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user_global_editcountis a new variable that can be used in abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users. (T130439)
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- An RfC has been closed with consensus to add javascript that will show edit notices for editors editing via a mobile device. This only works for users using a mobile browser, so iOS app editors will still not be able to see edit notices.
- An RfC has been closed with the consensus that train stations are not inherently notable.
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- The Wikimania 2022 Hackathon will take place virtually from 11 August to 14 August.
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Arbitration
- The arbitration case request Geschichte has been automatically closed after a 3 month suspension of the case.
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- You can vote for candidates in the 2022 Board of Trustees elections from 16 August to 30 August. Two community elected seats are up for election.
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Administrators' newsletter – September 2022
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- A discussion is open to define a process by which Vector 2022 can be made the default for all users.
- An RfC is open to gain consensus on whether Fox News is reliable for science and politics.
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- The impact report on the effects of disabling IP editing on the Persian (Farsi) Wikipedia has been released.
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Arbitration
- An arbitration case regarding Conduct in deletion-related editing has been closed. The Arbitration Committee passed a remedy as part of the final decision to create a request for comment (RfC) on how to handle mass nominations at Articles for Deletion (AfD).
- The arbitration case request Jonathunder has been automatically closed after a 6 month suspension of the case.
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- The new pages patrol (NPP) team has prepared an appeal to the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) for assistance with addressing Page Curation bugs and requested features. You are encouraged to read the open letter before it is sent, and if you support it, consider signing it. It is not a discussion, just a signature will suffice.
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- Following an RfC, consensus was found that if the rationale for a block depends on information that is not available to all administrators, that information should be sent to the Arbitration Committee, a checkuser or an oversighter for action (as applicable, per ArbCom's recent updated guidance) instead of the administrator making the block.
- Following an RfC, consensus has been found that, in the context of politics and science, the reliability of FoxNews.com is unclear and that additional considerations apply to its use.
- Community comment on the revised Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines is requested until 8 October.
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- The Articles for creation helper script now automatically recognises administrator accounts which means your name does not need to be listed at WP:AFCP to help out. If you wish to help out at AFC, enable AFCH by navigating to Preferences → Gadgets and checking the "Yet Another AfC Helper Script" box.
Arbitration
- Remedy 8.1 of the Muhammad images case will be rescinded 1 November following a motion.
- A modification to the deletion RfC remedy in the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been made to reaffirm the independence of the RfC and allow the moderators to split the RfC in two.
- The second phase of the 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review closes 3 October.
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- An administrator's account was recently compromised. Administrators are encouraged to check that their passwords are secure, and reminded that ArbCom reserves the right to not restore adminship in cases of poor account security. You can also use two-factor authentication (2FA) to provide an extra level of security.
- Self-nominations for the electoral commission for the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections open 2 October and close 8 October.
- You are invited to comment on candidates in the 2022 CUOS appointments process.
- An RfC is open to discuss whether to make Vector 2022 the default skin on desktop.
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Deleting PRODs early
Hello, Cactus.man,
Is there a good reason that you deleted PRODs On a white bus and Spouse of the Supreme Leader of Iran early? Could you not wait another hour? Often times editors can come in at the last minute and remove a PROD tag. I don't understand the hurry to delete them before the 7 day period expires. It would also help if when you deleted an article you removed all of the red links created by that deletion which is easily done using Twinkle. Thanks. Liz Read! Talk! 23:17, 15 October 2022 (UTC)
- Hi Liz,
- Thanks for your message re the above. Having now reviewed the facts it appears, to my mortification, that you are correct. The deletions were in fact slightly ahead of the 7 day deadline, albeit by around 40 minutes or so. I have no real excuse for this, other than I'd had a long and quite stressful day. Not really good enough though, and I'll try to take more care in future, so thanks for bringing this to my attention. I think the likelihood of a last minute "rescue" for these articles was quite slim and I do try to check links before deletion and try to deal with those "of consequence" such as Wiki Projects or other articles etc. My apologies if I failed in this instance. I was originally an opposer of the PROD procedure but, given the appalling standard of some material that creeps into mainspace, I now support it. Thanks again for the notification.
