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Administrators' newsletter – February 2020
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- Following a request for comment, partial blocks are now enabled on the English Wikipedia. This functionality allows administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces rather than the entire site. A draft policy is being workshopped at Wikipedia:Partial blocks.
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- Twinkle now supports partial blocking. There is a small checkbox that toggles the "partial" status for both blocks and templating. There is currently one template: {{uw-pblock}}.
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LTA IP block
Hey Bongwarrior, just a heads up regarding 182.68.84.116 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log). You might need to revoke talk page access. -- LuK3 (Talk) 16:05, 16 February 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks. --Bongwarrior (talk) 16:07, 16 February 2020 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – March 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2020).
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Guideline and policy news
- Following an RfC, the blocking policy was changed to state that sysops
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- Following an RfC, the blocking policy was changed to state that sysops
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- Following a discussion, Twinkle's default CSD behavior will soon change, most likely this week. After the change, Twinkle will default to "tagging mode" if there is no CSD tag present, and default to "deletion mode" if there is a CSD tag present. You will be able to always default to "deletion mode" (the current behavior) using your Twinkle preferences.
Miscellaneous
- Following the 2020 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: BRPever, Krd, Martin Urbanec, MusikAnimal, Sakretsu, Sotiale, and Tks4Fish. There are a total of seven editors that have been appointed as stewards, the most since 2014.
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Undelete and draft? Was deleted in January 2008 (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jyte (2nd nomination). Website is since extinct, but written about post-delete (acquired by "AboutUs" in 2010, [2]; some books [3], [4]). Hyperbolick (talk) 19:28, 24 February 2020 (UTC)
- I can do that if you want. Is someone going to be working on it? --Bongwarrior (talk) 03:13, 26 February 2020 (UTC)
- I would. Thank you. Hyperbolick (talk) 04:09, 26 February 2020 (UTC)
- Just saw you did. Again, thank you. Hyperbolick (talk) 23:10, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
- No problem, happy to help. --Bongwarrior (talk) 23:16, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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| Thanks for blocking this vandal, he made me make 11 (un)[dubious – discuss]necessary edits ;) tLoM (The Lord of Math) (Message) 10:36, 7 March 2020 (UTC) |
Thank you for blocking vandalism
I don't know where to send my thank you, so here you go. (BTW my personal opinion is that IP address is only attacking one individual page, maybe just block them for that individual page?)
xinbenlv Talk, Remember to "ping" me 23:57, 19 March 2020 (UTC)
- That page has been a target for a while. I've reprotected it. --Bongwarrior (talk) 00:00, 20 March 2020 (UTC)
- Yeah, I totally agree that page itself shall be protected. I realize the page just recently (maybe within an hour?) get unprotected.
- Just curious Would blocking IP to a bit too heavy for that poor vandaliser who probably don't know what they were doing, and maybe we can turn vandaliser to editor? xinbenlv Talk, Remember to "ping" me 00:02, 20 March 2020 (UTC)
- They were doing exactly what they came here to do. If they wanted to be making good edits, they would be. I'm very tolerant of inconsequential "gee whiz, can I really edit this" messing around, but much less so towards a long-term pattern of disruption. I did give them a token warning, which I wouldn't have bothered with if I had already noticed that this was an ongoing problem. --Bongwarrior (talk) 00:09, 20 March 2020 (UTC)
- Makes sense. Thank you for explaining! xinbenlv Talk, Remember to "ping" me 00:29, 20 March 2020 (UTC)
- They were doing exactly what they came here to do. If they wanted to be making good edits, they would be. I'm very tolerant of inconsequential "gee whiz, can I really edit this" messing around, but much less so towards a long-term pattern of disruption. I did give them a token warning, which I wouldn't have bothered with if I had already noticed that this was an ongoing problem. --Bongwarrior (talk) 00:09, 20 March 2020 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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| Thanks for getting rid of that useless AFD Homeofthething (talk) 02:27, 31 March 2020 (UTC) |
- This is what I wrote before I edit conflicted with your deletion:
- @Homeofthething and Drmies: Yes, and according to Wikipedia:Rules for Fools April fool's events should not take place before April 1 in UTC. This shows up as a regular AfD at April Fools right now, which should not be happening. Especially since this article is likely receiving an increased amount of viewership at this time, this AfD should probably be closed early as keep.
