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I am a Wikipedia:administrator since July 5, 2004. I first contributed to Wikipedia in April of 2001 (oldest edits lost in early software upgrades). My first edit with my username appears to be on April 26. I have been active on a number of online projects - active and passive (SETI@Home, Distributed Proofreaders, Mars crater labeling, Stardust@Home, Folding@Home on the Wikipedia team: Team page, etc.)


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Indefinite semi-protection: Contentious topic restriction. Dahawk04 Talk 💬 23:31, 12 July 2025 (UTC)

  • Automated comment: A request for protection/unprotection for one or more pages in this request was recently made, and was denied at some point within the last 8 days.—cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online 17:18, 13 July 2025 (UTC)

Indefinite extended-confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement. Sinking was related to ARBPIA. Should be extended-protected for an indefinite period. Freedoxm (talk · contribs) 02:57, 13 July 2025 (UTC)

Done --slakrtalk / 08:00, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

Indefinite extended-confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement. Freedoxm (talk · contribs) 02:58, 13 July 2025 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Extremely persistent vandalism/block evasion from Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Legende Legende Legende – see the page history for the past few months. Iiii I I I (talk) 03:10, 13 July 2025 (UTC)

Reason: multiple vandalization attempts by User:Karabawan as the major reason why i wanted this page to be protected now. Thewideawake1 (talk) 12:37, 13 July 2025 (UTC)

There is no vandalism occurring; adding information with verifiable sources is not considered vandalizing. Please stop the edit warring. Karabawan (talk) 12:41, 13 July 2025 (UTC)
Karabawan is subject to a complaint by another user for WP:SYNTH in the article’s talk page and is involved in an ANI and an EW noticeboard. Borgenland (talk) 14:53, 13 July 2025 (UTC)
And Karabawan has been blocked for EW. Borgenland (talk) 16:36, 13 July 2025 (UTC)

Reason: Related to contentious topic india, pakistan and afghanistan. about hinduvta terrorism also, could proliferate vandalism Easternsahara (talk) 13:21, 13 July 2025 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent Disruptive Editing. 𐩣𐩫𐩧𐩨 Abo Yemen (𓃵) 13:21, 13 July 2025 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry. Fancy Refrigerator (talk) 13:32, 13 July 2025 (UTC)

Reason: High level of page vandalism. Jfect22 (talk) 14:12, 13 July 2025 (UTC)

Reason: There was vandalism causing to change to fake studios. We should prevent that. XyloQuip289 (talk) 15:28, 13 July 2025 (UTC)

Pending changes: Persistent vandalism. Filmssssssssssss (talk) 15:45, 13 July 2025 (UTC)

Extended confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement. Filmssssssssssss (talk) 15:47, 13 July 2025 (UTC)

Reason: vandalism and insertion of BLPCRIME violations by IPs after a preliminary report on the crash was released. Borgenland (talk) 15:50, 13 July 2025 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – An IP constantly puts the governmental seal as the seal of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Governor Sheng (talk) 16:10, 13 July 2025 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent disruptive editing – same poor edits made by multiple IPs over several days. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 17:09, 13 July 2025 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – The subject of this article has recently passed away, and the page has experienced numerous controversial edits and instances of vandalism. I am requesting that a protection template be applied to the article to help maintain its integrity during this sensitive time. Afro 📢Talk! 17:27, 13 July 2025 (UTC)

Reason: new editors coming in and immediately trying to edit the article around the Israel-Palestine part. At least two it seems. see also Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view/Noticeboard#Need_Help_Resolving_NPOV, might make sense to require 3 day age before editting on article for a bit. Bluethricecreamman (talk) 17:27, 13 July 2025 (UTC)

Indefinite extended-confirmed protection: Arbitration enforcement. Article related to ARBPIA. Should be extended-protected for an indefinite period.Crampcomes (talk) 18:32, 13 July 2025 (UTC)

Done slakrtalk / 07:28, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

Reason: Requesting temporary semi-protection due to repeated disruptive editing, including unsourced and defamatory material, large-scale content deletions, and insertions of conspiracy theories. These edits are being made by multiple IPs (e.g. [1], [2]) geolocating to the same region (Monrovia, CA) and follow a coordinated pattern.

The edits are consistently non-constructive and violate WP:BLP and WP:V. A Talk page section has been started to document the pattern and raise awareness: Talk:Max Lawton#Disruptive editing, unsourced material, and possible conflict of interest.

