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SPI

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Is it possible to block User:Comintell based on the behavior evidence provided earlier and at this SPI. They are now requesting NPP and AfC reviewer rights. Jeraxmoira🐉 (talk) 17:23, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Meanwhile, Marnie Hawes has returned using IP address 103.216.56.28 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) to restore their paid spam edits. GSS 💬 03:54, 5 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@GSS: Looks like someone beat me to the thing from your email.
No comment on the alleged LOUTSOCKing by Marnie Hawes, sorry – for NDA compliance reasons, I avoid commenting on suspected logged-out activity associated with cases where I've previously used CU. --Blablubbs (talk) 15:38, 5 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Question

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Hello, can you lead me to the relevant SPI on this user? [1] I couldn't find it in the archives.. [2] Makeandtoss (talk) 14:22, 9 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Makeandtoss: There is no filing for that specific account; I found and blocked it outside of SPI. --Blablubbs (talk) 15:11, 9 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Makeandtoss: I'll respond to your e-mail here. As indicated in the block log, the block is based on checkuser data linking the account to Red Slapper. There is no requirement that checks and checkuser blocks be preceded by SPI filings. --Blablubbs (talk) 15:59, 9 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sock suspect

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User:Dooblts is a sock puppet of User:Dabuno , who is constantly vandalising wikipedia 2409:4085:1E03:E54C:192:38AF:4B56:E1BB (talk) 02:47, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Sock of a sock

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You blocked Lexarike (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), looks like Lemmaille (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is the same. Figured I'd give you a heads up in case you need to make note of anything. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 19:24, 11 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

User talk:Swiftozis

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Block notice isn't on talk page, and did you mean to tag the userpage to show the SPI? I was going to check myself but didn't get around to it so I'm very interested! Doug Weller talk 15:26, 17 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Doug Weller: Huh, looks like twinkle bugged. Should be fixed now. I didn't intend to tag (and there's no SPI), but feel free to do so if you'd like. --Blablubbs (talk) 18:26, 17 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I may co an SPI tomorrow as I’ve been assuming they were a sock. Doug Weller talk 18:57, 17 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

91.230.225.0/24

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91.230.225.0/24 (talk · contribs · WHOIS)

Can you block this IP range again? It's still a webhost and there have been recent disruptive edits from there. Thanks. 73.67.145.30 (talk) 19:15, 23 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked, thanks. --Blablubbs (talk) 12:13, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Sockpuppet case

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Hello. You've commented in this user's case in the past [3], could you please take a look at the evidence of new suspected sockpuppets? The overlap, editing similarities, timings, etc, are too common. I think a CheckUser is needed. Thank you. KhndzorUtogh (talk) 06:26, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Happy 3 Year Adminship Anniversary!

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Happy Adminship Anniversary!

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vanadalising act

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people are delibertely adding afd to all new articles without properly reviewing. This is a new form of vandalism. Ustadeditor2011 (talk) 11:29, 28 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No, Ustadeditor2011, that is not what is happening. Someone nominated the article for deletion based on a good faith concern that it doesn't meet our criteria for inclusion. If you disagree with them, you are free to express that at the AFD discussion, but you may not simply remove the discussion template, and you may not accuse other editors of vandalism without very good reason. --Blablubbs (talk) 11:36, 28 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Not populating

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This is why I thought I need to restart Firefox. Good to know it wasn't just me. I've never had the issue before and I routinely put things in different buckets like that. Izno (talk) 02:31, 4 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Izno: I didn't spend much time debugging but yeah, I'm pretty sure something about the specific format of this page is throwing off the parsing – the odd thing is that nothing about it looks obviously wrong to me. The tab indents and hidden comment next to "Brased123" might be it? --Blablubbs (talk) 09:19, 4 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yup, either the comment or the whitespace, and I'm willing to bet it was the comment. Weird failure case. Izno (talk) 18:22, 4 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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BGerdemann (WMF) (talk) 19:23, 23 October 2024 (UTC) [reply]

