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Administrators' newsletter – January 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2017).

Administrator changes

Muboshgu

Anetode • Laser brain • Worm That Turned

None

Bureaucrat changes

Worm That Turned

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment is in progress to determine whether the administrator policy should be amended to require disclosure of paid editing activity at WP:RFA and to prohibit the use of administrative tools as part of paid editing activity, with certain exceptions.

Technical news

• The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey results have been posted. The Community Tech team will investigate and address the top ten results.
• The Anti-Harassment Tools team is inviting comments on new blocking tools and improvements to existing blocking tools for development in early 2018. Feedback can be left on the discussion page or by email.

Arbitration

• Following the results of the 2017 election, the following editors have been (re)appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Alex Shih, BU Rob13, Callanecc, KrakatoaKatie, Opabinia regalis, Premeditated Chaos, RickinBaltimore, Worm That Turned.

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2018

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

Administrator changes

None

Blurpeace • Dana boomer • Deltabeignet • Denelson83 • Grandiose • Salvidrim! • Ymblanter

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC has closed with a consensus that candidates at WP:RFA must disclose whether they have ever edited for pay and that administrators may never use administrative tools as part of any paid editing activity, except when they are acting as a Wikipedian-in-Residence or when the payment is made by the Wikimedia Foundation or an affiliate of the WMF.
• Editors responding to threats of harm can now contact the Wikimedia Foundation's emergency address by using Special:EmailUser/Emergency. If you don't have email enabled on Wikipedia, directly contacting the emergency address using your own email client remains an option.

Technical news

• A tag will now be automatically applied to edits that blank a page, turn a page into a redirect, remove/replace almost all content in a page, undo an edit, or rollback an edit. These edits were previously denoted solely by automatic edit summaries.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee has enacted a change to the discretionary sanctions procedure which requires administrators to add a standardized editnotice when placing page restrictions. Editors cannot be sanctioned for violations of page restrictions if this editnotice was not in place at the time of the violation.

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Administrators' newsletter – March 2018

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

Administrator changes

Lourdes†

AngelOfSadness • Bhadani • Chris 73 • Coren • Friday • Midom • Mike V

† Lourdes has requested that her admin rights be temporarily removed, pending her return from travel.

Guideline and policy news

• The autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) is scheduled to end on 14 March 2018. The results of the research collected can be read on Meta Wiki.
• Community ban discussions must now stay open for at least 24 hours prior to being closed.
• A change to the administrator inactivity policy has been proposed. Under the proposal, if an administrator has not used their admin tools for a period of five years and is subsequently desysopped for inactivity, the administrator would have to file a new RfA in order to regain the tools.
• A change to the banning policy has been proposed which would specify conditions under which a repeat sockmaster may be considered de facto banned, reducing the need to start a community ban discussion for these users.

Technical news

• CheckUsers are now able to view private data such as IP addresses from the edit filter log, e.g. when the filter prevents a user from creating an account. Previously, this information was unavailable to CheckUsers because access to it could not be logged.
• The edit filter has a new feature contains_all that edit filter managers may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string.

Miscellaneous

• Following the 2018 Steward elections, the following users are our new stewards: -revi, Green Giant, Rxy, There'sNoTime, علاء.

Obituaries

• Bhadani (Gangadhar Bhadani) passed away on 8 February 2018. Bhadani joined Wikipedia in March 2005 and became an administrator in September 2005. While he was active, Bhadani was regarded as one of the most prolific Wikipedians from India.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:00, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

Request for unblocking CGP Grey

Since you have protected the page CGP Grey, and the situation has relapsed and calmed down, would you pull the PP? wumbolo ^^^ 17:10, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

 Done Enigma^msg 19:55, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

Salted articles on other wikipedias

Hi there. 8 years ago (doesn't time fly), you closed a 3rd nom AFD and salted the article - see Lelo_Sejean. I ran a WikiData query today looking for articles on Australians that are not in the English wikipedia, and found that Lelo's article has been recreated in 5 other language Wikipedias d:Q23927903. Is that acceptable? Can you CSD:G4 across languages, or do you need to nom in each one. Did make me think that maybe deleted items need a parameter in WikiData to highlight when articles have been deleted in one language. The-Pope (talk) 16:04, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

There has never been such a thing set up and I'd guess there never will be. Each Wikipedia is run autonomously with its own administrators/bureaucrats. I'm an administrator here, but I wouldn't have any abilities elsewhere. Enigma^msg 17:01, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

I found this link. Funny. [1] Enigma^msg 17:04, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

No worries. I tried to AFD it on the simple english wikipedia, but it wouldn't let me use twinkle over there, as not enough edits! The-Pope (talk) 03:51, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

Blocking-- UAA

Actually, if it's been a while since you blocked anyone, we could sure use your help at WP:UAA with the SPAMU blocks. --Dlohcierekim (talk) 11:41, 22 March 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2018

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

Administrator changes

331dot • Cordless Larry • ClueBot NG

Gogo Dodo • Pb30 • Sebastiankessel • Seicer • SoLando

Guideline and policy news

• Administrators who have been desysopped due to inactivity are now required to have performed at least one (logged) administrative action in the past 5 years in order to qualify for a resysop without going through a new RfA.
• Editors who have been found to have engaged in sockpuppetry on at least two occasions after an initial indefinite block, for whatever reason, are now automatically considered banned by the community without the need to start a ban discussion.
• The notability guideline for organizations and companies has been substantially rewritten following the closure of this request for comment. Among the changes, the guideline more clearly defines the sourcing requirements needed for organizations and companies to be considered notable.
• The six-month autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) ended on 14 March 2018. The post-trial research report has been published. A request for comment is now underway to determine whether the restrictions from ACTRIAL should be implemented permanently.

Technical news

• There will soon be a calendar widget at Special:Block, making it easier to set expiries for a specific date and time.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee is considering a change to the discretionary sanctions procedures which would require an editor to appeal a sanction to the community at WP:AE or WP:AN prior to appealing directly to the Arbitration Committee at WP:ARCA.

