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Administrators' newsletter – May 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2024).

Administrator changes

readded Nyttend
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Bureaucrat changes

removed Nihonjoe

CheckUser changes

readded Joe Roe

Oversight changes

removed GeneralNotability

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • 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

Arbitration

Miscellaneous


The Signpost: 16 May 2024

Wikiproject Medicine May 2024 Newsletter

Issue 22—May 2024


WikiProject Medicine Newsletter

Hello all. Another irregular edition of the newsletter. I was inspired to collect this after seeing several medicine-interested editors nominate their first good article. Please review a GA nomination if you have time, and help support our colleagues' efforts:

Recognized content (since April 1)

National Public Health Laboratory (Sudan) nom. FuzzyMagma, reviewed by Snoteleks
Nighat Arif nom. Launchballer, reviewed by Chiswick Chap




Nominated for review

Hepatic hydrothorax nom. Aeschylus
Adrenal crisis nom. CursedWithTheAbilityToDoTheMath
Exhaustion disorder nom. Draken Bowser
Bite registration nom. Candle1, under review by Esculenta
Charles Wambebe nom. Vanderwaalforces
Polio Undergoing featured article review. You can contribute at the FAR page or the article talk page.

WP:MED News

  • Wikipedia:Good article reassessment is back in business, with a new process and new coordinators. If you see medicine-related GAs that may no longer meet the GA criteria, feel free to nominate them for attention/reassessment (please, not too many at once, lest we get overwhelmed). I'll incorporate them into the listings above.
  • Maintenance category of the month: Articles with topics of unclear notability (I've listed just the 36 that start with "A"; there are 398 total).
    Note for the curious: 24,211 of the 57,554 articles (42%) tagged as part of WP:MED have some maintenance tag.

Newsletter ideas, comments, and criticisms welcome here.

You are receiving this because you added your name to the WikiProject Medicine mailing list. If you no longer wish to receive the newsletter, please remove your name.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine at 21:22, 25 May 2024 (UTC).

Administrators' newsletter – June 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2024).

Administrator changes

readded Graham Beards
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Bureaucrat changes

removed

Oversight changes

removed Dreamy Jazz

Guideline and policy news

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

Miscellaneous


The Signpost: 8 June 2024

The Signpost: 4 July 2024

Administrators' newsletter – July 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2024).

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The Signpost: 22 July 2024

Administrators' newsletter – August 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2024).

Administrator changes

readded Isabelle Belato
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Interface administrator changes

readded Izno

CheckUser changes

removed Barkeep49

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 Signpost: 14 August 2024

Administrators' newsletter – September 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2024).

Administrator changes

removed Pppery

Interface administrator changes

removed Pppery

Oversighter changes

removed Wugapodes

CheckUser changes

removed

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

Miscellaneous


The Signpost: 4 September 2024

The Signpost: 26 September 2024

Administrators' newsletter – October 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2024).

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CheckUser changes

readded
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Guideline and policy news

Arbitration

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The Signpost: 19 October 2024

Invitation to participate in a research

Hello,

The Wikimedia Foundation is conducting a survey of Wikipedians to better understand what draws administrators to contribute to Wikipedia, and what affects administrator retention. We will use this research to improve experiences for Wikipedians, and address common problems and needs. We have identified you as a good candidate for this research, and would greatly appreciate your participation in this anonymous survey.

You do not have to be an Administrator to participate.

The survey should take around 10-15 minutes to complete. You may read more about the study on its Meta page and view its privacy statement .

Please find our contact on the project Meta page if you have any questions or concerns.

Kind Regards,

WMF Research Team

BGerdemann (WMF) (talk) 19:21, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

Help with Delirium

Nice to meet you mate. I understand you're a Doctor which is amazing. Ive been working on improving Delirium article for a long time, but seems like not enough people care, or... maybe... want to help, with this disorder. The article has alot of information already but I improved it significantly by myself in the last month or so. Can you help, or if not, where in Wikipedia do I ask for others toh elp with specific article? If there's a place to ask,for assistance. Noam Atadgy (talk) 12:10, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

@Noam Atadgy: I would recommend you try WT:MED, the forum for medical contributors. I am not around much these days. JFW | T@lk 09:41, 31 October 2024 (UTC)

Help with moving an article

Hi Dr. Wolff: Admin help is needed in moving Jews in Madagascar to History of the Jews in Madagascar to matche all the other articles that are named "History of the Jews in ____", see Category:Jewish history by country#Pages in category "Jewish history by country". Thank you for your help and please let me know when you make the move so that I can fix the redirects affected by this. Sincerely, IZAK (talk) 22:32, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

@IZAK:  Done I hope I won't get in trouble fort this given the previous discussion. JFW | T@lk 09:40, 31 October 2024 (UTC)
Hi @IZAK, I've reverted that move because, per the discussion spurred by the previous undiscussed move to that title, "Jews in Madagascar" is more concise, doesn't imply Jews as a foreign ethnic group (since much of the article discusses indigenous converts to Judaism as well as para-Judaic mystics), and doesn't imply that the content is historical (since much of it is 2010-onwards). There were similar undiscussed moves and reverts at Jews in Taiwan and Jews in Hong Kong. Zanahary 16:22, 31 October 2024 (UTC)
@Zanahary: Thank you for your explanation that I totally oppose. These articles "History of the Jews in ____" have been around for over 20 years on WP without any problems until you arbitrarily decided to come along with the wrong reasons because these are not sociological articles or articles about a sect and they do not set the types of preconditions you are making up out of thin air, but rather they record the Jewish history of Jews, all kinds of Jews, in any country or region regardless of how long those Jews have existed or been recorded there or what types of Jews they are, whether "imported" or "home-grown" it makes no difference, they are part of the "History of the Jews in ____" . It could be ten years, or a hundred years or a thousand years, it's still their history. I intend to propose to change back the changes you have made and to retain the methodology that has existed on WP for well over two decades. IZAK (talk) 17:18, 31 October 2024 (UTC)

Disputing Zanahary's move

Hi @Jfdwolff: I have started a discussion disputing your moves at History of the Jews in Madagascar, History of the Jews in Taiwan, History of the Jews in Hong Kong at Wikipedia:Requested moves/Technical requests#Contested technical requests. Thank you, IZAK (talk) 21:06, 31 October 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2024).

Administrator changes

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CheckUser changes

removed Maxim

Oversighter changes

removed Maxim

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • Mass deletions done with the Nuke tool now have the 'Nuke' tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. T366068

Arbitration

Miscellaneous