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Administrators' newsletter – January 2021

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

Administrator changes

Hammersoft

Andres • Brion VIBBER • Rkitko • Thatcher

CheckUser changes

Barkeep49 • BDD • CaptainEek • Primefac

Oversight changes

Barkeep49 • BDD • CaptainEek

Joe Roe

Guideline and policy news

• Speedy deletion criterion T3 (duplication and hardcoded instances) has been repealed following a request for comment.

Technical news

• You can now put pages on your watchlist for a limited period of time.

Arbitration

• By motion, standard discretionary sanctions have been temporarily authorized for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes). The effectiveness of the discretionary sanctions can be evaluated on the request by any editor after March 1, 2021 (or sooner if for a good reason).
• Following the 2020 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Barkeep49, BDD, Bradv, CaptainEek, L235, Maxim, Primefac.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:07, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

Copy of Long Live the Worker's Party of Korea

Hi,

I was going through some of my older and more embarrasing contributions, and saw to my dismay I had an article deleted for G12 copyvio. Could you jog my memory of what the contents of that page was? If it's not suitable for public distribution, I have my email function enabled.

Best, BrxBrx(talk)^{(please reply with {{SUBST:re|BrxBrx}})} 05:37, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

It is a North Korean revolutionary song.----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 22:27, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

"Pearls before swine" listed at Redirects for discussion

A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Pearls before swine. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 January 17#Pearls before swine until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 09:51, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – February 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2021).

Administrator changes

Hog Farm

Mattflaschen • Nandesuka • Savidan • Wangi

CheckUser changes

Berean Hunter • Xeno

Oversight changes

Someguy1221 • Xeno

Arbitration

• The standard discretionary sanctions authorized for American Politics were amended by motion to cover post-1992 politics of United States and closely related people, replacing the 1932 cutoff.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2021 Steward elections will begin on 05 February 2021, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2021, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• Wikipedia has now been around for 20 years, and recently saw its billionth edit!

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:09, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

Major milestone

Hello. This is my 10,000th edit, and I wanted you to have it. Davidelit (Talk) 06:48, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

Thank you. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 22:29, 26 February 2021 (UTC)

Speedy Deletion of Blake Paulson article

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

Anthony, I'm an editor with a keen interest in banking history. I'm curious why the Blake Paulson article was deleted. I see that copyright infringements were cited -- but the content came from a U.S. government website (Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.) Isn't there a fair use exemption? I cannot see the article (maybe I just don't know how to find it) but I suspect it could be improved and salvaged if there are not ENOUGH third-party sources. Rider4151 (talk) 06:28, 26 February 2021 (UTC)Rider4151

You are correct; my error. I have restored article and removed speedy tag. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 22:28, 26 February 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2021).

Administrator changes

TJMSmith

Boing! said Zebedee • Hiberniantears • Lear's Fool • Only • WGFinley

Interface administrator changes

AmandaNP

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment is open that proposes a process for the community to revoke administrative permissions. This follows a 2019 RfC in favor of creating one such a policy.
• A request for comment is in progress to remove F7 (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a, which covers immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
• A request for comment seeks to grant page movers the delete-redirect userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target. The full proposal is at Wikipedia:Page mover/delete-redirect.
• A request for comment asks if sysops may place the General sanctions/Coronavirus disease 2019 editnotice template on pages in scope that do not have page-specific sanctions?
• There is a discussion in progress concerning automatic protection of each day's featured article with Pending Changes protection.

Technical news

• When blocking an IPv6 address with Twinkle, there is now a checkbox with the option to just block the /64 range. When doing so, you can still leave a block template on the initial, single IP address' talkpage.
• When protecting a page with Twinkle, you can now add a note if doing so was in response to a request at WP:RfPP, and even link to the specific revision.
• There have been a number of reported issues with Pending Changes. Most problems setting protection appear to have been resolved (phab:T273317) but other issues with autoaccepting edits persist (phab:T275322).

Arbitration

• By motion, the discretionary sanctions originally authorized under the GamerGate case are now authorized under a new Gender and sexuality case, with sanctions authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, any gender-related dispute or controversy and associated people. Sanctions issued under GamerGate are now considered Gender and sexuality sanctions.
• The Kurds and Kurdistan case was closed, authorizing standard discretionary sanctions for the topics of Kurds and Kurdistan, broadly construed.

Miscellaneous

• Following the 2021 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AmandaNP, Operator873, Stanglavine, Teles, and Wiki13.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:13, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Deletion of Glimesh

Could I please have you revert the deletion of Glimesh? With the return of its original page, I, and perhaps others that have been notified outside here, shall resume working on it to prove the streaming service has its importance on here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JBJblaze (talk • contribs) 00:17, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

Query On created page

Hello,

My username is Sadekar Ashish. Can you please help me with the page have created. Its being gets moved or deleted. Please guide be on this.

Your help will be more appreciative.

Thanks, Ashish Sadekar — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sadekar Ashish (talk • contribs) 06:43, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

The reason for the deletion is clearly stated on the deletion page. Please note that while writing about yourself is not absolutely forbidden, it is very strongly discouraged.----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 23:31, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

Hi I would love to know why you deleted my Wikipedia page titled "Abdiqani Sheikh Omar Hassan" stating copyright infringement of https://newsghana.com.gh/abdiqani-sheikh-omar-hassan-biography/ (a link that doesn't exist). Had you tried to visit the link https://newsghana.com.gh/abdiqani-sheikh-omar-hassan-biography/ to see if it exists? — Preceding unsigned comment added by DanielMaithya (talk • contribs) 17:02, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

The whole first paragraph is word-for-word identical. The fact that the remainder of the text differs somwhat from the link is not relevant. The link appears not to work, agreed, but reading the test and comparing it is easy.----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 22:06, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

April 2021 WikiProject Military History Reviewing Drive

Hey y'all, the April 2021 WikiProject Military History Reviewing Drive begins at 00:01 UTC on April 1, 2021 and runs through 23:59 UTC on April 31, 2021. Points can be earned through reviewing articles on the AutoCheck report, reviewing articles listed at WP:MILHIST/ASSESS, reviewing MILHIST-tagged articles at WP:GAN or WP:FAC, and reviewing articles submitted at WP:MILHIST/ACR. Service awards and barnstars are given for set points thresholds, and the top three finishers will receive further awards. To participate, sign up at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Military_History/April 2021 Reviewing Drive#Participants and create a worklist at Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/April 2021 Reviewing Drive/Worklists (examples are given). Further details can be found at the drive page. Questions can be asked at the drive talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:22, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

Why did you delete my page?

Hi I would love to know why you deleted my Wikipedia page titled "Abdiqani Sheikh Omar Hassan" stating copyright infringement of https://newsghana.com.gh/abdiqani-sheikh-omar-hassan-biography/ (a link that doesn't exist). Had you tried to visit the link https://newsghana.com.gh/abdiqani-sheikh-omar-hassan-biography/ to see if it exists?

Please help restore the page. Thank you!

No. I have already answered this question above on this page. Copyright violation is clear. The fact that the link does not work is wholly irrelevant.----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 21:54, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

Why deleted my page bro Agcobile Mxhonywa (talk) 21:11, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2021).

Administrator changes

Alexandria • Happyme22 • RexxS

Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, F7 (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a has been deprecated; it covered immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
• Following a request for comment, page movers were granted the delete-redirect userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target.

Technical news

• When you move a page that many editors have on their watchlist the history can be split and it might also not be possible to move it again for a while. This is because of a job queue problem. (T278350)
• Code to support some very old web browsers is being removed. This could cause issues in those browsers. (T277803)

Arbitration

• A community consultation on the Arbitration Committee discretionary sanctions procedure is open until April 25.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:20, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

Deletion review for Kevin Patel

User:Tidekazan has asked for a deletion review of Kevin Patel. 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. —Cryptic 08:29, 7 May 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2021).

Administrator changes

Enchanter • Carlossuarez46

Interface administrator changes

Ragesoss

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, consensus was found that third party appeals are allowed but discouraged.
• The 2021 Desysop Policy RfC was closed with no consensus. Consensus was found in a previous RfC for a community based desysop procedure, though the procedure proposed in the 2021 RfC did not gain consensus.

Technical news

• The user group oversight will be renamed to suppress. This is for technical reasons. You can comment at T112147 if you have objections.

Arbitration

• The community consultation on the Arbitration Committee discretionary sanctions procedure was closed, and an initial draft based on feedback from the now closed consultation is expected to be released in early June to early July for community review.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:51, 7 May 2021 (UTC)

Hi, can you restore a page to my userspace?

It's an essay, Creating Wikipedia:Being blocked hurts, you deleted in 2017 (yes, I know)... Actually, I guess maybe you just deleted the redirect... it was an essay that I (wanted to) move into my userspace per a WP:RM, but it says I moved it to User:Being blocked hurts by mistake, which of course it's gone now...I do have a more-or-less copy in my Userspace, but if I'm reading it right the history is lost... but my understanding is history is never lost except for oversights?

I really only want the talk page pretty much... wanting to ref the RM thread for something. Hey if it's a hassle to do this, I'm good. It's nice-but-not necessary, just perhaps let me know (here) if you can't or won't, thanks. Herostratus (talk) 22:54, 26 May 2021 (UTC)

Oh, this Creating User:Being blocked hurts bears on it too... ugh did I mess up. Herostratus (talk) 22:59, 26 May 2021 (UTC)

I have no objection to restoring the text to your userspace; the difficulty is that i cannot find it. There appears to me a thread involving at least one redirect, at least one move and a change in your username, which i cannot yet follow. I am little short of time now, but will get back to it ASAP. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 13:50, 27 May 2021 (UTC)

Sure, but again, it's just really not important. Please don't spend more than a couple minutes on it, really. I never changed my username, no. It'd be interesting and maybe not great if moving a page to an illegal place has the effect of destroying the history. That'd be a bug. Herostratus (talk) 05:59, 29 May 2021 (UTC)

mainspace redirect

Can you tell me what needs to be removed please then? If so thanks for the information on the rules. I'll try to find these namespaces redirect and delete them.

what is the hoax about it

Can you please tell me what is the hoax about it? I will be very grateful for your help and information on the topic at hand. I am not trying to sound rude, or disrespectful just a bit interested in knowing what was the blatant hoax. Can I get a few minutes out of your day to know this on the topic at hand, please? I would love to speak to you, and for you to be willing to speak to me. whenever you have free time will do. please send me something back to know when you are free. with all due respect to you.

The highest ranking demons

The draft is The highest ranking demons.

The problem is that your draft is non-factual. This is an encyclopedia: if you can provide good quality references for the statements you offer then we can reconsider.----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 11:58, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

Okay I can do just that, but it will take some time

Sorry for getting back to you so late.

My Article was the highest-ranking demon's right, and I did have these facts on it.

Most of what I talked about comes from the Holy Bible.

Lucifer like I said was top of the star, and the most powerful prince of hell right, and was one of the angels around God's throne, and was top and spirit before the fall, and also was the lion sin of pride right.

https://rightdivision.com/charts/alpha-omega/section-1/lucifer-anointed-cherub

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/175781191689785219/

there are too many facts to write on and talk about. On this talk page, I put all the facts in the citations where I got the information from.

