DatGuy
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Latest comment: 2 days ago by Locke Cole in topic Regarding 2025 Annunciation Catholic Church shooting
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- The community-authorized general sanctions regarding South Asian social groups (GS/CASTE) are rescinded and folded into this new contentious topic.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.
Happy Adminship Anniversary!
edit| | Happy adminship anniversary! Hi DatGuy! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of your successful request for adminship. Enjoy this special day! DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 03:09, 15 August 2025 (UTC) |  |
Precious anniversary
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| Eight years! |
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The move to Annunciation Catholic Church shooting was undiscussed, reverting is allowed per WP:RMUM. It's on the person wishing to move to start an WP:RM if they still want to pursue it after being reverted. —Locke Cole • t • c 12:56, 28 August 2025 (UTC)
- The page has been moved four times, I am unwilling for yet another move to occur without a discussion. The current title has been set for the longest time since the creation of the article and is the de facto status quo. Any squabbling about which title is the status quo is ultimately the wrong version and unconvincing. DatGuyTalkContribs 13:08, 28 August 2025 (UTC)
- The three previous moves were all to titles that included 2025 (and were at least compliant with WP:NCWWW), and were really just variations of WP:CONCISE and WP:PRECISE. Instead of trying to revert the page move I could have simply came up with yet another title that included the year, but as I don't want to engage in a protracted move war, I felt invoking WP:RMUM was reasonable (and the "right way" to handle this). At that point it's on the person wishing to omit the year to start an RM and gain consensus.
- If you don't want to assist, can you give me WP:PAGEMOVER and I'll take care of it myself? I promise not to edit/move war, and if challenged, to start the RM as you've suggested. —Locke Cole • t • c 13:36, 28 August 2025 (UTC)
- The way to resolve this is to take it through a RM and reach a consensus which would then by definition no longer be a unilateral move. The current title is now the status quo, disagreeable as one might think it, but someone would always find fault with whichever version. DatGuyTalkContribs 13:45, 28 August 2025 (UTC)
- Well I'm sorry I went to sleep and a page move happened. It's been less than 24 hours since the move. RMUM is for reverting undiscussed moves so I'm really not sure how this doesn't qualify… —Locke Cole • t • c 13:53, 28 August 2025 (UTC)
- The way to resolve this is to take it through a RM and reach a consensus which would then by definition no longer be a unilateral move. The current title is now the status quo, disagreeable as one might think it, but someone would always find fault with whichever version. DatGuyTalkContribs 13:45, 28 August 2025 (UTC)