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Administrator Elections - Discussion Phase

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Administrator Elections - Discussion Phase

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The discussion phase of the December 2025 administrator elections is officially open. As a reminder, the schedule of the election is:

• Dec 4–8 - Discussion phase (we are here)
• Dec 9–15 - SecurePoll voting phase
• Scrutineering phase

We are currently in the discussion phase. The candidate subpages are open to questions and comments from everyone, in the same style as a request for adminship. You may discuss the candidates at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/December 2025/Discussion phase.

On December 9, we will start the voting phase. The candidate subpages will close to public questions and discussion, and everyone will have a week to use the SecurePoll software to vote, which uses a secret ballot. You can see who voted, but not who they voted for. Please note that the vote totals cannot be made public until after voting has ended and as such, it will not be possible for you to see an individual candidate's totals during the election. You must be extended confirmed to vote.

Once voting concludes, we will begin the scrutineering phase, which typically lasts between a couple days and a week. Once everything is certified, the results will be posted on the results page (you may want to watchlist this page) and transcluded to the main election page. In order to be granted adminship, a candidate who has not been recalled must have received at least 70.0% support, calculated as Support / (Support + Oppose), and must also have received a minimum of 20 support votes. A candidate that has been recalled must have at least 55.0% support. Because this is a vote and not a consensus, there are no bureaucrat discussions ("crat chats").

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Question from Curramore (04:22, 4 December 2025)

I want to add to the entry concerning Colin Hollis Retired Australian Politician, in that he has recently been awarded two major Awards which should be added --Curramore (talk) 04:22, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

Curramore, do you have a connection to Colin Hollis, and do you have a (reliable) source to verify he was awarded these awards? — Qwerfjkltalk 10:58, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

Question from Qmack0 (22:31, 6 December 2025)

Hi, I’ve only recently created an account due to wanting to write an article about an actor who has many credits in varied media, but not as many news articles, and who had a previous article deleted because of citation/formatting/impartiality issues. What is considered acceptable sourcing for listing an actor’s credits? Can I use, for example, Apple TV’s cataloguing of an actor’s roles, or would IMDB be acceptable? Also, is there a specific way to check whether a source is considered “reputable” for Wikipedia article purposes, or a list of acceptable sources? I just don’t want to have to pester about every single thing, and the guidance article I found was too vague for the kinds of questions I had. Thanks in advance. --Qmack0 (talk) 22:31, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

Qmack0, neither would be suitable. IMDB is user-generated content. I'm not entirely sure what you mean by Apple TV, but if it's just shown when watching Apple TV then it's also unsuitable. There is Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources, but you should use your own judgement about whether a source is reliable in a particular case. — Qwerfjkltalk 18:22, 7 December 2025 (UTC)

Qwerfjkl (bot) – ~2025-32146-34

Page: Javan_rhinoceros

Diff: Special:Diff/1326187878

Comment/question: I made no changes to references; any errors were pre-existing, I believe. ~2025-32146-34 (talk) 19:28, 7 December 2025 (UTC)

~2025-32146-34, it appears you inadvertently introduced a space in |title=Javan Rhinos to be Transferred to Cikepuh Wildlife Reserve, changing it to |tit le= which is not recognised by the template. — Qwerfjkltalk 09:24, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

This was later fixed by Citation bot. — Qwerfjkltalk 09:26, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors – December 2025 Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors December 2025 Newsletter Hello, and welcome to the December newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since September. If you'd like to be notified of upcoming drives and blitzes, and other GOCE activities, the best method is to add our announcements box to your watchlist. Election news: The Guild's coordinators play an important role in the WikiProject, making sure nearly everything runs smoothly and on time. Editors experienced in drives or blitzes and in good standing (unblocked and without sanctions) are invited to nominate themselves or another editor (with their permission, of course) to be a Guild coordinator until 23:59 on 15 December (UTC). The voting phase begins at 00:01 on 16 December and runs until 23:59 on 31 December. Questions may be asked of candidates at any stage in the process. Elected coordinators will serve a six-month term from 1 January through 30 June 2026. September Drive: 43 of the 63 editors who signed up for the September Backlog Elimination Drive edited 693,541 words in 265 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. October Blitz: 14 of the 15 editors who signed up for the October Copy Editing Blitz edited 75,108 words in 31 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. November Drive: 38 of the 65 editors who signed up for the November Backlog Elimination Drive edited 590,816 words in 240 articles. Barnstars awarded are posted here. December Blitz: The December Blitz will begin at 00:00 on 14 December (UTC) and will end on 20 December at 23:59. Sign up here. Barnstars awarded will be posted here. Progress report: As of 01:49, 8 December 2025 (UTC), GOCE copy editors have completed 293 requests since 1 January, and the backlog of tagged articles stands at 1,730 articles. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators, Dhtwiki, GoldRomean, Miniapolis and Mox Eden. To stop receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2025

