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Protect Jartypory

People keep vandalizing Jartypory. canadachick (talk) 18:36, 24 December 2025 (UTC)

 Not done but watching. While it appears the article is being vandalised by lots of different people, in reality it is likely only two different editors at worst. This can be addressed by blocks instead. --Ferien (talk | join TBA!) 13:08, 26 December 2025 (UTC)

End-of-year RfDs

Greetings all, I hope you all had a Merry Christmas for all those who celebrate. As of yesterday, all RfDs set in 2025 now have an expected closure date in 2026. While the RfD closer script now accounts for this, if you are closing RfDs remaining from this year manually, it is important that, when you delete the article, you ensure you are linking to the RfD page for 2025 and not 2026 in your delete reason. Other than this, you should treat RfDs as you usually would. Looking forward, it might be a good idea to include a prefill option for the year before in our delete reasons, however this applies to <2% of our RfDs each year. --Ferien (talk | join TBA!) 13:05, 26 December 2025 (UTC)

@Ferien: Would you mind pointing to documentation on using the closer script? Thanks. -- Auntof6 (talk) 01:47, 27 December 2025 (UTC)

Auntof6, I don't think there is any documentation on it that I can find. I personally still close RfDs manually. --Ferien (talk | join TBA!) 12:30, 27 December 2025 (UTC)

BarrasBot removing stale requests

I am not sure it's a good idea for BarrasBot to remove stale requests on WP:VIP. Here are two cases where I believe leaving the request would have been better:

• Special:Diff/10687032 - the temporary account has continued to vandalize after the report was removed
• Special:Diff/10689964 - the report was based on the IP range which had edits going back at least a month (according to the filer, I can't confirm myself). Waiting eight hours would be insufficient.

canadachick (talk) 07:19, 27 December 2025 (UTC)

The second one is definitely way too stale for a block to be considered. Their last edit was in November 16, over a month at this point, and since the issue is cross-wiki, a report to SRG would have been better. — *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 07:31, 27 December 2025 (UTC)

In the case of the first one it would have been stale at the time but needed to be watched so removing it was indeed to no benefit. Overall I do agree it should be up to admins to decide whether a report is stale or not almost all of the time, and there was a consensus that that was the case on previous VIP bot requests. There have been quite a few times now where good reports have been removed by the bot and having to check back in the history to find older reports is not a good use of time. --Ferien (talk | join TBA!) 17:07, 27 December 2025 (UTC)

Flood

If there is an admin around who could grant me the flood flag for approx 1/2 hour, I would like to make ~69 changes to remove "Monster Energy" from the "Monster Energy Nascar Cup Series" title on the pages listed at Special:WhatLinksHere/Monster_Energy_NASCAR_Cup_Series. All would be changed to simply NASCAR Cup Series. The Branding is now years old and the name should be updated. It's an uncontroversial change, often in the infobox. If I don't hear back within the hour I'll try again later, unless somebody else gets to it. Thanks. --Gordonrox24 | ^Talk 07:46, 27 December 2025 (UTC)

@Gordonrox24  Done, let me know if you need me to extend it or if you're done with it. — *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 08:04, 27 December 2025 (UTC)

@Fehufanga All done. Much appreciated. I found a ton of mistakes to fix in this process..... Some day I will return to deal with those. The monster name remains on many pages in the form of categories, and they will need to be updated as well. But that should be done without Flood, I think. Thanks alot. --Gordonrox24 | ^Talk 08:41, 27 December 2025 (UTC)

@Gordonrox24: Also be aware that the rule of thumb is to use the flood flag if you're going to do more than about 100 similar uncontroversial changes, so it would have been OK for you to go ahead with those without the flag. Yes, people sometimes complain if they see any repetitive changes, but 100 changes in recent changes isn't really that much. -- Auntof6 (talk) 14:06, 27 December 2025 (UTC)

• It would be helpful I think if I could also have somebody import en:Template:NASCAR Cup Series races to Template:NASCAR Cup Series races. There isn't much that requires simplification here, it is just current data. Our data is many years old. I can do it manually, but importing it may be the more correct option to carry over attribution. --Gordonrox24 | ^Talk 09:45, 27 December 2025 (UTC)

   Done -Barras talk 11:26, 27 December 2025 (UTC)

Template:track listing doesn't work

Happy holidays! I was using Template:track listing when I noticed the writer_n, lyrics_n and music_n parameters don't work. I checked other articles with the template to see if I was doing anything wrong, and none of them had the parameters show up either. Writing. credits are valuable information in music, so I'm wondering if anyone can fix this Lord Petrus Steele (talk) 18:35, 27 December 2025 (UTC)

Lord Petrus Steele, thank you for letting us know. I imported some of the templates/modules used on that template again from enwiki, and the issue now appears to be fixed. Let us know if there are any more issues. --Ferien (talk | join TBA!) 20:10, 28 December 2025 (UTC)

Concerns over User:Werner100359's Patroller Rights

I was going through several of Werner100359's articles earlier, and I have several concerns over them having patroller rights.

