk:Bill Ackman#Support of Israel section ↗. I noticed your recent activity in biography RfCs and hoped you might be willing to take a look at the thread there and implement a reasonable version of what was discussed. Thanks in advance! FMatPSCM (talk) 15:49, 25 March 2026 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Ion Creangă ↗

Ion Creangă ↗ has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page ↗. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 00:48, 27 March 2026 (UTC)

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''The Signpost'': 31 March 2026

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 6

'''Supporting the mobile experience''': The Foundation is starting conversations with communities to explore how editing should work on the Wikipedia mobile apps ↗. The goal is to understand how to better support both new and experienced editors, and how the app can guide users to the right editing tools. Your input is welcome. Join the discussion ↗!

'''Wikimania 2026''': Registration for Wikimania 2026 ↗ is opening soon from the end of March to May 1. Like other Wikimedia events this year, we are introducing a "request for invitation" process, with trust and safety checks conducted prior to confirming in-person attendance. Our priority is to create a safe environment for connection, collaboration, and shared learning.

'''Around the Puzzle Globe in the CEE region''': On March 23 almost 60 Wikimedians took part in the CEE-Catch up ↗- a meeting for Wikimedians from Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. As a part of continuous conversations ↗ we have with the communities around the Foundation's annual plan, participants discussed the global trends related to Readers and Contributors in their regional context. The meeting was also an opportunity to connect with the new Foundation CEO, Bernadette Meehan, who is meeting communities around the puzzle globe ↗ to listen, learn and engage with the communities.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure ↗'''<br /><small>''See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps ↗ · Growth ↗ · Product Safety and Integrity ↗ · Readers ↗ · Research ↗ · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia ↗ · Tech News ↗ · Language and Internationalization ↗ · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org ↗''</small>

'''Crawlers:''' The Foundation is now detecting and blocking billions of bot requests ↗ that don’t follow our robot policy, such as aggressive scrapers, to make sure our resources go towards serving human readers. In the coming months we’ll be working on better detection of rapidly changing bot behavior and better API infrastructure.

'''Moderator tools for newer editors''': Wikipedia editors in Indonesian, Thai, Turkish, and Simple English now have access to an early version of Special:PersonalDashboard ↗. It introduces newer editors to patrolling workflows, making it easier for them to move from making edits to participating in more advanced moderation work on their project.

'''Account creation on mobile''': Mobile editors at several wikis ↗ are now presented with a simplified logged-out warning message, which encourages them to create an account or log in. This test is part of our ongoing effort to enhance the account creation experience on mobile ↗ and increase participation.

'''Verification email redesign:''' The verification email sent to new accounts ↗ that add an email address during signup has been redesigned. When tested on English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikidata, the same-week email verification rate increased from 41.6% to 45.9%.

'''Retaining notification history''': Wikimedia site users can export their notifications older than 5 years using a new Toolforge tool ↗. This will ensure that users retain important notifications and avoid losing them based on the planned change to delete notifications older than 5 years, as previously announced ↗.

'''Tech News''': Latest highlights from Tech News weeks 12 ↗ and 13 ↗ include the update that Wikimedia site users can now log in without a password using passkeys as a secure method supported by fingerprint, facial recognition, or PIN. See also the 64 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

'''Experiments''': Check out the list of experiments in Product and Technology ↗ to see all upcoming, live, in-analysis, and completed experiments. One new experiment that just went live is the "Improve the logged-out warning message on mobile web," which aims to reduce the sense of friction or alarm when users encounter the logged-out warning upon editing.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support ↗'''<br /><small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗ · WikiLearn News ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · list of movement events ↗''</small>

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'''Digital rights and free knowledge''': Wikimedia Foundation staff and Wikimedians from across the movement will contribute to important conversations on AI governance, information integrity, and equitable access to knowledge at RightsCon 2026 ↗ from May 5–8. Join the conversation virtually ↗.

'''Microtask Generator''': Learn more about the Microtask Generator ↗, a tool which identifies content quality gaps in Wikipedia articles and suggests tasks for editors to address within a dashboard. Users can input lists of articles for analysis, or get recommendations based on article categories. Ideal for edit-a-thons and other article improvement drives.

'''WikiLearn''': Discover the latest edition of WikiLearn News ↗ where you can find the latest online learning opportunities to take your editing skills to new heights.

'''Diff Event calendar''': The event calendar on Diff is now redirected ↗ to the list of events on Meta-wiki ↗. This list pulls in all events that are open to all wikis.

'''Grantmaking Strategy''': The GRDC has identified the key challenges that will inform the design of the new Grantmaking Strategy ↗.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''<br /><small>''See also: Progress on the annual plan ↗''</small>

'''Audit report''': Highlights from the Wikimedia Endowment’s fiscal year 2024-2025 audit report ↗.

'''Enterprise partnerships''': Wikimedia Enterprise announced new partnerships. Together with Firecrawl to reform how AI agents access the world’s largest online repository of human knowledge ↗ and with Aligned AI to develop Ethical AI products for families by providing Wikimedia Enterprise Snapshot API ↗.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br/><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Endowment Board''': Welcoming Nataliia Tymkiv to the Wikimedia Endowment Board of Directors ↗.

'''Affiliate recognition''': Affiliations Committee extended the pause on new affiliate recognition to September 1, 2026 ↗.

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Administrators' newsletter – April 2026

News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (March 2026).

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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.

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:Done. <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 20:13, 6 April 2026 (UTC)

No bold change

Hello. Wasn't a bold change, the quote was just added so that was a back-to-stable text edit and a request to talk page it, which it has been. Thanks. Randy Kryn (talk) 22:49, 11 April 2026 (UTC)
:Maybe you can look at the page history timeline and bring back the lead to the stable version, since the discussion is taking place on the new edit which you've now returned. If I revert again it's edging into edit war territory, and I'd think the addition needs consensus, not the revert. Thanks. Randy Kryn (talk) 02:34, 12 April 2026 (UTC)
{{Ping|Randy Kryn}} Thanks for the post and the additional info and perspective. I'll go take a deeper look. Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 21:16, 12 April 2026 (UTC)
:Thanks. A quote is a good idea for the page, but which quote seems to be the discussion, and where it should be placed. Randy Kryn (talk) 23:49, 12 April 2026 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2026-16

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Latest '''tech news ↗''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations ↗ are available.

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Experienced editors are invited to test ↗ the Article guidance ↗ feature, designed to help less-experienced editors create well-structured, policy-compliant Wikipedia articles. Testing instructions are available ↗. Also, after reviewing the outlines ↗, please provide feedback on the project talk page ↗. Based on your input, the feature will be refined and transferred to the pilot Wikipedias to translate and adapt. Check out the video ↗ explaining the feature.

