User talk:Anthony Bradbury/Archive21

Message from Reo Martins

I'll love to know why you deleted an article on Eyitayo Ogunmola, which I created, without prior notice of any sort of contravention. Moreover, it was an article in progress. Thank you for an expected response. ReoMartins (talk) 08:31, 6 September 2019 (UTC)

Message from Alana Murphy

Amanda Brock - OpenUK - i would like to know why you flagged this page for copyright infringement as i did not directly copy source material from OpenUK site, i did write this in my own words and was wondering if you had at least saved a draft before you deleted it? I spent hours on that page and now it is gone as it was deleted the same day. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amurphy79 (talk • contribs) 12:52, 14 December 2020 (UTC)

Draft:Manal Deeb

Greetings, and I hope I am posting this message in the correct space. First of all, thank you for reviewing the page I created on artist Manal Deeb. While the page was deleted (G8), I have looked carefully at the Wikipedia criteria and believe I understand where I went wrong. I have worked on a new draft of the page offline, and would like to resubmit, as I believe the topic has merit. As I understand it, protocol is that I connect back to you, as the person who deleted the first draft, before resubmitting. Please let me know if there is anything I need to do before submitting a second draft, and thanks again for any assistance you can provide. All the best. Lucylocket (talk) 15:21, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

The problem was that your (draft} article was in breach of copyright, as it copied wording from two sources relating to the subject of your draft. It is, of course, perfectly proper and indeed necessary to have good quality secondary or tertiary sources for articles, but it is obligatory that you create the articles in your own words, avoiding extensive quotes or close paraphrasing. If you believe that the topic has merit then of course you are free to submit a revised draft, paying attention to my comments contained herein.----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 22:12, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for your response. I will plan to submit another version, keeping your comments in mind. All the best. Lucylocket (talk) 17:13, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Draft:Ascentium Capital

Anthony, thank you for noting the update. I have requested to retrieve the article. Previously, Davisonio had reviewed the article and gave the decline reasons, and that is why I noted the changes to Davisonio's suggestion on his talk page. I understand that the reviewers are busy and intentionally did not want to resubmit the article before hearing from Davisonio. Please retrieve the article. I will work on it further and resubmit it. Thanks for your help! IrfanAli512 (talk) 14:22, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Please see WP:REFUND/G13 ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 18:02, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

GridDB Draft Page

I would like get a copy of that deleted draft and make the necessary changes to get it published. Is there a way you could provide the original draft && give me some insights on what I need to change to get the article published?

Thanks. IllegalThoughts (talk) 01:11, 28 November 2018 (UTC)IllegalThoughts — Preceding unsigned comment added by IllegalThoughts (talk • contribs) 00:15, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

I will place a copy of the deleted draft in your talk-page. Please note that the draft was deleted as being a copyright infringement: any re-creation must be in your own words, without either copy-pasting or close paraphrasing. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 10:44, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

The deletion of the Kirsten Nimwey article

Hello! How many commercial publishers you can court mostly writing in Tagalog if your book is not a localization of the Bible, or a handbook for schools supported by the government, or like that? There are a Wikia page of the The Explorers universe and regular illustrative work on the Mr. Mac Bible series for years to be kind of notable too.

I regret to say that I have the remotest idea as to what your unsigned comment means. If you lack skill in the English language I suggest get a native English speaker to help you. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 12:07, 2 December 2018 (UTC)

To say in short I’m appealing to you to challenge the deletion of the mentioned page Kirten Nimwey. There was a notion of lack of notability for that subject from Cabayi resulted in a speedy deletion nomination you had executed, but I’ve put some additional comments on that you’ve barely understood above, though.

If you wish to challenge the deletion you are free to do so at deletion review. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 10:12, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

Nominations now open for "Military historian of the year" and "Military history newcomer of the year" awards

Nominations for our annual Military historian of the year and Military history newcomer of the year awards are open until 23:59 (GMT) on 15 December 2018. Why don't you nominate the editors who you believe have made a real difference to the project in 2018? MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:26, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2018

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

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• Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 3 December 2018. Please review the candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page.

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• In late November, an attacker compromised multiple accounts, including at least four administrator accounts, and used them to vandalize Wikipedia. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately. Sharing the same password across multiple websites makes your account vulnerable, especially if your password was used on a website that suffered a data breach. As these incidents have shown, these concerns are not pure fantasies.
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• Shock Brigade Harvester Boris (Raymond Arritt) passed away on 14 November 2018. Boris joined Wikipedia as Raymond arritt on 8 May 2006 and was an administrator from 30 July 2007 to 2 June 2008.

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Voting now open for "Military historian of the year" and "Military history newcomer of the year" awards

Voting for our annual Military historian of the year and Military history newcomer of the year awards is open until 23:59 (GMT) on 30 December 2018. Why don't you vote for the editors who you believe have made a real difference to Wikipedia's coverage of military history in 2018? MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:16, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

Deletion of AROUNDtheTREE

The article provided just the basic info about the company. I don't understand how that's commercial. What was the problem exactly ? Mention to specific products ?

4throck (talk) 16:04, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

The article was very clearly a promotional piece designed to advertise the company. If you are unable to recognize this, then I suggest that you refrain from creating articles until you have gained a better understanding of editing principles within Wikipedia. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 17:44, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

Amardeep Sada

Hello Anthony Bradbury, I've been looking around for articles to add on wikipiedia and have noticed one in particular that looks very interesting. That of Indian serial killer Amardeep Sada. I was going to add it but I noticed that you had already created it and that it was subsequently deleted. I was just wondering if you'd be interested in working with me on creating and expanding it if I make it as a userspace draft? Please let me know what you think.--Paleface Jack (talk) 18:23, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

I did not create this article; I have not created any articles for a number of years, and never at any time about Indian serial killers, or indeed any Indians at all; or any serial killers. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 18:38, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

On looking back four years I see that on December 21st 2014 I deleted the article as being a copyright infringement; that does not imply any enduring interest in the subject. You are wholly free to create a replacement article, being of course careful to avoid copyright or other WP:CSD problems. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 18:45, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

Draft:Commander of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations

Please undo the delete of "Draft:Commander of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations", as the article did not have any copyright violations. All of the information was public domain information from the US government. -- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Draft:Commander_of_the_Air_Force_Office_of_Special_Investigations&action=edit&redlink=1 — Preceding unsigned comment added by WikiFixur (talk • contribs) 14:00, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

Done. Apologies . ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 15:05, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – January 2019

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

Administrator changes

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Oversight changes

AGK • Joe Roe • SilkTork

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Guideline and policy news

• There are a number of new or changed speedy deletion criteria, each previously part of WP:CSD#G6:

1. G14 (new): Disambiguation pages that disambiguate only zero or one existing pages are now covered under the new G14 criterion (discussion). This is {{db-disambig}}; the text is unchanged and candidates may be found in Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as unnecessary disambiguation pages.
2. R4 (new): Redirects in the file namespace (and no file links) that have the same name as a file or redirect at Commons are now covered under the new R4 criterion (discussion). This is {{db-redircom}}; the text is unchanged.
3. G13 (expanded): Userspace drafts containing only the default Article Wizard text are now covered under G13 along with other drafts (discussion). Such blank drafts are now eligible after six months rather than one year, and taggers continue to use {{db-blankdraft}}.

• The Wikimedia Foundation now requires all interface administrators to enable two-factor authentication.
• Members of the Bot Approvals Group (BAG) are now subject to an activity requirement. After two years without any bot-related activity (e.g. operating a bot, posting on a bot-related talk page), BAG members will be retired from BAG following a one-week notice.

Technical news

• Starting on December 13, the Wikimedia Foundation security team implemented new password policy and requirements. Privileged accounts (administrators, bureaucrats, checkusers, oversighters, interface administrators, bots, edit filter managers/helpers, template editors, et al.) must have a password at least 10 characters in length. All accounts must have a password:

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• Blocked administrators may now block the administrator that blocked them. This was done to mitigate the possibility that a compromised administrator account would block all other active administrators, complementing the removal of the ability to unblock oneself outside of self-imposed blocks. A request for comment is currently in progress to determine whether the blocking policy should be updated regarding this change.
• {{Copyvio-revdel}} now has a link to open the history with the RevDel checkboxes already filled in.

Arbitration

• Following the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: AGK, Courcelles, GorillaWarfare, Joe Roe, Mkdw, SilkTork.

Miscellaneous

• Accounts continue to be compromised on a regular basis. Evidence shows this is entirely due to the accounts having the same password that was used on another website that suffered a data breach. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately.
• Around 22% of admins have enabled two-factor authentication, up from 20% in June 2018. If you haven't already enabled it, please consider doing so. Regardless of whether you use 2FA, please practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:38, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

Haligator page deletion

This page does not promote any business or any other organization whatsoever. It is a page about a school alumni group. Please consider and reply me soon. Thanks_ _ Supun999 (talk) 17:55, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

I agree completely. The problem is that the article was not deleted as being promotional: it was deleted (in July 2017) under category A7, which is lack of claim of significance. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 22:43, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

Restoring Draft:Radiology Cafe

Dear Anthony I would like to continue completing a draft page for Radiology Cafe, but it was deleted. I'm happy to start afresh or you could restore it whatever is quicker? What should I do? Chrisgdclarke (talk) 14:07, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – February 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2019).

Administrator changes

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Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment is currently open to reevaluate the activity requirements for administrators.
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• A request for comment closed with a consensus in favor of deprecating The Sun as a permissible reference, and creating an edit filter to warn users who attempt to cite it.

Technical news

• A discussion regarding an overhaul of the format and appearance of Wikipedia:Requests for page protection is in progress (permalink). The proposed changes will make it easier to create requests for those who are not using Twinkle. The workflow for administrators at this venue will largely be unchanged. Additionally, there are plans to archive requests similar to how it is done at WP:PERM, where historical records are kept so that prior requests can more easily be searched for.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2019 Steward elections will begin on 08 February 2019, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 28 February 2019, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:15, 4 February 2019 (UTC)

Inquiry previously page created called AEVI

Hi Tony,

My name is Amelie, I would like to create a page called AEVI, a company in Financial Services. (No affiliation) I have created a very basic draft but noticed that you previously deleted one with this name. I just wanted to check before I submit.

Thank you

AmelieMGArras (talk) 17:53, 15 February 2019 (UTC) Amelie

Amelie: I am answering here as I am uncertain if you look at your (blank) user talk page. I did indeed delete the article you mention. I did that at the request of the editor, but the record shows that said editor received three messages in quick succession giving as opinion the judgement that the company lacked wikipedic notability. If you can show that this condition has been overcome then I see no reason why you should not create your version. I suggest that you do it as a Draft in WP:AFC.

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Administrators' newsletter – March 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2019).

Administrator changes

Evad37

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Alex Shih • Brian • Mushroom • Nakon • Oscarthecat • PeruvianLlama • Ragib • Reaper Eternal • Rossami • Tom

Interface administrator changes

Evad37 • Galobtter

Ritchie333

CheckUser changes

There'sNoTime

Keegan • Ks0stm

Oversight changes

There'sNoTime

Ks0stm • Sphilbrick

Guideline and policy news

• The RfC on administrator activity requirements failed to reach consensus for any proposal.
• Following discussions at the Bureaucrats' noticeboard and Wikipedia talk:Administrators, an earlier change to the restoration of adminship policy was reverted. If requested, bureaucrats will not restore administrator permissions removed due to inactivity if there have been five years without a logged administrator action; this "five year rule" does not apply to permissions removed voluntarily.

Technical news

• A new tool is available to help determine if a given IP is an open proxy/VPN/webhost/compromised host.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee announced two new OTRS queues. Both are meant solely for cases involving private information; other cases will continue to be handled at the appropriate venues (e.g., WP:COIN or WP:SPI).
  • paid-en-wpwikipedia.org has been set up to receive private evidence related to abusive paid editing.
  • checkuser-en-wpwikipedia.org has been set up to receive private requests for CheckUser. For instance, requests for IP block exemption for anonymous proxy editing should now be sent to this address instead of the functionaries-en list.

Miscellaneous

• Following the 2019 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Base, Einsbor, Jon Kolbert, Schniggendiller, and Wim b.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:12, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

Balakot

Hi there! You deleted the page 2019 Indian Balakot Air Strike under WP:G5. The content of the former article at that title was used in merging into 2019 Balakot airstrike and is necessary to satisfy WP:CWW, notwithstanding that it was contributed by a banned editor. Can you please restore the page? Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 16:43, 5 March 2019 (UTC)

The creator of the article is virtually the sole editor thereof. He is a checkuser-blocked serial sockpuppet; I am very unenthusiastic about restoring his article. If you choose to do it yourself then I shall not object to your action; as the article is not overlong, if there really is essential information in it can this not be extracted with article restoration? ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 23:12, 5 March 2019 (UTC)

Draft:Shivaji Sondhi

Hi, I had a system crash while editing the draft article Shivaji Sondhi. Can you restore it please?

