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https://www.clinicalomics.com/articles/qiagen-bolsters-its-oncology-informatics-with-n-of-one-buy/2070

https://www.clinicalomics.com/articles/sophia-genetics-completes-77m-financing-with-more-hospitals-in-mind/2069

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i want to talk to you 81.166.42.81 (talk) 00:39, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your relisting of a CfD discussion went technically wrong because there is no link on the original log page and your signature is lacking on today's page. Besides you are not supposed to relist a discussion if it can be closed. Could you please revert? Marcocapelle (talk) 04:41, 29 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Also, when you are closing a discussion, you should add a clickable link in your edit summary, not like this. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:12, 29 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Marcocapelle: Hello - I've addressed your concerns at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 July 29#Category:2nd-century women rulers. --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 00:10, 3 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Ceyockey: Regarding your recent revert, it's worth mentioning that I'm pretty sure Special:WhatLinksHere/The_Queue is currently broken as none of the hundreds of pages currently listed on there link to or even mention the word "queue" at all. I've just found one article that had such a link, but I don't believe there are any other such articles. Chessrat ^{(talk, contributions)} 00:52, 11 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I've already replaced a couple using autowikibrowser and am working through them. Don't be so quick to say "oh, you idiot", please. --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 00:55, 11 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Turns out that the majority of the what-links-here are due to a link to The Queue in Template:Elizabeth II. Not broken what-links-here, just an annoying confluence of text and template driven links. I hate that "feature". --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 01:04, 11 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Ceyockey, I couldn't help noticing that you are adding numerous categories like "Category:Evolutionary biology terminology" to articles.

Now, in the case of a tricky term like "Adaptation", you are arguably correct, the term has multiple meanings, so the article does not describe (or the term denote) a single biological entity, however much we feel that we understand the process, but several, and its topic must be considered at least in part as describing the term and its extension within biological discourse.

On the other hand, with something well-defined like "amino acid" or "adenine", we are not talking about tricky overlapping or conflicting meanings. Many, I hope most, terms in biology have a definite meaning, and a typical biology article is about the thing that the title names, not about the term itself. We are in fact explicitly enjoined by policy to write about things, not terms: WP:NOTDICT.

So, categories that end in "... terminology" do not fit well with subjects like these; indeed I would say that calling Adenine an article about "biology terminology", for instance, is a definite error.

One other thing: I don't really see why this sort of categorisation is needed, as if A is a biochemical and B is a taxon (group of types of organism), then both A and B will fit into a hierarchy which will be topped off by Category:Biology eventually.