Lacanic (talk) 18:48, 13 July 2025 (UTC)

Reason: As visible in the history, the page is the victim of too many vandalism edits. This is not a recent thing and has been so for a year or so since his rise in political position. Is this page eligible for a Indefinite semi-protection? Skratata69 (talk) 21:13, 13 July 2025 (UTC)

Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Persistent vandalism. I've been unable to get this IP blocked, as my reports at WP:AIV were turned down twice as "stale" because they were submitted 24 hours after the IP edited the page. Yuvaank (talk) 21:45, 13 July 2025 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Persistent sockpuppetry and, once blocked, numerous IPs mimicing same odd format. See Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Catherinefo. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 23:02, 13 July 2025 (UTC)

I support this. In my 19 years on Wikipedia, I don't think I've seen such an egregious case of AfD socking. Spiderone(Talk to Spider) 05:19, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

Indefinite extended-confirmed protection: Edit warring / content dispute. There was a move conversation, which resulted in the decision to not move the page. However, one of the users in the discussion decided to move it anyways. Dahawk04 Talk 💬 23:10, 13 July 2025 (UTC)

Reason: Somone keept vandalising my Draft! BielikooPL (talk) 23:50, 13 July 2025 (UTC)

User(s) blocked. --slakrtalk / 07:46, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

Reason: There has been persistent IP vandalism for the past week. It has been the same/similar content. EchoLuminary (talk) 02:28, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. UmbyUmbreon (talk) 02:30, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

Reason: Unregistered users (most likely the same person) keep making the same incorrect/incomplete edits despite the edit summaries mentioning those mistakes every time. With only registered users able to update the page, it would be better to keep control of who's doing those things and to have a proper discussion on their talk page. Gsfelipe94 (talk) 02:48, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Repeated unsourced additions of Gabaldon being the first person to own a motorcycle on Saipan. Recent increase in traffic (and vandalism) comes as a result of a gun/military YouTuber's video. Iiii I I I (talk) 03:07, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

Indefinite extended confirmed protection: Persistent vandalism – This page has been repeatedly vandalized by Avakian supporters to remove all mentions of him being described as a cult leader by reliable sources. See edits by the following single-purpose accounts:

Special:Contributions/Johnhedlund823 Special:Contributions/EyesWhyde Special:Contributions/LimeorLemon

I'm requesting ECP as previous supporters have been auto-confirmed before vandalizing this page, although I understand if only semi-protection can be applied at first. HadesTTW (he/him • talk) 03:16, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Persistent vandalism. Andre🚐 03:20, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

Reason: High level of vandalism and unethical editing Eshaan the writer (talk) 03:31, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

  • Comment: I see no vandalism in recent edits. I do see a new editor who is slowly learning the intricacies of MOS and other guidelines. – Jonesey95 (talk) 05:11, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

Reason: Unethical re-edits and deletion of Important topics Eshaan the writer (talk) 03:49, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

  • Comment: I see no vandalism in recent edits. I do see a new editor who is slowly learning the intricacies of MOS. – Jonesey95 (talk) 05:12, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

Reason: Desperately needs indefinite semi-protection, absolutely EVERYTHING from unregistered going back to when it was first created a decade ago has been vandalism. Absolutely nothing of value has been added to the article at all recently. MakaylaHippo1998 (talk) 04:36, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – Block evasion by User:7n3. The same protection is needed at Gourmandises, Les tournesols and Je suis et je resterai. Binksternet (talk) 04:37, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

Reason: Persistent disruptive editing and vandalism; most edits in the past five years have been disruptive or are reverting disruptive edits. Cyrobyte (talk) 04:40, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

