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Administrators' newsletter – June 2020

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.

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2020

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

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration


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Speedy deletion nomination of Telus Corporation Inc.

  • 22 March 2020
Hello, WildStar,
Welcome to Wikipedia! I edit here too, under the username Meatsgains and it's nice to meet you :-)
I wanted to let you know that I have tagged Telus Corporation Inc. for deletion, because it doesn't appear to contain any encyclopedic content. You may find our guide for writing quality articles to be extremely informative.
If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top. If the page is already deleted by the time you come across this message and you wish to retrieve the deleted material, please contact the deleting administrator.
For any further query, please leave a comment here and prepend it with {{Re|Meatsgains}}. And, don't forget to sign your reply with ~~~~ . Thanks!
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Meatsgains(talk) 02:01, 22 March 2020 (UTC)
  • 22 March 2020
Speedy deletion declined by Discospinster, "there is content" 03:58, 22 March 2020 (UTC)
  • 4 April 2020
Control copyright iconHello WildStar, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your additions to Draft:Cornwall Electric have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.
  • You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and cite the source using an inline citation. You can read about this at Wikipedia:Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
  • Aside from limited quotation, you must put all information in your own words and structure, in proper paraphrase. Following the source's words too closely can create copyright problems, so it is not permitted here; see Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing. (There is a college-level introduction to paraphrase, with examples, hosted by the Online Writing Lab of Purdue.) Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify the information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
  • Our primary policy on using copyrighted content is Wikipedia:Copyrights. You may also want to review Wikipedia:Copy-paste.
  • If you own the copyright to the source you want to copy or are a legally designated agent, you may be able to license that text so that we can publish it here. Understand, though, that unlike many other sites, where a person can license their content for use there and retain non-free ownership, that is not possible at Wikipedia. Rather, the release of content must be irrevocable, to the world, into the public domain (PD) or under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. Such a release must be done in a verifiable manner, so that the authority of the person purporting to release the copyright is evidenced. See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.
  • In very rare cases (that is, for sources that are PD or compatibly licensed) it may be possible to include greater portions of a source text. However, please seek help at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions, the help desk or the Teahouse before adding such content to the article. 99.9% of sources may not be added in this way, so it is necessary to seek confirmation first. If you do confirm that a source is public domain or compatibly licensed, you will still need to provide full attribution; see Wikipedia:Plagiarism for the steps you need to follow.
  • Also note that Wikipedia articles may not be copied or translated without attribution. If you want to copy or translate from another Wikipedia project or article, you must follow the copyright attribution steps in Wikipedia:Translation#How to translate. See also Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia.
It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa (talk) 17:09, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
  • 4 April 2020
Article moved from Draft to User/Draft. Working on paraphrasing.
  • 9 April 2020
Article Cornwall Electric completed and moved from User/Draft to Main.

Me

Please read WP:NOTVANDALISM and perhaps also WP:DTTR. Oh, an you might want to remove the major BLP violation you reinstated, as well as consider whether the highly promotional YouTube links could be replaced with something, well, less obviously money-grabbing with their details of how to download the ringtone for the song etc. Thanks. - Sitush (talk) 20:36, 24 July 2020 (UTC)

Sitush, feel free to remove that section if you wish. My edit clearly shows (diff) that I did not add that, but please do not use your rollback right to revert back to a previous edit that you like, wiping out an entire edit of fixes to do so! Perhaps you too should do some reading, starting with WP:ROLLBACKUSE. Take care! — WILDSTARtalk 21:28, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
Maybe also fix this talk page, which seems to lack the ability to edit sections? - Sitush (talk) 20:37, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
Sitush, I hadn't noticed that before. Thanks for pointing it out! — WILDSTARtalk 21:28, 24 July 2020 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – August 2020

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

Administrator changes

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Oversight changes

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Administrators' newsletter – September 2020

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

Administrator changes

added Eddie891
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CheckUser changes

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Administrators' newsletter – September 2020

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

Administrator changes

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Administrators' newsletter – November 2020

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

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2020

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

Administrator changes

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2021

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

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23:20, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

Hi! I'm a new wiki user and I've been trying to create a page for Megha Rao, an Indian poet and writer. the page was declined once and I made some changes, including adding reviews to the references. However, the reviews have been declared unusable by the moderator as they are from GoodReads. I was asked to contact you for help as you've worked on Aranya Johar's page, which is quite similar in essence. Would it be possible for you to provide me with some direction? Thanks so much! ChannK (talk) 01:12, 21 March 2021 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2021

