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Administrators' newsletter – September 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2023).
- 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
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- Special:Contributions now shows the user's local edit count and the account's creation date. (T324166)
- 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 tonote when broader community discussion, or changes to policies and guidelines, would be helpful
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- Tech tip: The "Browse history interactively" banner shown at the top of Special:Diff can be used to easily look through a history, assemble composite diffs, or find out what archive something wound up in.
ITN recognition for 2023 Johannesburg building fire
On 1 September 2023, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article 2023 Johannesburg building fire, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 17:32, 1 September 2023 (UTC)
External link tag for Rebecca Sparling page
Hello,
Thank you for your edits to the Rebecca Sparling article! Very helpful.
I saw you placed an External link warning tag for this article. I read the Wiki page on External links but I'm still confused.
What is the issue with the external links used in this article? I only used an external link when the Wikipedia page for that topic had a lot of warnings at the top of the page, so they were potentially unreliable Wikis and I didn't want to link to them. How can I fix the issue?
Once it's fixed, can you please remove the tag?
Thank you! Jdsmith33 (talk) 21:59, 2 September 2023 (UTC)
- Hi Jdsmith33. Our Manual of Style doesn't allow external links in the body of the article (WP:ELNO), only links to other Wikipedia articles. Hyperlinks in the Rebecca Sparling article to outside websites (American Malleable Iron handbook, Western Machinery and Steel World, Non Destructive Testing, American Society for Testing Materials, ASM International, etc.) need to removed. We usually link to the Wikipedia articles even if they have warnings at the top of the page. gobonobo + c 22:27, 2 September 2023 (UTC)
- Okay thank you! I just edited it and moved all external links to the External links heading. I may go back and add a few links to Wikipedia pages with warnings. Let me know if it looks okay now? Jdsmith33 (talk) 22:43, 2 September 2023 (UTC)
- @Jdsmith33 Looks good. Thank you. I've removed the warning template. gobonobo + c 22:46, 2 September 2023 (UTC)
- Yay, thank you! Finished all my edits. Just turned a couple external links into citations and a couple into Wikipedia page links. Jdsmith33 (talk) 23:00, 2 September 2023 (UTC)
- @Jdsmith33 Looks good. Thank you. I've removed the warning template. gobonobo + c 22:46, 2 September 2023 (UTC)
- Okay thank you! I just edited it and moved all external links to the External links heading. I may go back and add a few links to Wikipedia pages with warnings. Let me know if it looks okay now? Jdsmith33 (talk) 22:43, 2 September 2023 (UTC)
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Featuring your work on Wikipedia's front page: DYKs
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WikiCup 2023 September newsletter
The fourth round of the competition has finished, with anyone scoring less than 673 points being eliminated. It was a high scoring round with all but one of the contestants who progressed to the final having achieved an FA during the round. The highest scorers were
Epicgenius, with 2173 points topping the scores, gained mainly from a featured article, 38 good articles and 9 DYKs. He was followed by
Sammi Brie, with 1575 points, gained mainly from a featured article, 28 good articles and 50 good article reviews. Close behind was
Thebiguglyalien, with 1535 points mainly gained from a featured article, 15 good articles, 26 good article reviews and lots of bonus points.
Between them during round 4, contestants achieved 12 featured articles, 3 featured lists, 3 featured pictures, 126 good articles, 46 DYK entries, 14 ITN entries, 67 featured article candidate reviews and 147 good article reviews. Congratulations to our eight finalists and all who participated! It was a generally high-scoring and productive round and I think we can expect a highly competitive finish to the competition.
Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them and within 24 hours of the end of the final. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.
I will be standing down as a judge after the end of the contest. I think the Cup encourages productive editors to improve their contributions to Wikipedia and I hope that someone else will step up to take over the running of the Cup. Sturmvogel 66 (talk), and Cwmhiraeth (talk)
DYK for Nancy Brown (columnist)
On 11 September 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Nancy Brown (columnist), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that advice columnist Nancy Brown crowdfunded the reforestation of a clearcut during the Great Depression? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Nancy Brown (columnist). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Nancy Brown (columnist)), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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ITN recognition for Horace Ové
On 21 September 2023, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Horace Ové, which you nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Schwede66 19:33, 21 September 2023 (UTC)
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Administrators' newsletter – September 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2023).
- An RfC is open regarding amending the paid-contribution disclosure policy to add the following text:
Any administrator soliciting clients for paid Wikipedia-related consulting or advising services not covered by other paid-contribution rules must disclose all clients on their userpage.
- Administrators can now choose to add the user's user page to their watchlist when changing the usergroups for a user. This works both via Special:UserRights and via the API. (T272294)
- The 2023 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of one new CheckUser.
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BOLA AHMED TINUBU (ADEKUNLE)?
From your response Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu what was the last changes you made on the 07/08/2023 @ 13:03 UK TIME? Nigerians are not dumb.There was no history to check for as of 2009. Adekunle is not in his passport and Nigerians do not know the current president "Bola Ahmed Tinubu" as Adekunle.
It is high time you woke up and follow the part of Justice and honesty. We have proofs.
