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[1] Why not relist? SpinningSpark 15:14, 13 September 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Spinningspark: That's fine too. I was hovering between the two, but I think since Jc37's remarks came so late, I think it's worth a relist. bibliomaniac15 18:41, 13 September 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I did something stupid a few years ago and didn't understand the consequences. I asked for help to create a page about something the police developed in the 1960s called Operation Identification. It's an important topic deserving of a place on Wikipedia. Would you consider allowing it to be posted? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Identification — Preceding unsigned comment added by Trimster2 (talk • contribs) 18:18, 29 June 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I'm a bit concerned about the result of this CfD. The discussion regrettably didn't pick up on the fact that not all the articles in the category are actually about African-American people: Amadou Diallo was from Guinea and only arrived in the U.S. in his 20s; Ousmane Zongo was Burkinabé; Abdul Razak Ali Artan was Somali; perhaps others besides. It's of course possible that these people considered themselves African-American, but ordinarily the term refers to people born in the U.S., naturalised citizens, and/or people who've lived there a long time. I'm not objecting to your close of course, which clearly reflected the consensus, but the WP:MR guidance is insistent that these things be discussed with the closer first, and as I don't usually pay much attention to CfD your thoughts on the best course would be appreciated. Thanks, – Arms & Hearts (talk) 16:28, 17 September 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Arms & Hearts: Hey there, thanks for letting me know! This does seem like new information that wasn't discussed before, so I think that the best course of action would be to open up a new CFD, mentioning your rationale and the fact that you discussed this with me (so it isn't seen as a contentious reopening). If you want, I can also open up the CFD for you as a procedural matter. bibliomaniac15 18:24, 17 September 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The category was a subcat of Category:African-American people and so the objection of Arms & Hearts applies to the placing Ousmane Zongo and Abdul Razak Ali Artan in this category under either name. An answer would be to create a parent such as Category:People of African descent shot dead by law enforcement officers in the United States, subcat of Category:People of African descent. (There is no Category:Black people: it was deleted at cfd in 2006.) Oculi (talk) 18:37, 17 September 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thanks both. Yes, Oculi, that does complicate things – although, to complicate things further, aren't the above-named people African people rather than people of African descent? (There may still be others who are African-Canadian, Black British etc. though.) I'll go ahead with the new CfD and try and summarise the issues. – Arms & Hearts (talk) 18:01, 18 September 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi, I have added ((cfd-manual)) and listed the task at WP:CFDWM. – Fayenatic London 17:14, 28 November 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hello. I recently created this redirect. However, as you can see, there is a typographical mistake in it. Nothing links to this redirect. So, could you delete this redirect? Veverve (talk) 05:35, 19 September 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Veverve:  Done bibliomaniac15 05:37, 19 September 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2021_August_23#Members_of_the_Guild_of_Saint_Luke

Just an fyi - It looks like only half of them were renamed. - jc37 08:35, 19 September 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Jc37: You'll need to give it time for the bot to make it through all of them. It was working on them as you sent me this message. They're all done now, as far as I can tell. bibliomaniac15 22:17, 19 September 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Oh ok, great. Sometimes the bots get "stuck" (among other possible issues), so I thought I'd let you know just in case. Glad that there wasn't an issue. - jc37 00:41, 20 September 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Just wondering if you missed the updated functions of JJMC89's bot for CFD. Try the Retain part of WP:CFDW; it even posts the Old CfD templates. We just have to follow the syntax requirements on that page. – Fayenatic London 22:45, 24 September 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Fayenatic london: I'm aware of the Retain function; it's just that XFDCloser was updated to do the same thing automatically for retain situations. Just cutting out the middleman, er, middlebot! bibliomaniac15 01:52, 25 September 2021 (UTC) PS: Thanks for the archive restructuring!Reply[reply]

Hello! I saw you listed as one of the mentors over at GAN. I am back to editing after a long absence, and I was wondering if you could take a look at a recent review I completed for Cyrtophora citricola. Any feedback is welcome and there is no rush. Thank you! -Pax Verbum 05:35, 22 September 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I noticed that you closed this discussion as delete on Sep 11. But 12 days later, the category still seems to exist (although it is nominated for speedy deletion by JPxG). I'm unfamiliar with CfD, so this confuses me. I know that with AfDs, an article link becomes red pretty soon after the discussion is closed as "delete". Any insights would be appreciated, thanks VR _talk 17:14, 23 September 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Hey. The user you just banned is currently abusing their talk page and the edit history of that talk page. Sideswipe9th (talk) 02:12, 5 December 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Sideswipe9th: Looks like others have taken care of it. bibliomaniac15 03:30, 5 December 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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I wanted to ask you about your closure of Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2021 November 2#Category:Christian Heritage Party of Canada candidates in the 1988 Canadian federal election, because you treated the two parent categories differently from each other on grounds where there wasn't actually a difference between them.

