News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2024).

Administrator changes

Sennecaster

• Daniel
• Hog Farm

• BozMo
• Ferret
• John M Wolfson
• MaxSem
• Panyd
• Tide rolls
• Titoxd

CheckUser changes

• Daniel
• Elli
• Liz
• ScottishFinnishRadish
• Theleekycauldron

Worm That Turned

Ferret

Oversight changes

• Daniel
• Elli
• Liz
• ScottishFinnishRadish
• Theleekycauldron

Worm That Turned

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RFC, Wikipedia:Notability (species) was adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline.
• A request for comment is open to discuss whether admins should be advised to warn users rather than issue no-warning blocks to those who have posted promotional content outside of article space.

Technical news

• The Nuke feature also now provides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions.

Arbitration

• Following the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been elected to the Arbitration Committee: CaptainEek, Daniel, Elli, KrakatoaKatie, Liz, Primefac, ScottishFinnishRadish, Theleekycauldron, Worm That Turned.

Miscellaneous

• A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in January 2025 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles and redirects in the new pages feed. Sign up here to participate!

Happy new year 2025, opened with trumpet fanfares that first sounded OTD in 1725 (as the Main page had it). My story today is about a composer who influenced music history also by writing. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:53, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

... and today, pictured on the Main page, Tosca, in memory of her first appearance on stage OTD in 1900, and of principal author Brian Boulton. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:51, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Today, between many who just died, Tobias Kratzer on his 45th birthday who was good for an unusual DYK mentioning a Verdi opera in 2018, - you can see his work in the trailer of another one that I saw, and my talk page has a third (but by a different director). 2025 pics, finally. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:37, 17 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Today I have a composer (trumpeter, conductor) on the main page who worked closely with another who became GA yesterday, - small world! To celebrate: mostly flowers pics from vacation ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:10, 20 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Hammersoft Shit Don't Delete Image 89.199.148.203 (talk) 08:55, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Since you've not made any edits from this IP to anything other than my talk page, I've no idea what you're talking about. --Hammersoft (talk) 13:41, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I see now from the filter log that you are referring to the Cahit Irgat image. File:Cahit Irgat.jpg was deleted from Commons because it is a rather blatant copyright violation. We care about that sort of thing here. Your wanting to violate copyright doesn't mean we allow such violations to sustain here. Find a provably public domain or free license image instead. That an image exists on the Internet somewhere doesn't mean it's public domain, and uploading it here or at Commons doesn't mean it's your work. --Hammersoft (talk) 17:32, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

My apologies for not seeing your original message [1]. I was active at the time, but didn't see it. I thought that TP was in my watchlist, but evidently it wasn't (not sure if it was taken out on the move or what). Regardless, I didn't see your ping until this morning. Just wanted to apologize for and explain what might have appeared to be ignoring you (which was not my intention). I have responded to the content items at the article TP. ButlerBlog (talk) 14:48, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No worries. I just wasn't sure you'd seen it. --Hammersoft (talk) 14:55, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

bandaragama.ds.gov.lk/index.php/en/about-us-2/historical-background.html Ashenmaneth (talk) 16:29, 26 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

See WP:CITE. --Hammersoft (talk) 16:30, 26 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! I didn't know if you have ping disabled as many admins do. I saw that you'd recently given a final warning to a chronic abuser, Speakfor23 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). He then surpassed mere edit warring and into POV pushing of Confederate ideology. See the edit histories of the three articles I linked at the bottom of his talk page. Thanks. — Smuckola(talk) 07:53, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have my pings turned on, and I posted there. --Hammersoft (talk) 12:04, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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

Administrator changes

• Arcticocean
• Wugapodes

Euryalus

CheckUser changes

• Firefly
• L235

Oversighter changes

• Firefly
• Guerillero
• L235
• Moneytrees

Technical news

• Administrators can now nuke pages created by a user or IP address from the last 90 days, up from the initial 30 days. T380846
• A 'Recreated' tag will now be added to pages that were created with the same title as a page which was previously deleted and it can be used as a filter in Special:RecentChanges and Special:NewPages. T56145

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Palestine-Israel articles 5 has been closed.

