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| WP:WAWARD Director (2010–present) | |
| M:WALRUS Committee (2011–2013) (2016–present) | |
| WP:Ambassadors (2011–2012) | |
| “ | Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'—Martin Luther King Jr. | ” |
| “ | Have nunchucks. Will travel. - Antonio "Tony The Tiger" Vernon | ” |
| “ | Freedom of expression does not truly exist if the right can be exercised only in an area that a benevolent government has provided as a safe haven for crackpots. - Abe Fortas 393 U.S. 503 (1969) | ” |
2010 WP:CUP submissions (finalists) – WP:CHICAGO – WP:CHIFTD – WP:FOUR – WP:WAWARDS
My edit stats pages created
Recently listed good articles: Rent a Bridesmaid — Deslocado — Tamale pie — 1945 Florida–Outer Banks hurricane — Fish maw — Baxendale, Sarah — Dancing with Our Hands Tied — Griffon, Wiley — Siege of Stettin (1659) — South Canyon Fire — Baháʼí House of Worship — 2025 CS Cranberry Cup International — Dominic Sessa — Tennessee State Route 357 — Guest Starring John Noble
The oldest unreviewed good article nominations are: Modafinil | start review) • 1878 Atlantic hurricane season | start review) • Acabou Chorare | start review) • People to People (EP) | start review) • 2023 Spanish government formation | start review)
Articles currently listed for Good article community reassessment:
Tigers on my userpage (feel free to add "free use" tiger)
[edit]If you appreciate my work above leave a tiger below. If you have trouble finding one that you don't see below go to http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tiger and click on any of the subspecies to see more Images.
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Tyrenius 00:22, 30 January 2007
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Max July 2, 2008
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AdjustShift 14:30, 17 October 2008
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Starstriker7(Dime algo) 04:15, 2 November 2008
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Eustress 19:53, 13 January 2009
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Hunter Kahn 07:55, 9 February 2009
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Nvineeth 08:00, 9 March 2009
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Dr. Blofeld 20:30, 10 March 2009
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Geaux Tigers! User:Dank 18:29, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
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User:Smallbones October 2, 2009
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In "Sansindo" (Painting of a Sansin, mountain deity), a shamanistic picture of Korea. Caspian blue 21:52, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
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TonyTheTiger helping a "newbie" find his way.User:Buster7 7 January 2010 (UTC)
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Commonly known as the Tasmanian Tiger. User:Rossrs 31 January 2010
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TonyTheTiger conversing with a vandal. User:Buster7 9 June 2010 (UTC)
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This guy approves of your work on the tasty-looking Shackleford (horse). – Quadell (talk) 15:25, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
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Tiger in the water Buster7 11:05, 09 Nov 2011 "
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I uploaded this one and the meanies at FP rejected it. TCO 16:59, 23 November 2011
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Thanks for making Wikipedia a better place! Imthebombliketicktick (talk) 17:41, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
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Cover of Popular Natural History by Henry Scherren, 1906. Chiswick Chap (talk) 11:32, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
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A literary Tyger for your cooperative help reviewing our respective FACs. Thank you! --SkotyWATC 18:14, 3 November 2013 (UTC)
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Tiger by Franz Marc, 1912, for all of your good work I wish I could give you the real painting! Randy Kryn (talk) 16:08, 8 September 2018 (UTC)
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Good article reassessment for WSJ Magazine
[edit]WSJ Magazine has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 23:17, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
Wikipedia Day 2024 - January 19
[edit]Hello! Luiysia again :) Let's get together to celebrate Wikipedia Day 2025.
The meetup will be at the Wicker Park-Bucktown Library meeting room, and starts at 1:30 pm.
Here is the official meetup page, where you can find more details and add yourself as an attendee.
(If you would prefer not to see messages for Chicago meetups, go ahead and take yourself off this list.)
Hope to see you all soon!
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:54, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
Incomplete DYK nomination
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Hello! Your submission of Template:Did you know nominations/Influencer at the Did You Know nominations page is not complete; if you would like to continue, please link the nomination to the nominations page as described in step III of the nomination procedure. If you do not want to continue with the nomination, tag the nomination page with {{db-g7}}, or ask a DYK admin. Thank you. DYKHousekeepingBot (talk) 03:34, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – January 2025
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2024).
- Following an RFC, Wikipedia:Notability (species) was adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline.
- A request for comment is open to discuss whether admins should be advised to warn users rather than issue no-warning blocks to those who have posted promotional content outside of article space.
