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Hello! Welcome to one of my Archive Pages. This page contains all comments and discussions that took place on my User Talk Page, were inactive for 15 days or more, and have been archived by a robot. If you would like to leave me a new message or revive some old discussion please leave me a note at my current talk page found here. Thanks and All the Best, --Mifter (talk) 17:36, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

	The Editor's Barnstar
	I'd like to give you an extended thanks for all the help you've provided on Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy and look forward to seeing how else you can contribute to the article. jd22292 (Jalen D. Folf) (talk • contribs) 02:54, 29 December 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for the kind words! I'm not sure how much I'll be able to add but I stumbled across some sources when I was evaluating the protection request you had put in and plan to keep the article on my watchlist for the future to keep an eye on everything. Thanks and Happy (early) New Year. Mifter (talk) 01:45, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

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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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:37, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Ottawa Art Gallery

Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 00:02, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

DYK nomination of 2018 IIHF U20 Challenge Cup of Asia

Hello! Your submission of 2018 IIHF U20 Challenge Cup of Asia at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 22:04, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

DYK for 2018 IIHF U20 Challenge Cup of Asia

— Coffee // have a ☕️ // beans // 03:18, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

DYK for George F. Good Jr.

Alex Shih (talk) 00:02, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Doug McMurdy

Gatoclass (talk) 12:01, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Bad Suns

Template:Bad Suns has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 12:02, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Cristo Rey OKC

Alex Shih (talk) 15:02, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

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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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:52, 4 February 2018 (UTC)

Invitation to join the Ten Year Society

Dear Mifter/Archive 10,

I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Ten Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for ten years or more.

Best regards, Chris Troutman (talk) 10:11, 4 February 2018 (UTC)

Thank you very much for the kind wishes! Mifter (talk) 07:09, 5 February 2018 (UTC)

Ten years of editing, today.

Hey, Mifter. I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! Chris Troutman (talk) 10:11, 4 February 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for the kind wishes! Mifter (talk) 07:10, 5 February 2018 (UTC)

Miss Universe 2018 Pending

Hello! Could you open Pending Review on Miss Universe 2018 Wikipedia? I received Miss Norway Schedule to add on the page thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hearmesir (talk • contribs) 8:59, February 4, 2018 (UTC)

Hello, thank you for your note. After checking, the article is fully editable with the exception that edits must be approved prior to being seen by readers who are not logged in. After looking at the article's history I am inclined to leave the protection in place due to ongoing issues with unsourced material being added but am happy to discuss any specific concerns you might have. Best, Mifter (talk) 07:13, 5 February 2018 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Umkhosi Wokweshwama

Mifter, when you get the chance, please stop by your review of this nomination to see whether the changes you asked for have been done to your satisfaction. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 04:45, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

Hi BlueMoonset, thanks for the note. I was just looking at that when I received your message notification and sifting through the source provided. I've gone through and added my thoughts on the nom page. I hope you have an excellent day. Best, Mifter (talk) 06:22, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

DYK help

I have completely rewritten an expanded Macon Whoopees (SHL). Could you suggest a DYK to nominate? I'm unsure what to chose or how to present it. Thanks. Flibirigit (talk) 17:39, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

Hi Flibirigit, I'm happy to help. Looking at the article, the first thing that jumps out at me is the how the team received its name or perhaps how the players were paid with television sets and free rent. You could do something along the lines of:

• ... that the Macon Whoopees are named after Doris Day's rendition of the song Makin' Whoopee?
• ... that when the Macon Whoopees ran out of money to pay their players they gave them free rent and television sets as incentives to keep playing?

Or something along those lines, perhaps some form of combination. If you need any help with the nomination, let me know. Mifter (talk) 19:04, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, I'm going to try the first one. Flibirigit (talk) 23:53, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

I'm looking at the template to fill out the nomination.. and I'm not sure what to do with this:

Source: "You are strongly encouraged to quote the source text supporting each hook" (and [link] the source, or cite it briefly without using citation templates)

Does that mean cut and paste that part of the article, or cite the online source it came from? Flibirigit (talk) 00:08, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

Hi Flibirigit, what that is looking for is the external cite the facts in the hook came from. As it mentions, the way I do it is either a link to the page where the source lists the information (if its a general cite) or a piped link such as "The following text appears in this source "Quote from source text that contains the quote here"". The goal is primarily to make the reviewers life easier when they verify the citation during the approval process so as long as someone could figure out where the information came from you are good to go. Mifter (talk) 06:35, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

I think I figured it out. Flibirigit (talk) 15:16, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

Fantastic! I just made a slight change to wikilink the article on the nom page but it looks like you should be good to go. If you have any questions or if something happens on the nom feel free to drop me a line. Best, Mifter (talk) 22:16, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars (season 3)

Can you reduce the protection level of this page? I asked for semi-protection as the issues were mainly driven by anonymous editors. It should not be fully protected. Thanks. Nihlus 03:23, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

Hi Nihlus, thank you for the note. If I recall, the request made was for extended confirmed protection, however the reason I opted for full protection is because of a revert war that appeared to be ongoing, including an editor coming right up against 3RR. Additionally, after checking the contributions and talk pages of some of the editors involved and seeing edit warring notices I was concerned about things escalating further into a situation where blocking would be necessary. Finally, when looking at disputes and protection I keep in mind the goal of not putting one side in an automatic "winning" position by protecting "The Wrong Version" with a protection level that one side has the ability to edit through and the other does not (noting that one of the editors involved is not extended confirmed) as my goal is to remain neutral and provide room for involved parties to discuss. If you have any other questions, I would be happy to discuss further. Best, Mifter (talk) 06:31, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

It was one editor working against the consensus reached up until that point and one who (although correct) was edit warring to include it. Full protection is not needed, as I stated above, and is preventing others from updating the page based on the show results from last night. I intended to ask for semi-protection so that was a misclick on my end. That being said, per WP:RFRPL, I am asking you before asking there in the hopes of saving time. If there are further issues with the problematic user, I will simply take it to WP:ANEW. Thanks. Nihlus 06:45, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

