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page name! Edits Reverted (April 2025)

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Information icon Edits Reverted    Hullo, and thank you for your efforts to help Wikipedia! I'm ZfJames and I just wanted to let you know that I [diff! reverted one or more] of your recent edits to the page name! page since haha!. hello, what's for dinner? As always, if you want to discuss this further, please feel free to reply on this page or start a new section on my talk page). If you have any questions about editing Wikipedia and want help from other experienced editors, place the template {{help me}}(?) on your talk page (with your question after it) or make a visit to the Teahouse. Thanks for editing! 19:03, 2 June 2018 (UTC)


User:ZfJames 04 2025

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FYI: Edits Reverted

Hullo, and welcome to Wikipedia! I'm ZfJames and I just wanted to let you know that I reverted one or more of your recent edits to the User:ZfJames page since this is a test of my template. BLAH BLAH BLAH! As always, if you want to discuss this further, please feel free to reply on this page or start a new section on my talk page). If you have any questions about editing Wikipedia and want help from other experienced editors, place the template {{help me}}(?) on your talk page (with your question after it) or make a visit to the Teahouse. Thank you for editing! zfJames Please add {{ping|ZfJames}} to your reply (talk page, contribs) 15:08, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

page name! Edits Reverted (April 2025)

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Information icon Edits Reverted    Hullo, and thank you for your efforts to help Wikipedia! I'm ZfJames and I just wanted to let you know that I [diff! reverted one or more] of your recent edits to the page name! page since haha!. hello, what's for dinner? As always, if you want to discuss this further, please feel free to reply on this page or start a new section on my talk page). If you have any questions about editing Wikipedia and want help from other experienced editors, place the template {{help me}}(?) on your talk page (with your question after it) or make a visit to the Teahouse. Thanks for editing! 19:03, 2 June 2018 (UTC)


page name! Edits Reverted (April 2025)

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Information icon Edits Reverted    Hullo, and thank you for your efforts to help Wikipedia! I'm ZfJames and I just wanted to let you know that I [diff! reverted one or more] of your recent edits to the page name! page since haha!. hello, what's for dinner? As always, if you want to discuss this further, please feel free to reply on this page or start a new section on my talk page). If you have any questions about editing Wikipedia and want help from other experienced editors, place the template {{help me}}(?) on your talk page (with your question after it) or make a visit to the Teahouse. Thanks for editing! zfJames Please add {{ping|ZfJames}} to your reply (talk page, contribs) 19:04, 2 June 2018 (UTC)


CAVEAT: all the |show= parameters have been set to 7 days.


Immediate requests Entries
Candidates for speedy deletion as attack pages 0
Wikipedians looking for help 0
Requests for unblock 74
Wikipedia semi-protected edit requests 112
Wikipedia template-protected edit requests 11
Wikipedia fully protected edit requests 1
Wikipedia conflict of interest edit requests 179
Candidates for speedy deletion as copyright violations 1
Candidates for speedy deletion 1
Open sockpuppet investigations 90
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AB = Administrative Backlogs

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AIV= Administrator intervention against vandalism

Administrator intervention against vandalism

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User-reported

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CSD= Candidates for speedy deletion ; PROD= Proposed deletions

Candidates for speedy deletion Entries
User requested 0
Empty articles 0
Nonsense pages 0
Spam pages 0
Importance or significance not asserted 0
Other candidates 1

The following articles have been proposed for deletion for around 7 days:
( source / chronological order / expired )

UAA= Usernames for administrator attention ; RFPP= Requests for page protection

Usernames for administrator attention

User-reported

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Requests for page protection


Current requests for increase in protection level

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Request protection of a page, or increasing the protection level

Place requests for protection increases at the BOTTOM of this section. If you cannot find your request, check the archive of requests or, failing that, the page history. Only recently answered requests are still listed here.


Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – There seems to be a lot of IP addresses making nonsensical edits lately. I would like to request temp protection to reduce the amount of time and effort combating this. See if it makes a difference after a while. Imcdc Contact 05:33, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

  • Automated comment: One or more pages in this request appear to already be protected. Please confirm.—cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online 10:43, 29 April 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of one month, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. BusterD (talk) 10:44, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

Reason: Repeated vandalism DocPepper810 (talk) 05:57, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

Declined – No changes to the current protection level are required at this point in time. Less Unless (talk) 10:31, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

Semi-protection: BLP policy violations – Also WP:CT/GENSEX. jlwoodwa (talk) 06:07, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

Declined – Likely collateral damage as one or several users who are making improvements would be affected by the requested protection. BusterD (talk) 10:45, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP vandalism. GraziePrego (talk) 07:15, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of two days, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. BusterD (talk) 10:46, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – Repeated addition of information only tangentially related to the group. GnocchiFan (talk) 07:34, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

Semi-protected for a period of one week, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. BusterD (talk) 10:48, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: The page is a policy page Wikan Boy 123 (talk) 08:22, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

Actually, it's more like a guideline. Favonian (talk) 10:20, 29 April 2025 (UTC)
DeclinedPages are not protected preemptively. No edits at all in past four weeks. BusterD (talk) 10:50, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Sock of WP:WIKINGER is stil ravaging this page. Please indef protect this page, this is happening for so long now. Warm Regards, Miminity (Talk?) (me contribs) 09:55, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

  • Automated comment: One or more pages in this request appear to already be protected. Please confirm.—cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online 10:13, 29 April 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of 1 year, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. Favonian (talk) 10:14, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

Indefinite extended protection: Arbitration Enforcement. falls within WP:ARBPIA5 as there is one of those main characters is a joke about bombing children in Gaza 𐩣𐩫𐩧𐩨 Abo Yemen (𓃵) 11:08, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Remsense ‥  11:11, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – IP-hopping vandal is back. Sjö (talk) 11:15, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

Reason: High level of IP vandalism 5.172.188.234 (talk) 11:19, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

Current requests for reduction in protection level

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Request unprotection of a page, or reducing the protection level

Before posting, first discuss with the protecting admin on their talk page. Post below only if you receive no reply.

  • To find out the username of the admin who protected the page, click on "history" at the top of the page, then click on "View logs for this page," which is under the title of the page. The protecting admin is the username in blue before the words "protected", "changed protection level" or "pending changes". If there are a number of entries on the log page, you might find it easier to select "Protection log" or "Pending changes log" from the dropdown menu in the blue box.
  • Requests to downgrade full protection to template protection on templates and modules can be directed straight here; you do not need to ask the protecting admin first.
  • Requests for removing create protection on redlinked articles are generally assisted by having a draft version of the intended article prepared beforehand.
  • If you want to make spelling corrections or add uncontroversial information to a protected page, please add {{Edit fully-protected}} to the article's talk page, along with an explanation of what you want to add to the page. If the talk page is protected, please use the section below.

Check the archives if you cannot find your request. Only recently answered requests are still listed here.

Reason: This protection is no longer necessary because this article has no IP edits for over a year ago, and this type of protection is stale. Plus, there has not been any vandalism in over couple years. 205.155.225.249 (talk) 19:01, 28 April 2025 (UTC)

No IP edits for over a year ago is self-evident given it's semi-protected. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v threads critiques 20:21, 28 April 2025 (UTC)
Is one year enough to unprotect? 205.155.225.249 (talk) 20:22, 28 April 2025 (UTC)

Current requests for edits to a protected page

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Request a specific edit to a protected page
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Ideally, requests should be made on the article talk page rather than here.

