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Hello! Could you please edit your older talk page archives (specifically, archives1,3,4,9,19,24,30,31,32 and33) so that they don't transclude{{Archive navigation}}? This template is deprecated and we're trying to clean up all uses of it before it gets deleted. Thanks! – 🌻Hilst (talk |contribs)12:42, 27 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Hilst: All done, I think :)Fish+Karate14:00, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! – 🌻Hilst (talk |contribs)14:51, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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

Administrator changes

• Crisco 1492

• Babajobu
• Daniel
• Elf
• Jayron32
• Thue
• Wugapodes

CheckUser changes

Maxim

Oversighter changes

Maxim

Guideline and policy news

• Following adiscussion, thediscussion-only period proposal that went for a trial to refine therequests for adminship (RfA) process has been discontinued.
• Following arequest for comment,Administrator recall is adopted as a policy.

Technical news

• Mass deletions done with theNuke tool now have the 'Nuke' tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier.T366068

Arbitration

• RoySmith,Barkeep49 andCyberpower678 have been appointed to theElectoral Commission for the2024 Arbitration Committee Elections.ThadeusOfNazereth andDr vulpes are reserve commissioners.
• Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate from 3 November 2024 until 12 November 2024 to stand in the2024 Arbitration Committee elections.
• The Arbitration Committee isseeking volunteers for roles such as clerks, access to the COI queue, checkuser, and oversight.

Miscellaneous

• Anunreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in November 2024 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!

Hello! As you could probably tell, I'm here to add the One Piece franchise to the list of highest-grossing franchises, but I wasn't really sure how. In 2024, there are plenty of sources that suggest One Piece should be somewhere on this list (most notably in the top 30 somewhere), and I tried to do it but I don't think my html skills are up to snuff anymore sadly. I was wondering if someone with more experience could either help me do it or add it themselves? Here are some of the sources that suggest One Piece should be here:https://www.33rdsquare.com/one-pieces-total-franchise-value-is-estimated-at-20-5-billion-as-of-2023/

https://www.titlemax.com/discovery-center/the-25-highest-grossing-media-franchises-of-all-time/

https://in.ign.com/one-piece/197362/news/one-piece-has-surpassed-dragon-ball-in-merchandise-sales

https://gbtimes.com/how-much-is-the-one-piece-franchise-worth/

Thank you in advance!Molak156 (talk)18:46, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I realized this isn't the thread to the actual article, sorry! lolMolak156 (talk)18:57, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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

Administrator changes

• Ahecht
• DoubleGrazing
• Dr vulpes
• FOARP
• Peaceray
• Queen of Hearts
• Rsjaffe
• SD0001
• SilverLocust
• Sohom Datta
• ThadeusOfNazereth
• Voorts

• Ajpolino
• Fathoms Below
• Pppery
• Tamzin
• Worm That Turned

• Aervanath
• Christopher Sundita
• Dank
• Dennis Brown
• Dragons flight
• Fastily
• Graham87
• JaGa
• Kbh3rd
• Marine 69-71
• Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington
• Yamamoto Ichiro

Interface administrator changes

• SD0001
• Sohom Datta

Pppery

CheckUser changes

• Spicy
• TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

• Followingan RFC, thepolicy on restoration of adminship has been updated. All former administrators may now only regain the tools following a request at theWikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard within 5 years of their most recent admin action. Previously this applied only to administrators deysopped for inactivity.
• Following arequest for comment, a new speedy deletion criterion,T5, has been enacted. This applies to template subpages that are no longer used.

Technical news

• Technical volunteers can now register for the2025 Wikimedia Hackathon, which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey.Application for travel and accommodation scholarships is open from November 12 to December 10, 2024.

Arbitration

• The arbitration caseYasuke (formerly titledBacklash to diversity and inclusion) has been closed.
• An arbitration case titledPalestine-Israel articles 5 has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case will close on 14 December.

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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

• Followingan RFC,Wikipedia:Notability (species) was adopted as asubject-specific notability guideline.
• Arequest 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 nowprovides 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 the2024 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

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

A redirect or redirects you have created has been listed atredirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets theredirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect atWikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 January 29 § Future timeline of Earth until a consensus is reached. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄)08:02, 29 January 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 nownuke 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 inSpecial:RecentChanges andSpecial:NewPages.T56145

Arbitration

• The arbitration casePalestine-Israel articles 5 has been closed.

