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Latest comment: 11 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion
Hi Usernamekiran, I noticed that there's no article yet for TRMS (The Real Me Studios), even though it's listed on MusicBrainz and is the label behind artist SXMRXXT and releases like NOTHING IS OFFICIAL. Since you enjoy working on overlooked topics, I was wondering if you'd be willing to create a stub for it? It would really mean a lot. Thank you! 117.194.108.43 (talk) 02:12, 19 August 2025 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 11 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion
Hello! I kindly ask you to increase the delay time of the bot in the Russian Wikipedia after edits made by unregistered users and newly registered accounts. At the moment, your bot makes edits just a few seconds after any change. Sometimes such edits include vandalism or other violations, which makes them harder to detect or leads to incorrect reverts (1, 2, 3). I would like to request that the bot’s edits be made only a few days after such changes. Mitte27 (talk) 09:25, 3 September 2025 (UTC)Reply
@Mitte27: Hello. I understand your point. The bot's edit are whitelisted, so the vandalism must get whitelisted as well. I'm currently out of town. I will get back home in 4-5 days. I will look at it as soon as I get home. —usernamekiran (talk)13:59, 3 September 2025 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 10 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion
Hi Kiran, I just read User:KiranBOT/AMP which explains what is done and how is that done, but I missed a reasoning about why Wikipedia needs this done. Is removing AMP done to improve reader experience, to reduce the data flow to Google, to work around bugs or for some other reason?
If Wikipedia already has a place where this is explained, I would be happy if you could link there from the bot's page, otherwise could you please add a section "Reasoning" or the like to this page? Thank you, -- Juergen 5.147.163.199 (talk) 15:11, 4 October 2025 (UTC)Reply
Hello Juergen. Yes, you are correct, I somehow missed/forgot to add the reasoning section. I will do it soon. You are correct. It is not entirely to "reduce the data flow to Google". The AMP URLs are, in short, privacy invasive; and they also pose a security risk. The other reason is that AMP URLs often seem to become non-operational after a while. That creates difficulties with Wikipedia's verifiability policy in case the URL was not archived. So it is preferable to use the canonical URLs. Thanks for reminding, I will add the "reasoning" section soon. —usernamekiran (talk)16:42, 4 October 2025 (UTC)Reply
Hi Jlwoodwa. I have no issues with deletion, I will request for speedy after this edit. There were a few moves, and rewrites of the template, and doc. It was created as part of me trying to simplify the documentation, but then it was redirected and moved (page history) The current documentation is not confusing, and that particular edit notice has been rendered useless as well. Thanks for contacting me first, it saved a lot of community time at Tfd. It is appreciated a lot. —usernamekiran (talk)10:04, 31 October 2025 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 9 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Starting on 1 November, the month-long 2025 Article Improvement Drive will target a number of content improvement areas and backlogs. Participating editors will be in line for barnstars and other awards; articles from all aspects of the project will be eligible so there will be something for everybody. Interested editors are encouraged to sign up now!MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:18, 1 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 9 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion
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Latest comment: 8 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Hello! Voting in the 2025 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 1 December 2025. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
Latest comment: 8 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion
Looking up on this talk page it seems like most mentor questions you are asked aren't being answered. If you still want to be a mentor, please attempt to respond to questions more actively, otherwise you can resign or mark yourself as away via Special:MentorDashboard. * Pppery *it has begun...20:59, 18 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
@Pppery: Hello. I have responded to most of the questions on their talk pages. Some of them were not responded to, as they already welcome-message/warning on the talk page, like User talk:Yubrajpandeya02. A few days ago, on the dashboard, I had changed the frequency to non-manual lowest — "about half the average". I will look for what happens for a week or two, if I cant respond to the questions properly till then, I will mark myself as away. —usernamekiran (talk)14:34, 19 November 2025 (UTC)Reply
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Latest comment: 8 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion
Hi i want to create a new page for Dinesh Thyagarajan. He is a hollywood actor who acted in superman. I tried publishing it multiple times but it is rejected.
i have the below links where his details are published and they are published in super man
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman_(2025_film) and many other news publications.
Example:
www.comicbook.com
slashfilm.com
dcuniverse.fandom.com
He has played the character of Malik Ali.
