Meters

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Grey High School Edits

Why does there have to be a wikipedia article for a person when there is clearly a credible link with reference to the person's credentials as cited. Is that not what the citing function is for? There is in fact an article on Wikipedia for Mickey Gerber but it is in french and Wikipedia doesn't allow it to be linked anyway. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2C0F:F4C0:A14B:DDF0:F4E6:5CF5:795B:129B (talk) 23:21, 6 October 2024 (UTC)

1. As several notes say, don't post on this page unless my main page is protected, which it is not.
2. New posts go at the bottom of the page, not the top. I have moved iit.
3. Please sign your talk page posts.
4. As for your edits, no, it is not sufficient simply to show that an alumnus is a high level athlete to show notability. We do not presume notability simply because someone is a professional athlete. See WP:WTAF. And please stop claiming people are alumni without any evidence. If their article does not contain a reliable source showing their attendance then you must add a reliable source to the school article. See WP:V Meters (talk) 00:07, 7 October 2024 (UTC)

Moved from my protected talk page Meters (talk) 08:52, 28 August 2025 (UTC)

Hello

I remove tags on pages I believe have been handled. Feel free to put back the tags if you think the tag has not been resolved. Thanks. DentistRecommended (talk) 10:23, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

And I warned you because some of those tags were clearly still warranted. Meters (talk) 10:26, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

ETSTransitFan1996

I hear that New Flyer D40LF's are actual ETS Buses. They mistook themselves by putting a D40LFR image on the "Riding ETS" page, as that image is supposed to be a New Flyer D40LF. I will check on the ETS Website. @Meters ETSTransitFan1996 (talk) 21:28, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

What does this have to do with the fact that you added unsourced content that contradicted the existing ref? Meters (talk) 21:38, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

Because the D40LF's are actual 40-foot low-floor buses. ETSTransitFan1996 (talk) 06:08, 29 January 2025 (UTC)

Again, this has nothing to do with what I warned you for. Meters (talk) 06:38, 29 January 2025 (UTC)

bishop cotton boys school

can I now add Manohar Chatlani to notable Alumni list after citing adequate references Bingchungus (talk) 22:26, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

yes. Meters (talk) 22:46, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

Thank you, boss. Bingchungus (talk) 06:41, 23 January 2025 (UTC)

related to addition of Manohar Chatlani to Bishop Cotton Boys' School's alumni list. Manohar Chatlani subsequently deleted at AFD Meters (talk) 11:08, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

Poem deleted

Hi, Meters, I noticed you removed the poem "Oh No! It's Jamie!" at the user's talk page? It was a poem of appreciation. So what should I do if I want to send that poem to them? 103.150.52.126 (talk) 06:55, 26 January 2025 (UTC)

It looked like trolling to me. Meters (talk) 07:18, 26 January 2025 (UTC)

OP blocked 3 yrs as LTA Meters (talk) 08:13, 12 June 2025 (UTC)

Lawrence 979

That user above does not read the sources in the VHS article carefully. 35.136.190.243 (talk) 20:08, 3 February 2025 (UTC)

World Blitz Championship + Question On Deleted Page

I have brought my points to the article's talk page regarding our discussion on the splitting of the title to Magnus and Nepo. We can discuss it further there.

I also have a question, I see you are quite experienced. I was trying to find one of the first pages I edited, (The Emotron's Teenage Jesus). I have searched for it, yet I cannot find any discussion as to why the page was deleted, the page itself or any information regarding it. I only have the Playlist of the Album which was compiled by me (Link to album). I would like to know why this page was deleted, and where I can find any information on it. Bloodyfist (talk) 19:57, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

There's no need to tell me this here. I'm the one who asked you to discuss it on the article's talk page. You don't have to tell me that you are doing so here, and on your page, and attempt to ping me to the article's talk page too.

I se no evidence that Wikipedia ever had an article about an album called Teenage Jesus by a group called The Emotron. There was an article about Emotron and one titled The Emotron. Emotron was speedily deleted under criterion WP:A7 (no indication of importance). The Emotron was first speedily deleted under criterion WP:G11 (promotional), and then another version was deleted at AFD. See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Emotron (2nd nomination). Meters (talk) 20:50, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

Article in question is World Blitz Chess Championship Meters (talk) 02:46, 6 February 2025 (UTC)

Christian Brothers High School (Memphis, Tennessee) rivalries

Hey, I just wanted you to check and see if the Christian Brothers High School (Memphis, Tennessee) page is looking better with the resources I fixed. I'm still iffy about the one I used for the Saint Benedict at Auburndale rivalry. Dizzlessportsmatrix (talk) 00:17, 7 February 2025 (UTC)

Please add new threads at the bottom of talk pages (I've moved it), use headers (I've added one), and use diffs or links (I've added a link as the header). Meters (talk) 07:05, 7 February 2025 (UTC)

1. The MUS/Christian Brothers ref https://www.localmemphis.com/article/sports/high-school/christian-brothers-mus-rivalry-memphis/522-b06ce1c3-e1e8-405a-b6df-0fb439ff8472 is good.
2. The Briarcrest/Christian Brothers ref https://www.localmemphis.com/article/sports/briarcrest-christian-brothers-hs-football-ready-to-renew-rivalry/522-cff3ba3a-2327-4997-a67c-16fd9d2bb4ed is weak. No discussion of a long-term rivalry or history, just quotes from couple of players.
3. The St. Benedict at Auburndale/Christian Brothers ref https://amyosport.com/rivalry.php?rival=83084&sportID=5#google_vignette is even weaker. There is no mention of any significant rivalry. It's nothing but a database of results in one sport for two teams that play each other two three times a year. For all I can tell the website uses the saem "rivalry" terminology for the results between every two teams. Meters (talk) 07:23, 7 February 2025 (UTC)

Dallas Texans (NFL) original research

Hi Meters! I hope you are doing well. Sorry to go over this again. But it appears when I made unsourced claims about the Dallas Texans (NFL) article, that while I did make an unsourced claim, but that wasn't just the only issue, another issue (That I realised) that is I published original research, and I believed my research (That they were the last big 4 team to fold without another team continuing their legacy/records) was true, it appears that I conned myself🤦. If we make original research claims, but no source makes the claim, it probably isn't true, or isn't notable. Thank you. Hope you have a great day Servite et contribuere (talk) 10:26, 16 February 2025 (UTC)

ANI

Someone's complaining about your edits concerning common years on ANI. Acroterion (talk) 14:44, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

Thanks. Meters (talk) 21:54, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

Christian Brothers High School (Memphis, Tennessee)

I know you've given me links to look at in the past but can u give me something to read so I can understand the rules better? I don't want to continue making your job frustrating and I don't want you to hate me. It's time for me to stop throwing pity parties and hold myself accountable because I understand that I'm on some really thin ice here. Dizzlessportsmatrix (talk) 23:54, 3 March 2025 (UTC)

For the second time, please add new threads at the bottom of talk pages (I've moved it), use headers (I've added one), and use diffs or links (I've added a link as the header).

Why don't you undelete the material from you talk page and start with those links. I'm not interested in repeating myself. Meters (talk) 00:00, 4 March 2025 (UTC)

How would I be able to take down a wikipedia page that was made w/out consent?

How? MrVC25 (talk) 04:55, 5 March 2025 (UTC)

Why would you think that Wikipedia needs anyone's consent for there to be an article? There are ways to get articles deleted for various reasons, but consent is not a reason. Exceptions are sometimes made for articles about living people who are only marginally notable and request that their article be deleted. Meters (talk) 05:00, 5 March 2025 (UTC)

Isnt that crazy it fits exactly like my story? MrVC25 (talk) 05:14, 5 March 2025 (UTC)

Just FYI the article in question is slated for deletion review down the road as one of User:Lugnuts non notable creations. It's way down the list but eventually. Moxy🍁 05:16, 5 March 2025 (UTC)

Thanks. I'm not surprised. A PanAmerican medal and Olympic participation in a team rowing event didn't seem to cut it. Meters (talk) 05:23, 5 March 2025 (UTC)

Wondering if we should move quicker on this one to avoid more interactions like this. Will ask the wiki project tomorrow. Moxy🍁 05:24, 5 March 2025 (UTC)

User has already started Draft:Wiki Meters. Meters (talk) 05:29, 5 March 2025 (UTC)

Hi Meters! Honestly, this draft page about you is so ridiculous and non constructive that I honestly think it should be either nominated for deletion or rejected for publishing. Thank you. Servite et contribuere (talk) 09:15, 5 March 2025 (UTC)

I agree. It's obviously never going to be accepted, and it only exists as a WP:POINTY attempt at harassment. If the user keeps this up they will be at ANI. Meters (talk) 20:08, 5 March 2025 (UTC)

@Moxy and Servite et contribuere: Draft in my name deleted after Moxy's speedy nomination. User given COI notice and final warnings for disruption and personal attacks by deleting admin user:DoubleGrazing. Thanks all. Meters (talk) 21:17, 6 March 2025 (UTC)

Antonio Riaño PRODed by Moxy, Unsourced draft about Antonio's son and OP's fatherDraft:Antonio Riano Borges currently consists of nothing but an infobox, with no apparent claim to notability. Meters (talk) 21:21, 6 March 2025 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:Antonio Riano Borges Moxy🍁 21:32, 6 March 2025 (UTC)

Damn the glaze is crazy MrVC25 (talk) 05:08, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

I have no idea what that means, but if you harass me again by creating another draft in my name I will report you to WP:ANI and request that you be blocked. Meters (talk) 05:34, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

Unc calm down it means that you guys are caring too much about a DRAFT that hasn't even been submitted for review yet MrVC25 (talk) 05:46, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

Also you told me I could. The switch up when moxy said they could get me blocked is crazy MrVC25 (talk) 05:51, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

MrVC25 Honestly, you should calm down, you are the one that is caring too much. Servite et contribuere (talk) 05:52, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

MrVC25 You care about harassing other users that disagree with the edits you have made. Please stop harassing other editors like Meters. Remind yourself that Wikipedia editing is not a game but about making articles right, not the way you think they should be. If you are writing about your family without a reliable source, then you are publishing original research which is against Wikipedia's policies. Servite et contribuere (talk) 05:59, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

gee willickers MrVC25 (talk) 06:00, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

I like how you completely ignored this MrVC25 (talk) 06:03, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

Enough. MrVC25, stay off my talk please. Meters (talk) 06:06, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

OP indef'ed by DoubleGrazing Meters (talk) 08:16, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

Cairo High School

Hi Meters. Would you mind taking a look at Cairo High School? I came across it via recent questions about some files being used in it asked at WP:MCQ. The article appears to have recently been expanded quite a bit by Gumby-andrit in good faith, but it also has needed to be cleaned twice for copyvios. The formating of the some of the sections is something that should be routine enough to fix, but some of the content (even if not a copyvio) might need some rewriting. FWIW, I'm asking you since, if I remember correctly, you have lots of experience with high school articles and are also pretty good at explaining to others why their edits might not be OK without hitting them with a ton of bricks from the very get go. If it's better to ask about this at WT:SCHOOLS instead, please let me know. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:19, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

@Marchjuly: I'm heading out, but I'll take a detailed look later today. There's definitely some weird html-style formatting that needs to be cleaned up, even if the content turns out to be fine. A bit odd to see a user return after years of inactivity. Meters (talk) 23:02, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

Done Meters (talk) 08:12, 8 March 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for taking a look at this. -- Marchjuly (talk) 08:32, 8 March 2025 (UTC)

ip adress vandalizing

i see you reverting this guys edits is there any way we can get in contact with someone who can block them because it is constant and im sure you're tired of reverting them Bastubunny (talk) 04:39, 19 March 2025 (UTC)

AIV is not picking up so I made a short request at ANI. We could also contact a currently active admin (see ). I don't think juvenile stupidity such as this would qualify for an email to the emergency email. Meters (talk) 04:55, 19 March 2025 (UTC)

lol good luck with that man respect for fighting the good fight i gtg Bastubunny (talk) 04:59, 19 March 2025 (UTC)

And blocked. Meters (talk) 05:00, 19 March 2025 (UTC)

Sears

Since you seem to be closely monitoring the Sears page, can you take a look at this sentence and figure out a better way to say it, given that Sears in Mexico and Central America are totally different company(s?) from Sears in the US? (But Puerto Rico *is* part of the US Sears)

"Sears operates in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Puerto Rico." Ron Newman (talk) 11:25, 19 March 2025 (UTC)

Yeah, that's a problem. We should not say that "Sears operates" in Mexico, Guatemala, or El Salvador if they are now seperate companies. How about something like "Former Sears divisions are still operating in Mexico, Guatemala, and El Salvador; however, these are no longer part of Sears."? We would need sourcing.