Global block

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Hello, I'm afraid the tech is quite beyond me but I have found myself globally blocked by you, despite having been an editor in good standing for some 17 years. Not complaining but is there anything you can do to remove the block? I've tried appealing but I have to copy and paste an inordinately lengthy appeal reference in order to verify the appeal and my IT system does not permit of such copying and pasting. I suppose the whole point may be to prevent the technically illiterate from editing Wikipedia, in which case it is serving its purpose… 45ossington (talk) 22:40, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, @45ossington. I'm sorry to hear you're facing issues with editing.
Two notes for background:
  • Your account is not, and has never been blocked. This means that whatever block you're running into is almost certainly related to the network ("IP range") you were trying to edit from, and was not targeted at you specifically.
  • I am an administrator on the English Wikipedia only, so I can not impose global blocks; that's something only stewards can do. If the block message mentioned my regardless, it is likely that both a local and a global block were imposed.
It is hard for me to help directly without knowing the block target (in all likelihood, the IP address or range you were trying to edit from). If you are unwilling to post this publicly (and sharing it on WP:UTRS is not an option because of technical issues), you could email it to me here. Once I know the target, I'd be more than happy to investigate. Before we go down that road: Were you attempting to edit while a VPN service (or similar "anonymiser") was active on your computer? If you were, you may be able to resolve the issue by turning off the service, clearing your browser's cookies, and waiting some time.
Best, --Blablubbs (talk) 10:50, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hello; thank you very much for taking the time and trouble to respond. In fact, my appeal appears to have been dealt with, despite my failure to verify it, and I have been told:

"Looking at our logs, it appears the IP address that you are editing from belongs to a proxy service. Open or anonymizing proxies, including VPNs, iCloud Private Relay, Tor, and web hosting services, are blocked from editing Wikipedia. While this may affect legitimate users, they are not the intended targets. No restrictions are placed on reading Wikipedia through an open or anonymous proxy. Although Wikipedia encourages anyone in the world to contribute, open proxies are often used abusively. MediaWiki, the wiki software that powers Wikipedia, depends on IP addresses for administrator intervention against abuse, especially by anonymous users. Open proxies allow malicious users to rapidly change IP addresses, causing continuous disruption that cannot be stopped by administrators. Several such attacks have occurred on Wikimedia projects, causing disruption and occupying administrators who would otherwise deal with other concerns. Unfortunately, you will not be able to edit while using this open proxy."

I am not conscious of using a proxy service or VPN or web-hosting service on my ipad and I have no idea how to recognise such a thing, let alone how to remove it, or what the other consequences of removal might be. I therefore seem to be stuck. I appreciate that Wikipedia does not impose these general rules for fun. Do you know if it provides idiot-proof advice to the technologically challenged about the practical steps which have to be taken to regain access? 45ossington (talk) 12:01, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@45ossington, if you're on an iPad and haven't consciously installed an anonymiser, the issue may be with iCloud Private Relay, which is a proxy service developed by Apple and shipped with iOS.
I don't have any experience with it as an end user, but Apple's support website provides information on turning it on and off at https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/ipad/ipad49894edb/ipados . --Blablubbs (talk) 13:40, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you v much again; I'll try that. 45ossington (talk) 18:06, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Blabblursary

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Sdkb talk 05:30, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Happy First Edit Day!

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Quarry query

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Hey there, Blablubbs,

So, here's my query, right here. I was trying to see how many CSD G13 page deletions I've done this year which are the bulk of my page deletions. But this query resulted in a severe undercount so I'm not sure what I did wrong with the code here. For a long time, I've been interested in getting a type breakdown of my page deletions from CSD to PRODs and AFDs although I don't think this query can discern PRODs and AFD deletions. What do you think? Liz Read! Talk! 02:35, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Liz -- The problem is the log_namespace = 2 constraint, which limits the search to the User: namespace. This query should be more accurate (the "namespace" column takes "2" for userspace G13s, and "118" for draftspace G13s). I hope this helps? --Blablubbs (talk) 11:02, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
RE: Breakdown by type: Thst should be doable by checking the deletion summaries for various substrings; I don't know SQL well enough to do it efficiently in a quarry (though I imagine it's quite doable), but I'll grab a dump of all your deletions and see what I can do. --Blablubbs (talk) 12:23, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Liz: I ran some analyses on the data from this query. I classified these into belonging to different deletion processes by parsing the summaries, looking for (1) comments that match a CSD criterium (i.e. the letters G, U, A, F, R, C, X, or T, followed by one or two digits), (2) comments that match "PROD" or "proposed", (3) comments that match "AfD", "Articles for Deletion" or variants thereof (e.g. "articles_for_deletion"), and (4) comments that match a different deletion venue (RfD, TfD, MfD etc.). Here's a breakdown by process for the entire time period; I collapsed non-AfD discussion venues into a single category, and separated G8 from other CSDs since G8s are usually associated with some other deletion process:


Process Count Percentage
CSD (Other) 317726 50.76%
CSD G8 261613 41.79%
PROD 24098 3.85%
AFD 12519 2%
Multiple processes mentioned 4221 0.67%
Other discussion (MfD/TfD/RfD etc.) 3226 0.52%
No process mentioned 2564 0.41%

If you're curious about counts for individual speedy criteria, here's the 20 that were most frequently mentioned first (where several criteria were mentioned, I only coded the first one and ignored the others).

