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Hello! Just letting you know that the automated tool didn’t properly close one of the requests, or answer all of the redirects in that request. ([[Special:Diff/1323021857|Diff]]) Cheers 🙂 [[User:LR.127|LR.127]] ([[User talk:LR.127|talk]]) 18:51, 21 November 2025 (UTC)

Hello! Just letting you know that the automated tool didn’t properly close one of the requests, or answer all of the redirects in that request. ([[Special:Diff/1323021857|Diff]]) Cheers 🙂 [[User:LR.127|LR.127]] ([[User talk:LR.127|talk]]) 18:51, 21 November 2025 (UTC)

:@[[User:LR.127|LR.127]] I answered two as {{tl|R from modification}}. I am not familiar with the topic, so I left the acronyms for another editor to review. I have a few minutes now, so I can take another look. Happy Editing — ”'[[User:IAmChaos|<span style=”color:#000000″>IAm</span>]][[User talk:IAmChaos|<span style=”color:#0645AD”>Chaos</span>]]”’ 18:54, 21 November 2025 (UTC)

:@[[User:LR.127|LR.127]] I answered two as {{tl|R from modification}}. I am not familiar with the topic, so I left the acronyms for another editor to review. I have a few minutes now, so I can take another look. Happy Editing — ”'[[User:IAmChaos|<span style=”color:#000000″>IAm</span>]][[User talk:IAmChaos|<span style=”color:#0645AD”>Chaos</span>]]”’ 18:54, 21 November 2025 (UTC)

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Hello, IAmChaos

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Wilson & Ditch talk: Digging America for deletion, because it seems to be inappropriate for a variety of reasons. For more details please see the notice on the article.

If you feel that the article shouldn’t be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but don’t remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Thanks!

(Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.)

Shocksingularity (talk) 03:28, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I believe that was created by request at AFC/R. Happy Editing — IAmChaos 02:21, 11 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, IAmChaos. Per your request, your account has been granted temporary-account-viewer rights. You are now able to reveal the IP addresses of individuals using temporary accounts that are not visible to the general public. This is very sensitive information that is only to be used to aid in anti-abuse workflows. Please take a moment to review Wikipedia:Temporary account IP viewer for more information on this user right. It is important to remember:

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Remember, even if a user is violating policy, avoid revealing personal information if possible. Use temporary account usernames rather than disclosing IP addresses directly, or give information such as same network/not same network or similar. If you do not want the user right anymore then please ask me or another administrator and it will be removed for you. You may also voluntarily give up access at any time by visiting Special:Preferences. Happy editing! asilvering (talk) 03:11, 10 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

MediaWiki message delivery 14:50, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I represent the organization previously known as **National Coalition Against Gambling**. Our organization officially changed its name to **Stop Predatory Gambling** in 2008

I am not editing directly due to a conflict of interest. Could a neutral editor please update:

The article title and all references to our old name.

The introductory section to reflect the current name and mission.

The history section to include verifiable, neutral information about our work from 2008 onward. I have provided reliable sources below to verify these updates:

https://www.stoppredatorygambling.org/our-history/

https://www.philanthropy.com/article/can-a-scrappy-one-person-nonprofit-transform-in-time

“‘Addictive, Exploitive, Manipulative’: Les Bernal Breaks Down Predatory Gambling Ahead of Super Bowl”.

“Les Bernal on the Case Against Predatory Gambling” The Big Gamble: The world of online sports betting in the US | Fault Lines Documentary.

“Stop Predatory Gambling Foundation – GuideStar Profile”. this is the link to my user page sandbox that has the information i would like incorporated

User:Caherniv/sandbox Thank you for your time and help! Caherniv (talk) 13:42, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Caherniv – I moved the page, and added an edit request tag so that editors experienced in that area may help you out! Happy Editing–IAmChaos 01:54, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi! I am a representative of Ryah Nixon, and the changes I made to her Wiki page were done at her request. How can I get them back up? Thank you! OneMoreFanBway (talk) 04:15, 30 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I replied at your talk page. IAmChaos 04:16, 30 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, IAmChaos. 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.
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• 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
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• 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.

