User talk:NDG

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Happy editing! — voidxor 14:34, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much, voidxor. I am deWP user for 20 years and you will meet me, when my changes affect more than the german version. --NDG (talk) 11:18, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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If you come across an account which violates the username policy, you can report them here. Thank you for your vigilance. Lynch44 13:37, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much Lynch44, as a german CVU I am learning about the local policys of the enwp for the last days. This helps me to orientate myself, especially because we deal with almost everything about vandalism reports in the dewp. NDG (talk) 13:42, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Klemperer and Nazis Killing Jewish Pets

Hi. You rightly undid my edit on "Animal welfare in Nazi Germany" (I had looked at the Klemperer source for relevant information on page 52, and hadn't found anything--but I had mistaken page 52 of the Internet Archive scan for page 52 of the original document, which has 19 fewer pages so, so I got the wrong page) but your summary was "unexplained content removal." I obviously explained my content removal. I was just wrong. BeatrixGodard (talk) 21:05, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tomax and Xamot

Listen to me. That section is effectively unsourced and WP:INDISCRIMINATE. Is it really worth keeping? 2605:B40:1302:6C00:7803:E3E3:4CB:D66B (talk) 14:10, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You removed a source. Please use the article's diskussion, to discuss on any issues which are related to an article. Thank You. NDG (talk) 14:14, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Temporary account IP viewer granted

Hello, NDG. Per your request, your account has been granted temporary account IP 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:

• You must not share IP address data with someone who does not have the same access permissions unless disclosure is permissible as per guidelines listed at Foundation:Policy:Wikimedia Access to Temporary Account IP Addresses Policy.
• Access should not be used for political control, to apply pressure on editors, or as a threat against another editor in a content dispute. There must be a valid reason to investigate a temporary user. Note that using multiple temporary accounts is not forbidden, so long as they are not used in violation of policies (for example, block or ban evasion).

It is also important to note that the following actions are logged for others to see:

• When a user accepts the preference that enables or disables IP reveal for their account.
• Revealing an IP address of a temporary account.
• Listing the temporary accounts that are associated with an IP address or CIDR range.

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! Salvio ^giuliano 12:10, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much @Salvio! NDG (talk) 12:11, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Rollback granted

Hi NDG. 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! Salvio ^giuliano 12:13, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hi NDG. Thank you for your work on DJI Avata. Another editor, Kudpung, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:

You must include the attribution to the German Wikipedia which you translated this from.

To reply, leave a comment here and begin it with {{Re|Kudpung}}. (Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.)

Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 10:47, 3 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello @Kudpung: as far as I know, I only have to do this for copyright reasons, right? NDG (talk) 10:53, 3 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Per Wikipedia:Copyrights: If you reuse text which you created yourself, the above may still be a good idea to avoid confusion, but it isn't mandatory. As I am very familiar with copyright regulations, I have not imported the texts into either DJI Avata or DJI Neo, as I consider this to be unnecessary work for the import administrators. NDG (talk) 11:22, 3 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I am not an expert on copyright, and very few experienced Wikipedians are. However, as one of this Wiki's most experienced New Page Reviewers, I have to err on the side of caution, and as an almost native speaker of German it was immediately obvious to me that this is a translation. That said, once an article has been published, its author no longer owns it: Wikipedia:Ownership of content, and attribution is required: Help:Translation#Attribution. To avoid any future issues with your work, I strongly recommend adding the 'translated' template to the en.Wiki talk page of any articles you have written on de.Wiki and translated here. It only takes a moment. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 23:45, 3 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have put the template on both articles talk pages. Ownership does not mean authorship. Since I am the author in dewiki, the attribution has no consequences. I would only do this for articles that I have written entirely myself. Spelling corrections are not considered sufficient creative work, which is why I do not attribute my colleagues. This is not to disparage their work, but to avoid unnecessary version imports. NDG (talk) 06:46, 4 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Guide to temporary accounts

Hello, NDG. 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) 02:47, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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