User talk:SlimVirgin/January 2020

Administrators' newsletter – January 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2019).

Administrator changes

Dreamy Jazz • Newslinger • Rosguill

Deor • Spartaz • Xeno

Angusmclellan • clpo13 • Edgar181 • Matthewedwards • NCurse

CheckUser changes

Bradv • Casliber • David Fuchs • Maxim • Newyorkbrad • SoWhy • Xeno

Oversight changes

Bradv • Casliber • DGG • David Fuchs • Maxim • Newyorkbrad • SoWhy • Xeno

Someguy1221

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment asks whether partial blocks should be enabled on the English Wikipedia. If enabled, this functionality would allow administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces, rather than the entire site.
• A proposal asks whether admins who don't use their tools for a significant period of time (e.g. five years) should have the toolset procedurally removed.
• Following a successful RfC, a whitelist is now available for users whose redirects will be autopatrolled by a bot, removing them from the new pages patrol queue. Admins can add such users to Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Redirect whitelist after a discussion following the guidelines at Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Redirect whitelist.

Arbitration

• The fourth case on Palestine-Israel articles was closed. The case consolidated all previous remedies under one heading, which should make them easier to understand, apply, and enforce. In particular, the distinction between "primary articles" and "related content" has been clarified, with the former being the entire set of articles whose topic relates to the Arab-Israeli conflict, broadly interpreted rather than reasonably construed.
• Following the 2019 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Beeblebrox, Bradv, Casliber, David Fuchs, DGG, KrakatoaKatie, Maxim, Newyorkbrad, SoWhy, Worm That Turned, Xeno.

Miscellaneous

• This issue marks three full years of the Admin newsletter. Thanks for reading!

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Editor of the Week

		Editor of the Week
		Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected as Editor of the Week in recognition of your Wikipedia career. Thank you for the great contributions! (courtesy of the Wikipedia Editor Retention Project)

User:Sj submitted the following nomination for Editor of the Week:

Our first editor of the new year is User:SlimVirgin, a 15 year veteran well known to many. She is one of WP's most respected editors; built on her integrity and dedication to building an encyclopedia that we can all be proud of. She is strong while wielding a steady collaborative persona. Her high quality contributions are related to multiple important topics and intersect with multiple WikiProjects. She highlights COI issues and calmly combats paid-editing on Wikipedia's top articles. She helps articles evolve into interesting and informative reading for our readers bringing free, complete, accurate, up-to-date health information to the public. She is a rare bright star among the sleeping throngs. The Wikipedia community appreciates her important efforts at quality improvement on this site at such a high level.

You can copy the following text to your user page to display a user box proclaiming your selection as Editor of the Week:

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SlimVirgin

Editor of the Week for the week beginning January 5, 2020

15 year veteran, known by many, respected by all. Wields a steady collaborative persona. Highlights COI issues and calmly combats paid-editing on Wikipedia's top articles. A rare bright star among the sleeping throngs. Improves WP at a high level.

Recognized for

integrity and dedication

Notable work(s)

High quality contributions to multiple important topics and intersects with multiple WikiProjects.

Submit a nomination

Thanks again for your efforts! ―Buster7 ☎ 15:45, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

Buster7, thank you, this is a pleasant surprise, a very nice way to start the year! Sj, thank you so much for the nomination and very kind words. Happy New Year to you both. SarahSV ^(talk) 16:15, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

Many congrats SV. A well deserved award. Thanks so much for all your work here at the 'pedia!! MarnetteD|Talk 20:00, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

Thank you, MarnetteD, much appreciated. SarahSV ^(talk) 03:31, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

Well I just need to say this: SV is not just the editor of the week, she is one of the top five or ten all time best WP editors ever. Few editors are able to be so hard-nosed when need be and yet so able to use a softer stance, what some may term "feminine" attitude, when that is required. Many of us, like me, do our little bits here and there, but without SV Wikipedia would not be what it is today. Congrats Sarah! Gandydancer (talk) 20:18, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

Gandydancer, I hardly know how to respond. It's very kind of you indeed to say this. Thank you! SarahSV ^(talk) 03:31, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

