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Hi - Request for Box Latch Products review

Hi, I have connected with you in the past about requesting an article to be written. I thought I disclosed everything and my affiliation. But someone messaged me saying note: did not submit an independent request in request for business articles. which I did and now Box Latch Products is not in the request page. Can you tell me what I did wrong or did someone select the company to write about and it disappears off the request board? Thanks for your help JanelleP7 (talk) 15:41, 10 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi JanelleP7, I'm forwarding your request to the reverting editor. :) ~ ToBeFree (talk) 17:30, 10 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
(they have not edited Wikipedia for a few weeks, and it might take some time for them to respond. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 05:25, 12 August 2020 (UTC))[reply]


Tech News: 2020-34

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

  • If you revert an edit using the undo link your edit is marked with an undo tag. This will now only happen if you don't change anything in the edit window before publishing the undo. This is to keep users from marking edits as undos when they actually do something else. [1]
  • The new OOUI version will not work with Internet Explorer 8. This means the wikis will look strange and not work well in Internet Explorer 8. This was reported in Tech/News/2020/17. This is because keeping the wikis working with very old browsers creates other problems. [2]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 August. It will be on all wikis from 20 August (calendar).

Future changes

  • All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is planned between 13:30 and 15:30 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis next week. This is a reminder. You can help by translating the announcement message. [3][4]

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20:40, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

CherokeeJack1

You blocked this user not long ago and his edits are still causing a number of problems. Several recent warnings have been issued and they've all been seemingly ignored, as the problem edits continue. Can you take a look? All the best. SolarFlashDiscussion 17:05, 18 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi SolarFlash, thank you very much for the update. I'm afraid that summary-less reverts (WP:ROLLBACKUSE), standard level 4 warnings and following a user through Wikipedia to check if they made a mistake in good faith again is not a good way to deal with this situation; taking a part in this by blocking the user indefinitely would probably be an excessive reaction close to hounding. Please let other editors deal with the issue(s); there will be an ANI discussion and a block soon enough if necessary. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 18:36, 18 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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