User talk:Finlay McWalter/archive14

Extended confirmed protection

Hello, Finlay McWalter. This message is intended to notify administrators of important changes to the protection policy.

Extended confirmed protection (also known as "30/500 protection") is a new level of page protection that only allows edits from accounts at least 30 days old and with 500 edits. The automatically assigned "extended confirmed" user right was created for this purpose. The protection level was created following this community discussion with the primary intention of enforcing various arbitration remedies that prohibited editors under the "30 days/500 edits" threshold to edit certain topic areas.

In July and August 2016, a request for comment established consensus for community use of the new protection level. Administrators are authorized to apply extended confirmed protection to combat any form of disruption (e.g. vandalism, sock puppetry, edit warring, etc.) on any topic, subject to the following conditions:

Extended confirmed protection may only be used in cases where semi-protection has proven ineffective. It should not be used as a first resort.
A bot will post a notification at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard of each use. MusikBot currently does this by updating a report, which is transcluded onto the noticeboard.

Please review the protection policy carefully before using this new level of protection on pages. Thank you.
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A barnstar for you!

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	For your rescuing of Collision (TV series) from getting messed up. -- AI RPer (talk) 10:53, 7 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Sentence of the week

Hi Finlay, for this "so the possibility of TX being in play, perhaps in 8 years, is not the psephological nebbishness it probably is today. " - you get my incredibly irregularly awarded sentence of the week commendation! Thanks for the refs and comment, you gave me chuckle (and hope for my depressing current state of residence). Cheers, SemanticMantis (talk) 18:26, 13 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Please revoke talk page access

For Baul Broe UTTP VGCP. User made an attack unblock request. Thanks! Linguist If you reply here, please add {{ping|Linguist111}} to your message 23:37, 16 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Meh, let him rant. In any event, it's rarely appropriate for the blocking admin to also be the one to revoke access. -- Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 23:41, 16 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Talk page access has now been revoked. Linguist If you reply here, please add {{ping|Linguist111}} to your message 23:49, 16 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins

Hello,

Please note that TOTP based two-factor authentication is now available for all administrators. In light of the recent compromised accounts, you are encouraged to add this additional layer of security to your account. It may be enabled on your preferences page in the "User profile" tab under the "Basic information" section. For basic instructions on how to enable two-factor authentication, please see the developing help page for additional information. Important: Be sure to record the two-factor authentication key and the single use keys. If you lose your two factor authentication and do not have the keys, it's possible that your account will not be recoverable. Furthermore, you are encouraged to utilize a unique password and two-factor authentication for the email account associated with your Wikimedia account. This measure will assist in safeguarding your account from malicious password resets. Comments, questions, and concerns may be directed to the thread on the administrators' noticeboard. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:33, 12 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

A new user right for New Page Patrollers

Hi Finlay McWalter.

A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.

If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins).MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:47, 15 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, Finlay McWalter. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. Mdann52 (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, Finlay McWalter. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Pizzagate

I presume you didn't want to add that back to the article. Panyd^{The muffin is not subtle} 17:17, 7 December 2016 (UTC)?[reply]

What makes you think that? -- Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 17:54, 7 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

On first look I was linking it to the recent conspiracy theory furor but having just been reverted myself I now know that this is an actual thing that doesn't involve maniacs with shotguns. The world is an odd place. Panyd^{The muffin is not subtle} 18:25, 7 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

If it resurfaces, we can put an edit notice on that article (and maybe some comment text in that section) directly people to Pizzagate (conspiracy theory). But the overspill that the football article saw (which seems to have been due to one person, thwarted in their attempts to make/edit the conspiracy article) seems to have abated. If the conspiracy article ends up being protected we might see further overspill, but absent that the football article is probably okay. I'd wager that, in a week or two, the locus of internet crazy will have moved to some other nonsense. -- Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 21:17, 7 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter - February 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2017). This first issue is being sent out to all administrators, if you wish to keep receiving it please subscribe. Your feedback is welcomed.

Administrator changes

NinjaRobotPirate • Schwede66 • K6ka • Ealdgyth • Ferret • Cyberpower678 • Mz7 • Primefac • Dodger67

Briangotts • JeremyA • BU Rob13

Guideline and policy news

A discussion to workshop proposals to amend the administrator inactivity policy at Wikipedia talk:Administrators has been in process since late December 2016.
Wikipedia:Pending changes/Request for Comment 2016 closed with no consensus for implementing Pending changes level 2 with new criteria for use.
Following an RfC, an activity requirement is now in place for bots and bot operators.

Technical news

When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)
Following the latest RfC concluding that Pending Changes 2 should not be used on the English Wikipedia, an RfC closed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. (T156448)
The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.

Arbitration

The Arbitration Committee released a response to the Wikimedia Foundation's statement on paid editing and outing.

Obituaries

JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.

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13:36, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

Personal Atttacks - Philip Morris

Hello, please refrain from personal attacks. 'Pedia Trician (talk) 22:31, 28 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Brie Bella

Hi, You reverted vandalism that happened on Brie Bella. However there are just words and the infobox is not appearing. I have tried to edit here and there to try and get the infobox to show but apparently it is not working. I was hoping you could fix this. Thanks Plum3600 (talk) 14:38, 22 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

There was an unclosed link, in the section mentioning John Cena. I removed that, and the infobox renders okay. I didn't simply fix the link, because the rest of the article body doesn't mention Cena, and so I don't know if that's true or not. If it is, feel free to restore the content as you see fit - US professional wrestling seems to blur the lines between its internal fantasy story and the real world to such an extent that I'm not confident I can evaluate sources about living people in that milieu at all. Thanks for noticing the defect; hopefully there wasn't other collateral damage in all that mess, but let me know if you see anything else. -- Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 14:51, 22 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]