- The Nuke feature also now provides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions.
- Following the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been elected to the Arbitration Committee: CaptainEek, Daniel, Elli, KrakatoaKatie, Liz, Primefac, ScottishFinnishRadish, Theleekycauldron, Worm That Turned.
- A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in January 2025 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles and redirects in the new pages feed. Sign up here to participate!
More files tagged for proposed deletion
[edit]The following files below are tagged for proposed deletion:
George Ho (talk) 08:13, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
Good article reassessment for Gilbert Perreault
[edit]Gilbert Perreault has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Kline • talk • contribs 22:34, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
Disambiguation link notification for January 9
[edit]An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Hunter Dickinson, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page The Blade.
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Reminder: GA backlog drive
[edit]Hello! Just a reminder that, if you have time, you are welcome to join the ongoing GA backlog drive; it runs until the end of January. You are receiving this message because you signed up on the drive page but have not yet listed any reviews. We hope to see you there! Either way, happy editing! —Ganesha811 (talk) 01:13, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
DYK for Adrien Nunez
[edit]On 12 January 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Adrien Nunez, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Adrien Nunez (pictured), despite limited playing time, was more highly paid than some NBA draft lottery picks while in college? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Adrien Nunez. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Adrien Nunez), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 00:03, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
File:Funky Cold Medina sample.ogg listed for discussion
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A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Funky Cold Medina sample.ogg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for discussion. Please see the discussion to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you. George Ho (talk) 20:55, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
The Signpost: 15 January 2025
[edit]- From the editors: Looking back, looking forward
The 20th anniversary of The Signpost.
- Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2024
A lot of psephology!
- In the media: Will you be targeted?
HUMINT or humbug?
- Technology report: New Calculator template brings interactivity at last
Hallelujah!
- Essay: Meet the Canadian who holds the longest editing streak on Wikipedia
Johnny Au has edited for 17 years straight without missing a day.
- Opinion: Reflections one score hence
Some thoughts from the original editor-in-chief.
- News and notes: It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life for me... and I'm feeling free
Public Domain Day 2025, Women in Red hits 20% biography milestone, Spanish Wikipedia reaches two million articles, and other news from the Wikimedia world.
- Serendipity: What we've left behind, and where we want to go next
The Signpost staff on achievements of '24 and hopes for '25.
- Op-ed: Elon Musk and the right on Wikipedia
The latest crusade?
- In focus: Twenty years of The Signpost: What did it take?
Our alumni speak!
- Arbitration report: Analyzing commonalities of some contentious topics
Applying the scientific method to a model of conflict that leads to arbitration.
- Humour: How to make friends on Wikipedia
This post fact-checked by real Wikipedian patriots.
DYK for Oscar Goodman (basketball)
[edit]On 21 January 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Oscar Goodman (basketball), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Oscar Goodman was the tournament MVP for the first New Zealand under-17 basketball team to reach the FIBA Under-16 Asia Cup championship game? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Oscar Goodman (basketball). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Oscar Goodman (basketball)), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 12:02, 21 January 2025 (UTC)
Archive bot
[edit]Hi TonyTheTiger, hope you're doing well. I saw your question at admin noticeboard, I don't know if you're still looking for an answer, but worth checking out User:InternetArchiveBot. In the interface, if you tick the box "Add archives to all non-dead references (Optional)", then it will add all existing archives to the article, rather than just add archives for dead links, or presumed dead links at least. This is what most editors use it seems, although notably does not actively engage in archiving per say. Hope that helps. CNC (talk) 00:20, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
- User:CommunityNotesContributor, I should have gone to the help desk. Thx for the assistance.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 05:21, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
Good article reassessment for Historic Michigan Boulevard District
[edit]Historic Michigan Boulevard District has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 05:05, 30 January 2025 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – February 2025
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2025).
- Administrators can now nuke pages created by a user or IP address from the last 90 days, up from the initial 30 days. T380846
- A '
Recreated' tag will now be added to pages that were created with the same title as a page which was previously deleted and it can be used as a filter in Special:RecentChanges and Special:NewPages. T56145
- The arbitration case Palestine-Israel articles 5 has been closed.
The Signpost: 7 February 2025
[edit]- Recent research: GPT-4 writes better edit summaries than human Wikipedians
But an open language model is ready to help.
- News and notes: Let's talk!