There are probably some misclassifications in here since it's all based on text matching heuristics, but the overall distribution should be fairly accurate, I think. I hope that's helpful? Let me know if there are any other metrics you might be interested in. --Blablubbs (talk) 11:52, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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User:Toopus

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Hi Blablubbs. I wondering if you'd mind taking a quick look at Special:Contributions#Scoperubus, a day-old account that's creating the same content that Toopus was doing before you blocked them. Is this just a coincidence or is an SPI needed? -- Marchjuly (talk) 08:21, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Just want to let you know about WP:AN#Deleted article question. -- Marchjuly (talk) 13:30, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the note, Marchjuly. I ran a check -- they are indeed the same, and I found some additional others – see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/SarahBill1. --Blablubbs (talk) 17:52, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for taking a look at this. -- Marchjuly (talk) 20:16, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

UTRS appeal #96278

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Can ou help this poor soul? -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 19:19, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Deepfriedokra: Should be sorted, thanks. --Blablubbs (talk) 16:46, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I reopened it; you left a comment in green (to other UTRS reviewers) rather than sending your message to the user. You are welcome to copy and paste the response to the user directly, or release the ticket and I'm happy to do so! --Yamla (talk) 16:48, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Yamla: Drat, I haven't used UTRS in too long. Thanks for catching that. Should be actually sorted now. --Blablubbs (talk) 16:50, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 16:49, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Also thanks from me! Much appreciated. --Yamla (talk) 16:53, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello Blablubbs: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 02:17, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Seasonal greetings!

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Hello Blablubbs: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, 1234qwer1234qwer4 19:56, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Frohe Weihnachten

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A snowy badger for you!
Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and all the best to you in 2025. Spicy (talk) 22:08, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Merry Christmas!

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Season's Greetings (I won't steal Spicy's German)
Merry Christmas! Have a wonderful festive season, and I hope the new year brings you joy and good health. Cheers, Giraffer (talk) 23:57, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sock puppet | New Account

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Dear @Blablubbs,

I acknowledge that I have made mistakes in the past, including the use of sock puppet accounts Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Saishna96 which led to my block. I deeply regret these actions and take full responsibility for violating Wikipedia’s policies.

At present, I do not have any active accounts on Wikipedia. I wish to start afresh and contribute to the community in a constructive and policy-compliant manner. I assure you that I will not create multiple accounts or engage in any activities that go against Wikipedia’s guidelines.

I kindly request an opportunity to demonstrate my commitment to adhering to Wikipedia’s standards. Thank you for considering my appeal. 2409:40F0:3008:5F2A:BC73:6822:1E7B:C982 (talk) 17:07, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Saishna96, if you want to appeal your block, you have to log in to your original account and file an appeal as described at WP:GAB. Logging out to edit constitutes block evasion, irrespective of whether said evasion is acknowledged. --Blablubbs (talk) 15:56, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Happy New Year, Blablubbs!

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Happy New Year!

Blablubbs,
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Phab request

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Hi Blablubbs! Would you be able to add me to the Trusted Contributors group on Phabricator? Thanks! Sdkb talk 04:46, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Sdkb: Done!
Best, --Blablubbs (talk) 22:02, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Bobanfasil

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Indianfootballfan29

(keeps coming with sleeper accounts) 93.140.145.117 (talk) 21:56, 26 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

If you have evidence, please compile it and file it at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Bobanfasil. --Blablubbs (talk) 14:28, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Precious anniversary

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Precious
Four years!

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BLP revdel on Lily Phillips

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Could you take care of this diff [4] too? Thanks. Parksfan1955 (talk) 10:56, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done, thanks. --Blablubbs (talk) 22:27, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Message

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Bobanfasil&oldid=1081122694

(this user has more "sleeping socks")

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Randomediter371 93.143.57.185 (talk) 14:50, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to make a report concerning this master, please do so on the SPI casepage and include evidence. Thanks, --Blablubbs (talk) 15:39, 6 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Canoooo.4

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Regarding this edit - Canoooo.4 has been blocked for disruptive editing, so presumably that 0-edit sleeper is now to be blocked? - The Bushranger One ping only 03:21, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@The Bushranger: Done, thanks for the note! --Blablubbs (talk) 09:13, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Old - Possibly related sock investigations

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Hi @Blablubbs! Sorry to bother you but, I noticed that a wiki page (Talk:Baron Teynham) had been tagged for deletion in April 2021 and via checking the account (User:Historymix) that had put the request in, noticed that it was linked to a sock investigation you worked on back in 2021 as part of your clerk training process: WP:Sockpuppet_investigations/Alibarzanjilo/Archive

I was wondering if the accounts could possibly be related at all to this newer sock investigation which touched a few of the same pages: WP:Sockpuppet_investigations/Preloenber/Archive

As a clerk, do you know if there is a notice board that looks deeper into things like this?