Miscellaneous

• A discussion has closed which concluded that administrators are not required to enable email, though many editors suggested doing so as a matter of best practice.
• The Foundations' Anti-Harassment Tools team has released the Interaction Timeline. This shows a chronologic history for two users on pages where they have both made edits, which may be helpful in identifying sockpuppetry and investigating editing disputes.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:23, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

Deletion review for Buchalter, A Professional Corporation

Missfixit1975 has asked for a deletion review of Buchalter, A Professional Corporation. Because this was a recreation of Buchalter (AfD discussion), whose deletion discussion you closed, you might want to participate in the deletion review. —Cryptic 22:24, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

Move protection for Warner Music Group

Hi, just wondering whether you thought it was time to unprotect Warner Music Group. I don't think there's much reason to keep sysop move protection instated after 9 years. It's never had title disputes etc. Anarchyte (work | talk) 11:37, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

Will unprotect. I don't remember protecting it. Enigma^msg 16:08, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

Nomination of Elie Y. Katz for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Elie Y. Katz is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Elie Y. Katz until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Rusf10 (talk) 02:31, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

Template:2017–18 Eredivisie table

It's fine you put a temporary block on the page, but can it at least be restored to its proper content. This guy didn't contribute anything to this page all season. At the end of the season he bumps in and starts putting invalid statuses on the page. I even left a reasoned message on the talk page, and mentioned in the edit history of the page itself to go and read there. He didn't even bother to reply. Is this how we reward, in my opinion, vandalism? Pages are locked with invalid content? --Sb008 (talk) 18:57, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

Full protection is not an endorsement of the protected version. I looked at the differences and I don't even see what the big deal is that you're fighting over. What's wrong with saying Feyenoord qualified by winning the cup? Enigma^msg 19:21, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

Read the talk page, says it all--Sb008 (talk) 21:53, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

Regarding Feyenoord, Cup winner is a status (as it was marked) which gives a team specific rights, in this case specific, the right to play Europe League 3rd qualifying round. You don't mention it in a footnote which explains the details around the cup. Just like you don't mention who became champion in a footnote. --Sb008 (talk) 22:02, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

If he doesn't reply by tomorrow I'll unprotect it. This edit warring back and forth continually is silly and could result in both of you being blocked. Enigma^msg 00:38, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

Nice choices I have, either I have to leave the nonsense there or I risk getting blocked. And all of that cause someone who never bothered about the page starts, in my opinion, to vandalize. The best option seems to be to stop all my activities on EN Wiki. The Ere- and Eerste divisie surely will be updated by others. But let's see who's going to update the Tweede- , Derdedivisie, Hoofdklasse and Eredivisie women. Not me any more.--Sb008 (talk) 19:41, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

I don't know what you want me to do here. Enigma^msg 21:15, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

The never ending story continues, your restore is undone.--Sb008 (talk) 13:21, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

I asked Wikiproject Football for help but no one was interested. Enigma^msg 17:23, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

I noticed, thanks for the attempt. Since it doesn't stop, what other options I have to end this crap? If necessary even to get him blocked from editing that specific page. Twice I posted a reasoned message on the talk page. On the first he eventually responded, but only after you restored the page and he offers no argument at all. The second message is still without response. Seems to me he's incapable to support his opinion and not interested at all in reaching some kind of consensus. --Sb008 (talk) 19:30, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2018

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

Administrator changes

None

Chochopk • Coffee • Gryffindor • Jimp • Knowledge Seeker • Lankiveil • Peridon • Rjd0060

Guideline and policy news

• The ability to create articles directly in mainspace is now indefinitely restricted to autoconfirmed users.
• A proposal is being discussed which would create a new "event coordinator" right that would allow users to temporarily add the "confirmed" flag to new user accounts and to create many new user accounts without being hindered by a rate limit.

Technical news

• AbuseFilter has received numerous improvements, including an OOUI overhaul, syntax highlighting, ability to search existing filters, and a few new functions. In particular, the search feature can be used to ensure there aren't existing filters for what you need, and the new equals_to_any function can be used when checking multiple namespaces. One major upcoming change is the ability to see which filters are the slowest. This information is currently only available to those with access to Logstash.
• When blocking anonymous users, a cookie will be applied that reloads the block if the user changes their IP. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. This currently only occurs when hard-blocking accounts.
• The block notice shown on mobile will soon be more informative and point users to a help page on how to request an unblock, just as it currently does on desktop.
• There will soon be a calendar widget at Special:Block, making it easier to set expiries for a specific date and time.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee is seeking additional clerks to help with the arbitration process.

Obituaries

• Lankiveil (Craig Franklin) passed away in mid-April. Lankiveil joined Wikipedia on 12 August 2004 and became an administrator on 31 August 2008. During his time with the Wikimedia community, Lankiveil served as an oversighter for the English Wikipedia and as president of Wikimedia Australia.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:05, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

Cohan

Can you fix up Cohan article please (e.g. Susskind). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7D:892B:3D00:A52D:454A:2CD8:C04A (talk) 16:14, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

I'm afraid I don't understand. You want me to move some of the Susskind entries to the Cohan page? Enigma^msg 18:29, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

I suppose you're saying you want the page expanded in the same manner the Susskind article was? Enigma^msg 18:30, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

Yes, sorry for not being clear, I meant Cohan article's format and grammar, thank you.--2A02:C7D:892B:3D00:F531:5EA6:8A0:89F1 (talk) 00:59, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

DJ Ritendra

Hi, could you explain why did you delete DJ Ritendra Article, Fiji Times and Fiji Sun are both reliable sources. Krishfiji (talk) 23:08, 8 May 2018 (GMT+12)

You recreated an article that was deleted at AfD just prior with the same text. Enigma^msg 15:59, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

Yes, i did recreate the article, however with better and reliable sources and in terms of the text, i did added new informations Krishfiji (talk) 11:49, 9 May 2018 (GMT+12)

The rule is that if it's substantially the same thing, you may not recreate something that was deleted via an XfD procedure. The community spoke and said DJ Ritendra does not belong. Enigma^msg 00:25, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

However i do not see much discussion on afd page, It should have be Relisted to generate more discussion. anyway thanks for your time. Krishfiji (talk) 3:07, 9 May 2018 (GMT+12)

This is not correct. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Invisible Love Enigma^msg 04:07, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

That's what i am saying, just 4 discussions*, anyway it was better the article got deleted, maybe we can create it later, when better independent reliable sources are available. Krishfiji (talk) 6:01, 9 May 2018 (GMT+12)

List of African-American pornographic actors

CSD G6 the page, I think you forgotten to delete --Quek157 (talk) 20:13, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

No, it was done... Enigma^msg 21:41, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

WRITING AN ARTICLE

DEAR ENIGMAMAN Greetings !

