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FAC Mentorship

Hi, I've been trying to promote Mahavira to FA, but my efforts were not good enough. Recently, I was referred to FAC mentorship program, and hence I am posting this to seek your guidance for the same. Capankajsmilyo^{(Talk | Infobox assistance)} 06:44, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

@Capankajsmilyo: I'm no expert, but I will be happy to help. I have a few projects on the docket at the moment, but maybe we can start in January? 13:40, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Boring Lava Field

The article Boring Lava Field you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Boring Lava Field for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Squeamish Ossifrage -- Squeamish Ossifrage (talk) 16:41, 15 February 2019 (UTC)

Thanks, Squeamish Ossifrage, for your thorough review. I will keep you posted about reference updates, and I will lyk if I do end up trying to bring this to FAC at some point. ceranthor 16:46, 15 February 2019 (UTC)

Congrats, I have an odd fascination with this article and watching it develop has been a joy, With a little more input it should go through FA with little trouble. Cheers, cygnis insignis 17:41, 15 February 2019 (UTC)

@Cygnis insignis: Thank you. I will get on that bus at some point hopefully. ceranthor 17:25, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Squid

On 21 February 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Squid, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that squid can move by jet propulsion and some species can even glide through the air? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Squid. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Squid), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Maile (talk) 00:01, 21 February 2019 (UTC)

Thanks, Maile. ceranthor 02:02, 21 February 2019 (UTC)

WikiCup 2019 March newsletter

And so ends the first round of the competition. Everyone with a positive score moves on to Round 2. With 56 contestants qualifying, each group in Round 2 contains seven contestants, with the two leaders from each group due to qualify for Round 3 as well as the top sixteen remaining contestants.

Our top scorers in Round 1 were:

• L293D, a WikiCup newcomer, led the field with ten good articles on submarines for a total of 357 points.
• Adam Cuerden, a WikiCup veteran, came next with 274 points, mostly from eight featured pictures, restorations of artwork.
• MPJ-DK, a wrestling enthusiast, was in third place with 263 points, garnered from a featured list, five good articles, two DYKs and four GARs.
• Usernameunique came next at 243, with a featured article and a good article, both on ancient helmets.
• Squeamish Ossifrage was in joint fifth place with 224 points, mostly garnered from bringing the 1937 Fox vault fire to featured article status.
• Ed! was also on 224, with an amazing number of good article reviews (56 actually).

These contestants, like all the others, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. Between them, contestants completed reviews on 143 good articles, one hundred more than the number of good articles they claimed for, thus making a substantial dent in the review backlog. Well done all!

Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews.

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Thank you for notifying me of username issues

The username has now been changed to FromtheTriadtoMetrolina, as a nod to the heritage of the Piedmont of North Carolina. I would like to sincerely say thank you so much for notifying me of the issue with my username, I really appreciate it a lot. Thank you, and have a good night! FromtheTriadtoMetrolina (talk) 03:07, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

@FromtheTriadtoMetrolina: Absolutely no problem. Someone reported it at the usernames for administrator attention noticeboard, but I saw that you were a constructive contributor and wanted to make sure you were not discouraged from editing on the basis of your username alone. Best wishes, and thanks for your kind note, ceranthor 14:29, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2019

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

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Your GA nomination of Olallie Butte

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The Bugle: Issue CLV, March 2019

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Cline Buttes GA approved

• FYI...Cline Buttes article was approved for status.--Orygun (talk) 18:30, 14 March 2019 (UTC)

Congratulations, Orygun! Thanks for your hard work. ceranthor 15:02, 17 March 2019 (UTC)

Huaynaputina

Greetings,

wanted to say that I've begun to rewrite Huaynaputina on the first step to FAC status. So far I am working down the list of sources on Talk:Huaynaputina and got halfway through Adams et al. 2001.

