User Talk: Ternera

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:Thanks!! <font color="#000080"><span style="font-family: Segoe print; text-shadow: 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em gray;"><font color="#F00000">Ternera</font> (<font color="#3CB37">ᵗᵃˡᵏ!</font>)</span></font> 21:04, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

October 2015

25px|alt=Information icon ↗ Hello, I'm Skyllfully. I wanted to let you know that your signature ↗ ("sig") design might cause problems for some readers. This is because it violates WP:SIGIMAGE ↗. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page ↗, or take a look at our guidelines and policy on customising signatures ↗. Thank you. —Skyllfully <sup>(talk ↗</sup> | <sub>contribs ↗)</sub> 20:58, 21 October 2015 (UTC) 
:Yes. I noticed that and changed it. Here is the new signature that is similar to the one I use at Wikia: <font color="#000080"><span style="font-family: Segoe print; text-shadow: 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em gray;"><font color="#F00000">Ternera</font> (<font color="#3CB37">ᵗᵃˡᵏ!</font>)</span></font> 21:00, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
::Thanks, by the way, you don't need to sign everything you do on a talk page, especially when placing templates, for more info see WP:SIGNHERE ↗.<br><br>P.S. This message doesn't need to stay here, it's totally fine if you remove it! —Skyllfully <sup>(talk ↗</sup> | <sub>contribs ↗)</sub> 21:03, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
:::Ok, thank you. I just a have a wuick question. I made a profile at the Teahouse ↗ yesterday, but don't see it now. Did it get removed? <font color="#000080"><span style="font-family: Segoe print; text-shadow: 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em gray;"><font color="#F00000">Ternera</font> (<font color="#3CB37">ᵗᵃˡᵏ!</font>)</span></font> 21:07, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
::::No problem. You can find you profile at the bottom of the list here ↗, or more specifically here ↗, but after awhile, your profile will get kicked out of the list because of the amount of guests we have all the time. —Skyllfully <sup>(talk ↗</sup> | <sub>contribs ↗)</sub> 21:12, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
:::::Oh my. I don't know how I missed that. <font color="#000080"><span style="font-family: Segoe print; text-shadow: 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em gray;"><font color="#F00000">Ternera</font> (<font color="#3CB37">ᵗᵃˡᵏ!</font>)</span></font> 21:15, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

Patrolling and welcoming

A note that if you see something on a new page that you're unsure about, it's best to leave it unpatrolled and get a second or third opinion. If you're really unsure, you can direct an admin to it and see what they think. On welcoming new users, always be sure to actually look at their contribs, because some people are just out to vandalize. I've caught probably 10 to 15 vandals that way, and reverted their edits. <span style="color:#3BB9FF">White Arabian mare</span> (<span style="color:#3BB9FF">Neigh</span>) 01:04, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
:Oh, ok. I will look at their contribs from now on. Thanks for the tip :) <font color="#000080"><span style="font-family: Segoe print; text-shadow: 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em gray;"><font color="#F00000">Ternera</font> (<font color="#3CB37">ᵗᵃˡᵏ!</font>)</span></font> 01:05, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

Warning other editors

Hi {{u|Ternera}}, thank you for all the great work you've been doing :)! Just a note, this ↗ warning, while completely okay and functional, may be better served using Twinkle ↗'s warning templates. Keep up the great work! samtar <sup>{<span style="color:DarkGrey;">t</span>}</sup> 14:59, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
:Thanks for the note. I since have designed a new template that can be found at User:Ternera/Warning. It is similar to the other ones people have been using. Do you think it looks good? <font color="#000080"><span style="font-family: Segoe print; text-shadow: 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em gray;"><font color="#F00000">Ternera</font> (<font color="#3CB37">ᵗᵃˡᵏ!</font>)</span></font> 15:01, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
::No worries - as for your warning template I would ''recommend'' sticking to the more common, pre-existing templates such as the ones found at Wikipedia:Warnings ↗. samtar <sup>{<span style="color:DarkGrey;">t</span>}</sup> 15:10, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
:::Wow, thanks! I didn't even know that was there! <font color="#000080"><span style="font-family: Segoe print; text-shadow: 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em gray;"><font color="#F00000">Ternera</font> (<font color="#3CB37">ᵗᵃˡᵏ!</font>)</span></font> 15:12, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
::::My pleasure :) if you ever need any help, or are ever unsure of something, there are a lot of editors who are more than willing to guide you. Good luck, and I hope you enjoy your time here. samtar <sup>{<span style="color:DarkGrey;">t</span>}</sup> 15:21, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
:::::Thanks!! <font color="#000080"><span style="font-family: Segoe print; text-shadow: 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em gray;"><font color="#F00000">Ternera</font> (<font color="#3CB37">ᵗᵃˡᵏ!</font>)</span></font> 16:31, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

Many thanks,

MaisonAgrakal
MaisonAgrakal (talk) 17:15, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
:You are welcome. :) <font color="#000080"><span style="font-family: Segoe print; text-shadow: 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em gray;"><font color="#F00000">Ternera</font> (<font color="#3CB37">ᵗᵃˡᵏ!</font>)</span></font> 17:56, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

CSD

on IPSF Members ↗ you wrote <code><nowiki>{{delete|Test page}}</nowiki></code>. this results in invalid grammar and is difficult for the administrators to manage. please use the CSD templates, e.g. Template:Db-g2 ↗. ⁓ <span style="color:#666">Hello</span><span style="color:#999;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:80%;font-family:serif">71</span> 19:49, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
:I'm sorry. I didn't know that template was there. <font color="#000080"><span style="font-family: Segoe print; text-shadow: 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em gray;"><font color="#F00000">Ternera</font> (<font color="#3CB37">ᵗᵃˡᵏ!</font>)</span></font> 19:50, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
::you can try again now; the creator has blanked the page, so g7 applies. <small><span class="autosigned">— Preceding unsigned ↗ comment added by Hello71 (talk • contribs ↗) 19:53, 24 October 2015 (UTC)</span></small> 
:::{{done}} <font color="#000080"><span style="font-family: Segoe print; text-shadow: 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em gray;"><font color="#F00000">Ternera</font> (<font color="#3CB37">ᵗᵃˡᵏ!</font>)</span></font> 20:00, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

Uh

are you a wiki mod or something? just wondering
or if that doesn't exist what are you SafetySponge (talk) 20:11, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
:{{ping|SafetySponge}} Why do you ask? I am a normal user like you. <font color="#000080"><span style="font-family: Segoe print; text-shadow: 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em gray;"><font color="#F00000">Ternera</font> (<font color="#3CB37">ᵗᵃˡᵏ!</font>)</span></font> 20:12, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

General note

I think the work you're doing here so far is great, but if you are not an admin you can't block people, so this ↗ is unhelpful: the user is still able to edit. Thanks anyway, --''Rubbish computer'' (''HALP!'': ''I dropped the bass?'' ↗) 17:25, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
:Ok...um...What template would you like me to use? I am not really understanding. <font color="#000080"><span style="font-family: Segoe print; text-shadow: 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em gray;"><font color="#F00000">Ternera</font> (<font color="#3CB37">ᵗᵃˡᵏ!</font>)</span></font> 17:55, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
::After warning them 4 times or as appropriate, report them to WP:AIV ↗ where an administrator will process the report and determine if a block is needed. ⁓ <span style="color:#666">Hello</span><span style="color:#999;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:80%;font-family:serif">71</span> 19:50, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
{{ping|Hello71}} Thanks! <font color="#000080"><span style="font-family: Segoe print; text-shadow: 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em gray;"><font color="#F00000">Ternera</font> (<font color="#3CB37">ᵗᵃˡᵏ!</font>)</span></font> 19:51, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
::: Sorry, I didn't see your comment, otherwise I would have replied here sooner. --''Rubbish computer'' (''HALP!'': ''I dropped the bass?'' ↗) 21:29, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

Adding a photo

Hi!

Thanks for your help, and for the welcome!

The page I just added is for a band. Do I need to add "(band)" after the name in the title? I noticed some bands have that and some don't!

Also, any recommendations for adding a photo?

Thank you!

SLOgirl14 (talk) 21:32, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
:{{ping|SLOgirl14}} Well, I am not familiar with bands...just reverting vandalism and welcoming new users. 18px ↗ I don't think You need to change the name now that you have started the article. What you can do is go to the page called Fialta (Band) ↗ and add in this: <nowiki>"#REDIRECT Fialta ↗"</nowiki>. This will automatically send people to the page Fialta ↗ when they go to Fialta (Band) ↗. '''Photo:''' I recommend adding a photo to articles. You can add it by putting <nowiki>TEXT YOU WANT ↗</nowiki>. If you do this, your photo will look something like this: Hey, like my smiley? ↗. Thanks for asking me! If you have any other questions, feel free to ask! <font color="#000080"><span style="font-family: Segoe print; text-shadow: 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em gray;"><font color="#F00000">Ternera</font> (<font color="#3CB37">ᵗᵃˡᵏ!</font>)</span></font> 22:01, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