I am Rashid Al Habtoor. I know the page has been deleted. I was chatting in Live Chat help room and they advised me if you would like to write a whole new article for yourself, you should first take advice from the editor who deleted your previous page. Therefore, would you mind giving me an advice if i can write a new article with the name Rashid Al habtoor. Since my previous user name was blocked for editing and I am being advised by one of the wikipedia editor to create a new user name . I created this new user name and would like to add new article by my name in wikipedia.

Please give me useful advice before i make any editing so that i could be on right path this time. awaiting for your kind response. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chasun6354 (talk • contribs) 06:32, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

You said you either want control over the article or you want it deleted. [2] You can't have control of a Wikipedia article so this was the best possible outcome for you. I'd also like to know which Wikipedia account told you t make a new one after being blocked. Enigma^msg 14:22, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

Curious as to why you deleted a page about me.

Years ago, someone created a page about actor "David Sparrow." That's me. It has been on Wikipedia for... a decade? Everything on it was accurate, mostly cribbed from my website, IMDB, many news articles and dozens of "fan" sites. I had tried to upload a photo, there are hundreds available online, but couldn't follow the rules to confirm its authenticity. I noticed today, that on May 15, 2018, you deleted it. I am curious to know why? I am named in many Wikipedia articles... they used to be links. Anyway, Wikipedia is just another way for info on my career and political and union work to be found. I was surprised to see it gone. If you can put it back, that would be great. If you can add a photo, that would be excellent. Take care and have a good day. Dave Sparrow — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.242.218.83 (talk) 14:20, 20 May 2018 (UTC)

If you can see which user deleted a page, you can also see the reason given for the deletion. Not my choice. Enigma^msg 04:34, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

Actually, I took the time to write and ask you the question above, because there was no information as to why a page about me was deleted... except that you deleted it along with many other pages that day. I am not a super savvy Wiki user. I don't create pages. I am an actor, appearing in over 100 film & TV roles; a union leader, representing over 24,000 Canadian audio-visual performers; a sometime politician, having run for provincial and municipal office in Canada; and more. Sometimes, people want to find information about me. For years they have been able to find some of that information on Wikipedia. So, if you have no better or specific information about the reasoning behind the important work you do policing The Free Encyclopedia, please direct me to the next level of scrutiny and I will ask that person to explain why you are deleting pages about people. BTW, the process directed me to ask you, the person who deleted the page, for more information. Thanks, Dave Sparrow — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.242.218.83 (talk) 12:30, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

My point is that if you're savvy enough to see I deleted it, the reason and link were right there next to my name. I don't see how it's possible to have missed it. A less savvy user would not see who deleted it. Enigma^msg 16:49, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for your kind assistance. I went back, searched again for the article about how to find info about a deleted page and discovered that the link... (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Sparrow (XFDcloser)) leads to an explanation. I did not know that. I had not clicked on that link. The person who promoted me for deletion seems to feel my achievements are a nuisance and not notable or trackable despite their being available across the internet. IMDB, plays, political articles, theatrical reviews. I'm sure they have a very high standard. Also they are wrong when they say I employed by a union. In fact, I am the elected President of a 24,000 member union, a volunteer. I have been elected 7 times to various roles on our boards over the last 13 years. The deletion process and metrics seem very strange and subjective. Anyway, enough time wasted for both of us... all of us. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.242.218.83 (talk) 12:53, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

The process generally boils down to coverage from independent sources in the media. As you can see, no one felt you met the criteria. Enigma^msg 15:45, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

Page deleted

hello, i believe this page was deleted by mistake, MusicDigi is popular digital distribution platform established 2006 in Atlanta Georgia. the company distributes music to hundreds of digital service providers for thousands of record labels and artists. i ask that you please restore the page, i would love to help improve the information on this page.

Kind regards

MusicDigi is a registered company in the state of Georgia, and can be found using the Georgia business search link below https://ecorp.sos.ga.gov/BusinessSearch

Below is are links to recent articles about MusicDigi from World News, NBC, onmogul

https://u.wn.com/2018/04/15/MusicDigi_Offers_Artists_Free_Spotify_Windowing_Release_Feat/

https://onmogul.com/stories/taking-charge-of-your-music-career-with-help-from-musicdigi

https://u.wn.com/2018/01/22/Musicdigi_Rolls_Out_New_Customised_Profile_Pages_for_Artists/

http://www.nbc-2.com/story/37947793/news

http://hiphophotwire.com/musicdigi-expands-to-new-york-city/

Below is links a post from a verified artist Eryn Woods who uses this service https://www.facebook.com/erynwoods/photos/a.10150893701505181.761255.388109130180/10160224100530181/?type=3&theater

Below is a link to interview of a popular Spanish artist King Dest expressing that he uses MusicDigi and how the service has been behind his global success

http://thisis50.ning.com/profiles/blogs/king-dest-discusses-upcoming-project-in-an-interview-with?xg_source=activity

Below is a link to King Dest recent music which was distributed by MusicDigi with over 3 million view which he explained in his last interview above https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFgkkD6UHec

here is his Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Dest

Social media accounts for MusicDigi can be found below https://www.instagram.com/musicdigi https://facebook.com/MusicDigiDistro https://twitter.com/musicdigidistro — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yungjamil101 (talk • contribs) 23:28, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/MusicDigi Enigma^msg 04:34, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

Balan

Thanks for all the additional admin stuff related to the Balan article. I wonder what variant of the name will appear next! - Sitush (talk) 19:30, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

You're welcome. If it gets created again at an alternate title, I will block the creator. Enigma^msg 19:31, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2018

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

Administrator changes

None

Al Ameer son • AliveFreeHappy • Cenarium • Lupo • MichaelBillington

Guideline and policy news

• Following a successful request for comment, administrators are now able to add and remove editors to the "event coordinator" group. Users in the event coordinator group have the ability to temporarily add the "confirmed" flag to new user accounts and to create many new user accounts without being hindered by a rate limit. Users will no longer need to be in the "account creator" group if they are in the event coordinator group.
• Following an AN discussion, all pages with content related to blockchain and cryptocurrencies, broadly construed, are now under indefinite general sanctions.