YOU WERE THE LAST TO EDIT HIS PROFILE AND HAVE SINCE THEN SUBJECTED IT TO RESTRICTIONS DUE TO MANY CHANGES AND DISCREPANCIES. #GOBONOBO. OGWAGZ (talk) 05:48, 8 October 2023 (UTC)
- @OGWAGZ I just fixed some spelling in my edit. You might be interested to know that the reference that was used in the 2009 addition of Adekunle to the article was from a 1999 Lagos House of Assembly committee report that reads "The Governor said he was born Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu in 1952." gobonobo + c 06:01, 8 October 2023 (UTC)
Secondary School
What about his secondary school 2607:FB91:1AE5:53CA:49FB:EB6:BB96:DE54 (talk) 16:42, 8 October 2023 (UTC)
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WikiProject assessment tags for talk pages
Thank you for your recent articles, including Abortion in North Korea, which I read with interest. When you create a new article, can you add the WikiProject assessment templates to the talk of that article? See the talk page of the article I mentioned for an example of what I mean. Usually it is very simple, you just add something like {{WikiProject Keyword}} to the article's talk, with keyword replaced by the associated WikiProject (ex. if it's a biography article, you would use WikiProject Biography; if it's a United States article, you would use WikiProject United States, and so on). You can also use a friendly script for that. You do not have to rate the article if you do not want to, others will do it eventually. Those templates are very useful, as they bring the articles to a WikiProject attention, and allow them to start tracking the articles through Wikipedia:Article alerts and other tools. For example, WikiProject Poland relies on such templates to generate listings such as Article Alerts, Popular Pages, Quality and Importance Matrix and the Cleanup Listing. Thanks to them, WikiProject members are more easily able to defend your work from deletion, or simply help try to improve it further. Feel free to ask me any questions if you'd like more information about using those talk page templates. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 06:38, 7 September 2023 (UTC)
- Hi @Piotrus. Thank you. I usually add the templates right away, but I was doing the 100 wikidays challenge at the time and figured I'd loop back around and add the WikiProjects after. gobonobo + c 03:52, 8 October 2023 (UTC)
- Sure. Try the script I linked, it makes it much easier! Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 05:41, 9 October 2023 (UTC)
BOLA AHMED TINUBU (ADEKUNLE)?
Recently, we noticed a change in the name of the president of Nigeria "President Bola Ahmed Tinubu " as "Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu ". We have also noticed that you have been one of the wiki-editors of his profile over the years.
QUESTION: How and since when did Bola Ahmed Tinubu became known as "Adekunle"
The entire Nation has recently learnt that their president's name has changed so being from a well respected platform and and an editor since 2006, we want to know the basis of this change and who authorized it. Leave me a reply via.. OGWAGZ (talk) 03:03, 8 October 2023 (UTC)
- Hi @OGWAGZ. Please tell everyone that "Adekunle" wasn't recently added to the article for Bola Tinubu. As far as I can tell, it was added back in 2009. Anyone can check what specific changes have been made by clicking on the history tab, which shows every single change that has ever been made to the article. gobonobo + c 03:30, 8 October 2023 (UTC)
- @GobonoboThe Adekunle you added to Mr. Tinubu's names was done 13:03 hours on 7th October 2023, if you this is not true, what then did you Edited on Mr. Tinubu's Profile? 41.184.162.11 (talk) 08:52, 9 October 2023 (UTC)
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Political views of Javier Milei
Hello, I'm Cambalachero. I noticed that you recently removed all content from Political views of Javier Milei. Please do not do this. Blank pages are harmful to Wikipedia because they have a tendency to confuse readers. As a rule, if you discover a duplicate article, please redirect it to an appropriate existing page. If a page has been vandalised, please revert it to the last legitimate version. If you feel that the content of a page is inappropriate, please edit the page and replace it with appropriate content. If you believe there is no hope for the page, please see the deletion policy for how to proceed. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the removed content has been restored. If you wish to experiment, please use your sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Cambalachero (talk) 18:25, 26 October 2023 (UTC)
- I left a response over at Talk:Javier Milei. gobonobo + c 18:48, 26 October 2023 (UTC)
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Vandalism of the user Pedantic Aristotle
Hello, Gobonobo. The user Pedantic Aristotle is undoing his edits in this pages: Political views of Javier Milei and Political positions of Javier Milei. This user insists at all costs on imposing, without any consensus, an article that does not have any neutrality and that does not reflect the original article. Additionally, creating an article of this type seems totally unnecessary to me. The original article by Javier Milei already addresses his political views and positions in a complete and profound way. Also, how is it possible that this user has made 2 articles on the same topic? And if that were not enough, now it is massively deleting information from the article in La Libertad Avanza, the coalition of politician Javier Milei. This user is causing a lot of problems in Wikipedia. Piertosiri (talk) 15:13, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
- Its ok if we disagree, but lets discuss in the Talk page, instead of edit war each other. Pedantic Aristotle (talk) 16:34, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
- Also, to correct myself, i used the word vandalism incorrectly, what i meant was disruptive editing, apologies for any confusion. Pedantic Aristotle (talk) 16:45, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
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WikiCup 2023 November newsletter
The WikiCup is a marathon rather than a sprint and all those reaching the final round have been involved in the competition for the last ten months, improving Wikipedia vastly during the process. After all this hard work, BeanieFan11 has emerged as the 2023 winner and the WikiCup Champion. The finalists this year were:-
BeanieFan11 with 2582 points
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Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether they made it to the final round or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the competition, some of whom did very well. Wikipedia has benefitted greatly from the quality creations, expansions and improvements made, and the numerous reviews performed. All those who reached the final round will win awards. The following special awards will be made based on high performance in particular areas of content creation and review. Awards will be handed out in the next few days.
Unlimitedlead wins the featured article prize, for 7 FAs in total including 3 in round 2.
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MyCatIsAChonk wins the FA reviewer prize, for 66 FA reviews in the final round.
Epicgenius wins the DYK prize, for 49 did you know articles in total.
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The WikiCup has run every year since 2007. With the 2023 contest now concluded, I will be standing down as a judge due to real life commitments, so I hope that another editor will take over running the competition. Please get in touch if you are interested. Next year's competition will hopefully begin on 1 January 2024. You are invited to sign up to participate in the contest; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors. It only remains to congratulate our worthy winners once again and thank all participants for their involvement! (If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.) Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:51, 5 November 2023 (UTC)