Reason: This page was vandalized on Paramount Pictures was said to have a fake secondary studio called Red Rocket Entertainment (It’s a fan idea on YouTube made by kids). And Dreamworks Pictures was a secondary studio to Universal Pictures. Please have this page protected. XyloQuip289 (talk) 06:23, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Coordinated attack by multiple IP's and newly-registered accounts an a large number of UK nuclear power articles 10mmsocket (talk) 06:24, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Coordinated attack by multiple IP's and newly-registered accounts an a large number of UK nuclear power articles 10mmsocket (talk) 06:24, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Coordinated attack by multiple IP's and newly-registered accounts an a large number of UK nuclear power articles 10mmsocket (talk) 06:24, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Coordinated attack by multiple IP's and newly-registered accounts an a large number of UK nuclear power articles 10mmsocket (talk) 06:25, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Coordinated attack by multiple IP's and newly-registered accounts an a large number of UK nuclear power articles 10mmsocket (talk) 06:25, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Coordinated attack by multiple IP's and newly-registered accounts an a large number of UK nuclear power articles 10mmsocket (talk) 06:25, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Coordinated attack by multiple IP's and newly-registered accounts an a large number of UK nuclear power articles 10mmsocket (talk) 06:25, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Coordinated attack by multiple IP's and newly-registered accounts an a large number of UK nuclear power articles 10mmsocket (talk) 06:26, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Coordinated attack by multiple IP's and newly-registered accounts an a large number of UK nuclear power articles 10mmsocket (talk) 06:26, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Coordinated attack by multiple IP's and newly-registered accounts an a large number of UK nuclear power articles 10mmsocket (talk) 06:26, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Coordinated attack by multiple IP's and newly-registered accounts an a large number of UK nuclear power articles 10mmsocket (talk) 06:27, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Coordinated attack by multiple IP's and newly-registered accounts an a large number of UK nuclear power articles 10mmsocket (talk) 06:27, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Coordinated attack by multiple IP's and newly-registered accounts an a large number of UK nuclear power articles 10mmsocket (talk) 06:27, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Coordinated attack by multiple IP's and newly-registered accounts an a large number of UK nuclear power articles 10mmsocket (talk) 06:27, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

Temporary semi-protection: Coordinated attack by multiple IP's and newly-registered accounts an a large number of UK nuclear power articles 10mmsocket (talk) 06:28, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Persistent Disruptive Editing. 𐩣𐩫𐩧𐩨 Abo Yemen (𓃵) 07:50, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

Temporary full protection: Persistent Disruptive Editing. 𐩣𐩫𐩧𐩨 Abo Yemen (𓃵) 07:50, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

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Template:Infobox sports season (request) 2025-06-05 23:59 Template-protected (log) Modified by Primefac on 2018-02-23: "high-risk template with 2000+ transclusions"
Template:Infobox tennis tournament year (request) 2025-06-23 18:52 Template-protected (log) Modified by Primefac on 2018-02-23: "high-risk template with 4000+ transclusions"
Template:Archives (request) 2025-07-01 00:54 Template-protected (log) Modified by Fuhghettaboutit on 2013-11-02: "Enable access by template editors"
Template:DYK archive header (request) 2025-07-11 23:17 Template-protected (log) Modified by Maile66 on 2019-09-05: "Edited without discussion"
Module:Infobox road/browselinks (request) 2025-07-12 06:07 Template-protected (log) Protected by MusikBot II on 2022-01-06: "High-risk template or module: 24404 transclusions (more info)"
Template:Automatic taxobox (request) 2025-07-12 20:17 Template-protected (log) Modified by Fuhghettaboutit on 2013-11-02: "Enable access by template editors"
Template:GeoGroup (request) 2025-07-13 06:51 Template-protected (log) Modified by Hut 8.5 on 2016-12-22: "Highly visible template"
Template:Rail-interchange (request) 2025-07-13 10:41 Template-protected (log) Modified by Primefac on 2018-02-23: "high-risk template with 4000+ transclusions"
Template:ODNBsub (request) 2025-07-13 21:49 Template-protected (log) Modified by Primefac on 2018-02-23: "high-risk template with 4000+ transclusions"
Wikipedia:Popular pages (request) 2025-07-14 01:13 Template-protected (log) Modified by Materialscientist on 2025-06-16: "Persistent sockpuppetry: request at WP:RFPP"
Template:Connected contributor (paid) (request) 2025-07-14 07:59 Template-protected (log) Modified by MusikBot II on 2021-08-17: "High-risk template or module (more info)"
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Hi. Based upon my learning and experience over the years of editing on Wikipedia (almost a decade now), I have created very selected pages which I find qualifying Wikipedia policies. If I find them trending in news but un-complying with the policies, I usually leave a redirect, or occasionally start with the draft. I believe not a single page that I created and/or majorly contributed has been deleted, and many respected editors and admins whom I had interacted with have always been helpful and supportive, believing in my good faith. Plus I only rewrite those articles in bad state which I find relevant, and not every other random article. However, due to recent attacks by sock puppetry over my edits, I want to be an autopatrolled user, so that I can easily continue volunteering independently here, and participate in the ongoing Destubathon as well. I promise I will not misuse this position. Thank you! M. Billoo 13:24, 19 June 2025 (UTC)