It appears that there is still one Sears store in Puerto Rico, or at least there was as of 2024. The website https://www.searspr.com/ is still up. Meters (talk) 05:52, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

Yes, Sears in Puerto Rico is still part of US Sears. Sears in Mexico is not (and is thriving under separate ownership). I know little about the Central American stores. Ron Newman (talk) 16:22, 23 March 2025 (UTC)

This article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears_in_Latin_America says that Sears closed recently in El Salvador, but doesn't provide a source for that information. I'm also finding a Reddit thread saying it's closed, and Google Maps says it's closed, but those aren't Wikipedia-quality sources. Ron Newman (talk) 16:36, 23 March 2025 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

		The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		For reverting the vandalism on my talk page while I was sleeping. It's always nice to wake up to see fellow editors sticking up for me, especially since that sort of homophobic vandalism is deeply offensive to me on a personal basis. Cheers! JeffSpaceman (talk) 11:49, 22 March 2025 (UTC)

@JeffSpaceman: You are welcome. None of us should have to put up with that sort of trolling abuse. Since whoever it is has used multiple IPs over several days you could ask for your talk page to be protected again at WP:RPP. Meters (talk) 03:33, 25 March 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for the advice. I think I will let it go for now, since the IP user did not edit my talk page at all yesterday, which could be a sign that the harassment is subsiding. If it resumes any time soon, though, I will likely consider requesting protection. JeffSpaceman (talk) 11:21, 25 March 2025 (UTC)

Hey there!

Left a few comments on your edits on the Talk:Farrington High School page. Let me know if you have any questions or concerns. Best regards, Theadventurer64 (talk) 05:16, 4 April 2025 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 16 April 2025

Since references on the Grey High School website have been ignored and information on the page removed as a result citing "no evidence of attendance", could the references of notable alumni also be reviewed in the same manner for articles "Grey College, Bloemfontein", "Paul Roos Gymnasium", "Paarl Gimnasium", "Paarl Boys' High School", "Selborne College", "St. Andrew's College, Grahamstown", "Wynberg Boys' High School", "Rondebosch Boys' High School", "South African College Schools", "Diocesan College", "King Edward VII School, Johannesburg", "St Stithians College" and "Parktown Boys' High School" 2C0F:F4C0:A14C:EC10:3885:4EF6:FB9D:27BE (talk) 21:42, 16 April 2025 (UTC)

Please provide diffs to the edits in question.

Please provide links to the articles in question.

Please do not misuse edit request templates. You are saying that my talk page is protected, and asking that it be edited. I doubt that any of the articles are protected.

No, I'm not going to review all of the alumni entries on 13 different articles for you. If you think there are problems with any of the entries then remove them yourself.

If you complaining about my recent removals from Grey High School then you are out of luck. None of the three alumni had an article to show their notability, and only one had a source which confirmed their attendance. Meters (talk) 07:42, 17 April 2025 (UTC)

Hey there!

Apologies if I'm doing this wrong. On the Milton_High_School_(Georgia) page, you removed an entry for an alumni Nadine Jolie Courtney. I added it back because it's cited in her book All-American Muslim Girl published by Macmillan in 2019. I added the citation. Thanks. 172.91.132.21 (talk) 01:46, 23 April 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for adding the citation. Meters (talk) 06:55, 23 April 2025 (UTC)

Megafauna Man vandal

Hi Meters. I saw that you reverted some vandalism on the talk page of 149.108.201.116... which they reposted, so I reverted it again. This looks like the infamous "Megafauna Man" vandal - have you seen them before? I've reverted a few IP talk pages with the same junk in recent months. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 16:10, 27 April 2025 (UTC)

@Drm310: Thanks for the tip. No, I've never run across them before. Is there an SPI? All I can find in the archive that mentions "megafauna" is Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Roqui15 and it's not an obvious match. Meters (talk) 21:25, 27 April 2025 (UTC)

No SPI that I know of, because I can't find any named accounts that do this - just IPs. Recent examples include:

• 149.108.165.80
• 149.108.166.124
• 149.108.135.52

From 2022, I found 140.0.2.206. It sounds like Apokryltaros has crossed their path a few times too. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 03:12, 28 April 2025 (UTC)

I also found some talk back in 2010 (Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Birds/Archive 50) of a megafauna category vandal, not sure if it's the same person or not. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 03:20, 28 April 2025 (UTC)

This is the same person: another one of the MOs is to use their IP's talkpage as a sandbox for their inanity. Mr Fink (talk) 14:41, 28 April 2025 (UTC)

@Apokryltaros: Was there ever discussion about opening a sockpuppet or LTA case, or are these incidents just spread too thinly over time? It looks at one point, someone created a filter to stop the category abuse. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 22:15, 28 April 2025 (UTC)

I think there has been talk about a LTA case, but I mostly just revert everything, and then either report them at the Administrator intervention against vandalism noticeboard or to an admin while mentioning that the Megafauna Man Vandal is back. No other method is effective short of banning the 139 to 149 series of IPs forever, given as how the vandal always returns either when a block expires or when it hops to another IP in those series. Mr Fink (talk) 22:42, 28 April 2025 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

		The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		For taking care of that homophobic vandalism on my user talk page. I'm glad to see other users, whether LGBTQ, ally, or just against vandalism and personal attacks, not stand for this kind of treatment of editors. Thank you so much. JeffSpaceman (talk) 22:16, 3 May 2025 (UTC)

You are very welcome. The account in question was indeffed, talkpage access was removed, and the edit was rev-deled within 10 minutes. Meters (talk) 02:43, 4 May 2025 (UTC)

777

explained in detail, asked the OP to drop this twice, and they are still at it and still apparently see links where none exist

Hi Meters,

I would like to propose that the article for 777 is put on the "see Also" section of the page for numbers in the 700's; yes 777 is discussed in the 700 page but it is a very cursory overlook of the number. It only states "The numbers 3 and 7 are considered both "perfect numbers" under Hebrew tradition.", and some basic mathematical information about it, whereas the page for 777 itself has a ton of cultural and sociological information about the number. I hope we can have a productive conversation about this. Polkol777 (talk) 18:53, 10 May 2025 (UTC)

No, it should not be linked in the "See also" section. If you want to link it then add the link where we mention the number. Meters (talk) 20:26, 10 May 2025 (UTC)

Please elaborate on why it is not appropriate for that section. 777 is already linked in the part of the page with 777 but having it in two places means people who are curious are more likely to find it. Polkol777 (talk) 20:34, 10 May 2025 (UTC)

No, it should not also be linked in both places. As MOS:NOTSEEAGAIN says: As a general rule, the "See also" section should not repeat links that appear in the article's body.

And no, 777 is not "already linked in the part of the page with 777". We discuss it, we give references, but we do not link. Again, If you want to link it then add the link where we mention the number. Meters (talk) 20:46, 10 May 2025 (UTC)

I've added the link to 700 (number) for you. Meters (talk) 20:52, 10 May 2025 (UTC)

You're confusing me here. At first you say it shouldn't be linked there and then say the reason is that it already appears in the text, which is fair enough, despite my disagreement. But then you say that it isn't even linked at all in the body, which would invalidate your point about how it should not be in two separate places in the article, but is also untrue! To quote the article, in the section directly after 776: "Main article: 777 (number)

777 = 3 × 7 × 37, sphenic number, Harshad number, palindromic number,". 3333 in senary (base 6) counting. Polkol777 (talk) 20:53, 10 May 2025 (UTC)

Read what I just wrote: I've added the link to 700 (number) for you. The link was not in the article where we discuss the number when we started this discussion. Now it is. I added if for you because you seemed unable to understand the difference between mentioning the number and linking to it. Now please drop this. Meters (talk) 21:04, 10 May 2025 (UTC)

The link to 777 was actually in the article before this chat, and at the start of this chat, here is a link to an older version of the page from February with it https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=700_(number)&oldid=1277239489. Is the difference between mentioning the number and linking to it the difference of if it is a "Main article: 777 (number)" vs just linking it like this: "777 = 3 x 7 x 23"? My only other question now is: if 777 wasnt linked at all in the article, why wouldnt it belong in the see also (as in the wikipedia rule as to why)? Polkol777 (talk) 23:32, 10 May 2025 (UTC)

No, there was no link to 777 (number) (or to the piped version 777) in the article when we started this discussion, and there was no link in your linked version of the article from February either. If there were they would show up as blue hypertext links. For the second time, please drop this. I've wasted more than enough time having you try to convince me I'm wrong. See MOS:LINKSTYLE for what regular and piped links look like in wikitext; either [[777 (number)]] or [[777 (number)|777]] in this case. These would display as the blue, clickable hypertext links 777 (number) or 777 respectively.

As for your second question, we don't use see alsos for something we already discuss in the article. If it's discussed in the article and we want to link it then, for the third time, If you want to link it then add the link where we mention the number. Meters (talk) 02:52, 11 May 2025 (UTC)

There was, but lets just agree to disagree then. I actually tracked down the version of this page which added the 777 link! https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=700_(number)&oldid=612192927. The editor even helpfully tagged their edit that added the link as: "wikilinks to integer pages". However the link on the number 777 itself was later removed and replaced with a "Main page" notice just above it.

Thanks to the answer for my second question. Polkol777 (talk) 04:34, 11 May 2025 (UTC)

Kettering High School

Southfield School, Kettering was known as Kettering High School until around 1974.46.18.177.138 (talk) 12:33, 15 May 2025 (UTC)

So what? Kettering High School is in Michigan, United States. Southfield School, Kettering is in England. There is no connection between the schools, and there is no point in adding a see also. Meters (talk) 06:28, 16 May 2025 (UTC)

People with the same names have a 'See also' link, it's fairly common. The geography does not matter, and never has done. All of my edits have been largely valid, but your edits have not been? Unless I am wrong? 46.18.177.138 (talk) 08:28, 29 May 2025 (UTC)

You are wrong. See also sections usually include links to other articles that include information that might be included in if the article were to be fully expanded. There is no reason that we would ever include information about Southfield School in England in the article about Kettering High School in Michigan, so there is no need to have it linked in the "See also" section. If there are articles about people that have a see also simply because of a name coincidence, then those should be removed too. Meters (talk) 20:08, 29 May 2025 (UTC)

OP blocked one month for block evasion. Meters (talk) 19:58, 11 June 2025 (UTC)

Kate Beckinsale

Is there a specific Wikipedia policy expressly prohibiting the listing of advertising credits in an actor's filmography? I looked and did not find one, but if there is one, why have mentions of her advertising credits been retained for many years under "Modelling" at the bottom of "Career?" ~ Cryogenator (talk) 06:59, 25 May 2025 (UTC)

It appears that you added this in 2024, and it has been removed multiple times, by multiple editors. Take it to the talk page and see if there is consensus to keep this. Meters (talk) 07:15, 25 May 2025 (UTC)

Again, is there a specific Wikipedia policy expressly prohibiting the listing of advertising credits in an actor's filmography? I looked and did not find one, but if there is one, why have mentions of her advertising credits been retained for many years under "Modelling" at the bottom of "Career?" I did not write that section and it goes back many years. It includes some of the same advertising work I included but has not been removed, including by the editors who removed the section I added. I note that both editors who removed that section have an ideological opposition to advertising in general indicated on their pages, and one of them seems to support communism, so I think these are biased edits.

I'll request a consensus on the talk page, but is consensus required to retain something that isn't in violation of Wikipedia policy?

