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Administrators' newsletter – January 2020

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  • The fourth case on Palestine-Israel articles was closed. The case consolidated all previous remedies under one heading, which should make them easier to understand, apply, and enforce. In particular, the distinction between "primary articles" and "related content" has been clarified, with the former being the entire set of articles whose topic relates to the Arab-Israeli conflict, broadly interpreted rather than reasonably construed.
  • Following the 2019 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Beeblebrox, Bradv, Casliber, David Fuchs, DGG, KrakatoaKatie, Maxim, Newyorkbrad, SoWhy, Worm That Turned, Xeno.

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2020).

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  • Following a request for comment, partial blocks are now enabled on the English Wikipedia. This functionality allows administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces rather than the entire site. A draft policy is being workshopped at Wikipedia:Partial blocks.
  • The request for comment seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure closed with wide-spread support for an alternative desysoping procedure based on community input. No proposed process received consensus.

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  • Twinkle now supports partial blocking. There is a small checkbox that toggles the "partial" status for both blocks and templating. There is currently one template: {{uw-pblock}}.
  • When trying to move a page, if the target title already exists then a warning message is shown. The warning message will now include a link to the target title. [1]

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  • Following a recent arbitration case, the Arbitration Committee reminded administrators that checkuser and oversight blocks must not be reversed or modified without prior consultation with the checkuser or oversighter who placed the block, the respective functionary team, or the Arbitration Committee.

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Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Have a very happy adminship anniversary on your special day!

Best wishes, CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 03:50, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

Thank you very much!—Cúchullain t/c 04:54, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!

Happy First Edit Day, Cuchullain, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! Bobherry Talk Edits 01:05, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
Congrats on 15 years!!! Bobherry Talk Edits 01:06, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
Thank you thank you!—Cúchullain t/c 01:26, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!

Happy First Edit Day!

Have a very happy first edit anniversary!

From the Birthday Committee, CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 08:16, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

Thank you Captain Raju!—Cúchullain t/c 11:00, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

Elwin/Elwen

Hi Cuchullain, I wanted to get your current opinion about the Elwin redirect page. I think you might want to consider changing the Elwin page that you created as a redirect page on 20 January 2010 to a Disambiguation page because there are many other uses of the name Elwin and your redirect target is not even spelled the same. For Example: Elwin, Illinois, Verrier Elwin, Whitwell Elwin, Ross Elwin, Hastings Elwin, among others as well as several given names Elwin.BuffaloBob (talk) 20:22, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

Good idea. I'll get it started.--Cúchullain t/c 22:01, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2020).

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  • Following an RfC, the blocking policy was changed to state that sysops must not undo or alter CheckUser or Oversight blocks, rather than should not.
  • A request for comment confirmed that sandboxes of established but inactive editors may not be blanked due solely to inactivity.

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  • Following a discussion, Twinkle's default CSD behavior will soon change, most likely this week. After the change, Twinkle will default to "tagging mode" if there is no CSD tag present, and default to "deletion mode" if there is a CSD tag present. You will be able to always default to "deletion mode" (the current behavior) using your Twinkle preferences.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Abingdon station (disambiguation)

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"Informer (disambigution)" listed at Redirects for discussion

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Administrators' newsletter – April 2020

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  • There is an ongoing request for comment to streamline the source deprecation and blacklisting process.

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  • The WMF has begun a pilot report of the pages most visited through various social media platforms to help with anti-vandalism and anti-disinformation efforts. The report is updated daily and will be available through the end of May.
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Go Transit

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Canadian stations)#Go station naming regarding station naming conventions for Go Transit. Cards84664 00:53, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

English pronunciation of Arthurian names

Hi Bill,

I was wondering if you knew of a good ref for this. Beside the Arthurian articles themselves, there are e.g. asteroids named after Arthurian figures, and the pronunciation is often opaque. — kwami (talk) 08:39, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

Unfortunately I don't. There are so many different spellings, pronunciations and national differences that I don't think it's likely possible for any but perhaps the most well known figures.--Cúchullain t/c 22:56, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

Okay, thanks. — kwami (talk) 05:55, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Carlos (Calusa)

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Administrators' newsletter – May 2020

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Precious anniversary

Precious
Four years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:29, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

Notice

I've restored this edit on WJCT (TV) (along with following WP:MOS's Sea of Blue rule). 107.242.113.16 (talk) 18:39, 31 May 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2020

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  • A motion was passed to enact a 500/30 restriction on articles related to the history of Jews and antisemitism in Poland during World War II (1933–45), including the Holocaust in Poland. Article talk pages where disruption occurs may also be managed with the stated restriction.
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Category:Folk songs by nationality has been nominated for renaming

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2020

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"Goidel" listed at Redirects for discussion

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Administrators' newsletter – August 2020

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LGBT-free zones

I was hoping that you'd agree with me and make the target a singular noun, as we often do. Not a big deal, just wanted to make sure you saw what I wrote. —Soap— 20:50, 13 August 2020 (UTC)

You're quite right. I'll move it now.--Cúchullain t/c 20:50, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
Actually, Wikipedia:Naming conventions (plurals) lays out the accepted guideline for this, and it states that an exception to the rule is "Articles on groups or classes of specific things." In this case, the article is about a specific class of zones in Poland, not unlike the examples given in the guideline. (t · c) buidhe 21:04, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
I think they're more akin to say, powiat or gmina, which are singular, than things like States of Nigeria.--Cúchullain t/c 22:24, 13 August 2020 (UTC)