Specifically, you decided to keep Category:Christian Heritage Party of Canada candidates for the Canadian House of Commons on the grounds that it also had list overview articles like Christian Heritage Party of Canada candidates in the 1988 Canadian federal election — but if that's grounds for keeping that category, then Category:Co-operative Commonwealth Federation candidates for the Canadian House of Commons also has to be kept, because list overview articles like Co-operative Commonwealth Federation candidates in the 1940 Canadian federal election were present there too. So such lists can't be grounds for keeping one category but not the other, if both categories had them — either they both have to be kept on the grounds of the list articles that they both have, or they both have to be deleted regardless of the list articles. We can't treat them differently from each other on grounds that didn't actually make them any different from each other. Bearcat (talk) 18:45, 12 December 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Bearcat: Thanks for pointing that out. On further investigation, the problem actually seems to be that the Commonwealth Federation candidate overview articles were actually never placed in Category:Co-operative Commonwealth Federation candidates for the Canadian House of Commons; they are only categorized in the "Candidates in the XXXX Canadian federal election" category tree. By contrast, the Christian Heritage party articles are in both trees. Unfortunately, when I closed the CFD, I only noticed that the Commonwealth Federation category had non-overview articles in it, so I had listed it for deletion. I will restore it and populate it in a similar fashion to Category:Christian Heritage Party of Canada candidates for the Canadian House of Commons (which needs to be purged of non-overview articles anyway). bibliomaniac15 23:12, 12 December 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Category:Government bodies in New Jersey with .gov websites is still populated, despite your closure of the relevant CfD as "delete". I believe the the other categories listed have already been deleted and depopulated. Alansohn (talk) 19:52, 21 December 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Alansohn: Thanks for letting me know. I've added it to WP:CFD/W. bibliomaniac15 20:01, 21 December 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thanks so much for taking care of this and doing it so quickly. Alansohn (talk) 21:22, 21 December 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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• The deployment of the reply tool as an opt-out feature, as announced in last month's newsletter, has been delayed to 7 March. Feedback and comments are being welcomed at Wikipedia talk:Talk pages project. (T296645)
• Special:Nuke will now allow the selection of standard deletion reasons to be used when mass-deleting pages. This was a Community Wishlist Survey request from 2022. (T25020)
• The ability to undelete the talk page when undeleting a page using Special:Undelete or the API will be added soon. This change was requested in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey. (T295389)

Arbitration

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Does "CVG", listed as one of the topics you deal with on the peer review volunteer list, stand for "computer video games"? I am asking because I would like to request feedback for a video game article that is on peer review. I would definitely appreciate it, for I have plans to nominate it for featured article candidacy. The game’s named Fallout, and the peer review can be accessed here. Of course, it is possible that CVG does not stand for computer video games. Don’t feel too inclined to provide feedback. Lazman321 (talk) 05:03, 2 March 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi, I hope you are well.

If you have time, please could you help out some more at CFD? I think I am now WP:INVOLVED on all the ones at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Old_unclosed_discussions dated up to 31 January. – Fayenatic London 19:50, 8 March 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Fayenatic london: Hey there, I've been pretty busy IRL, which is why I haven't been closing CFDs these days. But I'll take a look the next couple days and knock a few of them out. I'm gonna give a shoutout to a vet who's been active in closing XFDs these days: Explicit, would you be down to chip at some of the CFD backlog? bibliomaniac15 00:38, 9 March 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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• An RfC is open proposing a change to the minimum activity requirements for administrators.