Qcmt2019 (talk) 15:13, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

I am not clear as to what you mean: the draft article remains in the archives, so any problem your system has experienced is irrelevant. To apply for restoration of the article (which I deleted in May of last year) use WP:REFUND/G13.----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 16:54, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

Sorry -- I had started a new entry on this, and thought the deleted article was the one I had started. Qcmt2019 (talk) 19:00, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

Also sorry - I am not being difficult; the deleted article is the only one retained in the encyclopedia. When your system crashed I am afraid that it must not have saved your work. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 22:32, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

Recovery of user page

Hi! I had submitted my user page for deletion by mistake. Will it be possible to recover the same?! Thanks!! --- User:TheInnocentBystander 13:35, 24 March 2019 (UTC)

Done. Happy wikying. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 22:44, 24 March 2019 (UTC)

 Thank you!! --- User:TheInnocentBystander 05:32, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

M.R Ghanoonparvar

Hi AB, hope all is well. It appears you just deleted this page.[1] I had addressed the issue a few minutes ago, so I find this a bit odd. I had also left a message on its talk page as well, but no one replied. Yet it just got deleted. - LouisAragon (talk) 18:41, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

There is still a certain amount of overlap, but I have given you the benefit of the doubt and restored the article.----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 21:48, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Thanks. - LouisAragon (talk) 16:37, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

Kudumbashree

You've deleted the article Kudumbashree. The page is very relevant and I don't understand why it was deleted Subins2000 (talk) 17:19, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

No. The page which I deleted was a redirect to a previously deleted page.----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 17:23, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2019).

Administrator changes

Reaper Eternal • ThaddeusB

Bogdangiusca • Christopher Parham • Necrothesp • Schneelocke • Siroxo • Sarah

Mentifisto → Lofty abyss

Interface administrator changes

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Bureaucrat changes

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Technical news

• In Special:Preferences under "Appearance" → "Advanced options", there is now an option to show a confirmation prompt when clicking on a rollback link.
• The Wikimedia Foundation's Community health initiative plans to design and build a new user reporting system to make it easier for people experiencing harassment and other forms of abuse to provide accurate information to the appropriate channel for action to be taken. Please see meta:Community health initiative/User reporting system consultation 2019 to provide your input on this idea.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee clarified that the General 1RR prohibition for Palestine-Israel articles may only be enforced on pages with the {{ARBPIA 1RR editnotice}} edit notice.

Miscellaneous

• Two more administrator accounts were compromised. Evidence has shown that these attacks, like previous incidents, were due to reusing a password that was used on another website that suffered a data breach. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately. All admins are strongly encouraged to enable two-factor authentication, please consider doing so. Please always practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.
• As a reminder, according to WP:NOQUORUM, administrators looking to close or relist an AfD should evaluate a nomination that has received few or no comments as if it were a proposed deletion (PROD) prior to determining whether it should be relisted.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:56, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

Tyler Rogers

...was a legitimate sports biography before being replaced. diff I don't know that it would survive AFD, but there is some third-party coverage. I'm assuming you deleted it because of User:CataracticPlanets's A7 tag, and didn't see that he reverted himself (and the hijacking) just before you deleted. Please restore the versions dated in 2017 and 2018. —Cryptic 00:29, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

Never mind, User:Diannaa went ahead and restored. If deleting the college football player actually was intentional, we can discuss at AFD. (I'd probably be in favor of deletion myself, just not as a speedy.) —Cryptic 03:31, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

G6 deletion of Kotra Tehsil

Why did you delete Kotra Tehsil under G6? Sam Sailor 09:58, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

Fintelum deletion under G11

Draft:Fintelum page was deleted under G11, however, I don't think that this should be the case. G11 states "Any article that describes its subject from a neutral point of view does not qualify for this criterion" and I truly do believe that the article was written in a neutral fashion. I anticipated that, if the article needs some fixing, it would be noted in the talk page, not simply auto-deleted. That's why it was added to the draft, not published. —Magickriss 09:19, April 25 (UTC)

In my view the draft article was clearly promotional.----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 12:09, 25 April 2019 (UTC)

Maybe some tips on how would one write it in non-promotionally so it would comply with your views of what is promotional? —Magickriss 09:03, May 13 (UTC)

Phoebe-Retta

I would like get a copy of a deleted draft for "Draft:Dynamic Yield". It said there was a draft created on this topic in 2016, but since I'm not the creator of that draft and I'm just getting started on submitting articles, I want to see why the last submission was rejected to learn a bit more about article creation before I attempt submitting one. Can you provide the original draft & give me some insights/tips on what prevented that version from being published? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Phoebe-Retta (talk • contribs) 14:21, 25 April 2019 (UTC)

Yamani Nayar

Hi, Anthony can you restore the "Draft:Yamani Nayar" without the exhibitions list? I think the exhibitions are the portion that were G12 copyright from the saatchi page The rest is good original text with citations. This is the approach used for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Juliette_Losq which had the same problem. I will rework the list. Thanks for your help. BartholomewSenior (talk) 02:09, 27 April 2019 (UTC)

References

No. But I can and will post a copy of the deleted article ib your talk page, for you to modify. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 17:57, 27 April 2019 (UTC)

I would appreciate that. Thanks for your help. BartholomewSenior (talk) 20:19, 27 April 2019 (UTC)

ArbCom 2019 special circular

Administrators must secure their accounts The Arbitration Committee may require a new RfA if your account is compromised. Use strong, unique passwords for your Wikipedia account and associated email Change your password now if your Wikipedia account password or email password is reused on another website, exposed, or weak Enable two-factor authentication now for improved security

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Why have I received this message? All administrators are receiving it. What prompted you to send this message? Recently, several Wikipedia admin accounts were compromised. The admin accounts were desysopped on an emergency basis. In the past, the Committee often resysopped admin accounts as a matter of course once the admin was back in control of their account. The committee has updated its guidelines. Admins may now be required to undergo a fresh Request for Adminship (RfA) after losing control of their account. What do I need to do? Only to follow the instructions in this message. Check that your password is unique (not reused across sites). Check that your password is strong (not simple or guessable). Enable Two-factor authentication (2FA), if you can, to create a second hurdle for attackers. How can I find out more about two-factor authentication (2FA)? You can find out more about 2FA at m:2FA.

This message was sent to all administrators following a recent motion. Thank you for your attention. For the Arbitration Committee, Cameron11598 02:34, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

Administrator account security (Correction to Arbcom 2019 special circular)

ArbCom would like to apologise and correct our previous mass message in light of the response from the community.

Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are required to "have strong passwords and follow appropriate personal security practices." We have updated our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular, two-factor authentication remains an optional means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised.

We are sorry for the wording of our previous message, which did not accurately convey this, and deeply regret the tone in which it was delivered.

For the Arbitration Committee, -Cameron11598 21:03, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2019).

Administrator changes

HickoryOughtShirt?4 • RexxS

Necrothesp

Bratsche • Kyle Barbour • Kzollman • Madman

Interface administrator changes

Pharos

Bureaucrat changes

Primefac

CheckUser changes

Reaper Eternal

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment concluded that creating pages in the portal namespace should be restricted to autoconfirmed users.
• Following a request for comment, the subject-specific notability guideline for pornographic actors and models (WP:PORNBIO) was removed; in its place, editors should consult WP:ENT and WP:GNG.

Technical news

• XTools Admin Stats, a tool to list admins by administrative actions, has been revamped to support more types of log entries such as AbuseFilter changes. Two additional tools have been integrated into it as well: Steward Stats and Patroller Stats.

Arbitration

• In response to the continuing compromise of administrator accounts, the Arbitration Committee passed a motion amending the procedures for return of permissions (diff). In such cases, the committee will review all available information to determine whether the administrator followed "appropriate personal security practices" before restoring permissions; administrators found failing to have adequately done so will not be resysopped automatically. All current administrators have been notified of this change.
• Following a formal ratification process, the arbitration policy has been amended (diff). Specifically, the two-thirds majority required to remove or suspend an arbitrator now excludes (1) the arbitrator facing suspension or removal, and (2) any inactive arbitrator who does not respond within 30 days to attempts to solicit their feedback on the resolution through all known methods of communication.

Miscellaneous

• A request for comment is currently open to amend the community sanctions procedure to exclude non XfD or CSD deletions.
• A proposal to remove pre-2009 indefinite IP blocks is currently open for discussion.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:37, 5 May 2019 (UTC)

Restoring drafts

I don't know if you get undo notifications, but I thought I'd drop a note regarding the ones I just performed on some of your recent edits. If you're giving a user the text of a deleted page, please make sure that you're not pasting copyvio content when you do it! Also, it's generally not a good idea to have "article text" on a user talk page, especially if there are WP:AFC headers such as {{AFC submission}} - things like that should probably restored/copied to a user subpage or emailed. Primefac (talk) 03:11, 20 May 2019 (UTC) (please ping on reply)

{ping|Primefac} OK, noted. Are you saying, then, that if a bona fide editor posts a copyvio in draft, which gets deleted, and he then asks for a copy of his text to correct it I should refuse him?----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 20:14, 21 May 2019 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Not refuse outright, but transfer it only by e-mail or other off-wiki means.—Odysseus1479 21:11, 21 May 2019 (UTC)

AKatyayan

I would like to complete this pending article which was deleted by you due to inactivity "Creating Draft:Ted Neward". Professional commitments never gave me enough time to do additional research and put external links and references. Please restore this page, so that I can attempt this again. Thanks a lot. Akatyayan (talk) 09:29, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

Please see WP:REFUND/G13 ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 09:54, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2019).

Administrator changes

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• An RfC seeks to clarify whether WP:OUTING should include information on just the English Wikipedia or any Wikimedia project.
• An RfC on WT:RfA concluded that Requests for adminship and bureaucratship are discussions seeking to build consensus.
• An RfC proposal to make the templates for discussion (TfD) process more like the requested moves (RM) process, i.e. "as a clearinghouse of template discussions", was closed as successful.

Technical news

• The CSD feature of Twinkle now allows admins to notify page creators of deletion if the page had not been tagged. The default behavior matches that of tagging notifications, and replaces the ability to open the user talk page upon deletion. You can customize which criteria receive notifications in your Twinkle preferences: look for Notify page creator when deleting under these criteria.
• Twinkle's d-batch (batch delete) feature now supports deleting subpages (and related redirects and talk pages) of each page. The pages will be listed first but use with caution! The und-batch (batch undelete) option can now also restore talk pages.

Miscellaneous

• The previously discussed unblocking of IP addresses indefinitely-blocked before 2009 was approved and has taken place.
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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:48, 8 June 2019 (UTC)

Deletion of Draft:Free Republic of Verdis

I noticed you called my article about Verdis a 'hoax'. I'd like to state that Verdis isn't a how and if it was, you could do the same thing to all other micronations out there including Liberland.

Can I please have it unblocked

Verdis website: Https://verdisgov.org/ Would be great if you could make an article on it to be honest. We just want to get on Wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by EnjoyableWiki1 (talk • contribs) 12:48, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

Restoring the article would not be in the best interests of wikipedia. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 20:43, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

Seyyed_Ali_Mohammadiye

> The Seyyed_Ali_Mohammadiye article has been deleted by you.

Can you guide me? Improve it? Rabin.r (talk) 22:16, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

We deleted this article on fawiki. User:Rabin.r and User:Parisa700 are sockpuppets of User:MrNewWritter. --  ARASH PT  talk  22:36, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

LOTR undeletions

Hello Anthony. I've undeleted Special effects of The Lord of the Rings film series (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) and Production design of The Lord of the Rings film series (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (and redirected them with {{R from merge}}) because they did not qualify for speedy deletion. The history of those pages are required for attribution since the content was merged to Production design of The Lord of the Rings film series (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views). — JJMC89 (T·C) 06:40, 13 June 2019 (UTC)

Page deleted OMLP2P

Hello Anthony Bradbury

you have deleted my article OMLP2P due to following reason: - A tag has been placed on Draft:OMLP2P requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from http://www.expressbusinessdirectory.com/Companies/omlp2pcom-C843734.

for your reference following profile were created by me only (http://www.expressbusinessdirectory.com/Companies/omlp2pcom-C843734) and i have done some changes in that profile so that my OMLP2P article can be approved.