'''Updates for editors'''

On most wikis, all autoconfirmed users can now use Special:ChangeContentModel ↗ page to create new pages with custom content models ↗, such as mass message lists, making custom page formats more accessible. Check Special:ListGroupRights ↗ for the status of your wiki. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248294 ↗

The Growth team has launched an account creation experiment ↗ to evaluate whether adding an account creation button to the mobile web header increases new account registrations and encourages more mobile users to contribute to the wikis. The experiment is currently live on Hindi, Indonesian, Bengali, Thai, and Hebrew Wikipedia, and targets 10% of logged-out mobile web users.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:30}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:30|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, an issue where VisualEditor could get stuck loading on Windows devices with animations turned off, has now been fixed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T382856 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

Starting later this week, {{int:group-abusefilter}} who have the {{int:codemirror-beta-feature-title}} ↗ beta feature enabled will have CodeMirror ↗ instead of CodeEditor ↗ as the editor at Special:AbuseFilter ↗. This is part of the broader effort to make the user experience more consistent across all editors. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T399673 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T419332 ↗

Tools and bots that access the Notifications API ↗ (<bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>action=query&meta=notifications</nowiki></code></bdi>) will need to update their OAuth or BotPassword grants to also include access to private notifications. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T421991 ↗

Due to a library upgrade, listings on category pages may be displayed out of order starting on Monday, 20th April. A migration script will be run to correct this, and will take hours to days depending on the size of the wiki (up to a week for English Wikipedia). https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T422544 ↗

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 7

'''Community Wishlist update''': This monthly update covers ↗ how 44 wishes were fulfilled, 17 are in progress, and 15 more will start work soon. It includes completion of work on Watchlist labels ↗, which allow users to add labels to items in their watchlist to help with managing and filtering; fixing a bug with preview page feature ↗; indexing of Commons on Google & DuckDuckGo search ↗; and a wish simplifying the insertion of maths formulas ↗ in articles. You can submit, vote on, and subscribe to wishes ↗ here.

'''Goal setting for edit-a-thons''': The CampaignEvents extension ↗ now includes a new group goal-setting feature ↗, enabling organizers to set and track event goals such as the number of articles created and participating contributors in real time. This feature is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. Join the Connection Learning Session ↗ on April 14 at 16:00 UTC to learn more about this feature and new ways to promote events and campaigns to editors.

'''Collaboration with the United Nations''': Learn how the Foundation engages with the United Nations ↗ to secure our collective voice and protect free knowledge.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure ↗''' <br /><small>''See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps ↗ · Growth ↗ · Product Safety and Integrity ↗ · Readers ↗ · Research ↗ · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia ↗ · Tech News ↗ · Language and Internationalization ↗ · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org ↗''</small>

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'''Navigating articles on mobile''': The Foundation is launching an experiment ↗ to test how to make it easier and more intuitive for readers to navigate through articles on mobile. To do this, we want to test Mobile Page Previews. ↗ This experiment will go live the week of April 20 and will run for four weeks.

'''Editing tools for new editors''': Tone Check ↗ was deployed on French, Japanese, and Portuguese Wikipedia ↗ as a default-on feature for editors who have published 100 or fewer edits locally. When promotional or subjective language is added, users are prompted to consider "neutralizing" the tone of the edit.

'''Managing watchlist labels''': The new watchlist labels ↗ feature is now available via VisualEditor, the source editor, and the "watchstar" (or watch link, for skins that don’t have a star icon). Previously it was only possible to assign labels via EditWatchlist ↗.

'''Latest experiments''': See all upcoming, live, in-analysis, and completed experiments in Product & Technology ↗. A new experiment that just went live is one which aims to establish a baseline retention rate ↗ for logged-in readers.

'''Latest Wikifunctions''': Check out the partial list ↗ of the 102 new functions created last week – likely the first week we have exceeded 100.

'''Tech News''': The latest highlights from Tech News weeks 14 ↗ and 15 ↗ include an ongoing A/B test ↗ running on 10 Wikipedias to evaluate a clearer, more user-friendly message that promotes account creation on wikis. See also the 68 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

'''Community discussions on Semantic Search''': The Wikimedia Foundation, in collaboration with the CEE Hub, hosted a discussion session on Semantic Search ↗ for members of the CEE Youth Group.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support ↗'''
<br /><small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗ · WikiLearn News ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · list of movement events ↗''</small>

'''Don't Blink!''': This month's highlights from the Global Advocacy team ↗ include how the Wikimedia Foundation co-presented alongside the Internet Archive at the State of the Net conference.

'''Digital rights and inclusion''': Take a look at the sessions ↗ that Wikimedians and allied partners will lead during Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum (DRIF) ↗ 2026.

'''Manuscript preservation''': The Wikimedia Foundation supported volunteer-lead workshops ↗ to write Balinese Wikipedia articles about palm-leaf manuscripts (''lontar'') from the Leiden University Library collection.

'''Youth content creators''': Wikimedia Indonesia, together with the Wikimedia Foundation, delivered an introductory session on Wikipedia ↗ for young content creators representing all 11 ASEAN member states.

'''Legal and Safety Contacts''': The Wikimedia Foundation has created a single "Legal and Safety Contacts" page ↗, to be linked in the footer of each wiki page. This will ensure that everyone has access to accurate and up to date Legal contact information. Insertion of the new links on different wikis will be done in stages, based on assessment of legal risk and necessity.

'''Building shared principals for the internet as a public good:''' The Global Advocacy team published a blog ↗ with the Center for Studies on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information (CELE ↗) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF ↗) summarizing a workshop that brought together digital rights advocates from Latin America to dream of a "digital utopia."

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''
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'''Wikidata API''': Wikidata’s structured knowledge is now available ↗ through Wikimedia Enterprise.

'''Annual Planning and global trends''': Join the America APP call ↗ on April 21 at 18:00 UTC. This meeting is an opportunity for the Latin American community to ensure that the region's voice helps shape the Wikimedia Foundation's work and priorities for the next fiscal year. The call will be in Spanish with interpretation into Portuguese and English. The last meeting ↗ between Wikimedia EDs and Foundation staff was dedicated to discuss global trends too. More discussions are happening on-wiki ↗ and in community spaces ↗ around different regions and projects.

'''Futures Lab:''' The world is changing around us. As the Wikimedia movement navigates this moment over a hundred Wikimedians from different Wikimedia projects came together to deepen our understanding of how these trends are impacting our people and projects at the Wikimedia Futures Lab. ↗

'''Fundraising Hub:''' The Wikimedia Foundation has launched Fundraising Hub ↗ on English Wikipedia. The first discussion you can participate in is about distributing fundraising banner on English Wikipedia throughout the year.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''
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'''Ombuds Commission''': Announcement of the 2026 Ombuds Commission ↗, the small group of volunteers who investigate complaints about violations of the Privacy Policy, the Access to Nonpublic Personal Data Policy, the CheckUser Policy and the Oversight Policy.

'''Wikinews closure''': All Wikinews editions will be closed ↗ and switched to read-only mode on May 4. Content will remain accessible, but no new edits or articles will be able to be added. This closure was approved by the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation following extended discussions.