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• Access to Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have the deletelogentry and deletedhistory rights. This means that those in the Researcher user group and Checkusers who are not administrators can now access Special:RevisionDelete. The users able to view the special page after this change are the 3 users in the Researcher group, as there are currently no checkusers who are not already administrators. (T301928)
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Arbitration

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Miscellaneous

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22:52, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

User:TyronMcLannister is vandalising the wikipage Chinese Australians by repeatedly removing Chinese Australians of partial European descent despite leaving out other wikipages Cornish Australians and German Australians that contain famous figures that are of mixed cornish and mixed german ancestry as well. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rooveaouravevo (talk • contribs) 05:12, 16 April 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• This is a brand-new account whose entire field of interest is original research in citing sources in specific two articles:[2] and [3], as well as changing the established definition of ethnicity in the article to its own. My friendly and polite attempts [4] to explain to the new user that it is necessary to cooperate and seek consensus with other editors based on reliable sources were unsuccessful, he began a vindictive action of accusing me of vandalism and spamming these accusations, including on the administrators talk pages as we can see. Clear case of WP:NOTHERE. TyronMcLannister (talk) 12:24, 16 April 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Religious community. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. --evrik ^(talk) 02:15, 20 April 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Evrik: Generally speaking, before you start a DR, you should just contact the closing admin first to see if it's necessary in the first place. Your request is pretty uncontroversial and doesn't really require extra discussion; I've gone ahead and undeleted for history purposes, as you requested. bibliomaniac15 04:17, 20 April 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• Thank you. --evrik ^(talk) 04:20, 20 April 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• On another topic, Yunshui appears to have left the project. Could you restore the history of Samuel Clift? Thanks. --evrik ^(talk) 16:26, 27 April 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

  I don't think this request is necessary. Looking at the history, the articles that were speedily deleted were about a different, non-notable BLP Samuel Clift. bibliomaniac15 18:00, 27 April 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Ten years ago, you were found precious. That's what you are, always. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:06, 21 April 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Hi. I hope you are doing well. just saw your comment at the crat chat regarding Tamzin's RfA. In special:diff/1085684314, I was talking about the same RfA. Nice coincidence, eh? —usernamekiran (talk) 17:21, 2 May 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Haha I think referencing that RFA shows my wiki-age more than anything. I think it was memorable to me because it was the very first RFA to hit WP:300, but of course, there were certainly more contemporary RFAs I could have referenced instead. bibliomaniac15 18:41, 2 May 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, a change has been made to the administrators inactivity policy. Under the new policy, if an administrator has not made at least 100 edits over a period of 5 years they may be desysopped for inactivity.
• Following a discussion on the bureaucrat's noticeboard, a change has been made to the bureaucrats inactivity policy.

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• The ability to undelete the associated talk page when undeleting a page has been added. This was the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
• A public status system for WMF wikis has been created. It is located at https://www.wikimediastatus.net/ and is hosted separately to WMF wikis so in the case of an outage it will remain viewable.

Arbitration

• Remedy 2 of the St Christopher case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to place a ban on single-purpose accounts who were disruptively editing on the article St Christopher Iba Mar Diop College of Medicine or related pages from those pages.

Hello, I was looking at the Komodo dragon article, which is at this point a very old FA. (It's currently on the list at URFA.) I was actually on the article looking for information about the distribution of the current population, and this feels an area that the article currently lacks. There's isolated notes about a couple of populations and the infobox map, but no section discussing it. A section covering this sort of info for example, would be great, incorporating perhaps that last current paragraph in the main Conservation section. Aside from that, I was wondering if you had any thoughts on the quality of the article as it stands now, with relation to the FA criteria. There's some areas where the prose will need rewriting, but I am not sure if this is a large job or a small one. Thoughts welcome, and thank you of course for putting together this page back in the day. Best, CMD (talk) 08:10, 24 May 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thanks for letting me know! I think the article definitely shows its age, and there have been several parts that have been added over time, especially with regards to newer developments about venom. If I'm being honest, I've been kind of anticipating an audit of the article these past few years. Unfortunately, my activity has been rather low these past months (and probably through June as well) because of busyness IRL, so I'm not sure how much bandwidth I'll have. But I'll see what I can do on my spare time. Thanks so much for letting me know. bibliomaniac15 03:37, 25 May 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi Bibliomaniac15, I've had another look at this, and I'm afraid I've come to the conclusion that updating this article would be a large job, not a small one. I've added a summary of some issues on the article talkpage, and listed this as a formal URFA notification. Generally this leads to a formal review after two to three weeks if there is no action, but the timeframe isn't that important so let me know if it's something you would have time to work on. I actually wish I had time to work on this topic myself, but sadly I am also quite busy irl and already have a backlog of wiki to do items that I am not getting to. CMD (talk) 12:49, 24 June 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thanks. I will be out of town this coming week with little Internet access so I won't be on Wikipedia at all. On the side, I've been compiling some research but it has been a long time since I've really touched the article too. Thanks so much for your review. I'll take a closer look when I get back. bibliomaniac15 17:08, 24 June 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2022).

