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Article Sheikh Asif
Hello GeneralNotability i want to recreate Article about ( Sheikh Asif) can i recreate it? with your permission.User:HASIM66 (talk)
- HASIM66, I can't stop you, but the past versions of the article were pure promotion and I doubt a case can be made for his notability. I also remind you that if you're being paid for your edits, you are required to disclose that. GeneralNotability (talk) 13:53, 24 November 2021 (UTC)
- GeneralNotabilityI am not paid for any type of article or any type of edit on wikipedia. Thank you User:HASIM66 (talk)
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Sapedder (talk) 15:25, 27 November 2021 (UTC)
- Sapedder, acknowledged, I'll have a look tomorrow. GeneralNotability (talk) 01:02, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
Reply from Applehornet 🍏
Hi GeneralNotability,
I logged in for the first time in a couple of months and found your message. I’m not sure what that’s about as I made a few small edits and then noticed that a previous user experienced some bullying on this site, which I brought to the attention of a few administrators. This was not, as suggested, a coordination but a coincidence. I was about to make an edit to a page when I noticed the harassment of the previous editor by another. I reported it, that’s all. I hope this satisfies your query.
Best, Applehornet — Preceding unsigned comment added by Applehornet (talk • contribs) 13:59, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
The Signpost: 29 November 2021
- In the media: Denial: climate change, mass killings and pornography
- WikiCup report: The WikiCup 2021
- Deletion report: What we lost, what we gained
- From a Wikipedia reader: What's Matt Amodio?
- Arbitration report: ArbCom in 2021
- Discussion report: On the brink of change – RFA reforms appear imminent
- Technology report: What does it take to upload a file?
- WikiProject report: Interview with contributors to WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers
- Recent research: Vandalizing Wikipedia as rational behavior
- Humour: A very new very Wiki crossword
One or Two Questions ?
Is the question that I asked of the candidates for ArbCom considered to be one question or two questions? So, may I ask another non-follow-up question? Robert McClenon (talk) 03:55, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
- Robert McClenon, I would personally consider that two questions, though if it helps, you are permitted to ask a reasonable number of direct follow-up questions after the candidate's answer. GeneralNotability (talk) 01:32, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
- I thought it would be two questions, and was ready for that, but thought I would ask, because if I had the remaining privilege, I might as well use it. Thanks. Robert McClenon (talk) 02:44, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
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Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 December. It will be on all wikis from 2 December (calendar).
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21:13, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
The Bugle: Issue CLXXVI, November 2021
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SPI Helper malfunctioning
Hi GeneralNotability, I noticed that, when SPI helper has no tag option selected, it decides to post on their talk page. Could this please be returned to the old behaviour of...doing nothing? --TheSandDoctor Talk 05:05, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
- I'm also not entirely keen of the talk page notices and don't recall those being around in this form previously? --TheSandDoctor Talk 05:07, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) @TheSandDoctor: Hmm, not sure these are malfunctions. Tagging user pages is different from leaving talk page notices—if you intend not to leave talk page notices, there is a separate checkbox for block notices you can deselect. On the second question, I think you’re referring to the new {{subst:uw-sockblock}} form versus the old {{subst:SockBlock}}. Personally, I actually prefer the new uw-sockblock template because the old template is actually not visible on the mobile web interface because it uses a {{tmbox}}. Mz7 (talk) 05:45, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
- @Mz7: Oh! I figured it had changed and didn't realize the technical reason behind the latter. I retract that part but leaving "none" as the tag should really leave none as the tag and not a generic tag of "An editor has expressed a concern that this account may be a sockpuppet". --TheSandDoctor Talk 05:47, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
- Ah, I see. Looking through your deletion log, there were a number of cases where the script used that “An editor has expressed a concern…” language on user pages (that we should honestly deprecate from the sockpuppet template at this point). Mz7 (talk) 05:54, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
- @Mz7: They were added after I selected "none" as the tag type. --TheSandDoctor Talk 05:56, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
