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Administrators' newsletter – June 2020

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

Administrator changes

added CaptainEekCreffettCwmhiraeth
removed Anna FrodesiakBuckshot06RonhjonesSQL

CheckUser changes

removed SQL

Guideline and policy news

Arbitration

  • 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.

22:31, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

AN

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Your close at AN does not reflect consensus. Your partial block might be imposed of your own accord but there is also consensus is for a CIR-block, please amend. Ideally you should have waited for more people to give an opinion so you could've had a clear result. --qedk (t c) 06:13, 4 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I feel like we could have gone either way with this; if a full block is warranted in the end, it's easy enough to upgrade, and if the partial block is enough to get them to mend their ways, great. Anyways, there is an ongoing SPI which may make our discussion moot here, so let's wait for its conclusion. -- King of ♥ 13:12, 4 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ping reminder

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I noticed at WP:EFFP/R you tried to ping an IP editor. I wanted to remind you/make sure you are aware that IP editors do not receive pings, so you must use {{Talkback}} or similar on their talk page. (I created {{EFFPReply}} for this purpose, and am waiting for it to be added to Twinkle.) Best, --Mdaniels5757 (talk) 16:16, 4 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Got it, thanks. -- King of ♥ 16:38, 4 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Prestige Ameritech

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On 6 June 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Prestige Ameritech, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that medical supply company Prestige Ameritech offered to manufacture millions of N95 masks in January, but was rebuffed by the U.S. government? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Prestige Ameritech. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Prestige Ameritech), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. 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.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:01, 6 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Derek Chauvin

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Could you restore Derek Chauvin to the last edit when it was an article and also remove the protections from the page. I think that is what it should be while a AFD is occurring and no reason not to allow edits while it is ongoing.Casprings (talk) 19:32, 6 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Some in the DRV have raised BLP issues with the current version of the article. Therefore, I felt that it was best to err on the side of caution and preserve the redirect while it is being discussed. It's looking like the AfD will be decided based solely on notability (as with 95%+ of AfDs) as opposed to the state of the article, so there is WP:NODEADLINE and editing can resume if the article is kept. If the article is redirected, it won't be because of its current state; if there are sources you want to add then raise them in the AfD. -- King of ♥ 20:01, 6 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

21:12, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

Happy Birthday!

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"Twitterjobsearch.com" listed at Redirects for discussion

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Information icon A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Twitterjobsearch.com. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 June 11#List of Twitter services and applications until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Pandakekok9 (talk) 05:48, 11 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Football/soccer disambiguation

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I note the RFC and have supported its implementation at RMs, but there is no need to add unnecessary disambiguation when there is only one 'soccer and one 'footballer'. I have reverted your moves at Brian Bates and added hatnotes instead. GiantSnowman 14:22, 11 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@GiantSnowman: The RfC result does not make an exception for that case. Per WP:PDAB, what you're basically doing is asserting that the American soccer player is the overwhelming primary topic of "soccer" and the British footballer is the overwhelming primary topic of "footballer"; not just ordinary primary topic, but staggeringly so in the same vein as Nirvana (band) (despite the existence of other bands called Nirvana) and Thriller (album) (despite the existence of other albums called Thriller). Given that our audience is international and people do look up footballers in other countries, I don't think that standard is met.
Plus, if there's a British footballer and an Australian soccer player, that would be extremely problematic as it is becoming increasingly common to refer to the sport as "football" in Australia. -- King of ♥ 14:40, 11 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
WP:COMMONSENSE applies here. Nobody is going to confuse the two. Americans know the sport is 'football' around the world, and British people know 'soccer' is used in the States. (Despite 'soccer' being an archaic British term, and 'football' becoming increasingly common in the States). Oh and it's been standard for a while to disambiguate by (English footballer) and (Australian footballer) - see Tom Broadbent as an example. GiantSnowman 14:58, 11 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
That's different because Tom Broadbent (Australian footballer) is not a soccer player. But if he were, you would support (English footballer) and (Australian soccer)? -- King of ♥ 15:03, 11 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
If they played the same code, then yes I would (although Year of Birth is always preferable given the fluid nature of nationality in association football, following the Diego Lopez RM, where is was (correctly) moved to (soccer, born 2002) rather than (American soccer). GiantSnowman 15:12, 11 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
American vs. British is probably the most extreme case possible; when it's between one American and one Mexican, I'm not so sure. Mexicans might not be familiar with the term "footballer" and expect the article with "soccer" to refer to their player; Americans near the border may in fact be more familiar with the Mexican footballer than their own countryman from (say) Ohio, particularly if the Mexican is more well-known. So I really wouldn't call soccer vs. footballer "common sense" at that point. And like you say, nationality is fluid and there are plenty of people who move to the U.S. from Latin America; for those people we have to pick one between "soccer" and "footballer" in the end of course, but it doesn't mean that it serves as a good disambiguator on its own. -- King of ♥ 15:21, 11 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Far more common than changing nationality (Ricky Shakes has had 3!) is players from country X playing at club level in country Y. I dread the day we come across an English player active in the US and an American player active in the UK... GiantSnowman 15:24, 11 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

