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Issue 10, 18 January 2026

— MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:28, 18 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you for improving article quality in January! – 20 January is the 100th birthday of David Tudor (see my story) and the 300th birthday of Bach’s cantata Meine Seufzer, meine Tränen, BWV 13, if we go by date instead of occasion as he would have thought, so see my story for last Sunday, and celebrate 😉 —Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:53, 20 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

David Tudor was a nice shout. Most of my work in the new year has been to Privacy Sandbox and nomed a old article CSS fingerprinting for GA (doing content after a long while) Sohom (talk) 12:05, 22 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I want to thank you again for taking over the bot that handles WP:FRS, when it was more than I could handle.

FYI. I mention the bot and WP:FRS concerns here:

• Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_comment#RfC_bot_concerns_that_might_be_addressed (permalink)

I want to be clear I in no way blame you for the problem. It came from the code you inherited. I mentioned it to you before, and I didn’t follow up on it. I’m ready to talk about it in more depth now and hopefully you are open to digging more deeply into the concern and ideally correcting it in accordance with whatever the community thinks would be best.

—David Tornheim (talk) 16:28, 22 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I’m up to do some digging into the code, I’ll keep an eye on the discussion to see what the consensus is on the changes! Sohom (talk) 02:02, 23 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Is “Runnning” [sic] an intentional typo on your bot’s user page? If not, then both instances of the same typo under the “Status” column should be fixed. GTrang (talk) 20:04, 23 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Nope, good catch! Sohom (talk) 20:11, 23 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

MediaWiki message delivery 21:15, 26 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Ongoing discussions	News	Current statistics
What to do if nominator has been blocked? Commentary ability for Good Article reviewers (at Village pump)	Sign up for the February 2026 GAN backlog drive	Number of GAs: 43,228 (+40) Number of nominations: 968 (+68) GAs for reassessment: 64 (–4)

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:23, 30 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

MediaWiki message delivery 17:42, 2 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like the Wikipedia:Feedback request service notifications stopped on 22 January 2026. Can you look into that soon? WhatamIdoing (talk) 21:27, 7 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Sure! Sohom (talk) 21:31, 7 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, it should be fixed but I will keep an eye on it for a bit. Sohom (talk) 22:06, 7 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like a bit over 200 messages were delivered today. Thanks. WhatamIdoing (talk) 01:01, 8 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I have sometimes wished for a “self-tattling” feature in that bot. Could it be set up so that it checks its own contributions once every 48 hours, and if there are no edit summaries about FRS notifications in the last 48 hours, maybe it could post a note at WT:RFC or on someone’s User_talk: page, or something, so we’ll notice it? I check every few weeks, and but that’s not as often as would be useful. WhatamIdoing (talk) 01:05, 8 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@WhatamIdoing I did two things, I’ve added the bot to Wikipedia:Bot activity monitor/Configurations so that SDZeroBot will send notifications to the talk page (and thus to my email + whoever is watching the page) about the fact that the bot has not made any edits. I’ve also made a few errors “recoverable” (i.e. the bot should ignore the page/the error and created a page at User:SodiumBot/FRS/Errors to track them) so that folks other than me can go and fix/diagnose them (there are going to be two, that a specific GAN/RFC page could not be parsed (which caused the previous failure) and the other one being “nobody was notified for this RFC/GAN” — which I see in the logs but haven’t investigated the severity/reason for). Sohom (talk) 04:07, 8 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Are the bot’s other tasks sufficiently infrequent that no edits effectively means no FRS notifications? WhatamIdoing (talk) 04:13, 8 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

No edits to [13] is definitely a problem especially over 2-3+ days since that means the bot did not notify anyone over that period of time. (The SDZeroBot config looks for 24 hours with no edits to that page). The other tasks are infrequent enough that they shouldn’t be too much of the problem. Sohom (talk) 04:26, 8 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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

Arbitration

• Due to the result of a recent motion, a rough consensus of administrators at the arbitration enforcement noticeboard may impose an expanded topic ban on Israel, Israelis, Jews, Judaism, Palestine, Palestinians, Islam, and/or Arabs, if an editor’s Arab-Israeli conflict topic ban is determined to be insufficient to prevent disruption. At least one diff per area expanded into should be cited.

