User talk:KrakatoaKatie/Archive 73
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Hey, KrakatoaKatie. I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! I can do stuff! (talk) 13:26, 14 June 2024 (UTC) |
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I can do stuff! (talk) 13:26, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
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Indefinite IP block
Hi. While visiting Category:Indefinitely blocked IP addresses, I realized you blocked this address nine years ago.
- 107.167.86.175 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)
Why on earth was it set not to automatically expire? Would you consider unblocking this address by this time?102.158.106.128 (talk) 02:32, 10 July 2024 (UTC)
- It's blocked because it's an open proxy. Read the message on the IP's talk page. And no, I will not unblock it. Katietalk 16:56, 10 July 2024 (UTC)
Books & Bytes – Issue 63
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Issue 63, May – June 2024
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A cookie for you
Let’s just say I legit learned a thing or two from your reply. Thanks for taking a look. 
MM (Give me info.) (Victories) 23:58, 21 July 2024 (UTC)
- Anytime! We're available 24/7/365 for all your suppression questions. ;-) Katietalk 00:02, 22 July 2024 (UTC)
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Administrators' newsletter – August 2024
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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
- The Arbitration Committee appointed the following administrators to the conflict of interest volunteer response team: Bilby, Extraordinary Writ
Hi Katie, you may want to suppress some of the edits at the article as well.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:43, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
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- An RfC is open to convert all current and future community discretionary sanctions to (community designated) contentious topics procedure.
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- The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (T313405)
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- An arbitration case has been opened to look into "the intersection of managing conflict of interest editing with the harassment (outing) policy".
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Redaction at Liverpool City Region
Hello. Regarding your redaction at this article's talk page, I assume it was someone noting the identify of a particular contributor. I am not sure anyone was actually revealing anything that is not already public on Wikipedia, as the user in question edited Wikipedia under their real name until last year and that account still exists (they "retired", apparently in a huff after being blocked, and then started editing under another account, returning to exactly the same article set).
I'd actually be interested to know what to do in cases like this; I commented at the ANI thread but wasn't sure whether I could link to the account in question (despite it being extremely obvious that it is the same person). Cheers, Number 57 20:14, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
Number 57 20:14, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
- No, don't link to the account. The redaction involves ELs added to the page that reveal real name and location. They were particularly concerned about location in their email to Oversight, and stated they had retired because of these ELs, so I suppressed that content. I see that one of the IPs in the ANI thread is now CU blocked, and yeah, one can draw a conclusion from that, but we can't make it explicit. If you want to take it further, an email to Arbcom is your next step. It wouldn't surprise me if a bunch of blocks get dropped on a bunch of folks before they stop dragging their stuff all over the drama boards. Katietalk 04:36, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
A teeny tiny correction
Hi Katie! Regarding your note here that "he's not allowed to remove the block notice while the block is in effect", that's incorrect. Per WP:BLANKING, editors can remove block messages while the block is in place, they just can't remove declined appeals while the sanctions are in effect. Anyway, I haven't seen you around much lately, it's nice to see your name pop up!-- Ponyobons mots 15:32, 11 August 2024 (UTC)
Happy Birthday!
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181.9.0.0/16
You placed Special:BlockList/181.9.0.0/16 for obviously good reasons. A user without many edits but otherwise in good standing has requested the ability to edit from this address range. The CU logs should clearly indicate who this is but let me know if you can't see. I'm wondering if you'd mind changing the block to anon-only? If you'd rather not, what are your thoughts in me granting IPBE for perhaps three months in this case? --Yamla (talk) 09:13, 26 August 2024 (UTC)
- Sure. I changed it to anon-only. :-) Katietalk 13:31, 26 August 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks, excellent! --Yamla (talk) 20:31, 26 August 2024 (UTC)
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Administrators' newsletter – September 2024
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- Following an RfC, there is a new criterion for speedy deletion: C4, which
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- Following a motion, remedies 5.1 and 5.2 of World War II and the history of Jews in Poland (the topic and interaction bans on My very best wishes, respectively) were repealed.
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Books & Bytes – Issue 64
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Issue 64, July – August 2024
- The Hindu Group joins The Wikipedia Library
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- Following a discussion, the speedy deletion reason "File pages without a corresponding file" has been moved from criterion G8 to F2. This does not change what can be speedily deleted.
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- The arbitration case Historical elections has been closed.
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Administrators' newsletter – November 2024
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- Following a discussion, the discussion-only period proposal that went for a trial to refine the requests for adminship (RfA) process has been discontinued.
- Following a request for comment, Administrator recall is adopted as a policy.
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- Mass deletions done with the Nuke tool now have the 'Nuke' tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. T366068
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- RoySmith, Barkeep49 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2024 Arbitration Committee Elections. ThadeusOfNazereth and Dr vulpes are reserve commissioners.
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Books & Bytes – Issue 65
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Issue 65, September – October 2024
- Hindu Tamil Thisai joins The Wikipedia Library
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