User talk:Elli/Archive 19

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2025).

Administrator changes

NuclearWarfare

Interface administrator changes

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Guideline and policy news

• Following a talk page discussion, speedy deletion criterion G13 has been amended to remove "Userspace with no content except the article wizard placeholder text."
• WP:Manual of Style/Superscripts and subscripts was upgraded to a guideline following a RfC discussion.

Miscellaneous

• The 2025 Developing Countries WikiContest will run from 1 July to 30 September. Sign up now!
• Administrator elections will take place this month. Administrator elections are an alternative to RFA that is a gentler process for candidates due to secret voting and multiple people running together. The call for candidates is July 9–15, the discussion phase is July 18–22, and the voting phase is July 23–29. Get ready to submit your candidacy, or (with their consent) to nominate a talented candidate!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:RodRabelo7#c-RodRabelo7-20250713155800-Dronebogus-20250713130900

I pinged you there, but I think it’s worth mentioning here because it seems to me that the account in question is doing everything possible to harass me, including wikihounding. They edited a page I had created and, just minutes later, removed a tag I had added to an article. Very strange, especially given the user’s history of wikihounding. Thank you, RodRabelo7 (talk) 16:01, 13 July 2025 (UTC)

An IP Hopper from Pennsylvania has resumed changing the number of episodes of Lamb Chop's Play-Along without a proper explanation and a proper edit summary. - FilmandTVFan28 (talk) 03:35, 19 July 2025 (UTC)

So, in essence, it's the vandalism that never ends, it goes on and on my friends, we started reverting knowing what it was, but they'll just keeping on spamming just because ~Gwennie🐈｟💬 📋｠ 21:49, 19 July 2025 (UTC)

A tag has been placed on Wes Allen (disambiguation) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G14 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is:

• a disambiguation page with a title ending in "(disambiguation)" which lists only one extant Wikipedia page (i.e., there is a primary topic);
• a disambiguation page that lists zero extant Wikipedia pages, regardless of its title; or
• a redirect with a title ending in "(disambiguation)" whose target is neither a disambiguation page nor page that has a disambiguation-like function.

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such pages may be deleted at any time. Please see the disambiguation page guidelines for more information.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 09:33, 26 July 2025 (UTC)

Yo bro I’m sorry uhm is their any articles you need help with that involve Portuguese history or Brazilian history --Porralagos (talk) 06:16, 28 July 2025 (UTC)

Hi! So I've been trying to get into editing on here and I've made some small changes here and there but there's a lot of information and policy to be aware of which can be difficult, and in hindsight I definitely shouldn't have done this because I'm too new and not familiar enough with deletion policy but I submitted an article for deletion and everyone disagreed (for valid reasons, again I did not do enough research and I should not be submitting articles for deletion with as little experience as I have) so I'm just wondering what your advice would be for getting more comfortable on here and how I can better familiarize myself with how things work :) like what did you do when you were a beginner? --Dyljm (talk) 18:12, 28 July 2025 (UTC)

Hi Ellie, I released a band page (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Draft:A_Projection) two months ago. Have been waiting for this page to be reviewed since then, but have started to wonder if that will happen. I wonder if you know how I can check the status of what is happening? Cheers, Sam --Sam.S.Welch (talk) 19:22, 5 August 2025 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2025).

Administrator changes

• CoconutOctopus
• Curbon7
• Hinnk
• Jlwoodwa
• Kj cheetham
• KylieTastic
• Ser!
• Smasongarrison
• UndercoverClassicist

• Bbb23
• Beeblebrox
• David Gerard
• Oleg Alexandrov
• Satori Son

CheckUser changes

• Alison
• Bradv
• Joe Roe
• RickinBaltimore
• ST47

Oversight changes

• Bradv
• RickinBaltimore

Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, a new speedy deletion criterion, G15, has been enacted. It applies to pages generated by a large language model (LLM) without human review.
• Following a request for comment, there is a new policy outlining the granting of permissions to view the IP addresses of temporary accounts. Temporary account deployment on the English Wikipedia is currently scheduled for September 2025, and editors can request access to the permission ahead of time. Admins are encouraged to keep an eye on the request page; there will likely be a flood of editors requesting the permission when they realize they can no longer see IP addresses.