Your signature

Hi Ternera. I saw your new signature, and I'm afraid it runs afoul of the signature guidelines, specifically the length guideline ↗. The guideline recommends keeping signatures short in both display and markup, and, well, yours is on 22 lines in the markup. Would you please shorten it? Howicus (Did I mess up?) 22:50, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
:{{ping|Howicus}} Thanks for the message. I was looking at my sig just a while ago actually. I put my signature into a template and put the template into my signature preference spot. It should just have the template...right? Instead it is a long line of code. I finally just got my signature how I want it and really would not like to change it at the moment...I don't know how to keep it and not have a long line of code. --Ternera
::I'm afraid transcluded templates aren't allowed in signatures ↗, and substituting a template just makes all the code from the template appear on the page (and it says you shouldn't do that to avoid the other guidelines). You may not be able to do exactly what you want. Howicus (Did I mess up?) 22:59, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
:::Ok, I'm working on a new one...not sure if this will fit into the preference sig spot, but I will try. Here is the code: <nowiki><code><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap" style="border: 1px solid #aaa; border-radius: 0.2em; box-shadow: 0.1em 0.2em 0.2em #ddd; background-color: #f9f9f9; background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); padding: 0.1em 0.3em; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.85em;">TEXT</kbd></code></nowiki>, and this is what it will look like: <kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap" style="border: 1px solid #aaa; border-radius: 0.2em; box-shadow: 0.1em 0.2em 0.2em #ddd; background-color: #f9f9f9; background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); padding: 0.1em 0.3em; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.85em;">TEXT</kbd>. Do you think the 3-4 lines are too long still? --Ternera
::::I'm not sure, though it's certainly better...if it will fit, I think it's good. Howicus (Did I mess up?) 23:32, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
:::::Great. I'll try it out. {{key press/core|Ternera}}{{#if:|+{{key press/core|{{{2}}}}}}}{{#if:|+{{key press/core|{{{3}}}}}}}{{#if:|+{{key press/core|{{{4}}}}}}}{{#if:|+{{key press/core|{{{5}}}}}}}{{#if:|+{{key press/core|{{{6}}}}}}}{{#if:|+{{key press/core|{{{7}}}}}}}{{#if:|+{{key press/core|{{{8}}}}}}}{{#if:|+{{key press/core|{{{9}}}}}}}{{#if:|+{{key press/core|{{{10}}}}}}}{{#if:|Category:Wikipedia keypress template parameter needs fixing ↗}}{{key press/core|<sup>Talk?</sup><sub>Sign!!</sub>}}{{#if:|+{{key press/core|{{{2}}}}}}}{{#if:|+{{key press/core|{{{3}}}}}}}{{#if:|+{{key press/core|{{{4}}}}}}}{{#if:|+{{key press/core|{{{5}}}}}}}{{#if:|+{{key press/core|{{{6}}}}}}}{{#if:|+{{key press/core|{{{7}}}}}}}{{#if:|+{{key press/core|{{{8}}}}}}}{{#if:|+{{key press/core|{{{9}}}}}}}{{#if:|+{{key press/core|{{{10}}}}}}}{{#if:|Category:Wikipedia keypress template parameter needs fixing ↗}} 00:51, 28 October 2015 (UTC)
::::::Nope. Doesn't work. :( {{key press/core|Ternera}}{{#if:|+{{key press/core|{{{2}}}}}}}{{#if:|+{{key press/core|{{{3}}}}}}}{{#if:|+{{key press/core|{{{4}}}}}}}{{#if:|+{{key press/core|{{{5}}}}}}}{{#if:|+{{key press/core|{{{6}}}}}}}{{#if:|+{{key press/core|{{{7}}}}}}}{{#if:|+{{key press/core|{{{8}}}}}}}{{#if:|+{{key press/core|{{{9}}}}}}}{{#if:|+{{key press/core|{{{10}}}}}}}{{#if:|Category:Wikipedia keypress template parameter needs fixing ↗}}{{key press/core|<sup>Talk?</sup><sub>Sign!!</sub>}}{{#if:|+{{key press/core|{{{2}}}}}}}{{#if:|+{{key press/core|{{{3}}}}}}}{{#if:|+{{key press/core|{{{4}}}}}}}{{#if:|+{{key press/core|{{{5}}}}}}}{{#if:|+{{key press/core|{{{6}}}}}}}{{#if:|+{{key press/core|{{{7}}}}}}}{{#if:|+{{key press/core|{{{8}}}}}}}{{#if:|+{{key press/core|{{{9}}}}}}}{{#if:|+{{key press/core|{{{10}}}}}}}{{#if:|Category:Wikipedia keypress template parameter needs fixing ↗}} 00:58, 28 October 2015 (UTC)
:::::{{done}} Sig added. <kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap" style="border: 1px solid #aaa; border-radius: 0.2em; box-shadow: 0.1em 0.2em 0.2em #ddd; background-color: #f9f9f9; background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); padding: 0.1em 0.3em; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.85em;">Ternera | <sup>Talk?</sup><sub>Sign!!</sub></kbd> 17:22, 29 October 2015 (UTC)

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:{{ping|Bridgettlynn}} I'm sorry. It looked unhelpful to me. <kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap" style="border: 1px solid #aaa; border-radius: 0.2em; box-shadow: 0.1em 0.2em 0.2em #ddd; background-color: #f9f9f9; background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); padding: 0.1em 0.3em; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.85em;">Ternera | <sup>Talk?</sup><sub>Sign!!</sub></kbd> 20:23, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

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:Well...my username kinda gives it away. I'm crazy about Hot Wheels, lol. But, I really don't have too many interests...I would like to be adopted because I am not extremely familiar with Wikipedia yet - just the basics and maybe a little further. Thanks for adopting me. ;) <font color="#000080"><span style="font-family: Segoe print; text-shadow: 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em gray;"><font color="#F00000">Ternera</font> (<font color="#3CB37">ᵗᵃˡᵏ!</font>)</span></font> 02:29, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
::{{ping|SantiLak}}
:::{{ping|SantiLak}} Are you still interested in adopting me? <kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap" style="border: 1px solid #aaa; border-radius: 0.2em; box-shadow: 0.1em 0.2em 0.2em #ddd; background-color: #f9f9f9; background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); padding: 0.1em 0.3em; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.85em;">Ternera | <sup>Talk?</sup><sub>Sign!!</sub></kbd> 21:08, 28 October 2015 (UTC)
::Not wanting to poach or cause any issues, but should {{u|SantiLak}} no longer wish to/is not able to adopt you, I would be more than happy to step up <abbr title="Smiling face" style="border-bottom: none;">18px|link= ↗</abbr> samtar <sup>{<span style="color:DarkGrey;">t</span>}</sup> 19:31, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
:::{{ping|Samtar}} Hmm...SantiLak has made 9 edits already today. I think {{u|SantiLak}} is busy and that might be the reason...I guess you can adopt me if you would like to then {{u|Samtar}}. Thanks, <kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap" style="border: 1px solid #aaa; border-radius: 0.2em; box-shadow: 0.1em 0.2em 0.2em #ddd; background-color: #f9f9f9; background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); padding: 0.1em 0.3em; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.85em;">Ternera | <sup>Talk?</sup><sub>Sign!!</sub></kbd> 19:40, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
::::Ya I don't think I will be able to, i'm really sorry I don't think I can balance everything else in my life plus regular WP stuff I do and 2 adoptees, but it's great that Samtar is willing to do that. Sorry again and if you just need some advice or something, feel free to ask anytime. Best of luck!! - <span style="color:#BF00FF;">'''''SantiLak'''''</span> <span style="font-size:85%">(talk)</span> 20:08, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
:::::Ok, thanks. By the way, I removed from your userpage that you are seeking to adopt users. {{;)}} <kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap" style="border: 1px solid #aaa; border-radius: 0.2em; box-shadow: 0.1em 0.2em 0.2em #ddd; background-color: #f9f9f9; background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); padding: 0.1em 0.3em; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.85em;">Ternera | <sup>Talk?</sup><sub>Sign!!</sub></kbd> 20:10, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
::::{{replyto|Ternera}} if you could pop over to the adoption page I set up for you, there's a couple of questions I'd like to ask if that's okay, just to get to know you <abbr title="Smiling face" style="border-bottom: none;">18px|link= ↗</abbr> samtar <sup>{<span style="color:DarkGrey;">t</span>}</sup> 07:48, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
{{od|4}} {{done}} I answered the question for you. <kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap" style="border: 1px solid #aaa; border-radius: 0.2em; box-shadow: 0.1em 0.2em 0.2em #ddd; background-color: #f9f9f9; background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); padding: 0.1em 0.3em; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.85em;">Ternera | <sup>Talk?</sup><sub>Sign!!</sub></kbd> 15:32, 31 October 2015 (UTC)

Sunshine for u!

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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid #4A98F2;" | Hello Ternera! Bhootrina (talk) has given you a bit of sunshine ↗ to brighten your day! Sunshine promotes WikiLove ↗ and hopefully it has made your day better. Spread the sunshine by adding <tt>{{<nowiki>subst:</nowiki>User:Meaghan/Sunshine}}</tt> to someone else's talk page, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. In addition, you can spread the sunshine to anyone who visits your userpage and/or talk page by adding {{tlu|User:Meaghan/Sunshine icon}}. Happy editing! Bhootrina (talk) 09:51, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
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:{{ping|Bhootrina}} Thanks for the sunshine! I needed it. <kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap" style="border: 1px solid #aaa; border-radius: 0.2em; box-shadow: 0.1em 0.2em 0.2em #ddd; background-color: #f9f9f9; background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, #eee, #f9f9f9, #eee); padding: 0.1em 0.3em; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.85em;">Ternera | <sup>Talk?</sup><sub>Sign!!</sub></kbd> 22:40, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
:{{ping|Ternera}} Welcome.You can spread to other users or add it in their userpages.Have a nice day and Happy editing.

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Pasadena Unified - Sources

@Ternera, I understand you wanted a source. It was included somewhere in there in a 100 page pdf.

If the format is not what you want, it would have been easier to tag it, rather than revert.

Especially given that most of it was just rewording what I previously wrote.