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Once voting concludes, we will begin the scrutineering phase, which will last for a few days, perhaps longer. Once everything is certified, the results will be posted on the results page (this is a good page to watchlist), and transcluded to the main election page. In order to be granted adminship, a non-recall candidate must have received at least 70.0% support, calculated as Support / (Support + Oppose), and a minimum of 20 support votes. Recall candidates must achieve 55.0% support. Because this is a vote and not a consensus, there are no bureaucrat discussions ("crat chats").
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@Samoasambia and Lentokonefani: I fixed the bug, and removed the stopper from the article page. Lets see how it works out. I will be watching that article from now on. Lentokonefani, thank you for your kind words, it is appreciated a lot. —usernamekiran (talk)15:55, 10 December 2025 (UTC)Reply
Thank you very much for letting me know, none of the logged-in editors either didnt notice, or didnt care to notify me. That makes your message even more appreciated. I fixed the previously posted message, as well as the problematic code. Thanks again, —usernamekiran (talk)05:14, 15 December 2025 (UTC)Reply
Voting is now open for military historian of the year and newcomer of the year awards for 2025!
Thank you Kudpung, and same to you! apologies for the delayed reply. How have you been? It was nice to see you becoming active last year after your wikibreak. —usernamekiran (talk)17:22, 25 December 2025 (UTC)Reply
New pages patrol January–February 2026 Backlog drive
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Latest comment: 6 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion
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) 09:25, 12 January 2026 (UTC)Reply
Bot is now flagged, crat says request itself will remain open for a month — no problems expected given the past run :P —regards, Revi02:31, 19 January 2026 (UTC)Reply
@Revi C.: I was translating the comments on google translate when you posted the message here hehe. Thanks for your help, it is much appreciated. —usernamekiran (talk)02:34, 19 January 2026 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 6 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion
I just removed a bunch of KiranBOT notifications on SineBot's talk page for Teahouse archives. Might be worth skipping those notes since they're rather pointless! Primefac (talk) 19:33, 1 February 2026 (UTC)Reply
@Primefac: thanks. I added deny parameter on the talkpage. it is a weird bug that I havent been able to pinpoint in code. The program looks for the "creator" in page history. I havent been able to understand why it identifies SineBot as creator. —usernamekiran (talk)11:57, 2 February 2026 (UTC)Reply
I would like to write this article about Honest to Goodness, for people for a reference. Can you please read over this?
Latest comment: 6 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Honest to Goodness is an Australian certified organic and natural food company based in Sydney, New South Wales. The company supplies organic and natural products through wholesale and manufacturer distribution, e-commerce, a retail store, and a community buying program.[ Citation - https://www.wellbeing.com.au/at-home/the-honest-to-goodness-journey-of-passion-and-purpose.html]
The company stocks over 1,000 products including grains, flours, legumes, canned foods, spices, oils, nuts, dried fruits, nut butters, and household cleaning products.[Citation - https://goodness.com.au/shop/australian-range/]
Latest comment: 5 months ago3 comments2 people in discussion
Hi Mentor of Wikiruls you havent been online in a long time and i have a Question for you that has been keeping me from doing my job on the Wiki of Editing so if you could look at my question that i sent you that would be grate. The Wikiruls Wikiruls (talk) 12:30, 5 March 2026 (UTC)Reply
@Wikiruls: Hello. I was out of town for few days. user Bait30 has posted some useful links on your talkpage. Regarding plagiarism, dont do it. You can start with simple editing through WP:Task center. In case you have further questions, feel free to ask me here, or at WP:Teahouse. —usernamekiran (talk)20:41, 9 March 2026 (UTC)Reply
Hi Tenshi. I'm not sure what exactly you are trying to ask. Are you using a script/bot provided by pywikibot, like replacebot? In replacebot, the script wouldn't edit any project unless you tell it which project to edit. For non-pywikibot/"pre-provided scripts", you have to define the site where your bot should edit. So even if you use the wildcard, not every site would be edited unless you specifically define the sites to be edited. In main (custom) script it can be done by:
usernames['wikipedia']['*'] = 'KiranBOT' # wildcard for all wikis
#usernames['wikipedia']['mr'] = 'KiranBOT_II' # override for mrwiki
I control which sites to edit/exclude from another file. In the same file, I have also mentioned some wikis that are not available in pywikibot. Also, even if you add/define the site to edit, it will not be edited unless a local account exists there. I hope this answers your question, if not feel free to ask again. —usernamekiran (talk)07:36, 13 March 2026 (UTC)Reply
I'm aware of the requirement to specify the site whenever you need an instance of pywikibot.Site as well as needing a local account to exist first, I'm not sure how I can be clearer than I was above, though I was looking for usernames['wikipedia']['*'], as I previously tried usernames['*']['*'] which didn't work. Tenshi! (Talk page) 08:51, 13 March 2026 (UTC)Reply
