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Administrators' newsletter – August 2025
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2025).
Administrator changes
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- The community-authorized general sanctions regarding South Asian social groups (GS/CASTE) are rescinded and folded into this new contentious topic.
- South Asia (WP:CT/SA) is designated a contentious topic. The topic area is specifically defined as
- 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.
IP block
editHi Ahect, back in June you gave a partial block to 109.52.10.149 due to vandalism on Benevacantism. The same range is now editing 2025 conclave with similar attempts to insert non-reliable sources. Would you consider extending the block? Thanks. ~Darth StabroTalk • Contribs 15:44, 11 August 2025 (UTC)
- @Darth Stabro Looks like they haven't edited since their warning for edit warring. If the edits resume, let me know and I can look into expanding the pblock. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 15:48, 11 August 2025 (UTC)- @Ahecht: the IP range is continuing the vandalism/edit warring, with a few edits to 2025 conclave overnight. ~Darth StabroTalk • Contribs 11:43, 12 August 2025 (UTC)
- He's also making legal threats on The talk page. ~Darth StabroTalk • Contribs 11:45, 12 August 2025 (UTC)
- @Darth Stabro
Done --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 12:59, 12 August 2025 (UTC)- Thanks! ~Darth StabroTalk • Contribs 13:53, 12 August 2025 (UTC)
- @Darth Stabro
- He's also making legal threats on The talk page. ~Darth StabroTalk • Contribs 11:45, 12 August 2025 (UTC)
- @Ahecht: the IP range is continuing the vandalism/edit warring, with a few edits to 2025 conclave overnight. ~Darth StabroTalk • Contribs 11:43, 12 August 2025 (UTC)
Request for assistance - CSD g6 Interesting Images
editHi @Ahecht - in a very troutable moment I've managed to publish one of my user subpages to the mainspace - if you have a minute would you mind deleting it please? Thanks very much :) Epsilon.Prota talk 15:39, 13 August 2025 (UTC)
- @Epsilon.Prota Looks like Jwoodwa already took care of this. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 16:52, 13 August 2025 (UTC)- @Ahecht Ah no worries, thanks regardless. Epsilon.Prota talk 17:05, 13 August 2025 (UTC)
Nomination for discussion of Template:Lua code
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Template:Lua code has been nominated for discussion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:57, 16 August 2025 (UTC)
Hi, @Ahecht. You tagged the above article as being closely paraphrased. If you'd let me know what sources are being plagiarized, I'll happily rectify things. I know I can do it myself but I'm also chasing down old violations, trying to get us caught up. Oona Wikiwalker (talk) 03:49, 22 August 2025 (UTC)
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Saturnium119
editCan you please tag PaperCuts12, Kabab8672, and Honeycomb638 as Saturnium119 172.56.60.50 (talk) 04:14, 25 August 2025 (UTC)