You deleted Allison Enchelmayer

Do you now there's a News article about Allison Enchelmayer.Arek333 (talk) 18:32, 8 June 2021 (UTC)

That does not make her notable. THe only claim made in the article of encyclopedic notability is that she plays golf, which in my view is insufficient. ----Anthony Bradbury"talk" 18:40, 8 June 2021 (UTC)

actors

Is Kamil McFadden the actor significant.Arek333 (talk) 19:05, 8 June 2021 (UTC)

this is not a meaningful question. Wikipediaq articles are judged primarily on the article text; I do not see an article about him. I am aware that he is an actor who has acted parts in some Marvel films. ----Anthony Bradbury"talk" 19:12, 8 June 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2021).

Administrator changes

Ashleyyoursmile • Less Unless

Husond • MattWade • MJCdetroit • Carioca • Vague Rant • Kingboyk • Thunderboltz • Gwen Gale • AniMate • SlimVirgin (deceased)

Guideline and policy news

• Consensus was reached to deprecate Wikipedia:Editor assistance.
• Following a Request for Comment the Book namespace was deprecated.

Technical news

• Wikimedia previously used the IRC network Freenode. However, due to changes over who controlled the network with reports of a forceful takeover by several ex-staff members, the Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts decided to move to the new Libera Chat network. It has been reported that Wikimedia related channels on Freenode have been forcibly taken over if they pointed members to Libera. There is a migration guide and Wikimedia discussions about this.

Arbitration

• After a Clarification request, the Arbitration Committee modified Remedy 5 of the Antisemitism in Poland case. This means sourcing expectations are a discretionary sanction instead of being present on all articles. It also details using the talk page or the Reliable Sources Noticeboard to discuss disputed sources.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:45, 9 June 2021 (UTC)

Anushka Sen

This is confusing me. The creating editor battled long and hard to create this, via AFC, but has now requested deletion. This feels little like Wikipedia:Ownership of content. I wonder if you would take more than usual time to look at the background to this one, please?

Sen seems to be notable at last (you may disagree, I did for ages), so it will only reappear in one form or another (0.95 probability). It is a fan created article

A further look may reinforce your deletion or may overturn it.I am not seeking to influence that, rather I'd like to understand a little more, please. Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 11:59, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

Slightly more confusing, the article is back (a good thing), but I suspect admin goggles may be needed to divine the reason. Are you able to shed any light on this please? Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 06:07, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

Sorry, i cannot throw light on it. I did not re-create the article (was not asked to) and probably would not have done so. Obviously I will not edit-war over it. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 11:41, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

I am beginning to see. I think it was moved to draft space by a vandal, leaving a redirect. I think you will then have deleted the redirect as "Leaving main space" and the redirect will have been created by the vandal and possibly blanked by them, or CSDd by them to cause this to take place.

Later, the vandalism was undone, and the correct status quo was returned for this only just notable actor.

That is my best guess. Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 12:16, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

U5/G11

I saw that you deleted User:Kittubindass's userpage shortly after I challenged User:Susmuffin's tag of it as U5 and G11. Based on timing, I'm guessing you'd already loaded the page before I untagged. This kind of thing isn't usually the sort of hill I care to die on, but, since I had already untagged, in this case I'd like to politely contest the deletion. I don't see why "[user] is a [profession] at [business]" on a userpage is exclusively promotional, and I don't really see the case for U5 either. Respectfully -- Tamzin (she/they) | o toki tawa mi. 11:35, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

You could perhaps make a case against a G11 deletion, although if you did I would argue against you; but there can surely be no doubt that U5 applies. This is a userpage, and falls well outside the userpage guidelines and policies. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 12:36, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

Maybe I'm misunderstanding U5. Most of this user's contribs have been deleted, but the mainspace CSD notices on his talkpage suggest he's left U5's domain of few or no edits outside of user pages. And the content of the page wasn't that different than what I've seen on any number of established Wikipedians' pages. Third-person userpages in faux-encyclopedic style are common enough. So is saying where one works. If I put on my userpage Tamzin, born $DOB, is an American writer and programmer. She is the founder and chief executive officer of $SomeCompany, I really can't imagine someone arguing that that violates WP:UPNOT. That's essentially how the first section of User:Jimbo Wales reads, to pick the first example that comes to mind.

Judging from the talkpage, I don't doubt that this editor has had issues with COI, which is part of why I said this wouldn't normally be my hill to die on. But I don't see how the userpage itself is an issue, again unless I'm really misunderstanding U5. -- Tamzin (she/they) | o toki tawa mi. 17:09, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2021).

Administrator changes

Trialpears

AGK • Eliz81 • Mulad • ThaddeusB • Vianello • Who

Lacrimosus → Ikuzaf

Interface administrator changes

Ragesoss

CheckUser changes

AGK • DGG

Oversighter changes

AGK

Guideline and policy news

• Consensus has been reached to delete all books in the book namespace. There was rough consensus that the deleted books should still be available on request at WP:REFUND even after the namespace is removed.
• An RfC is open to discuss the next steps following a trial which automatically applied pending changes to TFAs.

Technical news

• IP addresses of unregistered users are to be hidden from everyone. There is a rough draft of how IP addresses may be shown to users who need to see them. This currently details allowing administrators, checkusers, stewards and those with a new usergroup to view the full IP address of unregistered users. Editors with at least 500 edits and an account over a year old will be able to see all but the end of the IP address in the proposal. The ability to see the IP addresses hidden behind the mask would be dependent on agreeing to not share the parts of the IP address they can see with those who do not have access to the same information. Accessing part of or the full IP address of a masked editor would also be logged. Comments on the draft are being welcomed at the talk page.

Arbitration

• The community authorised COVID-19 general sanctions have been superseded by the COVID-19 discretionary sanctions following a motion at a case request. Alerts given and sanctions placed under the community authorised general sanctions are now considered alerts for and sanctions under the new discretionary sanctions.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:26, 3 July 2021 (UTC)

User:Jw-ripley

Hi, I noticed this user with a very bizarre edit history, where they copy a sportsman's article into their sandbox, and substitute what is presumably their name in for the sportsman's name. They've been doing this once a day for two years (!), with no mainspace edits save for two where they accidentally subbed the name into the real articles. Whatever their reasons for doing this, they are seemingly not here to build an encyclopedia, and admin action might be required. Their user talk page was also created by a sockpuppet, so that may play into things somehow as well. Regards, —Somnifuguist (talk) 21:59, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

I found another user, User:Allenn13, with an identical pattern of behaviour (872 daily sandbox edits over 2 years, 0 in mainspace) and whose sandbox the above user linked in this diff. Almost certainly the same person. —Somnifuguist (talk) 20:27, 9 July 2021 (UTC)

As the edits are exclusively to the editor sandbox, and therefore only the last one survives, these edits do not affect the encyclopedia. I have contacted the editor (or editors) via talkpage, without response as of now. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 11:20, 10 July 2021 (UTC)

Ok, thanks. I just thought it was worth putting on an admin's radar, as it's the oddest thing I've seen on this site by some margin. —Somnifuguist (talk) 19:38, 10 July 2021 (UTC)

Deleting a page with a contested deletion without any discussion at all?!

You just deleted a perfectly valid article - Christian Emmanuel Sanon - that had a drive by CFD on it, which I wrote an objection to on the Talk page, and you just drive-by deleted it without even allowing discussion to occur! What is the point of having a link to contest the stupid CFD if you're just going to delete them without respecting the voices of people who _actually write articles_? I think every day Wikipedia dies a little bit more because of this kind of terrible moderation. Awful administration in my opinion. Miserlou (talk) 22:01, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

As is always the case, you are free to make your objection at deletion review. I would have thought that the reason given for immediate deletion was convincing.----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 10:59, 15 July 2021 (UTC)

And, for the record, I am a person who (also) writes articles. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 21:42, 15 July 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2021).

Administrator changes

BusterD

Kees08 • Nickshanks • Protonk • Schissel • Ultraexactzz • Wknight94

CheckUser changes

TheresNoTime

Oversighter changes

TheresNoTime

ST47

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open to add a delay of one week from nomination to deletion for G13 speedy deletions.

Technical news

• Last week all wikis were very slow or not accessible for 30 minutes. This was due to server lag caused by regenerating dynamic lists on the Russian Wikinews after a large bulk import. (T287380)

Arbitration

• Following an amendment request, the committee has clarified that the Talk page exception to the 500/30 rule in remedy 5 of the Palestine-Israel articles 4 case does not apply to requested move discussions.

Miscellaneous

• You can vote for candidates in the 2021 Board of Trustees elections from 4 August to 17 August. Four community elected seats are up for election.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:17, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

Request of restoration of draft:Engr Babalola Olatunji

Hello please i am contacting you in regard of two things, first my userpage Tommygogd that was brought down and my first draft article Draft:Engr Babalola Olatunji this article was done neutrally , and i have been told to do declare a conflict of interest on my user page which i did, i do not understand why the article was brought down and also my page, this is my first article ever and i am doing this on a neutral point , is it possible for a person who does not have any contribution or whatsover to be paid for creating article, please i am pleading kindly restore the page so i can add more citation or for other contributor to be able to contribute to it , i am already getting discouraged because this is my first contribution and i have put so much effort in it than to be deleted, even if i am not given the priviledge to edit it , at least other contributor can for the sake of my effort.Tommygogd (talk). and if not please kindly restore to my userspace so i can continue to use it to pratice. but I wish you know this can make some of us trying to put effort in Wikipedia sad. Tommygogd (talk) 15:12, 7 August 2021 (UTC)

Reza Abbaszadeh

Hi, you deleted the page Reza Abbaszadeh under CSD A7 while the article was still at AfD and adequately supported from independent sources. Can you please tell me the reason so I can be more careful next time? Thanks. --Vertinagin (talk) 18:38, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

An admin is not obliged to wait for an AfD to be determined if the article qualifies for a speedy deletion. I would concede that the rationale quoted by the original nominator is invalid, and I have notified him of this fact. Nevertheless, the article in my opinion qualifies for speedy deletion. I agree that references are quoted, but the unarguable fact of his existence is not of itself adequate to qualify as a person who has adequate claimed notability. But if you wish to appeal this decision feel free to do so. Go to deletion review to do this. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 21:45, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Thank you for the information. I appreciate the explanation however, in the deletion log, you seem to have restored the page and then deleted again. May I know the reason for this? Please ignore if I am bothering you. Thanks again. --Vertinagin (talk) 06:21, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

Yes. I restored it briefly just to check in full detail that my original decision was reasonable. It is difficult to assess references while an articles remains deleted. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 11:02, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

Deletion review for Reza Abbaszadeh

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Reza Abbaszadeh. 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. Vertinagin (talk) 13:46, 15 August 2021 (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. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:58, 1 September 2021 (UTC)

Request of restoration of redirect: Erduvan redirecting to Erdogan

The page Erduvan should redirect to Erdogan as it is the pronunciation of Erdogan.

FizzoXD (talk) 13:59, 2 September 2021 (UTC)

A lot of European and Asiatic names are pronounced in ways differing from the obvious. Nevertheless i will restore it ; let us see if it survives. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 15:09, 2 September 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2021).

Administrator changes

Jake Wartenberg

Emperor • Viridian Bovary

Ashleyyoursmile → Viridian Bovary

Guideline and policy news

• Feedback is requested on the Universal Code of Conduct enforcement draft by the Universal Code of Conduct Phase 2 drafting committee.
• A RfC is open on whether to allow administrators to use extended confirmed protection on high-risk templates.
• A discussion is open to decide when, if ever, should discord logs be eligible for removal when posted onwiki (including whether to oversight them)
• A RfC on the next steps after the trial of pending changes on TFAs has resulted in a 30 day trial of automatic semi protection for TFAs.