Requesting you to review it again, this will be very helpful for me as all the article content is created by myself and it is unique.

Thank You Sushant Redekar — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sushant.redekar (talk • contribs) 07:38, 26 June 2019 (UTC)

Please see donating of copyright materials----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 21:23, 26 June 2019 (UTC)

Draft:Christopher J. Gramiccioni

Hi Anthony,

I see that you have reviewed and deleted my draft for the Christopher J. Gramiccioni page I was creating. You deleted the draft based on G11 and G12 and I assure you that my intentions are not to promote or violate any copyrights. If my draft is restored I will be sure to make the necessary changes to make this article acceptable for Wikipedia guidelines. If you are unable to restore my draft to Wikipedia I would still like a copy of it through an alternate medium (email or my talk page).

Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cswendeman (talk • contribs) 19:02, 27 June 2019 (UTC)

Draft:Verdis

Greetings Anthony,

It appears this "Verdis" guy is back after you've took down the Draft:Free Republic of Verdis, he has started the Draft:Verdis.

Link to the draft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Verdis

Thank you. DerpyUser420 (talk) 19:04, 27 June 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2019).

Administrator changes

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• In February 2019, the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) changed its office actions policy to include temporary and project-specific bans. The WMF exercised this new ability for the first time on the English Wikipedia on 10 June 2019 to temporarily ban and desysop Fram. This action has resulted in significant community discussion, a request for arbitration (permalink), and, either directly or indirectly, the resignations of numerous administrators and functionaries. The WMF Board of Trustees is aware of the situation, and discussions continue on a statement and a way forward. The Arbitration Committee has sent an open letter to the WMF Board.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:19, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

User:Basil Bahrani

He also has User:Basil Bahrani/sandbox, looking at his edits, not sure if he is here to contribute or not. Wgolf (talk) 22:35, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

General Enquiry

Hey i saw that you recently deleted Pradeep Khadka cause of Copyvivo article. Pradeep Khadka is a well-known award winning Nepalese actor with mutliple blockbuster movies. Can i start his article ? Let me know , thanks. Owlf 17:40, 6 July 2019 (UTC)

You are free to create anything you wish, so long as it does not violate any of the rules or policies of Wikipedia. Including WP:COPYVIO.----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 18:25, 6 July 2019 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:KLASK

Hello, Anthony Bradbury. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "KLASK".

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 nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. 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. JMHamo (talk) 18:32, 6 July 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion

Hi I just created a new page for a South Korean TV drama titled 'Designated Survivor: 60 Days' but it has been speedy deleted due to copyright issues. I would like to edit the page so as not to infringe the copyright issue, however the whole article is gone. Do you have the original copy so that I do not have to type everything again? Because the copyright is only for a small portion which I can edit quickly.

Thank you very much.

Wojciech Waleczek

Hi. Could you please help me to move an userspace draft about an award-winning composer into article space? I would appreciate this a lot if you could review it or tell me who could review the article. The draft is about Wojciech Waleczek—a succesful pianist from Poland whose numerous achievements deserve to be celebrated with his own Wikipedia page. He took 3rd prize at the Premio Mario Zanfi competition and was the absolute winner of the 4th Franz Liszt National Piano Competition—to name just a few of his accomplishments. Mr Waleczek already has his articles on German and Polish Wikipedia. Hope to hear back from you. Regards, AngelOfDestiny (talk) 13:45, 9 July 2019 (UTC)

Draft: Christopher J. Gramiccioni

In addition to the post from June 27th on this page I would also like to add that I had permission from the source http://mcponj.org/meet-the-prosecutor/ to use their information, I understand if the language was too similar but as I said before I am willing to make the necessary changes. With the permission from the site I see no reason for speedy deletion under copyright and would appriciate you restoring my draft or sending me a copy to rework it. Thank you again.

I do not in any way dispute your statement as to permission granted by the source you specify. I am afraid that a simple statement to this effect id insufficient. Please follow the appropriate links in WP:COPYVIO.----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 19:19, 10 July 2019 (UTC)

Will you Review this Draft?

Hello,

Some years ago you deleted an attempt to create an article page for 'Domicology' citing A11. Would you mind taking a look through the start of this draft page to provide some feedback as to how to best augment this draft to pass through the review process? The claims of significance for this page are that the profession of Domicology is the only in the world that explicitly utilizes lifecycle sustainability frameworks to examine the relationship between the life cycle of the built environment and the lived experience of communities; and that this field of study is currently being conducted exclusively at Michigan State University (Though other institutions of higher education have since referenced Domicology in their own courses).

The desire to have this article added to wikipedia is that additional information regarding the social, environmental, and economic impacts of blight and abandonment (information originating within scholarly, peer-reviewed publications) can be added to the page. This information is not currently offered on the 'urban decay' article. The temporal dimension that Domicology offers on these phenomena is significant enough that it warrants creation of new article (or so I believe).

Please take a look, and let me know the best way to proceed. I don't have any interest in 'gaming the system' or utilizing wikipedia for self promotion, instead i'm most interested in showcasing important scientific research that will genuinely further the mission of wikipedia as a whole.

Thank You

MSUCCED1 (talk) 17:43, 15 July 2019 (UTC)Nat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MSUCCED1/Domicology

PS: I'm unsure as to why the link to that artists page is included in this post.

regarding my userpage

how did you find me? is there a process to who you target? also sorry for posting my linkedin i guess i just realllly want a job Chriscush765 (talk) 19:29, 18 July 2019 (UTC)

I understand your reason for posting here; it was a useless exercise. This is an encyclopedia, and data is found, when looked for, by the title of the required page. It is not like a book where you can scan through the pages. The only way to find your userpage, as an ordinary reader, would be to type in the exact page name, which is "User:Chriscush765". How would anyone searching for employees know that? It is possible, with specific instruction, to search for new pages, which can be checked to determine if Wikipedia policy is being followed; that is how your page was noticed and referred to me for consideration. Advertisements, including resumes, are always deleted. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 21:44, 18 July 2019 (UTC)

When I came up to the page and tagged it for speedy deletion, what I thought was that I saw was in the category of unambiguous advertising. It was my gut instinct really. James-the-Charizard (talk) 14:49, 20 July 2019 (UTC)

Absolutely correct. It also qualifies for deletion under category CSD:U5, which in short form is inappropriate posting on userpage.----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 18:15, 20 July 2019 (UTC)

User:Sam8521

Hi Tony. You might be interested to know that the above user is requesting an unblock, some 10 years after you refused a similar request. They were 14 at the time so 10 years is quite a significant interval. Do you have any feelings either way about their request? --kingboyk (talk) 04:11, 22 July 2019 (UTC)

I agree that ten years is a significantly long time, during which people can change. However, as I made a determination on this block before, albeit not the final determination, it is not appropriate to make a definitive judgement on his new unblock request. The admin who placed the block remains available, although clearly it is unlikely that (s)he will retain a specific memory of it. It should be noted that this editor was known at the time of the block, to have used at least eighteen sockpuppet accounts. I propose that an admin finding the unblock request should be left free to make their own decision. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 13:56, 22 July 2019 (UTC)

Deletion of Draft:Henry Ohaegbulam

Hi Tony, you deleted a draft I was creating for Henry Ohaegbulam due to the fact that it was believed to have been created for advertising purposes. I want to ask that you kindly restore the draft for me. I was going to effect the necessary changes but it got speedily deleted before I could find the chance to. Please, help resolve this and restore the draft. I'll make every necessary adjustment in less than 12 hours of the restoration. If you cannot grant this, please tell me why so I can avoid such costly mistakes during the creation of future drafts. Thanks a lot. DHOPE4YALL (talk) 17:48, 24 July 2019 (UTC)

I have reviewed the draft which I deleted. I am sure that you had perfectly reasonable motives in its creation, but nevertheless it appears that the entire draft is essentially a promotion piece of a person without adequate encyclopedic notability. You are wholly free to seek a community view at the deletion review page. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 15:44, 26 July 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – August 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2019).

Administrator changes

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• Following a request for comment, the page Wikipedia:Office actions has been changed from a policy page to an information page.
• A request for comment (permalink) is in progress regarding the administrator inactivity policy.

Arbitration

• Editors may now use the template {{Ds/aware}} to indicate that they are aware that discretionary sanctions are in force for a topic area, so it is unnecessary to alert them.

Miscellaneous

• Following a research project on masking IP addresses, the Foundation is starting a new project to improve the privacy of IP editors. The result of this project may significantly change administrative and counter-vandalism workflows. The project is in the very early stages of discussions and there is no concrete plan yet. Admins and the broader community are encouraged to leave feedback on the talk page.
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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:23, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

Edit conflict

You deleted Carrie Symonds at the same moment I converted it to a redirect. No biggie, but having a redirect may stop people from recreating it.-- Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 21:57, 21 August 2019 (UTC)

@Ponyo: Fair comment. Feel free to revert me and insert redirect if you wish. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 11:17, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

Lectonar has admin-protected it, so even if I did restore the redirect it may look offside to use the admin bit to do so. I still think it would be a helpful redirect as Symonds is mentioned in Johnson's article and infobox (and the page has 6k+ views in the last 30 days), but I'm not overly fussed about it. -- Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 15:42, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

@Ponyo: I protected after a request at RfP, as indeed the article was getting repeatedly recreated, but have taken the protection back to extended-confirmed. Am off to work now, but please ping me when you did the redirect, and I will reprotect fully. Lectonar (talk) 05:56, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

Lectonar Too late. Apparently Störm recreated the article under another title to get around the protection and then Fences and windows moved the article over the protection. Too convoluted for me, so I'm stepping away. -- Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 15:42, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

I wasn't aware of protection when I moved it; the page linked to John Worboys, which I created, so I got a ping. I checked previous speedy deletions and those versions were sketchy, the current one is quite different. A rush to salting this when she's clearly not a nobody is not a balanced approach. Fences&Windows 23:27, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

Backlog Banzai

In the month of September, Wikiproject Military history is running a project-wide edit-a-thon, Backlog Banzai. There are heaps of different areas you can work on, for which you claim points, and at the end of the month all sorts of whiz-bang awards will be handed out. Every player wins a prize! There is even a bit of friendly competition built in for those that like that sort of thing. Sign up now at Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/September 2019 Backlog Banzai to take part. For the coordinators, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 08:17, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

Deletion request

Can you delete Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Kiyanu Kim please? I think it has a lack of information. 2402:1980:824C:AE08:B2BC:59B3:D1ED:3C33 (talk) 11:59, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

Please make this request through the usual channels.----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 13:00, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

Wikiproject Military history coordinator election nominations open

Nominations for the upcoming project coordinator election are now open. A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next year. The project coordinators are the designated points of contact for issues concerning the project, and are responsible for maintaining our internal structure and processes. They do not, however, have any authority over article content or editor conduct, or any other special powers. More information on being a coordinator is available here. If you are interested in running, please sign up here by 23:59 UTC on 14 September! Voting doesn't commence until 15 September. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the coord team. Cheers, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 02:37, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

Template deletions

Hi, you just deleted dozens of templates, like Template:Italy Squad 1978 FIBA World Championship, which were tagged as {{db-g4}} by Sawol. Several of these templates were created several years ago, the aforementioned one 12 years ago. The cited discussion was Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2019 May 8#Template:Angola Squad 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup, which was initiated and closed this past May, four months ago. The items discussed there only concerned templates for the years 1998, 2014, and 2016. The speedied templates were from other years and were not nominated in the aforementioned discussion. They could not have possibly been subject to speedy deletion under WP:CSD#G4 as recreations of templates previously deleted via deletion discussion, as no such discussion took place. Can either of you please explain your actions? ƏXPLICIT 12:42, 4 September 2019 (UTC)

It seemed to me that the discussion, which covered a large number of templates, could reasonably be taken to include other templates which were in all significant features similar to those for which deletion was agreed. If you feel that this is not the case I would appreciate explanation of your reasoning. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 20:59, 4 September 2019 (UTC)

CSD criteria have very narrow definitions and are not particularly open to interpretation. The templates you deleted failed to meet several aspects to qualify for speedy deletion under G4. They were not: a) recreations of templates that were previously deleted; b) sufficiently identical copies in terms of content, not purpose—G4 has never been broad enough to cover the latter; c) previously deleted as a result of a deletion discussion. The deletion of these templates appear to be out-of-process. ƏXPLICIT 23:54, 4 September 2019 (UTC)

I hear what you say, although possibly not with full agreement therewith. But I have no wish to argue the point; it does not seem to me to be worth arguing. what are you suggesting? ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 17:55, 5 September 2019 (UTC)

My point is that these templates did not meet the CSD criteria and should not have been deleted under G4. The speedy deletions noms should have been declined. The templates should be restored and sent to WP:TFD.