If it justifies reverting and deleting, you should also be more specific on the section you are refering to. JakesBurger (talk) 23:54, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

:Hello, the reason I reverted it was because the information about Temple City leaving the new Pasadena High School District in 1954 was unsourced. It's best to source information from different places whenever possible. Thanks! Ternera (talk) 02:25, 6 December 2023 (UTC)
::'''"If the format is not what you want, it would have been easier to tag it [for correction], rather than revert."''' JakesBurger (talk) 07:17, 6 December 2023 (UTC)

Girl bye

why you ruined my edit? It was funny lol Raafia94 (talk) 22:17, 6 December 2023 (UTC)

How Do I Permanently Block Myself Indefinitely & Remove My Account’s Ability to Edit ASAP? I’ve Encountered Too Many Rude And Unhelpful Editors i.e.@Banks Irk Lacking Critical Thinking Basics, Or Curiosity To Learn. Help me Permanently Lose My Ability to Edit ASAP! From @ PNople

How Do I Permanently Block Myself Indefinitely & Remove My Account’s Ability to Edit ASAP? I’ve Encountered Too Many Rude And Unhelpful Editors i.e.@Banks Irk Lacking Critical Thinking Basics, Or Curiosity To Learn. Help me Permanently Lose My Ability to Edit ASAP! From @ PNople PNople (talk) 22:56, 7 December 2023 (UTC)

:I replied to you on your talk page. Ternera (talk) 22:57, 7 December 2023 (UTC)

You shouldn't get to rape a child and be known as "former sprinter" 2601:C8:300:F970:A427:FEDA:2E1B:8D86 ↗ (talk) 04:04, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

Chris Nelloms

You shouldn't get to rape a child and be known as "former sprinter." 2601:C8:300:F970:A427:FEDA:2E1B:8D86 ↗ (talk) 04:13, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

:Please take your concerns to Talk:Chris Nelloms ↗, but my talk page. Thank you. Ternera (talk) 14:07, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

Thanks!

Should you think I made a mistake, pls. let me know! ProfessorHelm (talk) 19:41, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

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Need to update information

We need to update information on our wikipedia page for Cristo Rey OKC Catholic High School. The location, leadership, and mission has changed. When we edited it, it was deleted. How do we get the information to stay? 174.79.206.241 ↗ (talk) 16:09, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

:Hello, I reverted your edits because they were written in a promotion-like manner and because they removed cited sources. I definitely suggest looking into WP:CITE ↗ for more information about citing credible sources for your changes. Ternera (talk) 17:02, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

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Kris Jenkins

In reference, to our conversation about Kris Jenkins (American football, born 2001). He is my son, a football player from the University of Michigan. I retrieved this information from the University of Michigan Roster page which is a legitimate source. Do you have any other suggestions on what I can do to have these updates approved? Thank you so much for your assistance in this situation.

<nowiki>https://mgoblue.com/sports/football/roster/kris-jenkins/24363</nowiki> Shay-Vault-iPhone (talk) 21:04, 20 December 2023 (UTC)

:If you can find a source from their website, that may work. However, Youtube and Instagram are not reliable sources and that's why I reverted the edit. Ternera (talk) 14:21, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
::Thanks Ternera. If you read the bottom the bio portion at the bottom of the University of Michigan page, both his dad and I noted there. Kris asked me to add myself and some sort of link, because there is a woman who is claiming to be his mom. Would the citation from the University of Michigan roster page be sufficient? I can always remove the link to my Instagram. I usually prefer to be anonymous. Please advise.
::Thanks again Shay-Vault-iPhone (talk) 14:30, 21 December 2023 (UTC)

Change to a source in Colleen McElroy bio

Hi Ternera, on Colleen McElroy's biography: The source link toward the top of the references for her HistoryLink.org is dead. I work at HiistoryLink.org and added a live (new) HistoryLink.org link to her bio at the bottom of the references. Why would that have been deleted without checking what it led to? Thank you. Priscilla Long PriscillaAnneLong (talk) 20:27, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

:Hello,
:Taking a look at this (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Colleen_J._McElroy&diff=prev&oldid=1190773812) edit, I reverted it because it appeared to be promotional. It may be best if you replace the old external link with the new one rather than trying to add the new link as a reference, but some editors may see it as a conflict of interest since you work at HistoryLink. Thank you. Ternera (talk) 20:41, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

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I edited based on the fact. Pencilo is killing so many innocent people in Myanmar, and Wikipedia protecting her to inform the true face of her? Maung2276 (talk) 18:18, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

:Including facts about people in articles in important, but you need to be able to back up your claims by providing a reliable source that proves what you are saying. Thank you. Ternera (talk) 18:19, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

Shanghai Shendi Group Co. is entirely owned and operated by the Chinese Communist Party

Shanghai Shendi Group Co. is wholly owned and managed by the CCP. It is literally stated on their Chinese website. You can use google translate to read that it is a wholly owned state enterprise. There is no such thing as private enterprise in China.

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Next step?

Hi Temera, I am excited to contribute to Wikipedia on behalf of MD News Network. I have just submitted edits for Dr. Mark T. Gladwin, distinguished physician-scientist and Dean of the University of Maryland School of Medicine. What is the next step? Thanks very much! MDNewsNetwork (talk) 21:03, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

:Hello, I reverted your edits because they seemed to be written like advertisements. I understand that it can be challenging to understand proper referencing and suggest looking at WP:REF ↗ for details. Thanks and good luck! Ternera (talk) 21:06, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

Austin St John

Austin has not acted since 2020 and is retired from acting. Austin retired being an EMT years ago. There are articles about it. He no longer performs Martial Arts either. I have personally worked with him at comic conventions. I don't need to cite anything from my own personal life. His voice was also not used for Once And Always. Hasbro cut ties with Austin. Only his face is seen at the end of the episode in a Flashback of the memory of Thuy and JDF. 98.5.185.143 ↗ (talk) 16:11, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

:Hello, it's understandable that you wish to write content based on your personal experiences with the subject of the article, but information (about an actor's retirement, for example) needs to be properly cited from a trusted source. If you know of any articles online that talk about their retirement and other details, it would be best to include those as sources with your edits or to share them at Talk:Austin St. John ↗ and ask for others' opinions first. Ternera (talk) 16:25, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

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Stanley Walden Wikipedia update was correct

I apologize for not having cited the reasoning for the deletion of that sentence. I don't edit on Wikipedia often (almost never) and didn't see the spot to clarify the reasoning.

I communicated with Mr. Walden this morning because I was concerned about an outdated sentence remaining on your site in future tense. Mr. Walden informed me that the Berlin event had not taken place.

As he noted: "That concert was called off..so the proper thing to do would be to delete it." So please re-delete the final sentence about the Berlin concert: "A celebration honoring Walden's work will take place in Berlin in April 2023.

The rest of that paragraph is correct: "In 2022, Walden's career was celebrated across two continents in honor of his 90th birthday. Tributes took place in the United States and Germany: Barge Music in New York City (September), Baltimore Lieder Weekend (October) and Leipzig (November)." Thank you. 47.158.179.64 ↗ (talk) 20:14, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

Error made at Aaron Lewis

My change at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Lewis
triggered your bot. As you can see, I replaced an inappropriate box entry with a direct link to the Wikipedia article on Staind. The source for my entry would be Wikipedia? SirShiningArmor (talk) 19:28, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

:Hello, I'm not a bot - your edit was checked and reverted by a real person. :) After taking a closer look, it looks like I reverted it for the incorrect reason. The COI template already acknowledged that he works for Staind ↗, so it would be best to leave the COI template until some more information about his work is written there. Ternera (talk) 19:43, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

Andy Kiwomya

I put he is a substitute teacher at the Laurel academy and he is because I saw him there 82.38.50.249 ↗ (talk) 19:11, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

:Hello, it's important to include a reliable source when adding content to articles. If you can find a reliable source that backs up your claim, feel free to revert my edit and include the source with your changes. Ternera (talk) 19:12, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

Who is Bad?

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Hey, my bad. I just thought the information presented in that part of the article was misleading. If you have any suggestions on how to fix that, that would be great. Mikew42007 (talk) 22:42, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

:Hello, I reverted it because you didn't give an explanation for the paragraph deletion. If you want to revert it again and include a reason/information about why you are deleting it, that should be fine! Ternera (talk) 22:55, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

Editing of the Bioversity International Wikipedia page

Hello! I saw you recalled the changes I made to the Bioversity International Wikipedia page. I made the updates based on their latest reports, because due to restructuring of the organization changes needed to be made, so yes, I believe there was a mistake in recalling the changes. I could add some links to their reports, but please allow me to apply these changes, as the organization's structure has significantly changed. Thank you! 83.50.91.203 ↗ (talk) 09:27, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

:Hey there. As mentioned in the message on your talk page, make sure you include a reference to a reliable source when changing those details. Thanks! Ternera (talk) 12:59, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

API Healthcare page

Regarding the API Healthcare page, is the press release announcing the 2019 acquisition of API Healthcare by symplr not a reliable source? API Healthcare is now operated as symplr Workforce Management, a solution of symplr. It is no longer a standalone business. I wanted to update that. I'd also like to update the logo to indicate that it is now part of symplr. Thanks! Kevinbonsor (talk) 18:31, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

:Hi, just make sure to cite the sources you are getting the information from. Good luck! Ternera (talk) 21:40, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

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25px|alt=Information icon ↗ Hello, I'm Alon Alush. I wanted to let you know that I reverted one of your recent contributions ↗—specifically <span class="plainlinks">this edit ↗</span> to :Miss World Bangladesh ↗—because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox ↗. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Teahouse ↗ or the Help desk ↗. Thanks. Alon Alush (talk) 18:09, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

:Hi, can you please provide some reasons it is a good thing to rewrite all of the content, remove the infobox, and remove references in that article? Ternera (talk) 18:14, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

miHoYo link addition Edit advice

Hi ternera! no Worries, I am still learning to be better Wiki Editor, How about this as reason to add the link for Nova Desktop by miHoYo?

Wikipedia:External links#Official links ↗ Villkomoses (talk) 18:20, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

:Hello @Villkomoses and welcome to Wikipedia! In this ↗ edit specifically, I noticed that you added an external link that appeared to be advertising. The purpose of the article is to talk about a company, and links to the company's products will likely be seen as promotion. Thanks! Ternera (talk) 18:25, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

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'''Backlog update:''' The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to {{no ping|Schminnte}}, who led with over 2,300 points.

Following that, New Page Patrol organized another backlog drive for articles in January 2024. The January drive started with 13,650 articles and reduced the backlog to 7,430 articles. Congratulations to {{no ping|JTtheOG}}, who achieved first place with 1,340 points in this drive.

