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This is the archive of comments added to User talk:Gyrofrog during 2023. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 00:57, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – January 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2022).
Administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
- Speedy deletion criterion A5 (transwikied articles) has been repealed following an unopposed proposal.
Arbitration
- 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.
Miscellaneous
- Voting for the Sound Logo has closed and the winner is expected to be announced February to April 2023.
- Tech tip: You can view information about IP addresses in a centralised location using bullseye which won the Newcomer award in the recent Coolest Tool Awards.
Administrators' newsletter – February 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 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.
Technical news
- 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.
Miscellaneous
- Voting in the 2023 Steward elections will begin on 05 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
- Voting in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey will begin on 10 February 2023 and end on 24 February 2023. You can submit, discuss and revise proposals until 6 February 2023.
- Tech tip: Syntax highlighting is available in both the 2011 and 2017 Wikitext editors. It can help make editing paragraphs with many references or complicated templates easier.
Recent Ethiopian Orthodox Church Synod overthrow attempt
Hi Gyrofrog, as a member of Wikiproject Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Orthodox related articles, I am glad your collaboration effort toward them. I've courtesy asked you to create the recent Ethiopian Orthodox Church Synod overthrow attempt occurred on Jan 22, 2023 because many media talk about the incident as well as the internet shutdown following riot. If you have sufficient time, please can you create the recent overthrow attempt against the Holy Synod? 197.156.107.73 (talk) 05:25, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
- It looks like this information is being updated in the main Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church article. I'm not sure whether it has yet reached a point where it needs to be split. -- Gyrofrog 18:06, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
I think its notability warrants as a standalone article (as a single notable event). It should be written in an article because many sources are available on the internet and able extensively added to acquire extra information about the overthrow as well as aftermath. There is also a proposed protest organized by the Orthodox Church and this should be written in separate article. 196.190.60.220 (talk) 07:56, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
- Sorry but this is not something that I can commit to doing, at least not right away. -- Gyrofrog 14:30, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – March 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2023).
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Guideline and policy news
- Following a request for comment, F10 (useless non-media files) has been deprecated.
- Following a request for comment, the Portal CSD criteria (P1 (portal subject to CSD as an article) and P2 (underpopulated portal)) have been deprecated.
- A request for comment is open to discuss making the closing instructions for the requested moves process a guideline.
Technical news
- 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.
- Following the 2023 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Mykola7, Superpes15, and Xaosflux.
- The Terms of Use update cycle has started, which includes a
[p]roposal for better addressing undisclosed paid editing
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Administrators' newsletter – April 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2023).
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Guideline and policy news
- A community RfC is open to discuss whether reports primarily involving gender-related disputes or controversies should be referred to the Arbitration enforcement noticeboard.
Technical news
- 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.
Administrators' newsletter – May 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2023).
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- A request for comment about removing administrative privileges in specified situations is open for feedback.
Technical news
- 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.
Arbitration
- The proposed decision in the World War II and the history of Jews in Poland case is expected 11 May 2023.
Miscellaneous
- The Wikimedia Foundation annual plan 2023-2024 draft is open for comment and input through May 19. The final plan will be published in July 2023.
Administrators' newsletter – June 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2023).
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Guideline and policy news
- 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.
Technical news
- Bot operators and tool maintainers should schedule time in the coming months to test and update their tools for the effects of IP masking. IP masking will not be deployed to any content wiki until at least October 2023 and is unlikely to be deployed to the English Wikipedia until some time in 2024.
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.
Miscellaneous
- Following a community referendum, the arbitration policy has been modified to remove the ability for users to appeal remedies to Jimbo Wales.
