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Administrators' newsletter – February 2023
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- Following an RfC, the administrator policy now requires that prior written consent be gained from the Arbitration Committee to mark a block as only appealable to the committee.
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Money Mike Sandberg
Hi Minorax,
The 3 photos (via links below) are my own work. How do I “cite/code” that it’s my own images because my pages are up for deletion very soon?
Thank you.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Money_Mike_Sandberg_artist_profile_picture.jpeg
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Money_Mike_Sandberg_artist_picture.jpeg
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Money_Mike_Sandberg_-_Reflection_album.jpeg
Sincerely, Michael Music11791 (talk) 12:03, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
3000-Combat Single Image
I created that image myself, and I do not wish for that image to be deleted. Please do not delete the image. In the meta of the image I specifically said that it was my own work. Exaltist Ethan (talk) 19:18, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
Hiya! I had to roll back over this change of yours. I think I re-did your change properly, but you might want to double check. Thanks! --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 18:43, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
- seems fine. thanks. --Minorax«¦talk¦» 07:14, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
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File:Haidar Hadi.png
Hi Minorax. When you come across a low-res file with questionable licensing or a claim of "own work" like File:Haidar Hadi.png, you might first want to try a Google reverse image or TinEye search because in most cases the original image can be found somewhere online. There's nothing wrong per se with bring such files up for discussion at FFD, but sometimes they can be tagged for speedy deletion instead per WP:F9. If you're unable to find any other versions of the file online, but it's still pretty obvious that it's not "own work", you could also probably tag the file with {{npd}} per WP:F10. It can also sometimes be helpful to check the uploader's talk page or contribution history to see if there's anything about the file mentioned. If you look at User talk:Hadi Haidar Hadi#Speedy deletion nomination of File:Haidar Hadi.png, you'll see a file with this same name was previously nominated for speedy deletion per F9 back in 2017. That file was deleted per this, but then re-uploaded the same day. Sometimes it's a different file with the same name, but sometimes it's the same file simply re-uploaded. Asking an admin to check which is which is often faster than FFD, and an admin will delete the file as a copyvio if it's the same file. -- Marchjuly (talk) 14:17, 26 February 2023 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – March 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2023).
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Guideline and policy news
- Following a request for comment, F10 (useless non-media files) has been deprecated.
- Following a request for comment, the Portal CSD criteria (P1 (portal subject to CSD as an article) and P2 (underpopulated portal)) have been deprecated.
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Technical news
- The results of the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey have been posted.
Arbitration
- Remedy 11 ("Request for Comment") of the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been rescinded.
- The proposed decision for the Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 case is expected 7 March 2023.
- A case related to the Holocaust in Poland is expected to be opened soon.
Miscellaneous
- The 2023 appointees for the Ombuds commission are AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, JJMC89, MdsShakil, Minorax and Renvoy as regular members and Zabe as advisory members.
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Eagleash (talk) 10:51, 3 March 2023 (UTC)Disambiguation link notification for March 5
An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Alba Berlin, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Israel González.
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Speedy deletion nomination of File:BPIFfamily-BPIF-A4P.png
Huh??? Can you take a look and tell me what's going on? Over the months of Jan - Feb, for various reasons I took on the task of fixing, updating, and even authoring new pages for a multigene family that includes BPIFA1, BPIFA2, BPIFA3, BPIFA4P, BPIFB1, BPIFB1, BPIFB2, BPIFB3, BPIFB4, BPIFB5P, BPIFB6, and BPIFB9P. I prepared a schematic diagram of the whole group and highlighted each gene/protein in yellow and saved each as a separate image. I then included each corresponding image in the WP page for each gene/protein. So far, so good. But I just got a message that one of those images has been tagged for speedy deletion (File:BPIFfamily-BPIF-A4P.png). Obviously I'm going to contest that since there is zero reason for it to be deleted and there are over a dozen reasons why it's important and should stand. But when I inspect that file, there is no tag. There is no button to "Contest this speedy deletion." I'm guessing there was a mistake, but whatever it is, can you please check this and help prevent deletion of this figure? Thanks. Lapabc (talk) 02:28, 7 March 2023 (UTC)
- You created a local page for said file but I believe that you intended to edit File:BPIFfamily-BPIF-A4P.png. --Minorax«¦talk¦» 11:31, 7 March 2023 (UTC)
- I'm sorry, I don't understand what you mean by "local page". Did I create two copies of that image -- one as an image file and one as a local page? If there is local page, I don't see where it is -- or did it already get deleted? My only concern is that the image located in File:BPIFfamily-BPIF-A4P.png is properly linked to the BPIFA4P page.Lapabc (talk) 23:24, 7 March 2023 (UTC)
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141Pr {contribs/Best page} 09:17, 11 March 2023 (UTC)Your submission at Articles for creation: Keravnos has been accepted
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KylieTastic (talk) 10:54, 11 March 2023 (UTC)File:Steenbok-distribution.jpg
If you delete this file, you will need to remove the cross-reference to it from the svg file on Commons, but without removing original "based on" authorship—GRM (talk) 17:48, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
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Orphaned non-free image File:Crimewatch (Singaporean TV series).jpg
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Stub sorting
Hi. I've been doing stub sorting on behalf of the Pennsylvania WikiProject, and have kept most of the Pennsylvania articles that I've worked on on my watchlist to keep track of my progress and the progress of the articles so that I can continue updating the article ratings as they're improved by other Wikipedians. I just noticed that, while you've been doing your own stub sorting, you appear to have accidentally undone a lot of my work by re-tagging articles as stubs that really aren't stubs any longer. (You haven't been reverting me; you've just been re-tagging articles that I have just recently untagged.) I just wanted to reach out to let you know that there may possibly be a bug in whatever bot/other software you're using (StubSorter, I believe?), and also to see if we might find a way to work together so that we're not accidentally undermining each other's work? Kind Regards. - 47thPennVols (talk) 08:32, 25 March 2023 (UTC)
- Hello. I'm just doing a one time sort of stubs and probably won't go back to the Wikiproject's scope of articles anytime soon. Feel free to undo my edits if they're no longer a stub. Sorry for the inconvenience. --Minorax«¦talk¦» 08:36, 25 March 2023 (UTC)
- Thanks so much for your understanding and flexibility. Happy editing! - 47thPennVols (talk) 08:38, 25 March 2023 (UTC)
Good Morning, teacher
Good Morning, teacher
Welcome, my virtuous teacher, have a happy day Mkrywlyzyz (talk) 01:47, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
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Administrators' newsletter – April 2023
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- A community RfC is open to discuss whether reports primarily involving gender-related disputes or controversies should be referred to the Arbitration enforcement noticeboard.
