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Administrators' newsletter – December 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2018).

Administrator changes

readded Al Ameer son • Randykitty • Spartaz
removed Boson • Daniel J. Leivick • Efe • Esanchez7587 • Fred Bauder • Garzo • Martijn Hoekstra • Orangemike

Interface administrator changes

removedDeryck Chan

Guideline and policy news

  • Following a request for comment, the Mediation Committee is now closed and will no longer be accepting case requests.
  • A request for comment is in progress to determine whether members of the Bot Approvals Group should satisfy activity requirements in order to remain in that role.
  • A request for comment is in progress regarding whether to change the administrator inactivity policy, such that administrators "who have made no logged administrative actions for at least 12 months may be desysopped". Currently, the policy states that administrators "who have made neither edits nor administrative actions for at least 12 months may be desysopped".
  • A proposal has been made to temporarily restrict editing of the Main Page to interface administrators in order to mitigate the impact of compromised accounts.

Technical news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • In late November, an attacker compromised multiple accounts, including at least four administrator accounts, and used them to vandalize Wikipedia. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately. Sharing the same password across multiple websites makes your account vulnerable, especially if your password was used on a website that suffered a data breach. As these incidents have shown, these concerns are not pure fantasies.
  • Wikipedia policy requires administrators to have strong passwords. To further reinforce security, administrators should also consider enabling two-factor authentication. A committed identity can be used to verify that you are the true account owner in the event that your account is compromised and/or you are unable to log in.

Obituaries

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:36, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious
Four years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:18, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

Five years now! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:14, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

Thank you Gerda Sarahj2107 (talk) 16:13, 5 December 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – January 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2018).

Guideline and policy news

  1. G14 (new): Disambiguation pages that disambiguate only zero or one existing pages are now covered under the new G14 criterion (discussion). This is {{db-disambig}}; the text is unchanged and candidates may be found in Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as unnecessary disambiguation pages.
  2. R4 (new): Redirects in the file namespace (and no file links) that have the same name as a file or redirect at Commons are now covered under the new R4 criterion (discussion). This is {{db-redircom}}; the text is unchanged.
  3. G13 (expanded): Userspace drafts containing only the default Article Wizard text are now covered under G13 along with other drafts (discussion). Such blank drafts are now eligible after six months rather than one year, and taggers continue to use {{db-blankdraft}}.

Technical news

  • Starting on December 13, the Wikimedia Foundation security team implemented new password policy and requirements. Privileged accounts (administrators, bureaucrats, checkusers, oversighters, interface administrators, bots, edit filter managers/helpers, template editors, et al.) must have a password at least 10 characters in length. All accounts must have a password:
  1. At least 8 characters in length
  2. Not in the 100,000 most popular passwords (defined by the Password Blacklist library)
  3. Different from their username
User accounts not meeting these requirements will be prompted to update their password accordingly. More information is available on MediaWiki.org.
  • Blocked administrators may now block the administrator that blocked them. This was done to mitigate the possibility that a compromised administrator account would block all other active administrators, complementing the removal of the ability to unblock oneself outside of self-imposed blocks. A request for comment is currently in progress to determine whether the blocking policy should be updated regarding this change.
  • {{Copyvio-revdel}} now has a link to open the history with the RevDel checkboxes already filled in.

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • Accounts continue to be compromised on a regular basis. Evidence shows this is entirely due to the accounts having the same password that was used on another website that suffered a data breach. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately.
  • Around 22% of admins have enabled two-factor authentication, up from 20% in June 2018. If you haven't already enabled it, please consider doing so. Regardless of whether you use 2FA, please practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:39, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

Page restoration request 09:39, 25 October 2016 Sarahj2107 (talk | contribs) deleted page Mariachi Mzukuru (A7: Article about a band, singer, musician, or musical ensemble, which does not credibly indicate the importance or significance of the subject) (thank)

Please kidnly assist with Page restoration. The criteria for deletion according to A7 was wrong as the article did have requisite references and importance markers that showed it to be a topic/ article of interested to thousands. If you dispute the restoration kindly share the same content so that the article creator can at least make an offline article for posting by April seeing as the top subject has since broke new ground. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ronshary (talk • contribs) 09:15, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

No, A7 was not wrong and no, I will not be restoring it. I will email the article content to you, but if you post it again in it's current form it will likely be deleted as being overly promotional. Sarahj2107 (talk) 09:27, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – February 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2019).