For now, I will readd the section on availability I created and which was removed without any explanation other than a uselessly vague rhetorical exclamation of "What on Earth???" from the same editor who removed my section on her advertising credits. ~ Cryogenator (talk) 07:44, 25 May 2025 (UTC)

OP warned for personal attacks. Meters (talk) 20:33, 25 May 2025 (UTC)

No personal attack was made. Please stop harassing me. ~ Cryogenator (talk) 21:03, 25 May 2025 (UTC)

And I consider that another personal attack. Meters (talk) 20:10, 29 May 2025 (UTC)

And much of it isn't even sourced. Meters (talk) 07:17, 25 May 2025 (UTC)

I can easily add sources. ~ Cryogenator (talk) 07:54, 25 May 2025 (UTC)

Seven months, and no attempt to restore this with new sources. Seems dead. Meters (talk) 08:30, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

High School Sports

I have managed to create a spreadsheet that will automatically format all the data from the GHSA of high school championships (Working on getting other athletic associations) into a wiki table. I wish to use something similar to the table found on the Midtown High School and Saint Pius X CHS in GA. What is the best way to format this table and add a note for years in which it was tied. Is it also important to add the classification at which these titles were earned (2A, 3A)? While this is possible it would be very difficult to add. BabaYagaUSA (talk) 18:04, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

I actually don't like tables such as the one in Midtown High School (Atlanta). There's far too much blank space and too many pointless entries. There are 23 sports in that table, and only two of them actually mention titles. A bulleted list of sports competed in is much cleaner, and easier for editors to update. Include the titles in the same list if there are just a few, or in a seperate list of titles if there are lots, and be done with it.

I have no idea which article you mean by Saint Pius X CHS. I looked at several possible articles and none of them have tables of athletic titles. Meters (talk) 03:42, 6 June 2025 (UTC)

I've nuked that table from Midtown High School (Atlanta). All the information was redundant. I've also removed the lower level finishes, and the improperly claimed girls' title (the GHSA does not list this school as having won the girls' track team title in 1988). Meters (talk) 04:00, 6 June 2025 (UTC)

This is the one I was talking about. St. Pius X They won in 1988 under their former name Grady. I would like to make them have table because it is much more clean. Would it make more sense to only have sports in which the school has achieved a state championship? Should I also ignore classification? Should I also include the titles from schools that merged into the school to form the other or only ones who has changed names? BabaYagaUSA (talk) 11:58, 6 June 2025 (UTC)

I've already given you my opinion on such tables. Bulleted lists are simpler to update and less cluttered with pointless lines and blank spaces. Please don't make tables.

We want to list all of the sports the school participates in, regardless of whether they have won titles, which is one of the reasons tables don't work well.

If a school has been renamed then include titles under the previous name. If schools have merged into a new school then it is probably best to only include the post-merger titles. Meters (talk) 20:51, 6 June 2025 (UTC)

Hello

Since I deleted the "Model Years" on the Kia Sorento, I suppose we can settle this. 2601:280:5000:8650:BD20:6253:B8B7:C8BD (talk) 00:02, 10 June 2025 (UTC)

No, simply removing all mention of model years is not a solution. And please read WP:BRD. Restoring your edit after it has already been undone is not appropriate. Discuss it on the article's talk page. Meters (talk) 03:42, 10 June 2025 (UTC)

I gave birth date for Cyndi Tang

But this time it's more accurate 2601:280:5000:8650:CFC2:AA91:9D50:D638 (talk) 04:09, 14 June 2025 (UTC)

You didn't source it last time, and you didn't source it this time either. And the fact that you changed the supposed birth date with each edit is a good example of why we don't accept unsourced personal information. Meters (talk) 04:14, 14 June 2025 (UTC)

Actually three unsourced claims of different birthdates now, from the /64. Meters (talk) 04:26, 14 June 2025 (UTC)

Dates for the Iron Age

I corrected the dates for the Iron Age, which were then reverted. But the old ones really are incorrect. Please see this source:

https://www.britannica.com/event/Iron-Age

For example, you can see on the "Quick Facts" on the right panel that the Iron Age continued to ca. 1000AD.

Without this change, the Iron Age wikipedia entry is inconsistent. It (incorrectly) claims that the Iron Age ended around 550BC, and yet further down it (correctly) notes many cases where the Iron Age persisted until at least 800AD, especially in Western Europe. 173.88.129.54 (talk) 13:41, 17 June 2025 (UTC)

Read the article and the ref we use. The various end dates vary significantly, and we discuss this. If you want to change the first sentence of the lead you should discuss it on the talk page.Meters (talk) 20:19, 17 June 2025 (UTC)

Flood myth editor

Not sure what to do about this editor. Doug Weller talk 08:05, 20 June 2025 (UTC)

Blocked for editwarring by Favonian Doug Weller talk 09:24, 20 June 2025 (UTC)

Thanks. They added essentially the same content 7 or 8 times across 3 articles. Meters (talk) 19:54, 20 June 2025 (UTC)

Virgil

Hi! The image was found through Google Creative commons license search and the license states that it is CC 4.0 which does allow users to redistribute photos. Noogometni urejevalec (talk) 21:33, 27 June 2025 (UTC)

Where is the license information? Wikipedia Commons may say it is CC 4.0, but I was unable to verify that from the original source. I didn't see it when I checked the image source's page, and it would be very unusual for a news source to grant free use of their material. Having said that, I don't read the language the site's usage page is written in. Meters (talk) 21:38, 27 June 2025 (UTC)

Page is Virgil van Dijk and image in question is file:Virgil 2025.jpg Meters (talk) 21:42, 27 June 2025 (UTC)

Basic decency

Please add rationale for reverts, even when you think it's obvious. This helps motivate people that add there time to improve this site, especially beginner.

Also, seriously, compare the opening paragraphs of the Britannica page on Leap Years:

https://www.britannica.com/science/leap-year-calendar

Or Encyclopedia Hub:

https://www.encyclopediahub.com/ar316980/

I appreciate what I added may have not been the best it could be, but it's tough not to step on toes while making edits and that page, like many, gets into the minutia and covers all possible usages, before covering the basics. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Porco-esphino (talk • contribs) 21:27, 9 July 2025 (UTC)

1. Please use neutral thread headings. "Common decency" is not.
2. Add new threads at the bottom of the page, not somewhere in the middle. I have moved it.
3. Sign your talk page posts. I have added a timestamped signature.
4. Provide a diff to the edit in question or at least link to the article in question Leap year.
5. You've had an account since 2006. You should not have to be told these things, and you certainly should not need to be treated as a beginner.
6. I did explain why I undid your edit. It was so badly worded that I first reverted it as vandalism, but after rereading your edit I understood what you were attempting to do and immediately left a dummy edit with reasoning for the undo . Meters (talk) 21:46, 9 July 2025 (UTC)

Magnolia677 and Menon

I notice you made a comment on my talk page.

1. I do NOT endorse what Menon is doing on the Canada page, but
2. I AM concerned about Magnolia677's behavior, in particular tagging good-faith edits as vandalism and removing SOURCED content as well as unsourced content

_pbp 23:10, 19 July 2025 (UTC)

Don't bring this to my page. An admin has now warned about this continued harassment of user:Magnolia677. Take the hint. Stop commenting on that user. If anyone does bring Magnolia677 to ANI over this, the behaviour of all of you will be looked at, and I would not be surprised at all if it ends in call for WP:BOOMERANG blocks instead of any sanction for Magnolia677. Meters (talk) 06:18, 20 July 2025 (UTC)

Actually, at least 4 admins have commented on this issue now. Meters (talk) 07:04, 20 July 2025 (UTC)

Concerns contested edit to Jaye Robinson , with resultant warnings or threads at Wikipedia talk:Canadian Wikipedians' notice board, Talk:Jaye Robinson, User talk:WildComet, User talk:Arjun G. Menon, User talk:Purplebackpack89, User talk:Magnolia677, User talk:PopePompus Meters (talk) 07:02, 20 July 2025 (UTC)

Purplebackpack89, PopePompus, and Arjun G. Menon CBANned per Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1195#Coordinated_harassment_against_Magnolia677 Meters (talk) 19:49, 7 August 2025 (UTC)

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There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Rename of Arjun G. Menon to ArtistProgrammer. HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 02:26, 30 July 2025 (UTC)

replied. Meters (talk) 08:08, 30 July 2025 (UTC)

User was allowed to rename their account in spite of being CBANned. Meters (talk) 11:16, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

RE:

Oh, I didn't know that. Thanks for the update. Junket25 (talk) 17:18, 23 August 2025 (UTC)

This concerned a post to an indef'ed editor's page Meters (talk) 03:01, 26 August 2025 (UTC)

Talk page comments

Please don't remove other people's talk page comments as you did at Talk:Rayne High School. FloridaArmy (talk) 21:58, 23 August 2025 (UTC)

Please don't post WP:NOTAFORUM material. Meters (talk) 02:33, 24 August 2025 (UTC)

I have no idea what you're talking about. Junket25 (talk) 19:34, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

@Junket25: Why are you posting this? You are not involved in this thread in any way. I know what FloridaArmy was referring to, and they know what I was referring to. Meters (talk) 23:11, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

CU sockblocked Meters (talk) 11:26, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

aiv

Why do you and your friends keep assuming bad faith on me? Magypsy903 (talk) 09:33, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

I am simply responding to the fact that you inappropriately closed (twice) an AIV report against yourself. You are not an uninvolved person in whatever is going on. Let the admins deal with it. If the complaint is not valid they will not act on it.

And assuming that I am meatpuppetting is a personal attack. You might want to WP:AGF yourself. Meters (talk) 09:38, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

(ec after another post by Magypsy903 was removed by Frost) Enough. I'm not involved in the AFDs. And I'm not trying to get you blocked. It's not a good idea for a brand new editor to start closing AFDs, and it's certainly not a good idea for one to edit war to strike out an AIV report against themself. At this point you might get blocked for your combination of edit warring and personal attacks even if your AFD edits are considered valid. Now please drop this. Do not post about this here again, and do not ping me to your talk page again. Meters (talk) 09:55, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

Indef'ed by HJ Mitchell Meters (talk) 09:57, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

Likely Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/BuickCenturyDriver Meters (talk) 10:02, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

You reverted my request for clarity on "Bruce Nuclear Generating Station"

But you didn't actually update the page description, despite your reversion reason making it clear that you knew the answers to both questions. When will you be adding the requested clarification to the page? (If your answer is "never", then I will put the request for clarification back onto the page.) Rob Kelk 18:18, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

I made it clear in my edit summary that I did not feel there was any need for clarification. There is no need to specify whether a "billion" is a long billion or a short billion. As I pointed out in my edit summary, Canada uses short billions (and so has the UK since 1974 for that matter), and per MOS:BILLION Wikipedia does not use long billions. As for the what type of power is produced, if you feel the need to specify that an electrical power generating station produces electrical power then feel free to do so, but don't clutter the article with a pointless clarification tags asking if the number is in obsolete, non-MOS terminology, or if it's measuring gamma radiation, for example. It's disruptive. Meters (talk) 22:17, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

While it is your personal opinion that thearticle does not need to specifically state that the facility that is home to the Bruce Bulk Steam System does not generate steam power, the ambiguity is present in the article. Either re-word the statement or allow others to ask for re-wording. Rob Kelk 18:54, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

Nice to see that you have now dropped your claim that we need to specify that we are not using the obsolete long billions. As for the power issue, again, if you think it needs to be reworded then go ahead. You apparently know what you think it needs to say, so WP:FIXIT. Meters (talk) 23:35, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

I didn't drop the claim that we need to specify that we are not using the obsolete long billions. I disambiguated it by simplifying the metric prefix -- which somebody else should have done years ago. As for WP:FIXIT, don't complain if I get the science wrong. Rob Kelk 13:27, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

Please stop posting about this here. Meters (talk) 00:20, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

Women in the Bangladesh Armed Forces

@Meters:, Please see the Women in the Bangladesh Armed Forces article, a moving request was placed seven days ago on the page, the move discussion must be closed now. 37.111.200.253 (talk) 06:55, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

Why are you posting this here? I have no involvement in that article or discussion. Meters (talk) 06:58, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not a source

Regarding your revert of an edit because it was “sourced from his page”, please remember that Wikipedia is not itself a source - just because a page has information does not make it proper citation. In this case, it did not matter, and your revert is correct. The information was found in an article referenced within his page. However, it would prudent and a better effort of you to add that in-line citation into the page itself rather than simply revert it back uncited and then warn a veteran user.