@M.Billoo2000: A couple things here: the autopatrolled right does not give you any additional technical abilities, it would only filter your articles out of the new pages feed, so it would not help you with the Destubathon nor with any "attacks by sock puppetry". If you're having trouble with abusive users, please report them at ANI. Also, the autopatrolled right is meant for fairly prolific creators of articles, and looking at the XTools list I see just three creations in the trailing year, and not that many more in the years before that. TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 14:35, 8 July 2025 (UTC)
Despite what TechnoSquirrel69 said above, I opened the last ten articles that show up in XTools (which lists 32 in total). That brings me back to 2022, which reflects the issue brought up above. The articles written by you are all nice and clean. However, about half of the articles that I looked at were not written by you; all you did is create the initial redirect. Given that, you wouldn't meet the minimum requirement of 25 articles created. Together with the low frequency of article creation, that negates the need to be autopatrolled.  Not done Schwede66 07:51, 13 July 2025 (UTC)

Requested this permission ~2 months ago, denied because I was mostly creating auto-notable stubs. I think I have expanded the types of articles I create, including well-sourced local pages or biographical entries where I take time to source subjects that do not inherently meet a generic notability criteria. (I still do create auto-notable pages sometimes, but those no longer make up the majority of pages I create.) As a new page reviewer, I got good experience with the notability guidelines reviewing articles during the backlog drive WP:MAY25, and also participating in AfD. Thought about requesting again as I have run into a few of my own pages while reviewing pages that are in topics I contribute to/am interested in. Yoblyblob (Talk) :) 02:15, 28 June 2025 (UTC)

Also wanted to mention that if I am unsure of a subject's notability, I will utilize WP:AFC for my own articles occasionally Yoblyblob (Talk) :) 02:18, 28 June 2025 (UTC)
 Automated comment This user has had 1 request for autopatrolled declined in the past 90 days ([3]). MusikBot talk 02:20, 28 June 2025 (UTC)

7-year vet of the site, multiple GANs and DYKs, 51 mainspace articles created of which 49 are live (G6 and G7 deletions for the other two). Etzedek24 (Talk) (Contribs) 20:54, 1 July 2025 (UTC)

Resubmitting #User:Human Right Wiki above as a procedural action, not an endorsement on the merits. * Pppery * it has begun... 18:39, 3 July 2025 (UTC)

The first request was archived; this was the nomination statement:

Dear admins, please grant the WP:APAT to User:BlaUser234. Otherwise, we see many cockroaches in WP:NPP every day:) Thank you.
— HumanRight 14:23, 2 July 2025 (UTC)

TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 08:45, 7 July 2025 (UTC)
I am going to make a new account. I am still logged in, but I did not provide an email address when making my account and I forgot my password. If I get logged out somehow I will not be able to get back in, so I might as well bite the bullet now and make a new account.. BlaUser234 (talk) 06:42, 9 July 2025 (UTC)
You can update your email address at any time, @BlaUser234. Sarsenethe/they•(talk) 08:58, 9 July 2025 (UTC)

Hello there, my respect to you! I would like to request for getting autopatrolled rights because I contribute interesting articles to both English and Simple Wikipedia. I have over 700 edits, which is over the requirements, and my account is over 3 months old. If I get autopatrolled rights, I will never forget this appreciation I got and I will continue contributing to Wikipedia, and I will also continue to take responsibilities for my actions. Thanks! Waiting for a feedback. :-) Victor Ningthemcha (talk) 13:06, 5 July 2025 (UTC)

 Automated comment This user has had 1 request for autopatrolled declined in the past 90 days ([4]). MusikBot talk 13:10, 5 July 2025 (UTC)
 Not done Draft:Keishampat was declined recently. Your most recent article, Tiddim Road, has peacock prose in the second sentence: "This an important transportation road during World War II, during the Battle of Imphal (1944), holding and remaining as an essential transportation road today." voorts (talk/contributions) 00:55, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

I have been on Wikipedia for more than a decade, and I truly feel that it is one of my great passions in life. I have more than 30,000 edits, and I am credited with more than 300 articles that are not Redirects or Disambiguation pages. (I personally take credit for more than 100 of these, which did not originate as Redirect pages.) Although I continue to propose Draft pages to this day when I am not 100% confident myself about notability, I frequently go straight to the mainspace and have made a number of articles that have been significant in some form or field, with my particular focus being on film industry and electoral politics pages.

