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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Doctor Who novellas

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Guide to temporary accounts

Hello, Josiah Rowe. 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?

Editing from a temporary account

• 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

How to enable IP Reveal

• 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) 02:48, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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WIkiProject Doctor Who: December 2025 Newsletter

The Space-Time Telegraph Volume III, Issue III — December 2025 Brought to you by the editors of WikiProject Doctor Who Help! We've been robbed... of a new Doctor Who Christmas special this year :( 2025... I Let You Go *vworp vworp, vworp vworp* The Space-Time Telepgraph is back again with our final issue of the year. With 13-episodes of Who-related content broadcast in 2025, it marked the biggest year in the Whoniverse since 2017! Take a quick read below for all the Wikipedia-related (and non-Wikipedia-related) Doctor Who news that you missed, and everything you have to look forward to. Happy New Year! 🥳🎉 Would you like a jelly baby Good or Featured article? It's been several months since the last newsletter, and a number of new GAs have been added to the quality content list. In total we have promoted nearly 50 Good Articles this year, on top of one Featured Article, making this the year with the largest amount of promoted Doctor Who-related content in Wikipedia history (Beating our previous record of 2012's 36 by a significant margin). Congratulations to all of our editors who have contributed to quality content this year, and we hope to see the number of quality articles under our project grow as time goes on. Intelligence Bulletin from the Subwave Network A five-part miniseries and spin-off of Doctor Who, The War Between the Land and the Sea concluded airing this month on BBC One. The series will release on Disney+ next year. The conclusion of that series on Disney+ will officially mark the end of the co-production deal between the Beeb and the Mouse House that was first announced in 2022. While Doctor Who has been confirmed to continue with a 2026 Christmas Special written by Russell T Davies, its status in international markets has yet to be announced. CBeebies has also found an animation partner for a 52-part animated spin-off set to begin production next year and air across two series from 2027–2029. The War Between will also receive a DVD and Blu-ray release on 27 February. A physical release of the soundtrack album for that series from Lorne Balfe will precede it on 30 January; however, it is already available on digital platforms. On 12 December, the long-awaited and long-requested tenth series soundtrack from Murray Gold was published. Season 21 will receive a "Collection" release on 16 March, featuring a remastered episodes with new special features. Additionally a plethora of new audio and print stories are due for publication in early 2026. Their songs have ended... but their stories never end 🌹 Since the previous issue was published, a number of people related to the Whoniverse have sadly passed away and some who passed away before the previous issue only had their deaths announced recently: 2019 19 April - Roger Minnis, 75, actor (Spearhead from Space, Doctor Who and the Silurians, The Ambassadors of Death, The Claws of Axos) 2020 19 April - Bernard Barnsley, 86 or 87, actor (The Ark, Doctor Who and the Silurians, The Time Monster) 11 September - Neil Sweetmore, 86, dresser (Warriors of the Deep) 2021 5 December - Peggy Sirr, 92, actress (Marco Polo) 2022 21 January - Terence Lodge, 85, actor (The Macra Terror, Carnival of Monsters, Planet of the Spiders) 9 May - Christopher Denham, 83, actor (The Savages) 1 June - Vaughan Collins, 74, actor (The Awakening) 17 November - Desmond McCarthy, production assistant (The Moonbase) Their songs have ended... but their stories never end 🌹 (continued) 2023 30 August - Jenny Doe, 76, director's assistant (Shada) and production associate (Terror of the Vervoids) 2024 10 March - Conrad Monk, 87, actor (The Daleks' Master Plan) 25 July - Brian White, cameraman (regular from 1960s onwards, work includes the Dalek POV at the end of The Daleks - "The Dead Planet") 2025 27 March - Ray Lavender, 85, actor (The Androids of Tara, The Horns of Nimon, The Leisure Hive, Snakedance) 5 April - Peter Noel Cook, 97, actor (The Ambassadors of Death) (death only announced in November) 17 May - Gawn Grainger, 87, actor (The Mark of the Rani) 14 June - Joanna Bacon, 72, actress (The Havoc of Empires, The Man at the End of the Garden) (death only announced in July) 6 July - Ralph Wilton, 86, production assistant (Shada), production manager (Arc of Infinity), and lighting crew (The Crusade) 4 August - Richard Ireson, 78, actor (The Mind Robber, The Krotons) 5 August - Stanley McGeagh, 88, actor (Colony in Space, The Sea Devils) 6 August - Christopher H. Bidmead, 84, script editor (Season 18) and writer (Logopolis, Castrovalva, Frontios) 9 August - Ray Brooks, 86, actor (Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D., The Trouble with Drax) 10 August - Biddy Baxter, 92, producer of Blue Peter (see connection to Doctor Who on the TARDIS Wiki) 23 August - Dave Taylor, 60 or 61, comic book artist (Terrorformer) 3 September - Derek Chafer, 90, actor (The Time Meddler, The Myth Makers, The Invasion, and many more (see TARDIS Wiki for details)) 6 October - John Woodvine, 96, actor (The Armageddon Factor, The Galileo Trap, The Satanic Mill) 13 October - Tony Caunter, 88, actor (The Crusade, Colony in Space, Enlightenment) 14 October - Gregg Palmer, 84, actor (The Tenth Planet, The War Games) 25 October - Nabil Shaban, 72, actor (Vengeance on Varos, Mindwarp, Mission to Magnus, Antidote to Oblivion, Sil and the Devil Seeds of Arodor) Tony Adams, 84, actor (The Green Death) 5 November - Pauline Collins, 85, actress (The Faceless Ones, "Tooth and Claw") November - Steven Ismay, 76[a], actor (The Daemons, Day of the Daleks, The Sea Devils, and many more (see TARDIS Wiki for details)) 19 December - Amanda Brotchie, director ("Lux", "The Well") Notes The reported birth date doesn't match any birth record so the accuracy of this age is uncertain. 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