Technical news

• Administrators can now restrict the "Add a Link" feature to newcomers. The "Add a Link" Structured Task helps new account holders get started with editing. Administrators can configure this setting in the Community Configuration page.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Indian military history has been closed.
  • South Asia (WP:CT/SA) is designated a contentious topic. The topic area is specifically defined as All pages related to the region of South Asia (India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal), broadly construed, including but not limited to history, politics, ethnicity, and social groups.
  • The contentious topic designations for Sri Lanka (SL) and India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan (IPA) are folded into this new contentious topic.
  • The community-authorized general sanctions regarding South Asian social groups (GS/CASTE) are rescinded and folded into this new contentious topic.
• The arbitration case Article titles and capitalisation 2 has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case closed on 31 July.
• The arbitration case Transgender healthcare and people has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case will close on 11 August.

Miscellaneous

• Wikimania 2025 is happening in Nairobi, Kenya, and online from August 6 to August 9. This year marks 20 years of Wikimania. Interested users can join the online event. Registration for the virtual event is free and will remain open throughout Wikimania. You can register here now.

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The fourth round of the 2025 WikiCup ended on 29 August. The penultimate round saw three contestants score more than 800 points:

• BeanieFan11 (submissions) with 1,175 round points, mainly from sports-related articles, including 17 good articles, 27 did you know articles, and 9 in the news articles
• Arconning (submissions) with 1,090 round points, mainly from articles about athletes and politicians, including a featured article on Philippines at the 1924 Summer Olympics, 9 good articles, 28 did you know articles, and a wide assortment of featured and good article reviews
• AirshipJungleman29 (submissions) with 854 round points, mostly from a high-scoring featured article on the Indian leader Rani of Jhansi and two good articles, in addition to 13 featured and good article reviews

Everyone who competed in Round 4 will advance to Round 5 unless they have withdrawn. This table shows all competitors who have received tournament points so far, while the full scores for Round 4 can be seen here. During this round, contestants have claimed 9 featured articles, 12 featured lists, 98 good articles, 9 good topic articles, more than 150 reviews, nearly 100 did you know articles, and 18 in the news articles.

In advance of the fifth and final round, the judges would like to thank every contestant for their hard work. As a reminder, any content promoted after 29 August but before the start of Round 5 can be claimed in Round 5. In addition, note that Round 5 will end on 31 October at 23:59 UTC. Awards at the end of Round 5 will be distributed based on who has the most tournament points over all five rounds, and special awards will be distributed based on high performance in particular areas of content creation (e.g., most featured articles in a single round).

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 – Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), Epicgenius (talk · contribs), Frostly (talk · contribs), Guerillero (talk · contribs) and Lee Vilenski (talk · contribs) – are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck!

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Just so you know, you changed [[Saba]] to [[Saba (island)|]] in Incense trade route in 2022 even though the page had no connection with the Caribbean. It's fixed now. Aoeuidhtns (talk) 22:24, 30 August 2025 (UTC)

@Aoeuidhtns thanks for fixing it :) Elli (talk | contribs) 00:48, 31 August 2025 (UTC)

Despite being a long time Wikipedia editor, I do not understand the upper admin regulations and rules; I see that this issue is open, but the evidence is closed. I am an uninvolved party and have key insight into this issue that I feel will help the administrators understand the points of view of both sides of this situation, so I'm posting it here on your talk page - please do not take offense.

Talking about trans issues is difficult, because the mainstream model is the medical model (there is a trans syndrome, direct cause unknown, and transition medical care helps people with this medical issue). Thus, transition medicine is seen as medical care under the medical model. Those who are trans deserve the best evidence based medical care that can be provided. This is the model that allows medical groups to bill insurance for transition related care in the United States.

That point of view isn't the one causing problems. It's a second point of view.

There is an ideology defined and explained by Martine Rothblatt in the book "Sex is Apartheid". It begins with a belief in mind-body dualism; that the mind is the true human, a body merely a shell. Human bodies can have individual features that are more masculine or more feminine, therefore, sex isn't a binary, but a spectrum, merely a "series of biological and psychological factors a body can have". One should spend time contemplating their gender, and that their gender should therefore determine their sex. Body modification should be posed as a human right. These ideas should be codified in psychology, medicine, and law. Letting go of the binary point of view of sex is the next step toward freeing humanity from the "Apartheid of Sex".

Once you see this explanation, you understand the origin of arguments like "Gender is assigned at birth" over "Gender/Sex is observed at birth" - because in this model, one's gender is determined in one's mind, "all genders are valid", and there are no external factors that can be observed to see one's Gender. Modifying one's body to follow the mind is framed as a human right, along with legally and socially being recognized in the gender one declares themselves to have. Thus, Self ID law (where one is able to legally declare their gender, and this is treated as their sex thus forth) is justified.

