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User:Nuttyprofessor2016

Hi @Liz, hope you are doing well.

I noticed that the user is active again and came across this ANI.

I was not sure whether reopening it would be appropriate or if some other action might be needed, so I thought I'd bring it to your attention.

Happy editing! Zuck28 (talk) 13:19, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2026

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2026).

Administrator changes

• Brendanconway
• Calmer Waters
• Hut 8.5
• Joe Roe
• VersedFenrir

CheckUser changes

Ks0stm

Oversight changes

Ks0stm

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, the web archival service archive.today has been deprecated; links to the site should be removed.
• A request for comment is open to discuss retiring CSD criterion R3 in favour of handling such redirects through RfD.

Arbitration

• Following a motion, remedy 9.1 of the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been amended to limit TenPoundHammer to one XfD nomination or PROD per 24-hour period.
• Following a motion, the Iskandar323 further POV pushing motion has been rescinded.
• The Arbitration Committee has passed a housekeeping motion rescinding a number of outdated remedies and enforcement provisions across multiple legacy cases. In most instances, existing sanctions remain in force and continue to be appealable through the usual processes, while some case-specific remedies were amended or clarified.

Miscellaneous

• Following the 2026 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: A09, AmandaNP, Barras, Count Count, M7, SHB2000, Teles and VIGNERON.
• An Unreferenced articles backlog drive is taking place in March 2026 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!

DRV notice: Igor Lestar

Deletion review for Igor Lestar

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Igor Lestar. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. VirtualA (talk) 20:09, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 4

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on Feb 13. Please help translate.

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Highlights
Let's Talk continues

• Birthday mode: This limited-time campaign feature celebrates 25 years of Wikipedia with a birthday mascot, Baby Globe. When turned on, Baby Globe is shown on ~2,500 articles, waiting to be discovered by readers. The feature is available for all Wikipedias to customise through Community Configuration until 6 April 2026. So far 17 Wikipedias have joined in the fun.
• Wikipedia's 25th birthday party celebrated on Commons: Content from the January 15th global birthday party selected as Media of the day.

Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Readers · Research · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org

• Etherpad cleanup: For security and performance reasons, all current pads on Wikimedia’s Etherpad instance, the web-based "ephemeral" editor for real-time collaborative document editing, will be permanently deleted after 30 April. We will continue running this Etherpad instance to support events and other short-term collaboration, but will be periodically deleting data going forward. If you have content in Etherpad you want to keep, please create local backups, as data will be permanently deleted and will not be able to be recovered.
• Activity tab: Wikipedia iOS app has rolled out the improved Activity tab to all users in version 7.9.0. A/B test results showed increased account creation among users with access to the feature. Updates include enhanced editing impact insights, module customization, and relocation of History into the Search tab.
• Reference Check: The feature Reference Check has been deployed to all Wikipedias. In A/B testing, the impact was substantial: newcomers shown Reference Check were approximately 2.2 times more likely to include a reference on desktop (or acknowledge/explain why they did not) and about 17.5 times more likely on mobile web.
• Semantic search: The Foundation has launched a limited Android mobile app experiment that tests hybrid search capabilities which can handle both semantic and keyword queries. The Phase 1 beta is now live on Greek Wikipedia. The goal is to understand whether combining meaning-based retrieval with keyword search helps readers find information more effectively. Testing will expand to English, French, and Portuguese Wikipedias in March.
• Navigation experience: The Foundation will run an experiment for mobile web users, that adds a table of contents and automatically expands all article sections, to learn more about navigation issues they face. The test will be available on Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias.

• Site notices: Site notices (MediaWiki:Sitenotice and MediaWiki:Anonnotice) now will render on all platforms, not just on the desktop site. Users on mobile web will now see these notices and be informed.
• Tech News: Latest updates from Tech News week 08 and 09 include the new “Edit full page” button for people who are editing a page-section using the mobile visual editor. They also link to the 40 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.
• Wikifunctions: Abstract Wikipedia is going to have its public preview within the next few weeks, here is the preview.

Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog · WikiLearn News · The Wikipedia Library · list of movement events

• Gender gap: The Celebrate Women 2026 is coming! The Wikimedia Foundation will host a kick-off celebration that will work as a welcome session for both organizers and participants on March 5 at 13:00 UTC.
• Language: New edition of the Language and internationalization newsletter highlights new feature developments and improvements in various language-related technical projects.
• Let’s Connect Learning Clinic: Watch the recordings of past learning clinics about Wikipedia’s 25th Birthday Tool and Strengthening Local-Language Admin Communities.
• Wikimedia Research Showcase: You can watch the recording of this month research showcase whose theme is about "AI and Communities".
• Hubs: Lessons from hub pilots.
• Banners & logo policies: Wikimedia Foundation has adopted new and updated policies regarding the use of banners, logo changes, and blackouts on the projects, particularly for advocacy purposes.
• Digital Safety: The next edition of Digital Safety Office Hours will be on Mar 27 at 9:00 UTC and 19:00 UTC. The session will explore practical threat modelling: a structured way to think about risks, assess your exposure, and make informed choices.

Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness
See also: Progress on the annual plan

• Wikimedia Enterprise: Ecosia Enriches Search Results and AI Answers with Wikimedia Enterprise.
• Human centered AI: Members of the Wikimedia Enterprise team presented on "Wikipedia in the Age of AI and Bots" at the seminar of Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence.
• Inclusive AI: Advancing Open, Inclusive AI with Free and Open Knowledge at the India AI Impact Summit 2026.

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Quarry queries

I see three of your queries are failing on Quarry. You can replace those queries with the following ones. Quarry 102705, Quarry 102704 and Quarry 102703 – DreamRimmer ■ 03:10, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

Thank you, User:DreamRimmer, I was going to ask if you could review the ones I commonly use (I think there are about 6 or 7). I borrowed all of them from editors who are more skilled in writing and amending code so I'm rather helpless to fix them when things change on the other end. If you could still review those listed at the top of the page for my profile on Quarry, I'll be eternally grateful. Thank you for being so responsive, a skill I definitely need to improve on. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:40, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

I'm too involved to make the block

Responding to User_talk:LateNightCoffee#PLEASE_STOP! I'm too involved to make the block myself. But I think you'd be right to block them from at least category space, until they take other people's concerns seriously. ^SMason_Garrison 01:29, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

Hello, User:Smasongarrison,

I'm not sure how involved you are in this case, I just wanted a second opinion so thank you. I see this kind of thing a couple times a year, an overly enthusic new editor just goes overboard creating dozens and dozens of categories or redirects or sometimes an entirely new WikiProject overnight, usually. I'll see if things quiet down over the next hour. I hadn't thought of a namespace block but that's probably the best solution. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:35, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

No worries! Happy to give the second oppinion! I've been keeping an eye on them for similar reasons. They've been at it for a couple of weeks with making overlapping categories. These kinds of editors have potential, but it is tough when they repeatedly go overboard. ^SMason_Garrison 01:40, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

User talk:Psiĥedelisto

Hi Liz! Would you be so kind to protect User talk:Psiĥedelisto. It is the account of Fredrick Brennan. He died in January. Indefinite semi would be great. Thanks, Polygnotus (talk) 17:41, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

(talk page stalker)  Done Star Mississippi 03:17, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

Thanks! Polygnotus (talk) 04:27, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

The Signpost: 10 March 2026

Revision Deletion

Hello, I reverted a vandalism edit from a user that is now banned, because of the content and it being a FA, I was wondering if you could delete the revision per WP:RD2. I saw your name at Category:Wikipedia administrators willing to handle RevisionDelete requests and thought maybe you could help. Thanks. Ajheindel (talk) 01:13, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

Hello, Ajheindel,

 Done I think it's taken care of. I've also protected the article for a few days in case they come back. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:20, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

Thanks! Ajheindel (talk) 01:22, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 73

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 73, January–February 2026

• Four new partnerships
• User survey thanks

Read the full newsletter

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Jesse Edge

Hi Liz. I wanted to let you know that I removed the CSD tag you placed on the above article. The AFD was in 2014, and the article contains post-2014 information, so I don't see how it could possibly be identical to the deleted version. Given that, I don't think G4 applies here. You're welcome to take it to AFD if you still think it should be deleted. (Also, I'll admit that this is a very strange message for a non-administrator to give to an administrator. Shouldn't it be the other way around?) Chess enjoyer (talk) 06:20, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

WP:C1 and {{Wikipedia category}}

Hi Liz, I appreciate all the work you do in the maintenance space, but have some concerns that many of the empty categories you've tagged don't meet the CSD criteria.

WP:C1 says that it does not apply to project categories that by their nature may become empty on occasion, and also to Place {{Possibly empty category}} (or, for administrative categories, {{Wikipedia category}}) at the top of the page to prevent such categories from being deleted (emphasis mine). Many of your tags yesterday were on ineligible categories that had {{Wikipedia category}}, such as this one that's been used since 2011; it may be worth adjusting your search query to exclude any cats with this template?

Also a friendly request to please double check pages before tagging, as it appears you accidentally tagged this as empty. Thanks, nil ^nz 23:39, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

Hmm

I know that editing takes a lot of craftsmanship and detailed information where you don't make a single mistake because any single is information can lead to world havoc right Noah Fearnelyy (talk) 10:27, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for the deletion of Talk:Higglytown Heroes (2003 TV series) because i going through the tags list when I saw a talk page without an article. So I used the G8 template via Twinkle, and within 20 minutes after I put that in, it was deleted. Glad i caught it really quickly. ~ŤheŴubṂachine-840≈ 23:20, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 5

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on February 27. Please help translate.

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Highlights

• Supporting readers: For most of its history, Wikipedia did not have to worry about attracting readers. But with the way people search for information changing, there is a drop in the number of readers which is impacting the number of accounts created and contributions to our sites. Have a look at some of the ongoing and planned work to support reader experience.
• Server switch: All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 25 at 15:00 UTC. This is for the datacenter server switchover backup tests, which happen twice a year.
• Tools improvement: The PTAC Unsupported Tools Working Group continued improvements to Video2Commons in February, with fixes addressing authentication errors, large-file handling, task queue visibility, and clearer upload behavior. Work is still ongoing in some areas, including changes related to deprecated server-side uploads.
• Wikipedia 25 Grants: The celebration continues! The Wikimedia Foundation offers Wikipedia 25 Birthday Funds to communities planning Wikipedia’s 25th birthday events with funding between USD 1,000–2,000. Apply before March 31.

Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Readers · Research · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org

• Experiments: The Foundation is frequently conducting experiments to help learn what features will be most effective and valuable to the projects. The list of experiments in Product and Technology, tracks upcoming, live, in-analysis, and completed experiments as well as their rationale. For example, the tracker shares that one upcoming experiment, Reader to Contributor Baseline, will measure how many readers create contributor accounts and whether the rate differs depending on how people arrived to the site.
• Article guidance: Help less experienced editors by filling out a questionnaire on this page (available in 7 languages). The Foundation are looking particularly for experienced Wikipedia editors from these pilot wikis. Your answers will help customize guidance for less experienced editors while creating an article.
• Wikifunctions: You can now create Functions that will show a citation in their output.
• Editing feature: Suggestion Mode is available as a beta feature within the visual editor at all Wikipedias. This feature proactively suggests various types of actions that people can consider taking to improve Wikipedia articles, and learn about related guidelines.
• Paste Check: Paste Check is now available at all Wikipedias. The feature prompts newcomers who are pasting text they are not likely to have written into VisualEditor to consider whether doing so risks a copyright violation.
• Mobile experience: The user menu in the top corner for all mobile users is standardized so that it is closer to the desktop experience to improve the user interface for readers.
• Two-factor authentication: For security reasons, members of certain user groups are required to have two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled. Currently, 2FA is required to use the group, but not to be a member of it. Given that this model still has some vulnerabilities, the situation will gradually change in March.
• Tech News: Latest updates from Tech News week 10 and 11 include the new GraphQL API has been released as a flexible alternative to select features of the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS). They also link to the 50 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog · WikiLearn News · The Wikipedia Library · list of movement events

• WikiCelebrate: Celebrating Mervat, one of the most experienced and dedicated contributors to Arabic Wikipedia.
• Wikimedia ecosystem: The pilot on the ecosystem of Wikimedia organizations has published a draft proposal for a Future Affiliate Landscape. It welcomes your review and feedback.
• Fundraising: The Fundraising Report 2024–2025 has now been published on meta.
• International Women's Day 2026: Women, visibility, and the future of trusted knowledge on Wikimedia.
• Don't Blink: The latest developments from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.
• Wiki Loves Earth 2025: See the winners from the 13th annual edition of the globe-trotting photo contest.
• Wikimania 2026: While most Wikimania program submissions are closed, the research track is open until March 31. It accepts proposals from both professional researchers and Wikimedians.

Other Movement curated newsletters & news
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March 2026 meetup in Portland (online participation available!)

Hey Liz,

You're invited to the March 2026 meetup in Portland, Oregon! Join us either in person at the Northwest Library or online at 10:00 AM on Saturday, March 28.

Please RSVP at the link above, even if you might be interested, so we can know how many people to expect. Hope to see you there!

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Balša Popović

Hey Liz, any chance you can drafity the article that was at Balša Popović, that page will likely pass GNG.--Ortizesp (talk) 18:38, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

Quick CT editnotice request

AP applies to the article 2020s American renouncement of allies, so while you're online, could you make the edit notice of it for me please? :3 LS8 (ruikasa is 100% real) 05:15, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

"Timeline of X" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Timeline of X has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2026 March 19 § Timeline of X until a consensus is reached. Abesca (talk) 17:39, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

Category:Permanent representatives of Jamaica to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons

Hi, I noticed you deleted Category:Permanent representatives of Jamaica to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, this was actually part of a group nomination here Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2026_March_12#Category:Permanent_representatives_of_Andorra_to_the_Organisation_for_the_Prohibition_of_Chemical_Weapons. LibStar (talk) 22:35, 22 March 2026 (UTC)

Revoke TPA

Please revoke talk page access for Yisroel The Great2025. Darrrrmilk (talk) 01:37, 28 March 2026 (UTC)

Hello, Darrrrmilk,

It looks like admin Bishonen has already handled this editor. Sorry that I wasn't around at the time to respond to you more promptly. I hope your work is going well here. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:11, 5 June 2026 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors/Membership/News/2025 Annual Report

Guild of Copy Editors Annual Report Our 2025 Annual Report is now ready for review. Highlights: Introduction Membership news and election results Summary of Drives, Blitzes and the Requests page Closing words – Your Guild coordinators To stop receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 05:35, 31 March 2026 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 March 2026

My Wekipedia request is most welcome

@Liz:Hi Administrator, How are you, sir? I hope you are well. I have a very serious request from you, and I will give you a full opportunity to come and serve on this Wekipedia page of mine. From where you come, I will make you an administrator. And I have not seen any editor more than you. I want you to come to my Wekipedia page. I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart for visiting my platform. And you came. Bearcet (talk) 12:25, 31 March 2026 (UTC)

Hello, Bearcet,

I appreciate the offer but it looks like Wekipedia Wiki has now been closed. Thanks for the compliment though and I wish you happy editing with your work on THIS wikipedia. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:08, 5 June 2026 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 6

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on March 13. Please help translate.

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Highlights

• Supporting the mobile experience: The Foundation is starting conversations with communities to explore how editing should work on the Wikipedia mobile apps. The goal is to understand how to better support both new and experienced editors, and how the app can guide users to the right editing tools. Your input is welcome. Join the discussion!
• Wikimania 2026: Registration for Wikimania 2026 is opening soon from the end of March to May 1. Like other Wikimedia events this year, we are introducing a "request for invitation" process, with trust and safety checks conducted prior to confirming in-person attendance. Our priority is to create a safe environment for connection, collaboration, and shared learning.
• Around the Puzzle Globe in the CEE region: On March 23 almost 60 Wikimedians took part in the CEE-Catch up- a meeting for Wikimedians from Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. As a part of continuous conversations we have with the communities around the Foundation's annual plan, participants discussed the global trends related to Readers and Contributors in their regional context. The meeting was also an opportunity to connect with the new Foundation CEO, Bernadette Meehan, who is meeting communities around the puzzle globe to listen, learn and engage with the communities.

Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Readers · Research · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org

• Crawlers: The Foundation is now detecting and blocking billions of bot requests that don’t follow our robot policy, such as aggressive scrapers, to make sure our resources go towards serving human readers. In the coming months we’ll be working on better detection of rapidly changing bot behavior and better API infrastructure.
• Moderator tools for newer editors: Wikipedia editors in Indonesian, Thai, Turkish, and Simple English now have access to an early version of Special:PersonalDashboard. It introduces newer editors to patrolling workflows, making it easier for them to move from making edits to participating in more advanced moderation work on their project.
• Account creation on mobile: Mobile editors at several wikis are now presented with a simplified logged-out warning message, which encourages them to create an account or log in. This test is part of our ongoing effort to enhance the account creation experience on mobile and increase participation.
• Verification email redesign: The verification email sent to new accounts that add an email address during signup has been redesigned. When tested on English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikidata, the same-week email verification rate increased from 41.6% to 45.9%.
• Retaining notification history: Wikimedia site users can export their notifications older than 5 years using a new Toolforge tool. This will ensure that users retain important notifications and avoid losing them based on the planned change to delete notifications older than 5 years, as previously announced.
• Tech News: Latest highlights from Tech News weeks 12 and 13 include the update that Wikimedia site users can now log in without a password using passkeys as a secure method supported by fingerprint, facial recognition, or PIN. See also the 64 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.
• Experiments: Check out the list of experiments in Product and Technology to see all upcoming, live, in-analysis, and completed experiments. One new experiment that just went live is the "Improve the logged-out warning message on mobile web," which aims to reduce the sense of friction or alarm when users encounter the logged-out warning upon editing.

Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog · WikiLearn News · The Wikipedia Library · list of movement events

• Digital rights and free knowledge: Wikimedia Foundation staff and Wikimedians from across the movement will contribute to important conversations on AI governance, information integrity, and equitable access to knowledge at RightsCon 2026 from May 5–8. Join the conversation virtually.
• Microtask Generator: Learn more about the Microtask Generator, a tool which identifies content quality gaps in Wikipedia articles and suggests tasks for editors to address within a dashboard. Users can input lists of articles for analysis, or get recommendations based on article categories. Ideal for edit-a-thons and other article improvement drives.
• WikiLearn: Discover the latest edition of WikiLearn News where you can find the latest online learning opportunities to take your editing skills to new heights.
• Diff Event calendar: The event calendar on Diff is now redirected to the list of events on Meta-wiki. This list pulls in all events that are open to all wikis.
• Grantmaking Strategy: The GRDC has identified the key challenges that will inform the design of the new Grantmaking Strategy.

Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness
See also: Progress on the annual plan

• Audit report: Highlights from the Wikimedia Endowment’s fiscal year 2024-2025 audit report.
• Enterprise partnerships: Wikimedia Enterprise announced new partnerships. Together with Firecrawl to reform how AI agents access the world’s largest online repository of human knowledge and with Aligned AI to develop Ethical AI products for families by providing Wikimedia Enterprise Snapshot API.

Board and Board committee updates
See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter

• Endowment Board: Welcoming Nataliia Tymkiv to the Wikimedia Endowment Board of Directors.
• Affiliate recognition: Affiliations Committee extended the pause on new affiliate recognition to September 1, 2026.

Other Movement curated newsletters & news
See also: Diff blog · Goings-on · Planet Wikimedia · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) · Wikimag (fr) · Education · GLAM · Milestones · Wikidata · Central and Eastern Europe · other newsletters

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Redeletion of Napalm: The Crimson Crisis

Hi Liz, I found out that you was the person responsible for deleting article Napalm: The Crimson Crisis - Amiga game from 1998. The article is now undeleted with significant amount of sources existing.

^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]} Asceno (talk) 14:56, 7 April 2026 (UTC)

Hello, Asceno,

I did delete this article in 2021. It was an expired PROD. You should know with PRODs that another editor is identifying problems they see with an article and the admin simply acts on the tagging after 7 days if it looks like it was a valid PROD tagging. So, that's what I was doing, responding to the tagging, not evaluating the article. Deleted PRODs can be restored by making a request to any admin or going to WP:REFUND with a request. It looks like you did the right thing during a period when I wasn't responding to talk page messages promptly and I apologize for that.

Looks like the article has been restore and you are working on improving it. If I can help in other ways, let me know and I promise, you won't have to wait another 2 months for an answer. Have a great summer weekend! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:04, 5 June 2026 (UTC)

Hi Liz,

it is totaly ok. That game was notable, but wikipedia article was just few lines long. I understand why you delete that article at that point of time.

Now the article has proper sourcing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napalm:_The_Crimson_Crisis

Thank you for your work :)

You created a lot of value in long term :) Asceno (talk) 15:32, 18 June 2026 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – April 2026

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2026).

Administrator changes

• ARandomName123

• Biblioworm
• Causa sui
• Djsasso
• Espresso Addict
• Fenix down
• Firefangledfeathers
• GeneralNotability
• NawlinWiki
• Northamerica1000
• Smalljim

Checkuser changes

Giraffer

Oversight changes

Kj cheetham

Giraffer

Guideline and policy news

• The content of Wikipedia:Writing articles with large language models has been updated following a request for comment. It now prohibits using LLMs to generate content, with exceptions for translation and copy-editing.

Arbitration

• Following a motion, the GSCASTE extended-confirmed restriction in the Indian military history case has been narrowed. It now applies to caste-related topics in South Asia, and the preemptive protection remedy has been amended accordingly.
• The arbitration case Pbsouthwood has been closed.
• The arbitration case Maghreb has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case will close on 7 April.

A barnstar for you!

	The Rosetta Barnstar
	I think the work you do is awesome! FifthofFebruary-Tanya (talk) 05:48, 6 April 2026 (UTC)

Deletion of Draft:Rock Lititz

Greetings Liz. I will appear as new user. However, I previously edited many articles as user "Peteycat" but was unable to recover my password and so I set up this new account.

I wanted to create an article on the Rock Lititz stage production facility however I discovered one was previosly attempted and deleted by you. I tried to restore the draft to look at but it was blank. Do you have any insight into the deletion? Was it because the subject was deemed unworthy or was it an adminstrative issue?

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?action=edit&create=Create+new+article+draft&editintro=Template%3AAfC+draft+editintro&preload=Template%3AAfc+preload%2Fdraft&summary=--+Draft+creation+using+the+%5B%5BWP%3AArticle+wizard%5D%5D+--&title=Draft%3ARock+Lititz

I don't want to start an article if the subject has already been rejected. - John

Chartrons (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 22:01, 6 April 2026 (UTC)

Hello, Chartrons,

I apologize for the delay in responding to you. I did delete this draft, Draft:Rock Lititz, as a stale draft, CSD G13, which is a standard process we do here for drafts that are considered "abandoned" that haven't had any human edits to the page in six months. Then you requested that the draft be restored and an admin did so. You have continued to work on the draft. Everything went according to policy and all content has been restored. I'm not sure if there is any other way I can help. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:41, 4 June 2026 (UTC)

Liz,

Thank you for reaching out.

Can I delete the Pink Decclined Submission blocks?

John Chartrons (talk) 01:40, 4 June 2026 (UTC)

Chartrons, those blocks help reviewers reference the history of the article and understand what aspects needed closer attention. You can continue to edit the draft below the blocks. Drew Stanley (talk) 01:42, 4 June 2026 (UTC)

U1 deletion(s)?

Hi, Liz, how are you? – busy as ever, it seems! In relation to this deletion (and perhaps other similar ones?), could I ask you to kindly take a look at User talk:Epicgenius#U1 deletion? or indeed this. It seems that that page was inappropriately moved to user-space and then improperly tagged for speedy deletion. Many thanks, regards, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 12:22, 7 April 2026 (UTC)

Hello, Justlettersandnumbers,

Just catching up with some messages that it's taken me a while to respond to. I'm sorry for the delay.

I read this exchange with Epic genius at User_talk:Epicgenius/Archive/2026/Apr#h-U1_deletion?-20260405094400 which made perfect sense. Over the years, we have occasionally had problems with some editors who move bad articles or drafts to their User space and then tag them for speedy deletion as a CSD U1. I no longer patrol CSD categories any longer but those admins who do need to carefully check articles in User space that are tagged CSD U1. It looks like my role was in deleting a broken redirect. But I'll certainly be careful and I hope other admins will, too.

Do you consider this incident resolved or does more action need to be taken? Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:56, 4 June 2026 (UTC)

I keep trying to fix this link, unsuccessfully. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:59, 4 June 2026 (UTC)

Hi, Liz, thanks for ping and the reply. As far as I'm concerned this is now water under the bridge. You've probably seen that a few days after posting here I undeleted, moved, reverted and re-deleted that specific page. I didn't check whether you'd deleted other similar pages improperly moved by the same user, but I suppose that if you did, those deletions should probably also be undone. I was not sure of our policy in this situation, so am grateful to Epicgenius for clarification here. Regards, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 19:48, 6 June 2026 (UTC)

@Justlettersandnumbers, thanks for the heads up. To my knowledge I haven't deleted any other pages by that user (or any others) which were improperly moved to userspace and tagged with U1 or G7. But yeah, if the tagging user isn't the only major contributor to the page before and after it was moved to userspace, the U1 and G7 criteria wouldn't be applicable, and the page should not be deleted.

@Liz, if you were interested, the correct link to the discussion is here. – Epicgenius (talk) 00:30, 7 June 2026 (UTC)

Thanks, Epicgenius. I don't know why all my attempts failed. Much appreciated. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:33, 7 June 2026 (UTC)

Reply

Thank you for the suggestion.

The problem was mostly in one set of categories. I moved a lot of pages from "terrorism" categories to "political violence" categories, because I hadn't noticed that label is used differently for groups vs incidents until somebody pointed this out. This left a set of newly created "terrorism" categories empty.

I've been asking HB about any new categories that I expect will be controversial before I create them, but I hadn't noticed that sometimes a group's actions are in terrorism categories without the group being in similarly named categories.

The other G7 have been occasional typos. I usually check if a category can be filled before creating it, I just hadn't noticed the groups vs incidents difference.

Archives: I find it difficult to read long talk pages, so I set the max size of my automated talk archives quite small. When I manually archive, I don't save individual messages, but I start a new page for a new issue or topic sometimes.

Late Night Coffee (talk) 06:34, 8 April 2026 (UTC)

Hello, Late Night Coffee,

I'm getting around to reviewing some older messages on my User talk page and came across this one. Is there a continuing problem here that needs to be addressed? If so, let me know. If everything is resolved, well, that's great. The longer we edit here, the more we learn and improve our editing skills. Hope your life is going well. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:09, 4 June 2026 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors – April 2026 Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors – April 2026 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the April 2026 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since December. We extend a warm welcome to all of our new members. We wish you all happy copy-editing. Election results: In our December 2025 coordinator election, incumbents Dhtwiki, GoldRomean, Miniapolis, and Mox Eden were reelected coordinators, and Wikieditor662 was newly elected coordinator, to serve through 30 June. Nominations for our mid-year Election of Coordinators will open on 1 June (UTC). December 2025 Blitz: 16 of the 31 editors who signed up for the December 2025 Copy Editing Blitz edited 116,064 words in 47 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. January Drive: 35 of the 55 editors who signed up for the January Backlog Elimination Drive edited 498,397 words in 183 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. February Blitz: 19 of the 23 editors who signed up for the February Copy Editing Blitz edited 83,969 words in 43 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. March Drive: 28 of the 48 editors who signed up for the March Backlog Elimination Drive edited 210,064 words in 87 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. April Blitz: Sign up for our April Copy Editing Blitz, which runs from 12 to 18 April. Barnstars will be awarded here. Progress report: As of 09:10, 10 April 2026 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 81 copyediting requests since 1 January 2026. The backlog of articles needing copyediting stands at 1,794 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, Mox Eden and Wikieditor662. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 7

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on March 28. Please help translate.

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Highlights

• Community Wishlist update: This monthly update covers how 44 wishes were fulfilled, 17 are in progress, and 15 more will start work soon. It includes completion of work on Watchlist labels, which allow users to add labels to items in their watchlist to help with managing and filtering; fixing a bug with preview page feature; indexing of Commons on Google & DuckDuckGo search; and a wish simplifying the insertion of maths formulas in articles. You can submit, vote on, and subscribe to wishes here.
• Goal setting for edit-a-thons: The CampaignEvents extension now includes a new group goal-setting feature, enabling organizers to set and track event goals such as the number of articles created and participating contributors in real time. This feature is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. Join the Connection Learning Session on April 14 at 16:00 UTC to learn more about this feature and new ways to promote events and campaigns to editors.
• Collaboration with the United Nations: Learn how the Foundation engages with the United Nations to secure our collective voice and protect free knowledge.

Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Readers · Research · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org

• Navigating articles on mobile: The Foundation is launching an experiment to test how to make it easier and more intuitive for readers to navigate through articles on mobile. To do this, we want to test Mobile Page Previews. This experiment will go live the week of April 20 and will run for four weeks.
• Editing tools for new editors: Tone Check was deployed on French, Japanese, and Portuguese Wikipedia as a default-on feature for editors who have published 100 or fewer edits locally. When promotional or subjective language is added, users are prompted to consider "neutralizing" the tone of the edit.
• Managing watchlist labels: The new watchlist labels feature is now available via VisualEditor, the source editor, and the "watchstar" (or watch link, for skins that don’t have a star icon). Previously it was only possible to assign labels via EditWatchlist.
• Latest experiments: See all upcoming, live, in-analysis, and completed experiments in Product & Technology. A new experiment that just went live is one which aims to establish a baseline retention rate for logged-in readers.
• Latest Wikifunctions: Check out the partial list of the 102 new functions created last week – likely the first week we have exceeded 100.
• Tech News: The latest highlights from Tech News weeks 14 and 15 include an ongoing A/B test running on 10 Wikipedias to evaluate a clearer, more user-friendly message that promotes account creation on wikis. See also the 68 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.
• Community discussions on Semantic Search: The Wikimedia Foundation, in collaboration with the CEE Hub, hosted a discussion session on Semantic Search for members of the CEE Youth Group.

Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog · WikiLearn News · The Wikipedia Library · list of movement events

• Don't Blink!: This month's highlights from the Global Advocacy team include how the Wikimedia Foundation co-presented alongside the Internet Archive at the State of the Net conference.
• Digital rights and inclusion: Take a look at the sessions that Wikimedians and allied partners will lead during Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum (DRIF) 2026.
• Manuscript preservation: The Wikimedia Foundation supported volunteer-lead workshops to write Balinese Wikipedia articles about palm-leaf manuscripts (lontar) from the Leiden University Library collection.
• Youth content creators: Wikimedia Indonesia, together with the Wikimedia Foundation, delivered an introductory session on Wikipedia for young content creators representing all 11 ASEAN member states.
• Legal and Safety Contacts: The Wikimedia Foundation has created a single "Legal and Safety Contacts" page, to be linked in the footer of each wiki page. This will ensure that everyone has access to accurate and up to date Legal contact information. Insertion of the new links on different wikis will be done in stages, based on assessment of legal risk and necessity.
• Building shared principals for the internet as a public good: The Global Advocacy team published a blog with the Center for Studies on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information (CELE) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) summarizing a workshop that brought together digital rights advocates from Latin America to dream of a "digital utopia."

Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness
See also: Progress on the annual plan

• Wikidata API: Wikidata’s structured knowledge is now available through Wikimedia Enterprise.
• Annual Planning and global trends: Join the America APP call on April 21 at 18:00 UTC. This meeting is an opportunity for the Latin American community to ensure that the region's voice helps shape the Wikimedia Foundation's work and priorities for the next fiscal year. The call will be in Spanish with interpretation into Portuguese and English. The last meeting between Wikimedia EDs and Foundation staff was dedicated to discuss global trends too. More discussions are happening on-wiki and in community spaces around different regions and projects.
• Futures Lab: The world is changing around us. As the Wikimedia movement navigates this moment over a hundred Wikimedians from different Wikimedia projects came together to deepen our understanding of how these trends are impacting our people and projects at the Wikimedia Futures Lab.
• Fundraising Hub: The Wikimedia Foundation has launched Fundraising Hub on English Wikipedia. The first discussion you can participate in is about distributing fundraising banner on English Wikipedia throughout the year.

Board and Board committee updates
See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter

• Ombuds Commission: Announcement of the 2026 Ombuds Commission, the small group of volunteers who investigate complaints about violations of the Privacy Policy, the Access to Nonpublic Personal Data Policy, the CheckUser Policy and the Oversight Policy.
• Wikinews closure: All Wikinews editions will be closed and switched to read-only mode on May 4. Content will remain accessible, but no new edits or articles will be able to be added. This closure was approved by the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation following extended discussions.

Other Movement-curated newsletters & news
See also: Diff blog · Goings-on · Planet Wikimedia · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) · Wikimag (fr) · Education · GLAM · Milestones · Wikidata · Central and Eastern Europe · other newsletters

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Solar eclipse of January 5, 1935

I have found a source (https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1935PA.....43....7P) which goes into the details of this eclipse in, what is in my opinion, sufficient detail to pass GNG (which eclipse articles currently use). 🪐Kepler-1229b | talk | contribs🪐 00:19, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

Hello, Kepler-1229b,

It looks like you had some questions about Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Solar eclipse of January 5, 1935. Generally when an editor wants to work on an article to overcome a past AFD decision to delete or redirect, we advise them to work on a new version in Draft space and submit it for review with AFC. If you just undo an AFD decision on your war, it can unfortunately lead to edit wars or CSD G4 article deletions. It's better to take the slow route which can result in a permanent change. How is your work on this article going? Thanks. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:14, 4 June 2026 (UTC)

It's been a while and I've forgotten about the article. I might expand on it soon and try to get it approved. Thanks for the reminder. 🪐Kepler-1229b | talk | contribs🪐 01:17, 4 June 2026 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Destubathon of the Americas

You are invited to participate in the Destubathon of the Americas, a contest/editathon which will run from May 1 to May 31. The goal is to destub as many of our 475,000+ stubs for the Americas (from Alaska down to Chile) as possible. A good chance to have fun in expanding many of our old stale stubs and win up to £2000 ($2680) in Amazon vouchers for expanding stub articles. Sign up in the Contestants/participants section on the contest page if interested. Even if not interested in prizes you are still warmly welcome to participate in it as an editathon! Hopefully we can achieve something significant in the month of May together! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:13, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

Events

Where do events go if they're not historical analysis? Some places have a military history category, so I've been putting things related to these in history for that don't have a military history category. Is there a better place to put events? Late Night Coffee (talk) 06:00, 18 April 2026 (UTC)

Hello, Late Night Coffee,

In situations like this, it's helpful to be specific rather than make a general statement. What subjects are you working with? Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:16, 4 June 2026 (UTC)

Draft:R. Jayachandran

Hi, Liz. Re your removal of the CSD template at Draft:R. Jayachandran, I'm not sure if you saw my note on the Talk page. This draft is similar to Draft:R Jayachandran, which has been deleted as an attack page - in case that changes your view. Best wishes, Tacyarg (talk) 06:22, 18 April 2026 (UTC)

Hello, Tacyarg,

It looks like this draft has already been deleted for a different reason entirely since I declined your deletion request. Did you have any further questions about it? Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 18:10, 4 June 2026 (UTC)

CfD nomination at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2026 April 18 § Single-article non-resident ambassadors

Categories you have created have been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2026 April 18 § Single-article non-resident ambassadors on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. AusLondonder (talk) 08:10, 18 April 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. It looks like this discussion has closed but continued with other ones about this same topic. One day, we'll get them all taken care of. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 18:14, 4 June 2026 (UTC)

R.E: Speedy Deletion Nominations of Category Users Teng-5 & Cirt-5

Hello Liz,

Just messaging here in response to the nominations of Teng-5 & Cirt-5 categories for deletion just in case it may be missed. Yes, they were empty at time of your edits and posts, I had two pages ready to use them & was waiting for the category fields to update. When they did update, I went to remove the deletion tags as instructed, but couldn't as I had created the pages, so I posted a request for each page to remove them. Hope this clarifies the matter. All the best. EruannoVG (talk) 11:57, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

Hello, EruannoVG,

Thanks for letting me know. The great thing about CSD C1 empty category deletions is if the category is needed in the future, it can easily be restored. It's just important that you don't get ahead of yourself. Don't start making categories before they are going to be used. I hope this has been resolved now. Let me know if this isn't so. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 18:17, 4 June 2026 (UTC)

Complaint about another user

Hey, Liz. Long time no see. I need your help. I am having a problem with a user. He has personally attacked me over my AFD nomination of a musician all because I believed it was "littered" with non-primary sources other than a movie review site and social media links, but lack with little magazine references. The user's name is @RandomEditor6772314. Please talk to him. I did not take a 6 month break from WP to come back and get blasted for what I did under my opinion. Darrion N. Brown 🙂 (my talk page / my sandbox) 13:38, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

Hello, Darrion N. Brown,

Sorry for the delay in responding to your message from April. It looks like you haven't edited for the past few weeks but when you lot back in, work for a week or two and let me know if you are still having problems. Sometimes differences between editors can die down when we take a break from editing and people move on to other concerns. Hope all is well with you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:57, 5 June 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for the response, Liz. All is well. Darrion N. Brown 🙂 (my talk page / my sandbox) 06:06, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

May 2026 meetup in Portland (Online participation available!)

