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The Signpost: 31 August 2022

Administrators' newsletter – September 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2022).

Guideline and policy news

  • A discussion is open to define a process by which Vector 2022 can be made the default for all users.
  • An RfC is open to gain consensus on whether Fox News is reliable for science and politics.

Technical news

Arbitration

  • An arbitration case regarding Conduct in deletion-related editing has been closed. The Arbitration Committee passed a remedy as part of the final decision to create a request for comment (RfC) on how to handle mass nominations at Articles for Deletion (AfD).
  • The arbitration case request Jonathunder has been automatically closed after a 6 month suspension of the case.

Miscellaneous

  • The new pages patrol (NPP) team has prepared an appeal to the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) for assistance with addressing Page Curation bugs and requested features. You are encouraged to read the open letter before it is sent, and if you support it, consider signing it. It is not a discussion, just a signature will suffice.
  • Voting for candidates for the Wikimedia Board of Trustees is open until 6 September.

Feedback request: Natural sciences Good Article nomination

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WikiCup 2022 September newsletter

WikiCup 2022 September newsletter

The fourth round of the WikiCup has now finished. 383 points were required to reach the final, and the new round has got off to a flying start with all finalists already scoring. In round 4, Bloom6132 with 939 points was the highest points-scorer, with a combination of DYKs and In the news items, followed by BennyOnTheLoose, Sammi Brie and Lee Vilenski. The points of all contestants are swept away as we start afresh for the final round.

At this stage, we say goodbye to the eight competitors who didn't quite make it; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia, and we hope you will join us again next year. For the remaining competitors, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them, and importantly, before the deadline on October 31st!

If you are concerned that your nomination, whether it be for a good article, a featured process, or anything else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. The judges are Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:43, 3 September 2022 (UTC)

Feedback request: History Good Article nomination

Your feedback is requested at Talk:Pap of Armenia on a "History" Good Article nomination. Thank you for helping out!
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Wikidata weekly summary #536

Orphaned non-free image File:Titlepage of Holy Deadlock (1934).jpg

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Thanks for uploading File:Titlepage of Holy Deadlock (1934).jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 17:57, 7 September 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #537

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If Primefac's accusation of copyright violation is valid, then I think that I should be banned completely from Wikipedia. In your opinion is Primefac correct about the accusation of copyright violation? Suslindisambiguator (talk) Suslindisambiguator (talk) 07:05, 25 September 2022 (UTC)

@Suslindisambiguator I'm sorry, I don't know what these accusations are - I'm not sure why you're asking me. Andrew Gray (talk) 20:28, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
Thanks for your response.
Please examine the "View history" entries for
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Arundel_Rogers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Percy_Ault
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birdsey_Renshaw Suslindisambiguator (talk) Suslindisambiguator (talk) 21:55, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
@Suslindisambiguator I would agree that I don't think those are appropriate uses of blockquotes - in the Rogers example, almost half the wordcount is direct quotes from external sources. There is a big difference between a substantial quote where it is unavoidable - we're directly quoting a primary source, or a critical review, or similar - and where we're just copying a third-party article wholesale, which can and should be avoided.
Simply adding a citation does not get around copyright issues, and I think Primefac is entirely right to be concerned about this.
You may want to have a look at Wikipedia:Non-free content#Text, which tries to set out some guidance for what is and is not appropriate. Andrew Gray (talk) 23:23, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
Thanks for your response. Point taken. Suslindisambiguator (talk) 11:33, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #539

The Signpost: 30 September 2022

Administrators' newsletter – October 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2022).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • The Articles for creation helper script now automatically recognises administrator accounts which means your name does not need to be listed at WP:AFCP to help out. If you wish to help out at AFC, enable AFCH by navigating to Preferences → Gadgets and checking the "Yet Another AfC Helper Script" box.

Arbitration

Miscellaneous


Feedback request: Natural sciences Good Article nomination

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Feedback request: History Good Article nomination

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