- TheSandDoctor, Mz7, ugh, talk page notices, by far the the most error-prone part of spihelper. The expected behavior is that anyone blocked using spihelper will have a sockmasterblock or sockblock template dropped on their talk page if "Add talk page notice when blocking socks" is checked (it is by default). It should never apply the "this editor has expressed a concern..." version of the sockpuppet tag (I, too, do not care for that one bit) and I've never seen it do that...were you doing something unusual when this happened? GeneralNotability (talk) 01:38, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
- No, not that I can recall. I know another clerk complained of the same glitch when called out over tagging on a no-tag case…I think Spicy? TheSandDoctor (mobile) (talk) 01:56, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
- One scenario where I've seen it happen is when tagging someone as both a master and a sock (i.e. by using the altmaster parameter) – it will insert the correct master template, and the "expressed a concern" one below. Also, +1 for deprecation ...and {{ipsock}} too, while we're at it. --Blablubbs (talk) 13:48, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
- TheSandDoctor, Mz7, ugh, talk page notices, by far the the most error-prone part of spihelper. The expected behavior is that anyone blocked using spihelper will have a sockmasterblock or sockblock template dropped on their talk page if "Add talk page notice when blocking socks" is checked (it is by default). It should never apply the "this editor has expressed a concern..." version of the sockpuppet tag (I, too, do not care for that one bit) and I've never seen it do that...were you doing something unusual when this happened? GeneralNotability (talk) 01:38, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
- @Mz7: They were added after I selected "none" as the tag type. --TheSandDoctor Talk 05:56, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
- Ah, I see. Looking through your deletion log, there were a number of cases where the script used that “An editor has expressed a concern…” language on user pages (that we should honestly deprecate from the sockpuppet template at this point). Mz7 (talk) 05:54, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
- @Mz7: Oh! I figured it had changed and didn't realize the technical reason behind the latter. I retract that part but leaving "none" as the tag should really leave none as the tag and not a generic tag of "An editor has expressed a concern that this account may be a sockpuppet". --TheSandDoctor Talk 05:47, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) @TheSandDoctor: Hmm, not sure these are malfunctions. Tagging user pages is different from leaving talk page notices—if you intend not to leave talk page notices, there is a separate checkbox for block notices you can deselect. On the second question, I think you’re referring to the new {{subst:uw-sockblock}} form versus the old {{subst:SockBlock}}. Personally, I actually prefer the new uw-sockblock template because the old template is actually not visible on the mobile web interface because it uses a {{tmbox}}. Mz7 (talk) 05:45, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – December 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2021).
- Unregistered editors using the mobile website are now able to receive notices to indicate they have talk page messages. The notice looks similar to what is already present on desktop, and will be displayed on when viewing any page except mainspace and when editing any page. (T284642)
- The limit on the number of emails a user can send per day has been made global instead of per-wiki to help prevent abuse. (T293866)
- Voting in the 2021 Arbitration Committee Elections is open until 23:59, 06 December 2021 (UTC).
- The already authorized standard discretionary sanctions for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes), broadly construed, have been made permanent.
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Messy conduct at the SPI
Whatever this argument is, my talk page is not the place for it. The SPI in question is over there, ANI is that way, and AE is in that corner. GeneralNotability (talk) 03:26, 5 December 2021 (UTC) |
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Hi, I'm writing just in case you're not following every edit made to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Gardenofaleph, because you may be confused by what Firefangledfeathers is referring to in their latest comment. I'll ping Blablubbs as well since they appear to be following the case. Please forgive me if you'd rather not discuss this here (or anywhere). I figured it would be worth mentioning, but that doing so on the SPI might look like point scoring. The issue is that DGG made some rather messy comments while persisting in the belief that you and I are the same editor:[1], [2]. In between those comments, Firefangledfeathers popped in to explain that DGG was mistaken. But instead of simply striking his remarks, DGG deleted one (the one Firefangledfeathers had responded to) and altered the other, making it seem as though he had realized his error on his own and earlier that Firefangledfeathers' remark. The resulting thread makes it seem as though Firefangledfeathers is the one who is confused.
