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A barnstar for you!

The Technical Barnstar
Awarded for your role in getting the mass message sent out to eligible voters in the 2017 Arbitration Committee elections. Thanks for your help in keeping the community informed! Mz7 (talk) 00:06, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Original Barnstar
You can guess what this is for - thank you so much for all of your help, it was invaluable. Yunshui  08:57, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

Thanks

For your help at Village pump (technical)
Thanks for your help & explanation at VP. Shearonink (talk) 16:32, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Technical Barnstar
is hereby awarded to xaosflux for your diligent and honorable stewardship of the MassMessage system , the primary facility for keeping Wikipedians informed – Lionel(talk) 11:24, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

Newsletter malfunction

Hi xaosflux, the July Ichthus sent out a duplicate. First I tested it here to a small test list (see User_talk:Lionelt/sandbox). It worked fine. I made a small edit to the newsletter, started the tool, previewed it, and then sent to the subscription. But it posted 2 copies to the distribution list. The log shows 2 send commands [1] both at the same timestamp but I'm certain that I only sent 1 newsletter. I don't know what happened. – Lionel(talk) 06:49, 3 July 2018 (UTC)

@Lionelt: the only time I've seen that type of behavior is if the Special:MassMessage page was refreshed/reloaded while you were in the middle of it, or just error an accidentally hitting send, then back, then send (thinking you hit preview). Also, if you have multiple tabs with the same message in them. Keep an eye on it carefully next time you run it. — xaosflux Talk 11:26, 3 July 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2018

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

Administrator changes

added PbsouthwoodTheSandDoctor
readded Gogo Dodo
removed AndrevanDougEVulaKaisaLTony FoxWilyD

Bureaucrat changes

removed AndrevanEVula

Guideline and policy news

  • An RfC about the deletion of drafts closed with a consensus to change the wording of WP:NMFD. Specifically, a draft that has been repeatedly resubmitted and declined at AfC without any substantial improvement may be deleted at MfD if consensus determines that it is unlikely to ever meet the requirements for mainspace and it otherwise meets one of the reasons for deletion outlined in the deletion policy.
  • A request for comment closed with a consensus that the {{promising draft}} template cannot be used to indefinitely prevent a WP:G13 speedy deletion nomination.

Technical news

  • Starting on July 9, the WMF Security team, Trust & Safety, and the broader technical community will be seeking input on an upcoming change that will restrict editing of site-wide JavaScript and CSS to a new technical administrators user group. Bureaucrats and stewards will be able to grant this right per a community-defined process. The intention is to reduce the number of accounts who can edit frontend code to those who actually need to, which in turn lessens the risk of malicious code being added that compromises the security and privacy of everyone who accesses Wikipedia. For more information, please review the FAQ.
  • Syntax highlighting has been graduated from a Beta feature on the English Wikipedia. To enable this feature, click the highlighter icon () in your editing toolbar (or under the hamburger menu in the 2017 wikitext editor). This feature can help prevent you from making mistakes when editing complex templates.
  • IP-based cookie blocks should be deployed to English Wikipedia in July (previously scheduled for June). This will cause the block of a logged-out user to be reloaded if they change IPs. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. For the time being, it only affects users of the desktop interface.

Miscellaneous

  • Currently around 20% of admins have enabled two-factor authentication, up from 17% a year ago. If you haven't already enabled it, please consider doing so. Regardless if you use 2FA, please practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.

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Home Lander (talk) 23:25, 5 July 2018 (UTC)

@Home Lander: replied. — xaosflux Talk 23:46, 5 July 2018 (UTC)
Ditto. Thanks. Home Lander (talk) 23:54, 5 July 2018 (UTC)

Yobot 59

I am in vacation. I'll resubmit when back home.Porbably by the end of this month. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:22, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

@Magioladitis: have a nice vacation, feel free to reopen that at any time in the future and we can schedule a new trial. — xaosflux Talk 15:24, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

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Happy Bureaucratship

Wishing Xaosflux a very happy bureaucratship anniversary on behalf of the Birthday Committee! Kpgjhpjm 01:17, 9 July 2018 (UTC)


Fluxbot is adding unclosed italics

On 8 July 2018, Fluxbot added unclosed italics to

Please make it stop doing this. —Anomalocaris (talk) 08:28, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

@Anomalocaris: already stopped and fixed, was part of a small trial run. — xaosflux Talk 12:06, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

23:09, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

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16:01, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Milwaukee Bucks

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Query

This appears to be well within the threshold of automated/semiautomatic editing for requiring a bot-request given the amount of articles. Was there one do you know? Is there a reason it wouldn't require one? Because adding a template that makes no visible change to the output of an article (It didn't on any of the ones on my watchlist or some of the others I checked) on that many articles without a discussion seems odd. Only in death does duty end (talk) 02:18, 22 July 2018 (UTC)

@Only in death: I think a lot of that editors runs would be better under a bot account but I'm not ready to start that fight. — xaosflux Talk 13:05, 22 July 2018 (UTC)
The reason I am querying it with yourself is to find out if this specific task should have had a bot-request, being a high-speed automated/semi-automated change to many articles, my reading of BOTPOL was that it should, but I am unsure. If its not, its annoying but not prohibited by policy. If it should be, its both annoying and prohibited by policy... Would it be better to ask at BAG? Only in death does duty end (talk) 14:12, 22 July 2018 (UTC)
@Only in death: first, note this ... BAG only has purview over actual bots, editors that are violating editing guidelines in general are a community/administrator matter. If this editor wants to file a BRFA, we would be happy to review it. — xaosflux Talk 14:30, 22 July 2018 (UTC)
So to find out if a task *should* have required a bot request, I need to ask the community/administrators, rather than BAG who actually vet bot requests? That seems... backwards? Only in death does duty end (talk) 15:20, 22 July 2018 (UTC)
..."anyone can edit"... ; if the edits are bad: revert, if they are causing other problems (like flooding recent changes or watchlists due to speed and volume) first discuss with the editor. Someone adding a template to say 100 articles with AWB probably doesn't need a bot task, adding it to 10000+ probably does - in between is a grey area for sure and edits-per-interval are a major factor. How to proceed depends a lot on what you want the outcome to be. — xaosflux Talk 16:20, 22 July 2018 (UTC)

09:44, 24 July 2018 (UTC)

Hi there. This sandbox article of mine was deleted while I was retired. I’ve since come back to editing and was curious if you could restore this for me?

Thanks!—White Shadows Let’s Talk 05:06, 25 July 2018 (UTC)

@White Shadows: welcome back! I've restored your sandbox page, happy editing, — xaosflux Talk 11:19, 25 July 2018 (UTC)

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Trijnsteltalk 20:22, 29 July 2018 (UTC)

Replied. — xaosflux Talk 21:20, 29 July 2018 (UTC)

14:05, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

Filters 925 and 926

Hi. Can you email (or copy to the testwiki) filters 925/926? Another spree got through today and I want to see if my ideas are any different from what's already being done. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 21:46, 31 July 2018 (UTC)

@Suffusion of Yellow: send me a diff you think these filters might be useful for first please. — xaosflux Talk 22:20, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
Special:Diff/852805327 and everything else from the same IP. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 22:28, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
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Thanks. My own ideas would be a marginal improvement at best, but I may send something to MusikAnimal tomorrow if more gets through. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 06:10, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 July 2018

Please comment on Help talk:Citation Style 1

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Request for block

I just need to request you that please block user Mike V because that user is not editing as it is inactive. Mike V has not benn editing from December 2016 so that user needs to be blocked. Thank you. 171.79.23.108 (talk) 05:49, 4 August 2018 (UTC)

We don't block users for "being inactive" but we do remove their advanced permissions as was already done for this user. — xaosflux Talk 14:06, 4 August 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – August 2018

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

Administrator changes

added Sro23
readded KaisaLYmblanter

Guideline and policy news

  • After a discussion at Meta, a new user group called "interface administrators" (formerly "technical administrator") has been created. Come the end of August, interface admins will be the only users able to edit site-wide JavaScript and CSS pages like MediaWiki:Common.js and MediaWiki:Common.css, or edit other user's personal JavaScript and CSS. The intention is to improve security and privacy by reducing the number of accounts which could be used to compromise the site or another user's account through malicious code. The new user group can be assigned and revoked by bureaucrats. Discussion is ongoing to establish details for implementing the group on the English Wikipedia.
  • Following a request for comment, the WP:SISTER style guideline now states that in the mainspace, interwiki links to Wikinews should only be made as per the external links guideline. This generally means that within the body of an article, you should not link to Wikinews about a particular event that is only a part of the larger topic. Wikinews links in "external links" sections can be used where helpful, but not automatically if an equivalent article from a reliable news outlet could be linked in the same manner.

