User talk:Anne Delong/Archive 26
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This is the archive of messages posted on Anne Delong's talk page, January to March, 2019.
Administrators' newsletter – January 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2018).
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Guideline and policy news
- There are a number of new or changed speedy deletion criteria, each previously part of WP:CSD#G6:
- G14 (new): Disambiguation pages that disambiguate only zero or one existing pages are now covered under the new G14 criterion (discussion). This is {{db-disambig}}; the text is unchanged and candidates may be found in Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as unnecessary disambiguation pages.
- R4 (new): Redirects in the file namespace (and no file links) that have the same name as a file or redirect at Commons are now covered under the new R4 criterion (discussion). This is {{db-redircom}}; the text is unchanged.
- G13 (expanded): Userspace drafts containing only the default Article Wizard text are now covered under G13 along with other drafts (discussion). Such blank drafts are now eligible after six months rather than one year, and taggers continue to use {{db-blankdraft}}.
- The Wikimedia Foundation now requires all interface administrators to enable two-factor authentication.
- Members of the Bot Approvals Group (BAG) are now subject to an activity requirement. After two years without any bot-related activity (e.g. operating a bot, posting on a bot-related talk page), BAG members will be retired from BAG following a one-week notice.
Technical news
- Starting on December 13, the Wikimedia Foundation security team implemented new password policy and requirements. Privileged accounts (administrators, bureaucrats, checkusers, oversighters, interface administrators, bots, edit filter managers/helpers, template editors, et al.) must have a password at least 10 characters in length. All accounts must have a password:
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- Different from their username
- User accounts not meeting these requirements will be prompted to update their password accordingly. More information is available on MediaWiki.org.
- Blocked administrators may now block the administrator that blocked them. This was done to mitigate the possibility that a compromised administrator account would block all other active administrators, complementing the removal of the ability to unblock oneself outside of self-imposed blocks. A request for comment is currently in progress to determine whether the blocking policy should be updated regarding this change.
- {{Copyvio-revdel}} now has a link to open the history with the RevDel checkboxes already filled in.
Arbitration
- Following the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: AGK, Courcelles, GorillaWarfare, Joe Roe, Mkdw, SilkTork.
Miscellaneous
- Accounts continue to be compromised on a regular basis. Evidence shows this is entirely due to the accounts having the same password that was used on another website that suffered a data breach. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately.
- Around 22% of admins have enabled two-factor authentication, up from 20% in June 2018. If you haven't already enabled it, please consider doing so. Regardless of whether you use 2FA, please practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.
Suggestions for improving Toronto Philharmonic Society
I've added categories to Toronto Philharmonic Society article. Please add more relevant categories if you feel like it. Also I noticed that it is not clear from the context when the society ceased to exist. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 18:56, 4 January 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks, Bbarmadillo. I prefer to leave the categorization to others. None of the sources I found told when the society died; the closest was one that said "it lasted a few more years". Maybe I'll come across something more specific later.—Anne Delong (talk) 23:18, 4 January 2019 (UTC)
- I see. Anyway, it is not a good practice to leave categorization to other editors :) --Bbarmadillo (talk) 08:29, 5 January 2019 (UTC)
Draft: Mainak Misra
Dear Anne Delong,
Thank you so much for editing this page. But, the page 'Draft: Mainak Misra' was rejected by an editor. You have already seen that all the notable references have been mentioned in the draft. Could you please help me with the next step. Thank you so much in advance for your kind help. Manishachatterjee96 (talk) 22:03, 29 January 2019 (UTC)
- Hello, Manishachatterjee96. I am sorry to have taken so long to respond; this is first chance I have had to spend time checking out this draft. The reviewer was correct to turn down the draft; the subject, "Mainak Misra", does not appear to be a well-known and established filmmaker who has been written about extensively in books, magazine articles and newspaper articles, but rather a young person who has created his first film. Aside from the one article in the Deccan Herald, the references included are just names and titles on festival lists; I didn't find any reviews of the film by professional critics. I started improving the draft to remove opinions and promotional languuage, but soon stopped when I realize that the draft would not be accepted. It's quite possible that Mr. Misra will be the subject of an encyclopedia article later in his career if he continues to make films, and if he and the films are independently written about extensively by various authors, journalists and film critics, and have perhaps won some awards. Here are examples of filmmakers who meet these criteria: Amartya Bhattacharyya, Kamal Bose, Ramananda Sengupta.—Anne Delong (talk) 13:21, 1 February 2019 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – February 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2019).
Administrator changes
Interface administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
- A request for comment is currently open to reevaluate the activity requirements for administrators.
- Administrators who are blocked have the technical ability to block the administrator who blocked their own account. A recent request for comment has amended the blocking policy to clarify that this ability should only be used in exceptional circumstances, such as account compromises, where there is a clear and immediate need.
- A request for comment closed with a consensus in favor of deprecating The Sun as a permissible reference, and creating an edit filter to warn users who attempt to cite it.
Technical news
- A discussion regarding an overhaul of the format and appearance of Wikipedia:Requests for page protection is in progress (permalink). The proposed changes will make it easier to create requests for those who are not using Twinkle. The workflow for administrators at this venue will largely be unchanged. Additionally, there are plans to archive requests similar to how it is done at WP:PERM, where historical records are kept so that prior requests can more easily be searched for.