If you look at DGG's most recent edit to the SPI page before GR's post here, you can see he corrected this "problem" which may or may not have ever existed in the form alleged. That is, by the time of (or as a result of) Finefangledfeathers' post pinging him, DGG realized his error, made some deletions and posted some retractions to correct himself, and (whether or not the result somehow created the impression FFF was confused, as GR alleges) finally added a reply agreeing that FFF was correct. I am not seeing the dastardly Wikicrime here much less a 3 ping opera. Sesquivalent (talk) 11:39, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
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Not sure where we'd be without your work on SPI helper. Doing it all manually would probably dissuade a lot of people... TheSandDoctor Talk 17:53, 4 December 2021 (UTC) |
- Thank you TheSandDoctor :) GeneralNotability (talk) 03:18, 5 December 2021 (UTC)
Heres The Dealio
Gen, I think I'd be right in assuming that HTD has highly dynamic IPs, given the inability of CheckUser to pin down sleepers in the past and their ability to rapidly create socks. Further on from my suggestion, is there really no feasible range block? Sdrqaz (talk) 22:32, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
- Sdrqaz, I did see your suggestion, but I do not see a practical rangeblock available at this time. GeneralNotability (talk) 03:21, 5 December 2021 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- MediaWiki 1.38-wmf.11 was scheduled to be deployed on some wikis last week. The deployment was delayed because of unexpected problems.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 December. It will be on all wikis from 9 December (calendar).
- At all Wikipedias, a Mentor Dashboard is now available at
Special:MentorDashboard
. It allows registered mentors, who take care of newcomers' first steps, to monitor their assigned newcomers' activity. It is part of the Growth features. You can learn more about activating the mentor list on your wiki and about the mentor dashboard project. - The predecessor to the current MediaWiki Action API (which was created in 2008),
action=ajax
, will be removed this week. Any scripts or bots using it will need to switch to the corresponding API module. [3] - An old ResourceLoader module,
jquery.jStorage
, which was deprecated in 2016, will be removed this week. Any scripts or bots using it will need to switch tomediawiki.storage
instead. [4]
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21:57, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
Administrators will no longer be autopatrolled
A recently closed Request for Comment (RFC) reached consensus to remove Autopatrolled from the administrator user group. You may, similarly as with Edit Filter Manager, choose to self-assign this permission to yourself. This will be implemented the week of December 13th, but if you wish to self-assign you may do so now. To find out when the change has gone live or if you have any questions please visit the Administrator's Noticeboard. 20:06, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
Bots Newsletter, December 2021
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December 2019
In the next issue of Bots Newsletter:
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Recent changes
- There are now default short aliases for the "Project:" namespace on most wikis. E.g. On Wikibooks wikis,
[[WB:]]
will go to the local language default for the[[Project:]]
namespace. This change is intended to help the smaller communities have easy access to this feature. Additional local aliases can still be requested via the usual process. [5]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 December. It will be on all wikis from 16 December (calendar).
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22:26, 13 December 2021 (UTC)
InvestorGoat improvement
Hey! Can you change Line 7 of InvestorGoat from if (mw.config.get('wgPageName').startsWith('Special:CheckUser')) {
to if (mw.config.get('wgCanonicalSpecialPageName').startsWith('Special:CheckUser')) {
, so that it becomes compatible with other wikis? Thanks! —Thanks for the fish! talk•contribs 18:05, 18 December 2021 (UTC)
- Tks4Fish, done, thanks! GeneralNotability (talk) GeneralNotability (talk) 17:41, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
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- Sorry about the delay InvalidOS, I'll try to hit this tomorrow. GeneralNotability (talk) 01:12, 21 December 2021 (UTC)
Bianbum and Spam: Some Accounts and Sites to Watch
I recommend checking out the presto.news, evidence-based.review, uopeople.review reports on COIBot. There are several more accounts which are likely the same person. The former two sites now redirect to the latter. The EBR site shared a Google Analytics tracking id with giuseppemacario.men at one point. You might also want to add the site in this diff. Finally, two more to be aware of are boyfriendhusband.men and boyfriendhusband.app. The first was added as a mirror wiki. Later, it briefly redirected to the latter. Now, they both redirect to an article on giuseppemacario.men.
Also, I don't know how to suggest these Lerdall edits on Commons for removal, or if that would even be appropriate. I know one of them has unfortunately been cited in scholarly literature a few times. SimoneBilesStan (talk) 02:46, 17 December 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks SimoneBilesStan. Looks like most of the recently-spammed sites have been blacklisted, and the others haven't been spammed for a while. No idea what to do about Commons, they're rather...loose...about their inclusion criteria. GeneralNotability (talk) 01:12, 21 December 2021 (UTC)
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Tech News
- Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 10 January 2022.