Hi Mifter, I'm one of the users in the alleged edit warring incident. I also wanted to request that the protection level be lowered to semi-protection. A new episode aired last night and there is much to add to the article (I did leave an edit request on the talk page). The other user involved in the edit war refuses to participate in the ongoing discussion about one of the contestants progress. Multiple editors have asked the user to participate in the discussion with out right refusal and I myself have pinged the editor in the discussion to try and get them to participate with no luck. Other than some vandal IP edits this is really the only issue. If you were to lower it to semi-protected and the issue arises again I'll be sure to take it further in the appropriate area. Brocicle (talk) 17:54, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for the clarification Nihlus and for the note Brocicle. I appreciate the additional context and information. However, looking at Dallasansel's talk page it looks like he is a new editor and that has not really been provided welcome information nor had our policies explained to him outside the use of templated warnings. When dealing with new editors (in this case one who has been here less than two weeks) we need to take extra steps to explain how Wikipedia operates and not drive them away as they almost certainly do not understand or even know of our myriad of policies. A question I had when looking at this is Dallasansel even aware the article has a talk page or how pings work? It was not linked on his talk page nor any information provided aside from very short comments. Looking at his editing, he has responded to messages on his talk page with at least an attempt to discuss the points raised (note that I am making no judgment about the arguments on either side) and being that there is an editing dispute among users with varying permission levels (extended confirmed, auto-confirmed, and anon) I believe that full protection remains the appropriate response and action so that neither side is put in a situation where blocks become necessary. Thank you, I am happy to discuss further should you wish. Best, Mifter (talk) 22:12, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

This is the second course of action you have taken in as many weeks that is extremely questionable. I will be seeking to have someone else undo it. Nihlus 22:16, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

Nihlus, when you've got two ECP, one AC, and one IP all edit-warring, you put down the strongest protection to avoid an undue advantage. I fully expect any admin looking over this protection will see exactly what Mifter (and now I) have seen. Primefac (talk) 22:22, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

@Primefac: There's one AC user and multiple IPs slow-burn edit-warring (some of which I believe to be the AC user). The one AC user can be dealt with separately if it continues (which it likely will as discussion has gone no where with the individual), so protecting the page from one user isn't within the purview of full protection. And, it's not a matter of undue advantage; consensus has been reached with a previous RfC and multiple discussions on the talk page. The full protection has solved nothing but to delay the inevitable from happening, which is why I asked to have it reduced (or removed if you are so inclined). Nihlus 22:28, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

Well, you're always welcome to request a decrease at WP:RFPP. Primefac (talk) 22:39, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Mifter. You have new messages at Northamerica1000's talk page.
Message added 19:09, 10 February 2018 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Regarding the DYK process. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 19:09, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

A question about a message from MifterBot

Hi, Mifter. I've just seen a user talk page message from MifterBot about an image without licensing information, and I notice that it says "If you don't indicate the copyright status of the image on the image's description page, using an appropriate copyright tag, it may be deleted some time in the next seven days. "Shouldn't that be "... some time after the next seven days"? The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 20:35, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

Hi JamesBWatson, thank you for your note. That is an excellent point, I believe the original wording was due to copyvios being deleted in less than seven days (though I am not certain exactly) but I certainly can tweak the language to "after" as it would seem to make the most sense. Best, Mifter (talk) 06:17, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

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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WikiCup 2018 March newsletter

And so ends the first round of the competition, with 4 points required to qualify for round 2. With 53 contestants qualifying, the groups for round 2 are slightly smaller than usual, with the two leaders from each group due to qualify for round 3 as well as the top sixteen remaining users.

Our top scorers in round 1 were:

• Aoba47 led the field with a featured article, 8 good articles and 42 GARs, giving a total of 666 points.
• FrB.TG , a WikiCup newcomer, came next with 600 points, gained from a featured article and masses of bonus points.
• Ssven2, another WikiCup newcomer, was in third place with 403 points, garnered from a featured article, a featured list, a good article and twelve GARs.
• Ceranthor, Numerounovedant, Carbrera, Farang Rak Tham and Cartoon network freak all had over 200 points, but like all the other contestants, now have to start again from scratch. A good achievement was the 193 GARs performed by WikiCup contestants, comparing very favourably with the 54 GAs they achieved.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 1 but before the start of round 2 can be claimed in round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews.

If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Cwmhiraeth (talk) and Vanamonde (talk) 15:27, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Macon Whoopees (SHL)

On 23 February 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Macon Whoopees (SHL), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Macon Whoopees were named after Doris Day's rendition of the song "Makin' Whoopee"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Macon Whoopees (SHL). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Macon Whoopees (SHL)), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Thanks for the help. Cheers! Flibirigit (talk) 00:17, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

Thanks! Mifter (talk) 01:52, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

Armenia received the franchise of Miss Universe TODAY! Let's add the country on Wikipedia. The Press Release is coming soon!

Hey I just opened Wikipedia and it is locked and needed approval. Could you open the wikipedia of Miss Universe 2018? I sent a link too for Armenia News. Thank You. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hearmesir (talk • contribs)

Hello, after checking it appears that the page is pending-changes protected and can still be edited. Once you make an edit it will be reviewed and once approved be live for all to view. The protection is in place due to a history of uncited additions and I will be happy to review the page to see if I believe the protection is still warranted. Mifter (talk) 01:54, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

A year ago ...

law enforcement
... you were recipient no. 1584 of Precious, a prize of QAI!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:23, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

Thank you! Mifter (talk) 01:58, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

Message from Crlegendy

I want to grant Wikipedia the "GNU Free Documentation License" -- so, where can I just click "agree!" ? (wherever I click, I always just get some new information page... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Crlegendy (talk • contribs) 19:07, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

Hello and Welcome to Wikipedia! It looks like you were able to add a license to the image. In the future, if you need to locate one, they are all available here and can be added by copying the {{TemplateName}} and then adding it to the image page. Please let me know if you have any questions. Best, Mifter (talk) 01:58, 9 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)

This is ridiculous

I uploaded File:Craig tube.jpg at 21:49 2018-03-31.

You tagged me and it for failing to provide rationale and copyright info at 22:00 2018-03-31.

At 22:02 2018-03-31, I supplied that info. I was in the middle of trying to get those details correct (which is bloody difficult even if you've done it before) when you tagged me and it.

How to encourage serious editors like me. Not.