21:38, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

June 17, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-8pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop. This month, as part of Wikimedia NYC's commitment to the well-being of members, we will hold WikiWednesday online via Zoom videoconferencing! To join the meeting from your computer or smartphone, just visit this link. More information about how to connect is available on the meetup page.

We look forward to seeing local Wikimedians, but would also like to invite folks from the greater New York metropolitan area (and beyond!) who might not typically be able to join us in person!

This month, we'll check in on the global WikiCup race and have as featured speaker our local champion and frontrunner, who is trying to win it by writing as many new New York City articles as possible, as well as other local and global topics.

Is there a project you'd like to share? A question you'd like answered? A Wiki* skill you'd like to learn? Let us know by adding it to the agenda.

7:00pm - 8:00 pm online via Zoom (optional breakout rooms from 8:00-8:30)

We especially encourage folks to add your 3-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues!

(You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future notifications for NYC-area events by adding or removing your name from this list.)

--Wikimedia New York City Team 01:54, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

Sigh

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--evrik (talk) 06:25, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

18:48, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

Cwf97

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As demonstrated by this edit, despite having received a partial block by you for their issues with using categorization properly, Cwf97 is continuing to do so, having added a category to an article which is unsupported by the article. Please let me know if you'd rather I just warned them. DonIago (talk) 13:11, 25 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It's sort of a different problem than the one they were blocked over, so I've given them a warning. -- King of ♥ 15:56, 25 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you! DonIago (talk) 16:03, 25 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Please Unprotect "Triple The Mogul" Page

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Hi i see you are an admin and the "Triple The Mogul" page is a protected on Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Triple_The_Mogul&action=history. From reading the AfD, i see the primary issue was lack of notability and reliable sources. However, in the past few weeks he has been in the news tremendously with his new Boxing League with famous musician Sean Kingston . Here are a few links from the New York Post, The Blast, Jerusalem Post and The Source magazine, all of which i believe properly reach the criteria for WP:BASIC. https://pagesix.com/2020/06/26/riff-raff-to-fight-in-sean-kingstons-rap-boxing-league/ https://theblast.com/c/sean-kingston-professional-boxing-league-rappers-ufc https://www.jpost.com/special-content/jewish-rapper-triple-the-mogul-teams-up-with-sean-kingston-to-start-pro-boxing-league-for-rappers-632748 https://thesource.com/2020/06/22/sean-kingston-boxing/ Can you please unprotect the page so i can edit it ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jayzhizbovvs (talkcontribs) 18:04, June 26, 2020 (UTC)

Please reach out to BD2412 instead as he is the deleting admin. -- King of ♥ 18:11, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
He already did, and I already told him no, because the article has repeatedly been deleted from mainspace. It needs to go through draftspace and AfC to be restored to mainspace. There is already a Draft:Triple The Mogul, which has recently been declined. BD2412 T 18:22, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@BD2412: As an FYI I just blocked Jayzhizbovvs as a confirmed sock of Ylevy.-- Jezebel's Ponyobons mots 18:44, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Well, there it is. BD2412 T 18:46, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Rachel Bitecofer

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On 27 June 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Rachel Bitecofer, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Rachel Bitecofer, who closely predicted the 2018 U.S. House election results, contends that elections are decided by negative partisanship rather than swing votes? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Rachel Bitecofer), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. 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.

 — Amakuru (talk) 00:03, 27 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Negative partisanship

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On 27 June 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Negative partisanship, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Rachel Bitecofer, who closely predicted the 2018 U.S. House election results, contends that elections are decided by negative partisanship rather than swing votes? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Negative partisanship), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. 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.