The WMF executive team delivers a new update; plus, the latest EU policy report, good-bye to the German Wikipedia's Café, and other news from the Wikimedia world.
- Opinion: Fathoms Below, but over the moon
Editor Fathoms Below reminisces over their successful RfA from February 2024.
- In the media: Wikipedia is an extension of legacy media propaganda, says Elon Musk
Plus, reports on the ARBPIA5 case, new concerns over projects targeting Wikipedia editors, John Green gets his sponsor flowers, and other news.
- Community view: 24th Wikipedia Day in New York City
Wikimedians and newbies celebrate 24 years of Wikipedia in the Brooklyn Central Library. Special guests Stephen Harrison and Clay Shirky joined in conversation.
- Arbitration report: Palestine-Israel articles 5 has closed
Ending with some bans, and a new set of editing sanctions.
- Traffic report: A wild drive
The start of the year was filled with a few unfortunate losses, tragic disasters, emerging tech forces and A LOT of politics.
Disambiguation link notification for February 8
[edit]An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Mariel Molino, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Deadline.
(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 07:57, 8 February 2025 (UTC)
Good article reassessment for Hull House
[edit]Hull House has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Epicgenius (talk) 22:05, 14 February 2025 (UTC)
DYK for Influencer
[edit]On 17 February 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Influencer, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the 2021 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in NCAA v. Alston made student athlete influencers eligible for compensation? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Influencer. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Influencer), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
—Ganesha811 (talk) 00:04, 17 February 2025 (UTC)
Odyssey navbox
[edit]Please see the talk page of your {{Odyssey navbox}}, a discussion on vastly limiting its scope. Thanks (and thanks for creating it). Randy Kryn (talk) 13:07, 17 February 2025 (UTC)
DYK for Kasey Morlock
[edit]On 20 February 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Kasey Morlock, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Kasey Morlock was one of five NCAA Division II women's basketball players selected for the 25th-anniversary team? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Kasey Morlock. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Kasey Morlock), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
jlwoodwa (talk) 00:03, 20 February 2025 (UTC)
Chicago Meetup for March 15
[edit]Hello! This is Luiysia again. Welcome to everyone who joined the mailing list from our Wikipedia Day meetup! Here are the details for our March bimonthly meetup.
The meetup will start at Sipping Turtle Cafe, in the Logan Sqaure neighborhood, at 11 AM.
Here is the official meetup page, where you can add yourself as an attendee. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:53, 23 February 2025 (UTC)
Nomination for merger of Template:The Jewel of Seven Stars
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Template:The Jewel of Seven Stars has been nominated for merging with Template:Bram Stoker. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. --woodensuperman 12:09, 25 February 2025 (UTC)
Good article reassessment for Tiger Woods
[edit]Tiger Woods has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 14:01, 26 February 2025 (UTC)
The Signpost: 27 February 2025
[edit]- News and notes: Administrator elections up for reapproval and 1bil GET snagged on Commons
French Wikipedia defends a user against public threats, steward elections, and other news from the Wikimedia world.
- Serendipity: Guinea-Bissau Heritage from Commons to the World
"The only time I ever took photos in my entire life".
- Technology report: Hear that? The wikis go silent twice a year
From patrolling new edits to uploading photos or joining a campaign, you can count on the Wikimedia platform to be up and running — in your language, anywhere in the world. That is, except for a couple of minutes during the equinoctes.
- In the media: The end of the world
Or just the end of Wikipedia as we know it?
- Recent research: What's known about how readers navigate Wikipedia; Italian Wikipedia hardest to read
Of "hunters", "busybodies" and "dancers".
- Opinion: Sennecaster's RfA debriefing
User Sennecaster shares her thoughts on her recent RfA and the aspects that might have played a role in making it successful.
- Tips and tricks: One year after this article is posted, will every single article on Wikipedia have a short description?
What are they? Why are they important? How can we make them better? And what can you do to help?
- Community view: Open letter from French Wikipedians says "no" to intimidation of volunteer contributors
Liberté, liberté chérie.
- Traffic report: Temporary scars, February stars
Grammys, politics and the Super Bowl.
- Essay: The source, the whole source, and nothing but the source
Straight from the source's mouth. A source is a source, of course, of course!
- Obituary: Ümüt Çınar (Kmoksy) and Vinícius Medina Kern (Vmkern)
Turkish linguist wrote about languages and plants; Brazilian informaticist studied Wikimedia projects and education.