- Thank you for dealing with this, but I did have a question. Why did you choose G1 as the CSD criteria? I admit I'm not a frequent contributor to AfD, but I thought that the result would probrably be a speedy keep. Clovermoss (talk) 02:34, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
- It was definitely not a G1 to be clear (probably no speedy criteria applies, technically), but my goal was to flush it as quickly as possible, and G1 is the first one on the list. Speedy keep would have been correct, but even that gives it a legitimacy I don't think it deserved. --Bongwarrior (talk) 02:42, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
I guess i just wanted to show an modest amount of huh and confusion Homeofthething (talk) 02:38, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
- "First one on the list" is an excellent rationale. Drmies (talk) 02:44, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks Bongwarrior and Drmies. I guess this is a great example of WP:IAR, then? I'm happy with that. Clovermoss (talk) 02:47, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
- "First one on the list" is an excellent rationale. Drmies (talk) 02:44, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
- @Homeofthething: I should have made it clearer that I was addressing Bongwarrior, not you. Maybe I should have removed the pings, especially since adding my comment under yours creates confusion. By the way, I noticed that you're new here, so welcome to Wikipedia! Links to the jargon/shorthand I used can be found at Wikipedia:Edit conflict and Wikipedia:CSD. Clovermoss (talk) 02:43, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – April 2020
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Guideline and policy news
- There is an ongoing request for comment to streamline the source deprecation and blacklisting process.
Technical news
- There is a plan for new requirements for user signatures. You can give feedback.
Arbitration
- Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold a
Arbcom RfC regarding on-wiki harassment
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- Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold a
Miscellaneous
- The WMF has begun a pilot report of the pages most visited through various social media platforms to help with anti-vandalism and anti-disinformation efforts. The report is updated daily and will be available through the end of May.
Administrators' newsletter – May 2020
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Guideline and policy news
- Discretionary sanctions have been authorized for all pages and edits related to COVID-19, to be logged at WP:GS/COVID19.
- Following a recent discussion on Meta-Wiki, the edit filter maintainer global group has been created.
- A request for comment has been proposed to create a new main page editor usergroup.
- A request for comment has been proposed to make the bureaucrat activity requirements more strict.
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- The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. You can review the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page.
- Enterprisey created a script that will show a link to the proper Special:Undelete page when viewing a since-deleted revision, see User:Enterprisey/link-deleted-revs.
Miscellaneous
- A request for comment closed with consensus to create a Village Pump-style page for communication with the Wikimedia Foundation.
Adding of respective husband's last names in Joanna Newsom and Stephanie Beatriz
Hi Bongwarrior, It has come to my attention that you have removed said items as stated in the subject line. I have been adding them because they have mentioned it that since marriage, they have taken their respective husbands names. For Joanna Newsom Samberg, it is in a youtube video where Samberg himself mentions that Joanna has taken his last name but for record sales purpose its Newsom. Moreover, I have solid proof that she has added Samberg to her last name in the public marriage license records,, you can check them for yourselves. and I would really like you to inform me before you've blocked me.. that was so rude of you 27.104.205.78 (talk) 09:40, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
- Hello. From what I can tell, that does not appear to be so. I did attempt to check the link you provided, but it is some sort of paywalled public records service. A google search for "Joanna Caroline Newsom-Samberg" returns only Wikipedia mirrors and "Stephanie Beatriz-Hoss Bischoff Alvizuri" returns nothing. If we have reliable sources that mention those names, we can certainly revisit the matter. --Bongwarrior (talk) 17:23, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
- Alright, point proven. I'm sorry I've made such edits.27.104.205.78 (talk) 03:34, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
warning :(
I like how someone named bong warrior punished me for editing the page of a police force known for their intolerance of drugs Violet1312 (talk) 00:10, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
- Yep, crazy world we live in. --Bongwarrior (talk) 00:12, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
Today's Wikipedian 10 years ago
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Precious
fighting vandalism
Thank you for quality articles such as Paige Hurd, We All Love Ennio Morricone, Aimee Osbourne and Dance Machine, for disambiguation, for fighting vandalism with a sense of humor, for "Yep, crazy world we live in." - guitar player, you are an awesome Wikipedian!