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Hello, as a participant in the WMF annual planning discussion, I am hoping you can take some time to answer questions I made for a Signpost piece I am working on. Thanks! Czarking0 (talk) 15:55, 12 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Ongoing discussions	News	Current statistics
What should ChristieBot do when an article is moved mid-review? How should ChristieBot notify nominators of malformed nominations? Amount of articles in video game categories Lack of spot check References in a GAN article; and the associated discussion at Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates: Identifying locations in sources without page numbers	February 2026 GAN backlog drive continues. Two reviewers are looking for mentors. WikiProject Food and Drink hits 500 Good Articles, with Chiswick Chap and Another Believer together contributing a third.	Number of GAs: 43,446 (+218) Number of nominations: 841 (–127) GAs for reassessment: 46 (–18)

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:19, 20 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for improving article quality in February! – My story today is again about Percy Grainger (FA by Brian Boulton), this time with a video that surprised me. — Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:57, 20 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

—Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:24, 23 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Today’s main page features four biographies I helped to bring there, two women and two men, three opera singers (one pictured) and an actor, – a record for me, I believe 😉 —Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:55, 24 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Your good article nomination of the article CSS fingerprinting is under review. See the review page for more information. This may take up to 7 days; feel free to contact the reviewer with any questions you might have. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Esculenta — Esculenta (talk) 16:33, 21 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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The first round of the 2026 WikiCup ended on 26 February. As some of you may have noticed, good article nomination reviews now receive 10 points, an increase from 5 points in the previous year, as per a consensus at WT:CUP. This point increase has been retroactively applied to all good article reviews for which competitors have claimed points in this round. Peer reviews, which continue to be worth 5 points, are now listed in the same section as featured article candidate reviews, rather than with good article reviews. Everyone who competed in round 1 will advance to round 2 unless they have withdrawn or been banned. No other changes to the round-point system have been made for this year.

Round 1 was competitive. Three contestants scored more than 1,000 round points, and the top 16 contestants all scored more than 300 round points. The following competitors scored more than 800 round points:

• Bgsu98 (submissions) with 1,467 round points, largely gained from 1 featured article, 5 featured lists, 15 good articles, and 42 FAC and GAN reviews;
• Olliefant (submissions) with 1,246 round points, largely from 4 featured lists, 9 good articles, 2 featured topic articles, 4 did you know articles, and 75 FAC and GAN reviews;
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• Rollinginhisgrave (submissions) with 838 round points, largely from 1 featured article, 8 good articles, 1 did you know article, and 14 FAC, GAN, and peer reviews.

The full scores for round 1 can be seen here. During this round, contestants have claimed 7 featured articles, 16 featured lists, 2 featured-topic articles, 168 good articles, 13 good-topic articles and more than 50 Did You Know articles. In addition, competitors have worked on 14 In the News articles, and they have conducted nearly 700 reviews. The tournament points table will be updated within the next few days.

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

Arbitration

• Following a motion, remedy 9.1 of the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been amended to limit TenPoundHammer to one XfD nomination or PROD per 24-hour period.
• Following a motion, the Iskandar323 further POV pushing motion has been rescinded.
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MediaWiki message delivery 17:50, 2 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Your good article nomination of the article CSS fingerprinting has failed. See the review page for more information. If or when the reviewer’s feedback has been addressed, you may nominate the article again. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Esculenta — Esculenta (talk) 18:01, 2 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Sohom, Hope you are doing well! Since you are the admin who gave me TAIV, I have a question about an edge case. I was reminded of an incident not too long ago where a user stated that they may be in the threat of harm. This was done via a TA. Would it be abuse of TAIV to direct the user to their emergency services line using their IP location? (Fortunately, the TA in question gave a rough estimate of their location.) TheTechie^[she/they] | talk? 05:00, 10 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

For the specific case, emailing cawikimedia.org (the Trust and Safety team) would be the correct thing to do in that context. Keep in mind that geolocation is not that accurate in a lot of places in the world, so you might end up calling folks in a area where the user does not reside. (which might be problematic from a real-world POV).