In terms of structure, I've begun writing using the structure of Calabozos and 1257 Samalas eruption; the first part of the article discusses the volcano and is modelled on Calabozos, then comes a dedicated part for the 1600 eruption modelled after the Samalas article. JoJo Eumerus mobile (talk) 07:37, 18 March 2019 (UTC)

Just a question, do you have access to this publication? Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 07:04, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

Great. I'll be drowning this week so probably won't be much help until after Thursday or so. And not that I know of, but will check asap. ceranthor 14:30, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

Cheers. Just as two notes, I've put some "to-do" comments in the source text for unfinished things and things that need some thinking about. I typically action them at the end of the writing process. Also, I plan to send Coropuna to FAC as well with a rewrite that's currently on User:Jo-Jo Eumerus/Qurupuna if you are interested in taking a gander. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 21:20, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

@Jo-Jo Eumerus: Sorry for the slacking. Should be free to climb on board this afternoon - let me know where I can be most helpful. I see you've already added quite a bit of content! ceranthor 13:09, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

Well, if you can translate French this source (we can ask on WP:RX if necessary) that would be good to use for the article.

Otherwise, I am going to run through the wiley.com, springer.com, pubs.geoscienceworld.org, sciencedirect.com. either today or tomorrow. That leaves all these sources that can be used, if you want to.

The numerous comments I've left in the source text should probably be done as the last step, once we've finished mining all sources that can be used. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 17:09, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

@Jo-Jo Eumerus: I don't speak a lick of French, unfortunately. But I'll go through the remaining sources you linked there today and over the weekend. ceranthor 19:11, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

Perhaps just through huaynaputina -intitle:"Huaynaputina" -site:wiley.com -site:springer.com -site:pubs.geoscienceworld.org -site:sciencedirect.com -site:cambridge.org -site:nature.com -site:science.sciencemag.org -site:researchgate.net -site:ovi.ingemmet.gob.pe. Turns out that one can stretch Google this far. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 19:36, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

I've added a to-do and already-done list here. Perhaps we can strike out all the completed things there and add still-to-be-done things to the list? Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 21:18, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Powell Butte

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Powell Butte you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Argento Surfer -- Argento Surfer (talk) 14:40, 18 March 2019 (UTC)

Great, thanks. Will take a look ASAP! ceranthor 14:31, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

Comment on Kim Clijsters FAC?

Hi Ceranthor, I recently nominated Kim Clijsters as an FAC, and I was wondering if you could leave comments. I think the article is in good shape, though this is my first FAC. Thank you, Sportsfan77777 (talk) 05:06, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

Absolutely. Let me get back to it later this week, though; drowning a bit in work. ceranthor 14:31, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

Awesome, thanks! There's no rush at the moment. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 05:35, 24 March 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Powell Butte

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Your GA nomination of Catherine Neill

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Your GA nomination of Catherine Neill

The article Catherine Neill you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Catherine Neill for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Canada Hky -- Canada Hky (talk) 13:41, 24 March 2019 (UTC)

Thanks, Canada Hky! ceranthor 17:44, 24 March 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2019

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

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Today's Wikipedian 10 years ago

Awesome

Ten years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:47, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

Thank you, Gerda. Time flies! ceranthor 12:19, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

Thank you today for Mount Mazama, "about the volcano responsible for a cataclysmic eruption, the largest in the Cascade Range in the last million years"! - I have a peer review open, Vespro della Beata Vergine, my article of the year ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:20, 27 September 2019 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLVI, April 2019

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Sherman Crater

Just thought you would like to know I recently created this article. Volcanoguy 18:54, 16 April 2019 (UTC)

@Volcanoguy: Thanks for the contribution - hope all is well with you. ceranthor 19:19, 16 April 2019 (UTC)

WikiCup 2019 Reminder

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WikiCup 2019 May newsletter

The second round of the 2019 WikiCup has now finished. Contestants needed to scored 32 points to advance into round 3. Our top four scorers in round 2 all scored over 400 points and were:

• Cas Liber (1210), our winner in 2016, with two featured articles and three DYKs. He also made good use of the bonus points available, more than doubling his score by choosing appropriate articles to work on.
• Kosack (750), last year's runner up, with an FA, a GA, two FLs, and five DYKs.
• Adam Cuerden (480), a WikiCup veteran, with 16 featured pictures, mostly restorations.
• Zwerg Nase (461), a seasoned competitor, with a FA, a GA and an ITN item.