Administrator changes

added Enterprisey • JJMC89
readded BorgQueen
removed Harro5 • Jenks24 • Graft • R. Baley

Interface administrator changes

removedEnterprisey

Guideline and policy news

  • A request for comment is currently open to reevaluate the activity requirements for administrators.
  • Administrators who are blocked have the technical ability to block the administrator who blocked their own account. A recent request for comment has amended the blocking policy to clarify that this ability should only be used in exceptional circumstances, such as account compromises, where there is a clear and immediate need.
  • A request for comment closed with a consensus in favor of deprecating The Sun as a permissible reference, and creating an edit filter to warn users who attempt to cite it.

Technical news

  • A discussion regarding an overhaul of the format and appearance of Wikipedia:Requests for page protection is in progress (permalink). The proposed changes will make it easier to create requests for those who are not using Twinkle. The workflow for administrators at this venue will largely be unchanged. Additionally, there are plans to archive requests similar to how it is done at WP:PERM, where historical records are kept so that prior requests can more easily be searched for.

Miscellaneous

  • Voting in the 2019 Steward elections will begin on 08 February 2019, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 28 February 2019, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
  • A new IRC bot is available that allows you to subscribe to notifications when specific filters are tripped. This requires that your IRC handle be identified.
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:15, 4 February 2019 (UTC)

Leptin article

It's coming up on 5 years since you updated the Bone section of Leptin, at which time I was in the process of a complete rewrite of the article. If you haven't taken a look at Leptin recently, I would love for you to do that and make any edits you think are appropriate: you do good work! Regards, IiKkEe (talk) 09:25, 9 February 2019 (UTC)

Hi IiKkEe, sorry for taking so long to respond. I've finally had a chance to have a thorough read of the Leptin article and it looks good. I had a quick check of the more recent literature and there doesn't seem to be anything major that isn't in the article. Thanks for all your hard work on this :). Sarahj2107 (talk) 11:36, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for taking a look and for your kind words... Regards, IiKkEe (talk) 13:54, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2019).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • A new tool is available to help determine if a given IP is an open proxy/VPN/webhost/compromised host.

Arbitration

  • The Arbitration Committee announced two new OTRS queues. Both are meant solely for cases involving private information; other cases will continue to be handled at the appropriate venues (e.g., WP:COIN or WP:SPI).
    • paid-en-wp@wikipedia.org has been set up to receive private evidence related to abusive paid editing.
    • checkuser-en-wp@wikipedia.org has been set up to receive private requests for CheckUser. For instance, requests for IP block exemption for anonymous proxy editing should now be sent to this address instead of the functionaries-en list.

Miscellaneous

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:13, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2019).

Technical news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • Two more administrator accounts were compromised. Evidence has shown that these attacks, like previous incidents, were due to reusing a password that was used on another website that suffered a data breach. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately. All admins are strongly encouraged to enable two-factor authentication, please consider doing so. Please always practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.
  • As a reminder, according to WP:NOQUORUM, administrators looking to close or relist an AfD should evaluate a nomination that has received few or no comments as if it were a proposed deletion (PROD) prior to determining whether it should be relisted.
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:57, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

Orbit Logic Page

I see you made a page for "Orbit Logic" some time ago and it got deleted. Can you elaborate a little more on the content of that page and the reason for its deletion? KacieTafer (talk) 14:44, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

Hi KacieTafer, I have not made any page for Orbit Logic. In December 2015 I deleted the draft article Draft:Orbit Logic as it had not been edited in 6 months and was considered abandoned. If you would like that page to be restored the place to do it is Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion and instructions for how to do it are at Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion/G13.
I did not create, edit or delete the article Orbit Logic so any questions you have about it should be directed to the deleting admin. Sarahj2107 (talk) 15:20, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
Hi Sarahj2107,Thanks for the clarification! KacieTafer (talk) 15:21, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

ArbCom 2019 special circular

Icon of a white exclamation mark within a black triangle
 Administrators must secure their accounts

The Arbitration Committee may require a new RfA if your account is compromised.