More abstractly with respect to TA use, it’s definitely a grey zone, but trying to save a life would probably of the few cases where I don’t think you would necessarily face consequences for breaching ToU requirements if any (for obvious reasons) and when it comes to onwiki policy, in those kinds of scenarios WP:IAR applies in my opinion. Sohom (talk) 05:24, 10 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I ended up emailing Trust & Safety. But thank you for clarifying. TheTechie^[she/they] | talk? 14:44, 10 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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I would like to request before the expiry that my IP Block Exemption be renewed. W00zles (talk) 06:30, 12 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

 Done Sohom (talk) 12:38, 12 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you for improving article quality in March! — Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:45, 20 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

on Bach’s birthday, a story about my joy —Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:49, 21 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

MediaWiki message delivery 16:49, 23 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Mindful of WP:MMORPG, I thought the best way to revive a request to restore an autopatrolled bit would be to ask you directly if you could review 13 redirects replaced with a sourced article and 8 new articles started, 6 new redirects added since your first assessment. Articles are added in the interest of filling a gap in coverage in the encyclopedia. You said the AP standards had ballooned, so I will echo that to say I think my ability to launch new articles has improved since the permission was first granted. It appears the revocation came during a total of 1,234 done that morning, and that I am one of the very few in that list who is in fact actively editing in 2026. Please comment, and restore the bit if I have addressed your concerns. Sswonk (talk) 21:54, 25 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Sswonk I haven’t looked too deeply through you contributions but based on what I looked at, I was somewhat puzzled by the inclusion of this wordpress blog in West Cross Timbers. Could you explain why you used that as a a source? Sohom (talk) 02:42, 27 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Citing the Wordpress-hosted site The Rocking Magpie is related to the subject matter, album releases by Americana music artists early in their career. There is limited coverage in main stream or industry media. I do run into other blogs when finding out about the artists’ early releases, and following logic and WP guidance I don’t use them as sources. The Rocking Magpie is an exception, as the founder Alan Harrison has a history of reviewing for No Depression (magazine) and other publications. He is now suspending that work on his site, but that he publishes his reviews and those of others on Wordpress is the only drawback. The stance for his part is in solidarity with independent musicians, I think that is obvious from reading his opening on the home page of the site.

Hoping not to offend anyone, I feel first hand the futility of writing about something you love rather than something that corporate publications love, and the people who are dedicated to roots and Americana music often are making that conscious choice to eschew wealth and the values associated with it for doing what they love with meaning and authenticity.

Harrison and other writers on that site interview artists, and that particular interview Amanda Shires gives her statement on why what MusicBrainz and Discogs list as her first album is not her “debut” album. She didn’t work on the songs on her first CD with the idea of building a solo career, as where her contemporaries would have a “debut” album, she has a technical demonstration of her skills to provide to venues and other musicians. Her albums beginning with West Cross Timbers represent her singer-songwriter work, what her career has become, while Being Brave does not. I found that to be important information for not only people who are studying or want to learn about her career, but also for learning about performers in general on the Texas music circuit.

Although it is hosted by the platform it is, reading The Rocking Magpie is actually good for learning about the element of self-reliance found in Americana music. It is part of the story, I don’t think Wikipedia should restrict or ban Harrison et. al references because the site is on Wordpress; he knows his subject. Sswonk (talk) 14:05, 27 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Sswonk So, I looked through your contributions in detail and I currently still don’t have the confidence to grant autopatrolled to you. I can take your word that the wordpress blog was written by a subject matter expert but there are similar problems across your newer creations (such as the fact that despite going back and forth with myself, I don’t see significant coverage of Boundary County (album) in terms of proving it’s notability). You can appeal this decision to other admins or at WP:PERM/AP or at WP:AN but I cannot at this time justify granting AP.