Other notable performances were put in by Barkeep49 with six GAs, Ceranthor, Lee Vilenski, and Canada Hky, each with seven GARs, and MPJ-DK with a seven item GT.

So far contestants have achieved nine featured articles between them and a splendid 80 good articles. Commendably, 227 GARs have been completed during the course of the 2019 WikiCup, so the backlog of articles awaiting GA review has been reduced as a result of contestants' activities. The judges are pleased with the thorough GARs that are being performed, and have hardly had to reject any. As we enter the third round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them.

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ArbCom 2019 special circular

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Administrators' newsletter – May 2019

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• A request for comment concluded that creating pages in the portal namespace should be restricted to autoconfirmed users.
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• XTools Admin Stats, a tool to list admins by administrative actions, has been revamped to support more types of log entries such as AbuseFilter changes. Two additional tools have been integrated into it as well: Steward Stats and Patroller Stats.

Arbitration

• In response to the continuing compromise of administrator accounts, the Arbitration Committee passed a motion amending the procedures for return of permissions (diff). In such cases, the committee will review all available information to determine whether the administrator followed "appropriate personal security practices" before restoring permissions; administrators found failing to have adequately done so will not be resysopped automatically. All current administrators have been notified of this change.
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The Bugle: Issue CLVII, May 2019

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TFA

This is to let you know that the Newberry Volcano article has been scheduled as today's featured article for June 13, 2019. Please check the article needs no amendments. If you're interested in editing the main page text, you're welcome to do so at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/June 13, 2019.—Wehwalt (talk) 15:43, 19 May 2019 (UTC)

Thank you, Wehwalt, for the heads up. ceranthor 16:41, 19 May 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for the article "about the largest volcano in the Cascade arc"! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:06, 13 June 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Black Butte (Oregon)

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Your GA nomination of Blue Lake Crater

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2019

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

Administrator changes

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• An RfC seeks to clarify whether WP:OUTING should include information on just the English Wikipedia or any Wikimedia project.
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Mount Mazama

Thank you for the submission to WikiJHum. We've moved it over (and made minor formatting differences edits).

• v:WikiJournal_Preprints/Mount_Mazama  

Could you fill in the Article info template at the top of the page (If you don't yet have an orcid, applying for one takes ~2 minutes).

If you're ready to submit it for peer review to be organised, just fill in the authorship declaration form and a handling editor will start to contact external reviewers! T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)^talk 11:52, 8 June 2019 (UTC)

WikiCup 2019 Reminder

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The Bugle: Issue CLVIII, June 2019

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Nick-D looks at the Dambusters, and Hawkeye7 at Allied code breakers and Australia in New Guinea and Vietnam Op-ed: TomStar81 on the treaty that ended World War I

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Interested in nominating for RfA?

Hi Ceranthor, I'm interested in entering my name for RfA, and noticed that you've listed yourself as willing to nominate RfA applicants. Given that we've crossed paths a few times on projects in the past, I thought you might be someone who has some experience with my demeanor, editing style, etc. If this is something that you'd be interested in doing, I'd greatly appreciate it, and would be glad to answer any questions you have about me/my editing. Ergo Sum 18:41, 29 June 2019 (UTC)

Sure - let's discuss. I'll shoot you an email this week. ceranthor 13:28, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Okay, I'll keep an eye out for your email. Ergo Sum 22:24, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Ergo Sum: Sorry, as you might have surmised from my lack of editing, real life has been hectic! Will try to send an email today or tomorrow. ceranthor 18:31, 9 July 2019 (UTC)

That's alright, I sent you a response today. Thought I'd make sure you got it, since I'm not terribly acquainted with Wikipedia interposing itself in my emails. Ergo Sum 19:14, 13 July 2019 (UTC)