Hey Liz,

You're invited to the May 2026 meetup in Portland, Oregon! Join us at the Northwest Library at 2:00 PM on Saturday, May 2.

Please RSVP at the link above, even if you might be interested, so we can know how many people to expect. To participate online, register for the event, then contact yours truly, TechnoSquirrel69 (talk · email), for the meeting details. Hope to see you there!

(To unsubscribe from these updates, remove yourself from this list.) Sent via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 22:29, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

Please undelete

Hello. Could you please undelete Category:Saudi Arabia articles needing expert attention.

RATIONALE

It has the {{Empty category}} template. In the future, it's not impossible that pages may populate this category. The category must exist in order for pages to populate it. If the category is deleted and pages later are tagged with Expert Needed (in this specific topic), the category will not show as a redlinked one at the bottom of the article. See aslo CFD. Utfor (talk) 01:37, 20 April 2026 (UTC) Edited by Utfor (talk) 01:39, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

The Signpost: 21 April 2026

May 2026 Administrator Elections – Schedule

• The May 2026 administrator elections are set to proceed.
• We plan to use the following schedule:
  • April 29–May 5: Candidate sign-up
  • May 8–May 12: Discussion phase
  • May 13–May 19: SecurePoll voting phase
• If you have any questions, concerns, or thoughts before we get started, please ask at Wikipedia talk:Administrator elections.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:04, 22 April 2026 (UTC)

NS4 → NS0 Rs

Did we stop deleting them? Maybe you want to copy Quarry 79440 to your arsenal? Best, Sam Sailor 05:46, 23 April 2026 (UTC)

Hello, Sam,

Sorry for the delay in responding to your query. I'm not sure what exactly "NS4 → NS0 Rs" are and I ran Quarry 79440 and I can't discern what the resulting list means. What are these pages? If you could help translating some of the coded information here, I'll try to keep out of your way. Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 17:14, 3 June 2026 (UTC)

The query generates a list of redirects from the Wikipedia namespace (NS4) to the main namespace (NS0), e.g.

• WP:Alfanar_Projects - Alfanar_Projects
• WP:Ali_El_Hammami - Ali_El_Hammami
• WP:Alonzo_Gaffeny - Alonzo_Gaffney
• WP:Anna_McCarthy - Anna_McCarthy

In most cases, the redirects are a result of a move from the user or draft namespace to the Wikipedia namespace before they get correctly moved to the main namespace. We used to delete them as db-error G6. I hardly ever run the query. Best, Sam Sailor 18:05, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

Hello, Sam,

I appreciate the attempt at an explanation but I still don't understand what these codes mean or when I can expect to encounter them. I don't know these numbers. I don't see many examples of pages being moved from User/Draft namespaces to the Wikipedia namespace. Most of the time, editors moving any pages into the project, Wikipedia namespace, are making a mistake. I can't think of a valid reason for a page move from User/Draft space to Wikipedia space. If we are not supposed to delete these mistakes as "errors", is there another CSD criteria that would be appropriate?

If you don't want to continue this discussion, that's fine with me. I was just chided for not responding to editors so I'm trying to do better even if the queries are from April. I hope you have a great summer! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:46, 21 June 2026 (UTC)

Hi

Please delete User:Polygnotus/Data/Editwars.json and User:PolygnotusBot/editwar.json. Thanks, Polygnotus (talk) 06:15, 23 April 2026 (UTC)

 Done Chaotic Enby (talk · contribs) 00:02, 24 April 2026 (UTC)

Thanks, User:Chaotic Enby. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:07, 24 April 2026 (UTC)

Empty categories

Were you aware that Mason has been removing pages from categories I created? You told me in March to not leave categories empty and I followed your instructions. All the categories I've seen you mark as empty this week had pages or subcategories in them that were removed by Mason. Late Night Coffee (ping me) 12:13, 27 April 2026 (UTC)

Hello, LateNightCoffee,

I apologize for the delay in responding. It looks like all of these categories have been dealt with and this is not currently an outstanding problem. I think the message we were all trying to get across to you was to "Slow down" and not mass produce categories on a narrow topic. Between Mason, you, me, CFD and CSD C1, it looks like this has all been addressed. Let me know if this is still an issue. Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 18:10, 3 June 2026 (UTC)

May 2026 Administrator Election – Call for Candidates

The administrator elections process has officially started! Interested editors are encouraged to self-nominate or arrange to be nominated by reviewing the instructions at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/May 2026/Candidates.

Here is the schedule:

• April 29 – May 5: Call for candidates
• May 8–12: Discussion phase
• May 13–19: SecurePoll voting phase

Please note the following:

• The requirements to run are identical to RFA—a prospective candidate must be extended confirmed.
• Prospective candidates are advised to become familiar with the community's expectations of administrators, which are much higher than the minimum requirement of having extended confirmed status. This includes reviewing successful and unsuccessful RFAs, reading the essay Wikipedia:Advice for admin elections candidates, and possibly requesting an optional poll on their chances of passing.
• The process will have a seven day call for candidates phase, a two day pause, a five day discussion phase, and a seven day private vote using SecurePoll. Discussion and questions are only allowed on the candidate pages during the discussion phase.
• The outcome of this process is identical to making a request for adminship. There is no official difference between an administrator appointed through RFA versus administrator elections.
• Administrator elections are also a valid means of regaining adminship for de-sysopped editors.

Ask any questions about the process at the talk page. Later, a user talk message will be sent to official candidates with additional information about the process.

If you are interested in the process, please make sure to watchlist the appropriate pages. A watchlist notice will be added when the discussion phase opens, and again when the voting phase opens.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:31, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 8

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on April 10. Please help translate.

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Highlights

• Annual Planning: The Wikimedia Foundation published the draft Annual Plan for the coming fiscal year (2026–2027) which will focus on four main goals that directly respond to the external trends. The goals include increasing our reach, deepening engagement, protecting our projects and building speed and resilience to enable the change needed to respond to the internet being at an inflection point. Feedback welcome on the talk page and many other places.
• Global conversation: A global conversation about the Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan will take place on May 7 at 5:00 PM UTC.
• Sustainable reuse of Wikimedia content: The Attribution API is now in beta. It makes it easier to credit Wikimedia content fairly wherever it is used. It provides all information required by the Wikimedia Attribution Framework in a single, well-structured and easy-to-use endpoint, simplifying attribution for off-wiki reuse. Share your feedback on the project talk page.

Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Readers · Research · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org

• Feedback on Article guidance: Experienced editors are invited to test the Article guidance feature. This tool helps less-experienced editors create structured, policy-compliant Wikipedia articles. Review the outlines and share your feedback on the project talk page. Check out the step-by-step and video instructions.
• Games Hub available on Android: The Games Hub is live in the Wikipedia app for Android. This new feature offers a space for users to find all available games in one place, explore archives, and get updates on new games. It currently includes Which Came First?, with more games coming soon.
• Update to Wikipedia app for iOS: A major update to the Wikipedia app for iOS has rolled out, redesigning the interface to align with Apple’s latest “Liquid Glass” visual design. Download the latest version and explore the update.
• Confirming email addresses: On several wikis, logged-in editors who haven’t confirmed their email addresses now see a banner encouraging them to do so. Confirming the email address helps users restore account access if they lose it and receive messages about their accounts. It also provides an easy option to communicate with other users off-wiki if they choose. As of early 2026, about 62.9% of all registered Wikimedia user accounts that have an email set had not confirmed it.
• Testing mobile web page previews: Mobile page previews experiment was launched on Arabic, English, French, Italian, Polish, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. Page previews are pop-ups that show a thumbnail, a lead paragraph, and a link to the full article to improve content discovery. It is already available on desktop and in the apps.
• Account creation experiment: Account creation experiment is live on Hindi, Indonesian, Bengali, Thai, and Hebrew Wikipedia targeting 10% of logged-out mobile web users. It looks at whether adding a button to create accounts in the mobile web header boosts new registrations and increases mobile users contributing to the wikis.
• Experimenting with Hybrid Search on mobile apps: The Hybrid Search Phase 1 experiment on the Wikipedia Android app has concluded. It tested a combined keyword and meaning-based search methods to meet various information needs. The team is analyzing data and feedback, and will share insights and next steps soon.

• Latest experiments: See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology. One upcoming experiment is testing a refreshed Explore Feed to make it easier for readers to discover interesting content and visit Wikipedia app more often.
• Wikifunctions: Wikifunctions crossed 4,000 functions, with subtracting two complex numbers as the 4,000th function. Also, Abstract Wikipedia reached 1,000 articles. The article about the famous Indian Brahmin Chanakya marked this milestone.
• Reading lists now a beta feature: New accounts are now opted into Reading lists by default on all Wikipedia wikis. This brings the "Save pages" feature to the web, which has been popular in mobile apps. For users in the beta, a "Save page" (bookmark) button appears in the toolbar on every page. The watch/unwatch (star) option moves to the tools menu. The "Watchlist" button in the top navigation shifts to the user menu. A new "Saved pages" button takes its place. In June, the feature will be available to all users and a user preference will be added to choose between two sets of buttons: Watch + Watchlist or Save + Saved list. The other set will be in the tool and user menus.
• Structured Contents: Article Images and Lists now in Structured Contents payloads.
• Tech News: The latest highlights from Tech News weeks 16 and 17 include CodeMirror 6 being promoted out of beta on Tuesday, April 21. See also the 45 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog · WikiLearn News · The Wikipedia Library · list of movement events

• Wikimedia Research Fund submissions in review: The submission period for this year's Wikimedia Research Fund is now closed. The technical and internal reviews of the proposals have begun.
• Events and conferences: Take a look at the different community events happening later this year: ESEAP Conference (May 15-17), WikiConference India (Sep 4-6), WikiConference North America (Sep 24-27), Language Diversity Conference (Oct 2 to 4), Queering Wiki (Oct 23-25), WikiArabia (Nov 6-8).
• Around the puzzle globe in the America region: More than 60 people joined America call to discuss the annual plan and the global trends impacting the movement. Participants came from across the region, and the audience included a mix of affiliates from LATAM, online contributors, and users with extended rights.
• Transparency Report: The Wikimedia Foundation published a transparency report covering July to December 2025.

Board and Board committee updates
See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter

• Board selection process: The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is reviewing and improving how it selects new members. The goal is to ensure that there is the right mix of expertise and community representation on the board. Join the conversation and share your ideas on the talk page.

Other Movement curated newsletters & news
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MediaWiki message delivery 04:21, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

hey fun fact

both closed AfDs i've come upon while doing what i'm currently doing were closed by you User "Oreocooke" (speak of the sun and it shines) 04:59, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

New pages patrol May 2026 Backlog drive

May 2026 Backlog Drive | New pages patrol
On 1 May 2026, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles patrolled. Barnstars will also be granted for re-reviewing articles previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive. Each review will earn 1 point. Interested in taking part? Sign up here.
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New page for John Fabian Carlson

Liz, I want to let you know that I have just completed a new page for John Fabian Carlson. I am letting your know this because I see that you previously deleted a page by the same name. I carefully listed the references for this page and I hope it meets with your approval. John Fabian Carlson was a significant artist in his day and I believe deserving of a quality Wikipedia page. Thank you. BuffaloBob (talk) BuffaloBob (talk) 14:46, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

Hello, BuffaloBob,

It's hard to see why this article was deleted before. If it was moved at some point, some of the information might be in the page log at another page title. But as far as I see, there are no issues with your new article and it's been accepted. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 17:08, 3 June 2026 (UTC)

Premature category deletion application

I just created Category:Botanical gardens in Belize 13 minutes ago for Belize Botanic Gardens, and you're already trying to delete it? Clarityfiend (talk) 23:43, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

Hello, Clarityfiend,

I do scans about 4 or 5 times a working day, looking for empty categories that should be tagged and I'm sorry I did one so soon after you created this category. As you can see, I untagged the category and it was not deleted. I apologize for the timing but it was a coincidence, I'm not stalking you or anyone else. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 17:02, 3 June 2026 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2026

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2026).

Administrator changes

• Deepfriedokra

• EvanProdromou
• Wouterstomp

Interface administrator changes

L235

Chaotic Enby

CheckUser changes

• TheresNoTime
• Versageek

Oversight changes

Moneytrees

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

• Changes to user permissions made from Meta are now included in the local user permissions log (T6055).
• The autoconfirmed user group will soon be modified such that the four-day account age requirement begins when an account makes its first edit (T418484).

Arbitration

• The arbitration case SchroCat has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case closed on 15 April.
• Per a recent motion, appeals of blocks from the conflict-of-interest VRT queue are, by default, appealed on-wiki through the normal unblock process. However, they may be heard by the Committee if COIVRTers disagree on the interpretation of the evidence or believe ArbCom would be better suited to hear the appeal. Administrators are also advised that loosening or lifting such blocks without the consent of someone with access to the queue or ArbCom can be grounds for desysopping.
• Per a recent motion, restrictions issued directly by the Committee may now be enforced with blocks which work exactly like contentious topic blocks.
• The arbitration case Maghreb has been closed.

Miscellaneous

• The May 2026 administrator elections are scheduled to run from April 29 to May 19. The call for candidates ends May 5.
• The 2026 Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is scheduled to run from April 25 to June 1. Candidacy submissions close on May 10.
• A new noticeboard for non-urgent, batch page protection requests has been created, primarily for the enforcement of contentious topic restrictions.

Deleted Gene Page C22orf42

Dear Liz, My name is Nate, and I'm currently applying for medical school. I had a page in my sandbox titled "C22orf42". It's a project I've really invested a lot of time in and have tried to locate. I'm completely new to Wikipedia, and would like to showcase my article to board administrators at prospective schools I'm applying to. May you assist me with this? Any help is truly appreciated. Thank you! Steph921 (talk) 14:16, 6 May 2026 (UTC)

Hello, Steph921,

I apologize for the delay in responding to your request. A bot tagged User:Steph921/sandbox for U6 speedy deletion because it hadn't been edited in many months and believed it was an abandoned user page. I have restore it to your User space. Good luck with med school! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:34, 31 May 2026 (UTC)

Category:WikiProject Schools articles by quality and related

Hi Liz, It looks like you deleted categories in this tree as part of maintenance. From my understanding that is because the categories were emptied due to this edit diff There wasn't a discussion in WP:Schools to depreciate these categories, could you restore them? Please explain if I have misunderstood how the banner works. Aloneinthewild (talk) 18:41, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

Hello, Aloneinthewild,

It's not clear to me exactly what happened here because the category wasn't tagged as an CSD C1 empty category (even though it was one) so I don't know how I came across it. But it's now restored. I'm sorry for the inconvenience. Please let me know if this has happened with other categories. We sometimes delete WikiProject empty categories if a Project is declared "defunct" or "inactive" but that's not what happened here. Again, my apologies. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:05, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

No problem, it would also need the rest of the subcategories restoring. Category:FA-Class_school_articles, Category:GA-Class_school_articles, Category:B-Class_school_articles, Category:C-Class_school_articles, Category:Start-Class_school_articles, Category:Stub-Class_school_articles, Category:FL-Class_school_articles, Category:List-Class_school_articles Aloneinthewild (talk) 19:21, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

 Done, plus a few others I stumbled across. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:32, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

Hello, Aloneinthewild,

If you look at this list, you can see how an admin would think these categories should be deleted. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:55, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

May 2026 Administrator Elections – Discussion Phase

The discussion phase of the May 2026 administrator elections is officially open. As a reminder, the schedule of the election is:

• May 8–12: Discussion phase (we are here)
• May 13–19: 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/May 2026/Discussion phase.

On 13 May, 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.

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

-- MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:22, 8 May 2026 (UTC)

Category:BL-Class Antigua and Barbuda articles

Hi Liz. The reason I am trying to get this one deleted is because the project is not using BL-class on its assessment scale, so it will never be used. It may have been used in the past, but now they are using the standard scale, which does not contain BL (or CL or AL). Thanks — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 07:56, 8 May 2026 (UTC)

Hello, MSGJ,

I don't even know what "BL" is supposed to stand for! It looks like there dozens of BL-class categories. Should we bring this to CFD or just ignore this category and others like it? Who is in charge of decisions regarding assessment categories? Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:28, 31 May 2026 (UTC)

Is there a way to maybe return this deleted draft and maybe stop deleting my drafts?