Administrator changes Tamzin Barek • Darkwind • Geometry guy • ProcseeBot • RoyBoy • Sean Whitton • Valereee • Visorstuff • WAvegetarian Sn0wflake → VersedFenrir

CheckUser changes Ivanvector

Guideline and policy news

• Several areas of improvement collated from community member votes have been identified in the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines. The areas of improvement have been sent back for review and you are invited to provide input on these areas.

Technical news

• Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. (T307341)
• The IP Info feature has been deployed to all wikis as a Beta Feature. Any autoconfirmed user may enable the feature using the "IP info" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features. Autoconfirmed users will be able to access basic information about an IP address that includes the country and connection method. Those with advanced privileges (admin, bureaucrat, checkuser) will have access to extra information that includes the Internet Service Provider and more specific location.

Arbitration

• Remedy 2 of the Rachel Marsden case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to delete or reduce to a stub, together with their talk pages, articles related to Rachel Marsden when they violate Wikipedia's biographies of living persons policy.
• An arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been closed.

Hello I need to say that I like you so enjoy your day Mr. Bibliomainac fiveteen — Preceding unsigned comment added by Usethename2 (talk • contribs) 23:23, 3 July 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2022).

Administrator changes AA • Gwalla • Ioeth • Laurascudder • Moriori (deceased) • Nat • Rfl Drilnoth → AFigureOfBlue Bureaucrat changes Lee Vilenski

Interface administrator changes Nihiltres

Technical news

• user_global_editcount is a new variable that can be used in abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users. (T130439)

Arbitration

• An arbitration case regarding conduct in deletion-related editing has been opened.

Miscellaneous

• The New Pages Patrol queue has around 10,000 articles to be reviewed. As all administrators have the patrol right, please consider helping out. The queue is here. For further information on the state of the project, see the latest NPP newsletter.

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2022).

Administrator changes

Valereee

Anthony Appleyard (deceased) • Capitalistroadster • Samsara

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC has been closed with consensus to add javascript that will show edit notices for editors editing via a mobile device. This only works for users using a mobile browser, so iOS app editors will still not be able to see edit notices.
• An RfC has been closed with the consensus that train stations are not inherently notable.

Technical news

• The Wikimania 2022 Hackathon will take place virtually from 11 August to 14 August.
• Administrators will now see links on user pages for "Change block" and "Unblock user" instead of just "Block user" if the user is already blocked. (T308570)

Arbitration

• The arbitration case request Geschichte has been automatically closed after a 3 month suspension of the case.

Miscellaneous

• You can vote for candidates in the 2022 Board of Trustees elections from 16 August to 30 August. Two community elected seats are up for election.
• Wikimania 2022 is taking place virtually from 11 August to 14 August. The schedule for wikimania is listed here. There are also a number of in-person events associated with Wikimania around the world.
• Tech tip: When revision-deleting on desktop, hold ⇧ Shift between clicking two checkboxes to select every box in that range.

I think you need the first line as no consensus to delete per the bot instructions. Thanks for your work on closing CFDs! — Qwerfjkltalk 07:44, 27 August 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thanks for the heads up! And thank you for closing CFDs...this is the cleanest I've ever seen things! bibliomaniac15 17:25, 27 August 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2022).

Administrator changes DanCherek • DatGuy • Femke • Z1720 Aldux • Graham Beards • Nyttend

Interface administrator changes Mr. Stradivarius

Guideline and policy news

• A discussion is open to define a process by which Vector 2022 can be made the default for all users.
• An RfC is open to gain consensus on whether Fox News is reliable for science and politics.

Technical news

• The impact report on the effects of disabling IP editing on the Persian (Farsi) Wikipedia has been released.
• The WMF is looking into making a Private Incident Reporting System (PIRS) system to improve the reporting of harmful incidents through easier and safer reporting. You can leave comments on the talk page by answering the questions provided. Users who have faced harmful situations are also invited to join a PIRS interview to share the experience. To sign up please email Madalina Ana.