Chicago Open Housing Movement
[edit]Hello. Noticed you mentioned in a 2024 discussion that you had not heard of James Bevel. His initiating and directing the 1966 Chicago Open Housing Movement (lowercased, of course, on Wikipedia) brought him directly into the flow of Chicago history, and then he lived in Chicago for much of his life. The 1966 Chicago Freedom Movement had other leaders who do not as yet have articles (Kale Williams, David Jehnsen), and the movement is usually said to have been unsuccessful when the opposite is true. An interesting part of 20th century Chicago history. Randy Kryn (talk) 14:17, 27 February 2025 (UTC)
Nomination for deletion of Template:SI Swimsuit Cover Models
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Template:SI Swimsuit Cover Models has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. --woodensuperman 14:15, 4 March 2025 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – March 2025
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2025).

- A request for comment is open to discuss whether AI-generated images (meaning those wholly created by generative AI, not human-created images modified with AI tools) should be banned from use in articles.
- A series of 22 mini-RFCs that double-checked consensus on some aspects and improved certain parts of the administrator elections process has been closed (see the summary of the changes).
- A request for comment is open to gain consensus on whether future administrator elections should be held.
- A new filter has been added to the Special:Nuke tool, which allows administrators to filter for pages in a range of page sizes (in bytes). This allows, for example, deleting pages only of a certain size or below. T378488
- Non-administrators can now check which pages are able to be deleted using the Special:Nuke tool. T376378
- The 2025 appointees for the Ombuds commission are だ*ぜ, Arcticocean, Ameisenigel, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, Galahad, Nehaoua, Renvoy, Revi C., RoySmith, Teles and Zafer as members, with Vermont serving as steward-observer.
- Following the 2025 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: 1234qwer1234qwer4, AramilFeraxa, Daniuu, KonstantinaG07, MdsShakil and XXBlackburnXx.
DYK for Alia Fischer
[edit]On 7 March 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Alia Fischer, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Alia Fischer led the first women's college basketball team to achieve back-to-back undefeated seasons? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Alia Fischer. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Alia Fischer), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
—Ganesha811 (talk) 12:04, 7 March 2025 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
[edit]| The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar | |
| Thank you for participating in the January 2025 GA backlog drive. Your noteworthy contribution (7.5 points total) helped reduce the backlog considerably! Here's a token of our appreciation. —Ganesha811 (talk) 16:27, 9 March 2025 (UTC) |
DYK for Mariel Molino
[edit]On 11 March 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Mariel Molino, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Mariel Molino starred in the first Amazon original film for Mexico? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Mariel Molino. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Mariel Molino), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
— Amakuru (talk) 00:03, 11 March 2025 (UTC)
DYK for Go New York Go
[edit]On 12 March 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Go New York Go, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that "Go New York Go" has energized New York Knicks fans at Madison Square Garden since 1993? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Go New York Go. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Go New York Go), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
1=Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:03, 12 March 2025 (UTC)
Nomination for deletion of Template:2010–2019 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit
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Template:2010–2019 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. --woodensuperman 09:00, 14 March 2025 (UTC)
Nomination for deletion of Template:2000–2009 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit
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Template:2000–2009 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. --woodensuperman 09:00, 14 March 2025 (UTC)
Nomination for deletion of Template:1990–1999 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit
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Template:1990–1999 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. --woodensuperman 09:00, 14 March 2025 (UTC)
Nomination for deletion of Template:1980–1989 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit
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Template:1980–1989 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. --woodensuperman 09:00, 14 March 2025 (UTC)
Nomination for deletion of Template:SI Swimsuit template footer
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Template:SI Swimsuit template footer has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. --woodensuperman 09:00, 14 March 2025 (UTC)
Promotion of List of Academic All-America Team Members of the Year
[edit]Good article reassessment for Pussy Riot
[edit]Pussy Riot has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 02:34, 17 March 2025 (UTC)
Good article reassessment for Grey's Anatomy
[edit]Grey's Anatomy has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 17:12, 19 March 2025 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Sports Illustrated navigational boxes
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A tag has been placed on Category:Sports Illustrated navigational boxes indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz Read! Talk! 00:33, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
The Signpost: 22 March 2025
[edit]- From the editor: Hanami
It's an ecstasy, my spring.
- Opinion: Talking about governments editing Wikipedia
Let them know what you think!
- News and notes: Deeper look at takedowns targeting Wikipedia
Read this, then forget all about it.
- In the media: The good, the bad, and the unusual
Life on the Wiki as usual!