  • Unless the talk page itself is protected, you may instead add the appropriate template among {{Edit protected}}, {{Edit template-protected}}, {{Edit extended-protected}}, or {{Edit semi-protected}} to the article's talk page if you would like to make a change rather than requesting it here. Doing so will automatically place the page in the appropriate category for the request to be reviewed.
  • Where requests are made due to the editor having a conflict of interest (COI; see Wikipedia:Suggestions for COI compliance), the {{Edit COI}} template should be used.
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  • This page is not for continuing or starting discussions regarding content should both an article and its discussion page be protected. Please make a request only if you have a specific edit you wish to make.


Handled requests

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A historical archive of previous protection requests can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Archive.
Protected edit requests

0 protected edit requests
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11 template-protected edit requests
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Template:Infobox officeholder (request) 2025-02-03 08:29 Template-protected (log) Modified by Mark Arsten on 2013-10-18: "Allowing Protected Template editors"
Template:Video game reviews (request) 2025-03-28 10:58 Template-protected (log) Modified by WOSlinker on 2013-10-19: "allow template editors to modify"
Template:Copied (request) 2025-04-02 02:34 Template-protected (log) Modified by Callanecc on 2015-02-17: "Highly visible template: More than 7500 transclusions"
Template:Merged-from (request) 2025-04-02 03:42 Template-protected (log) Modified by Primefac on 2018-02-23: "high-risk template with 4000+ transclusions"
Module:Copied (request) 2025-04-02 03:43 Template-protected (log) Protected by Newslinger on 2020-06-14: "Highly visible template"
Template:Rail-interchange (request) 2025-04-02 23:47 Template-protected (log) Modified by Primefac on 2018-02-23: "high-risk template with 4000+ transclusions"
Template:Infobox station (request) 2025-04-20 20:01 Template-protected (log) Modified by Mark Arsten on 2013-10-18: "Allowing Protected Template editors"
Wikipedia:WikiProject/Popular pages config.json (request) 2025-04-27 22:56 Template-protected (log) Protected by Izno on 2024-09-28: "protect at TE level"
Template:Infobox baseball biography (request) 2025-04-28 06:15 Template-protected (log) Modified by Courcelles on 2015-09-21: "Highly visible template"
Template:Infobox sports league (request) 2025-04-28 09:22 Template-protected (log) Modified by Primefac on 2018-02-23: "high-risk template with 2000+ transclusions"
Template:Editnotices/Page/Wikipedia:Usernames for administrator attention (request) 2025-04-28 13:00 Title blacklist (log) Matching line: Template:Editnotices\/.* <noedit|errmsg=titleblacklist-custom-editnotice>
Updated as needed. Last updated: 13:02, 28 April 2025 (UTC)


RFA= Requests for adminship

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RFP= Requests for permissions

Autopatrolled

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New page reviewer who has made over 90 articles including 1 good article and quite familiar with content guidelines, I may also as well not clutter the backlog for other reviewers. CherryPie94 🍒🥧 (talk) 06:06, 7 April 2025 (UTC)

One thing that immediately jumped out at me is some biographical articles created (e.g. Kim Na and Son Se-bin) have unsourced biographical information, such as the date of birth. This information should be sourced to ensure compliance with WP:DOB. - Aoidh (talk) 03:07, 12 April 2025 (UTC)
I've considered adding references directly next to DOB, which I did at my two most recent BLPs: Mike Kim and Lee Joon-ho. If birth information is not 100% verifiable, I play it safe (eg. Lee Seung-yoon). Per WP:DOB, links to websites maintained by the subject are generally permitted so I included Kim Na's personal website which states birth year as 1986 in the external links section. I created Son Se-bin over 5 years ago when I was much less experienced, so I don't quite recall which exact source I used for DOB (birth year seems to have been present in Star Today), so I've just amended that. CherryPie94 🍒🥧 (talk) 04:22, 12 April 2025 (UTC)
Ah I've misinterpreted that personal website policy, though it does fall under WP:ABOUTSELF, I've now also directly sourced it. CherryPie94 🍒🥧 (talk) 04:39, 12 April 2025 (UTC)