On a side note, let me see if I can get better understanding of your application of G4. Let's take File:Fantasy Ride Deluxe.jpg for example, which is an alternate cover for the album Fantasy Ride. It deleted as a result of this discussion because the the only difference between that cover and File:Fantasy Ride Standard.jpg was the color scheme. Would you argue that G4 is broad enough to be applied to all alternate covers where the only difference is color, even if they were uploaded before the discussion took place? ƏXPLICIT 03:32, 6 September 2019 (UTC)

I would not argue at all about a deletion which was performed some ten years ago, not by me. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 11:26, 6 September 2019 (UTC)

Very well, I will be taking the matter to WP:DRV. You can find the discussion at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2019 September 7. ƏXPLICIT 10:51, 7 September 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2019).

Administrator changes

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• Editors using the mobile website on Wikipedia can opt-in to new advanced features via your settings page. This will give access to more interface links, special pages, and tools.
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Arbitration

• A request for comment is open to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the 2019 English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee election and to resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.

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• A global request for comment is in progress regarding whether a user group should be created that could modify edit filters across all public Wikimedia wikis.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:36, 7 September 2019 (UTC)

User:Mohamed Abdullahi ibrahim isack

Hello, Anthony Bradbury,

Just curious why you thought this user page was worthy of deletion. We usually allow editors to post a bit of information about themselves on their user page and he wasn't "promoting himself" or any business. It seemed harmless enough and it was a brand new editor, he had only been active for 45 minutes. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:27, 10 September 2019 (UTC)

Or why you deleted User:Rezoanul basher! Editors are allowed to post brief biographical information about themselves on their user pages. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:38, 10 September 2019 (UTC)

@Liz:The first userpage you mention contains only personal information, including links to a variety of media pages, which seemed to me to be inappropriate. Would you not agree that the userpage should at least focus primarily on wikipedic activity, with personal information as a secondary subject? If editors use the project as a vehicle in which to discuss their own personal aspects exclusively we run the risk of turning into a variant of Facebook.Your second example seems to me not to be at all controversial. It is a clear and obvious promotional piece, again without any obvious relationship to wikipedic activity.These are my thoughts, which still appear to me to be sound. If you feel that either of these userpages do in fact deserve to exist, then please go ahead and restore them; I would not agree but will not contest.----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 09:53, 11 September 2019 (UTC)

Ujjwal Patni

Just want to recover my page data which was deleted by you (Ujjwal Patni). I really want to create that page because Ujjwal Patni is a famous public figure, top selling author author, which achieved 3 Guinness world records, Motivational Speaker shiv khera. If I was doing anything wrong help me to recreate. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AnuragKulkarni09 (talk • contribs) 06:51, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

I had some difficulty in identifying the page in question, as you posted it in a sandbox under your username, and then did not sign your edit. Your draft consists of fifteen words only, and do not indicate any notability for their subject. Are you aware that a longer article about Ujjwal Patni, who may or may not be the same person, was deleted (not by me) some seven years ago?----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 16:07, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

Anthony Jephson

This disambiguation page was deleted as it did not link to any existing articles (WP:G14). Since then I have created articles on Anthony Jephson (died 1755) and Anthony Jephson (died 1794), so if the page is restored it should now have at least two blue links. Opera hat (talk) 15:59, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

Milhist coordinator election voting has commenced

G'day everyone, voting for the 2019 Wikiproject Military history coordinator tranche is now open. This is a simple approval vote; only "support" votes should be made. Project members should vote for any candidates they support by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September 2018. Thanks, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 03:37, 15 September 2019 (UTC)

Please reverse your deletion of rarest element

Hi Anthony Bradbury,

I recreated rarest element, as I was opposing Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2017_December_13#Xest_Y which at the time was closed as unopposed. It is clear by recreating it that I was opposing the close, so the original delete reason does not apply. I think it is a worthwhile redirect to have. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 07:56, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

Registering your opinion by reversing an already closed discussion is an incorrect approach. In my personal opinion the deletion reason stated is a valid one, in that Wikipedia is not meant to be a collection of trivia. Nevertheless, if you feel that the redirect is valid then feel free to take it to deletion review. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 09:16, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

Article delete (Question)

Hi Anthony Sir

I have nominated few pages for deletion 7 days has been passed but the articles are not deleted now i have two concerns how the pages were approved and patrolled by editors if they were not notable and how come now editor saying that the page is not notable and no references found in google. i have put the tag on 13 september and 14 september but the pages are not deleted yet kindly let me know is 7 days enough or there is other criteria ?.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleena_(actress) (i nominated this page for deletion on 14 september) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salahuddin_Toofani (i nominated this page for deletion on 13 september) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buz-e-Chini (16 september)

Thanks پاک آرمی زندہ باد (talk) 08:21, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

Articles nominated at the articles for deletion page are normally retained for seven days after nomination; it is not unusual for them to take a day or two after that period to be definitively processed. You need take no further action.----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 09:28, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

Wikiproject Military history coordinator election half-way mark

G'day everyone, the voting for the XIX Coordinator Tranche is at the halfway mark. The candidates have answered various questions, and you can check them out to see why they are running and decide whether you support them. Project members should vote for any candidates they support by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September 2018. Thanks, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 07:36, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

Deletion Question

Hi Anthony,

Like many of the comments I see om this page, I am writing to ask about a deletion of a page that I created for Parag Vaish.

I tried to make sure and include links to show "credible indication of importance" such as a link to his appearance on Fox Business Channel, a link to his newest book and also to his public speaker profile. What else do I need to add to make this fit your guidelines/the guidelines of Wikipedia? I can definitely use some guidance.

He has been a leader in closing the gender pay gap. I thought about including that info and just blanked out on it. Would that be worthy of inclusion?

Sorry if I seem clueless. I really do appreciate any help you can give me. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JackArmstrongFan (talk • contribs) 07:12, 27 September 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – October 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2019).

Administrator changes

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• Following a discussion, a new criterion for speedy category renaming was added: C2F: One eponymous article, which applies if the category contains only an eponymous article or media file, provided that the category has not otherwise been emptied shortly before the nomination. The default outcome is an upmerge to the parent categories.

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• As previously noted, tighter password requirements for Administrators were put in place last year. Wikipedia should now alert you if your password is less than 10 characters long and thus too short.

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• The 2019 CheckUser and Oversight appointment process has begun. The community consultation period will take place October 4th to 10th.
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The independent Pharmacy

The article had secondary sources and required to be written again for some obvious reasons of promotion. I did submit it again. Can you explain the reason for deletion? (SmartCaptcha (talk) 15:52, 10 October 2019 (UTC))

The draft article still appears to me to be inherently promotional. If you wish to take it to deletion review I will not contest the consensus reached. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 20:43, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

Draft: Luis Dato

Hello. There has been a confusion about my draft and the article Luis Dato. I am quite new in the wikipedia and i did not know the rules well. i deeply apologize. I revised the Draft: Luis Dato to the wikipedia's standard. Please review it. Thanks. Stephentalla (talk) 17:19, 12 October 2019 (UTC)

I may owe you an apology; I am uncertain. I do not seem to have deleted your article about Luis Dato, although I agree that some admin has. I appear to have deleted your userpage, at your own request. It may be that your request was intended to refer to another page; I do not know. O

Please clarify for me which page you intended to have deleted - if any - and which you intended to remain. If it helps, I do not see anything wrong with the Luis Dato article. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 21:23, 12 October 2019 (UTC)

Hello Anthony. Out of frustration, I requested my userpage to be deleted. The reason was, my article Luis Dato was deleted (by Bearcat). Apparently, there is a copy of the article in the Draft and i decided to move it as an Article. the move was a mistake. and i conceded and i apologize. perhaps, you could help me revive the article Luis Dato. I have a copy of the article in the Draft, though. Stephentalla (talk) 05:15, 13 October 2019 (UTC)

All you need to do is edit the draft, which exists now, until you are happy with it, and then submit it as an article.----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 20:33, 13 October 2019 (UTC)

already revised and submitted. Could you help with the review? :) thanks! Stephentalla (talk) 06:51, 14 October 2019 (UTC)

Deletion of Draft

Hi Anthony,

I see that you have reviewed and deleted my draft for the OBAKEIDORO! page I was creating. If my draft is restored I will be sure to make the necessary changes to make this article acceptable for Wikipedia guidelines. I would like to delete all the references pointed out and resubmit. If you are unable to restore my draft to Wikipedia I would still like a copy of it through an alternate medium (email or my talk page).

Thank you C4JZwJBR (talk) 12:25, 15 October 2019 (UTC)

Let me first apologise for the delay in responding to your post; I have been out of the country for just over a week.

I deleted your draft as a copyright violation. Articles here obviously depend on good references, but must be written entirely in your own words. I cannot place a copy onto your talk page because that would commit the original copyright offence (talk pages are not private). I will e-mail a copy to you.----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 20:31, 23 October 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for reply. I want you to send it to this email address.
lda6lge@gmail.com
C4JZwJBR (talk) 18:51, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

Deletion review for Carline Daur

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Caroline Daur. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Willthacheerleader18 (talk) 11:53, 26 October 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2019).

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Deletion of Grace Ihejiamaizu

Hi Anthony, I received a notification that this article had been deleted, so I guess I worked on it at some point! The reasons for deletion were A7 and G11. A7 is "no importance" which I'm surprised at as her biography is listed on the World Economic Forum site, and G11 is "self promotion" which I'm also surprised about as I usually spot that type of writing and edit it out myself. Were there other reasons? Maybe copyright vio that I missed? TIA. MurielMary (talk) 07:32, 5 November 2019 (UTC)

There are in fact several edits attributed to you just over a month ago. I have reviewed the article following your post ad have, after some thought, restored it. I am not wholly convinced that the importance claimed is of sufficient weight to justify retention in the encyclopedia, but retaining it does no harm.----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 11:51, 5 November 2019 (UTC)

Hi, Anthony. To me this is blatantly promotional. Any objection to me deleting it? Deb (talk) 17:01, 5 November 2019 (UTC)

PS. I was thinking about moving it to draft, actually. Deb (talk) 17:03, 5 November 2019 (UTC)

Welp, it is promotional in tone, but no quite enough to fire off my CSD response. If you look sideways and squint, there may be an assertion of significance. Draft sounds like a good place.-- Deepfriedokra 17:07, 5 November 2019 (UTC)

The two previous posts reflect the degree of ambivalence that I felt, after initially deleting the article, when this deletion was questioned. My original feeling was that it was promotional; I am happy if you choose to delete it; or move to draft if you wish.----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 17:42, 5 November 2019 (UTC)

Hi Anthony, Deb. I think draft would be appropriate so I can improve on the tonality. I may have been a bit biased due to my acquaintance with the said person but I created it as a draft and it was approved, I am still relatively new here, but speedy deletion after approval leaves one confused whether it's an opinionated or gender bias thing. It would be more useful if the promotional paragraphs are highlighted. Opatachibueze (talk) 09:46, 6 November 2019 (UTC)

May I assume that the apparent hint that I was either opinionated or gender-biased is just due either to my misunderstanding or to ambiguous phrasing on your part?

As to the point you make regarding approval; acceptance of a draft for inclusion in mainspace sets the bar at a lower level than that for consideration for speedy deletion; or indeed, for any deletion procedure. Consideration for deletion of an article which been through WP:AfC is not unusual. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 18:51, 6 November 2019 (UTC)

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Deletion of my page

What was the reason for my page being deleted? How was there mis-use if everyone referenced is a relative and all of which are public figures actors, producers, artists, athletes etc. I even left articles on myself which can he referenced on major publications such as IwantEDM.com PenninoAnthony (talk) 12:08, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

You created a userpage: a userpage is intended to be a page about your activities, expectations, interests and actions in relation to your erditing on wikipedia. A brief biographical comment is acceptable as an udjunct to the rest of the text. Information about your family is not appropriate on a userpage, nor are references to articles about yourself. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 15:00, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

I have added a right and accurate about famous entrepreneur Muneeb Mushtaq, But again I am getting the message regarding promotional content. If somebody write about himself then it will be consider as promotional. I think on every profile your mood is different. Here is a wikipedia profile which I have follow after several deletion. Now Check it it has same content as Muneeb Content. Please check below content and wikipedia account.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankur_Warikoo

He is the co-founder of Nearbuy and Little App. He served as the CEO from Aug 2015 (when nearbuy.com started) to October 2019. He announced his step down as the CEO in a LinkedIn post,[2] in October 2019.Warikoo started the Groupon India business in April 2011, which is when Groupon entered India through an acquisition. In addition to serving as the CEO of the India business, between 2013-2015 Warikoo also managed the Groupon APAC business of Indonesia, Thailand and Philippines.[3] In August 2015, Groupon India went through a management buyout, where the India management team (led by Ankur) bought out the majority shareholding of Groupon, partnering with Sequoia Capital.[4]

Note: With the name of Muneeb M. Mushtaq it was live 2 month ago but now you are saying it is promotional what is the answers.

