Administrators' newsletter – August 2024

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2024).

  Administrator changes

  Isabelle Belato
 

  Interface administrator changes

  Izno
 

  CheckUser changes

  Barkeep49

  Technical news

  • Global blocks may now target accounts as well as IP's. Administrators may locally unblock when appropriate.
  • Users wishing to permanently leave may now request "vanishing" via Special:GlobalVanishRequest. Processed requests will result in the user being renamed, their recovery email being removed, and their account being globally locked.

  Arbitration


Question

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You helped me in a great way awhile back. But it’s been a little bit of time, and I was wondering how I access the invisible sections at the top when doing edits. I know there are maximums for the plot section. Can you walk me through how I would get to the invisible area when I am doing edits. I’m sorry to bother you. Thank you for whatever help you can give:) Helipilot68 (talk) 07:27, 12 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

Not all articles have invisible comments, but when used appear in the edit box only, in between <!-- and --> Indagate (talk) 07:32, 12 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
Thank you so much for taking the time to respond—and your patience. My very best to you.🤙🤙 Helipilot68 (talk) 20:56, 6 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

Administrators' newsletter – September 2024

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2024).

  Administrator changes

  Pppery

  Interface administrator changes

  Pppery
 

  Oversighter changes

  Wugapodes

  CheckUser changes

 

  Guideline and policy news

  • Following an RfC, there is a new criterion for speedy deletion: C4, which applies to unused maintenance categories, such as empty dated maintenance categories for dates in the past.
  • A request for comment is open to discuss whether Notability (species) should be adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline.

  Arbitration

  Miscellaneous


Administrators' newsletter – October 2024

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2024).

 

  Administrator changes

 
 

  CheckUser changes

 
 

  Guideline and policy news

  Arbitration

  Miscellaneous


Paraverse edit

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Hello, I’m not too sure why you deleted the information table regarding the three Paraverse shows, please could you explain Franchisegeek (talk) 14:10, 10 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

hey, did you not see my edit summary which explained revert? Indagate (talk) 14:17, 10 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
Yes and I disagree with it, as the information is relevant as they are all part of an interconnected TV franchise starting with the main show Death in Paradise, so I added that information table so that people could look and see if characters have crossed over etc without having to be a fan of all three shows as I now know so me people may not to back and watch 13+ series of Death in Paradise to know about a character Franchisegeek (talk) 14:26, 10 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
That article is for the series Death in Paradise, not a franchise article. The characters for that series are already listed, and characters for the other series are listed in their own articles where they belong. Indagate (talk) 14:35, 10 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
Ok I can respect that, however I have seen other articles listing whole franchises as well as the individual TV shows Franchisegeek (talk) 14:38, 10 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
There are TV franchises which are notable enough as a franchise for their own article. Paradise is not a notable enough franchise. This should be discussed at the article talk page from the start anyway, not here. Indagate (talk) 14:44, 10 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
Ok, I even though I disagree with it not being notable enough I can respect it, thank you for your response Franchisegeek (talk) 14:48, 10 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Reception transclusion

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As I explained, and since since disagreement has become evident, this transcluded format of reception tables has been reverted and contested before, and as far as I know, there has never been a clear consensus formed to use it - unless you can link me to one? -- Alex_21 TALK 11:38, 16 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

There's no consensus to not use it either (as far as I'm aware anyway). Used on other articles without objection. Was added 31 December 2022 (diff) so over 1.5 years since. That article didn't have this table at all before added like this. The status quo that was in place for over 1.5 years should stay until consensus otherwise, per WP:BRD. Can't just remove anything that far back with reason of no consensus just because it's not been discussed etc. Indagate (talk) 13:37, 16 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
One and a half years doesn't mean a solid consensus at all. The original edit was its inclusion, which has been disputed, and there is a far wider usage of regular tables than jargoned transcluded tables. There's a difference between transcluding a few statistics, and transcluding an episode table with over 100 cells of unique information - if this was the basis for transcluding, we could transclude mass swaths of information between parent and season articles. -- Alex_21 TALK 00:47, 17 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
The original edit of its inclusion has got implied consensus as not been disputed for 1.5 years, so should get consensus to change that original edit per WP:BRD, not other way round. Wider usage of untranscluded tables because there's no need for most usages, but lack of prior usage isn't a reason to not do something when it doesn't go against consensus. 7,318 of bytes over 18 rows as example from that article is more than a "few statistics". There aren't other complete tables shared between articles so don't see them as viable for translcuding, so there's not "mass swaths of information" that could be transcluded, WP:TMPG says can't use templates for article text, principle can apply to translcuding but tables aren't article text. Indagate (talk) 08:11, 17 October 2024 (UTC)Reply