Garchy (talk) 00:33, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

• @Garchy: If you are going to quote me, then please do it properly. My edit summary (minor typos now corrected) was the full explanation: "his attendance is sourced in his article. He does not need to have graduated to be considered an alumnus". I assumed that your summary "Not alumnus" meant that you did not know that. Or should I have instead assumed that you didn't bother to look at Alex Karaban's article to see that he did attend Algonquin Regional High School?
• I didn't warn you. I left a polite message explaining that high school students do not need to have graduated to be considered alumni, with a link to WP:ALUMNI. You reverted my post as if it were vandalism, and now you're bringing this to my page?
• The long standing-consensus on alumni lists is that a student's attendance need not be referenced if it is referenced in their article. You would likely know that if you had had much experience with articles that fall under the school projects.
• Your "veteran user" comment is actually quite amusing. You might want to actually look at the other user's edit statistics next time before trying to play that card. You may have had an account for a long time, but you don't have many edits, and almost none for the last eight years. Meters (talk) 01:01, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

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Your edit to the Chanhassen high school page

Hello, I noticed that my edit was removed because it was a lower level score, I understand why you removed it but for many school pages they still include second place wins because they are still quite an accomplishment, I won't revert the edit but I just want your opinion and feedback on what I should do differently. Thank you, Littltimmyxyz Littletimmyxyz (talk) 13:57, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

The norm is to only list the highest possible finishes, i.e., state championships. Other high school articles should not mention lower level finishes either. Meters (talk) 00:27, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

Okay, thank you for the feedback. Littletimmyxyz (talk) 01:37, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

Thanks

Hey Meters,

Just wanted to say thanks for cleaning that up for me. That Prince George fellow seems a bit off his rocker - I have no idea where they came from or what their fixation with my account is.

Thanks again, TimeToFixThis | 🕒 11:45, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

No probs. I wouldn't be surprised to see them back yet again. Meters (talk) 06:22, 27 November 2025 (UTC)

Pima County, Arizona

Would you have a moment to look at the lead section at Pima County, Arizona. Are paragraphs 3 and 4 complete cruft and refspam?? Thanks! Magnolia677 (talk) 16:23, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

@Magnolia677: Yup, that was a mess. Your rewrite is a vast improvement. Meters (talk) 06:21, 27 November 2025 (UTC)

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Btf26482 indef'ed for harassment and personal attacks. Meters (talk) 04:31, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

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Ritchy Dube draft

Hi Meters,

Just wondering why I am blocked and prevented from uploading my article to AfC. I declared my COI, the language is neutral and the material is well sourced. Can't find a volunteer editor either. Ritchy Dube (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 23:51, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

Please add a header when adding a new thread, rather than adding your post to an existing thread. I have added one.

@Ritchy Dube: Please sign your talk page posts. A bot has signed it for you.

You were blocked by user:Izno on Dec 16 as a promotional account. You appealed several times and the block was eventually converted to a partial block (article space) by user:Asilvering on Dec 7.

You are blocked only from article space. Your original draft is at Draft:The Haven by Richard Dube where you moved it. Your latest draft was moved from your sandbox to Draft:Richard Dubé by Asilvering, and you were informed on your talk page . There should be no reason you cannot edit either draft, request edits to them on their talk pages, or submit them. One thing you need to decide is whether you are attempting to write an article about the book, or about you. If you think the book is notable then write an article about the book, showing that it meets WP:NBOOK. Don't attempt to submit it under the name The Haven by Richard Dube. If you think you are notable then write an article about yourself (not about the book), showing that you meet WP:NBIO, or the more specific requirements of WP:AUTHOR. The draft name Richard Dubé is acceptable.

I don't know why you think you need a volunteer editor, but we're all volunteers here, and we work on what we choose to. I can't speak for anyone else, but after seeing posts from you such as:

• So far, I encountered bullies and haters. A bit of a hostile environment you got going on there. and You guys wait till I die and you write lies. That's not cool.
• It looks like you prefer to write about me after I'm dead so you can slander and write BS. and I just want to stick that info up the editors ass before he starts writing.
• Let me give you guidance on ethics now.
• it feels lie [sic] some editors are guilty of conscious or unconscious bias, and engage in cyber bullying. and I am writing my article to protect the integrity of my legacy - that it will not fall into the hands of editors tainted by malice, hate and jealousy. This is my life, my voice, my story and my legacy - not yours. Let's keep it neutral, factual and verifiable please. Misrepresenting my lived epxerience [sic], distorting and hijacking my voice is a form of malicious cultural appropriation. I'm not particularly inclined to spend my time on this. Meters (talk) 01:48, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

You've now been formally warned for assuming bad faith and harassing other editors, and your indefinite partial block has been expanded to include user namespace. Responding on your talk page with more of the same comments is not a good idea . You might want to read WP:IDHT and WP:DROPTHESTICK. Meters (talk) 20:06, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

More personal attacks, a trip to ANI, an indef, more personal attacks, and talk page access removed. Meters (talk) 05:32, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

UTRS appeal denied. Meters (talk) 04:44, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

ANI notice

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Not reporting you, BTW, just that it pertains to a "discussion" of yours. TornadoLGS (talk) 22:11, 26 December 2025 (UTC)

This was Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1210#Harassment by Constable-Savage, in case this user ever restarts with personal attacks. Meters (talk) 04:51, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

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Talk:For a Few Dollars More

I see you removed my comment about the size of the bounty stating it's a not a forum. I must ask where do you people get off removing information? It's not hurting anyone, but it hurt you. Can you show me where it hurt you please? Pointing out that the bounty at the end was very large indeed. I mean I would like to know how a statement of fact is turning the talk page into a "forum" as you put it? I looked at the guidelines for behavior that is unacceptable and you know what I found? Nothing of course that makes what I said a deletion. But you did it anyway? Bless you. Information must scare you. A talkpage is supposed to be for discussing how to make a better encyclopedia article. But we know that's not really the truth. It's not about information, it's about exercising pithy power.~2025-43699-73 (talk) 18:44, 29 December 2025 (UTC)

See WP:NOTAFORUM: "article talk pages exist solely to discuss how to improve articles; they are not for general discussion or voicing opinions about the article topic or anything else." You were not proposing a change to the article, you were simply blathering on about the current value of the bounty. That's clearly NOTAFORUM. And as far as your reading of WP:TALKNO, WP:NOTAFORUM is linked, as is No personal attacks. Please stay off my talk page. Meters (talk) 23:47, 29 December 2025 (UTC)

Supermarine Spitfire

I don't Know If I Should Place The Soviet Air Force (VVS) In The Supermarine Spitfire I Have Made One Change And Added The RAAF The VSS Had A Over 1000 Units But I Don't Know If That Is Major Operator ~2026-48778 (talk) 17:17, 4 January 2026 (UTC)

Answered on your talk page, @~2026-48778. qcne (talk) 17:47, 4 January 2026 (UTC)

Sorry For Incorrect Info In The Chromium (Web Browser) Page

To ~2026-48778 (talk) 16:54, 7 January 2026 (UTC)

OP indef'ed Meters (talk) 23:48, 12 January 2026 (UTC)

Mistake

the royal Australian Air Force was major operator of the supermarine spitfire ~2026-48778 (talk) 18:05, 8 January 2026 (UTC)

Previously explained on the OP's talk page: Please stop adding this. We have already explained that the number of entries in that field is limited. If you don't understand then ask on the article's talk page. Do not continue to restore your edit. OP indef'ed Meters (talk) 21:30, 8 January 2026 (UTC)

Minnetonka High School#Vantage

Hi Meters. Would you mind taking a look at Minnetonka High School#Vantage? The list of courses seems (at least to me) to be a case of WP:NOTGUIDE. I was going to remove it but figured I'd ask someone more familiar with school articles about it first. -- Marchjuly (talk) 10:46, 12 January 2026 (UTC)

I wouldn't remove it myself. It appears to be a list of specialty programs or courses, and I think it's OK, the same way we allow school articles to list Advanced Placement courses but not normal courses. Meters (talk) 09:31, 13 January 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for taking a look. I'm glad I asked for another opinion. -- Marchjuly (talk) 11:50, 13 January 2026 (UTC)

No probs. Meters (talk) 20:03, 13 January 2026 (UTC)

Richard Simmons LTA

CIR editor is back creating a hagiography, this time with the user name User:ILoveRichardSimmons. Same issues as before.

cordially, Augmented Seventh (talk) 18:45, 12 January 2026 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll take a look at the material tomorrow. Meters (talk) 09:23, 13 January 2026 (UTC)

@Augmented Seventh: Sorry, lost track of this one. It's certainly a mess of edits, and the now-blocked user does appear to have been restoring edits originally made the other accounts. I've made a few, mostly relatively minor, edits. How does it look now? Meters (talk) 09:02, 21 January 2026 (UTC)

Waana talk with you

iam a bangladeshi hackers community ceo called cyber villain Ebadatcv (talk) 05:16, 20 January 2026 (UTC)

OP blocked as sock, probably of user:Thebranddunia Meters (talk) 09:46, 20 January 2026 (UTC)

Wanna talk with you

this is our official facebook page please contact  : https://www.facebook.com/cybervillain02 Ebadatcv (talk) 05:18, 20 January 2026 (UTC)

OP blocked as sock, probably of user:Thebranddunia Meters (talk) 09:47, 20 January 2026 (UTC)

Sexy selfie

please refrain from deleting useful stuff. WikiGrower1 (talk) 15:08, 22 January 2026 (UTC)

What part of my addition Stop making this edit. The picture adds nothing useful to the article, and your comment is POV and unsourced. Either follow WP:BRD and discuss your contested edit on the article's talk page or leave it alone to your warning did you not understand? Don't add your own WP:POV interpretations to articles or images. Your image description "Selfie by those two women who were engaged in a very public display of mutual admiration just meters from the crowd on the jetty and were clearly enjoying playing to the gallery" has no place on Wikipedia. Meters (talk) 22:04, 22 January 2026 (UTC)

Images don’t need to be sourced. You can look at the Wikipedia commons for the source. WikiGrower1 (talk) 22:48, 22 January 2026 (UTC)

I didn’t take it. It’s from flicker. WikiGrower1 (talk) 22:49, 22 January 2026 (UTC)

I didn't say that you took it, and it does not matter who took it. The description of the image is unsourced and WP:POV. For that matter, we don't even know that the woman was even taking a selfie. Meters (talk) 05:19, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

OP_blocked for socking. Meters (talk) 21:25, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

Threat

Meters threatens to report me. He even says I’m incompetent for editing, which is harassment. WikiGrower1 (talk) 23:24, 22 January 2026 (UTC)

What I wrote on your talk page was Do you understand that you will be reported, and likely blocked, if you continue this behaviour? After you claimed that It is not almost verbatim. In fact it was independently created. I replied No, your content addition to Income inequality in the United States was not "independently created". If you truly believe that then this is a WP:CIR issue and you should probably not be editing Wikipedia. As I wrote, it was "almost verbatim". I compared the texts. You only made a few minor changes, some of which actually garbled the text. And now you have been warned by an administrator for edit warring, and blocked for personal attacks. Meters (talk) 05:13, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

Your repeated use of LLM comments in a Commons deletion discussion, and your fake closure of that discussion with a forged signature do not bode well for your continued participation at Wikipedia. See https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Files_uploaded_by_WikiGrower1 Meters (talk) 05:48, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

Block extended to indef by user:Yamla Meters (talk) 11:12, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

And now sock blocked as User:Discrimination is real222 Meters (talk) 01:13, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

Lanza

While I agree with a lot of your reasoning ("believed to be Adam Lanza), he's not alive. Acroterion (talk) 23:07, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

Whoops. Major self-trouting in order. Meters (talk) 23:34, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

Even worse, the "believed to be Adam Lanza" was referring to the fact that Lanza was believed to have been the author of the Wikipedia edits in question, not that Lanza was believed to the subject of the image. Meters (talk) 01:33, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

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Stay off my page

Dont add things on my page ok ~2025-37582-89 (talk) 00:22, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

stop denying my requests i gave you a source ~2025-37582-89 (talk) 00:35, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