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Wikipedia:Destubathon of the Americas ↗

You are invited to participate in the '''Destubathon of the Americas ↗''', a contest/editathon which will run from May 1 to May 31. The goal is to destub as many of our 475,000+ stubs for the Americas (from Alaska down to Chile) as possible. A good chance to have fun in expanding many of our old stale stubs and win up to £2000 ($2680) in Amazon vouchers for expanding stub articles. Sign up in the Contestants/participants section on the contest page if interested. Even if not interested in prizes you are still warmly welcome to participate in it as an editathon! Hopefully we can achieve something significant in the month of May together! ♦ <span style="font-variant:small-caps;color:#aba67e">''Dr. Blofeld''</span> 17:22, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

Gun show loophole

Please be aware of WP:BLUD ↗. You keep pushing this "refers to a term" which, as you very well know, has been shown to ignore WP:REFERS ↗... DN (talk) 00:28, 21 April 2026 (UTC) (minor edit) DN (talk) 01:09, 21 April 2026 (UTC)
:Quit the crap....mischaracterizing my discussion. <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 13:03, 21 April 2026 (UTC)

''The Signpost'': 21 April 2026

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Tech News: 2026-18

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Latest '''tech news ↗''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations ↗ are available.

'''Updates for editors'''

There is a change in how new users are autoconfirmed that will improve anti-vandalism protection. Currently, users who have had an account for a few days and made a few edits are automatically added to the {{int:group-autoconfirmed}} ↗ group. This configuration tends to be exploited by some vandals, who create accounts and start to use them only after some time. To mitigate this, the configuration will be updated next week so that – for the purpose of becoming autoconfirmed – the account age will be counted from their first edit, instead of registration date. The numeric value of the age threshold will remain the same. This change will be deployed only to wikis which require at least one edit as part of the autoconfirmation conditions. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T418484 ↗

All Wikipedia users with new accounts and those who activated the "automatically enable most beta features" option in their preference can now use the reading lists ↗ beta feature to save articles for later reading. This helps organize reading interests in one place for convenient access.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:30}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:30|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, the issue where infobox images have huge padding in Firefox, has been fixed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T423676 ↗

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12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

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May 2026 Administrator Election – Call for Candidates

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Here is the schedule:

April 29 – May 5: Call for candidates

May 8–12: Discussion phase

May 13–19: SecurePoll voting phase

Please note the following:

The requirements to run are identical to RFA ↗—a prospective candidate must be extended confirmed ↗.

Prospective candidates are advised to become familiar with the community's expectations of administrators, which are much higher than the minimum requirement of having extended confirmed status. This includes reviewing successful ↗ and unsuccessful ↗ RFAs, reading the essay Wikipedia:Advice for admin elections candidates ↗, and possibly requesting an optional poll on their chances of passing ↗.

The process will have a seven day call for candidates phase, a two day pause, a five day discussion phase, and a seven day private vote using SecurePoll. Discussion and questions are only allowed on the candidate pages during the discussion phase.

The outcome of this process is identical to making a request for adminship. There is '''no official difference''' between an administrator appointed through RFA versus administrator elections.

Administrator elections are also a valid means of regaining adminship for de-sysopped editors ↗.

Ask any questions about the process at the talk page ↗. Later, a user talk message will be sent to official candidates with additional information about the process.

If you are interested in the process, please make sure to watchlist the appropriate pages. A watchlist notice will be added when the discussion phase opens, and again when the voting phase opens.

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 8

'''Annual Planning''': The Wikimedia Foundation published the draft Annual Plan ↗ for the coming fiscal year (2026–2027) which will focus on four main goals that directly respond to the external trends. The goals include increasing our reach, deepening engagement, protecting our projects and building speed and resilience to enable the change needed to respond to the internet being at an inflection point. Feedback welcome on the talk page ↗ and many other places ↗.

'''Global conversation''': A global conversation about the Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan ↗ will take place on May 7 at 5:00 PM UTC.

'''Sustainable reuse of Wikimedia content''': The Attribution API ↗ is now in beta ↗. It makes it easier to credit Wikimedia content fairly wherever it is used. It provides all information required by the Wikimedia Attribution Framework ↗ in a single, well-structured and easy-to-use endpoint, simplifying attribution for off-wiki reuse. Share your feedback on the project talk page ↗.

'''Feedback on Article guidance''': Experienced editors are invited to test ↗ the Article guidance ↗ feature. This tool helps less-experienced editors create structured, policy-compliant Wikipedia articles. Review the outlines ↗ and share your feedback on the project talk page ↗. Check out the step-by-step ↗ and video ↗ instructions.

'''Games Hub available on Android''': The Games Hub is live in the Wikipedia app for Android. This new feature offers a space for users to find all available games ↗ in one place, explore archives, and get updates on new games. It currently includes ''Which Came First? ↗'', with more games coming soon.

'''Update to Wikipedia app for iOS''': A major update to the Wikipedia app for iOS has rolled out, redesigning the interface to align with Apple’s latest “Liquid Glass” visual design. Download the latest version ↗ and explore the update.

'''Confirming email addresses''': On several wikis, logged-in editors who haven’t confirmed their email addresses ↗ now see a banner encouraging them to do so. Confirming the email address ↗ helps users restore account access if they lose it and receive messages about their accounts. It also provides an easy option to communicate with other users off-wiki if they choose. As of early 2026, about 62.9% of all registered Wikimedia user accounts ↗ that have an email set had not confirmed it.

'''Testing mobile web page previews''': Mobile page previews ↗ experiment was launched on Arabic, English, French, Italian, Polish, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. Page previews are pop-ups that show a thumbnail, a lead paragraph, and a link to the full article to improve content discovery. It is already available on desktop and in the apps.

'''Account creation experiment''': Account creation experiment ↗ is live on Hindi, Indonesian, Bengali, Thai, and Hebrew Wikipedia targeting 10% of logged-out mobile web users. It looks at whether adding a button to create accounts in the mobile web header boosts new registrations and increases mobile users contributing to the wikis.

'''Experimenting with Hybrid Search on mobile apps''': The Hybrid Search Phase 1 experiment ↗ on the Wikipedia Android app has concluded. It tested a combined keyword and meaning-based search methods to meet various information needs. The team is analyzing data and feedback, and will share insights and next steps soon.

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'''Latest experiments''': See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology ↗. One upcoming experiment ↗ is testing a refreshed Explore Feed to make it easier for readers to discover interesting content and visit Wikipedia app more often.

'''Wikifunctions''': Wikifunctions crossed 4,000 functions, with subtracting two complex numbers ↗ as the 4,000th function. Also, Abstract Wikipedia reached 1,000 articles. The article about the famous Indian Brahmin Chanakya ↗ marked this milestone.

'''Reading lists now a beta feature''': New accounts are now opted into Reading lists ↗ by default on all Wikipedia wikis. This brings the "Save pages" feature to the web, which has been popular in mobile apps. For users in the beta, a "Save page" (bookmark) button appears in the toolbar on every page. The watch/unwatch (star) option moves to the tools menu. The "Watchlist" button in the top navigation shifts to the user menu. A new "Saved pages" button takes its place. In June, the feature will be available to all users and a user preference will be added to choose between two sets of buttons: Watch + Watchlist or Save + Saved list. The other set will be in the tool and user menus.

'''Structured Contents''': Article Images and Lists now in Structured Contents payloads ↗.

'''Tech News''': The latest highlights from Tech News weeks 16 ↗ and 17 ↗ include CodeMirror 6 being promoted out of beta on Tuesday, April 21. See also the 45 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

'''Wikimedia Research Fund submissions in review:''' The submission period for this year's Wikimedia Research Fund ↗ is now closed. The technical and internal reviews of the proposals ↗ have begun.