Unrelatedly, given your interest and helpfulness in shepherding Thomas F. Mulledy through FAC, I thought you might be interested to know that I nominated William McSherry at FAC a while ago. The two articles essentially go hand-in-hand. If you're interested in giving it a look, that'd be great; if not, no worries. Ergo Sum 19:16, 13 July 2019 (UTC)

@Ergo Sum: Will try to respond by tomorrow, and will definitely give it a look! ceranthor 23:48, 13 July 2019 (UTC)

Hi Ceranthor, just thought I'd swing by since it's been a moment since we've worked on something. I remembered I asked you to do an RfA nom for me, so I thought I'd let you know that they ended up handing me a mop. Anyway, hope all is well. Ergo Sum 05:56, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

@Ergo Sum: Sorry for being flaky; I just fear over-committing and under-delivering, since school has only picked up as of late, sadly. Well-deserved, and congratulations - put it to good use! I'll give you a buzz the next time I have some freedom :) ceranthor 21:31, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2019

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

Administrator changes

28bytes • Ad Orientem • Ansh666 • Beeblebrox • Boing! said Zebedee • BU Rob13 • Dennis Brown • Deor • DoRD • Floquenbeam¹ • Flyguy649 • Fram² • Gadfium • GB fan • Jonathunder • Kusma • Lectonar • Moink • MSGJ • Nick • Od Mishehu • Rama • Spartaz • Syrthiss • TheDJ • WJBscribe

¹Floquenbeam's access was removed, then restored, then removed again.

²Fram's access was removed, then restored, then removed again.

Bureaucrat changes

28bytes • WJBscribe • Wizardman

Interface administrator changes

MSGJ • TheDJ

CheckUser changes

Beeblebrox • BU Rob13 • DoRD

Oversight changes

Beeblebrox • BU Rob13 • DoRD • GB fan

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment seeking to alleviate pressures on the request an account (ACC) process proposes either raising the account creation limit for extended confirmed editors or granting the account creator permission on request to new ACC tool users.

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

• The scope of CSD criterion G8 has been tightened such that the only redirects that it now applies to are those which target non-existent pages.
• The scope of CSD criterion G14 has been expanded slightly to include orphan "Foo (disambiguation)" redirects that target pages that are not disambiguation pages or pages that perform a disambiguation-like function (such as set index articles or lists).
• A request for comment seeks to determine whether Wikipedia:Office actions should be a policy page or an information page.

Technical news

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

Miscellaneous

• In February 2019, the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) changed its office actions policy to include temporary and project-specific bans. The WMF exercised this new ability for the first time on the English Wikipedia on 10 June 2019 to temporarily ban and desysop Fram. This action has resulted in significant community discussion, a request for arbitration (permalink), and, either directly or indirectly, the resignations of numerous administrators and functionaries. The WMF Board of Trustees is aware of the situation, and discussions continue on a statement and a way forward. The Arbitration Committee has sent an open letter to the WMF Board.

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WikiCup 2019 July newsletter

The third round of the 2019 WikiCup has now come to an end. The 16 users who made it to the fourth round needed to score at least 68 points, which is substantially lower than last year's 227 points. Our top scorers in round 3 were:

• Cas Liber, our winner in 2016, with 500 points derived mainly from a featured article and two GAs on natural history topics
• Adam Cuerden, with 480 points, a tally built on 16 featured pictures, the result of meticulous restoration work
• SounderBruce, a finalist in the last two years, with 306 points from a variety of submissions, mostly related to sport or the State of Washington
• Usernameunique, with 305 points derived from a featured article and two GAs on archaeology and related topics

Contestants managed 4 (5) featured articles, 4 featured lists, 18 featured pictures, 29 good articles, 50 DYK entries, 9 ITN entries, and 39 good article reviews. As we enter the fourth round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them, and it is imperative to claim them in the correct round; one FA claim had to be rejected because it was incorrectly submitted (claimed in Round 3 when it qualified for Round 2), so be warned! When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:12, 2 July 2019 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLIX, July 2019

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Haweye7, Peacemaker67 and Nick-D on recent books covering the world wars