View additional information

This message was sent to all administrators following a recent motion. Thank you for your attention. For the Arbitration Committee, Cameron11598 02:44, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

Administrator account security (Correction to Arbcom 2019 special circular)

ArbCom would like to apologise and correct our previous mass message in light of the response from the community.

Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are required to "have strong passwords and follow appropriate personal security practices." We have updated our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular, two-factor authentication remains an optional means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised.

We are sorry for the wording of our previous message, which did not accurately convey this, and deeply regret the tone in which it was delivered.

For the Arbitration Committee, -Cameron11598 21:04, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2019).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • XTools Admin Stats, a tool to list admins by administrative actions, has been revamped to support more types of log entries such as AbuseFilter changes. Two additional tools have been integrated into it as well: Steward Stats and Patroller Stats.

Arbitration

  • In response to the continuing compromise of administrator accounts, the Arbitration Committee passed a motion amending the procedures for return of permissions (diff). In such cases, the committee will review all available information to determine whether the administrator followed "appropriate personal security practices" before restoring permissions; administrators found failing to have adequately done so will not be resysopped automatically. All current administrators have been notified of this change.
  • Following a formal ratification process, the arbitration policy has been amended (diff). Specifically, the two-thirds majority required to remove or suspend an arbitrator now excludes (1) the arbitrator facing suspension or removal, and (2) any inactive arbitrator who does not respond within 30 days to attempts to solicit their feedback on the resolution through all known methods of communication.

Miscellaneous

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:37, 5 May 2019 (UTC)

K-way Page recreation

Hello editor,

I have re-created the page at K-way as the re-direct sent it to raincoats. It appears to me you had censored the first page as it seems to have been a marketing page by a seller; I have no connection to this brand but do recognize its interest to the broader fashion group and so I recreated it neutrally. Let me know if there are issues. Thanks. Canlawtictoc (talk) 01:23, 27 May 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2019).

Administrator changes

removed Andonic • Consumed Crustacean • Enigmaman • Euryalus • EWS23 • HereToHelp • Nv8200pa • Peripitus • StringTheory11 • Vejvančický

CheckUser changes

removed Ivanvector

Guideline and policy news

  • An RfC seeks to clarify whether WP:OUTING should include information on just the English Wikipedia or any Wikimedia project.
  • An RfC on WT:RfA concluded that Requests for adminship and bureaucratship are discussions seeking to build consensus.
  • An RfC proposal to make the templates for discussion (TfD) process more like the requested moves (RM) process, i.e. "as a clearinghouse of template discussions", was closed as successful.

Technical news

  • The CSD feature of Twinkle now allows admins to notify page creators of deletion if the page had not been tagged. The default behavior matches that of tagging notifications, and replaces the ability to open the user talk page upon deletion. You can customize which criteria receive notifications in your Twinkle preferences: look for Notify page creator when deleting under these criteria.
  • Twinkle's d-batch (batch delete) feature now supports deleting subpages (and related redirects and talk pages) of each page. The pages will be listed first but use with caution! The und-batch (batch undelete) option can now also restore talk pages.

Miscellaneous

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2019).

Administrator changes

removed 28bytes • Ad Orientem • Ansh666 • Beeblebrox • Boing! said Zebedee • BU Rob13 • Dennis Brown • Deor • DoRD • Floquenbeam1 • Flyguy649 • Fram2 • Gadfium • GB fan • Jonathunder • Kusma • Lectonar • Moink • MSGJ • Nick • Od Mishehu • Rama • Spartaz • Syrthiss • TheDJ • WJBscribe
1Floquenbeam's access was removed, then restored, then removed again.
2Fram's access was removed, then restored, then removed again.

Guideline and policy news

  • In a related matter, the account throttle has been restored to six creations per day as the mitigation activity completed.

