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Administrators' newsletter – July 2021

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

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

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

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

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

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William Selig

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.0mtwb9gd5wx (talk) 11:36, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

Thanks!

Hopefully I am thanking the right person you assisted me with a draft on live chat page, a human interpretation of some of the Wikipedia practices is really helpful and appreciated. Iamthekanadian (talk) 19:39, 5 August 2021 (UTC)

@Iamthekanadian no problem 😄 (see, I pinged you with {{u|Iamthekanadian}}) — Berrely • ^Talk∕_Contribs 19:42, 5 August 2021 (UTC)

Berrely Yes! And I took that advice and updated my comment for the person I failed to ping, good idea. Iamthekanadian (talk) 19:46, 5 August 2021 (UTC)

Question from Vitaium (13:37, 9 August 2021)

Hello Berrely, how to change article font size? --Vitaium (talk) 13:37, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

Hi @Vitaium, you generally can't change the font size in articles, for accesibility reasons. — Berrely • ^Talk∕_Contribs 14:53, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

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Question from Seandy- casting director on Talk:Santiago Mariño Polytechnic University Institute (15:37, 10 August 2021)

How can add my Wikipedia account --Seandy- casting director (talk) 15:37, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

@Seandy- casting director, I'm confused. You already have a Wikipedia account? — Berrely • ^Talk∕_Contribs 16:47, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

This is baseless libel

"You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you violate Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy by inserting commentary or your personal analysis into an article, as you did at Murder of Meredith Kercher. Binksternet (talk) 14:37, 11 August 2021 (UTC)"

Use words to describe your objection not templates .... 0mtwb9gd5wx (talk) 15:23, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

@0mtwb9gd5wx did you meant to post this on my talk...? Or are you asking me a question about the above? — Berrely • ^Talk∕_Contribs 15:26, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

"Hello 0mtwb9gd5wx! Your additions to William Selig have been removed in whole or in part" @Berrely: 09:44, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

You and an admin threw out all my good faith hard work without discussing it with me and probably don't understand the problems with source materials and haven't given me a copy of my last edit and you deleted it from the edit logs. .... 0mtwb9gd5wx (talk) 15:39, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

0mtwb9gd5wx, as I mentioned before, copyright violations don't need discussion. As soon as they are identified they have to be removed. I am very sure I understand correctly that copying two paragraphs from a source that explicitly has a copyright disclaimer at the bottom of the page is a copyright violation. As I mentioned in the ANI thread (which I thought would be enough), if you want the content sent you need to ask the deleting administrator, Cwmhiraeth, not me. Please thoroughly read Wikipedia:Copyright violations before commenting on this again. — Berrely • ^Talk∕_Contribs 15:53, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

I can't see what you are talking about because it was deleted, so I am impeded in my defense. .... 0mtwb9gd5wx (talk) 16:08, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

0mtwb9gd5wx, you are very aware of what I'm talking about, all the content you copied from [1]. As I said, if you want to know what was removed contact Cwmhiraeth; I am not able to restore revisions. — Berrely • ^Talk∕_Contribs 16:16, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

@Berrely: do you mean

* https://www.victorian-cinema.net/selig.php or

* https://www.victorian-cinema.net/selig%7Cstart1=1037024985

I dont remember that specific item, I can't see that, because it is not on wikipedia. That work took me all day, the citations had content to refer to in additional article content that would have used the same citations. Also many of the references contradict one another, so I needed to keep track of those as well. All my fair-use quotations were blockquoted with "s and references. .... 0mtwb9gd5wx (talk)

0mtwb9gd5wx I did not remove anything except the content you copied from the link above. You did not put the copied text in quote marks and even if you did 2 paragraphs is well above the limit and not fair use. — Berrely • ^Talk∕_Contribs 16:45, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

@Berrely: I quoted two sentences, with a reference, from the first paragraph and none of the second paragraph from https://www.victorian-cinema.net/selig.php with quotes and a reference. But I can't prove it because the record is deleted. So you requested @Cwmhiraeth: to delete it all? .... 0mtwb9gd5wx (talk) 16:58, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

@0mtwb9gd5wx here is the similarity report for the text I removed: https://tools.wmflabs.org/eranbot/ithenticate.py?rid=74686865. You can clearly see that the text has been quoted/close paraphrased. Please read Wikipedia:PARAPHRASE. You clearly paraphrased about a paragraph of text, and that is what I removed. — Berrely • ^Talk∕_Contribs 17:11, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

@Berrely: https://tools.wmflabs.org/eranbot/ithenticate.py?rid=74686865 is a redirect to a third party web site ithenticate. I made a two sentence quote which is fair use. I can not see it because one needs to login. .... 0mtwb9gd5wx (talk) 17:25, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Red is copied — Berrely • ^Talk∕_Contribs 17:27, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) The iThenticate report can be accessed by anyone using the CopyPatrol permalink, which is here. DanCherek (talk) 18:38, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Question from Vitaium (00:03, 16 August 2021)

Hello Berrely! How to add an external links? --Vitaium (talk) 00:03, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