Draft:Sacred area of the Kothon, Motya el.ziade (talkallam) 19:28, 8 May 2026 (UTC)

It was deleted because it was left unedited for six months. Request undeletion at WP:REFUND. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v ^MUSHROOM 19:42, 8 May 2026 (UTC)

@Elias Ziade: There is indeed a way to stop deleting your drafts which is for you to make an edit to them, even one tiny edit, before six months goes by and they are deemed abandoned. BD2412 T 20:03, 8 May 2026 (UTC)

Thanks, User:Jéské Couriano and User:BD2412 for helping out. Yes, el.ziade, articles that are in Draft space or in User space, IF they have AFC tags on them, are considered abandoned and "stale drafts" (G13) if they go six months without a human edit. So going through your drafts twice a year and making a minor edit would remove this problem. Just know that a article that is deleted simply for being stale (G13 or U6) can usually be restored at WP:REFUND upon request. Happy editing! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:23, 31 May 2026 (UTC)

Request

Can you please explain why Draft:L'orgue mystique was a test page? I started it as a legit draft that I forgot about NightWolf1223 <Howl at me•My hunts> 13:24, 9 May 2026 (UTC)

Hello, NightWolf1223,

I apologize for the delay. Draft:L'orgue mystique was due to be deleted as a stale draft CSD G13 and I made a tagging mistake. Usually we only mark drafts as tests if they are blank pages and this clearly had some work put into it. I'm sorry but I sometimes handle hundreds of stale drafts a day and can make a mistake or two. I've restore it for you so you should have another six months. You might want to move the draft into User space where it won't be as easily subject to the G13 bot's rules. Good luck with your editing! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:18, 31 May 2026 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 9

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on April 25. Please help translate.

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Highlights

• Community Protection: Wikimedia Foundation secured Indonesian government’s commitment to user safety, privacy, and content integrity ahead of administrative registration in Indonesia.
• Stronger protections against bots: Wikimedia Foundation is replacing our CAPTCHA with a new approach to detect bad-faith activities without making things harder for users.
• Transparency Report: The Wikimedia Foundation has published its latest Transparency Report. This provides an overview of the work to protect Wikimedia projects and support the volunteer communities who handle the majority of content requests. Our users trust us to protect their identities against unlawful disclosure, and we take this responsibility seriously, granting only 1 of 30 requests for disclosure we received from July to December 2025.

Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Readers · Research · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org

• Reading Challenge: As part of the 25th birthday celebrations, Wikipedia Mobile Apps launched a limited-time feature, the 25-day reading challenge with Baby Globe. This challenge encourages a daily habit of reading one Wikipedia article. The goal is to motivate users to come back to the app regularly.
• Latest experiments: One upcoming experiment is introducing the Incident Reporting System (IRS) to help contributors easily find the right place to seek help when facing harassment or other issues. See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology.
• Change in how new users are autoconfirmed: The account age for autoconfirmed users will now start from their first edit, not the registration date. This is to avoid exploitation by vandals. This change will only apply to wikis that require at least one edit for autoconfirmation.
• Organized Reading lists: All Wikipedia users with new accounts and those who activated the “automatically enable most beta features” option can now use the reading lists beta feature. This lets you save articles for later reading and keep it organized in one place for easy access.
• Thumbnail size preferences: Default thumbnail size preference for article content is now limited to three sizes: Small (180px), Regular (250px), and Large (400px). This change aims to improve performance and reduce strain on thumbnail services. Current preferences will shift to the nearest new size.
• Wikifunctions: To make the development of Abstract Wikipedia visible, the Foundation is requesting your input: which metrics about Abstract Wikipedia pages do you deem important?
• Tech News: The latest highlights from Tech News weeks 18 and 19 include improvements on Global Watchlist. See also the 62 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog · WikiLearn News · The Wikipedia Library · list of movement events

• Annual Planning: We welcome your feedback on the main talk page for the 2026–2027 draft Annual Plan and many other places for the coming fiscal year.
• Wikimania: Wikimania is a joyful event. It is a chance to celebrate our community and projects, share ideas and information, build connections among Wikimedians, and inspire and develop future projects. If you and your community are interested in hosting Wikimania in 2028 and 2029 submit an expressions of interest.
• Community Conferences: The Foundation is supporting 15 strategic, diverse, and critical convenings taking place in 2026 and 2027, bringing together approximately 1800 Wikimedians across various regions, themes, and language communities.
• Don't blink: The latest developments from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.
• Wiki Loves Monuments: The winners of the 2025 Wiki Loves Monuments photo contest are announced.

Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness
See also: Progress on the annual plan

• Enterprise: How CivicLens Uses Wikidata APIs to Make Civic Data More Accessible.

Board and Board committee updates
See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter

• Wikinews closure: All Wikinews have been closed and switched to read-only mode. Content will remain accessible, but no new edits or articles will be able to be added. This closure was approved by the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation following extended discussions.
• Affcom News: Read the latest issue of AffCom News (January-March 2026) to learn more about the latest news about the work of Wikimedia's Affiliations Committee.
• Model for affiliates to support contributors through tools: The Product and Technology Advisory Council has published draft recommendations on a model that affiliates can follow when contributing to the technical space.
• Grantmaking: The Global Resource Distribution Committee closed their request for feedback on three initial questions about grantmaking, and published their monthly update for April.

Other Movement curated newsletters & news
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May 2026 Administrator Elections – Voting Phase

The voting phase of the May 2026 administrator elections has started and will continue until 19 May 2026 at 23:59 UTC. You can participate in the voting phase at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/May 2026/Voting phase.

As a reminder, the schedule of the election is:

• May 13–19: SecurePoll voting phase (we are here)
• 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.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:10, 13 May 2026 (UTC)

My sandbox page

Hey, I've noticed that you deleted my sandbox page. I was wondering if you could restore my page since I was working on those drafts. If you can't restore the page, can you at least provide an alternative to restore said page, if not secure it? Rager7 (talk) 00:50, 13 May 2026 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) I've restored it for you, Rager7. Typically you don't want a page you're using to have a redirect—just use a normal link instead. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 06:59, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

Thank you, Extraordinary Writ and yeah, I don't know why my sandbox page was a redirect for some reason. Rager7 (talk) 22:09, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

Hello, Rager7,

Sorry for the delay in responding to your questions. The history of this page is hard to follow as it has changed titles and namespaces several times but I can offer some advice in general to editors who use their User space a lot.

Primarily, do not put any AFC tags on your drafts until it is time to submit them to AFC for a review. We have a very efficient bot, User:DreamRimmer and if any page in Draft space or pages in User space with AFC go six months without an editor working on them, they are tagged for speedy deletion as a stale draft, CSD G13. If there are no AFC tags on a draft in User space, the bot will not bother them. So, you are going to be working on a draft over a long period of time and you know that you won't be submitting it for a while, just leave off any AFC tags until that time comes. OR, and this might be better, make sure that every few months, you make an edit on each draft you have and the bot will ignore them. It doesn't have to be a big edit, just some act that will cause the bot to believe you are working on the page.

But if this happens again and a page in Draft or User space gets deleted simply for being left alone too long like G13 or U6 (and no other reason), know that you can go to WP:REFUND and ask for it to be restored. As far as broken redirects go, I'm not sure what happened there but just remove the broken redirect content as soon as you are aware of it and things should be fine. Happy editing! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:10, 31 May 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice, Liz. Rager7 (talk) 23:14, 31 May 2026 (UTC)

New Page Patrol Newsletter - May 2026

Hello Liz,

Backlog update

At the time of this message, there are 15,282 articles and 32,951 redirects awaiting review.

After the January–February drive the article backlog was reduced to 15,179 articles and the redirect backlog to 19,053 respectively. Great job! However, both queues are growing rapidly and any additional reviews are highly appreciated.

2024 and 2025 NPP Awards

JTtheOG was selected as the NPP reviewer of the year for both 2024 and 2025, for reviewing the most articles amongst all reviewers.

Hey man im josh and MPGuy2824 won the Redirect Ninja Master Award for 2024 and 2025 respectively, for reviewing the most redirects.

Overall in 2024, one Platinum, two Gold, eight Silver, 12 Bronze and 45 Iron Barnstars were awarded. Additionally, 66 reviewers got the NPP barnstar for doing more than 100 reviews through the year. In 2025, one Platinum, ten Silver, 13 Bronze and 38 Iron Barnstars were awarded. Additionally, 38 reviewers got the NPP barnstar for doing more than 100 reviews through the year.

BoyTheKingCanDance, Rosiestep, SunDawn, and Vanderwaalforces were inducted into the NPP Hall of Fame for having two separate years of 2,000+ article reviews.

January–February backlog drive

The experimental two-month long backlog drive concluded with 183 reviewers patrolling over 27,761 articles and 35,309 redirects, earning over 36,836 points. Congratulations to JTtheOG, who achieved first place with 6,484.6 points in this drive.

May backlog drive

An article-only backlog drive is currently underway. We are hoping to make a big dent in the backlog. You can read more about it or join at Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Backlog drives/May 2026.

PageTriage

An attempt was made to get the New Pages Feed to sort by date marked as reviewed instead of date created. However we had to revert it due to bugs. We may try again in the future. You can subscribe to the Phabricator ticket if you're interested in following along.

Reminders:

• You can access live chat with patrollers on the New Page Patrol Discord.
• Consider adding the project discussion page to your watchlist.
• To opt out of future mailings, please remove yourself here.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:37, 14 May 2026 (UTC)

Deletion review for Artlist

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Artlist. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. ~2026-29052-60 (talk) 03:23, 15 May 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. As you have been blocked and the discussion at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2026 May 15 has been closed, there is nothing left here to do. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:56, 31 May 2026 (UTC)

Question regarding AfC resubmission for Shubham Singh (industrialist)

Hey, I am preparing a revised draft regarding Shubham Singh (industrialist) following the earlier deletion discussion. Since the previous draft, additional independent coverage has appeared in publications including Business Today, Outlook India, and other media covering Bihar’s ethanol sector and industrial activity. I have substantially rewritten the article to remove promotional language, and better align with Wikipedia’s notability and neutrality guidelines. I also intend to disclose a conflict of interest while submitting through AfC. Before resubmitting, I was asked to contact you, can you please help if i can submit though AFC or not ? Thank You. Vijaysinghrajput (talk) 15:37, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

Hello, Vijaysinghrajput,

It looks like Draft:Shubham Singh (industrialist) was deleted and you have been blocked as a sockpuppet and UPE so this matter is resolved but not in a way I'm sure you wanted. Good luck with your other life endeavors off this platform. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:46, 31 May 2026 (UTC)

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cheers, anastrophe, an editor he is. 07:39, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

Restore request of Draft:David Ormiston

Hi Liz, I would like to request to restore the page on draft space so that I can improve the page. Thank you in advance ScottishFootballObseasive (talk) ScottishFootballObseasive (talk) 09:28, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

 Done. Please do not restore without taking comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Ormiston into account — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:47, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

MSGJ, you are everywhere I am not! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:42, 31 May 2026 (UTC)

Restore request of Draft:Tommy Sharp

I would like to request to restore the page on draft space so that I can improve the page. Thank you in advance ScottishFootballObseasive (talk) ScottishFootballObseasive (talk) 09:28, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

@ScottishFootballObseasive  Done — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:45, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

And here, too. Thank you, MSGJ. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:41, 31 May 2026 (UTC)

Draft:A18 motorway (Netherlands)

Can you undelete that draft to restore the editing history? Once it appeared on my watchlist with the bot's G13 tag, I started editing it to clean it up. Sometime while I did that, it appears you deleted it, so my copy edit recreated the draft, but the attribution history has been lost. Imzadi 1979 → 19:39, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

 Done — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:41, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

Thank you, MSGJ. I appreciate you picking up the slack here. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:40, 31 May 2026 (UTC)

The Signpost: 22 May 2026

Al Shami RfD

Hello Liz, can you explain your redirect creation at WP:Redirects for discussion/Log/2026 May 15 § Al Shami (singer)? Jay 💬 06:44, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

Now relisted at WP:Redirects for discussion/Log/2026 May 23 § Al Shami (singer). Jay 💬 05:19, 25 May 2026 (UTC)

Liz, you have been active on wikipedia, but just not checking the talk page. Jay 💬 08:46, 31 May 2026 (UTC)

Hello, Jay,

I'm very sorry for my delay in responding. This week is "Catch up with User Talk page messages Week". It's been a while since I've run into you and I hope you are well.

So, this article has a complicated history. When it was an article, it was discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Al-Shami and the decision was to turn it into a redirect. Over time, an editor decided to turn it from a redirect back into an article. Later, another editor, inappropriately, I think, moved this newly created article back to Draft space even though I think the article was too old to do so. I think it should have been reverted back into a Redirect which was the AFD decision unless that decision was contested and consensus had changed.

So, after months of inactivity, this forgotten draft was due to be deleted CSD G13 for being a stale draft. Since for years it served a purpose as a redirect, I decided rather than delete the draft, I'd restore it back to its redirect status, according to the AFD. I have no stake in this page and whether or not the community wants to delete this redirect or move it back to Draft space is up to your good decision. I will post a link at the RFD to my comments here.

Again, I apologize that you had to wait and thank you for all of the good that you do here. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:20, 31 May 2026 (UTC)

No issues! I didn't know of your weekly pattern. Jay 💬 21:49, 31 May 2026 (UTC)

Hi

Hi, I have a problem with a user and he suggested I should have talk to you about it. there was a discussion here about redirecting a page. I wasn't involved at the time, didn't know such discussion is happening. 5 months later when the discussion was done and nobody had redirected the page, I removed the tag and improve the page to make it better. now someone insists on redirecting that page because of the discussion in 2024. so what should I do now? how I can undo the redirect or re-open the discussion. sorry if this is not your business but I didn't know who else to ask this. thanks Sports2021 (talk) 21:37, 25 May 2026 (UTC)

Hello, Sports2021,

This is not a quick and easy fix because what you are asking for is a reevaluation of an AFD decision which are often seen as final. I see two options and you can try either one but not at the same time.

You can go to RFD and ask to undo the redirection decision of Soft tennis at the 2022 Asian Games – Mixed doubles. I'm not a regular at RFD but I know sometimes a redirect is restored to an article and resubmitted to AFD for a review. This is a little risky because if your version of the article is not accepted, that is kind of a second final decision.

The other option is to take the content you wrote and create Draft:Soft tennis at the 2022 Asian Games – Mixed doubles and submit it to AFC. This is the only way I know of that can overturn an AFD decision and doing it this way would allow you to work on improving the draft article before it is submitted.

But please do not get into an edit war with editors and keep restoring the article in main space back into an article and have other editor undo your changes. They are acting according to policy and it could end up going to WP:ANEW and you could end up sanctioned. Take the slower but safer routed. If your version IS approved, that would be much more secure. Good luck! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:05, 31 May 2026 (UTC)

I didn't notice your answer until now, Thanks a lot for your time and your advice. looks like I should go the second path and create a draft article. just out of curiosity I'm a bit confused, if an AFD decision results in deletion, someone can easily re-create the article and it needs another AFD to get it deleted again but looks like undoing a redirect is much more complicated than deletion, I assumed It should be vice-versa. again thanks for your time. Sports2021 (talk) 02:57, 7 June 2026 (UTC)

Draft: Ashwin Srivastava Page

Liz, this draft I had worked on for more than 3 months. I kept on adding content with an aim to make it article-ready in a year or so, after being reviewed by administrators.

Some editor whose contribution logs are suspicious, changed the draft, and moved the page to Articles, which was deleted and rightly so.

I request you to restore the version that was there before this user edited my version and then shifted this draft to articles, or help me by sending the version in some manner. MumbaiUser123 (talk) 19:33, 28 May 2026 (UTC)

Hello, MumbaiUser123,

First, I deleted broken redirects so actually, I have never directed this article or a draft version. But you are right, the draft shouldn't have been moved to main space. Another version was deleted through an AFD Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ashwin Srivastava and the only way that deletion can be overcome is to create a better draft version and submit to AFC for review.

As far as restoring your version, I think we need to ask User:Seraphimblade who actually did the deletion which was for CSD G11 promotional content. You can go to their User talk page and inquire there of maybe they will reply here. The situation is that MumbaiUser123 was working on a draft version and an inexperienced editor moved it to main space where it was deleted. Seraphimblade, how would you feel about restoring the article back to Draft space and let MumbaiUser123 continue to improve it and submit it for AFC review? You have protected the main space title so it can't be moved again until it's been approved. What do you think? Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 20:49, 31 May 2026 (UTC)

I looked at the last version of the draft which was being written by MumbaiUser123, as it's generally my practice to look at prior versions of articles I delete under G11, since if one can revert to a non-spam version that is preferred over G11 deletion. That was still a G11-level CV, and I oppose restoring it to any namespace. My general offer, with advertisements, is that I will provide a list of the sources used in the deleted version to any editor who wants them, but I will not restore any of the text since that will need a total rewrite. I would stand by that here. Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 21:15, 31 May 2026 (UTC)

Ok, noted. Thanks for the response. MumbaiUser123 (talk) 14:18, 1 June 2026 (UTC)

Draft:International Pediatric Endosurgery Group

Hi, You deleted this draft a few months ago. With your permission, I would like to submit another better version for this surgical society.

Thanks Elmmag (talk) 09:12, 29 May 2026 (UTC)

Hello,

I assume you are talking about Draft:International Pediatric Endosurgery Group? You should feel free to write a better draft and, I hope you know, that drafts that have been deleted due to inactivity (CSD G13) can usually be restored. Any admin can do this or you can make a request at WP:REFUND. Just let us know. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 20:39, 31 May 2026 (UTC)

June 2026 meetup in Portland (Online participation available!)

Hey Liz,

You're invited to the June 2026 meetup in Portland, Oregon! Join us at the Northwest Library at 2:00 PM on Saturday, June 13.

Please RSVP at the link above, even if you might be interested, so we can know how many people to expect. Hope to see you there!

(To unsubscribe from these updates, remove yourself from this list.) Sent via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 17:42, 30 May 2026 (UTC)

Hello, User:TechnoSquirrel69,

Thanks, I hope to actually come to this one in June. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 20:36, 31 May 2026 (UTC)

That's great to hear — I'd love to meet you if you have the time! You may want to register for the event just in case, so you get any emails I might need to send to the participants. Hope to see you there. :) —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 22:21, 31 May 2026 (UTC)

ADMINACCT

Hi Liz—hope you are doing well! Looking at your talk page, I see 21 outstanding requests to reconsider admin actions you made:

Per WP:ADMINACCT, all of these requests require a response from you. There are some other outstanding threads which I think you ought to respond to, but a response is not required by ADMINACCT.