We have explained to you twice that Virginity does not agree with your preferred definition. There are multiple sources, and they do not all agree, so you cannot make a definitive statement the way you are attempting. For the third time, Virginity makes it clear that virginity "is not an objective term with an operational definition" and that, under some social definitions of virginity, fingering does indeed result in loss of virginity. You might be advised to read WP:IDHT. You've raised this issue more than 10 times on the two talk pages. It's getting disruptive. If you keep it up you can expect to be warned again. Meters (talk) 00:52, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

The only view that counts fisting as loss are among homosexual contexts. For the 5th time my request is that it’s axiomatic among heterosexuals that vaginal fisting protects virginity ~2025-37582-89 (talk) 00:58, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

Your not the sheriff of Wikipedia so get off your high horse and stop bullying people ~2025-37582-89 (talk) 00:59, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

I'm not spending any more time on this. You've made the same request 11 times now, and an admin has posted on your talk page to tell you to drop it. It would be a good idea to pay attention. Personal attacks are not going to help. Meters (talk) 01:02, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

OP already blocked. Meters (talk) 01:03, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

And now indef'ed and talk page access removed. Meters (talk) 01:30, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

IPv6/64 blocked 6 months after socking as user:~2026-67108-9 Meters (talk) 01:45, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

Vandalism by ip user

A particular ip user is constantly vandalising article related to india from hindu-arab numerals to Pell equation,Wootz steel and many others Myuoh kaka roi (talk) 09:02, 2 February 2026 (UTC)

I don't know that I would call most of their edits vandalism as much as POV pushing, but pblocked from article space as a result. Meters (talk) 10:16, 2 February 2026 (UTC)

yeah I agree and that ip user is adding racist comments on the history changes like British living in huts nice that he is blocked and these are bunch of these hindutva nationalist users who want to rewrite the article by their religious agenda Myuoh kaka roi (talk) 10:21, 2 February 2026 (UTC)

Boyle County High School

Hi Meters. If my memory serves me correctly, you do quite a bit on school-related articles. Would you mind taking a look at Boyle County High School, in particular this edit I made removing an unsourced and promotional sub-section about the school's academic team. It look like most of the content was added by UKWildcats1234 in April–May 2025, an SPA with a possible connection to the school (might even be a teacher). The content in question doesn't ever appear to have been supported by any citations and seems like a potential magnet for some namechecking. A short properly sourced paragraph about the team probably would be fine, but what was added seems to have thrown the article out of balance, even if the promotional wording could be cleaned up. FWIW, I only stumbled upon this after seeing User talk:Whpq#Question from HE Sports Desk (23:02, 24 March 2026). If I went too far in removing stuff, please feel free to revert as needed. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:17, 25 March 2026 (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-14

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

Weekly highlight

• The Beta version of Abstract Wikipedia a new Wikimedia project which is language-independent, was launched last week. The project allows communities to build Wikipedia articles in their native language, which can be readily accessed by other users in their own languages. The wiki is powered by instructions from Wikifunctions and also based on structured content from Wikidata. Read more.

Updates for editors

• The Growth team is running an A/B test to evaluate a clearer, more user-friendly message that promotes account creation on wikis. Currently when logged-out mobile users begin editing, they see a jarring warning message that can feel abrupt and discouraging. This also presents temporary account editing as the default rather than encouraging account creation. The test is running on ten Wikipedias, including Arabic, French, Spanish and German. Read more.
• The Wikimedia Apps team is inviting feedback on how editing should work on the Wikipedia mobile apps. The discussion focuses on improving how users access editing tools when they tap "Edit". This is part of a broader effort to convert readers who develop an interest in editing, to access a more user-friendly pathway to start contributing.
• View all 45 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where citation fetching from the large newspaper archive Newspapers.com was no longer working, due to a block in Citoid requests, has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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The Signpost: 31 March 2026

• News and notes: Entirety of Wikinews to be shut down
  All languages to be shut down in May; first AI agent blocked; new name for AfD?

• In the media: AI ban, newspapers disrupt archiving; and antisemitism complaints
  Perennial challenges with AI, demographic representation, and attacks from people buying media influence.

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• Traffic report: Call in the dogs of war, soldier of fortune
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Administrators' newsletter – April 2026

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

Administrator changes

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• Djsasso
• Espresso Addict
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• GeneralNotability
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Checkuser changes

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Oversight changes

Kj cheetham

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Guideline and policy news

• 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.

Arbitration

• 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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Tech News: 2026-15

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

Updates for editors

• The CampaignEvents extension now includes a new group goal-setting feature, enabling organizers to set and track event goals such as the number of articles created and participating contributors in real time. Similarly, participants can work toward shared targets and see their collective impact as the event unfolds. The feature is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. Learn more in the documentation.
• The new watchlist labels feature (announced in Tech News 2026-07) is now available via VisualEditor, the source editor, and the 'watchstar' (or watch link, for skins that don't have a star icon). Previously it was only possible to assign labels via EditWatchlist. In all three places it is a new field following the expiry field.
• View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue where talk pages on mobile with Parsoid are unusable after empty section headers, has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• The sub-referencing feature, which lets editors add details to an existing reference without duplicating it, will be gradually rolled out to more wikis later this year. Wikis using the Reference Tooltips gadget are encouraged to update their version (typically at MediaWiki:Gadget-ReferenceTooltips.js as shown here) to ensure compatibility. Other reference-related gadgets may also be affected.
• All Wikinews editions will be closed and switched to read-only mode on 4 May 2026. Content will remain accessible, but no new edits or articles can be added. This closure was approved by the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation following extended discussions. Read more.
• The Action API has had several formats for requested output. One of them, format=php, is being removed soon. Please ensure your scripts or bots use the JSON format. This removal should affect very few scripts and bots.
• The Special:NamespaceInfo page now includes namespace aliases. For example "WP" for the "Project" ("Wikipedia") namespace on the German Wikipedia.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Tech News: 2026-16

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

Weekly highlight

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

Updates for editors

• On most wikis, all autoconfirmed users can now use Special:ChangeContentModel page to create new pages with custom content models, such as mass message lists, making custom page formats more accessible. Check Special:ListGroupRights for the status of your wiki.
• The Growth team has launched an account creation experiment to evaluate whether adding an account creation button to the mobile web header increases new account registrations and encourages more mobile users to contribute to the wikis. The experiment is currently live on Hindi, Indonesian, Bengali, Thai, and Hebrew Wikipedia, and targets 10% of logged-out mobile web users.
• View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where VisualEditor could get stuck loading on Windows devices with animations turned off, has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• Starting later this week, Edit filter managers who have the ⧼codemirror-beta-feature-title⧽ beta feature enabled will have CodeMirror instead of CodeEditor as the editor at Special:AbuseFilter. This is part of the broader effort to make the user experience more consistent across all editors.
• Tools and bots that access the Notifications API (action=query&meta=notifications) will need to update their OAuth or BotPassword grants to also include access to private notifications.
• Due to a library upgrade, listings on category pages may be displayed out of order starting on Monday, 20th April. A migration script will be run to correct this, and will take hours to days depending on the size of the wiki (up to a week for English Wikipedia).
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Tech News: 2026-17

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

Weekly highlight

• After two years of development, ⧼codemirror-beta-feature-title⧽, also known as CodeMirror 6, is to be promoted out of beta on Tuesday, April 21. It brings better code and wikitext readability, reduction in typing errors, and other benefits to all users of the standard syntax highlighter. A huge thank you to volunteer Bhsd who developed many of the new features, including code folding, autocompletion, and linting.
• A major update to the Wikipedia app for iOS is now rolling out, redesigning the interface to align with Apple's latest "Liquid Glass" visual design. Download the latest version and explore the update.

Updates for editors

• Reading lists is a feature which allows readers to save articles to a list for reading later. This feature is now in beta on Arabic, French, Indonesian, Vietnamese, and Chinese Wikipedias and by default for all new accounts on all Wikipedias.
• An experiment which explores extending Page Previews to mobile web will be launched in the week of April 20 on Arabic, English, French, Italian, Polish, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. Page Previews are pop-ups that display a thumbnail, lead paragraph, and a link to open the full article of a blue link, thereby improving content discovery. The feature is already available on desktop and in the apps. Read more about this experiment and others.
• On several wikis, logged-in editors who haven't confirmed their email addresses can now see a banner encouraging them to do so. Having the email address confirmed allows a user to restore access to the account if they lose it. Learn more.
• View all 15 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where editing very large wiki pages in the 2017 wikitext editor caused slow loading, preview and scrolling lag, and performance issues when selecting, cutting, or pasting content, has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• As part of the promotion of CodeMirror from a beta feature, all users will use CodeMirror instead of CodeEditor for syntax highlighting when editing JavaScript, CSS, JSON, Vue and Lua content pages.
• The mirrors.wikimedia.org service for Debian and Ubuntu users will sunset and stop working on May 15. The resources for the service will be replaced with new and better options. Some users may need to switch to a different server which should take about a minute. You can read more.
• The image and oldimage table will be removed from wikireplicas. If your tools or queries access image or oldimage directly, please update them to use the file and filerevision table before 28 May.
• Following the recent implementation of global API rate limits on unidentified traffic, the Wikimedia Foundation will continue efforts to ensure fair use of infrastructure by applying global limits to identified API traffic beginning the last week of April. These limits are intentionally set as high as possible to minimise impact on the community. Bots running in Toolforge/WMCS or with the bot user right on any wiki should not be affected for now. However, all developers are advised to follow updated best practices. For more information, see Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits and Frequently Asked Questions.
• The Attribution API is now available as a beta. The API fetches information for crediting Wikimedia articles and media files wherever they are used. Reference documentation is available through the REST Sandbox special page available on all Wikimedia wikis (such as the REST sandbox on English Wikipedia). Share your feedback on the project talk page.
• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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The Signpost: 21 April 2026

• News and notes: Six Serbian Wikipedia editors banned following controversy about political bias
  Plus, new bans for AI-generated content in place, a new drop in active admins, pranks on pranks, May admin election, and other news from the Wikimedia world.

• In the media: Could Wikipedia be involved in Massachusetts' proposed social media ban for minors?
  Another regulate-the-internet attempt casts a wide net.

• Gallery: March equinox
  The progression of seasons in March.

• Traffic report: Time to change my galaxy in case, we outta space!
  What catches the reader's eye? Death and film, per usual, and a loop around the moon per unusual.

• Comix: Of skirts and articles
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May 2026 Administrator Elections – Schedule

• The May 2026 administrator elections are set to proceed.
• We plan to use the following schedule:
  • April 29–May 5: Candidate sign-up
  • May 8–May 12: Discussion phase
  • May 13–May 19: SecurePoll voting phase
• If you have any questions, concerns, or thoughts before we get started, please ask at Wikipedia talk:Administrator elections.

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Tech News: 2026-18

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

Updates for editors

• There is a change in how new users are autoconfirmed that will improve anti-vandalism protection. Currently, users who have had an account for a few days and made a few edits are automatically added to the Autoconfirmed users group. This configuration tends to be exploited by some vandals, who create accounts and start to use them only after some time. To mitigate this, the configuration will be updated next week so that – for the purpose of becoming autoconfirmed – the account age will be counted from their first edit, instead of registration date. The numeric value of the age threshold will remain the same. This change will be deployed only to wikis which require at least one edit as part of the autoconfirmation conditions.
• All Wikipedia users with new accounts and those who activated the "automatically enable most beta features" option in their preference can now use the reading lists beta feature to save articles for later reading. This helps organize reading interests in one place for convenient access.
• View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue where infobox images have huge padding in Firefox, has been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• As a reminder, the global API rate limits will be applied this week to identified API traffic. This is to help ensure fair use of infrastructure. Bots running in Toolforge/WMCS or with the bot user right on any wiki should not be affected for now. However, all developers are advised to follow updated best practices. For more information, including the actual rate limits, see Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits and Frequently Asked Questions.
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May 2026 Administrator Election – Call for Candidates

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/May 2026/Candidates.

