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WP:AFC Helper News

Hello! I wanted to drop a quick note for all of our AFC participants; nothing huge and fancy like a newsletter, but a few points of interest.

• AFCH will now show live previews of the comment to be left on a decline.
• The template {{db-afc-move}} has been created - this template is similar to {{db-move}} when there is a redirect in the way of an acceptance, but specifically tells the patrolling admin to let you (the draft reviewer) take care of the actual move.

Short and sweet, but there's always more to discuss at WT:AFC. Stop on by, maybe review a draft on the way? Whether you're one of our top reviewers, or haven't reviewed in a while, I want to thank you for helping out in the past and in the future. Cheers, Primefac, via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:59, 16 February 2022 (UTC)

Question about Template:Ice Hockey Stats

I've been looking at a couple of PHF player pages, and I see the "External Links" section on some of 'em that include the template above. For example: Audra Morrison. I've read the documentation for the template, and I see that it uses some information from Wikidata. I went and found Audra's Wikidata page, and it makes sense how the template makes use of the particular Wikidata items to create the external links to (e.g.) EliteProspects. The part that I can't figure out is how the Audra Morrison Wikipedia page knows that it links to that Wikidata page to look up those particular Wikidata properties. I don't see anything on her Wikipedia page source that makes that connection. Do you know how that magic happens? TIA. --MikeVitale 20:50, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

@MikeVitale: Sorry for the slow reply. It works based on interwiki links to wikidata. Since that wikidata page is linked it knows to grab the information off that page on wikidata. If you look on that wikidata page on the right side it lists all the language wikis articles it is linked too. Your example only appears to be English. But if it was an article with multiple langauges you would also see them listed down the left side of the English page here. -DJSasso (talk) 13:58, 17 February 2022 (UTC)

Thank you bunches! No worries about the slow reply…I’m just happy to better understand how this works! Thanks again. MikeVitale 17:29, 17 February 2022 (UTC)

Date format on Mats Sundin

Hello Djsasso! Would you be so kind as to help me explain to an IP how WP:DATERET works? The person has consistantly changed dates to mdy-format on Mats Sundin over the last few days, and I don't want to break the 3RR. I've written and explained my actions on the IP's talk page, but no response as of yet. Regards QubeCube (talk) 21:18, 18 February 2022 (UTC)

Sorry for the slow reply, I didn't see this till just now. Looks like they have stopped. If they continue let me know. -DJSasso (talk) 11:56, 24 February 2022 (UTC)

Forget11

Why you djsasso block banned Simple2020 and yesyeh2004 and Wikipedia22. You suspicious sockpuppet. You are a bad administration. Why you not give Grace Wan a chance to stay on Wikipedia website. Why you delete page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Forget11 (talk • contribs) 09:18, 24 February 2022 (UTC)

New administrator activity requirement

The administrator policy has been updated with new activity requirements following a successful Request for Comment.

Beginning January 1, 2023, administrators who meet one or both of the following criteria may be desysopped for inactivity if they have:

1. Made neither edits nor administrative actions for at least a 12-month period OR
2. Made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period

Administrators at risk for being desysopped under these criteria will continue to be notified ahead of time. Thank you for your continued work.

22:52, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

Tyler Brown

I am concerned about offensive material appearing in the edit summaries in the history of Tyler Brown. Please see here, here, and here. Thanks if you could take care of this. Flibirigit (talk) 12:21, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Fort Pitt Panthers players

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Happy Eighteenth First Edit Day!

Hey, Djsasso. I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! Chris Troutman (talk) 14:54, 9 December 2022 (UTC)

Happy Fifteenth Adminship Anniversary!

Wishing Djsasso a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Chris Troutman (talk) 19:39, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

Arena capacity concern

Hi sorry to bother but I noticed you recently edited Scotiabank Centre, I have a question I’m not too sure if you’ll be able to answer it but an IP and I are currently in an edit war regarding the capacity in the infobox, according to the arenas website states "over 10,500", the IP is against just having that alone in the infobox, they want to include practically all the capacities for every event in the infobox, I find that highly unnecessary as that’s not what the infobox calls for. They started a discussion on the talk page but fail to bring any sources. Could you please join the discussion if you could? Thank you so much. Pillowdelight (talk) 00:05, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

Category:Ice hockey people from Hawaii has been nominated for merging

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Category:Ice hockey people from Delaware has been nominated for merging

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Category:Ice hockey people from South Carolina has been nominated for merging

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Ice hockey centres from Northern Ireland

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If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. ✗plicit 12:04, 16 April 2025 (UTC)

Guide to temporary accounts

Hello, Djsasso. This message is being sent to remind you of significant upcoming changes regarding logged-out editing.