Technical news


19:39, 6 August 2018 (UTC)

Hello fellow bureaucrats, in regards to a current RfA that has met its time, I would like your assistance in judging the community consensus presented in the discussion at Jbhunley's RfA. Your input would be most welcome at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Jbhunley/Bureaucrat chat. Best regards, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:37, 7 August 2018 (UTC)

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in the greatest artist of all time list Chris Brown should have 19 million units in the uk instead of 10 million i have source to support this claim chart data is also a music sale database also https://twitter.com/chartdata/status/982634107694919680 he also just got a new certification too https://twitter.com/chartdata/status/1028711464649904129 --User:Bhris breezy (talk) 09:59, 12 August 2018 (UTC

Hello Bhris breezy To request an edit to the Chris Brown article go to: this link and click the request an edit button, it will leave a message for others to review. — xaosflux Talk 00:22, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

AWB

Hi. I hope you are well. Would please take a look at Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser#adding talkpage banner? Your help will be appreciated a lot. Thanks a lot in advance, —usernamekiran(talk) 22:13, 12 August 2018 (UTC)

@Usernamekiran: I'm not sure what the best way to fix that is. — xaosflux Talk 00:23, 13 August 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for looking into it :) —usernamekiran(talk) 00:48, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

17:53, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

Recent reverts on WT:INTADMIN

Sorry about that, my finger slipped and hit the rollback button! Enterprisey (talk!) 02:25, 15 August 2018 (UTC)

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Bots Newsletter, August 2018

Bots Newsletter, August 2018

Greetings!

Here is the 6th issue of the Bots Newsletter. You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from this list.

Highlights for this newsletter include:

ARBCOM
  • Nothing particular important happened. Those who care already know, those who don't know wouldn't care. The curious can dig ARBCOM archives themselves.
BAG
  • There were no changes in BAG membership since the last Bots Newsletter. Headbomb went from semi-active to active.
  • In the last 3 months, only 3 BAG members have closed requests - help is needed with the backlog.
BOTREQs and BRFAs

As of writing, we have...

Also

Discussions

These are some of the discussions that happened / are still happening since the last Bots Newsletter. Many are stale, but some are still active.

New things

Thank you! edited by: Headbomb 15:04, 18 August 2018 (UTC)


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16:46, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

Edit filter idea...

Sometime back, I asked, and I believe you replied, at VPT or somewhere about the idea of an edit filter that would trip when "{{User:" or "{{User talk:" was added to pages, to stop accidental transclusions of user and user talk pages. It happened again at ANI, fixed here. Would this filter be difficult to create/enable? Home Lander (talk) 23:00, 20 August 2018 (UTC) is it only a problem in certain namespaces? The narrower the better (e.g. watching in (article) space is expensive). — xaosflux Talk 00:26, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

Particularly the WP namespace, where it would get flagged at AN/ANI, RPP, the help desk, and similar. Home Lander (talk) 01:19, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
@Home Lander: OK, I created a filter - it is in log only right now, feel free to keep an eye on edits hitting 928's log after now. — xaosflux Talk 02:34, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
Yes I was just watching that (actually managed to trip it already). Home Lander (talk) 02:36, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
@Home Lander: I had some overly greedy regex in there at first, it shouldn't be hitting on that stuff anymore. — xaosflux Talk 02:37, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
Yeah I figured it was picking up anything even without the ":". Home Lander (talk) 02:38, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

It seems to be working. Note that "namespace" is misspelled in the filter description. Home Lander (talk) 02:41, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

Thanks to Drmies for proving the purpose of this filter. Home Lander (talk) 03:17, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
Eh did it do something? I had to go and correct myself... Drmies (talk) 03:19, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
@Drmies: It's just in testing at the moment. Home Lander (talk) 03:20, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
Watching for FP's right now, then will give a "warn" on these actions. — xaosflux Talk 03:21, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
Look, why don't y'all make a Nazi filter--that would be more useful to me. :) Drmies (talk) 03:22, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
I know, we probably have a ton of those already, and I thank you for them. Sorry, that was dumb. Drmies (talk) 03:22, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
Looks like there are at least 4 of them :D — xaosflux Talk 03:25, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
Should we also check talk namespaces, except user talk? I imagine this happens a lot on mainspace talk pages, in particular MusikAnimal talk 03:35, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
Or frankly you might check user talk too. People do transclude parts of their userspace on their user page, but if all we're doing is showing a warning then this should be fine. Right? MusikAnimal talk 03:39, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
@MusikAnimal: maybe - seems like this happens mostly to the more "technical" editors that are in a hurry. @Home Lander: have you been seeing this elsewhere recently? — xaosflux Talk 03:41, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
And I think there may be plenty of legit use cases, so would not want to set this to disallow. — xaosflux Talk 03:42, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
It's not happening all the time, just one of those occasional things that when it does happen, no one seems to know how to fix it (typically a trip to ANI or VPT is the result). I agree that the talk namespace would probably be a good target for it. Home Lander (talk) 03:45, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

IA nomination

Hello Xaosflux, I've nominated you for a temporary interface administrator access grant at Wikipedia_talk:Interface_administrators#Stop-gap_users_nominated. If you do not wish to have this foisted upon you, feel free to remove yourself from the listing. Thank you, — xaosflux Talk 02:49, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

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Template help

Hello Xaosflux, I need some help with a custom user template User:FlightTime/Uw-Consensus. I have it loaded in my custom warning section of Twinkle and used Twinkle to post it on a page of my old account here User talk:Mlpearc Public. As you can see the template is posting two section headers, how can I remove the auto posting of == August 2018 == ? I have == Please seek consensus == hard coded in the template. If you have a moment your input would be appreciated, Thanx - FlightTime (open channel) 13:42, 26 August 2018 (UTC)

@FlightTime: in general, Twinkle always make a "month" section to keep warning together so when you leave multiple messages, or multiple people leave message they can be grouped. Most twinkle message don't use section headers. I suggest you don't try to fight twinkle's process on this, but if you really want a section header use a lower level header like "===". — xaosflux Talk 14:45, 26 August 2018 (UTC)
Thank you, no wonder I couldn't figure what was triggering the header, I thought it was the template, but its Twinkle thats posting the first header. Thanx for your time and your input. Cheers, - FlightTime (open channel) 14:51, 26 August 2018 (UTC)

Interface administrator

Hi Xaosflux, per Special:Diff/856641107, I have temporarily added the interface administrator user-right to your account. I'm sure the temporary part of that will change to permanent once we have a mechanism to agree it! WormTT(talk) 17:36, 26 August 2018 (UTC)

16:16, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

Number of Redirects

Are redirects included in {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}? —Eli355 (talk | contribs) 16:49, 28 August 2018 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) eli355, No. One can see here for the number of redirects and pages per namespace Galobtter (pingó mió) 17:16, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
@Eli355: see also mw:Manual:Article_count, to be counted it has to not be a redirect, and also contain at least one wikilink. — xaosflux Talk 17:18, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
Does {{NUMBEROFPAGES}} only include pages with at least one wikilink? —Eli355 (talk | contribs) 16:54, 29 August 2018 (UTC)
@Eli355: as far as I'm aware, it includes any page, regardless of content. See also mw:Help:Magic_words#Statistics. — xaosflux Talk 16:59, 29 August 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 30 August 2018