Technical news

  • The Wikimedia Foundation's Community health initiative plans to design and build a new user reporting system to make it easier for people experiencing harassment and other forms of abuse to provide accurate information to the appropriate channel for action to be taken. Community feedback is invited.

Miscellaneous

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Administrators' newsletter – August 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2019).

Guideline and policy news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • Following a research project on masking IP addresses, the Foundation is starting a new project to improve the privacy of IP editors. The result of this project may significantly change administrative and counter-vandalism workflows. The project is in the very early stages of discussions and there is no concrete plan yet. Admins and the broader community are encouraged to leave feedback on the talk page.
  • The new page reviewer right is bundled with the admin tool set. Many admins regularly help out at Special:NewPagesFeed, but they may not be aware of improvements, changes, and new tools for the Curation system. Stay up to date by subscribing here to the NPP newsletter that appears every two months, and/or putting the reviewers' talk page on your watchlist.

    Since the introduction of temporary user rights, it is becoming more usual to accord the New Page Reviewer right on a probationary period of 3 to 6 months in the first instance. This avoids rights removal for inactivity at a later stage and enables a review of their work before according the right on a permanent basis.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:24, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2019).

Administrator changes

added Bradv • Chetsford • Izno
readded Floquenbeam • Lectonar
removed DESiegel • Jake Wartenberg • Rjanag • Topbanana

CheckUser changes

removed Callanecc • LFaraone • There'sNoTime

Oversight changes

removed Callanecc • Fox • HJ Mitchell • LFaraone • There'sNoTime

Technical news

  • Editors using the mobile website on Wikipedia can opt-in to new advanced features via your settings page. This will give access to more interface links, special pages, and tools.
  • The advanced version of the edit review pages (recent changes, watchlist, and related changes) now includes two new filters. These filters are for "All contents" and "All discussions". They will filter the view to just those namespaces.

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

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Administrators' newsletter – October 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2019).

Guideline and policy news

  • Following a discussion, a new criterion for speedy category renaming was added: C2F: One eponymous article, which applies if the category contains only an eponymous article or media file, provided that the category has not otherwise been emptied shortly before the nomination. The default outcome is an upmerge to the parent categories.

Technical news

  • As previously noted, tighter password requirements for Administrators were put in place last year. Wikipedia should now alert you if your password is less than 10 characters long and thus too short.

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • The Community Tech team has been working on a system for temporarily watching pages, and welcomes feedback.
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:55, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

Jargon

Hi. I don't know what "Revdel done" means in your recent Edit summary. Sorry. Perhaps it would be better to use regular words. Yours, BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 20:37, 18 October 2019 (UTC)

Hi BeenAroundAWhile, I'm sorry you were confused. Revdel is a common abrieviation of Revision Deleltion. If you look at the edits I was making, I was removeing a template called {{copyvio-revdel}} as I had just completed the request. Wikipedia:Glossary has a list of all the abriviations, terms and "jargon" used here which may help if you come across anything else you don't understand in the future. Sarahj2107 (talk) 07:48, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

Draft:Phoenician Boat

Hello Sarah

Regarding Draft:Phoenician Boat i saw that 19:00, 17 October 2019 Sarahj2107 talk contribs deleted page Draft:Phoenician Boat (G12: Unambiguous copyright infringement of https://phoenicianboat.com/about-us.html (TW)) (thank)

basically i own the website PhoenicianBoat.com, please use the content under a Creative Commons license Best regards Hussain — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hussainvr (talk • contribs) 06:46, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

Hi Hussainvr, please see Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials on how to donate the content to Wikipedia. However, please be aware that Wikipedia doesn't allow articles to be written in a promotional tone so it may need to be rewritten anyway to avoid that. Sarahj2107 (talk) 07:53, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2019).

Guideline and policy news

  • A related RfC is seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure.

Arbitration

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ArbCom 2019 election voter message

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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.

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2019).