Tenshi Hi. I didn't mean to say you don't know, I apologise for the confusion. Conversing over text is often confusing. I'm well aware you are a good bot-op . In user-config each site family needs to be explicitly mentioned, but usernames can be wildcarded. Passwords can be similarly wildcarded:
The entries that come later overrides the previous entries. Please feel free to ask any questions you have. —usernamekiran (talk)17:14, 13 March 2026 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 4 months ago3 comments2 people in discussion
Dear Kiran, I noticed your bot has an issue where it uses a template to generate a message, which in turn uses the talk quote inline template. However, since this was quoting text that included the = character, this broke the template. The bot or the template it uses should be adjusted such that the first parameter of the tq template is always filled starting with 1= so that this will not happen anymore.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/CSMSS College of Polytechnic, Aurangabad until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.
@Filmssssssssssss: Hi. The article was created in userspace of RAJRAUT15. That userpage has some move history which involved me. Maybe that's why Twinkle thought I was the page creator. SDZeroBot notified the correct creator RAJRAUT15 properly. See you around:-) —usernamekiran (talk)03:24, 26 March 2026 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 3 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Hey Usernamekiran!
You might remember me from this discussion on WT:ITN. I know I already made a request over there, but I wanted to seek advice from you relating to another project of mine.
WP:ERRORS has never had an archive page, and there are a lot of folk who think that should change. I've started the process of archiving discussions manually, but given that ERRORS has just under 150K revisions over a period of two decades, archiving by hand will obviously be intensely time-consuming. When I attempted to solicit aid on WP:VP, Graham87(talk·contribs) recommended that KiranBOT(talk·contribs) could aid in the process, again like the ITN posting archives. The issue is however that ERRORS posting is a lot more hectic (there aren't any subpages for any of the MP sections, and things are often not cleared out at once).
So as such, I just want to know if it would be feasible to use KirianBOT to help with this process? Any advice relating to this archiving process would be much appreciated. PS, I also saw your reply on WT:ITN and am planning on gathering consensus in favor of the move. Thanks! — Knightoftheswords17:46, 11 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 3 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion
The administrator elections process has officially started! Interested editors are encouraged to self-nominate or arrange to be nominated by reviewing the instructions at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/May 2026/Candidates.
Here is the schedule:
April 29 – May 5: Call for candidates
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The requirements to run are identical to RFA—a prospective candidate must be extended confirmed.
The process will have a seven day call for candidates phase, a two day pause, a five day discussion phase, and a seven day private vote using SecurePoll. Discussion and questions are only allowed on the candidate pages during the discussion phase.
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On 13 May, we will start the voting phase. The candidate subpages will close to public questions and discussion, and everyone will have a week to use the SecurePoll software to vote, which uses a secret ballot. You can see who voted, but not who they voted for.
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Once voting concludes, we will begin the scrutineering phase, which will last for a few days, perhaps longer. Once everything is certified, the results will be posted on the results page (this is a good page to watchlist), and transcluded to the main election page. In order to be granted adminship, a non-recall candidate must have received at least 70.0% support, calculated as Support / (Support + Oppose), and a minimum of 20 support votes. Recall candidates must achieve 55.0% support. Because this is a vote and not a consensus, there are no bureaucrat discussions ("crat chats").
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Latest comment: 1 month ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Hi, Usernamekiran. You are cordially invited to the brand new Wikipedia:Mentorship noticeboard. I get the impression sometimes that we mentors are each toiling in our own cubbyhole or hamster wheel, quietly answering mentee questions with little to no interaction with other mentors. I think we have a lot to share and learn from each other, and I know it will make me feel better just having the opportunity to interact with you and other mentors there, and I hope it will for you, too. Looking forward to hearing your feedback. Please take the §Survey when you get there! Mathglot (talk) 01:10, 5 July 2026 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 22 days ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Hello Usernamekiran:
WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive in August!