Technical news

• The Score extension has been re-enabled on public wikis. It has been updated, but has been placed in safe mode to address unresolved security issues. Further information on the security issues can be found on the mediawiki page.

Arbitration

• A request for comment is in progress to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the Arbitration Committee election and resolve any issues not covered by existing rules. Comments and new proposals are welcome.

Miscellaneous

• The 2021 RfA review is now open for comments.

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Wikiproject Military history coordinator election nomination period closing soon

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Batch deletion

Hello, Anthony,

Batch deletion can be handy and I use it when I need to delete a number of pages that are being deleted for the same reason. Unfortunately, Twinkle puts the same generic CSD reason as the deletion rationale for all of the pages. This is a problem when deletions are the result of a deletion discussion because Twinkle doesn't include a link to the specific AFD or TFD discussion where it was decided to delete the page. In these cases, I think you need to take the time to delete the pages individually. Just offering an opinion as an admin who has made this mistake before! Thanks! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:18, 15 September 2021 (UTC)

User:Kimberlynorth

Recreated just a couple of minutes after you deleted. Time for a wiki-spank 10mmsocket (talk) 14:03, 17 September 2021 (UTC)

বার্নাড ৰীমান

Please could you undelete বার্নাড ৰীমান so that it can be transwikied to bn.wp (which it can be). I'm not sure why you speedy deleted it given that I removed the A10 nomination twice, explaining both times why it should not be speedily deleted. If there is a good faith objection to a speedy deletion nomination then, by definition, it cannot meet the criterion as speedy deletion is explicitly only for cases that unquestionably should be deleted. Thryduulf (talk) 18:39, 17 September 2021 (UTC)

This is the second article in Bengali within a day or so that the same author created about Bernhard Riemann (the other one, বার্নাড ৰিমান, is still there) about whom we already have an article and about whom Bengali Wikipedia already has an article, under a third spelling bn:বের্নহার্ট রিমান, so to transwiki one of the copies here to that project would be their equivalent of an A10. Largoplazo (talk) 19:37, 17 September 2021 (UTC)

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User:Augie Cataldo

Could you oblige, once more? Page was recreated, including CSD template. Thanks in advance. Kleuske (talk) 14:23, 7 October 2021 (UTC)

WP:UP

Midnight Traveler

I'm surprised you went ahead with deleting Midnight Traveler. Do you really think it "contain[ed] copyrighted material with no credible assertion of public domain, fair use, or a compatible free license, where there is no non-infringing content on the page worth saving" as WP:G12 says? Nardog (talk) 13:48, 20 October 2021 (UTC)

If you would be so good as to indicate the error (specifically) I will happily correct it. As things stand, my answer to your question is Yes, I do. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 15:22, 20 October 2021 (UTC)

So you're saying a block quote preceded by an attribution to the original writer and a citation to the material the quote is from doesn't amount to a credible assertion of fair use?

I just recreated the article with the "infringing" part summarized using my own words. Everything in the article except the "Production" section is as created the first time. Do you maintain that those parts were not "worth saving"? Nardog (talk) 15:38, 20 October 2021 (UTC)

I note what you say. I always try not to take "two bites at the cherry", so will leave it alone.----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 15:35, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

I'm afraid I don't understand what that means in this equation. I'm asking whether you stand by the deletion, which you are obliged to account for.

I've been here long enough to know that I'm not irreplaceable and there is no justice. But not many editors do, certainly not newcomers. So if you were to encounter another article with the same amount of sourcing but with the same proportion of quotation as the first version of mine and you would delete it, I would not be comfortable with that. It is incredibly dispiriting and demotivating to see something you worked on for hours get promptly taken off. If the creator was a newcomer or not as thick-skinned as I've become, their desire to keep contributing would be gutted, and we would lose a (would-be) valuable editor, which would be a net loss for the project.

Content creation is hard. That's why "not enough creation" is such a common complaint at RfAs. You must know that. I have great admiration for prolific contributors who just march on in the main namespace. I wrote the article precisely because I figured I should stop slacking off staring at my watchlist and cross off one in the list of links I, as a reader, have been disappointed to see in red. If this is what you get for that, not many people would take it well (I'm not saying I am—but others would likely take it worse).

I don't claim to have written a great, instant-FA-level article, and I admire patrollers and admins who do the necessary work as well. But if you see a problem, address the problem—not take the entire thing it belongs to with it. You would be justified to call the quotation lazy. I just do not see what reading of G12 allows it to be applied in this case. I want this project to thrive more than I want my contributions to remain, and I urge you to consider more carefully what long-term effects your actions have. (I also encourage you to use clearer language when inquired of about your admin actions. It is unclear what you mean by "note" or what it would mean for you to take "two bites at the cherry" or to not "leave it alone".) Nardog (talk) 06:50, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

The article is posted; I intend to do nothing with it. What do you want of me? ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 13:35, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

To not do it again if you come across a page tagged as G12 when the alleged infringing part is a quote that's attributed and cited and forms only a portion of the page.

You're again using vague language that's not helpful. What do you intend not to do? If you mean deleting it, why would anyone do that when it no longer contains the material you deleted the first version for?

And you still haven't answered my simple question, so I ask again. Do you stand by the deletion? Nardog (talk) 16:21, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

This converstion is finished. Any further co0mments on the lines as your recent ones will be considered as harassment. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 21:35, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

I'm sorry if my questions came off as aggressive, but I'm merely, and genuinely, asking whether you still think the deletion was in line with the policy. If you think you've already answered it, that was lost on me, so you can just repeat that and I will not bother you about this again. Nardog (talk) 22:06, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

In my personl opiinon the deletion was within policy. Clearly you do not agree, which is your unargued right. As I have already said, I have not done anything else to the article. Taking two bites at a cherry is a not-uncommon phrase meaning to do things twice at the same place; as I also said, I try not to do this. As the article exists now in the form (I assume) with which you are satisfied, I see litle point in further discussion.----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 09:02, 23 October 2021 (UTC)

It isn't the meaning of the idiom but what it referred to that was unclear, as the article no longer contains the part you deleted the previous version for so the same rationale could not possibly apply. As I explained repeatedly, I take issue not with your deletion per se but with the fact you've stood by it, which indicates you would do it again if you came across a similar situation. I'm not comfortable with that, so I'll defer to the community at Deletion review. Nardog (talk) 14:01, 24 October 2021 (UTC)

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Re: speedy deletion of "implausible" redirect, "James Harrison (blood donor"

What constitutes an "implausible" typo? Because that redirect was created because of a typo that factually occurred. It was, specifically, the result of a very common type of typo that occurs when linking wikipedia pages with parentheticals, due to how Markdown (the formatting language used on prominant sites such as reddit and github) formats links. I create such a redirect whenever I see such a broken link in the wild, and generally get thanks for such an action (one is currently on my talk page).

Frankly, I think Wikipedia should automatically redirect any nonexistent page titles with unclosed parenthenses, but until then, the reasonable solution is to add them manually, is it not? --LordDragonfang (talk) 00:47, 3 November 2021 (UTC)

Thank you for your comment; it is not clear to me why you felt the need to make it. My action was both correct and non-controversial, and I would do it again in the same situation. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 12:50, 3 November 2021 (UTC)

I don't understand. Is it Wikipedia policy to delete redirects of common classes of typos? If you can point me to where that guideline is laid out, I will happily alter my editing behavior. --LordDragonfang (talk) 03:15, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

You must do what you think best in the light of your interpretation of current wikipedia policies and procedures. As do I. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 12:52, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

Please check for significant contributions

I have made significant contributions to Ramón Escobar Santiago, Iñaxi Etxabe, Gladys Ejomi, and Elisabeth Ebeling. Thus CSD G5 does not apply. Your deletions are violating the stated policy. Silverseren^C 22:28, 9 November 2021 (UTC)

And Dick Klaverdijk. These articles were already restored by another admin. You're wheel-warring at this point. Silverseren^C 22:29, 9 November 2021 (UTC)

Are you just ignoring this? Now César Salinas as well. Silverseren^C 22:33, 9 November 2021 (UTC)

No, i am not ignoring you. In view of the large number os sockpuppet edits involved, I have only just caught up with your comment. I take your point; may I suggest that at least for the present you aoid editing articles created by this sock? ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 22:38, 9 November 2021 (UTC)

No, not really. If they're notable subjects, then the articles should be kept. There's plenty of articles I didn't edit because I didn't find any notability in them. Most of the sports ones, for example. Isn't checking for significant contributions one of the requirements for G5? Liz has been doing that, I notice. Silverseren^C 22:40, 9 November 2021 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious

Nine years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:09, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

Actually fifteen and a half years as an editor, fourteen and a half years as an admin.

... and nine Precious --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:39, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

I really do not know what you mean. Are you using the word "precious" in some way other than the usual English one? ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 16:49, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

Taranveer Singh

Why did you delete the Taranveer Singh redirect I created. I clearly used the article creation template as I want an actual article here. Did you not notice the template? Neel.arunabh (talk) 01:53, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

i deleted the redirect because it was inappropriate.If you want an actual article, then you are urged to create one. Redirecting the name of an individual to a large category is vey inexact. Or, looking at from another angle, when we go to the article [film director] then if the redirect is correct we would expect to see Taranveer Singh mentioned within the article. He is not, and the redirect is therefore inappropriate.----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 16:46, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

User:Varoon2542

The userpage User:Varoon2542 was marked as a U1, except it was marked as such by User:Smalemon. Varoon2542 even requested the tag be removed CiphriusKane (talk) 23:19, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

User:Varoon2542 Deletion

I saw you deleted this page for U1 user request. But they did not request it. Another new user did for some reason. The page has since been restored. They also 'contested' the deletion on their talkpage. Bobherry Talk Edits 23:22, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

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Re-add a deleted page.

Hi. You deleted this page - [1] as it was created by a blocked user. The page had useful information and it was listed on Shivaji. Is it possible to undelete the page? If it is possible, I request you to undelete it. Akshaypatill (talk) 09:48, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

The page was created by a blocked user. Tht being so, I am not prepared to restore it. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 16:13, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

Nathaniel Jacobson

Hi, you deleted the entry I worked on about Nathaniel Jacobson. I'd love to rework it though. I put a lot of work into getting the references and links to old newspaper articles about him. Is there any way to get access to the deleted version so I can use those references again? thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by HC art (talk • contribs) 22:59, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

Re-add Peraton

The page Peraton was marked for speedy deletion by the user Onel5969, they claimed the material was copied from theladders.com. But I have proof that theladders.com copied it from wikipedia, in fact nearly all their company descriptions match wikipedia's entries... I contacted theladders.com and they apologized for copying it, and they are in the process of updating the Peraton description so it doesn't match wikipedia's (which is now deleted)... Anyway, I wrote that article using my own words and cited my sources for any facts, so please restore it and we can work through any other problems with it. Also here's an example of some random company I clicked on at theladders.com and you can see it matches: https://www.theladders.com/company/unsplash-jobs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsplash — Preceding unsigned comment added by Supremedemency (talk • contribs) 23:04, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

you are stiupulating that the text which you posted was copied from @Wikipedia. OK, but it is still copyright breakage if you then copy it back.----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 23:30, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

Sorry there must have been a miscommunication, I'm saying that I wrote the Wikipedia article myself, using my own words, and then at some point later The Ladders copied it onto their website. So I never copied anything back, there was never any copyright breakage, I promise, please give me a chance to show proof by restoring the page and giving me like a week to show proof The Ladders copies many pages straight from Wikipedia regularly and should not be considered a primary source. Supremedemency (talk) 19:34, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