Arbitration

• An arbitration case regarding Conduct in deletion-related editing has been closed. The Arbitration Committee passed a remedy as part of the final decision to create a request for comment (RfC) on how to handle mass nominations at Articles for Deletion (AfD).
• The arbitration case request Jonathunder has been automatically closed after a 6 month suspension of the case.

Miscellaneous

• The new pages patrol (NPP) team has prepared an appeal to the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) for assistance with addressing Page Curation bugs and requested features. You are encouraged to read the open letter before it is sent, and if you support it, consider signing it. It is not a discussion, just a signature will suffice.
• Voting for candidates for the Wikimedia Board of Trustees is open until 6 September.

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The Wikimedia Foundation Inc. Board of Trustees election ends soon, please vote. At least one of the candidates is worthy of support. --MZMcBride (talk) 14:50, 5 September 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

  Wishing Bibliomaniac15 a very happy bureaucratship anniversary on behalf of the Birthday Committee! Chris Troutman (talk) 15:24, 9 September 2022 (UTC) Reply[reply]

Happy bureaucratship anniversary! Hi Bibliomaniac15! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of your successful request for bureaucratship. Enjoy this special day! CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 17:21, 9 September 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I have nominated Komodo Dragon for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. CMD (talk) 16:17, 16 September 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hi Bibliomaniac15, I have started a bureaucrat discussion for ScottishFinnishRadish's RfA. It can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/ScottishFinnishRadish/Bureaucrat chat. Thanks in advance. Acalamari 01:37, 20 September 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2022).

Administrator changes ScottishFinnishRadish Staxringold Ahoerstemeier (deceased) • Ched

Interface administrator changes Cyberpower678 CheckUser changes GorillaWarfare

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, consensus was found that if the rationale for a block depends on information that is not available to all administrators, that information should be sent to the Arbitration Committee, a checkuser or an oversighter for action (as applicable, per ArbCom's recent updated guidance) instead of the administrator making the block.
• Following an RfC, consensus has been found that, in the context of politics and science, the reliability of FoxNews.com is unclear and that additional considerations apply to its use.
• Community comment on the revised Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines is requested until 8 October.

Technical news

• The Articles for creation helper script now automatically recognises administrator accounts which means your name does not need to be listed at WP:AFCP to help out. If you wish to help out at AFC, enable AFCH by navigating to Preferences → Gadgets and checking the "Yet Another AfC Helper Script" box.

Arbitration

• Remedy 8.1 of the Muhammad images case will be rescinded 1 November following a motion.
• A modification to the deletion RfC remedy in the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been made to reaffirm the independence of the RfC and allow the moderators to split the RfC in two.
• The second phase of the 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review closes 3 October.

Miscellaneous

• An administrator's account was recently compromised. Administrators are encouraged to check that their passwords are secure, and reminded that ArbCom reserves the right to not restore adminship in cases of poor account security. You can also use two-factor authentication (2FA) to provide an extra level of security.
• Self-nominations for the electoral commission for the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections open 2 October and close 8 October.
• You are invited to comment on candidates in the 2022 CUOS appointments process.
• An RfC is open to discuss whether to make Vector 2022 the default skin on desktop.
• Tech tip: You can do a fuzzy search of all deleted page titles at Special:Undelete.

Sorry to disturb you but i need some help. I'm a non registered user writing from Italy. I don't know if you can help me but i hope that you can check if there's some mischievous activity going on on the italian wiki. The situation that i'm going to explain in a few lines is really quite strange. Strange to the point that an administrator user back in Italy is protecting or somehow allowing a set of "harmful" actions by a group of users.

A month ago i tried to correct some data on a page on wikipedia italy. The data that i corrected consisted of readily verifiable facts that could not result unknown to someone that has a knowledge of the argument described in the relative voice. The page that i tried to contribute to is just the page of "Scuderia Ferrari", a simple sport, historical page, not a big deal, at lest in my mind. So i expected everything to run smoothly. I was utterly wrong. I found myself in a subsequent series of "Godfather movie" situations.