I've lost a fair-use image in the same way before, because it got tagged halfway through my posting the fair use rationale. I can't be arsed to try to reinstate it. File:Burgervlotbrug - vlotbrug.jpg. Wikipedia and its readers loss, not mine. Narky Blert (talk) 22:18, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

It takes me (an editor who has made more than 130,000 constructive edits) about 15 minutes to get the fiddly non-intuitive but very necessary (I am a retired IP lawyer) copyright tags right as best I can. If I can't meet your bot's deadline, who shall 'scape whipping? Narky Blert (talk) 22:29, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

It has taken me something over 40 minutes to address the problem which your bot caused for me. I had other things to do in that time, like try to fix things in Category:Articles with links needing disambiguation. Narky Blert (talk) 22:47, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

Narky Blert, forgive me if I'm coming across as rude, but the bot tags a page letting the uploader know they have seven days to fix the issue. If it only takes you an hour to get everything formatted correctly, just do so and remove the notice. Primefac (talk) 00:00, 1 April 2018 (UTC) (please ping on reply)

It didn't take me an hour to fix the issue (though even that's too much). It took me 15 minutes trying to get the tags right, and an additional 40 minutes trying to work out what I might have got wrong after I had been tagged and ended up complaining about it here. Not good. Total and utter waste of my time. And now, another 50 minutes or more wasted replying here.

And, I still don't know if I got the tags right on that upload. It was reviewed by a bot before I'd completed my work. AFAIK, no human being has ever looked at it. It looks to me that if I'd been in time, or had been savvy enough, I could have tagged my upload with meaningless inaccurate shite and no-one would have ever been the wiser.

"Just remove the notice" is no answer. I see WP:PROD, WP:AFD and WP:DB tags where the notice has "just been removed" more or less every day, usually by the article creator, almost always wrongly, almost always put back if spotted. Narky Blert (talk) 00:53, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

@Primefac: I have a personal rule: if someone adds a maintenance tag to one of my Wiki pages where I have done the best I can, it is out of my hands. It now needs a 3rd party to decide who is right. You seem to be saying, that it's OK to remove {{Di-no license}} tags on your own uploads without any oversight. That just feels horribly wrong. Narky Blert (talk) 01:09, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

(I think it took three of us to eventually get Forced Landing (film) (disambiguation) deep-sixed as WP:G6. IP trolls kept taking the tag off.) Narky Blert (talk) 01:18, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

Hello and thank you for your note. I appreciate your frustration but note that your message itself is also not a way to encourage other editors to engage constructively. If I recall, our upload wizard has a number of warnings prior to uploading an image that it must have license information prior to upload or the file will be deleted. In this case, my bot checks images every half-hour or so to see if they have a license template (if it is not sure it fails-safe and does not tag) and if they do not it tags them for deletion in a week. In your case, you may find it useful to prepare the license tag prior to uploading a file as there is no time-constraint or risk to tagging before the image goes live. I hope this is helpful, please let me know if you have any other questions. Best, Mifter (talk) 23:13, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

Rupaul picture

Hello, I saw you tagged File:Rupaul (1).jpg for copyright status. Upon reading the guidelines, I realized it should be deleted. I wasn't sure how to delete the picture, and I see it will automatically be deleted soon, but I wanted to let you know in case it helps in some way. I understand that in the future I can only upload photos that allow commercial use and modifications. Sorry for taking up your time and I hope you have a good day! Lonehexagon (talk) 23:41, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

Hello and thank you for your note. Its no trouble and while it looks like the file was deleted I appreciate your taking the time to familiarize yourself with our rules around image licensing. Cheers, Mifter (talk) 23:14, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

Gavin Turk Gavin_Turk_-_Pink_Diamond_Dust_Elvis,_2005.png

Hi, your bot has sent me three warnings about this image. each time I try to clarify the fair use rationale, but it seems not to like it. Can you please explain to me the best way to make sure this image remains and is not deleted. I am relatively new to this, so would appreciate an explanation in simple terms. Kind regards, Artofthe80s Artofthe80s 13 April 2018 —Preceding undated comment added 14:25, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

Hello and Welcome to Wikipedia! I appreciate your taking the time to write. After looking at the tags, it looks like you did not have a file copyright tag on the image. These tags are required templates which indicate the license of an image in a machine-readable format and enable categorization for our internal use. It looks like you added them and the notices were removed but if you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to ask. Best, Mifter (talk) 23:17, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

File:Debbie Harry by Andy warhol, 1980s photoshoot at The Factory NYC.jpg

Hello again. I did not recieve a reply from you regarding the comment above on 13 April 2018, but the image was allowed eventually. This time your bot has sent me two warnings about File:Debbie Harry by Andy warhol, 1980s photoshoot at The Factory NYC.jpg. Again, each time I try to clarify the fair use rationale, it the bot says it is wrong. I am pretty sure the fair use rationale is correct. The jpg is an image of a photograph, which is a unique artwork by Andy Warhol, so I have used the rationale {{Non-free 2D art}}. Is the bot just not picking that up? If I different rationale please advise toensure this jpg image of the artwork is not deleted. Thank you for your assistance. Kind regards, Artofthe80s Artofthe80s. comment added 17:55, 16 April 2018

Hello again. I did not recieve a reply from you regarding the comments above. This time your bot has sent me four warnings about File:Debbie Harry by Andy warhol, 1980s photoshoot at The Factory NYC.jpg. Again, each time I try to clarify the fair use rationale, but the bot says it is wrong. I am pretty sure the fair use rationale is correct. The jpg is an image of a photograph, which is a unique artwork by Andy Warhol, so I have used the rationale {{Non-free 2D art}}. Why is the bot just not picking that up? If I need a different rationale please advise within the next 7 days to ensure my jpg image of the artwork is not deleted. Thank you for your assistance. Kind regards, Artofthe80s Artofthe80s.

Hello and thank you for your note. Looking at the versions that were tagged your rationales were correct but, it looks like you accidentally placed the license templates in </nowiki> tags which cause the template to not appear, prevents the image from being correctly categorized, and caused the bot to tag your image. Another editor was kind enough to remove them (otherwise I would have done so) but in the future to avoid this be sure to enter {{Template Name}} with nothing around it on a line. I hope this helps, please let me know if you have any other questions. Best, Mifter (talk) 23:23, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

Question from VeryRarelyStable

Question, and can you please put this information on the automated MifterBot message:

When you say "add only {{PD-Self}}",

add it where?