I do not wish to spend the next days undoing thousands of newly-added biology categories, so it would be helpful if you could demonstrate consensus for the current categorisation drive (I hope the fact that these articles begin with A means it hasn't gone too far yet!) before proceeding. All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:07, 20 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• @Chiswick Chap: I'm trying to make SOME consistency among glossaries, terminology sets and categories of terminology and I appreciate input, but there is essentially no sense or reason to how things are included in these three piles at the moment. I'm not stupid nor editing in a didactic manner. I will likely re-evaluate in the near future but I'm trying out something to feel if it fits. It doesn't fit quite right at the moment and I do think that "aligning" glossary of biology with biology terminology will likely be bad in the long run. I'm going to step away for a bit and come back and see how I feel about the shape and will likely recompose the inclusion criteria in the terminology category to take into account your comment and some additional thoughts on the matter. Regards. --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 19:14, 20 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thank you. I certainly don't think categorisation or categorisers are stupid; I do think that categories about words are unlike categories about things. Whether categories about words are sometimes valid (as, it could be argued, with slippery customers like "adaptation") or always valid (again, it could be said that every article is named by a term, but that line of argument would have very far-reaching implications) is a subtle matter that warrants careful thought. All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:19, 20 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• @Chiswick Chap: I've reverted a couple of additions I made as I agree they didn't belong (things like "amino acid"). I've substantially re-written the inclusion criteria statements. I've also added a full accounting of the revisions to the category talk page so that the rationale for my removals from and additions to the category are transparent. I'm thinking of proceeding along these lines. Thanks for your thoughts. --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 03:26, 23 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Many thanks. On the inclusion criteria, which are obviously welcome, I'd say explicitly that taxa, right up to the top-level (animal, archaea, bacteria, eukaryote) should be excluded, as we ought either to include all N million of them, or none (every taxon is an encyclopedic thing; the name of every taxon is a WP:NOTDICT dictionary term). The current list of 3 criteria is plainly difficult to apply, and could sweep in very many articles, including (uncomfortably) every member of "Biological concepts" and "Glossary of biology". I'd want to restrict membership to articles which are specifically about biology terminology, which discuss terms like adaptation precisely because they are of terminological (not purely biological) interest. To put it a different way, I believe that categories for terms should contain only meta-level articles, ones that discuss how concepts (in object-level categories like "Biological concepts") should be applied; it should not contain any object-level articles. So for example, "acclimatization", "aerobic organism", and "autotroph" are biological concepts, and the terms for them are not of special interest (they apply simply and directly to single, sharply-defined concepts). All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 07:23, 23 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed that you created this stub category yesterday; I'm proposing it for deletion here due to concerns about its placement and usage. Please feel free to comment. Her Pegship (?) 19:41, 22 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I created it strictly to help to reduce the size of the parent category. A companion one for Confederate soldiers can be created ... then there would be a handful of articles remaining in the parent category for people who were involved with the War, but not affiliated with either side. Regards --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 00:43, 24 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I've added a comment with rationale at the category-for-discussion discussion. --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 00:53, 24 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi. Could you please reopen this. There are four parallel RM discussions going on for the four lines of this system (Talk:Line 1 of the Guadalajara urban rail system, Talk:Line 2 of the Guadalajara urban rail system, Talk:Line 3 of the Guadalajara urban rail system). They should clearly all have the same naming style and the current one isn't standard. Thanks. -- Necrothesp (talk) 09:44, 19 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I undid my close. The several moves would have been best bundled or cross-referenced, but it is what it is. Regards --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 22:47, 19 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Agreed. -- Necrothesp (talk) 12:25, 20 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there, I noticed that you added delsort notices to AfDs like Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Barnes Street but didn't put them onto the actual delsort page, for example Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Transportation. I have now sorted this for you. There is an automated way of doing delsorts which most of use called User:Enterprisey/delsort. It enables me to do several delsorts in one minute and adds it directly to the delsort page from the AfD. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 09:13, 26 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the advice. I will investigate and use going forward. P.S. I hope the delsorts I did were considered appropriate. --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 00:31, 27 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi friend, I see that you have draftified an article on Shrawan Kumar, the geneticist. Now, I have worked a bit on it to spruce it up before creating the page Shrawan Kumar (geneticist). Thanks jojo@nthony (talk) 06:52, 17 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Ceyockey. I'm reaching out to you to ask that you review my request to add content to the WuXi AppTec article. Your previous contributions to the page were helpful and constructive and I'd appreciate your involvement here as well. As I noted, I'd be willing to make the changes myself if you think that is appropriate. Thank you, AM WuXi (talk) 21:38, 12 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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I noticed you performed the moves but didn't close the discussion: Talk:Izer Aliu (footballer)#Requested move 15 May 2024. Skynxnex (talk) 03:27, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for letting me know. I'll give this some thought and return with some thoughts and comments. --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 04:35, 11 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. I dream of horses (Hoofprints) (Neigh at me) 05:08, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This was being created as the outcome of an official category discussion outcome. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2024_August_7#Category:List_of_place_names_of_Choctaw_origin_in_the_United_States. I will undelete forthwith and do not expect it to be deleted again. Is that reasonably clear? --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 02:28, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Ceyockey Okay, incubating it in draftspace/userspace first isn't contradicting the consensus there, but since it falsely appears that I deleted it, fair enough. When do you plan on sourcing it? I dream of horses (Hoofprints) (Neigh at me) 02:43, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it is, as I'm removing the pages from the category as I add them to one or more lists. Some items will not be sourced; many will. The name sources in the original articles are not uniform or complete. --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 02:48, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. Sorry about the road rage. I've been here for a LONG time and seldom create new articles and when I do it usually starts in Draft space and -- your comment just came at the wrong time. I had considered adding an "in progress' or some other hatnote at the outset, but wanted to see whether anyone would just blast it without asking questions -- shoot first and ask questions after has become the standard operating procedure here and you've demonstrated another anecdote to that effect. --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 03:25, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The reason why it's become standard operating procedure is that people have, in the past, said "I have sources," then abandoned the article. The fact is, you had over an hour to add sources, but you didn't. I dream of horses (Hoofprints) (Neigh at me) 05:01, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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• Administrator elections will take place this month. Administrator elections are an alternative to RFA that is a gentler process for candidates due to secret voting and multiple people running together. The call for candidates is July 9–15, the discussion phase is July 18–22, and the voting phase is July 23–29. Get ready to submit your candidacy, or (with their consent) to nominate a talented candidate!

