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The Signpost: 1 January 2023
- Interview: ComplexRational's RfA debrief
- Technology report: Wikimedia Foundation's Abstract Wikipedia project "at substantial risk of failure"
- Essay: Mobile editing
- Arbitration report: Arbitration Committee Election 2022
- Recent research: Graham's Hierarchy of Disagreement in talk page disputes
- Featured content: Would you like to swing on a star?
- Traffic report: Football, football, football! Wikipedia Football Club!
- CommonsComix: #4: The Course of WikiEmpire
- From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
Happy New Year, Jauerback!
Jauerback,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. See this for background context.
— Moops ⋠T⋡ 23:35, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.
— Moops ⋠T⋡ 23:35, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – January 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2022).
Administrator changes
Interface administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Oversighter changes
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- Speedy deletion criterion A5 (transwikied articles) has been repealed following an unopposed proposal.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 Signpost: 16 January 2023
- Special report: Coverage of 2022 bans reveals editors serving long sentences in Saudi Arabia since 2020
- News and notes: Revised Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines up for vote, WMF counsel departs, generative models under discussion
- In the media: Court orders user data in libel case, Saudi Wikipedia in the crosshairs, Larry Sanger at it again
- Technology report: View it! A new tool for image discovery
- In focus: Busting into Grand Central
- Serendipity: How I bought part of Wikipedia – for less than $100
- Featured content: Flip your lid
- Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2022
- From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
Happy Fifteenth Adminship Anniversary!
Administrators' newsletter – February 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2023).
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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.
The Signpost: 4 February 2023
- From the editor: New for the Signpost: Author pages, tag pages, and a decent article search function
- News and notes: Foundation update on fundraising, new page patrol, Tides, and Wikipedia blocked in Pakistan
- Disinformation report: Wikipedia on Santos
- Op-Ed: Estonian businessman and political donor brings lawsuit against head of national Wikimedia chapter
- Recent research: Wikipedia's "moderate yet systematic" liberal citation bias
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Organized Labour
- Tips and tricks: XTools: Data analytics for your list of created articles
- Featured content: 20,000 Featureds under the Sea
- Traffic report: Films, deaths and ChatGPT
Disambiguation link notification for February 16
An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Arlington Park, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page WGN.
(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 06:04, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost: 20 February 2023
- In the media: Arbitrators open case after article alleges Wikipedia "intentionally distorts" Holocaust coverage
- Disinformation report: The "largest con in corporate history"?
- Tips and tricks: All about writing at DYK
- Featured content: Eden, lost.
- Gallery: Love is in the air
- From the archives: 5, 10, and 15 years ago: Let's (not) delete the Main Page!
- Humour: The RfA Candidate's Song
Split, Croatia
Hello, I am writing to you because you had already intervened here for the article Split, Croatia. I wanted to let you know that the IP has returned to vandalize the article: could you do something ? Greetings. --LukeWiller (talk) 22:29, 23 February 2023 (UTC).
- It looks like it's been taken care of now. In the future, you'll most likely always get a faster response at WP:AIV. Jauerbackdude?/dude. 11:35, 24 February 2023 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – March 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2023).
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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.
Steven Elder
Please delete this page from Wikipedia. Tuppenceworth (talk) 15:58, 1 March 2023 (UTC)
- If it fell under a category for WP:CSD, I would. However, this deserves to have some other opinions. Jauerbackdude?/dude. 16:16, 1 March 2023 (UTC)
Question
Hello, I believe when I first started Wikipedia, you commented on my talk page and gave me tips. I wanna say thank you for that. But that is not the sole reason I'm here. I was wondering if you were offering to adopt a user because I want to be adopted by you. Just want to know.
Purplelavendermidnights 17 (talk) 03:12, 1 March 2023 (UTC)
- Sorry, I don't really have the time for that. I would suggest checking out WP:ADOPT. Jauerbackdude?/dude. 10:44, 1 March 2023 (UTC)
- It's ok thanks for replying. Purplelavendermidnights 17 (talk) 20:22, 1 March 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost: 9 March 2023
- News and notes: What's going on with the Wikimedia Endowment?