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

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• Starting on November 4, the IP addresses of logged-out editors are no longer being publicly displayed. Instead, they will have a temporary account associated with their edits.
• Administrators will now find that Special:MergeHistory is now significantly more flexible about what it can merge. It can now merge sections taken from the middle of the history of the source (rather than only the start) and insert revisions anywhere in the history of the destination page (rather than only the start). T382958

Miscellaneous

• The December 2025 administrator elections are scheduled from Nov 25 – Dec 15.
• An Articles for Creation backlog drive is happening in December 2025, with over 1,000 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 the Gadgets settings. Sign up here to participate!

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Question from Main Dannea (17:25, 8 December 2025)

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• Anybody who wishes to secure their user account can now use two-factor authentication (2FA). This is available to all registered users of all Wikimedia projects. This is part of the Account Security initiative. Later, 2FA will be required for all users who can take security- or privacy-sensitive actions.

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• Following last week's deployments, the Add a link feature, which allows editors to add suggested links during editing, will be available to an additional 33 Wikipedias starting on 9 December. This expansion is possible thanks to the new prediction model that now supports all languages, including those that were previously not covered. While the feature has been available on most Wikipedias for some time, this rollout brings us closer to using the improved model everywhere. If you have any questions or would like more details please contact Trizek (WMF).
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• The Wikipedia Year in Review 2025, a feature in the Wikipedia mobile apps (iOS and Android) that provides users with a personalised summary of their engagement with Wikipedia over the year, is now available on the iOS and Android apps. This edition includes expanded personalised insights, improved reading highlights, new donor messaging, and updated designs. Open the app to view your Year in Review and explore your reading journey from 2025.
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Administrator Elections - Voting Phase

The voting phase of the December 2025 administrator elections has started and will continue until Dec 15 at 23:59 UTC. You can participate in the voting phase at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/December 2025/Voting phase.

As a reminder, the schedule of the election is:

• Dec 9–15 - SecurePoll voting phase
• Scrutineering phase

In the voting phase, the candidate subpages close to public questions and discussion, and everyone who qualifies to vote has a week to use the SecurePoll software to vote, which uses a secret ballot. You can see who voted, but not who they voted for. Please note that the vote totals cannot be made public until after voting has ended and as such, it will not be possible for you to see an individual candidate's vote total during the election. The suffrage requirements are similar to those at RFA.

Once voting concludes, we will begin the scrutineering phase, which will last for a few days, perhaps longer. Once everything is certified, the results will be posted on the results page (this is a good page to watchlist), and transcluded to the main election page. In order to be granted adminship, a non-recall candidate must have received at least 70.0% support, calculated as Support / (Support + Oppose), and a minimum of 20 support votes. Recall candidates must achieve 55.0% support. Because this is a vote and not a consensus, there are no bureaucrat discussions ("crat chats").

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Administrator Elections - Voting Phase

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The voting phase of the December 2025 administrator elections has started and will continue until Dec 15 at 23:59 UTC. You can participate in the voting phase at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/December 2025/Voting phase.

As a reminder, the schedule of the election is:

• Dec 9–15 - SecurePoll voting phase
• Scrutineering phase

In the voting phase, the candidate subpages close to public questions and discussion, and everyone who qualifies to vote has a week to use the SecurePoll software to vote, which uses a secret ballot. You can see who voted, but not who they voted for. Please note that the vote totals cannot be made public until after voting has ended and as such, it will not be possible for you to see an individual candidate's vote total during the election. The suffrage requirements are similar to those at RFA.

Once voting concludes, we will begin the scrutineering phase, which will last for a few days, perhaps longer. Once everything is certified, the results will be posted on the results page (this is a good page to watchlist), and transcluded to the main election page. In order to be granted adminship, a non-recall candidate must have received at least 70.0% support, calculated as Support / (Support + Oppose), and a minimum of 20 support votes. Recall candidates must achieve 55.0% support. Because this is a vote and not a consensus, there are no bureaucrat discussions ("crat chats").

Any questions or issues can be asked on the election talk page. Thank you for your participation. Happy electing.