Ogayslabe
Wonder if you could have a look at Ogayslabe and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ogayslabe. Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather (solidly non-human), Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 21:13, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
My sources for the number of Bedawiyet speakers
Why did you remove my source when I provided it. The website listed that it got its sources not just from Wikipedia but also an author. It was not made up. The 1993 census of Sudan is not reliable as numbers for ethnicity are often undercounted and under estimated based on language speakers. Cookiemonster1618 (talk) 20:53, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
- I had already explained this at User talk:Cookiemonster1618#Beja Speaker Population?. -- Gyrofrog 20:56, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
Beja speakers in Eritrea don't number 60,000
I was not engaging in any "edit war" I provided the source for my edit and I stated that the website was reliable. Did you even read the article? How is it fair that you use a source that's from a book that's not accessible to a website that based its information and cited it. Cookiemonster1618 (talk) 20:58, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
- I read the source. As I had already posted at your talk page: "101lasttribes.com is (1) a self-published source, and (2) cites Wikipedia as a source (again, see WP:CIRCULAR), and doesn't specify which information comes from WP or from one of the other sources. As such this doesn't seem to be a reliable source, but you're free to get another opinion at WP:RSN." I strongly suggest that you familiarize yourself with Wikipedia:Verifiability. --Gyrofrog 21:01, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
- @Pathawi instead of reporting to @Gyrofrog for an "edit war" you could have just went to the actual website and read if you had eyes and actually think before reporting me for attacking you. Also believe what you want but it doesn't change the fact that logically it would not make sense for there to be 60,000 speakers of the Beja language in Eritrea considering how there are 200,000 Beja people in Eritrea. I'm from Sudan and do research on these things your not ready to have an intellectual discussion on this topic since your so hell bent on on putting population estimates from a fake book. Rest assured that I will find a reliable source on this topic and that @Gyrofrog can't block me for editing especially since I added the source. It's quite pathetic honestly. Cookiemonster1618 (talk) 21:07, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
(Cross-post from User talk:Cookiemonster1618) A suggestion, offered in the spirit of helpfulness: for the Beja population (people, not necessarily speakers) in Eritrea, consider using a source such as the CIA World Factbook (aside from what you or I think of the CIA, the World Factbook is a reliable source, where Wikipedia is concerned). For example: "According to the CIA, as of 2021 the Hedareb and Beja together comprise 2% of Eritrea's population.[1]" (FYI, that equates to 125,496 persons based on the estimated 2023 population, but the 2% is from 2021 so, strictly speaking, we shouldn't specify that number here -- see WP:NOR.) -- Gyrofrog 23:43, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
References
Sudanese Arabs
hello @Gyrofrog I need your help with something. There's this user who keeps undoing the older edit I did for Sudanese Arabs and adding false information about our ancestry after I told him that the sources he used never mentioned the stuff he wrote he keeps undoing my edit and adding his. Can you please block @hassko thank you. I told him my second time to stop editing that part because non of the sources he used mention what he wrote on the article. Cookiemonster1618 (talk) 12:05, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
- Actually his account name is @Hassko sorry mistyped. Cookiemonster1618 (talk) 12:09, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
- @Haskko is his right username another typo. Cookiemonster1618 (talk) 12:11, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
- It isn't my problem you aren't searching for the books.
- Thank you. Haskko (talk) 12:13, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
- it kind of is because your lying and changing the sentences with your own biased views and saying it's from a book. PLEASE STOP Thank you. Cookiemonster1618 (talk) 12:14, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
- I'm simply rearranging it to make it look more concise, and adding content that was in a already provided source.
- Thank you. Haskko (talk) 12:16, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
- It would be nice if the book on Amazon you cited said thag but it didnt its just titled " Sudan" with a picture of a guy. Your not rearranging anything your changing the sentence snd including your own version and than daying it's from the sources you cited and the problem is your sources cant even be accessed. Cookiemonster1618 (talk) 12:20, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
- Please search for the sources, and read my full responses, then respond.
- Thank you. Haskko (talk) 12:22, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
- Thats why im telling you the sources cant be searched online because when i copy and paste it on google one is just a book from Amazon titled " Sudan" and the other cant even be found and the third is from wikipedia itself and cant be accessed as you need to purchase it. How do i know what you wrote is from the book and not from the sources you cited. Your being dishonest and chamging the sentences to fit your bias abiut Sudanese Arabs. Whether you like ir or not the sources you cited does not mention what you wrote and the evidence for this is that you yourself changed the wording and added "Some of them are of Nubian and Arab descent, with varying degrees of ancestry from Peninsular Arabs" when the original sentence was "Some of them are descended from Arabs from the Arabian peninsula with varying degrees of ancestry from Peninsular Arabs". That's vandalism and lying and you will be reported if you continue to do this. Cookiemonster1618 (talk) 12:27, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
- You clearly have been ignoring my responses. I stated that "Some of them are of Nubian and Arab descent, with varying degrees of ancestry from Peninsular Arabs" was mentioned in Source 9.
- Please stop emotionally responding, and insulting because what's written doesn't match your views.