- Best wishes, -Cactus.man ✍ 14:12, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
Amou Haji
Hi Cactus.man. I recent declined a G4 speedy deletion request for Amou Haji because the article content was not the same as the version previously deleted through AfD. I see that you've deleted it. If I'm not mistaken, the article didn't meet the requirement of WP:G4 that the copy be "sufficiently identical". Have I misunderstood? Cordless Larry (talk) 10:43, 26 October 2022 (UTC)
- Hi Cordless Larry (talk · contribs),
- Your interpretation of the G4 criteria is obviously correct. Unfortunately, when I was comparing the previous versions I inadvertantly clicked the wrong date revision and they appeared to be substantially identical, hence my speedy deletion. I will restore the deleted article with the Speedy request removed, and leave it for others to consider whether it's worthy of retention or needs a fresh AFD.
- Sorry for the misunderstanding. --Cactus.man ✍ 11:19, 26 October 2022 (UTC)
- No problem! Thanks for fixing this. Cordless Larry (talk) 11:36, 26 October 2022 (UTC)
- Can you also un-delete Talk:Amou Haji? Gazozlu (talk) 16:12, 26 October 2022 (UTC)
- Talk:Amou Haji now undeleted as requested.--Cactus.man ✍ 16:26, 26 October 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks! Gazozlu (talk) 16:27, 26 October 2022 (UTC)
- Talk:Amou Haji now undeleted as requested.--Cactus.man ✍ 16:26, 26 October 2022 (UTC)
Indonesia u20 results deletion
Hi, I understand you felt the article regarding Indonesia under 20 football teams results deletion was because it was similar to the previous deletion. But this time I’ve added the references as stated from the previous deletion reasoning to add references. It’s the same structure as Indonesia u17 football results. So I kindly asked to reinstated the article, and If you still think this violates the rules, I kindly asked you to fill up the required information for the article. Because this article is important to keep records of the results. Since the senior and u17 one already existed, the latter being almost the exact identical to the u20 one. Marco Setiawan (talk) 03:13, 27 October 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks for your message re: the Indonesia national under-19 football team results deletion. I understand your desire to see these additional results being added, but the discussion at the deletion AfD was quite clear that the article violated WP:NOTSTATS and under 20 team results do not merit a standalone article on Wikipedia. I agree with that premise, so will respectfully decline to reinstate the article or add additional information. Also, the results are duplicated to a large extent in the Indonesia national under-20 football team Article. You are welcome to add any additional information you feel is relevent to that article but, as always, this is open to challenge or alteration by other editors. --Cactus.man ✍ 08:26, 27 October 2022 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – November 2022
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Aytaç Doğan
Hello, my article for Aytaç Doğan was deleted because of section A7 and I was wondering if I could receive the article text again to potentially improve it? Thanks! Soapwort (talk) 21:28, 6 November 2022 (UTC)
- Hi, I've restored the contents of the deleted article Aytaç Doğan as you requested to your userspace at User:Soapwort/Aytaç Doğan, where you can work on it further. Best wishes --Cactus.man ✍ 11:12, 7 November 2022 (UTC)
Hello @Cactus.man, I hope you're doing well. Can you restore the content of the deleted article in draft space, which would be helpful in improvement. Thanks for your consideration. C1K98V (💬 ✒️ 📂) 05:42, 13 November 2022 (UTC)
- Hi, I've restored the contents of the deleted article Qala(film) as you requested to your userspace at User:C1K98V/Qala(film), where you can work on it further. Best wishes. --Cactus.man ✍ 12:02, 13 November 2022 (UTC)
- Cactus.man, Hello again, kindly have a look at Draft:Qala (film), Draft:Qala (2022 film) and Draft:Qala (film) duplicate. I want your assistance with the clean up, improvement and merge. Thanks for your consideration. — Preceding unsigned comment added by C1K98V (talk • contribs) 17:57, 19 November 2022 (UTC)
- Hi C1K98V, Sorry for not getting back to you sooner but I've been a bit busy IRL. Article assessment is not an area I do a lot of work in, or have much experience of, so you may be better served by seeking out an editor more experienced in this area. I don't have any names I could recommend but it may be worthwhile perusing Category:Wikipedia AfC reviewers to get help from suitable editors experienced in this regard.
