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The Signpost: 27 February 2022
- From the team: Selection of a new Signpost Editor-in-Chief
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Administrators' newsletter – March 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2022).
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Guideline and policy news
- A RfC is open to change the wording of revision deletion criterion 1 to remove the sentence relating to non-infringing contributions.
- A RfC is open to discuss prohibiting draftification of articles over 90 days old.
Technical news
- The deployment of the reply tool as an opt-out feature, as announced in last month's newsletter, has been delayed to 7 March. Feedback and comments are being welcomed at Wikipedia talk:Talk pages project. (T296645)
- Special:Nuke will now allow the selection of standard deletion reasons to be used when mass-deleting pages. This was a Community Wishlist Survey request from 2022. (T25020)
- The ability to undelete the talk page when undeleting a page using Special:Undelete or the API will be added soon. This change was requested in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey. (T295389)
Arbitration
- Several unused discretionary sanctions and article probation remedies have been rescinded. This follows the community feedback from the 2021 Discretionary Sanctions review.
Miscellaneous
- The 2022 appointees for the Ombuds commission are Érico, Faendalimas, Galahad, Infinite0694, Mykola7, Olugold, Udehb and Zabe as regular members and Ameisenigel and JJMC89 as advisory members.
- Following the 2022 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AntiCompositeNumber, BRPever, Hasley, TheresNoTime, and Vermont.
- The 2022 Community Wishlist Survey results have been published alongside the ranking of prioritized proposals.
Hi.
Please don't mindlessly spam me about inconsequential deletions that I'm almost certainly not going to care about. I understand that Twinkle does that by default, but you do have the option to tell it not to, and that would avoid the notification which risks waking the dog - and then he'll just want food, and the wife will wonder what's going on, and, well, you know how it goes... Thanks for your future consideration, and happy editing. Begoon 14:16, 11 March 2022 (UTC)
Spyhouse image
Hello Minorax -
I have no idea how to message on Wikipedia, I don't use or edit Wikipedia.
I'm not sure why I was contacted about the image (I was previously involved in the Spyhouse company and headed the department that commissioned these works, perhaps that's the reason, nor am I sure why you are editing because I'm pretty confident that conversely, you were not involved in the Spyhouse. Anyway, the Spyhouse development company commissioned these works in the 1990's by Duke Durfee of the DMD Group which was then NYC based. In the early 2000's when the company was briefly resurrected, former Disney and Universal Park lighting designer, Susan Lustig, redeveloped the pictures redoing the lighting and coloration, and adding the new logos and cityscape backdrop. I can assure you that anyone from Spyhouse would allow and in fact want anything from Spyhouse to be associated with Spyhouse or its team. Please feel free to contact me if there's any kind of message system here (I'm clueless how this works). 72.134.101.115 (talk) 06:56, 25 March 2022 (UTC)
Spyhouse image
Darn, I have no idea how to edit the message I just sent you (is there a messaging section? This is such a pain, I wish people would leave alone things that they aren't or were not involved in, but whatever).
BTW, as mentioned, I was part of the team that developed Spyhouse and an owner, and Sterling Long-Colbo as an owner, myself, and a few others have the rights to use these pictures, and in fact own the originals that we commissioned.
I haven't thought about this venture in a long time, so I'm not sure why anyone would edit it, but whatever.
Please feel free to message me if there's a way to.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
Best regards 72.134.101.115 (talk) 07:04, 25 March 2022 (UTC)
- I believe that the elements were taken from an online source and mashing them together doesn't give you the right to own the copyright to these images. --Minorax«¦talk¦» 12:24, 25 March 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost: 27 March 2022
- From the Signpost team: How The Signpost is documenting the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- News and notes: Of safety and anonymity
- Eyewitness Wikimedian, Kharkiv, Ukraine: Countering Russian aggression with a camera
- Eyewitness Wikimedian, Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary
- Eyewitness Wikimedian, Western Ukraine: Working with Wikipedia helps
- Disinformation report: The oligarchs' socks
- In the media: Ukraine, Russia, and even some other stuff
- Wikimedian perspective: My heroes from Russia, Ukraine & beyond
- Discussion report: Athletes are less notable now
- Technology report: 2022 Wikimedia Hackathon
- Arbitration report: Skeptics given heavenly judgement, whirlwind of Discord drama begins to spin for tropical cyclone editors
- Traffic report: War, what is it good for?