—VeryRarelyStable (talk) 09:56, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Hello and thank you for your note. You would enter the template directly on the image page (as it looks like you ended up doing). Let me know if you have any other questions. Best, Mifter (talk) 23:24, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

WikiCup 2018 May newsletter

The second round of the 2018 WikiCup has now finished. Most contestants who advanced to the next round scored upwards of 100 points, but two with just 10 points managed to scrape through into round 3. Our top scorers in the last round were:

• Cas Liber, our winner in 2016, with three featured articles
• Iazyges, with nine good articles and lots of bonus points
• Yashthepunisher, a first time contestant, with two featured lists
• SounderBruce, a finalist last year, with seventeen good topic articles
• Usernameunique, a first time contestant, with fourteen DYKs
• Muboshgu, a seasoned competitor, with three ITNs and
• Courcelles, another first time contestant, with twenty-seven GARs

So far contestants have achieved twelve featured articles between them and a splendid 124 good articles. Commendably, 326 GARs have been completed during the course of the 2018 WikiCup, so the backlog of articles awaiting GA review has been reduced as a result of contestants' activities. As we enter the third round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met; most of the GARs are fine, but a few have been a bit skimpy.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:10, 1 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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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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EDITOR685422, May 2018

Hi. I would like to request a clarification about your Bot's post to my talk page; if the photo is deleted, does that mean I can be blocked/banned from editing at all? Also, since I'm new, can you give me some assistance regarding the assurance of the copyright status of the file I uploaded? I've been having issues and I really wouldn't like it if I am stripped of editing privileges; I have been using Wikipedia for very long (veeery long, so long, OMG, SOOO long)! It would be a privilege to seek assistance from elder (no offense intended) editors like you. Thank you so much! EDITOR685422 (talk) 13:30, 20 May 2018 (UTC)

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia! In this case as you only uploaded a single photo you will not be blocked from editing as blocks are preventative and not punative and you are making a good faith effort to understand our policies. In terms of images generally, to upload a file on Wikipedia you must have the legal right to release it under a free copyright license. If you took the image yourself you can select a license and upload it. If you did not you must have the permission of the copyright holder to upload the image under a license of their choosing. For more information I recommend you read this page. Again, welcome! Let me know if you have any other questions. Best, Mifter (talk) 02:41, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

Rollback

It's been a year since this right was removed and I never asked for it again in between. I do agree I acted unexpectedly and I have learned my lesson. If you feel, I can be trusted again, please grant the tool, else your advice on improving would be appreciated. Thanks, — LeoFrank  ^Talk 13:47, 6 May 2018 (UTC)

Hi LeoFrank, I apologize for the delay in my responding. I would be happy to take a look and consider readding the tool to your account. I have been very busy so I may take a few days but will let you know shortly. Thanks Mifter (talk) 03:47, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

Hello LeoFrank. I went through a number of your recent edits, talk page discussions, etc. and I believe you will be able to handle having access to the rollback tool again (though I would recommend you err on the side of caution when using the tool.) I would recommend you read through WP:ROLLBACK and be mindful that rollback should never be used in content disputes or where an edit summary is needed. If you have any questions please feel free to let me know. Best, Mifter (talk) 02:33, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

Thanks Mifter. Sure. Will use the tool with great caution. Thanks for your advice and giving me another chance. — LeoFrank  ^Talk 11:05, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

Peter Scholze

Hello Mifter. Would you reconsider your decision not to semiprotect? Apparently this mathematician is one of the favorites to win the Fields Medal, which will be announced at a meeting called ICM 2018 which starts August 1st in Rio de Janeiro. The last couple of months we see IPs warring nonstop to add the claim that he is already a winner of the medal. If you were Scholze, wouldn't this be embarrassing? Two months semi would cover the period until the conference starts. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 04:29, 15 June 2018 (UTC)

Hi @EdJohnston: Thanks for the note. I agree we do not want to embarrass this man (or any living person), especially due to vandalism. However, looking at the history of disruptive editing I do not believe it rises to the level of meriting medium term semi protection and do not want to be preemptive. That being said, looking deeper, I agree that doing nothing may not be the best course of action and I have applied pending changes protection until August 10 (the day after the conference appears to end). If it gets bad I would not oppose you or any other admin to bumping it up to semi but at this point believe pending changes strikes a balance between allowing editing but ensuring that vandalism is not publicly viewable. I'm happy to discuss further if you would like. Best, Mifter (talk) 04:40, 15 June 2018 (UTC)

President of China

Hello, Mifter. You have new messages at Talk:President of China#Redirect or disambiguation.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

--Bejnar (talk) 17:12, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

Responded there, thanks. Mifter (talk) 00:13, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2018 July newsletter

The third round of the 2018 WikiCup has now come to an end. The 16 users who made it to the fourth round had at least 227 points. Our top scorers in round 3 were:

• Courcelles, a first time contestant, with 1756 points, a tally built largely on 27 GAs related to the Olympics
• Cas Liber, our winner in 2016, with two featured articles and three GAs on natural history and astronomy topics
• SounderBruce, a finalist last year, with a variety of submissions related to transport in the state of Washington

Contestants managed 7 featured articles, 4 featured lists, 120 good articles, 1 good topic, 124 DYK entries, 15 ITN entries, and 132 good article reviews. Over the course of the competition, contestants have completed 458 GA reviews, in comparison to 244 good articles submitted for review and promoted. As we enter the fourth round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met. Please also remember that all submissions must meet core Wikipedia policies, regardless of the review process; several submissions, particularly in abstruse or technical areas, have needed additional work to make them completely verifiable.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Cwmhiraeth (talk), Vanamonde (talk) 04:55, 2 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.

Miscellaneous

• 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)

Image without license (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:YBTM_POSTER-12-14_04.jpg)

Hello!

You have recently reviewed an image file that I uploaded (the aforementioned https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:YBTM_POSTER-12-14_04.jpg). You correctly noted that the copyright status of the image was not noted in my upload. I was in the process of having the copyright holder complete the template here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Declaration_of_consent_for_all_enquiries. But before I sent the request to the copyright holder, I noticed that in the file for the image included the following notice: "The previous version(s) of this file are non-free and are no longer being used in articles. Therefore, they fail the Wikipedia non-free content criteria and will be deleted on July 4, 2018. The current version will not be deleted, only previous revision(s)."

I just want to confirm that this lower resolution version of the image will continue in the article past July 4th as per the explanation given under "purpose of use." The lower resolution version is more than sufficient for this article and I will not seek the permission of the copyright holder if this lower resolution version will remain with the article.

Thank you!

