User talk:Smith609

This user rarely has the opportunity to spend time on Wikipedia, so may not respond immediately to comments posted here, and is unlikely to see comments posted elsewhere. If urgent input is required, try e-mailing.

Because I have little time to edit Wikipedia, if there one of my edits needs copyediting and you are not able to perform this task yourself, the best thing to do is to tag the offending article with Template:Cleanup, leaving a note on its talk page if required. As I watch pages I edit, this means that I or other editors will be able to fix errors as necessary.

Please note: to avoid duplication, I'll reply to queries on this page.

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Hi, is there a more detailed instruction of this? Umm. I mean, which template should be translated? Phạm Ngọc Phương Linh (T • C • CA • L • B) 14:10, 3 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

The wiki needs to use CS1/CS2 templates basically. Many non-english wiki's are switching to these. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 18:24, 9 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

@AManWithNoPlan Yeah, viwiki is using both CS1 and CS2 templates. Phạm Ngọc Phương Linh (T • C • CA • L • B) 03:07, 12 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

Add a note to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Citation_bot and we might get around to it. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 13:41, 12 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

I have added the note. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 15:21, 12 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

100,000-year problem has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 19:57, 13 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

See Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#External links to geoltime.github.io in the body of the article. Your input there would be valuable. Thryduulf (talk) 03:51, 31 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

Hello !

I am writing to ask you, if you have time, to help the Romanian-language Wikipedia with the creation of a Romanian-language citation bot, since we don't have one, and many users don't know how to use the Javascript.

I don't know any informatics, which is why I am writing to you. I hope that you will help us, please. Have a nice day ! Edward Mike005 (talk) 16:21, 2 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

I don't know who else to ask this question except on this platform. Is the wearing of Ron Mueck suits that have taken over London part of some kind of Science Expo where the public are testing them out for a teck startup company, or are they being used to hide the identities of those who are robbing their own family community members here in London? Zoe the original? (talk) 04:39, 14 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Hello, Smith609. 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

• 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

Template:Taxobox title has been nominated for discussion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:52, 19 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is citation bot malfunctioning. 45dogs (they/them) (talk page) 17:02, 24 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Hi @Smith609 Sorry to bother you.

I hope my follow-ups won’t cause any issues for my account. I published a draft that hasn’t been reviewed yet, and it was edited by your bot. I wanted to kindly ask you to check it, and if it’s approved, please proceed with transferring it

Draft:Ahmadreza Asgari He is a player of the Iranian national team. Lalook (talk) 14:09, 25 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

   Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.

SomeoneDreaming (talk) 04:20, 2 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

Hello! I noticed you're a bot operator, so I thought you might be interested in a hackathon we're organizing: the Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026, on 13–14 March in Arnhem, Netherlands.

It's a two-day, technically oriented hackathon bringing together Wikimedians from the region. Whether you want to work on bot frameworks, tools, or other technical projects, this could be a great opportunity to collaborate with fellow developers. Registration closes mid-January or when full. Let me know if there are any questions. Hope to see you there! Daanvr (talk) 09:20, 12 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

The citation bot breaks {{citation|journal=}}. See, e.g., its last edit permalink/1332523295 to IBM 2321 Data Cell.

Note: the article should really have used {{citation|conference=}}; I haven't tested whether the bot breaks that. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 13:18, 12 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

Hey, there. Just so you know, there's a discussion about the recent citation bot block over at User talk:Citation bot/Archive 44#Blocked; huge number of bad work= additions. Thanks, sjones23 (talk - contributions) 03:44, 2 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

You are invited to participate in the Destubathon of the Americas, a contest/editathon which will run from May 1 to May 31. The goal is to destub as many of our 475,000+ stubs for the Americas (from Alaska down to Chile) as possible. A good chance to have fun in expanding many of our old stale stubs and win up to £2000 ($2680) in Amazon vouchers for expanding stub articles. Sign up in the Contestants/participants section on the contest page if interested. Even if not interested in prizes you are still warmly welcome to participate in it as an editathon! Hopefully we can achieve something significant in the month of May together! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:34, 15 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

Hi friend. Let me suggest you improve your Citation Bot with AI. With it, it would automatically cite any source added to any edit made on Wikipedia in a second. Cheers. ~2026-35478-25 (talk) 19:13, 16 June 2026 (UTC)Reply