- Deletion report: Ukraine, werewolves, Ukraine, YouTube pundits, and Ukraine
- From the archives: Burn, baby burn
- Essay: Yes, the sky is blue
- Tips and tricks: Become a keyboard ninja
- On the bright side: The bright side of news
Claude Yates photo
I don't understand what you are questioning regarding this image. As I stated, the image came from a photograph in my grandmothers photo album. She knew Mr. Yates, but she, like him, have been dead for decades. Please advise. Mgrē@sŏn (Talk) 15:33, 29 March 2022 (UTC)
- @Mgreason: Was your grandmother the photographer? If so, kindly send in your permission (as a heir) to permissions-en
wikimedia.org --Minorax«¦talk¦» 08:13, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – April 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2022).
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Guideline and policy news
- An RfC is open proposing a change to the minimum activity requirements for administrators.
Technical news
- Access to Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have the
deletelogentryanddeletedhistoryrights. This means that those in the Researcher user group and Checkusers who are not administrators can now access Special:RevisionDelete. The users able to view the special page after this change are the 3 users in the Researcher group, as there are currently no checkusers who are not already administrators. (T301928) - When viewing deleted revisions or diffs on Special:Undelete a back link to the undelete page for the associated page is now present. (T284114)
Arbitration
- Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Procedures § Opening of proceedings has been updated to reflect current practice following a motion.
- A arbitration case regarding Skepticism and coordinated editing has been closed.
- A arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been opened.
Miscellaneous
- Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines has closed, and the results were that 56.98% of voters supported the guidelines. The results of this vote mean the Wikimedia Foundation Board will now review the guidelines.
Image marked for deletion: "Unused Wikipedia screenshot"
Hi. Last November I added the image File:Another example of Wikipedia "nbsp" template bug (Firefox browser).png. I referenced the image in a Help Desk query titled Spacing error in "nbsp" template, on Nov 19, 2021, which has since been archived.
I'm happy for the image to be deleted. Ghastlyman (talk) 16:00, 8 April 2022 (UTC)
hello regarding my page write2rajul
hello i am new to wikipedia, and have updated about myself and my business for the first time.. can you please tell the reason what went wrong in my article that you deleted my page ..
thanks waiting to hear from your side Write2rajul (talk) 13:51, 10 April 2022 (UTC)
- @Write2rajul: You've answered your own question. Promoting yourself and/or an entity is not allowed on Wikipedia. See WP:NOTWEBHOST. --Minorax«¦talk¦» 14:05, 10 April 2022 (UTC)
- i have a business website rajulretails.com and basically i want to create a wikipedia page regarding it...
how can i do this, like other business entities (eg. big basket india) having a wikipedia page..
how can i create a wikipedia page for my website..
please reply thanks Write2rajul (talk) 14:21, 10 April 2022 (UTC)
RE: ??
Yes. I messed up and got it backwards.
Haste, you know.
I reverted it back to your version. Shortsword (talk) 04:48, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost: 24 April 2022
- News and notes: Double trouble
- In the media: The battlegrounds outside and inside Wikipedia
- Special report: Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war
- Eyewitness Wikimedian, Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary (Part 2)
- Technology report: 8-year-old attribution issues in Media Viewer
- Featured content: Wikipedia's best content from March
- Interview: On a war and a map
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Drafts
Those were drafts, I am working on them. They were recently started. I technically don't need to use the AfC process either, and when ready, can move articles directly to the main space and have done so many times. Thank you. ♥Th78blue (talk)♥ 10:28, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
- @Th78blue: Noted. Sorry 'bout that. --Minorax«¦talk¦» 13:52, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
- No worries! Have a great day, and thank you for working on the encyclopedia. ♥Th78blue (talk)♥ 18:13, 8 May 2022 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – May 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2022).