FarrShadow (talk) 20:24, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

Hello FarrShadow - that is correct. The older version (the high resolution copy that was overwritten with the new lower resolution image) of the file will be deleted by the new lower resolution version will remain accessible. Best, Mifter (talk) 03:40, 5 July 2018 (UTC)

Message from User:Bluecloud

Hi,

Thank you for uploading File:Deodar Cone.jpg. However, it is currently missing information on its copyright and licensing status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can verify that it has an acceptable license status and a verifiable source. Please add this information by editing the image description page. You may refer to the image use policy to learn what files you can or cannot upload on Wikipedia. The page on copyright tags may help you to find the correct tag to use for your file. If the file is already gone, you can still make a request for undeletion and ask for a chance to fix the problem.

Please also check any other files you may have uploaded to make sure they are correctly tagged. Here is a list of your uploads.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. Bluecloud (talk) 09:50, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

Hello and thanks for your message. I'm not sure what to make of it though as I did not upload the image (you did) and it looks like you fixed the license issue. Please let me know if anything else comes up. Thanks, Mifter (talk) 17:11, 15 July 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)

Publication of article

Hi Mifter how can I get the article YNW Melly published so that anybody can look it up on google google Ziggy 2milli (talk) 03:56, 10 August 2018 (UTC)

Hello and Welcome to Wikipedia! It looks like you have already created the article and I would refer you to the message left here on your talk page where another editor posted some good advice for a new editor. In general, articles on Wikipedia must demonstrate that their subjects are independently notable through the use of verifiable, third-party, reliable sources. Looking at the YNW Melly article as it currently stands, it might not be notable enough for inclusion and I would recommend locating additional sources to add to the article as a next step for improving it. Feel free to let me know if you have any other questions. Best, Mifter (talk) 20:23, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

Image Removal

I want the files Galaxy-S9-1-2.jpg and Samsung-s8-and-s9 removed already. I have nothing to get a permission or a license. Jorell Loyola (talk) 08:06, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

Hello, thank you for your note and welcome to Wikipedia! It looks like the images have been deleted, but please let me know if you have any other questions. Best, Mifter (talk) 20:25, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

Sort it out

I just used the upload wizard to upload a derivative image of a common file onto English Wikipedia. Despite assiduously following the prompts in the upload wizard, I still get nonsensical notifications like this one on my talkpage:

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Unspecified source/license for File:Post S-7 Shenzhou spacecraft-whitebg.png

Thanks for uploading File:Post S-7 Shenzhou spacecraft-whitebg.png. The image has been identified as not specifying the copyright status of the image, which is required by Wikipedia's policy on images. Even if you created the image yourself, you still need to release it so Wikipedia can use it. If you don't indicate the copyright status of the image on the image's description page, using an appropriate copyright tag, it may be deleted some time after the next seven days. If you made this image yourself, you can use copyright tags like {{PD-self}} (to release all rights), {{self|CC-by-sa-3.0|GFDL}} (to require that you be credited), or any tag here - just go to the image, click edit, and add one of those. If you have uploaded other images, please verify that you have provided copyright information for them as well.

For more information on using images, see the following pages:

• Wikipedia:Image use policy
• Wikipedia:Image copyright tags

This is an automated notice by MifterBot. For assistance on the image use policy, see Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. NOTE: Once you correct this, please remove the tag from the image's page. --MifterBot ^{(Talk • Contribs • Owner)} 13:45, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

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Now if you look at the File page in question: File:Post S-7 Shenzhou spacecraft-whitebg.png you'll see that the licence is quite clearly specified as "Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported" (the same as the original from which I derived this) in the section labelled "Licensing". The original author is clearly identified; as is the source (Commons) of the image. How on earth can the copyright be not specified?

I didn't make those sections, the upload wizard did, so if your bot can't detect the licence/author/source in the way that the upload wizard presented it, I suggest you either fix your bot or take it up with the upload wizard. Either way, it ain't my problem. --RexxS (talk) 14:03, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

Hello and thank you for your note. Per our image use policy, all images must have a file copyright tag. In the case of this image, my bot (and then another after your removed the first tag) tagged it because you did not have a copyright tag present (in your case, the relevant tag likely is {{Cc-by-sa-3.0}}). It looks like the upload wizard might not have added the tag because the current license version is now 4.0 and while completely new images should likely use the newer version, the image you modified predates the introduction of 4.0. Thank you, Mifter (talk) 20:17, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

As you are probably aware, changing from Cc-by-sa-3.0 to Cc-by-sa-4.0 is not an automatic change, and the conditions under which we are allowed to create a derivative image of a Cc-by-sa-3.0-licensed image includes the restriction that "you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original."

The consequence of that is that every time an editor makes a derivative of a Cc-by-sa-3.0-licensed image and accurately uploads it to Wikipedia for local use, there will be no image copyright tag, and I don't believe there is any obligation on my part to fix that problem. If your bot can't read ==Licensing== Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported as a licence, I'm not sure it ought to be operating. The file has now served its purpose in a local discussion, so can be safely deleted. Of course that doesn't solve the wider issues I've raised here. --RexxS (talk) 22:34, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for your note. I am aware that you cannot substitute different Creative Commons license versions (unless you are the author/have the granted legal right to do so) and the terms of the CC-BY-SA license. To be clear, I also am not sure exactly why the file upload wizard did not automatically add the template and merely stated that as a hypothesis, it could have also have been user input error or something completely unrelated. However, regardless of the wizard, our our image use policy is explicit that all images must have a file copyright tag and as a result images that do not are tagged to either have one added (the preferred outcome) or deleted. That is what the bot is built to search for and in this case it did its job as designed as text alone does not satisfy the policy requirements, which to my knowledge are in place for standardization, categorization, the media viewer, etc. Thank you, Mifter (talk) 22:46, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

WikiCup 2018 September newsletter

The fourth round of the 2018 WikiCup has now come to an end. The eight users who made it to the final round had to score a minimum of 422 points to qualify, with the top score in the round being 4869 points. The leaders in round 4 were:

• Courcelles scored a magnificent 4869 points, with 92 good articles on Olympics-related themes. Courcelles' bonus points alone exceeded the total score of any of the other contestants!
• Kees08 was second with 1155 points, including a high-scoring featured article for Neil Armstrong, two good topics and some Olympics-related good articles.
• Cas Liber, with 1066 points, was in third place this round, with two featured articles and a good article, all on natural history topics.
• Other contestants who qualified for the final round were Nova Crystallis, Iazyges, SounderBruce, Kosack and Ceranthor.