Recently, I redirected a few thousand Supreme Court of the United States cases to the case volumes in which they were listed. It was a large-scale project for me, but in the end it was decided that redlinks would be better for promoting caseload knowledge, something that I agreed to and I believe will continue to service our Wikipedia community. For this reason, it might appear that I have a large number of deleted pages, but this is almost exclusively due to this particular project; I had an edit deletion rate of less than 2%, and I had not had a page that I created taken down in years, not since I was a far more novice editor. (You can read more about that SCOTUS discussion here.)

I believe that being autopatrolled will continue to allow me to contribute to the Wikipedia community, and that is why I am reaching out to ask for permissions. I am happy to answer any questions or improve any articles that I have created if there is anything noticeable that needs help. Although I have long been looking to increase my permissions and role in the community, I quite frankly have always had impostor syndrome stop me from asking, but a bit of encouragement from Liz made me try. Thank you so much! PickleG13 (talk) 20:27, 5 July 2025 (UTC)

I'm not inclined to grant autopatrolled so soon after the SCOTUS redirect deletions, but won't object if another admin wants to grant it. voorts (talk/contributions) 01:51, 10 July 2025 (UTC)
Thank you for your honest feedback, voorts. Although I hope that an admin decides to grant it, I have been on Wikipedia for a long time and I will continue to for a long time to come no matter what. Please let me know if you ever need help with anything, whether it's a full-scale project or a simple clean-up. PickleG13 (talk) 21:47, 10 July 2025 (UTC)

Fairly prolific article creator and translator who has written on a number of topics. I had nearly no complaints reviewing their creations for notability and text-source integrity, and they were all generally well-written and -formatted. TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 09:45, 10 July 2025 (UTC)

I was granted a two month trial for this. Have created 100+ articles with 10K+ edits and will continue to do so. CherryPie94 🍒🥧 (talk) 23:19, 11 July 2025 (UTC)

 Automated comment This user was granted temporary autopatrolled rights by Dr vulpes (expires 00:00, 15 July 2025 (UTC)). MusikBot talk 23:20, 11 July 2025 (UTC)

This user has contributed a number of articles that are of quite good initial quality. David Palmer//cloventt (talk) 23:13, 12 July 2025 (UTC)

 Done voorts (talk/contributions) 00:49, 14 July 2025 (UTC)
Hello, I would like to request Autopatrolled rights for my account. I've made 74 articles, mostly BLPs. None of my articles have been deleted, and all are above stub-class. I have also recently had two DYK hooks approved and I make sure to create talk pages for my articles. I hope to cut down on the NPP backlog as I continue to create. 24Anonymous (talk) 03:20, 13 July 2025 (UTC)
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I like regular expressions and fixing typos. LordDiscord (talk) 02:26, 13 July 2025 (UTC)
Requests for confirmation

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The number of protests and the count are incorrect. I keep a weekly list of protest and counts. Myself and volunteers collected counts from 2133 sites, which is about 92% of sites that day. They are cited. Many are from organizer. It can be seen https://www.wethepeopledissent.net. The count we arrived at was 4.1 to 5.2 million. at about 2300 sites.

In addition, I would like to add the number of protests and counts for each state. There's a file with the number of protests and the state count about halfway down the page. https://www.wethepeopledissent.net

If you'd like to see the work I do to verify my knowledge, I report on protests on Substack weekly: https://thepeopledissent.substack.com

I would be happy to add them if you'd like to grant editor status. We the People Dissent (talk) 03:04, 13 July 2025 (UTC)

 Not done. Please read the policies on reliable sources and original research. Reaper Eternal (talk) 03:13, 14 July 2025 (UTC)
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I am a Brit living in Portugal and I am fascinated about the many Portuguese articles that aren't translated into English like ones on various towns, wells and actors. I am adept at Portuguese so translating would not be an issue. Kimjongxav (talk) 15:18, 11 July 2025 (UTC)

 Not done You do not need extended confirm to translate articles from other wikis. I recommend that you use the draft space to develop the articles. - Donald Albury 18:03, 11 July 2025 (UTC)
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Event coordinator