The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than a month of outstanding reviews from the current 3+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 August 2026 through 31 August 2026.
Latest comment: 13 days ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
Content Translation now supports dark mode, fulfilling a Community Wishlist request. This brings the tool in line with the accessibility features available in the Vector 2022 and Minerva skins, helping reduce visual fatigue for users translating content.
DiscussionTools' source mode and the 2017 wikitext editor will now offer autocomplete for links ([[), templates ({{), HTML and parser tags (<), and magic words (__), making it quicker and easier to insert links, templates, and other wiki markup while editing.
The Readers Growth team has concluded its experiment with mobile page previews and will not roll out the feature. Page Previews are a pop-up bottom sheet that appears when readers tap a blue link, showing a thumbnail, lead paragraph, and an option to open the article. The experiment showed flat retention and negative indicator metrics, suggesting that mobile web readers preferred navigating directly to linked articles rather than using page previews.
The Reader Experience team has seen encouraging early results from the Reading Lists feature, with 93% of participating users reporting that it was useful. Reading Lists help active readers save articles for future reading and support their learning goals on Wikimedia projects. The team plans further improvements before expanding the feature to more users.
The Explore Feed Refresh initiative was tested with new and casual Wikipedia app readers. The refreshed feed helps readers discover new and relevant content. After a 10.5% increase in engagement with the feed, Wikimedia Apps team has decided to scale the Home Feed redesign to iOS with the learnings from the Android release applied.
View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where subject names in the Article Guidance feature were displayed with incorrect capitalization on French Wikipedia, has now been fixed. Subject names will now follow the correct capitalization rules for the language.
Updates for technical contributors
After running several Account Creation Experiments to improve registration completion rates, a new version of the username field on Create Account has been rolled out. It includes a popover summarizing the username policy to provide clearer guidance during account creation. As part of this change, the messages createacct-helpusername and createacct-username-help that several communities have configured will no longer be used. If communities want to customize the guidance shown in the new popover, they can instead edit the following messages: createacct-username-policy-popover-bullet1, createacct-username-policy-popover-bullet2, and createacct-username-policy-popover-bullet3.
Later this week, the CodeMirror syntax highlighter will offer themes. The themes can be picked from a dropdown menu in the full CodeMirror preferences dialog. For wikitext, available themes are default, colorblind-friendly (previously the colorblind preference option on Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing) and no-highlighting. For code languages (i.e., CSS/JavaScript/JSON/Vue/Lua), there are several themes available. These same themes will eventually be available for wikitext, too.
From now on, wikis can restrict editing in the "User" namespace to only the page owner and certain user groups. Read the configuration documentation to learn more.
Latest comment: 7 days ago1 comment1 person in discussion
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Latest comment: 6 days ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
The Reader Experience team has developed a patch demo that wraps the page toolbar onto two lines when there is not enough horizontal space for all the buttons. This aims to reduce crowding in the Vector 2022 toolbar, which can occur on some language Wikipedias at certain screen widths.
The Reader Experience team is planning to launch Reading Lists, a Community Wishlist item, which is currently available to try in beta, as a full feature in September. Before then, volunteer translator help is needed for string translations into a number of languages. The feature supports reading and learning goals on Wikipedia.
Next week, the table of contents on Wikimedia Commons file pages will be improved by consolidating the file page table of contents with the page table of contents. This will make it easier to understand a file page’s structure, navigate to specific sections, and share links to individual sections.
View all 24 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where some TIFF images failed to load after clicking their thumbnail, causing a broken image to be displayed instead of the full-size image, has now been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
The variable and function selector in AbuseFilter has been updated to support search and autocomplete. It will allow filter maintainers to find the desired variable or function more quickly.
The MJPEG and VP8 formats are removed from the video player. The MP4 format (MPEG-4 Part 2) is added instead, which provides higher quality videos to older iPhone devices. It may take a few weeks to retroactively update all existing videos. The default format for modern devices stays the same (VP9/WebM).
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