A group of users, aided by some privileged ones, are modyfying the chronology of the page (at the code level) and de facto cancel every contribution (both at the page level, at the discussion level and are even able to erase themselves out of the chronology of the modifcations when they put out offensive remarks or make some other mischief). This is an inexplicably childish behaviour that acts against everything wikipedia should be, an open contribution tool that with cooperation tools aids the users to better the quality of the free hypertext. What i'm finding particularly wrong is the erase process of the discussion page. I had spent some time to put on the page all the things that could help in reaching an informed consensus about the subject ( corroborating facts, a set of bibliographical references, a set of questions that could allow the users to share their knowledge on the subject and focus on the key points in order to clear the argument). If one, in addition to rapid, vaguely justified if justified at all, rollback actions, cancels the chronolgy it becomes impossible even for future users to check the facts and take part in the discussion.

Wiki is a wonderfull instrument but, if you give it to the wrong people or if the wrong people have too much power, it becomes useless.

I tried to contact you, as an outside user administrator, because i hope that you could check what i say in an independent, maybe anonymous way, with a level of competency that is higher than the mere "edit war" conflict.

Thank you Alberto

P.S. I'll try also to make these things known to a random user administrator in Italy and hope for the best 151.68.183.39 (talk) 11:28, 4 October 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2022).

Administrator changes

• 
  • Isabelle Belato
  • Whpq
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  • Atama
  • Astronautics~enwiki
  • Athaenara
  • Eddie891
  • GraemeL
  • Marianocecowski
  • Natalya
  • Pratyeka
  • SB Johnny

Interface administrator changes

• TheresNoTime
• Ragesoss

CheckUser changes

• 
  • Blablubbs
  • Firefly
• Joe Roe

Oversight changes

• DGG

Guideline and policy news

• The article creation at scale RfC opened on 3 October and will be open until at least 2 November.
• An RfC is open to discuss having open requests for adminship automatically placed on hold after the seven-day period has elapsed, pending closure or other action by a bureaucrat.

Arbitration

• Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 13 November 2022 until 22 November 2022 to stand in the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections.
• The arbitration case request titled Athaenara has been resolved by motion.
• The arbitration case Reversal and reinstatement of Athaenara's block has entered the proposed decision stage.
• AmandaNP, Mz7 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2022 Arbitration Committee Elections. Xaosflux and Dr vulpes are reserve commissioners.

Miscellaneous

• The 2022 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of two new CheckUsers.
• You can add yourself to the centralised page listing time zones of administrators.
• Tech tip: Wikimarkup in a block summary is parsed in the notice that the blockee sees. You can use templates with custom options to specify situations like ((rangeblock|create=yes)) or ((uw-ublock|contains profanity)).

I have nominated history of timekeeping devices to be today's featured article on January 1. You are invited to comment on the nomination by clicking here. Z1720 (talk) 02:08, 6 November 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Would you mind closing the open discussions of September and early October at WP:CFD? It concerns only a very limited number of discussions but it gets about time they are closed. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:49, 11 November 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Sorry for the late reply. I'll be looking into them this week. bibliomaniac15 23:09, 21 November 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hello! Voting in the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 12 December 2022. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2022).

Administrator changes

• Eddie891
• Euryalus
• TheresNoTime

• Alex.muller
• Excirial
• RedWordSmith
• Ron Ritzman
• TheresNoTime
• Stephen

Interface administrator changes

TheresNoTime

TheresNoTime

CheckUser changes

TheresNoTime

Oversight changes

TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

• Consensus has been found in an RfC to automatically place RfAs on hold after one week.
• The article creation at scale RfC has been closed.
• An RfC on the banners for the December 2022 fundraising campaign has been closed.

Technical news

• A new preference named "Enable limited width mode" has been added to the Vector 2022 skin. The preference is also shown as a toggle on every page if your monitor is 1600 pixels or wider. When disabled it removes the whitespace added by Vector 2022 on the left and right of the page content. Disabling this preference has the same effect as enabling the wide-vector-2022 gadget. (T319449)

Arbitration

• Eligible users are invited to vote on candidates for the Arbitration Committee until 23:59 December 12, 2022 (UTC). Candidate statements can be seen here.
• The proposed decision for the 2021-22 review of the discretionary sanctions system is open.
• The arbitration case Reversal and reinstatement of Athaenara's block has been closed.
• The arbitration case Stephen has been opened and the proposed decision is expected 1 December 2022.
• A motion has modified the procedures for contacting an admin facing Level 2 desysop.