There are many arguments that do not make sense if you do not understand this framework. "I am a biological female, I take estrogen!" doesn't make sense unless you have the ideology behind it: estrogen provides a "female biological factor", because all human bodies have a series of traits that can lean female or male, and sex is a spectrum of traits a body can have. The general public, of course, is at a total loss because they don't understand the underlying "rules".

It's important to note that Rothblatt helped write a sample Self ID Law draft that has been presented as a suggestion to governments around the world, and that the book was written to justify the law and encourage it's adoption. It's available freely online and is considered a "key" transgender reading, but most people learn the principles in online communities, not by reading the book.'

The challenge to people with this point of view is that pushing it too hard would lead to loosing insurance or health care support for body modifications, since transition is no longer medical care. That's what interjects so much confusion into the debate; the inability to let go of "medical care" to achieve body modification access for those who are not wealthy. This was not a problem then Rothblatt faced personally, so it was not considered in the book.

There have been multiple attempts to name this point of view, and it's prominent here on Wikipedia across many articles, despite never being named. "Gender Ideology" was an neutral attempt. The second closest neutral name I can find is the lengthy "one who doesn't believe you need gender dysphoria to be trans" among those who reject the medical model. To see the fighting in action... you have to look at the words "tucute" and "truscum", both seen as pejorative today. Alas, many followers have not read the book and can't articulate the arguments well. But if you read Rothblatt's book - agree or disagree - the logic behind it can be articulated, and that point of view is being pushed here on Wikipedia.

People who are true believers do not believe they have a point of view to disclose, rather, they believe they are the source of TRUTH. Any disagreement with the TRUTH must be silenced, so even though their own point of view is Fringe, they label "believing human bodies are born with a sex, male or female" as a hateful fringe idea, despite it being the point of view of the majority of people in the USA and UK, and most likely, the whole world.

Therefore, editors who simply try to push a neutral point of view, following the sources, get burned by activists who shut them down by any means necessary. If you spend time in these articles you see the same editors over and over "voting" to protect this point of view at any cost.

It's also hard because most people writing on this issue do have a bias, so any criticism is shut down as "biased" - while biased "pro" sources are openly allowed, leading to biased articles.

This leaves Wikipedia in a bind, because we have a very clearly biased group of editors accusing anyone who disagrees with them, even on a minor point, of being "argumentative" and "unreasonable" and "biased", because they alone hold the TRUTH that others must be forced to see.

I am leaving this comment as an uninvolved party to help the Admins understand the arguments being made, because it will make the points of view being argued about more clear. I've generally just tried to steer clear of these articles, because people are simply allowed to push their POV by pretending they don't have one. I generally stick to trying to clean them up, leaving contentious material, and just making sure it represents what the sources say, but I've been burned for even trying to make an article reflect the source material.

Denaar (talk) 15:40, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

@Denaar Kinda weird how, according to you, this one side has an 'ideology' and the others are just the default. Reminds me of something. Polygnotus (talk) 10:14, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2025).

Administrator changes

Euryalus

• Admrboltz
• FloNight
• Floquenbeam
• Ganeshk
• JesseW
• Night Gyr
• Nixdorf

Interface administrator changes

Ragesoss

CheckUser changes

AmandaNP

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Oversight changes

AmandaNP

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open on whether use of emojis with no encyclopedic value in mainspace and draftspace (e.g., at the start of paragraphs or in place of bullet points) should be added as a criterion under G15.

Technical news

• Administrators can now access the Special:BlockedExternalDomains page from the Special:CommunityConfiguration list page. This makes it easier to find. T393240

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Article titles and capitalisation 2 has been closed.
• An RfC is in progress to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the Arbitration Committee election and resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2025).

Administrator changes

• Billinghurst
• Crisco 1492
• DarkFalls
• Spike Wilbury
• Valereee
• Ergo Sum

CheckUser changes

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Arbitration

• After a motion, arbitration enforcement page protections no longer need to be logged in the AELOG. A bot now automatically posts protections at WP:AELOG/P. To facilitate this bot, protection summaries must include a link to the relevant CT page (e.g. [[WP:CT/BLP]]), and you will receive talk page reminders if you forget to specify the contentious topic but otherwise indicate it is an AE action.