Recent changes
- Queries made by the DynamicPageList extension (
<DynamicPageList>
) are now only allowed to run for 10 seconds and error if they take longer. This is in response to multiple outages where long-running queries caused an outage on all wikis. [6]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.
Future changes
- The developers of the Wikipedia iOS app are looking for testers who edit in multiple languages. You can read more and let them know if you are interested.
- The Wikimedia Cloud VPS hosts technical projects for the Wikimedia movement. Developers need to claim projects they use. This is because old and unused projects are removed once a year. Unclaimed projects can be shut down from February. [7]
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22:04, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
Tauqir Sharif's article, COI, possibly more paid editing.
I've been trying to scrub the Tauqir Sharif article since the primary editor AmirahBreen was banned for paid editing. However, now I see another editor is overseeing the article and making corrections similar to Amirah's. The editor had not been active for a few months until the recent ban, and seems to be SPA'ing that article. Furthermore, the editor is adding pictures that were newly uploaded by a username representing the subject. Was wondering what can be done about this? Should it go to COI/N? AngusW🐶🐶F (bark • sniff) 22:37, 21 December 2021 (UTC)
- I also need to ask whether the Upwork paid editing per the ticket request was related to that article and if so, should the Connected Contributor tag be placed on the article talk page? If that's none of our business then let me know. AngusW🐶🐶F (bark • sniff) 22:45, 21 December 2021 (UTC)
- AngusWOOF, pretty sure I shouldn't discuss specifics of the ticket, I wouldn't worry about the connected contributor tag, but you can assume anything thy wrote that seems vaguely UPE-like probably is. As for the new editor...have a look at my block log. I've ECP'd the article for a while, too. GeneralNotability (talk) 00:15, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks for looking over that article. I mainly wanted to get the references cleaned up as the subject appears to be notable, but I didn't get to get too involved in editing the biography as the subject is quite controversial. AngusW🐶🐶F (bark • sniff) 01:12, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
- AngusWOOF, pretty sure I shouldn't discuss specifics of the ticket, I wouldn't worry about the connected contributor tag, but you can assume anything thy wrote that seems vaguely UPE-like probably is. As for the new editor...have a look at my block log. I've ECP'd the article for a while, too. GeneralNotability (talk) 00:15, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
It looks like some IPs are getting upset about my grouping the citizenship section and HTS capture section under his Syria work. Could you see if it makes sense to retain this section and whether the IPs might be related to the SPA group? AngusW🐶🐶F (bark • sniff) 08:19, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
- AngusWOOF, I will not be getting involved in the content of the article (in order to remain un-INVOLVED). As for the IP...do you even have to ask? Obviously I can't comment from a CU perspective, but based on edit summary style and their area of interest, no doubt that this is them. GeneralNotability (talk) 20:40, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks again. I will try to pass it to GOCE and see if another neutral editor can scrub it, and otherwise wait until March or if other WP's with editors can look at it. AngusW🐶🐶F (bark • sniff) 21:29, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 22
Hello everyone, and welcome to the 22nd issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter. This issue will be covering new and updated user scripts from the past seven months (June through December 2021).
Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!
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- Ahecht:
- draft-sorter sorts AfC drafts by adding WikiProject banners to their talk pages. It supersedes User:Enterprisey/draft-sorter, adding a few features and fixing some bugs.
- massmove, a modified User:Plastikspork/massmove.js that adds a link to the left column, allows adding and removing both prefixes and suffixes.
- watchlistcleaner removes missing pages (redlinks), redirects, pages you haven't edited recently, and/or pages you've never edited from your watchlist.
- Awesome Aasim:
- Infiniscroll adds infinite scrolling to user contributions, page histories, and log pages.
- Quick create allows for the fast creation of red-linked pages with two clicks.
- Caburum:
- UTCclock adds a clock displaying the current UTC time.
- Chlod:
- CopiedTemplateEditor, mainly for CCI case handlers, allows graphically editing a talk page's {{copied}} templates.
- DaxServer:
- BooksToSfn adds a portlet link in Visual Editor's source mode editing, in main namespace articles or in the user's Sandbox. When clicked, it converts one
{{cite book}}
inside a<ref>...</ref>
tag block into an{{Sfn}}
.