Also the user Onel5969 who originally marked it for speedy deletion is not giving me a chance to show proof they made a mistake (and I do have proof), they responded to my last talk message saying "Nope. Go away. Onel5969 TT me 20:11, 24 December 2021 (UTC)" which is quite concerning, is there a way I can get in contact with you or another administrator to prove my case and show that this editor Onel5969 is being careless? Thanks. Supremedemency (talk) 20:25, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

Ah. you had not made it clear that the original article was created by you. This means that possibly ladders.com may be in violation of copyright, but you are not. I will restore the article. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 22:32, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

Thanks! Ladders.com has since updated their page to remove the version copied from Wikipedia, so can the speedy deletion be removed?Supremedemency (talk) 22:50, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

Speedy tag is gone. Obviously I will make no comment on the comments applied to the article page.----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 22:41, 25 December 2021 (UTC)

Nijat Rahimov (actor)

Hello, Anthony,

I saw you were active and I'm hoping you can render a verdict on this article. I PROD'd it last week and so I can't act on it. It looks like the PROD tag was removed by a sockpuppet of the page creator who was very active on articles about Azerbaijan personalities. So, either that tag removal has to be decided to be invalid because it was from a blocked sockpuppet and the article deleted or the PROD tag needs to be removed. Thanks for any help you can offer. I hope you have a pleasant holiday! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:55, 25 December 2021 (UTC)

A small thanks

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Question about soft redirects and WP:R2

Thanks for responding to the CSD on French proverbs. I just wanted clarification on something regarding WP:Soft redirects. Is any soft redirect to another Wiki project from Wikipedia mainspace eligible for WP:R2? I noticed that there's the category Category:Redirects to Wikiquote which has several pages in mainspace similar to French proverbs, soft redirects to the corresponding Wikiquote page (e.g. Armenian proverbs). Could all of them be deleted? Thought I'd ask before tagging them all. Qwaiiplayer (talk) 19:24, 7 January 2022 (UTC)

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Draft deleted because created by banned or blocked user

Hi, I am Itcouldbepossible, also known as ICBP. Recently you deleted Draft:Lokkhi Kakima Superstar, as it was created by a sockpuppet of User:Cambria Math. But the problem is that the show will start soon, and deleting such an article just because it was created by a banned user is meaningless. And subsequently I also made edits and improved the draft because it was an upcoming show. Please share your views in this matter. Regards. Yours sincerely Itcouldbepossible^Talk 07:33, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

in my view del;etion of articles created by blocked or banned editors is mandatory, and I do not accept your view that the deletion is meaningless. Any lesser approach negates the whole concept of sockpuppetry prevention. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 17:08, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

But according to WP:G5, it says This applies to pages created by banned or blocked users in violation of their ban or block, and that have no substantial edits by others. But the thing is that I had already made my edits there. So then how does it qualify for CSD G5 deletion? Itcouldbepossible^Talk 02:59, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

Hi Anthony Bradbury, stumbled upon this looking through Itcouldbepossible's contributions, would a refund of the page (to draftspace) be possible to see if anything is worth saving? Thanks in advance :D Justiyaya 03:38, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

@Justiyaya That is what I am also saying. Itcouldbepossible^Talk 05:56, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

The draft also fails CSD G5. Itcouldbepossible^Talk 05:57, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

Evie Magazine

I'm the person who created the page. I often come to Wikipedia for information about publications I don't know. There was no page for Evie so I created a simple one. I have no relationship to the magazine.

I've done some reasearch. How about the following:

Evie magazine is an online and printed magazine aimed at young women in the United States.

It says its mission is to "empower, educate, and entertain you with the highest quality content that affirms your femininity, encourages virtue, and offers a more truthful perspective than the biased agenda of other publications".

According to the AllSides democratic media monitoring service, it has a 'Lean Right' bias. As of May 2021, its review found Evie "largely publishes opinion-style pieces that are focused on encouraging traditional values and historic virtues in culture, relationships and lifestyle". AllSides says the magazine typically stands against progressive feminism and is critical of hook-up culture, socialism/communism, the birth control pill and the pharmaceuticals of Western medicine.

Willbown (talk) 13:25, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for this i9nformation. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 22:48, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

Help

Can I make a page thats this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurogender — Preceding unsigned comment added by FelixAnon (talk • contribs) 20:42, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

You can make any page you wish; its survival will depend on its fulfilling all of the standard criteria corrently in fore here. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 15:39, 26 February 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2022).

Administrator changes

Modussiccandi

BOZ • Brookie (deceased) • Jackmcbarn • Jamesday • Jonathunder • Master of Puppets • Saravask

CheckUser changes

Callanecc

Oversighter changes

Callanecc

Guideline and policy news

• A RfC is open to change the wording of revision deletion criterion 1 to remove the sentence relating to non-infringing contributions.
• A RfC is open to discuss prohibiting draftification of articles over 90 days old.

Technical news

• The deployment of the reply tool as an opt-out feature, as announced in last month's newsletter, has been delayed to 7 March. Feedback and comments are being welcomed at Wikipedia talk:Talk pages project. (T296645)
• Special:Nuke will now allow the selection of standard deletion reasons to be used when mass-deleting pages. This was a Community Wishlist Survey request from 2022. (T25020)
• The ability to undelete the talk page when undeleting a page using Special:Undelete or the API will be added soon. This change was requested in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey. (T295389)

Arbitration

• Several unused discretionary sanctions and article probation remedies have been rescinded. This follows the community feedback from the 2021 Discretionary Sanctions review.

Miscellaneous

• The 2022 appointees for the Ombuds commission are Érico, Faendalimas, Galahad, Infinite0694, Mykola7, Olugold, Udehb and Zabe as regular members and Ameisenigel and JJMC89 as advisory members.
• Following the 2022 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AntiCompositeNumber, BRPever, Hasley, TheresNoTime, and Vermont.
• The 2022 Community Wishlist Survey results have been published alongside the ranking of prioritized proposals.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:46, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Jorrit Faassen

Hello, you recently deleted the article Jorrit Faassen saying it "does not credibly indicate the importance or significance of the subject". The article mentioned in the lead that he is Vladimir Putin's son-in-law, married to Putin's eldest daughter Maria. That clearly indicated his significance. Some might not think that is enough to merit his own Wikipedia article, however that would have been a debate for a deletion discussion, but since it was speedily deleted there was none. Also, per WP:CSD, the information could have been merged into another article – Maria's, where much of the information was before I created Fassen's article. I have been able to restore some information there based on the revision history of Maria's article, but some valuable information is missing (e.g. his D.O.B.) as it was added to his article later and with the page gone I have no way of retrieving that information and source. WP:CSD also says the user nominating a page for deletion should notify the page creator and any major contributors – I am the page creator and I was not notified and thus had no way to contest the deletion as I only learned about it from my watchlist after the fact. Abbyjjjj96 (talk) 01:09, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

You point out, correctly, that the page nominator is requested to notify the page creator of the nomination. please note that i was the page deleter, not the page nominator, and i suggest that you pursue this problem in the correct direction. More to the point, it is a basic premise in wikipedia that notability is not conferred, so that family members of unarguably notable people are not themselves automatically notable. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 12:43, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

Deletion review for Jorrit Faassen

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Jorrit Faassen. 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. Abbyjjjj96 (talk) 02:02, 12 March 2022 (UTC)

Vandalism Deletion

Hello, just curious as to why you deleted File:Penile vaginal sexual act (top down).jpg for vandalism? It wasn't a vandalism edit. I created a local description of the file with {{Restricted use}} since the original file was tagged as such and the file was just moved at commons. I have also requested the new file name to be added at MediaWiki talk:Bad image list. Terasail^[✉️] 15:48, 18 March 2022 (UTC)

It is not clear to me why you felt the need to post this image. You may or may not see the close-up image of an erect penis penetrating a vagina as pornographic, but many would. I while I know that wikipedia is not censored, and agree with this policy, the posting of gratuitous pornography is in my view not in the best interests of the encyclopedia.----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 16:42, 18 March 2022 (UTC)

I didn't post it and it isn't hosted on wikipedia so any notability concerns are not relevant here. I only requested it moved as it had a duplicate name. And then attempted to tag it as a blacklisted image. The tag should remain, I don't see any need for the image but there is no policy to delete it so its beyond the scope. The edit wasn't vandalism in anysense and so I struggle to see why it was CSD'd and I request that you restore it. Thanks, Terasail^[✉️] 17:09, 18 March 2022 (UTC)

Further note. I am happy to discuss my reasoning further (here, at WP:AN, WP:DRV, ect...) but I have decided that I am going to personally recreate this page with {{Restricted use}}. This is for proper categorisation of the file along with notifiying users on why they are incapable of adding it to pages. I am not taking this action to avoid WP:Deletion review however in the spirit of WP:Ignore all rules the CSD was invalid (in my opinion) and sitting here or another discussion board discussing undeleting the page seems pointless to me at this time. Terasail^[✉️] 20:45, 18 March 2022 (UTC)

Fifteenth Adminship Anniversary!

Wishing Anthony Bradbury a very Bradbury happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Chris Troutman (talk) 13:52, 31 March 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2022).

Administrator changes

Firefly • Sdrqaz

Ad Orientem

Geschichte • Ryan Postlethwaite • Sabine's Sunbird • Wassupwestcoast

Interface administrator changes

Evad37

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open proposing a change to the minimum activity requirements for administrators.

Technical news

• Access to Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have the deletelogentry and deletedhistory rights. This means that those in the Researcher user group and Checkusers who are not administrators can now access Special:RevisionDelete. The users able to view the special page after this change are the 3 users in the Researcher group, as there are currently no checkusers who are not already administrators. (T301928)
• When viewing deleted revisions or diffs on Special:Undelete a back link to the undelete page for the associated page is now present. (T284114)

Arbitration

• Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Procedures § Opening of proceedings has been updated to reflect current practice following a motion.
• A arbitration case regarding Skepticism and coordinated editing has been closed.
• A arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been opened.

Miscellaneous

• Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines has closed, and the results were that 56.98% of voters supported the guidelines. The results of this vote mean the Wikimedia Foundation Board will now review the guidelines.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:12, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

Deletion of Big Green Egg

A few weeks ago you deleted an article about the Big Green Egg - link. Can you restore this article to my user space so I can improve it? It obviously passes GNG and deserves a stand alone article, and I would like a chance to remove the reasons for why it was tagged with G11. I think the G11 justification was not met here, but I won't belabor that point. Mr Ernie (talk) 14:25, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

This article has already been re-created, albeit in draft form. I do think that G!! applied, but will not apply any tags to it. Whether it survives as a draft to make it into article will be for other editors/admins to decide. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 22:17, 12 April 2022 (UTC)

New administrator activity requirement

The administrator policy has been updated with new activity requirements following a successful Request for Comment.

Beginning January 1, 2023, administrators who meet one or both of the following criteria may be desysopped for inactivity if they have:

1. Made neither edits nor administrative actions for at least a 12-month period OR
2. Made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period

Administrators at risk for being desysopped under these criteria will continue to be notified ahead of time. Thank you for your continued work.

22:52, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

CSD

Hello! I just wanted to let you know that a page you deleted here was just re-instated by the particular user. I tagged it again just in case. Thanks! SPF121188 ^{(talk this way) (contribs)} 14:40, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

Nevermind, it just got deleted again. Sorry to clutter your talk page! SPF121188 ^{(talk this way) (contribs)} 14:41, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2022).

