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

Administrator changes

Clovermoss

Dennis Brown

• Julia W
• Marasmusine
• PBS

CheckUser changes

• Aoidh
• HJ Mitchell
• Sdrqaz
• Spicy
• ToBeFree
• Vanamonde93
• Z1720

Maxim

• Enterprisey
• Izno
• SilkTork

Oversighter changes

• Aoidh
• Firefly
• Sdrqaz
• ToBeFree
• Z1720

Maxim

• Enterprisey
• Izno
• SilkTork

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• Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee rescinded the restrictions on the page name move discussions for the two Ireland pages that were enacted in June 2009.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.

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A category or categories you have created have been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 January 6 § Category:Alumni by university or college in the United Kingdom on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Qwerfjkltalk 17:44, 6 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

A tag has been placed on Category:Newspaper editors of the Americas indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. ✗plicit 15:40, 7 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

That's fine. The former contents are now better structured in North & South. – Fayenatic London 23:33, 7 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I was looking at List of Luxembourgish films because Template:GetCountryNameFromAdjective does not work with it. In your 2012 move you linked to the project talk page which had a discussion that lead to to Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2012 November 12#Luxembourgian where there was no consensus to move the categories. So which form should we use Luxembourgian or Luxembourgish? Gonnym (talk) 15:47, 11 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Gonnym: For an essay on the options, see User:Brigade Piron/"Luxembourg", "Luxembourgish" or "Luxembourgian"?

We note that category names for people can be considered separately, usually using the demonym, which may be different from the adjective used for other topics – e.g. the consistent trees around Philippine films and Filipino film directors.

WP:WikiProject Luxembourg has stated since Sept 2015 that "Luxembourg" is currently the preferred adjective… 'Luxembourger' is the undisputed demonym.[1]

"Undisputed demonym" may be incorrect, since Luxembourger has been explained as an ethnonym rather than demonym. "Luxembourgian" was then kept as the least bad option for people categories at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2015 October 19#Category:Luxembourgian people.

The ethnic group article Luxembourgers cites the EU re "Luxembourgish" being the adjective.[2] Wikipedia does not follow that source for other countries, e.g. in Literature by country we use Tajikistani rather than Tajik, and Kiribati rather than Kiribatian; although it should perhaps carry more weight in the case of Luxembourg.

@Brigade Piron: would it be timely to make a fresh attempt to align e.g. Category:Luxembourgian films and List of Luxembourgish films, perhaps using "Luxembourg films" to avoid confusion with Luxembourgish language? – Fayenatic London 12:57, 12 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I have personally always preferred Luxembourgish as the adjective. It is true that local preferences should not be decisive but there is no good reason to ignore them where there is no consensus for an alternative either. I don't think there is any risk of confusion with the language, and surely no more than there would be for List of French films or List of German films. I do prefer Luxembourg to Luxembourgian but having been very exercised about this issue about a decade ago I have also come to the conclusion that life is short... —Brigade Piron (talk) 23:02, 12 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

A category or categories you have created have been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you, Suonii180 (talk) 02:23, 16 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Category:Journalism in the Americas has been nominated for merging to Category:Journalism by continent. A discussion is taking place to decide whether it complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Place Clichy (talk) 02:04, 22 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hello, Fayenatic london. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "List of companies formed by merger".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:36, 23 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thanks. Notification passed on to User talk:UnitedStatesian. – Fayenatic London 08:51, 24 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

It seems that you replied or commented on old stuff at the top of my talk page, that I had been ignoring. I pay very little attention to the top of my talk page, except to email alerts that someone has edited my talk page. Messages at the top of my talk page either have already scrolled to the top and are about to be archived by ClueBot, or were posted to the top by either of two types of ignorant users, those who don't know how talk pages work, or those who stupidly think that posting to the top gets my attention. So in checking on notification that you posted to my talk page, I see that you commented on stuff that I wasn't looking at anyway.

So, is there a reason why you commented on messages that I was already ignoring? Is there something that I should pay attention to, or were you just telling me to ignore things that were already in limbo? I am assuming that you were trying to be helpful, but was there something that you were suggesting that I do, or were you just doing well-meaning busywork that caused me to do more busywork? Robert McClenon (talk) 17:45, 27 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Robert McClenon: I went to your page looking for someone experienced at MFD, and was going to ask your advice about a user with lots of unexplained WP:COPYARTICLEs, but then I noticed that that editor was more active on another Wikipedia, so I left them a follow-up message there.

Sorry for the distraction! The messages on your talk page will be archived by ClueBot now that they are headed and signed, but it has skipped them until now. Forgive me omitting to leave you a note after meddling like a WP:TPS. – Fayenatic London 17:54, 27 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thank you for explaining that the messages were not being archived because they were not signed. I had almost forgotten that.

Do you have a question about fake articles? Sometimes they should be redirected to the article, and sometimes they should be deleted. What namespace are they in? Robert McClenon (talk) 18:20, 27 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

You're welcome for that! The pages I have in mind are in user space. I keep coming across them when checking backlinks after category changes. – Fayenatic London 22:42, 27 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

That's a lot of copies. If I saw any of them at MFD, I would !vote to Redirect them to the articles that they are copies of. The only reason that I am not recommending that you nominate them for MFD is that it will be a lot of work to list what they are copies of. Robert McClenon (talk) 05:35, 28 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2024).

Administrator changes

• Red-tailed hawk
• Robertsky

• Ameliorate!
• Ancheta Wis
• Anthony Bradbury (deceased)
• Cobi
• Ev
• Moondyne
• Worm That Turned

Bureaucrat changes

Worm That Turned

CheckUser changes

Wugapodes

Interface administrator changes

• Enterprisey
• Izno

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.

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• 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
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After I created a CFD that you voted at and since there was a unanimous decision to merge Category:Missing people found deceased into Category:Formerly missing people, I think that we should leave it the way it is and as I stated being a formerly missing person can apply to someone being found either alive or dead and being found dead in NOT defining. Yet there is still talk about starting another CFD. Perhaps you could let the people here who are discussing this that there is absolutely no need to. Davidgoodheart (talk) 16:52, 2 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Davidgoodheart: WP:Consensus can change, especially if new arguments are presented, or if it is shown that some were not given due weight before.

In this case I'm not going to stop people discussing whether some or all of these articles should be purged from the merged category. Admins are here to implement consensus, not to impose it. – Fayenatic London 13:43, 3 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thanks for uploading File:FayeWong-EyesOnMe.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 18:21, 14 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

For the record, that's just been undone by another editor, see Talk:Eyes_on_Me_(Faye_Wong_song)#2021_merge. – Fayenatic London 21:17, 20 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Happy adminship anniversary! Hi Fayenatic london! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of your successful request for adminship. Enjoy this special day! The Herald (Benison) (talk) 05:21, 18 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I'm wondering why on February 23 you added a copyright issue to Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2024 February 14 rather than adding it to Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2024 February 23? -- Pemilligan (talk) 01:21, 24 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]