Technical news

• IP-based cookie blocks should be deployed to English Wikipedia in June. This will cause the block of a logged-out user to be reloaded if they change IPs. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. For the time being, it only affects users of the desktop interface.
• The Wikimedia Foundation's Anti-Harassment Tools team will build granular types of blocks in 2018 (e.g. a block from uploading or editing specific pages, categories, or namespaces, as opposed to a full-site block). Feedback on the concept may be left at the talk page.
• There is now a checkbox on Special:ListUsers to let you see only users in temporary user groups.
• It is now easier for blocked mobile users to see why they were blocked.

Arbitration

• A recent technical issue with the Arbitration Committee's spam filter inadvertently caused all messages sent to the committee through Wikipedia (i.e. Special:EmailUser/Arbitration Committee) to be discarded. If you attempted to send an email to the Arbitration Committee via Wikipedia between May 16 and May 31, your message was not received and you are encouraged to resend it. Messages sent outside of these dates or directly to the Arbitration Committee email address were not affected by this issue.

Miscellaneous

• In early May, an unusually high level of failed login attempts was observed. The WMF has stated that this was an "external effort to gain unauthorized access to random accounts". Under Wikipedia policy, administrators are required to have strong passwords. To further reinforce security, administrators should also consider enabling two-factor authentication. A committed identity can be used to verify that you are the true account owner in the event that your account is compromised and/or you are unable to log in.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:59, 1 June 2018 (UTC)

Hi

Thanks for relisting my discussion and now that the article has been reverted can you please do a non admin keep Hazax (talk) 13:39, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

I closed it as withdrawn by nominator. Enigma^msg 17:16, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

Emercoin deletion

Erasing the page of a major international project, which is already 5 years old, is vandalism as it is. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.60.139.227 (talk) 18:03, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

Erasing page as not reasonable, not motivated, you are not the expert. project was mentioned by cnn/forbes/routers. Users will definitely gonna to complain. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.68.51.214 (talk) 20:19, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

Evidently you don't communicate in English. We have a process on the English Wikipedia called Articles for Deletion. Enigma^msg 21:00, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

Evidently you don't even try :-) all upper comments was from some rare emercoin users from 250k. I can provide you all contacts & emails of emercoin team by first request.

Don't even try what? Why do I need contacts of the emercoin team? What are you struggling to understand here? Enigma^msg 14:19, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

Psst: Wikipedia:General sanctions/Blockchain and cryptocurrencies. MER-C 18:40, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

Interesting, I wasn't aware it was such an issue. Enigma^msg 18:43, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

One Hundred and One Dalmatians

With this edit and the next one, you introduced a WP:INTDABLINK error. Links to DAB pages must go through a page qualified as (disambiguation). Narky Blert (talk) 10:27, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

There was no error. I linked directly to the correct page as opposed to going through a redirect. Enigma^msg 14:12, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

User:DPL bot reported the result of your edit as an error. Direct links to DAB pages are errors. Please read WP:INTDABLINK 1st para and examples.

It's difficult enough trying to help deal with the 500+ new bad links to DAB pages created every day without admins, of all people, making WP:DISRUPTIVE edits. Narky Blert (talk) 03:21, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

It was not a disruptive edit and you are being downright rude. Enigma^msg 05:25, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

Protection of Australia national soccer team

Hi Enigmaman, Thank you for protecting Australia national soccer team. Do you reckon one week will be enough though? This has been going on for a few months from multiple IPs. --SuperJew (talk) 07:15, 29 June 2018 (UTC):

The page had not been protected since 2014 so it would be hard to justify more than one week. Protections are usually escalating except in unusual circumstances. If it continues afterwards, I am willing to increase the duration. The past month that page has been in the spotlight due to Australia being in the World Cup, but since they were eliminated several days ago... Enigma^msg 16:50, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

Aww man, had to reduce me to tears again by reminding me? ;)

Ok, I thought it had already been protected in the last year, but perhaps that was another page in the project. I'll let you know after the protection expires if the vandalism returns. Thanks, --SuperJew (talk) 08:35, 1 July 2018 (UTC)

Relisting

Hi, Enigmaman,

In light of a few of your recent relist(s), it might be prudential to note that the community has authorized sysops to treat AfDs with no participation after one/two week(s) as equivalent of unchallenged PROD(s).Anyways, it may be also noted that in general, debates should not be relisted more than twice.

Regards, ∯WBG^converse 06:02, 2 July 2018 (UTC)

I've seen quite a lot of AfDs relisted more than twice. Enigma^msg 15:24, 2 July 2018 (UTC)

There's actually a whole category for AfDs relisted three times, and it's been done quite a bit. I have only done it a handful of times. As for NOQUORUM, I just looked at AfD and I see a bunch of AfDs with no comments that were relisted by other admins. Enigma^msg 15:30, 2 July 2018 (UTC)

Then I'm afraid that other(s) need to be made aware of the change and I'll keep an eye on the daily logs:) At any case, if you choose to relist for the third time, please make sure that there's a solid rationale and mention it in the relisting comment.Best,∯WBG^converse 11:48, 3 July 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2018

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

Administrator changes

Pbsouthwood • TheSandDoctor

Gogo Dodo

Andrevan • Doug • EVula • KaisaL • Tony Fox • WilyD

Bureaucrat changes

Andrevan • EVula

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC about the deletion of drafts closed with a consensus to change the wording of WP:NMFD. Specifically, a draft that has been repeatedly resubmitted and declined at AfC without any substantial improvement may be deleted at MfD if consensus determines that it is unlikely to ever meet the requirements for mainspace and it otherwise meets one of the reasons for deletion outlined in the deletion policy.
• A request for comment closed with a consensus that the {{promising draft}} template cannot be used to indefinitely prevent a WP:G13 speedy deletion nomination.

Technical news

• Starting on July 9, the WMF Security team, Trust & Safety, and the broader technical community will be seeking input on an upcoming change that will restrict editing of site-wide JavaScript and CSS to a new technical administrators user group. Bureaucrats and stewards will be able to grant this right per a community-defined process. The intention is to reduce the number of accounts who can edit frontend code to those who actually need to, which in turn lessens the risk of malicious code being added that compromises the security and privacy of everyone who accesses Wikipedia. For more information, please review the FAQ.
• Syntax highlighting has been graduated from a Beta feature on the English Wikipedia. To enable this feature, click the highlighter icon () in your editing toolbar (or under the hamburger menu in the 2017 wikitext editor). This feature can help prevent you from making mistakes when editing complex templates.
• IP-based cookie blocks should be deployed to English Wikipedia in July (previously scheduled for June). This will cause the block of a logged-out user to be reloaded if they change IPs. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. For the time being, it only affects users of the desktop interface.