'''Events and conferences''': Take a look at the different community events happening later this year: ESEAP Conference ↗ (May 15-17), WikiConference India ↗ (Sep 4-6), WikiConference North America ↗ (Sep 24-27), Language Diversity Conference ↗ (Oct 2 to 4), Queering Wiki ↗ (Oct 23-25), WikiArabia ↗ (Nov 6-8).

'''Around the puzzle globe in the America region''': More than 60 people joined America call ↗ to discuss the annual plan and the global trends impacting the movement. Participants came from across the region, and the audience included a mix of affiliates from LATAM, online contributors, and users with extended rights.

'''Transparency Report:''' The Wikimedia Foundation published a transparency report ↗ covering July to December 2025.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br/><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Board selection process''': The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is reviewing and improving how it selects new members ↗. The goal is to ensure that there is the right mix of expertise and community representation on the board. Join the conversation and share your ideas on the talk page ↗.

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New pages patrol May 2026 Backlog drive

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Administrators' newsletter – May 2026

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 ↗).

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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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How do i get a page reviewed after being moved to draftspace?

It's been a long journey on becoming a pro editor and it is sad that my mentor assigned to me has not been responsive and here i am talking to you so i could learn and become better. I currently have a page i edited but now moved to draftspace based on my edits, my affiliation with the person was questioned and i do not know or have any relationship with the name or person. Speaking to you as a pro editor and a reputable name on this platform, What do i do better please Distrigency (talk) 03:53, 4 May 2026 (UTC)

:{{ping|Distrigency}} First step for me to try to provide an intelligent answer would be that I'd need to learn more. Due to medical reasons I'm basically gone for the last and upcoming week. I'd be happy to look into it and try to help after that. Can you give me a link to the article? Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 19:33, 4 May 2026 (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-19

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Latest '''tech news ↗''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations ↗ are available.

'''Weekly highlight'''

The Article guidance ↗ team invites experienced editors of pilot Wikipedias ↗—Arabic, Bangla, Japanese, Portuguese, Persian, Turkish, Simple English, Spanish, and French—to help translate and adapt sample outlines ↗. These outlines will guide editors in creating clear, well-structured, and policy-compliant articles when using the feature ↗ once it is launched in May 2026. Simple instructions ↗ on how to translate and adapt the outlines are available.

'''Updates for editors'''

The Product and Technology Advisory Council ↗ has published draft recommendations ↗ on a model that affiliates can follow when contributing to the technical space. Community members are invited to provide feedback on the recommendation until May 8th on the talk page ↗.

The number of available thumbnail size preferences in MediaWiki is being reduced to three standardized options—Small (180px), Regular (250px), and Large (400px), as part of ongoing efforts to improve performance and reduce strain on thumbnail services. As a result, existing preferences will be mapped to the nearest new size (for example, smaller selections like 120px or 150px will render at 180px, while larger ones like 300px or 360px will render at 400px). The preferences interface will soon be updated to reflect these changes, and users who wish to opt out or provide feedback can do so. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T424909 ↗

From now on, even when a permission expires automatically, users will receive an Echo notification similar to the standard notification for permission changes. There is a difference between this and Global reminder bot ↗ in that the latter reminds users a week ''before'' the rights are due to expire, so that they can renew the rights.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:32}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:32|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, the problem where the ULS language selector in Special:Translate ↗ would scroll vertically when it shouldn't, has been resolved. Previously, when users opened the "Translate to English" dropdown and typed certain inputs, the dialog would scroll vertically by a few pixels even when there was enough space to display all results. The dropdown no longer shifts unnecessarily when filtering languages. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T358864 ↗

The Global Watchlist ↗, which lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on a single page, continues to improve. For example, watchlists for Wikibase sites such as Wikidata ↗ now support EntitySchema ↗ elements for better tracking. The Live Updates mode now refreshes the special page every 60 seconds to comply with the updated global API rate limits ↗ for improved real-time responsiveness. Additionally, a directionality bug that displayed links as "changes 3" instead of "3 changes" in mixed-direction lists has been fixed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T415450 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T424422 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T418091 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

The second phase of global API rate limits ↗ has been rolled out to reduce the impact of AI crawlers ↗ and ensure fair, sustainable access to Wikimedia resources, prioritising human and mission-aligned traffic. Limits ↗ have been shifted from per-hour to per-minute, producing smoother traffic patterns and more predictable API load. Community users are not expected to be affected, and no action is required. Early indications show some User-Agent-based requestors are adjusting behaviour, and around 64% of automated API traffic has been identified. Monitoring continues, and Wikimedia Enterprise remains available for commercial support.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

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Good article reassessment for Armenian Americans ↗

Armenian Americans ↗ has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page ↗. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 02:35, 5 May 2026 (UTC)

Article assesment (review)

Hi! I would like the article I've created, nl. Ingush towers ↗, to be reviewed and assessed. What steps need to be taken? Muqale (talk) 16:53, 9 May 2026 (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-20

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'''Weekly highlight'''

Community Tech has published new guidance ↗ explaining how wishes on Community Wishlist are triaged and prioritized. The documentation is intended to help contributors write stronger proposals by clarifying the factors that influence prioritization decisions. Beyond vote counts, the guidance highlights considerations such as potential impact on the community when determining which wishes move forward.

'''Updates for editors'''

The Reader Growth team is launching an experiment to test a new Share Card feature ↗ that allows readers to create visually engaging cards from Wikipedia articles or selected article sections and share them online, with each card linking back to the original article to help expand readership and article discovery. The mobile-only A/B test will be available to a portion of readers on Arabic, Chinese, French, Vietnamese, and English Wikipedia to better understand reading and sharing habits, and is scheduled to begin the week of May 18 and run for four weeks.

The Android and iOS Wikipedia apps recently released the 25-day reading challenge ↗ into Beta, as part of efforts to drive reader engagement by encouraging users to complete reading milestones. To track their reading streak during the challenge, App users can add a widget featuring Baby Globe to their home screen. The challenge officially begins May 11.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:17}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:17|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, an issue where the global preference for enabling syntax highlighting in wikitext could unexpectedly disable itself after being turned on, has now been fixed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T425286 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

12px|link=|alt=|Advanced item ↗ The ResourceLoader module <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>mediawiki.ui.input</nowiki></code></bdi>, deprecated since September 2023 ↗, will be removed this week. There is a guide for migrating from MediaWiki UI to Codex ↗ for any tools that use it. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T420125 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 19:19, 11 May 2026 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Sängerfest ↗

Sängerfest ↗ has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page ↗. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 20:09, 11 May 2026 (UTC)

May 2026 Administrator Elections – Voting Phase

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As a reminder, the schedule of the election is:

{{Administrator elections/Header/daterange|May 2026|begin|end}}: SecurePoll voting phase ('''we are here''')

Scrutineering phase

In the voting phase, the candidate subpages close to public questions and discussion, and everyone who qualifies to vote ↗ has a week to use the SecurePoll ↗ software to vote, which uses a secret ballot ↗. You can see who voted, but not who they voted for. Please note that the vote totals cannot be made public until after voting has ended and as such, it will not be possible for you to see an individual candidate's vote total during the election. The suffrage requirements ↗ are similar to those at RFA.

