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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:22, 27 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, this is an automated reminder as part of Global reminder bot to let you know that your permission "temporary-account-viewer" (Temporary account IP viewers) will expire on 00:00, 1 January 2026 (UTC). For most rights, you will need to renew at WP:PERM, unless you have been told otherwise when your right was approved. To opt out of user right expiry notifications, add yourself to m:Global reminder bot/Exclusion. Leaderbot (talk) 19:43, 28 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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MediaWiki message delivery 19:31, 12 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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

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

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

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

Remember, even if a user is violating policy, avoid revealing personal information if possible. Use temporary account usernames rather than disclosing IP addresses directly, or give information such as same network/not same network or similar. If you do not want the user right anymore then please ask me or another administrator and it will be removed for you. You may also voluntarily give up access at any time by visiting Special:Preferences. Happy editing! Sohom (talk) 09:41, 13 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Redirects you have created have 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/2026 January 16 § 900m & 700m until a consensus is reached. Left guide (talk) 11:47, 16 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

MediaWiki message delivery 20:27, 19 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hello EchidnaLives. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Draft:The demon house, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Not blatantly vandalism or a hoax. Thank you. Whpq (talk) 15:41, 26 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the notice, I'm getting my head back around the speedy deletion criteria and misjudged this one. I'll take it on board for the future! Thanks, echidnalives - talk - edits 01:24, 27 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

MediaWiki message delivery 21:15, 26 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

It had been a while—welcome back :) HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 22:41, 29 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a lot, It's good to be back!! Congrats on your recent election to arbcom! echidnalives - talk - edits 02:35, 30 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you :) HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 03:56, 30 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hello there! I am relatively new to writing articles myself and saw that you reviewed my article Neophyte Records! I heard that once your article is reviewed it's searchable and for the first few days it was approved indeed when I searched for it the wiki page I wrote would pop up, which was really cool. However after a few days suddenly that stopped happening, and now when I search for neophyte records, even with advanced google search filtering for wikipedia only, the article doesn't show up. The corresponding article in Dutch, made by another person, does show up. There hasn't been any major edits to the page since you reviewed it as far as I remember so I am surprised to see this! Is there something wrong with the article, did it get shadowbanned or something? Please let me know in case it is something I can fix :) Poundthiswriter (talk) 10:05, 2 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Poundthiswriter hey there! As far as I know, the way the MediaWiki software behind Wikipedia works is once an article has been reviewed, it should be indexed unless a special tag is added, which from a look it doesn't seem to be. So there shouldn't be an issue on the Wikipedia side of things. Maybe it's a search engine thing? You're welcome to read up a bit here: Wikipedia:Controlling search engine indexing.

But I can definitely assure you, at least on Wikipedia, neither you nor your article have been shadowbanned, as Wikipedia doesn't do that kind of thing.

I'm sorry I can't be of more help, but hopefully it shows up soon. Regardless, congratulations on your article! echidnalives - talk - edits 10:50, 2 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

MediaWiki message delivery 17:41, 2 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The redirect Thomas (name) 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/2026 February 4 § Thomas (name) until a consensus is reached. GilaMonster536 (talk) 16:31, 4 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

	Happy Birthday	from the Birthday Committee
	Wishing EchidnaLives a very happy birthday on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Don't forget to save us all a piece of cake!--DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 15:43, 5 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much!!! echidnalives - talk - edits 11:10, 6 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

MediaWiki message delivery 23:28, 9 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, EchidnaLives. I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 03:14, 10 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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MediaWiki message delivery 19:15, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The redirect Draft:2026 CONCACAF U-20 Championship qualifying 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/2026 February 21 § Draft:2026 CONCACAF U-20 Championship qualifying until a consensus is reached. — Jkudlick ⚓ (talk) 17:45, 21 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

MediaWiki message delivery 19:01, 23 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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