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Tom Middleton post

My name is Michael Easton, In 1971, whilce workig at CJVI 900 radio in Victoria, To Middleton came to see me at the station with an audition tape, wondering if I could help him get a recording contract. I became Tom's manager, went over to Vancouver looking for a studio who was interested in him, and I found Can Base Studios with record producer Mike Flicker..... by the way, I am the source... Not only did I get a contract with Can Base, but a recording session was set up
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Parksville, British Columbia 104.234.8.102 ↗ (talk) 20:27, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

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:Apologies for the late reply. I reverted your edit because there was no reliable source provided for the change. Any person could appear and say they are a source, so this is the reason that Wikipedia requires reliable sources. Please refer to WP:Reliable ↗ for further information. Thank you. Ternera (talk) 20:52, 9 April 2024 (UTC)

Nuketown ↗

But Nuketown (disambiguation) ↗ exists, and points to confusion topics. Thus is should be a good hatnote. -- 65.92.247.66 ↗ (talk) 21:27, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

:Hi @65.92.247.66 - you are right about that. I'm in the wrong here and will revert it back to your latest edit shortly! Ternera (talk) 21:34, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

::Thanks for the prompt response -- 65.92.247.66 ↗ (talk) 21:36, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

Took down my edit because of a lack of a source

You're being a straight opp right now. What source do you want? This is coming from McAlister's Corporate. That by definition a first person source. Put it back up or I will have my team of lawyers at Hamlin, Hamlin & McGill come after you. You think this is sweet it's not. I am dead serious and expect your swift reparation of your mistake. You have 10 minutes, god speed hoss. 149.149.2.111 ↗ (talk) 21:55, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

:Hello @149.149.2.111 - if that is the case, you may want to review WP:COI ↗ before making any future edits. You are required to state that you are connected with the article you are editing. Ternera (talk) 21:57, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
::Aight bet. I'm going to be putting that back up in a couple hours after our meeting about this situation concludes. If it gets taken down by you one more time legal action will be exercised. 149.149.2.111 ↗ (talk) 21:59, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

Recent reverted change

Hi there! You recently just reverted my change on the Edenderry ↗ wiki page , just wondering why exactly the link provided is not alright, as it provides relevant information. Would I be better off writing from that source and referencing it? Thanks for your help! Xcalliber21 (talk) 22:41, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

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Reverted edits on Oregon

Hi @Ternera, could you please explain what was the problem in adding each century on top of each paragraph? as that only specifies when a certain event took place to make it more clear for the reader to understand. 94.204.98.207 ↗ (talk) 19:16, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

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Elvis in Lake Charles

Here is the documentry of Elvis playing what was then the Lake Charles Civic Center.. I remember this show due to i grew up in Alexandria,LA... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA6vQS8h_Ak Charliehd29 (talk) 17:45, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

:Hello @Charliehd29. You may want to brush up on WP:RS ↗ before adding information without providing a reliable source for your edits. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me. Thank you. Ternera (talk) 19:04, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2024

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Anti-Vandalism Barnstar

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:Thanks so much @Adam Black GB! Ternera (talk) 19:12, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
::You are very welcome. Keep up the great work! Adam Black <sup>talk • contributions ↗</sup> 19:16, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

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Name change for Sefaattin Tongay page

@Ternera Thank you for your comments on Sefaattin Tongay. The faculty has changed their official name. Please see the four references below. Could you help me to change the name of the wikipage. I couldn't figure this one out yet. Thank you for your time
https://search.asu.edu/profile/2397559
https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=EbRbrREAAAAJ&hl=en
https://asu.elsevierpure.com/en/persons/seth-ariel-tongay
https://experts.azregents.edu/en/persons/seth-ariel-tongay RabbiSamu (talk) 16:39, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

:Hi @RabbiSamu! Thanks for providing the sources, that's very helpful to include with your edits. You may want to check Help:Rename ↗ and WP:MV ↗ for information about moving or "renaming" a page. Have a good day! Ternera (talk) 16:44, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

For the sake of my own curiosity...

I saw your reversion note for the AnonIP that did the edits to Sky (English/Australian band) ↗ - they were still on my temporary watchlist. For giggles I looked at the diff and am curious what you didn't find constructive about it? It appears (at least to me) to be substantial and contributory in nature, and also seems to be well-cited & ref'ed. Granted I know nothing regarding that band - so for all I know it could all be fictional information & cites :) Genuinely curious, thanks! <b>--Picard's Facepalm</b> <b style="color:red">•</b> <sup>Made It So</sup> ↗ <i style="color:green"><sub>Engage!</sub></i> <b style="color:red">•</b> 20:47, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

:Hello @Picard's Facepalm, thanks for bringing that up. I saw the last couple of edits from the IP while I was using Huggle earlier and my initial reaction was that it was vandalism. Taking a closer look, the edits make sense when you see them in context with all of the recent edits. I'm going to revert my edit at this time. Appreciate you checking this. Ternera (talk) 21:15, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
::No problem, and thanks for the feedback. I was just curious and had the opportunity to see the totality if the change in the diff. I agree the last few edits may have appeared as odd, when taken out of context for the totality of their edits. I figured to bring the question here rather than on the IPs talk page or in the article. I am good either way - I just wanted to check :) Thanks for taking another look. Appreciate your efforts! <b>--Picard's Facepalm</b> <b style="color:red">•</b> <sup>Made It So</sup> ↗ <i style="color:green"><sub>Engage!</sub></i> <b style="color:red">•</b> 21:35, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

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The Nuke ↗ feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. T43351 ↗

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Wanting my own Wikipedia edited

I have been trying and trying to edit my own Wikipedia page as you wrote to me about you removing my edit as I didn’t have a reliable source of where the information came from. Well obviously I do as the page is about me so of course I have the correct information for Wikipedia. Please advise how you will verify myself so my page can be corrected? Thank you Ma03032023 (talk) 15:09, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

:Editing your own Wikipedia page is a WP:COI ↗ issue and should be avoided. Just because someone claims to be someone does not mean that they may add any information and say they are a source. Any claims that a person makes need to be backed up with a reliable source that agrees with the claims. Ternera (talk) 15:46, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
::Yep I fully respect this. How can I prove I am Adam to edit where required and updating it accordingly? Of course I can have all I am saying verified as well. Ma03032023 (talk) 18:41, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
:::You can provide information on the article's talk page, but you will need to provide links to reliable sources that back up your claims. Ternera (talk) 20:45, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Text origin

Where did you get the regularly repeated automated text that you put on my talk page and why did you put it there? And why will I be " '''blocked from editing ↗ without further warning''' "? <small class="autosigned">— Preceding unsigned ↗ comment added by 72.27.75.36 ↗ (talk) 19:54, 7 June 2024 (UTC)</small>

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Bear Creek, being such a small wiki page and small thing in general, all info that is about it should be added. If you believe it is not constructive, may I ask why? Hero ofhyrule19 (talk) 20:58, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

:@Hero ofhyrule19, although I wouldn't classify your edits as "disruptive" (AGF), you must add a reliable source to support your claims. GoldRomean (talk) 19:00, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

A goat for you!

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:Hey @GoldRomean - thank you for your kind message and good luck with your anti-vandalism work! Ternera (talk) 19:10, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

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Mistakes

Hi. You have made a mistake in reverting a change to Princess Margaret Hospital, Swindon ↗ as not citing sources; as per the summary comment for the change, the additional information was taken from the source that had already been cited. Please revert the removal. Thanks! Patch86UK (talk) 19:33, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

:Hi @Patch86UK, thanks for catching that. Looks like you already reverted the edit, so I'll hold off on doing anything for now. Ternera (talk) 19:47, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

I forgot to include my edit summary for the article on "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," but I have redone the edit (slightly differently than last time) because the description of the character of Zadok Allen was inaccurate; they article says that he was kidnapped an sacrificed, which may have happened but is not confirmed by the actual story. Also, this is a dynamical IP address; the other change you complained about (on Strontium carbonate) was posted by someone else—although probably a professional chemist, since they must be in the same building as me. (talk) 19:27, 12 July 2024 (UTC)[User:129.252.33.200]

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The Growth team released Community Configuration ↗ at all Wikipedias. You can access it at <code>Special:CommunityConfiguration</code>.

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Remedy 3C ↗ of the ''German war effort'' case ↗ ("{{noping|Cinderella157}} German history topic ban") was suspended ↗ for a period of six months.

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'''Election news:''' Project coordinators play an important role in our WikiProject. Following the mid-year Election of Coordinators ↗, we welcomed {{noping|Mox Eden}} to the coordinator team. {{noping|Dhtwiki}} remains as Lead Coordinator, and {{noping|Miniapolis|Wracking}} returned as assistant coordinators. If you'd like to help out behind the scenes, please consider taking part in our December election – watchlist our ombox ↗ for updates. Information about the role of coordinators can be found here ↗.

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'''Drive:''' 38 of the 59 editors who signed up for the July 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive ↗ copy edited at least one article. Between them, they copy edited 482,133 words comprising 293 articles. Barnstars awarded are here ↗.

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Ingesting above 120 mg/kg may be fatal.[4]

I copied this sentence from Iron poisoning#Toxic Dose ↗ , which has a reference there and I linked to that page. Darsie42 (talk) 21:41, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

:It seems silly for you to start a discussion on my talk page and expect an answer on your talk page. Will you answer on my talk page? I started a discussion on Talk:Iron redox flow battery#Iron poisoning may be fatal above 120 mg/kg. ↗ Maybe you missed it because you reverted my edit so quickly before I could add that talk section. Darsie42 (talk) 21:43, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

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I was editing the Katahdin page and you told me you deleted some of my edits because they didn't seem appropriate. I don't understand how. I was citing the sources foe the information I had provided including linking the page to another Wiki page. Can you please tell me what I did wrong?
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:Hello, the edits were reverted because the links appeared promotional. Thank you. Ternera (talk) 21:43, 27 September 2024 (UTC)
::The links I supplied lead directly to the websites of the Livestock conservancy, The Katahdin Hair Sheep group and referenced a page from the University of Oklahoma about the history of the Katahdin sheep
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September 2024

25px|alt=Information icon ↗ Hi, Ternera. Thanks for patrolling new pages. I've declined your deletion request for a page that you tagged for speedy deletion ↗, because the criterion you used or the reason you gave does not cover this kind of page. Please take a moment to read the new tutorial for patrollers ↗, criteria for speedy deletion ↗, and particularly, the section covering non-criteria ↗. Such pages are best tagged with proposed deletion ↗ or proposed deletion for biographies of living persons ↗, or sent to the appropriate deletion discussion ↗. Thanks!  2601:5CC:8300:A7F0:5D7:5E2A:EBFA:7B67 ↗ (talk) 16:53, 30 September 2024 (UTC)

Popular History Of The Santa Fe Trail Is Wrong

Hi Ternera,

I respectfully believe you made a mistake by removing the external link I added to Santa Fe Trail page. The information I provided is most certainly appropriate for an encyclopedia. I became interested in this subject while researching my 4-times Great Grandfather James Baird, an American entrepreneur and pioneer of the Santa Fe Trail.