One thing I will note though, is that this lack of confidence is not a reflection of the fact that you are doing bad work, I do recognize that you are doing excellent work in terms of documenting Americana music, some of which can be hard to find sources at times — it’s just that WP:AP tends to work better/is much easier granted to folks who often document obviously notable/demonstrate notability from the get-go. (The bar for which is typically WP:THREE) Sohom (talk) 03:15, 30 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Reasonable, thank you. Sswonk (talk) 12:39, 30 March 2026 (UTC) Sswonk (talk) 12:39, 30 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Here’s an edit to thank to see who it notifies, per our discussion about technical quirks. Clevermoss (talk) 20:12, 29 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Test #2. Let me know if the signature needs to be different from what I did. Clevermoss (talk) 21:15, 29 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Sohom, here is the notice the AN/I page asks be given on your talk page, I am posting there about your interactions on my request in a few minutes, not much just seeking an apology. Sswonk (talk) 14:13, 1 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Just wondering; was the close saying that it’s specifically just an “essay”, as in not an explanatory essay, or was it just saying there is consensus that it should be classed as some kind of an essay? ⹃Maltazarian ^{ᚾparleyinvestigateᛅ} 18:38, 3 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The latter, not the former Sohom (talk) 19:17, 3 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi!

I heard from Clovermoss that you had feedback about WikiSignals. I’m one of the developers and would be delighted to hear your feedback on how we can improve. Feel free to share on the project talk page.

Thank you for your time! Localmotion127 (talk) 14:29, 17 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Localmotion127 I guess the question I have is “who/what are you building for”. I was genuinely puzzled at the methodology y’all have chosen (i.e. say Tranco-metrics in the older version of the tool) and who y’all were targeting (my understanding is that the editor community isn’t that interested in the Tranco-ranking of the site) ? I was playing around with the newer version and I’m still very much struggling to understand what these scores actually mean and how I should interpret them/how they can be significant to say WP:NPP folks or even other content creators. Sohom (talk) 01:09, 20 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Good question. We envisioned two use cases to start: Wiki editors wanting to know whether a source that they plan to cite could be considered as reliable, and Wiki editors examining citations already in a Wiki article to determine their reliability.

From personal experience, if I find a source I’ve never heard of before, I want to learn more about it. I would want to know, for example, if it’s in lists of sources known to be unreliable (such as from the Perennial Sources list or Media Bias Fact Check), or how popular that source is, or when its website was registered. But I would need to do several separate searches to get this info, so it would be nice to have it all in one place. This is what WikiSignals is meant to be, an OSINT aggregator of publicly-available info about sources.

Regarding Tranco, we chose it as an open source alternative to the now-deprecated Alexa for measuring web traffic. How useful it would be depends on the situation. A spam source that’s impersonating a well-known reliable source could be registered very recently and have low web traffic. These data points strongly hurt that source’s credibility. On the other hand, Facebook is over two decades old and highly popular, but neither of those points are enough for it to be a reliable source.

I’m not too familiar with WP:NPP, so I’ll hold off on making a usability judgment for now.

To your point, we can definitely revise the intro/methodology to make this all more clear. Hope this is helpful, and if there’s anything else we can clarify, feel free to let us know anytime! Localmotion127 (talk) 12:35, 24 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Sohom Datta, I’m another WikiSignal-er, your questions are helpful. We are building it, at first, to help Wikipedia editors evaluate reference reliability. But soon we expect it will be used by mis-disinfo researchers (as have our other projects, from which WikiSignals grew), and by journalists and the public. Our data is freely available as HTML pages and JSON via a REST API.

We have info on 70K+ domains, broken down into two general categories: domain data (e.g., Tranco, Wayback Machine captures, registration date, etc.) and credibility indicators (e.g., from ratings agencies and Wikimedia RSP/Spam/Fake-news lists). The former, like Tranco, do not factor into cred-estimates, but are still informative for users. The latter we use to estimate domain-level source credibility, the scoring of which we are just starting to dev, and is as yet undocumented. (Thus your struggle to understand: We apologize, docs coming soon.)