And Please tell me my promotional content?. Please help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MuneebM.Mushtaq (talk • contribs) 11:50, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

I think that I have no further comment to make; please re-read my original comment above. Also note that in Wikipedia writing about yourself, while not absolutely forbidden, is strongly discouraged. And articles written about oneself are always very likely to be seen as promotional under Wikipedia guidelins. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 12:11, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of Children of the Lens

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I created this article some thirteen years ago, as Wikipedia newby, and had actually forgotten that I had done so. I have no interest in preserving it.----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 12:21, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of Innermost Circle of the All-Highest for deletion

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2019).

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Deletion review for Marina Suwendy

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Marina Suwendy. PERSONSOFMALAYSIA (talk) 04:57, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

Why am I being notified of this? As far as I can determine I have done nothing to this article, which appears in any case to be extant.----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 12:39, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

deletion review of Souptic Chakraborty==========

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Draft:Souptic_Chakraborty&action=edit&redlink=1

Dear Anthony , you have deleted the entire article because it contained a reference of imdb.com if its there we could have removed it but deleting the article is not a solution and neither we are promoting any website.I created this page so that others can know more about this public figure and about him, hence i would request you to please reactivate this article so that i can remove the hyperlink reference of imdb. Thanks Humchandan (talk) 12:57, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

I removed the article, not because of a reference (although in Wikipedia IMBD references are not regarded as valid) but because of copyright violation. That being so I cannot reactivate the article as that perpetuates the copyright violation. If you wish I can e-mail the text to you (if your e-mail is enabled here) but the article, if you submit it again, must be written only your own words. Please let me know. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 15:55, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

Dear Anthony, could you please send me the email of the entire content with reference and also tell me which content was a part of copyright violation so that i can check it and get it rectified, thanks Humchandan (talk) 17:22, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

Re: Taifa (disambiguation)

You declined my speedy nomination of Taifa (disambiguation) as erroneous. I was wondering whether I misunderstood the criteria, or if it just wasn't obvious to you from the way the page is formatted that the first item on the page (Taifa) is in fact a primary topic. —Compassionate727 ^(T·C) 00:05, 5 December 2019 (UTC)

It may well be that it is my understanding which is faulty. As I understand it, Taifa takes us to two distinct items and, as such, disambiguation is appropriate. I do not understand your comment about one being a primary topic.----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 12:25, 5 December 2019 (UTC)

Wait… Now that I scrutinize the CSD criteria more closely, I think it's actually been changed. It used to be that a dab page that had two items but where one was the primary topic was considered unnecessary; looks like that was removed when the criterion was split from G6 or 68 (whichever one it was). I'll ask at the CSD talk page to make sure. Sorry for the misunderstanding. —Compassionate727 ^(T·C) 15:12, 5 December 2019 (UTC)

Deletion review for Kahler v. Kansas

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Kahler v. Kansas. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Omanlured (talk) 16:27, 5 December 2019 (UTC)

Restoring deleted pages

Hello, I noticed a few years ago you deleted a number of World Cup qualification articles which were created by a blocked user. Would it be possible to restore these pages (listed below)? They are notable topics which are useful to Wikipedia, and it would save a considerable amount of effort from having to recreate them. Thanks, S.A. Julio (talk) 08:33, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

List

• 1970 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 1
• 1970 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 2
• 1970 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 3
• 1970 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 4
• 1970 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 5
• 1970 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 6
• 1970 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 7
• 1970 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 8
• 1974 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 1
• 1974 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 2
• 1974 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 3
• 1974 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 4
• 1974 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 5
• 1974 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 6
• 1974 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 7
• 1974 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 8
• 1974 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 9
• 1978 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 1
• 1978 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 2
• 1978 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 3
• 1978 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 4
• 1978 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 5
• 1978 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 6
• 1978 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 7
• 1978 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 8
• 1978 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 9
• 1982 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 1
• 1982 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 2
• 1982 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 3
• 1982 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 4
• 1982 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 5

Deletion of Death of Carlos Gregorio Hernandez Vasquez

Hello User:Anthony_Bradbury, I tried responding to you where you posted your message, but haven't heard back. I'm trying here now. Hi @TomCat4680:! Nice to meet you. I just typed something up using the above live, but it's unclear to me whether you'll receive it. Anyway, please undelete this "article." Yes, there was little of substance because I did not have enough time to add more. My intent had been to scaffold and fill in the details soon thereafter. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Paxperscientiam (talk • contribs) 22:26, 10 December 2019 (UTC)

The article contained no content whatever except for an infobox. That being so I do not feel comfortable rec=storing it, but will post it to your talkpage. Please bear in mind that an infobox in isolation is virtually guaranteed to be speedy-deleted. If you create the article again I suggest that you use WP:AfC, and create the infobox after the article. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 23:08, 10 December 2019 (UTC)

Notice of noticeboard discussion

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding a page deletion (I didn't open this thread, but I see you haven't been notified, so I'm notifying you). The thread is "Suggestions for Sadhu Shetty?".The discussion is about the topic Sadhu Shetty. Thank you.– Levivich 21:06, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

Draft:Bass Drops Music Visualizer

My page Draft:Bass Drops Music Visualizer has been speedily deleted under CSD G3, why? 36.81.233.137 (talk) 02:52, 13 December 2019 (UTC)

I really cannot believe that this is meant as a serious question.----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 10:40, 13 December 2019 (UTC)

Bass Drops Music Visualizer is a part of Renderforest music visualizer. 36.81.233.137 (talk) 16:54, 13 December 2019 (UTC)

That may well be the case. But your draft article was written in a styl4 so far different from styles acceped here as to render it wholly unsuitable for inclusion in this encyclopedia. I am absolutely not prepared to restore it; if you wish to challenge this decision please do so at deletion review, not here. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 21:39, 13 December 2019 (UTC)

Incidentally, I note that Renderforest has been deleted four times from the encyclopedia. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 21:41, 13 December 2019 (UTC)

Deletion review for Draft:Bass Drops Music Visualizer

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Draft:Bass Drops Music Visualizer. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. 36.81.233.137 (talk) 01:23, 14 December 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion for Pannonian mixed forests

Hi, you deleted my first Wikipedia page because it had some text in it that was the same as from https://www.worldwildlife.org/ecoregions/pa0431

The rest of the page was not copyrighted at all and was my own work. How can I view the previous page so I can remake the page with the problematic text reworded? I don't wanna restart the whole entire page.

Please help me out. This was my first article and I had a lot of source material (articles, papers, etc) downloaded because I was planning on working on the page today. I didn't think the WWF copyrighted their page because it is a nonprofit and the research in question was funded by the EU. I know better now and it won't happen again, but is there any way I could reuse the rest of the source code please — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tr3ndyBEAR (talk • contribs) 21:04, 16 December 2019 (UTC)

OK, I understand that the violation was not intentional. For the future, note that all published text, from any source, should be regarded as copyright protected unless this is expressly denied within or with the text in question.

I will send your deleted text to your talk page. Please review it and then delete it, as technically maintaining it even on a talk page is a copyright violation.----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 23:12, 16 December 2019 (UTC)

Good luck

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2019).

Administrator changes

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Deor • Spartaz • Xeno

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CheckUser changes

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Bradv • Casliber • DGG • David Fuchs • Maxim • Newyorkbrad • SoWhy • Xeno

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Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment asks whether partial blocks should be enabled on the English Wikipedia. If enabled, this functionality would allow administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces, rather than the entire site.
• A proposal asks whether admins who don't use their tools for a significant period of time (e.g. five years) should have the toolset procedurally removed.
• Following a successful RfC, a whitelist is now available for users whose redirects will be autopatrolled by a bot, removing them from the new pages patrol queue. Admins can add such users to Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Redirect whitelist after a discussion following the guidelines at Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Redirect whitelist.

Arbitration

• The fourth case on Palestine-Israel articles was closed. The case consolidated all previous remedies under one heading, which should make them easier to understand, apply, and enforce. In particular, the distinction between "primary articles" and "related content" has been clarified, with the former being the entire set of articles whose topic relates to the Arab-Israeli conflict, broadly interpreted rather than reasonably construed.
• Following the 2019 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Beeblebrox, Bradv, Casliber, David Fuchs, DGG, KrakatoaKatie, Maxim, Newyorkbrad, SoWhy, Worm That Turned, Xeno.

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2020).

Administrator changes

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Dennis Brown

Aude • BrownHairedGirl • CALR • Jengod • John Reaves • J.smith • Kim Dent-Brown • K1Bond007 • MECU • Refdoc • RHaworth

CheckUser changes

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Interface administrator changes

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Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, partial blocks are now enabled on the English Wikipedia. This functionality allows administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces rather than the entire site. A draft policy is being workshopped at Wikipedia:Partial blocks.
• The request for comment seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure closed with wide-spread support for an alternative desysoping procedure based on community input. No proposed process received consensus.

Technical news

• Twinkle now supports partial blocking. There is a small checkbox that toggles the "partial" status for both blocks and templating. There is currently one template: {{uw-pblock}}.
• When trying to move a page, if the target title already exists then a warning message is shown. The warning message will now include a link to the target title. [2]

Arbitration

• Following a recent arbitration case, the Arbitration Committee reminded administrators that checkuser and oversight blocks must not be reversed or modified without prior consultation with the checkuser or oversighter who placed the block, the respective functionary team, or the Arbitration Committee.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2020 Steward elections will begin on 08 February 2020, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 28 February 2020, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
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March Madness 2020

G'day all, March Madness 2020 is about to get underway, and there is bling aplenty for those who want to get stuck into the backlog by way of tagging, assessing, updating, adding or improving resources and creating articles. If you haven't already signed up to participate, why not? The more the merrier! Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 08:19, 29 February 2020 (UTC) for the coord team

Administrators' newsletter – March 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2020).

Administrator changes

Money emoji

Athaenara • DeltaQuad

Fishhead64 • Kudpung • Mikaey

Bureaucrat changes

DeltaQuad

CheckUser changes

DeltaQuad

Oversight changes

DeltaQuad

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, the blocking policy was changed to state that sysops must not undo or alter CheckUser or Oversight blocks, rather than should not.
• A request for comment confirmed that sandboxes of established but inactive editors may not be blanked due solely to inactivity.

Technical news

• Following a discussion, Twinkle's default CSD behavior will soon change, most likely this week. After the change, Twinkle will default to "tagging mode" if there is no CSD tag present, and default to "deletion mode" if there is a CSD tag present. You will be able to always default to "deletion mode" (the current behavior) using your Twinkle preferences.

Miscellaneous

• Following the 2020 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: BRPever, Krd, Martin Urbanec, MusikAnimal, Sakretsu, Sotiale, and Tks4Fish. There are a total of seven editors that have been appointed as stewards, the most since 2014.
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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:20, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

Francesco Sidoti

Sir. After knowing that my draft would take three months to be revised, I received an answer the following day saying that publication was denied on account that there were no footnotes/"inline cites"(?). In reality, the text is not very long but has ten footnotes. Since I'm already used to editor's silly restrictions I saw no alternative but to write to you and request some sense. Yours Peiris Fox (talk) 19:12, 20 March 2020 (UTC)

Will you like to help us

Hello Anthony Bradbury! Actually I want a little help from you. Me and SilkTork are working on the title Sandeep Maheshwari on User:Kashish pall/Sandeep Maheshwari . We have completed it almost and need little help to finish this quickly so can you please help us? Kashish pall (talk) 11:00, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

Erroneous draft redirect deletions

Hello Anthony. Redirects are not eligible for WP:G13. Additionally, redirects that are a result of page moves from the draft namespace to the main namespace should be retained. I have just reversed a number of these that were nominated by Thepenguin9. — JJMC89 (T·C) 16:10, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2020).

Administrator changes

Cabayi • Lee Vilenski

Boing! said Zebedee

Jonny-mt • MarkGallagher • PeaceNT

Money emoji → Moneytrees

Bureaucrat changes

SilkTork • WereSpielChequers

CheckUser changes

NativeForeigner

Oversight changes

Someguy1221

Daniel Case

Guideline and policy news

• There is an ongoing request for comment to streamline the source deprecation and blacklisting process.