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Question from BayF7 (17:58, 11 December 2025)

How to create a new page for a new person? --BayF7 (talk) 17:58, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

BayF7, Welcome! Creating a new article from scratch is extremely challenging, and new editors are strongly recommended to spend a few months learning how Wikipedia works, by making improvements to some of our existing seven million articles before trying it. When you do decide to have a go at a new article, you are highly encouraged to read Help:Your first article. If you haven't already also check out the tutorial; it's a lot of fun! Happy editing! — Qwerfjkltalk 10:14, 12 December 2025 (UTC)

Question from AeushPorche (20:18, 11 December 2025)

hello, what to do if i see wrong information written? --AeushPorche (talk) 20:18, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

AeushPorche, you can correct it. If it has a reliable reference backing it up, it is better to discuss on the talk page first, and make sure you have a reference to verify any new information you have (unless trivial). — Qwerfjkltalk 10:15, 12 December 2025 (UTC)

Question from Daplatman17 (01:00, 13 December 2025)

Hello --Daplatman17 (talk) 01:00, 13 December 2025 (UTC)

Hi! — Qwerfjkltalk 12:47, 13 December 2025 (UTC)

how are you Qwerfjkl? Daplatman17 (talk) 00:35, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

Well. — Qwerfjkltalk 15:55, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

I am glad I am doing well to I like platypuses I know everything about them Daplatman17 (talk) 16:03, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

Draft

Hi @Qwerfjkl can you review my article? DraftButterflyTz (talk) 15:53, 13 December 2025 (UTC)

ButterflyTz, you can submit it with the button on the page. I cannot read Persian, so cannot evaluate the sources. — Qwerfjkltalk 20:15, 13 December 2025 (UTC)

How can move it without submission?

sometimes they don’t answer ButterflyTz (talk) 06:25, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

ButterflyTz, you can press the button labelled "Submit draft for review" to submit it. — Qwerfjkltalk 15:55, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-51

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• View all 18 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, one of the fixes addressed an issue for temporary accounts adding an external URL, which triggered an hCaptcha request in more cases than intended, and did not display the required popup on the first attempt to publish the edit. [6]

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• To improve database and site performance, external links to Wikimedia projects will no longer be stored in the database. This means they will not be searchable in Special:LinkSearch, will not be checked by the Spam Blacklist or AbuseFilter as new links, and will not be in the externallinks table on database replicas. In the future this may be extended to other highly-linked trusted websites on a per-wiki basis, such as Creative Commons links on Wikimedia Commons. [7]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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re: Wireless Power Consortium page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Power_Consortium)

Hello,

I need some help addressing some issues identified by "Qwerfjkl (bot)" on the above page. The old page had out of date information and I updated it with input from the organization. I used the incorrecct citation format originally but after it was flagged, I corrected the error.

However, the issue window still appears at the top of the page.

What do I have to do edit to ensure compliance.

Thank you,

KLightfoots KLightfoot2025 (talk) 03:20, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

KLightfoot2025, your edits to the article seem to have removed a large amount of useful content and added large unhelpful content in its place. I think it would be better if the article was reverted back to the older revision and then any useful information or references can be reintroduced. — Qwerfjkltalk 16:12, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

Hello,

The old article contained a lot of incorrect and unrelated information regarding the Wireless Power Consortium and its products Qi and Ki. The new information is verified and referenced in the citations.

Thank you, Kevin KLightfoot2025 (talk) 22:38, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

Qwerfjkl (bot) – LaMarmora1854_Explanation_regarding_incorrect_citations

Page: Russia–Turkey_relations

Diff: Special:Diff/1327297575

Comment/question: [[Three days ago, on 13 December 2025, after I finished editing the Wikipedia article "Russia-Turkey_relations", I received an alert. That alert was an automated message from Qwerfjkl (bot), in which I was briefed that my edit supposedly included one or more referencing errors, which fall under the category of "missing title error". Since my edit was quite large (I made numerous grammatical corrections, added many hyperlinks, and references, which increased the article's data size by 3,524 bytes), I was not aware of the exact change Qwerfjkl had referred to. Additionally, the bot may have made a mistake, since I always try to be extremely careful when editing articles on Wikipedia, especially when inserting citations into the articles' text. With that being said, would it be possible for any of the Wikipedia administrators with more experience and software skills, or an AI system (bot), to take a look at my edit once again, to brief me on which exact citation (if any) was added into that article in an incorrect way? I thank you in advance for your help.]]

LaMarmora1854 (talk) 13:28, 16 December 2025 (UTC) LaMarmora1854 (talk) 13:28, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

LaMarmora1854, you missed out |title= when you added

<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-9-2022-003495_EN.html |access-date=2025-12-13 |website=www.europarl.europa.eu}}</ref>

. — Qwerfjkltalk 16:00, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

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