During round four, 6 featured articles and 164 good articles were promoted by WikiCup contestants, 13 articles were included in good topics and 143 good article reviews were performed. There were also 10 "in the news" contributions on the main page and 53 "did you knows". Congratulations to all who participated! It was a generally high-scoring and productive round and I think we can expect a highly competitive finish to the competition.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck, and let the best editor win! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66, Vanamonde and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:31, 1 September 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)

DYK for United States Lifesaving Association

On 10 September 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article United States Lifesaving Association, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the United States Lifesaving Association calculated that a person has a 1 in 18 million chance of drowning at a beach patrolled by lifeguards affiliated with the association? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/United States Lifesaving Association. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, United States Lifesaving Association), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Alex Shih (talk) 00:01, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

Should You Include A Composition Section in These Heaux And Hi Glich?

Dear Mifter.

Are you the one who created pages for two of Bhad Bhabie's songs These Heaux and Hi Glich? You also might be one who invented her article after being red-linked since her appearances on Dr. Phil in the dates of September 14, 2016 and February 10, 2017 under her real name of Danielle Bregoli.

No pages have been created for Whachu Know I Got It Mama Don't Worry Both of Em Gucci Flip Flops and Trust Me as of yet.

It would be better if all of these songs had articles that link with each other.

Lastly, a composition section for her first two songs has to be made from you. Both of them were set in the tonic of D-flat minor or its enharmonic equivalent C-sharp minor. Yes really.

Answer me back as soon as possible.

Yours truly,

67.81.163.178 (talk) 15:46, 8 September 2018 (UTC)

Hello, thank you for your note, and welcome to Wikipedia. I unfortunately did not create any of the articles that you mentioned and am not familiar with any of these musicians, but would be happy to answer any specific questions you might have. In general, if you would like to write an article yourself, you should feel free to create an account and start doing so. Best, Mifter (talk) 01:59, 10 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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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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Article declined

Hi. I am not sure how to work with Wikipedia yet. Anyway thank you for your message and I would like to know what exactly I have to edit in it so it would be suitable to post. Sources are at band members personal profiles, I added official site and twitter profiles. Most of them are at japanese and translated at english by second and third side - fans. Please let me know which part I have to edit so my article would become good enough to post.

I also have problem with uploading a photo. I failed to insert one from internet, those I found are also downloaded by sites - pictures band published so they are shared all over the internet.

Not sure how to do that sign too. Aries PrimalAries Primal (talk) 23:15, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

Hi Aries Primal, thank you for your message. I did not review the article, rather Robert McClenon did (my bot simply tagged an image and was the talk page message above the decline notice). However, in general, as was noted in the review, the subjects of Wikipedia articles must demonstrate that they are independently notable through sufficient coverage in reliable third-party sources. First-party sources such as band profiles, press releases, etc. are useful for some information but do not on their own establish notability. Also, in regards to uploading images, to use an image on Wikipedia, it must fall in one of our narrow fair use criteria or otherwise be free licensed. Best, Mifter (talk) 05:35, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Unheaded Post by User:Keith chau yet

Hello Mifter my name is Keith chau yet i thank you for your robot to celebrate my 100th edit, but i have a problem, when I want to make a infobox, It just turned like that:

Mifter/Archive 10

| image_caption = | map = | map_width =

Yeah like that,so can you help me to make a infobox in Tsing Yi Northeast Park please! Thanks a lot!

(talk page stalker) @Keith chau yet: You forgot to add two closing Brackets ( } ). I've moved the page to Draft currently. Geartooth ^{Friendship is Magic!} 13:04, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

Lets be partners shall we? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Keith chau yet (talk • contribs) 13:22, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

Super Bowl LIII halftime performer

Why did you put Halftime show presenter as Maroon 5. The NFL has NOT confirmed anything yet. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.205.111.248 (talk) 02:14, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia! To clarify, I did not add any information about the halftime act to the article (that information was added by an earlier editor), rather I turned on a feature called pending changes which leaves the page open for all to edit but requires that new and anonymous edits be reviewed prior to being fully viewable. Please feel free to let me know if you have any other questions. Best, Mifter (talk) 08:51, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

ArbCom 2018 election voter message

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Sara Ali Khan

Respected admin, check this edit [1]. The BLP clearly fails WP:NACTOR as no any film of her has released yet, and that user contineously removing redirect and creating her biography. You should protect that redirect instead of article. Also please check Talk:Sara Ali Khan. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.160.117.2 (talk) 19:27, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

Hello and Welcome to Wikipedia. I am not going to get involved in the content dispute and take no sides in the discussion (or the version protected). However, I strongly recommend you continue to discuss at the article's talk page prior to the protection expiring. Both you and the other editor have been edit-warring and if this behavior continues after the protection expires, longer term protection or blocks may be necessary. Please feel free to let me know if you have any additional questions. Best, Mifter (talk) 19:36, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

Really sorry for that, and You are right but before the protection, you should revert to the condition in which it was before, like this [2]. I also raised my question at Talk:Sara Ali Khan. That page was a redirect not an article before dispute. Its now look like that you agreed to the other's user proposal (who was also engaged in edit war) and i was wrong.119.160.117.2 (talk) 19:40, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

(edit conflict) Thank you for your note. It is my general practice during an edit war to simply protect an article as it currently stands (excluding obvious vandalism, etc.) to remain uninvolved. At this time, I am not going to change the version of the article currently protected until a consensus has been reached on the article's talk page or elsewhere. As I said above, I take no position in the dispute, but when protecting an article, it is inevitable someone feels the "wrong version" was protected. I have pinged editors who may wish to comment on the talk page and will let the discussion proceed from there. Best, Mifter (talk) 19:49, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

Ok admin i will wait and follow that Talk page too, because i know what i am saying is according to the policies. Thank You 119.160.117.2 (talk) 19:51, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Cecilia, vergine romana

Hi, thanks for promoting the special occasion hook. FYI, it's a good idea to include that hidden note: <!--Special occasion hook for November 22--> so it won't get moved out of the queue by an unknowing administrator. Thanks again, Yoninah (talk) 10:44, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

That makes sense, thanks. Mifter (talk) 17:29, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

Erroneous bot message

Hi Mifter, I uploaded a CC-by-na 2 image [3] which still got marked as having no license. Part of the problem is that when uploading only CC 4 licenses can be selected which are not appropriate. I'm not going to label a CC-by-nc 2 as a CC-by-sa 4 image. It's off-putting and time consuming to get these automatic message after doing everything right - selecting and uploading a CC image. :-( — J.S.^talk