- Recent research: Explaining the disappointing history of Flagged Revisions; and what's the impact of ChatGPT on Wikipedia so far?
And WMF invites multi-year research fund proposals
- Traffic report: All the world's a stage, we are merely players...
The Oscars, politics, and death elbow for the most attention.
- Gallery: WikiPortraits rule!
The photographers are the celebrities!
- Essay: Unusual biographical images
And very unusual biographical images.
- Obituary: Rest in peace
Send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.
Nomination for deletion of Template:PulitzerPrize Criticism 1970–1975
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Template:PulitzerPrize Criticism 1970–1975 has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Questions? four Olliefant (she/her) 23:13, 31 March 2025 (UTC)
Nomination for deletion of Template:Baseball Academic All-America of the Year
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Template:Baseball Academic All-America of the Year has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. – Muboshgu (talk) 15:26, 6 April 2025 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – April 2025
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2025).

- Sign up for The Core Contest, a competition running from 15 April to 31 May to improve vital articles.
The Signpost: 9 April 2025
[edit]- Special report: Wikipedian and physician Ziyad al-Sufiani reportedly released from Saudi prison
Fellow doctor Osama Khalid remains behind bars for "violating public morals" by editing.
- In focus: WMF to explore "common standards" for NPOV policies; implications for project autonomy remain unclear
Major changes to core content policy, or still-developing plan for new initiative?
- In the media: Indian judges demand removal of content critical of Asian News International
Defeat, or just a setback?
- News and notes: 35,000 user accounts compromised, locked in attempted credential-stuffing attack
Plus: 30-year anniversary of wiki software commemorated.
- Op-ed: How crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects
Our content is free, our infrastructure is not!
- Opinion: Crawlers, hogs and gorillas
What is to be done?
- Debriefing: Giraffer's RfA debriefing
Advice to aspirants: "Read RfA debriefs", including this one.
- Obituary: RHaworth, TomCat4680 and PawełMM
Rest in peace.
- Traffic report: Heigh-Ho, Heigh-Ho, off to report we go...
Snow White sinking, Adolescence soaring, spacefarers stranded, this list has it all!
- News from Diff: Strengthening Wikipedia’s neutral point of view
The Wikimedia Foundation's announcement from Diff.
- Comix: Thirteen
Gadzooks!
Basketball RfC
[edit]Hey, thanks for your contribution to the RfC at WT:NBA. The thing is, I forgot to clarify in the proposal that it was supposed to be for the lead. If it isn't too much trouble, do you think you could go back to your comment and edit it to specify if you want it in the lead, or just in the legacy sections of the articles? Ladtrack (talk) 19:44, 11 April 2025 (UTC)
DYK for Grace Beyer
[edit]On 12 April 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Grace Beyer, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that four-time NAIA scoring champion Grace Beyer has scored more career points than any female basketball player at a four-year college or university? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/ Grace Beyer. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Grace Beyer), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
RoySmith (talk) 00:03, 12 April 2025 (UTC)
Nomination for deletion of Template:PulitzerPrize Criticism footer
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Chicago Meetup for May 24
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Administrators' newsletter – May 2025
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2025).

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Happy First Edit Day!
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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Chicago articles by importance
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The Signpost: 14 May 2025
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Good article reassessment for Adrian Monk
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Good article reassessment for Wyatt Earp
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Good article reassessment for Forward exchange rate
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Good article reassessment for Burnham Park (Chicago)
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Administrators' newsletter – June 2025
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2025).
- An RfC is open to determine whether the English Wikipedia community should adopt a position on AI development by the WMF and its affiliates.
- A new feature called Multiblocks will be deployed on English Wikipedia on the week of June 2. See the relevant announcement on the administrators' noticeboard.
- History merges performed using the mergehistory special page are now logged at both the source and destination, rather than just the source as previously, after this RFC and the resolution of T118132.