- Thank you. Haskko (talk) 12:30, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
- Source "9" was originally source 7 and you never cited that yourself it wad there from before your lying again. And i havent ignored your responses because i sent you in your talk box 2 days before and you ignored me and continued to edit. You didn't talk to me until today actually and i was not insulting you but what your doing is changing the wording and adding sources 6 7 and 8 which dont mention anything about the Sudanese having Arab or Nubian ancestry you changed the wording to include that. Stop lying again. Cookiemonster1618 (talk) 12:36, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
- Thats why im telling you the sources cant be searched online because when i copy and paste it on google one is just a book from Amazon titled " Sudan" and the other cant even be found and the third is from wikipedia itself and cant be accessed as you need to purchase it. How do i know what you wrote is from the book and not from the sources you cited. Your being dishonest and chamging the sentences to fit your bias abiut Sudanese Arabs. Whether you like ir or not the sources you cited does not mention what you wrote and the evidence for this is that you yourself changed the wording and added "Some of them are of Nubian and Arab descent, with varying degrees of ancestry from Peninsular Arabs" when the original sentence was "Some of them are descended from Arabs from the Arabian peninsula with varying degrees of ancestry from Peninsular Arabs". That's vandalism and lying and you will be reported if you continue to do this. Cookiemonster1618 (talk) 12:27, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
- It would be nice if the book on Amazon you cited said thag but it didnt its just titled " Sudan" with a picture of a guy. Your not rearranging anything your changing the sentence snd including your own version and than daying it's from the sources you cited and the problem is your sources cant even be accessed. Cookiemonster1618 (talk) 12:20, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
- it kind of is because your lying and changing the sentences with your own biased views and saying it's from a book. PLEASE STOP Thank you. Cookiemonster1618 (talk) 12:14, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
- @Haskko is his right username another typo. Cookiemonster1618 (talk) 12:11, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
Haskko & Cookiemonster1618, I haven't tried to look at the sources myself, but there's absolutely no requirement that a source (e.g. a book) has to be accessible from the internet – see WP:SOURCEACCESS which also has suggestions what to do about it. (Of course, it's preferable that a source is available online, but it's not always possible.) You can always flag the citation of an offline source with {{verify source}}. Having said all that, any further discussion about editing Sudanese Arabs ought to take place at Talk:Sudanese Arabs – or, at least, (please) not here on my user talk page. -- Gyrofrog 17:33, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – July 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2023).
Administrator changes
Bureaucrat changes
Guideline and policy news
- 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.
Technical news
- 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.
Sudan page
Hello there is a user who keeps vandalising the number estimates of Sudan's religion and ethnic groups even after i added sources and they continue to remove them and add their own sources. Please check my previous edit on Sudan to see this. Cookiemonster1618 (talk) 21:36, 23 July 2023 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – August 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2023).
Administrator changes
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Technical news
- The tag filter on Special:NewPages and revision history pages can now be inverted. This allows hiding edits made by automated tools. (T334338)
- Special:BlockedExternalDomains is a new tool that allows easier blocking of plain domains (and their subdomains). This is more easily searchable and is faster for the software to use than the existing MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. It does not support regex (for complex cases), URL path-matching, or the MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. (T337431)
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
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 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
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Miscellaneous
- Tech tip: The "Browse history interactively" banner shown at the top of Special:Diff can be used to easily look through a history, assemble composite diffs, or find out what archive something wound up in.
About Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church
Please refer this Site https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2017/11/08/orthodox-christians-are-highly-religious-in-ethiopia-much-less-so-in-former-soviet-union/
Thank You 196.188.51.249 (talk) 06:41, 20 October 2023 (UTC)
- Left response at User talk:196.188.51.249. -- Gyrofrog 22:35, 20 October 2023 (UTC)
CS1 error on Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church
Hello, I'm Qwerfjkl (bot). I have automatically detected that this edit performed by you, on the page Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, may have introduced referencing errors. They are as follows:
- A "bare URL and missing title" error. References show this error when they do not have a title. Please edit the article to add the appropriate title parameter to the reference. (Fix | Ask for help)
Please check this page and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive, you can report it to my operator. Thanks, Qwerfjkl (bot) (talk) 16:06, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
- I just fixed that ref. and another, for anyone keeping tabs. -- Gyrofrog 17:43, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – November 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 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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Administrators' newsletter – December 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2023).
Administrator changes
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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.
Edits to Master Musicians of Jajouka wikipage
Hello,
following your message yesterday, I updated the page inserting all the necessary citations from reliable sources as you requested. All edits are legitimate, there is no controversial or biased information, therefore there is no reason to delete them again. 151.81.61.50 (talk) 16:19, 22 December 2023 (UTC)