Administrator changes

added EvergreenFir • ToBeFree
removed Akhilleus • Athaenara • John Vandenberg • Melchoir • MichaelQSchmidt • NeilN • Youngamerican • 😂

CheckUser changes

readded Beeblebrox
removed Deskana

Interface administrator changes

readded Evad37

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:48, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Have a very happy adminship anniversary on your special day!

Best wishes, CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 05:58, 5 December 2019 (UTC)

Thank you Captain Raju. I can't believe it's been 5 years already. Sarahj2107 (talk) 16:13, 5 December 2019 (UTC)

Good luck

豊かな十年へようこそ/WELCOME TO THE D20s

Miraclepine wishes you a Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year, and a prosperous decade of change and fortune.
このミラPはSarahj2107たちのメリークリスマスも新年も変革と幸運の豊かな十年をおめでとうございます！
フレフレ、みんなの未来！/GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR FUTURE!
ミラP 03:28, 25 December 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – January 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2019).

Guideline and policy news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2020

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

Guideline and policy news

  • Following a request for comment, partial blocks are now enabled on the English Wikipedia. This functionality allows administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces rather than the entire site. A draft policy is being workshopped at Wikipedia:Partial blocks.
  • The request for comment seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure closed with wide-spread support for an alternative desysoping procedure based on community input. No proposed process received consensus.

Technical news

  • Twinkle now supports partial blocking. There is a small checkbox that toggles the "partial" status for both blocks and templating. There is currently one template: {{uw-pblock}}.
  • When trying to move a page, if the target title already exists then a warning message is shown. The warning message will now include a link to the target title. [1]

Arbitration

  • Following a recent arbitration case, the Arbitration Committee reminded administrators that checkuser and oversight blocks must not be reversed or modified without prior consultation with the checkuser or oversighter who placed the block, the respective functionary team, or the Arbitration Committee.

Miscellaneous


Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:06, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

Your deletion of the page of an historic NGO, Unseen America Projects, Inc.

In the 1980s, I was one of the founders of a U.S. based NGO that was documented as developing a new approach in democratic experiential education, Unseen America Projects, Inc. and that has various ongoing activities today though not fully active as it was at the time of its founding. The NGO produced two books by major publishers and promoted a unique approach to social science education at several universities that was documented in scholarly publications and internationally. Until mid-2018, there was a Wikipedia page for the NGO describing its history and influence, linking it to at least two other current Wikipedia pages of scholars at major universities; Kennell Jackson at Stanford and Xavier Briggs at MIT/Ford Foundation. You apparently have chosen to erase those links and all mentions of this historic NGO despite the documentation and continued published references to it. One of the books is referenced on Dr. Briggs' website but without the reference to Unseen America Projects, Inc. Erasure of this historic organization would not serve the purpose of repairing any content that would seem to be promotional since this was an established activity with an historic and documented role at several major universities and the information is simply that of historical facts. Removal would appear to represent an unwarranted attack, an attempt at revisionist history or simply a miscategorization error. If there are different views about this history, the role of an encyclopedia is to present the discussion. If there are aspects of the presentation and commentaries, your role would be to edit it. Your approach, instead, has been to replace the history in its entirety. If you are uncertain as to what constitutes history and that is worthy of documentation in Wikipedia, please take this to the overseeing editors at Wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.235.1.139 (talk) 16:07, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

I can't find the page or edits you are referring to, and you haven't left any links. Unfortunately, I am unable to help you until I know exactly what you are talking about. Sarahj2107 (talk) 17:10, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

Aquila Hotels & Resorts

Hello, we try to create an article about the company Aquila Hotels & Resorts. We are pretty new in Wikipedia, and we try to do the article right, but as we understand after your deletion was wrong...

- The last week you delete our article as "Unambiguous advertising or promotion", maybe you right because, as I wrote above, we don't have experience. But, first of all when you delete it the article, we had not finished it.... we were constantly changing it and trying to adjust it as needed. The article was under user and not as the final title Aquila Hotels & Resorts. Second, I think that you should, as an experienced administrator, send us, first, a warning, as you do with the deletion :), but without immediate deletion...

