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Administrator Elections | 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/July 2025/Candidates.
Here is the schedule:
- July 9–15 - Call for candidates
- July 18–22 - Discussion phase
- July 23–29 - SecurePoll voting phase
Please note the following:
- The requirements to run are identical to RFA—a prospective candidate must be extended confirmed.
- Prospective candidates are advised to become familiar with the community's expectations of administrators, which are much higher than the minimum requirement of having extended confirmed status. This includes reviewing successful and unsuccessful RFAs, reading the essay Wikipedia:Advice for RfA candidates, and possibly requesting an optional poll on their chances of passing.
- The process will have a seven day call for candidates phase, a two day pause, a five day discussion phase, and a seven day private vote using SecurePoll. Discussion and questions are only allowed on the candidate pages during the discussion phase.
- The outcome of this process is identical to making a request for adminship. There is no official difference between an administrator appointed through RFA versus administrator elections.
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Administrator Elections | Discussion phase
The discussion phase of the July 2025 administrator elections is officially open. As a reminder, the schedule of the election is:
- July 18–22 - Discussion phase (we are here)
- July 23–29 - SecurePoll voting phase
- July 30–c. Aug 3 - Scrutineering phase
We are currently in the discussion phase. The candidate subpages are open to questions and comments from everyone, in the same style as a request for adminship. You may discuss the candidates at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/July 2025/Discussion phase.
On July 23, we will start the voting phase. The candidate subpages will close again to public questions and discussion, and everyone will have a week to use the SecurePoll software to vote, which uses a secret ballot. You can see who voted, but not who they voted for. Please note that the vote totals cannot be made public until after voting has ended and as such, it will not be possible for you to see an individual candidate's totals during the election. You must be extended confirmed to vote.
Once voting concludes, we will begin the scrutineering phase, which will last approximately four days, or perhaps a little longer. Once everything is certified, the results will be posted on the results page (you may want to watchlist this page) and transcluded to the main election page. In order to be granted adminship, a candidate must have received at least 70.0% support, calculated as Support / (Support + Oppose), and must also have received a minimum of 20 support votes. Because this is a vote and not a consensus, there are no bureaucrat discussions ("crat chats").
Any questions or issues can be asked on the election talk page. Thank you for your participation. Happy electing.
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:52, 18 July 2025 (UTC)
Administrator Elections | Voting phase
The voting phase of the July 2025 administrator elections has started and continues until July 29 at 23:59 UTC. You can participate in the voting phase at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/July 2025/Voting phase.
As a reminder, the schedule of the election is:
- July 23–29 – Voting phase
- July 30–c. Aug 3 – Scrutineering phase
In the voting phase, the candidate subpages will close to public questions and discussion, and everyone who qualifies to vote will have a week to use the SecurePoll software to vote, which uses a secret ballot. You can see who voted, but not who they voted for. Please note that the vote 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 approximately four 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 candidate must have received at least 70.0% support, calculated as Support / (Support + Oppose), and a minimum of 20 support votes. 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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Concern regarding Draft:Disappearances of Mitchel Weiser and Bonnie Bickwit
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Deletion discussion about Kpop film
Hello, Rager7
I edit here too, under the username ~delta and it's nice to meet you :-)
I wanted to let you know that I've asked for a discussion about the redirect Kpop film, created by you. Your comments are welcome at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 September 9 § Kpop film.
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Administrator Elections | RFC phase
The RFC phase of the July 2025 administrator elections has started. There are 10 RFCs for consideration. You can participate in the RFC phase at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/July 2025/RFCs.
Any questions or issues can be asked on the election talk page. Thank you for your participation. Happy electing.
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Hello, re your edit to that page, which is on my watchlist because I live nearby: "southwest" is American English while "South-west" or "South West", etc. are Commonwealth/British/Australian English. Also, as Mitch Ames pointed out in his revert, the region is called the South West. See our guideline on English varieties in case you haven't already. Graham87 (talk) 15:14, 19 September 2025 (UTC)