Information on this Wikipedia page presents an intentionally narrow interpretation of American history. It propagates an incomplete and culturally offensive historical narrative of the Santa Fe Trail. Exaggerating the importance of William Becknell’s role and his relevance to the Santa Fe Trail distorts historical reality and perpetuates cultural beliefs that bolster Manifest Destiny and American exceptionalism.

I respectfully request that you restore my external link

https://medium.com/@Tewksbury/popular-history-of-the-santa-fe-trail-is-wrong-a31ab61e1de4 on page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Fe_Trail ↗

I also welcome and encourage you to read my article on this subject. Please let me know how you intend to proceed. Thank you.

Sincerely,

Russell Baird (“RB”) Tewksbury

RBTewksbury (talk) 19:58, 30 September 2024 (UTC)

:Hi @RBTewksbury. Thank you for reaching out. Due to the fact that you are the writer of the external link you added, and also because Medium links are not even allowed as sources per WP:MEDIUM ↗, I reverted your edit. If you do add the link to the article a second time, I will not revert it and instead let someone more familiar with the topic make a decision. Have a good day. Ternera (talk) 20:17, 30 September 2024 (UTC)
::Hi Ternera,
::Thank you for your prompt reply. And thank you for agreeing to “not revert it and instead let someone more familiar with the topic make a decision”. As a descendant of James Baird and a subject-matter expert on this topic, I am hopeful others will consider my external link addition appropriate for inclusion on Wikipedia.
::Cheers,
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Administrators' newsletter – October 2024

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Administrator elections ↗ are a proposed new process for selecting administrators, offering an alternative to requests for adminship ↗ (RfA). The first trial election will take place in October 2024, with candidate sign-up ↗ from October 8 to 14, a discussion phase ↗ from October 22 to 24, and SecurePoll voting ↗ from October 25 to 31. For questions or to help out, please visit the talk page at Wikipedia talk:Administrator elections ↗.

Following a discussion ↗, the speedy deletion reason "File pages without a corresponding file" has been moved from criterion G8 ↗ to F2 ↗. This does not change what can be speedily deleted.

A request for comment ↗ is open to discuss whether there is a consensus to have an administrator recall ↗ process.

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The arbitration case ''Historical elections ↗'' has been closed.

An arbitration case regarding Backlash to diversity and inclusion ↗ has been opened.

Editors are invited to '''nominate themselves ↗''' to serve on the 2024 Arbitration Committee Electoral Commission until ''23:59 October 8, 2024 (UTC)''.

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I see you nicking all those vandals.

The ip hopper that is posting at noticeboards, just report straight away to AIV. It's a Long Term Abuse account that was originally called MidAtlanticBaby. It's not worth warning them. <span style="color:DarkMagenta">Knitsey</span> (<span style="color: maroon">talk</span>) 14:40, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

:Thanks for sharing! I'll keep that in mind. Ternera (talk) 14:49, 3 October 2024 (UTC)
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Edit Reversion

Hello, I just edited the page for Jolmaville and you reverted it because I did not cite a source. In my three revisions I:
changed the population - which was incorrect - to be in accordance with the source already cited;
corrected the name of one of the sources, which had the name of Marengo instead of Jolmaville; and
put in the name of the Bad River Reservation, which had been there in a previous revision and seemingly had been mistakenly removed (in fact, there was an open ended sentence because it had been so obviously removed).
The page is objectively incorrect without my revisions, what kind of source do you expect to cite that's not already there? Sean30303 (talk) 15:20, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

:Hey there @Sean30303. I just took a look at the source and see that you are correct. I've reverted my edit - thanks for catching my error! Ternera (talk) 15:29, 3 October 2024 (UTC)
::No problem, thank you Sean30303 (talk) 15:36, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

Administrator Elections: Call for Candidates

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The administrator elections process has officially started! Interested editors are encouraged to self-nominate or arrange to be nominated by reviewing the instructions at '''Wikipedia:Administrator elections/October 2024/Call for candidates ↗'''.

Here is the schedule:

October 8–14 - Candidate sign-up ('''we are here''')

October 22–24 - Discussion phase

October 25–31 - 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 familar with the community's expectations of adminstrators, 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 RfA candidates ↗, and possibly requesting an optional poll on their chances of passing ↗.

The process will have a one week call for candidates phase, a one week pause to set up SecurePoll ↗, a three-day period of public discussion, followed by 7 days of '''no public discussion''' and a private vote using SecurePoll.

The outcomes of this process are identical to making requests for adminship. There is '''no official difference''' between an administrator appointed through RFA or 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 ↗. A separate user talk message will be sent to official candidates with additional information about the process.

To avoid sending too many messages, this will be the last mass message sent about administrator elections. 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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Administrator Elections: Discussion phase

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During October 22–24, we will be in the discussion phase. The candidate subpages will open to questions and comments from everyone, in the same style as a request for adminship ↗. You may discuss the candidates at '''Wikipedia:Administrator elections/October 2024/Discussion phase''' ↗.

On October 25, we will start the voting phase. The candidate subpages will close again to public questions and discussion, and everyone will have 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 tallies 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 tally during the election. The suffrage requirements ↗ are different from those at RFA.

Once voting concludes, we will begin the scrutineering phase, which will last for an indeterminate amount of time, perhaps a week or two. Once everything is certified, the results will be posted on the main election page ↗. In order to be granted adminship, a candidate must have received at least 70.0% support, calculated as Support / (Support + Oppose). As this is a vote and not a consensus, there are no bureaucrat discussions ↗ ("crat chats").

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Current work

'''Newcomer Homepage Community Updates module''' ↗

We will add a new module to the Newcomer Homepage that will allow communities to highlight specific events, projects, campaigns, and initiatives. We have released a simple version on beta wikis and we will soon start an A/B test on our pilot wikis ↗. This module will only display on the Newcomer Homepage if communities decide to utilize it, so learn how to configure the Community Updates module ↗, or share your thoughts on the project's talk page ↗.
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'''Constructive activation experimentation''' ↗

After showcasing early design ideas ↗ at Wikimania, we conducted user testing of design prototypes ↗. We now aim to engage communities in further discussions and plan to run a targeted experiment, presenting a structured task within the reading view to logged-in new account holders with zero edits.

'''Community Configuration ↗'''

This Community Configuration extension was developed to help communities customize wiki features to meet their unique needs. The Growth team is now helping other Wikimedia Foundation teams make their products configurable:

The Moderation Tools team now provides Community Configuration for Automoderator ↗. (T365046 ↗)

Certain Babel ↗ extension settings will be configurable soon. (T328171 ↗)

Future work

As part of the Growth team annual plan ↗, we will continue to investigate ways to increase constructive activation on mobile, while also working with Data Products to move forward A/B testing functionality via the Metrics Platform ↗.

=== Community events ===

Growth team members presented ''Community Configuration: Shaping On-Wiki Functionality Together'' at Wikimania (slides ↗). The session recording is available to watch on YouTube ↗. This session provided an update on the Community Configuration project and introduced details about the upcoming features that communities will soon be able to configure. Representatives from the Moderator Tools, Editing, Web, and Campaigns teams shared their plans for utilizing Community Configuration in the future. Following these presentations, the WMF Growth team's Benoît Evellin ↗ and Martin Urbanec ↗ answered audience questions.

Habib Mhenni ↗ gave a presentation of how mentorship works at WikiIndaba 2024. The recording is available ↗.

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Administrator Elections: Voting phase

October 25–31 - SecurePoll voting phase

November 1–? - Scrutineering phase

In the voting phase, the candidate subpages will close to public questions and discussion, and everyone who qualifies for a vote ↗ will have 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 tallies 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 tally during the election. The suffrage requirements ↗ are different from those at RFA.

Once voting concludes, we will begin the scrutineering phase, which will last for an indeterminate amount of time, perhaps a week or two. Once everything is certified, the results will be posted on the main election page ↗. In order to be granted adminship, a candidate must have received at least 70.0% support, calculated as Support / (Support + Oppose). As 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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Administrators' newsletter – November 2024

News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (October 2024).

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Following a discussion ↗, the discussion-only period ↗ proposal that went for a trial to refine the requests for adminship ↗ (RfA) process has been discontinued.

Following a request for comment ↗, Administrator recall ↗ is adopted as a policy.

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Mass deletions done with the Nuke ↗ tool now have the 'Nuke' tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. {{phab|T366068}}

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{{noping|RoySmith}}, {{noping|Barkeep49}} and {{noping|Cyberpower678}} have been appointed to the Electoral Commission ↗ for the 2024 Arbitration Committee Elections ↗. {{noping|ThadeusOfNazereth}} and {{noping|Dr vulpes}} are reserve commissioners.

Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate from 3 November 2024 until 12 November 2024 to stand in the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections ↗.

The Arbitration Committee is seeking volunteers ↗ for roles such as clerks, access to the COI queue, checkuser, and oversight.

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Hello, and welcome to the December newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since September. If you no longer want this newsletter, you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. If you'd like to be notified of upcoming drives and blitzes, and other GOCE activities, the best method is to add our announcements box ↗ to your watchlist.