Technical news

• There is a plan for new requirements for user signatures. You can give feedback.

Arbitration

• Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold a Arbcom RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. A draft RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC (Draft) and not open to comments from the community yet. Interested editors can comment on the RfC itself on its talk page.

Miscellaneous

• The WMF has begun a pilot report of the pages most visited through various social media platforms to help with anti-vandalism and anti-disinformation efforts. The report is updated daily and will be available through the end of May.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:00, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

Draft talk:OnePageCRM deletion?

I see User:Athaenara deleted Draft talk:OnePageCRM under G8, apparently it got restored, and then you deleted it under G13. But the base page, Draft:OnePageCRM is still there. Help me out here? -- RoySmith (talk) 21:51, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

Oh, never mind. I see. user:NadiaReckmann recreated it. Sigh. -- RoySmith (talk) 23:11, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

Dear Anthony

I have a problem with citation when ever I am citing a source it shows a warning called" text web ignored help" how it can be resolve thanks have a nice time

I am sorry, I have not come across this ever. I suggest you make use of the "help" page, remembering to sign your post when you do.----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 21:25, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

@Maizbhandariya:, the problem is that you add | between Cite and web, or Cite and book, it should be Cite web|title=title|url=link and so on. I've fixed it for you at Thaika Shuaib. You must take a note of WP:REFB, if you still face referencing issues. Regards - Aaqib Anjum Aafī (^talk) 21:36, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

Draft:Chidi Okoroafor

Was not an abandoned draft?! ——SN54129 06:32, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

My error. Profound apologies. Draft is restored.----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 21:40, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

It was, however, an apparent test page devoid of content. Deleted again.----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 21:44, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

Thanks AB, yes, G2 all the way! Apologies for sounding testy:) ——SN54129 08:31, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2020).

Administrator changes

Gnangarra • Kaisershatner • Malcolmxl5

CheckUser changes

Callanecc

Oversight changes

HJ Mitchell

Guideline and policy news

• Discretionary sanctions have been authorized for all pages and edits related to COVID-19, to be logged at WP:GS/COVID19.
• Following a recent discussion on Meta-Wiki, the edit filter maintainer global group has been created.
• A request for comment has been proposed to create a new main page editor usergroup.
• A request for comment has been proposed to make the bureaucrat activity requirements more strict.

Technical news

• The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. You can review the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page.
• Enterprisey created a script that will show a link to the proper Special:Undelete page when viewing a since-deleted revision, see User:Enterprisey/link-deleted-revs.

Miscellaneous

• A request for comment closed with consensus to create a Village Pump-style page for communication with the Wikimedia Foundation.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:19, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

Deletion of Polyteknikkojen Ilmailukerho

I see on 26 April, an article that I had created years ago (14 years?) had been deleted. I know standards were lower in those days and I have not been back to it since. You may even be right in your decision. However I was not given a chance to look at it and improve it. There was no alert. I would have hoped the article's creator would have been notified. I don't regularly review the list of articles proposed for deletion, and neither should I have to.JMcC (talk) 10:45, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for your comment. Perhaps incorrectly, I did not feel that visiting the original author of the aerticle after fourteen years was appropriate. There were a number of contributors subsequent to your draft, although the end result of their edits, in my opinion, still qualified for a deletion under category A7. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 21:48, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

In which case, please re-instate the article so that I can see what it looked like when you deleted it. I may be able to improve it with material and references from the much larger Finnish version. I also want to look through my bookshelves. At present I am staying out in the country, well away from London. It may be a few weeks before I can do my research.JMcC (talk) 09:55, 7 May 2020 (UTC)

I will not restore it to mainspace, but I will put it in your talk page.----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 13:51, 7 May 2020 (UTC)

No text has been posted on my talk page. You say that you were incorrect in your behaviour when you deleted the article. Please correct your error. It would seem that simply restoring it, would be closer to Wikipedia's policies. JMcC (talk) 09:56, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

Excuse me; I did not and do not say that my deletion was incorrect. It was not. Restoring the article would be totally against Wikipedia policies. Why it did not appear on your talk page is not clear to me, but I will re-post it there.----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 21:50, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

I have re-instated the article. It seems to be impossible to see the discussion that took place with any other parties before the article was deleted, but the criteria that you cited are mystifying. How can you delete an aircraft design organisation that is responsible for the construction of 536 aircraft? What next: Boeing? The article had links to over 20 other articles.JMcC (talk) 11:13, 9 May 2020 (UTC)

Although I have re-instated it, I see that we have now lost the history and talk page. Usually when an article is moved, Wikipedia policy is to retain these rather than just creating a new page. The process you have chosen seems to run counter to this principle. JMcC (talk) 11:40, 9 May 2020 (UTC)

The article talks about a student flying club, so calling it aircraft design organization mystifies me. I do not agree with your reinstatemet of the article unilaterally, but will not move to remove it again as this would appear to be harassment, or abuse of privilege. Compaing the club to Boeing appears to me to be fatuous; let us see if any other editors pick up on it.----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 13:27, 9 May 2020 (UTC)

Equivalent organisations are the German Akafliegs. They also design and build aircraft in much the same way. Some are built in-house; some have been sub-contracted. Their universities produce graduates who have practical and much valued experience in the aircraft industry. Other countries whose light aircraft industry has disappeared could learn valuable lessons from the Akafliegs and PIK, so the fact the article is about a small country should not make us act parochially. If you start deleting the smallest aircraft builders and then move up to the the next smallest, where do you stop? Hence the reference to Boeing. I am unaware of any process for undeleting articles and so a new article seemed to be the only option. I can't see why you posted the text on my talk page otherwise. I do not see a problem in creating a new article; I was unaware of any permission was needed. By re-instating PIK, I hoped to demonstrate that an old article can be brought up to standard, if proper notice is given. I can improve some of the references within a few weeks when I can get at my reference books such as Jane's. I am also a former owner of three PIK aircraft. JMcC (talk) 10:55, 10 May 2020 (UTC)

I placed the article text on your talk page, giving you notice of so doing, in order to make it easier for you to improve the article. You have no need to demonstrate your ability to resurrect inadequate articles; similarly, you have no need to explain to me how to perform my function as an admin. I am aware of the Janes series, and my library contains issues for several years. They do not contain articles on student aero clubs. As you point out you have decided unilaterally to revive the article, and I have already stated my reason for taking no further action. This conversation is now closed.----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 15:35, 10 May 2020 (UTC)

I also think this discussion should be closed. But to give you a reminder about human fallibility:

Page 27 of Jane's World Sailplanes and Motor Gliders "The PIK series takes its name from the Polyteknikkojen Ilmailukerho, which was founded at Helsinki Technical University in 1931. The series began in 1945 but the PIK-3 was the first type to be produced in series. It was designed by Lars Norrmen and Ilkka Lounama as a small cheap sailplane suitable for construction by flying clubs. The prototype first flew in the summer of 1950." This edition published in 1980 by Jane's Publishing Company Macdonald and Jane's Publishing Group Limited ISBN 0710600178 JMcC (talk) 08:54, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

Deleting user talk

I'm not fussed by bureaucracy so if you are aware of a reason to delete User talk:Et4y that's fine by me. However, I'm wondering if you might have missed that it was a user talk page where others had contributed. No need to reply, just ignore or restore as wanted. Johnuniq (talk) 23:40, 10 May 2020 (UTC)

The user has stated the intention to withdraw from Wikipedia: deletion of their talk page as at their own request, on this basis. This seemed to me to be a valid reason, indeed pretty much the only valid reason, to delete a talk page (I did recognize it as a talk page). But given that the user has declared the intention to withdraw from the project I guess it will not affect him/her either way, so I will restore the page if it seems important to you.----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 15:08, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, but don't worry about it. I was sure the WP:Deletion policy specifically excluded user-requests for deletion of user talk pages (that is the community standard) but it's not mentioned there. I see that WP:G8 excludes user talk pages but that's not what I was thinking about either. Even WP:U1 is not quite what I was thinking. At any rate, I was only concerned you might have overlooked the nature of the page. Johnuniq (talk) 23:48, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

I think there needs to be a much stronger reason to delete user talk pages. Users wanting to vanish is not a good enough reason. The page can be blanked instead. I will count this kind of deletion nomination as bad faith. However I am only commenting in general. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 22:47, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

Zonic

Zonic was at WP:AFD and a long standing article and I believe your CSD A7 was inappropriate. I may care to work on that presently. Please Refund. Thankyou. 22:21, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

It was a one-line article with no included detail and, specifically, no claim, expression or inference of notability. you have the option of taking your request to deletion review if you wish. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 14:28, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

Undelete review for Danial Hajibarat

I created Danial Hajibarat's article based on WP:ARTIST, but because the article has already been created by someone else and deleted. My new article was deleted. I request the return of my Danial Hajibarat's article. Thank You very much Mina.FAMI (talk) 15:45, 19 May 2020 (UTC)

This article has already been deleted by community consensus at WP:AfD. I am therefore not prepared to restore it.----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 15:47, 19 May 2020 (UTC)

I don't know what article has been written about this in the past,But the article I created was based on WP:ARTIST,I read the discussion of deleting the article,This article appears to have been deleted for personal reasons, not Wikipedia! Even now, the article I created has been deleted based on WP:ARTIST, and you insist on not creating it! Anyway, thank you very much. Mina.FAMI (talk) 14:22, 20 May 2020 (UTC)

Pradeep Khadka

I saw that previously you deleted Pradeep Khadka cause of copyright violations. He is famous actor from Nepal and eligible enough to be on wikipedia. can i create the wiki page of him? Owlf

You are perfectly free to create a wikipedia page on this person, but you must do it using your own words. Using text from another source, as you did in the deleted article, is a breach both of Wikipedia policy and of common law, and it is absolutely not allowed here.----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 21:25, 20 May 2020 (UTC)

I know about that and for your kind information previously I did not create his article. I saw that it has been deleted for the multiple times and being Wikipedia Nepal editor I wanted to create his article. so thought to take an approval before I create it. Owlf 06:53, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

Deletion review for Zonic

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Zonic. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Djm-leighpark (talk) 08:11, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

Location is at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2020 May 21. Thankyou.Djm-leighpark (talk) 08:13, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

Larry Gadon Article

Good day!

Why the page has been deleted? The user who nominated the article to speedy deletion did not respond to my replies. I firmly believe that the page is free from bias and neutral in nature. It does not promote also specific things or person. The subject, Larry Gadon, is a known personality or said to be a public figure already here in the country of Philippines. It has been cited by 20 citations come from different independent sources and multimedia platforms. Please review again. I am hoping for the recovery of the page.

Thank you and God bless! Jsnueva1022 (talk) 13:01, 24 May 2020 (UTC)

I deleted the page, as stated in the deletion notice, on the basis that the subject lacked appropriate claimed wikipedic notability; please note that blogging is regarded here as being intrinsically non-notable, and coming 28th in a legislative assembly election is similarly not of sufficient importance to qualify here. Neither is being the originator of an impeachment procedure of a legislator not of international significance worthy of inclusion. The second reason, being a promotional article, is self-explanatory. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 13:47, 24 May 2020 (UTC)

Zonic draftification

Hi. I'm back. And you are probably entitled to roll your eyes. Following the endorsed A7 Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2020 May 21 can I please request draftication of Zonic including talk page. Alternatively can you give permission for me to make the request at WP:REFUND (I need to be able to point back here if making such a request). The DRV was ambiguous as to whether draftification of Zonic was permitted and I will totally respect a veto by you or DRV closer Sandstein. Emailing the latest version would be effectively pointless as I can copy a recent enough version from [3]; my preference remains for draftification however. Thankyou. Djm-leighpark (talk) 11:47, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

Djm-leighpark, I have no opinion about this. Sandstein 12:24, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

As I imagine you are aware, the deletion review agreed overwhelmingly with the deletion, with two editors only, while agreeing with deletion, suggested that letting the AfD go to completion might have been better. But having said that, I have no objection to the making of a request at WP:REFUND.----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 21:44, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

Deletion of my user page

Why did you do so, may I know the reason buddy. And I did nothing even then. Vishal 16:01, 29 May 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vishalttplayer (talk • contribs)

Answer is on your talk page.----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 21:25, 30 May 2020 (UTC)

CSD G13 Abandoned Draft

Out of curiosity, why do you use this deletion summary when deleting newly-created drafts that are tagged for speedy deletion for other reasons, such as Draft:Why is why? Passengerpigeon (talk) 22:09, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

An error. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 21:23, 30 May 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2020).