Hi Eli, I think I'm ready to publish my page. Is it a problem if I continue doing minor edits after published? --Newjodi96 (talk) 00:03, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

Template:2009 United States Senate elections imagemap has been nominated for discussion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 11:37, 17 October 2025 (UTC)

Last year, I tested out this tool on my talk page (almost immediately after script-installing it), but running it created an unintended link to User talk:Slgrandson/Archive 1. Is there any way I can configure it so that the messages get sent to User talk:Slgrandson/Archive/2024 instead? Or is there another script that can actually handle the job I'm envisioning? (Reiterating from a previous Help-desk query.) Slgrandson (How's my egg-throwing coleslaw?) 20:13, 17 October 2025 (UTC)

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Hi Elli, ages ago I made a draft page for Cliff Tait, I'm a new editor so wasn't really able to make it work and now I can't find the draft. Cliff Tait has now died and I want to try again to get the page to work. Would you know if the draft has gone? Do I need to start from scratch? Thanks. --SunCamper (talk) 05:30, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

@SunCamper: I believe this was at Draft:Cliff Tait; the draft got deleted as it wasn't edited for six months. There's a current draft at this location (started by someone else), so I've restored your draft revisions to that page's edit history. Please let me know if you need help finding them. Elli (talk | contribs) 05:33, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

Thank you! SunCamper (talk) 03:49, 29 October 2025 (UTC)

How can I create a page --Maghreb3891 (talk) 11:31, 29 October 2025 (UTC)

Hello, Elli. 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.

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• 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).
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• 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.
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Impact for administrators

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• 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)
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Most of this message was written by Mz7 (source). Thanks, 🎃 SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 02:48, 31 October 2025 (UTC)

The 2025 WikiCup has come to an end. Our top scorers, based on the tournament point rankings (which can be seen here), are:

1. BeanieFan11 (submissions) with 1,604 tournament points, will receive the 1st place award.
2. Gog the Mild (submissions) with 1,075 tournament points, will receive the 2nd place award.
3. Arconning (submissions) with 860 tournament points, will receive the 3rd place award.
4. History6042 (submissions) with 804 tournament points
5. Sammi Brie (submissions) with 635 tournament points
6. TheDoctorWho (submissions) with 386 tournament points
7. AirshipJungleman29 (submissions) with 373 tournament points
8. Thebiguglyalien (submissions) with 362 tournament points

Our high scorers in the final round were:

• BeanieFan11 (submissions) with 1,035 round points, mostly from 19 good articles and 21 did you know articles about athletes
• vigilantcosmicpenguin (submissions) with 819 round points, mostly from 13 good articles and 11 did you know articles about a wide range of topics from abortion topics to African cities
• TheNuggeteer (submissions) with 508 round points from 9 good articles, 4 good topic articles and 6 did you know articles mainly about Philippines topics, along with 19 good article reviews

The final round was very productive, and contestants had 2 featured articles, 4 featured lists, 106 good articles, 5 good topic articles, 178 article reviews, 76 did you know articles, and 9 in the news articles. Altogether, Wikipedia has benefited greatly from the activities of WikiCup competitors all through the contest. Well done everyone!

The top eight scorers will receive awards shortly. The following special awards will be made, based on high performance in particular areas of content creation. These prizes are awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field during the competition.

• Gog the Mild (submissions) wins the featured article prize, with 12 featured articles total, and the featured topic prize, with 9 featured topic articles in total
• Hey man im josh (submissions) wins the featured list prize, with 10 featured lists total
• AirshipJungleman29 (submissions) wins the featured picture prize, submitting the only featured picture in the entire contest during round 3
• History6042 (submissions) wins the featured content reviewer prize, with 127 featured content reviews. He will also share the ITN prize, with 20 in the news articles in total.
• BeanieFan11 (submissions) wins the good article prize, with 100 good articles total, and the DYK prize, with 147 did you know articles in total. He will also share the ITN prize, with 20 in the news articles in total.
• TheDoctorWho (submissions) wins the good topic prize, with 16 good topic entries in total
• Arconning (submissions) wins the good article reviewer prize, with 68 good article reviews in total

A special mention also goes to these users who scored the highest in a particular category in a single round:

• Sammi Brie (submissions), with 27 good articles in round 3, and 45 good article reviews in round 1
• Tails Wx (submissions), with 10 in the news articles in round 3

Next year's competition will begin on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate. The WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to see you all in the 2026 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement!

