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Guild of Copy Editors December 2023 Newsletter
Guild of Copy Editors December 2023 Newsletter
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tea
Hello, I noticed that you are trying to delete a series of password information for something?! Parminekhosravi (talk) 01:19, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
Apology
Hello. I apologize for my edit that you had to revert on Mega_Man#Mega_Man_Legends. I sincerely thought it was a spoiler. --Abacos (talk) 22:08, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
Ashanti
You should read the edits you revert before doing so. "among the two of the biggest hit songs of 2002" is not grammatically correct and the Grammy press conference took place on January 7. I looked it up before I changed it. You can look it up yourself if you don't believe me. I've taken the time to once again correct the page (after waiting a few hours with no response, which is cool, maybe you're busy). I added an edit summary explaining what I said here. Hopefully, that's not a problem for you. 166.194.204.58 (talk) 16:30, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
Talk page sandboxes
I hope I didn't do anything wrong by adding like 40 sections to the page. Like don't the sandboxes have less rules than other pages as they're for testing stuff? If what I did constituted vandalism, I do apologize and will not add a bunch of sections to the talk pages again. I was just bored and had nothing to edit on Wikipedia for a while so I had to use the sandboxes to edit and experiment. 1033Forest (talk) 00:04, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
- @1033Forest: No, you didn't do anything wrong, as long as you understand that the sandboxes you were using are supposed to be available to anyone to use and/or clear, and should not be monopolized because you are bored. Perhaps you don't know that you have a sandbox which is exclusively yours, which you can edit and use for experiments without interfering with or inconveniencing any other editor. See it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:1033Forest/sandbox. General Ization Talk 00:09, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
- Thanks for the response, I understand now. 1033Forest (talk) 00:13, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – January 2024
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Arbitration
- Following the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Aoidh, Cabayi, Firefly, HJ Mitchell, Maxim, Sdrqaz, ToBeFree, Z1720.
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Administrators' newsletter – February 2024
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- An RfC about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.
Technical news
- Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. (T326065)
Arbitration
- Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
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Happy First Edit Day!
 | Happy First Edit Day! Hi General Ization! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of the day you made your first edit and became a Wikipedian! The Herald (Benison) (talk) 02:37, 6 February 2024 (UTC) |  |
Administrators' newsletter – March 2024
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Guideline and policy news
- Phase I of the 2024 RfA review is now open for participation. Editors are invited to review, comment on, and propose improvements to the requests for adminship process.
- Following an RfC, the inactivity requirement for the removal of the interface administrator right increased from 6 months to 12 months.
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- The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. (T353388)
Miscellaneous
- The 2024 appointees for the Ombuds commission are だ＊ぜ, AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Doǵu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, MdsShakil, Minorax, Nehaoua, Renvoy and RoySmith as members, with Vermont serving as steward-observer.
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ITN recognition for Steve Lawrence
On 13 March 2024, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Steve Lawrence, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. PFHLai (talk) 12:33, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – April 2024
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- An RfC is open to convert all current and future community discretionary sanctions to (community designated) contentious topics procedure.
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- The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (T313405)
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- An arbitration case has been opened to look into "the intersection of managing conflict of interest editing with the harassment (outing) policy".
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Guild of Copy Editors April 2024 Newsletter
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Bobbit Tires!!!
That's a LTA, I don't think telling them they're vandalizing with multiple IPs will affect the outcome. LilianaUwU (talk / contributions) 05:45, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
- No, but it also ensures that ClueBot will immediately report them when they trip a filter, versus just warning them. General Ization Talk 05:46, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
- Ah, makes sense. LilianaUwU (talk / contributions) 05:47, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
- @General Ization, @LilianaUwU, can we ask for a range block? Classicwiki (talk) If you reply here, please ping me. 05:57, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
- @Classicwiki Sure we can, but neither @LilianaUwU nor I have the tools. General Ization Talk 06:00, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
- I did ask for the /64 to be blocked, though. LilianaUwU (talk / contributions) 06:00, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
- And ZZuuzz has done. General Ization Talk 06:06, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
- @Classicwiki Sure we can, but neither @LilianaUwU nor I have the tools. General Ization Talk 06:00, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – May 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2024).
