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On May 28, 2025, 02:26 UTC, English Wikipedia reached another milestone of having seven million articles. As there were a number of articles created around the same time, after a discussion or was it [[Wikipedia talk:Seven million articles |this one?]], Operators and Things created by User:Therapyisgood was selected to represent this milestone. Among some of the articles created at the same time were 1955 Yuba–Sutter floods, British American Hospital, Khorastava rural council, Nikolay Alyokhin, and Taraxacum angustisectum.
The Wikimedia Foundation requested the attention of Wikimedia reviewers regarding the DMCA media takedown demand which Tesla, Inc. made to Wikimedia. As is usual for the Wikimedia Foundation, they are sharing the demand letter and inviting community conversation at the Wikimedia Foundation office action discussion board on Wikimedia Commons.
While DMCA takedown demands are serious, they are also routine, already for years many Wikimedia community volunteers regularly enjoy processing these orders. As with all Wikimedia community processes, everyone is invited to join and engage, and everyone is invited to visit and observe the review process.
A difference about this particular DMCA request is its present political context. In the current popular thought and perception, Tesla as a corporation, its CEO Elon Musk, and Musk's United States Department of Government Efficiency are interconnected. Along with that, Musk has been criticizing Wikipedia as the Signpost previously reported in January and February. The United States government has expressed intent to remove Wikipedia's nonprofit status as previously reported in May.
The logos to be removed are
The conventional Wikimedia reviewer consensus of these images till now is that they are not eligible for copyright and are instead in the public domain due to being simple geometric shapes which are below the threshhold of originality which makes a work eligible to gain copyright protection. The text rationales which the Wikipedia community uses to explain this are in Commons:Template:TOO-US and Commons:Template:PD-textlogo. – BR
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