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Books & Bytes – Issue 37

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Books & Bytes
Issue 37, November – December 2019

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2020

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

Administrator changes

Ergo Sum • Nick Moyes • QEDK • Wugapodes

Dennis Brown

Aude • BrownHairedGirl • CALR • Jengod • John Reaves • J.smith • Kim Dent-Brown • K1Bond007 • MECU • Refdoc • RHaworth

CheckUser changes

Opabinia regalis • Premeditated Chaos

Interface administrator changes

Ragesoss

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

• Voting in the 2020 Steward elections will begin on 08 February 2020, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 28 February 2020, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• The English Wikipedia has reached six million articles. Thank you everyone for your contributions!

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:06, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

Comments?

Since you expressed appreciation for [2], you may wish to participate in the ensuing discussion.

Or not. DS (talk) 17:32, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

Hi, I've left a comment. SarahSV ^(talk) 17:50, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

AN/I

Hi Sarah, sorry to drag you I to this but I’ve mentioned you on AN/I about a decision that ST47 reverses because he said you erred. He doesn’t appear to have advised you or any other admin. To be far, I do t have a concern with the action, but have concerns about the way he went about it, which seems very vindictive. - Chris.sherlock (talk) 00:43, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

Hi Chris, thanks for letting me know. I'll take a look. SarahSV ^(talk) 00:46, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

I'm taking a break. I'm having a panic attack right now, but I'll be OK. - Chris.sherlock (talk) 02:16, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

Okay, take time away and relax. Just forget about this place for a bit. SarahSV ^(talk) 03:18, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

I think maybe you attached your reply to the wrong person. I don't want to move your reply myself, but I figured I'd let you know. SQL^{Query me!} 04:33, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

Thanks. Actually, I put it there because I didn't want to shove yours out of the way (we had an edit conflict). I'll leave it there for now. But thanks for pointing it out. SarahSV ^(talk) 04:55, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

You have email

Or, if your email address hasn't changed you have. DuncanHill (talk) 01:22, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

Request

Hi Sarah, I was trying to create a new talk page archive and mistakenly created Victoriaearle/Archive 19 in main space. Can you or one of your talk page stalkers delete it for me. I've put a prod tag on it but probably not done it correctly. Thanks. Victoria (tk) 23:24, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

Hi Victoria, that's done. SarahSV ^(talk) 00:05, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

Thanks! Victoria (tk) 16:08, 13 February 2020 (UTC)