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DYK for Lorenzo Pace
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Good article reassessment for Ramón Ramírez (Dominican pitcher)
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Administrators' newsletter – July 2025
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"Five-by-five" listed at Redirects for discussion
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Good article reassessment for Million Dollar Challenge (TV program)
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DYK nomination of Boating Party
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[edit]Hello Tony, and I hope all goes well and the Summer is the best. Just came by to say you may want to look at {{Joan Mitchell}}. Whoops. Oh, looked again and it's just the name, will leave you to fix that one. Randy Kryn (talk) 22:18, 29 July 2025 (UTC)
- User:Randy Kryn, just an artifact from the template I copied formatting from.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 22:37, 29 July 2025 (UTC)
- That's what I assumed. For artistic navboxes I template from {{Jasper Johns}}. Randy Kryn (talk) 00:33, 30 July 2025 (UTC)
- User:Randy Kryn, I just grab an artist and copy it. I have created dozens, so there is no system behind which one I use to create the next. If you think anything needs to be added to this one, go for it.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 03:57, 30 July 2025 (UTC)
- For artists I have that go-to template to copy. You've proficiently created some of the best navboxes, do you keep a list somewhere? Thanks. Randy Kryn (talk) 04:03, 30 July 2025 (UTC)
- Painters are in the Templates section of User:TonyTheTiger/creations. Do a search for Mitchell and you will find them.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 12:04, 30 July 2025 (UTC)
- Talk about prolific! Thanks. Randy Kryn (talk) 13:31, 30 July 2025 (UTC)
- Painters are in the Templates section of User:TonyTheTiger/creations. Do a search for Mitchell and you will find them.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 12:04, 30 July 2025 (UTC)
- For artists I have that go-to template to copy. You've proficiently created some of the best navboxes, do you keep a list somewhere? Thanks. Randy Kryn (talk) 04:03, 30 July 2025 (UTC)
- User:Randy Kryn, I just grab an artist and copy it. I have created dozens, so there is no system behind which one I use to create the next. If you think anything needs to be added to this one, go for it.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 03:57, 30 July 2025 (UTC)
- That's what I assumed. For artistic navboxes I template from {{Jasper Johns}}. Randy Kryn (talk) 00:33, 30 July 2025 (UTC)
Tony, long time no talk and have been following you work on vital visual art pages. Um, I just reverted your addition of an infobox on the Friedrich bio; personally I don't care either way, but a consensus on the talk is against. Ceoil (talk) 14:58, 2 August 2025 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – August 2025
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- Following a request for comment, a new speedy deletion criterion, G15, has been enacted. It applies to pages generated by a large language model (LLM) without human review.
- Following a request for comment, there is a new policy outlining the granting of permissions to view the IP addresses of temporary accounts. Temporary account deployment on the English Wikipedia is currently scheduled for September 2025, and editors can request access to the permission ahead of time. Admins are encouraged to keep an eye on the request page; there will likely be a flood of editors requesting the permission when they realize they can no longer see IP addresses.
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- The arbitration case Indian military history has been closed.
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- The arbitration case Transgender healthcare and people has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case will close on 11 August.
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[edit]- News and notes: Court order snips out part of Wikipedia article, editors debate whether to frame shreds or pulp them
Plus a mysterious CheckUser incident, and the news with Wikinews.
- Discussion report: News from ANI, AN, RSN, BLPN, ELN, FTN, and NPOVN
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- Disinformation report: The article in the most languages
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- Community view: News from the Villages Pump
Threads since June.
- In the media: Disgrace, dive bars, deceased despots, and diverse dispatches
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- Crossword: Accidental typography
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- Comix: best-laid schemes o' wikis an' men
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[edit]Tony, we recently fell out over infobox parameters, but to say I am still 100% behind your drive to get Campbell's Soup Cans back to FAC. It has huge traffic, and also I think you have done very very well here, especially in the last few weeks, its nearing a gripping read, and would be proud to see it eventually pass. I have to admit your "push through at any cost" approach is off-putting, but your article work is often impressive. Ceoil (talk) 11:31, 24 August 2025 (UTC)
- User:Ceoil, WP has a vast array of ways to contribute and everyone has their strengths. Campbell's Soup Cans is getting better. Many elements of needed work on it are outside of my expertise. It will take a team effort. I am happy to see your attention to it as I improve it. The article is definitely headed in the right direction.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 03:21, 26 August 2025 (UTC)
- User:Ceoil, Also not sure if you are following at Wikipedia_talk:Vital_articles#How_important_are_VAs_for_biographical_subject_infoboxes. But there you will find request for art expertise in my latest set of posts.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 03:34, 26 August 2025 (UTC)
Chicago Edit-a-thon for September 18
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The Signpost: 17 December 2025
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Wikipedia 25: Celebrate Wikipedia Day 2026 in Chicago
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Good article reassessment for Svetlana Kuznetsova
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Good article reassessment for Mahatma Gandhi
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DYK for Roti (restaurant chain)
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