- Now, we read articles from other similar companies like "Four Seasons" "Grecotel" "Hilton" etc, and we rewrite the Aquila Hotels & Resorts S.A. article. We will add the new article, but I ask you if you think there is something wrong with the new article, please letting us know and we will delete or changing it. We want, above all, to add the article according to Wikipedia rules, and your warnings and suggestions will be more than a welcome.

Thank you Yiannis — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yiannisdsp (talk • contribs) 10:04, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

Hi Yiannisdsp. Wikipedia has a process called Speedy Deletion, which is what your article is deleted under. If an article meets the criteria (in this case unambiguous advertising) it can be tagged and then deleted by an admin immediately without any warning given, even if it is still being worked on. This is for cases where the material is completely unsuitable for Wikipedia and would need to be fundamentally re-written to fix the issues. Some speedy deletion criteria only apply to 'live' articles but some like advertising and copyright violations apply to articles anywhere, including user pages.
You are welcome to try again but if it still meets the criteria for speedy deletion it can be deleted by any admin without warning.
As a final note, I have noticed that you have used "we" a lot. You should note that Wikipedia does not allow shared accounts. This page has more information.
If you have any questions, please let me know. Sarahj2107 (talk) 13:11, 12 February 2020 (UTC)
Hello, thank you for your answer.
      "We", is because I'm working with a colleague who corrects my texts and translates my Greek text to English. 
      Now after many reviews I upload again the article Aquila Hotels & Resorts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Yiannisdsp/sandbox/Aquila_Hotels_%26_Resorts 
      In my opinion, the article looks like the other companies' articles, like the Four Season, Hilton etc... but I don't know... I will appreciate your opinion. 
      Also, I need your advice, if the article is ok,  how can I add it with the final name Aquila Hotels & Resorts?
Thank you again for your help — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yiannisdsp (talk • contribs) 19:06, 12 February 2020 (UTC)
@Yiannisdsp:. It still seems a bit too promotional in tone to me and will need further improvements before it can be moved to the main article space (Articles for Creation is the best way for you to do that). There are a lot of images so you might want to remove some of the ones that are not directly relevant to what is being talked about in the article. Notability is another thing you need to be aware of. There needs to be significant coverage about the hotel in independent, third-party sources. I'm not going to tag it or delete it but I can't guarantee that someone else wont. Sarahj2107 (talk) 12:50, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2020

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

Guideline and policy news

  • Following an RfC, the blocking policy was changed to state that sysops must not undo or alter CheckUser or Oversight blocks, rather than should not.
  • A request for comment confirmed that sandboxes of established but inactive editors may not be blanked due solely to inactivity.

Technical news

  • Following a discussion, Twinkle's default CSD behavior will soon change, most likely this week. After the change, Twinkle will default to "tagging mode" if there is no CSD tag present, and default to "deletion mode" if there is a CSD tag present. You will be able to always default to "deletion mode" (the current behavior) using your Twinkle preferences.

Miscellaneous


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Administrators' newsletter – April 2020

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

Guideline and policy news

  • There is an ongoing request for comment to streamline the source deprecation and blacklisting process.

Technical news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • The WMF has begun a pilot report of the pages most visited through various social media platforms to help with anti-vandalism and anti-disinformation efforts. The report is updated daily and will be available through the end of May.
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Administrators' newsletter – May 2020

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

Administrator changes

removed Gnangarra • Kaisershatner • Malcolmxl5

CheckUser changes

readded Callanecc

Oversight changes

readded HJ Mitchell

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

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Euromonitor International, request for 2016-deleted, DRAFTified

I would like to see what was deleted 2016, and note how what is now there is supposedly "a repost of material that was previously deleted" and then see what weaknesses they have in common, to attempt bringing it to a better level. (Via history I could access what is there now; this is a request to make the 2016 version/DRAFTified/ the top of the stack) Thanks is advance. Pi314m (talk) 17:16, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

Hi Pi314m, I've declined the speedy deletion. The version I deleted was only one sentence "Euromonitor International Ltd is a privately owned, London-based market research firm, providing market research, business intelligence reports, and data to industry.", with one reference. It's not worth draftifing. Sarahj2107 (talk) 17:31, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

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