You are recipient no. 2401 of Precious, a prize of QAI. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:50, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – June 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2020).
Administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
- A request for comment asks whether the Unblock Ticket Request System (UTRS) should allowed any unblock request or just private appeals.
- The Wikimedia Foundation announced that they will develop a universal code of conduct for all WMF projects. There is an open local discussion regarding the same.
Arbitration
Beethoven
Hi, Bongwarrior, you probably noted that as soon as the protection on Beethoven was lifted, tyhe article was hit by same sort of vandalism. Is it possible please to make the protection more permanent? I am trying (slowly) to get the article up to FA-standard by LvB's 250th birthday in December. Best, --Smerus (talk) 07:18, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
- I will keep an eye on it. It was previously indef protected, and it's probably headed that way again. I'd like to give it another day or two under pending first. --Bongwarrior (talk) 07:47, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks - --Smerus (talk) 07:28, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
Special:WantedTemplates
Hi, I have been cleaning up Special:WantedTemplates and noticed that Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:"_+_"oldafdfull"_+_" is pointing to your monobook.js pages. clearly these are false positives (basically a bug in how WP parses .js pages). it would be really great if you could add // <syntaxhighlight lang=javascript> to the top and // </syntaxhighlight> to the bottom of those pages. by putting these tags in comments, it won't prevent the javascript from executing, but it will remove those pages from Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:"_+_"oldafdfull"_+_". alternatively, if you are no longer using the monobook skin (many people are using vector these days) and don't need to keep the old page, you could just have the page deleted. thank you in advance for your help. Frietjes (talk) 20:03, 27 June 2020 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – July 2020
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- A request for comment is in progress to remove the T2 (template that misrepresents established policy) speedy deletion criterion.
Technical news
- Protection templates on mainspace pages are now automatically added by User:MusikBot II (BRFA).
Arbitration
- Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold an
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Administrators' newsletter – August 2020
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- There is an open request for comment to decide whether to increase the minimum duration a sanction discussion has to remain open (currently 24 hours).
- Speedy deletion criterion T2 (template that misrepresents established policy) has been repealed following a request for comment.
- Speedy deletion criterion X2 (pages created by the content translation tool) has been repealed following a discussion.
- There is a proposal to restrict proposed deletion to confirmed users.
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Administrators' newsletter – September 2020
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ITN recognition for 2020 Stanley Cup Finals
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Administrators' newsletter – September 2020
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Administrator changes
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- A request for comment found consensus that incubation as an alternative to deletion should generally only be recommended when draftification is appropriate, namely
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Arbitration
- The 2020 CheckUser and Oversight appointment process has begun. The community consultation period will take place from September 27th to October 7th.
- Following a request for comment, sitting Committee members may not serve on either the Ombuds Commission or the WMF Case Review Committee. The Arbitration Committee passed a motion implementing those results into their procedures.
Miscellaneous
- The Universal Code of Conduct draft is open for community review and comment until October 6th, 2020.
- Office actions may now be appealed to the Interim Trust & Safety Case Review Committee.
User:No life editor editing
Thank you for blocking, but can you revoke talk page access? The user isn't giving up. Thanks. Jerm (talk) 04:40, 13 October 2020 (UTC)
- Okay. --Bongwarrior (talk) 05:08, 13 October 2020 (UTC)
World Series
Just stating facts. It was a shortened season. Hence the asterisk. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Weethenorth88 (talk • contribs) 07:21, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
- There are no asterisks unless MLB says so. Otherwise it is original research. Please do not add any more. --Bongwarrior (talk) 07:25, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
ok. do you work for wiki or something, because your username doesn't seem professional. just saying. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Weethenorth88 (talk • contribs) 07:47, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
- Like mostly everyone else, I am a volunteer. --Bongwarrior (talk) 07:49, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – November 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2020).