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Request for FAC assistance

Hello again. I hope you are doing well! Apologies for the super random message, but I was wondering if you had the time to help me with [Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/A Nice Day for a Posh Wedding/archive2|my current FAC]. I completely understand if you do not have the time or just would prefer not to do so. Either way, have a great rest of your week! Aoba47 (talk) 21:31, 18 July 2019 (UTC)

@Aoba47: I'll do my best - real life has been crazy lately. ceranthor 19:09, 22 July 2019 (UTC)

I hope it is nothing too bad or crazy. Do not feel obligated or forced to do it. It is best to put your attention on more important things. If you can manage, thank you, but I understand if you are too busy. Hope you have a great week! Aoba47 (talk) 19:15, 22 July 2019 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of File:Volcano anim.gif

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@Fastily: Fine to go ahead and delete. Thanks. ceranthor 22:57, 28 July 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – August 2019

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

Administrator changes

Johnuniq • Kosack • Valereee

Ad Orientem • Ched • Gadfium • Jonathunder • Nick • Yelyos

Bald Zebra • Beetstra • Doug Bell • Journalist • Ruud Koot • Splash • Voice of Clam

Interface administrator changes

Dinoguy1000

CheckUser changes

RickinBaltimore

Oversight changes

Beeblebrox

RickinBaltimore

Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, the page Wikipedia:Office actions has been changed from a policy page to an information page.
• A request for comment (permalink) is in progress regarding the administrator inactivity policy.

Arbitration

• Editors may now use the template {{Ds/aware}} to indicate that they are aware that discretionary sanctions are in force for a topic area, so it is unnecessary to alert them.

Miscellaneous

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

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

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The Bugle: Issue CLX, August 2019

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Hawkeye7 and Peacemaker67 look at Italian, German and Australian forces in World War II

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The Bugle: Issue CLX, August 2019

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Hawkeye7 and Peacemaker67 look at Italian, German and Australian forces in World War II

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Mount Mazama scheduled for TFA

This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for September 27, 2019. Please check the article needs no amendments. If you're interested in editing the main page text, you're welcome to do so at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/September 27, 2019. Thanks!—Wehwalt (talk) 11:06, 21 August 2019 (UTC)

Thanks, Wehwalt. ceranthor 14:57, 21 August 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Blue Lake Crater

The article Blue Lake Crater you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Blue Lake Crater for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Ganesha811 -- Ganesha811 (talk) 20:21, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

Thanks, Ganesha811, for the review. ceranthor 13:11, 27 August 2019 (UTC)

WikiCup 2019 September newsletter

The fourth round of the competition has finished in a flurry of last minute activity, with 454 points being required to qualify for the final round. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants with over 400 points being eliminated, and all but two of the finalists having achieved an FA during the round. Casliber, our 2016 winner, was the highest point-scorer, followed by Enwebb and Lee Vilenski, who are both new to the competition. In fourth place was SounderBruce, a finalist last year. But all those points are swept away as we start afresh for the final round.

Round 4 saw the achievement of 11 featured articles. In addition, Adam Cuerden scored with 18 FPs, Lee Vilenski led the GA score with 8 GAs while Kosack performed 15 GA reviews. There were around 40 DYKs, 40 GARs and 31 GAs overall during round 4. Even though contestants performed more GARs than they achieved GAs, there was still some frustration at the length of time taken to get articles reviewed.

As we start round 5, we say goodbye to the eight competitors who didn't quite make it; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia, and we hope you will join us again next year. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them (some people have fallen foul of this rule and the points have been removed).

If you are concerned that your nomination, whether it be for a good article, a featured process, or anything else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66, Vanamonde and Cwmhiraeth MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:44, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2019

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

Administrator changes

Bradv • Chetsford • Izno

Floquenbeam • Lectonar

DESiegel • Jake Wartenberg • Rjanag • Topbanana

CheckUser changes

Callanecc • LFaraone • There'sNoTime

Oversight changes

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

Technical news

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

Arbitration

• A request for comment is open to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the 2019 English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee election and to resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.