- Cactus.man, Hello again, kindly have a look at Draft:Qala (film), Draft:Qala (2022 film) and Draft:Qala (film) duplicate. I want your assistance with the clean up, improvement and merge. Thanks for your consideration. — Preceding unsigned comment added by C1K98V (talk • contribs) 17:57, 19 November 2022 (UTC)
- I've had a look at the Draft articles you asked me about and I'll give you my initial observations, for what it's worth. There are numerous sources listed including press releases, many of them only cover the film superficially or not in enough depth to satisfy the notability guidelines of WP:NFILM. Several are also not recognised by the community as suitably reliable sources - see WP:RS/P. You've also had some feedback already from AFC reviewers which you should take heed of, particularly keeping multiple variants of the same article in Draft space. This creates unneccesary work for volunteers and you'd be best advised to move variants to userspace and avoid submitting for AFC review until you've finalised a "definitive version". I understand these were not all created by you, so perhaps co-ordinate your efforts with the other relevant creators. Also, don't forget to "uncomment" the fair use image of the film poster if the article goes "live". Fair use images are only allowed in Article space.
- I'm sorry I couldn't be of more help right now, but I wish you well in getting the areticle up to a suitable standard. --Cactus.man ✍ 12:36, 21 November 2022 (UTC)
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Administrators' newsletter – December 2022
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- Consensus has been found in an RfC to automatically place RfAs on hold after one week.
- The article creation at scale RfC has been closed.
- An RfC on the banners for the December 2022 fundraising campaign has been closed.
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- A new preference named "Enable limited width mode" has been added to the Vector 2022 skin. The preference is also shown as a toggle on every page if your monitor is 1600 pixels or wider. When disabled it removes the whitespace added by Vector 2022 on the left and right of the page content. Disabling this preference has the same effect as enabling the wide-vector-2022 gadget. (T319449)
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- The arbitration case Reversal and reinstatement of Athaenara's block has been closed.
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Administrators' newsletter – January 2023
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- Speedy deletion criterion A5 (transwikied articles) has been repealed following an unopposed proposal.
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- Following the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Barkeep49, CaptainEek, GeneralNotability, Guerillero, L235, Moneytrees, Primefac, SilkTork.
- The 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review has concluded with many changes to the discretionary sanctions procedure including a change of the name to "contentious topics". The changes are being implemented over the coming month.
- The arbitration case Stephen has been closed.
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Administrators' newsletter – February 2023
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- Following an RfC, the administrator policy now requires that prior written consent be gained from the Arbitration Committee to mark a block as only appealable to the committee.
- Following a community discussion, consensus has been found to impose the extended-confirmed restriction over the topic areas of Armenia and Azerbaijan and Kurds and Kurdistan.
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- The Vector 2022 skin has become the default for desktop users of the English Wikipedia.
Arbitration
- The arbitration case Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 has been opened and the proposed decision is expected 24 February 2023.
- In December, the contentious topics procedure was adopted which replaces the former discretionary sanctions system. The contentious topics procedure is now in effect following an initial implementation period. There is a detailed summary of the changes and administrator instructions for the new procedure. The arbitration clerk team are taking suggestions, concerns, and unresolved questions about this new system at their noticeboard.
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Administrators' newsletter – March 2023
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- Following a request for comment, F10 (useless non-media files) has been deprecated.
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- The results of the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey have been posted.
Arbitration
- Remedy 11 ("Request for Comment") of the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been rescinded.
- The proposed decision for the Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 case is expected 7 March 2023.
- A case related to the Holocaust in Poland is expected to be opened soon.