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- Community sanctions now authorize administrators to place under indefinite semiprotection
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- Community sanctions now authorize administrators to place under indefinite semiprotection
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- Sysops will once again be able to view the deleted history of JS/CSS pages; this was restricted to interface administrators when that group was introduced.
- Twinkle's block module now includes the ability to note the specific case when applying a discretionary sanctions block and/or template.
- Sysops will be able to use Special:CreateLocalAccount to create a local account for a global user that is prevented from auto-creation locally (such as by a filter or range block). Administrators that are not sure if such a creation is appropriate should contact a checkuser.
Arbitration
- The 2020 Arbitration Committee Elections process has begun. Eligible editors will be able to nominate themselves as candidates from November 8 through November 17. The voting period will run from November 23 through December 6.
- The Anti-harassment RfC has concluded with a summary of the feedback provided.
Miscellaneous
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Jack Dorsey
I added the following to Jack Dorsey's page.
Dorsey appeared to lie under oath in response to a question by Senator Ted Cruz. He stated that Twitter was no longer blocking links to a New York Post expose of Biden family business dealings. Subsequent attempts to post links to the article where made by Cruz and others were blocked.
It was subsequently removed and now the page is locked due to an attempt at vandalism by another user. Please explain to me how I can get this published.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Izzman (talk • contribs) 20:29, 10 November 2020 (UTC)
- You might want to propose it on the article's talk page if it can be sourced (reliably). Unsourced statements like that will almost always be removed. "Biden family business dealings" does give me pause, however. --Bongwarrior (talk) 23:29, 10 November 2020 (UTC)
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Administrators' newsletter – December 2020
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ITN recognition for Chuck Yeager
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Pesto
Stop changing the edits on the Pesto page. It is suppose to say "For reasons of expense or availability, almond, brazil, cashew, hazelnut, macadamia, pecan, pistachio, walnut, or even peanuts are sometimes substituted for the traditional pine nuts." which is what it originally said and is what i keep correcting it to. It says "Brazil" as in Brazil Nuts as Brazil Nuts are one of the list of nuts that are often substituted for the traditional Pine Nuts so it is clear it is meant to say "Brazil" there. It is not meant to say "Basil" so stop changing it to "Basil" as this is incorrect. If you read the article you will see that "Basil" makes no sense as the "Basil" would never be a substitute for Pine Nuts which are a completely different component. Please change it back to "Brazil" as it is meant to say this as Brazil Nuts are a common substitute for Pine Nuts in some Pesto products. It is meant to say "Brazil" instead of "Basil" there and this is very obvious. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.205.241.149 (talk) 06:12, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
- I have undone myself on that page. That was sloppy work on my part, and I apologize. --Bongwarrior (talk) 08:10, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
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Thank you for the block
Thank you so much for blocking the user. --Ashleyyoursmile! 09:15, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
- No problemo, thank you as well. --Bongwarrior (talk) 09:28, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
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Administrators' newsletter – January 2021
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- Speedy deletion criterion T3 (duplication and hardcoded instances) has been repealed following a request for comment.
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- You can now put pages on your watchlist for a limited period of time.