Just by looking at their articles from the past month alone, there have been several issues across multiple of them, including forgetting punctuation (Katja Wienerroither, Moses Häusler), the placement of references in articles (SV Gloggnitz), forgetting to add Template:Reflist in articles (Stefan Skoumal), not using en-dashes for dates in infoboxes (Rudolf Schlauf, Heribert Sperner, although I've noticed a majority of their articles have this issue), not tagging articles as stubs, even though they should be (Leonhard Machu, Anton Wegscheider), and even straight-up having wrong information in articles (this edit on Riquelme (footballer, born January 2006), where he put the player as being born in Burkina Faso, despite actually being from Brazil). Additionally, I've gone through several of their older articles, and I've noticed several with similar issues listed above (primarily the issues with en-dashes), which is concerning since they've had patroller since 2011.

I understand they've create a large amount of articles (currently 1177, with almost 200 in the past year alone), and I respect the work they do when it comes to Austrian football here, but I feel like these issues can't be overlooked. Also, I know I'm now an admin here and can just remove it myself, but I'd much prefer to have a second opinion here before I do anything. ShadowBallX (talk) 20:48, 27 December 2025 (UTC)

@ShadowBallX: after a quick look through, I agree with what your concerns. The autopatrol permission mainly exists to make sure people are creating pages that don't need any or need very little review and this isn't the case here. Werner100359 could get patroller again in the future if the issues improve, these certainly aren't issues that can't be fixed over time, and I don't want this to reflect too badly on them given how much work they've done on this wiki. By the way, your comment pretty much says so but never be afraid to get a second opinion - actions like this especially are much harder to quickly reverse than they are to do, so there is no rush in doing this. It is probably even worth hearing what Werner has to say before taking action. --Ferien (talk | join TBA!) 20:58, 27 December 2025 (UTC)

Im not so worried about stub tags or dash type, but the rest are pretty bad. I'd support a removal of permissions for now. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 22:55, 27 December 2025 (UTC)

I've gone and removed their rights. As I said here and on their talk page, if their articles become immediately patrollable, they can regain the patroller right at any time with no opposition from myself. --Ferien (talk | join TBA!) 22:09, 1 January 2026 (UTC)

Lua error

Pages like Talk:Julius Caesar have a Lua error on {{Translated page}}. It says "This Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module Module:Pagetype/setindex not found. contains a translation of Julius Caesar from en.wikipedia." I think an admin needs to import something. canadachick (talk) 07:02, 30 December 2025 (UTC)

@Canadachick The error is not caused by the Lua template itself, but because the cache of the page hasn't been cleared after the template was import earlier today. — *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 13:52, 30 December 2025 (UTC)

User:Cewbot

one day, User:Cewbot

• added the unsigned templates to a sandbox (MediaWiki talk:Blockedtext/sandbox), it is vandalism.
• accidentally misleads the sandbox as my comments, this is also misleading.
• accidentally signed my comment while testing. this is an edit conflict and vandalism.
• added a notice to User talk:AV Commons. this is incoherent, deliberately, and unrelated to reporting mistakes by AntiVandal. this notice was later identified as vandalism.
• then signed back my test page as a comment, this broke formatting and vandalized the page.

maybe, it is incoherent, potential vandalism, and misleading. ~2025-40595-29 (talk) 22:44, 31 December 2025 (UTC)

maybe it should be warned like {{Uw-vandalism1}}, {{Uw-test1}} or {{Uw-spam1}}. ~2025-40595-29 (talk) 23:15, 31 December 2025 (UTC)

This is a bot, it doesn’t “understand” warning so there is not point doing that. PieWriter (talk) 00:46, 1 January 2026 (UTC)

@~2025-40595-29 I am pretty sure the bot thinks that all the edits on talk pages will be comments, therefore it signed your edits. PieWriter (talk) 00:45, 1 January 2026 (UTC)

that was a mistake ~2025-40595-29 (talk) 17:51, 1 January 2026 (UTC)

Cewbot (block)

if this bot is breaking templates like MediaWiki talk:Blockedtext/sandbox, please disable this bot in order to prevent vandalism. ~2025-40595-29 (talk) 18:00, 1 January 2026 (UTC)

@~2025-40595-29, Why did you put your template sandbox on a talk page? Shouldn't you use MediaWiki:Blockedtext/sandbox as a testing space? The problem is that the talk pages are for discussions and the bot is misinterpreting your edits as comments that should be signed. Ternera (talk) 22:03, 1 January 2026 (UTC)

Please don't use talk pages for testing sandboxes. What was wrong with using MediaWiki:Blockedtext/sandbox? The bot is doing exactly what it is supposed to do, reminding users to sign posts in talkspace. It's certainly not vandalism.