Administrator changes

CaptainEek • Creffett • Cwmhiraeth

Anna Frodesiak • Buckshot06 • Ronhjones • SQL

CheckUser changes

SQL

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment asks whether the Unblock Ticket Request System (UTRS) should allowed any unblock request or just private appeals.
• The Wikimedia Foundation announced that they will develop a universal code of conduct for all WMF projects. There is an open local discussion regarding the same.

Arbitration

• A motion was passed to enact a 500/30 restriction on articles related to the history of Jews and antisemitism in Poland during World War II (1933–45), including the Holocaust in Poland. Article talk pages where disruption occurs may also be managed with the stated restriction.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:27, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

NITYAM KUMAR

• 15 June 2020: 13:36 (UTC): Anthony Bradbury deleted page User:NITYAM KUMAR ‎(U5: Misuse of Wikipedia as a web host: G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion in userspace)
• 15 June 2020‎ 13:40 (UTC): User:NITYAM KUMAR recreated. --Guy Macon (talk) 14:00, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

• 15 June 2020‎ 14:23 (UTC): Ohnoitsjamie blocked NITYAM KUMAR with an expiration time of indefinite (account creation blocked) ‎(Promotion / advertising-only account: also WP:CIR). No further action needed. --Guy Macon (talk) 18:47, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

User:Бо́же, Царя́ храни́! - blocked

I just wanted to appraise you that, having had my attention drawn at AIV to this revdeled edit by User:Бо́же, Царя́ храни́! to George Floyd protests, I felt that an indefinite block was far more appropriate for such deeply offensive remarks. My block rationale was a bit lengthy, and got truncated, but if the editor wished to appeal the block I would leave it to other admins, including yourself, to weigh in and unblock, if they felt it was a better course of action than the one I have taken. This was most certainly not a gut reaction on my part, and I took some twenty minutes or so deciding whether or not to take action, and wavering between a shorter 1 week to 6 months block and how that might or might not be sufficient for such an awful post to a page which, a week ago, was gathering a quarter of a million page views a day (now down to 40,000 per day), and how you had already warned them about any recurrence. The truncated element of my block rationale mentioned an earlier edit to a recently deceased persons page (Troy Sneed) which is suggestive of a desire by this editor to cause offence by posting on Wikipedia. I recognise that blocks are meant to be preventative, not punitive, but in this type of outrageous edit, I personally feel it was justified. I'd like to think others admins would, on reflection, also agree. But I'll respect the outcome of any unblock appeal they might try to make. Regards, Nick Moyes (talk) 00:47, 17 June 2020 (UTC)  

English only please (Response to Anthony Bradbury)

This is the English Wikipedia, and only articles written in English are allowed here. Unless this article is translated into English it will be removed.----Anthony Bradbury"talk" 15:26, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

Hello Mr. Bradbury, as a matter of fact, the article was written in English first. However since the individual is Bulgarian and many of the references and links are in Bulgarian, it made sense to be written in Bulgarian as well. Both pages (In English and in Bulgarian) are similar and cover the same information. This is just to cover all bases. In English, the name of the person "Златко Живков" is written "Zlatko Zhivkov". Thank you

No. I say again the article will be deleted if not in English. There are no exceptions to this policy.----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 16:22, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

• (talk page stalker) I assume you guys are talking about Златко Живков? Yup, this really is a fundamental rule. On the English language wikipedia, we write articles in English. For one, that's what our readers expect. But also, because that's what (for the most part) our editors can read; for articles not written in English, we have no practical way to maintain the article, verify that it meets WP:V and WP:N, doesn't violate WP:BLP, WP:CV, and so on. -- RoySmith (talk) 16:59, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

@RoySmith: Yes, that is the article in question. I have told the author, both here and on the article talk page, that it must be translated or it will be removed (I have been an admin for 12 years+, and will do it if I need to}. I hope he will translate it; I cannot speak Bulgarian and make no comment about the content of the article.----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 21:30, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

Sock puppet for Wwikix?

Hi Anthony! user:Wwikix caused havoc for very long time in the categorization and content systems, especially for cats and for the Netherlands (where he is from), while disregarding our conventions. There is new user user:Blueyeah who is behaving by a similar pattern. I cannot tell for sure if he is Wwikix but he must have previous WP experience, hitting the road running wild. As an expert to Wwikix, could you look into possible sockpuppetry or other remedies? I have not reported possible sock puppetry in ages. Probably since Haham Hanukah 13 years ago. gidonb (talk) 12:40, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

AS far as I can determine I have never heard of or interacted with user:Wwikix. I can look, but there are admins better experienced at sockpuppet work than I, as you will know having been here for so long.----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 21:51, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

Hi Anthony! You were the one to reject his unblocking request, i.e. had most recently dealt with him. At your suggestion I'll turn to another admin. Thanks for the response! gidonb (talk) 01:42, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

As you say, I refused his unblock request in October 2016. I failed to see that when looking after your recent post. I would still, however, claim only limited expertise in sockpuppet identification, as I said earlier.----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 21:38, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

NP. I consulted with another admin who engaged with the user, then reported 3 sockpuppets and an old account. I do have lots of experience at WP, just not in this domain. I concentrate mostly on content creation and improvement. I'm sure we'll have other opportunities to collaborate! gidonb (talk) 07:20, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2020).

Administrator changes

Malcolmxl5

John • TheCoffee • Tim!

Creffett → GeneralNotability

DeltaQuad → AmandaNP

CheckUser changes

Bbb23

Interface administrator changes

TonyBallioni

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment is in progress to remove the T2 (template that misrepresents established policy) speedy deletion criterion.

Technical news

• Protection templates on mainspace pages are now automatically added by User:MusikBot II (BRFA).

Arbitration

• Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold an RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. The RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC and is open to comments from the community.
• The Medicine case was closed, with a remedy authorizing standard discretionary sanctions for all discussions about pharmaceutical drug prices and pricing and for edits adding, changing, or removing pharmaceutical drug prices or pricing from articles.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:25, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

undeleted Battle of Ceber

Hey just a heads up, I've undeleted Battle of Ceber, which you good-faith G3'd as a hoax. Based on the tagger's somewhat dubious CSD history, I did some poking around on Polish Wikipedia and found sourced articles referring to it there, so I've come to doubt it's truly a hoax. I've undeleted for others to have a look at (see Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#8 years-undetected hoax article). ♠PMC♠ (talk) 00:34, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

Fair enough. Thank you for the heads-up.----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 14:24, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

User talk:Call girl delhi

You may wish to revoke TPA.--Cahk (talk) 07:22, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

@Cahk: I do not understand your message. This editor has made only one post, his userpage, which I deleted and for which I awarded him a block. It is usual not to delete user talkpages, and I considered it but chose not to do so. Obviously no-one has labeled his post as a TPA, and I am certain that they would not. What are you asking me to revoke? ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 14:33, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

He has now added an appeal on his talk page relating to covid-19, which is irrelevant to your initial post.----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 14:35, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

User:TheGreatest38482

I was about to ask TheImaCow when the page disappeared, G5 in violation of which block? Cabayi (talk) 12:54, 16 July 2020 (UTC)

The editor was blocked by User:Bsadowski1. It would be more straightforward to ask him/her. I only deleted the userpage. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 21:41, 16 July 2020 (UTC)

My question was about the G5 deletion, not the block. I don't see how the G5 criteria were satisfied. Thanks, Cabayi (talk) 04:59, 17 July 2020 (UTC)

When investigating originally, I found a previous block applied by Fastily, but cannot now locate it. What point are you making? He is blocked under another name, and is editing. How do you interpret G5?----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 14:12, 17 July 2020 (UTC)

That's how interpret it, but I didn't see an associated blocked account, nor any mention of one. The fact you can't locate one now reassures me I wasn't that far off track. In my ideal world TheImaCow would have named the master in the G5 nomination.

The SPI reports & G5 tags which say little more than "I've seen some socking, guess what I saw" - they're getting under my skin. Cabayi (talk) 17:27, 17 July 2020 (UTC)

I am sorry; it's an honest block and an honest userpage deletion, and I would explain it if I could. clearly a link has dropped off somewhere. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 21:17, 17 July 2020 (UTC)

L&B

is one of the main shipping lines in the world. You have very rapidly delete it.-Arorae (talk) 21:34, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

as Wikipedia:Credible claim of significance, there is already a complete article on WP:de.-Arorae (talk) 21:36, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

Your article is only just over one line long, and gives no indication or claim of notability. I see your claim that a full article exists on WP:de. This is not relevant here. For an article to be retained here it must, by itself, fulfill the criteria required by the English Wikipedia. Your article does not. You are welcome to create a full article and submit it for inclusion; note that the rules for article inclusion are not identical to those on WP:de. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 21:44, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

I am aware of different rules (en/de), but the stub was not completely useless. I will write it again, with all the sources from German newspapers.-Arorae (talk) 23:38, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – August 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2020).

Administrator changes

Red Phoenix

Euryalus • SQL

Jujutacular • Monty845 • Rettetast • Madchester

Oversight changes

GB fan

Keegan • Opabinia regalis • Premeditated Chaos

Guideline and policy news

• There is an open request for comment to decide whether to increase the minimum duration a sanction discussion has to remain open (currently 24 hours).
• Speedy deletion criterion T2 (template that misrepresents established policy) has been repealed following a request for comment.
• Speedy deletion criterion X2 (pages created by the content translation tool) has been repealed following a discussion.
• There is a proposal to restrict proposed deletion to confirmed users.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:20, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

Apple731a

Hi, saw your note on their talkpage. They actually closed the Latimer A. McCook afd as delete which was reverted as only admins can close as delete. Also, they created the User talk:Syed Tasawar Bukhari for an account that has no edits live or deleted so may be preparing a sockpuppet or meatpuppet account, regards Atlantic306 (talk) 18:14, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

As yet no edits made on that account, so I have for now just warned him; I will block him if he edits. --Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 21:45, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

Speedy Deletion of Draft:Jagrit Pratap Singh

Hi Anthony, I received notice of the speedy deletion of the in-progress article on Jagrit Pratap Singh. I understand in some ways how it could look promotional, but please keep in mind that the draft was being worked on to ensure it was in compliance with standing policies. As the draft is now gone, I request a copy for future reference, which can be left on my talk page. Thank you, Kaszper (talk) 09:59, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

Draft is on your talkpage as requested. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 21:41, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

Speedy Deletion of User:Dougiamas

Hi Anthony, you recently deleted my user page ENTIRELY without discussion User:Dougiamas ... I'd really appreciate for the last version to be copied to my Talk page so I can work on it to remove whatever was deemed to be wrong about a page about myself on my own user profile. —Preceding undated comment added 17:51, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

I am sorry; you have misunderstood the purpose and function of a userpage. It is to write about your personal skills, abilities, achievements, expectations, interests, etc insofar as these areas relate to your Wikipedia editing. Your deleted userpage goes way beyond this, covers a very significant range wholly outside this definition and description, and is unacceptable in its entirety. Essentially, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a social medium. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 21:31, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

Speedy Deletion of User:Johnbplett

Hi Anthony, you recently deleted my user page ENTIRELY without discussion User:Johnbplett It is disapointing that I muyst go thryogh great pains to contribute to Wikipedia. I proposed one articel to contribute. Immediately I was banned, for every reason immainable. User:Dodger67 took my subnition and used it almost as is excluding me as its origional souce. Is wikikpedia an imfomation monopoly or a free encyclopedia? I can contorbutre extendivly to Wikipedia as much of what I see is outdated, and there is volumes of nessesary real world knowlege missing. For example, do you know how many regulatory bodys there are in South Africa? Did you know that unless you have exhasted the use of the relivant regualtory bodies the courts can turn you away? All of this is missing from Wikipedia, but if I propose it, then it is all rupbish? I'd really appreciate the last version to be copied to my Talk page so I can work on it to remove whatever was deemed to be wrong about a page about myself on my own user profile. 11:04, 25 August 2020 (SAST)

The page you have created is titled as a userpage. The function of a userpage is to indicate an editor's abilities, interests, skills, intentions, history, etc., in relation to the editor's writing within wikipedia. Your page does not come close to this. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 22:21, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

References

Wikiproject Military history coordinator election nominations open

Nominations for the upcoming project coordinator election are now open. A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next year. The project coordinators are the designated points of contact for issues concerning the project, and are responsible for maintaining our internal structure and processes. They do not, however, have any authority over article content or editor conduct, or any other special powers. More information on being a coordinator is available here. If you are interested in running, please sign up here by 23:59 UTC on 14 September! Voting doesn't commence until 15 September. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the coord team. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 02:03, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