On behalf of the judges, Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email), Epicgenius (talk · contribs · email), Frostly (talk · contribs · email), Guerillero (talk · contribs · email) and Lee Vilenski (talk · contribs · email):

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Quick facts One year! ...

Precious

One year!

Close

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:16, 3 November 2025 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: Thanks :) hard to believe it's been a year. Elli (talk | contribs) 06:18, 3 November 2025 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2025).

Administrator changes

Toadspike

• Elahrairah
• Juliancolton
• Magnus Manske

CheckUser changes

asilvering

Guideline and policy news

• The speedy deletion criteria U5 has been repealed, with U6 and U7 replacing it. See the FAQ for more clarifications.
• Community-designated contentious topics may now be enforced and appealed at the arbitration enforcement noticeboard (AE) as a result of an RfC.

Technical news

• You can enable a handy user info card next to usernames, which when clicked displays edit count, blocks, thanks, and other information. To enable this feature, visit Preferences → Appearance → Advanced options → Enable the user info card

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Transgender healthcare and people has been closed
  • Uninvolved administrators may impose an AE participation restriction on any thread at the Arbitration Enforcement noticeboard.

Miscellaneous

• An unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in November 2025 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!

A tag has been placed on Category:2028 New York (state) elections indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:44, 12 November 2025 (UTC)

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If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:45, 12 November 2025 (UTC)

Hello. I hope you are doing well. Just out of curiosity, does your script respect Category:Pages that should not be manually archived? —usernamekiran (talk) 15:38, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

@Usernamekiran yes. See line 52. Elli (talk | contribs) 15:58, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

Hey, Elli! I made the following articles, and the maps within them. However, the maps were made on Mapchart, and don't look like other referendum Wikipedia articles, such as your 2000 Alabama Amendment 2's map. I was wondering if you are able to make maps for any of the following Wikipedia articles. I would really appreciate any help at all. Thank you!

1998 South Carolina Amendment 4

2021 Pennsylvania Amendment 3

1915 Pennsylvania Amendment 1

1976 Missouri Amendment 5

1975 New Jersey Public Question 2

2024 Oklahoma State Question 834

1924 Nevada State Question 2 Thefinals626472 (talk) 16:14, 21 November 2025 (UTC)

@Thefinals626472 I could make maps at some point, but if you'd like to do so, a relatively easy way to do it is to use Inkscape to fill in the blank maps in c:Category:Standardized SVG county maps of US states. The legend colors are from Wikipedia:WikiProject Elections and Referendums/USA legend colors § Proposal support levels.

Please let me know if you have any questions about this :) Elli (talk | contribs) 01:44, 22 November 2025 (UTC)

Thank you- I did know about Inkscape, but when I use it, the paintbucket tool does fill in the counties, but around the county borders the old color remains. Is there a fix to this? Or, should I not use that tool and use a different one? Thefinals626472 (talk) 02:34, 23 November 2025 (UTC)

@Thefinals626472 don't use the paintbucket tool, yeah. You want to change the fill color for each county. Should be "Object > Fill and Stroke". Elli (talk | contribs) 03:30, 23 November 2025 (UTC)

Thank you!!! Thefinals626472 (talk) 04:10, 23 November 2025 (UTC)

Congrats on becoming an admin :) Is there a central place to request deletion of copyrighted information? See: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=1324277280 --Cerulean Depths (talk) 19:50, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

@Cerulean Depths you can use {{Copyvio-revdel}} for easy-to-clean-up violations like this. For something that's harder to deal with you might want Wikipedia:Copyright problems, and for an editor with a long history of copyright issues you can go to Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations. Be sure to read the instructions on those pages before filing, though. Elli (talk | contribs) 23:10, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

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Happy holidays and a prosperous 2026!

Elli, my fellow political geek. Thank you for all the support you gave this past year, from your encouragement to run at ACE to your help with feedback on the various clerk improvements and everything in between. I am thrilled that we will get to work together on ArbCom! Imagine telling these two editors that two years in the future they would be serving side-by-side on ArbCom... time sure flies. I always enjoy your company, whether that be collaborating on content, hanging out at WCNA, exchanging predictions for how various elections will go, or, of courses, stopping you from shooting the moon in hearts! All the best for you and yours in 2026, and happy editing :)

(I had to give it to you.)

HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 23:20, 21 December 2025 (UTC)

Hello Elli: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, ~Gwennie🐈｟💬 📋｠ 04:05, 22 December 2025 (UTC)

~Gwennie🐈｟💬 📋｠ 04:05, 22 December 2025 (UTC)