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Administrators' newsletter – November 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2021).

Administrator changes

Clpo13

Brian0918 • JDoorjam • Karanacs • MrDarcy • Mindspillage

Interface administrator changes

Evad37

CheckUser changes

Dreamy Jazz • Ferret • GeneralNotability • Girth Summit • RoySmith

Oversight changes

Dreamy Jazz • LuK3

Guideline and policy news

Phase 2 of the 2021 RfA review has commenced which will discuss potential solutions to address the 8 issues found in Phase 1. Proposed solutions that achieve consensus will be implemented and you may propose solutions till 07 November 2021.

Technical news

Toolhub is a catalogue of tools which can be used on Wikimedia wikis. It is at https://toolhub.wikimedia.org/.

Arbitration

GeneralNotability, Mz7 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2021 Arbitration Committee Elections. Ivanvector and John M Wolfson are reserve commissioners.
Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves to stand in the 2021 Arbitration Committee elections from 07 November 2021 until 16 November 2021.

Miscellaneous

The 2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of five new CheckUsers and two new Oversighters.

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WikiCup 2021 November newsletter

The WikiCup is over for another year and the finalists can relax! Our Champion this year is The Rambling Man (submissions), who amassed over 5000 points in the final round, achieving 8 featured articles and almost 500 reviews. It was a very competitive round; seven of the finalists achieved over 1000 points in the round (enough to win the 2019 contest), and three scored over 3000 (enough to win the 2020 event). Our 2021 finalists and their scores were:

The Rambling Man (submissions) with 5072 points
Lee Vilenski (submissions) with 3276 points
Amakuru (submissions) with 3197 points
Epicgenius (submissions) with 1611 points
Gog the Mild (submissions) with 1571 points
BennyOnTheLoose (submissions) with 1420 points
Hog Farm (submissions) with 1043 points
Bloom6132 (submissions) with 528 points

All those who reached the final round will win awards. The following special awards will be made based on high performance in particular areas of content creation and review. Awards will be handed out in the next few days.

The Rambling Man (submissions) wins the featured article prize, for 8 FAs in round 5.
Lee Vilenski (submissions) wins the featured list prize, for 3 FLs in round 5.
Gog the Mild (submissions) wins the featured topic prize, for 13 articles in a featured topic in round 5.
Epicgenius (submissions) wins the good article prize, for 63 GAs in round 4.
The Rambling Man (submissions) wins the good topic prize, for 86 articles in good topics in round 5.
The Rambling Man (submissions) wins the reviewer prize, for 68 FAC reviews and 213 GAN reviews, both in round 5.
Epicgenius (submissions) wins the DYK prize, for 30 did you know articles in round 3 and 105 overall.
Bloom6132 (submissions) wins the ITN prize, for 71 in the news articles in round 1 and 284 overall.

Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether they made it to the final round or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup, some of whom did very well. Wikipedia has benefitted greatly from the quality creations, expansions and improvements made, and the numerous reviews performed. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition, not forgetting User:Jarry1250, who runs the scoring bot.

If you have views on whether the rules or scoring need adjustment for next year's contest, please comment on the WikiCup talk page. Next year's competition will begin on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to see you all in the 2022 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:55, 3 November 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Luc Tardif Sr.

On 14 November 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Luc Tardif Sr., which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that Luc Tardif Sr. gained French citizenship in order to further his ice hockey career? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Luc Tardif Sr.. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Luc Tardif Sr.), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 00:02, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

Adding to Karen S. Lynch's Wikipedia biography

Hello again,HickoryOughtShirt?4 I noticed you also created Karen S. Lynch's Wikipedia biography. I made some conceptual additions to the draft in my sandbox with more references and some additional content. Would you be open to take a look at the sandbox? I do have a COI with Karen, so I will not directly edit the article. --Chefmikesf (talk) 03:33, 10 November 2021 (UTC)

Chefmikesf, Sorry for the delayed reply. I'll take a look & impliment. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 22:09, 10 November 2021 (UTC)

Thanks HickoryOughtShirt?4. Feel free to ping me with any questions too!--Chefmikesf (talk) 22:38, 10 November 2021 (UTC)

Chefmikesf,

Done. Any chance you are able to get a photo for use on the article? HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 02:55, 11 November 2021 (UTC)

HickoryOughtShirt?4 I will work on getting a photo uploaded to Commons ASAP, then we can add it to the article.--Chefmikesf (talk) 04:06, 11 November 2021 (UTC)

HickoryOughtShirt?4 One more thing, would you OK if I added inline links and the external links section to the article PER WP:PLAINANDSIMPLECOI?--Chefmikesf (talk) 23:31, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

Chefmikesf, what external links? HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 04:46, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

Hi HickoryOughtShirt?4 I was suggesting to add her CVS Health biography to the external links section. If that's not OK with you, can I add inline links to other Wikipedia articles?--Chefmikesf (talk) 00:41, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

Chefmikesf, I'm against it only per WP:ELNO. I feel her CVS Health biography falls under #1 Any site that does not provide a unique resource beyond what the article would contain if it became a featured article. In other words, the site should not merely repeat information that is already or should be in the article. Also, just a side note, on Wikipedia we call inline links Wikilinks.

HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 01:07, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

That makes sense, thanks for share this. Would you be OK if I add the Wikilinks? :) Chefmikesf (talk) 05:21, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

Chefmikesf, ya, go ahead! HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 12:19, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

Edits to Page for "Joseph Gone"

Hi. You rejected my edits for the "Joseph Gone" page, stating that I need citations. I don't know who created this page, but I am Joseph Gone, and I was simply trying to correct factual mistakes on the page. Hopefully, this is adequate for approving these changes!

Joe Gone jgone@g.harvard.edu gonetowar.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.45.64.56 (talk) 20:39, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

Hello Dr. Gone and thanks for your message. Everything on Wikipedia must be sourced. This is to protect Wikipedia's verifiability and for your own protection. If someone writes something defamatory on your article, we have no way of knowing if it's true or not if it is unsourced. Therefore, everything needs a source. As an academic yourself, I am sure you can also appreciate this. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 21:20, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

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DYK nomination of Damon Severson

Hello! Your submission of Damon Severson at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) at your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! 78.26 _{(spin me / revolutions)} 20:21, 24 November 2021 (UTC)