Administrator changes

Colin M

David.Monniaux • Fribbler • Grue • Kpjas • West.andrew.g

CheckUser changes

Ks0stm

Oversighter changes

Ks0stm

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, a change has been made to the administrators inactivity policy. Under the new policy, if an administrator has not made at least 100 edits over a period of 5 years they may be desysopped for inactivity.
• Following a discussion on the bureaucrat's noticeboard, a change has been made to the bureaucrats inactivity policy.

Technical news

• The ability to undelete the associated talk page when undeleting a page has been added. This was the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
• A public status system for WMF wikis has been created. It is located at https://www.wikimediastatus.net/ and is hosted separately to WMF wikis so in the case of an outage it will remain viewable.

Arbitration

• Remedy 2 of the St Christopher case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to place a ban on single-purpose accounts who were disruptively editing on the article St Christopher Iba Mar Diop College of Medicine or related pages from those pages.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:33, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2022).

Administrator changes

Tamzin

Barek • Darkwind • Geometry guy • ProcseeBot • RoyBoy • Sean Whitton • Valereee • Visorstuff • WAvegetarian

Sn0wflake → VersedFenrir

CheckUser changes

Ivanvector

Guideline and policy news

• Several areas of improvement collated from community member votes have been identified in the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines. The areas of improvement have been sent back for review and you are invited to provide input on these areas.

Technical news

• Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. (T307341)
• The IP Info feature has been deployed to all wikis as a Beta Feature. Any autoconfirmed user may enable the feature using the "IP info" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features. Autoconfirmed users will be able to access basic information about an IP address that includes the country and connection method. Those with advanced privileges (admin, bureaucrat, checkuser) will have access to extra information that includes the Internet Service Provider and more specific location.

Arbitration

• Remedy 2 of the Rachel Marsden case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to delete or reduce to a stub, together with their talk pages, articles related to Rachel Marsden when they violate Wikipedia's biographies of living persons policy.
• An arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been closed.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:55, 2 June 2022 (UTC)

Teresa of Jesus, Child

Well done on removing the Teresa of Jesus, Child hoax. Even though the creator admitted that the article was in error, I think we should archive this at the list of hoaxes. It’s staggering that this had lasted since 2010. 00sClassicGamerFan (talk) 18:53, 21 June 2022 (UTC)

Talk:Coandumirim

Please restore Talk:Coandumirim. I wanted to reply to the IP. I created the stub Coendou speratus after I saw the IP's post, and redirected Coandumirim to the stub prior to your deletion. I was posting a reply to the IP when you deleted. Pikavoom ^Talk 12:04, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

Sorry, no. A talk page without an associated article page (which must be created first) canot exist here, whatever its content. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 12:35, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

I created the page, a redirect, a minute before you deleted the talk page. At the time you deleted the talk page, the G8 deletion tag was no longer valid as there was an associated page. Pikavoom ^Talk 13:41, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2022).

Administrator changes

AA • Gwalla • Ioeth • Laurascudder • Moriori (deceased) • Nat • Rfl

Drilnoth → AFigureOfBlue

Bureaucrat changes

Lee Vilenski

Interface administrator changes

Nihiltres

Technical news

• user_global_editcount is a new variable that can be used in abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users. (T130439)

Arbitration

• An arbitration case regarding conduct in deletion-related editing has been opened.

Miscellaneous

• The New Pages Patrol queue has around 10,000 articles to be reviewed. As all administrators have the patrol right, please consider helping out. The queue is here. For further information on the state of the project, see the latest NPP newsletter.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:28, 10 July 2022 (UTC)

Help me. Why can't I have a User page?

Honest request for help. I'd like to have a user page. My previous one was deleted. I recreated it with what I thought were only references to WP-related material. I see now that it has been deleted again. Why can't I have a WP User page with my WP history of barnstars and donations and other WP-related material on it?

XKV8R (talk) 14:46, 15 July 2022 (UTC)

About Speedy deletion nomination of User:Amineyess

Hello, I wish to recover my user page which seems to me to respect all the criteria of Wikipedia, I would like to inform you that the French and Arabic version of my account is active without any problem, also, I want to inform that I have specified on my user page my function and also my main passions that I intervene to contribute to wikipedia However, if there is information to add or remove, please let me know so that I can make the necessary changes.@Amineyess Amineyess (talk) 08:04, 2 August 2022 (UTC)

With the deepest respect, I have to say that you are incorrectin your interpretation of wikipedia policies, at least as regards userpages. I have reviewed your page; you mention linkedIn which is not relevant here, and some other interests, but you make no mention of your hopes, expexctations, experinces. etc. as they relate to your wikipedia editing, and this is what the userpage is intended to be used for. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 15:50, 2 August 2022 (UTC)

Perfect, thank you for pointing out what the problem is on my user page, now I can update it by deleting the Linkedin link and adding another center of interest that aspires me to contribute on wikipedia. did I just mention is enough to get my user page back ? Amineyess (talk) 07:24, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

Hello, i am still waiting your feednack, thankyou Amineyess (talk) 08:33, 17 August 2022 (UTC)

Deletion review for Muslim Mojahedin

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Muslim Mojahedin. 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. Iskandar323 (talk) 09:35, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – August 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2022).

Administrator changes

Valereee

Anthony Appleyard (deceased) • Capitalistroadster • Samsara

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC has been closed with consensus to add javascript that will show edit notices for editors editing via a mobile device. This only works for users using a mobile browser, so iOS app editors will still not be able to see edit notices.
• An RfC has been closed with the consensus that train stations are not inherently notable.

Technical news

• The Wikimania 2022 Hackathon will take place virtually from 11 August to 14 August.
• Administrators will now see links on user pages for "Change block" and "Unblock user" instead of just "Block user" if the user is already blocked. (T308570)

Arbitration

• The arbitration case request Geschichte has been automatically closed after a 3 month suspension of the case.

Miscellaneous

• You can vote for candidates in the 2022 Board of Trustees elections from 16 August to 30 August. Two community elected seats are up for election.
• Wikimania 2022 is taking place virtually from 11 August to 14 August. The schedule for wikimania is listed here. There are also a number of in-person events associated with Wikimania around the world.
• Tech tip: When revision-deleting on desktop, hold ⇧ Shift between clicking two checkboxes to select every box in that range.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:44, 5 August 2022 (UTC)

Dear Anthony

Can you tell me why you deleted the AxySnake page? Please restore the article so it should have to fix some grammar. Fakemates (talk) 22:02, 5 August 2022 (UTC)

I cannot find this article. Please tell me when you created it, and under exactly what title. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 22:37, 5 August 2022 (UTC)

Anthony, the title was actually called "AxySnake". It's a game made by Axysoft. I created this article and then got deleted. I don't know why would they do this. It was my favorite childhood game. Will you just restore it now? Fakemates (talk) 23:02, 5 August 2022 (UTC)

Not every game is automatically notable, and neither is every software company. This game is, in my opinion, not notable in Wikipedia terms, and the company (which does not have a wikipedia article) is similarly not notable.----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 15:36, 6 August 2022 (UTC)

Should I ask other Wikipedia user that can help me to create the article? Fakemates (talk) 16:13, 6 August 2022 (UTC)

This is up to you; and you may find an editor who disagrees with me. But i would suggest that no editor will help you to create an article about a non-notable subject. But feel free to ask. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 21:23, 6 August 2022 (UTC)

Deleted Draft: Princess Omowunmi Agunbiade

Good wishes, writing to you because I was to create the draft page of a deleted Draft (Princess Omowunmi Agunbiade). It was deleted due to reviews of unambiguous advertising, and I would like to rewrite and develop the article further. Caramel2155 (talk) 14:02, 7 August 2022 (UTC)

Please go ahead; just avoid the error created by the last editor, which led to the article's deletion.----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 21:44, 7 August 2022 (UTC)

Why did you delete my Draft:Pasha Travel?

I'm not sure why you think this page is promotional.

Could you at least restore the draft so that I can edit further? I don't have any backup files. Vorosvictor (talk) 12:40, 9 August 2022 (UTC)

I can place it in your talk page. But please be aware that as it stands t reads like an advertisement and, as such. is not acceptable. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 13:54, 9 August 2022 (UTC)

Wikiproject Military history coordinator election nominations opening soon

Nominations for the upcoming project coordinator election are opening in a few hours (00:01 UTC on 1 September). A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next coordination 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 current coord team. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:50, 31 August 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2022).

Administrator changes

DanCherek • DatGuy • Femke • Z1720

Aldux • Graham Beards • Nyttend

Interface administrator changes

Mr. Stradivarius

Guideline and policy news

• A discussion is open to define a process by which Vector 2022 can be made the default for all users.
• An RfC is open to gain consensus on whether Fox News is reliable for science and politics.

Technical news

• The impact report on the effects of disabling IP editing on the Persian (Farsi) Wikipedia has been released.
• The WMF is looking into making a Private Incident Reporting System (PIRS) system to improve the reporting of harmful incidents through easier and safer reporting. You can leave comments on the talk page by answering the questions provided. Users who have faced harmful situations are also invited to join a PIRS interview to share the experience. To sign up please email Madalina Ana.

Arbitration

• An arbitration case regarding Conduct in deletion-related editing has been closed. The Arbitration Committee passed a remedy as part of the final decision to create a request for comment (RfC) on how to handle mass nominations at Articles for Deletion (AfD).
• The arbitration case request Jonathunder has been automatically closed after a 6 month suspension of the case.

Miscellaneous

• The new pages patrol (NPP) team has prepared an appeal to the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) for assistance with addressing Page Curation bugs and requested features. You are encouraged to read the open letter before it is sent, and if you support it, consider signing it. It is not a discussion, just a signature will suffice.
• Voting for candidates for the Wikimedia Board of Trustees is open until 6 September.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:11, 1 September 2022 (UTC)

Please vote in the 2022 Wikimedia Foundation Inc. Board of Trustees election

Hello hello. I hope this message finds you well.

The Wikimedia Foundation Inc. Board of Trustees election ends soon, please vote. At least one of the candidates is worthy of support. --MZMcBride (talk) 14:54, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

President of the United Kingdom

Hello! I see that you deleted President of the United Kingdom per WP:G3. Would you mind if I create a redirect to Prime Minister of the United Kingdom instead per [2] and [3]. Privybst (talk) 20:50, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

i would not recommend it; a redirect from a non-existant subject makesc no sense. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 21:54, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

There is even a special template {{R from incorrect name}}. Given that Talk:Prime Minister of the United States survived many times, I do not understand why President of the United Kingdom makes no sense. Privybst (talk) 05:30, 6 September 2022 (UTC)

The President is the head of state. The prime minister is head of government. The difference is significant, and the two posts are not in any way equivalent.----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 11:36, 6 September 2022 (UTC)

Would you be so good as to userfy Draft:Mallu Traveler for me?

I was asked on my talk page to review this draft before it was deleted, and it intrigued me, but you deleted it before I could get to it. Would you be so good as to restore it to my user space, so I could work on making it fit for prime time? I've done this sort of thing a number of times before, and so far all of the articles I resurrected after deletion (Tina Machado; Miss and Mister Supranational; Summer Rayne Oakes; Chaz Stevens) have been kept. --GRuban (talk) 15:07, 6 September 2022 (UTC)

References

It appears that his claim to notability rests purely on his youtube exploits. Perhaps i am missing something, but in my personal opinion a youtuber is not notable merely because of being a youtuber, no matter how many hits he has. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 23:23, 12 September 2022 (UTC)

Article

Hi, it seems that you blocked Prasanna Kumar Bezawada from being an article. Just wanted to let you know that a user created the page under the title Prasanna Kumar bezawada with several promising sources see this, this and this. Since the person has worked on 6 more films, they probably are notable now. What do you think? DareshMohan (talk) 21:58, 12 September 2022 (UTC)

I feel that is encyclopedic notabilty is borderline. butb will take no further action. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 21:56, 15 September 2022 (UTC)

Wikiproject Military history coordinator election voting opening soon!

