User talk:Eejit43

Temporary account IP viewer granted

Hello, Eejit43. Per your request, your account has been granted temporary-account-viewer rights. You are now able to reveal the IP addresses of individuals using temporary accounts that are not visible to the general public. This is very sensitive information that is only to be used to aid in anti-abuse workflows. Please take a moment to review Wikipedia:Temporary account IP viewer for more information on this user right. It is important to remember:

• You must not share IP address data with someone who does not have the same access permissions unless disclosure is permissible as per guidelines listed at Foundation:Policy:Wikimedia Access to Temporary Account IP Addresses Policy.
• Access must not be used for political control, to apply pressure on editors, or as a threat against another editor in a content dispute. There must be a valid reason to investigate a temporary user. Note that using multiple temporary accounts is not forbidden, so long as they are not used in violation of policies (for example, block or ban evasion).

It is also important to note that the following actions are logged for others to see:

• When a user accepts the preference that enables or disables IP reveal for their account.
• Revealing an IP address of a temporary account.
• Listing the temporary accounts that are associated with one or more IP addresses (using the CIDR notation format).

Remember, even if a user is violating policy, avoid revealing personal information if possible. Use temporary account usernames rather than disclosing IP addresses directly, or give information such as same network/not same network or similar. If you do not want the user right anymore then please ask me or another administrator and it will be removed for you. You may also voluntarily give up access at any time by visiting Special:Preferences. Happy editing! Extraordinary Writ (talk) 00:15, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

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Upside down Vermont

I don’t remember why I was on your user page recently (I think there was some IP I wanted to warn you about. That’s usually why I go to user (talk) pages. Or maybe I needed help with something or wanted to thank you for smth.) but I thought of your funny things section just now, and I have a submission for you:

• Manchester Shitty FC (diff)

I also noticed, looking for your account, that “Upside-down Vermont” actually redirects to New Hampshire. (I remembered you had “literally upside down Vermont” in your list of funny things)

I hope this amuses you. Happy editing,

Slomo666 (talk) 15:10, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

Nevermind: I do remember and I thought it was also somewhat important:

An (unanswered) request was archived from module talk college color (the same day that this request was posted) and I saw at the time you were the most recent person to post there.

I wasn’t certain if I should do something (the reason I was there at all was bc I was responding to edit retweet) like de-archive that post or if I should close it while keeping it archived.

I wanted to ask you since I know literally nothing about modules and assumed someone actually active on that talk page there would know better. Slomo666 (talk) 15:18, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

@Slomo666 Thanks for the note about "upside-down Vermont", that's funny it exists as an actual redirect!

I may refrain from adding your submission however as I'm generally trying to keep similar talk page comments from that list so as to not encourage people to comment such things (despite the fact that having a list at all is still contrary to WP:DENY and the fact that I already have some talk diffs linked...). I might reconsider, so thanks for sending that my way! Always happy to take submissions.

In regards to the talk archival, I've restored it from the archive to Module talk:College color. If that happens, the thread need to be restored, and a comment should be left to prevent re-archival. I've modified the archival time so hopefully that doesn't happen as frequently. ~ Eejit43 (talk) 18:59, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

I am happy that I amused you

Sorry, I did not think. Of course suggesting a repeated (idk if you saw that, but it was re-reverted at least once) offence of vandalism threatens promoting/rewarding it. I also would never presume to be in any position to submit to your list. It is *your* list. I just thought of you(r page) when going through some of my own history.

Yes thanks for taking my worries about that away. I was a bit worried that I was negligent in not acting immediately, (I was also already almost asleep haha) but I am technically not that competent when it comes to this specific kind of restoration, and I was afraid I’d do something wrong. Slomo666 (talk) 20:56, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

Absolutely no worries at all, to both aspects. You are welcome to submit things for me, and you also have no obligations to fix issues like with that incorrect archival. You have no specific responsibility to the wiki, and it is likely that someone else will come along and fix things if you don't. Not to advocate for ignorance of course– asking for help and bringing it to another's attention is always the right way to go! Thank you :) ~ Eejit43 (talk) 21:42, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

I already found some more funnies. I'm surprised some of these aren't yet in your list, since they're quite old and not reverted. (I reverted the latest topic). Slomo666 (talk) 17:41, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

Huh, interesting. A lot of love for burgers it seems! ~ Eejit43 (talk) 18:35, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

Guide to temporary accounts

Hello, Eejit43. 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

• Administrators may grant the temporary account IP viewer (TAIV) user right to non-administrators who meet the criteria for granting. Importantly, an editor must make an explicit request for the permission (e.g. at WP:PERM/TAIV)—administrators are not permitted to assign the right without a request.
• Administrators will automatically be able to see temporary account IP information once they have accepted the Access to Temporary Account IP Addresses Policy via Special:Preferences or via the onboarding dialog which comes up after temporary accounts are deployed.

Impact for administrators

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

Rules about IP information disclosure

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

Useful tools for patrollers

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

Videos

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

Further information and discussion

• For more information and discussion regarding this change, please see the announcement from the Wikimedia Foundation at Wikipedia:Village pump (WMF) § Temporary accounts rollout.

Most of this message was written by Mz7 (source). Thanks, 🎃 SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 02:47, 31 October 2025 (UTC)