Miscellaneous
- The 2023 appointees for the Ombuds commission are AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, JJMC89, MdsShakil, Minorax and Renvoy as regular members and Zabe as advisory members.
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Page deleted by mistake?
Greetings from Sweden!
You deleted Comparison of JavaScript charting libraries, but the deletion log shows that you refered to a deletion discussion about Comparison of risk analysis Microsoft Excel add-ins.
This archived version of the deleted page shows that user:Pppery suggested a deletion of that page, but refered to the deletion discussion about the second. The deletion of the first page was never discussed? The page Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Comparison of JavaScript charting libraries never existed?Tomastvivlaren (talk) 16:39, 28 March 2023 (UTC)
- There was no mistake. My WP:PROD was a way of saying that the first article had the same problems that lead to the deletion of the second article. I see it has now been contested and sent to AfD. * Pppery * it has begun... 22:32, 28 March 2023 (UTC)
Kind request for userfication of deleted article
Hi, I just picked you randomly from Category:Wikipedia administrators willing to provide copies of deleted articles. Could you please provide me with a copy (e.g. in my Sandbox) of the recently deleted article Center of mass (relativistic)? I found this article quite useful for my work in the past and was unaware that one cannot access the history of deleted articles, hence unfortunately I didn't keep a copy. Xaggi (talk) 11:35, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
- Thank you very much for the prompt help! Xaggi (talk) 12:16, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – April 2023
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- A community RfC is open to discuss whether reports primarily involving gender-related disputes or controversies should be referred to the Arbitration enforcement noticeboard.
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- Some older web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis starting this week. This mainly affects users of Internet Explorer 11. (T178356)
- The rollback of Vector 2022 RfC has found no consensus to rollback to Vector legacy, but has found rough consensus to disable "limited width" mode by default.
- A link to the user's Special:CentralAuth page will now appear in the subtitle links shown on Special:Contributions. This was voted #17 in the Community Wishlist Survey 2023.
Arbitration
- The Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 case has been closed.
- A case about World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been opened, with the first evidence phase closing 6 April 2023.
L'amour Supreme
Please do not delete my page. I spent hours and hours creating it. I did not plagiarize and no one paid me to do it. I referenced everything. I don't understand what I did wrong. Bigcurl254 (talk) 15:53, 18 April 2023 (UTC)
- @Bigcurl254, I didn't delete "your page", it was deleted by Rosguill. Perhaps it would be best to dicuss the issue with them? --Cactus.man ✍ 17:24, 18 April 2023 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – May 2023
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- A request for comment about removing administrative privileges in specified situations is open for feedback.
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- Progress has started on the Page Triage improvement project. This is to address the concerns raised by the community in their 2022 WMF letter that requested improvements be made to the tool.
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- The proposed decision in the World War II and the history of Jews in Poland case is expected 11 May 2023.
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Administrators' newsletter – June 2023
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- Following an RfC, editors indefinitely site-banned by community consensus will now have all rights, including sysop, removed.
- As a part of the Wikimedia Foundation's IP Masking project, a new policy has been created that governs the access to temporary account IP addresses. An associated FAQ has been created and individual communities can increase the requirements to view temporary account IP addresses.
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Arbitration
- The arbitration case World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been closed. The topic area of Polish history during World War II (1933-1945) and the history of Jews in Poland is subject to a "reliable source consensus-required" contentious topic restriction.
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- Following a community referendum, the arbitration policy has been modified to remove the ability for users to appeal remedies to Jimbo Wales.
Administrators' newsletter – July 2023
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- Contributions to the English Wikipedia are now released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0) license instead of CC BY-SA 3.0. Contributions are still also released under the GFDL license.
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- Discussion is open regarding a proposed global policy regarding third-party resources. Third-party resources are computer resources that reside outside of Wikimedia production websites.
Arbitration
- Two arbitration cases are currently open. Proposed decisions are expected 5 July 2023 for the Scottywong case and 9 July 2023 for the AlisonW case.