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Guideline and policy news
- Following an RfC, a change has been made to the administrators inactivity policy. Under the new policy, if an administrator has not made at least 100 edits over a period of 5 years they may be desysopped for inactivity.
- Following a discussion on the bureaucrat's noticeboard, a change has been made to the bureaucrats inactivity policy.
Technical news
- The ability to undelete the associated talk page when undeleting a page has been added. This was the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
- A public status system for WMF wikis has been created. It is located at https://www.wikimediastatus.net/ and is hosted separately to WMF wikis so in the case of an outage it will remain viewable.
Arbitration
- Remedy 2 of the St Christopher case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to place a ban on single-purpose accounts who were disruptively editing on the article St Christopher Iba Mar Diop College of Medicine or related pages from those pages.
The Signpost: 29 May 2022
- From the team: A changing of the guard
- News and notes: 2022 Wikimedia Board elections
- Community view: Have your say in the 2022 Wikimedia Foundation Board elections
- In the media: Putin, Jimbo, Musk and more
- Special report: Three stories of Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war
- Discussion report: Portals, April Fools, admin activity requirements and more
- WikiProject report: WikiProject COVID-19 revisited
- Technology report: A new video player for Wikimedia wikis
- Featured content: Featured content of April
- Interview: Wikipedia's pride
- Serendipity: Those thieving image farms
- Recent research: 35 million Twitter links analysed
- Tips and tricks: The reference desks of Wikipedia
- Traffic report: Strange highs and strange lows
- News from Diff: Winners of the Human rights and Environment special nomination by Wiki Loves Earth announced
- News from the WMF: The EU Digital Services Act: What’s the Deal with the Deal?
- From the archives: The Onion and Wikipedia
- Humour: A new crossword
Administrators' newsletter – June 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2022).
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Guideline and policy news
- Several areas of improvement collated from community member votes have been identified in the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines. The areas of improvement have been sent back for review and you are invited to provide input on these areas.
Technical news
- Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. (T307341)
- The IP Info feature has been deployed to all wikis as a Beta Feature. Any autoconfirmed user may enable the feature using the "IP info" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features. Autoconfirmed users will be able to access basic information about an IP address that includes the country and connection method. Those with advanced privileges (admin, bureaucrat, checkuser) will have access to extra information that includes the Internet Service Provider and more specific location.
Arbitration
- Remedy 2 of the Rachel Marsden case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to delete or reduce to a stub, together with their talk pages, articles related to Rachel Marsden when they violate Wikipedia's biographies of living persons policy.
- An arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been closed.
The Signpost: 26 June 2022
- News and notes: WMF inks new rules on government-ordered takedowns, blasts Russian feds' censor demands, spends big bucks
- In the media: Editor given three-year sentence, big RfA makes news, Guy Standing takes it sitting down
- Special report: "Wikipedia's independence" or "Wikimedia's pile of dosh"?
- Featured content: Articles on Scots' clash, Yank's tux, Austrian's action flick deemed brilliant prose
- Recent research: Wikipedia versus academia (again), tables' "immortality" probed
- Serendipity: Was she really a Swiss lesbian automobile racer?
- News from the WMF: Wikimedia Enterprise signs first deals
- Gallery: Celebration of summer, winter
Query
Hello, Minorax,
I was hoping you could help me with a favor. I just deleted a PROD of a person which used this glamour image on the page File:Nadia García Díaz.jpg. It was the only use of this file on the English Wikipedia, there is a Commons image that some other projects use. I wanted to PROD it but for some reason the Twinkle drop down menu doesn't offer that option to me. This has happened before for me when I try to PROD images, sometimes the option is there but most times, it just doesn't appear. Could you do the proper tagging? You seem to be an expert with PRODding unwanted images. Thanks for any help you can provide. Liz Read! Talk! 03:23, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
- @Liz: Hello. PROD doesn't exist on commons. You can nominate it via deletion through the c:COM:RFD channel. --Minorax«¦talk¦» 03:29, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
- Oh, I could have sworn that this photo was on the English Wikipedia, not the Commons. My mistake! Well, thanks any way. Liz Read! Talk! 02:02, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – July 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2022).
