User talk:Colin M
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Happy First Edit Day!
Have a very happy first edit anniversary!
From the Birthday Committee, DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 06:02, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
Hi Colin,
It's been a while – I hope you are well.
Since your GAR of Dracula in 2021, I've picked up work on it again and I'd like to propose to FAC within the next few weeks.
The article has undergone some drastic changes since GAR in preparation for FAC. I am wondering if you would have any time to re-review the article as part of its open peer review. In particular, one peer highlighted clarity concerns regarding the Context and interpretation section.
I see you have been off-wiki for a little while now, so completely understand if real-life commitments are taking precedence for you right now. Nonetheless, I welcome any feedback from you. — ImaginesTigers (talk∙contribs) 13:09, 2 February 2025 (UTC)
- Additionally, I re-reviewed the GAR for re-applicable feedback. Since GAR, other editors strongly favoured removing the "spoiler" from lead's plot summary but there is no consensus. I removed the spoiler again, and it has been suggested that it be decreased further, in-line with The Turn of the Screw and The Great Gatsby. It was originally added at your request; the spoilers' inclusion has been defended by other editors, too. I am not sure on what to do there. — ImaginesTigers (talk∙contribs) 13:15, 2 February 2025 (UTC)
Happy Adminship Anniversary!
 | Happy adminship anniversary! Hi Colin M! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of your successful request for adminship. Enjoy this special day! DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 02:46, 9 April 2025 (UTC) |  |
Happy Adminship Anniversary!
| Happy adminship anniversary! Hi Colin M! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of your successful request for adminship. Enjoy this special day! Randompersonediting (✍️•📚) 06:55, 9 April 2025 (UTC) | |
Precious anniversary
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| Six years! |
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MOS:POSTNOM has an RfC
MOS:POSTNOM has an RfC for possible consensus. A discussion is taking place. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Ed 18:29, 14 May 2025 (UTC)
A kitten for you!
Thanks for your soapbox page and for your contributions on Talk:Jesse Singal.
YarrowFlower (talk) 08:43, 17 May 2025 (UTC)
Cambodia
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Category:Lists of animal fatalities has been nominated for renaming
Category:Lists of animal fatalities has been nominated for renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether it complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Ixfd64 (talk) 19:06, 15 October 2025 (UTC)
Guide to temporary accounts
Hello, Colin M. 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
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How to use Special:IPContributions
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How automatic IP reveal works
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How to use IP Info
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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)
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