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Administrators' newsletter – April 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2018).

Administrator changes

added 331dotCordless LarryClueBot NG
removed Gogo DodoPb30SebastiankesselSeicerSoLando

Guideline and policy news

  • Administrators who have been desysopped due to inactivity are now required to have performed at least one (logged) administrative action in the past 5 years in order to qualify for a resysop without going through a new RfA.
  • Editors who have been found to have engaged in sockpuppetry on at least two occasions after an initial indefinite block, for whatever reason, are now automatically considered banned by the community without the need to start a ban discussion.
  • The notability guideline for organizations and companies has been substantially rewritten following the closure of this request for comment. Among the changes, the guideline more clearly defines the sourcing requirements needed for organizations and companies to be considered notable.
  • The six-month autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) ended on 14 March 2018. The post-trial research report has been published. A request for comment is now underway to determine whether the restrictions from ACTRIAL should be implemented permanently.

Technical news

Arbitration

  • The Arbitration Committee is considering a change to the discretionary sanctions procedures which would require an editor to appeal a sanction to the community at WP:AE or WP:AN prior to appealing directly to the Arbitration Committee at WP:ARCA.

Miscellaneous

  • A discussion has closed which concluded that administrators are not required to enable email, though many editors suggested doing so as a matter of best practice.
  • The Foundations' Anti-Harassment Tools team has released the Interaction Timeline. This shows a chronologic history for two users on pages where they have both made edits, which may be helpful in identifying sockpuppetry and investigating editing disputes.

19:28, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

Something went wrong

... with this merge. Please have a look? Thanks. - DVdm (talk) 10:36, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

18:08, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

15:20, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

AIV

Hi,

Should any of the helperbots be picking up when templates on the AIV page are duplicated? 5 albert square (talk) 13:52, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

JamesR if they're not is it possible to set them up to do this? 5 albert square (talk) 20:22, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
While it’s not a frequent occurrence that the instructions are duplicated on AIV, I’ll take a look at what needs to be done in the bot code. Thanks for the heads up! — JamesR (talk) 21:45, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

your block of user:24.182.204.97

Already back with the same BLP violating material (and now combined with personal attacks on you and me) [28] Meters (talk) 06:04, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

18:16, 23 April 2018 (UTC)


jump to level 4 at highest points of london

Hi I escalated as it is clear editor has gone from IP to named account and adding gibberish - perhaps a slow 1 to 4 sequence might not have worked, I am not sure - would appreciate your having a look - thanks - and please ignore if you think I havenot bee procedural enough with the 1 to 4 level - it was the jump from IP to named that got me interested in going straight up JarrahTree 09:14, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

@JarrahTree: I'll monitor the user, thank you for letting me know. — JamesR (talk) 09:18, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

Sock Puppet

I think it's important that I tell an administrator this, a sock puppet is vandalizing pages simply because I or another user undo there edits and now they want to get back at that person. I believe this is the same person who kept vandalizing the Virtua Fighter 5 ‎page from 2017 and did so recently.[32]

I think this is all the same person or has a friend helping.

  • 24.24.216.163[33]
  • 107.77.228.202[34]
  • 172.85.180.114[35]
  • 2605:E000:2E54:800:5CA2:D188:52AC:B45E[36]
  • 107.77.228.232[37]
  • 2605:E000:2E54:8F0:F021:D7FD:C273:F305[38]

108.82.12.122 (talk) 21:39, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

16:18, 30 April 2018 (UTC)