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The Signpost: 04 August 2016

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Extended confirmed protection

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Hello, Tony Fox. This message is intended to notify administrators of important changes to the protection policy.

Extended confirmed protection (also known as "30/500 protection") is a new level of page protection that only allows edits from accounts at least 30 days old and with 500 edits. The automatically assigned "extended confirmed" user right was created for this purpose. The protection level was created following this community discussion with the primary intention of enforcing various arbitration remedies that prohibited editors under the "30 days/500 edits" threshold to edit certain topic areas.

In July and August 2016, a request for comment established consensus for community use of the new protection level. Administrators are authorized to apply extended confirmed protection to combat any form of disruption (e.g. vandalism, sock puppetry, edit warring, etc.) on any topic, subject to the following conditions:

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Please review the protection policy carefully before using this new level of protection on pages. Thank you.
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The Signpost: 4 November 2016

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Hello Tony!

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So, I've been trying to get rollback for a while. This one administrator by the name of GB fan seems to just dislike me, and has tried to find the most controversial edits of mine, and deny my request for rollback. I find it quite unfair, as the edits he called out were fine, but could you please take a look at my contributions ans see if you think I deserve rollback rights? I' tried to get it for STiki. Adotchar| reply here 19:57, 10 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Rollback

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So, about that. Here's the link to what you need for rollback: link One needs at least 200 edits in the mainspace. I have over 1300 total edits. Ability to recognize good-faith. I have that, check my contributions for the good-faith reverts with twinkle. And to be a "somewhat experienced editor" (guidelines). I've been here for a while, I know how to do stuff. To add/remove user rights, just so you know as an administrator, go to Special:UserRights Adotchar| reply here 22:25, 10 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins

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Hello,

Please note that TOTP based two-factor authentication is now available for all administrators. In light of the recent compromised accounts, you are encouraged to add this additional layer of security to your account. It may be enabled on your preferences page in the "User profile" tab under the "Basic information" section. For basic instructions on how to enable two-factor authentication, please see the developing help page for additional information. Important: Be sure to record the two-factor authentication key and the single use keys. If you lose your two factor authentication and do not have the keys, it's possible that your account will not be recoverable. Furthermore, you are encouraged to utilize a unique password and two-factor authentication for the email account associated with your Wikimedia account. This measure will assist in safeguarding your account from malicious password resets. Comments, questions, and concerns may be directed to the thread on the administrators' noticeboard. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:34, 12 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Anti-Vandalism

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Hello! For the past few days, I've been using Twinkle's rollback features (which is about the same, just with more options) to revert vandalism. I hope to reapply for Rollback soon, so could you please do a quick check of my reversions to see if they're good, and if you think I should have rollback or not? The reason I need it is for STiki, as you can't use STiki without it. Adotchar| reply here 12:07, 13 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Rollback request is here: [[1]] Adotchar| reply here 10:25, 14 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Please review the rollback request. Adotchar| reply here 17:39, 14 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Same thing that happened last time is happening this time with my rollback request. No one wants to review it, and it's taking more than 24 hours, which isn't too common. Adotchar| reply here 10:35, 15 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

A new user right for New Page Patrollers

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Hi Tony Fox.

A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.

If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins).MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:48, 15 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Category

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I think there should be a category created for Wikipedians with their own Wikipedia pages. Do you agree? Adotchar| reply here 10:40, 16 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

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Hello, Tony Fox. You have new messages at Adotchar's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.
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Hi Tony, Thanks for your note. I have been checking into the content 'Herd Behavior' on the Marketing page. This content has had a very checkered history - having been deleted and added dozens of times from at least 2010 to the present time. My handwritten notes indicated that this content was added by you on 13 October, 2010. However, on further investigation, it appears that some, but not all, of this content was added to the article at a much earlier date - as early as 2008. The content is of concern because it appears to have been wholly cut and paste from an online source. I will remove the notice from your page and add the notification to page of the person who first added this content.

I have not had a chance to check into the other problematic content. The content has been on the page for many years. It takes me hours and hours to trawl through the editing history to locate the offending content. But rest assured, I will get to the bottom of it.

I apologise for any inconvenience caused.

BronHiggs (talk) 08:28, 20 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

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Hello, Tony Fox. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

New 10,000 Challenge for Canada

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Hi, Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada/The 10,000 Challenge is up and running based on Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge for the UK which has currently produced over 2300 article improvements and creations. If you'd like to see large scale quality improvements happening for Canada like The Africa Destubathon, which has produced over 1600 articles in 5 weeks, sign up on the page. The idea will be an ongoing national editathon/challenge for Canada but fuelled by a contest such as The North America Destubathon to really get articles on every province and subject mass improved. I would like some support from Canadian wikipedians here to get the Challenge off to a start with some articles to make doing a Destubathon worthwhile! Cheers. --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:55, 22 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