Hi Fish and karate, I found tha the DOB has a source, and has been in the page since 2009 at least - I think removing it at the subject's request is reasonable, but deleting it seems hard to justify - thoughts?Vanamonde93 (talk)16:58, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi@Vanamonde93: - if it’s sourced then no objections. I was emailed asking to remove that edit for a different (privacy-related) reason due to the edit summary, not because it was an unsourced DOB. Cheers,Fish+Karate20:01, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Understood, and I let the edit-summary remain deleted assuming that was the case. Best,Vanamonde93 (talk)20:10, 5 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

• Arequest 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 of22 mini-RFCs that double-checked consensus on some aspects and improved certain parts of theadministrator elections process has been closed (see thesummary of the changes).
• Arequest for comment is open to gain consensus on whether futureadministrator elections should be held.

Technical news

• A new filter has been added to theSpecial: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 theSpecial:Nuke tool.T376378

Miscellaneous

• The 2025 appointees for theOmbuds commission areだ＊ぜ,Arcticocean,Ameisenigel,Emufarmers,Faendalimas,Galahad,Nehaoua,Renvoy,Revi C.,RoySmith,Teles andZafer as members, withVermont serving as steward-observer.
• Following the2025 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards:1234qwer1234qwer4,AramilFeraxa,Daniuu,KonstantinaG07,MdsShakil andXXBlackburnXx.

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

Administrator changes

• Giraffer
• Goldsztajn

Dennis Brown

• Cyclonebiskit
• Nohat
• Someguy1221

Bureaucrat changes

Barkeep49

CheckUser changes

0xDeadbeef

Oversighter changes

GB fan

Moneytrees

Miscellaneous

• Sign up forThe Core Contest, a competition running from 15 April to 31 May to improvevital articles.

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

Administrator changes

Rusalkii

NaomiAmethyst(overlooked last month)

• Master Jay
• Orderinchaos
• Roger Davies
• Tinucherian

Interface administrator changes

Galobtter

Guideline and policy news

• Followingan RfC,administrator elections were permanently authorized on a five-month schedule. The next election will be scheduled soon; seeWikipedia talk:Administrator elections for more information. This is an alternate process to theRfA process and does not replace the latter.
• An RfC was closed with consensus to allow editors to opt-out of seeing "sticky decorative elements". Such elements should now be wrapped in{{sticky decoration wrapper}}. Editors who wish to opt out can follow the instructions atWP:STICKYDECO.
• An RfC has resulted ina broad prohibition on the use of AI-generated images in articles. A few common-sense exceptions are recognized.

Miscellaneous

• ANew Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in May 2025 to reduce the backlog of articles in thenew pages feed.Sign up here to participate!

I have nominatedEdward Low for afeatured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets thefeatured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process arehere.Hog Farm_Talk01:53, 19 May 2025 (UTC))[reply]

Thanks. It makes me sad that it’ll probably get delisted, but the standards these days are such I doubt it would be possible to retain its status.Fish+Karate12:41, 19 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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

Administrator changes

• DDima
• Gimmetrow
• Huon
• Johan Elisson
• Spangineer
• The Land

Interface administrator changes

0xDeadbeef

CheckUser changes

L235

Oversight changes

L235

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open to determine whether the English Wikipedia community should adopt a position on AI development by theWMF and its affiliates.

Technical news

• A new feature calledMultiblocks will be deployed on English Wikipedia on the week of June 2. Seethe relevant announcement on the administrators' noticeboard.
• History merges performed using themergehistory special page are now logged at both the source and destination, rather than just the source as previously, afterthis RFC and the resolution ofT118132.

Arbitration

• An arbitration case namedIndian military history has been opened. Evidence submissions for this case close on 8 June.

Miscellaneous

• Voting for theUniversal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is open until 17 June 2025. Read thevoting page on Meta-Wiki andcast your vote here!
• AnArticles for Creation backlog drive is happening in June 2025, with over 1,600 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 theGadgets settings.Sign up here to participate!
• TheUnreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in June 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!