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

Guideline and policy news

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

Technical news

• Administrators can now restrict the "Add a Link" feature to newcomers. The "Add a Link" Structured Task helps new account holders get started with editing. Administrators can configure this setting in the Community Configuration page.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Indian military history has been closed.
  • South Asia (WP:CT/SA) is designated a contentious topic. The topic area is specifically defined as All pages related to the region of South Asia (India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal), broadly construed, including but not limited to history, politics, ethnicity, and social groups.
  • The contentious topic designations for Sri Lanka (SL) and India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan (IPA) are folded into this new contentious topic.
  • The community-authorized general sanctions regarding South Asian social groups (GS/CASTE) are rescinded and folded into this new contentious topic.
• The arbitration case Article titles and capitalisation 2 has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case closed on 31 July.
• The arbitration case Transgender healthcare and people has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case will close on 11 August.

Miscellaneous

• Wikimania 2025 is happening in Nairobi, Kenya, and online from August 6 to August 9. This year marks 20 years of Wikimania. Interested users can join the online event. Registration for the virtual event is free and will remain open throughout Wikimania. You can register here now.

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September 2025 Backlog Drive | New pages patrol
On 1 September 2025, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles patrolled. Barnstars will also be granted for re-reviewing articles previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive. Each review will earn 1 point. Interested in taking part? Sign up here.
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:31, 23 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The redirect List of pharmaceutical companies with biotechnology products 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 August 24 § List of pharmaceutical companies with biotechnology products until a consensus is reached. Steel1943 (talk) 19:03, 24 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A tag has been placed on Category:1950s and 1960s films about time travel indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:46, 30 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open on whether use of emojis with no encyclopedic value in mainspace and draftspace (e.g., at the start of paragraphs or in place of bullet points) should be added as a criterion under G15.

Technical news

• Administrators can now access the Special:BlockedExternalDomains page from the Special:CommunityConfiguration list page. This makes it easier to find. T393240

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Article titles and capitalisation 2 has been closed.
• An RfC is in progress to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the Arbitration Committee election and resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team – 13:16, 18 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

(This message was sent to User:Ceyockey and is being posted here due to a redirect.)

A tag has been placed on Category:Agriculture companies by year of establishment indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. ✗plicit 14:57, 23 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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

Administrator changes

• Billinghurst
• Crisco 1492
• DarkFalls
• Spike Wilbury
• Valereee
• Ergo Sum

CheckUser changes

Vanamonde93

Arbitration

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

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Category:Senegalese companies established in 1971 has been nominated for merging. A discussion is taking place to decide whether it complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 08:32, 18 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Ceyockey, in recent edits I noticed that you removed some categories like Category:Flora of Australasia and Category:Flora of Southern America from Category:Flora by continent. The scope of the container category is intended to be botanical continents rather than geographical ones, with some differing names and extents. Maybe the category could be named something like "Flora by botanical continent" but I think the removed subcategories do belong there. Geographical categories for flora follow the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions and Wikipedia's application of the scheme is described at Wikipedia:WikiProject Plants/World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions.