Looking a bit further into it, @User:Anachronist also looks to be dealing with similar issues I've had only over on the Hanna Jaff page. Although I'm not sure if the WP:BLP situation is a bit different considering their notability. But I wonder if that page is also seeing a continued effort from socks, despite it being 3-4 years on. SummersRising (talk) 19:11, 2 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Gosh, I hadn't looked at Hanna Jaff in over a year. Your ping made me go in again and revert some recent changes (minor things but overall not improvements) made by someone who last year wanted to rename the article to include her new aristocratic title. ~Anachronist (talk) 00:54, 3 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry @Anachronist that wasn't meant to create more work for you. More that you had been dealing with a similar back and fourth over kind of the same topics! It looks like you've been reverted already as well. SummersRising (talk) 07:59, 3 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry for the delayed response, @SummersRising! A bit of a blast from the past you got there – I unfortunately don't remember much from that SPI, but I'd be happy to take a look some time in the coming days and, if warranted, consolidate the cases. If there is anything besides the overlap on the Teynham that makes you think these are the same, please let me know – that might help get me up to speed a bit quicker.
As for your general question regarding a noticeboard: There is no venue solely dedicated to case merges, but there are a few good routes you can take:
  • If you have a new, related, account to file anyway, you can tack on the evidence linking the cases and whoever handles it will evaluate the connection
  • You can make a post at WT:SPI asking for input/assistance
  • You can reach out to a clerk or CU directly (ideally one familiar with the case)
I'll also note that, broadly speaking, pursuing merges tends to only really be worth it for cases that are ongoing (i.e.: if two cases technically belong together but haven't had any activity in years, it's probably fine to just let it be). --Blablubbs (talk) 12:16, 5 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Blablubbs thank you for the thorough reply! I had no idea there had been previous cases involving the page so thought it would be best to ask, just in case the same group had decided to pick up where they left off. As for the connection, both the previous investigation and the new one touched on editing in claims of abuse. The same claims being edited in are also ongoing on the Hanna Jaff page, but it's being dealt with by @Anachronist from the looks of it.
We have a talk going on the Teynham page with a few admins chiming in on issues, but it seemed diligent to check if it's also a group meat/sock puppet effort still active over other related pages using other accounts.
Please let me know if there's any additional information you need! 12:33, 5 June 2025 (UTC) SummersRising (talk) 12:33, 5 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

New pages patrol May 2025 Backlog drive

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

Administrator changes

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2025

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

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Guideline and policy news

  • 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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Arbitration

  • An arbitration case named Indian military history has been opened. Evidence submissions for this case close on 8 June.

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2025

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A barnstar for you!

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The Admin's Barnstar
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Administrators' newsletter – August 2025

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

Guideline and policy news

  • Following a request for comment, a new speedy deletion criterion, G15, has been enacted. It applies to pages generated by a large language model (LLM) without human review.
  • Following a request for comment, there is a new policy outlining the granting of permissions to view the IP addresses of temporary accounts. Temporary account deployment on the English Wikipedia is currently scheduled for September 2025, and editors can request access to the permission ahead of time. Admins are encouraged to keep an eye on the request page; there will likely be a flood of editors requesting the permission when they realize they can no longer see IP addresses.

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New pages patrol September 2025 Backlog drive

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Administrators' newsletter – September 2025

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Happy Adminship Anniversary!

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Wishing Blablubbs a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! -Sincerely and aufrichtig, Babelball | talk 01:38, 11 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

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!!! Giraffer (talk) 10:36, 11 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
<3! --Blablubbs (talk) 08:40, 15 September 2025 (UTC) [reply]

UTRS appeal #106322

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Looks like an LTA to me. Could you comment on the utrs ticket as to who this might be? Thanks. -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 21:00, 13 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Deepfriedokra: Thanks, I've left a comment. --Blablubbs (talk) 13:19, 14 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – October 2025

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

Administrator changes

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Arbitration

  • After a motion, arbitration enforcement page protections no longer need to be logged in the AELOG. A bot now automatically posts protections at WP:AELOG/P. To facilitate this bot, protection summaries must include a link to the relevant CT page (e.g. [[WP:CT/BLP]]), and you will receive talk page reminders if you forget to specify the contentious topic but otherwise indicate it is an AE action.
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Happy First Edit Day!