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Requests for file mover

File mover

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Hello! I have over 2,800+ edits and have over 4 months of experience. I would like to have file mover rights so I can rename not great-named files. I read the naming policies and I know how when and when not to rename files. File mover rights would help me improve Wikipedia unlike I could before. Floating Orb Let's talk! 01:34, 11 July 2025 (UTC)

 Not done 0 edits to file namespace. Please prove your knowledge by using {{rename media}} to request other file movers rename files, rather than expecting us to blindly trust you. * Pppery * it has begun... 05:53, 12 July 2025 (UTC)
Okay. Floating Orb Let's talk! 19:18, 12 July 2025 (UTC)
@Pppery, how many do you want to make? Floating Orb Let's talk! 19:59, 12 July 2025 (UTC)
I just made a few. Floating Orb Let's talk! 20:00, 12 July 2025 (UTC)
There's no fixed number, but since all of the requests you did were for Commons files rather than local files that actually weighs even further against granting ... * Pppery * it has begun... 20:36, 12 July 2025 (UTC)
Oh. (@Pppery) Floating Orb Let's talk! 22:42, 12 July 2025 (UTC)
I tried one now. Floating Orb Let's talk! 22:58, 12 July 2025 (UTC)
@Pppery. Floating Orb Let's talk! 02:59, 13 July 2025 (UTC)
Choosing a file that was already tagged for speedy deletion as having been moved to Commons was a strange choice.
Please stop pinging me. At this point you've proven your lack of familiarity with the process and nothing you can possibly do in the near future will convince me to grant this. * Pppery * it has begun... 03:06, 13 July 2025 (UTC)
Okay. Floating Orb Let's talk! 03:19, 13 July 2025 (UTC)
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Mass message sender

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Requests for new page reviewer

New page reviewer

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Hi, I was granted the rights on a trial basis for 30 days. Today, my rights expired. Until now, I have completed over 66+ reviews, aiming to minimize the backlog as much as I can, with the aim of reviewing 30 to 100 pages minimum in each month. I know my reviewing speed may look slow but for me Quality is more important than speed. I want to have the right permanently so that I can contribute to the enormous backlog, specifically related to women and plants. Thank you Pasados (talk) 17:11, 10 July 2025 (UTC)

Track record looks good,  Done signed, Rosguill talk 17:22, 11 July 2025 (UTC)

I'd like to request NPP at the suggestion of User:Femke, who is gently nudging me away from an RfA. I've been active on AfD and a little bit on AfC as well. I was recently granted auto-patrolled.

I'm keen to help tackling the backlog, and also to guide newbies through their first article contributions. For example, it would be a useful tool when shepherding them through the process at in-person edit-a-thon events that I am sometimes involved in.

Thanks for your time! David Palmer//cloventt (talk) 21:07, 10 July 2025 (UTC)

Hello @Cloventt. Thanks for applying here! As I said before, you seem to grasp notability well, so I'm leaning towards giving you at least a trial of a few months. I see you applied for AfC last year, but I can't find any drafts you've reviewed. Did you gain some experience already there? —Femke 🐦 (talk) 16:24, 11 July 2025 (UTC)
Yeah I only really dipped my toes into AfC, I've found AfD more my thing.
Much of my AfC experience has actually been people turning up at local editor meetups to ask for advice about why their article didn't pass AfC. I mostly signed up to AfC to learn more about that process for helping those people. I'll usually give them some advice and even help them out with some edits (see for example Draft:University of Canterbury Faculty of Engineering). Despite that, 9 times out of 10 we never hear from the new editor again, I think because being rebuffed at all is really demoralising for new editors, and they just disengage completely. That experience has rather put me off AfC as a concept. But I'm willing to give it another go. David Palmer//cloventt (talk) 03:36, 12 July 2025 (UTC)
AfC is notorious for being demoralising. I believe we should put in some more effort into getting a good Article Wizard that forces people to think about the WP:THREE best sources, making it difficult for people to submit non-notable articles, while at the same time encouraging good-faith editors to skip AfC. But that's off-topic. The reviews you did looked good. Will be granting it now, with the note that you can always get help from experienced NPP reviewers if you need it! —Femke 🐦 (talk) 12:11, 12 July 2025 (UTC)
 Done —Femke 🐦 (talk) 12:12, 12 July 2025 (UTC)
Requests for page mover