- Also, I did use the thank feature to thank you for that edit, but that was an accident; I hit the wrong thank button. Graham87 (talk) 18:11, 19 September 2025 (UTC)
- Oh hey, long time no see. No worries of mis clicking it happens to us all. Rager7 (talk) 18:13, 19 September 2025 (UTC)
Please be careful
Hi again, thanks for your efforts, but I've unfortunately reverted some of your edits (please see my explanatory edit summaries); I just happened to check your contributions when I found the last two edits I undid. Your rapid rate of editing makes me wonder how deeply you're checking each of your edits; because Wikipedia is such a prominent site, it's important that you take as much care as possible not to leave articles in a worse state than how you found them. Please use the preview button or ask at the teahouse if you're not sure. If you're already getting notified when someone reverts an edit of yours, please take heed of their explanation in their edit summaries and adjust your editing pattern accordingly. Graham87 (talk) 18:11, 19 September 2025 (UTC)
- Oh yeah, right my bad. I just wanted to get into habit of editing again after my long hiatus. I'll slowdown in terms of editing. Rager7 (talk) 18:22, 19 September 2025 (UTC)
Stub categories
Hello, please do not add stub categories directly, as you did at Pentti Salo, Doylesville, Virginia, and Sushil Kumar Prasad, especially when there are already adequate stub templates on the articles, as there were in all three cases. Regarding your edits to the biography articles, athletics refers to track-and-field (e.g. running, hurdles), not sports in general, so adding athletics stub templates/categories to articles that are already categorised under another sport (e.g. cricket, wrestling) is highly undesirable. Please see the page Wikipedia:Stub to see how our stub templates work. Graham87 (talk) 18:23, 19 September 2025 (UTC)
- I see, the stubs I added were redundant. Rager7 (talk) 18:25, 19 September 2025 (UTC)
- Indeed. I've made 88 more edits to fix up unneeded categories and other things (not all your fault). Graham87 (talk) 20:47, 19 September 2025 (UTC)
- Cool, yeah sometimes there would be a bot that add unnecessary templates when it's not necessary. Rager7 (talk) 21:23, 19 September 2025 (UTC)
- I'm not sure what you mean. Graham87 (talk) 10:34, 20 September 2025 (UTC)
- Jenni Keenan Green For example you undid an edit that was made by bot that does templates and thought was unnecessary and here Edward J. Tomczyk:. Rager7 (talk) 18:27, 20 September 2025 (UTC)
- The bot's functions are helpful; I was undoing the bot's edits so I could more easily undo yours. Graham87 (talk) 19:15, 20 September 2025 (UTC)
- I see. Rager7 (talk) 04:17, 21 September 2025 (UTC)
- The bot's functions are helpful; I was undoing the bot's edits so I could more easily undo yours. Graham87 (talk) 19:15, 20 September 2025 (UTC)
- Jenni Keenan Green For example you undid an edit that was made by bot that does templates and thought was unnecessary and here Edward J. Tomczyk:. Rager7 (talk) 18:27, 20 September 2025 (UTC)
- I'm not sure what you mean. Graham87 (talk) 10:34, 20 September 2025 (UTC)
- Cool, yeah sometimes there would be a bot that add unnecessary templates when it's not necessary. Rager7 (talk) 21:23, 19 September 2025 (UTC)
- Indeed. I've made 88 more edits to fix up unneeded categories and other things (not all your fault). Graham87 (talk) 20:47, 19 September 2025 (UTC)
Please don't bypass redirects
Hello. In a recent edit to the page Mike Wofford, you added a piped wikilink to avoid linking to a redirect. Please do not make such edits to bypass redirects that are not broken. Such edits generally do not provide any benefit, and can be detrimental for several reasons. Other general guidelines on how Wikipedia articles are written can be found in the Manual of Style. Thank you. Graham87 (talk) 10:34, 20 September 2025 (UTC)
- This is especially important in cases like this, where you changed a link from the old name of an institution to a newer one, thus making the link anachronistic. Graham87 (talk) 10:34, 20 September 2025 (UTC)
- Ah I see, so linking to a redirect is okay as long as it referring to the same subject at hand.
- In that case, college and university meant the same thing. So having the original link to the redirect was okay to begin with and didn't needed to changed. Rager7 (talk) 18:18, 20 September 2025 (UTC)
Other tips
Re your edit to User talk:73.247.251.195: did you know there are user warning templates for things like that? For example, in that case,
Hello, I'm Graham87. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions have been undone because they did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Teahouse or the Help desk. Thanks.. Tools like Twinkle and Wikipedia:RedWarn can automate vandalism reversion and warnings.
Good to see that you seem to have taken my advice above to slow down. I would recommend editing articles that you're interested in (or sticking to current events editing as you have been doing), rather than editing pages found with the random article feature that are often barely watched and have caused several problems for you over the years. Graham87 (talk) 10:34, 20 September 2025 (UTC)
- Also, thanks for telling me on how people warn vandals properly. I always wondered how people were able give such messages after said violations. Rager7 (talk) 18:25, 20 September 2025 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of File:Agnes Gund. jpg.jpg

