User talk:DanCherek/Archive 11
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RFA2024 update: no longer accepting new proposals in phase I
Hey there! This is to let you know that phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship (RfA) review is now no longer accepting new proposals. Lots of proposals remain open for discussion, and the current round of review looks to be on a good track towards making significant progress towards improving RfA's structure and environment. I'd like to give my heartfelt thanks to everyone who has given us their idea for change to make RfA better, and the same to everyone who has given the necessary feedback to improve those ideas. The following proposals remain open for discussion:
- Proposal 2, initiated by HouseBlaster, provides for the addition of a text box at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship reminding all editors of our policies and enforcement mechanisms around decorum.
- Proposals 3 and 3b, initiated by Barkeep49 and Usedtobecool, respectively, provide for trials of discussion-only periods at RfA. The first would add three extra discussion-only days to the beginning, while the second would convert the first two days to discussion-only.
- Proposal 5, initiated by SilkTork, provides for a trial of RfAs without threaded discussion in the voting sections.
- Proposals 6c and 6d, initiated by BilledMammal, provide for allowing users to be selected as provisional admins for a limited time through various concrete selection criteria and smaller-scale vetting.
- Proposal 7, initiated by Lee Vilenski, provides for the "General discussion" section being broken up with section headings.
- Proposal 9b, initiated by Reaper Eternal, provides for the requirement that allegations of policy violation be substantiated with appropriate links to where the alleged misconduct occured.
- Proposals 12c, 21, and 21b, initiated by City of Silver, Ritchie333, and HouseBlaster, respectively, provide for reducing the discretionary zone, which currently extends from 65% to 75%. The first would reduce it 65%–70%, the second would reduce it to 50%–66%, and the third would reduce it to 60%–70%.
- Proposal 13, initiated by Novem Lingaue, provides for periodic, privately balloted admin elections.
- Proposal 14, initiated by Kusma, provides for the creation of some minimum suffrage requirements to cast a vote.
- Proposals 16 and 16c, initiated by Thebiguglyalien and Soni, respectively, provide for community-based admin desysop procedures. 16 would desysop where consensus is established in favor at the administrators' noticeboard; 16c would allow a petition to force reconfirmation.
- Proposal 16e, initiated by BilledMammal, would extend the recall procedures of 16 to bureaucrats.
- Proposal 17, initiated by SchroCat, provides for "on-call" admins and 'crats to monitor RfAs for decorum.
- Proposal 18, initiated by theleekycauldron, provides for lowering the RfB target from 85% to 75%.
- Proposal 24, initiated by SportingFlyer, provides for a more robust alternate version of the optional candidate poll.
- Proposal 25, initiated by Femke, provides for the requirement that nominees be extended-confirmed in addition to their nominators.
- Proposal 27, initiated by WereSpielChequers, provides for the creation of a training course for admin hopefuls, as well as periodic retraining to keep admins from drifting out of sync with community norms.
- Proposal 28, initiated by HouseBlaster, tightens restrictions on multi-part questions.
To read proposals that were closed as unsuccessful, please see Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review/Phase I/Closed proposals. You are cordially invited once again to participate in the open discussions; when phase I ends, phase II will review the outcomes of trial proposals and refine the implementation details of other proposals. Another notification will be sent out when this phase begins, likely with the first successful close of a major proposal. Happy editing! theleekycauldron (talk • she/her), via:
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Different Revdel
As I mentioned on Nagol0929's talk page, I have another revdel request.
Currently this article, Vishuddhananda Paramahansa is under RFD for complete lack of WP:RS, and has been frequented by sockpuppets who keep adding copyvio material and sources that are blog/wikiclone level. The five edits I think are worthy of revdel are by User:Akhila257 (currently under sock investigation here) as they readded some same and some similar stuff that we keep telling these new popup editors is not acceptable sourcing.
I admit that I might have part of the request I made on the page wrong as I had copied the previous request thinking the user had readded the same things again, but since then I see that one of the two sources I mentioned was not used. If that needs to be corrected by me, I will do so.
If you feel that revdel is not needed due to the likelihood of the RFD passing (Currently on day 2, and so far a unanimous Delete among all nonIP/non brand new popup users), that's fine too.
Thanks for the consideration, Zinnober9 (talk) 00:31, 24 March 2024 (UTC)
Signups open for The Core Contest 2024
The Core Contest—Wikipedia's most exciting contest—returns again this year from April 15 to May 31. The goal: to improve vital or other core articles, with a focus on those in the worst state of disrepair. Editing can be done individually, but in the past groups have also successfully competed. There is £300 of prize money divided among editors who provide the "best additive encyclopedic value". Signups are open now. Cheers from the judges, Femke, Casliber, Aza24. – Aza24 (talk) 02:20, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
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Blocked from editing
Hi Dan,
I have read your email again and realize I need to disclose my employment with Rutgers on my CHeherPeters page. If I do this, using the following:
{{paid|user=CHeherPeters|employer=Rutgers University |client=School of Communication and Information}}.
will I be able to edit again?