Voting for the upcoming project coordinator election opens in a few hours (00:01 UTC on 15 September) and will last through 23:59 on 28 September. A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next coordination 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. Voting is conducted using simple approval voting and questions for the candidates are welcome. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the current coord team. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:26, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

Correction to previous election announcement

Just a quick correction to the prior message about the 2022 MILHIST coordinator election! I (Hog Farm) didn't proofread the message well enough and left out a link to the election page itself in this message. The voting will occur here; sorry about the need for a second message and the inadvertent omission from the prior one. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:40, 15 September 2022 (UTC)

Undeletion please

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:BTrapBrian/sandbox/Brian_Keith_Chambers

Please undelete. I am simply trying to get my wiki page uploaded. Many more details will follow. This is a very confusing process. BTrapBrian (talk) 19:03, 18 September 2022 (UTC)

Advertising your bar is absolutely not the function of this encylopedia. So the answer, i regret, is no. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 21:42, 18 September 2022 (UTC)

Grayscale draft help

Hello, I saw that you made a "speedy deletion" of the Grayscale Investments draft I wrote. I was hoping you'd be able to give me some more detailed feedback on what made the draft unacceptable from a Wikipedia standpoint. Your feedback will help me fix the draft so it will meet requirements to be accepted. I really want to make sure I do this the right way. I made a new draft in my sandbox in the hopes that you or another editor might be able to point me in the right direction on rewriting the draft. I'd really appreciate the help! BenViagas (talk) 17:09, 21 September 2022 (UTC)

You state that this company is your employeer: this makes it very unlikely hat you could aver write an article about it which was clearly non-promotional and unbiased.----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 21:43, 21 September 2022 (UTC)

Wikiproject Military history coordinator election voting closing soon

Voting for the upcoming project coordinator election closes soon, at 23:59 on 28 September. A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next coordination 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. Voting is conducted using simple approval voting and questions for the candidates are welcome. The voting itself is occurring here If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the current coord team. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:12, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Brett Randall

Good morning AB. On 3 May 2007 you deleted Brett Randall as non-notable, and if it was the founder of Little Theatre in Melbourne, I reckon it could be an interesting and useful article, based partly on a web article [4] and newspaper references, of which there are plenty. Doug butler (talk) 14:12, 30 September 2022 (UTC) I guess I'm asking for a copy of the deleted article if that's possible. Doug butler (talk) 16:27, 1 October 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – October 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2022).

Administrator changes

ScottishFinnishRadish

Staxringold

Ahoerstemeier (deceased) • Ched

Interface administrator changes

Cyberpower678

CheckUser changes

GorillaWarfare

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, consensus was found that if the rationale for a block depends on information that is not available to all administrators, that information should be sent to the Arbitration Committee, a checkuser or an oversighter for action (as applicable, per ArbCom's recent updated guidance) instead of the administrator making the block.
• Following an RfC, consensus has been found that, in the context of politics and science, the reliability of FoxNews.com is unclear and that additional considerations apply to its use.
• Community comment on the revised Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines is requested until 8 October.

Technical news

• The Articles for creation helper script now automatically recognises administrator accounts which means your name does not need to be listed at WP:AFCP to help out. If you wish to help out at AFC, enable AFCH by navigating to Preferences → Gadgets and checking the "Yet Another AfC Helper Script" box.

Arbitration

• Remedy 8.1 of the Muhammad images case will be rescinded 1 November following a motion.
• A modification to the deletion RfC remedy in the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been made to reaffirm the independence of the RfC and allow the moderators to split the RfC in two.
• The second phase of the 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review closes 3 October.

Miscellaneous

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CASTINGASPERSIONS

Will you be responding at WP:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 October 7#Wikipedia:CASTINGASPERSIONS, or be doing the history undeletion per the consensus there? Jay 💬 03:29, 14 October 2022 (UTC)

The RfD was closed and history restored by Explicit. Jay 💬 06:26, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2022).

Administrator changes

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Interface administrator changes

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CheckUser changes

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  • Blablubbs
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Oversight changes

• DGG

Guideline and policy news

• The article creation at scale RfC opened on 3 October and will be open until at least 2 November.
• An RfC is open to discuss having open requests for adminship automatically placed on hold after the seven-day period has elapsed, pending closure or other action by a bureaucrat.

Arbitration

• Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 13 November 2022 until 22 November 2022 to stand in the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections.
• The arbitration case request titled Athaenara has been resolved by motion.
• The arbitration case Reversal and reinstatement of Athaenara's block has entered the proposed decision stage.
• AmandaNP, Mz7 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2022 Arbitration Committee Elections. Xaosflux and Dr vulpes are reserve commissioners.

Miscellaneous

• The 2022 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of two new CheckUsers.
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• Tech tip: Wikimarkup in a block summary is parsed in the notice that the blockee sees. You can use templates with custom options to specify situations like {{rangeblock|create=yes}} or {{uw-ublock|contains profanity}}.

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Accident?

Hello. XKV8R's userpage was deleted via Mfd in May 2022 and you restored the whole chunk without linking anything (or probably by accident). Kindly fix. --Minorax^«¦talk¦» 13:23, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

Always precious

Ten years ago, you were found precious. That's what you are, always. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:28, 18 November 2022 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2022).

Administrator changes

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• Alex.muller
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Interface administrator changes

TheresNoTime

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CheckUser changes

TheresNoTime

Oversight changes

TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

• Consensus has been found in an RfC to automatically place RfAs on hold after one week.
• The article creation at scale RfC has been closed.
• An RfC on the banners for the December 2022 fundraising campaign has been closed.

Technical news

• A new preference named "Enable limited width mode" has been added to the Vector 2022 skin. The preference is also shown as a toggle on every page if your monitor is 1600 pixels or wider. When disabled it removes the whitespace added by Vector 2022 on the left and right of the page content. Disabling this preference has the same effect as enabling the wide-vector-2022 gadget. (T319449)

Arbitration

• Eligible users are invited to vote on candidates for the Arbitration Committee until 23:59 December 12, 2022 (UTC). Candidate statements can be seen here.
• The proposed decision for the 2021-22 review of the discretionary sanctions system is open.
• The arbitration case Reversal and reinstatement of Athaenara's block has been closed.
• The arbitration case Stephen has been opened and the proposed decision is expected 1 December 2022.
• A motion has modified the procedures for contacting an admin facing Level 2 desysop.

Miscellaneous

• Tech tip: A single IPv6 connection usually has access to a "subnet" of 18 quintillion IPs. Add /64 to the end of an IP in Special:Contributions to see all of a subnet's edits, and consider blocking the whole subnet rather than an IP that may change within a minute.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:43, 1 December 2022 (UTC)

"Anne of Great Britain" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Anne of Great Britain and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 December 21 § Anne of Great Britain until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. ‑‑Neveselbert (talk · contribs · email) 16:54, 21 December 2022 (UTC)

Deletion of User:Somers-all-the-time/MyMilitia

Hi Tony, could I get some clarification on why the page User:Somers-all-the-time/MyMilitia was deleted, especially w/r/t WP:U5? Also, could you shed some light on why the deleted page doesn't fall under "Work in progress or material that you may come back to in future" in WP:UPYES? Here's the log entry for convenience. Somers-all-the-time (talk) 22:24, 29 December 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – January 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2022).

Administrator changes

• ComplexRational
• Extraordinary Writ

Stephen

• Andrew Yong
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• DESiegel
• GlassCobra
• Joe Decker
• Nancy
• Pathoschild
• StuffOfInterest
• William Pietri
• Wwwwolf
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Interface administrator changes

Nihiltres

CheckUser changes

Moneytrees

• Ivanvector
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Oversighter changes

• GeneralNotability
• Moneytrees

• Guerillero
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Guideline and policy news

• Speedy deletion criterion A5 (transwikied articles) has been repealed following an unopposed proposal.

Arbitration

• Following the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Barkeep49, CaptainEek, GeneralNotability, Guerillero, L235, Moneytrees, Primefac, SilkTork.
• The 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review has concluded with many changes to the discretionary sanctions procedure including a change of the name to "contentious topics". The changes are being implemented over the coming month.
• The arbitration case Stephen has been closed.

Miscellaneous

• Voting for the Sound Logo has closed and the winner is expected to be announced February to April 2023.
• Tech tip: You can view information about IP addresses in a centralised location using bullseye which won the Newcomer award in the recent Coolest Tool Awards.

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2023).

Administrator changes

Gimmetrow

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• WhisperToMe
• 100 inactive admins

CheckUser changes

• BDD
• Bradv
• Donald Albury
• Maxim
• MusikAnimal

Oversighter changes

• BDD
• Bradv
• Donald Albury
• Maxim

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, the administrator policy now requires that prior written consent be gained from the Arbitration Committee to mark a block as only appealable to the committee.
• Following a community discussion, consensus has been found to impose the extended-confirmed restriction over the topic areas of Armenia and Azerbaijan and Kurds and Kurdistan.

Technical news

• The Vector 2022 skin has become the default for desktop users of the English Wikipedia.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 has been opened and the proposed decision is expected 24 February 2023.
• In December, the contentious topics procedure was adopted which replaces the former discretionary sanctions system. The contentious topics procedure is now in effect following an initial implementation period. There is a detailed summary of the changes and administrator instructions for the new procedure. The arbitration clerk team are taking suggestions, concerns, and unresolved questions about this new system at their noticeboard.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2023 Steward elections will begin on 05 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
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Administrators' newsletter – March 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2023).

Administrator changes

The Wordsmith

• Fuhghettaboutit
• Spinningspark (deceased)

CheckUser changes

Callanecc

Oversighter changes

Callanecc

Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, F10 (useless non-media files) has been deprecated.
• Following a request for comment, the Portal CSD criteria (P1 (portal subject to CSD as an article) and P2 (underpopulated portal)) have been deprecated.
• A request for comment is open to discuss making the closing instructions for the requested moves process a guideline.

Technical news

• The results of the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey have been posted.

Arbitration

• Remedy 11 ("Request for Comment") of the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been rescinded.
• The proposed decision for the Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 case is expected 7 March 2023.
• A case related to the Holocaust in Poland is expected to be opened soon.

Miscellaneous

• The 2023 appointees for the Ombuds commission are AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, JJMC89, MdsShakil, Minorax and Renvoy as regular members and Zabe as advisory members.
• Following the 2023 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Mykola7, Superpes15, and Xaosflux.
• The Terms of Use update cycle has started, which includes a [p]roposal for better addressing undisclosed paid editing. Feedback is being accepted until 24 April 2023.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:18, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

Inadvertent deletion?

I think you might have accidentally deleted User talk:GoatLordServant when deleting the corresponding userpage. Someone who's wrong on the internet (talk) 23:55, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

Yup. ~GoatLordServant^(Talk) 11:33, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

User talk:Laboratory superintendent

I don't understand the rush to level 4. I don't see any blatant vandalism. At worst, this looks like a violation of WP:MOS. Someone who's wrong on the internet (talk) 00:05, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

Deletion of user talk pages

Hello, Anthony. Perhaps you missed my ping yesterday, but I noticed that you've continued deleting user talk pages against policy (144737012, 144737041 etc). Given another user's request above, I'm concerned that you're not responding to these queries. While I will continue restoring the user talk pages that you've deleted, the feature to G8 a talk page while deleting its sibling page has been in effect for nearly a year (phab:T27471).

