User talk:DatGuy
Get DatBot on a foreign wiki project
[edit]Hi, is there a way to get the the DatBot on the si:wikipedi.org to get the backlogs on the project. I dont have much knowledge on wiki bots. Looking for help in this matter. VihirLak007 (talk) 13:50, 15 October 2024 (UTC)
- @VihirLak007 I'm unsure which task you are discussing, but regardless, I'd need to see some sort of community consensus. DatGuyTalkContribs 14:17, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
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Administrators' newsletter – November 2024
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2024).
Administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Oversighter changes
Guideline and policy news
- Following a discussion, the discussion-only period proposal that went for a trial to refine the requests for adminship (RfA) process has been discontinued.
- Following a request for comment, Administrator recall is adopted as a policy.
Technical news
- Mass deletions done with the Nuke tool now have the 'Nuke' tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. T366068
Arbitration
- RoySmith, Barkeep49 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2024 Arbitration Committee Elections. ThadeusOfNazereth and Dr vulpes are reserve commissioners.
- Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate from 3 November 2024 until 12 November 2024 to stand in the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections.
- The Arbitration Committee is seeking volunteers for roles such as clerks, access to the COI queue, checkuser, and oversight.
Miscellaneous
- An unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in November 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!
Perfidy in the wild?!
[edit]Don't get a chance to use perfidy very often. Also, good demonstrating of good faith by not immediately blocking, which is what I would have done. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 16:04, 7 November 2024 (UTC)
- Hey ho. If I get a positive message every time I might need to start editing with a thesaurus at hand. I did consider blocking immediately, which I see you have now done. I ran a check on them and the results were not what you'd usually expect from a LTA, so I reckoned I'd give them one... uhh... lilliputian chance – a formality if nothing else – to thoroughly explain why they attempted to impersonate someone, prior to pushing the button. DatGuyTalkContribs 16:29, 7 November 2024 (UTC)
- I was going to leave them unblocked as well, leaving that to your judgement, but when I checked the history and saw that they had removed that section after being caught out that pushed me over the edge to block. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 16:30, 7 November 2024 (UTC)