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

Arbitration

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Administrators' newsletter – March 2021

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

Administrator changes

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Interface administrator changes

added AmandaNP

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • When blocking an IPv6 address with Twinkle, there is now a checkbox with the option to just block the /64 range. When doing so, you can still leave a block template on the initial, single IP address' talkpage.
  • When protecting a page with Twinkle, you can now add a note if doing so was in response to a request at WP:RfPP, and even link to the specific revision.
  • There have been a number of reported issues with Pending Changes. Most problems setting protection appear to have been resolved (phab:T273317) but other issues with autoaccepting edits persist (phab:T275322).

Arbitration

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Administrators' newsletter – May 2021

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

Administrator changes

removed EnchanterCarlossuarez46

Interface administrator changes

removed Ragesoss

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • The user group oversight will be renamed to suppress. This is for technical reasons. You can comment at T112147 if you have objections.

Arbitration


Administrators' newsletter – April 2021

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

Administrator changes

removed AlexandriaHappyme22RexxS

Guideline and policy news

  • Following a request for comment, F7 (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a has been deprecated; it covered immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
  • Following a request for comment, page movers were granted the delete-redirect userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target.

Technical news

  • When you move a page that many editors have on their watchlist the history can be split and it might also not be possible to move it again for a while. This is because of a job queue problem. (T278350)
  • Code to support some very old web browsers is being removed. This could cause issues in those browsers. (T277803)

Arbitration


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Administrators' newsletter – June 2021

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

Administrator changes

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Small thing about your signature

Hey there, just one little thing: in the talk part of your signature, you've got the ]] within the span tags. I noticed this because I use syntax highlighting in the wikitext editor. Take a look, your signature turns everything after it blue :) Kind regards from PJvanMill (talk) 21:28, 30 May 2020 (UTC)

@PJvanMill:Hi PJ! I fixed that the other day!  :) But I do see it in nice bright red above right now! :( I'll clean those out right away for you. Wish you would have told me sooner though! lol Thanks! -- WILDSTARtalk 22:03, 30 May 2020 (UTC)
It surprises me that the MediaWiki software has no problem with it. I noticed it today by accident when I scrolled down a bit on the WP:cleanup project page. Oh well. Kind regards from PJvanMill (talk) 22:20, 30 May 2020 (UTC)
@PJvanMill:I was just there, cleaning that up too!  :) -- WILDSTARtalk 22:23, 30 May 2020 (UTC)
I found a few more errors there, those are now fixed too. See you around! PJvanMill (talk) 22:34, 30 May 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2021

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

Guideline and policy news

  • Consensus has been reached to delete all books in the book namespace. There was rough consensus that the deleted books should still be available on request at WP:REFUND even after the namespace is removed.
  • An RfC is open to discuss the next steps following a trial which automatically applied pending changes to TFAs.

Technical news

  • IP addresses of unregistered users are to be hidden from everyone. There is a rough draft of how IP addresses may be shown to users who need to see them. This currently details allowing administrators, checkusers, stewards and those with a new usergroup to view the full IP address of unregistered users. Editors with at least 500 edits and an account over a year old will be able to see all but the end of the IP address in the proposal. The ability to see the IP addresses hidden behind the mask would be dependent on agreeing to not share the parts of the IP address they can see with those who do not have access to the same information. Accessing part of or the full IP address of a masked editor would also be logged. Comments on the draft are being welcomed at the talk page.

Arbitration


21:10, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2021

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

Guideline and policy news

  • An RfC is open to add a delay of one week from nomination to deletion for G13 speedy deletions.

Technical news

  • Last week all wikis were very slow or not accessible for 30 minutes. This was due to server lag caused by regenerating dynamic lists on the Russian Wikinews after a large bulk import. (T287380)

Arbitration

Miscellaneous


I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hello, WildStar

Thank you for creating Cornwall Electric.

User:North8000, while examining this page as a part of our page curation process, had the following comments:

Nice work!

To reply, leave a comment here and prepend it with {{Re|North8000}}. And, don't forget to sign your reply with ~~~~ .

(Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.)