It would be much appreciated if you stop ticking that box when deleting base user pages – while I don't mind cleaning up, on a fundamental level non-administrators cannot review the contents of those talk pages and the community needs to be able to access them for accountability reasons. I understand that you've been an administrator for far longer than I have (you nominated one of my nominators!) but a response would nevertheless be great.

PS: On another note, I'm also concerned that non-autoconfirmed users can't communicate with you – user talk pages should be very rarely protected. Sdrqaz (talk) 17:52, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

I did not, and do not now see your ping. But I am happy to stop deleting the userpages you talk about. how do you feel about deleting userpages when the editor has made only vandalism edits? i will, anyway, stop doing it. As to the lowl evel protection on my user tal kpage. When this page was fully open I used to receive a regular torrent of abuse, nearly all from users without acounts, relating to my work as an admin. If a serious editor nees to contact me then autoconfirming takes very littlre time, or alternatively email is immediately available. --Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 21:42, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

What is the process to undelete my User page?

Apparently it was speedily ddeleted before I even knew it was going to be done.

Thank you DaveJWhitten DaveJWhitten (talk) 00:50, 31 March 2023 (UTC)

Trying to learn exactly what's acceptable on user pages

Yesterday I created a user page for the first time and it was deleted in no time flat. I've created another, basing myself on your user page. I'm confused as to exactly what was wrong with my first attempt, partly because it was tagged for deletion by someone, whose user page has a link to their own personal web site. Geoffpointer (talk) 09:55, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2023).

Administrator changes

Aoidh

KillerChihuahua

CheckUser changes

Ferret

Guideline and policy news

• A community RfC is open to discuss whether reports primarily involving gender-related disputes or controversies should be referred to the Arbitration enforcement noticeboard.

Technical news

• Some older web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis starting this week. This mainly affects users of Internet Explorer 11. (T178356)
• The rollback of Vector 2022 RfC has found no consensus to rollback to Vector legacy, but has found rough consensus to disable "limited width" mode by default.
• A link to the user's Special:CentralAuth page will now appear in the subtitle links shown on Special:Contributions. This was voted #17 in the Community Wishlist Survey 2023.

Arbitration

• The Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 case has been closed.
• A case about World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been opened, with the first evidence phase closing 6 April 2023.

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Fixing the layout of your userpage

Where the body of text starts on your user page, it overlaps a block of userboxes. I see you've used a stack of newlines, which is a solution not easy to manage ongoing. I had this problem myself and found that a {{clear}} userbox at the start of the text will force the newline you need. Cheers, Geoff. Geoffpointer (talk) 02:14, 6 April 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2023).

Administrator changes

Spicy

• Ale jrb
• Dbachmann
• DGG (deceased)
• Jimbo Wales

CheckUser changes

Jimbo Wales

Oversighter changes

Jimbo Wales

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment about removing administrative privileges in specified situations is open for feedback.

Technical news

• Progress has started on the Page Triage improvement project. This is to address the concerns raised by the community in their 2022 WMF letter that requested improvements be made to the tool.

Arbitration

• The proposed decision in the World War II and the history of Jews in Poland case is expected 11 May 2023.

Miscellaneous

• The Wikimedia Foundation annual plan 2023-2024 draft is open for comment and input through May 19. The final plan will be published in July 2023.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:22, 3 May 2023 (UTC)

Adam Sztark

Please undelete it for me. You speedied it under G5, but it appears to be notable so I would request you undelete it. QuicoleJR (talk) 00:21, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

Articles created by sockpuppets are by definition inadmissable. --Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 10:13, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

I can see that. Sorry for the inconvenience. QuicoleJR (talk) 11:58, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

Actor - Jamie B Chambers

Hi Anthony, Hope you are well. You have deleted the user page and my contribution for the actor Jamie B Chambers. Can you assist me in correcting this please? Thanks a lot Jamiebchambers (talk) 07:47, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

Please read the wikipedia guidelines related to userpages. --Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 10:21, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

You appear to be deleting ratherly freely and not offering advice or reason.

I have read the guidelines and adjusted as per.

Please advise to your reasoning.

Thanks Jamiebchambers (talk) 14:30, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

Awaiting reply Jamiebchambers (talk) 12:40, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

Revdel?

Hi there... you recently deleted the userpage and sandbox of Sh.yousry for G12. There is another user, Habibakhaledd, who posted the same material on their user talk page. I reverted it, but should be revdel'd because it's copyrighted? If so, can you do that? I can't... I'm not an admin.

I am certain these two users are colleagues, and hopefully I've adequately explained to both of them that they can't repost their company press releases here. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 15:12, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

Undelete Alejandro Mirabal

Please undelete my article, you have deleted it under G11 and there was no promotion on the page. If yes, kindly elaborate on the matter so I can avoid making the same mistake.

Thanks Malej91 (talk) 16:38, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

As you say, I deleted the userpage (not article) as you were using it to promote yourself. i could perhaps have sused parameter G%, whgich is misuse of userpage; either way, the page is not suitable and i am not prepared to restore it. 21:38, 22 May 2023 (UTC) --Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 21:38, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

Creating Władysław Goral

I see a banned user PlanespotterA320 tried authoring an article on the same subject back in May. I have no relation to this user. I wrote a previous article on Piotr_Edward_Dankowski another Polish Martyr. I can send you the draft of what I plan to publish if requested. LienEmpire (talk) 02:04, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2023).

Administrator changes

Ingenuity

• Ddstretch
• Prodego
• Resolute

CheckUser changes

Courcelles

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, editors indefinitely site-banned by community consensus will now have all rights, including sysop, removed.
• As a part of the Wikimedia Foundation's IP Masking project, a new policy has been created that governs the access to temporary account IP addresses. An associated FAQ has been created and individual communities can increase the requirements to view temporary account IP addresses.

Technical news

• Bot operators and tool maintainers should schedule time in the coming months to test and update their tools for the effects of IP masking. IP masking will not be deployed to any content wiki until at least October 2023 and is unlikely to be deployed to the English Wikipedia until some time in 2024.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been closed. The topic area of Polish history during World War II (1933-1945) and the history of Jews in Poland is subject to a "reliable source consensus-required" contentious topic restriction.

Miscellaneous

• Following a community referendum, the arbitration policy has been modified to remove the ability for users to appeal remedies to Jimbo Wales.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:32, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

A pointer

Hi, Anthony. Just a quick note to say that someone (not me) has brought one of your speedy deletions to DRV here.—S Marshall T/C 12:45, 25 June 2023 (UTC)

User talk:AndrewKarrickPatfield

Hi, you deleted User talk:AndrewKarrickPatfield despite WP:DELTALK. Its history showed evidence of block evasion. Please revert. Cabayi (talk) 10:15, 26 June 2023 (UTC)

Hi there, since this hasn't gotten a response in a while, I've gone ahead and reversed the deletion of that talk page as well as User talk:Andrew K Patfield, as neither were eligible for G8 or U1. Please let me know if you have any concerns about this. Thanks, DanCherek (talk) 20:17, 16 July 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2023).

Administrator changes

Novem Linguae

• Deckiller
• Electionworld
• MBisanz
• Penwhale
• Raul654
• Roadrunner
• Viridae
• Yannismarou

Bureaucrat changes

MBisanz

Guideline and policy news

• Contributions to the English Wikipedia are now released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0) license instead of CC BY-SA 3.0. Contributions are still also released under the GFDL license.

Technical news

• Discussion is open regarding a proposed global policy regarding third-party resources. Third-party resources are computer resources that reside outside of Wikimedia production websites.

Arbitration

• Two arbitration cases are currently open. Proposed decisions are expected 5 July 2023 for the Scottywong case and 9 July 2023 for the AlisonW case.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:57, 1 July 2023 (UTC)

User:Bbmr

Dear Tony, Hello I request to please block User:Bbmr because he made disruptive edit on Wikipedia and make article releated to possible conflict of interest, please see their contributions and Usertalkpage also. Kind regards –––ÀvîRâm7^(talk) 11:56, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

Use Bbmr blocked by me 3 days ago. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 18:00, 3 August 2023 (UTC)

Deletion of Third Single

It is not WP:R3 eligible as it is too old. Please undelete thanks. Lightoil (talk) 17:32, 3 August 2023 (UTC)

Deletion review for Third Single

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Third Single. 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. Lightoil (talk) 21:13, 3 August 2023 (UTC)

Third Single accidental recreation?

Hey! It looks like you might've accidentally recreated Third Single when you probably meant to reply to the discussion. Just wanted to let you know in case you didn't notice :) ULPS (talk) 21:40, 3 August 2023 (UTC)

As you say; I had intended to reply and thougught that I had done sp. Thank you for the heDS UP.----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 21:21, 4 August 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Third Single

If this is the first article that you have created, you may want to read the guide to writing your first article.

You may want to consider using the Article Wizard to help you create articles.

A tag has been placed on Third Single, requesting that it be deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under two or more of the criteria for speedy deletion, by which pages can be deleted at any time, without discussion. If the page meets any of these strictly defined criteria, then it may soon be deleted by an administrator. The reasons it has been tagged are:

• It is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. (See section A1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.
• It is an article with no content whatsoever, or whose contents consist only of external links, a "See also" section, book references, category tags, template tags, interwiki links, a rephrasing of the title, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article. (See section A3 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) Wikipedia has standards for the minimum necessary information to be included in short articles; you can see these at Wikipedia:Stub. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. SportingFlyer T·C 21:50, 3 August 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – August 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2023).

Administrator changes

Firefangledfeathers

• AlisonW
• Amberrock
• Closedmouth
• Scottywong

Interface administrator changes

Novem Linguae

Technical news

• The tag filter on Special:NewPages and revision history pages can now be inverted. This allows hiding edits made by automated tools. (T334338)
• Special:BlockedExternalDomains is a new tool that allows easier blocking of plain domains (and their subdomains). This is more easily searchable and is faster for the software to use than the existing MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. It does not support regex (for complex cases), URL path-matching, or the MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. (T337431)

Arbitration

• The arbitration cases named Scottywong and AlisonW closed 10 July and 16 July respectively.
• The SmallCat dispute arbitration case is in the workshop phase.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:53, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

Abdullah Eksioglu

Please undelete Abdullah Eksioglu. You deleted an article that has been around since 2011 supposedly to fix a cut-and-paste move, which makes no sense. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 11:42, 14 August 2023 (UTC)

I've done this myself given the lack of response here. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 16:34, 16 August 2023 (UTC)

Notice of noticeboard discussion

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrative action review regarding an action which you performed. Thank you.== Baratiiman (talk) 07:11, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

For some context, that discussion is now here - it relates to Poast, a page that you deleted under CSD A7. That page had in fact survived a prior AfD, and was therefore ineligible for A7. Would you object to me reversing the deletion and prevent lots of electrons being expended at DRV? :) firefly ( t · c ) 09:58, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

I concede that my deletion was against procedure, which was an oversight on my part. --Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 14:38, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

Thank you - I see the deletion has been reverted already. firefly ( t · c ) 10:01, 19 August 2023 (UTC)

yes, I figured clear human error - which we all do - didn't need seven days of bureaucracy. If it needs another AfD, someone will do so I'm sure. Star Mississippi 02:18, 20 August 2023 (UTC)

Incorrect speedies and lack of response to concerns

Hey, AB. It seems like you're doing speedy deletions incorrectly and then aren't responding to concerns expressed here. I think you should consider stopping doing speedies if you aren't able to respond to concerns promptly. Valereee (talk) 11:30, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

I hear what you are saying, and conceded the point in regard to the article in question. The implication contained within your comment, namely that this a regular event is, I submit, not so. --Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 14:42, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

There are two other sections that seem to asking you to revert speedies in just the past month, which you never responded to and other admins had to deal with? Valereee (talk) 18:40, 19 August 2023 (UTC)

i see two instances, both this month, some three days apart. I was unwll over that period, and when I got back to normal editing both had been atteded to. I can do more than offer heartfelt apologies. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 22:07, 19 August 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2023).