I am autopatrolled and an NPP reviewer; I would actually like to nominate User:Kjansen86 to be autopatrolled. I just reviewed and cheerfully accepted almost a dozen perfectly-formulated articles on Zoroastrian texts, and they have made more than 25 overall. Looking at their talk page, this appears to be an experienced and effective editor. Checking their AfD stats, I find one (successful) AfD that they initiated, indicating an awareness of notability. We may as well take them out of the NPP backlog. (This is my first time nominating someone else so if I did it wrong, please let me know!) ~ L 🌸 (talk) 21:17, 16 April 2025 (UTC)

Already done (automated response): This user already has the "autoreviewer" user right. MusikBot talk 21:20, 16 April 2025 (UTC)
@LEvalyn: I went ahead and adjusted the nomination so it reflects who's actually being discussed, hope you don't mind! For future reference, you can use the "add request" link at the top of this page and replace the {{subst:REVISIONUSER}} with whichever user you're nominating. TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 21:42, 16 April 2025 (UTC)
Thank you, I really appreciate your fix for this nomination and your tip for next time! ~ L 🌸 (talk) 23:01, 16 April 2025 (UTC)
@LEvalyn: Thank you very much for the positive evaluation of my work on Wikipedia. I really appreciate it. Kjansen86 (talk) 08:22, 19 April 2025 (UTC)

78 live articles, (64 of which is start class, 5 Cs, 8 Stubs). Only one was deleted which is from 2018. All of the articles are well-sourced. I think this user is good enough for Autopatrolled Warm Regards, Miminity (Talk?) (me contribs) 04:14, 17 April 2025 (UTC)

Hello, I have created over 30 articles, none of which have been deleted. I am well-versed in Wikipedia's notability guidelines and currently assist new Burmese editors. I focus on creating articles related to Myanmar that need to be written, including those covering current events. Granting me autopatrolled rights would help reduce the backlog of articles awaiting review. Feel free to ping me if you have any questions. Thank you for your consideration. Hteiktinhein (talk) 14:43, 17 April 2025 (UTC)

Hello Admin! I have been regularly creating articles and I'm also familiar with WP:AUTOPAT and Wikipedia policies. Thank you! Fade258 (talk) 15:05, 22 April 2025 (UTC)

Hallo! I've created 46 articles, and have been editing Wikipedia since 2010. How time flies! merlinVtwelve (talk) 20:52, 23 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi, I have created 118 pages and would like to have autopatrol rights, please. Thanks. Phantomdj (talk) 01:46, 26 April 2025 (UTC)

I have been actively contributing to Wikipedia for the past five years and have created over 150 articles. I strive to produce well-sourced, high-quality content on topics such as Bayan al-Quran, Mamunul Haque, and Deobandi fiqh, and I have also improved existing articles like the one on Zakariyya Kandhlawi. While I understand that the Autopatrolled user right is not necessary for editing, I have noticed that the page review process can be significantly delayed, with some of my pages taking 6–12 months to be reviewed. As a New Page Reviewer for the past two years, I actively participate in wiki forums, including AfD, and none of my articles have been deleted in the past three years, which I believe demonstrates my understanding of notability and other relevant guidelines. I believe I am eligible for the Autopatrolled right, which would help reduce the backlog of unreviewed pages. Additionally, I have held the Autopatrolled right on Bengali Wikipedia for the past five years. Thanks. –𝐎𝐰𝐚𝐢𝐬 𝐀𝐥 𝐐𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢 ʕʘ̅͜ʘ̅ʔ 04:02, 29 April 2025 (UTC)


Confirmed

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Good day,

As a new editor, I am eager to contribute by editing articles without distractions and addressing vandalism. However, due to the autoconfirmed status restriction, I am currently unable to access those pages.