Also, for "Trees of" categories, they are subcategories of "Flora of" categories and ideally should also be using the WGSRPD scheme. Thanks, Declangi (talk) 18:12, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. Please check your edits. Thanks. Johnjbarton (talk) 02:15, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have NO IDEA why citations are sometimes duplicating ... it has NEVER happened to me before, so it is a weird new "feature". --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 02:23, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

What tool do you use? ProveIt? Johnjbarton (talk) 02:45, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Johnjbarton: I'm just manually editing, not using any tools. There are automated routines that appear to run from time to time and contribute to the editing, but I don't know what routines those are. --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 22:05, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

As an aside @Johnjbarton I've revised your brief article summary after looking at those for 'star' and 'pulsar'. Regards --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 02:27, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The WP:SHORTDESC is primarily used for the Search bar. Its key property is then to help users understand the field of study. Trying to stuff definitions into there can defeat the purpose by making the description unintelligible to random readers. However in this case I think its ok. Johnjbarton (talk) 02:48, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Johnjbarton: the description has been shortened to "Very dense astronomical body", which is ok, though I'd consider editing to "Most dense known astronomical body". --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 22:09, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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

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

How do temporary accounts work?

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

Temporary account IP viewer user right

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

Impact for administrators

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

Rules about IP information disclosure

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

Useful tools for patrollers

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

Videos

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

Further information and discussion

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

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

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

Administrator changes

Toadspike

• Elahrairah
• Juliancolton
• Magnus Manske

CheckUser changes

asilvering

Guideline and policy news

• The speedy deletion criteria U5 has been repealed, with U6 and U7 replacing it. See the FAQ for more clarifications.
• Community-designated contentious topics may now be enforced and appealed at the arbitration enforcement noticeboard (AE) as a result of an RfC.

Technical news

• You can enable a handy user info card next to usernames, which when clicked displays edit count, blocks, thanks, and other information. To enable this feature, visit Preferences → Appearance → Advanced options → Enable the user info card

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Transgender healthcare and people has been closed
  • Uninvolved administrators may impose an AE participation restriction on any thread at the Arbitration Enforcement noticeboard.

Miscellaneous

• An unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in November 2025 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team – 15:22, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

(This message was sent to User:Ceyockey and is being posted here due to a redirect.)

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

Administrator changes

• Chaotic Enby
• Rjjiii

Valereee

• Fathoms Below
• Tamzin

CheckUser changes

Spicy

Technical news

• Starting on November 4, the IP addresses of logged-out editors are no longer being publicly displayed. Instead, they will have a temporary account associated with their edits.
• Administrators will now find that Special:MergeHistory is now significantly more flexible about what it can merge. It can now merge sections taken from the middle of the history of the source (rather than only the start) and insert revisions anywhere in the history of the destination page (rather than only the start). T382958

Miscellaneous

• The December 2025 administrator elections are scheduled from Nov 25 – Dec 15.
• An Articles for Creation backlog drive is happening in December 2025, with over 1,000 drafts awaiting review from the past two months. In addition to AfC participants, all administrators and new page patrollers can help review using the Yet Another AFC Helper Script, which can be enabled in the Gadgets settings. Sign up here to participate!

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		Citation Barnstar
		This award is given in recognition to Ceyockey for collecting more than 3 points during the WikiProject Unreferenced articles's NOV25 backlog drive. Your contributions played a crucial role in sourcing over 6,000 unsourced articles during the drive. Thank you so much for participating and helping to reduce the backlog! ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 15:31, 22 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

January–February 2026 Backlog Drive | New pages patrol
New Pages Patrol is hosting a one-time, two-month experimental backlog drive aimed at reducing the backlog. This will be a combo drive: both articles and redirects will earn points. The drive will run from 1 January to 28 February 2026. The drive is divided into two phases. Participants may take part in either phase or across both phases, depending on availability. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles and redirects patrolled during the drive. Two-month drive-exclusive barnstars will be awarded to eligible participants. Each article review earns 1 point, while each redirect review earns 0.2 points. Streak awards will be granted based on consistently meeting weekly point thresholds. Barnstars will also be awarded for re-reviewing articles previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive. Interested in participating? Sign up here.
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:21, 27 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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