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Most of this message was written by Mz7 (source). Thanks, 🎃 SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 02:47, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi IAmChaos. After reviewing your request, I have enabled rollback on your account. Please keep the following things in mind while using rollback:

• Being granted rollback is no more momentous than installing Twinkle or Ultraviolet. It just adds a [rollback] button next to a page’s latest live revision. It does not grant you any additional “status” on Wikipedia, nor does it change how Wikipedia policies apply to you.
• Rollback should be used to revert clear and unambiguous cases of vandalism only. Never use rollback to revert good faith edits. For more information about when rollback is appropriate, see Wikipedia:Rollback § When to use rollback.
• Rollback should never be used to edit war, and it should never be used in a content-related dispute to restore the page to your preferred revision. If rollback is abused or used for this purpose or any other inappropriate purpose, the permission will be revoked.
• Use common sense. If you’re not sure about something, ask!

I’m sure you’ll do great with rollback, and feel free to leave me a message on my talk page if you run into trouble or have any questions about appropriate use of rollback. If you no longer want rollback, contact me and I’ll remove it. For information on rollback, see Wikipedia:Administrators’ guide/Rollback (even though you’re not an admin) and Wikipedia:Rollback. Good luck and thanks! – robertsky (talk) 10:23, 7 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Happy Editing — IAmChaos 20:26, 10 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

MediaWiki message delivery 20:36, 10 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

MediaWiki message delivery 23:05, 12 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi IAmChaos, first thank you for your work at WP:AFC/R and checking behind things. I am coming here regarding this comment where you reopened a request I declined due to WP:ARBECR. I get where you are coming from but time and again I have seen admins and Arbs explain A1 is very specific and only includes edit requests on article talk pages so anything outside of that is not allowed which includes the Wikipedia namespace, Drafts, etc. See User talk:S0091/Archive 5#A comment you made a long time ago for one example directly involving me and erroneous guidance unknowingly I gave.

I am not going to re-close the redirect request but just wanted to explain why I take a very strict interpretation. I can see the argument that WP:AFC/R is essentially an edit request but in the Wikipedia namespace. What I do suggest though is posing the question at WT:Arbitration Committee/Clerks. If you do that, please ping me as I am interested in the response. Thanks again, S0091 (talk) 20:50, 13 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@S0091 Question posed at WP:ACCN#WP:ECR Exemption A1 question. Feel free to chime in! Happy Editing — IAmChaos 21:19, 13 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Awesome! Depending in the answer I might have a follow up question. S0091 (talk) 21:31, 13 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello there! I wanted to know that what was the reason behind the deletion of my draft article? – 𝙰𝚔𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚟™ ^🗿 08:12, 14 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, the draft was not deleted. You can find it at Draft:List of SSLV Launch Complex launches. I tagged the leftovers from the move for deletion under the policy at WP:R2, since you didn’t after you moved it to draft. Log entry. I would offer to look at the draft, but i’m traveling and on my phone right now. IAmChaos(alt acct – please ping my main) 13:37, 14 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That’s a relief. I thought I lost my hardwork in a blink of an eye! You’re more than welcome to review the draft. Have a safe and pleasant journey. Regards! – 𝙰𝚔𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚟™ ^🗿 15:55, 14 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hallo…
I want to write new article about one marathi writer. What can I do for this? —MAYADAV91 (talk) 04:55, 16 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @MAYADAV91. We don’t recommend new users starting off by creating an articel from scrathch, but if you would like to try, look at this page for instructions! Happy Editing — IAmChaos 16:18, 17 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:47, 17 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Just letting you know that the automated tool didn’t properly close one of the requests, or answer all of the redirects in that request. (Diff) Cheers 🙂 LR.127 (talk) 18:51, 21 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@LR.127 I answered two as {{R from modification}}. I am not familiar with the topic, so I left the acronyms for another editor to review. I have a few minutes now, so I can take another look. The userscript will only close a request if you respond to all of the open requests. Happy Editing — IAmChaos 18:54, 21 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]