@Vitaium you can add external links in this format: [https://LINKTOADD TEXTTOSHOW]. E.g., [https://example.com An example page!] produces: An example page!. The visual editor also offers an easy way to do this. When adding links to articles, please make sure to read the relevant guideline at WP:EL. Thanks! — Berrely • ^Talk∕_Contribs 15:17, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Question from CYRUS Tebogo J (16:20, 16 August 2021)

How can I get my payment withdrawn because it's been denying to be confirmed and withdrawn?💔 --CYRUS Tebogo J (talk) 16:20, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

@CYRUS Tebogo J what do you mean– You don't get paid for editing Wikipedia, and if you have, you must disclose it. — Berrely • ^Talk∕_Contribs 16:51, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia:TheWikiWizard/Draft/Summer_2021

Could you proofread it, thanks! Sorry I have been so busy it was delayed! つがる Talk to つがる:) 🍁 01:07, 20 August 2021 (UTC)

つがる  Done. — Berrely • ^Talk∕_Contribs 14:44, 20 August 2021 (UTC)

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Question from Vitaium (05:51, 23 August 2021)

Hello Berrely, why are some pages protected? --Vitaium (talk) 05:51, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

Vitaium, often popular pages, especially on controversial topics, get vandalised a lot more than normal articles. In these cases administrators "protect" an article, generally semi-protection, which means autoconfirmed editors like yourself can edit them (10 edits over 30 days). Rarely, on very contentious topics or in cases where semi-protection isn't enough, we have 2 other types of protections for articles, pending changes protection, and extended confirmed protection. Pending changes means a reviewer (like me) checks over the edit and then approves or declines it, though we don't use this as much. Extended confirmed protection is generally used on very controversial aticles (such as the September 11 attacks) and means only editors who are 3 months old and have 500 edits (you need 73 more edits) can edit them, though you'll basically never come across these. Templates and other places are also protected with their own protection. A detailed explanation is at Help:Protection. Feel free to ask anymore questions :). — Berrely • ^Talk∕_Contribs 11:07, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

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TheWikiWizard-Summer 2021

Hello, Berrely! Here is the Summer 2021 issue of TheWikiWizard.

Wikipedia News

• There is an election that is taking place, for the Wikikmedia Foundation, to read more about it click here
• The Wikipedia Library, has made some updates to their terms of use. You can read more here
• Wikimania took place this month!
• There are a few new admins who have joined the Admin Team, congrats to them! Remember, if you see a use who you believe meets the criteria for adminship here, or on other projects (Please check that Wikipedia/Wikimedia Project's Adminship Criteria page, as they vary by project), you can give it a try and nominate them for adminship if they are okay with it!

Humour

• There is no due date in Wikipedia, so I could take 1000 years to write this issue! ;P
• If you are reading this, you are reading this! (makes no sense, but okay!)
• There is no more Humour to put and this sentence is no longer funny.
• The mess I made in my room is bigger than this city!
• Here's a list of all events that happened between TWW issues

Editors notes

• I have been really busy with school so I was unable to write this issue for a long time. Thanks for your patience. :)

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Question from Hasmotali12 (16:13, 27 August 2021)

I want to ad my profile imgae. How can do it? --Hasmotali12 16:13, 27 August 2021 (UTC)

@Hasmotali12, Wikipedia users don't have profile images. Unless you're the subject of an article and requesting a new image for that? If so, see Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials — Berrely • ^Talk∕_Contribs 16:22, 27 August 2021 (UTC)

Question from Enormous Efrit (18:39, 27 August 2021)

Hello there dear mentor. Just a quick question. Can you edit the attributes that are in a template?

For example the template that holds the details of a particular celebrity or basically anything in the form of:

let's say full name : *something* Also known as : *something age : *something* --Enormous Efrit (talk) 18:39, 27 August 2021 (UTC)

@Enormous Efrit you can change the information in a template, known as "values", however you cannot change the actual parameters that accept those values. See Help:Template — Berrely • ^Talk∕_Contribs 18:56, 27 August 2021 (UTC)

Vector version available

Hi Berrely. Thanks for adding {{Vector version available}} to file pages like you did here. Could you also add the syntax |nonfree=yes to the template when the non-vector version is non-free in future cases? Displaying a non-free file anywhere other than in the article namespace is going to flagged as a WP:NFCC#9 violation for review by a bot. The bot looking for NFCC#9 violations might catch such a file before the older no longer use non-vestor version is deleted per WP:F5 depending upon when the "vva" template is added and when the bot made its last run. It's not a huge deal either way, but you adding the syntax when you first add the "vva" template might save someone else from having to look at the file and sort things out a few days later. Thanks in advance. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:06, 28 August 2021 (UTC)

Marchjuly of course, apologies. I don't really ever add that template to non-free files; that was a one of case, but I'll make sure to add that in the future (hopefully Twinkle will get an option to select that parameter eventually). Cheers — Berrely • ^Talk∕_Contribs 21:27, 28 August 2021 (UTC)

Thank you. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:33, 28 August 2021 (UTC)

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