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- Some older web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis starting this week. This mainly affects users of Internet Explorer 11. (T178356)
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- The Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 case has been closed.
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Chi Zeta Chi
Thanks for your recent edits to various Fraternity and Sorority pages.
The cleanup of several piped names, from [[New York Polyclinic Medical College|''New York Polyclinic Medical College'']] to ''[[New York Polyclinic Medical College]]'' is helpful.
Note that when our lists show an opening date and a date of closure, we don't find it useful to place the second date into DTS format. (This one was news to me until a few months ago, when we had a discussion, and abandoned the practice.) This template is designed for table sort functions. Current sort functionality only reads the first instance of the date in that field. Revising {{dts|1904|10|25}} – October 1913 to {{dts|1904|10|25}} – {{dts|1913|10}} is harmless, but that second DTS instance cannot be invoked for any sorting purpose, to my knowledge. Jax MN (talk) 15:39, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
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Uncategorized country data templates
since you didn't see my question at TfD, what is your solution to remove Template:Country data Province of Ciudad Real from Category:Uncategorized country data templates if Template:Country data Province of Ciudad Real/doc is deleted? Frietjes (talk) 16:44, 24 April 2023 (UTC)
- I believe that the simplest solution will be to add a parameter to {{country showdata}} so that pages that uses a specific country data template will be categorized into a specified category --Minorax«¦talk¦» 13:05, 25 April 2023 (UTC)
- how do you do that? I checked the documentation (says create a doc page) and I don't see any proposals to the contrary on the talk page. the only discussion I see is this one which indicates we should use the doc page. Frietjes (talk) 14:10, 26 April 2023 (UTC)
- Whoops, that's new to me. --Minorax«¦talk¦» 04:39, 28 April 2023 (UTC)
- how do you do that? I checked the documentation (says create a doc page) and I don't see any proposals to the contrary on the talk page. the only discussion I see is this one which indicates we should use the doc page. Frietjes (talk) 14:10, 26 April 2023 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – May 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2023).
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Guideline and policy news
- A request for comment about removing administrative privileges in specified situations is open for feedback.
Technical news
- Progress has started on the Page Triage improvement project. This is to address the concerns raised by the community in their 2022 WMF letter that requested improvements be made to the tool.
Arbitration
- The proposed decision in the World War II and the history of Jews in Poland case is expected 11 May 2023.
Miscellaneous
- The Wikimedia Foundation annual plan 2023-2024 draft is open for comment and input through May 19. The final plan will be published in July 2023.
Speedy deletion declined: Draft:Akbar Haider Kiron
Hello Minorax, and thanks for patrolling new pages! I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Draft:Akbar Haider Kiron, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Not a test page. You may wish to review the Criteria for Speedy Deletion before tagging further pages. Thank you. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 18:14, 6 May 2023 (UTC)
- This notice was a mistake, I was looking at the wrong page history. The page has been deleted. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 18:31, 6 May 2023 (UTC)
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These images have been there since 22 Jan 2009 - 14.5 years - and have satisfied Wikipedia's requirements for 14.5 years.
- 1) What has changed that suddenly makes them "unacceptable".
- 2) Why, after being there for 14.5 years, do they suddenly need deleting?
Pdfpdf (talk) 13:11, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
- Simply putting "WP" as a source is not helpful for license verification. It might be okay 14 years ago, but it certainly isn't now. --Minorax«¦talk¦» 13:20, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
- So what are you, and/or wikipedia doing to address the problem that something that has been OK for 14.5 years is suddenly not OK now? Pdfpdf (talk) 13:46, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
- P.S. Further, I asked you two questions. You have made zero effort to answer either of them. Pdfpdf (talk) 13:47, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
- Well, nothing much has changed since 2009 (current). So, when this file was uploaded back in 2009, there's already a problem with the source stated. Not being found back in 2009 doesn't mean it won't get found later. --Minorax«¦talk¦» 13:58, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
 | This user assumes good faith. |
| :) | This user believes that we should all just be nice to each other for once. |
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You profess these things.
You've been on wikipedia for 4 years.
You might wish to think that someone who's been on wikipedia for about a decade longer than you might actually have a reason for their opinion(s).
You might want to think, before you reply.
Also, when someone asks you a question, you might want to think about it and actually answer it, particularly if you are "assuming good faith", "believing you should be nice", and "are trying to do the right thing".
Whatever. You won't hear anything more from me unless you ask me a genuine question to which you want a response. Pdfpdf (talk) 14:15, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
- Being on Wikipedia for n years does not mean your opinions are more wise.
- Per Wikipedia:Assume_good_faith#Good_faith_and_copyright, I informed you that the 2 files you uploaded have source issues but you're the one who's not taking it well.
- I tried to be nice, you the one who said I made zero effort in answering your questions.
- --Minorax«¦talk¦» 14:39, 4 June 2023 (UTC)