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Please add a non-breaking space  before the tag<sup> in the last list item "accounts^(meta)" → "accounts ^(meta)", like so:Special:Diff/1274885732/1275069918. Rationale: consistency with the first tag<sup> in the list item "Articles created ^(redirects)". —⁠andrybak (talk)22:07, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Done* Pppery *_{it has begun...}17:23, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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I'd like to suggest changing

* [{{fullurl:Special:ListUsers|limit=1&username={{urlencode:{{{1|Example}}}}}|QUERY}} User rights]

to

* [[Special:UserRights/{{{1|Example}}}|User rights]]

for a few reasons:

• It's cleaner, shorter, and uses a standard wikilink
• Special:UserRights shows the user's current rights (example) asSpecial:ListUsers does, so no loss of functionality, but additionally provides a history of rights changes, which can be useful
• Special:UserRights doesn't have the unnecessarily long paragraph at the top that describes what users are – if you're on a contributions page clicking a link called "User rights", you probably know this already

Iiii I I I (talk)00:41, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Added to sandbox. Comparison below: — Martin(MSGJ · talk)09:53, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• MSGJ:Subpages
• User rights
• Edit statistics
• Edit summary search
• Articles created ^(redirects)
• Global:contributions
• log
• accounts ^(meta)

• MSGJ:Subpages
• User rights ^(list)
• Edit statistics
• Edit summary search
• Articles created ^(redirects)
• Global:contributions
• log
• accounts ^(meta)

 Done* Pppery *_{it has begun...}23:11, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Iiii I I I,MSGJ, andPppery: By any chance, would any of you object to including the oldSpecial:ListUsers link as a superscript in addition to theSpecial:UserRights link? I've sandboxed the proposed change here:[1] (now visible in MSGJ's comparison above). After years of having the old link, I started using that ListUsers link as a one-click way to see the exact timestamp when a user account was created, in addition to their user rights. I understand this may seem like a bit of a selfish request—if needed, I would be happy to ask around to see if anyone else would find this useful too.Mz7 (talk)18:49, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Another argument is that, for administrators, the ListUsers interface is actually the less-cluttered one, since UserRights will take you to a form that lets youmodify user rights.Mz7 (talk)19:05, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: the second to last link ("accounts") also shows the timestamp of account creation in section/box "Global account information" (second box from the top) as field "Registered:". —⁠andrybak (talk)19:06, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I take that back. For older accounts the "accounts" link can show the timestamp of whenWP:SUL happened for the account (i.e. some time around 2015). —⁠andrybak (talk)19:14, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

What nobody seems to have noticed is that the contributions page - which AFAIK is the only place thatMediaWiki:Sp-contributions-footer is used - has the user account creation date at the top. For example, as I type this,Special:Contributions/Redrose64 shows "A user with 277,390 edits. Account created on 5 May 2009." So, for the purposes of checking that date, no additional link is necessary. What this doesn't provide is the actual time of creation, present inListUsers. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk)20:59, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

🤦 Oh... All three of the pages mentioned so far show theWP:SUL datewhen enwiki is not the homewiki:Special:Contributions/Andrybak showsAccount created on 9 January 2015.,ListUsers –Created on 5 May 2009 at 12:46Created on 9 January 2015 at 20:47,Special:CentralAuth/Andrybak –Registered: 20:44, 9 January 2015 (10 years ago).

The only places showing the real™ account creation date are these pages on my homewiki, e.g.ListUsersCreated on 8 October 2010 at 19:00.

So it's all depends on what you count as the account creation. —⁠andrybak (talk)21:38, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Er, ListUsers for Andrybak doesn't show "Created on 5 May 2009 at 12:46", it shows "Created on 9 January 2015 at 20:47". Where did you get the "Created on 5 May 2009 at 12:46" from? --Redrose64 🌹 (talk)22:30, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That was a misclick, my bad. Corrected above. —⁠andrybak (talk)22:38, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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I am proposing to implement the following code onMediaWiki:Sp-contributions-footer-temp, because the difference is that we remove the following links:

• User rights, given thattemporary accounts cannot possess user groups.
• Articles and redirects created, as temporary accounts cannot create such new pages.

<divclass="mw-parser-output">{{fmbox| type= system| id= sp-contributions-footer-temp| image=[[File:User-info.svg|40px|User info|link=File:User-info.svg]]| textstyle= font-size: 90%; text-align:center;| text={{flatlist|1=*[[User:$1|$1]]:[[Special:Prefixindex/User:$1/|Subpages]]*[[xtools:ec/en.wikipedia.org/{{urlencode:$1|PATH}}|Edit statistics]]*[https://sigma.toolforge.org/summary.py?name={{urlencode:$1|QUERY}}Edit summary search]*[[xtools:pages/en.wikipedia.org/{{urlencode:$1|PATH}}|Articles created]]&nbsp;[[xtools:pages/en.wikipedia.org/{{urlencode:$1/0/onlyredirects|PATH}}|<sup>(redirects)</sup>]]* Global:[https://guc.toolforge.org/?user={{urlencode:$1|QUERY}}&blocks=truecontributions]*[https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=globalauth&user=&page=User:{{urlencode:$1|QUERY}}@globallog]*[[Special:CentralAuth/$1|accounts]]&nbsp;<sup>([[m:Special:CentralAuth/$1|meta]])</sup>}}}}</div>

Thoughts?Codename Noreste (discuss •contribs)22:08, 17 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Support Sample rendering:User:Bunnypranav/Sandbox~/Bunnypranav:<ping>14:43, 21 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Codename Noreste Are articles created by expanding a redirect or redirects created byblanking and redirecting an article not listed under articles and redirects created?Toadspike[Talk]14:46, 21 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It might be possible that a temporary account can expand an article after removing a redirect, and the other way around; however, they can't be counted as page creations (as they can only be made by registered accounts) and aren't listed on XTools.Codename Noreste (discuss •contribs)14:59, 21 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Toadspike I believe not.Iffs was created by me as a redirect and later expanded by an IP; it is visible undermy XTools article creation list, it should be the same for temp accounts as well. Although, I think we need not remove it, as pages promoted from drafts and created by temp accounts/IPs are visible under their XTools,example.~/Bunnypranav:<ping>15:06, 21 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Does this mean I should re-add the article and redirect creation links back to the new footer?Codename Noreste (discuss •contribs)15:08, 21 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I would say yes.~/Bunnypranav:<ping>15:11, 21 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Bunnypranav. In that case Isupport removing the user rights link, butoppose removing the articles and redirects created links.Toadspike[Talk]15:16, 21 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I've just re-added the article and redirect creation links above.Codename Noreste (discuss •contribs)15:18, 21 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Done* Pppery *_{it has begun...}18:27, 23 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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