- Technology report: Second flight of the Soviet space bears: Testing ChatGPT's accuracy
- In the media: What should Wikipedia do? Publish Russian propaganda? Be less woke? Cover the Holocaust in Poland differently?
- Featured content: In which over two-thirds of the featured articles section needs to be copied over to WikiProject Military History's newsletter
- Recent research: "Wikipedia's Intentional Distortion of the Holocaust" in Poland and "self-focus bias" in coverage of global events
- From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
The Signpost: 20 March 2023
- News and notes: Wikimania submissions deadline looms, Russian government after our lucky charms, AI woes nix CNET from RS slate
- Eyewitness: Three more stories from Ukrainian Wikimedians
- In the media: Paid editing, plagiarism payouts, proponents of a ploy, and people peeved at perceived preferences
- Featured content: Way too many featured articles
- Interview: 228/2/1: the inside scoop on Aoidh's RfA
- Traffic report: Who died? Who won? Who lost?
Hello
Just wanted to say thank you for taking care of that LTA. Cheers, 47.227.95.73 (talk) 11:23, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
- gpod dam monkey 72.138.132.126 (talk) 18:18, 23 March 2023 (UTC)
New message from NP83 Curling
Sorry I was about to prevent the vandalism on Curling and by mistake to undo yours. Thank you. 18:32, 31 March 2023 (UTC) NP83 (talk) 18:32, 31 March 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost: 03 April 2023
- From the editor: Some long-overdue retractions
- News and notes: Sounding out, a universal code of conduct, and dealing with AI
- Arbitration report: "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland" case is ongoing
- Featured content: Hail, poetry! Thou heav'n-born maid
- Recent research: Language bias: Wikipedia captures at least the "silhouette of the elephant", unlike ChatGPT
- From the archives: April Fools' through the ages
- Disinformation report: Sus socks support suits, seems systemic
Administrators' newsletter – April 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2023).
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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.
The Signpost: 26 April 2023
- News and notes: Staff departures at Wikimedia Foundation, Jimbo hands in the bits, and graphs' zeppelin burns
- In the media: Contested truth claims in Wikipedia
- Obituary: Remembering David "DGG" Goodman
- Arbitration report: Holocaust in Poland, Jimbo in the hot seat, and a desysopping
- Special report: Signpost statistics between years 2005 and 2022
- News from the WMF: Collective planning with the Wikimedia Foundation
- Featured content: In which we described the featured articles in rhyme again
- From the archives: April Fools' through the ages, part two
- Humour: The law of hats
- Traffic report: Long live machine, the future supreme
Administrators' newsletter – May 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2023).
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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.
Orphaned non-free image File:Weber.jpeg
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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) 02:35, 4 May 2023 (UTC)
Revoke TPA
Please revoke the talk page access of this user. They are continuing to be disruptive through their talk page. ChrisWx (talk - contribs) 15:52, 6 May 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost: 8 May 2023
- News and notes: New legal "deVLOPments" in the EU
- In the media: Vivek's smelly socks, online safety, and politics
- Recent research: Gender, race and notability in deletion discussions
- Featured content: I wrote a poem for each article, I found rhymes for all the lists; My first featured picture of this year now finally exists!
- Arbitration report: "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland" approaches conclusion
- News from the WMF: Planning together with the Wikimedia Foundation
The Signpost: 22 May 2023
- In the media: History, propaganda and censorship
- Arbitration report: Final decision in "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland"
- Featured content: A very musical week for featured articles
- Traffic report: Coronation, chatbot, celebs
The Signpost: 5 June 2023
- News and notes: WMRU director forks new 'pedia, birds flap in top '22 piccy, WMF weighs in on Indian gov's map axe plea
- Featured content: Poetry under pressure
- Traffic report: Celebs, controversies and a chatbot in the public eye
Administrators' newsletter – June 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2023).