Here is the schedule:

• April 29 – May 5: Call for candidates
• May 8–12: Discussion phase
• May 13–19: SecurePoll voting phase

Please note the following:

• The requirements to run are identical to RFA—a prospective candidate must be extended confirmed.
• Prospective candidates are advised to become familiar with the community's expectations of administrators, which are much higher than the minimum requirement of having extended confirmed status. This includes reviewing successful and unsuccessful RFAs, reading the essay Wikipedia:Advice for admin elections candidates, and possibly requesting an optional poll on their chances of passing.
• The process will have a seven day call for candidates phase, a two day pause, a five day discussion phase, and a seven day private vote using SecurePoll. Discussion and questions are only allowed on the candidate pages during the discussion phase.
• The outcome of this process is identical to making a request for adminship. There is no official difference between an administrator appointed through RFA versus administrator elections.
• Administrator elections are also a valid means of regaining adminship for de-sysopped editors.

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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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Administrators' newsletter – May 2026

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

Administrator changes

• Deepfriedokra

• EvanProdromou
• Wouterstomp

Interface administrator changes

L235

Chaotic Enby

CheckUser changes

• TheresNoTime
• Versageek

Oversight changes

Moneytrees

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

• 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).

Arbitration

• 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.

Miscellaneous

• 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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Tech News: 2026-19

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

Weekly highlight

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

Updates for editors

• The Product and Technology Advisory Council has published draft recommendations on a model that affiliates can follow when contributing to the technical space. Community members are invited to provide feedback on the recommendation until May 8th on the talk page.
• The number of available thumbnail size preferences in MediaWiki is being reduced to three standardized options—Small (180px), Regular (250px), and Large (400px), as part of ongoing efforts to improve performance and reduce strain on thumbnail services. As a result, existing preferences will be mapped to the nearest new size (for example, smaller selections like 120px or 150px will render at 180px, while larger ones like 300px or 360px will render at 400px). The preferences interface will soon be updated to reflect these changes, and users who wish to opt out or provide feedback can do so.
• From now on, even when a permission expires automatically, users will receive an Echo notification similar to the standard notification for permission changes. There is a difference between this and Global reminder bot in that the latter reminds users a week before the rights are due to expire, so that they can renew the rights.
• View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the problem where the ULS language selector in Special:Translate would scroll vertically when it shouldn't, has been resolved. Previously, when users opened the "Translate to English" dropdown and typed certain inputs, the dialog would scroll vertically by a few pixels even when there was enough space to display all results. The dropdown no longer shifts unnecessarily when filtering languages.
• The Global Watchlist, which lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on a single page, continues to improve. For example, watchlists for Wikibase sites such as Wikidata now support EntitySchema elements for better tracking. The Live Updates mode now refreshes the special page every 60 seconds to comply with the updated global API rate limits for improved real-time responsiveness. Additionally, a directionality bug that displayed links as "changes 3" instead of "3 changes" in mixed-direction lists has been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

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

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May 2026 Administrator Elections – Discussion Phase

The discussion phase of the May 2026 administrator elections is officially open. As a reminder, the schedule of the election is:

• May 8–12: Discussion phase (we are here)
• May 13–19: SecurePoll voting phase
• 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/May 2026/Discussion phase.

On 13 May, we will start the voting phase. The candidate subpages will close 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.

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

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Tech News: 2026-20

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

Weekly highlight

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

Updates for editors

• The Reader Growth team is launching an experiment to test a new Share Card feature that allows readers to create visually engaging cards from Wikipedia articles or selected article sections and share them online, with each card linking back to the original article to help expand readership and article discovery. The mobile-only A/B test will be available to a portion of readers on Arabic, Chinese, French, Vietnamese, and English Wikipedia to better understand reading and sharing habits, and is scheduled to begin the week of May 18 and run for four weeks.
• The Android and iOS Wikipedia apps recently released the 25-day reading challenge into Beta, as part of efforts to drive reader engagement by encouraging users to complete reading milestones. To track their reading streak during the challenge, App users can add a widget featuring Baby Globe to their home screen. The challenge officially begins May 11.
• View all 17 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where the global preference for enabling syntax highlighting in wikitext could unexpectedly disable itself after being turned on, has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• The ResourceLoader module mediawiki.ui.input, deprecated since September 2023, will be removed this week. There is a guide for migrating from MediaWiki UI to Codex for any tools that use it.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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May 2026 Administrator Elections – Voting Phase

The voting phase of the May 2026 administrator elections has started and will continue until 19 May 2026 at 23:59 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:

• May 13–19: SecurePoll voting phase (we are here)
• Scrutineering phase

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

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

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

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New Page Patrol Newsletter - May 2026

Hello Meters,

New Page Review queue November 2025 - May 2026

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

JTtheOG was selected as the NPP reviewer of the year for both 2024 and 2025, for reviewing the most articles amongst all reviewers.

Hey man im josh and 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.

BoyTheKingCanDance, Rosiestep, SunDawn, and 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 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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Tech News: 2026-21

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

Weekly highlight

• The Abstract Wikipedia team has identified five potential pilot wikis to assess their interest in adopting abstract articles on their wikis. The pilots are Malayalam, Bengali, Dagbani, Arabic, and Indonesian Wikipedia. The feedback period will be open until May 22. If your community is interested in becoming a pilot, let us know on Meta.

Updates for editors

• An experiment to show Reading Lists to logged-out readers on mobile web will launch on May 18 across German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, Turkish, and Urdu Wikipedias, and will run for one month. The effort supports broader goals of helping readers save and organize articles for later reading, while encouraging habits that could lead to future Wikipedia contributions.
• To support a bookmark button in the Reading List beta feature, the "Tools > Action" menu has been updated to display icons, including the watch star indicator that helps editors identify temporarily watched articles. The icons now also match those used on mobile, improving consistency across platforms. The change is currently limited to the actions menu and mainly affects editors with privileged user rights.
• Suggestion Mode was released as an A/B test for newcomer editors on the mobile website at ~15 Wikipedias. The experiment will measure the impact that Suggestion Mode has on the proportion of newcomer mobile web edit sessions that result in constructive (un-reverted) article edits. The experiment will also evaluate the feature's impact on editor retention, and monitor changes in revert and block rates.
• View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue in the Wikipedia Android app where images could sometimes fail to load after opening a recommended reading list notification, has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• The Wikidata Platform team has published its backend replacement recommendation and accompanying technical architecture for the migration of the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) away from Blazegraph. Feedback is invited until May 25th 2026, especially on potential gaps and impacts on advanced use cases. Wikidata community members and WDQS users are also encouraged to help identify high-impact tools and workflows that may need attention on this page. Feedback can be shared on the Migration talk page or during the next office hour. See the WDP team newsletter for more details.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• On English, French, Japanese, and a few other Wikipedias, there was a trial of hCaptcha, a third-party bot detection service. The trial showed that hCaptcha effectively detects and deters some bad-faith automated activity, on its own and by giving checkusers and stewards signals to look into. Because the results were positive, hCaptcha will be rolled out across all wikis over the next few weeks. See the hCaptcha project page for technical information about the implementation and privacy protections. Learn more.
• The latest Community Tech update is now available, with progress across several Community Wishlist initiatives, including Reading Lists expansion from the mobile app to the website, new language support for "Who Wrote That" and the Personal Dashboard, improvements to 3D rendering and Charts, and upcoming work on talk page sorting, audio playback, and editing workflows. The update also shares current priorities, wishlist status trends, and opportunities for community feedback on future focus areas and the Wikimedia Foundation’s 2026–2027 Annual Plan. Read the full newsletter for details.

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:20, 18 May 2026 (UTC)

The Signpost: 22 May 2026

• News and notes: Offline: Osama Khalid still in prison
  He has been imprisoned since 2020 for his Wikipedia edits. A fresh campaign is calling for his release.

• In the media: Indonesian editors, you shall return!
  And lawspam, may you be away.

• Disinformation report: Who is a typical paid editor? Who are their typical clients?
  Remember the golden rule!

• Recent research: WikiLambda the Ultimate
  Does Abstract Wikipedia help fight "One ring to rule them all" solutions for knowledge access - or does it implement one itself?

• Traffic report: This is where I'll be, so heavenly, so come and dance with me Michael!
  A real off the wall thriller, invincible, can't beat it, or is it dangerous and just bad?

• Forum: WikiAnnotate: help us build a dataset of article quality evaluations
  A research project to build better automated article assessment tools.

• In focus: Demystifying the 2026-27 Annual Plan
  A guide to WMF's Tech Annual Plan for the next year.

• Opinion: Wikipedia isn't a battleground. So why does it feel like one?
  Do we really have to fight?

• Serendipity: Wikinews: Into the Wikiverse
  The early suggestions for what the wiki could have been.

• Special report: Wikimedia Foundation closes Wikinews after 21 years
  Displaces 700 active editors among 31 language editions.

• Community view: Wikipedia's traffic drop: more on languages and freshness
  Which topics are dropping, and is the pattern the same everywhere?

• Gallery: Earth Day and Mother's Day
  Earth Day was on 22 April, and Mother's Day was on 10 May (in the US and many other countries).

• Comix: Brother, can you spare a page?
  What would you say?

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Tech News: 2026-22

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

Weekly highlight

• Following a successful account creation experiment, an improved logged-out edit warning message will be deployed to all Wikimedia wikis in the first week of June. The change will only affect logged-out users on mobile web who open an editing session. The updated experience is designed to encourage account creation more clearly, while still allowing users to edit with temporary accounts. Results from the experiment showed a significant increase in account creation, with a 27% relative lift among users shown the updated message. As expected, as more people funnel into account creation, temporary accounts decreased by a relative 16%. The experiment did not show any significant changes in constructive edit rates or other monitored contributor metrics.

Updates for editors

• For security reasons, members of certain user groups are required to have two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled. Members of these groups will be unable to disable the last 2FA method on their account, and it will be impossible to add users without 2FA to these groups. Users will still be able to add new authentication methods or remove them, as long as at least one method is continuously enabled. In the next few weeks, users without 2FA will be removed from these groups. Notably, this applies to bureaucrats. See the linked tasks for deployment schedules.
• WMDE Technical Wishes will run an A/B test on 10 wikis, testing potential improvements for Reference Previews. The experiment will run for ~2 weeks at the end of May / beginning of June and will affect 10% of desktop readers on the participating wikis.
• After two successful experiments, the Reader Growth team is rolling out an Image Browsing beta feature for all Wikipedias on mobile on May 25. This means that anyone who has all beta features on by default will start to see this feature, and others can check the box to turn it on in their preferences. The beta feature will include a carousel of all an article's images at the top of the article, with controls for editors to exclude images from the article's carousel or to exclude an article from the feature entirely.
• View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, three dimensional STL files were being rendered incorrectly by the media viewer 3D extension which is now fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• The legacy CSS classes tleft and tright have been replaced with floatleft and floatright as the former do not work consistently across all MediaWiki platforms, notably mobile web and mobile apps. Projects relying on these classes are encouraged to review related usage and plan for migration. Please note that floatleft and floatright may also be deprecated in future, although there are currently no plans to do so. Read more.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:50, 25 May 2026 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2026

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

Administrator changes

• Asukite
• Bobby Cohn
• Bonadea
• Ca
• Drm310
• Reconrabbit
• Sammi Brie

• Tamzin
• TonyBallioni

• Ezhiki
• Queen of Hearts

Bureaucrat changes

• WereSpielChequers

Guideline and policy news

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

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)

Arbitration

• The arbitration case SchroCat has been closed.
• The arbitration case Michael Jackson has opened. Evidence submissions in this case closes on 1 June.