I would appreciate it if you could review my contributions to assess whether I am qualified to hold these rights. Thank you for your time and consideration. Arc Rev (talk) 05:49, 25 April 2025 (UTC)

 Not done – Hi, and thank you for creating an account to edit Wikipedia. Although I fully understand your desire to dive right in, many of our articles are semi-protected because they are controversial, prone to vandalism, or other reasons. As a new editor with few edits, it might be wise to discuss your edits on the article talkpage in order to gain consensus for your edits, and then use {{Edit semi-protected}} to request the edit be performed. I only recommend this until you are used to the challenges of reliable sources, the biographies of living persons policy, and other similar policies. The good news is that fewer than 5 percent of Wikipedia articles are protected; this means that more than 95 percent of the articles can use your help right now! You will also automatically be confirmed in two more days, and I don't see a valid reason to bypass that waiting period. --Ahecht (TALK
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Reason for requesting confirmed rights. I have completed 10 edits. I know how to add references, templates, section, subsection, images, etc. I know how to find reliable sources (not opinion). Understand consequences of disruptive editing. And know to always take neutral view.

Hence, I don't think it's necessary to wait for completion of required days.

I want to explore these user rights.

Therefore, requesting for early access to Confirmed user rights.

Thank you. Drontikar (talk) 02:13, 28 April 2025 (UTC)

 Not done. In my view, Wikipedia administrators do not have discretion under policy to grant this right early unless it is for a legitimate alternative account of someone who is already autoconfirmed. Since you have already made 10 edits, your account will automatically become autoconfirmed in two days from now (four days after you created your account). Mz7 (talk) 08:36, 28 April 2025 (UTC)

File mover

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I am informed by a courteous bot that my extendedmover rights expire in a few days. This is a useful capability especially for correcting article titles that do not conform to WP:MOS and to move Draft young articles which are unsourced but capable of improvement. Thanks  Velella  Velella Talk   20:19, 22 April 2025 (UTC)

@Velella Are you asking for filemover or extendedmover? Your request is in the section for file mover. --Ahecht (TALK
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 Not done as to the File mover request, as you seems to have posted this in the wrong place. Feel free to rerequest page mover at WP:Requests for permissions/Page mover. * Pppery * it has begun... 01:26, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi, I’d like to request the file mover right. This will allow me to correct myself in case I upload a non-free image, especially for pages related to Ahmed al-Sharaa. I’ve read the file mover policy, and I’m also a file mover on Wikimedia Commons. HurricaneEdgar 13:23, 25 April 2025 (UTC)

 Done --Ahecht (TALK
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There are no outstanding requests for the page mover flag.

Page mover

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Pending changes reviewer

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I am requesting permission to be a Pending Changes Reviewer. I spend most of my day editing Wikipedia. I have gone through almost all the pages under Category:Wikipedia policies, including Wikipedia's policies on vandalism detection, BLP policy, NPOV, Verifiability, and copyright. I have read the Wikipedia:Reviewing pending changes guideline. Please consider my request. Somajyoti 07:26, 12 April 2025 (UTC)

 Automated comment This user has had an account for 25 days. MusikBot talk 07:30, 12 April 2025 (UTC)

Hello. I would like to request pending changes reviewer rights. I pass the WP:PCCRITERIA as far as I know, and the right would allow me to help even more to build the encyclopedia by making sure only acceptable edits are approved. Thank you for your consideration. loserhead (talk) 16:26, 22 April 2025 (UTC)

I am requesting the Pending Changes Reviewer permission. As a Rollbacker, I frequently handle vandalism, and this right would allow me to review edits on PC-protected pages, addressing subtle disruption and helping clear the backlog at pending changes backlog. I understand the responsibilities and core policies involved (like WP:V, WP:NPOV, WP:BLP) and will use the tool carefully. UNITED BLASTERS (talk) 04:50, 25 April 2025 (UTC)

 Done * Pppery * it has begun... 16:06, 26 April 2025 (UTC)

I am requesting pending changes reviewer rights because I am already a rollbacker, and I want to continue helping to revert vandalism. ProtobowlAddict talk! 00:27, 28 April 2025 (UTC)