Starting 4 November, logged-out editors will no longer have their IP address publicly displayed. Instead, they will have a temporary account (TA) associated with their edits. Users with some extended rights like administrators and CheckUsers, as well as users with the temporary account IP viewer (TAIV) user right will still be able to reveal temporary users' IP addresses and all contributions made by temporary accounts from a specific IP address or range.

How do temporary accounts work?

Editing from a temporary account

• When a logged-out user completes an edit or a logged action for the first time, a cookie will be set in this user's browser and a temporary account tied with this cookie will be automatically created for them. This account's name will follow the pattern: ~2025-12345-67 (a tilde, year of creation, a number split into units of 5).
• All subsequent actions by the temporary account user will be attributed to this username. The cookie will expire 90 days after its creation. As long as it exists, all edits made from this device will be attributed to this temporary account. It will be the same account even if the IP address changes, unless the user clears their cookies or uses a different device or web browser.
• A record of the IP address used at the time of each edit will be stored for 90 days after the edit. Users with the temporary account IP viewer (TAIV) user right will be able to see the underlying IP addresses.
• As a measure against vandalism, there are two limitations on the creation of temporary accounts:
  • There has to be a minimum of 10 minutes between subsequent temporary account creations from the same IP (or /64 range in case of IPv6).
  • There can be a maximum of 6 temporary accounts created from an IP (or /64 range) within a period of 24 hours.

Temporary account IP viewer user right

How to enable IP Reveal

• Administrators may grant the temporary account IP viewer (TAIV) user right to non-administrators who meet the criteria for granting. Importantly, an editor must make an explicit request for the permission (e.g. at WP:PERM/TAIV)—administrators are not permitted to assign the right without a request.
• Administrators will automatically be able to see temporary account IP information once they have accepted the Access to Temporary Account IP Addresses Policy via Special:Preferences or via the onboarding dialog which comes up after temporary accounts are deployed.

Impact for administrators

• It will be possible to block many abusers by just blocking their temporary accounts. A blocked person won't be able to create new temporary accounts quickly if the admin selects the autoblock option.
• It will still be possible to block an IP address or IP range.
• Temporary accounts will not be retroactively applied to contributions made before the deployment. On Special:Contributions, you will be able to see existing IP user contributions, but not new contributions made by temporary accounts on that IP address. Instead, you should use Special:IPContributions for this (see a video about IPContributions in a gallery below).

Rules about IP information disclosure

• Publicizing an IP address gained through TAIV access is generally not allowed (e.g. ~2025-12345-67 previously edited as 192.0.2.1 or ~2025-12345-67's IP address is 192.0.2.1).
• Publicly linking a TA to another TA is allowed if "reasonably believed to be necessary". (e.g. ~2025-12345-67 and ~2025-12345-68 are likely the same person, so I am counting their reverts together toward 3RR, but not Hey ~2025-12345-68, you did some good editing as ~2025-12345-67)
• See Wikipedia:Temporary account IP viewer § What can and can't be said for more detailed guidelines.

Useful tools for patrollers

• It is possible to view if a user has opted-in to view temporary account IPs via the User Info card, available in Preferences → Appearance → Advanced options → Enable the user info card
  • This feature also makes it possible for anyone to see the approximate count of temporary accounts active on the same IP address range.
• Special:IPContributions allows viewing all edits and temporary accounts connected to a specific IP address or IP range.
• Similarly, Special:GlobalContributions supports global search for a given temporary account's activity.
• The auto-reveal feature (see video below) allows users with the right permissions to automatically reveal all IP addresses for a limited time window.

Videos

• How to use Special:IPContributions
• How automatic IP reveal works
• How to use IP Info
• How to use User Info

Further information and discussion

• For more information and discussion regarding this change, please see the announcement from the Wikimedia Foundation at Wikipedia:Village pump (WMF) § Temporary accounts rollout.

Most of this message was written by Mz7 (source). Thanks, 🎃 SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 02:48, 31 October 2025 (UTC)