I don't want this to go to AN, let alone recall or ArbCom. But this is a problem, and I hope you will take the time to address it. I remain deeply appreciative of all the work you do for Wikipedia, and please let me know if I can be helpful in any way. Best regards, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 19:56, 31 May 2026 (UTC)

Hello, House,

You are totally right. This is bad. I've alway been slow to respond on my user talk page over the years but I just neglected it and busied myself with other tasks. Part of this is that when I do communicate, it's not with one sentence but often with paragraphs of content. Also, I've had some stressful issues (health, housing, etc.) in my offline life that has caused me to want to reduce time spent communicating with others but that's never an excuse for admin accountability. I'll get started on this today and over the next few days I'll have responded to them all. Thanks for taking the time to bring this to my attention as a friend instead of a drill sargeant. And I apprexiate you, too. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 20:33, 31 May 2026 (UTC)

Thank you so much! Again, let me know if there is anything I can with :) HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 20:41, 31 May 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for responding to a some messages! I'm going to be kind by being direct here, because I don't want this to escalate further. You archived some of the aforementioned requests without responding to them (if I've got it right, they're question numbers 2–7). Given it's been so long since they were asked, perhaps you could follow up on the users' talk pages? There are also many unarchived, outstanding questions, and I'd strongly encourage you to devote your energies to replying to them rather than doing more admin tasks, like G13s or C1s. There's over 800 admins who can do that work, but you're the only one who can answer these questions. Again, I appreciate all you do. Best, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 07:00, 3 June 2026 (UTC)

Hello, HouseBlaster,

I didn't archive the page to avoid the questions, I did so because I receive regular complaints that my User talk page is too full and to please clean it out. But I will do as you ask. I thought I made a good start replying to a couple dozen messages at the beginning of the week but I also have off-line demands to tend to that have serious consequences for me. I appreciate the follow-up and I will, of course, take your advice. Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 16:27, 3 June 2026 (UTC)

You've made 20 edits in the 20 minutes since this message, none of them responding to the messages. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 16:50, 3 June 2026 (UTC)

Hi @Liz - if some of these can be assigned to another admin, I'm happy to help. Feel free to ping me. Kind regards, Goldsztajn (talk) 02:10, 7 June 2026 (UTC)

Fate of most of these:

1. Responded to by Liz.
2. Solved by someone else.
3. Handled by Liz.
4. Sufficiently obsolete that there's nothing that can be done her.e
5. Handled by me.
6. Handled at DRV.
7. (With the caveat that I'm INVOLVED here) This is an attempt to collaterally attack an AfD on the basis of substantive arguments long after it was closed. Wikipedia procedures rightly give no forum for these complaints, and given that this is now seven-months old I think ignoring it is the best outcome.
8. Handled by me.
9. Answered by me.
10. Overtaken by events (Ferns N Petals now exists) to the point that this no longer needs a reply IMO.
11. <still needs a response>
12. <still needs a response>
13. Overtaken by events
14. Now responded to by Liz
15. Now responded to by Liz
16. Responded to by Liz
17. Handled by MSGJ
18. Handled by MSGJ
19. Handled by MSJ
20. Responded to by Liz
21. Responded to by Liz

Liz, could you please respond to #10 and #1111 and 12 above? I think it's best that you, rather than some other admin, decide how to deal with those pending ancient draftification requests rather than some other admin. * Pppery * _{in solidarity} 17:43, 18 July 2026 (UTC) (edited 18:03, 18 July 2026 (UTC))

A Question

Hi Liz. I am a survivor of a terrible accident but as a conten-driven user I am very relaxed about editing, and categorizing. It has been a while since I have been able to access the internet. Can I ask you a question? Because the recent speedy deletions seems strange to me in my discussion, sent by you. We are a global movement. But I cannot understand this. With Regards. Sazwar (talk) 08:02, 1 June 2026 (UTC)

Hello, Sazwar,

You are going to have to be more specific here because I can't answer your questions without some additional information. Can you provide me with some titles of deleted pages? And who is "we"? Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 16:52, 3 June 2026 (UTC)

Hey Liz again. I think some categories are intentionally has been emptied in advance so that they can be quickly deleted. For example, why is there no social writer in Iran or Iraq? I added some categories myself. In my opinion, it is better to give the MENA region more time to develop its subcategories. Isn't that better? Sazwar (talk) 03:34, 4 June 2026 (UTC)

Hello, Sazwar,

Please do not adopt a conspiracy mindset. Most editors on Wikipedia have a limited time they can spend editing here and focus on subjects they care about, not sabotaging other areas. The fact of the matter is that most people have a narrow set of issues they are interested in and subjects that you care a lot about may not be areas of interest in them. The hardest problem we have is attracting editors to spend their time on topics that are important and significant but that not many people want to devote their free time to. If you can reach out to other editors who share your interests through, for example, participation in a WikiProject, then our coverage generally rises in quality. Thank you for your interest in editing on this project. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:54, 4 June 2026 (UTC)

As a survivor of a genocide, the hardest thing I have, is my own life. Thank you so much for teaching me a good lesson. Thank you really. Sazwar (talk) 05:23, 4 June 2026 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2026

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2026).

Administrator changes

• Asukite
• Bobby Cohn
• Bonadea
• Ca
• Drm310
• Reconrabbit
• Sammi Brie

• Tamzin
• TonyBallioni

• Ezhiki
• Queen of Hearts

Bureaucrat changes

• WereSpielChequers

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, the "persistent usage of large language models" has been included as a common reason for a block.

Technical news

• Mandatory 2FA for bureaucrats: Bureaucrats without two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled have already lost access to their advanced rights on 26 May. Those who do not enable 2FA may be automatically removed from the groups in mid-June 2026, and from that point onward, new members must have 2FA enabled before they can be added. (T423119, T423120)

Arbitration

• The arbitration case SchroCat has been closed.
• The arbitration case Michael Jackson has opened. Evidence submissions in this case closes on 1 June.

Miscellaneous

• Voting for the 2026 Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election closes on 1 June.

Books & Bytes – Issue 74

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 74, March–April 2026

• New partnership: Swissdox
• User survey results

Read the full newsletter

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team – 10:34, 2 June 2026 (UTC)

(This message was sent to User:Liz and is being posted here due to a redirect.)

Question about moving an article

Hi Liz, I hope you’re having a good day. I’ve been working on the Sahnioxylon rajmahalense article, and I noticed that most of the content actually describes the genus Sahnioxylon rather than just the species. I’m considering whether it might be more appropriate to move the page to Sahnioxylon and reorganize it at the genus level. I’d really appreciate any thoughts you’re willing to share.

Thanks!

अथर्व कॉल (talk) 15:47, 3 June 2026 (UTC)

Hello, अथर्व कॉल,

Unfortunately, I don't know anything about this subject matter to offer an educated opinion. I encourage you to review the advice at Wikipedia:Requested moves so you can see whether a move is appropriate and whether you should file a request for another editor to handle the move. Also, the Teahouse is a great place to go with questions like this becuase more experienced editors review questions there so you'll have more editors who know about article moves offering you advice. I'm sorry I couldn't be more helpful. Good luck! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 16:58, 3 June 2026 (UTC)

Cristina Lark

You rescued this in 2013. Can you please add reliable sources? Bearian (talk) 20:07, 3 June 2026 (UTC)

Hello, Bearian,

13 years ago I added and removed a category from this page which I don't consider a "rescue" but maybe you are just teasing me. Things are kind of crazy right now, off-line, in my life and I don't do much content work these days but I'll give it a look. There are editors here who could manage this in 10 minutes so I'm not sure why you thought of me! Take care. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:19, 3 June 2026 (UTC)

Yes, just kidding. It's in the hopper. Bearian (talk) 22:37, 3 June 2026 (UTC)

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No rush, no need to respond. Star Mississippi 01:28, 4 June 2026 (UTC)

Responded to promptly. I'm trying to get better at doing this regularly, Star Mississippi. I appreciate the support. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:41, 4 June 2026 (UTC)

IOE prod - deletion

Hi Liz - would you mind refuding International Organisation of Employers to my draft space please. You deleted it in January 2025. Given my long term involvement with organised labour issues, I thought better not to use the tools personally to deal with this one. Kind regards, Goldsztajn (talk) 02:06, 7 June 2026 (UTC)

Hello, Goldsztajn,

 Done Happy to do so. You can find it at User:Goldsztajn/International Organisation of Employers. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 17:12, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

Thank you Goldsztajn (talk) 22:31, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

Draft cats

Why did you undelete the empty draft categories after deleting them yourself? They have been empty and unused for a fairly long while and serve no purpose when there are far more feasible parent cats available. These are just a waste of space and overcategorization. I fail to see how retaining these is beneficial to the encycloepdia when most are for drafts of very specific subjects. — Trailblazer¹⁰¹🔥 ^{(discuss · contribs)} 01:39, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

Adding onto that, much like drafts, we should not retain these categories in the hopes that someone makes drafts to populate them. Some of these cats only have one or a couple entries, not nearly enough to justify their existence. — Trailblazer¹⁰¹🔥 ^{(discuss · contribs)} 01:40, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

Hello, User:Trailblazer101,

I had an accident yesterday where I mass deleted all of the empty categories in Category:Empty categories awaiting deletion. They are supposed to sit there for 7 days to give editors time to check them before they are deleted because sometimes they are emptied "out of process". If you look at the deletion rationale for that deletion on 6/7, you'll see that it had an incorrect CSD criteria that I actually needed to use on a different page. I've been an admin for 11 years but I have only made this particular mistake once before years ago. So, my solution was to revert all of those category and category talk page deletions.

If those categories are still empty 7 days after they were tagged, they will be deleted, I assure you. But what you are responding to was a mistake on my part and edits that I made to "fix" it. I'm sorry if this was confusing. Please know though that categories that are deleted purely for being empty (CSD C1) can be recreated by any editor who thinks there is a current use for them so they can always be recreated in the future. This is not true for categories deleted through Categories for Discussion but it is true for empty categories. I hope this explanation is adequate, it was a rare incident and just happened to affect empty categories you tagged for speedy deletion. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 17:08, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

Ohhh I see. Got ha. I was just curious because it seemed unusual. No worries. Thank you for the reply! — Trailblazer¹⁰¹🔥 ^{(discuss · contribs)} 17:45, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 10

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on May 8. Please help translate.

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Highlights

• Community Wishlist discussion: Product & Technology introduced changes meant to increase the number and complexity of wishes fulfilled, including the disbanding of the Community Tech team. They are engaging in discussions about a proposed direction for the wishlist from community members. Includes ways to structure annual voting, better tracking of wishes, removing focus areas, and staffing updates.
• Digital Public Goods: The Wikimedia Foundation has become a member of the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA).
• Better bot detection: A trial of hCaptcha on several Wikipedias, including English, French, and Japanese, showed it can effectively detect and deter bad-faith automated activity, on its own and by giving checkusers and stewards signals to look into. Based on these results, hCaptcha will be rolled out across all wikis. See the project page for technical information about the implementation and privacy protections.

Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Readers · Research · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org

• A better way to give credit: The Wikimedia Attribution Framework and API makes it simple for developers to fairly credit volunteer contribution. When anyone encounters Wikimedia content, we want them to know that it comes from our projects, and they are invited to participate.
• Baby Globe joins the Reading Challenge: The Android and iOS Wikipedia apps released the 25-day reading challenge, to drive readers engagement through reading milestones. To track their reading streak during the challenge, users can add a widget featuring Baby Globe to their home screen.
• Account security: The Foundation is technically enforcing that all privileges that enable users to take security- or privacy-sensitive actions can only be held by users who have enabled two-factor authentication. Logging in with passkeys is quicker than logging in without two-factor authentication. In addition, logged-in users can see a banner encouraging them to confirm their email address. These changes secure individual accounts as well as communities and the wikis.
• Incident reporting form: The Foundation began a trial on English Wikipedia of the incident reporting form. 60% of unblocked logged-in users see a new Report button, allowing them to report conduct issues.
• Encouraging account creation: Following a successful account creation experiment, an improved logged-out edit warning message will be deployed to all Wikimedia wikis this week. The change will only affect logged-out users on mobile web who open an editing session.
• Wikimedia Android App: The Wikipedia Android App is at the Phase 1 of redesigning its Home Feed. The new feed includes two tabs: Community, featuring refreshed Explore content, and For You, with personalized reading recommendations based on reader interests and activity. The For You feed refreshes daily with updated suggestions.
• Better discovery of images: The Image Browsing beta feature was rolled out for all Wikipedias on mobile following two successful experiments. The beta feature will include a carousel of all an article’s images at the top of the article, with controls for editors to exclude images from the article’s carousel or to exclude an article from the feature entirely.
• Reading Lists feature: The Foundation is conducting an experiment to show the reading lists feature, which is still in development, to logged-out mobile readers to test whether it encourages account creation at a higher rate compared to the watchstar button. The experiment was launched on May 18 on German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, Turkish, and Urdu wikis, and will run for a month.

• Testing Suggestion Mode: Suggestion Mode was released as an A/B test for newcomer editors on the mobile website at ~15 Wikipedias. The experiment will measure its impact on the proportion of newcomer mobile web edit sessions that result in constructive (un-reverted) article edits. It will also evaluate the feature’s impact on editor retention and monitor changes in revert and block rates.
• Wikifunctions now supports Wikidata references: References in Wikidata statements are now available on Wikifunctions, and you now can use external links in Wikifunctions-generated citations. This allows the use of more than 1.3 billion references available in Wikidata and adding them as citations to individual statements in Abstract Wikipedia.
• Pilot wikis adopting Abstract Wikipedia: The Abstract Wikipedia team has identified five potential pilot wikis to assess their interest in adopting abstract articles on their wikis. The pilots are Malayalam, Bengali, Dagbani, Arabic, and Indonesian Wikipedia. If your community is interested in becoming a pilot, let us know on Meta.
• Latest experiments: An upcoming experiment is testing whether we can serve readers better when a footnote click in read mode shows the full bibliographic information rather than flying them to the reference list. See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology.
• Tech News: The latest highlights from Tech News weeks 20, 21, 22, 23 include an experiment to test a new Share Card feature that allows readers to create visually engaging cards from Wikipedia articles and share them online See also the 92 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog · WikiLearn News · The Wikipedia Library · list of movement events

• Tech blog moved to Diff: The migration of the Techblog to Diff is now complete: 138 posts going back over a decade have been successfully migrated. Diff is now happy to welcome technology-focused blog posts with renewed vigor.
• What’s new in the Wikipedia Library: Access to the American Psychological Association was renewed and collections from the Harvard Business Review and Swiss Media Database (Swissdox) are now available to editors who are eligible for The Wikipedia Library.
• New course on WikiLearn: A free self-paced online course, designed for researchers who want to make their field more visible on Wikipedia, was launched on WikiLearn. Share "Wikipedia for Researchers” if you work with early-career researchers, teach in an academic institution, or support open knowledge communities.
• Wiki Mentor Africa: The first edition of Wiki Mentor Africa - Women Tech Summit brought together over 315 registered participants across Africa to learn, explore, and grow in tech together.
• Let's Connect Learning Clinic: If you missed it, you can now watch the recording of the Let's Connect Learning Clinic "How to support up-and-coming groups in the movement as a long-time Wikimedian" with Wikimedistas El Salvador.
• Community Conferences: Registration for WikiConference North America and Queering Wiki Conference is now opened. Call for Speakers for the Queering Wiki is also opened until June 30.

Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness
See also: Progress on the annual plan

• Sharing the Form 990s: The Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikimedia Endowment published their Form 990s, covering the fiscal year that ran from July 2024 to June 2025. The Form 990 is an annual form required of all nonprofit organizations in the United States. You can read the highlights on Form 990 for the Foundation and Form 990 for the Endowment on Meta-Wiki.
• Wikimedia Enterprise: Wikimedia Enterprise's free API accounts gets a substantial upgrade across the Snapshot and On-demand APIs, including free access to Structured Contents Snapshots.
• Structured Contents: How Databricks Parsed Wikipedia to Markdown with Python.

Board and Board committee updates
See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter

• Board selection process: The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is reviewing and improving how it selects new members. The goal is to ensure that there is the right mix of expertise and community representation on the board. Join the conversation on 16 June at 17:00 UTC, and share your ideas on the talk page.

Other Movement curated newsletters & news
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MediaWiki message delivery 22:31, 9 June 2026 (UTC)

"Mississippian period (archaeological)" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Mississippian period (archaeological) has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2026 June 10 § Mississippian period (archaeological) until a consensus is reached. — hike395 (talk) 23:41, 10 June 2026 (UTC)

Hello, hike395,

Thanks for letting me know. I have responded on the RFD page. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:56, 10 June 2026 (UTC)

Note

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:CHUNYINCHAN Help in reverting / warning / blocking / protecting needed... Эльдар Шукоров (talk) 15:37, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

Hello, Эльдар Шукоров,

I think you could also try explaining to the editor how the policies and practice instruct us what to do with these matters instead of seeking sanctions. Have you referred them to policy pages so they could learn to do things correctly? You might try it.

Also, you didn't even tell me exactly what the problem is here. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 15:51, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

PNG Hekari FC edit history, few more similar pages... editor refuses to listen summaries, repeats broken infobox patterns / copypasting / grammar... possible sleeper concerning creation / edits comparision Эльдар Шукоров (talk) 16:40, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

he wont stop until blocked please... fake information repeated

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=PNG_Hekari_FC&diff=prev&oldid=1358991915 Эльдар Шукоров (talk) 11:14, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

Hello, Эльдар Шукоров,

We don't block on command. We try to talk out differences of opinion unless there is obvious vandalism and pointing to an article isn't sufficient. Have you communicated with the editor what the disagreement is on their User talk page? Have you started a discussion on the article talk page? Give it a try you might find you two agree on other points.

And I encourage you to go to the Teahouse where other experienced editors can offer you advice. Good luck. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:26, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

ok thanks... if edit war warning comes, just to be sure i did the right thing and experienced users aware Эльдар Шукоров (talk) 13:38, 13 June 2026 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors – June 2026 Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors June 2026 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the June 2026 newsletter, a quarterly-ish digest of Guild activities since April. Election news: Nominations for the mid-year coordinator election ends at 23:59 on 15 June. Voting will last from 00:00 on 16 June to 23:59 on 30 June. Results will be announced on the election page. April Blitz: 18 of the 21 editors who signed up for the April 2026 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited 122,993 words in 56 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. May Drive: 34 of the 66 editors who signed up for the May 2026 Backlog Elimination Drive copy edited 543,972 words in 211 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. June Blitz: Our June 2026 Copy Editing Blitz will start on 14 June and finish on 30 June. Barnstars awarded will be posted here. Progress report: As of 22:40, 11 June 2025 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have completed 132 requests since 1 January, and the backlog stands at 1,691 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. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:57, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

"Jimon (building)" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Jimon (building) has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2026 June 14 § Jimon (building) until a consensus is reached.