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Curiosity

I just happened to glance at Special:Statistics and noticed that there is a user category for Copyright violation bots which red links to WP:Copyviobot. Do you know if this is something new? -- Dolotta (talk) 18:31, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

@Dolotta: looks like this is part of phab:T199359 - it's not "live" yet, and I don't know much about it either (yet!). — xaosflux Talk 18:43, 1 September 2018 (UTC)
I posted at WP:BOTN with pings to some related people. — xaosflux Talk 18:52, 1 September 2018 (UTC)
@Dolotta: Who is this "Xausflux" you speak of? SemiHypercube 20:02, 1 September 2018 (UTC)
@SemiHypercube: Servs me write not botering to us spel chek! ;-) -- Dolotta (talk) 20:14, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2018

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

Administrator changes

added None
removed AsterionCrisco 1492KFKudpungLizRandykittySpartaz
renamed Optimist on the runVoice of Clam

Interface administrator changes

added AmorymeltzerMr. StradivariusMusikAnimalMSGJTheDJXaosflux

Guideline and policy news

  • Following a "stop-gap" discussion, six users have temporarily been made interface administrators while discussion is ongoing for a more permanent process for assigning the permission. Interface administrators are now the only editors allowed to edit sitewide CSS and JavaScript pages, as well as CSS/JS pages in another user's userspace. Previously, all administrators had this ability. The right can be granted and revoked by bureaucrats.

Technical news

  • Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour.
  • Some abuse filter variables have changed. They are now easier to understand for non-experts. The old variables will still work but filter editors are encouraged to replace them with the new ones. You can find the list of changed variables on mediawiki.org. They have a note which says Deprecated. Use ... instead. An example is article_text which is now page_title.
  • Abuse filters can now use how old a page is. The variable is page_age.

Arbitration

  • The Arbitration Committee has resolved to perform a round of Checkuser and Oversight appointments. The usernames of all applicants will be shared with the Functionaries team, and they will be requested to assist in the vetting process. The deadline to submit an application is 23:59 UTC, 12 September, and the candidates that move forward will be published on-wiki for community comments on 18 September.

16:47, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

Is adding a Navbox templates to the bottom of a page a minor edit? —Eli355 (talk | contribs) 19:35, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

@Eli355: according to the guidance at Help:Minor edit, adding new content-containing material should not be considered "minor" in general. — xaosflux Talk 20:11, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

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Requests for permissions

You reorganised {{Requests for permissions}} into Common & Uncommon a while back. Unless you have some strange criteria in mind I think Event Coordinator & Extended Confirmed need to be switched, as everyone (eventually) gets Extended Confirmed while needs to be applied for & a reason given. I'll go ahead & make the change but feel free to revert if I've got something wrong. Regards, Cabayi (talk) 16:23, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

@Cabayi: no big deal for me. It is unusual for editors to "request" extended confirmed, specifically because it is automatically assigned. I moved EVC up to encourage people to use it over the older "account creator" since it is now better suited for event management. — xaosflux Talk 16:58, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers. Legobot (talk) 04:29, 6 September 2018 (UTC)

Moving the revision search along

Apologies that this has gotten bogged down in the details. Don’t know if you saw I’m ok w your ‘Change search ’. And I’m actually ok with ‘Revision search’ if the top box was labeled ‘Search for revision by tag’. Given that all seem to agree on cutting down the verbiage (3 words to 2) in the external tool labels and no one has objected to the reordering, how can we best move ahead from here? Also I have a minor related suggestion if you have the bandwidth for that. Humanengr (talk) 19:23, 6 September 2018 (UTC)

@Humanengr: hi, I haven't really been following up on this - if a consensus has been reached on the talk page, just reactivate the edit-request by changing "answered=yes" to "answered=no" and one of the patrolling admins will pick it up. Best regards, — xaosflux Talk 21:31, 6 September 2018 (UTC)

Oops!

Hello Xaosflux!

It's been a while since I've been around these parts; I apologize for missing your message. It seems I've been marked as inactive in regard to several tools/permissions (rightfully so). I do intend to be more active in the near future—I've been missing Wikipedia! I noticed you removed my account creator right due to inactivity for over a year; out of curiosity, does inactivity only count edits and not log actions? The reason I ask is because I last worked at ACC on 29 April 2018.

I hope you're well! MJ94 (talk) 00:53, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

@MJ94: I've restored your ACC flag, I do so many of these I don't think I even remembered sending you that message! Drop a note at WP:PERM/AWB if you still have use for AWB (just say you removed for 'inactivity' but are now back to avoid a long discussion and to get that bot off your back). To answer your question, your "logged actions" should count towards activity - but many of the reports/bots/etc that look for inactivity usually only check edits since they are much more common. Thanks for taking this in stride, please note nothing was meant as a judgement against you. If you need anything else, please let me know. — xaosflux Talk 01:03, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

2FA tester group

Can you please add me to the 2FA tester group? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lucent (talkcontribs) 17:59, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

@Lucent: you have to request this on meta at this page: meta:Steward_requests/Global_permissions#Requests_for_other_global_permissions. — xaosflux Talk 18:08, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

22:35, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

Do the div id's and other tags look ok?

If so, I'll proceed as you indicated on Histlegend talk. Thx for your help and guidance. Humanengr (talk) 18:54, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

Can't check right now, just work on the sandbox and leave a note, several people are looking at it. — xaosflux Talk 19:00, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Shortcut

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Wikipedia talk:Shortcut. Legobot (talk) 04:28, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

To make the Histlegend discussion threads more intelligible

For ease of reading, I should have split the proposals.

At this point, maybe I should go ahead and do some paragraph-level strikethroughs on some of both your and my comments in the two current sections; create a new section, etc., so folks can track it all better. Ok? Apologies for the confusion. Humanengr (talk) 18:09, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

As long as it is very clear what you want the final result to look like, that should be fine. — xaosflux Talk 18:38, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

page history

Hi. I hope you are well.
Could you please take a look at User talk:Path slopu#Speedy deletion nomination of Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Script? I thought Path slopu created AutoWikiBrowser/Script as a test, so I moved it to his userspace. But after he commented on his talkpage, I realised the page might have existed once as it is mentioned/linked on WP:JWB page. Would you please take a look at the history of Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Script, and tell if it existed before? I think i did something wrong by suppressing the redirect. usernamekiran(talk) 19:47, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

pinging GABusernamekiran(talk) 19:51, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
@Usernamekiran: I think it is OK, from a quick look Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Script doesn't need to actually exist to use the script once you install it. — xaosflux Talk 19:59, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
Thanks. But did it exist before? —usernamekiran(talk) 20:03, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
@Usernamekiran: The earliest I saw was (diff) 2018-07-31T13:42:19 . . Path slopu (talk | contribs | block) (95 bytes) (←Created page with '{{subst:iusc|User:Joeytje50/JWB.js/load.js}}'). — xaosflux Talk 22:22, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

I see you approved Task 3 for User:Ahechtbot. This bot is making edits that are in violation of the bot policy. Why was it approved? Pinging bot owner @Ahecht: as well. This bot made an edit to move the bold ''' tags outside of a font tag. That's cosmetic at best. The change isn't visible to the reader.--v/r - TP 00:54, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

Nevermind. I see that the WMF has implemented some dumb parser that breaks with old wiki syntax.--v/r - TP 00:57, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
@TParis: thanks for bringing up the concern, but yes it's part of the Special:LintErrors cleanup due to that parser change, on some pages the fixes may be less noticeable, on some they break formatting for the whole page - its a major pain! This is running with both 'bot' and 'minor' to try to minimize any disruption to watchlists, etc. For the most part, once these are done they shouldn't be repeated. Best regards, — xaosflux Talk 04:03, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
I'd also note that WP:COSMETICBOT does not consider fixing "invalid HTML such as unclosed tags, even if it does not affect browsers' display" to be a cosmetic change. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE
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Sandbox

One of my sanboxes I am not using anymore, User:Eli355/Orders of magnitude (mass flow rate), so would like it to be deleted. —Eli355 (talk | contribs) 00:14, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

@Eli355:  Donexaosflux Talk 00:22, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
Thanks —Eli355 (talk | contribs) 00:28, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