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'''Drive:''' In our '''September Backlog Elimination Drive''' ↗, 67 editors signed up, 39 completed at least one copy edit, and between them they edited 682,696 words comprising 507 articles. Barnstars awarded are '''here''' ↗.

'''Blitz:''' The '''October Copy Editing Blitz''' ↗ saw 16 editors sign-up, 15 of whom completed at least one copy edit. They edited 76,776 words comprising 35 articles. Barnstars awarded are '''here''' ↗.

'''Drive:''' In our '''November Backlog Elimination Drive''' ↗, 432,320 words in 151 articles were copy edited. Of the 54 users who signed up, 33 copy edited at least one article. Barnstars awarded are posted '''here''' ↗.

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'''Progress report:''' As of 22:12, 7 December 2024 (UTC), GOCE copy editors have completed 333 requests since 1 January, and the backlog of tagged articles stands at 2,401 articles.

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U5 and drafts

Hi, Ternera. I see you already talked to Spicy about this, but since I did tell one of the users involved that I'd follow up with you, I'm still going to check in with a note on U5. In short, it has an exemption for "plausible drafts", which is a phrase that lends itself to a pretty broad interpretation. Please see Wikipedia:What U5 is not ↗ for an infopage I wrote on the criterion's misuse, and User:Tamzin/Plausible drafts for my personal standards of what I consider not "plausible". I see that you've started moving encyclopedic content off of userpages, and I think that's a much better approach; it's become the ''de facto'' practice of a lot of admins who patrol CAT:U5, when it comes to content that is plausible as a draft but shouldn't really be a userpage. If you're interested, a while ago I made the template {{tl|draftified userpage}} to replace a userpage that has been moved, lest new users get confused. There's also {{tls|uw-draftmoved}} for explaining on their talkpage. Hope all of that's helpful; happy editing. <span style="font-family:courier"> -- <span style="color:#E6007A">Tamzin</span></span><sup class="nowrap">[<i style="color:#E6007A">cetacean needed</i>]</sup> <small>(they|xe|🤷)</small> 21:04, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

:Hey @Tamzin - thanks so much for the explanation of U5! This makes a lot of sense to me. My apologies for rushing into tagging userpages without taking time to familiarize myself with the process first. I'll do my best to assume good faith in the future and will consider moving pages to sandbox or draftspace before placing a speedy deletion tag. Have a nice day! Ternera (talk) 21:13, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

Comparing texts

Beyond Compare ↗ or Meld ↗ may be of use to you. For more see Comparison of file comparison tools ↗. Polygnotus (talk) 20:45, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

:Thanks, I'll take a look! Ternera (talk) 21:22, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – January 2025

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Following an RFC ↗, Wikipedia:Notability (species) ↗ was adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline ↗.

A request for comment ↗ is open to discuss whether admins should be advised to warn users rather than issue no-warning blocks to those who have posted promotional content outside of article space.

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The Nuke feature also now provides links ↗ to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions.

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A New Pages Patrol backlog drive ↗ is happening in January 2025 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles and redirects in the new pages feed ↗. '''Sign up here to participate!''' ↗

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Moves without redirect

Take note that, as a global rollbacker, you are required to {{tq|only use the ... <code>suppressredirect</code> function[] on the English Wikipedia in the context of counter-vandalism efforts}} per Wikipedia:Global rights policy ↗. * Pppery * <sub style="color:#800000">it has begun...</sub> 20:11, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

:Thank you for pointing this out, Pppery. Ternera (talk) 20:44, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

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:Hey @PrimeHunter - thanks for letting me know about this and sorry for the inconvenience caused. I'll take a look at the other replacements I made today and fix any that are too large. Ternera (talk) 22:42, 23 January 2025 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – February 2025

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Administrators can now nuke ↗ pages created by a user or IP address from the last 90 days, up from the initial 30 days. {{phab|T380846}}

A '<code>Recreated</code>' tag will now be added to pages that were created with the same title as a page which was previously deleted and it can be used as a filter in Special:RecentChanges ↗ and Special:NewPages ↗. {{phab|T56145}}

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Guild of Copy Editors 2024 Annual Report

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A request for comment ↗ is open to discuss whether AI-generated images (meaning those wholly created by generative AI, not human-created images modified with AI tools) should be banned from use in articles.

A series of 22 mini-RFCs ↗ that double-checked consensus on some aspects and improved certain parts of the administrator elections process ↗ has been closed (see the summary of the changes ↗).

A request for comment ↗ is open to gain consensus on whether future administrator elections ↗ should be held.

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A new filter has been added to the {{#special:Nuke}} ↗ tool, which allows administrators to filter for pages in a range of page sizes (in bytes). This allows, for example, deleting pages only of a certain size or below. {{phab|T378488}}

Non-administrators can now check which pages are able to be deleted using the {{#special:Nuke}} ↗ tool. {{phab|T376378}}

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The 2025 appointees for the Ombuds commission ↗ are だ＊ぜ ↗, Arcticocean ↗, Ameisenigel ↗, Emufarmers ↗, Faendalimas ↗, Galahad ↗, Nehaoua ↗, Renvoy ↗, Revi C. ↗, RoySmith ↗, Teles ↗ and Zafer ↗ as members, with Vermont ↗ serving as steward-observer.

Following the 2025 Steward Elections ↗, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: 1234qwer1234qwer4 ↗, AramilFeraxa ↗, Daniuu ↗, KonstantinaG07 ↗, MdsShakil ↗ and XXBlackburnXx ↗.

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Constructive Activation Experiments ↗

This year, the Growth team is exploring ways to help more new account holders start editing—and do so constructively, meaning their edits are not reverted. Our latest experiments include:

'''Gradual rollout of "Add a Link" at English Wikipedia''' – We are gradually introducing the "Add a Link" structured task to newcomers at English Wikipedia (T386029 ↗). This serves as a natural A/B test to measure its impact on activation, retention, and revert rates (T382603 ↗). Previous experiments on pilot wikis showed that "Add a Link" increases newcomer participation, particularly by helping them make constructive (non-reverted) edits.

'''Testing in-article suggestions for first-time editors''' – Many new account holders want to contribute but don’t know where to start. To help, we’re piloting a feature that surfaces structured task suggestions directly in an article’s read view for brand-new editors (T385343 ↗). These suggestions will appear for logged-in users with no edits, providing a clear, simple way to begin contributing that is surfaced while they read.

Community Updates ↗

Newcomers often struggle to find their place in Wikipedia’s collaborative environment. While experienced editors easily discover events like edit-a-thons and writing campaigns, newcomers often miss out.

To bridge this gap, we launched the '''Community Updates''' module for the Newcomer Homepage. This module is disabled by default, allowing Community Admins to decide how (or if) to use it.

If your community hosts events, consider setting up a Community Update to engage and welcome newcomers! Learn more on Diff ↗. To configure, visit Special:CommunityConfiguration.

Community Configuration ↗

Community Configuration is now available across all wikis, including non-Wikipedia projects (T383910 ↗). Community Configuration allows admins to customize various features like Growth features and Automoderator for their communities, and more recently the Babel extension now allows admins to modify configuration:

'''Babel customization''' – Admins can now configure Babel settings (T374348 ↗), including category naming, automatic category creation, and more. See an example on Wikimedia Commons ↗.

'''Upcoming configurable features''' – Projects exploring community configuration options include: '''Incident Reporting System ↗''' (T374113 ↗) and '''Cite backlinks ↗''' (T378807 ↗).

Mentorship ↗

Mentors play a key role in guiding new editors. If you’re interested in mentoring, or turning mentorship on at your wiki, check out the Mentorship FAQ ↗

Starting February 17, 100% of new accounts at English Wikipedia will be assigned a mentor (T384505 ↗).

At Spanish Wikipedia, on 50% of newcomers get a mentor. Experienced contributors are encouraged to join mentorship ↗ so that Spanish Wikipedia can provide a mentor to all new users.

Looking Ahead

In the coming months, we will continue balancing maintenance work—such as deprecating EditGrowth Config (T367574 ↗) and migrating Statslib (T359352 ↗) — with user-facing improvements that support new editors and foster the next generation of contributors.

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Thank you very much for improving the quality of my user page, keep it up! :) <span style="color:blue;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt">JPPEDRA2</span> <sup><span style="color:blue;font-family:Comic Sans;">why not?</span></sup> 23:46, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

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Guild of Copy Editors April 2025 Newsletter

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Hello and welcome to the April 2025 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since December ↗. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. We extend a warm welcome to all of our new members. We wish you all happy copy-editing.

'''Election results ↗:''' In our December 2025 coordinator election, Wracking stepped down as coordinator; we thank them for their service. Incumbents Dhtwiki, Miniapolis, and Mox Eden were reelected coordinators, and IQR and WikiEditor5678910 were newly elected coordinator, to serve through 30 June. Nominations for our mid-year Election of Coordinators ↗ will open on 1 June (UTC).

'''Drive:''' 55 editors signed up for our '''January Backlog Elimination Drive''' ↗ 33 claimed at least one copy-edit and copy-edited 611,404 words in 237 articles. Barnstars awarded are '''here''' ↗.

'''Blitz:''' 14 editors signed up for our '''February Copy Editing Blitz''' ↗. 10 claimed at least one copy-edit and copy-edited 46,749 words in 18 articles. Barnstars awarded are '''here''' ↗.

'''Drive:''' 47 editors signed up for our '''March Backlog Elimination Drive''' ↗. 28 claimed at least one copy-edit and copy-edited 479,172 words in 207 articles. Barnstars awarded are '''here''' ↗.

'''Blitz:''' Sign up for our '''April Copy Editing Blitz''' ↗, which runs from 13 to 19 April. Barnstars will be awarded '''here''' ↗.

'''Progress report:''' As of 9:45, 12 April 2024 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 89 requests since 1 January 2024, and the backlog stands at 2,264 articles.

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:Hi @Faster than Thunder. I appreciate your kind words but I am not very active on enwiki right now and do not wish to be an admin at this time. Cheers. Ternera (talk) 02:31, 8 May 2025 (UTC)

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An RfC ↗ is open to determine whether the English Wikipedia community should adopt a position on AI development by the WMF ↗ and its affiliates.