IP 24.114.226.157

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Thanks for blocking the IP - would you please also consider revoking their ability to edit their own talk page? They're making some pretty ridiculous claims and threats. Trut-h-urts man (TC) 22:57, 23 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 4 November 2016

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WikiProject

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Hello, I'm going to start a WikiProject, for IP Vandalism. As there's hundreds of thousands, probably more than a million IP edits that have to be patrolled, there should be a wiki project and not a task force (there currently isn't anything.) I read the guide and rules for starting it, and I'm now going to. In accordance with WP: Be Bold I'm going to make a WikiProject. Please join it once you can, there's already a nice program to be used for patrolling IP edits for vandalism, and it's really useful. I'll add a link to the project once I make it. Adotchar| reply here 10:37, 29 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject IP Vandalism Adotchar| reply here 11:04, 29 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Omar Sharif

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Good evening, Mr. Tony Fox. I have deleted information which didn't have reliable sources. Please note that it is not appropriate for an editor to add info without adding a reliable source; it is against the policy of Wikipedia. Thanks! --Tania Jarallah (talk) 22:01, 1 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Omar Sharif

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Hello, Mr. Tony. The Irish times has not provided reliable sources to their claims either. According to Omar Alsharif, he was born in Alexandria, Egypt, to a Roman Catholic Egyptian father, originally from Assiut in upper Egypt, and a Coptic Egyptian mother. Even more to the point, the late actor himself literally denied being of Lebanese decision in an interview he made with Inass Aldeghidy four years ago. Thanks --Tania Jarallah (talk) 22:19, 1 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 22 December 2016

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Edits from 71.13.145.190

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This is the IT Department of Menominee Casino Resort, and can be reached at postmaster@menomineecasinoresort.com. You've sent messages addressed to IP 71.13.145.190 to warn against unwanted editing, and I want to prevent this from happening again.

Please block IP edits from 71.13.145.190 permanently. Anyone who wants to edit Wikipedia from here can either use our guest network, or can register a user name and be accountable for their edits. Users here are subject to our computer use policies.

Please write the postmaster address if you have questions. Anyone from here that has questions about this may contact our Helpdesk.

-- Gordon Fecyk, IT admin, Menominee Casino Resort 71.13.145.190 (talk) 14:08, 12 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 17 January 2017

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Alternative facts

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You may want to revisit and iVote either keep or delete. Cheers.E.M.Gregory (talk) 01:20, 23 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter - February 2017

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ArbCom 2017 election voter message

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Hello, Tony Fox. Voting in the 2017 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 10 December. All users who registered an account before Saturday, 28 October 2017, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Wednesday, 1 November 2017 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2017 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

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Wishing you and yours a Merry Christmas and a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year 2018!
Thank you for all the hard work and effort you put into Wikipedia. God bless! Onel5969 TT me 02:50, 22 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Notification of pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity

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Information icon Following a community discussion in June 2011, consensus was reached to provisionally suspend the administrative permissions of users who have been inactive for one year (i.e. administrators who have not made any edits or logged actions in more than one year). As a result of this discussion, your administrative permissions will be removed if you do not return to activity within the next several days. If you wish to have these permissions reinstated should this occur, please post to the Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard and the userright will be restored per the re-sysopping process (i.e. as long as the attending bureaucrats are reasonably satisfied that your account has not been compromised, that your inactivity did not have the effect of evading scrutiny of any actions which might have led to sanctions, that you have not been inactive for a three-year period of time, and that you have not been inactive from administrative tasks for a five year period of time). If you remain inactive for a three-year period of time, including the present year you have been inactive, you will need to request reinstatement at WP:RFA. Further, following a community discussion in March of 2018, Administrators suspended for inactivity who have not had any logged administrative activity for five years will need to request reinstatement at WP:RFA. This removal of access is procedural only, and not intended to reflect negatively upon you in any way. We wish you the best in future endeavors, and thank you for your past administrative efforts. — JJMC89 bot 00:04, 25 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Information icon Following a community discussion in June 2011, consensus was reached to provisionally suspend the administrative permissions of users who have been inactive for one year (i.e. administrators who have not made any edits or logged actions in more than one year). As a result of this discussion, your administrative permissions have been removed. If you wish to have these permissions reinstated, please post to the Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard and the userright will be restored per the re-sysopping process (i.e. as long as the attending bureaucrats are reasonably satisfied that your account has not been compromised, that your inactivity did not have the effect of evading scrutiny of any actions which might have led to sanctions, that you have not been inactive for a three-year period of time, and that you have not been inactive from administrative tasks for a five year period of time). If you remain inactive for a three-year period of time, including the present year you have been inactive, you will need to request reinstatement at WP:RFA. Further, following a community discussion in March of 2018, Administrators suspended for inactivity who have not had any logged administrative activity for five years will need to request reinstatement at WP:RFA. This removal of access is procedural only, and not intended to reflect negatively upon you in any way. We wish you the best in future endeavors, and thank you for your past administrative efforts. — xaosflux Talk 00:04, 1 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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