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Administrators' newsletter – January 2024[edit]
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2023).
Administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Oversighter changes
Arbitration
- Following the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Aoidh, Cabayi, Firefly, HJ Mitchell, Maxim, Sdrqaz, ToBeFree, Z1720.
- Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee rescinded the restrictions on the page name move discussions for the two Ireland pages that were enacted in June 2009.
- The arbitration case Industrial agriculture has been closed.
Miscellaneous
- The New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in January 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 13,000 unreviewed articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!
Thanks![edit]
Thank you for your feedback on the teahouse, I really appreciate people who give me any advice!
Thanks! Geardona (talk to me?) 23:09, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
North Berwick[edit]
Just wanted to say thankyou for your deletions. As I said, I'm only trying to keep stuff updated, and in some kind of standard form. Station History is a title, and both should be in Capitals And the flag, well everyone has that, apart now from North Berwick? It would be nice to see some history of you contributing, not just deleting stuff that offends you. Ojsyork (talk) 12:30, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
- @Ojsyork: This article just happens to be on my watchlist, probably because I once had to remove some copyright-violating material from it and wanted to make sure that it wasn't readded. I'm sorry if other lifeboat-station articles do things differently, but it's those articles that need to be changed if they're not conforming to WP guidelines. Only the first words (and proper names) should be capitalized in section headings, and flag icons should generally be omitted in infobox entries. Deor (talk) 13:17, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
- I suppose what troubles me,
- is that there are far too many people nit picking about minor details, the odd space here and there, a capital letter when it should be lower case...while not being bothered that the content is actually valid, or actually making a positive contribution.
- I'm concerned with updating, keeping it valid, making it present in the same way as all the other stations to get some consistency. 1000's of updates, new lifeboats, numbers, etc etc. The format might not quite match someones view of what Wiki should be, might not be perfect in every way, but despite everything and everyone, I'm still trying to make it better.
- And here you are , You're just going to amend whatever you don't like ad infinitum, regardless of whether it matches 237 other station pages. Just because you can. Which is just ridiculous.
- Ojsyork (talk) 14:34, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
Comment from Deletion for Ubiquity: It's the other way around.[edit]
I can't seem to get reply to reply directly to your comment, but wanted to copy and paste it here to avoid confusion on the deletion page:
It is actually the other way around:
- I was compliant to the recommendation of this being directed to Wiktionary, as one option, and wrote the quotes section for wikt:ubiquitous, in case that becomes the decided option.
Starlighsky (talk) 02:39, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – February 2024[edit]
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2024).
Administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
- An RfC about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.
Technical news
- Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. (T326065)
Arbitration
- Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
- Community feedback is requested for a draft to replace the "Information for administrators processing requests" section at WP:AE.
Miscellaneous
- Voting in the 2024 Steward elections will begin on 06 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 27 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
- A vote to ratify the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open till 2 February 2024, 23:59:59 (UTC) via Secure Poll. All eligible voters within the Wikimedia community have the opportunity to either support or oppose the adoption of the U4C Charter and share their reasons. The details of the voting process and voter eligibility can be found here.
- Community Tech has made some preliminary decisions about the future of the Community Wishlist Survey. In summary, they aim to develop a new, continuous intake system for community technical requests that improves prioritization, resource allocation, and communication regarding wishes. Read more
- The Unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in February 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with ((Unreferenced)). You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!
User page[edit]
Thanks for commenting that out: it was a test, and I should have deleted it after use. — The Anome (talk) 20:15, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
You moved this article even though the majority of the sources use "Lung River" or "River Lung", seldom just the name "Lung", so moving it to a disambiguation title seems wrong. ww2censor (talk) 23:12, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
- My main concern was that the previous title "Lung river", with lowercase river, did not conform to WP:NCRIVER. I certainly considered both of those options, and almost decided on "River Lung", but I thought I found sufficient sources using just "Lung" to justify my choice. As WP:NCRIVER says, "When common usage does not include the word 'River', but disambiguation is required (e.g. the river Inn in central Europe), parenthetical, non-capitalized 'river' should be used: Inn (river)." If you think my choice was poor, you're certainly welcome to move the article to the title you think most justified (there would be a couple of double redirects to clear up). Deor (talk) 16:20, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
My sandbox[edit]
Thanks for your edit. Assure you I was going to get around to fixing that shortly (was working the act. approx. Route 571 & 547 coordinates for the infobox in question). Kieronoldham (talk) 02:25, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
Unfinished artistic works[edit]
Thanks for your revert here to Over the River. I'll add a filter to the bot to stop it putting on unfinished creative works. — The Anome (talk) 14:55, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – March 2024[edit]
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2024).
