Wikipedia talk:Adopt-a-user

Adoption

I would like to be adopted. I have left requests on Adopters talk pages with no luck. My interests include: Nintendo, Star Wars, and internet culture. Blitzfan51 (talk) 20:38, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

@Blitzfan51 do you still want to be adopted? It looks like you have about the same amount of edits as me. In the rare case that the answer is yes, please let me know on my talk page. Signed, Mseingth2133444 (talk/contribs) 00:14, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

Adopt me

Can I Be Adopted? I Don't Know to edit. So can I be adopted? Interests: Cats, The Novel series Warrior Cats, Space and Animals. Anotaomo (talk2me)

@Anotaomo: Please see my reply to you at the WP:Teahouse (diff) in which I suggest to you that the adoption process is really suited to users who already have got some editing experience under their belt and are able to demonstrate through their contribution history over some weeks or months, and across various topics, that they are committed to staying the course. As of today you have still not edited one single mainspace article, and that's not likely to encourage someone to invest their time to take you under their wing at this stage. Sorry. (The Teahouse really is the best place for you to ask specific questions and to get quick responses.) Regards, Nick Moyes (talk) 14:46, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

Looking for a mentor

I am a new user and I'd like to be coached on how to be alerted on where vandalism is occuring so I can stop it. Also to be apart of some WikiProjects and just be a good contributer. I have a person in mind but does anyone want to adopt me? FeistyRooster (talk) 15:25, 20 December 2024 (UTC)

Long term user requesting a mentor or supervisor.

Hi I am ShakespeareFan00 (talk)

Last night I changed my status to Semi-retired, in part due to over-reaction to a some wilder claims made against the project, in the media.

I had a chance to sleep on the situation, and decided to take a 1 month break (possibly longer), accepting that in over-reacting I may have upset or shocked other project contributors. Even before this there had been periodicaly recurrent concerns, about my edits being overly bold.

I would therefore like to try and set up some kind of mentored or guided return, Please do not consider the idea of a long term using being monitored or supervised to be any indication of wrongdoing.

The idea of long standing user within an academic community, requesting 'supervision' is not without precedent in the academic world, even when any focus of edits would by good faith attempt to keep clear of contentious topics.

ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 08:37, 26 April 2025 (UTC)

Pergunta

Tenho percebido que a Wikipédia está narrando a sinopse completa dos filmes. Muitos filmes sobre os quais busco saber acerca do enredo, o que antes era um resumo, agora é cheio de spoiler. Lemos e já descobrimos o final, quem morre, quem vive, tudo é revelado. Não era assim. Tínhamos apenas um resumo sobre a sinopse, o que nos dava uma ideia do que seria o filme. A Wikipédia precisa rever isso. Obrigada. Sandra Cristina de Carvalho (talk) 02:44, 7 May 2025 (UTC)

@Sandra Cristina de Carvalho: (Olá, esta é a Wikipédia em inglês. Por favor, comunique em inglês ou utilize a Wikipédia em português. Obrigado.) Hi, this is the English Wikipedia. Please communicate in English or use the Portuguese Wikiepdia. Thank you. GoldRomean (talk) 16:56, 9 May 2025 (UTC)

Sobre as minhas edições.

Olá! Consta na Wikipédia que só fiz 7 edições, o que não é verdade. Consta a data do meu começo, ano 2014. Jamais teria apenas 7 edições. Portanto, eu já posso ter acesso à página de George Orwell. Verifiquem melhor sobre esses números. Grata. Sandra Cristina de Carvalho (talk) 21:46, 8 June 2025 (UTC)

I (experienced user) am looking for a mentor to get adopted

Hello, I have some experience with many things to do within Wikipedia platform & read multiple articles so have fair idea about it. I am ready to help, however, am confused that where to start? I would love to have barnstars as well :) Looking for mentorship so that I can have a good long time editing. ~~ 36Flames (talk) 07:40, 21 November 2025 (UTC)

Hi 36Flames, nice to meet you! If you want to be adopted you could ask one of the adopters on their talk page if they’d be willing (though keep in mind that not all of them may be active). You don’t have to go through that step if you don’t want, though, because the English Wikipedia has now enacted a mentorship program. Mentors are automatically assigned, and yours is Codename Noreste – you can get in touch with them at their talk page. Happy editing! Perfect4th (talk) 14:42, 21 November 2025 (UTC)

Thanks, Perfect4th. My mentor isn't active. Hence, asked for other mentor. I will check for adopters from the list. 36Flames (talk) 12:55, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

While I'm certainly not going to stop you from looking if you like, 36Flames, your mentor Codename Noreste has been active as recently as today, and before that had edited every day for a week until yesterday. Is there a certain level of activity you are looking for? Happy editing, Perfect4th (talk) 16:23, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

Is this inactive?