I am an employee of the Rutgers School of Communication and Information so I am being paid as an employee while I work to update our Wikipedia page.
Many thanks for your help,
Carol Heher Peters CHeherPeters (talk) 14:46, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
- Hi CHeherPeters, thanks for your message. Yes, that looks like the appropriate template to put on your user page at User:CHeherPeters. Thank you in advance for that disclosure. I see you mentioned on your talk page that you plan to propose edits for review on the article's talk page (at Talk:Rutgers School of Communication and Information). That'll be great! You can add the {{edit COI}} template when you do that to put it in the review queue. Just some advice – your proposals will probably be more successful if they are summarizing information from reliable, independent sources in your own words (i.e., don't just copy/paste from the school's website because it's typically not written in the style that Wikipedia likes). Good luck. DanCherek (talk) 18:26, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
- Another editor recently brought Pomona College to featured article status, meaning it was reviewed and determined to be a high-quality article, so you might find that helpful in terms of the sourcing that works well in college/university-related articles. DanCherek (talk) 18:30, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
Hannam University copyvio
Hi! I just noticed and reverted a batch of copyright-violating edits on Hannam University by Minera1water (talk · contribs). Seeing as you handled the previous case of this by the same editor in Special:Permalink/1215245276, I though I would let you know, and maybe you could handle it. Thanks. penguinencounter2@enwiki:~/talk/contrib$ 01:48, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
- Revdel done, thanks! User p-blocked from Hannam University for persistent copyright violations; hopefully they start engaging on their talk page. DanCherek (talk) 01:54, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
- They now have a selfproclaimed COI stated on their talk page (in words, not as a template). Not sure why they replied to Nagol0929 instead of you the Admin. Zinnober9 (talk) 22:33, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
Women in Red April 2024
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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.
New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024
Hello DanCherek,
Backlog update: The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to Schminnte, who led with over 2,300 points.
Following that, New Page Patrol organized another backlog drive for articles in January 2024. The January drive started with 13,650 articles and reduced the backlog to 7,430 articles. Congratulations to JTtheOG, who achieved first place with 1,340 points in this drive.
Looking at the graph, it seems like backlog drives are one of the only things keeping the backlog under control. Another backlog drive is being planned for May. Feel free to participate in the May backlog drive planning discussion.
It's worth noting that both queues are gradually increasing again and are nearing 14,034 articles and 22,540 redirects. We encourage you to keep contributing, even if it's just a single patrol per day. Your support is greatly appreciated!
2023 Awards
Onel5969 won the 2023 cup with 17,761 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 50/day. There was one Platinum Award (10,000+ reviews), 2 Gold Awards (5000+ reviews), 6 Silver (2000+), 8 Bronze (1000+), 30 Iron (360+) and 70 more for the 100+ barnstar. Hey man im josh led on redirect reviews by clearing 36,175 of them. For the full details, see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone for their efforts in reviewing!
WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers deployed the rewritten NewPagesFeed in October, and then gave the NewPagesFeed a slight visual facelift in November. This concludes most major work to Special:NewPagesFeed, and most major work by the WMF Moderator Tools team, who wrapped up their major work on PageTriage in October. The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers will continue small work on PageTriage as time permits.