Guideline and policy news

• All general sanctions imposed by the community may now be enforced at the Arbitration Enforcement noticeboard (WP:AE) as a result of a recent RfC.
• Due to the result of a recent RFC, the administrator recall process is amended to extend the deadline for a re-request for adminship to 30 days or the next administrator election, whichever is later.
• Changes to the Access to Temporary Account IP Addresses Policy's disclosure rules include broadening the consecutive-blocks exception to cover all admin actions and removing the requirement to revision-delete permissible disclosures once they become unnecessary (instead requiring only their removal). See WP:TAIVDISCLOSE for more information.

Arbitration

• Following the 2025 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been elected to the Arbitration Committee: Aoidh, Asilvering, Girth Summit, Guerillero, HJ Mitchell, HouseBlaster, Izno, Sdrqaz, SilverLocust.
• The arbitration case Pbsouthwood has been suspended.

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Hey, Ceyockey. I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 08:35, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hey @Ceyockey. Your wiki edit anniversary is today, marking 21 years of dedicated contributions to English Wikipedia. Your passion for sharing knowledge and your remarkable contributions have not only enriched the project, but also inspired countless others to contribute. Thank you for your amazing contributions. Wishing you many more wonderful years ahead in the Wiki journey and a blessed New Year. :) -❙❚❚❙❙ GnOeee ❚❙❚❙❙ ✉ 17:09, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team – 12:43, 29 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

(This message was sent to User:Ceyockey and is being posted here due to a redirect.)

Welcome to Phase 2 of the January–February 2026 NPP drive. During Phase 1, we reviewed 16,658 articles and 4,416 redirects, and there is currently a backlog of 16,475 articles and 23,782 redirects in the queue. Fantastic job! Completing 22,502 patrols in the first phase made a significant dent in the backlog. Let's keep our foot on the gas for Phase 2, and I hope we can achieve even more reviews than Phase 1. Best of luck!

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:21, 2 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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

Arbitration

• Due to the result of a recent motion, a rough consensus of administrators at the arbitration enforcement noticeboard may impose an expanded topic ban on Israel, Israelis, Jews, Judaism, Palestine, Palestinians, Islam, and/or Arabs, if an editor's Arab-Israeli conflict topic ban is determined to be insufficient to prevent disruption. At least one diff per area expanded into should be cited.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2026 Steward elections started on 06 February 2026 at 14:00 (UTC) and will end on 27 February 2026 at 14:00 (UTC). The confirmation process for current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.

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Categories you have created have been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2026 February 19 § Category:Companies of Turkey by year of establishment on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 07:48, 19 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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

Administrator changes

• Brendanconway
• Calmer Waters
• Hut 8.5
• Joe Roe
• VersedFenrir

CheckUser changes

Ks0stm

Oversight changes

Ks0stm

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, the web archival service archive.today has been deprecated; links to the site should be removed.
• A request for comment is open to discuss retiring CSD criterion R3 in favour of handling such redirects through RfD.

Arbitration

• Following a motion, remedy 9.1 of the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been amended to limit TenPoundHammer to one XfD nomination or PROD per 24-hour period.
• Following a motion, the Iskandar323 further POV pushing motion has been rescinded.
• The Arbitration Committee has passed a housekeeping motion rescinding a number of outdated remedies and enforcement provisions across multiple legacy cases. In most instances, existing sanctions remain in force and continue to be appealable through the usual processes, while some case-specific remedies were amended or clarified.

Miscellaneous

• Following the 2026 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: A09, AmandaNP, Barras, Count Count, M7, SHB2000, Teles and VIGNERON.
• An Unreferenced articles backlog drive is taking place in March 2026 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!

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