North8000 (talk) 12:11, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

Hello, @North8000:
Cornwall Electric was one of my first articles written for Wikipedia. It was a joy writing the article while learning so much about a utility that is deeply rooted in the community it serves.
Thank you for your kind words. They mean a lot, and offer encouragement to contribute more. -- WILDSTARtalk 14:16, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
Wow, that's pretty impressive as a first article! North8000 (talk) 14:43, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

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Read-only reminder

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20:33, 24 August 2021 (UTC)

Paddy Atkinson page

Someone went on my page Paddy Atkinson on Christmas Eve and vandalised it by adding Sept 2020 found to be an adulterer .... This has been removed from the page by me but is still showing on the Paddy Atkinson google search page for Wikipedia ... can you help remove this as it offensive and causing problems....

Can you help


Paddy Atkinson Davis31 (talk) 01:00, 2 January 2021 (UTC)

Vandalised page for Paddy Atkinson

I was wondering if you help identify the person who vandalised my Wikipedia page on Christmas Eve so I can go to the Police under the harassment act.... The person in question had imputed September 2020 found to be an adulterer .... This is offensive and needs reporting and removed from the Paddy Atkinson search page on google ... Can you help

Thanks

Paddy Atkinson Davis31 (talk) 01:04, 2 January 2021 (UTC)

Davis31, not to worry. The offensive wording has already been removed on Wikipedia, and search engines will eventually follow and update as well. Take care. — WILDSTARtalk 02:02, 2 January 2021 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

The "Merry Christmas Tree" for you! All the best this evening and for the rest of the year! Less Unless (talk) 19:48, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!
Hello WildStar:


Did you know ... that back in 1885, Wikipedia editors wrote Good Articles with axes, hammers and chisels?

Thank you for your contributions to this encyclopedia using 21st century technology. I hope you don't get any unnecessary blisters.

CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 01:17, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Happy New Year elves}} to send this message

Happy New Year, WildStar!

   Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.

My box of Goodies :))

Hi there! I have noticed you left me a box of goodies but later took it back. I was away for a week so I didn't see your box. Why did you remove it? ;) I find it very satisfying to exchange these types of motivational things. Hope you are fine! As for your comment - I actually think NPP gives very good knowledge of core policies with an opportunity to practice. So if you're interested, do apply! See you on Clean Up! Best, Less Unless (talk) 14:23, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

Less Unless,
A box of fresh goodies
Goodies, not to mention a whole box of them, must be taken and opened quickly while fresh, as each may contain a “Best before date”. Not realizing that you were away, but concerned about providing fresh goodies, I grabbed it back to keep here, but it being "goodies"... well... you know the rest! Although not personally delivered, a box with more of the same (albeit maybe not quite as fresh), packaged on July 10, 2020, can be found here. I can only hope that you will find this one just as satisfying and motivational!  :-) Enjoy! — WILDSTARtalk 16:47, 28 July 2020 (UTC)
WildStar Yummy! ;)Less Unless (talk) 19:19, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – September 2021

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

Administrator changes

readded Jake Wartenberg
removed EmperorViridian Bovary
renamed AshleyyoursmileViridian Bovary

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • The Score extension has been re-enabled on public wikis. It has been updated, but has been placed in safe mode to address unresolved security issues. Further information on the security issues can be found on the mediawiki page.

Arbitration

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22:21, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

Esther Zweig Article

@WildStar: Hi Wildstar, I have revised the Esther Zweig article and tried to make sure all the footnotes were included. Could you please take a look and let me know if it is ok? Thanks! T. E. Meeks (talk) 20:46, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

@T. E. Meeks: It (User:T. E. Meeks/sandbox) still needs a bit of work. For a better understanding of citations, please have a look at Wikipedia:Citing sources and proceed like you did in the article Phyllis Zimmerman. Bring it to that level, and I'll circle back to clean up both of them for you. Thank you! -- WILDSTAR talk 14:23, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
@T. E. Meeks: I did a follow-up today. Almost fell off my chair! Big improvement! Well done!  :) -- WILDSTAR talk 07:17, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

Article Schnuffel References

Hi Less Unless. I did not want to intrude on your Talk Page, or leave a more detailed note on Wikipedia:Cleanup, or the article itself, so I'm leaving my message for you here.

I wasn't sure if your concern was of a technical nature or not, so I'll cover both.