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Technical news
user_global_editcountis a new variable that can be used in abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users. (T130439)
Arbitration
- An arbitration case regarding conduct in deletion-related editing has been opened.
Miscellaneous
- The New Pages Patrol queue has around 10,000 articles to be reviewed. As all administrators have the patrol right, please consider helping out. The queue is here. For further information on the state of the project, see the latest NPP newsletter.
I'm out
I tried to create a page for software thatyes, I HAVE made myself, so that people are aware of it. This process is so ridiculously convoluted and your admins or whatever the hell theyre called are so incredibly rude that Im done with this process. Its not worth it to contribute content or help when the only response I receive is "this is totally innappropriate" - what part of it is? NO response, because the people who work here are drunk with the miniscule amount of power that they think they have. Id rather NOT have a page then try and try to do this the right way, being as objective as I possibly can, only to have my time wasted by wannabe editors. So Im out. As for your policies on "advertisements" - if that had been what I was trying to create it would have been written MUCH differently. But with ZERO ACTUAL feedback this process fails. Your admins or moedrators or whatever theyre called are worthless. as an actual teacher I can say feedback matters - your people offer nothing. Goodbye Teacheradamodix (talk) 15:27, 14 July 2022 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) WP:NOTADVERTISING. If and when your software meets the WP:GNG, someone else will write an article about it. Miniapolis 14:04, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
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Zeromonk (talk) 12:23, 26 July 2022 (UTC)Query
Hello, Minorax,
I hope you are well and are enjoying the summer or winter depending on which hemisphere you are living in!
I had a question about your many PROD'd files. Often, you note in the PROD deletion rationale what article or draft the image was uploaded to be used on. Usually these pages were deleted years and years ago and I'm just wondering how you locate the original use for files when you can not view the deleted pages and this information is not listed on the file description. It seems like it would involve a lot of detective work on your part. I find it useful for you to include this data and several times it has led me back to the deleted article to see what context the image might have had in the article it was used in. Also, when you list a duplicate file on the Commons, I always check it out to see if it a better image which is always is.
I think you score a perfect 10 on finding unused and/or duplicate, deletable files so I have no problem with your tagging and it's good to clear these mostly personal photos or duplicates out of the project. I was just curious how you tracked down all of this information when you review and tag so many images. Thank you for all of the work you do on a mostly unseen activity on the encyclopedia. Liz Read! Talk! 21:25, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
- @Liz: Hello. I mainly check the uploader's talk page (and its history) or their contributions to see if there's any clue on where the files were used. In addition, I'd would also use Special:Search to search in the Article or Draft namespace and as the deletion log is visible to everyone, I will roughly know if whatever is depicted in the file is the subject of the deleted page. --Minorax«¦talk¦» 06:45, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
- Oh, that makes sense. But considering you are sometimes tagging dozens of unused files, this is beyond due diligence. Thanks for putting in the time, you might be surprised how often that a page gets tagged for deletion with no explanation provided at all on why it should be deleted! Liz Read! Talk! 18:15, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
Regarding non-free image file
Hello, you have mentioned in my talk page that the non-free file that I uploaded would get deleted within 7 days if not used in any main space article (File:Michael Adhikari 2022 film.jpg). The issue is that, the image file was previously used in the main space article, the article is now moved to the draft. For which reason I'm not able to use the image file in any article at the moment until the article moved into draft gets approved for main space. So, is there a way to keep the file for now so it can be used on the article later on when it is approved for main space? Krishna Dahal (talk) 14:54, 28 July 2022 (UTC)
- @Krishnadahal12: Hello. You can submit a refund request after the draft has been approved and moved back to mainspace. --Minorax«¦talk¦» 07:12, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