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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.
Help
Could you help me wikification and give it notoriety this article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Casey_(BMX) --Jusaset (talk) 21:39, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
- I'm not sure what you're asking, but you should ask any questions about it on the article's talk page. Jauerbackdude?/dude. 13:37, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost: 19 June 2023
- News and notes: WMF Terms of Use now in force, new Creative Commons licensing
- Featured content: Content, featured
- Recent research: Hoaxers prefer currently-popular topics
Administrators' newsletter – July 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2023).
Administrator changes
Bureaucrat changes
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.
The Signpost: 3 July 2023
- Disinformation report: Imploded submersible outfit foiled trying to sing own praises on Wikipedia
- Featured content: Incensed
- Traffic report: Are you afraid of spiders? Arnold? The Idol? ChatGPT?
ForeFlight page
I am a founder of the company (Jason) and thought wikipedia would be a good place to capture some of the history of the company. However my recent edits were removed for being "spammy" - what changes would be helpful to prevent my updates from getting killed? Millz311 (talk) 15:21, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
- In that case, you really shouldn't be making any edits to that page at all as you have a clear conflict of interest. I've left more information about this on your talk page about this. What you added sounds like an advertisement or something that would be found on ForeFlight's website. It's promotional and not encyclopedic. Finally every article on Wikipedia should have every statement backed up by reliable sources. None of what you added was sourced. If you have suggestions for the article, you can make them on the talk page. Jauerbackdude?/dude. 17:32, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost: 17 July 2023
- In the media: Tentacles of Emirates plot attempt to ensnare Wikipedia
- Tips and tricks: What automation can do for you (and your WikiProject)
- Featured content: Scrollin', scrollin', scrollin', keep those readers scrollin', got to keep on scrollin', Rawhide!
- Traffic report: The Idol becomes the Master
Feral child
Please explain the error I introduced and what the last good edit is. Don't keep people who are not as expert as you guessing.Ricardogpn (talk) 13:55, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost: 1 August 2023
- News and notes: City officials attempt to doxx Wikipedians, Ruwiki founder banned, WMF launches Mastodon server
- In the media: Truth, AI, bull from politicians, and climate change
- Disinformation report: Hot climate, hot hit, hot money, hot news hot off the presses!
- Tips and tricks: Citation tools for dummies!
- In focus: Journals cited by Wikipedia
- Opinion: Are global bans the last step?
- Featured content: Featured Content, 1 to 15 July
- Traffic report: Come on Oppie, let's go party
Administrators' newsletter – August 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2023).
Administrator changes
Interface administrator changes
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.
The Signpost: 15 August 2023
- News and notes: Dude, Where's My Donations? Wikimedia Foundation announces another million in grants for non-Wikimedia-related projects
- Tips and tricks: How to find images for your articles, check their copyright, upload them, and restore them
- Cobwebs: Getting serious about writing
- Serendipity: Why I stopped taking photographs almost altogether
- Featured content: Barbenheimer confirmed
- Traffic report: 'Cause today it just goes with the fashion
commment
hello good day. please my account got blocked , i dont know why , because am a new user in wikipedia , i would love to ask why , because i want to use the same article to create a new page , i will love you to direct me on how the whole things works. tnx — Preceding unsigned comment added by Officialslimbeatz (talk • contribs) 11:12, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
The Fring Photo
I tried to make sure that the photo was not copywritten, I thought that because it was from Commons, that it was okay to use, IDK. It was a mistake, I just thought the top photo should fit in with the rest of the characters. MrCboY1997 (talk) 20:10, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
- Normally, you'd be right. Photos on Commons should be able to be used in articles, but the user who uploaded it probably didn't realize it was copyrighted and no one caught it until now. Jauerbackdude?/dude. 20:19, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost: 31 August 2023
- From the editor: Beta version of signpost.news now online
- News and notes: You like RecentChanges?
