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Administrators' newsletter – February 2020

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2020).

  Guideline and policy news

  • Following a request for comment, partial blocks are now enabled on the English Wikipedia. This functionality allows administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces rather than the entire site. A draft policy is being workshopped at Wikipedia:Partial blocks.
  • The request for comment seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure closed with wide-spread support for an alternative desysoping procedure based on community input. No proposed process received consensus.

  Technical news

  • Twinkle now supports partial blocking. There is a small checkbox that toggles the "partial" status for both blocks and templating. There is currently one template: {{uw-pblock}}.
  • When trying to move a page, if the target title already exists then a warning message is shown. The warning message will now include a link to the target title. [1]

  Arbitration

  • Following a recent arbitration case, the Arbitration Committee reminded administrators that checkuser and oversight blocks must not be reversed or modified without prior consultation with the checkuser or oversighter who placed the block, the respective functionary team, or the Arbitration Committee.

  Miscellaneous



Wikidata weekly summary #401

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Caustic Christ albums

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A tag has been placed on Category:Caustic Christ albums requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. UnitedStatesian (talk) 05:28, 4 February 2020 (UTC)Reply

The Great Britain/Ireland Destubathon

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Hi. The Wikipedia:The Great Britain/Ireland Destubathon is planned for March 2020, a contest/editathon to eliminate as many stubs as possible from all 134 counties. Amazon vouchers/book prizes are planned for most articles destubbed from England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland and Northern Ireland and whoever destubs articles from the most counties out of the 134. Sign up on page if interested in participating, hope this will prove to be good fun and productive, we have over 44,000 stubs!♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:08, 4 February 2020 (UTC)Reply

@Dr. Blofeld: At first I misread that as "Disurbathon". Heh.  — SMcCandlish ¢ 😼  13:02, 5 February 2020 (UTC)Reply
It's not a Disturbathon either, don't worry SMcCandlish  :-) ♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:10, 5 February 2020 (UTC)Reply

Category:Fictional location redirects has been nominated for discussion

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Category:Fictional location redirects, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you.
Specifically, this is a CfM upmerge to Category:Redirects from fictional locations.  — SMcCandlish ¢ 😼  13:02, 5 February 2020 (UTC)Reply

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Adequate Seven albums

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A tag has been placed on Category:Adequate Seven albums requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. UnitedStatesian (talk) 03:33, 6 February 2020 (UTC)Reply

Ezra Bayda page

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Hi! I see you have edited the page for White Plum Asanga. I have made a change for Ezra Bayda's page, who was affiliated with White Plum Asanga.

I did so previously but it was removed because there was no verifiable reference given. Would you be willing to check the citation to make sure it is the correct form?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Bayda

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Bayda#cite_ref-10

Thanks! Mizeditor (talk) 23:36, 9 February 2020 (UTC)Reply

The change you made needs a reference from a verifiable "reliable source". If you were writing a book or a paper you could refer to "personal communication", but we don't allow this on Wikipedia for any claim. In particular we are extra careful about living or recently dead people. The relevant guidance pages are Verifiability, Reliable Sources and Biographies of Living People.
If the mailing that you refer to was public, then perhaps it could be used, but we would still need to be careful, as the findings of an enquiry are not the same as the findings of a court of law.
As a separate matter, the question of Joko Beck's revocation of dharma transmission may be relevant and sourceable.
All the best: Rich Farmbrough (the apparently calm and reasonable) 09:51, 10 February 2020 (UTC).Reply
You might want to look at the paper The Borderless Borders of the White Plum Asanga by Franz Metcalf. All the best: Rich Farmbrough (the apparently calm and reasonable) 10:10, 10 February 2020 (UTC).Reply

Wikidata weekly summary #402

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A Tradesman of Philidelphia?

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Hi, Rich. What's the story with the A Tradesman of Philidelphia redirect you created that links to the Benjamin Franklin article? Doesn't appear discussed in the article, redirect have no templates or categories, and Philadelphia is misspelled. Jason Quinn (talk) 04:52, 12 February 2020 (UTC)Reply

A Tradesman of Philadelphia is the non-de-plume under which he wrote PLAIN TRUTH: OR, SERIOUS CONSIDERATIONS On the PRESENT STATE of the CITY of PHILADELPHIA, AND PROVINCE of PENNSYLVANIA.. Thanks for noticing the typo.
All the best: Rich Farmbrough (the apparently calm and reasonable) 09:00, 12 February 2020 (UTC).Reply

Wikidata weekly summary #403

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March 2020 at Women in Red

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March 2020, Volume 6, Issue 3, Numbers 150, 151, 156, 157, 158, 159


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Wikidata weekly summary #404

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Molly Raynor

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Maybe not one of your proudest articles: Molly Raynor. It doesn't make the point of notability, but maybe there's stuff that you were aware of at the time that didn't make it into the article. I note that despite the brevity, there is confusion regarding her birth year. I've had a look on the New Zealand birth, death and marriages database and I find a Ada Mary Raynor (parents William and Mary Elizabeth) born on 17 October 1903 (registration number 1903/7894). Is it worth putting some effort into that? Worth keeping (well, you created it, so you must think that it is)? I'm happy to help; this from March 1928 could make a start: "Miss Raynor began stage work professionally only last February". Schwede66 17:44, 24 February 2020 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for your note, and contributions to the article. On the contrary I am most proud of those pages that give people an opportunity to contribute. There is absolutely no shortage of material on Molly Raynor in the contemporary record, clearly enough to pass GNG. We should have an article on the Cheer-Oh Girls, of that there is no doubt. All the best: Rich Farmbrough (the apparently calm and reasonable) 19:20, 24 February 2020 (UTC).Reply

new drafts

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Hi Rich. I made new drafts here. Can you check and published them. The previous drafts were gone i added them too. I removed unreliable sources and added reliable sources to each draft. If there's anything tell me. New drafts

Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 39.43.106.162 (talk) 18:01, 26 February 2020 (UTC)Reply

Proposed deletion of Emergency (UK television programme)

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The article Emergency (UK television programme) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

No evidence this radio programme meets WP:NMEDIA/GNG.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 05:50, 28 February 2020 (UTC)Reply

Nomination of Emergency (UK television programme) for deletion

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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Emergency (UK television programme) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Emergency (UK television programme) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 15:27, 29 February 2020 (UTC)Reply