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• Currently around 20% of admins have enabled two-factor authentication, up from 17% a year ago. If you haven't already enabled it, please consider doing so. Regardless if you use 2FA, please practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:22, 3 July 2018 (UTC)

WP:PERM/NPR protection

The requirement for 500 undeleted edits to mainspace is a guideline, not a restriction. It definitely isn't mandated by ArbCom, like you listed in your protection rationale. Further, this bars editors with alternate accounts from requesting the permission from their new account. Could you consider removing this protection? ~ Rob₁₃^Talk 14:26, 11 July 2018 (UTC)

Those were not my words. Note the quotations. I removed the protection. Enigma^msg 18:13, 11 July 2018 (UTC)

Timothy Heller

Would you restore what was deleted at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Timothy Heller to User:Godsy/Dresses. I'm considering making an attempt at what Doomsdayer520 stated, i.e. "this could very well be transformed into an article on the band Dresses, which may have enough media notice for a stub article." — Godsy ^(TALK_CONT) 20:45, 20 July 2018 (UTC)

Very well. Enigma^msg 20:58, 20 July 2018 (UTC)

I provided you with a copy of the last version. If we recreate in the future, I'll restore the old article history. Enigma^msg 21:00, 20 July 2018 (UTC)

Opinion polling for the pakistani general election, 2018

You seem to have declined to reinstate semi-protection of the page over [[3]]. May I ask why? And why is the timing so specific as to 7:00 pm on election night, when results are expected to start coming in? This is going to cause problems, as many surveys are expected to be released between now and then. One already has. маsтегрнатаLк 11:39, 21 July 2018 (UTC)

Would also like to mention that the content dispute has now been resolved, if that helps... маsтегрнатаLк 11:41, 21 July 2018 (UTC)

I agree with @Masterpha: - Jibran1998 (talk) 16:20, 21 July 2018 (UTC)

Oppose this, due to extensive edit wars keep it full protected please Jawadmdr (talk) 19:18, 21 July 2018 (UTC)

The request was not to reinstate semi. It was to remove full protection and the rationale given for the request was incorrect. The admin did not approve. Enigma^msg 02:19, 22 July 2018 (UTC)

I can tell you exactly where to put the data in the tables The first part is the nationwide voting intention. The date is 12 July 2018, as that was the last date of data collection. The pollster is SDPI and the publisher is Herald. The sample size is 6,004. The first party has a 25% score. The second party has a 29% score and the background colour should be style="background:rgb(248, 193, 190)" colour. The third party should have a 20% score. The fourth party is not in the results so the data should be {{N/A}}. The fifth party should have a 3% score. The sixth should have a one percent score. The ‘others’ section should have 20% in it. The lead section should 4% in it and the background colour should be style="background:{{Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf/meta/color}}". маsтегрнатаLк 03:39, 22 July 2018 (UTC)

The second section is the punjab voting intention. The date and the pollster are the same as above. The legislature type is unspecified. The first party is on 40% and the background colour should be style="background: rgb(153, 255, 153);". The second party is on 33%. The third party is on 7%. The others are on 20%. The lead is 7% and the background colour should be style="background:{{Pakistan Muslim League (N)/meta/color}}". маsтегрнатаLк 03:46, 22 July 2018 (UTC)

The third part is sindh voting intention. The date, pollster and legislature types are the same as above. The first party is on 54%: this figure should be bolded and the background colour should be style="background:#D7D5D7". The second party is on 2%. The third party is on 10%. The fourth party is on 14%. The fifth party is onn 4%. Others are on 16%. The lead section should have style="background:{{Pakistan Peoples Party/meta/color}}; color:white" and the figure should be 40%. This figure should be bolded. маsтегрнатаLк 03:53, 22 July 2018 (UTC)

The fourth part is khyber pakhtunkhwa voting intention. The first party is at 43% and should have the style="background:rgb(248, 193, 190)" as the background. The second party is at 10%. The third party is at 11%. The fourth party is at 6%. The others section is at 30%. The lead is 32% and should have style="background:{{Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf/meta/color}}". as the background colour. маsтегрнатаLк 03:57, 22 July 2018 (UTC)

The final part is balochistan intention. The first party is at 8%. The second is at 4%. The third is at 11%. The fourth is at 6%. The fifth party’s result is not published so {{N/A}} should be in it’s place. The sixth is at 15%. This figure should have the background of style="background:#D7D5D7". The seventh party is at {{N/A}}. The eighth party is at 11%. The others and BAP should 45%. The colspan should be 2 to faciliate this. The lead is 4% with style="background:{{Pakistan Peoples Party/meta/color}}; color:white" as the background. Hope this helps and that this isn’t too confusing. маsтегрнатаLк 04:04, 22 July 2018 (UTC)

I added the first part as best I could but I'm just going to unprotect it and you can edit as you see fit to update the poll only. Enigma^msg 04:24, 22 July 2018 (UTC)

Potato

I don't especially care otherwise, but page protection seems really overkill over a couple reverts about a hatnote, especially when they had stopped and discussion on the talk page had started. I have no intention of continuing to revert on my end at least. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 22:29, 22 July 2018 (UTC)

Ross Mathews, User:FlightTime

Hello. Since you denied flighttime's request to lock Ross Mathews, can you look at my edits. I would like this resolved. I was being bold as Jimbo Wales says to be. I did source my edits. I dont see how I violated blp because my info is sourced.

I tried to dialogue with flighttime

[dialogue attempt 1]...

[dialogue attempt 2]...

[dialogue attempt 3]...

[dialogue attempt 4]...