Once voting concludes, we will begin the scrutineering phase, which will last for a few days, perhaps longer. Once everything is certified, the results will be posted on the results page ↗ (this is a good page to watchlist), and transcluded to the main election page ↗. In order to be granted adminship, a non-recall candidate must have received at least 70.0% support, calculated as Support / (Support + Oppose), and a minimum of 20 support votes. Recall ↗ candidates must achieve 55.0% support ↗. Because this is a vote and not a consensus, there are no bureaucrat discussions ↗ ("crat chats").

Any questions or issues can be asked on the election talk page ↗. Thank you for your participation. Happy electing.

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New Page Patrol Newsletter - May 2026

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Hello {{BASEPAGENAME}},

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'''Backlog update'''

At the time of this message, there are 15,282 articles and 32,951 redirects awaiting review.

After the January–February drive the article backlog was reduced to 15,179 articles and the redirect backlog to 19,053 respectively. Great job! However, both queues are growing rapidly and any additional reviews are highly appreciated.

'''2024 and 2025 NPP Awards'''

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{{no ping|Hey man im josh}} and {{no ping|MPGuy2824}} won the Redirect Ninja Master Award for 2024 and 2025 respectively, for reviewing the most redirects.

Overall in 2024, one Platinum, two Gold, eight Silver, 12 Bronze and 45 Iron Barnstars were awarded. Additionally, 66 reviewers got the NPP barnstar for doing more than 100 reviews through the year. In 2025, one Platinum, ten Silver, 13 Bronze and 38 Iron Barnstars were awarded. Additionally, 38 reviewers got the NPP barnstar for doing more than 100 reviews through the year.

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The experimental two-month long backlog drive concluded with 183 reviewers patrolling over 27,761 articles and 35,309 redirects, earning over 36,836 points. Congratulations to {{no ping|JTtheOG}}, who achieved first place with 6,484.6 points in this drive.

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An article-only backlog drive is currently underway. We are hoping to make a big dent in the backlog. You can read more about it or join at Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Backlog drives/May 2026 ↗.

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Feedback request: All RFCs request for comment

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Complaint To A Friend

Good day @North8000, two years ago you reviewed an article I wrote on Restlezz ↗, which was reviewed in 2024, and since then his notability has increased to the next level. A couple of days ago, I saw a notification from Wikipedia:AI noticeboard#User:Dahproman ↗ saying the article on Restlezz and a few other articles I made were suspected to go against Wikipedia:Presumptive removal of AI-generated content ↗ purely based off suspicion.

If you check the noticeboard, you would find only one of those articles actually had concerns shared, that's 1/7 and I asked the community to provide more context on why the rest were nominated, and nobody gave me anything. Then I got a message saying I needed to find whatever AI content I suspect and fix that myself. With 7 articles, obviously everyone has a different opinion on what sounds like AI or not. I found none, and then I came today and found out that the articles have been deleted, even the one on Restlezz that was written over 2 years ago when LLMs hadn't been incorporated in writing yet.

They all got deleted for basically nothing, and they expect me to write everything from scratch again. I find this unfair and I've tried ways to get the previous content of the articles to help reduce the workload in rewriting, and still I can't. I'm at an impasse; I need help and advice, please. Whatever you can offer would go a long way. Thanks. Dahproman (talk) 18:30, 17 May 2026 (UTC)
{{Ping|Dahproman}} It's hard to comment on 7 deleted articles. But here are a few notes after just a quick look, and I might be wrong. .

:I couldn’t find the admin that deleted the article; that was why I asked for your help. I thought and hoped you would be an admin by now so I can at least get back the articles, as you said, and work on them in draft space. I know I’m probably taking a lot of your time, which I apologize for, but could you help me check which admin deleted the article, or if you know any admin I can request an undelete from to move to draft space for further improvements? Dahproman (talk) 20:09, 17 May 2026 (UTC)

It looks like 6 of the 7 were uncontested PRODs. A prod can be stopped by merely removing the prod tag (which nobody did), after which a more thorough process would be required to delete. And Carterson was a soft delete which means you can ask for it to be brought back.

I don't know how much time has since passed, but it says if recent you can ask for an undelete.

Probably the most realistic approach is the most conservative smallest step; to ask an admin to (to start with) bring one article back into draft space and then go to work on it. Make sure it really meets wp:notability. Make sure you really aren't using AI to write anything and take out anything that was AI written. Probably best to not use AI in any way, not even in permissible ways. Also look for any problems that are typical for AI stuff. Make sure that it has enough cites and that for each the cited source really supports what's in the article. If you get all of that done and want me to take a look at it and recommend an idea on what to do next, let me know. And if all goes well with that start on the other 6.

Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 20:02, 17 May 2026 (UTC)
::I couldn’t find the admin that deleted the article; that was why I asked for your help. I thought and hoped you would be an admin by now so I can at least get back the articles, as you said, and work on them in draft space. I know I’m probably taking a lot of your time, which I apologize for, but could you help me check which admin deleted the article, or if you know any admin I can request an undelete from to move to draft space for further improvements? Dahproman (talk) 20:09, 17 May 2026 (UTC)
{{Ping|Dahproman}} It looks like Carterson was by User:Liz and the other 6 were by User:Explicit <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 20:25, 17 May 2026 (UTC)

Feedback request: All RFCs request for comment

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:Done <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 22:55, 25 May 2026 (UTC)

Next Steps On Edits

Good day North, since I didn’t get a response from Explicit, I've decided to rewrite the Restlezz article. I'll be using the original content that cleared WP notability and ensuring the tone is completely natural with no AI traces. Once it's ready, should I publish it straight to the mainspace and have you review it there, or would you recommend a different strategy? Thanks. Dahproman (talk) 20:00, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

:I'd have to see the article (when you're ready) in order to have an opinion. Sincerely, <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 22:52, 25 May 2026 (UTC)

Feedback request: History and geography request for comment

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:Done <b style="color: #0000cc;">''North8000''</b> (talk) 16:48, 4 June 2026 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2026-24

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Latest '''tech news ↗''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations ↗ are available.

'''Weekly highlight'''

Wikimedia Enterprise has increased the free usage limits for its API offerings. The monthly request limit for the On-demand API has increased from 5,000 to 50,000 requests, while the Snapshot API limit has increased from 15 to 30 requests per month. In addition, Structured Contents snapshots are now available for free accounts. These changes expand access to Wikimedia Enterprise data for developers, researchers, and organizations using Wikimedia content. https://enterprise.wikimedia.com/blog/enhanced-free-api ↗

'''Updates for editors'''

The refreshed Explore Feed ↗, now called the Home Feed, is rolling out to 50% of users of the Wikipedia Android app. The Home Feed helps readers discover relevant content through two new tabs: ''Community'' and ''For You''. The Community tab provides a scrollable feed of curated content and updates from the broader Wikimedia community and movement, while the ''For You'' tab offers a full-screen, swipeable experience that shows content tailored to a user's interests. The redesign is part of a broader effort to improve discovery and enhance the learning experience in the Wikipedia app.