- BooksToSfn adds a portlet link in Visual Editor's source mode editing, in main namespace articles or in the user's Sandbox. When clicked, it converts one
- FlightTime:
- OneClickArchiver is a custom version of User:Technical_13/Scripts/OneClickArchiver which doesn't prepend {{Clear}} to the top of each section on the archive page.
- Jon Harald Søby:
- diffedit enables editing directly from viewing a diff "when, for instance, you notice a tiny mistake deep into an article, and don't want to edit the entire article and re-find that one line to fix that tiny mistake".
- warnOnLargeFile warns you if you're about to open a very large file (width/height >10,000px or file size >100 MB) from a file page.
- JPxG:
- PressPass adds a collection of tools for Newspapers.com including configurable automatic citation generation in five different formats.
- CurrentSwitcher gives you links on the contribs page to hide duplicate entries, current revisions, rollbacks, huggles, twinkles, and redwarns.
- TrackSum lets you automatically sum the lengths of tracks in templates like {{track listing}} and get total runtimes.
- Nardog:
- CopySectLink adds a button to copy the unencoded page title or section path next to each heading.
- IPAInput allows you to type in IPA symbols by directly looking at an IPA key like Help:IPA/English and clicking on the symbols.
- TemplatePreviewGuard warns when you try to use "Preview page with this template" with a page that doesn't transclude the template.
- NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh:
- ContribsTabVector adds "Contributions" and "Statistics" tabs to user and user talk pages on the Vector skin.
- CopyvioChecker adds a "CopyvioCheck" tab to all pages, except Special (Vector skin only).
- LiveDiffLink is a version of Equazcion's LiveDiffLink which shows a wikilink instead of a URL.
- QuickDiff (by OneTwoThreeFall at Fandom) lets you quickly view any diff link on a wiki, whether on Recent Changes, contribs pages, history pages, the diff view itself, or elsewhere. For more information, view its page on Fandom.
- Novem Linguae:
- DetectSNG scans a list of 1,600 SNG keywords and displays them at the top of the article.
- NotSoFast highlights recently created articles in the new pages feed, to discourage patrolling them too quickly.
- UserRightsDiff concisely displays what perm was added or removed when viewing Special:UserRights.
- VoteCounter displays a rough count of keeps and deletes at XFDs, RFCs, etc.
- WatchlistAFD automatically watchlists the AFDs of any pages you AFC accept or NPP patrol, to help you calibrate your reviewing.
- P.T.Đ:
- TwinkleMobile enables Twinkle on mobile view (Minerva skin).
- Qwerfjkl:
- editRedirect adds a → link after redirects to edit them.
- RegExTypoFix, a script for fixing typos, is a wrapper for User:Joeytje50/RETF.js.
- talkback creates links after user talk page links like this: |C|TB (with the first linking to the user's contributions, and the latter giving the option of sending a {{talkback}} notice). It also adds a [copy] link next to section headers.
- Rublov:
- diff-link shows "copy" links on history and contributions pages that copy an internal link to the diff (e.g., Special:Diff/1026402230) to your clipboard when clicked.
- Rummskartoffel:
- auto-watchlist-expiry automatically watchlists every page you edit for a user-definable duration (you can still pick a different time using the dropdown, though).
- generate pings generates the wikitext needed to ping all members of a category, up to 50 editors (the limit defined by MediaWiki).
- share ExpandTemplates url allows for easy sharing of your inputs to Special:ExpandTemplates. It adds a button that, when clicked, copies a shareable URL to your exact invocation of the page, like this. Other editors do not need to have this script installed in order to access the URL generated.
- show tag names shows the real names of tags next to their display names in places such as page revision histories or the watchlist.
- Tol:
- VisualEditor Citation Needed adds a button (under "Insert") in VisualEditor to add a {{citation needed}} tag.
- Venkat TL:
- ColourContrib color-codes the user contributions page so that pages you've edited last are sharply distinguished from pages where another editor was the last to edit the page.
- Vukky:
- StatusChanger is a fork of Enterprisey's Status Changer, which adds a UI to the script. (using Morebits, so you'll need to have Twinkle enabled to use it).