21:58, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

Please comment on Template talk:Iobdb name

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15:23, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

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Edit summaries for visual editing

Is it possible to write edit summaries for visual edits? —Eli355 ( 👄 talk 👄 🎆 📝 contribs 📝 ) 16:19, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

Replied on your talk. — xaosflux Talk 17:18, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

Old geezer needs help again

Howdy Xaosflux. You were so helpful last month in getting my password restored, I thought maybe you could likewise help me with a new difficulty. I haven't uploaded images to WP in years, but yesterday I created a new stub article about a forgotten celebrity and came across a great image to go with it. To my horror, though, the metadata on the file page displays my real name - not sure how that happened, as I certainly didn't type it in. Can you or somebody quickly delete this image page? It's File:Frances_Robinson-Duff_ad_1922.jpg Textorus (talk) 17:27, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

@Textorus: this is done. If you don't mind random websites you could try verexif.com to strip the EXIF data fields before reuploading. — xaosflux Talk 18:07, 27 September 2018 (UTC)
Thank you so much! And thanks for the verexif link too - I have bookmarked it and will try it sometime. Right now, I'm feeling a little gun-shy. I've been a very competent end-user of computers and the internet since 1977 - but in the last year or so it all seems to be turning into a hot digital mess I can't get my head around.Textorus (talk) 20:29, 27 September 2018 (UTC)
This is for you:
The Special Barnstar
To Xaosflux for help and kindness to an old wikigeezer. Textorus (talk) 20:29, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 1 October 2018

Edit protected request

Thank you for granting my edit request, Xaosflux! I would have thanked you on that talk page; however, I thought it best to return the page to a redirect since it is used on many pages that way. Thanks again!  Paine Ellsworth  put'r there  15:34, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

Noticed on the same day I thanked you, you also notified Jackmcbarn of the consequences of inactivity. Don't suppose you have heard anything about ol' Jack, have you? Paine Ellsworth  put'r there  18:41, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
@Paine Ellsworth: nope, Jack appears to have left the project, he is of course welcome back and upon return can just ask for this admin access back (if it's not too long away). — xaosflux Talk 18:45, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
Jack is one of the editors who has helped me for years, esp. with modules and templates. Looking over his contributions, I don't see anything to indicate why he would leave the project. If you concur, do you know of any way we can find out anything about his situation?  Paine Ellsworth  put'r there  19:43, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
@Paine Ellsworth: feel free to use Email to try to contact him. — xaosflux Talk 19:48, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
Well, no response from him yet.  Paine  

17:34, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

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I'm guessing you didn't mean to assign MMS here, so I've removed it. If I was wrong, please feel free to revert. Best, Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) 21:15, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

@L235: thanks good catch, that was certainly in error. — xaosflux Talk 22:05, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – October 2018

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

Administrator changes

added JustlettersandnumbersL235
removed BgwhiteHorsePunchKidJ GrebKillerChihuahuaRami RWinhunter

Interface administrator changes

added Cyberpower678Deryck ChanOshwahPharosRagesossRitchie333

Oversight changes

removed Guerillero NativeForeigner SnowolfXeno

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • Partial blocks should be available for testing in October on the Test Wikipedia and the Beta-Cluster. This new feature allows admins to block users from editing specific pages and in the near-future, namespaces and uploading files. You can expect more updates and an invitation to help with testing once it is available.
  • The Foundations' Anti-Harassment Tools team is currently looking for input on how to measure the effectiveness of blocks. This is in particular related to how they will measure the success of the aforementioned partial blocks.
  • Because of a data centre test, you will be able to read but not edit the Wikimedia projects for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time.

Arbitration

  • The Arbitration Committee has, by motion, amended the procedure on functionary inactivity.
  • The community consultation for 2018 CheckUser and Oversight appointments has concluded. Appointments will be made by October 11.
  • Following a request for comment, the size of the Arbitration Committee will be decreased to 13 arbitrators, starting in 2019. Additionally, the minimum support percentage required to be appointed to a two-year term on ArbCom has been increased to 60%. ArbCom candidates who receive between 50% and 60% support will be appointed to one-year terms instead.
  • Nominations for the 2018 Arbitration Committee Electoral Commission are being accepted until 12 October. These are the editors who help run the ArbCom election smoothly. If you are interested in volunteering for this role, please consider nominating yourself.

File protection

Greetings,

I wanted to note that normally sensitive files such as File:Wiktionary-logo-v2.svg and File:Octagon-warning.svg are only upload protected. Edits to the file page do nothing to the file itself and the maintenance burden in form of edit requests is not negligible. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 13:18, 6 October 2018 (UTC)

I removed the 'edit' protection on those, thanks for the note. — xaosflux Talk 19:21, 6 October 2018 (UTC)

Filter 930

Hey, you probably aren't online as I'm posting this, but do you think you could set filter 930 to disallow as you said you would? Thanks. SemiHypercube 16:27, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

 Donexaosflux Talk 20:54, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

23:38, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

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Precious anniversary

Precious
Four years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:24, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

Can you take a look at Histlegend?

I think everything has been addressed per here. Can you check that so we can reset the edit request? Thx for your help. Humanengr (talk) 23:03, 12 October 2018 (UTC)

@Humanengr: if you think its ready to go, go for it! — xaosflux Talk 23:20, 12 October 2018 (UTC)

00000000 listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect 00000000. Since you had some involvement with the 00000000 redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 03:43, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

22:40, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

13 years of editing

Hey, Xaosflux. I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee!
Have a great day!
Chris Troutman (talk) 00:25, 16 October 2018 (UTC)


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Delete a mailing list page

Hi Xaos, please delete this page that you've created long back Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Indian military history task force/Mailing list. It is confusing to have a separate mailing list apart from the members page, so we'll use the latter. Thank You, KCVelaga (talk) 16:10, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

KCVelaga  Donexaosflux Talk 16:21, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

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23:11, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

Wikiquote

Like it should be!--Risto hot sir (talk) 20:30, 23 October 2018 (UTC)


Baffled by edit filter trigger

I reported a false positive that disallowed my edit of 18 October and see that there's still no response. In no way did my edit match the filter description "Multiple Obscenities", and I can't find a public filter matching the filter description. In the interest of "assume good faith", should I post to the article's talk page the edit I was attempting and explain what happened? Or might that trigger the same edit filter again?


If it helps to resolve whatever's at issue, I've pasted below the original text and the text edit I was attempting, which at least to my eyes is an improvement:

Original Text

In 1984, British journalist and political commentator Polly Toynbee visited Ikeda at the invitation of the SGI. According to Peter Popham, writing about Tokyo architecture and culture, Ikeda "was hoping to tighten the public connection between himself and Polly Toynbee's famous grandfather, Arnold Toynbee, the prophet of the rise of the East."[163] Polly Toynbeee wrote that she had never met "anyone who exudes such an aura of absolute power as Mr. Ikeda" and others she had talked to “felt they had been drawn into endorsing [Ikeda]."[164][165] In The Guardian in May 1984, she wrote that she wished that her grandfather had not endorsed Choose Life: A Dialogue, his dialogue with Ikeda.[165]


Edited Text (Triggered Edit Filter)