Miscellaneous

• A global request for comment is in progress regarding whether a user group should be created that could modify edit filters across all public Wikimedia wikis.

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Your GA nomination of Huaynaputina

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Your GA nomination of Belknap Crater

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Belknap Crater you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Ganesha811 -- Ganesha811 (talk) 17:20, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXI, September 2019

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Nick-D looks at the legacy of World War II

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May interest you

Hi Ceranthor, you participated in the FAC of Thomas F. Mulledy a while back. Therefore, I thought you might be interested to know that I've nominated Charles H. Stonestreet, another Georgetown president, for FAC. If you're at all interested in leaving comments, I'd appreciate them. Ergo Sum 13:52, 17 September 2019 (UTC)

@Ergo Sum: Apologies for the delay; bogged down with three GANs right now and hardly any free time. Will do my best to get to it this week. ceranthor 16:39, 27 September 2019 (UTC)

@Ceranthor: If you're still interested in giving it a look, there are currently two editors who've supported the nom (none opposed), and the admin is going to close the nom within a day or two for lack of input. If you're able to give it a look before then, it'd be much appreciated. Ergo Sum 18:16, 3 November 2019 (UTC)

@Ergo Sum: Will do my best to get to it tonight. Thanks for the reminder. ceranthor 20:10, 3 November 2019 (UTC)

Talk:Huaynaputina/GA1

Greetings,

wanted to know whether you still want to work on it. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 11:12, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

@Jo-Jo Eumerus: Sorry for the delay. Shooting to get to it late tonight. ceranthor 14:29, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for today's FA on the main page. Mt. Mazama is one of the top 5 most beautiful places I've ever visited, and seeing the article was a nice reminder. Thorough, well written... kudos. --Floquenbeam (talk) 16:01, 27 September 2019 (UTC)

Thanks, Floquenbeam for the kind note - it took ~forever~ to write, so I'm glad someone thinks it was worth the effort! ceranthor 16:38, 27 September 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – October 2019

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

Administrator changes

Barkeep49

Beetstra • KillerChihuahua • Kusma

Arcadian • Extraordinary Machine • Xeno

JamesBWatson → JBW

Interface administrator changes

Evad37

CheckUser changes

Courcelles • SilkTork • Timotheus Canens

Oversight changes

Courcelles • SilkTork • Timotheus Canens

Guideline and policy news

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

Technical news

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

Arbitration

• The 2019 CheckUser and Oversight appointment process has begun. The community consultation period will take place October 4th to 10th.
• The arbitration case regarding Fram was closed. While there will be a local RfC focus[ing] on how harassment and private complaints should be handled in the future, there is currently a global community consultation on partial and temporary office actions in response to the incident. It will be open until October 30th.

Miscellaneous

• The Community Tech team has been working on a system for temporarily watching pages, and welcomes feedback.

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Your GA nomination of Huaynaputina

The article Huaynaputina you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Huaynaputina for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Daß Wölf -- Daß Wölf (talk) 14:01, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

Oof, thanks for completing this. Just in case, if you want to send this to FAC now (comments there are so slow to come that it probably won't consume much time to answer them) it's OK for me; I've a number of articles queued up for that process so I won't be able to nominate this one. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 15:56, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

I probably won't, at least not for a bit. No worries - I'm in no rush given that I have two pending GANs and I have practically zero free time this week! ceranthor 00:19, 3 October 2019 (UTC)

Hrm, OK. I don't think that writing up a conom or so would take much; since I did write part of the article I can process reviews at the resulting FAC myself; it's just the nomination itself that is at issue. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 10:20, 5 October 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Belknap Crater

The article Belknap Crater you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Belknap Crater for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Ganesha811 -- Ganesha811 (talk) 14:41, 5 October 2019 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Portal:Earthquakes

Portal:Earthquakes, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Earthquakes and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Portal:Earthquakes during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Mark Schierbecker (talk) 05:01, 11 October 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Black Butte (Oregon)