All in all, some very neat scripts were written in these last few months. Hoping to see many more in the next issue -- drop us a line on the talk page if you've been writing (or seeing) anything cool and good. Filling in for DannyS712, this has been jp×g. Take care, and merry Christmas! jp×g 07:30, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
Help request for Soheil Beiraghi article
Hi. Many weeks has passed since Draft:Soheil Beiraghi's article has created, but no one reviewed it yet. Could you do me a favor and take a look at it, or help me to make verification process faster? Thank you. Kabootaremesi (talk) 08:40, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
- Kabootaremes, I do not do page reviews. GeneralNotability (talk) 14:08, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
Error with InvestorGoat
Hi,
I've noticed that in the last week or so the InvestorGoat tool has stopped highlighting CU logs outside the CU interface. Furthermore at around that time the UA matching has stopped working (I can't click on the UAs in grey in the CU tool). The error I get from the console is as follows:
Uncaught (in promise) ReferenceError: UAParser is not defined
- InvestorGoatPrepUAs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:CheckUser line 1 > injectedScript:34
- jQuery 2
- InvestorGoatPrepUAs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:CheckUser line 1 > injectedScript:21
- <anonymous> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:CheckUser line 1 > injectedScript:9
Special:CheckUser line 1 > injectedScript:34:22 Dreamy Jazz talk to me | my contributions 11:53, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
- Dreamy Jazz, thanks for the heads-up. I think I've fixed both - the former was because I was referring to wgCanonicalSpecialPageName on non-special pages (that one lets people on other wikis use the script on their equivalent of Special:CheckUser) and the latter was a boneheaded mistake on my part when adding some new features. GeneralNotability (talk) 14:12, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
- Both seem to be fixed for me. Thanks. Dreamy Jazz talk to me | my contributions 14:14, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
Greetings. You recently blocked this editor for UPE. They still have a bunch of unreviewed articles sitting out there. Should all of them be segregated due to UPE, or do you have a list that you could share from their UpWork account? Thanks. Onel5969 TT me 16:35, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
- Onel5969, I don't have a list, and tbh even if I did I probably couldn't share it. Anything they've made that is likely to be a UPE target (companies, living people, orgs) and looks even a little suspicious is probably UPE. GeneralNotability (talk) 21:27, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks for your response, I'll take a look at their remaining articles. Onel5969 TT me 22:42, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
thanks
OMG thank you. I was trying to decide whether I was too involved to just p-block them from editing just the article itself. —valereee (talk) 19:47, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
- valereee, happy to be of service. I would have considered a pblock if they had shown the slightest inclination to be here for anything OTHER than AJDaGuru. GeneralNotability (talk) 21:43, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
- I've been trying to be kind, but I'm just getting to the end of my rope on it. —valereee (talk) 21:57, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
Happy Holidays
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Happy holidays GN, and happy new year! DirkJandeGeer (щи) 23:56, 24 December 2021 (UTC) |
- Thank you DirkJandeGeer, and a happy holidays to you and yours too! GeneralNotability (talk) 19:46, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
Merry Christmas!
Season's greetings and Merry Christmas to you and your family. Have a wonderful holiday season. Cheers! RV (talk) 03:47, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
- Thank you RAJIVVASUDEV, to you and yours too! GeneralNotability (talk) 19:47, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
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The Signpost: 28 December 2021
- From the editor: Here is the news
- News and notes: Jimbo's NFT, new arbs, fixing RfA, and financial statements
- Serendipity: Born three months before her brother?
- In the media: The past is not even past
- Arbitration report: A new crew for '22
- By the numbers: Four billion words and a few numbers
- Deletion report: We laughed, we cried, we closed as "no consensus"
- Gallery: Wikicommons presents: 2021
- Traffic report: Spider-Man, football and the departed
- Crossword: Another Wiki crossword for one and all
- Humour: Buying Wikipedia
Did you forget to block?
In Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Alexandra Daddario Fan, AVeganKid is Confirmed and you tagged, but you did not block the account, it remains unblocked. Pikavoom Talk 10:01, 30 December 2021 (UTC)
- Pikavoom, thank you, I did forget to block. Done. GeneralNotability (talk) 16:11, 30 December 2021 (UTC)
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Happy new year
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Hi GeneralNotability/Archives/2021, Best wishes that the new year brings peace, prosperity, health and happiness. |
Netherzone (talk) 01:00, 31 December 2021 (UTC)
- Thank you Netherzone, and the same to you and yours! GeneralNotability (talk) 01:02, 31 December 2021 (UTC)