[dialogue attempt 5] repeatedly and it just deleted my posts , reverted me, threatened me, then went to you and ponyo and fred to block me and lock the page. Thank you. 2601:155:8300:1659:4536:B605:9536:DB40 (talk) 04:33, 25 July 2018 (UTC)

I'm not sure what I can do here. Enigma^msg 04:34, 25 July 2018 (UTC)

Okay. flighttime was posting to thers that I was stalking and trying to ban me. Did i not try to engage and work together to edit article ? 2601:155:8300:1659:4536:B605:9536:DB40 (talk) 13:22, 25 July 2018 (UTC)

Tyler Glasnow

Was the protection you placed on this article supposed to be temporary? You set it as indefinite. — MRD2014 ^Talk 01:42, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

Yes, whoops. I had intended 3 hours as with the others. Not sure what happened. Fixed it. Enigma^msg 02:54, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

Hi

Nine years since you became an admin, Keeper Enigmaman. Nine! —usernamekiran(talk) 14:06, 2 August 2018 (UTC)

Giving me flashbacks to March! Enigma^msg 15:21, 2 August 2018 (UTC)

that was the intent! see you around :) —usernamekiran(talk) 08:42, 5 August 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – August 2018

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

Administrator changes

Sro23

KaisaL • Ymblanter

Guideline and policy news

• After a discussion at Meta, a new user group called "interface administrators" (formerly "technical administrator") has been created. Come the end of August, interface admins will be the only users able to edit site-wide JavaScript and CSS pages like MediaWiki:Common.js and MediaWiki:Common.css, or edit other user's personal JavaScript and CSS. The intention is to improve security and privacy by reducing the number of accounts which could be used to compromise the site or another user's account through malicious code. The new user group can be assigned and revoked by bureaucrats. Discussion is ongoing to establish details for implementing the group on the English Wikipedia.
• Following a request for comment, the WP:SISTER style guideline now states that in the mainspace, interwiki links to Wikinews should only be made as per the external links guideline. This generally means that within the body of an article, you should not link to Wikinews about a particular event that is only a part of the larger topic. Wikinews links in "external links" sections can be used where helpful, but not automatically if an equivalent article from a reliable news outlet could be linked in the same manner.

Technical news

• The WMF Anti-Harassment Tools team is seeking input on the second set of wireframes for the Special:Block redesign that will introduce partial blocks. The new functionality will allow you to block a user from editing a specific set of pages, pages in a category, a namespace, and for specific actions such as moving pages and uploading files.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:31, 5 August 2018 (UTC)

Deletion of page - Varun Datta Entrepreneur

Hi Enigma,

I needed to ask the reason for the concerned page's deletion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 103.87.58.184 (talk) 15:45, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

Repeat spam bio Enigma^msg 16:02, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

Mohamed Sheikh, Baron Sheikh

Sorry, but in terms of the terms of address he is by British protocol referred to as Lord Sheikh, rather than 'the Baron' or 'Baron Sheikh'. -- 87.102.116.36 (talk) 15:48, 15 August 2018 (UTC)

About protection...

You haven't added tags to your recent semi-protections. Is this by accident? Abequinn14 (talk) 21:25, 15 August 2018 (UTC)

There is a bot that handles the tag so unless it's a full protection (I do make sure to tag those; you can look and see), it's unnecessary. Enigma^msg 03:07, 19 August 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2018

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

Administrator changes

None

Asterion • Crisco 1492 • KF • Kudpung • Liz • Randykitty • Spartaz

Optimist on the run → Voice of Clam

Interface administrator changes

Amorymeltzer • Mr. Stradivarius • MusikAnimal • MSGJ • TheDJ • Xaosflux

Guideline and policy news

• Following a "stop-gap" discussion, six users have temporarily been made interface administrators while discussion is ongoing for a more permanent process for assigning the permission. Interface administrators are now the only editors allowed to edit sitewide CSS and JavaScript pages, as well as CSS/JS pages in another user's userspace. Previously, all administrators had this ability. The right can be granted and revoked by bureaucrats.

Technical news

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour.
• Some abuse filter variables have changed. They are now easier to understand for non-experts. The old variables will still work but filter editors are encouraged to replace them with the new ones. You can find the list of changed variables on mediawiki.org. They have a note which says Deprecated. Use ... instead. An example is article_text which is now page_title.
• Abuse filters can now use how old a page is. The variable is page_age.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee has resolved to perform a round of Checkuser and Oversight appointments. The usernames of all applicants will be shared with the Functionaries team, and they will be requested to assist in the vetting process. The deadline to submit an application is 23:59 UTC, 12 September, and the candidates that move forward will be published on-wiki for community comments on 18 September.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:23, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

you deleted a page and I would like to inquire about rewriting it

Celeb athlete Mandy Gill had a page written by a writer providing such services. Enigmaman has since deleted it for reasons of "promotional, not significant." Fair enough as the page had not been best communicated. I would like to re-write (not the original writer) a page for Gill, proving significance as there is much more available to backup significance than had first been included. I promise you will then see Gill's significance as a public figure and well-known advocate. Additionally, there are other pages ready to mention Gill and link back to Gill's page. Therefore, Gill's page will not be an orphan and is essential to completing the knowledge provided on other pages. May I please go ahead with writing an entirely new page under this person? Wikiver23 (talk) 13:49, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

Try Wikipedia:Articles for creation Enigma^msg 17:28, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

DirectX & Vulkan games lists

Thank you for taking the time to read this. I have no involvement in the creation or editing of any of the following lists.

I was looking for current lists of DirectX 12 and Vulkan games yesterday to see how the adoption of each technology is progressing. I noticed that the list of DirectX 12 games had been deleted from Wikipedia, as well as the list of DirectX 11 games.

I have read through Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of games with DirectX 12 support and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of games with DirectX 11 support, and I am wondering if List of games with Vulkan support should be deleted as well then, since this kind of information was deemed bettered suited to categories.

Vulkan and DirectX 12 are two competing technologies with similar utilization in PC games at the moment (currently they are much more closely matched in use in PC games than OpenGL vs older versions of DirectX historically were, for example). To delete one's list of games but not the other seems preferential, particularly at this time when the use of neither has become dominant over the other on platforms where both exist (i.e. Windows 10, which currently constitutes ~60% of the PC gaming market, and continues to gradually increase, as per statistics like https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam). As for consoles, DirectX 12 is also supported on Xbox One; Vulkan is also supported on Nintendo Switch.

As for DirectX 11, developers continue to support it as well, and it is supported on Windows 10, Windows 8/8.1, Windows 7, and Xbox One. Vulkan is also available for Windows 7 and 8/8.1. Windows 7 and 8/8.1 currently make up ~35% of the PC gaming market (figure taken from aforementioned Steam statistics). Vulkan is also supported on Linux; Linux presently accounts for ~0.59% of the PC gaming market (Steam statistics). There is some evidence (e.g. https://www.dsogaming.com/editorial/the-state-of-dx12-games-in-2017-is-directx-12-losing-its-steam/) that some developers continue to prefer DirectX 11 over both Vulkan and DirectX 12 on Windows (as Vulkan and DirectX 12 are notably different from OpenGL and previous versions of DirectX), although that may change as developers become more experienced with DirectX 12 and Vulkan. So DirectX 11 remains relevant as well, at least for the time being.