Administrators' newsletter – August 2023
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- The tag filter on Special:NewPages and revision history pages can now be inverted. This allows hiding edits made by automated tools. (T334338)
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Arbitration
- The arbitration cases named Scottywong and AlisonW closed 10 July and 16 July respectively.
- The SmallCat dispute arbitration case is in the workshop phase.
Administrators' newsletter – September 2023
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- Following an RfC, TFAs will be automatically semi-protected the day before it is on the main page and through the day after.
- A discussion at WP:VPP about revision deletion and oversight for dead names found that
[s]ysops can choose to use revdel if, in their view, it's the right tool for this situation, and they need not default to oversight. But oversight could well be right where there's a particularly high risk to the person. Use your judgment
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Technical news
- Special:Contributions now shows the user's local edit count and the account's creation date. (T324166)
Arbitration
- The SmallCat dispute case has closed. As part of the final decision, editors participating in XfD have been reminded to be careful about forming
local consensus which may or may not reflect the broader community consensus
. Regular closers of XfD forums were also encouraged tonote when broader community discussion, or changes to policies and guidelines, would be helpful
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Miscellaneous
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Administrators' newsletter – November 2023
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- The WMF is working on making it possible for administrators to edit MediaWiki configuration directly. This is similar to previous work on Special:EditGrowthConfig. A technical RfC is running until November 08, where you can provide feedback.
- There is a proposed plan for re-enabling the Graph Extension. Feedback on this proposal is requested.
Arbitration
- Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 12 November 2023 until 21 November 2023 to stand in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections.
- Xaosflux, RoySmith and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee Elections. BusterD is the reserve commissioner.
- Following a motion, the contentious topic designation of Prem Rawat has been struck. Actions previously taken using this contentious topic designation are still in force.
- Following several motions, multiple topic areas are no longer designated as a contentious topic. These contentious topic designations were from the Editor conduct in e-cigs articles, Liancourt Rocks, Longevity, Medicine, September 11 conspiracy theories, and Shakespeare authorship question cases.
- Following a motion, remedies 3.1 (All related articles under 1RR whenever the dispute over naming is concerned), 6 (Stalemate resolution) and 30 (Administrative supervision) of the Macedonia 2 case have been rescinded.
- Following a motion, remedy 6 (One-revert rule) of the The Troubles case has been amended.
- An arbitration case named Industrial agriculture has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case close 8 November.
Miscellaneous
- The Articles for Creation backlog drive is happening in November 2023, with 700+ drafts pending reviews for in the last 4 months or so. In addition to the AfC participants, all administrators and New Page Patrollers can conduct reviews using the helper script, Yet Another AFC Helper Script, which can be enabled in the Gadgets settings. Sign up here to participate!
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- Following a talk page discussion, the Administrators' accountability policy has been updated to note that while it is considered best practice for administrators to have notifications (pings) enabled, this is not mandatory. Administrators who do not use notifications are now strongly encouraged to indicate this on their user page.
Arbitration
- Following a motion, the Extended Confirmed Restriction has been amended, removing the allowance for non-extended-confirmed editors to post constructive comments on the "Talk:" namespace. Now, non-extended-confirmed editors may use the "Talk:" namespace solely to make edit requests related to articles within the topic area, provided that their actions are not disruptive.
- The Arbitration Committee has announced a call for Checkusers and Oversighters, stating that it will currently be accepting applications for CheckUser and/or Oversight permissions at any point in the year.
- Eligible users are invited to vote on candidates for the Arbitration Committee until 23:59 December 11, 2023 (UTC). Candidate statements can be seen here.
Administrators' newsletter – January 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2023).
Administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Oversighter changes
Arbitration
- Following the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Aoidh, Cabayi, Firefly, HJ Mitchell, Maxim, Sdrqaz, ToBeFree, Z1720.
- Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee rescinded the restrictions on the page name move discussions for the two Ireland pages that were enacted in June 2009.
- The arbitration case Industrial agriculture has been closed.
