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I would like to bring to your attention that User:Krishnarthiindia, previously blocked on English Wikipedia as a sockpuppet of MediaTribe, is currently active on Hindi Wikipedia and creating multiple promotional pages.
🔗 User page on Hindi Wikipedia
I raised this issue with Hindi Wikipedia administrator सदस्य:संजीव कुमार, but his response suggests that the matter is being overlooked. Our discussion is here:
🔗 Talk page discussion
As an example, the article on Yohan Poonawalla has been repeatedly deleted on English Wikipedia due to COI and promotional issues:
- EN: Yohan Poonawalla (deleted multiple times)
- HI: योहान पूनावाला
This demonstrates a clear case of cross-wiki paid/COI editing.
Further evidence of promotional editing by this user includes:
- Abhay Singh (Jamshedpur politician) (created and later deleted)
- Anshuman Bhagat
- Yohan Poonawalla
- Ajay Mehgi (ऋतु मेंगी)
Given the user’s established connection to MediaTribe and a pattern of COI and promotional activity across projects, I kindly request an investigation into their activities on Hindi Wikipedia. The BO57! (talk) 15:45, 25 September 2025 (UTC)
- Sorry, I don't think I can provide much help. I'm an administrator on the English Wikipedia, but not on the Hindi Wikipedia. Since the Hindi Wikipedia is in Hindi (LOL!) I can't even search it to try to find the right place for you to find an administrator. Here, we have the Teahouse and the Administrator's Noticeboard. Maybe there are similar features in that Wiki. -- mikeblas (talk) 15:52, 25 September 2025 (UTC)
Admin IABot assist
Hello! As a recently active admin, can I ask for your assistance? Would you mind setting impactmontreal.com/ to a dead domain on the IAbot? The team renamed themselves a few years ago and all pages from that domain redirect to a page deleted spot on their new website. I can't do it as a non-admin. Elisfkc (talk) 18:40, 14 October 2025 (UTC)
Guide to temporary accounts
Hello, Mikeblas. This message is being sent to remind you of significant upcoming changes regarding logged-out editing.
Starting 4 November, logged-out editors will no longer have their IP address publicly displayed. Instead, they will have a temporary account (TA) associated with their edits. Users with some extended rights like administrators and CheckUsers, as well as users with the temporary account IP viewer (TAIV) user right will still be able to reveal temporary users' IP addresses and all contributions made by temporary accounts from a specific IP address or range.
How do temporary accounts work?
- When a logged-out user completes an edit or a logged action for the first time, a cookie will be set in this user's browser and a temporary account tied with this cookie will be automatically created for them. This account's name will follow the pattern:
~2025-12345-67(a tilde, year of creation, a number split into units of 5). - All subsequent actions by the temporary account user will be attributed to this username. The cookie will expire 90 days after its creation. As long as it exists, all edits made from this device will be attributed to this temporary account. It will be the same account even if the IP address changes, unless the user clears their cookies or uses a different device or web browser.
- A record of the IP address used at the time of each edit will be stored for 90 days after the edit. Users with the temporary account IP viewer (TAIV) user right will be able to see the underlying IP addresses.
- As a measure against vandalism, there are two limitations on the creation of temporary accounts:
- There has to be a minimum of 10 minutes between subsequent temporary account creations from the same IP (or /64 range in case of IPv6).
- There can be a maximum of 6 temporary accounts created from an IP (or /64 range) within a period of 24 hours.
Temporary account IP viewer user right
- Administrators may grant the temporary account IP viewer (TAIV) user right to non-administrators who meet the criteria for granting. Importantly, an editor must make an explicit request for the permission (e.g. at WP:PERM/TAIV)—administrators are not permitted to assign the right without a request.
- Administrators will automatically be able to see temporary account IP information once they have accepted the Access to Temporary Account IP Addresses Policy via Special:Preferences or via the onboarding dialog which comes up after temporary accounts are deployed.
Impact for administrators
- It will be possible to block many abusers by just blocking their temporary accounts. A blocked person won't be able to create new temporary accounts quickly if the admin selects the autoblock option.
- It will still be possible to block an IP address or IP range.
- Temporary accounts will not be retroactively applied to contributions made before the deployment. On Special:Contributions, you will be able to see existing IP user contributions, but not new contributions made by temporary accounts on that IP address. Instead, you should use Special:IPContributions for this (see a video about IPContributions in a gallery below).
Rules about IP information disclosure
- Publicizing an IP address gained through TAIV access is generally not allowed (e.g. ~2025-12345-67 previously edited as 192.0.2.1 or ~2025-12345-67's IP address is 192.0.2.1).
- Publicly linking a TA to another TA is allowed if "reasonably believed to be necessary". (e.g.
~2025-12345-67 and ~2025-12345-68 are likely the same person, so I am counting their reverts together toward 3RR
, but not Hey ~2025-12345-68, you did some good editing as ~2025-12345-67) - See Wikipedia:Temporary account IP viewer § What can and can't be said for more detailed guidelines.
Useful tools for patrollers
- It is possible to view if a user has opted-in to view temporary account IPs via the User Info card, available in Preferences → Appearance → Advanced options →
Enable the user info card
- This feature also makes it possible for anyone to see the approximate count of temporary accounts active on the same IP address range.
- Special:IPContributions allows viewing all edits and temporary accounts connected to a specific IP address or IP range.
- Similarly, Special:GlobalContributions supports global search for a given temporary account's activity.
- The auto-reveal feature (see video below) allows users with the right permissions to automatically reveal all IP addresses for a limited time window.
Videos
- How to use Special:IPContributions
- How automatic IP reveal works
- How to use IP Info
- How to use User Info
Further information and discussion
- For more information and discussion regarding this change, please see the announcement from the Wikimedia Foundation at Wikipedia:Village pump (WMF) § Temporary accounts rollout.
Most of this message was written by Mz7 (source). Thanks, 🎃 SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 02:47, 31 October 2025 (UTC)
Draftify
This is a bit of an WP:OOPS - I draftified Ukranian National News because it didn't really have enough references, but didn't spot that it was recently created. Apologies for the snappiness. Won't template you, obviously, but just to make you aware. (Also, there's a typo in the title in Ukrainian.) Thanks and apologies again. Fermiboson (talk) 11:02, 4 December 2025 (UTC)
- You should use edit summaries to explain what you're doing -- why did you move the page to draft space?
- You shouldn't act with such haste. You moved the page to draft space just forty-six seconds after it was created. And you've left me with a mess to clean up.
- How can your actions be rationalized? -- mikeblas (talk) 11:05, 4 December 2025 (UTC)
Interstate 90 in Illinois
Hi. This is too minor a change to tussle over, so I will leave your change in place. I clearly see that an anchor can be added to a section, but since we (collectively) link to sections a lot without doing this, I think an explanation for why it's being anchored should have been given in an edit summary. If I was to attempt to read your mind, I would guess it's because there are over 40 articles linking to the redirect, and thus it's kind of a safety measure. But that's what's great about edit summaries, so we as fellow editors don't have to attempt to read minds. :) Happy holidays! Stefen 𝕋ower Huddle • Handiwerk 22:15, 21 December 2025 (UTC)