The article Black Butte (Oregon) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Black Butte (Oregon) for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Llywrch -- Llywrch (talk) 22:21, 11 October 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for your patience, Llywrch, and for helping out with the history portion! ceranthor 19:13, 13 October 2019 (UTC)

My pleasure. -- llywrch (talk) 20:14, 13 October 2019 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXII, October 2019

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Hawkeye7 and Nick-D look at three works Op-ed: Hawkeye7 on writing a military biography

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Mentor Request

Hi, I’d greatly appreciate if you could help me out, seeing as you’re a Good Article Mentor. I’m preparing for my first GA review for the Billie Eilish song ‘Bad Guy’ and I might need some accompaniment. If you don’t have the time, that’s completely fine. Thatoneweirdwikier (talk) 15:15, 22 October 2019 (UTC)

@Thatoneweirdwikier: I would be happy to help. It will have to wait until Saturday when I have some free time - hope that is ok. Let me know if not. ceranthor 21:51, 24 October 2019 (UTC)

@Ceranthor: Perfect. See you there. Thatoneweirdwikier (talk) 07:19, 25 October 2019 (UTC)

Hi, quick question: What time zone are you in, and how does it compare to UTC? I’m currently in the Central European Summertime, and their time zone is UTC + 2. Thatoneweirdwikier (talk) 14:52, 26 October 2019 (UTC)

East coast US. I believe -4? ceranthor 16:52, 26 October 2019 (UTC)

@Thatoneweirdwikier: Feel free to post some comments and I'll let you know if I think you need to add more or change your focus. ceranthor 19:32, 26 October 2019 (UTC)

@Ceranthor: Sounds good. Thatoneweirdwikier (talk) 20:05, 26 October 2019 (UTC)

@Thatoneweirdwikier: Checking in - have you made progress on the review? Next week will be quite busy so if you can get it done this week I'll be able to provide more feedback. ceranthor 15:04, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

@Ceranthor: Yes, I’ve been reading through and making notes on any potential problems. Thatoneweirdwikier (talk) 16:35, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

@Thatoneweirdwikier: Will look over the replies later tonight hopefully. Hope I was somewhat helpful in giving you a sense of how thorough a prose/reference review should be at the GA level. My reviews are perhaps a bit more in-depth than most since I do a lot of FAC reviews as well, but you'll notice that I didn't do reference spotchecks (ie. this usually consists of cross-checking claims made in the article to the source material itself to make sure there are no exaggerations or missed explanations.) ceranthor 13:19, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

@Ceranthor: It was certainly very helpful. Thatoneweirdwikier Say hi 13:23, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

While you’re here, just wanted to ask: I made a comment following my initial review about the prose. Is this accurate? Thatoneweirdwikier Say hi 14:22, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

@Thatoneweirdwikier: Yes, I think so. Nice catch. ceranthor 14:39, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

@Thatoneweirdwikier: I think the article is ready to pass, but if you want to read through one more time and double check that everything is up to par per the GA criteria, feel free. ceranthor 20:12, 3 November 2019 (UTC)

@Ceranthor: Whilst rereading, I noticed a factual error: in the ‘List of awards and nominations’ section, the article claims that the MTV Europe Music Awards nomination is ‘pending’, despite the fact that the event happened recently. I will be posting this to the GA Review. Thatoneweirdwikier Say hi 06:05, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

I’ve only just noticed these awards were only for the music video, in which case, we can pass the article. Thatoneweirdwikier Say hi 15:48, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

@Thatoneweirdwikier: Great. You can follow this page for instructions for passing. ceranthor 16:02, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

WikiCup 2019 November newsletter

The WikiCup is over for another year! Our Champion this year is Adam Cuerden (submissions), who over the course of the competition has amassed 91 featured pictures, including 32 in the final round. Our finalists this year were:

1. Adam Cuerden (submissions) with 964 points
2. Lee Vilenski (submissions) with 899 points
3. Casliber (submissions) with 817 points
4. Kosack (submissions) with 691 points
5. SounderBruce (submissions) with 388 points
6. Enwebb (submissions) with 146 points
7. Usernameunique (submissions) with 145 points
8. HaEr48 (submissions) with 74 points

All those who reached the final will win awards. The following special awards will be made based on high performance in particular areas of content creation. So that the finalists do not have an undue advantage, these prizes are awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field in a single round, or in the event of a tie, to the overall leader in this field. Awards will be handed out in the coming weeks. Please be patient!