- @Minorax sure, thanks for replying.Krishna Dahal (talk) 19:22, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost: 1 August 2022
- From the editors: Rise of the machines, or something
- News and notes: Information considered harmful
- In the media: Censorship, medieval hoaxes, "pathetic supervillains", FB-WMF AI TL bid, dirty duchess deeds done dirt cheap
- Op-Ed: The "recession" affair
- Eyewitness Wikimedian, Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary (part 3)
- Community view: Youth culture and notability
- Opinion: Criminals among us
- Arbitration report: Winds of change blow for cyclone editors, deletion dustup draws toward denouement
- Deletion report: This is Gonzo Country
- Discussion report: Notability for train stations, notices for mobile editors, noticeboards for the rest of us
- Featured content: A little list with surprisingly few lists
- Tips and tricks: Cleaning up awful citations with Citation bot
- On the bright side: Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war — three (more) stories
- Essay: How to research an image
- Recent research: A century of rulemaking on Wikipedia analyzed
- Serendipity: Don't cite Wikipedia
- Gallery: A backstage pass
- From the archives: 2012 Russian Wikipedia shutdown as it happened
Hello, Minorax,
I think the PROD tag on this file needs to be fixed. Hope it's not complicated but you are very experienced at tagging files so you'll know what to do. Liz Read! Talk! 07:16, 2 August 2022 (UTC)
- @Liz: Fixed. --Minorax«¦talk¦» 11:18, 2 August 2022 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – August 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2022).
Administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
- An RfC has been closed with consensus to add javascript that will show edit notices for editors editing via a mobile device. This only works for users using a mobile browser, so iOS app editors will still not be able to see edit notices.
- An RfC has been closed with the consensus that train stations are not inherently notable.
Technical news
- The Wikimania 2022 Hackathon will take place virtually from 11 August to 14 August.
- Administrators will now see links on user pages for "Change block" and "Unblock user" instead of just "Block user" if the user is already blocked. (T308570)
Arbitration
- The arbitration case request Geschichte has been automatically closed after a 3 month suspension of the case.
Miscellaneous
- You can vote for candidates in the 2022 Board of Trustees elections from 16 August to 30 August. Two community elected seats are up for election.
- Wikimania 2022 is taking place virtually from 11 August to 14 August. The schedule for wikimania is listed here. There are also a number of in-person events associated with Wikimania around the world.
- Tech tip: When revision-deleting on desktop, hold ⇧ Shift between clicking two checkboxes to select every box in that range.
Speedy deletion declined: Krishna Amin Patel
Hello Minorax. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Krishna Amin Patel, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: I declined your request for A7 because the article asserts the subject wrote a book, which could lead to notability under WP:NAUTHOR. I would go for deletion under PROD or AfD instead. Thank you. Modussiccandi (talk) 11:53, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
File:RCSS logo.jpeg
Hello, Minorax, Thanks for leaving a note on my talk page about the missing copyright and source info on File:RCSS logo.jpeg. Please delete that file at your convenience, as I uploaded the wrong logo. Moral: If you have a chance to name a place in the American South, do not pick "Richmond", as there are already too many places with that name. — Grand'mere Eugene (talk) 05:00, 25 August 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost: 31 August 2022
- News and notes: Admins wanted on English Wikipedia, IP editors not wanted on Farsi Wiki, donations wanted everywhere
- Special report: Wikimania 2022: no show, no show up?
- In the media: Truth or consequences? A tough month for truth
- Discussion report: Boarding the Trustees
- News from Wiki Education: 18 years a Wikipedian: what it means to me
- In focus: Thinking inside the box
- Tips and tricks: The unexpected rabbit hole of typo fixing in citations...
- Technology report: Vector (2022) deployment discussions happening now
- Serendipity: Two photos of every library on earth
- Featured content: Our man drills are safe for work, but our Labia is Fausta.
- Recent research: The dollar value of "official" external links
- Traffic report: What dreams (and heavily trafficked articles) may come
- Essay: Delete the junk!
- Humour: CommonsComix No. 1
- From the archives: 5, 10, and 15 years ago