Miscellaneous
- Voting in the 2019 Steward elections will begin on 08 February 2019, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 28 February 2019, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
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Two articles need helps
Hi you've wrote many articles I'm not professional as you're I'm trying to write if you could review & let me know after adding publish tags what should be done?
I've added few more references kindly need help if I'm missing anything?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?preload=Template%3AAfc+preload%2Fdraft&editintro=Template%3AAfC+draft+editintro&title=Draft:Sumbal_Khan&create=Create+new+article+draft# MemonBhai (talk) 19:51, 9 February 2019 (UTC)
- Hello, MemonBhai. I can't help with the first draft because I can't understand the references. You might ask for help with that one at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Pakistan.
- The second draft seems more promising. However, a lot of the news coverage is about her death. If she is not dead, it would be good to find some news reports that talk about how the death reports were incorrect, or interviews with her after discussing the mistaken coverage. Just having more tracks released after February doesn't necessarily show she's alive, because these are prerecorded. If there is to be a Wikipedia article, it's important that it be correct.—Anne Delong (talk) 02:57, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – March 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2019).
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Guideline and policy news
- The RfC on administrator activity requirements failed to reach consensus for any proposal.
- Following discussions at the Bureaucrats' noticeboard and Wikipedia talk:Administrators, an earlier change to the restoration of adminship policy was reverted. If requested, bureaucrats will not restore administrator permissions removed due to inactivity if there have been five years without a logged administrator action; this "five year rule" does not apply to permissions removed voluntarily.
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.
- paid-en-wp
- 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).
Miscellaneous
- Following the 2019 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Base, Einsbor, Jon Kolbert, Schniggendiller, and Wim b.
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Please comment on Talk:Suki Waterhouse
The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Suki Waterhouse. Legobot (talk) 04:50, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
Susanna Vernon
re https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Susanna_Vernon Draft Susanna Vernon Dear Anne Delong, I have come back from a trip abroad to find this article again rejected. You write; "Susanna Vernon was an ordinary hard working woman". However, as the article states in its last sentence ; "In 2018 her life was one of a dozen featured in an exhibition at the University of Salamanca “Pioneer female interpreters (1900-1953), Bridging the Gap”." A link to the exhibition can be found at; https://saladeprensa.usal.es/node/116691. Could she reconsider, or at least contact me Gervasevernon (talk) 17:12, 17 March 2019 (UTC) Gervasevernon (talk) 17:38, 17 March 2019 (UTC)
Hello, Gervasevernon. I am sorry that you have been disappointed. I don't think there's much I can do to help. I looked for quite some time to find some independently written information about Mrs. Vernon on the internet, but was unable to find much. The link to the exhibition that you included here doesn't mention her, or even the United Nations. Was the exhibit reviewed by a newspaper journalist, and if so was her life featured in the review? Did one of the academics who organized the exhibition write a paper about her particular contributions and how they were more important than those of other interpreters? Was the exhibit curated and was there a published exhibit summary? Did she write any books or academic articles about interpreting which might have been reviewed, or was she interviewed about her work in a magazine? A small improvement to the article would be to add the page numbers to your first two references showing where in the books Mrs. Vernon is discussed.—Anne Delong (talk) 05:37, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
Please comment on Talk:Guns, Germs, and Steel
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Please comment on Talk:Thank U, Next
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Co-op?
Hello Anne!
I once had a mentor. I think the program was called Co-op. Anyway, I can find no evidence of who it was and how I am to get in touch with them or find a new one. The Co-op page seems dead and advises I find a mentor on my own. Probably am supposed to choose one from among any number of admins/mods/editors I come across? Anyway, one sketchy piece of evidence I did manage to gather tells me you could have been my mentor all those years ago; however brief it was, and however disappointing an apprentice I turned out to be. So, like, where do I go from here? Any guidance highly appreciated. Friends? :)
Usedtobecool (talk) 19:46, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
- Hello, Usedtobecool. I did take part in the Co-op for a while, but I can't remember now whether I interacted with you. I find that there are many editors who are happy to help or give advice; I 'd be happy to respond to any questions if I know the answer. There are also a lot of friendly people at the Teahouse.
- I took a look at some of the work you've been doing lately, and I do have a couple of suggestions:
- Be sure to add an edit summary each time you change an article, even if it's only a couple of words. You'd be surprised how useful these are to you when you come back months later to an article you have previously edited, to help you remember what changes you made. The summaries also make other editors' work more efficient, and so will gain you respect as an experienced and considerate editor.
- Refrain from using YouTube videos as references. There are very few cases where they are appropriate - one exception might be, for example, if a licensed television station had an official YouTube channel and posted videos of news programs that had been aired on their broadcast channel. A YouTube example is sometimes appropriate in the External links section, as long as it's not an advertisement; these don't count toward notability, though.
- I hope this helps.—Anne Delong (talk) 22:49, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks Anne! For answering, and promptly. I really appreciate your kind words. Stay prepared for random amateur questions I need answered the next time. <3 :) Usedtobecool (talk) 00:31, 30 March 2019 (UTC)