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A new feature called '''Multiblocks ↗''' will be deployed on English Wikipedia on the week of June 2. See the relevant announcement on the administrators' noticeboard ↗.

History merges ↗ performed using the mergehistory special page ↗ are now logged at both the source and destination, rather than just the source as previously, after this RFC ↗ and the resolution of T118132 ↗.

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An '''Articles for Creation backlog drive''' ↗ is happening in June 2025, with over 1,600 drafts awaiting review from the past two months. In addition to AfC participants, all administrators and new page patrollers can help review using the Yet Another AFC Helper Script, which can be enabled in the Gadgets settings ↗. '''Sign up here to participate!''' ↗

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Mentoring new editors

In February, Mentorship ↗ was successfully rolled out to 100% of newcomers on English Wikipedia. Following this milestone, we collaborated with Spanish Wikipedia to expand Mentorship coverage to 70% of new accounts, with plans to reach 85% soon unless concerns are raised by mentors. (T394867 ↗)

“Add a Link” Task – Iteration and Experimentation

Our efforts to improve and scale the “Add a Link” structured task ↗ continued across multiple fronts:

'''Community Feedback & Model Improvements''': We’ve responded to community concerns with targeted changes:

* Restricting access to newer accounts (T393688 ↗)

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* Allowing communities to limit “Add a Link” to newcomers (T393771 ↗)

* The model used to suggest the links was improved to ease its training (T388258 ↗)

'''English Wikipedia rollout and A/B test''': We increased the rollout to 20% of newcomers, with analysis underway. Preliminary data suggests this feature makes new account holders more likely to complete an unreverted edit. (T386029 ↗, T382603 ↗)

'''Surfacing Structured Tasks''': An experiment where we show “add a link” suggestions to newly registered users while they are reading an article is running on pilot wikis (French, Persian, Indonesian, Portuguese, Egyptian Arabic). Initial results are under analysis. (T386029 ↗)

Newcomer Engagement Features

'''“Get Started” notification''': Engineering is in progress for a new notification (Echo/email) to encourage editing among newcomers with zero edits. Early research shows this type of nudge is effective. (T392256 ↗)

'''Confirmation email:''' We are exploring ways to simplify and improve the initial account confirmation email newly registered users receive. (T215665 ↗)

Community Configuration Enhancements

Communities can now manage which namespaces are eligible for Event Registration via Community Configuration ↗. (T385341 ↗)

Annual Planning

The Wikimedia Foundation’s 2025–2026 Annual Plan is taking shape. The Growth and Editing teams will focus on the '''Contributor Experiences (WE1)''' objective ↗, with a focus on increasing '''constructive edits''' by editors with fewer than 100 cumulative contributions.

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'''Hall of Fame''': Congratulations to {{u|Dhtwiki}} for {{their|Dhtwiki}} well-deserved addition to the Hall of Fame ↗ last month, and thanks to {{u|GoldRomean}} for the nomination.

'''Election news:''' Voting in the '''mid-year coordinator election''' ↗ ends at 23:59 on 30 June. Results will be announced at the election page.

'''April Blitz:''' 14 of the 25 editors who signed up for the '''April 2025 Copy Editing Blitz''' ↗ copy edited 92,769 words in 30 articles. Barnstars awarded are available '''here''' ↗.

'''May Drive:''' 31 of the 54 editors who signed up for the May 2025 Backlog Elimination Drive ↗ copy edited 384,392 words in 216 articles. Barnstars awarded are '''here''' ↗.

'''June Blitz:''' 10 of the 12 editors who signed up for the '''June 2025 Copy Editing Blitz''' ↗ copy edited 26,652 words in 13 articles. Barnstars awarded are '''here''' ↗.

'''July Drive:''' Our '''July 2025 Backlog Elimination Drive''' ↗ will begin on 1 July and finish on 31 July. Barnstars awarded will be posted '''here''' ↗.

'''Progress report:''' As of 02:30, 30 June 2025 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have completed 148 requests since 1 January, and the backlog stands at 2,270 articles.

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2025

Following a talk page discussion ↗, speedy deletion criterion G13 ↗ has been amended ↗ to remove "Userspace with no content except the article wizard ↗ placeholder text."

WP:Manual of Style/Superscripts and subscripts ↗ was upgraded to a guideline following a RfC discussion ↗.

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Administrator elections ↗ will take place this month. Administrator elections are an alternative to RFA ↗ that is a gentler process for candidates due to secret voting and multiple people running together. The call for candidates is July 9–15, the discussion phase is July 18–22, and the voting phase is July 23–29. Get ready to submit your candidacy, or (with their consent) to nominate a talented candidate!

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I truly appreciate that, but, there was the need to keep my previous user page as a redirect? I think it should be deleted... TankFighter88 (talk) 20:57, 8 July 2025 (UTC)

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Administrator Elections | Call for Candidates

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The administrator elections process has officially started! Interested editors are encouraged to self-nominate or arrange to be nominated by reviewing the instructions at '''Wikipedia:Administrator elections/July 2025/Candidates ↗'''.

Here is the schedule:

July 9–15 - Call for candidates

July 18–22 - Discussion phase

July 23–29 - 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 RfA 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 ↗.

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July 18–22 - Discussion phase ('''we are here''')

July 23–29 - SecurePoll voting phase

July 30–{{circa}} Aug 3 - Scrutineering phase

We are currently in the discussion phase. The candidate subpages are open to questions and comments from everyone, in the same style as a request for adminship ↗. You may discuss the candidates at '''Wikipedia:Administrator elections/July 2025/Discussion phase''' ↗.

On July 23, we will start the voting phase. The candidate subpages will close again to public questions and discussion, and everyone will have 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 totals during the election. You must be extended confirmed ↗ to vote.

Once voting concludes, we will begin the scrutineering phase, which will last approximately four days, or perhaps a little longer. Once everything is certified, the results will be posted on the results page ↗ (you may want to watchlist this page) and transcluded to the main election page ↗. In order to be granted adminship, a candidate must have received at least 70.0% support, calculated as Support / (Support + Oppose), and must also have received a minimum of 20 support votes. Because this is a vote and not a consensus, there are no bureaucrat discussions ↗ ("crat chats").

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Following a request for comment ↗, a new speedy deletion criterion, G15 ↗, has been enacted. It applies to pages generated by a large language model ↗ (LLM) without human review.

Following a request for comment ↗, there is a new policy ↗ outlining the granting of permissions to view the IP addresses of temporary accounts ↗. Temporary account deployment on the English Wikipedia is currently scheduled for September 2025, and editors can request access to the permission ↗ ahead of time. Admins are encouraged to keep an eye on the request page; there will likely be a flood of editors requesting the permission when they realize they can no longer see IP addresses.

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Administrators can now restrict the "Add a Link" feature to newcomers. The "Add a Link" ↗ Structured Task helps new account holders get started with editing ↗. Administrators can configure this setting in the Community Configuration ↗ page.

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Hello and welcome to the September newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since June.

'''Election news:''' Project coordinators play an important role in our WikiProject. Following the mid-year Election of Coordinators ↗, we welcomed {{noping|GoldRomean}} to the coordinator team. {{noping|Dhtwiki}} remains as lead coordinator, and {{noping|Miniapolis|Mox Eden}} return as coordinators. If you'd like to help out behind the scenes, please consider taking part in our December election – watchlist our ombox ↗ for updates. Information about the role of coordinators can be found here ↗.

'''June 2025 blitz:''' 10 of the 12 editors who signed up for the June 2025 Copy Editing Blitz ↗ copy edited a total of 26,652 words comprising 13 articles. Barnstars awarded are here ↗.

'''July 2025 drive:''' 30 of the 54 editors who signed up for the July 2025 Backlog Elimination Drive ↗ copy edited a total of 379,557 words comprising 151 articles. Barnstars awarded are here ↗.

'''August 2025 Blitz:''' 11 of the 17 editors who signed up for the August 2025 Copy Editing Blitz ↗ copy edited a total of 65,601 words comprising 25 articles. Barnstars awarded are here ↗.

'''September 2025 Drive:''' '''Sign up here''' ↗ to earn barnstars in our month-long, in-progress September Backlog Elimination Drive.

'''Progress report:''' As of 06:43, 20 September 2025 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 222 requests ↗ since 1 January, and the backlog of tagged articles stands at 2,010 articles.

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''A quarterly update from the Growth team on our work to improve the new editor experience.''

New releases

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

= Growth features for Wikidata =

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Although some features, like Suggested Edits, are Wikipedia-specific, the Growth team designed most features to be more wiki-agnostic.

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We are targeting an A/B test before the end of this year, with constructive edits by newcomers as the primary success metric.

= Add a link to more wikis =

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

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

Research

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

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

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

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

Community events

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

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

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

'''Wikimania - Lightning Talk: Structured Tasks ↗'''

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

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

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An unreferenced articles backlog drive ↗ is happening in November 2025 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{tl|Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. '''Sign up to participate!''' ↗

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Here is the schedule:

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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 ↗.

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Scrutineering phase

We are currently in the discussion phase. The candidate subpages are open to questions and comments from everyone, in the same style as a request for adminship ↗. You may discuss the candidates at '''Wikipedia:Administrator elections/December 2025/Discussion phase''' ↗.

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Hello, and welcome to the December newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since September. If you'd like to be notified of upcoming drives and blitzes, and other GOCE activities, the best method is to add our announcements box ↗ to your watchlist.

'''Election news:''' The Guild's coordinators play an important role in the WikiProject, making sure <s>nearly</s> everything runs smoothly and on time. Editors experienced in drives or blitzes and in good standing (unblocked and without sanctions) are invited to '''nominate themselves or another editor (with their permission, of course) to be a Guild coordinator''' ↗ until 23:59 on 15 December (UTC). The voting phase begins at 00:01 on 16 December and runs until 23:59 on 31 December. Questions may be asked of candidates at any stage in the process. Elected coordinators will serve a six-month term from 1 January through 30 June 2026.