Miscellaneous

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

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Tech News: 2026-23

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

Updates for editors

• The Reader Experience team is conducting an experiment to show the reading lists feature, which is still in development, to logged-out mobile readers to test whether it encourages account creation at a higher rate compared to the watchstar button. The experiment was launched on May 18th on German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, Turkish, and Urdu wikis, and it will run for a month.
• The Wikimedia Apps team released Phase 1 of the redesigned Home Feed to the Android Beta app. The new Home Feed includes a refreshed "Community" tab and a personalized "For You" tab featuring daily updated reading recommendations. The redesign is part of a broader effort to improve content discovery and create more engaging learning experiences in the Wikipedia apps.
• View all 18 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where images could fail to load for some suggested edits on Special:Homepage, leaving the thumbnail stuck in a loading state, has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:07, 1 June 2026 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 74

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 74, March–April 2026

• New partnership: Swissdox
• User survey results

Read the full newsletter

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Tech News: 2026-24

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

Weekly highlight

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

Updates for editors

• The refreshed Explore Feed, now called the Home Feed, is rolling out to 50% of users of the Wikipedia Android app. The Home Feed helps readers discover relevant content through two new tabs: Community and For You. The Community tab provides a scrollable feed of curated content and updates from the broader Wikimedia community and movement, while the For You tab offers a full-screen, swipeable experience that shows content tailored to a user's interests. The redesign is part of a broader effort to improve discovery and enhance the learning experience in the Wikipedia app.
• The Which came first? daily trivia game is now available in the beta version of the Wikipedia iOS app in English, German, French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and Turkish. The game uses historical events from Wikipedia's "On This Day" content and challenges readers to guess which of two events happened first. The game was previously released on Android. Communities interested in making the game available in their languages can read the instructions and requirements.
• Sub-referencing, a new MediaWiki feature that allows editors to reuse references with different details, will begin rolling out to Wikimedia wikis following a successful pilot phase. Deployment will start on 8 June for most Group 1 wikis and French Wikipedia, with additional Wikipedia language editions receiving the feature over the coming months. Communities are encouraged to prepare by checking for untranslated Cite extension messages in their language and reviewing any use of Reference Tooltips, which may require updates to support the new functionality. Wikis using Reference Previews do not need to take any action. Communities may also wish to create the cite-tracking-category-ref-details tracking category as a hidden category using __HIDDENCAT__ (or a dedicated template), and connect it to the corresponding Wikidata item d:Q129764848.
• The Page Previews experiment on mobile web has concluded. The team decided not to roll out the feature after the results showed no statistically significant impact on reader retention, as the primary success metric was retention improvement. Page Previews, which are already available on desktop and in the apps, display a thumbnail, lead paragraph, and link to the full article when readers tap a blue link. The experiment tested this experience on mobile web across six Wikipedias.
• The user interface icon library will be updated later this week or next week. Most of the ~300 icons have been slightly refined and ~30 new icons have been added. These changes improve the icons to make them more consistent and comprehensible, and provide more visual balance when they are used in groups.
• The Universal Language Selector (ULS) interface in MediaWiki, which helps users select content in other languages, has been updated. The new version improves speed and accessibility, and users of Wikimedia projects can now pin languages for quicker language switching. The deployment to Wikimedia sites will happen gradually in the coming weeks. You can test it now as a beta feature by selecting beta features in your profile preferences and share your feedback on the project page.
• View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where the Pageviews Analysis dashboard on pageviews.wmcloud.org stopped updating graph data in May 2026, affecting all users, has been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• The function signature for mw.util.addPortletLink() has been simplified. Developers can now pass a configuration object instead of a list of positional parameters when creating portlet links. The previous function signature remains supported for backwards compatibility. For example, instead of: mw.util.addPortletLink('p-cactions', '#', 'Stub', 'ca-stubtag', 'Add a stub tag to this page'); use mw.util.addPortletLink('p-cactions', { href: '#', text: 'Stub', id: 'ca-stubtag', tooltip: 'Add a stub tag to this page' });. Script maintainers are encouraged to review existing uses of addPortletLink() and update them where appropriate. This change will be available on all wikis from 11 June. Thanks to community volunteer Gerges for contributing this improvement.
• Community Wishlist discussion: Product & Technology introduced changes meant to increase the number and complexity of wishes fulfilled, including the disbanding of the Community Tech team. They are engaging in discussions about a proposed direction for the wishlist from community members. Includes ways to structure annual voting, better tracking of wishes, removing focus areas, and staffing updates.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:28, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

Q from Drycroft4

Hi Meters. Please look at these two sources re: Leachim. They are not the most powerful, but legitimate and useful. You reversed both. I am no expert on Wikipedia, but I try to be helpful. These are not phony sites.

• https://www.govtech.com/question-of-the-day/where-did-this-early-form-of-artificial-intelligence-teach-kids?
• https://www.rockingrobots.com/the-robot-who-taught-the-bronx-leachim-heads-to-auction-after-50-years

You also reversed my edits on Concrete and "electorial" college. Half the youths in America do not understand this. Manufacturing concrete produces more air pollution than all cars combined! Isn't this worth mentioning? I am not here to argue. I'd appreciate your reply with no threat, please. DC-4 (talk) 09:24, 9 June 2026 (UTC) Thanks. Drycroft4 or davidhalpernist@gmail.com

Please learn to use talk pages properly.

• Start new threads at the bottom of the page. I have moved your thread.
• Add a header for a new thread. I have added a header to your thread.
• Please indent and format your thread properly. I have outdented your thread and listified your list.
• Don't edit other threads. You made 22 pointless whitespace edits to unrelated threads on my talk page
• Please provide diffs to the edits in question, or at least link to the articles in question.
• Why are you opening this on my talk page rather than your own talk page, where we were already posting about these edits?

As for your questions:

• re Leachim: The above refs are not what you attempted to add to the article and that I removed . Neither of the sources that I removed said anything about this device, hence my summary "bogus refs".
• re Concrete: I already explained on your talk page why I undid your edits. You first attempted to use Google search as a source, and then Fairplanet, which as an organization specializing in "environmental justice" is a questionable source. Your wording was not neutral, was awkwardly worded, and not supported by the source. The lead is a summary of what the body of the article says. It is not a place to introduce new claims, particularly poorly sourced non-neutral claims. The article has a section on environmental impacts.
• re Electoral college: The lead (or anywhere else in the article for that matter) does not need your aside that it is not "Electorial college". It does not matter if you think students often make this mistake. Your supposed ref does not mention the mistake, and it's obvious from the "source=chatgpt.com" that you were using an AI.

As for your "I'd appreciate your reply with no threat, please" there's no need for that. I have not threatened you in any way. You have been making inappropriate edit and have been given canned warnings, with extra explanations. It is a personal attack for you to suggest that I have threatened you.

And for perhaps the fourth time, your edits are not WP:MINOR. Do not continue to incorrectly mark them as minor. Meters (talk) 22:40, 9 June 2026 (UTC)

Quick question

Hope all is well, I have a quick question, that I was hoping that you might be able to answer. I seen that Wikipedia:WikiProject Schools/Help is initiative, thus, what might be the best place to ask a question about schools? Issac I Navarro (talk) 22:34, 10 June 2026 (UTC)

@Issac I Navarro: I took a Wikibreak, but I'm back. Try WT:WPSCH. Meters (talk) 22:58, 10 June 2026 (UTC)

Thank you, of course it would be there! How silly of me, thank you once again. Cheers. Issac I Navarro (talk) 01:57, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

No worries. Meters (talk) 01:58, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

Thanks once again. Hope your break was well. Issac I Navarro (talk) 02:06, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

GATchphrase

Hi! I came to that page via a post on the r/vce Reddit. I see that you were discussing revisions to IP etc way back in 2020, and I was just wondering if you would consider writing up a request for protection for persistent vandalism? I've got no experience with those types of things but I just thought it might be something worth looking into.

Sorry if you've already discussed this before!

Thanks, JordyGrey _talk🧸 11:10, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

Protected by user:ScottishFinnishRadish before I read this. Meters (talk) 17:32, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-25

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

Weekly highlight

• The Reader Growth team has launched an Image Browsing beta feature on the mobile web version of all Wikipedias. The feature shows an image carousel at the top of articles with 3 or more images. Editors can configure this feature with the following controls: to hide a specific image from a page, either use class=notpageimage excluding it from thumbnail previews, or class=noviewer excluding it from MediaViewer. The carousel can also be disabled from a page entirely, with the magic word __NOMEDIAVIEWERCAROUSEL__. To submit feedback or flag bugs, please visit the project page.
• Wikitables can now be sorted in descending order on the first click by adding data-sort-order="desc" to the header cell. Previously, by default, clicking a column header for the first time sorts it in ascending order. This addition to a Wikitable gives it more control and flexibility, while the default behavior for subsequent clicks remains unchanged.

Updates for editors

• The Article guidance feature is currently being tested with some editors creating new articles on the Simple English, French, and Turkish Wikipedias. The experiment will soon begin on the Arabic and Bangla Wikipedias as well. This feature gives editors community-curated guidance to help them create articles that follow community standards. Experienced editors can continue creating or adapting outlines for specific article types that are commonly created by less experienced contributors. The outlines guide less experienced editors in creating high-quality articles. A quick guide to markups used in outlines can be found on this page. Example outlines that can be adapted and instructions for how to adapt them are on this section of the project page.
• Wikis that wish to replace the "indefinitely" button in Special:Block for temporary accounts (for example, wikis that block temporary users only until account expiration) will be able to do so by creating MediaWiki:ipb-indefinite-expiry-temporary-account with the block duration they want.
• View all 41 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• By the end of June, a valid user-agent string will be required for automated dumps downloads from the dumps.wikimedia.org website. Automated requests that provide a generic or empty user-agent will be blocked. This extends enforcement of the long standing user-agent policy. Access to dumps through Wikimedia Cloud Services will not change.
• The roll out of global API rate limits is now complete, with limits enforced across all APIs and at the documented levels for all groups. Bots running in Toolforge/WMCS or with the bot user right on any wiki remain exempt. All bots should continue to follow the documented best practices to avoid being rate limited.
• The API Portal wiki will be read only starting this week (June 15-18). The following week (June 22-25), all API Portal wiki URLs will redirect to Wikimedia APIs on mediawiki.org. Learn more on the project page.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• On June 17th at 6pm UTC the WMF will be holding Discord call focused on a code review. We've heard through the Developer Satisfaction Survey that volunteers are struggling with code review and we'd like to discuss these experiences with the goal of surfacing workable solutions. You can join the call via the Wikimedia Community Discord server.
• The Latin American Wikimedia Conference will host a regional hackathon that will bring together the Wikimedia movement’s technical community including developers, system administrators, data scientists, and users with extended rights. Interested technical contributors can apply for a scholarship to participate until June 21 at midnight (Bolivia time, UTC-4).
• Sign up for Wikimania Team Challenges to join this special event. The Team challenges will take place online and in person from July 21 to 22, before Wikimania conference. Everyone is welcome, regardless of skills or Wikimania registration. Teams will work on 10 important challenges supporting the Wikimedia community. For details, visit the Team Challenges page and register there. Registration closes on June 20th at 11pm UTC.

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MediaWiki message delivery 16:46, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

The Signpost: 21 June 2026

• From the editors: Ways for beginners to support The Signpost community journalism
  Pointing the way to your contribution to The Signpost!

• News and notes: Community Tech development team disbanded
  And English Wikipedia reaches a milestone in number of highly active editors.

• Disinformation report: PR for the people?
  Or, "PR using PR for PR"?

• Recent research: Proposed tagging system for AI involvement; successful and unsuccessful AI tools for contributors
  And other new research publications.

• In the media: Who won a 14th century battle and who won the 2026 Iran war?
  Media take issue with portrayals of recent and medieval history on Wikipedia. Plus a team supporting Wikipedians gets dissolved, and a few other things.

• Community view: Putting the Wish into the Wishlist
  A history of the Wikimedia community's request process to Foundation developers.

• In focus: A global standard for Neutral Point of View
  Wikipedians are commenting on a proposed global standard for neutral point of view.

• On the bright side: Flowers, blue helmets, reefs, pride, and Juneteenth
  Nice things around the world.

• Op-ed: Breathe, Don’t Panic, there is a different story about Wikimedia + AI futures
  We can build a strategy about AI that doesn't just center on readers; there are still plenty of humans to write the encyclopedia and work on diverse global knowledge.

• Opinion: Wikimedia Foundation staff develop union and Wikimedia user community reacts
  Why should editors support the Wiki Workers United union drive? Lessons the Wikimedia movement can learn from other labor struggles.

• Technology report: Community Tech team is disbanded, controversy erupts
  WMF disbands Community Tech, sparking community backlash over the future of the Wishlist and concerns about unionization.

• Traffic report: 'Cause this is thriller, thriller night
  Horror movies and Michael Jackson dominate theaters in the lead-up to the World Cup.