A redirect or redirects you have created has been listed atredirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets theredirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect atWikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 June 18 § Salt and vinegar until a consensus is reached.🌳BalsamCottonwood (talk)✝06:50, 18 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The redirectLikeThis has been listed atredirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets theredirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect atWikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 June 23 § LikeThis until a consensus is reached.Janhrach (talk)15:37, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Couldn't you at least have readthe talk page first? —Trilletrollet[Talk |Contribs ]11:15, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Most of the arguments at the2007 discussion were deeply flawed and really boiled down toWP:IDONTLIKEIT (one user even compared drug use to rape and murder, just what???). Doubt something like that would fly nowadays. —Trilletrollet[Talk |Contribs ]11:35, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

If Fish and karate does not agree to undelete the userbox, you will be able to start adeletion review. I think that editors might still want to delete this userbox, even in 2025. —Alalch E.18:21, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Trilletrollet: Hi, it was tagged for speedy deletion in line with a previous deletion discussion and seemed uncontroversial. As you aren’t happy with it being deleted, and I appreciate the original discussion was a long time ago, I’ve restored it and the original tagger can nominate it for deletion formally if they so wish. Pinging@Alalch E.: accordingly. Cheers,Fish+Karate13:11, 27 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. —Alalch E.13:12, 27 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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

Administrator changes

NuclearWarfare

Interface administrator changes

L235

Guideline and policy news

• Following atalk page discussion, speedy deletioncriterion G13 has beenamended to remove "Userspace with no content except thearticle wizard placeholder text."
• WP:Manual of Style/Superscripts and subscripts was upgraded to a guideline followinga RfC discussion.

Miscellaneous

• The 2025Developing Countries WikiContest will run from 1 July to 30 September.Sign up now!
• Administrator elections will take place this month. Administrator elections are an alternative toRFA 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!

Hi Fish and karate, almost seven years ago, you semi-protected three articles (Lipa, Batangas,Dalton Pass andDynasty Warriors 6) due to apparentsockpuppetry. While the protection requests for all these articles (here,here andhere) show that you intended to protect them for only one month, they were somehow never set to expire (seeyour overall protection log on 11 September 2018). Now that almost seven years have past, do you think you can unprotect them to see whether the problems return? It's an issue I've been noticing where some articles intended to be protected temporarily were accidently set to indefinite (seethis discussion I made about two months ago).BriDash9000 (talk)10:40, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, yes no problem. I’ve removed the protection from all three articles. Apologies for the delay, I’ve been on holiday. Cheers,Fish+Karate20:10, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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

Administrator changes

• CoconutOctopus
• Curbon7
• Hinnk
• Jlwoodwa
• Kj cheetham
• KylieTastic
• Ser!
• Smasongarrison
• UndercoverClassicist

• Bbb23
• Beeblebrox
• David Gerard
• Oleg Alexandrov
• Satori Son

CheckUser changes

• Alison
• Bradv
• Joe Roe
• RickinBaltimore
• ST47

Oversight changes

• Bradv
• RickinBaltimore

Guideline and policy news

• Followinga request for comment, a new speedy deletion criterion,G15, has been enacted. It applies to pages generated by alarge language model (LLM) without human review.
• Followinga request for comment, there isa new policy outlining the granting of permissions to view the IP addresses oftemporary accounts. Temporary account deployment on the English Wikipedia is currently scheduled for September 2025, and editors canrequest 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 Taskhelps new account holders get started with editing. Administrators can configure this setting in theCommunity Configuration page.

Arbitration

• The arbitration caseIndian military history has been closed.
  • South Asia (WP:CT/SA) is designated acontentious topic. The topic area is specifically defined asAll pages related to the region ofSouth 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 forSri Lanka (SL) andIndia, Pakistan, and Afghanistan (IPA) are folded into this new contentious topic.
  • The community-authorized general sanctions regardingSouth Asian social groups (GS/CASTE) are rescinded and folded into this new contentious topic.
• The arbitration caseArticle titles and capitalisation 2 has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case closed on 31 July.
• The arbitration caseTransgender healthcare and people has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case will close on 11 August.

Miscellaneous

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

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

Administrator changes

Euryalus

• Admrboltz
• FloNight
• Floquenbeam
• Ganeshk
• JesseW
• Night Gyr
• Nixdorf

Interface administrator changes

Ragesoss

CheckUser changes

AmandaNP

SQL

Oversight changes

AmandaNP

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open on whether use ofemojis 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 underG15.

Technical news

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

Arbitration

• The arbitration caseArticle 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.

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

• Aftera motion, arbitration enforcement page protections no longer need to be logged in the AELOG. A bot now automatically posts protections atWP: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.