The Which came first? ↗ daily trivia game is now available in the beta version of the Wikipedia iOS app in English, German, French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and Turkish. The game uses historical events from Wikipedia's "On This Day" content and challenges readers to guess which of two events happened first. The game was previously released on Android. Communities interested in making the game available in their languages can read the instructions and requirements ↗.

Sub-referencing ↗, a new MediaWiki feature that allows editors to reuse references with different details, will begin rolling out to Wikimedia wikis following a successful pilot phase. Deployment will start on 8 June for most Group 1 wikis ↗ and French Wikipedia, with additional Wikipedia language editions receiving the feature over the coming months. Communities are encouraged to prepare by checking for untranslated Cite extension messages ↗ in their language and reviewing any use of Reference Tooltips ↗, which may require updates ↗ to support the new functionality. Wikis using Reference Previews ↗ do not need to take any action. Communities may also wish to create the ''cite-tracking-category-ref-details'' tracking category ↗ as a hidden category using <code><nowiki>__HIDDENCAT__</nowiki></code> (or a dedicated template), and connect it to the corresponding Wikidata item d:Q129764848 ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T425662 ↗

The Page Previews experiment ↗ on mobile web has concluded. The team decided not to roll out the feature after the results showed no statistically significant impact on reader retention, as the primary success metric was retention improvement. Page Previews, which are already available on desktop and in the apps, display a thumbnail, lead paragraph, and link to the full article when readers tap a blue link. The experiment tested this experience on mobile web across six Wikipedias.

The user interface icon library ↗ will be updated later this week or next week ↗. Most of the ~300 icons have been slightly refined and ~30 new icons have been added. These changes improve the icons to make them more consistent and comprehensible, and provide more visual balance when they are used in groups.

The Universal Language Selector ↗ (ULS) interface in MediaWiki, which helps users select content in other languages, has been updated. The new version improves speed and accessibility, and users of Wikimedia projects can now pin languages for quicker language switching. The deployment to Wikimedia sites will happen gradually in the coming weeks. You can test it now as a beta feature by selecting beta features ↗ in your profile preferences and share your feedback on the project page ↗.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:21}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:21|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, an issue where the Pageviews Analysis dashboard on pageviews.wmcloud.org stopped updating graph data in May 2026, affecting all users, has been fixed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T427171 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

The function signature for <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>mw.util.addPortletLink()</nowiki></code></bdi> has been simplified. Developers can now pass a configuration object instead of a list of positional parameters when creating portlet links. The previous function signature remains supported for backwards compatibility. For example, instead of: <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>mw.util.addPortletLink('p-cactions', '#', 'Stub', 'ca-stubtag', 'Add a stub tag to this page');</nowiki></code></bdi> use <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>mw.util.addPortletLink('p-cactions', { href: '#', text: 'Stub', id: 'ca-stubtag', tooltip: 'Add a stub tag to this page' });</nowiki></code></bdi>. Script maintainers are encouraged to review existing uses of <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>addPortletLink()</nowiki></code></bdi> and update them where appropriate. This change will be available on all wikis from 11 June. Thanks to community volunteer Gerges for contributing this improvement. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T427945 ↗

'''Community Wishlist discussion''': Product & Technology introduced changes ↗ meant to increase the number and complexity of wishes fulfilled, including the disbanding of the Community Tech team. They are engaging in discussions ↗ about a proposed direction for the wishlist ↗ from community members. Includes ways to structure annual voting, better tracking of wishes, removing focus areas, and staffing updates ↗.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 21:28, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 10

'''Community Wishlist discussion''': Product & Technology introduced changes ↗ meant to increase the number and complexity of wishes fulfilled, including the disbanding of the Community Tech team. They are engaging in discussions ↗ about a proposed direction for the wishlist ↗ from community members. Includes ways to structure annual voting, better tracking of wishes, removing focus areas, and staffing updates ↗.

'''Digital Public Goods''': The Wikimedia Foundation has become a member ↗ of the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA).

'''Better bot detection''': A trial of hCaptcha ↗ on several Wikipedias, including English, French, and Japanese, showed it can effectively detect and deter bad-faith automated activity, on its own and by giving checkusers and stewards ↗ signals to look into. Based on these results, hCaptcha will be rolled out across all wikis. See the project page ↗ for technical information about the implementation and privacy protections.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure ↗'''<br/><small>''See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps ↗ · Growth ↗ · Product Safety and Integrity ↗ · Readers ↗ · Research ↗ · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia ↗ · Tech News ↗ · Language and Internationalization ↗ · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org ↗''</small>

right|thumb|200px|Example of the Attribution Framework recommendations. ↗

'''A better way to give credit''': The Wikimedia Attribution Framework and API ↗ makes it simple for developers to fairly credit volunteer contribution. When anyone encounters Wikimedia content, we want them to know that it comes from our projects, and they are invited to participate.

'''Baby Globe joins the Reading Challenge''': The Android and iOS Wikipedia apps released the 25-day reading challenge ↗, to drive readers engagement through reading milestones. To track their reading streak during the challenge, users can add a widget featuring Baby Globe to their home screen.

'''Account security''': The Foundation is technically enforcing that all privileges that enable users to take security- or privacy-sensitive actions ↗ can only be held by users who have enabled two-factor authentication ↗. Logging in with passkeys is quicker than logging in without two-factor authentication. In addition, logged-in users can see a banner encouraging them to confirm their email address. These changes secure individual accounts as well as communities and the wikis.

'''Incident reporting form''': The Foundation began a trial on English Wikipedia ↗ of the incident reporting form. 60% of unblocked logged-in users see a new Report button, allowing them to report conduct issues.

'''Encouraging account creation''': Following a successful account creation experiment ↗, an improved logged-out edit warning message will be deployed to all Wikimedia wikis this week. The change ↗ will only affect logged-out users on mobile web who open an editing session.

'''Wikimedia Android App''': The Wikipedia Android App is at the Phase 1 ↗ of redesigning its Home Feed. The new feed includes two tabs: ''Community,'' featuring refreshed Explore content, and ''For You,'' with personalized reading recommendations based on reader interests and activity. The ''For You'' feed refreshes daily with updated suggestions.

'''Better discovery of images''': The Image Browsing ↗ beta feature was rolled out for all Wikipedias on mobile following two successful experiments. The beta feature will include a carousel of all an article’s images at the top of the article, with controls for editors to exclude images from the article’s carousel or to exclude an article from the feature entirely ↗.

'''Reading Lists feature''': The Foundation is conducting an experiment to show the reading lists ↗ feature, which is still in development, to logged-out mobile readers to test whether it encourages account creation at a higher rate compared to the watchstar button. The experiment ↗ was launched on May 18 on German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, Turkish, and Urdu wikis, and will run for a month.

right|thumb|200px|A design mockup of what the share card looks like. ↗

'''Testing Suggestion Mode''': Suggestion Mode ↗ was released as an A/B test ↗ for newcomer editors on the mobile website at ~15 Wikipedias ↗. The experiment will measure its impact on the proportion of newcomer mobile web edit sessions that result in constructive (un-reverted) article edits. It will also evaluate the feature’s impact on editor retention and monitor changes in revert and block rates.