(Italics = Struck out text from the Original Text Section , Bold = text added to improve the Original Text section above) :In 1984, British journalist and political commentator [[Polly Toynbee]] visited Ikeda '''in Japan''' at ''the'' '''his''' invitation ''of the SGI'' '''conveyed by Dick Causton, SGI leader of the UK'''. According to Peter Popham, writing about Tokyo architecture and culture, ''Ikeda "was hoping to tighten the public connection between himself and Polly Toynbee's famous grandfather, Arnold Toynbee, the prophet of the rise of the East."<ref>Peter Popham, ''Tokyo: The City at the End of the World'' (Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1985; ISBN 4-7700-1226-8), p. 64.</ref>'' Polly ''Toynbeee'' '''Toynbee once''' wrote that she had never met "anyone who exudes such an aura of absolute power as Mr. Ikeda" ''and others she had talked to “felt they had been drawn into endorsing [Ikeda]."'' '''to describe an unsettling opulence with which she was received by him.'''<ref>''Toynbee, "Soka Gakkai and the Toynbee 'Endorsement'"; quoted in Popham, ''Tokyo'', '' '''{{cite book |last=Popham |first=Peter |date=1985 |title=Tokyo: The City at the End of the World |location=Tokyo |publisher=Kodansha International |page=65 |isbn=4-7700-1226-8}}'''</ref>''<ref name="grandfather">{{cite news |title=The Value of a Grandfather Figure |work=The Guardian |author=Polly Toynbee |date=19 May 1984}}</ref>'' In The Guardian in May 1984, she wrote that '''others she had talked to about Ikeda "felt they had been drawn into endorsing him" and that''' she wished ''that'' her grandfather had not '''similarly''' endorsed Choose Life: A Dialogue, his dialogue with Ikeda.''<ref name="grandfather"/>'' '''<ref>{{cite news |title=The value of a grandfather figure |work=The Guardian |author=Polly Toynbee |date=19 May 1984}}</ref> In his response letter to ''The Guardian'', Dick Causton described her reflections as honest and understandable, given the "culture shock" of being hosted as a distinguished guest by Ikeda in a Japanese cultural setting and the "religious shock" of encountering Buddhists as ordinary people, all during a hectic 10-day schedule of interviews with prominent figures arranged by Soka Gakkai at her request.<ref>{{cite news| title=The double shock of Japanese culture |author=Dick Causton |work=The Guardian |date=28 May 1984}}</ref>'''

Tacktician (talk) 16:06, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

Hi @Tacktician:, I just left a note at the FP board. This is certainly a false positive but one that will be challenging to fix programmatically. That filter is somewhat complicated and private, but I suspect it hit on your addition of the phrase "dick" 3 three times. This is a false positive as it is a proper name as well as a common vandal term. That specific filter only looks at 'articles', so you can leave an edit request on the associated talk page (use the {{edit semi-protected}} template) and someone will process it for you. — xaosflux Talk 17:04, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for your help. Just to follow up, the protection level on the Daisaku Ikeda page remains intact. I got the edit through by changing "Dick Causton" to "Richard Causton". Conveyed the same to DBigXray , who responded to my request for edit on the Daisaku Ikeda Talk page.Tacktician (talk) 17:49, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
Tacktician, thank you for the WP:Ping. Yes, I can now understand why you were unable to edit the said page. User:Xaosflux May I know how the "edit request" template will help Tacktician, because AFAIK even if I make the edit on behalf of him, it will still hit the edit filter. (Please note, I am not fully aware of how edit filters work, so please be kind if you find my question, silly ). --DBigXray 18:16, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
@DBigXray: Special:AbuseFilter/380 only applies to 'newer' editors. — xaosflux Talk 18:19, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
I see, thank you for the clarification. Tacktician I will make this edit on your behalf now. --DBigXray 18:23, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

Confirmed user reversal

Hi,

I am currently working on a proposed sister project called VideoWiki where we allow to collaboratively edit a video file for Wikipedia.

You can verify about Videowiki at:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Video

Kindly request you to mark me confirmed as this account is connected to Wikipedia's OAuth and VideoWiki's features will be disrupted.

--Videowiki123 (talk) 17:14, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

@Videowiki123: the 'confirmed' flag is normally a temporary flag for very new accounts and gets replaced by the 'autoconfirmed' flag which is now on your account. You should be able to see you have this access now in Special:UserRights/Videowiki123. Are you having any current issues? — xaosflux Talk 17:18, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

Yes, I am getting an error saying "user is blocked from editing". Did not face this error before. So pretty sure this is because of removal of this username from "confirmed" list. However, IF you could switch this user back to "confirmed" temporarily, then I can try to see if this error still persists. That way, we can be 100 percent sure about whether the removal of "confirmed" user has caused this error. --Videowiki123 (talk) 17:50, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

@Videowiki123: I added that flag (you may confirm at Special:UserRights/Videowiki123) - if you keep getting this error, some screen shots may help us figure out how to fix it for you and other that could have the same issue. — xaosflux Talk 18:16, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

The reason for the unexpected error message is due to a block of this user-account by a user (Vituzzu). This block has disabled the OAuth associated with this account, resulting in VideoWiki not working. Could you please "unblock" this user account? Is there a permanent way where this user account cannot get blocked by other users? This is important because VideoWiki will stop working if some user ends up blocking this user account in the future again. Please find the Commons link which shows the screenshot of the error message for your verification. The description in the Commons link provides more context. https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Videowiki_OAuth_API_error.png --Videowiki123 (talk) 07:03, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

This may be an autoblock on meta or commons, you will need to follow up with Vituzzu. — xaosflux Talk 11:48, 26 October 2018 (UTC)
@VideoWiki123: and any account may be blocked, if your edits don't follow community policies blocking could be used. — xaosflux Talk 11:49, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

NPP: new copyvio bot

Ni. Thanks for the heads up, indeed I wasn't aware of it. I expect Insertcleverphrasehere will mention it in his next NPP newsletter. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 19:16, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

ZackBot 12

Howdy. I'm sure you have plenty on your plate, but would be wonderful if you could take a look at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/ZackBot_12 when you have time. :-) --Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 17:18, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

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Relisted AFD discussions

If I vote in an AFD discussion, can I vote again after it gets relisted? —Eli355 (talkcontribs) 21:21, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

Hi @Eli355:, AfD's are not votes, you are welcome to continue discussing it after relisting. — xaosflux Talk 21:26, 28 October 2018 (UTC)
What do you mean by "AfD's are not votes"? —Eli355 (talkcontribs) 21:36, 28 October 2018 (UTC)
@Eli355: see Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion#Contributing_to_AfD_discussions, when XfD's are closed and acted upon a numerical count of the participants is not a primary factor in the decision. — xaosflux Talk 22:52, 28 October 2018 (UTC)
Suppose I vote in an AFD discussion. After that, the discussion relisted. Can I vote for a second time after the relisting? —Eli355 (talkcontribs) 23:42, 28 October 2018 (UTC)
@Eli355: AfD's are discussions. You are welcome to continue to add to the discussion while it is open (or reopened), you may make 1 comment on it, you may make 10 comments on it. — xaosflux Talk 00:56, 29 October 2018 (UTC)
@Eli355: AfD is a venue where it is discussed if an article should be kept or deleted. You can comment, and present your arguments numerous times in the said discussion. You should see some previous AfDs for example. At the top of my head, you can see it in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hyperbolic asteroid. —usernamekiran(talk) 07:02, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

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Maybe an idea in future to mention who the message is from. I had to check the logs to see that it was from you! Cheers — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 14:55, 29 October 2018 (UTC)
@MSGJ: you'd think after sending MMS for other people forever I'd actually get mine right! — xaosflux Talk 14:57, 29 October 2018 (UTC)
Fixed them with a cleanup job. FWIW @MSGJ: mass-message "senders" should also have their name in the HTML comments of a message. — xaosflux Talk 15:03, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

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

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  • Partial blocks is now available for testing on the Test Wikipedia. The new functionality allows you to block users from editing specific pages. Bugs may exist and can be reported on the local talk page or on Meta. A discussion regarding deployment to English Wikipedia will be started by community liaisons sometime in the near future.
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Arbitration

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17:29, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Thanks

Hi Xaosflux. Thanks for your help, I'll put in the request there soon. CatonMA2 (talk) 18:26, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

User:PrimeBOT

Could I ask you, as an administrator that is active with the WP:BRFA process, to please take a look at User:PrimeBOT? There are some major issues with their latest run and it concerns me that they are referencing a WP:BRFA from February that seems not to relate to the current task at hand. The script is severely broken and is dumping pages into error categories by the thousands. --Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 07:25, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

@Zackmann08: if you have already tried to contact the operator and are still in disagreement with the bot edits, please open a section at WP:BOTN for review. — xaosflux Talk 13:35, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

ARBCOM

Have you considered running? It's thankless task, but one which I think you'd excel at - TNT 💖 16:50, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

...although that does rather come across as "it's a thankless task and so you'll excel at it"  :) ——SerialNumber54129 16:53, 11 November 2018 (UTC)
@There'sNoTime: thanks for the nod of confidence, but I don't have the time to commit to that committee in the upcoming year. — xaosflux Talk 17:20, 11 November 2018 (UTC)
I was hoping he would go for different elections instead... --Rschen7754 17:55, 11 November 2018 (UTC)
Thanks @Rschen7754:, but I won't be able to take on any more heavy commitment items until at least next summer. — xaosflux Talk 19:47, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

19:22, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

Good Guess!