- In the media: Taking it sleazy
- Recent research: The five barriers that impede "stitching" collaboration between Commons and Wikipedia
- Draftspace: Bad Jokes and Other Draftspace Novelties
- Humour: The Dehumourification Plan
- Traffic report: Raise your drinking glass, here's to yesterday
Administrators' newsletter – September 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2023).
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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
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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 tonote when broader community discussion, or changes to policies and guidelines, would be helpful
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Miscellaneous
- 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.
Are you in Knoxville ?
This newspaper is cited 49 times... 0mtwb9gd5wx (talk) 14:36, 3 September 2023 (UTC)
- So? Jauerbackdude?/dude. 14:39, 3 September 2023 (UTC)
- WOW? ... 0mtwb9gd5wx (talk) 0mtwb9gd5wx (talk) 14:47, 3 September 2023 (UTC)
- Living in Knoxville matters how? Does that limit what articles I can contribute to or not? Does the use of 49 citations to a website (newspaper or other) make it automatically notable? The answer to both is "no." Anyway, the crux of the issue is that you don't apparently understand why claiming a newspaper is notable (or even worth mentioning) while sourcing it to itself is an issue, then I don't know what to tell you. Of course, now you went overboard, but whatever. Jauerbackdude?/dude. 04:29, 4 September 2023 (UTC)
- WOW? ... 0mtwb9gd5wx (talk) 0mtwb9gd5wx (talk) 14:47, 3 September 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost: 16 September 2023
- In the media: "Just flirting", going Dutch and Shapps for the defence?
- Obituary: Nosebagbear
- Featured content: Catching up
- Traffic report: Some of it's magic, some of it's tragic
"Gary Meyer" listed at Redirects for discussion
The redirect Gary Meyer has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 September 25 § Gary Meyer until a consensus is reached. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 13:37, 25 September 2023 (UTC)
ITN recognition for Dianne Feinstein
On 29 September 2023, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Dianne Feinstein, 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. — xaosflux Talk 15:30, 29 September 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost: 3 October 2023
- News and notes: Wikimedia Endowment financial statement published
- Recent research: Readers prefer ChatGPT over Wikipedia; concerns about limiting "anyone can edit" principle "may be overstated"
- Featured content: By your logic,
- Poetry: "The Sight"
Administrators' newsletter – September 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2023).
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Guideline and policy news
- 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.
Technical news
- 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)
Arbitration
Miscellaneous
- The 2023 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of one new CheckUser.
- Self-nominations for the electoral commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections opens on 2 October and closes on 8 October.
The Signpost: 23 October 2023
- News and notes: Where have all the administrators gone?
- In the media: Thirst traps, the fastest loading sites on the web, and the original collaborative writing
- Gallery: Before and After: Why you don't need to know how to restore images to make massive improvements
- Featured content: Yo, ho! Blow the man down!
- Traffic report: The calm and the storm
- News from Diff: Sawtpedia: Giving a Voice to Wikipedia Using QR Codes
remember balls1234wtf
hello again! !kurukitty! (talk) 01:05, 22 October 2023 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Ford County, Illinois 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. Liz Read! Talk! 17:23, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
Talk page access
Hi, you might want to revoke talk page access at User talk:SlackerD2 as the user is continuing to make personal attacks. Thanks. — Czello (music) 20:45, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
- Honestly, until that last little rant of theirs, it wasn't even worth reverting, IMO. Next time just try letting them vent. Jauerbackdude?/dude. 21:04, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost: 6 November 2023
- Arbitration report: Admin bewilderingly unmasks self as sockpuppet of other admin who was extremely banned in 2015
- In the media: UK shadow chancellor accused of ripping off WP articles for book, Wikipedians accused of being dicks by a rich man
- Opinion: An open letter to Elon Musk
- WikiCup report: The WikiCup 2023
- News from Wiki Ed: Equity lists on Wikipedia
- Recent research: How English Wikipedia drove out fringe editors over two decades
- Featured content: Like putting a golf course in a historic site.
- Traffic report: Cricket jumpscare
Administrators' newsletter – November 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2023).