Miscellaneous
- The New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in January 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 13,000 unreviewed articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!
Administrators' newsletter – February 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2024).
Administrator changes
Bureaucrat changes
Guideline and policy news
- An RfC about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.
Technical news
- Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. (T326065)
Arbitration
- Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
- Community feedback is requested for a draft to replace the "Information for administrators processing requests" section at WP:AE.
Miscellaneous
- Voting in the 2024 Steward elections will begin on 06 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 27 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
- A vote to ratify the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open till 2 February 2024, 23:59:59 (UTC) via Secure Poll. All eligible voters within the Wikimedia community have the opportunity to either support or oppose the adoption of the U4C Charter and share their reasons. The details of the voting process and voter eligibility can be found here.
- Community Tech has made some preliminary decisions about the future of the Community Wishlist Survey. In summary, they aim to develop a new, continuous intake system for community technical requests that improves prioritization, resource allocation, and communication regarding wishes. Read more
- The Unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in February 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!
G8 speedy deletion of User talk:Kuldipem
If I'm not mistaken, doesn't WP:G8 explicitly exclude user talk pages? Thanks! ChaotıċEnby(talk · contribs) 13:58, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
- @ User:Chaotic Enby, Oops, yes you're correct, looks like my mistake. More haste, less speed etc. Thanks for bringing this to my attention, I have now restored the page. --Cactus.man ✍ 14:25, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – March 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2024).
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Guideline and policy news
- Phase I of the 2024 RfA review is now open for participation. Editors are invited to review, comment on, and propose improvements to the requests for adminship process.
- Following an RfC, the inactivity requirement for the removal of the interface administrator right increased from 6 months to 12 months.
Technical news
- The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. (T353388)
Miscellaneous
- The 2024 appointees for the Ombuds commission are だ＊ぜ, AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Doǵu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, MdsShakil, Minorax, Nehaoua, Renvoy and RoySmith as members, with Vermont serving as steward-observer.
- Following the 2024 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Ajraddatz, Albertoleoncio, EPIC, JJMC89, Johannnes89, Melos and Yahya.
G4 deletion of Ayaz Sheikh
Hi, I saw you declined the G4 deletion of Ayaz Sheikh as the page was speed-deleted earlier. However, the page is just a copy of the recently deleted one following AfD: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ayaz Sheikh, which was closed just a few hours ago. Should I open a second AfD, even it it's rather clear that the page is a recreation of a deleted one? Broc (talk) 16:47, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
- Hi User:Broc, thanks for your message.
- I understand your point and agree to some extent, but technically a new Speedy nomination falls afoul of the G4 criteria. I'm not a big fan of process wonkery and generally frown upon it, but the "rules" have evolved over time, usually for a good reason. So I think the best course of action in this instance is to take the article to AFD.
- Best wishes --Cactus.man ✍ 18:40, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
- Hey Cactus.man. In the future I think you can accept a G4 in this situation, per Wikipedia talk:Criteria for speedy deletion#Repeated Speedy Deletions (or: is AfD sovereign?). Hope this clarifies things. –Novem Linguae (talk) 02:58, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
- Hi Novem Linguae.thanks for the note. I still find the wording of the G4 criteria a bit confusing, no matter how many times I read it. To my simple brain, it veeers into the semantic complexity and impenetrability of logical thinking involving Double negatives. I'll ponder over this longer, but thanks to User:Thryduulf, whose commentary in that thread on the interpretation of the wording I found the most helpful.
- Thanks again. --Cactus.man ✍ 12:04, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
- Hey Cactus.man. In the future I think you can accept a G4 in this situation, per Wikipedia talk:Criteria for speedy deletion#Repeated Speedy Deletions (or: is AfD sovereign?). Hope this clarifies things. –Novem Linguae (talk) 02:58, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
Happy Adminship Anniversary!
| | Happy adminship anniversary! Hi Cactus.man! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of your successful request for adminship. Enjoy this special day! The Herald (Benison) (talk) 02:30, 16 March 2024 (UTC) |  |
Administrators' newsletter – April 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2024).
Administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
- An RfC is open to convert all current and future community discretionary sanctions to (community designated) contentious topics procedure.
Technical news
- The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (T313405)
Arbitration
- An arbitration case has been opened to look into "the intersection of managing conflict of interest editing with the harassment (outing) policy".
Miscellaneous
- Editors are invited to sign up for The Core Contest, an initiative running from April 15 to May 31, which aims to improve vital and other core articles on Wikipedia.
Deletion of my wiki page
hello sir i found that you have deleted my wiki page. If you don't mind can i know the reason. Madhav6763 (talk) 11:48, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
- Hello User:Madhav6763 your page Draft:Madhav (Founder & CEO) had been nominated and tagged for Speedy Deletion by User:SafariScribe under criteria G11 of the deletion policy. The policy allows for deletion at any point in time after a page has been nominated if the deletion is uncontested. You would have been notified on your userpage of the tagging for speedy deletion. To assist you in understanding the process I have reproduced the contents of the page tagging prior to its deletion below:
- I hope that explains matters for you. --Cactus.man ✍ 13:36, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
About your recent deletion
Hey Cactus.man, please undelete User talk:Wow9. As far as I know, only the user page had promotional content. —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 17:15, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
- Done, as requested. -Cactus.man ✍ 17:23, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks. Per WP:DELTALK, I'd advise being more careful when deleting user pages in the future — make sure you don't take the talk pages with them! —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 17:28, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – May 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2024).
Guideline and policy news
- Phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship review has concluded. Several proposals have passed outright and will proceed to implementation, including creating a discussion-only period (3b) and administrator elections (13) on a trial basis. Other successful proposals, such as creating a reminder of civility norms (2), will undergo further refinement in Phase II. Proposals passed on a trial basis will be discussed in Phase II, after their trials conclude. Further details on specific proposals can be found in the full report.
Technical news
- Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Wikipedia. This means that administrators have the ability to restrict users from certain actions, including uploading files, moving pages and files, creating new pages, and sending thanks. T280531
Arbitration
- The arbitration case Conflict of interest management has been closed.
Miscellaneous
- This may be a good time to reach out to potential nominees to ask if they would consider an RfA.
- A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in May 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 15,000 articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!
- Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is open until 9 May 2024. Read the voting page on Meta-Wiki and cast your vote here!
Happy First Edit Day!
 | Happy First Edit Day! Hi Cactus.man! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of the day you made your first edit and became a Wikipedian! The Herald (Benison) (talk) 02:47, 11 May 2024 (UTC) | |
Userfication Request
Hello, I recently attempted to make my first article, Joshua Tomar, and incorrectly tried writing it as a live article instead of a draft. The article was speedy deleted before completion. Can I have the deleted article userfied as a personal draft so I can work on it again, complete it, and send it in as a draft? If that works can I also request the first article on the page, which was written by someone else and also deleted? I'm unable to view deleted articles, but being able to see it would help me better understand the context of the prior deletion discussion and let me know which of the things I'm writing that will make the article qualify for permanence. Regards KEP95 (talk) 01:00, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
- @KEP95: I have Userfied the article to User:KEP95/sandox/Joshua Tomar. I have also restored the previous page from 20 September 2023, at 17:24 to User:KEP95/sandox/Joshua Tomar original. I hope that's of some use to you, regards. --Cactus.man ✍ 17:13, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
- Much appreciated KEP95 (talk) 17:41, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – June 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2024).
Administrator changes
Bureaucrat changes
Guideline and policy news
- Phase II of the 2024 RfA review has commenced to improve and refine the proposals passed in Phase I.
Technical news
- The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. T43351
Arbitration
- The arbitration case Venezuelan politics has been closed.
- The Committee is seeking volunteers for various roles, including access to the conflict of interest VRT queue.
Miscellaneous
- WikiProject Reliability's unsourced statements drive is happening in June 2024 to replace {{citation needed}} tags with references! Sign up here to participate!