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Happy First Edit Day!

Have a very happy first edit anniversary!

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Happy First Edit Day!

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Happy First Edit Anniversary Blablubbs 🎉

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Hey @Blablubbs. Your wiki edit anniversary is today, marking 11 years of dedicated contributions to English Wikipedia. Your passion for sharing knowledge and your remarkable contributions have not only enriched the project, but also inspired countless others to contribute. Thank you for your amazing contributions. Wishing you many more wonderful years ahead in the Wiki journey. :) -❙❚❚❙❙ GnOeee ❚❙❚❙❙ ✉ 19:03, 28 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Guide to temporary accounts

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Hello, Blablubbs. This message is being sent to remind you of significant upcoming changes regarding logged-out editing.

Starting 4 November, logged-out editors will no longer have their IP address publicly displayed. Instead, they will have a temporary account (TA) associated with their edits. Users with some extended rights like administrators and CheckUsers, as well as users with the temporary account IP viewer (TAIV) user right will still be able to reveal temporary users' IP addresses and all contributions made by temporary accounts from a specific IP address or range.

How do temporary accounts work?

Editing from a temporary account
  • When a logged-out user completes an edit or a logged action for the first time, a cookie will be set in this user's browser and a temporary account tied with this cookie will be automatically created for them. This account's name will follow the pattern: ~2025-12345-67 (a tilde, year of creation, a number split into units of 5).
  • All subsequent actions by the temporary account user will be attributed to this username. The cookie will expire 90 days after its creation. As long as it exists, all edits made from this device will be attributed to this temporary account. It will be the same account even if the IP address changes, unless the user clears their cookies or uses a different device or web browser.
  • A record of the IP address used at the time of each edit will be stored for 90 days after the edit. Users with the temporary account IP viewer (TAIV) user right will be able to see the underlying IP addresses.
  • As a measure against vandalism, there are two limitations on the creation of temporary accounts:
    • There has to be a minimum of 10 minutes between subsequent temporary account creations from the same IP (or /64 range in case of IPv6).
    • There can be a maximum of 6 temporary accounts created from an IP (or /64 range) within a period of 24 hours.

Temporary account IP viewer user right

How to enable IP Reveal

Impact for administrators

  • It will be possible to block many abusers by just blocking their temporary accounts. A blocked person won't be able to create new temporary accounts quickly if the admin selects the autoblock option.
  • It will still be possible to block an IP address or IP range.
  • Temporary accounts will not be retroactively applied to contributions made before the deployment. On Special:Contributions, you will be able to see existing IP user contributions, but not new contributions made by temporary accounts on that IP address. Instead, you should use Special:IPContributions for this (see a video about IPContributions in a gallery below).

Rules about IP information disclosure

  • Publicizing an IP address gained through TAIV access is generally not allowed (e.g. ~2025-12345-67 previously edited as 192.0.2.1 or ~2025-12345-67's IP address is 192.0.2.1).
  • Publicly linking a TA to another TA is allowed if "reasonably believed to be necessary". (e.g. ~2025-12345-67 and ~2025-12345-68 are likely the same person, so I am counting their reverts together toward 3RR, but not Hey ~2025-12345-68, you did some good editing as ~2025-12345-67)
  • See Wikipedia:Temporary account IP viewer § What can and can't be said for more detailed guidelines.

Useful tools for patrollers

  • It is possible to view if a user has opted-in to view temporary account IPs via the User Info card, available in Preferences → Appearance → Advanced options → Tick Enable the user info card
    • This feature also makes it possible for anyone to see the approximate count of temporary accounts active on the same IP address range.
  • Special:IPContributions allows viewing all edits and temporary accounts connected to a specific IP address or IP range.
  • Similarly, Special:GlobalContributions supports global search for a given temporary account's activity.
  • The auto-reveal feature (see video below) allows users with the right permissions to automatically reveal all IP addresses for a limited time window.

Videos

  • How to use Special:IPContributions
  • How automatic IP reveal works
  • How to use IP Info
  • How to use User Info

Further information and discussion

Most of this message was written by Mz7 (source). Thanks, 🎃 SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 02:48, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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