Administrator changes
Interface administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
Technical news
- The WMF is working on making it possible for administrators to edit MediaWiki configuration directly. This is similar to previous work on Special:EditGrowthConfig. A technical RfC is running until November 08, where you can provide feedback.
- There is a proposed plan for re-enabling the Graph Extension. Feedback on this proposal is requested.
Arbitration
- Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 12 November 2023 until 21 November 2023 to stand in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections.
- Xaosflux, RoySmith and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee Elections. BusterD is the reserve commissioner.
- Following a motion, the contentious topic designation of Prem Rawat has been struck. Actions previously taken using this contentious topic designation are still in force.
- Following several motions, multiple topic areas are no longer designated as a contentious topic. These contentious topic designations were from the Editor conduct in e-cigs articles, Liancourt Rocks, Longevity, Medicine, September 11 conspiracy theories, and Shakespeare authorship question cases.
- Following a motion, remedies 3.1 (All related articles under 1RR whenever the dispute over naming is concerned), 6 (Stalemate resolution) and 30 (Administrative supervision) of the Macedonia 2 case have been rescinded.
- Following a motion, remedy 6 (One-revert rule) of the The Troubles case has been amended.
- An arbitration case named Industrial agriculture has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case close 8 November.
Miscellaneous
- The Articles for Creation backlog drive is happening in November 2023, with 700+ drafts pending reviews for in the last 4 months or so. In addition to the AfC participants, all administrators and New Page Patrollers can conduct reviews using the helper script, Yet Another AFC Helper Script, which can be enabled in the Gadgets settings. Sign up here to participate!
Thank you
The person vandalizing Johann Tetzel has been so incredibly annoying - thank you so much for semi protecting the page! -REDACTED403 (talk) 13:57, 9 November 2023 (UTC)
- No problem. Feel free to submit a request at WP:RPP for anything like that in the future. Jauerbackdude?/dude. 14:01, 9 November 2023 (UTC)
User:Jauerback removing or deleting confirmed content
Please advise why you deleted content from Dave King (Singer) page about his personal life and marriage to Gina Cavalier on 10/24/1998 where the articles were confirmed and verified by written sources. This can only be seen as personal vandalism. You also protected and blocked the page without giving notice on the contributor's page (barbarellasouth) which is in violation of the Wikipedia rules of ethics. The image present was also proved copyright through wikicommons. Please advise your reasoning for your deletion of this content. Barbarellasouth (talk) 18:55, 15 November 2023 (UTC)
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- Well the OP was a sock and got blocked so this is now moot. ― Blaze WolfTalkblaze__wolf 19:50, 15 November 2023 (UTC)
Hills Hoist
"Hills Hoist" is a brand of umbrella clothes line. There was no mention of umbrella clothes lines directly before my work. What is your parochial taxonomy of clothes drying ? It just looks like Pyxis Solitary asked you to torment me. .... 0mtwb9gd5wx (talk) 18:32, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
- You have got to be kidding me. Your addition was completely WP:OR and sourced to a product listing on Home Depot. Jauerbackdude?/dude. 18:44, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
- not kidding, the artifact is so "ordinary" that there are
- no other descriptions but retail. .... 0mtwb9gd5wx (talk) 03:06, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
- That's almost comical that you believe adding a product listing from Home Depot as a source is acceptable. Until you find a reliable source, that's just you doing orignal research. Jauerbackdude?/dude. 14:02, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
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Frank Sinatra and Michelle Pfeiffer
Hi, thanks for your help at Frank Sinatra and Michelle Pfeiffer. However, I noticed that the semi-protection you put in for both of these pages is significantly shorter than the previous semi-protections, which was one year in length for both pages, respectively. These one year protections also expired mere minutes before the vandalism resumed. See both pages' protection histories. Would you please consider making both semi-protections longer? Thanks. Sternip (talk) 23:05, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