Administrator changes

• Pppery
• Theleekycauldron

• Dwheeler
• G.A.S
• Royalbroil
• Ssd

CheckUser changes

Bradv

Oversighter changes

Bradv

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, TFAs will be automatically semi-protected the day before it is on the main page and through the day after.
• A discussion at WP:VPP about revision deletion and oversight for dead names found that [s]ysops can choose to use revdel if, in their view, it's the right tool for this situation, and they need not default to oversight. But oversight could well be right where there's a particularly high risk to the person. Use your judgment.

Technical news

• Special:Contributions now shows the user's local edit count and the account's creation date. (T324166)

Arbitration

• The SmallCat dispute case has closed. As part of the final decision, editors participating in XfD have been reminded to be careful about forming local consensus which may or may not reflect the broader community consensus. Regular closers of XfD forums were also encouraged to note when broader community discussion, or changes to policies and guidelines, would be helpful.

Miscellaneous

• Tech tip: The "Browse history interactively" banner shown at the top of Special:Diff can be used to easily look through a history, assemble composite diffs, or find out what archive something wound up in.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:21, 1 September 2023 (UTC)

Wikiproject Military history coordinator election nominations open

Nominations for the upcoming project coordinator election have opened. A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next coordination 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 will commence on 15 September. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the current coord team. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:04, 2 September 2023 (UTC)

Edgard & Cooper

I G11'ed it again - 'cos two seconds after you deleted it, Edgard & Cooper is BACK! Best Alexandermcnabb (talk) 15:51, 25 September 2023 (UTC)

Hey there @Anthony Bradbury ! I'm the editor who wrote Edgard & Cooper. Vast changes were made, and the page was re-uploaded. For some reason, it was nominated for deletion again immediately. I contested, and another admin rejected the G11 as it wasn't a G11. Your help be much appreciated in restoring the page. SerAntoniDeMiloni (talk) 03:27, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

A bit weary of this now. The page has been recreated yet again, refbombed to death and is still - in my humble opinion - unambigiously promotional. G11 and salt? AfD as a clear fail of WP:NCORP? I'm not sure where we go next... Best

Hey there. Put some thoughts on Alexandermcnabb's talk page. Don't see this as refbombed; I wrote the pages off the citations (as I have done with GA's I've written in the past). As I've written over there, the page is an example of the increasing rise of 'challenger brands' – businesses taking on and challenging the status quo – a topic I'm quite interested in (per quite a lot of my other contributions), and a segment that is lacking in representation on Wiki.SerAntoniDeMiloni (talk) 17:11, 2 October 2023 (UTC)

Working with a reviewer on fixes. Might have relied on too many sources, but working on it. Thanks SerAntoniDeMiloni (talk)

Speedy Deletion of my user page

Hi Tony,

I don't understand why my user page was deleted, the reason stated was using wikipedia as a webhost. It was a first draft and needed improvement.

Could I have your help in retrieving the now deleted data? I'd also like to know the specific problem with it. I have previously spoken about this to the user who nominated my page on my talk page. DashDashUnderscore (talk) 13:35, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

The userpage is intended to be used to give concise information about the user; specifically, the user' past interactions and future expectaions of their activity in the encyclopedia. Pleas note my use of the word "concise". Questions about renal transplants (or indeed about any topic) are not appropriate in your userpage. --Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 21:47, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2023).

Administrator changes

Hey man im josh

• Alex Bakharev
• CorbieVreccan
• Cyphoidbomb
• Davodd
• Hog Farm
• JamesR
• KnightLago
• Mark Ironie
• Nosebagbear (deceased)
• Rschen7754
• Tamzin
• TonyBallioni

CheckUser changes

DatGuy

• Ferret
• RickinBaltimore

• TonyBallioni
• Worm That Turned

Oversighter changes

RickinBaltimore

• TonyBallioni
• Worm That Turned

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open regarding amending the paid-contribution disclosure policy to add the following text: Any administrator soliciting clients for paid Wikipedia-related consulting or advising services not covered by other paid-contribution rules must disclose all clients on their userpage.

Technical news

• Administrators can now choose to add the user's user page to their watchlist when changing the usergroups for a user. This works both via Special:UserRights and via the API. (T272294)

Arbitration

• Remedy 9 ("MarioProtIV topic ban") of the WikiProject Tropical Cyclones case has been rescinded.

Miscellaneous

• The 2023 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of one new CheckUser.
• Self-nominations for the electoral commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections opens on 2 October and closes on 8 October.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:41, 4 October 2023 (UTC)

Page Yo mama so fat salted

The creation of this page as a redirect to "Yo mama" joke should be allowed. The redirect was recently requested at WP:AFC/R, and it sounds like a valid search term considering the search result hits and general usage in popular culture. Stay safe, NotAGenious (talk) 10:17, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2023).

Administrator changes

0xDeadbeef

Tamzin

Dennis Brown

Interface administrator changes

Pppery

• Ragesoss
• TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

• The WMF is working on making it possible for administrators to edit MediaWiki configuration directly. This is similar to previous work on Special:EditGrowthConfig. A technical RfC is running until November 08, where you can provide feedback.
• There is a proposed plan for re-enabling the Graph Extension. Feedback on this proposal is requested.

Arbitration

• Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 12 November 2023 until 21 November 2023 to stand in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections.
• Xaosflux, RoySmith and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee Elections. BusterD is the reserve commissioner.
• Following a motion, the contentious topic designation of Prem Rawat has been struck. Actions previously taken using this contentious topic designation are still in force.
• Following several motions, multiple topic areas are no longer designated as a contentious topic. These contentious topic designations were from the Editor conduct in e-cigs articles, Liancourt Rocks, Longevity, Medicine, September 11 conspiracy theories, and Shakespeare authorship question cases.
• Following a motion, remedies 3.1 (All related articles under 1RR whenever the dispute over naming is concerned), 6 (Stalemate resolution) and 30 (Administrative supervision) of the Macedonia 2 case have been rescinded.
• Following a motion, remedy 6 (One-revert rule) of the The Troubles case has been amended.
• An arbitration case named Industrial agriculture has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case close 8 November.

Miscellaneous

• The Articles for Creation backlog drive is happening in November 2023, with 700+ drafts pending reviews for in the last 4 months or so. In addition to the AfC participants, all administrators and New Page Patrollers can conduct reviews using the helper script, Yet Another AFC Helper Script, which can be enabled in the Gadgets settings. Sign up here to participate!

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:22, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

User Page deleted, reason unknown

My User page has been deleted by you, Can you say that why have you deleted it? Lionel Messi Lover (talk) 06:00, 24 November 2023 (UTC)

Your userpage appears to be present. Am I overlooking something?----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 23:01, 24 November 2023 (UTC)

ArbCom 2023 Elections voter message

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Deletion of Justine Sacco

Hi Tony, hope all is well. I have restored the content about Justine Sacco at Online shaming. Even if that content is removed again, removal of relevant content is not recognized as a reason to speedy-delete a redirect. There are other plausible places the redirect might be targeted to in the absence of content at Online shaming, such as IAC Inc. The status quo also creates a mismatch with Justine Sacco incident. Could you please restore the redirect? Thanks. Of course no objection to the redirect subsequently being taken to RfD. -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (they|xe|she) 22:27, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2023).

Administrator changes

• Ganesha811
• JPxG

• Ajpolino
• Lourdes
• Mairi
• RockMFR
• Somno
• WilyD

Beeblebrox → Just Step Sideways

CheckUser changes

• Beeblebrox
• Opabinia regalis

Oversight changes

• Beeblebrox
• Opabinia regalis

Guideline and policy news

• Following a talk page discussion, the Administrators' accountability policy has been updated to note that while it is considered best practice for administrators to have notifications (pings) enabled, this is not mandatory. Administrators who do not use notifications are now strongly encouraged to indicate this on their user page.

Arbitration

• Following a motion, the Extended Confirmed Restriction has been amended, removing the allowance for non-extended-confirmed editors to post constructive comments on the "Talk:" namespace. Now, non-extended-confirmed editors may use the "Talk:" namespace solely to make edit requests related to articles within the topic area, provided that their actions are not disruptive.
• The Arbitration Committee has announced a call for Checkusers and Oversighters, stating that it will currently be accepting applications for CheckUser and/or Oversight permissions at any point in the year.
• Eligible users are invited to vote on candidates for the Arbitration Committee until 23:59 December 11, 2023 (UTC). Candidate statements can be seen here.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:53, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

Why is there no user page? Please let me know why it was deleted.

Hello, Anthony!

How are you? Hope you are well. I published an article in July this year. That has been removed from Wikipedia and my user page may have been deleted as well. How can I fix it? Please help me, how can I get my user page and what should I do to prevent it from being removed if I publish any articles in future? Please help me by telling me. Thank you. Almaruf.bd (talk) 14:56, 20 December 2023 (UTC)

I removed your userpage (some months ago) because it was wholly inappropriate for a userpage, both in content and in style. A userpage is intended to give information about the user to whom it applies. Information contents should consist of data relating to the user's activities, expectations and intentions within wikipedia; it is acceptable to give brief extraneous personal details, but should not contain any information not relating at least in some way to wikipedia. Clearly your deleted userpage does not qualify. If you tell me the title of the article which has been deleted I will assess it. ----Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 22:16, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

Voting for the WikiProject Military History newcomer of the year and military historian of the year awards for 2023 is now open!

Voting is now open for the WikiProject Military History newcomer of the year and military historian of the year awards for 2023! The the top editors will be awarded the coveted Gold Wiki . Cast your votes vote here and here respectively. Voting closes at 23:59 on 30 December 2023. On behalf of the coordinators, wishing you the very best for the festive season and the new year. Hawkeye7 (talk · contribs) via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:55, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – January 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2023).

Administrator changes

Clovermoss

Dennis Brown

• Julia W
• Marasmusine
• PBS

CheckUser changes

• Aoidh
• HJ Mitchell
• Sdrqaz
• Spicy
• ToBeFree
• Vanamonde93
• Z1720

Maxim

• Enterprisey
• Izno
• SilkTork

Oversighter changes

• Aoidh
• Firefly
• Sdrqaz
• ToBeFree
• Z1720

Maxim

• Enterprisey
• Izno
• SilkTork

Arbitration

• Following the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Aoidh, Cabayi, Firefly, HJ Mitchell, Maxim, Sdrqaz, ToBeFree, Z1720.
• Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee rescinded the restrictions on the page name move discussions for the two Ireland pages that were enacted in June 2009.
• The arbitration case Industrial agriculture has been closed.

Miscellaneous

• The New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in January 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 13,000 unreviewed articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:54, 1 January 2024 (UTC)