Looks like you are right SQLQuery me! 19:06, 13 November 2018 (UTC)


Request de. Wiki Jiny Lan

Hallo Xaosflux, thank you for your suggestion. You wrote: ″...would you like us to import it to your personal sandbox for you to work on first?″ If I understood you right, did you ask me, if you could import to my personal sandbox. Yes of course. This would be very helpful for me. Please let me know, if I misunderstood you and I have to do the import by myself. Thanks a lot and kind regards from GermanyGauthier W. de Reymaker (talk) 21:39, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

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Grateful if you can cease the unwanted spam to my talk page

Hchc2009 (talk) 22:21, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

@Hchc2009: I added a category and template that should reduce most distributions to that page. If you are getting email notifications you can turn them off in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-echo. Hope that helps! Best regards, — xaosflux Talk 22:41, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
very many thanks. If you could turn off the unwanted automated messages being posted to my talk page, I’d apreciate it. I’ve retired from the wiki, and no longer wish to relieve them. Hchc2009 (talk)
cheers! Hchc2009 (talk) 22:58, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
To others, no idea what was going on there - but if Hchc is leaving the project and doesn't want bot deliveries anymore I'm fine with it. — xaosflux Talk 23:06, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

Signature

Is there any problem with coloring the link to my user talk page in my signature red? —Eli355 (talkcontribs) 22:30, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

@Eli355: Wikipedia:Signatures#Appearance_and_color has the guidance on this. It may be considered confusing to some people as it can appear as a WP:REDLINK as well as cause some contrast issues. One way could improve that would be by also adding a background color, for example: talk. — xaosflux Talk 00:16, 23 November 2018 (UTC)

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Probably odds checker ring him odd ohh haha Am in my was really don't so stop smokingo people who don't she will "going back from work — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.70.188.95 (talk) 23:25, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

Why does the narwhal bacon? — xaosflux Talk 00:16, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
eh? —usernamekiran(talk) 08:46, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

Regarding event coordinator rights and how to use them?

Thanks a lot for granting the rights of event coordinator. But I am not aware how to give permission to create multiple accounts from the same IP address. Do I need to write something at the talk page of that IP address? Kindly guide. Thank you very much. -- Abhijeet Safai (talk) 06:17, 24 November 2018 (UTC)

@Abhijeet Safai: to create accounts first log on, then go to Special:CreateAccount. More details are here: Wikipedia:Event_coordinator#Use. — xaosflux Talk 14:23, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
Thanks a lot. But I could not do it yesterday when I needed this information the most. But no problem. I will use it for the next time. Thanks a lot once again for sharing the information. -- Abhijeet Safai (talk) 07:09, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

Can you please close this bot request. It looks completely abandoned and it has barely been filled in. The requester create a bot account but they haven't filled anything in so I think it is abandoned. Pkbwcgs (talk) 21:34, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

@Pkbwcgs: I deleted it, it was empty and never submitted. — xaosflux Talk 21:52, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

22:22, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Block me (for science)?

Hey, Xaosflux, would you mind blocking my account as well as User:WK-test, my testing account, for a short time (5-10 minutes should do)? I'd like to test something. Writ Keeper  14:32, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

 Donexaosflux Talk 14:34, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
@Writ Keeper: done, if you want to do more extensive testing I can make you a temp 'crat account on test.wikipedia, just let me know. — xaosflux Talk 14:36, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

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@TheSandDoctor:  Donexaosflux Talk 01:43, 28 November 2018 (UTC)
Thanks! --TheSandDoctor Talk 02:20, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

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@TheSandDoctor: Please note: I do not normally check my e-mail account for wikipedia, and prefer User talk: unless you have something private. The area you asked about is currently backlogged, but someone should address in a bit. — xaosflux Talk 21:57, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
Noted. --TheSandDoctor Talk 21:59, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

Winona, Michigan

Hi, I have been semi-active recently, and I have enough sources to add to content on Winona, Michigan, and a lot of other places in the region. Please allow me to add to the page, I can cite my sources~

Thanks~ The Copper Miner

@The Copper Miner: go right ahead, my update was only because you left the page completely blank. Happy editing, — xaosflux Talk 18:32, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

Why me?

Could I ask why you added me as a subscriber to this? I do not recall having anything to do with it. DuncanHill (talk) 21:00, 30 November 2018 (UTC)

@DuncanHill: I actually have no idea, must have accidentally picked you, I've removed you from the notices on that task. Sorry for any confusion! — xaosflux Talk 21:29, 30 November 2018 (UTC)
Thanks. As you may have noticed I've had rather a busy day with one thing and another, I just wanted to make sure it was only a slip. DuncanHill (talk) 21:33, 30 November 2018 (UTC)

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xaosflux Talk 04:31, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

16:12, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

Template edit requests from User:BrandonXLF

Hi xaosflux-

How should the requests from User:BrandonXLF be handled? He's been making requests that land at WP:SPER, but I don't think that most of the editors regularly responding there are too familiar with templates and modules and things. I foresee such requests sitting for a good long while if left there, so I've been shifting most of his requests over to WP:TPER when I see them. I understand that there's no technical requirement for a TE to be involved, but it doesn't really fit as a semi-protected request either. How should requests such as those at Template talk:Module link and Template talk:Jcon be handled with Brandon being restricted from editing in those namespaces, the editors at WP:SPER being largely uncomfortable assisting, and it not belonging at WP:TPER either? Thanks! ‑‑ElHef (Meep?) 15:38, 7 December 2018 (UTC)

I'm fine with either, but I figured more people would be looking at semi request? BrandonXLF (t@lk) 15:55, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
@ElHef and BrandonXLF: I've been pushing them away from TPROT queue if they don't require it. I see these mostly along the lines of conflict-of-interest edit requests, they need to be requested and someone may or may not get around to them. There is no deadline. I find a very important part of the protection policy is that legitimate requests against protected pages should be swiftly evaluated an executed when possible, in this case this is not a PP issue. Perhaps {{Request edit}} should be used instead if the SPROT queue is also getting flooded here. — xaosflux Talk 16:59, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
But {{Request edit}} implies it's a COI edit, which it's not.BrandonXLF (t@lk) 17:03, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
Right, these are editing restrictions - and pretty much anyone can handle them that is why I put in the SPROT queue as it contains immensely more editors than the wrongly selected template editors. Basically, please don't flood the TPOT queue, feel free to create a new category and request system to track edit requests by sanctioned editors, but I suspect it will get even less attention than the SPROT queue. Another possible solution is that you could ask (ping?) recent editors of templates to consider your suggestions. — xaosflux Talk 17:07, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
The issue isn't so much that the queue is getting flooded (the SPER queue is backlogged more than it's not, to be honest) - it's more an issue of expertise. Pretty much anyone could handle them, but the average TPER patroller is going to have a much better shot at having the technical expertise to understand the request than the average SPER patroller will. I can't speak for anyone else that looks at semi requests, but I know virtually nothing about template coding, so if a request like this goes anything beyond the simplest formatting fix or somesuch, I'm skipping it or sending it to the TPER queue. If the requests get to sit at SPER until someone with that expertise can handle it then I'm fine ignoring it, but these are an even worse fit at SPER than they are at TPER. ‑‑ElHef (Meep?) 17:56, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
Since they are not actually protected, they don't really need protected edit requests at all though, do they? These are just suggestions for improvements being made on the talk pages right? @Primefac: you implemented this situation - what did you envision was going to be the go-forward process? — xaosflux Talk 18:50, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
The unblock restriction was put in place because Brandon was making dozens of edits without edit summaries to templates and frequently broke or unilaterally changed the template's function or purpose. However, there were some cases where he was actively (and productively) improving templates and modules, hence the allowance to continue to work in the sandboxes. There just simply isn't a good template to fit this situation, but I mostly agree with ElHef's logic above - if the request is a simple "please change X to Y because Z" and it's straight-forward, there' no need to get a template editor involved; on the other hand, a more technical SPER like at the Modules linked above probably should have a TE look at it. Primefac (talk) 17:55, 9 December 2018 (UTC) (please ping on reply)
See also Template_talk:Request_edit#Other_reasons_for_edit_request. — xaosflux Talk 14:54, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