Jubilee station (Calgary)

Hi there,

I noticed you are the one who changed the station/article to be Jubilee station. I was wondering if you could fix it back to SAIT/AUArts/Jubilee. I know you said you looked at Google News, which I don't know about but I honestly have never heard it be called "jubilee station" and I went to SAIT for a long time. I don't know how to go about that, I tried a page move but there was something preventing me from doing it. --MattBinYYC (talk) 22:08, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

MattBinYYC, I see it's already been moved. I based the title on a Google News search, and while "Jubilee station" shows up more frequently, they're very close and there aren't that many sources at all. So no objection from me to the move, I bow to folks with better local knowledge.--Cúchullain t/c 18:27, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

American Samoa

Hi, Cuchullain. Regarding your closure at Talk:Futiga, could I ask if there's any detail you might be able to add regarding the closing rationale? You correctly note that the respondents (myself among them) disagreed, but it might be helpful to know how the considerations brought up in the discussion were weighed. Thank you! ╠╣uw [talk] 16:57, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

Huwmanbeing: Of course, I'll add some more detail in a bit.--Cúchullain t/c 18:28, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

Portugal. The Man

Asking you because you closed the move, not because I think you have any interest in the page itself. A few years back there was a proposal to change the page Portugal. The Man to remove the punctuation, which did not get a consensus. This summer, a user removed all the punctuation from the article itself (although did not change the page title) with the argument that "those stupid periods make this article impossible to read." I'd like to revert those changes and suggest that this be proposed as another move if the editor feels a change is needed since the last discussion. However, there have been multiple technical edits since that one, so I did not want to undo, but wanted to see if there was an easy way to do that that does not remove all the other edits done since that you are aware of?--Yaksar (let's chat) 19:21, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

Whoops. You can ignore this. Turned out it was much easier to change than I thought.--Yaksar (let's chat) 19:25, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2020).

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"One Loudoun" listed at Redirects for discussion

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Administrators' newsletter – September 2020

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Administrators' newsletter – November 2020

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Discussion at Talk:The Temptation of Saint Anthony (book) § Requested move 29 November 2020

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2020

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Page views and primary topics

In the edit summary here you say that the people are getting 2/3 of the pageviews. That may have been technically true last year, but only because of three unusual spikes in traffic. If you take them out, you'll see that the people and the language receive very similar views: you can try a narrower range [2] outside of these spikes, or a broader one, where one-off traffic events would tend to cancel out [3]. In either case, the people get less than 60% of the views. – Uanfala (talk) 20:28, 2 January 2021 (UTC)

FWIW, the people article gets more views most of the time. For a given user searching with “Chochenyo” it’s more likely that they’re looking for the people than not. For the minority that isn’t, they’re one click away from their language destination whether we send them to a dab page or the people article. So the primary topic configuration is an improvement for the majority and neutral for the minority compared to the dab page configuration. The dab page configuration is a step backwards for the majority, and no improvement for the minority. —В²C ☎ 05:37, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
Agree with Born2cycle on this one. Getting 67% of the traffic in a WP:TWODABS situation suggests the previous setup was working, especially as the language could be accessed as easily from a hatnote as from a dab page.--Cúchullain t/c 19:24, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

Also, would you be able to clarify what statistics you're using here? Wherever I look, I only see figures around 58–59% for the people. – Uanfala (talk) 20:32, 2 January 2021 (UTC)

51% is a primary topic in a two dab situation, per the above reasoning. Any move like this is clearly potentially controversial; it needs to go through RM. Good revert. —В²C ☎ 05:40, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
Yes, those sound similar to the numbers I found the other day using the tool. In a WP:TWODABS situation that's generally considered a primary topic case.--Cúchullain t/c 19:24, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
Tagging Born2cycle as there is now an RM for Guenoa.--Cúchullain t/c 18:30, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

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Happy New Year and thanks!

Hi Cuchullain! Having been elected to ArbCom, I was looking back at my RfA nostalgically the other day, and realized we haven't crossed paths much since I stopped being very active at RM. Just wanted to send well wishes for the new year and thanks—I wouldn't be where I am if not for you! --BDD (talk) 19:58, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

Hi BDD, I'm sorry I missed this message! Thanks for kind words and the well wishes! I've been meaning to drop you a line to congratulate you on your Arbcom election. It's so nice to see you taking on that task, I know you'll serve the encyclopedia well there, just as you have as an editor and admin. Thanks again and happy 2021!--Cúchullain t/c 23:29, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

gnosisquest

Why did u ban her? she was trying to prove muhammad's (saw) innocence. I looked them up and they are all authentic and i have the link. if i put them in will u unban her? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 35.143.148.76 (talk) 22:09, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

I didn't block them, and they're not blocked now. It appears their account has never been blocked.--Cúchullain t/c 23:47, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

Canada men's national football team

Why is this the only article in those categories not to include the word "American"? Even the United States men's national American football team article includes it, and that's the last nation you'd expect to need the "American" qualifier. – PeeJay 21:56, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

Sorry for the delay, PeeJay. Yes, the reason I reverted was because of the previous RMs. I'll respond to your new one.--Cúchullain t/c 15:38, 19 January 2021 (UTC)

Gnosisquest

Do u even remember who i am talking about? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2603:9000:A70B:F293:97C:5E98:B02B:7678 (talk) 18:54, 20 January 2021 (UTC)

I don't, but looking at the logs for Gnosisquest shows that they've never been blocked.--Cúchullain t/c 17:13, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
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