@Jakob Suckale: Hello and thank you for your note. You are absolutely right to not pick an incorrect license from the list as only the image's author/copyright holder can change a file's license and anyone else doing so is improper and approaches copyright infringement. As Wikipedia requires that all images have a file copyright tag and not just text indicating a license, my bot is configured to tag all images without a license template (subject to various fail safes, etc.) for review. However, in your case, the reason that CC-by-nc 2.0 did not appear as a template option on the upload page is because licenses that restrict commercial use are not considered free licenses (unless they are multi-licensed with one that is free) and thus are not permitted on Wikipedia. Unfortunately because of this I have tagged the image for deletion. I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news, please let me know if you have any questions. Best, Mifter (talk) 17:45, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

EverQuote protection: could you please protect the version BEFORE the POV editor made his most recent change

• EverQuote (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Thanks for protecting the EverQuote article, which has been under attack by a persistent POV editor. Unfortunately, its current frozen state incorporates that POV editor's changes rather than the previous stable state of the article. Could you or some other admin reading this page please undo the most recent change by the IP editor before re-protecting the article? I am working on a cleanup/improvement that I think will satisfy the IP's concern without incorporating his POV tone, but that is on the article talk page, where I hope other editors will also comment before we make changes to the article. All best, HouseOfChange (talk) 00:37, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

Per a block of the IP at AN3 another alternative might be to lift the protection of EverQuote. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 03:03, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

Hi HouseOfChange, I'm sorry for the slight delay in responding, I was away for a few days. As the protection has expired (and the page is now unprotected) you should now be able to incorporate the edits from the talk page into the article. EdJohnston, thanks for the update on the IP. Best, Mifter (talk) 02:21, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

Thanks Mifter, and also pinging EdJohnston about the ongoing problem with EverQuote. The SPA trying to add his negative opinion of EverQuote to the article seems to have a bunch of different IP addresses. several editors are trying to get his attention concerning RS, NPOV, etc. but so far no listening happens. If there is a protection level that lets people with more than 500 edits (for example) work on the article, I think that would solve the disruption at this time. Because the IP address keeps shifting, blocking one address accomplishes little here. HouseOfChange (talk) 16:51, 19 November 2018 (UTC).

@HouseOfChange and EdJohnston: I am here to make a point that blocking IPs is a futile endeavor. To help get it across, you may consider this a legal threat too. 2600:1003:B843:3D03:585E:2373:8816:3855 (talk) 05:00, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

@EdJohnston: This is a weird situation, any suggestions? HouseOfChange (talk) 09:35, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

I'm going to go with WP:DENY in this case as the article is already locked down and leave it at that. Mifter (talk) 17:25, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

In my opinion, edit warring from a fluctuating IP violates WP:SOCK, so I went ahead with two months of semiprotection of EverQuote. The IP was previously blocked 48 hours per a report at WP:AN3. What seems to be the same person is now editing from a different part of the Special:Contributions/2600:1003::/32 range. But I don't think we could justify a /32 rangeblock for this amount of abuse, so semiprotection would be a better choice. EdJohnston (talk) 18:08, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Mifter. You have new messages at Template:Did you know nominations/Wolfgang Rennert.
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Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 13:14, 24 November 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll respond over there. Best, Mifter (talk) 23:28, 24 November 2018 (UTC)

RE: Image without license

Edit. Nevermind, found what I was looking for, feel free to delete whenever.

Thanks

--Abbazorkzog (talk) 19:12, 24 November 2018 (UTC)

No problem Abbazorkzog. Welcome to Wikipedia and feel free to let me know if you have any other questions. Best, Mifter (talk) 23:28, 24 November 2018 (UTC)

Tito Ortiz and Chuck Liddell

Hi Mifter, thank your for blocking vandalised IP editors, but both pages need to be temporary protected as many editors vandalised the pages. Pls see both history pages. Thank you. CASSIOPEIA^(talk) 07:07, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up. It looks like some other admins have protected the pages in the interim. Best, Mifter (talk) 03:25, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

Captain Underpants

Hi Mifter, thank you so much for protecting the Captain Underpants article to prevent unknown editors from vandalizing the page. The protection may be only temporary (until December 27), but that's OK! We never want to start another edit war, right? Thanks again....SirZPthundergod9001 (talk) 08:55, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

I am glad you are pleased with the outcome. Best, Mifter (talk) 02:40, 30 November 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Admin's Barnstar
	Thanks for cleaning up the mess at ref desks! ―Abelmoschus Esculentus talk / contribs 04:34, 2 December 2018 (UTC)

Thank you very much for the kind words Abelmoschus Esculentus! In all honesty, Oshwah deserves much of the credit as his work in the area, especially with oversight, is indispensable. Best, Mifter (talk) 04:53, 2 December 2018 (UTC)

Nah, man... You've been at it all day like I have been. You deserve gratitude as well :-) ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 05:10, 2 December 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.
• Since deployment of Partial blocks on Test Wikipedia, several bugs were identified. Most of them are now fixed. Administrators are encouraged to test the new deployment and report new bugs on Phabricator or leave feedback on the Project's talk page. You can request administrator access on the Test Wiki here.

Arbitration

• Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 3 December 2018. Please review the candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page.

Miscellaneous

• In late November, an attacker compromised multiple accounts, including at least four administrator accounts, and used them to vandalize Wikipedia. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately. Sharing the same password across multiple websites makes your account vulnerable, especially if your password was used on a website that suffered a data breach. As these incidents have shown, these concerns are not pure fantasies.
• Wikipedia policy requires administrators 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.

Obituaries

• Shock Brigade Harvester Boris (Raymond Arritt) passed away on 14 November 2018. Boris joined Wikipedia as Raymond arritt on 8 May 2006 and was an administrator from 30 July 2007 to 2 June 2008.