 Done * Pppery * it has begun... 18:15, 28 April 2025 (UTC)

I may be below the minimum edit count, but I would love to help deal with vandalism. I have read BLP, and all the MoS. Please, give me it this time. Starfall2015 (talk) 13:08, 28 April 2025 (UTC)

 Automated comment This user has had 1 request for pending changes reviewer declined in the past 90 days ([3]) and has 22 edits in the mainspace. MusikBot talk 13:10, 28 April 2025 (UTC)
 Not done Sorry, I'm just not convinced you have enough experience for this yet. * Pppery * it has begun... 18:16, 28 April 2025 (UTC)

I am eager to work enthusiastically to help reduce the backlog of pending changes by reviewing and maintaining edits. I have read and understood WP:VAND, and I will issue procedural warnings and welcome new users who edit articles under PCR protection. AɭʋaKʰedək (talk) 21:02, 28 April 2025 (UTC)


Rollback

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I’ve been patrolling and working on a lot of Pakistani BLP and other no-protection articles on MNAs, MPAs, and programs. Several IP vandals have made changes which I can’t undo. Particularly on the Sehat Sahulat Program, I need a rollback. Titan2456 (talk) 02:10, 25 April 2025 (UTC)

Hello Titan2456, you can always restore an earlier revision by clicking its timestamp in the history, then "edit" and then "Publish changes".
You can also undo multiple edits at once by selecting a range in the history, "compare selected revisions" and then clicking "undo", which then applies to all edits you had selected.
Please try both, in the sandbox, for example.
Afterwards, if you'd like to have a tool to automate this task, Twinkle may be what you're looking for. Does this already solve your problem? ~ ToBeFree (talk) 18:52, 28 April 2025 (UTC)
Yes this solves it, thank you very much. Titan2456 (talk) 20:20, 28 April 2025 (UTC)
 Request withdrawn For bot. * Pppery * it has begun... 01:22, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

Been dealing with the Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Demographics vandal LTA and would prefer using mass-rollback to revert his contributions instead of manually. Only intended to use the tool in relation to this user and I have no desire to use rollback elsewhere. I do check the ip to make sure it is a proxy/webhost as well. Traumnovelle (talk) 11:42, 27 April 2025 (UTC)

 Done * Pppery * it has begun... 01:22, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

I wish to receive rollback rights to use Wikipedia:Huggle, Wikipedia:AntiVandal and some others, with this permission I could revert vandalism so much faster than doing a regular pseudo rollback, using Wikipedia:Twinkle or Wikipedia:Ultraviolet. I was granted Wikipedia:Pending changes reviewer by @Callanecc: (mentioning as per my previous request), It may say I have had 2 requests denied in the previous 90 days, but one of them was by Callanecc for the bot, the other was when I didn't have as much experience, I am positive that I do this time.

Using Special:PendingChanges I have reverted and accepted changes, and if I made a mistake I unaccept them. I follow the polices of PCR, and know the policies of Wikipedia:Rollback and Help:Reverting. I know to use Rollback when its a clear vandalism, and attempt to use it in good-faith when a edit-summary or talk page note would be needed, as the Wikipedia:Rollback states
Where the following text refers to MediaWiki rollback, it means the form of rollback built in to the MediaWiki editing software. MediaWiki rollback may only be used in certain situations. As with any other tool, editors who misuse MediaWiki rollback (for example, by using it to make unexplained reversions of good-faith edits in situations where an explanatory edit summary or talk page note would normally be expected) may have their rollback rights removed. Since rollback is part of the core administrator tools, theoretically an admin could be stripped of their administrative privileges entirely to remove those tools. and the section "When to use rollback" states;
MediaWiki rollback is a fast way of undoing problematic edits, but it has the disadvantage that special tools are required to provide a custom edit summary. MediaWiki rollback may be used:
1. To revert obvious vandalism and other edits where the reason for reverting is absolutely clear
2. To revert edits in your own userspace
3. To revert edits that you have made (for example, edits that you accidentally made)
4. To revert edits by banned or blocked users in defiance of their block or ban (but be prepared to explain this use of rollback when asked to)
5. To revert widespread edits (by a misguided editor or malfunctioning bot) unhelpful to the encyclopedia, provided that you supply an explanation in an appropriate location, such as at the relevant talk page[1]
With a custom edit summary explaining the reason for reverting the changes.
As with any other methods of reverting, when using rollback to restore text to a page, ensure that the content being restored does not violate any Wikipedia policies.