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Wikipedia and copyright
Hello Rager7! Your additions to Draft:Disappearances of Mitchel Weiser and Bonnie Bickwit have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably free and compatible copyright license—to request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission. While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, it's important to understand and adhere to guidelines about using information from sources to prevent copyright and plagiarism issues. Here are the key points:
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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices. Persistent failure to comply may result in being blocked from editing. If you have any questions or need further clarification, please ask them here on this page, or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:17, 24 September 2025 (UTC)
- I'm sorry, which parts of the draft that I forgot to paraphrase? Rager7 (talk) 03:01, 25 September 2025 (UTC)
- I nave sent you a copy via email. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 03:09, 25 September 2025 (UTC)
- Ah I see, yeah, I was about to rephrase that. It's just that I took a break from my draft. Rager7 (talk) 03:16, 25 September 2025 (UTC)
- I nave sent you a copy via email. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 03:09, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template.
Thanks,
Daniel (talk) 18:55, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

The page WIAH has been speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This was done under section R2 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it was a redirect from the article namespace to a different namespace except the Category, Template, Wikipedia, Help, or Portal namespaces.
Please do not recreate the material without addressing these concerns, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If you think this page should not have been deleted for this reason, you may contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you may open a discussion at Wikipedia:Deletion review. Liz Read! Talk! 03:07, 1 October 2025 (UTC)
- I should add the reason for making that redirect is that WIAH is another initial for the Youtuber Whatifalthist. Rager7 (talk) 03:52, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

The page Rudyard William Lynch has been speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This was done under section R2 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it was a redirect from the article namespace to a different namespace except the Category, Template, Wikipedia, Help, or Portal namespaces.
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Replaceable non-free use File:Tyr Walker.jpg

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Arbitration motion regarding User:Rager7
The Arbitration Committee received a report relating to acute and long-term wikihounding and harassment by Rager7 (talk · contribs) towards Knightoftheswords281 (talk · contribs), which included private information as part of the contextual evidence presented.
Following the completion of an investigation into the report and the public and private evidence provided, the Committee has passed the following motion:
For long-term wikihounding and harassment, Rager7 (talk · contribs) is subject to a one-way interaction ban with Knightoftheswords281 (talk · contribs), broadly construed. This ban may be appealed twelve months after the enactment of this remedy, and every twelve months thereafter.
Support: Aoidh, Cabayi, CaptainEek, Daniel, Elli, KrakatoaKatie, Primefac, ScottishFinnishRadish, theleekycauldron, ToBeFree
For the Arbitration Committee,
Daniel (talk) 00:30, 13 October 2025 (UTC)
- Discuss this at: Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard § Arbitration motion regarding User:Rager7
File copyright problem with File:Daniel Pearl.jpg

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Speedy deletion nomination of Austerlitz, 1805
Hello Rager7,
I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Austerlitz, 1805 for deletion, because it's a redirect that seems implausible or is an unlikely search term.
If you don't want Austerlitz, 1805 to be deleted, you can , but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.
You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Thanks!
Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.
– LuniZunie ツ(talk) 00:45, 1 November 2025 (UTC)
"Kahīr" listed at Redirects for discussion
The redirect Kahīr has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 November 5 § Kahīr until a consensus is reached. J947 ‡ edits 03:16, 5 November 2025 (UTC)
December 2025 administrator elections - schedule
Administrator Elections | Schedule
- The December 2025 administrator elections are set to proceed.
- We plan to use the following schedule:
- Nov 25 – Dec 1: Candidate sign-up
- Dec 4 – Dec 8: Discussion phase
- Dec 9 – Dec 15: 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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I edit here too, under the username Destinyokhiria and it's nice to meet you :-)
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The redirect Oct 7th. has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 November 22 § Oct 7th. until a consensus is reached. ArthananWarcraft (talk) 10:37, 22 November 2025 (UTC)
Administrator Elections - 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/December 2025/Candidates.
Here is the schedule:
- November 25 – December 1 - Call for candidates
- December 4–8 - Discussion phase
- December 9–15 - 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.
Ask any questions about the process at the talk page. Later, a user talk message will be sent to official candidates with additional information about the process.
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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MfD nomination of User:Rager7/sandbox/draft2
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Administrator Elections - Discussion Phase
The discussion phase of the December 2025 administrator elections is officially open. As a reminder, the schedule of the election is:
- Dec 4–8 - Discussion phase (we are here)
- Dec 9–15 - 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/December 2025/Discussion phase.
On December 9, 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. Please note that the vote totals cannot be made public until after voting has ended and as such, it will not be possible for you to see an individual candidate's totals during the election. You must be extended confirmed to vote.
Once voting concludes, we will begin the scrutineering phase, which typically lasts between a couple days and a week. Once everything is certified, the results will be posted on the results page (you may want to watchlist this page) and transcluded to the main election page. In order to be granted adminship, a candidate who has not been recalled must have received at least 70.0% support, calculated as Support / (Support + Oppose), and must also have received a minimum of 20 support votes. A candidate that has been recalled must have at least 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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Administrator Elections - Voting Phase
The voting phase of the December 2025 administrator elections has started and will continue until Dec 15 at 23:59 UTC. You can participate in the voting phase at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/December 2025/Voting phase.
As a reminder, the schedule of the election is:
- Dec 9–15 - SecurePoll voting phase
- 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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