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User talk:Wellspring Consultancy

I originally left a message on User talk:Orangemike, as the original administrator who blocked the subject-noted account. However, it appeared his account was compromised and globally blocked. As such, I am deferring to another administrator and you may wish to revoke talk page access.--Cahk (talk) 08:37, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

Hi Cahk, thanks for the note. Based on their continuing to post promotional material there even while blocked, I've revoked the user's talk page access. Best, Mifter (talk) 08:41, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Mifter. You have new messages at Template:Did you know nominations/Wolfgang Rennert.
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Thanks, I'll respond there. Best, Mifter (talk) 22:50, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

PC-changes at IndiGo

Hello there, Mifter, hope you're doing well. Can you (or Vanamonde93) please remove the configuration of pending changes from the article? The latest amount of unsourced modifications is too high and is becoming a burden for those who keep an eye on the article. I'm asking you here because you were the first one that configured pending changes for the article. I think plain semi-protection would be much better for now. Please let me know if I should place a formal petition at WP:RPP. Thanks.--Jetstreamer ^Talk 18:10, 7 December 2018 (UTC)

I have taken the liberty of applying long-term semi-protection to the article. Mifter, if you disagree, please feel free to modify this without consulting me. Vanamonde (talk) 18:19, 7 December 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for handling this Vanamonde, no objections from me. Best, Mifter (talk) 21:33, 7 December 2018 (UTC)

Vandalism

Hey! Just wanted to let you know, I wasn't trying to vandalize a page - I had to be here for a class assignment. Very sorry for the inconvenience. Didn't mean to cause problems, would not normally be attempting to insert books into TV articles. Have a good day! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anotherwordforchocolate (talk • contribs) 04:44, December 7, 2018 (UTC)

Hi Anotherwordforchocolate and welcome to Wikipedia. Looking at your contributions, they are not (in any way) the reason I protected Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (TV series), rather, it was the disruptive edits, of a few anonymous editors which led me to protect the page. As your account is autoconfimed, you should still be able to edit the article even with the protection in place. Please feel free to let me know if you have any questions. Best, Mifter (talk) 21:54, 7 December 2018 (UTC)

Template:If then show

Thank you for fixing the vandalism on Template:If then show. However, I don't know if this was an unintentional clash, but you raised to protection-level of the template to admin-only seconds after Oshwah had set it to template-editor. Generally, template editors are more competent than admins in dealing with problems concerning templates and modules, so excluding them from editing a template rarely makes sense. In this case, although the template is unlikely to need further editing, it is somewhat unsettling to find that I can no longer maintain a template that I wrote. Would you be kind enough to reconsider the protection level you placed, and restore it template-editor, please? In the interest of not fragmenting conversations, I'll be happy to continue any dialogue here; I have this page watchlisted. --RexxS (talk) 14:46, 7 December 2018 (UTC)

Hi RexxS, thanks for your note. I was not aware that Oshwah and I had protected the same page at essentially the same time (a user told us on IRC that there was an issue with a template so a bunch of admins were looking at it simultaneously) however I have no problem lowering the protection to TE and have gone ahead made the change. Though, I am not sure I agree that template-editors generally are more competent than admins in this area. While I know some admins who are (self-admittedly) not great at working with templates, I know quite a few who are excellent at it and protecting a template (TE, full, or some other level) is primarily about reducing our attack surface rather than a matter of questioning competency. Thank you for your work on this. Best, Mifter (talk) 21:48, 7 December 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for restoring the TE-level protection on the template. I can understand your reluctance to accept my argument that template editors are generally more competent with templates and modules than administrators, but you only have to compare the requirements for adminship at RfA (which studiously omit any requirement for competence with templates and modules) with the bar set at WP:TPEGRANT, which in my experience most admins would not meet. Naturally, some of the most competent here will be admins, but that tends to be by coincidence rather than by design. There are so few template editors compared with admins that the change of attack surface is negligible; and I'll add that I'm unaware of any problem caused by a compromised TE account, while I'm sure you're as aware as I am of the issues caused by compromised admin accounts (although admittedly that may be an artefact of the relative sizes of the groups). It's also worth considering that if you reduce the number of users able to edit a page, you also reduce the number of users able to fix problems (however caused) in a timely manner. TEs will be very likely to have a number of templates and modules on their watchlist and will probably be the usual maintainers of them. I'll still recommend to you that your default protection level for modules and templates should be TE, for all the reasons I've suggested. Cheers --RexxS (talk) 22:11, 7 December 2018 (UTC)

I appreciate your note and I will certainly consider your arguments further though I fully admit that as of now, I do not agree with all of them. Personally, I am less concerned with who is "more competent" based on an arbitrary user flag and more focused on having the right people do the job that needs doing. It could be an anon suggesting a fix or new template, or an admin (or if you prefer, a template editor) coming up with something new, so long as it improves the project, it is a good outcome regardless of who came up with, or implemented it. Best, Mifter (talk) 02:15, 8 December 2018 (UTC)

Queue 2

Hi, thanks for promoting this to the queue. Could you switch the Angela Brower and worm hooks, so we can alternate bios and non-bios? Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 22:10, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

@Yoninah:  Done, my apologies for forgetting to check the balance prior to promoting. Best, Mifter (talk) 22:15, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

No worries. Thanks! Yoninah (talk) 22:20, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/People's Redemption Council

Please see note on your DYK review. Yoninah (talk) 14:23, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Thanks Yoninah, I've responded there. Best, Mifter (talk) 15:43, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Ofra

Hello Mifter, there are a number of other settlement articles that are already protected. Eg Modi'in Illit, Ma'ale Adumim. Yes, many of them are not, but that is because protection has only been applied where requested due to disruptive edits by non extended confirmed editors. Since you declined protection there has been another violation of the general prohibition (here). The settlement articles have always been considered to be included in the topic area, there are tens of AE threads about them. The talk page also includes the ARBPIA banner. I ask that you reconsider declining protection. nableezy - 23:17, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Hi Nableezy, thanks for your note. I'm currently  Checking... and digging a little deeper to see what has been discussed at AE, etc. previously. I'll respond fully shortly and ping you when I do. Best, Mifter (talk) 23:20, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Nableezy - the article is now indefinitely ECP protected. It looks like the settlements are a bit of a patchwork if they are protected or not and AE appears to reflect that. However, given the content of the two editors edits and the general prohibition's goal of minimizing disruption, I have protected the article. Best, Mifter (talk) 01:11, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

Thank you very much. My understanding regarding the patchwork of this is that its been decided that ECP wouldnt be imposed preemptively, but only when an article shows disruption that it would prevent. So only articles that have had protection requested with disruptive activity evident in the history are protected. nableezy - 01:15, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Admin's Barnstar
	If handling two requests gets a barnstar then handling more than a dozen surely deserves one! :) Galobtter (pingó mió) 07:09, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the kind words Galobtter! Best, Mifter (talk) 21:41, 12 December 2018 (UTC)