Followed your instruction. Thanks for your attention. Yiba (talk | contribs) 05:12, 14 June 2026 (UTC)

Hello,Yiba,

Thanks for letting me know. I hope a discussion will straighten everything out. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:36, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

"CiberCuba" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect CiberCuba has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2026 June 16 § CiberCuba until a consensus is reached.

I think you're the most relevant party to notify here? My bad if not. Happy editing! Placeholderer (talk) 13:52, 16 June 2026 (UTC)

Requests for undeletion

Hi @Liz. I'd like to request for Israfil Bek Jedigar to be restored. I have given reasons why separately here: Wikipedia:Requests_for_undeletion/Archive_410#Israfil Bek Jedigar. Under WP:BIO I think the article is suitable for restoration. Thanks in advance! Yousiphh (talk) 09:53, 17 June 2026 (UTC)

I'd been told to contact the administrator who closed the discussion by @UtherSRG back in 2025. But you've ignored my previous requests. See: User talk:Liz/Archive 63. Yousiphh (talk) 09:56, 17 June 2026 (UTC)

@Liz ... were you going to reply to this? I think 48 hours is a reasonable timeframe to expect a response, especially when you are editing elsewhere — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:47, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

@MSGJ This is the 3rd time @Liz is ignoring my request. What do you recommend me to do? Yousiphh (talk) 15:09, 21 June 2026 (UTC)

She is replying to other people. Maybe she just doesn't like you :)) Seriously though, perhaps there is something I'm missing here but your request seems polite and deserves a reply. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:51, 22 June 2026 (UTC)

There are assertions of more recent sources proving notability, and the Polish wiki version lists several awards and distinctions. I don't know whether these meet the bar for notability on the English wiki, but this probably merits a discussion. If the Requests for Undeletion process is only for articles that were deleted uncontroversially, and does not apply to articles deleted after a deletion discussion, I don't know why you are expecting a response from Liz. She properly deleted the article based on the discussion at the time, if Liz does not have the authority to undelete because this needs a consensus at Wikipedia:Deletion review that significant new information has come to light since a deletion that would justify undeleting the page, and previously deleted content may be helpful for writing a new version of the page – provided that an administrator declined undeleting the page and their decision is being challenged why does the administrator assessing the new information need to be the same admin who deleted it? I would be happy to undelete and move it to draft space for AfC review. – wbm1058 (talk) 16:21, 22 June 2026 (UTC)

@Wbm1058 Thanks a lot. Please do it. Yousiphh (talk) 11:52, 24 June 2026 (UTC)

Done. – wbm1058 (talk) 12:39, 24 June 2026 (UTC)

Category:South American people of South American descent has been nominated for deletion

Category:South American people of South American descent has been nominated for deletion. A discussion is taking place to decide whether it complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Yabroq (talk) 17:08, 17 June 2026 (UTC)

Speedy deletion

Hello Liz,

I don't think the categories are empty, I recently added pages to them, like here for example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Francesco_Zurolo&diff=prev&oldid=1360179225

The pages haven't shown up yet, I am afraid. Plasticwonder (Cat got your tongue?) 19:53, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

Hello, Plasticwonder,

I take lists of empty categories from here and tag them. They then sit in Category:Empty categories awaiting deletion for 7 days so do not worry, as soon as the articles start showing up in the currently empty categories, we remove the tags. It's not really a "speedy" process despite being called "speedy deletion" (CSD). Thank you for your work here. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:57, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your response, I was beginning to think I did something wrong! :) Plasticwonder (Cat got your tongue?) 20:00, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

The Signpost: 21 June 2026

Happy First Edit Day!

Happy First Edit Day, Liz, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! ☘︎☘︎☘︎ALEXHammeke (talk | guestbook | sandbox) 05:38, 22 June 2026 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!

Happy First Edit Day! Hi Liz! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of the day you made your first edit and became a Wikipedian! DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 13:20, 22 June 2026 (UTC)

CfD nomination at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2026 June 22 § Fiction set in $YEAR

Categories you have created have been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2026 June 22 § Fiction set in $YEAR on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 16:52, 22 June 2026 (UTC)

Hello, User:LaundryPizza03

That is an enormous nomination, LP, I'm impressed that you took the time to post a notification for whatever category I created years ago that is part of it today. That's a step that is overlooked act that is especially common in these mass nominations. Kudos! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:55, 23 June 2026 (UTC)

User talk:Thelegitgoat

Hello, thank you for your action regarding that attack page and your warning here. I do want to correct you, though -- the page creations on that specific individual have not been going on for nearly two decades. The person you are thinking of is a completely different harassment victim, albeit one whose specific, appalling victimization on the internet is somewhere up the family tree from this particular case. Just wanted to mention, even if it is probably just a silly nitpick on my part at the end of the day. Thank you for your help. JeffSpaceman (talk) 01:40, 23 June 2026 (UTC)

Hello, JeffSpaceman,

I thought the online focus on this person had been going on for that butmany years I might have mixed them up with the other target U see, Chris (I don't recall his last name but it's a minor point). Thanks for the additional information.

Go ahead and nitpick, I don't mind the first one! I hope this doesn't escalate but if that happened, it might become an issue but we still could talk about it. Thanks for keeping your eye out and knowing that this was a controversial issue and not an ordinary BLP. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:49, 23 June 2026 (UTC)

Of course -- once again, I appreciate your help here. To be honest, I think that WP:HARVIC is doing a lot of good at pre-empting arguments about potential notability of controversial, perennial attack BLP subjects like this (not that I see much in the way of notability in this particular case, as opposed to the other one you and I allude to here).

I thought I'd also ask -- do you think the image that was used in the infobox on that BLP should be deleted per WP:BLPIMAGE? I personally believe so, per WP:AVOIDVICTIM, but I do want to know what you think. JeffSpaceman (talk) 02:23, 23 June 2026 (UTC)

Hello, JeffSpaceman,

Regarding the photo, that's your call. Someimes it's best not to draw any more attention to a subject. And I do not recall whether it's a file on Wikipedia or if it's at the Commons. I don't spend much time on the Commons unless it's really an urgent issue, I'm not very familiar with how the process works there. I trust your judgment. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:30, 23 June 2026 (UTC)

I may pursue getting it removed from Commons later (I believe it is in the public domain), but I'll do that on later time if I feel like it. I've gotten some images removed there for violations, and I may do the same with that one. JeffSpaceman (talk) 02:45, 23 June 2026 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 11

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on June 5. Please help translate.

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Highlights

• Community Wishlist: Weigh in on proposals and open questions on how the wishlist will operate in the future.
• Simplifying account creation: The Foundation is working on improving the account creation process to reduce potential friction for newcomers to create an account. Improvements include making "Create Account" icon more prominent on mobile, simplifying the registration form, and introducing real-time username validation.
• New U4C members elected: The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) has new members and has two remaining vacancies in Middle East & North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa.
• Wikimania conference program: The Wikimania 2026 program is now live! Take a moment to review the program, and, if you are logged in, you can mark your "must see” sessions with a star to start building your personal schedule. Register for a virtual ticket here, if you haven't signed up yet.
• Neutral Point of View: A proposal for a baseline NPOV standard for Wikipedias that do not have one was published, with a community discussion open until July 15, 2026.

Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
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• App Explore feed: The redesigned App Explore feed, now called "Home", has been released to all Android users. The update introduces a refreshed feed experience along with the first set of new content modules, including Did You Know, Places of Interest, Random Article, and a new end-of-feed experience. Additional content and improvements are planned in future releases.
• Wikipedia games: The Which came first? daily trivia game is now available in the beta version of the Wikipedia iOS app in English, German, French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and Turkish. The game uses historical events from Wikipedia’s “On This Day” content and challenges readers to guess which of two events happened first.
• Reusing references: Sub-referencing, a new MediaWiki feature that allows editors to reuse references with different details, has been rolled out to Group 1 wikis and French Wikipedia following a successful pilot phase.
• Article guidance: The Article guidance feature is being tested with some editors creating new articles on the Simple English, French, and Turkish Wikipedias. The experiment will soon begin on the Arabic and Bangla Wikipedias as well. The outlines guide less experienced editors in creating high-quality articles. A quick guide to markups used in outlines can be found on this page. Example outlines that can be adapted and instructions for how to adapt them are on this section of the project page.
• Mobile Page Previews: The Page Previews experiment on mobile web has concluded with the decision not to roll out the feature. The results showed no statistically significant impact on reader retention – the primary success metric. Page Previews, which are already available on desktop and in the apps, display a thumbnail, lead paragraph, and link to the full article when readers tap a blue link.
• Wikifunctions: You can now add images to Abstract Wikipedia and the loading and display of test results when viewing Functions has been improved.
• Wikidata: The Foundation is migrating the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) away from the Blazegraph backend since it no longer scales efficiently with Wikidata’s growth. The migration will take place in several phases. Here is the timeline.
• Growth features: Growth features are now available at Wikidata!  Wikidata administrators are still configuring the features through Community Configuration, but this update enables access to Mentorship (if configured), Impact, the Help Panel, and a simplified Newcomer Homepage (without Suggested Edits).
• Mentors' management: The Growth team will soon provide a system to automatically suspend or remove inactive mentors from the list of mentors. Communities can already start configuring the process in the Community Configuration.
• Collaborative Contributions: If you need help setting up the Collaborative Contributions and the Goal setting features, check out these video guides. These features allow you to view which edits are made during an event and allows the group to track progress against a goal with a public progress bar. Learn more.
• Latest experiments: An upcoming experiment is testing whether we can serve readers better when a footnote click in read mode shows the full bibliographic information rather than flying them to the reference list. See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology.
• Tech News: The latest highlights from Tech News week 24 and 25 include how the user interface icon library is being updated. Most of the ~300 icons have been slightly refined and ~30 new icons have been added. See also the 62 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

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• Don't Blink: Read the latest developments from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values. Highlights include exploring the implications that new child safety regulations have on privacy online.
• Grantmaking strategy & Affiliate model: Members of the Global Resources Distribution Committee (GRDC) and the Affiliations Committee (AffCom) met to advance two key movement initiatives: the development of a new Grantmaking strategy and a refreshed Affiliate Model. They produced initial proposals and advanced work on both initiatives ahead of broader conversations planned for Wikimania 2026.

Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness
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• Enterprise: SimPPL Uses Wikimedia Enterprise to Map Online Conversations and Fact-Check Social Media.

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Undeletion request

Hi! Per a talk message, Hhfjbaker (talk · contribs) and I agree that I made a lapse in judgement, and the category Veterans of the 2nd Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry provided navigation that others interested in the 22nd Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry might find useful. Could you please undelete it? Thanks! :D - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 00:00, 24 June 2026 (UTC)

There was a consensus to delete at CfD. I don't think it's appropriate to retroactively annul the result of a discussion as you are proposing here absent some sort of procedural error -- allowing this would render the act of closing a discussion meaningless. * Pppery * _{in solidarity} 03:29, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

Deletion review for LoopMe

An editor has asked for a deletion review of LoopMe. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Hannahloopme (talk) 09:04, 25 June 2026 (UTC)

Undeletion request

Hi Liz,

Per your suggestion on my user talk page to write here: I'd like to continue working on the Draft:Paul Pangaro hence asking for its restoration.

Thank you, Arvore da Vida (talk)

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Arvore da Vida (talk) 15:01, 25 June 2026 (UTC)

Hi @Liz, let me know if there is anything else needed to proceed with the undelete of the Draft:Paul Pangaro. Thank you ~~~ Arvore da Vida (talk) 15:51, 2 July 2026 (UTC)

Weirdness with river article categories

Hi! I just saw you nominate Category:Stub-Class River articles for speedy deletion due to it being empty. And in fact it looks like all of the categories under Category:River articles by quality have suddenly become empty. Which seems to be some kind of systemic issue, and most likely an error of some sort? I haven't seen any mention of stopping using article classes in Wikipedia:WikiProject Rivers, and the table of River articles by class (User:WP_1.0_bot/Tables/Project/River), populated from those categories, was still showing tens of thousands of articles using these categories when it was last updated on June 23. I have added some discussion on the project page (</nowiki>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Rivers#What_happened_to_the_article_classes?) to try to figure things out. Meanwhile I think it might be best not to speedy delete these categories. (At the very least, if they are to be deleted in favour of another means of categorizing articles, then that should probably be done systematically to all of those categories, rather than one at a time. Thanks! -Kieran (talk) 21:11, 25 June 2026 (UTC)

Hello, Kieran,

We have lots of problems with WikiProject article categories. We generally leave them alone but, for some unknown reason, this specific category popped up on the the Empty Category list that we run every few hours. I can't tell you why this one and not the others appeared. Sometimes it gets off the list by posting several "Don't delete this even if it's empty" tags on the page and that's what I'll try. We do occasionally delete a WikiProject's article assessment categories if a) all of the article categories are empty, not just a few and b) the WikiProject has been tagged as defunct or inactive. This usually takes years of inactivity to happen which is not what happened here.

We have another, associated problem of assessment banners on the article talk page NOT leading to that article to be placed in article assessment categories which seems like the problem here. Sometimes, it just takes a few days to happen. But if you have further questions, the editor I know who knows the most about this weird category glitch is MSGJ. Most admins and editors are more focused on content-related issues so these quirks receive less attention but MSGJ has spent time looking into this issue. I'll also mention but not link Pppery because they are knowledgeable about the inner workings of the project but I don't think they have spent as much time looking at WikiProjects as MSGJ has.

As for this lone, odd category, I'll skip tagging it because clearly isn't what we typically see at Category:Empty categories awaiting deletion. Good luck tracking down any answers that may exist. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:26, 25 June 2026 (UTC)

That was caused by an edit to Template:WikiProject Rivers which I have now reverted — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:02, 26 June 2026 (UTC)

Awesome! Thank you both! Kieran (talk) 19:46, 27 June 2026 (UTC)

Manually implementing CFD

Hi, if you're going to manually implement a CFD result rather than wait for the bot, please can you mark it off on Wikipedia talk:Categories for discussion/Working. Thanks in advance. Timrollpickering (talk) 16:34, 27 June 2026 (UTC)

Hello, Timrollpickering,

I apologize for the delay in responding to your message. To be honest, I don't understand how Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working works and I don't go through the CFD daily logs.

I come across the results of a closed CFD nomination because throughout the day I run https://empty-categories.toolforge.org/ and many CFD closures involve emptying categories. My focus has been on tagging empty categories and then I some times need to work backwards to find a relevant CFD nomination if I have questions.

If I understood better how User:JJMC89 bot III functions and the Working page operates, I would start taking action and closing CFD discussions. If you had a moment to explain this to me, I could probably be more useful in that area of the project. But honestly, my focus up until now has been on tagging empty categories, not closing CFD discussions. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:47, 5 July 2026 (UTC)

When a discussion is closed it is either done by an admin or a non-admin. The admin will list the category at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working and then a bot will automatically process it. However that page is fully admin protected because of past abuse. If a non-admin closes it they list the category at Wikipedia talk:Categories for discussion/Working and then in due course an admin will put it on the main page. This can sometimes take a few days as backlogs pile up. If a category is being emptied and deleted in the meantime it would help to remove it from the list there. Timrollpickering (talk) 08:38, 5 July 2026 (UTC)

Categories

Thanks. Yeah, it is genuinely irritating when people create categories by using preformatted templates that autogenerate and transclude parent categories, but then fail to follow through on creating whatever redlinks result from that so that it falls on the category cleanup crew (which means me a fair bit of the time) to fix it. I really wish the people who insist on farming everything off to preformatted templates would make more use of #ifexist when it comes to the categories, but asking them to be more conscientious about that hasn't really solved the problem either. So I guess it's good to know that other people get it. Bearcat (talk) 23:12, 29 June 2026 (UTC)

Hello, Bearcat,

I consider you a one editor clean up crew! The task of removing red link categories shouldn't all fall to you but it seems like that's what happens. I'm not sure about other admins but I've picked up some tasks that I'd like to share with others but when the work piles up, people tend to act rather than wait until others notice the problem. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:36, 5 July 2026 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2026

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2026).

Administrator changes

• Chipmunkdavis
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• Mlaffs
• SpuriousQ
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CheckUser changes

• Giraffer
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• Dbeef
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Oversight changes

• Giraffer
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Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment asks whether the criteria for autoconfirmed and extended confirmed should be modified.
• A request for comment proposes an addendum for the Real name section of the Username policy.

Technical news

• The special page Special:RangeCalculator has been created for any users to use to find an IP range. (phab:T268429)
• The "indefinitely" button in Special:Block for temporary accounts can be replaced with a preferred block duration stated on MediaWiki:ipb-indefinite-expiry-temporary-account. (phab:T427125)

Arbitration

• Following a series of motions, changes to the contentious topics procedure to restructure awareness have been implemented.
• The arbitration case Michael Jackson has been closed.

Miscellaneous

• The 2026 Developing Countries WikiContest will run from 1 July to 30 September. Sign up now!
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Request

Good afternoon! I'm a woman in her late 20s who's just exhausted honestly. This person keeps harassing me. Username "Deposing A Fraud." As you can see, Rsjaffe removed their edit summary and blocked them for harassment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Attachment_therapy&action=history

I was just wondering if my edit summary of "Fair enough, not awkward though" on May 5th can be removed too because that's the target of all the harassment I've been receiving. This person has shared my phone number and the sort and I just if that edit summary was removed as well I'd finally be able to not feel so scared coming on this site anymore, knowing the target of the harassment is gone and potentially more people won't be coming on here to harass me. That would mean the world to me and I can share my story about how Wikipedia truly came through for me when I was desperate and scared and needed it most I'm just so tired and want it all to end. Thank you! ~~2026-38137-10 (talk) 03:06, 5 July 2026 (UTC)

Hello, ~2026-38137-10,

This is the 4th message like this that you have left on an admin's User talk page. It's best to reach out to one administrator and see how they respond instead of posting the same request for help to multiple people. Since Rsjaffe helped you out with the edit summary is there a reason you didn't follow up with them about this incident?