I'm not sure why it posted to that users talk page. Perhaps that is a better question for the bots operator. Kanashimi. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 22:28, 1 January 2026 (UTC)

the sign comment reminder is invalid.

this page MediaWiki talk:Blockedtext/sandbox is a sandbox, no signature required, no need to add comments and no need to add unsigned templates. ~2025-40595-29 (talk) 23:30, 1 January 2026 (UTC)

Not quite. It is the talk page of a sandbox. Why are you using this for testing? The bot is programmed to give signature reminders in talk spaces.

This is no different from any other talk page. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 09:15, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

Protect

Please protect Charlie Kirk. PieWriter (talk) 01:09, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

It doesn't appear like the vandalism is difficult to keep up with right now. Usually protection is only added if we cannot keep up with the level of vandalism. Ternera (talk) 01:22, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

Okay, I am sorry for disturbing you. PieWriter (talk) 04:06, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

No worries! Ternera (talk) 15:54, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppetry and POV pushing

I am reporting three users for suspected sockpuppetry and disruptive POV pushing on the page 2025 India–Pakistan conflict.

Users involved:

• The OSINT Guy (talk · contribs)
• HarryinLondon (talk · contribs)
• Rhi12345 (talk · contribs)

Behavior: All three accounts appear to be Single Purpose Accounts (SPAs). They have only edited the "2025 Indo-Pak conflict" page and have no other contributions.

User The OSINT Guy who created their account yesterday, made the same edit as user HarryinLondon They both deleted over 700 bytes of content, claiming the sources were not credible, even though the sources are reliable. Rhi12345
TP discussion will be help full too

And almost all in their edits they mostly trying to delete the content and all 3 is Mobile users. Please have a look.

Update:~2025-42149-27 this ip user has now joined this disruption. This IP address made theexact same edit he deleted the same data with same excuse without any evidence. Same editing behavior

Update 2: User HarryinLondon (talk · contribs) has returned just now to continue the POV pushing. In this edit , they removed sourced text from The Washington Quarterly This confirms the disruption is ongoing and the user is refusing to edit neutrally. And he's claiming Pakistan lost 5 aircraft without citing any neutral source.

Zubarkokar (talk) 20:18, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

That might be something for the checkuser to explore. Please see WP:RFCU. -Barras talk 11:16, 4 January 2026 (UTC)

Ok Zubarkokar (talk) 11:23, 4 January 2026 (UTC)

The same IP continusly removing the sources and adding unsourced data, again. isn't we could add the page protection? On this page? Until the inquiry is ongoing. Zubarkokar (talk) 13:24, 4 January 2026 (UTC)

Import needed

I need help of an admin to import all the templates for Template:Time zone/zone.tab cols wiki6 from english wiki. PieWriter (talk) 09:45, 4 January 2026 (UTC)

 Done -Barras talk 11:19, 4 January 2026 (UTC)

Error with {{talk header}}

I have noticed some errors with {{talk header}} on a few pages, but can't work out the cause. Talk:Top of the Form (film) is the one I can find most easily - I know it's G8 but IAR for the moment, please :D (unless we can find another example of it not working, as viewing it in Preview doesn't reproduce the error). Could someone help find the error - it seems to mention Module:Pagetype/setindex which I was going to import but Auntof6 had already imported about a week or so, perhaps as a result of the same error? --Ferien (talk | join TBA!) 01:41, 5 January 2026 (UTC)

Ah, the "error" I noticed earlier was on Talk:Tirey L. Ford with it mentioning WP:N but this is not related (and looking at the source, not an error) - so the above example is actually the only page this has been an issue on. --Ferien (talk | join TBA!) 01:43, 5 January 2026 (UTC)

@Ferien: Yes, I imported it to try to clear that error, even though we don't use set index pages. I saw the error on multiple pages. I just cleared it on Talk:Computer and Talk:Astronomy by clearing the cache. -- Auntof6 (talk) 01:59, 5 January 2026 (UTC)

Auntof6, hmm, I see - that fixed it for me as well. Odd. Thanks! --Ferien (talk | join TBA!) 02:00, 5 January 2026 (UTC)