'''Wikifunctions now supports Wikidata references''': References in Wikidata statements are now available on Wikifunctions ↗, and you now can use external links in Wikifunctions-generated citations ↗. This allows the use of more than 1.3 billion references available in Wikidata and adding them as citations to individual statements in Abstract Wikipedia.

'''Pilot wikis adopting Abstract Wikipedia:''' The Abstract Wikipedia team has identified five potential pilot wikis to assess their interest in adopting abstract articles on their wikis. The pilots are Malayalam, Bengali, Dagbani, Arabic, and Indonesian Wikipedia. If your community is interested in becoming a pilot, let us know on Meta ↗.

'''Latest experiments''': An upcoming experiment ↗ is testing whether we can serve readers better when a footnote click in read mode shows the full bibliographic information rather than flying them to the reference list. See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology ↗.

'''Tech News''': The latest highlights from Tech News weeks 20 ↗, 21 ↗, 22 ↗, 23 ↗ include an experiment to test a new Share Card feature ↗ that allows readers to create visually engaging cards from Wikipedia articles and share them online See also the 92 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

'''Tech blog moved to Diff''': The migration of the Techblog to Diff ↗ is now complete: 138 posts going back over a decade have been successfully migrated. Diff is now happy to welcome technology-focused blog posts with renewed vigor.

'''What’s new in the Wikipedia Library''': Access to the American Psychological Association was renewed and collections from the Harvard Business Review and Swiss Media Database (Swissdox) are now available to editors who are eligible for The Wikipedia Library ↗.

'''New course on WikiLearn''': A free self-paced online course ↗, designed for researchers who want to make their field more visible on Wikipedia, was launched on WikiLearn. Share "Wikipedia for Researchers ↗” if you work with early-career researchers, teach in an academic institution, or support open knowledge communities.

'''Wiki Mentor Africa:''' The first edition of Wiki Mentor Africa - Women Tech Summit ↗ brought together over 315 registered participants across Africa to learn, explore, and grow in tech together.

'''Let's Connect Learning Clinic''': If you missed it, you can now watch the recording ↗ of the Let's Connect Learning Clinic "How to support up-and-coming groups in the movement as a long-time Wikimedian" with Wikimedistas El Salvador.

'''Community Conferences''': Registration for WikiConference North America ↗ and Queering Wiki Conference ↗ is now opened. Call for Speakers ↗ for the Queering Wiki is also opened until June 30.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Progress on the annual plan ↗''</small>

'''Sharing the Form 990s:''' The Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikimedia Endowment published their Form 990s, covering the fiscal year that ran from July 2024 to June 2025. The Form 990 is an annual form required of all nonprofit organizations in the United States. You can read the highlights ↗ on Form 990 for the Foundation ↗ and Form 990 for the Endowment ↗ on Meta-Wiki.

'''Wikimedia Enterprise''': Wikimedia Enterprise's free API accounts gets a substantial upgrade ↗ across the Snapshot and On-demand APIs, including free access to Structured Contents Snapshots.

'''Structured Contents''': How Databricks Parsed Wikipedia ↗ to Markdown with Python.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br/><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Board selection process''': The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is reviewing and improving how it selects new members ↗. The goal is to ensure that there is the right mix of expertise and community representation on the board. Join the conversation on 16 June at 17:00 UTC ↗, and share your ideas on the talk page ↗.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 22:31, 9 June 2026 (UTC)

Feedback request: Media, the arts, and architecture request for comment

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Tech News: 2026-25

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Latest '''tech news ↗''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations ↗ are available.

'''Weekly highlight'''

The Reader Growth team ↗ has launched an Image Browsing ↗ beta feature on the mobile web version of all Wikipedias. The feature shows an image carousel at the top of articles with 3 or more images. Editors can configure this feature with the following controls: to hide a specific image from a page, either use <code>class=notpageimage</code> excluding it from thumbnail previews, or <code>class=noviewer</code> excluding it from MediaViewer. The carousel can also be disabled from a page entirely, with the magic word <code><nowiki>__NOMEDIAVIEWERCAROUSEL__</nowiki></code>. To submit feedback or flag bugs, please visit the project page ↗.

Wikitables ↗ can now be sorted in descending order ↗ on the first click by adding <code dir=ltr>data-sort-order="desc"</code> to the header cell. Previously, by default, clicking a column header for the first time sorts it in ascending order. This addition to a Wikitable gives it more control and flexibility, while the default behavior for subsequent clicks remains unchanged. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T398416 ↗

'''Updates for editors'''

The Article guidance ↗ feature is currently being tested with some editors creating new articles on the Simple English, French, and Turkish Wikipedias. The experiment will soon begin on the Arabic and Bangla Wikipedias as well. This feature ↗ gives editors community-curated guidance to help them create articles that follow community standards. Experienced editors can continue creating or adapting outlines for specific article types that are commonly created by less experienced contributors. The outlines guide less experienced editors in creating high-quality articles. A quick guide to markups used in outlines can be found on this page ↗. Example outlines ↗ that can be adapted and instructions for how to adapt them are on this section ↗ of the project page.

Wikis that wish to replace the "indefinitely" button in Special:Block for temporary accounts (for example, wikis that block temporary users only until account expiration) will be able to do so by creating MediaWiki:ipb-indefinite-expiry-temporary-account ↗ with the block duration they want. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T427125 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:41}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:41|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗.

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

By the end of June, a valid user-agent string will be required for automated dumps downloads from the dumps.wikimedia.org website. Automated requests that provide a generic or empty user-agent will be blocked. This extends enforcement ↗ of the long standing user-agent policy ↗. Access to dumps through Wikimedia Cloud Services will not change.

The roll out of global API rate limits ↗ is now complete, with limits enforced across all APIs and at the documented levels for all groups. Bots running in Toolforge/WMCS or with the bot user right on any wiki remain exempt. All bots should continue to follow the documented best practices to avoid being rate limited.

The API Portal wiki ↗ will be read only starting this week (June 15-18). The following week (June 22-25), all API Portal wiki URLs will redirect to Wikimedia APIs on mediawiki.org ↗. Learn more on the project page ↗.

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'''Meetings and events'''

On June 17th at 6pm UTC the WMF will be holding Discord call focused on a code review. We've heard through the Developer Satisfaction Survey ↗ that volunteers are struggling with code review and we'd like to discuss these experiences with the goal of surfacing workable solutions. You can join the call via the Wikimedia Community Discord server ↗.

The Latin American Wikimedia Conference ↗ will host a regional hackathon that will bring together the Wikimedia movement’s technical community including developers, system administrators, data scientists, and users with extended rights. Interested technical contributors can apply for a scholarship ↗ to participate until June 21 at midnight (Bolivia time, UTC-4).

Sign up for Wikimania Team Challenges to join this special event. The Team challenges will take place online and in person from July 21 to 22, before Wikimania conference. Everyone is welcome, regardless of skills or Wikimania registration. Teams will work on 10 important challenges supporting the Wikimedia community. For details, visit the Team Challenges page ↗ and register there ↗. Registration closes on June 20th at 11pm UTC.

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Feedback request: Media, the arts, and architecture request for comment

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Tech News: 2026-26

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Latest '''tech news ↗''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations ↗ are available.

