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Precious

Four years!

My mind is on Prayer for Ukraine. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:18, 28 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

hi. i see that you have been here quite a while, and you might be willing to be an adopter? I would like to ask if that might be an option. pleasse feel free to let me know. i could use a bit of input, on a few things. thanks very much. Sm8900 (talk) 01:29, 25 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Sm8900: Sure, I'd have no problem with that. Feel free to come by anytime you want to talk about something, my door is always open. ~Swarm~ ^{sting} 02:31, 28 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

thanks. that would be great. I will keep you posted. thanks. Sm8900 (talk) 14:56, 30 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2023).

Guideline and policy news

• 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.

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Hey, could you revdel this diff. The edit contains my real name. I'm not particularly secretive about it, and frankly it's pretty obvious from my user name, but it's not cool at all that it would be used. Pretty clear WP:OUTING violation. Doesn't help that the person made the dot as part of a long winded screed against Wikipedia policy. oknazevad (talk) 23:22, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Precious

Five years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:44, 28 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2023).

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. Feedback is being accepted until 24 April 2023.

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Dearest Swarm, how are you? I hope you have been well since we last corresponded regarding my premature Autopatrol request back in 2018. I was recently reminded about our first and [[User talk:Swarm/Archive 16#Autopatrolled Permission Discussion - Spinster300 [Cont.]|second]] discussions that occurred after my application.

I have been contributing off and on recently, but I was reminded of my application earlier today because of a particular concern another editor brought to my attention about my recent spree of article creations and them likely piling on at New Page Patrol. Their primary concern was regarding the quality of my recent creations, and I have tried my best to address those – you can follow these on my talk page. But, this made me think if applying again for autopatrolled rights after all this while might make any significant difference. And hence, I approach you today.

It has now been more than 4 years that I have been actively editing Wikipedia, and I have created nearly 400 articles on the English Wikipedia so far. While I have made some contributions over at Template:Authority control and its counterpart on Wikidata, I have specialised mostly on creating quality stubs (if I may say so myself), translating biographies from other language Wikis off of the redlists from Women in Red in particular. I will admit that about a dozen of the articles that I created over the years were either nominated for deletion/speedy deletion, or were drafted (but later brought into main space after improvements), or were kept following some very healthy discussions after being nominated for deletion. It took me a while to learn that fulfilling article requests over at Requested articles was not always a good idea, and hence I focused on Women in Red. However, I would like to point out that the most amount of trouble I experienced was rather unsurprisingly about subjects not from the Western/developed world (I believe there is a Wikipedia essay about this issue as well). If when you check my record, you may find me skewing towards making my signature stub articles mostly on European or North American topics because of these troubles I faced earlier on.

I write to you today to ask how you have been, and to provide some (hopefully) insightful updates on my goings-on on Wikipedia over the years. If you have the time, please let me know if I may be in a better position now to acquiring the auto-patrolled rights. I love contributing to Wikipedia the way I do, and I have no intentions at causing unnecessary backlogs over New Page Patrol; if any of my future articles miss the mark of our encyclopaedic standards, the ample templates, categories, and talk page WikiProject tags I format in my articles should alert experienced editors to address those concerns in good time. It has been an honest delight to see so many of stubs expanded into decently sized articles by experienced copyeditors.

I look forward to hearing from, as and when you have the time. Kindest regards, Spinster300 (talk) 12:02, 15 March 2023 (UTC).[reply]

Swarm doesn't seem too active at the moment. I would suggest posting at Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Autopatrolled and hopefully this will not be controversial — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 16:22, 23 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Guild of Copy Editors March 2023 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the March 2023 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since December and our Annual Report for 2022. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. We extend a warm welcome to all of our new members, including those who have signed up for our current March Backlog Elimination Drive. We wish you all happy copy-editing. Election results: In our December 2022 coordinator election, Reidgreg and Tenryuu stepped down as coordinators; we thank them for their service. Incumbents Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Zippybonzo were returned as coordinators until 1 July. For the second time, no lead coordinator was chosen. Nominations for our mid-year Election of Coordinators open on 1 June (UTC). Drive: 21 editors signed up for our January Backlog Elimination Drive, 14 of whom claimed at least one copy-edit. Between them, they copy-edited 170 articles totaling 389,737 words. Barnstars awarded are here. Blitz: Our February Copy Editing Blitz focused on October and November 2022 requests, and the March and April 2022 backlogs. Of the 14 editors who signed up, nine claimed at least one copy-edit; and between them, they copy-edited 39,150 words in 22 articles. Barnstars awarded are here. Drive: Sign up now for our month-long March Backlog Elimination Drive. Barnstars awarded will be posted here after the drive closes. Progress report: As of 12:08, 19 March 2023 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 73 requests since 1 January 2023, all but five of them from 2022, and the backlog stands at 1,872 articles. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Zippybonzo. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2023).

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.

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