• Casliber (submissions) wins the featured article prize, for a total of 7 FAs during the course of the competition.
• Lee Vilenski (submissions) wins the good article prize, for 14 GAs in round 5.
• Yashthepunisher (submissions) wins the featured list prize, for 4 FLs overall.
• Adam Cuerden (submissions) wins the featured picture prize, for 91 FPs overall.
• MPJ-DK (submissions) wins the topic prize, for 7 articles in good topics in round 2.
• Lee Vilenski (submissions) wins the DYK prize, for 14 did you know articles in round 5.
• Muboshgu (submissions) wins the ITN prize, for 7 in the news articles in round 1.
• Ed! (submissions) wins the reviewer prize, for 56 good article reviews in round 1.

Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether you made it to the final rounds or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup who have achieved much this year. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition, not forgetting User:Jarry1250, who runs the scoring bot.

We have opened a scoring discussion on whether the rules and scoring need adjustment. Please have your say. Next year's competition will begin on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to see you all in the 2020 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66, Vanamonde and Cwmhiraeth 14:18, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2019

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

Administrator changes

GermanJoe • Girth Summit • Kees08 • Nosebagbear

DESiegel • GB fan • MSGJ • Voice of Clam • WilyD

DeltaQuad • Fang Aili • Pakaran

Bureaucrat changes

DeltaQuad • Pakaran

Interface administrator changes

MSGJ

CheckUser changes

L235 • Mz7 • SQL • ST47

Ivanvector

DeltaQuad

Oversight changes

L235 • Mz7 • ST47 • Stwalkerster • The Blade of the Northern Lights • Xaosflux

DeltaQuad • DGG • Julia W

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC was closed with the consensus that the resysop criteria should be made stricter.

• The follow-up RfC to develop that change is now open at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/2019 Resysop Criteria (2).

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

Arbitration

• Eligible editors may now nominate themselves as candidates for the 2019 Arbitration Committee Elections. The self-nomination period will close November 12, with voting running from November 19 through December 2.

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The Bugle: Issue CLXIII, November 2019

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Willbb234 on Allied pilots, Hawkeye7 on the defence of Australia and logistics in Indochina, Nick-D on Australian commandos Op-ed: Hawkeye7 reports back on a high-profile history symposium

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FAC may interest you

Hi ceranthor, given your involvement with the FAC nomination of Charles H. Stonestreet and Thomas F. Mulledy, I thought you might be interested in weighing in on the FAC of David H. Buel, another jesuit of Georgetown University. The nomination discussion found here. If you're not interested, that's ok. Ergo Sum 05:38, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2019

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

Administrator changes

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Guideline and policy news

• An RfC on the administrator resysop criteria was closed. 18 proposals have been summarised with a variety of supported and opposed statements. The inactivity grace period within which a new request for adminship is not required has been reduced from three years to two. Additionally, Bureaucrats are permitted to use their discretion when returning administrator rights.
• Following a proposal, the edit filter mailing list has been opened up to users with the Edit Filter Helper right.

Technical news

• Wikimedia projects can set a default block length for users via MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry. A new page, MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry-ip, allows the setting of a different default block length for IP editors. Neither is currently used. (T219126)

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• Voting in the 2019 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 2 December 2018 UTC. Please review the candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page.

Miscellaneous

• The global consultation on partial and temporary office actions that ended in October received a closing statement from staff concluding, among other things, that the WMF will no longer use partial or temporary Office Action bans... until and unless community consensus that they are of value or Board directive.

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The Bugle: Issue CLXIV, December 2019

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Hawkeye7 and Nick-D look at works on aspects of the Second World War and Cold War

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