Knowing this I have familiarized myself with the current policies and up to speed.

Thanks,


--Valorrr (lets chat) 20:17, 27 April 2025 (UTC)

 Automated comment This user has had 2 requests for rollback declined in the past 90 days ([4][5]). MusikBot talk 20:20, 27 April 2025 (UTC)
Valorrr, it's been about a week since the previous request. The request had been declined by Callanecc. As Callanecc didn't use a template for their response, the bot didn't archive the section. Pppery marked it as declined "for the bot", but the request had been declined, not just for the bot. It is unlikely that the desired increase in experience happened within a week.
If you would like to have a specific date for when you can request again, I'd say we can choose 1 August 2025. That's in about 3 months. You don't have to request exactly at that date, but later is better than earlier. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 18:44, 28 April 2025 (UTC)
Alright, thanks. Valorrr (lets chat) 19:41, 28 April 2025 (UTC)
 Not done yet ~ ToBeFree (talk) 18:44, 28 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi, I have been on Wikipedia for over a year and have made over 1k edits. I mostly edit and monitor history articles. Several articles are sometimes disrupted knowingly or unknowingly by editors for which I have to revert. Having Rollback right would make the patrolling work easier and help to combat vandalism. I am aware of most of Wikipedia polices (WP:OR,WP:NPOV,WP:RS,etc.) I have also authored few articles like Bajirao I see [6]. Mohammad Umar Ali (talk) 07:21, 28 April 2025 (UTC)

Template editor

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For quite a while now (a year? years? I don't know), I've been frequently making changes to various taxonomic articles to help cut down on Special:WhatLinksHere/Template: Taxobox (there's a relatively new set of templates, such as {{Automatic taxobox}} and {{Speciesbox}}, which is intended to largely replace {{Taxobox}}). These newer templates make use of another set of new templates, {{Taxonomy}}, in order to cut down on difficulties making and maintaining the "Scientific classification" portion of the infoboxes in taxonomic articles.

For example, {{Taxonomy/Homo}} is used by the {{Speciesbox}} on Homo sapiens in order to automatically figure out that the genus Homo is in the subtribe Hominina, then uses {{Taxonomy/Hominina}} to figure out that we're in the tribe Hominini, and so on up through the various taxonomic ranks. In the case of Homo, this is all already done, of course, but it's fairly common that when editing a taxonomic article to update it to the new {{Automatic taxobox}} scheme, you'll also have to create a new {{Taxonomy}} template to go along with it. Also, fairly often I'll notice that an existing {{Taxonomy}} template is missing a reference, or that its parent {{Taxonomy}} template is, so I usually try to update that while I'm there.

And that's what leads me to this request: For most {{Taxonomy}} templates, no special permission is needed to edit them. But once it gets high enough up the taxonomic tree (maybe the Family level? not sure exactly), editing them requires this permission. I don't run into this situation very often, but I do run into it once in a while, and in fact I just ran into it a few minutes ago. So, I would like this permission in order to be able to just make such changes myself rather than opening up a new section on the talk page or whatever, describing the proposed change there, et cetera.

Beyond this specific taxonomy-related stuff, I have on occasion made other template changes in the past, and to modules too (though in that case, almost entirely -- maybe literally entirely, not sure -- just to my own personal MediaWiki-based sites). I don't use Lua very often, but I have used it both in and out of MediaWiki, and before I retired I was a professional computer programmer for decades.