Page mover

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Hello, I've been active in tackling relists and closures on XfD logs, and am requesting the page mover right to be able to cleanly move pages to userspace or draftspace when there is consensus to do so; I sometimes encounter discussions like that during my log runs. Granting the page mover right would lighten the workload for admins having to do additional housekeeping (i.e. deleting redirects) or more closures. Thanks for considering this request. Left guide (talk) 07:33, 13 July 2025 (UTC)

The current AfDs for Luke McCormick and Harbor Miller I see as having consensus to draftify, and the QClimate chart TfD is one I recently closed as a move to userspace. Perhaps that might help gauge my judgment in using the page mover tool. Left guide (talk) 01:02, 14 July 2025 (UTC)
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Pending changes reviewer

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Requests for rollback

Rollback

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Hi, I am a CVU on the German Wikipedia and I am becoming more involved into fighting X-Wiki vandalism. On dewp I am Sichter (Rollback&Review) and temporary-account-viewer. Since my intentions are to fight global vandalism, I will not use the user right locally until I have studied Help:Reverting and Wikipedia:Rollback. NDG (talk) 07:49, 8 July 2025 (UTC)

 Automated comment This user has 101 edits in the mainspace. MusikBot talk 08:20, 10 July 2025 (UTC)
non-admin comment @NDG You don't seem to be very active here and don't meet the criteria. Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 10:59, 8 July 2025 (UTC)
Thank you for your comment, I'm sorry that you don't see my contribution as a sufficient enrichment for the project, but I still wish you all the best. NDG (talk) 11:04, 8 July 2025 (UTC)
@Cactusisme could you tell me what happened here de:Spezial:Diff/247660539 and here de:Spezial:Diff/255973678? NDG (talk) 11:08, 8 July 2025 (UTC)
@NDG Please discuss it on the correct wiki, thanks. Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 11:11, 8 July 2025 (UTC)
Consent! But please let an administrator decide. I explained how I restrict myself at the beginning and what my intention is despite the requirements for this application. NDG (talk) 11:15, 8 July 2025 (UTC)
 Not done for now. We would generally like to see at least a few hundred mainspace edits, or enough to show a solid track record of good counter-vandalism (on enwiki). Having rollback on another wiki is neat, but it doesn't affect our standards. Feel free to reapply when you meet the criteria at the top of the page. Thanks, Giraffer (talk) 11:59, 10 July 2025 (UTC)
Hello, good day! I created an account on the English Wikipedia 21 days ago and I am an active contributor! Can you give me "Rollbackers" status? Thanks! (I love yourwiki (talk) 03:56, 11 July 2025 (UTC))
@I love yourwiki Hi and welcome to Wikipedias, please create a new section if would like to request any right by clicking the add request button above and filling in the relevant details. Please read WP:Rollback first as well as it's granting criteria. (non-admin comment) Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 11:02, 13 July 2025 (UTC)
@Giraffer check on this History[5]. I respect your standards. Do you see any issues or signs of lack of experience? NDG (talk) 11:44, 11 July 2025 (UTC)

Hi, I have been editing Wikipedia for the last five years and have made more than 1100 edits on the mainspace, primarily improving articles in adherence to the Manual Style. Most recently, I have encountered a lot of vandalism incidents that I have tackled through manual reverts because the edits have been made in quick succession by different users with a conflict of interest. Often, these edits are created by new users across multiple IPs, making it further difficult for an editor like me to restore the last good version of a page. I have had to request protection measures for some pages where repeated vandalism is so prevalent that entire pages are being blanked and replaced with unconstructive edits. I'm requesting rollback rights so I can streamline my counter-vandalism process more effectively. Baberoothless (talk) 10:24, 11 July 2025 (UTC)

 Not done Rollback reverts all edits by one user. It will not help you deal with edits [that] have been made in quick succession by different users with a conflict of interest or edits [that] are created by new users across multiple IPs. * Pppery * it has begun... 05:56, 12 July 2025 (UTC)
Hello. I would like rollback rights please so that I could use Huggle to fight vandalism on recent changes. I've made 2200 edits and have patrolled recent changes for a few months now. Thank you for considering my request. m a MANÍ1990(talk | contribs) 23:33, 13 July 2025 (UTC)
Requests for template editor

Template editor

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Increasing number of edits into the template space after being an article contributor for years. Running across more protected templates, such as Infobox gymnast, for which I'd need access. Already have much experience editing and creating templates, as well as sandbox to production edits. GauchoDude (talk) 20:46, 11 July 2025 (UTC)