I'm sorry if you are feeling harrassed but can you point out where this editor shared your phone number or any other personal information? That is much more serious than an edit summary saying "Fair enough" as I can't see how that could anger anyone enough to pester you. That is clearly damaging content we should remove from the platform. My personal suggestion is please do not believe the rantings and threats of online trolls. Their goal is to get you upset and then they move on to annoy others. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:25, 5 July 2026 (UTC)

I did contact Rsaffe and I posted it everywhere to raise awareness of the issue that I was facing. ~2026-38245-82 (talk) 08:36, 5 July 2026 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 12

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on June 19. Please help translate. This edition uses the new annual plan goals for this fiscal year (July 2026–June 2027).

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Highlights

• Wikipedia 25: Wikipedia's 25th birthday was celebrated with various projects designed to grow awareness and support for Wikipedia and the people who make it possible. This includes the virtual birthday event on January 15, which garnered 10,000 live viewers and 15,000 reactions. Find more details on all related projects and results in the program report.
• Sustainable use of Wikimedia infrastructure: A valid user-agent string will now be required for automated dumps downloads from the dumps.wikimedia.org website. Automated requests that provide a generic or empty user-agent will be blocked. This extends enforcement of the long standing user-agent policy. Access to dumps through Wikimedia Cloud Services will not change.
• Increasing account creation: The experiment providing direct access to “Create account” and “Log in” actions on mobile increased account creation by about 20% without negatively affecting edit quality. The feature will now be rolled out to all wikis on mobile web.

Annual Goals Progress on Engage
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• Add A Link: The Foundation deployed Add A Link as a default-on suggestion within Suggestion Mode. It is now launched on all wikis to all editors who have opted in to the Suggestion Beta Feature.
• Reusing references: Sub-referencing, the new MediaWiki feature that allows editors to reuse references with different details, was deployed to most small and medium-sized Wikipedia language versions.
• Wikifunctions: Check out the 71 new functions with implementations to get a taste of what functions have been created.
• Range calculator: The special page Special:RangeCalculator has been created. It allows users to find an IP range without needing to rely on external tools. Until now, this tool was only available to CheckUsers.
• Captcha verification: Abuse filters that are set to “require CAPTCHA verification” now also affect users with the skipcaptcha right, which includes most autoconfirmed users. Bots are exempted. This change only affects edits that trigger an abuse filter.
• Latest experiments: An upcoming experiment is testing two variations of a "thank you" badge shown to donors after a recent donation to deepen the relationship between donors and the Wikimedia movement. See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology.
• Account security on private wikis: Two-factor authentication will become mandatory for user accounts on private wikis. This will protect private information from being exposed by an account with a compromised password.
• Tech News: The latest highlights from Tech News week 26 and 27 include users will now get a notification when they are blocked or unblocked from editing, or if this block changes. See also the 65 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.
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• Open Knowledge And Digital Rights: Wikimedians shared their reflections on how Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum reinforced the role of our movement within broader digital rights conversations.

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Re: Category:Afghan dancers

Hi Liz, I hope you're well. I saw that you deleted the category Category:Afghan dancers after I recreated it, and the reason stated was because it was previously deleted because of this discussion. I disagree here. The discussion about the category previously deleted it because it was a "single-article category" and "Single article categories hinder navigation". However, the category was no longer a single-article category when I recreated it, so that rationale no longer applies. Category:21st-century Afghan dancers was a subcategory of the now-deleted category, and it has two pages in it (with potential for more to arrive when more pages are made). Because of that, I think the category should be undeleted. Thanks for your time. ArtemisiaGentileschiFan (talk) 02:15, 8 July 2026 (UTC)

Hello, ArtemisiaGentileschiFan,

Sorry for the delay in responding, I see that you went ahead and recreated the category I deleted via CSD G4. I'm going to ping User:Smasongarrison and see what they think about this situation.

Ordinarily, we point editors wanting to recreate pages that have been deleted through deletion discussions (like CFD, AFD, etc.) to [[Wikipedia:Deletion review]|Deletion review] so that the closure can be reconsidered in light of new information but categories are their own, weird little universe that I find troublesome as there is no "Draft space" where editors can retry the content creation and have it be reviewed. It seems like a lot of bureaucracy to have a week-long discussion over a category that only concerns a handful of article. But, I'm undecided so I've told you what I understand the "rules" say and see what Smasongarrison because they have a great knowledge blend of policy and common sense. In other words, I could go either way. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:17, 9 July 2026 (UTC)

Hi @ArtemisiaGentileschiFan. I think the fundamental issue is that there still do not seem to be enough dancers to support this category tree. You created Category:21st-century Afghan dancers with two articles in it, and then used that child category as the reason Category dancers was no longer a single-article category.

But that seems to change the structure without really addressing the concern from the earlier discussion, which was that the category did not add enough navigational value. So I am curious why you think this particular category tree is needed now. What does it help readers find that the existing categories do not?

You seem quite invested in recreating it despite the feedback from the deletion discussion, so I would like to better understand what you see as the benefit.

^SMason_Garrison 01:20, 10 July 2026 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for the response. It was my understanding that the category was deleted specifically because it had only one article, and that single-article categories were non-useful. I thought that having multiple articles in the category addressed this issue. If I was wrong in that assumption, I apologize. I don't think I'm particularly "invested" in the category, I just thought that the deletion was no longer necessary. If I'm wrong, that's fine, and I won't put up a fight to stop it from being deleted again. I suppose this was a misunderstanding on my part. ArtemisiaGentileschiFan (talk) 01:31, 10 July 2026 (UTC)

That makes sense. There's nothing to apoligize about or fight for. I'm more trying to understand what your goal is with the category tree, and help get a better sense of the category. Do you think that there are more pages out there that could belong in the category. There's nothing preventing recreation if there's a critical mass of pages. Right now the consensus is that two also isn't enough because those pages can just be interlinked.^SMason_Garrison 02:34, 10 July 2026 (UTC)

I'm glad I called you in, Smasongarrison. My personal opinion is colored by the fact that I think the system makes it incredibly difficult to review past CFD closures. Considering that there are probably less than a dozen editors who regularly participate in CFD discussions makes it challenging to file appeals against decisions to possibly overturn old closures.

On the one hand, there is policy, and on the other hand there are the demands of creating appropriate, well-written articles and categories. That's why I deleted your recreation of the category as a CSD G4 but I'm sympathetic to you, the category creator. It's almost as if the only solution is to create a new category with a different page title which fulfills what you want to do, ArtemisiaGentileschiFan, but goes against the spirit of the rules as they have been created and maintained. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:49, 10 July 2026 (UTC)

Request unsalting of article

Hey Liz! Awhile ago you deleted and salted Magicore Anomala because it was a redirect to a user space which is a violation of Wikipedia policy. I was the editor in question that mistakenly made that redirect. I originally put the page in the main space but was then told it violated Wikipedia:TOOSOON, so I attempted a series of blundered moves before I finally moved the article to the correct place in my user space. Firstly, sorry for leaving such a mess behind, I have now learned how to move correctly (and realized I could've just blanked the auto generated redirect) and won't make the same mistake again. I wanted to know if it's possible to unsalt the article to make it easier to move back to the main space when it no longer violates WP:TOOSOON.It's unlikely the article will be improperly made again since I was the only editor doing so (and that was very silly of me  Self-trout), and I won't be moving it anymore until a FINAL move back to main space when the time is right. At any rate I respect your decision on the matter. Thank you for your time. Wik206 (talk) 01:33, 9 July 2026 (UTC)

Hello, Wik206,

 Done The protection was really directed at you since you kept making the same mistake over and over again. I'm glad that it got your attention and you looked more into the policy we have here. Happy editing and if you have further questions, I recommend bringing them to the Teahouse, your post will get a more prompt response there. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:04, 9 July 2026 (UTC)

2 and 3 ingredient cocktails

Regarding two-ingredient cocktails and three-ingredient cocktails (which you deleted, per G8, ~5 years ago).

Out of curiosity, where (presumably) did those redirect to? Secondly, would you throw those to subpages of my userspace if either contain anything worthwhile content-wise in their page history.

Warmest regards & many thanks in advance, — Godsy ^(TALK_CONT) 17:10, 10 July 2026 (UTC)

@Thryduulf: Noticed you in a section just below. Anyone with the sysop flag can equally take a look at these for me, if you would not mind (came across them in relation to Category:Two-ingredient cocktails and Category:Three-ingredient cocktails). — Godsy ^(TALK_CONT) 03:12, 12 July 2026 (UTC)

@Godsy Two-ingredient cocktails had only a single revision, it redirected to Two-ingredient cocktail. The latter page was speedily deleted by Liz with the summary "G7 - created by a blocked editor" (presumably she meant G5 as it was created by User:Зенитная_Самоходная_Установка who is CU-blocked, presumably as as sock but I've not looked). It consisted of the two sentences below plus a list of ~35 examples and a see also to Three-ingredient cocktail. If you want the examples in your userspace just say.

A two-ingredient cocktail is a cocktail that can be made with as few as two ingredients, often a base spirit and one other ingredient. Such cocktails are often easier and quicker to prepare than more complicated cocktails.^[1][2]

Two-ingredient cocktail was also deleted two years later (December 2022) by user:DanCherek, also under G7 (this time correctly, the only editor was BarrelProof). That time it was a redirect to List of duo and trio cocktails. That target was deleted at AfD in 2003 (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of duo and trio cocktails) but was later userfied to User:Ɱ/List of duo and trio cocktails.

Three-ingredient cocktails also had just a single revision, a redirect to Three-ingredient cocktail, which target Liz also speedily deleted under G7 when she meant G5 (@Liz, please self-administer a {{minnow}}), created by the same cu-blocked editor. It had the same format as two-ingredient cocktail with an intro paragraph (see below) a list of 15 examples (available on request) and a see-also to two-ingredient cocktail.

{{Cite web|url=https://punchdrink.com/articles/five-unexpected-variations-three-ingredient-cocktail-recipe/|title=Five Unexpected Three-Ingredient Cocktails}}</ref> An advantage of many such cocktails is the relative ease of making them, particularly at home,<ref name=maxim/> compared to cocktails with longer lists of ingredients.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/nomanazish/2018/06/26/10-three-ingredient-cocktail-recipes-you-need-to-try-this-summer/|title=10 Three-Ingredient Cocktail Recipes You Need To Try This Summer|first=Noma|last=Nazish|website=Forbes}}</ref> "}},"i":0}}]}' id="mwFOM"/>

A three-ingredient cocktail is a cocktail that can be made with as few as three ingredients. The technical, 19th-century definition of a cocktail stated that it should consist solely of three ingredients: spirit, sweetener, and bitters. Sours consisting of spirit, sweetener, and citrus are another kind of three-ingredient cocktail.^[3] An advantage of many such cocktails is the relative ease of making them, particularly at home,^[4] compared to cocktails with longer lists of ingredients.^[5]

Both articles also had minor edits from Onel5969 and the latter also a spelling fix by user:2603:3015:2500:9200:7de7:78e5:8807:e6a4. Thryduulf (talk) 10:34, 12 July 2026 (UTC)

Hello, Godsy

Just to summarize, these articles pages have been deleted and restored, via CSD, PROD'd, AFD (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of duo and trio cocktails) and moved around but currently reside at User:Ɱ/List of duo and trio cocktails. I'm not sure if there is any content that has fallen through the cracks here that needs restoration. It's a long page history that you might need to comb through. Sorry for the delay in my response. Thanks to anyone else that has helped trace this page history. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 20:04, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

July 2026 meetup in Portland (Online participation available!)

Hey Liz,

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Incorrect speedy deletion

You speedily deleted Next Belgian federal election under criterion WP:CSD#G8, but this was incorrect because only the most recent revision pointed to a non-existent page (WP:CSD is explicit that a page is only eligible if all it's revisions are speedily deletable. Instead this should have been reverted and the open RfD discussion at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2026 July 11#Next Belgian federal election allowed to play out. Thryduulf (talk) 23:20, 11 July 2026 (UTC)

Restored. * Pppery * _{in solidarity} 03:26, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

Hello, Thryduulf,

I have responded to you at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2026 July 11#Next Belgian federal election where this discussion belongs. I apologize for taking a week to respond to your original message. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 20:19, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

Based on your comment in the now-closed RfD I think the issue here is that you are deleting redirects because they appear on a list of broken redirects without checking the history of the redirect. It's worth reiterating that a page is only speedily deleteable if all its revisions meet one or more speedy deletion criteria, so checking the page history is not optional. Thryduulf (talk) 10:10, 19 July 2026 (UTC)

The Signpost: 13 July 2026

World Tennis (formerly ITF)

Liz, you deleted World Tennis (formerly ITF) for WP:G8. Note that a page is eligible for speedy deletion only if all of its history is also eligible. World Tennis (formerly ITF) targeted World Tennis before its target was changed. World Tennis is an article that exists, so WP:G8 is incorrect and its deletion needs to be reversed (and then retargeted). Thanks! -- Tavix ^(talk) 14:33, 13 July 2026 (UTC)

Done. User:Intrisit, please don't game the system by moving redirects around like that. It you think a redirect should be deleted then tag it for speedy deletion properly or use RfD. I personally don't think "X (formerly Y)" is a useful redirect to have and might have accepted it as an R3, but it's apparently used in hundreds of other titles so whatever. * Pppery * _{in solidarity} 03:25, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

COI edit request on Michael Perelman (psychologist)

Hi Liz — thank you again for your help in flagging the issues on Michael Perelman (psychologist) and for guiding me through the conflict-of-interest process. Following your advice, I've now posted a formatted {{edit COI}} request at Talk:Michael Perelman (psychologist)#COI edit request: Awards and Editorial cleanup (article subject). It proposes properly cited replacements for the Awards and Editorial sections and is intended to clear the January 2023 "Formatting and refs not in ref tags" cleanup tag. I'd be grateful for your review whenever your time allows. Sorry it took me so long to get to this, but the good news is I collected a few more Awards and this time, I understood better because of you what the citations were to prove I received them. With appreciation and thanks--Michael Drpnyc (talk) 22:12, 13 July 2026 (UTC)

Deletion review for Wadanohara and the Great Blue Sea

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Wadanohara and the Great Blue Sea. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Smileghozt (talk) 04:29, 14 July 2026 (UTC)

Hello, Smileghozt,

I just deleted a redirect, not an actual article or draft, so I don't have much to say but thanks for letting me know. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:29, 15 July 2026 (UTC)

oh Smileghozt (talk) 08:47, 15 July 2026 (UTC)

You've got mail

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Never mind... issue has been addressed. Wburrow (talk) 03:25, 15 July 2026 (UTC)

Hello, Wburrow,

Oh, well, I'm glad things have already gotten things resolved. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:30, 15 July 2026 (UTC)

Peter Mangione

Hey again. Is the current version of the article Peter Mangione (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) similar to or different from deleted revisions? George Ho (talk) 05:54, 15 July 2026 (UTC)

Looks like BD2412 has undeleted the history so you can now see this for yourself. * Pppery * _{in solidarity} 03:17, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

Please refund these

• Draft:Outline of art history
• Draft:Outline of crime fiction
• Draft:Outline of Mahatma Ghandi
• Draft:Outline of meat
• Draft:Outline of memory
• Draft:Outline of occupational safety and health (this is now at User:Pbsouthwood/Outline of occupational safety and health. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 18:42, 18 July 2026 (UTC))
• Draft:Outline of prosthetics
• Draft:Outline of spy fiction
• Draft:Outline of tinea
• Draft:Outline of Western fiction
• Draft:Outline of the World Wide Web
• Draft:Outline of the French Revolution
• Draft:Outline of information technology management
• Draft:Outline of legumes
• Draft:Outline of magic (illusion)
• Draft:Outline of maritime transport
• Draft:Outline of mass communication
• Draft:Outline of meditation
• Draft:Outline of modern history
• Draft:Outline of money
• Draft:Outline of morality
• Draft:Outline of hills
• Draft:Outline of hockey
• Draft:Outline of horror fiction
• Draft:Outline of mountains
• Draft:Outline of museums
• Draft:Outline of natural satellites
• Draft:Outline of outer space
• Draft:Outline of planets
• Draft:Outline of recreational drug use
• Draft:Outline of secondary education
• Draft:Outline of ships
• Draft:Outline of sleep
• Draft:Outline of stars
• Draft:Outline of street art
• Draft:Outline of volcanoes

I'd appreciate it. Thank you.    — The Transhumanist   06:42, 15 July 2026 (UTC)

Most of these have been undeleted before and some of them have been undeleted twice before. We're getting into the " Declined pending further information. This was undeleted over six months ago with a pledge that it would be worked on, but no edits were made to improve the entry for resubmission. Draft space is not an indefinite hosting service for material found to be unsuitable for inclusion in the encyclopedia's article mainspace. We may be willing to restore it again, but only if you provide a definite assurance that you actually intend to work on it and provide a short description of what you intend to do to improve it to meet our policies and guidelines. Please advise." territory here. * Pppery * _{in solidarity} 03:18, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

 Done Since The Transhumanist came here, not WP:REFUND, and I didn't see Pppery's message, I restored these drafts since it seems like that was the message I was getting from so many editors here. Again, I'll say that I'm not the deleting admin in all of these questions. I try to get to requests in a timely manner but sometimes I don't because I have a lot of other tasks here. This was the reason I'm not on the Arbitration Committee either, too many other things to do here. I'm sorry that I seem to have disappointed so many of you. I have tried my best. Back to work on categories about Malta. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 18:42, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) The Transhumanist, if you'd like (as suggested at DRV), these can all be moved to your userspace so they won't get deleted every six months. Let me know if you're interested—I can just use a script to move them all without any hassle. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 18:49, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

@Extraordinary Writ: Thank you for the offer—it is tempting. The current system ensures that I work on outlines over time, by forcing (or at least strongly prompting) a quota, even if some slip through my fingertips now and again. If they were in my userspace they might just gather dust and never see another edit. That's what happened when they were in WikiProject space. Besides, I'd have to keep watching draft space anyways, to monitor for new outline drafts. By being in draft space, they do attract other editors occasionally.    — The Transhumanist   12:09, 26 July 2026 (UTC)