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17:33, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Copper Country Strike, 1913-1914

Hi, sorry to bother you again, but I am under the impression that you know how Wikipedia works quite more well than I do. I am writing to you today to ask if it is acceptable to rewrite the page on the Copper Country strike of 1913–14~ I have amassed a wealth of knowledge and both primary and secondary sources on this topic over the years and it has particularly peaked my interest as I'm from the region, embedded in the culture, and it impacted my family quite a lot. I have made friends with a best-selling author on the topic, Steve Lehto, who can possibly even help oversee it if necessary.

Anyways, I await your response. Sorry for the long post on your talk page,

--The Copper Miner (talk) 06:04, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

Hello @The Copper Miner: in general you should feel free to be bold in updating articles. Check out Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources to help ensure you are using good sources. While a complete rewrite can be done of any page, updating or adding sections at a time is usually has less resistance from other editors (who may take issue with you discarding all of "their work"). That being said, articles are suppose to change and constantly get better and sometimes that means replacing the whole thing! To not impact readers during major changes, you can use your personal sandbox to build the article without any editing conflicts then copy in all of the new material. Happy editing, — xaosflux Talk 12:05, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

Extension to PkbwcgsBot's task 2

I need a bit of an extension to this task. The bot will need to add | religion = Islam so that it displays the religion correctly. It is not feasible to merge this to Template:Infobox religious biography because Template:Infobox religious biography is used for all religions so they would all display the religion as "Islam" if they use Template:Infobox religious biography with the religion parameter. Are you okay with that? Pkbwcgs (talk) 19:49, 14 December 2018 (UTC)

Replied at Wikipedia talk:Bots/Requests for approval/PkbwcgsBot 2. — xaosflux Talk 21:10, 14 December 2018 (UTC)

Huge Amount of Paid Editing and Paid article creation is done in India.

Please Take a look at these articles most of the artcles are just "GRADE SCHOOLS" and we all know that grade schools are not notable at all. The citation provided are not independent, and grades school are not notable these types of articles are created by such private school to attract students so they can increase their PROFITS, it's a very common practice in india. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion#G11 And also check who creates such advertisements he should be banned from editing Wikipedia there are more than 1000s of such non-notable paid advertisements in English Wikipedia.

You are my last hope for Independent Wikipedia in India. parents are forced to pay high fees in these schools as we all trust wikipedia, and these schools take advantage of it.

i am just a user with no rights like you, so i can not delete them all requested for deletion of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delhi_Public_School_Ghaziabad and it got deleted.

LIST OF SUCH SCHOOLS BY STATE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_schools_in_India

Nuksanhai (talk) 11:02, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

@Nuksanhai: you can report these at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard. — xaosflux Talk 14:40, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

thanks for your suggestion Nuksanhai (talk) 14:45, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

20:34, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

Edit-count

Hi, Xaosflux!

Do you know of any means to develop a template that renders itself in two different forms based on the edit-count of the user's t/p where it's substituted? Basically, a parser that pulled the edit-count would have done my job coupled with but AFAIS, that's missing:(WBGconverse 07:38, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

@Winged Blades of Godric: regarding edit-count of the user's t/p you want the number of revisions of the users talk page? (e.g. this page is ~5606) — xaosflux Talk 14:32, 19 December 2018 (UTC)
Apologies for a poor phrasing. The appropriate phrasing will be:- 'Edit-count of the user; whose t/p the template is substituted in.' WBGconverse 14:40, 19 December 2018 (UTC)
@Winged Blades of Godric: I'm not aware of a way to do that, primarily because "edit count of the user associated with this page" (and actually "edit count" of anything) is not a variable you use an input to a parser function. — xaosflux Talk 15:04, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

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Edit filter helper

I have been requested by a trusted user on my talk page the userright of edit filter helper. Am I empowered as admin to grant it or should I suggest he apply for it?--Wehwalt (talk) 20:13, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) My understanding of the policy is that they have to make a request at the EFN; point 3 only applies if they already hold edit filter manager and want it reduced to EFH. Writ Keeper  20:32, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
@Wehwalt: Wikipedia:Edit filter helper outlines the process, it is fairly light-weight. You should not issue this access without following the process unless you have some strong IAR reason. One thing that could help it along is after the editor places their request you could endorse them if you think it is a good idea. Hope that helps, — xaosflux Talk 20:35, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
Thank you.--Wehwalt (talk) 21:08, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

Translation of the article about Jiny Lan in German Wikipedia

Hello Xaosflux, thank you very much for providing my german article about Jiny Lan for translation into the English edition of Wikipedia. Unfortunately, I was ill for a longer time and could only start translating now. One question: how do I best save my progress? I will need several days and steps to translate the whole article. Many thanks for your response. Happy New Year! --Gauthier W. de Reymaker (talk) 15:53, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

@Gauthier W. de Reymaker: hello, as the content is in your sandbox (User:Gauthier W. de Reymaker/Jiny Lan) there really isn't much of a time limit. I suggest you just go to that sandbox page and use the normal edit functions right where it is, make as many edits and save as often as you would like. Once the article is in English you can use the move funtion (Special:MovePage/User:Gauthier_W._de_Reymaker/Jiny_Lan) to move it to Jiny Lan (this function will become available after you make about 5 edits). Hope that helps, — xaosflux Talk 16:53, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

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Shouldn't the Bot have listed the inactive Admins for February already? Probably broken. JMHamo (talk) 14:08, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

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A question aside

Hello Xaosflux, I have a question regarding Phabricator Task T213003. When JJMC89 moved this task from Unsorted to Single wikis on the Community-consensus-needed board, does this mean a full blown RfC is now needed locally to demonstrate a consensus before the task can be acted on? I'm not understanding the action otherwise and am asking you here: what it implies? Thank you.--John Cline (talk) 20:45, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

No, it doesn't. I just sorted the task on the workboard to indicate that it only impacts a single wiki. — JJMC89(T·C) 20:50, 5 January 2019 (UTC)
@John Cline: also no, the main point of that phab tag is that devs will keep a task on hold until it is removed. — xaosflux Talk 20:52, 5 January 2019 (UTC)
I understand. My thanks to both of you, and my esteem.--John Cline (talk) 20:59, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

18:29, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

An issue with a template

Please do check the issue which I have mentioned in the page Template talk:National squad. That page has been viewed by just 3 people which was the reason why I ask you to interfere/respond.Adithyak1997 (talk) 06:08, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

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20:36, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

Move request by IP

Please move my request [119] onto the main Wikipedia page please, thank you. 194.207.146.167 (talk) 13:30, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

194..., that page was already created, please see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Elm Guest House claims and controversy. — xaosflux Talk 13:57, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

Request English language wikiblock for 1 month

To enforce a much needed English language wiki break as I am very emotionally distressed. With thanks for your kind consideration. E.3 (talk) 02:52, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

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If I may

Follow on; I felt that you believed my edit this morning at the Arbcom talk page was in some way untoward?[121] I would much rather have your confidence that I did endeavor diligence, and any closing advice you'd be willing to share. The fault may have been in the asking, but; as it is: I didn't find the answer I was seeking. And believed the question fair. Thank you.--John Cline (talk) 03:51, 3 February 2019 (UTC)