Guideline and policy news
- Phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship review has concluded. Several proposals have passed outright and will proceed to implementation, including creating a discussion-only period (3b) and administrator elections (13) on a trial basis. Other successful proposals, such as creating a reminder of civility norms (2), will undergo further refinement in Phase II. Proposals passed on a trial basis will be discussed in Phase II, after their trials conclude. Further details on specific proposals can be found in the full report.
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- Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Wikipedia. This means that administrators have the ability to restrict users from certain actions, including uploading files, moving pages and files, creating new pages, and sending thanks. T280531
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- The arbitration case Conflict of interest management has been closed.
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- This may be a good time to reach out to potential nominees to ask if they would consider an RfA.
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Administrators' newsletter – June 2024
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- Phase II of the 2024 RfA review has commenced to improve and refine the proposals passed in Phase I.
Technical news
- The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. T43351
Arbitration
- The arbitration case Venezuelan politics has been closed.
- The Committee is seeking volunteers for various roles, including access to the conflict of interest VRT queue.
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Guild of Copy Editors June 2024 Newsletter
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Hello and welcome to the June 2024 newsletter, a quarterly-ish digest of Guild activities since April. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. Election news: Wanted: new Guild coordinators! If you value and enjoy the GOCE, why not help out behind the scenes? Nominations for our mid-year coordinator election are now open until 23:59 on 15 June (UTC). Self-nominations are welcome. Voting commences at 00:01 on 16 June and continues until 23:50 on 30 June. Results will be announced at the election page. Blitz: Nine of the fourteen editors who signed up for the April 2024 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited at least one article. Between them, they copy edited 55,853 words comprising twenty articles. Barnstars awarded are available here. Drive: 58 editors signed up for our May 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive and 33 of those completed at least one copy edit. 251 articles and 475,952 words were copy edited. Barnstars awarded are here. Blitz: Our June 2024 Copy Editing Blitz will begin on 16 June and finish on 22 June. Barnstars awarded will be posted here. Progress report: As of 05:23, 8 June 2024 (UTC) , GOCE copyeditors have completed 161 requests since 1 January and the backlog stands at 2,779 articles. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from Baffle gab1978 and your GOCE coordinators Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Wracking. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.
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Administrators' newsletter – July 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2024).
Administrator changes
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- Local administrators can now add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without using JavaScript. Documentation is available on MediaWiki. (T6086)
Miscellaneous
- The Community Wishlist is re-opening on 15 July 2024. Read more
Vandalism
Hi ... a few days ago you helped remove the vandalism on the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles page. But I've noticed some more vandalism that I hadn't seen before. In the infobox under Nicknames it says "Silvertails Chip Thieves". The Silvertails part is correct, the rest is the vandalism. However when I try to delete Chip Thieves I get a string of warning messages. Can you tell me what is going on there? Bryan Krippner (talk) 12:44, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Bryan Krippner: Without knowing the content of the "warning messages" you received, I couldn't say, but I've removed the latest vandalism. Thanks. General Ization Talk 01:21, 10 July 2024 (UTC)
- I still see the warning messages when I edit the page (without submitting) and select "Show Preview". Bryan Krippner (talk) 04:17, 10 July 2024 (UTC)
Precious anniversary
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--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:50, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks, @Gerda Arendt, but I'm curious ... I've been editing Wikipedia using this account since January 9, 2006 (18 1/2 years ago). What is this the seventh anniversary of? General Ization Talk 00:09, 16 July 2024 (UTC)
- Ah, I see (at Wikipedia:WikiProject Quality Article Improvement/Precious). But may I suggest that you say a bit more in order to clarify the matter as you congratulate editors on the anniversary of their first receiving QAI recognition? I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one puzzled about this. (I have actually been puzzled about this for at least the last six years, but finally became enough so to ask you about it.) General Ization Talk 01:11, 16 July 2024 (UTC)
- It's meant as the beginning of a conversation, which worked this time ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:09, 16 July 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – August 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2024).