I believe List of games with Vulkan support should be deleted for reasons mentioned in the discussions in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of games with DirectX 12 support and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of games with DirectX 11 support. Should List of games with Vulkan support remain, I feel List of games with DirectX 12 support and List of games with DirectX 11 support should be restored given that they convey related information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:6C58:4B7F:F346:29AE:9584:9F1E:5400 (talk) 09:28, 18 September 2018 (UTC)

If you want, you can propose the Vulkan list for deletion. If you're asking for the content of the articles, I can move them to draft space. Enigma^msg 17:05, 18 September 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – October 2018

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

Administrator changes

Justlettersandnumbers • L235

Bgwhite • HorsePunchKid • J Greb • KillerChihuahua • Rami R • Winhunter

Interface administrator changes

Cyberpower678 • Deryck Chan • Oshwah • Pharos • Ragesoss • Ritchie333

Oversight changes

Guerillero • NativeForeigner • Snowolf • Xeno

Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, the process for appointing interface administrators has been established. Currently only existing admins can request these rights, while a new RfC has begun on whether it should be available to non-admins.
• There is an open request for comment on Meta regarding the creation a new user group for global edit filter management.

Technical news

• Partial blocks should be available for testing in October on the Test Wikipedia and the Beta-Cluster. This new feature allows admins to block users from editing specific pages and in the near-future, namespaces and uploading files. You can expect more updates and an invitation to help with testing once it is available.
• The Foundations' Anti-Harassment Tools team is currently looking for input on how to measure the effectiveness of blocks. This is in particular related to how they will measure the success of the aforementioned partial blocks.
• Because of a data centre test, you will be able to read but not edit the Wikimedia projects for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee has, by motion, amended the procedure on functionary inactivity.
• The community consultation for 2018 CheckUser and Oversight appointments has concluded. Appointments will be made by October 11.
• Following a request for comment, the size of the Arbitration Committee will be decreased to 13 arbitrators, starting in 2019. Additionally, the minimum support percentage required to be appointed to a two-year term on ArbCom has been increased to 60%. ArbCom candidates who receive between 50% and 60% support will be appointed to one-year terms instead.
• Nominations for the 2018 Arbitration Committee Electoral Commission are being accepted until 12 October. These are the editors who help run the ArbCom election smoothly. If you are interested in volunteering for this role, please consider nominating yourself.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:13, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

UFC 229 and Khabib

@Enigmaman: The excessive use of extended increased protection is highly unnecessary, and must be reverted as the pages were already the best level of protection. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=UFC_229&oldid=862859920 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Khabib_Nurmagomedov&oldid=862859827 Please kindly dial it back.

Colton Meltzer (talk) 19:01, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

I'm going to cut you some slack because reading through your history, it seems English is not your first language. Your communication skills are very poor and you don't seem to understand how things are done on Wikipedia. Enigma^msg 21:23, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

You do know you are in English-Wikapedia. I wont be here if dont speak english. I know how Wikapedia things are done here, but no logic does work with Wikapedia guidelines. I will have someone else deal with this issue. Colton Meltzer (talk) 22:51, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

A lot of people edit the English Wikipedia who do not use coherent English, including yourself. The English Wikipedia is the largest Wikipedia. Enigma^msg 02:44, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

Lousy remarks you made there about users trying edit in English Wikapedia instead of responding on why page protection level was increased. Colton Meltzer (talk) 04:39, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

It's self-evident why the protection was increased. By the way, we're on Wikipedia. You don't seem to be aware. Enigma^msg 04:40, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

2018 World Series (page protection request)

Hi - this is a quick note to request removal of the current protection on the 2018 World Series page. It's currently set to "Edits to this page from new or unregistered users are subject to review prior to publication". I requested protection of the page yesterday, due to vandalism during Game 1. Thank you for enabling protection. However, I now see that this level of protection (requiring someone with approval privileges to OK or deny anonymous edits... which doesn't happen in realtime) will result in many valid edits being queued/held behind anonymous edits. This is incompatible with the need for frequent updates to this page during live games. I believe we'll be better off allowing edits to go through, and those of us working on the page during games will revert vandalism in real time. Alternately, simply restricting edits to auto-confirmed users would also work, but I'm unsure of the requirements to get that level of page protection. Thanks for listening and hopefully making an adjustment. Dmoore5556 (talk) 21:31, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

I will remove it. Pending changes allows IPs to edit but they have to be approved manually. Autoconfirmed would lock out IPs entirely. Enigma^msg 22:14, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

Thank you, I appreciate the assistance. Dmoore5556 (talk) 22:47, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:List of rulers of the Gurma Mossi state of Pama

Hello, Enigmaman. I just wanted to let you know that Draft:List of rulers of the Gurma Mossi state of Pama, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Draft space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for article space.

If your submission is not edited soon, it could be nominated for deletion under CSD G13. If you would like to attempt to save it, you will need to improve it. You may request userfication of the content if it meets requirements.

If the deletion has already occured, instructions on how you may be able to retrieve it are available here.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. Bot0612 (talk) 00:04, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2018

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

Administrator changes

Sir Sputnik

Kudpung • Liz • Lourdes

Everyking • Jackmcbarn

Interface administrator changes

Dinoguy1000

CheckUser changes

AGK • Ivanvector • Stwalkerster • TonyBallioni

Oversight changes

Amorymeltzer • Oshwah • TonyBallioni • Vanamonde93

Keilana

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment determined that non-administrators will not be able to request interface admin access.
• A request for comment is in progress to determine whether the Mediation Committee should be closed and marked as historical.
• A village pump discussion has been ongoing about whether the proposed deletion policy (PROD) should be clarified or amended.
• A request for comment is in progress to determine whether pending changes protection should be applied automatically to today's featured article (TFA) in order to mitigate a recent trend of severe image vandalism.