The original cred-scores come from Media Bias/Fact Check and Domain Quality. But we now have other enough data to generate our own WikiSignal score, via weighted averages of all a domain’s cred-signals, including new ones like press-associations and inclusion in vetted media indices, which we can statistically demonstrate are accurate cred-signals. That’s where we are now. Please continue to quiz and question us. Hearvox (talk) 20:05, 23 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you for improving article quality in April! — Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:18, 20 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Not a lot but Tray Wellington might be a interesting read for you! Sohom (talk) 16:48, 20 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it is, thank you! – Today’s story is about one of three bios I brought to today’s main page: look and listen, an extraordinary woman in many respects. —Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:58, 30 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Proposed topic split Election consequences criticized as WP:COATRACK 41 likely LLM-generated GAs	The Good Article Gazette is back after a two month break!	Number of GAs: 43,784 (+338) Number of nominations: 951 (+110) GAs for reassessment: 64 (+18)

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The second round of the 2026 WikiCup ended on 28 April. As a reminder for contestants who just joined or are unaware of recent changes to our round-points system, good article nomination reviews now receive 10 points, an increase from 5 points in the previous year, as per a consensus at WT:CUP. Peer reviews, which continue to be worth 5 points, are now listed in the same section as featured article candidate reviews, rather than with good article reviews. Everyone who competed in round 2 will advance to round 3 unless they have withdrawn or been banned. No other changes to the round-point system have been made for this year.

Round 2 was competitive. Three contestants scored more than 1,000 round points; nine scored over 500; and fourteen scored over 300. The top seven contestants had at least one featured article (two of them with two apiece). The following competitors scored more than 800 round points:

• MCE89 (submissions) with 1,333 points, mainly from good and featured articles about Australian people and geography
• Generalissima (submissions) with 1,169 points, mainly from good and featured articles related to shipping ethics controversy in fanfiction, waterways, and Gu Yanwu
• Bgsu98 (submissions) with 1,149 points, mainly from good articles, featured articles, and featured lists about figure skating, along with many article reviews and two good topics
• Olliefant (submissions) with 830 points, mainly from good and featured articles about television shows, episodes and media, along with nearly four dozen good and featured article reviews
• Gommeh (submissions) with 827 points, mainly from good and featured articles related to Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail

The full scores for round 2 can be seen here. During this round, contestants have claimed 12 featured articles, 13 featured lists, 2 featured-topic articles, 106 good articles, 22 good-topic articles and more than 40 Did You Know articles. In addition, competitors have worked on 3 In the News articles, and they have conducted over 200 reviews. The tournament points table has been updated.

Remember that any content promoted after 28 April but before the start of Round 3 can be claimed in Round 3. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, feel free to review one of the nominations listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:49, 29 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Sohom Datta:, thank you for taking the time to look at my case. I strongly suspect those accounts are sockpuppetry or meatpuppetry, but I see that I didnt properly submitted the case. It was my first case ever. Would it be appropriate to open another one? Thank you! diff RevivedCicero (talk) 03:19, 2 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@RevivedCicero You submitted diffs from 2007 and compared them to behavior in 2026, 20 years later. Also, only one of the edits are from the person you accused every other edit is from a different editor who does not appear to be related? Sohom (talk) 03:58, 2 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Sohom Datta Yeah, I see. I did it wrong. Thanks for your time! RevivedCicero (talk) 05:34, 2 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Sohom Datta:, I appreciate you work but I have clearly explained it to you several times that there is no AI invloved in my submission. I am not quite sure why do you keep insisting that it is AI generated? I know that this is my first submission and it might not be perfect but I guaranty you that there is no AI involved in it. All you do is copy the link, paste, and put it in the brackets [(paste the link)diff] give the explanation, evidence, so why would I need AI to do that? It might not be perfect because it is my first submission, and I use my Iphone to do that, but it is not AI generated.

