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Section sizes in Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard Section size for Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard (44 sections) Section name Byte count Prose size (words) Header Total Header Total (Top) 949 949 0 0 Open tasks 230 230 1 1 Page in main namespace needs to be deleted/moved to other namespace, but can't be edited? 2,985 2,985 82 82 Arbitration enforcement action appeal by Lt.gen.zephyr 1,699 23,472 93 386 Statement by Lt.gen.zephyr 4,589 4,589 155 155 Statement by Tamzin 7,086 7,086 138 138 Statement by (involved editor 1) 40 40 0 0 Statement by (involved editor 2) 40 40 0 0 Discussion among uninvolved editors about the appeal by Lt.gen.zephyr 10,018 10,018 0 0 Peter Southwood and close paraphrasing, again 42,343 72,989 396 1,553 Arbitrary break 17,574 17,574 312 312 Solution (or lack of) 3,216 5,243 393 415 Proposed solution: 0RR 2,027 2,027 22 22 Do not archive yet 448 448 0 0 Could someone please BLPDELETE Death of Linnea Mills? 7,381 7,381 430 430 Unblocks needs help (and renamers) 9,833 9,833 50 50 Range block 2409:4000::/22 1,617 1,617 36 36 Is "block expungement" possible? 4,922 4,922 130 130 Discussion: How should we deal with votes submitted before voting period officially began? 2,225 2,225 255 255 Request review of informal COI topic ban 4,487 4,487 568 568 ~2025-37905-19 3,001 3,001 112 112 Export review blacklog 849 849 0 0 Users Smallangryplanet and Raskolnikov.Rev: persistent disruptive editing 11,662 11,662 197 197 A pair of Articles for Deletion here, Jimbo Wales factor 2,130 2,130 67 67 User talk:Cremastra#Caught by autoblock 1,292 1,292 48 48 RfC closure review request at :Talk:Israel#RfC: Whether to state that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians 4,212 82,631 99 674 Closer (Cremastra) 3,149 3,149 48 48 Non-participants 29,295 29,295 0 0 Participants 18,863 18,863 527 527 Discussion 27,112 27,112 0 0 CU/OS rolling appointment application – December 2025 771 771 57 57 Template:Disputed 1,295 1,295 42 42 Review a ban I lifted out of process 7,634 7,634 447 447 Ban discussion close review 1,316 1,316 65 65 Accidental Mess Up 1,866 1,866 32 32 User being disruptive on a page I try to contribute to 1,605 1,605 82 82 Warning requested for violation of deletion policy 8,863 8,863 122 122 WP:3X ban appeal for User:MoonknightPP34 8,974 8,974 474 474 Deleting a large category tree by sneakily emptying it 10,894 10,894 270 270 Paid editing offer by metapromoad 2,175 2,175 209 209 Mass Edit Revert 8,278 8,278 45 45 Possible AD content 574 574 39 39 Nigerian pronunciations 900 900 34 34 2025 Bondi Beach shooting 418 418 51 51 Total 280,837 280,837 6,128 6,128

Section sizes in Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents Section size for Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents (45 sections) Section name Byte count Prose size (words) Header Total Header Total (Top) 614 614 0 0 Bad-faith edits from Horse Eye's Back... again 28,516 115,325 699 1,046 Proposal: Indefinite block + standard offer for HEB 40,434 40,434 187 187 Close review: Horse Eye's Back 37,471 37,471 121 121 TenPoundHammer's conduct 8,904 8,904 39 39 Abuse of LLM by Paleorthodox 20,371 20,371 109 109 R3YBOl is banned on three Wiki projects, socking, racial slurs (N word), constant sourcing problems 50,075 50,075 1,024 1,024 Harassment and vandalism 23,557 23,557 292 292 WP:NOTHERE, begging for restoration of fancruft edits 6,013 14,061 94 235 A lie 6,034 6,034 75 75 Boomerang back to OP? 2,014 2,014 66 66 Ignoring consensus - disruptive editing 6,497 6,497 119 119 User CounterpointStitch 8,449 10,170 257 301 Restarting the RFC 1,721 1,721 44 44 Temp account ~2025-31243-86 rapid submission of unsourced Drafts 2,341 2,341 53 53 Nikki Benz day of birth 13,428 13,428 176 176 Disruptive editing by User:Sca 4,626 4,626 46 46 Continued unsourced additions after continued warnings 10,649 10,649 159 159 PolitickingAnalysis 7,944 7,944 379 379 Magician Abby 6,876 6,876 440 440 GiantSnowman cosmetic edits 32,842 32,842 50 50 Personal attacks, sockpuppeting, and harassment by Iosif77 3,759 3,759 164 164 RollingInHisGrave 28,953 28,953 485 485 Bondi Beach 220 3,175 0 81 Disruptive TA at Talk: 2025 Bondi Beach shooting 1,057 1,057 29 29 Attention needed at 2025 Bondi Beach shooting page protection 1,898 1,898 52 52 Silohpso 4,955 4,955 64 64 Brigading, Bias, and Revert Abusing on the MAK article by Skitash and M.Bitton 2,602 35,302 171 200 Skitash and Bitton's behavior to prevent conflict resolution through intended mechanisms (WP:3O) and (WP:WIKIHOUNDING) 8,185 32,700 29 29 One Way IBan 12,587 12,587 0 0 Daseyn allegations 11,928 11,928 0 0 Edit warring in slow motion 2,730 2,730 15 15 Editing to make maps appear in thousands of articles, against a previous RfC conclusion 12,392 12,392 214 214 User:1RightSider – repeated personal attacks and disruptive conduct 7,081 7,081 135 135 Anti-immigrant POV pusher won't leave me alone 14,003 14,003 225 225 Editor overlinking, using odd link format, with cryptic edit summary "#STEMART" 4,570 4,570 166 166 User:Jabji CIR & refusal to DROPTHESTICK 3,278 3,278 238 238 Byron Comp 3, again 1,720 1,720 89 89 BrianH123 is NOTHERE 3,292 3,292 76 76 User:Des_Vallee personal attacks and disruptive editing 19,397 19,397 440 440 Re: - Unresolved Concerns 9,301 9,301 155 155 Laqy-peenu 10,680 10,680 316 316 Sira Aspera 1,540 1,540 58 58 1RR vio by Rambling Rambler at 2025 Bondi Beach shooting 8,338 8,338 56 56 User:Ritchy Dube 2,982 2,982 222 222 Total 496,824 496,824 7,828 7,828