Liz, everything you do here is by choice so you are not required to do any tasks so please, please, please, stop using that as an excuse which you have been using for at least 3 years now. You are making the choice not to respond inquiries, often in violation of WP:ADMINACCT. If you don't want to be held to that standard, stop making admin actions. S0091 (talk) 19:00, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

No harm done. I wasn't in a rush. I knew Liz would get to my request in due course.    — The Transhumanist   12:09, 26 July 2026 (UTC)

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Mass Mario deletions

You've just deleted a huge number of Mario-related pages as created by a sock of Vinnylospo, however it looks like most of them were only edited by their sockpuppet and were created by others. Could these please be restored? * Pppery * _{in solidarity} 15:51, 17 July 2026 (UTC)

Hello, * Pppery *,

I spot-checked quite a few of these redirects before deletion and it looked like the sockpuppet was the creator and only editor on these pages. But, if you're saying I'm wrong, then I'm wrong as I didn't look at them all and I'll be fine to undo my work upon request. My question is, there are several tools to do a mass deletion and I know there is a way to do a mess undeletion but I'm not familiar with it. If you know, could you fill me in or point me to the right information page. I'll also ping User:MSGJ as they are familiar with many tools of Wikipedia. I apologize to you here for this inconvenience. 17:41, 17 July 2026 (UTC)

Mass actions without paying close attention to what you are doing are bad. Okay, I've finished reviewing all of your deletions. Here's a list of pages that need to be undeleted. It looks like you took specific categories where the sockpuppet had created some redirects and categorically assumed every redirect in that category must have been created by the sockpuppet, the logic of which baffles me. Please be more careful about what you are doing and don't presume guilt. Mass deletions don't absolve you from verifying that every single page in the batch is properly deleted * Pppery * _{in solidarity} 20:05, 17 July 2026 (UTC)

I have undeleted those pages (I used mw:Manual:Pywikibot/delete.py but that's a pain to set up). Still, please be more careful in the future. * Pppery * _{in solidarity} 00:54, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

(ec) Hello, * Pppery *,

today, I was playing catch-up with these undeletions of those mistaken CSD G5 redirects but you are getting to every last one of them! How about I not only be more careful, I just don't do any more mass deletions AT ALL with sockpuppet cases. i thought I was doing this great service and I just created more work for others. I did learn how to mass "undelete" with Twinkle but you are much better at these tools than I was. I wish there was a way I could give you a virtual tip as I'm sure you had other plans of tasks you planned to spend today doing. I greatly appreciate your assistance. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:00, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

Or better yet, stay away from deletions completely until you're able to answer for the other open undeletion requests on your talk page. -- Tavix ^(talk) 02:01, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

It's worth noting that just one month ago Liz was actively reminded of the ADMINACCT responsibilties. Since then there are multiple requests that have gone unanswered on this page, and multiple others that have been handled by other editors. @Liz this is not good enough - you are responsible for responding to questions and requests about your admin actions, and you are responsible for doing so in a timely fashion.

It's not just mass deletions, my request (which @Pppery handled after you've ignored it for a week) was regarding a single page. Thryduulf (talk) 10:58, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

I'm sorry, Thryduulf, I periodically have been going back to older messages and I neglected and it looks like yours was one of them. I'll see to it today if Pppery didn't get to all of it. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:53, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

Redirect that you recreated

@Liz: Just to let you know, that the redirect that you recreated Avon (cosmetic company). It currently has only two links my talk page and User talk:Pppery/Archive 36, making this redirect totally useless. Catfurball (talk) 18:32, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) As the title of the article for a month, you have no idea how many pages outside of Wikipedia link to it. The redirect is by definition not totally useless and its deletion would need a RfD. * Pppery * _{in solidarity} 18:37, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

Hello,

It looks like you are referring to a redirect I undeleted on 15:49, April 14, 2026. Sometimes pages are restored because deleting them would create a lot of broken redirects which we discover at User:AnomieBOT III/Broken redirects. This is why I often am asking editors who do page moves to leave a redirect behind when they move an older or popular article which has acquired a lot of redirects. This also frequently happens with page move vandalism. A vandal moves an article to an inappropriate title, the helpful Wikipedia bots "correct" all redirects to point to the bad title and when our vigilant vandal fighters return the article to the right title, they don't leave a redirect behind and we end up with dozens of broken redirects behind. I can create a "bad redirect" because eventually our bots will correct double redirects which is what we want to happen or if there are only a few, I'll fix them myself. We can always delete the "bad redirect" from the bad title to the correct title but if those broken redirects are deleted, it can be a challenge to find and restore them.

I'm not sure what happened to Avon but Pppery is correct, the best thing to do in these situations is to take it to WP:RFD. I know it often can seem quicker to ask an admin to flick the "delete/undelete" switch but in complicated cases that can impact other pages/articles, it's best to bring it to a discussion to get input from editors whom, in this case, are familiar with redirects. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:47, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

DRAFT Clark Unitive Effect theory

Hi Liz. May I please continue working on this draft? If ‘yes,’ please include where I may find the draft. I’m so sorry I have not been editing my draft article in a timely way.

Previously, I have been unable to find the draft. There were links that took me to the metaphysics page, yet no draft was present. These extenuating circumstances beyond my control has kept me from making timely edits.

I am not Wiki savy so thank you for any guidance you can provide. I look forward to to working with you.

Petuniabaa Petuniabaa (talk) 18:56, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

Liz, the draft has been restored. Thank you.

Petuniabaa Petuniabaa (talk) 19:10, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

Hello, Petuniabaa,

It looks like you were asking about Draft:Clark Unitive Effect theory which I deleted as a stale draft on 20:30, May 26, 2026 and you also went to WP:REFUND with your request. BD2412 has helped you here as they so often do at REFUND so it looks like this has been addressed. Happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:36, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

Liz, forgive me…I’m a newbie. I pushed publish…can I still add Further Readings? Where do I go to continue to add to/edit the page? Thanks. Petuniabaa (talk) 21:12, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

Hello, Petuniabaa,

Please do not apologize. I've been editing here since before 2013 and as you can see here, I still am learning things. I can help you if you are working on a laptop. At the top of the page is a horizontal menu which should have a tab marked "Edit". Click on that tab and you should be able to edit any area of the page. Also, there should be a link near the top of each paragraph stating, "Edit" and clicking on that should allow you to edit that paragraph. This is the standard format for editing on Wikipedia.

However, if you are editing on a phone or mobile device or any other formats for editing, I'm going to have to direct you to the Teahouse. This is a discussion board for new editors and there are kind people there with a lot more knowledge than I have that can help you out. It's just a matter of finding the right person to direct your question to. And we have new editors joining every day so you can rest assured that all of your questions have been asked before this. Good luck. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:28, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

Message to all Talk Page Watchers

I have received over 22 messages on my User talk page today and feel a little besieged although I'm sure that this adjective will be seen in a negative light as well. Explanations I provide get labeled "excuses" so I feel like I have to be very careful with words here. I'm respond to one message and find that I've screwed something else up so I'm just going to start all communications from the bottom of this page rather than the middle and hopefully I can get to every question in an acceptable amount of time. It seems like this started with my mistake in using a batch deletion feature for dealing with a sockpuppet's edits and I've already stated that I won't do that again and has mushroomed out into other complaints about me so I'll start at the bottom of the page and hopefully come to some point in the middle where everyone is satisfied. I might be naive with that hope but it's what I'm going to start with. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:30, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

Articles for Creation backlog drive

Hello Liz:

WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive in August!
The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than a month of outstanding reviews from the current 3+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 August 2026 through 31 August 2026.

You may find Category:AfC pending submissions by age or other categories and sorting helpful.

Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.
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Draft:Modrinth

Hi Liz, while preparing to create this draft, I noticed you had previously deleted it. Since I've reviewed two drafts in the past that turned out to be problematic (they had been previously deleted, and one of them turned out to be paid editing) I wanted to ask if you could take a look at this draft and let me know whether it's okay. Needless to say, I have no interest in or connection to the platform. Balabush (talk) 09:28, 19 July 2026 (UTC)

@Balabush There's nothing special to be said about the draft you have created -- as a page in the draft namespace, it does not appear to be a page that should presently be deleted. I suppose it wasn't created using a large language model, I suppose its content does not breach copyright, and the content is not promotional in a worrying way. There is no reason to ask for specific feedback from Liz. The issue of whether the draft should be moved to article space is something about which you can get help from many editors interested in creating new articles from drafts; one place where they congregate is the "Articles for Creation" WikiProject. The draft already has an "Articles for Creation" template. If you submit it, I will decline the submission because both the topic and the content fail the inclusion standards, but that does not mean that the draft is not okay. The draft is okay. The article that might come to be were that draft to be moved to article space would not be okay. It might be better to reply to this message on the draft's talk page and ping me there instead of replying here. —Alalch E. 15:53, 19 July 2026 (UTC)

Notice of noticeboard discussion

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The discussion is about the topic Draft:1E 2259+586. You deleted this page, which is why you are being notified. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 01:32, 20 July 2026 (UTC)

Hello, User:LaundryPizza03,

Thank you for letting me know. This editor has only been active for a few days, I'm surprised it's become a discussion on AN already. I don't visit noticeboards often but I'll see if there is some way I can help. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:36, 20 July 2026 (UTC)

May 2026 Administrator Elections – RFC Phase

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Creation of page query

Hello Liz. 4 years ago you prevented the Wikipedia page creation of Harriet Mathews, British diplomat. Harriet served as Ambassador to Somalia from 2015-16, a Director General (highly senior government employee) at UK Foreign Office (FCDO) from 2022-2025 and is married to well known politician, Baron David Frost, de facto making her Lady Frost though she doesn’t use the title. I would like to create a Wikipedia page for her. May I do this? LauraMorris208 (talk) 21:06, 20 July 2026 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Liz did not prevent[] the Wikipedia page creation of anyone. What she did is delete the page because it had an expired proposed deletion. You are welcome to recreate tha page, and you can even ask that the previously-deleted page be undeleted. * Pppery * _{in solidarity} 05:04, 28 July 2026 (UTC)

Thank you, * Pppery *. Many editors don't notice the deletion link at the top of the page that explains the circumstances of the article deletion. I'm guessing you're talking about Harriet Mathews? Yes, you can create a new article on this individual. If you would like to have the past version restored, either to main space or Draft space, you can just ask any admin or put in a request at WP:REFUND.

I'm sorry it took me a few days to respond to your query. If you have general questions about policy here at Wikipedia, you can always ask at the Teahouse. Good luck. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 07:33, 28 July 2026 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 13

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on July 3. Please help translate. The work follows annual plan goals for this fiscal year (July 2026–June 2027).

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Highlights

• Reflections from around the puzzle globe: Wikimedia Foundation CEO, Bernadette Meehan shares her reflections from around the puzzle globe.
• Wikimania 2026: Wikimania is happening this week! After the event, all streamed sessions will be linked in the program on Eventyay and later uploaded to Commons.
• Grantmaking: The Global Resource Distribution Committee has published a Grantmaking Strategy draft that sets out a renewed approach to how the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Fund is distributed across the Wikimedia Movement. The GRDC is requesting feedback from volunteers and affiliates, regardless of whether they are grantees or not.
• Movement Ecosystem: A proposal that would update movement affiliate recognition and establish new, connected criteria for eligibility to receive Community Fund grants is now available for community review. You are invited to read the proposal and participate in the discussion until August 7.
• AI's impact on Free Knowledge: How AI threatens the social contract of free knowledge and what we can do about it.

Annual Goals Progress on Engage
See also: Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · The Wikipedia Library · list of movement events · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia

• The Wikipedia Library: Five new collections were added to the Wikipedia Library and a course developed by leading experts in academic publishing and open knowledge was launched.
• Women+ contributions in Wikimedia Tech: A guide based on lived experience on how to address some of the invisible barriers for women+ in more technical Wikimedia spaces and recommendations to become more inclusive. Help further by filling out this survey to better understand technical contributions by women+ across Wikimedia projects until July 20.
• Structured Experimentation: A reflection on the first year of structured experimentation highlights successful experiments such as Paste Check, Reference Check, and Tone Check, which improved editing outcomes and have been rolled out to more users, as well as experiments that did not lead to product changes.
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• Keeping mentor list up to date: Administrators on wikis where Growth features are available can now automatically remove inactive mentors by configuring the settings at Special:CommunityConfiguration/Mentorship to keep the list updated. Mentors are experienced contributors who opt in to help new users on-wiki through the Growth Features.
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Hello, ReaderofthePack, there is no signature or header here but I think this is from you. I did respond to an email message I received from you but I didn't more information. I'll check my Inbox to see if you replied. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 08:49, 27 July 2026 (UTC)

Happy WikiBirthday!

Hey, Liz. I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! ☘︎☘︎☘︎ALEXHammeke (talk | guestbook | sandbox) 14:32, 25 July 2026 (UTC)

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Hello, User:AlexHammeke, thank you for the good wishes. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 08:44, 27 July 2026 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!

Happy First Edit Day! Hi Liz! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of the day you made your first edit and became a Wikipedian! DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 15:24, 25 July 2026 (UTC)

Hello, DaniloDaysOfOurLives,

It's hard after more than a decade of editing, to appreciate a first edit. So, thanks for the reminder. Have a great summer. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 08:43, 27 July 2026 (UTC)

Request to restore G13 draft

Hello Liz,

I hope you're well.

I noticed that the draft "College of Remote and Offshore Medicine" was deleted under G13 as an abandoned draft.

I am affiliated with the College and would like to continue developing the article in accordance with Wikipedia's notability and sourcing guidelines. Would it be possible to restore the draft to my userspace (or back to the Draft namespace) so that I can continue improving it before resubmitting it through Articles for Creation?

I understand the deletion was purely because the draft had become inactive, and I appreciate your time.

Many thanks,

~~~~ KerryTracker (talk) 13:05, 26 July 2026 (UTC)

Hello, KerryTracker,

I just want to check because you didn't provide a link to the article but are you talking about Draft:College of Remote and Offshore Medicine? Just let me know. It looks like it has been deleted and restored before so please this time, polish it up and submit it for AFC review. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 08:40, 27 July 2026 (UTC)

Hi LIz, yes, I would like to try to redo this page. I have AI now, to help me make sure that it passes the wiki standards. Can you please bring it back to draft and I will have a look? KerryTracker (talk) 15:58, 25 August 2026 (UTC)

Question about deleted Draft:Pankaj Agarwal

Hello Liz, I am Pankaj Agarwal, the subject of the page Draft:Pankaj Agarwal, which you deleted in April 2021 under criterion G5 because it had been created by a blocked user. I understand that G5 is a procedural deletion criterion and not a judgement about the subject's notability. I am now preparing a completely new draft myself with full conflict-of-interest disclosure and intend to submit it through Articles for Creation. Before I recreate the draft, I was wondering whether the previous draft was ever substantively reviewed before it was deleted, or whether the deletion was purely because it had been created by a blocked editor. If possible, I'd also appreciate any advice on the best way to proceed. Many thanks, Pankaj Agarwal Mogulfromvaduz (talk) 15:25, 28 July 2026 (UTC)

Hello, Mogulfromvaduz,

First, can you provide me with a link to your Draft so that I can see it and see which editors have been working on it. Secondly, submit your draft to Articles for Creation, they are experts at assessing new work. Good luck. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 18:25, 28 July 2026 (UTC)

Hi Liz, Thank you for your quick

reply. I have not yet created the draft on Wikipedia, so there is not yet a link or editing history to share. When I attempted to create Draft:Pankaj Agarwal, Wikipedia displayed a notice that a page with that title had been deleted in 2021 under G5 because it had been created by a blocked user. Since Pankaj Agarwal is a common name, I do not know whether that earlier draft concerned me. I have prepared a new draft based on published sources. I will create it at Draft:Pankaj Agarwal, disclose that I am the subject of the draft, and submit it through Articles for Creation as you suggest. Once it is saved, I will send you the link. Thank you for the guidance. Mogulfromvaduz (talk) 19:22, 28 July 2026 (UTC)

Hi Liz,

As requested, here's the link to my draft Wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Pankaj_Agarwal

Please note that it's currently a draft submitted through Wikipedia's Articles for Creation process and is still under review, so it isn't yet a published encyclopedia article. I thought I'd share it since you had expressed interest. If you have any comments or spot any factual inaccuracies, I'd be happy to hear them.

Best,

Pankaj Mogulfromvaduz (talk) 15:30, 30 July 2026 (UTC)

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Mit khavershaft, Royz-vi Tsibele🧅 01:57, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

Deleting my page

I saw you deleted a draft I was working on for no reason, may I get one? ReelCosmix (talk) 21:06, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

Hello, ReelCosmix,

Before I can offer an explanation, I need you to provide me with a link to this draft article or, at the very least, the name of the draft so I can see what you are referring to. Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:09, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

I was going to reply and say "Draft:Proud Cat Owner Remix (XXXTentacion and Rico Nasty song), but then I read the email I got again, and it said you deleted the redirect. My bad on that, sorry! ReelCosmix (talk) 21:12, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

Hello, ReelCosmix,

No problem at all, I was just surprised because most of my page deletions are expired drafts or broken redirects so I couldn't see a situation where I'd delete an article that someone was actively working on. Good luck with your work and if you run into any problems, bring your questions to the Teahouse. Happy editing! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:15, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

Okay, thank you! Happy editing! ReelCosmix (talk) 21:16, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

Please help fix this page move

Estevanico was moved to Esteban de Dorantes (explorer), and then the content from Esteban de Dorantes (explorer) was copied to Esteban de Dorantes. See WP:CUTPASTE. ~2026-42373-62 (talk) 19:37, 1 August 2026 (UTC)

@GiantSnowman: please help. ~2026-42373-62 (talk) 19:41, 1 August 2026 (UTC)

Hello, ~2026-42373-62,

Can you please explain more what you want fixed? It's unclear to me what you are asking me to do. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 20:55, 3 August 2026 (UTC)

@Liz: it was already fixed by another admin. ~2026-42373-62 (talk) 02:20, 5 August 2026 (UTC)

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