Hello @John Cline:, certainly not! I try to provide helpful responses in lots of forums, and often the original asking person is just in the wrong forum to get a good response. Your original post wasn't very clear of the context of the concern, so I recommended the general forum for COI assistance. Since your question has further developed in to relating to sanction in specific, following up at WP:AN may be the next best step. I suggest closing and noting the old discussion if doing so to prevent a forked conversation. Best regards, — xaosflux Talk 04:38, 3 February 2019 (UTC)
Thank you Xaosflux, I appreciate your reply and will follow its wise counsel. I can certainly say, without equivocation, that you provide extremely helpful responses across many forums. This I have repeatedly observed and yours is among the usernames I most respect; I'd be honored to break bread with you. Best wishes and regards.--John Cline (talk) 06:24, 3 February 2019 (UTC)

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17:12, 4 February 2019 (UTC)

RfAWB

Sorry to bother you xaosflux, but I've recently submitted a request at WP:RFP/AWB but nobody has seen it yet. I'm contacting different admins over this because I stopped manually editing Wikipedia, partly because it takes a long time, and you don't want to know what happens to me if I stop editing. Anyways, can you review my request? Thanks, GN-z11 17:54, 8 February 2019 (UTC)

PERM requests are normally processed in 1-3 days - it should be gotten to soon. — xaosflux Talk 18:15, 8 February 2019 (UTC)

18:45, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

thank you re: account creation privileges

Dear Xaosflux,

Thanks so much for giving me the right to create accounts for new users. Because of you, I created accounts for 5-6 new Wikipedia editors for the edit-a-thon I hosted yesterday to celebrate Black History Month.

Our edit-a-thon is now over, so I no longer need these privileges. Just wanted to let you know, so you can revert the permissions on my account to their usual status.

Many thanks, Meg Meiman — Preceding unsigned comment added by Meg Meiman (talkcontribs) 18:20, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

23:13, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

Deletion Question 2

Hi. Recently I asked at BN if something should be deleted, and you said no. Before I post again, can you take a look at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Modernmotem? The user has made a total of 13 edits, with this edit (subsequently reverted) being their only edit outside of the user/user talk namespaces. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 03:19, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

@DannyS712: us 'crats don't really have any special jurisdiction over RfA's that never started. You can feel free to nominate misc. pages to WP:MFD or suggest the page creator to nominate it for WP:CSD#U1 speedy deletion. Pages like that really aren't causing any trouble, and unless they have gotten quite dusty (e.g. if both the page has been abandoned and the editor has been away for a while) I don't think really need any housekeeping. — xaosflux Talk 04:27, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
Thanks --DannyS712 (talk) 18:45, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

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"No problem whatsoever"  :) just sticking my nose in. ——SerialNumber54129 15:17, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

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Talk pages consultation 2019

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The Signpost: 28 February 2019


Hi. I saw at WP:IANB that you linked to the log of removing Mr. Stradivarius's IAdmin rights using an external link. I just wanted to alert you to the existence of {{Logid}}, which makes linking to logs easier as well as formatting them as wikilinks. In this case, you could have put {{Logid|97373926|removed}} to get removed, linking directly to the log of the removal. Just an fyi. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 00:45, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

@DannyS712: thanks for the note, I always forget about that syntax, we should probably ask for a Special:Logid/nnnnn creation just like Diff/ and PermaLink/ over at phab. — xaosflux Talk 01:03, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
We can ask, but what do you mean you always forget? {{Logid}} is template I made a month ago. --DannyS712 (talk) 01:05, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
Y'all know about Special:Redirect/logid/12345, yes? Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 01:09, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
@DannyS712: I always forget &logid= argument is available on Special:Log since it isn't represented in the GUI. — xaosflux Talk 01:11, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
@Suffusion of Yellow: even more obscure :D — xaosflux Talk 01:11, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
@Suffusion of Yellow: Yes but that produces the ugly %3A in the url. Also, my template can do other stuff; if you want to take a look at what the last entry at WP:EFFPR was about, just use {{logid|log=abuse|23375692}} to get: details • examine. --DannyS712 (talk) 01:14, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
Of course, getting the logid is enough of a pain, so as long as we're listing options, the corrrect™ way is to use Enterprisey's links-in-logs. It makes the dates clickable to the exact log link, then do whatever you like. ~ Amory (utc) 02:05, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
@Amorymeltzer: Lol I forgot I had that installed - I thought the links were there by default. Maybe we (by which I mean @Enterprisey) should propose it as a gadget? --DannyS712 (talk) 02:09, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
phab:T207569, specifically phab:T207562. ~ Amory (utc) 02:11, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

Hi Xaosflux, sorry to ask for help but this BRFA is in need of expert intervention. The BAG operator Headbomb withdrew from participation far into the process which makes it difficult for new BAG operators to come up to speed. If you are interested, I've written a summary of the history:

3 months ago, a BOTREQ was made to tag articles with {{unreferenced}}. I responded, and wrote the bot. Because there is a chance of false positives, trial edits are not the best method due to a long tail of edge cases, it requires too many trials. So the bot instead posted a list of articles it would tag (without actually tagging) so they can be reviewed. It processed 18,000 articles and posted the list (a "dry run") in userspace. I started a BRFA #7 with the dry run results. Headbomb became involved and approved 10 live trial edits, however another editor intervened and requested an RfC because the bot was too controversial etc.. I had not yet written the code to make live edits, and given the developing controversy over a possible RFC, decided to wait for more clarity before investing time in coding further (and I had other commitments). The RFC at Village Pump went on for a long time with high participation and finally closed in favor of the bot, and meanwhile I wrote the code needed for live edits and made the 10 trial edits initially approved by Headbomb. At this point - despite full support from the community with a freshly closed RFC, and 10 successful trial edits - the BRFA went off the rails. Headbomb resigned from the BRFA (for unimportant reasons); and, there are a couple ideas on how to implement the RFC close. I believe an experienced and responsible BAG operator who is able to see it through would easily solve these issues.

Is this something you could or would help us with? -- GreenC 05:00, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

@GreenC: OK so I was just looking over all of this. Here are my thoughts:
  1. Withdraw that BRFA and submit a replacement one that is very clear about the new scope (the 'footnotes' thing is a lightning rod, so take it all out). (Prior discussion people can be pinged to the new BRFA). (Don't withdraw until you are ready to replace though) - we can put the current one 'on hold'). This is mostly cosmetic, but may help (optional)
  2. The RfC seems to be OK with bot tagging in general but make sure again the scope is very clearly defined (for one this is only going to be articles as the BRFA says, not 'pages' as the RFC says)
  3. The RfC suggests that a discussion should be had at Template talk:Unreferenced about adding a source parameter, you can open that now. I don't think making a new category is a good idea (especially not the monthly ones), but it needs to at least be brought up. I really don't think making a specific-bot category is a good idea, so perhaps they could do "|source=bot" and also add to a hidden category like Category:Articles lacking sources detected by bot or something.
  4. This needs more live edits, and likely an extended ramp-up trial with batches and pauses; we've done these before and as long as you are ok with it, should help (e.g. 500 edits, then a 1 week pause for comment, ... 1000 edits, another week pause....).
  5. For the FUD issue: write up an easy to understand list of conditions (such as at User:GreenC bot/Job 7 or what ever the number is). Link to this in all edit summaries, make it clear what you are looking for and how to contact you for false positives. Unreferenced is a "serious" issue to be wrong about, I accidentally claimed an article was unreferenced just the other day (Goliath Goli) - even though I really don't like the manner it is referenced.

This is awesome! A plan of action. #1: withdrawn. Will work on a new BRFA. #3: discussion is started. #5: will try to create a page how the bot makes decisions. #4: no problem good idea. Thanks! Will keep you updated. -- GreenC 17:56, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Module:Multilingual

Module:Multilingual has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the module's entry on the Templates for discussion page. {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 16:04, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

16:38, 4 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


Event Coordinator StatusErinamukuta

Hi the events are done , just wanted to let you know.--Erina Mukuta 08:30, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

@Erinamukuta: thanks for the note, hope it went well! If you have more, feel free to stop by WP:PERM again. — xaosflux Talk 11:47, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

19:29, 11 March 2019 (UTC)