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Pudgy Penguins
I am the one who has contributed everything here Pudgy Penguins 90 percent or more and i want it to be deleted additionally it was UPE DIVINE 17:37, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
- This user has been blocked indefinitely for abuse to Wikipedia’s terms, he was paid to create several articles that are not reliable for under the table payments like Luca Schnetlzer and Pudgy Penguins and many others.. his history log has all the evidence and should need a thorough examination of any articles that this user has created must be deleted.. See here Wikipedia’s Administrator Noticeboard under “ DIVINE and Tulsi: COI/UPE/quid-pro-quo editing, association with threats and harassment” 2601:589:4E00:BE40:8946:F528:3975:8678 (talk) 19:39, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
March music
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in memory of the birthday of a friend who showed me art such as this -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:03, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
... and the premiere of Nabucco - I always wanted to go to that theatre where Idomeneo premiered, and they played Mozart! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:06, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
- It's gorgeous. Did you sit in an opera box? I've never done that. DanCherek (talk) 22:11, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
- It looks like boxes but behind behind the structure there's only a narrow divider. I sat in a box in Paris (recently), Madrid and Montepulciano. Last time in Madrid not in a box because when you are not in front there's limited view, - and then it was a concert performance ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:45, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
- Rossini's Petite messe solennelle was premiered on 14 March 1864, - when I listen to the desolate Agnus Dei I think of Vami_IV. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:16, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
- Today, my story is a piece dear to my heart, still in memory. When I sang it first, a friend was in the audience with her husband who knew he was to die soon. She played a tape from the performance for his funeral. I may have told you before. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:22, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for sharing, that is a touching story. DanCherek (talk) 05:08, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you! - I began uploading pics from Madeira vacation. On Bach's birthday --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:05, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
- a few new pics, and two people for DYK --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:24, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
- This one is just gorgeous! DanCherek (talk) 22:51, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you! Now a calf in the mist and chocolate cake, and a story of collaboration --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:20, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
- Now a bird. - I listen to Bach's St John Passion today, - 300 years after it was first performed. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:46, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
- Two days later in time, Bach music for Easter! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:49, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
- This one is just gorgeous! DanCherek (talk) 22:51, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for sharing, that is a touching story. DanCherek (talk) 05:08, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
Problem
Hi, first of all, thank you again for giving me this role. So far I have accepted one edit and tried to delete one (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Daddy_Yankee&diff=prev&oldid=1218239310); for the last one, I had to remove it manually (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Daddy_Yankee&diff=prev&oldid=1218250556) because of the message "There seems to be a problem with your login session; this action has been canceled as a precaution against session hijacking. Please resubmit the form. You may receive this message if you are blocking cookies."; how to solve this? JacktheBrown (talk) 16:37, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
- @JackkBrown: Hmm, not quite sure. I'm seeing sporadic reports in noticeboard archives from other people who received the same message in the past (e.g., 1, 2, 3, 4), so the first thing I would suggest is to review a few more pending changes to see if you encounter the same issue again, and if you do, try some of the suggestions in those threads (like clearing cookies, trying a different browser, etc.). Hope that helps. DanCherek (talk) 18:18, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
Thank You For The Advice
Hi Sir,
I thank you for correcting my edit and mostly for your advice on https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Story_of_Racheltjie_De_Beer&action=history I was part of a group of beginners on editing African film and arts in Africa on Wikipedia, I was editing there as I'm part of the course, however I thank you for noticing my mistake and your corrections, the course has ended in the beginning of March with so much learning but for you to reintroduce me to more of learning and understanding how to edit on Wiki even more wiser means so much to me. Thank you please continue doing so.
Copyright vios on Gnawa music
JEBAIBA is still making copyright violations at the above article despite your warning. Could you rev-del their edits once again? Thanks. 73.67.145.30 (talk) 20:19, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
The Core Contest has now begun!
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Protection needed
Hi there. Can you protect the page Albert Wesker for persistent disruptive edits. Thank you. 🥒Greenish Pickle!🥒 (🔔) 03:44, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
Semi-protected for a period of 2 weeks, after which the page will be automatically unprotected. DanCherek (talk) 03:50, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
Question from DivineGaby (14:39, 18 April 2024)
Hello. I hope you are doing well. I have an inquiry about editing about a person who has little sources of information talking about her. How do I go about it. --DivineGaby (talk) 14:39, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
- Hi DivineGaby, is this about an existing article or one that you want to create? In general, the extent of significant coverage in multiple reliable, independent sources is how notability is determined, so if there is too little existing information, it could be an indicator that there is not enough to merit an article at this time. But it's hard to generalize, so if you have a specific topic in mind, that would be helpful. DanCherek (talk) 03:09, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
- Hello DanCherek.
- Thank you for the insight,I'm editing an article about Margaret Trowell as one of the presidents of the Uganda Society DivineGaby (talk) 20:37, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
- @DivineGaby: Thanks! Yeah, there's definitely enough to establish notability and I see you've already cited some good sources, like the Court article. Here are a few more I found from a quick search that might be helpful: [1][2]. Anyways, my advice would be to just go through all of the relevant sources you can find and add whatever information you find about her. It's okay if some parts are not as comprehensive as others if the sourcing isn't there – that can always be challenging when writing about historical people. DanCherek (talk) 03:46, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
- @DanCherek
- Thank you very much.Let me enhance the article. DivineGaby (talk) 08:25, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
- @DivineGaby: Thanks! Yeah, there's definitely enough to establish notability and I see you've already cited some good sources, like the Court article. Here are a few more I found from a quick search that might be helpful: [1][2]. Anyways, my advice would be to just go through all of the relevant sources you can find and add whatever information you find about her. It's okay if some parts are not as comprehensive as others if the sourcing isn't there – that can always be challenging when writing about historical people. DanCherek (talk) 03:46, 20 April 2024 (UTC)