I've also been a Wikipedian for decades (I believe 100% in good standing, but certainly at the very least very close to 100%), and have made thousands of edits, including hundreds of template edits (mostly but not entirely of this taxonomical sort). - Rwv37 (talk) 22:10, 25 April 2025 (UTC)

Standard Guidelines review:
  1. Green tickY (guideline: >1 year, applicant: 21 years)
  2. Green tickY (guideline: >1000 edits, applicant: 2000)
  3. Green tickY (guideline: >150 template edits, applicant: 200)
  4. Green tickY (guideline: !<6 months, applicant: never)
  5. Red XN (guideline: 3 sandboxes, applicant: 0 but more like N/A since sandboxes aren't generally used for this area)
  6. Red XN (guideline: 5 requests, applicant: 0)
This is an odd use case, so the standard guidelines don't apply clearly, but running them anyway. Leaving the merits of this request for others to evaluate. * Pppery * it has begun... 22:34, 25 April 2025 (UTC)
maybe the Family level? not sure exactly - it's based on the number of transclusions, which for taxonomy templates is the number of child taxa with Wikipedia articles (counting genera and above twice). The threshold for template protection is 5000-ish transclusions. * Pppery * it has begun... 22:34, 25 April 2025 (UTC)
I'm not sure I'm understanding, but I think #2 and #3 are reversed - I have over 2000 edits including over 200 template edits, not 200 edits including 2000 template edits. Also, I definitely don't understand what the transclusion count is referring to? I have over 200 template edits definitely not counting transclusions (here are my most recent 200, and you can see there that there's another page after that. Eyeballing it, I think I have maybe 250 or so (again, transclusions not involved).
Like I said, I'm not sure I'm understanding; my apologies if not. - Rwv37 (talk) 22:50, 25 April 2025 (UTC)
Yep, I swapped those, now fixed. The transclusion count comment was referring to what pages get template protected, not your edits. * Pppery * it has begun... 22:51, 25 April 2025 (UTC)
@Pppery Oh, never mind about the transclusion thing - I didn't understand that you were explaining the rules under which a {{Taxonomy}} template would be protected, and mistakenly guessed you were instead talking about my "2000" (really more like 200) template edits. Rwv37 (talk) 22:55, 25 April 2025 (UTC)
I'll take a look at possible mitigation for the protection level of this template family later, but we (admins) might want to consider adjusting either the TPER rules or the protection rules for cases like this where an editor only wants to edit a single template (or template family) and otherwise has no interest in templates elsewhere. I know it's not a discussion for this request specifically but it's been on my mind for a while. Primefac (talk) 00:16, 26 April 2025 (UTC)
@Primefac Thanks. To be clear: (1) I do not "otherwise have no interest in templates elsewhere", but (2) I understand that I haven't really demonstrated much of an interest in templates elsewhere, and (3) it's definitely correct that (at least at the present time, and at least on Wikipedia specifically) most of my interest in templates elsewhere is largely theoretical rather than practical. - Rwv37 (talk) 00:27, 26 April 2025 (UTC)
Apologies, my comment was about the general case (I've been seeing a lot of this type of request in the last few months), so I wasn't necessarily saying you didn't have any interest in other templates. Primefac (talk) 11:29, 26 April 2025 (UTC)
At the moment I am leaning towards "not done for now" primarily because of the lack of edit requests. Being occasionally inconvenienced is not really a reason for having this permission, whereas being regularly inconvenienced demonstrates a need. With zero edit requests (and all of four template-talk-space edits in total) I'm just not seeing that need. Primefac (talk) 12:21, 26 April 2025 (UTC)
I withdraw my request. - Rwv37 (talk) 12:14, 27 April 2025 (UTC)
 Request withdrawn for bot. * Pppery * it has begun... 01:26, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

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