Miscellaneous

• Tech tip: A single IPv6 connection usually has access to a "subnet" of 18 quintillion IPs. Add /64 to the end of an IP in Special:Contributions to see all of a subnet's edits, and consider blocking the whole subnet rather than an IP that may change within a minute.

Hi. I noticed you are an ambassador for the Chinese language. I was wondering if you could add a sound file with the pronunciation of the Chinese language name in Chinese in the linked relevant page. Here is an example in the Swedish language page. Even though it is one of the most spoken languages in the world, in English few people know how it is called and pronounced in Chinese. It would be a great addition. Cheers! Thinker78 (talk) 22:00, 2 December 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

January songs

happy new year

Thank you and the whole team today for the article, introduced (in 2008!): "This is the second Tzatziki Squad collaboration up for your scrutiny." - A timely contribution! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:14, 1 January 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

today, I point at two singers I whose performance I enjoyed. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:15, 6 January 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2022).

Administrator changes

• ComplexRational
• Extraordinary Writ

Stephen

• Andrew Yong
• Dbenbenn
• DESiegel
• GlassCobra
• Joe Decker
• Nancy
• Pathoschild
• StuffOfInterest
• William Pietri
• Wwwwolf
• Xdamr

Interface administrator changes

Nihiltres

CheckUser changes

Moneytrees

• Ivanvector
• SilkTork

Oversighter changes

• GeneralNotability
• Moneytrees

• Guerillero
• SilkTork

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.

The RfA for MB has gone to a bureaucrat chat. Please join in the discussion. Primefac (talk) 15:01, 8 January 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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

Administrator changes Gimmetrow Bjelleklang Bob the Wikipedian Leithp WhisperToMe 100 inactive admins

CheckUser changes BDD Bradv Donald Albury Maxim MusikAnimal Oversighter changes BDD Bradv Donald Albury Maxim

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.

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

Administrator changes The Wordsmith Fuhghettaboutit Spinningspark (deceased)

CheckUser changes Callanecc Oversighter changes Callanecc

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.

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

Administrator changes Aoidh KillerChihuahua

CheckUser changes Ferret

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.

Quick question about manually re-organizing the thriller drama category. (as discussed here). I've started slowly going through some of the categories just making sure the genres match prose in the articles and doing some mild cleaning here and there. Is the best way to do it do you think? I haven't done any category organizing in a while. Andrzejbanas (talk) 01:49, 24 April 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Yep, that looks fine. Thanks for being bold! bibliomaniac15 01:51, 24 April 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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

Administrator changes Spicy Ale jrb Dbachmann DGG (deceased) Jimbo Wales

CheckUser changes Jimbo Wales Oversighter changes Jimbo Wales

Guideline and policy news

• 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.

Hi,I am anonymous user. बॉट has also added a description of Bangladesh Congress President Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury as acting president, even though he has not served as president.Others have added English to the official language of Equatorial Guinea. What should me do. please make a prudent decision.240F:31:3402:1:44C6:DFA8:21CE:17C0 (talk) 05:56, 4 June 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Shirin Sharmin likely to become Bangladesh's first woman President बॉट (talk) 06:17, 4 June 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

If so, please add it after her is officially sworn in as president. The official languages of Equatorial Guinea are Spanish, French, and Portuguese. No other languages are official. We can talk about the rest on my talk page.240F:31:3402:1:44C6:DFA8:21CE:17C0 (talk) 06:21, 4 June 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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

Administrator changes Ingenuity Ddstretch Prodego Resolute

CheckUser changes Courcelles

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.

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

Administrator changes

Novem Linguae

• Deckiller
• Electionworld
• MBisanz
• Penwhale
• Raul654
• Roadrunner
• Viridae
• Yannismarou

Bureaucrat changes

MBisanz

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.

Please see Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Pppery/Bureaucrat chat and join the discussion when you have an opportunity. Maxim (talk) 18:12, 7 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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

Administrator changes

Firefangledfeathers

• AlisonW
• Amberrock
• Closedmouth
• Scottywong

Interface administrator changes

Novem Linguae

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.

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

Administrator changes Pppery Theleekycauldron Dwheeler G.A.S Royalbroil Ssd

CheckUser changes Bradv Oversighter changes Bradv

Guideline and policy news

• 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.

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. Regular closers of XfD forums were also encouraged to note when broader community discussion, or changes to policies and guidelines, would be helpful.