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Hello, all.

Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1205#Pattern of LLM edits on contentious topics contains an actual citation template with a relevant OCLC error. This is causing the archive to populate into Category:CS1 errors: OCLC, which is configured to ignore "/Archive#" subpages but not "/IncidentArchive#." Is there a way to stub out the category, so that we don't perpetually have a OCLC error floating around in the category? ~ Matthewrb ^{Get in touch · Breadcrumbs} 07:04, 3 November 2025 (UTC)

Fixing archives to remove errors is ok (if there really is a benefit). I fixed that in diff. Johnuniq (talk) 07:29, 3 November 2025 (UTC)

I figured so, I just wasn't sure the best way to go about it. I realize that a <nowiki> would make the most sense...

Thank you for taking care of it! ~ Matthewrb ^{Get in touch · Breadcrumbs} 07:51, 3 November 2025 (UTC)

@Voorts @Sdkb: Disagreeing with the revert at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents/Header, we've already had a lot of spurious reports at WP:ANI and WP:AN and this notice could really be helpful. Also open to changing the example to ~2025-12345-67 to be easier for the pattern-matching eye. Chaotic Enby (talk · contribs) 20:37, 14 November 2025 (UTC)

Fine with me. Maybe what we really need is another talk page blast and another watchlist notice. voorts (talk/contributions) 20:38, 14 November 2025 (UTC)

The format change is fine with me. I think we should keep this up for the near future until people stop posting about this here. It's distracting to have every five topics be "these look like socks to me because they have the same name format". voorts (talk/contributions) 20:39, 14 November 2025 (UTC)

Sorry for the wording, I was agreeing with your addition of the notice and disagreeing with Sdkb's revert! Chaotic Enby (talk · contribs) 20:39, 14 November 2025 (UTC)

I think I was unclear. I disagree with the revert too. The notice should remain up here and at ANI. voorts (talk/contributions) 20:39, 14 November 2025 (UTC)

I'd be fine with re-adding it iff we enclose it in {{Show by}} so that the notice is auto-removed, say, a month from now, and doesn't stick around forever. This is a problem now because of the transition, but (unless I'm missing something) I don't think it'll be a problem once we get used to temporary accounts. Sdkb ^talk 20:44, 14 November 2025 (UTC)

Agree with Voorts - do a talk page/watchlist message. GiantSnowman 20:47, 14 November 2025 (UTC)

Show by would be fine. Maybe another 2 months? voorts (talk/contributions) 20:49, 14 November 2025 (UTC)

Copying my revert message in case it's helpful: This feels like instruction bloat to me. Experienced editors will all be familiar with temp accounts shortly. And while they might show up here more than the average spot, there's still no intrinsic connection — if they need further explanation then they need it in a more general spot. Sdkb ^talk 20:46, 14 November 2025 (UTC)

Hello, is there some problem with the formatting on WP:ANI? It looks very strange on my laptop, the tabs, the links to editor accounts and articles, the layout of the entire page. I just wanted to check and see if anyone else had a problem with how ANI appeared on their computer. Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:45, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

Looks the same as always to me (on Vector legacy, that is, I can't speak for any other skins). CoconutOctopus talk 23:01, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

Well, thanks for the feedback. I had the feeling that if it was a system-wide problem, action would already have been taken. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:40, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

There was an errant entry in the bot section that an individual placed, without sig or normal formatting. I handled and deleted that one. Otherwise, I don't know what caused the problem for you. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 02:34, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

Thank you, rsjaffe, I'm not sure if that was the problem but everything looks normal now. Much appreciated! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:34, 11 December 2025 (UTC)