• WikiConference report: Report of Volunteer Supporters Network Annual Meeting 2026
  Outreach staff of Wikimedia chapters host a global discussion.

• Comix: Take your turn
  In a maze of twisty little edits, all alike.

• Humour: Group of banned T-shirt makers comes out of hiding to sell new Wikipedia-themed merchandise
  It ain't WikiProject United Nations, but you will find some PUNs.

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Tech News: 2026-26

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

Weekly highlight

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

Updates for editors

• The special page Special:RangeCalculator has been created. It allows users to find an IP range without needing to rely on external tools. Until now, this tool was only available to CheckUsers.
• Sub-referencing is a new MediaWiki feature that allows editors to reuse references with different details. It will be deployed to most small and medium-sized Wikipedia language versions on June 23. The FAQ lists possible actions to take on your wiki to support the deployment. Check the rollout plan for the next deployment steps.
• Starting next week, users will get a notification when they are blocked or unblocked from editing, or if this block changes.
• View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Starting next week, abuse filters that are set to "require CAPTCHA verification" will begin to also affect users with the skipcaptcha right, which includes most autoconfirmed users. Bots are exempted. This change only affects edits that trigger an abuse filter. The skipcaptcha right will continue to exempt users from having to solve CAPTCHAs in the ordinary course of using the wikis.
• Reference documentation for the Lift Wing API has moved from the API Portal to the interactive REST Sandbox.
• The API Portal wiki is now closed. For API documentation, see Wikimedia APIs on mediawiki.org. All API Portal wiki URLs (https://api.wikimedia.org/wiki/) will redirect to the mediawiki.org page starting June 22.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

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

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MediaWiki message delivery 13:03, 23 June 2026 (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-27

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

Updates for editors

• As part of the Account Creation Experiments, the Growth team tested adding a user account icon in the mobile web header for logged-out users, providing direct access to "Create account" and "Log in" actions. The experiment increased account creation by about 20% without negatively affecting edit quality or constructive edit rates. The feature will now be rolled out to all Wikimedia Foundation wikis on mobile web in the first week of July.
• After a successful experiment, logged-in users who did not confirm their email address when their account was created see a new banner asking them to complete that process. This helps reduce the risk that users get locked out of their account, and makes account email addresses overall more reliable. This is part of the Account Security project.
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• Starting June 29th, automated downloads from the dumps.wikimedia.org website will be subject to the user-agent policy. Automated requests that provide a generic or empty user-agent will be blocked. Access to dumps through Wikimedia Cloud Services remains unaffected. This is a follow up to the announcement made in the 2026/25 issue of Tech News.
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Tech News: 2026-28

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

Updates for editors

• View all 34 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where the search bar results on Wikidata, showed English results instead of using the correct language fallback for users of language variants, has now been fixed. Search suggestions will now follow the expected language fallback chain.

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• In preparation for Celebrate Women campaign planned for March 2027, the Wikimedia Foundation’s Content Enablement team has launched a 22-question survey to better understand technical contributions by women+ (anyone who identifies as a woman) across Wikimedia projects. The survey takes approximately 15–20 minutes to complete and will remain open until 20 July 2026. The questions are also available on-wiki for review in advance.
• The Score extension now supports rendering music scores as SVG images in addition to PNG, addressing a long-standing feature request and resolving historical image quality issues. Both formats are now provided to clients, with PNG in the src attribute and SVG in the srcset attribute.
• The new Parsoid parser continues to be deployed to additional wikis, making it easier to introduce new reading and editing features. It was enabled on French Wikipedia, bringing total progress to covering 78.9% of Wikipedia page views. Rollout to English Wikipedia desktop will progress through this week.
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In depth

• The Wikimedia Hackathon 2026 recap blog post is now live. It highlights the projects, sessions, and social activities from this year’s event, and shares initial plans for the 2027 Wikimedia Hackathon.

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Zzxt000000001 (talk)

Meters, please note that I have added a citation to the article Arnold Kask. Please do not undo the latest revision. Thank you. Zzxt000000001 (talk) 4:52, 11 July 2026 (UTC)

You added a user-generated, non-reliable source. Meters (talk) 05:14, 11 July 2026 (UTC)

And there's no need to start a new thread about this on my talk page. We are already discussing it on your talk page. Meters (talk) 05:19, 11 July 2026 (UTC)

I have taken this to RSN. Doug Weller talk 10:03, 11 July 2026 (UTC)

Replied there. My reverts had nothing to do with the reliability of entsyklopeedia.ee Meters (talk) 18:52, 11 July 2026 (UTC)

Apex and Millbrook High Schools

I accurately updated the Apex and Millbrook High School principal changes and you reverted them back yet you’re using an old version of the school websites to get your completely inaccurate information. Fix it back to Lineberry and Sawyer and use updated information next time. WaymondSweeney (talk) 19:43, 11 July 2026 (UTC)

Please use a header for new threads. I have added one.

Please add new threads at the bottom of the page. I have moved it.

Please give diffs for the edits in question or at least link to the articles. Apex High School and Millbrook High School (North Carolina)

I am using the current web pages for both schools: https://nc01911451.schoolwires.net/apexhs and https://nc01911451.schoolwires.net/millbrookhs Neither of those pages mentions the people you claim are now the principals. You need to provide reliable sources if the school pages we currently link to are incorrect. Meters (talk) 23:33, 11 July 2026 (UTC)

THAT’S AN OLD VERSION OF THE SITES THEY HAVEN’T TAKEN COMPLETELY DOWN BUT AREN’T UPDATING!!

New (NOT SCHOOLWIRES):

https://apexhs.wcpss.net/

https://millbrookhs.wcpss.net/

I am involved with WCPSS, I KNOW WHAT I’M DOING!!!! WaymondSweeney (talk) 23:53, 11 July 2026 (UTC)

Please don't yell.

I used the web pages that we linked to from our articles. I had no way of knowing that there were now other pages, and neither did anyone else using Wikipedia.

So, why didn't you add the new home pages to schools' articles once I told you that your edits contradicted the schools' home pages we were using? You should not have reverted without updating those pages.

You appear to have a conflict of interest. Please explain what "I am involved with WCPSS" means. Meters (talk) 00:07, 12 July 2026 (UTC)

I have updated the principals and the home pages for both articles. Meters (talk) 00:09, 12 July 2026 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2026-29

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Updates for editors

• Revise Tone helps newcomers identify passages in Wikipedia articles that may contain non-encyclopedic language and encourages them to consider revising the tone. The feature was A/B tested on the Arabic, English, French, and Portuguese Wikipedias, where newcomer task completion rates increased by 38.7% compared to the default Copyedit task, with no decrease in edit quality. The test ended on July 9, and the feature is now available for everyone on these wikis, configurable via Community Configuration. The plan is to release Revise Tone to more wikis.
• The community configuration that allows automatic removal of inactive mentors based on configurable criteria will be enabled on Thursday 16, on some wikis to keep mentor lists up to date. Mentors are experienced contributors who opt in to help new users on-wiki through the Growth Features. Administrators can now prepare the settings via Special:CommunityConfiguration/Mentorship; they will take effect starting Thursday.
• View all 38 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where some users of the Wikipedia Android app were logged out immediately after signing in, preventing them from staying logged in and editing pages, has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• Editing a page via user scripts or gadgets was causing watchlist labels that the user had assigned to that page to reset. This has now been fixed.
• To work around a Safari bug (see phab:T425211), on Parsoid-enabled wikis, wikilink hrefs now use absolute urls instead of protocol-relative urls. REST API output remains unchanged and continue to use protocol-relative urls. Gadgets, user scripts, bots, and CSS might need to be adapted if they relied on the presence of protocol-relative urls in wikilink hrefs.
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• The Wikimedia Foundation’s Experiment Platform Team has published a blog post reflecting on its first year of structured experimentation. It highlights successful experiments such as Paste Check, Reference Check, and Tone Check, which improved editing outcomes and have been rolled out to more users, as well as experiments that did not lead to product changes. Read more.

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WP:FFDHOW

When ChompyTheGogoat participates in file deletion discussions, I often see them mention WP:FFDHOW. Could you explain what it means? Is there any policy or criterion that must be met for it to apply? RavishJagarlamudi (talk) 10:15, 14 July 2026 (UTC)

FFD is simply File For Deletion, and that page is instructions on how to nominate an image or media page for deletion. There are no criteria as such, it should be followed for any requested deletion of any image or media file. Have you been attempting to delete images? Meters (talk) 20:13, 14 July 2026 (UTC)

No.. I m not interested in image deletions. I m actually more interested in AfD. Could you tell me how an article is nominated for AfD? Am I allowed to nominate an article myself or is that something only experienced or senior editors are expected to do? RavishJagarlamudi (talk) 20:19, 14 July 2026 (UTC)

I nominated their non-free images under CSD. FFDHOW wasn't mentioned; no clue where they got that. ChompyTheGogoat (talk) 20:24, 14 July 2026 (UTC)

Any registered user may nominate articles for deletion. Instructions on how to do so are at WP:AFD, in particular at WP:BEFORE and WP:AFDHOWTO. Meters (talk) 20:35, 14 July 2026 (UTC)

I got it ✅️ RavishJagarlamudi (talk) 20:40, 14 July 2026 (UTC)

I swear..I'm getting angry at the administrator who gave you those rights. You should at least have enough sense to know that when a file is nominated for deletion, there's a link to the relevant guideline along with the nomination. When we click on the discussion it's there, understand mentioned? You literally need to read Wikipedia's guidelines more. RavishJagarlamudi (talk) 20:39, 14 July 2026 (UTC)

As I wrote: Any registered user may nominate articles for deletion. No special permissions are required. And you've already been warned for person attacks. You wrote "I promise that I won't do this again." Don't comment on other users. You've already been told how to deal with disputes. Please don't continue this dispute on my talk page. Meters (talk) 20:51, 14 July 2026 (UTC)

Let me tell you about this. He once told me, "I'm not responding here" but it seems my reply hurt him and now he's been going after me. You or another senior editor also explain my mistakes but netural ways, but there's a world of difference between your explanations and his. Instead of guiding people, he's just being negative. RavishJagarlamudi (talk) 20:59, 14 July 2026 (UTC)

What part of "Please don't continue this dispute on my talk page" do you not get? Do not continue this here. Meters (talk) 21:02, 14 July 2026 (UTC)

I won't reply here. Thereds already an ongoing discussion at ANI. I came here only to ask a question, but @ChompyTheGogoat inserted into the discussion for no reason. RavishJagarlamudi (talk) 21:06, 14 July 2026 (UTC)

OP at SPI, and on a short block for disruptive editing at ANI and elsewhere. See Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#ChompyTheGogoat and Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Hirematviru. Meters (talk) 03:25, 15 July 2026 (UTC)

OP now indef'ed as a sock. Meters (talk) 07:32, 15 July 2026 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2026-30

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• The Reader Experience team has incorporated community feedback around the placement of watchstar and watchlist buttons for the Reading Lists beta feature, which would allow for saving articles for later reading – a wishlist item to bring the functionality to web. Editors are invited to enable the beta feature to test it out and share their thoughts.
• Suggestion Mode offers edit suggestions within the VisualEditor for improving Wikipedia articles. All suggestions are community-configurable. The TextMatch feature is a way for volunteers to create custom local suggestions. The feature searches in articles for strings of text, and now includes support for regular expressions. This gives volunteers greater precision and flexibility over the kinds of local suggestions they can create. Note: Suggestions can be targeted based on the edit count of the person editing as well as other aspects of the page. You can find examples from other communities for inspiration, including TextMatches that detect: typos, grammar-errors, potential advertisements, clichés, incorrect dash or hyphen usage, non-specific time keywords, outdated names, and more. Any feedback is appreciated.
• View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where the SVG Translate tool could use an outdated version of a file, causing existing translations to be overwritten when new ones were uploaded, has now been fixed. Overall, in the last quarter from April – June 2026 about 337 community tasks were resolved by the Wikimedia Foundation.

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• On Parsoid-enabled wikis, Parsoid now renders a maximum of 1,250 images per page. A new tracking category, "media-limit-reached", will be soon made available to identify pages where this limit is reached, making it easier to find content whose media output may have been restricted during rendering. See phab:T430854 for more information and to provide feedback.
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