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Guideline and policy news
- Phase I of the 2024 RfA review is now open for participation. Editors are invited to review, comment on, and propose improvements to the requests for adminship process.
- Following an RfC, the inactivity requirement for the removal of the interface administrator right increased from 6 months to 12 months.
Technical news
- The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. (T353388)
Miscellaneous
- The 2024 appointees for the Ombuds commission are だ＊ぜ, AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Doǵu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, MdsShakil, Minorax, Nehaoua, Renvoy and RoySmith as members, with Vermont serving as steward-observer.
- Following the 2024 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Ajraddatz, Albertoleoncio, EPIC, JJMC89, Johannnes89, Melos and Yahya.
Hello Again[edit]
Hello Deor This isn't a complaint. More a bit of concern for you. You haven't done anything to upset me, I hope I don't upset you.
I just wanted to say I spent about 8 hours creating the Douglas Lifeboat Page. I thought it was pretty well there, not perfect, needs the odd tweek when I've sat and reflected. For YOUR own wellbeing, may I respectfully suggest that if you are jumping in on a brand new page less than 10 minutes old, just to add minor changes, then you seriously need to re-evaluate where you're heading in life. I appreciate this may be why you get up on a morning, but seriously - IT DOESN'T MATTER THAT MUCH. I worry for you. Please think about it. With very best wishes. MartinOjsyork (talk) 14:02, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
- @Ojsyork: You don't have to worry about me. I noticed your article because I've had that title watchlisted since I requested that a previous article at the title be deleted as a copyright violation. I think, however, that you're misreading MOS:INSTITUTIONS; look particularly at the bullet point reading "Generic words for institutions, organizations, companies, etc., and rough descriptions of them (university, college, hospital, church, high school) do not take capitals." You also may want to read WP:OWN. Deor (talk) 16:18, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
- I must admit, I find it incredibly frustrating that someone jumps in on a new page after only minutes. I believe it is frowned upon within Wiki, as it only serves to completely annoy the creator. They're right. I would prefer a bit of chat first.
- I do worry that some folk are completely obsessed with the minutia, instead of concentrating on the content being right. I feel that if I put "My Cock is 1ft long", nobody would worry about the text, but someone would pull me up for not using a non-breakable space!
- As previously discussed with yourself, I'm on a mission to try to improve all the RNLI pages, but I really am at the point where I'm likely to walk away soon, and not continue, as the level of nitpicking is just way beyond what is reasonable.
- I've had one guy completely rewrite everything I added on one page - if he's that keen, why didn't he do it first!
- Regarding Institution, I completely agree that in general conversation, institution should be in lower case. BUT - when it is used as a shortened form of a Name, then it should be Capitalised. I can't keep putting Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck, and RNIPLS looks naff, so Institution it is. I trust you'll let that one go. Nobody else seems worried.
- I can cope with most of the other tweeks, probably quite correct.
- MartinOjsyork (talk) 17:00, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
- PS. Regarding WP:OWN
- I'm quite aware that its not MY page.
- But I will defend what I think is right and wrong.
- I would like to get all the pages in the same kind of format. 99% are all the same, and then someone comes along, says that's wrong, and just changes that one page. I'm all for collaboration, and refinement to make things better, but some of this minutia detail stuff just seems a bit pointless. Get a life.
- I realise I'm not great at Hyphens, as I just can't be bothered typing Alt 0150 every time when I'm mid flow, and I don't have an endash on my keyboard.
- Someone set about changing them in all the Station histories, which were ALL the same, right or wrong, that's how it was. Wiki does allow things to be all the same, right or wrong. I think he did seven before he got bored. I know if I go and change them back, he'll revisit and change them all again, but it means 7 are different to all the rest. And Douglas.
- MartinOjsyork (talk) 17:12, 7 March 2024 (UTC)