174.70.78.194

user:174.70.78.194 is abusing her talkpage. CLCStudent (talk) 13:39, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

Not really. They are allowed to blank their usertalk page, and adding a two word winge does not really count as abuse. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 13:46, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

Speedy Deletion of Dhanraj Nathwani

Hi Anthony, you recently deleted a page I am yet to edit with further citations for Dhanraj Nathwani. I request you to re-look in this action of deletion and suggest me that what can I do to restore the page. First, I want to ask that you kindly restore the draft for me. I am going to give the necessary changes to make it as per wikipedia policy and guidelines. Kindly help in this and suggest further action to restore the page. હમઝા ઘાંચી (Talk) 05:14, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

As far as I can see, this page was deleted earlier this year, not by me, after an articles for deletion discussion and vote. On inspection the decision appears sound. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 21:55, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2020

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Administrator changes

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• Following a request for comment, the minimum length for site ban discussions was increased to 72 hours, up from 24.
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Milhist coordinator election voting has commenced

G'day everyone, voting for the 2020 Wikiproject Military history coordinator tranche is now open. This is a simple approval vote; only "support" votes should be made. Project members should vote for any candidates they support by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September 2020. Thanks from the outgoing coord team, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 05:17, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

Deletion of user page

Speedy of User:Pmatthews21: Per my contestation the page appeared to contain a Template:UserboxCOI (possibly misformed). And I think a mere one line description. So I really question was CSD:U5 appropriate ? (User (talk) page was on my watchlist and hasn't come off of it whihc probably meant I wasn't too happy about something). However was the U5 appropriate. I notice you don't seem to have responded to my contestation on the talk page, simply deleting the page. Thankyou. Djm-leighpark (talk) 22:51, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

In my opnion this page qualified for deletion not only on the basis of being an inappropriate user page, but also on the basis of being an advertisement (which I did not trouble to include). So yes, U5 was wholly appropriate. If you wish to seek community consensus you can do so at deletion review. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 22:08, 16 September 2020 (UTC)

It looks to me like they were declaring what topics they intend to work on and included a COI tag accordingly (though they weren't entirely successful). I don't see any content subject to U5 or G11 on that page.-- Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 22:17, 16 September 2020 (UTC)

Ponyo, I agree. We ask people to declare that they have COI. That's what this user did. Then slapping them down because they also included some marketing-speak seems disingenuous. -- RoySmith (talk) 23:22, 16 September 2020 (UTC)

Deletion review for User:Pmatthews21

An editor has asked for a deletion review of User:Pmatthews21. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Djm-leighpark (talk) 00:08, 17 September 2020 (UTC)

Book categories

Please restore the below categories:

1. Category:Books by Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon: CSD G5 ({{db-banned}}); additional information: {G5 user: User:Skoojal } 18:24, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
2. Category:Books by A. J. Ayer: CSD G5 ({{db-banned}}); additional information: {G5 user: User:Skoojal } 18:25, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
3. Category:Books by Alan Gewirth: CSD G5 ({{db-banned}}); additional information: {G5 user: User:Skoojal } 18:25, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
4. Category:Books by Bhikhu Parekh: CSD G5 ({{db-banned}}); additional information: {G5 user: User:Skoojal } 18:25, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
5. Category:Books by Chris Knight: CSD G5 ({{db-banned}}); additional information: {G5 user: User:Skoojal } 18:25, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
6. Category:Books by Dean Hamer: CSD G5 ({{db-banned}}); additional information: {G5 user: User:Skoojal } 18:25, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
7. Category:Books by Dennis Altman: CSD G5 ({{db-banned}}); additional information: {G5 user: User:Skoojal } 18:26, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
8. Category:Books by Derrick Sherwin Bailey: CSD G5 ({{db-banned}}); additional information: {G5 user: User:Skoojal } 18:26, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
9. Category:Books by Jean Hyppolite: CSD G5 ({{db-banned}}); additional information: {G5 user: User:Skoojal } 18:30, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
10. Category:Books by John Caird: CSD G5 ({{db-banned}}); additional information: {G5 user: User:Skoojal } 18:30, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
11. Category:Books by Jonathan Lear: CSD G5 ({{db-banned}}); additional information: {G5 user: User:Skoojal } 18:30, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
12. Category:Books by John Toland: CSD G5 ({{db-banned}}); additional information: {G5 user: User:Skoojal } 18:31, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
13. Category:Books by John Gagnon: CSD G5 ({{db-banned}}); additional information: {G5 user: User:Skoojal } 18:31, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
14. Category:Books by John Finnis: CSD G5 ({{db-banned}}); additional information: {G5 user: User:Skoojal } 18:31, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

While they were all created by a banned user, WP:G5 states that "G5 should not be applied to transcluded templates or to categories that may be useful or suitable for merging." There's nothing wrong with the categories; they were all appropriately populated with book articles prior to deletion. Cheers, gnu57 05:01, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

The categories are not, I think, suitable for merging, and their usefulness is arguable. I had intended to protest the validity of the deletion, but on reflexion will restore them. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 14:29, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

Thank you very much. It's counterintuitive, but WP:SMALLCAT allows for works-by-creator categories that group only one item. Cheers, gnu57 15:25, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

Avani Soni

Hello Anthony Bradbury. Sorry for disturbing you. Can you check Avani Soni and its talk page ? The article was nominated for "speedy deletion" week ago, but not yet deleted. I am creator of the article, and want to make sure whether the article really meets speedy deletion criteria. I believe that there is enough media coverage on the subject. I am not opposing deletion. If it is not suitable for Encyclopedia, it should be deleted. Please see If the page can be survived. Thanks. --Imfarhad7 (talk) 13:42, 20 September 2020 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) @Imfarhad7 - I've moved the page to Draft:Avani Soni where, having a conflict of interest, you can develop it and submit it via WP:AFC which is suitable for those creating an article with a conflict of interest. Ask at WP:TEAHOUSE if necessary. Thankyou. Djm-leighpark (talk) 18:47, 20 September 2020 (UTC)

I will leave it initially to the new page reviewer, as it is now in draft format. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 21:37, 20 September 2020 (UTC)

Notice of noticeboard discussion

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Administrators' newsletter – September 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2020).

Administrator changes

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• A request for comment found consensus that incubation as an alternative to deletion should generally only be recommended when draftification is appropriate, namely 1) if the result of a deletion discussion is to draftify; or 2) if the article is newly created.

Technical news

• The filter log now provides links to view diffs of deleted revisions (phab:T261630).

Arbitration

• The 2020 CheckUser and Oversight appointment process has begun. The community consultation period will take place from September 27th to October 7th.
• Following a request for comment, sitting Committee members may not serve on either the Ombuds Commission or the WMF Case Review Committee. The Arbitration Committee passed a motion implementing those results into their procedures.

Miscellaneous

• The Universal Code of Conduct draft is open for community review and comment until October 6th, 2020.
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Administrators' newsletter – November 2020

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Interface administrator changes

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Guideline and policy news

• Community sanctions now authorize administrators to place under indefinite semiprotection any article on a beauty pageant, or biography of a person known as a beauty pageant contestant, which has been edited by a sockpuppet account or logged-out sockpuppet, to be logged at WP:GS/PAGEANT.

Technical news

• Sysops will once again be able to view the deleted history of JS/CSS pages; this was restricted to interface administrators when that group was introduced.
• Twinkle's block module now includes the ability to note the specific case when applying a discretionary sanctions block and/or template.
• Sysops will be able to use Special:CreateLocalAccount to create a local account for a global user that is prevented from auto-creation locally (such as by a filter or range block). Administrators that are not sure if such a creation is appropriate should contact a checkuser.

Arbitration

• The 2020 Arbitration Committee Elections process has begun. Eligible editors will be able to nominate themselves as candidates from November 8 through November 17. The voting period will run from November 23 through December 6.
• The Anti-harassment RfC has concluded with a summary of the feedback provided.

Miscellaneous

• A reminder that standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to post-1932 politics of the United States and closely related people. (American Politics 2 Arbitration case).

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Precious anniversary

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2020).

Administrator changes

Andrwsc • Anetode • GoldenRing • JzG • LinguistAtLarge • Nehrams2020

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• Voting for proposals in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey, which determines what software the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Tech team will work on next year, will take place from 8 December through 21 December. In particular, there are sections regarding administrators and anti-harassment.

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Nominations for the 2020 Military history WikiProject Newcomer and Historian of the Year awards now open

G'day all, the nominations for the 2020 Military history WikiProject newcomer and Historian of the Year are open, all editors are encouraged to nominate candidates for the awards before until 23:59 (GMT) on 15 December 2020, after which voting will occur for 14 days. There is not much time left to nominate worthy recipients, so get to it! Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 06:45, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

Many thanks!

Hi. I noticed today that I just passed my 3-year Wikipediversary recently, and I wanted to thank you for how welcome you made me feel (on my talk page) when I first registered.

Looking back on it, it actually made a big difference to my initial impression of Wikipedia as a welcoming place. I don't think I would've cared to edit, or cared to edit nearly as much, if I didn't feel like a valued addition.

So I thank you, and I hope life is going well for you. Ta!

— TARDIS builder^💬   |     01:30, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

PS: Enjoy this delightful gem I came across today. Start at the first picture & go sequentially for the full story!

‎Creating Miss Grand Thailand as a redirect

Hi. You previously salted Miss Grand Thailand following repeated re-creation attempts. I've created an overview article covering the franchise at Miss Grand, which, as a parent topic, should probably be a redirect target. Please consider creating the page as a redirect. (I'm not asking for unprotection yet, given the propensity of the subject to attract low-quality edits, though the amount of coverage received by the Miss Grand Thailand competition itself should make it notable by now. Also note the recently created Draft:Miss Grand Thailand Organization.) --Paul_012 (talk) 12:17, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

Voting for "Military Historian of the Year" and "Military history newcomer of the year" closing

G'day all, voting for the WikiProject Military history "Military Historian of the Year" and "Military history newcomer of the year" is about to close, so if you haven't already, click on the links and have your say before 23:59 (GMT) on 30 December! Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 23:34, 28 December 2020 (UTC) for the coord team

Administrators' newsletter – December 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2020).

Administrator changes

Andrwsc • Anetode • GoldenRing • JzG • LinguistAtLarge • Nehrams2020

Interface administrator changes

Izno

Guideline and policy news

• There is a request for comment in progress to either remove T3 (duplicated and hardcoded instances) as a speedy deletion criterion or eliminate its seven-day waiting period.

Technical news

• Voting for proposals in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey, which determines what software the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Tech team will work on next year, will take place from 8 December through 21 December. In particular, there are sections regarding administrators and anti-harassment.

Arbitration

• Voting in the 2020 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 7 December 2020 UTC. Please review the candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page.

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Nominations for the 2020 Military history WikiProject Newcomer and Historian of the Year awards now open

G'day all, the nominations for the 2020 Military history WikiProject newcomer and Historian of the Year are open, all editors are encouraged to nominate candidates for the awards before until 23:59 (GMT) on 15 December 2020, after which voting will occur for 14 days. There is not much time left to nominate worthy recipients, so get to it! Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 06:45, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

Many thanks!

Hi. I noticed today that I just passed my 3-year Wikipediversary recently, and I wanted to thank you for how welcome you made me feel (on my talk page) when I first registered.

Looking back on it, it actually made a big difference to my initial impression of Wikipedia as a welcoming place. I don't think I would've cared to edit, or cared to edit nearly as much, if I didn't feel like a valued addition.

So I thank you, and I hope life is going well for you. Ta!

— TARDIS builder^💬   |     01:30, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

PS: Enjoy this delightful gem I came across today. Start at the first picture & go sequentially for the full story!

‎Creating Miss Grand Thailand as a redirect

Hi. You previously salted Miss Grand Thailand following repeated re-creation attempts. I've created an overview article covering the franchise at Miss Grand, which, as a parent topic, should probably be a redirect target. Please consider creating the page as a redirect. (I'm not asking for unprotection yet, given the propensity of the subject to attract low-quality edits, though the amount of coverage received by the Miss Grand Thailand competition itself should make it notable by now. Also note the recently created Draft:Miss Grand Thailand Organization.) --Paul_012 (talk) 12:17, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

Voting for "Military Historian of the Year" and "Military history newcomer of the year" closing

G'day all, voting for the WikiProject Military history "Military Historian of the Year" and "Military history newcomer of the year" is about to close, so if you haven't already, click on the links and have your say before 23:59 (GMT) on 30 December! Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 23:34, 28 December 2020 (UTC) for the coord team