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This space is for anyone who needs to contact an administrator ("sysop") for actions such as protecting a page, deleting spam, or blocking vandals.
If you rather need to reach a Translation administrator, please use the Translation Administrators' Noticeboard instead. For general conversation, see Wikispecies:Village Pump.
New blocking options
[edit]This week's Tech News announces:
The Special:Block now has two minor interface changes. Administrators can now easily perform indefinite blocks through a dedicated radio button in the expiry section. Also, choosing an indefinite expiry provides a different set of common reasons to select from, which can be changed at: MediaWiki:Ipbreason-indef-dropdown. [1]
-- Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:58, 23 March 2026 (UTC)
Reason for reporting: Translation Vandalism MathXplore (talk) 14:26, 11 April 2026 (UTC)
Done —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 14:37, 11 April 2026 (UTC)
Reason for reporting: Spam. MathXplore (talk) 12:33, 13 April 2026 (UTC)
Proposal: Change to archiving of this page
[edit]I prose to rename the existing archive pages of this page, in a simple numerical sequence, in order to facilitate the use of archiving tools, as used on the Village Pump. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:41, 13 April 2026 (UTC)
- agreed... Scott Thomson (Faendalimas) talk 08:40, 14 April 2026 (UTC)
- Agreed. Consistency is important. Neferkheperre (talk) 12:25, 14 April 2026 (UTC)
- Agreed. Thanks Andyboorman (talk) 12:34, 14 April 2026 (UTC)
- Thanks all; done. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:00, 14 April 2026 (UTC)
Good idea, and nice work. Thanks all! –Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 17:48, 14 April 2026 (UTC).
Reason for reporting: Spam. MathXplore (talk) 13:19, 15 April 2026 (UTC)
- Done. The user is now blocked. –Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 08:48, 16 April 2026 (UTC).
Inconvenience in the Taxonbar template?
[edit]Please have a look here: Template talk:Taxonbar#Doesn't fetch best value for IPNI plant ID from Wikidata.
Best regards, Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 08:44, 16 April 2026 (UTC).
Hassler Templates
[edit]Our templates {{Catol-Hassler}} and {{World Plants}} have problems with trinomials, unlike POWO and IPNI. For example on,
Unfortunately it renders the template not fit for purpose as a reference. @AbeCK: wishes to retain them in spite of the problem and this has lead to a "discussion" on my talk page. However, in order to rectify the situation can anybody fix the templates so as to link to the required trinomial. It is way beyond my skills set. Thanks in anticipation. Andyboorman (talk) 09:25, 18 April 2026 (UTC)