Standard Guidelines review:
  1. Green tickY (guideline: >1 year, applicant: 19)
  2. Green tickY (guideline: >1000 edits, applicant: ~22k)
  3. Green tickY (guideline: >150 template edits, applicant: ~630)
  4. Green tickY (guideline: !<6 months, applicant: NA)
  5. Red XN (guideline: 3 sandboxes, applicant: ~1)
  6. Red XN (guideline: 5 requests, applicant: ~2)
Primefac (talk) 21:37, 11 July 2025 (UTC)
Not sure if I'm supposed to reply to this or not? Clearly well surpass the vast majority of guidelines and a few short on some. Please advise if you have any further questions for me? GauchoDude (talk) 22:29, 13 July 2025 (UTC)
You can if you want. It's easy to run the numbers, just didn't have the bandwidth to do a full review. Primefac (talk) 22:47, 13 July 2025 (UTC)
    This dashboard (talk)

    I am at about 70,000 edits aross all Wiki projects.

    I, Solipsist, hereby award you this Barnstar of Diligence for you extraordinary patience, over many years, in handling perennial Corn vs. Maize debates.
    The Minor Barnstar
    Minor edits make a major difference. Gaff ταλκ 04:03, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
    The Minor Barnstar
    Ahh, a sigh of relief from IvoShandor to Rmhermen, thanks for your work on articles related to the Black Hawk War. IvoShandor 05:31, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
    The Original Barnstar, for good deed #1 The Original Barnstar
    This barnstar is for that quick and poisonous work you did on the Ayina River. Yours sincerely, GeorgeLouis (talk) 19:52, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

    Templates I use often but never remember

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    • {{NorthAmNative}} {{WikiProject Michigan}} {{WikiProject Protected areas}} {{river}}
    • (Wikipedia:Template_messages/Image_namespace)
    • {{fact}}{{no license}} {{no source}} {{or-fu-re|Image:replacementimage}} {{Orphaned fairuse not replaced or {{or-fu-nr}} *{{PD-USGov-Interior-NPS}} {{subst:deletedpage}} {{globalize/USA}}{{intro-missing}}
    WP:AIV
    WP:ANI
    WP:NPP
    WP:RPP
    WP:RFR
    WP:AFD
    WP:XFD
    CAT:CSD
    WP:CSD
    WP:RM
    WP:RAA
    WP:DR
    WP:TM
    WP:TT
    WP:RCU
    WP:LOP
    CAT:AB
    WP:BS
    WP:RD
    WP:NFC
    WP:IUP

    Help box by Jennavecia (talk · contribs)

    "Do you want to take a survey?"

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    On Feb. 12, 2005, I did a random pages survey. Out of 100 random pages, only 1 was a U.S. town. That's progress. Three towns in the UK, 1 in Spain and 1 in Portugal also turned up. Overall biographies were the largest category at 22%, followed by geography with 15% total. Then Lists at 7%, Disambiguation pages at 6%.

    On Feb. 24, 2006, I repeated the 100 random page survey, this time getting 5 U.S. towns. Overall, geography had 26%, biography 21%, fiction 9%, music 4%, colleges 4%, lists 3% and disambigs 4%. Clearly geography and biography are our largest areas. Music, science and business scored less than I expected. Non-individual History was hardly discernable.

    Even by Feb. 2005, 100 out of almost 500,000 was not statistically significant but was as much as I had patience for.

    Wikiprojects I am a member of:

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    Wikipedia:WikiProject Protected areas
    Wikipedia:WikiProject Rivers
    Wikipedia:WikiProject Space missions
    Wikipedia:WikiProject Michigan

    Short To Do list

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    Early Anon work, no need to bug the developers

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    Up to Dec 16, 2003, all the edits at these anonymous id's were mine (59 edits):

    More recently 1,250 or so edits on 75.41.110.200 are apparently all mine. Apparently my new ID is 75.41.109.190. There are undoubtedly many others as the earliest history of many articles was not preserved by the software.

    List of most of my original pictures and some maps

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    For copyright declaration purposes The following photographs and diagrams on Wikipedia were taken by and uploaded by me and released under GNU-FDL:

    • Update March 21, 2006 by searching with Interiot's Tool (no longer updated - [6] does edit counts though)

    Pictures

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    Maps

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    Numerous locator maps for U.S. national parks like Image:LocMap Big Bend National Park.png and Image:LocMap Tongariro National Park.png - most now replaced by dynamic map system