Technical news
- Global blocks may now target accounts as well as IP's. Administrators may locally unblock when appropriate.
- Users wishing to permanently leave may now request "vanishing" via Special:GlobalVanishRequest. Processed requests will result in the user being renamed, their recovery email being removed, and their account being globally locked.
Arbitration
- The Arbitration Committee appointed the following administrators to the conflict of interest volunteer response team: Bilby, Extraordinary Writ
Simpson FAQ suggestion
Perhaps we should start a discussion (perhaps on the OJ article itself) on how we can make an FAQ above as to why the article is to remain neutral in regard to Simpson’s guilt or innocence. What we can use is an edit filter on the page (and the article itself, I suppose) which, if the submitted edit contains the word "alleged" or “Simpson committed the murders”, blocks the edit and throws up a message referring the editor to an FAQ on why it is not allowed. I think it would need to apply to all of the peripheral articles too, like Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, not to mention the central article, O. J. Simpson murder case. Anything that's not protected at a given moment tends to get that kind of drive-by edit. There are good arguments that can be made some reasons why if someone else (or a group of someones) had been involved in the murders (either as the real/actual killer or an accomplice with Simpson), the LAPD would not have charged them. Many positing alternate theories argue that either the LAPD framed Simpson or conducted a shady investigation that led them to miss evidence of other's involvement or ignore evidence because they did not want to undermine their public position that Simpson acted alone. From what I gather, Wikipedia policy is not to proclaim guilt especially if a person if found not guilty by a court of law. That does not mean his is innocent as we all no, but it does not Wikipedia should not state that position. We can state that many people believe he got away with murder. We also have to acknowledge though that others feel differently and think he was framed or that he was at least not the sole perpetrator in the murders. While many people are frim on stating they believe the evidence points to Simpson indeed being the real murderer and having acted alone, some people have posited alternate theories for the murders in which either one or more other suspects committed the murders or in which Simpson did not act alone. If we're going to have to divide how people feel about the case, in varying ways, it only makes sense that we should have FAQ detailing the neutrality towards Simpson’s guilt or innocence. 92.17.197.110 (talk) 22:16, 7 August 2024 (UTC)
Please revoke TPA
@Kinu: Please consider revoking the TPA of AircubeMusic (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). Thanks. General Ization Talk 04:09, 8 August 2024 (UTC)
Done --Kinu t/c 04:12, 8 August 2024 (UTC)
thanks for the thank
hey there I saw that you thanked me for reporting vandalism and I have to say that I am pleased that somone thinks my contributions are valuable anyways thank you Daisytheduck talk to me 10:00, 8 August 2024 (UTC)
Yana Kudrinskaya
It says her date of birth on the gravesite ("21.XII 1981" - December 21, 1981).
Wikipedian2006 (talk) 17:56, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
- Unfortunately, anything found at findagrave.com must be considered unreliable, even a photograph, as it is not considered a reliable source.
- A better published source would be this: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/fathers-and-sons-the-crash-of-aeroflot-flight-593-fc4947bdb1f1 General Ization Talk 21:59, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – September 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2024).
Guideline and policy news
- Following an RfC, there is a new criterion for speedy deletion: C4, which
applies to unused maintenance categories, such as empty dated maintenance categories for dates in the past
. - A request for comment is open to discuss whether Notability (species) should be adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline.
Arbitration
- Following a motion, remedies 5.1 and 5.2 of World War II and the history of Jews in Poland (the topic and interaction bans on My very best wishes, respectively) were repealed.
- Remedy 3C of the German war effort case ("Cinderella157 German history topic ban") was suspended for a period of six months.
- The arbitration case Historical Elections is currently open. Proposed decision is expected by 3 September 2024 for this case.
Miscellaneous
- Editors can now enter into good article review circles, an alternative for informal quid pro quo arrangements, to have a GAN reviewed in return for reviewing a different editor's nomination.
- A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in September 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles and redirects in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 13,900 articles and 26,200 redirects awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!