I will work on the weekend to respond to the submission, so please keep it on hold if you do not mind. Thanks! RevivedCicero (talk) 03:54, 12 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@RevivedCicero: I don’t think either me or @Vanjagenije have any problems with waiting. My justification in the SPI was purely in relation to why I at that time thought it was AI. While I’m willing to concede that it might not be AI, as I’ve said in the SPI, I’m skeptical that there is anything significant here, since based on a cursory look the report appeared to be a extension of this dispute thread where you were already told that your suspicions didn’t make sense. However, I’m willing to WP:AGF and let you have a week to figure your way out here and provide evidence to the contrary/disprove me and actually prove a association here. Sohom (talk) 04:39, 12 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Turns out I did not actually say what I was skeptical about in my SPI comment, so apologies on not being clear enough, but per above, what I meant to say in the SPI was: It is possible that there was no actual AI involved and this is just an artifact of a newbie being newbie but I [still] am sceptical [of the filing]. [sic] Sohom (talk) 04:45, 12 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,

re: this edit, the syntax is new mw.Api({userAgent: 'GNs SPIHelper userscript'}). Passing a string won’t break the script (since a string is a kind of object, so it will more or less be interpreted as new mw.Api({})) but won’t do anything useful either. Tgr (WMF) (talk) 11:16, 3 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

{{fixed}}, thanks for raising this! Sohom (talk) 13:59, 3 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Miscellaneous

• The May 2026 administrator elections are scheduled to run from April 29 to May 19. The call for candidates ends May 5.
• The 2026 Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is scheduled to run from April 25 to June 1. Candidacy submissions close on May 10.
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MediaWiki message delivery 20:42, 4 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Sohom, I am writing this to apologize for the use of LLM/AI tools in my previous edits. I am a student and a new editor on Wikipedia, and I honestly did not realize that using AI-generated text was against the community’s policies.

I have spent the last few days learning how to find reliable independent sources manually. I have found multiple news reports from Dainik Jagran, Dainik Bhaskar, and Zee News for my draft on “Brihaspati Dham, Jaipur”. I am committed to writing all my future contributions in my own words and following the Manual of Style.

Could you please consider lifting the partial block? I would like to show that I can be a constructive editor without using AI. Thank you for your time and guidance. Ramb70 (talk) 16:54, 5 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

ccing what I’ve said on your talk page: You can improve drafts without a unblock. My position here is that you need to show a positive track record to be unblocked. I do not see that in your current draft submission — Sohom (talk) 23:09, 5 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I understand your point. I have just submitted the draft with significant improvements to demonstrate my commitment to the platform’s standards. Please review it whenever you have a moment. Ramb70 (talk) 04:49, 8 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I understand your point. I have just submitted the draft with significant improvements to demonstrate my commitment to the platform’s standards. Please review it whenever you have a moment. Ramb70 (talk) 15:51, 9 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

— MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:22, 8 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Sohom, this came up again today and it’s possible you missed the question as it’s on a subpage: User talk:Sohom Datta/PageTriageUserspaceLogger#PROD logged to XfD log ClaudineChionh (she/her · talk · email · global) 07:21, 11 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I will take a look, I know the last time I took a look at this, my reaction was “PageTriage itself has a race condition somewhere” in which case, it’s time to open a ticket. Sohom (talk) 09:58, 11 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Regarding this edit: I’m not quite sure, but I think you might have one negative too many in I do not think W205 is not a negative behavioral example in terms of collaboration. Or perhaps I’m misunderstanding your intent. isaacl (talk) 20:59, 28 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, too many negatives (I think it is a good example). Sohom (talk) 21:03, 28 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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I would request you to take a look at SPI Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Rahil1610 which you handled earlier.[93] This SPI has been languishing a while now. Thanks. Orientls (talk) 14:15, 31 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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• The arbitration case SchroCat has been closed.
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Why until September? Bit harsh for someone who didn’t know they couldn’t actually talk on their talk page. Also, I am unable to use my talk page even though I thought I was doing good, but now I’m fully blocked from it. I had to use an alternative account to ask why. I do not want a punishment following this. ~2026-34962-91 (talk) 16:29, 15 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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