Done. Thanks for pointing that out. I noticed the date, but I didn't catch the year, so I just assumed it was a protection for few hours only. That was a bit dumb on my part. Jauerbackdude?/dude. 23:41, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
- Thanks, User:Jauerback. I have one more request to ask of you. There are many indefinitely semi-protected or extended confirmed protected pages that still, for whatever reason, have not had their prior PC settings reset. It seems redundant to have PC settings in place for pages that are protected with semi or ECP indefinitely. I was wondering if you could go through these pages and reset the redundant PC settings? The pages are:
- Huw Jenkins
- Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh
- PlayStation
- JaVale McGee
- Googol
- World's Biggest Liar
- Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories
- List of emoticons
- South Asia
- Autism Speaks
- Wikipedia:Pending changes/Testing/2
- Wikipedia:Pending changes/Testing/5
- Wikipedia:Pending changes/Testing/6
- Terry Bean
- United States presidential eligibility legislation
- Jennifer Caron Hall
- Courtney Stodden
- Candy Crush Saga
- Knowledge Kids (redirect page)
- List of video games considered the best
- Zoe Sugg
- Young Thug
- Camille Rowe
- Amit Mehta
- Black Lives Matter
- Heartbreak on a Full Moon
- Zeeshan Khan (squash player)
- Gaza Strip
- Government
- January 1
I know it's time consuming, but can you take care of this issue on the above pages at your earliest convenience? Sternip (talk) 23:52, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
User:WWFCENA repeats same behavior after block
Just a heads up, after you blocked User:WWFCENA, they came back and immediately repeated the same edits. Mike Allen 22:37, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
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Corey Perry
I was about to request semi-protection when I saw you already applied it. Not a moment too soon. HangingCurveSwing for the fence 19:59, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
- Not a problem, but there would have been no need to do that as there were already three requests there for the same article. Jauerbackdude?/dude. 04:23, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
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Filipino user
Hello! I’ve noticed you have recently blocked a Philippines-based user for improper edits. As a another Philippines-based user I am sorry you had to go through this experience. However, I have to inform you that the user’s reply to you in our language has been basically violations of WP:NPA (they’re accusing you of oppressing (the verb is “inaapi”) Filipinos and WP:OWN with xenophobic undertones (basically questioning your right to intervene in the topic affected because you are “just a foreigner”). I have just warned them already about what they are doing but I am leaving this message just in case they do not take the hint. Borgenland (talk) 17:20, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
block Without specific Reason
Hellow i got alert with the content of blocked indefinitely. Since i have not committed anything wrong why i got blocked? Regards. Balash-Vologases (talk) 18:52, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
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Hi, I have simple question that nobody ever answers. What's the best way to win an edit-war. First of all, during edit wars both sides have justification whether it be passion or bureaucracy or whatever. Most of time it's just users who don't know that they're talking about or trying to keep things the same. What's the best way to win an edit war, I know that trying to keep undoing edits makes both sides look bad. So how do you win professionally and put a stop to the stupidity of both sides? UnboundBeartic (talk) 23:54, 26 December 2023 (UTC)
- The actual answer that you may not like but is the reality of the situation is the edit wars are decided by which admin intervening favors X or Y opinion. There is blatant abuse of policing from wikipedia admins allowing people to edit as they wish with no concensus as long as they agree with their edits. But if they don't agree with you then be prepared to have to follow all the rules to a T and eventually concede in the talk page if the other person refuses to yield. ChaimRosenberg222 (talk) 01:09, 27 December 2023 (UTC)
- First of all, there's no "winning" of an edit war. Your best bet is to avoid edit warring entirely. You can always seek dispute resolution. And, ChaimRosenberg222 is completely wrong. Admins don't make content decisions; we only make conduct decisions. Jauerbackdude?/dude. 03:39, 27 December 2023 (UTC)
Josh Cahill edit war is back
G'day, thanks for previously protecting Josh Cahill, but the protection has expired and the edit war is back. Please re-protect and revert as you see fit. Jpatokal (talk) 03:04, 27 December 2023 (UTC)