'''Weekly highlight'''

Growth features ↗ are now available at Wikidata ↗. This update enables access to Mentorship (if configured ↗), Impact module, the Help Panel, and a simplified Newcomer Homepage (without Suggested Edits). Wikidata administrators are still configuring the features through Community Configuration.

'''Updates for editors'''

The special page {{#special:RangeCalculator}} ↗ has been created. It allows users to find an IP range without needing to rely on external tools. Until now, this tool was only available to CheckUsers. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268429 ↗

Sub-referencing ↗ is a new MediaWiki feature that allows editors to reuse references with different details. It will be deployed to most small and medium-sized Wikipedia language versions on June 23. The FAQ ↗ lists possible actions to take on your wiki to support the deployment. Check the rollout plan ↗ for the next deployment steps. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T428902 ↗

Starting next week, users will get a notification when they are blocked or unblocked from editing, or if this block changes. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100974 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:32}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:32|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗.

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

Starting next week, abuse filters that are set to "require CAPTCHA verification" will begin to also affect users with the <code>skipcaptcha</code> right, which includes most autoconfirmed users. Bots are exempted. This change only affects edits that trigger an abuse filter. The <code>skipcaptcha</code> right will continue to exempt users from having to solve CAPTCHAs in the ordinary course of using the wikis. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T402595 ↗

Reference documentation for the Lift Wing API ↗ has moved from the API Portal to the interactive REST Sandbox ↗.

The API Portal wiki is now closed. For API documentation, see Wikimedia APIs on mediawiki.org ↗. All API Portal wiki URLs (https://api.wikimedia.org/wiki/) will redirect to the mediawiki.org page starting June 22. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T427537 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

'''Meetings and events'''

Join an online call on 25 June at 2:30pm UTC to meet the current Wikimedia interns for Google Summer of Code ↗ and Outreachy ↗. Interns will provide an overview of their projects and a brief demo of their work so far. Attendees are encouraged to share ideas and connections in their community ↗.

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 11

'''Community Wishlist''': Weigh in on proposals and open questions on how the wishlist will operate in the future. ↗

'''Simplifying account creation:''' The Foundation is working on improving the account creation process ↗ to reduce potential friction for newcomers to create an account. Improvements include making "Create Account" icon more prominent on mobile, simplifying the registration form, and introducing real-time username validation.

'''New U4C members elected:''' The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) has new members ↗ and has two remaining vacancies in Middle East & North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa.

'''Wikimania conference program''': The Wikimania 2026 program is now live ↗! Take a moment to review the program, and, if you are logged in, you can mark your "must see” sessions with a star to start building your personal schedule. Register for a virtual ticket ↗ here, if you haven't signed up yet.

'''Neutral Point of View''': A proposal for a baseline NPOV standard ↗ for Wikipedias that do not have one was published, with a community discussion ↗ open until July 15, 2026.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure ↗'''<br/><small>''See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps ↗ · Growth ↗ · Product Safety and Integrity ↗ · Readers ↗ · Research ↗ · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia ↗ · Tech News ↗ · Language and Internationalization ↗ · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org ↗''</small>

thumb|250px|Screenshot showing the Explore Feed refresh in the Wikipedia app (from the Community tab entry point) ↗

'''App Explore feed''': The redesigned App Explore feed ↗, now called "Home", has been released to all Android users. The update introduces a refreshed feed experience along with the first set of new content modules, including Did You Know, Places of Interest, Random Article, and a new end-of-feed experience. Additional content and improvements are planned in future releases.

'''Wikipedia games''': The Which came first? ↗ daily trivia game is now available in the beta version of the Wikipedia iOS app in English, German, French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and Turkish. The game uses historical events from Wikipedia’s “On This Day” content and challenges readers to guess which of two events happened first.

'''Reusing references''': Sub-referencing ↗, a new MediaWiki feature that allows editors to reuse references with different details, has been rolled out to Group 1 wikis ↗ and French Wikipedia following a successful pilot phase.

'''Article guidance''': The Article guidance ↗ feature is being tested with some editors creating new articles on the Simple English, French, and Turkish Wikipedias. The experiment will soon begin on the Arabic and Bangla Wikipedias as well. The outlines guide less experienced editors in creating high-quality articles. A quick guide to markups used in outlines can be found on this page ↗. Example outlines ↗ that can be adapted and instructions for how to adapt them are on this section ↗ of the project page.

'''Mobile Page Previews''': The Page Previews experiment ↗ on mobile web has concluded with the decision not to roll out the feature. The results showed no statistically significant impact on reader retention – the primary success metric. Page Previews, which are already available on desktop and in the apps, display a thumbnail, lead paragraph, and link to the full article when readers tap a blue link.

'''Wikifunctions''': You can now add images ↗ to Abstract Wikipedia and the loading and display of test results when viewing Functions has been improved.

'''Wikidata''': The Foundation is migrating the Wikidata Query Service ↗ (WDQS) away from the Blazegraph backend since it no longer scales efficiently with Wikidata’s growth. The migration will take place in several phases. Here is the timeline ↗.

'''Growth features:''' Growth features are now available at Wikidata ↗!''' ''' Wikidata administrators are still configuring the features through Community Configuration, but this update enables access to Mentorship (if configured ↗), Impact, the Help Panel, and a simplified Newcomer Homepage (without Suggested Edits).

'''Mentors' management''': The Growth team will soon provide a system to automatically suspend or remove inactive mentors from the list of mentors ↗. Communities can already start configuring the process in the Community Configuration.

'''Collaborative''' '''Contributions''': If you need help setting up the Collaborative Contributions and the Goal setting features, check out these video guides ↗. These features allow you to view which edits are made during an event and allows the group to track progress against a goal with a public progress bar. Learn more ↗.

'''Latest experiments''': An upcoming experiment ↗ is testing whether we can serve readers better when a footnote click in read mode shows the full bibliographic information rather than flying them to the reference list. See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology ↗.

'''Tech News''': The latest highlights from Tech News week 24 ↗ and 25 ↗ include how the user interface icon library ↗ is being updated. ↗ Most of the ~300 icons have been slightly refined and ~30 new icons have been added. See also the 62 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support ↗'''<br /><small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗ · WikiLearn News ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · list of movement events ↗''</small>

'''Digital Safety''': Join a conversation about Using AI Safely. ↗ It'll explore risks & concerns of using AI tools in personal and organisational contexts and practical strategies to reduce those risks. It will take place at 03:30 UTC & 14:30 UTC on June 26. This session is not about using AI to edit Wikipedia. It's focused entirely on safe personal and organisational use.

'''Don't Blink''': Read the latest developments ↗ from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values. Highlights include exploring the implications that new child safety regulations have on privacy online.

'''Grantmaking strategy & Affiliate model''': Members of the Global Resources Distribution Committee ↗ (GRDC) and the Affiliations Committee (AffCom) ↗ met to advance two key movement initiatives: the development of a new Grantmaking strategy and a refreshed Affiliate Model. They produced initial proposals and advanced work on both initiatives ahead of broader conversations planned for Wikimania 2026.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Progress on the annual plan ↗''</small>

'''Enterprise''': SimPPL Uses Wikimedia Enterprise ↗ to Map Online Conversations and Fact-Check Social Media.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''See also:'' Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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