Technical news

• Partial blocks is now available for testing on the Test Wikipedia. The new functionality allows you to block users from editing specific pages. Bugs may exist and can be reported on the local talk page or on Meta. A discussion regarding deployment to English Wikipedia will be started by community liaisons sometime in the near future.
• A user script is now available to quickly review unblock requests.
• The 2019 Community Wishlist Survey is now accepting new proposals until November 11, 2018. The results of this survey will determine what software the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Tech team will work on next year. Voting on the proposals will take place from November 16 to November 30, 2018. Specifically, there is a proposal category for admins and stewards that may be of interest.

Arbitration

• Eligible editors will be invited to nominate themselves as candidates in the 2018 Arbitration Committee Elections starting on November 4 until November 13. Voting will begin on November 19 and last until December 2.
• The Arbitration Committee's email address has changed to arbcom-enwikimedia.org. Other email lists, such as functionaries-en and clerks-l, remain unchanged.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:18, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

Greece rugby league team and Tpantazidis edits

Hey, the link he sent http://www.rugbyleague.gr/uploads/1/3/5/0/13503701/ministry_to_rlif_rlef.pdf is user created content this is not the official greek rugby league team (note - the real team are predominately based in Australian pro/semi pro Greek heritage). This guy needs a ban he is disrupting the page Greece national rugby league team https://neoskosmos.com/en/121955/greek-rugby-league-team-looks-to-emerge-triumphant-in-sydney/ the Greek rugby league team recently took part in an 2018 Emerging Nations World Championship. The team he is talking are full amateur from Greece and would be better suited to Greece (World Rugby League team). They (Hellenic Federation of Modern Pentathlon) are not affiliated with the Rugby League International Federation.

C0c0nutzg (talk) 07:06, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Talk:Greece national rugby league team Enigma^msg 16:11, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

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N,N-Dimethyltryptamine

I notice that you (quite correctly) protected N,N-Dimethyltryptamine following the extended edit warring. I also note that you reverted the article to one of the versions that one of the edit warriors was determined to get in the article, following an edit request on the talk page (which was a repeat of an already rejected request). However, I guess you failed to appreciate that the request was made by a sock puppet (MimosaForest2) of the user (MapleBark) who first started the edit war (and got blocked for using multiple accounts to support it). The rejected request was also from a sock of the same user (MachineLesson). The edit added pseudoscience, not to mention references to parallel dimensions and the drug's effects on extra-terrestrial entities (specifically angels).

This means that you have reverted an edit which is fundamentally vandalism from a blocked user. I accept that you have probably done this unwittingly. I believe given this information, you should revert the article back to the version at which it was protected. DocFergus (talk) 15:28, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

Use the talk page. The accounts were determined to be socks after the fact. Enigma^msg 15:47, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

Additionally, I don't really care which user the request was from. The reversion (made over a week ago) was to a stable version of the article which had remained in place for many months before Risentheft came along and started edit-warring over it. If you review the history of the article, this is what made sense. The article hasn't been protected in five days and it has remained stable at this version as well. Enigma^msg 15:51, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

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Donald Trump

Thanks for taking care of this. If you want, you could set the article to extended-confirmed pending changes so that it wouldn't be vulnerable when the full protection expires. Just a thought. Home Lander (talk) 04:07, 23 November 2018 (UTC)

I'm going to manually adjust it from full to extended confirmed before it expires. Pending changes is only for autoconfirmed, by the way. No such thing as extended confirmed pending changes. Enigma^msg 04:59, 23 November 2018 (UTC)

Enigmaman, for some reason I swore that pending changes could be set to extended-confirmed or even admin. Don't know where I pulled that out of. Home Lander (talk) 01:16, 24 November 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2018

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

Administrator changes

Al Ameer son • Randykitty • Spartaz

Boson • Daniel J. Leivick • Efe • Esanchez7587 • Fred Bauder • Garzo • Martijn Hoekstra • Orangemike

Interface administrator changes

Deryck Chan

Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, the Mediation Committee is now closed and will no longer be accepting case requests.
• A request for comment is in progress to determine whether members of the Bot Approvals Group should satisfy activity requirements in order to remain in that role.
• A request for comment is in progress regarding whether to change the administrator inactivity policy, such that administrators "who have made no logged administrative actions for at least 12 months may be desysopped". Currently, the policy states that administrators "who have made neither edits nor administrative actions for at least 12 months may be desysopped".
• A proposal has been made to temporarily restrict editing of the Main Page to interface administrators in order to mitigate the impact of compromised accounts.

Technical news

• Administrators and bureaucrats can no longer unblock themselves unless they placed the block initially. This change has been implemented globally. See also this ongoing village pump discussion (permalink).
• To complement the aforementioned change, blocked administrators will soon have the ability to block the administrator that placed their block to mitigate the possibility of a compromised administrator account blocking all other active administrators.
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A page for Hashtag United

Hey, you deleted a page when the football season started about the team Hashtag United which plays in Tier 10. They have had a notable season. They are third in their league. Do you think it will be good to start a season page? IsraeliIdan (talk) 18:13, 8 December 2018 (UTC)

Hashtag United F.C. Enigma^msg 01:30, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2018–2019 Hashtag United season Enigma^msg 01:31, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

Yes you linked their season page and the discussion. The discussion mentioned if a certain portion of the season passed and they had some accomplishments then a discussion could start. They are third (4 points away from first) in their league. Also their league page has no fixtures. IsraeliIdan (talk) 05:25, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

Go to one of the users who participated in the discussion and is still active. I merely closed it. Enigma^msg 14:56, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

Alabama Crimson Tide Footall

Hello, I have a question. Some College Football Team Wikipedia pages don't have sources by their list of Consensus All-Americans at the beginning of the page, and some do have sources. Does it matter? As of last week Alabama now has 74 All-Americans instead of 69 now because the 2018 College Football All-America Team wikipedia page just listed 5 more Alabama players to their total "69+5 right?". Whenever I change the total to 74 someone keeps changing it back to 69. Suggestions?Sammysafari (talk) 07:31, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

We can get to the bottom of this and figure out the truth. Enigma^msg 16:27, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/CloudBuy

Hi Can you send me the last version, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/CloudBuy I would like to have a go at making it suitable for inclusion. RonaldDuncan (talk) 22:26, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

Yes, here: Draft:CloudBuy Enigma^msg 23:04, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

Given your involvement, I'm surprised to not see you in the edit history there. Enigma^msg 23:05, 19 December 2018 (UTC)