'''September Drive:''' 43 of the 63 editors who signed up for the '''September Backlog Elimination Drive''' ↗ edited 693,541 words in 265 articles. Barnstars awarded are '''here''' ↗.

'''October Blitz:''' 14 of the 15 editors who signed up for the '''October Copy Editing Blitz''' ↗ edited 75,108 words in 31 articles. Barnstars awarded are '''here''' ↗.

'''November Drive:''' 38 of the 65 editors who signed up for the '''November Backlog Elimination Drive''' ↗ edited 590,816 words in 240 articles. Barnstars awarded are posted '''here''' ↗.

'''December Blitz:''' The December Blitz will begin at 00:00 on 14 December (UTC) and will end on 20 December at 23:59. '''Sign up here''' ↗. Barnstars awarded will be posted '''here''' ↗.

'''Progress report:''' As of 01:49, 8 December 2025 (UTC), GOCE copy editors have completed 293 requests since 1 January, and the backlog of tagged articles stands at 1,730 articles.

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators, {{noping|Dhtwiki|GoldRomean|Miniapolis|Mox Eden}}.
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As a reminder, the schedule of the election is:

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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.

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2026

News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (December 2025).

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Due to the result of a recent RFC ↗, the administrator recall ↗ process is amended to extend the deadline for a re-request for adminship to 30 days or the next administrator election ↗, whichever is later.

Changes ↗ to the Access to Temporary Account IP Addresses Policy ↗'s disclosure rules include broadening the consecutive-blocks exception to cover all admin actions and removing the requirement to revision-delete permissible disclosures once they become unnecessary (instead requiring only their removal). See WP:TAIVDISCLOSE ↗ for more information.

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Following the 2025 Arbitration Committee elections ↗, the following editors have been elected to the Arbitration Committee: {{noping|Aoidh}}, {{noping|Asilvering}}, {{noping|Girth Summit}}, {{noping|Guerillero}}, {{noping|HJ Mitchell}}, {{noping|HouseBlaster}}, {{noping|Izno}}, {{noping|Sdrqaz}}, {{noping|SilverLocust}}.

The arbitration case ''Pbsouthwood ↗'' has been suspended.

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2026

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Administrators' newsletter – March 2026

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Following an RfC ↗, the web archival service archive.today ↗ has been deprecated; links to the site should be removed ↗.

A request for comment ↗ is open to discuss retiring CSD criterion R3 ↗ in favour of handling such redirects through RfD ↗.

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Following a motion ↗, the ''Iskandar323 further POV pushing'' motion has been rescinded.

The Arbitration Committee has passed a housekeeping motion ↗ rescinding a number of outdated remedies and enforcement provisions across multiple legacy cases. In most instances, existing sanctions remain in force and continue to be appealable through the usual processes, while some case-specific remedies were amended or clarified.

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Following the 2026 Steward Elections ↗, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: A09 ↗, AmandaNP ↗, Barras ↗, Count Count ↗, M7 ↗, SHB2000 ↗, Teles ↗ and VIGNERON ↗.

An Unreferenced articles backlog drive ↗ is taking place in March 2026 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{tl|Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. '''Sign up to participate!''' ↗

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Guild of Copy Editors/Membership/News/2025 Annual Report

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'''Highlights:'''

Introduction

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''The Signpost'': 31 March 2026

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Administrators' newsletter – April 2026

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

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The content of Wikipedia:Writing articles with large language models ↗ has been updated following a request for comment ↗. It now prohibits using LLMs to generate content, with exceptions for translation and copy-editing.

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Following a motion ↗, the GSCASTE ↗ extended-confirmed restriction in the ''Indian military history'' case has been narrowed. It now applies to caste-related topics in South Asia, and the preemptive protection remedy ↗ has been amended accordingly.

The arbitration case ''Pbsouthwood ↗'' has been closed.

The arbitration case ''Maghreb ↗'' has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case will close on 7 April.

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Guild of Copy Editors – April 2026 Newsletter

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Hello and welcome to the April 2026 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since December ↗. We extend a warm welcome to all of our new members. We wish you all happy copy-editing.

'''Election results:''' In our December 2025 coordinator election ↗, incumbents Dhtwiki, GoldRomean, Miniapolis, and Mox Eden were reelected coordinators, and Wikieditor662 was newly elected coordinator, to serve through 30 June. Nominations for our mid-year Election of Coordinators ↗ will open on 1 June (UTC).

'''December 2025 Blitz:''' 16 of the 31 editors who signed up for the '''December 2025 Copy Editing Blitz''' ↗ edited 116,064 words in 47 articles. Barnstars awarded are '''here''' ↗.

'''January Drive:''' 35 of the 55 editors who signed up for the '''January Backlog Elimination Drive''' ↗ edited 498,397 words in 183 articles. Barnstars awarded are '''here''' ↗.

'''February Blitz:''' 19 of the 23 editors who signed up for the '''February Copy Editing Blitz''' ↗ edited 83,969 words in 43 articles. Barnstars awarded are '''here''' ↗.

'''March Drive:''' 28 of the 48 editors who signed up for the '''March Backlog Elimination Drive''' ↗ edited 210,064 words in 87 articles. Barnstars awarded are '''here''' ↗.

'''April Blitz:''' Sign up for our '''April Copy Editing Blitz''' ↗, which runs from 12 to 18 April. Barnstars will be awarded '''here''' ↗.

'''Progress report:''' As of 09:10, 10 April 2026 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 81 copyediting requests ↗ since 1 January 2026. The backlog of articles needing copyediting ↗ stands at 1,794 articles.

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators {{noping|Dhtwiki|GoldRomean|Miniapolis|Mox Eden|Wikieditor662}}.

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May 2026 Administrator Elections – Schedule

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The May 2026 administrator elections ↗ are set to proceed.

We plan to use the following schedule:

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* May 13–May 19: SecurePoll voting phase

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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

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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.

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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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May 2026 Administrator Elections – Discussion Phase

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May 2026 Administrator Elections – Voting Phase

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The voting phase of the May 2026 administrator elections has started and will continue until {{Administrator elections status/data|May 2026|end}} at {{Administrator election time|end}} UTC. You can participate in the voting phase at '''Wikipedia:Administrator elections/May 2026/Voting phase ↗'''.

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").

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New Page Patrol Newsletter - May 2026

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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'''

74px|left ↗{{no ping|JTtheOG}} was selected as the NPP reviewer of the year for both 2024 and 2025, for reviewing the most articles amongst all reviewers.
{{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.

{{no ping|BoyTheKingCanDance}}, {{no ping|Rosiestep}}, {{no ping|SunDawn}}, and {{no ping|Vanderwaalforces}} were inducted into the NPP Hall of Fame ↗ for having two separate years of 2,000+ article reviews.

'''January–February backlog drive'''

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.

'''May backlog drive'''

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 ↗.

'''PageTriage'''

An attempt was made to get the New Pages Feed ↗ to sort by date marked as reviewed instead of date created. However we had to revert it due to bugs. We may try again in the future. You can subscribe to the Phabricator ticket ↗ if you're interested in following along.

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20px|alt= ↗ '''Guideline and policy news'''

Following an RfC ↗, the "persistent usage of large language models ↗" has been included as a common reason for a block ↗.

20px|alt= ↗ '''Technical news'''

Mandatory 2FA for bureaucrats ↗: Bureaucrats ↗ without two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled have already lost access to their advanced rights on 26 May. Those who do not enable 2FA may be automatically removed from the groups in mid-June 2026, and from that point onward, new members must have 2FA enabled before they can be added. (T423119 ↗, T423120 ↗)

20px|alt= ↗ '''Arbitration'''

The arbitration case ''SchroCat ↗'' has been closed.

The arbitration case ''Michael Jackson ↗'' has opened. Evidence submissions in this case closes on 1 June.

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Voting for the 2026 Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election ↗ closes on 1 June.

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Guild of Copy Editors – June 2026 Newsletter

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Hello and welcome to the June 2026 newsletter, a quarterly-ish digest of Guild activities since April.

'''Election news:''' Nominations for the '''mid-year coordinator election''' ↗ ends at 23:59 on 15 June. Voting will last from 00:00 on 16 June to 23:59 on 30 June. Results will be announced on the election page.

'''April Blitz:''' 18 of the 21 editors who signed up for the '''April 2026 Copy Editing Blitz''' ↗ copy edited 122,993 words in 56 articles. Barnstars awarded are '''here''' ↗.

'''May Drive:''' 34 of the 66 editors who signed up for the May 2026 Backlog Elimination Drive ↗ copy edited 543,972 words in 211 articles. Barnstars awarded are '''here''' ↗.

'''June Blitz:''' Our '''June 2026 Copy Editing Blitz''' ↗ will start on 14 June and finish on 30 June. Barnstars awarded will be posted '''here''' ↗.

'''Progress report:''' As of 22:40, 11 June 2025 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have completed 132 requests since 1 January, and the backlog stands at 1,691 articles.

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators.

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2026

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20px|alt= ↗ '''Guideline and policy news'''

A request for comment ↗ asks whether the criteria for autoconfirmed and extended confirmed should be modified.

A request for comment ↗ proposes an addendum for the Real name section of the Username policy ↗.

20px|alt= ↗ '''Technical news'''

The special page Special:RangeCalculator ↗ has been created for any users to use to find an IP range. (phab:T268429 ↗)

The "indefinitely" button in Special:Block ↗ for temporary accounts can be replaced with a preferred block duration stated on MediaWiki:ipb-indefinite-expiry-temporary-account ↗. (phab:T427125 ↗)

20px|alt= ↗ '''Arbitration'''

Following a series of motions ↗, changes to the contentious topics procedure ↗ to restructure awareness ↗ have been implemented.

The arbitration case ''Michael Jackson ↗'' has been closed.

20px|alt= ↗ '''Miscellaneous'''

The 2026 Developing Countries WikiContest ↗ will run from 1{{nbsp}}July to 30{{nbsp}}September. '''Sign up now ↗'''!

10 candidates have been appointed ↗ to the U4C.

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