Arbitration
- By motion, standard discretionary sanctions have been temporarily authorized
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- By motion, standard discretionary sanctions have been temporarily authorized
User you blocked still disrupting
Hi. I can see that you might not still be around and editing, so please ignore this if the timing is all wrong. It's just that AIV seems to be running very slowly right now so if an intervention was possible it would certainly help. The user Sillyboy69, whom you blocked, is currently very active as an IP doing the same stuff. I know it's not really that urgent, and no-one will die - it's just a pain in the A, is all! But, as I say, if you are seeing this tomorrow ... no worries. Cheers DBaK (talk) 22:24, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
- Sorted, thanks, not to worry, best wishes DBaK (talk) 22:31, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
- Thank you for the note, but I was away unfortunately. --Bongwarrior (talk) 02:58, 10 January 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks – not to worry at all at all. AIV seemed quite badly backlogged when I wrote that, but then it was sorted out miraculously quickly. Plus tbh the disruption whilst annoying was hardly Thames-on-fire harmful. Cheers DBaK (talk) 22:41, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
- Thank you for the note, but I was away unfortunately. --Bongwarrior (talk) 02:58, 10 January 2021 (UTC)
RevDel
Hello Bongwarrior, sorry to bother you but can you please take a look at this edit which contains an email address? Does this warrant to be revdeleted? --Ashleyyoursmile! 10:55, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
- Done, better safe than sorry. --Bongwarrior (talk) 20:16, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
Edit (Revert) leading to misleading Discography section
Hi Bongwarrior,
You reverted an edit I made to alert readers that the "Discography" section in the main "Pink Floyd" article includes only the 15 studio albums (they being the source of (almost) all new creative material), and not any of the 50 other "derivative" issued discs (3 "live albums", 9 "compilation albums", 5 "box sets", 6 EPs, 27 singles (only 4 of which are not album material), etc.). These numbers come from the separate complete article on "Pink Floyd Discography", and in fact the summary Discography in the main "Pink Floyd" article is currently identical to the "Studio Albums" section of the full discography article.
Can you please explain your justification for returning the section heading to the misleading un-qualified state ? Iolar~enwiki (talk) 02:22, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
- I didn't make that edit, the editor before me did. I removed Delicate Sound of Thunder, which you had added, because it isn't a studio album and I presumed it was a mistake. --Bongwarrior (talk) 02:31, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
IP block evasion
Hello Bongwarrior, can you please block 216.194.47.139 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) who is evading the block on Chris Christie? Thank you. --Ashleyyoursmile! 18:13, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
- Looks like they have been blocked, sorry to bother you. --Ashleyyoursmile! 18:13, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – February 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2021).
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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.
- The standard discretionary sanctions authorized for American Politics were amended by motion to cover
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!
User page
Can I use your Michael Scott quote on my Wikipedia user page? Thank you! ESBirdnerd (talk) 16:31, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
- Of course, after all it's not really even mine. --Bongwarrior (talk) 19:28, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
Someone you know?
Any idea who [5] is? As far as I can tell you have never even touched that article. Meters (talk) 06:57, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
- Not really sure. I hope they aren't mad at me :/ --Bongwarrior (talk) 07:13, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
- Perhaps they were just being considerate in hiding it somewhere you never look... Meters (talk) 07:22, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
Please revoke TPA
Hello Bongwarrior, could you please revoke the TPA of that account? They're a sock of Evlekis. Thanks, Pahunkat (talk) 09:39, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
- Okay. --Bongwarrior (talk) 09:46, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – March 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2021).
Administrator changes
Interface administrator changes
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-redirectuserright, 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
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- By motion, the discretionary sanctions originally authorized under the GamerGate case are now authorized under a new Gender and sexuality case, with sanctions
Miscellaneous
- Following the 2021 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AmandaNP, Operator873, Stanglavine, Teles, and Wiki13.
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-redirectuserright, 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.
Unprotect DMX (rapper)?
Hey, since his death has been reported in multiple reliable sources and is no longer in significant doubt, I think full protection is unnecessary here so I would appreciate you decreasing the protection level. Thanks! Elli (talk | contribs) 16:24, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
- Done. --Bongwarrior (talk) 16:31, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
Talk page access of User:Bidetlimit
Hello, please consider removing talk-page access from User:Bidetlimit (see diff #1017144842). Thanks, Tol | Talk | Contribs (formerly Twassman) 02:41, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
- Done, thank you. --Bongwarrior (talk) 02:53, 11 April 2021 (UTC)