 — Amakuru (talk) 00:03, 27 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Bjork Orchestral page

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Can the Bjork Orchestra page be restored? 3 concerts have been announced for August and the music press has reported on them and their upcoming live streams

< https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/bjork-iceland-concerts-1021492/ >

< https://pitchfork.com/news/bjork-announces-new-orchestral-livestream-charity-performances/ >

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 8.3.92.67 (talkcontribs) 04:32, June 28, 2020 (UTC)

Unfortunately, this doesn't quite look like significant coverage to me yet. -- King of ♥ 04:37, 28 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Well, that was only 2 sources. There are more:

<https://consequenceofsound.net/2020/06/bjork-concerts-iceland-coronavirus/>

<https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/bjork-new-orchestral-livestream-performances/>

<https://www.nme.com/news/music/bjork-to-live-stream-three-orchestral-performances-in-aid-of-womens-charity-2696850>

<https://www.stereogum.com/2089481/bjork-announces-three-august-concerts-in-reykjavik/news/</ref>

plus this interview about the upcoming concerts:

<https://www.frettabladid.is/frettir/i-feluleik-islandi/?fbclid=IwAR3z8it_58zN-AtliUPT4SzvOK7QheJ8sqcH1F3iSQ_OS09uBHAESuyUJ60>

How much coverage is needed to be "significant"?

See WP:NTOUR: "Such coverage might show notability in terms of artistic approach, financial success, relationship to audience, or other such terms. Sources that merely establish that a tour happened are not sufficient to demonstrate notability." What I see so far from every source is merely a summary of the content of the tour, with no critical commentary or an explanation of why the tour is exceptional. -- King of ♥ 20:41, 28 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Well, for one thing it's going to be the first performance by a major international artist with a live audience since the start of the coronavirus, not to mention that Bjork is utilizing over 100 musicians that she has performed with over the course of her 28 year solo career with each night showcasing different musical pallets (choir, then strings, then brass + flutes) and unique set lists from her extensive back catalog. All of this information is covered in these articles, not to mention the fact that these shows will also be charity live streams in support of women's shelters all over the world, which is also a point covered in the various articles.

Not to mention (yet again) that these concerts are allowed to go on because the country of Iceland has effectively wiped out the coronavirus:

< https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/06/08/how-iceland-beat-the-coronavirus >

< https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/iceland-reopens-coronavirus/index.html >

All of this information seems noteworthy for a wikipedia article by a popular musician

So I'm not really understanding why this article can't be reinstated and updated to reflect this relevant information

I'm gonna go ahead and create a new wikipedia page for the tour. The spelling of the show has changed anyway

The Signpost: 28 June 2020

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16:30, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

Afd closure

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Hi, you recently closed Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bitit (French company) as "no consensus" but I think you've misunderstood where we'd got to in the discussion. You say that it hinges on whether the first two references meet ORGIND which is a requirement for references to meet the criteria for establishing notability according to WP:NCORP guidelines. I pointed out to Freaintanl, who !voted to Keep, that the sources failed the second part of the "Independence" test of ORGIND to meet the criteria for notability and Freaintanl's response was Thank you for the detail explanation and I checked that you mentioned the second point of WP:ORGIND i.e. "Independence of the content" and the references I used satisfy the 1st point i.e. "Independence of the author" because these are regular staff reporters not guest posts or opinions. In other word, he agreed that they fail ORGIND because they only satisfy the first part of the test (Independence of the Author) and not the second (Independence of the Content). He then asked me to check other sources which is where it has been left. I think you misunderstood where the discussion was - there was an acceptance that the references failed "Independence of the Content" and you closed as "No Consensus". There isn't still a debate over ORGIND for those two sources, it has been conceded that they fail. Can you take a look? HighKing++ 16:22, 30 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I've relisted the AfD. -- King of ♥ 16:26, 30 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you! Also, I wasn't aware of WP:RSP until you mentioned, very useful. HighKing++ 16:31, 30 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

WC

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Hello King of Hearts, could you fulfill my request here. It's just to get rid of the massive upload history. I plan on re-uploading but the completed/final version after deletion, Thank you. Jerm (talk) 18:02, 30 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not aware of a way to suppress the preventive upload function. If the latest one is the final version you want, I can just delete everything else and leave that up. -- King of ♥ 18:19, 30 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@King of Hearts: Yes, the latest version is the final. Jerm (talk) 18:21, 30 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
 Done Please remember to cite your sources for the Venus of Milo and the barnstar. -- King of ♥ 18:24, 30 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you and I'll go ahead and cite the files. Jerm (talk) 18:26, 30 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]