For repeated citations, multiple page same source, duplicate citations see WP:IBID, WP:DUPREF and their surrounding sections. See WP:REFNAME for the named reference feature which was the method I used, and can sometimes be more easily accomplished using the "re-use" feature available in the VisualEditor when managing references.

If the ask is about the actual landing page used by those references and their contents or validity as appropriate references, you'll need to determine whether or not if at one time they may have been valid and cannot be replaced. I generally follow the guidelines used for keeping and mitigating dead links as outlined in WP:KDL and WP:MDLI. Of course, if there are too many of those, rendering the article without sufficient citations, you would then tag it with the appropriate maintenance template(s) or tag(s).

Hope that helps! All the best! :) -- WILDSTARtalk 14:40, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

For anyone else reading this and possibly needing help with references, please see this excellent manual Help:Introduction to referencing with Wiki Markup/1.

@WildStar: Thank you for the detailed explanation, I'll go through all the guidelines you mentioned for a better overall understanding. And you can definitely intrude anytime on my talk page - that's what it's for. I appreciate your help. Best, Less Unless (talk) 18:14, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – October 2021

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

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Arbitration

  • A motion has standardised the 500/30 (extended confirmed) restrictions placed by the Arbitration Committee. The standardised restriction is now listed in the Arbitration Committee's procedures.
  • Following the closure of the Iranian politics case, standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, post-1978 Iranian politics, broadly construed.
  • The Arbitration Committee encourages uninvolved administrators to use the discretionary sanctions procedure in topic areas where it is authorised to facilitate consensus in RfCs. This includes, but is not limited to, enforcing sectioned comments, word/diff limits and moratoriums on a particular topic from being brought in an RfC for up to a year.

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  • Editors have approved expanding the trial of Growth Features from 2% of new accounts to 25%, and the share of newcomers getting mentorship from 2% to 5%. Experienced editors are invited to add themselves to the mentor list.
  • The community consultation phase of the 2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process is open for editors to provide comments and ask questions to candidates.

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Pending changes reviewer granted

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Administrators' newsletter – November 2021

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

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.

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The Signpost: 31 October 2021

The Junta of Happenstance moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, The Junta of Happenstance, is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. — WILDSTARTALK 16:56, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

Jacob Galea

@WildStar: Hi Wildstar, can you help me fix and remove the paid editing tag on this article Jacob Galea, it doesn't seem to indicate anything has been paid for and is very neutural. Thanks. Sanjida more (talk) 04:07, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

@Sanjida more: As a contributor to the WikiProjects Wikipedia:WikiProject Citation cleanup I do not involve myself with Conflict of Interest (COI) issues. (None of us do). The article was moved to draft space @ 10:52, 15 May 2020 by Lapablo (talk) . Reviewing Wikipedia:Conflict of interest may help you resolve any perceived COI issues. Good luck and thank you for reaching out. -- WILDSTAR talk

Mark WikiProject Linux as inactive?

Hi! I was directed to your talk page by the participants list on WikiProject Linux. I've started a discussion whether we can keep it running, or mark it as inactive.– Abuluntu ( talk 05:25, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2021

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

Administrator changes

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Technical news

  • Unregistered editors using the mobile website are now able to receive notices to indicate they have talk page messages. The notice looks similar to what is already present on desktop, and will be displayed on when viewing any page except mainspace and when editing any page. (T284642)
  • The limit on the number of emails a user can send per day has been made global instead of per-wiki to help prevent abuse. (T293866)

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2022).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • The user group oversight will be renamed suppress in around 3 weeks. This will not affect the name shown to users and is simply a change in the technical name of the user group. The change is being made for technical reasons. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections.
  • The Reply Tool feature, which is a part of Discussion Tools, will be opt-out for everyone logged in or logged out starting 7 February 2022. Editors wishing to comment on this can do so in the relevant Village Pump discussion.

Arbitration

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2022

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

Guideline and policy news

  • Following consensus at the 2021 RfA review, the autopatrolled user right has been removed from the administrators user group; admins can grant themselves the autopatrolled permission if they wish to remain autopatrolled.

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • The functionaries email list (functionaries-en@lists.wikimedia.org) will no longer accept incoming emails apart from those sent by list members and WMF staff. Private concerns, apart from those requiring oversight, should be directly sent to the Arbitration Committee.

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