This page seems completely inactive because of the mentorship program. The last post here (which was also 1 month ago) was just referred to the mentorship program, which is this but automatically given to somebody? Just checking in in case I'm missing anything, otherwise, an RfC to mark this as historical makes lots of sense. FantasticWikiUser (talk) 17:12, 12 January 2026 (UTC)

I think there's no need to mark this as historical as long as it's not actively being harmful and so long as the adopters are active and responsive (e.g. it is true that I don't get many these days, but I'm always happy for new adoptees). I would be curious to see what other adopters think, though. Since we encourage prospective adoptees to reach out directly to adopters, activity on this talk page is not necessarily a good indicator of how the program is going, though the mentorship program does seem to pick up a lot of the work these days :). The difference I suppose would be that this page aims to support relatively inexperienced over completely new editors (I am not quite sure I like this, but that's something for another day). GoldRomean (talk) 17:16, 13 January 2026 (UTC)

If it isn't being harmful, I don't really see the issue with it staying. FantasticWikiUser (talk) 18:22, 13 January 2026 (UTC)

FantasticWikiUser, it is indeed inactive, and I have marked it Superseded. Mathglot (talk) 22:55, 6 April 2026 (UTC)

Hi Mathglot, I've reverted your tagging for now. Although I definitely agree that the project needs some reorganization, I wouldn't call this project inactive—even if the project talk page isn't the most lively, a quick skim shows that it looks like most of the adopters are out and about and able to field queries—and there are countless instances where a more in-depth mentorship for experienced editors in need of it is a better solution than what the Growth Team's mentorship program (which is more geared toward users whose questions are quite often their very first edit) can provide. Happy to discuss, though, and while we're at it, thanks for creating WP:MENTOR—that centralized page stayed inconveniently nonexistent for far longer than it should've :). Best, GoldRomean (talk) 17:50, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

I won't revert, but I don't agree; either that it is active, or with your reasoning. First, some real data. I looked at the most recent contributions on this page, not including those edits that were: about whether this project is inactive, in a foreign language, IP gibberish, or bot edits. Of the rest, twenty on-topic edits ago was rev. 1131426100 of 03:16, 4 January 2023, and fifty edits ago was rev. 1035630531 of 19:59, 26 July 2021. Flipping it around the other way, and counting the number of edits in the last four months (the criterion for semi-active), we have: zero. Last six months: zero; last nine months: 0; last 12 months: 9; last 24 months: 13. I think it's a stretch to call this project active, or even semi-active. On the conservation status scale, one might call it critically endangered.

Regarding your claims: "adopters fielding queries" and whether the project is active are two different things, if they are using no resources of the project. Otherwise, we might as well say that every editor who answers questions on their Talk page is a Teahouse host. Although I am a mentor with many mentees, I don't disagree that there may be a need for a program that better serves advanced beginners than WP:Mentorship does, and I would support such a program. The closest we have to that now, are the WP:Teahouse and the WP:Help desk, which are both very active (Teahouse: fifty edits ago was today at 05:41; HD: yesterday at 18:40).

There are advantages to users to identifying an inactive WikiProject. It may be possible to revive this one, but that involves a fair bit of work. I read your reverting the inactive assessment as your signing up for taking that on; can you confirm that? You've already implemented step #11 (removing the Inactive banner); are you ready to deal with steps 1 to 10? If not, you should self-revert. If you are, it is a very worthy goal, but a heavy lift; I hope you prove me wrong. I wish you and the project all the best, Mathglot (talk) 18:03, 25 May 2026 (UTC)

I wouldn't call adopt-a-user a "WikiProject", any more than the Teahouse, the help desk, or ANI are WikiProjects. It's sui generis. Best, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 00:02, 29 May 2026 (UTC)

Ah, then it seems I have referred to it incorrectly. An inactive "program" then, as it uses the word program to self-identify on the page. From the point of view of a user landing here or anywhere where they are unlikely to get a timely response, I'm not sure it matters much that much if it is actually a WikiProject or not. Maybe we should see about broadening the wording in the templates to cover other kinds of collaboration venues that aren't named 'WikiProjects' per se; it hardly sees worth designing a parallel set of templates with essentially the same wording just for pages like this one. In fact, maybe we could just parametrize them analogous to the way article maintenance templates default to wording like This article is... but you can override that with param |section=. Mathglot (talk) 04:33, 30 May 2026 (UTC)

My point was less semantic and more observing that it is not subject to the activity and revival procedures that WikiProjects are. Best, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 01:08, 31 May 2026 (UTC)

I see. In that case, maybe it needs its own set of parallel templates about status, or still just borrow the existing series with a param that eimts the right message, without saying anything about revival. My concern is leaving a user coming here ini good faith high and dry for their trouble. As far as informing users, a plain, custom hatnote would serve just as well, so we could always just do that.

GoldRomean, do you have some links showing that Adopters are answering user questions in their capacity as an Adopter, and that users who come here looking for an adopter are finding one to their satisfaction? For example, can you link the last three users who asked for and received an Adopter? Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 16:35, 31 May 2026 (UTC)

Sure—here's some from the past year: 1 2 3. I understand where your concern is coming from; I would probably support, for example, clearer messaging to encourage folks to reach out to someone else if they do not receive a reply within e.g. 48 hours. Best, GoldRomean (talk) 17:53, 31 May 2026 (UTC)