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:42, 22 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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

Administrator changes

• Jarry1250
• Lethe

CheckUser changes

• AmandaNP
• Drmies

Oversighter changes

AmandaNP

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment is open to discuss whether AI-generated images (meaning those wholly created by generative AI, not human-created images modified with AI tools) should be banned from use in articles.
• A series of 22 mini-RFCs that double-checked consensus on some aspects and improved certain parts of the administrator elections process has been closed (see the summary of the changes).
• A request for comment is open to gain consensus on whether future administrator elections should be held.

Technical news

• A new filter has been added to the Special:Nuke tool, which allows administrators to filter for pages in a range of page sizes (in bytes). This allows, for example, deleting pages only of a certain size or below. T378488
• Non-administrators can now check which pages are able to be deleted using the Special:Nuke tool. T376378

Miscellaneous

• The 2025 appointees for the Ombuds commission are だ＊ぜ, Arcticocean, Ameisenigel, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, Galahad, Nehaoua, Renvoy, Revi C., RoySmith, Teles and Zafer as members, with Vermont serving as steward-observer.
• Following the 2025 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: 1234qwer1234qwer4, AramilFeraxa, Daniuu, KonstantinaG07, MdsShakil and XXBlackburnXx.

Can you decrease the protection level of the article? I know there is disruptive editing but this article contains important free information that me and other readers use to check the newest polling results and averages. If this is not removed soon enough it would be too difficult to add all the data and update. CS012831 (talk) 16:24, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@CS012831: I'm not inclined to do so, barring presentation of a more convincing argument. I don't mean to disparage what you say at all. I'm simply very cognizant for the mass outbreak of edit warring that has occurred on the article which caused the protection in the first place. I was hoping discussion would ensue to hammer things out among the disputants, and at first was dismayed there apparently was just more sand tossing and finger pointing going on in the sandbox (see response to the protection). But, two days into the protection discussion began to help iron this out. I'm happy to see this process begin, but there is as yet no consensus in that discussion. Had consensus already emerged in that discussion (unlikely, given that it's just been 2 days), I would have considered dropping the protection as there would be an agreement with which to move forward. I also don't feel anything is beyond our pool of editors. While it might be more difficult to back-add in data, it will be far from impossible. Much of the notations have already been made at the suggested edit requests. We have 2.5 days of protection left. It's not that long. When the time approaches, I will be placing an additional warning on the talk page of the article to the effect that any resumption of edit warring activities will result in swift blocks of the accounts conducting the edit warring, regardless of who is 'right' or 'wrong' (which is highly subjective in this case). --Hammersoft (talk) 17:15, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

account Unblock request Source delete please help Wikipedia team Today's debates will not touch Wikipedia even by mistake please unblock account Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Ramkripalyadavgeo/Archive 103.199.180.149 (talk) 13:50, 17 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

First, you've not given any reason to unblock you, just that you want to be unblocked. Second, you are using an IP address to evade your block...again. Third, per WP:THREESTRIKES, you are now considered banned by the community. No one administrator has the power to unblock you. Even if they did, they can't. This is because you are globally locked. To clear the global lock, you need to appeal to stewards@wikimedia.org. However, such an appeal must actually have a clear reason along with an understanding of what you did wrong and what you intend on doing in the future. So far, you've not provided any reason to be unblocked. --Hammersoft (talk) 14:28, 17 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, can you RevDel everything for that blocked and glocked user? Myrealnamm (💬Let's talk · 📜My work) 14:15, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Everything that (I think) should be done has been done. We don't do a blanket suppression of a user. If there's something I missed that you think should be taken care of, let me know. --Hammersoft (talk) 14:19, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, thank you! The edit summary deletion was what I was trying to refer to. I’ll be more specific next time. Myrealnamm (💬Let's talk · 📜My work) 14:21, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No worries! Thanks for alerting me! --Hammersoft (talk) 14:24, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sdkb ^talk 05:16, 22 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats! - Today, 300 years of Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 1! - We sang works for (mostly) double choir by Pachelbel, Johann Christoph Bach, Kuhnau/Bach, Gounod and Rheinberger! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:40, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]