You are a leading candidate for the upcoming "Editor of Two Decades" award. I have admired your work for 10-1/2 years already. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 03:38, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

Cullen, thank you, I appreciate that very much. SarahSV ^(talk) 05:57, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

• Congratulations, Sarah. I'm very pleased about this. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 06:17, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

Congrats Sarah! Your old (but soon to be outed?) friend. - Chris.sherlock (talk) 07:54, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

A true friend being, of course, one who deletes one's User talk page out-of-process. ——SN54129 13:24, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

@Kudpung and Chris.sherlock: thanks. I'm glad you two worked things out. SarahSV ^(talk) 01:08, 14 January 2020 (UTC)

Congratulations for the well-deserved honor. Happy New Year (soon to be Lunar) and all the best, Miniapolis 23:46, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

Congratulations!!! Well deserved...You really are the Best...Modernist (talk) 23:49, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

Hi @Miniapolis and Modernist: thank you! And Happy New Year to you both. SarahSV ^(talk) 01:18, 14 January 2020 (UTC)

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- Donald Albury 12:17, 8 January 2020 (UTC)

Hi Donald, I hope it's okay to respond here. It's probably best to direct the IP to RfPP. I have no particular experience with the article and protected it only after an RfPP request. SarahSV ^(talk) 19:12, 8 January 2020 (UTC)

All good. I just wanted to be sure you knew about it in case you had any particular concerns. I'll do as you suggest. - Donald Albury 19:22, 8 January 2020 (UTC)

Q re Gallery parameters

Sarah, why did you dispense with the gallery parameters in this edit?

I'm partial to borderless thumbnails in galleries, but do they create a problem I'm not aware of? Or is it just a matter of aesthetic preference? Thanks -- WikiPedant (talk) 21:17, 15 January 2020 (UTC)

Hi WikiPedant, we had an edit conflict. I did try it on preview with the format you added, but some of the images looked very big. I think they look better with some space around them. SarahSV ^(talk) 00:20, 17 January 2020 (UTC)

OK, Sarah, that's fine by me. De gustibus non disputandum est. I was just concerned that there might be some technical problem with gallery parameters that I had not heard about. Thanks for your reply. -- WikiPedant (talk) 00:29, 17 January 2020 (UTC)

"One event"

What do you mean by "one event", here? The two things were five months apart. Korny O'Near (talk) 02:53, 20 January 2020 (UTC)

Korny O'Near, I meant they belonged in one section; it's one topic for our purposes. I've wrestled with it a bit more (and used some of your ideas) but it's a monster: massively UNDUE at the moment but trying to cut it down reduces clarity. It almost needs its own article but I'm not sure that would be a good idea. Anyway, thanks for working on it. SarahSV ^(talk) 02:56, 20 January 2020 (UTC)

Sure - it's a topic and a sub-topic. There may be too much text there, but until it gets cut down, I think the version I put together is clearer, in terms of both chronology and what exactly happened, than what was there, with barely any more text. I think that's the case even after the rearrangement you made (no offense). Korny O'Near (talk) 03:07, 20 January 2020 (UTC)

Your version was two sections incorporating six paragraphs. It's too much. It violates WP:RECENTISM and WP:UNDUE. SarahSV ^(talk) 03:14, 20 January 2020 (UTC)

But it wasn't any more text... would it have been fine if the text were grouped in just four paragraphs, with no sub-section header? Korny O'Near (talk) 03:49, 20 January 2020 (UTC)

That would help. The previous version (already too long) was three paras and 498 words. Your version was six paras and 514 words. My latest version is four paras and 506 words. If you want to try again, please do. SarahSV ^(talk) 04:00, 20 January 2020 (UTC)

Re: your latest, that's good, thank you. What I was trying to avoid was burying the lead of the section, so I tried to give readers a brief idea at the top of what had happened, then go back to the detail. But it didn't work. Your version is better. SarahSV ^(talk) 04:45, 20 January 2020 (UTC)

Thank you, and thanks for your help with this. Korny O'Near (talk) 16:42, 20 January 2020 (UTC)

Your input is requested

at Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Next issue/Community view before Friday.

Only 100 or so words. It should be fun and serious at the same time.

All the best,

Smallbones_(smalltalk) 01:48, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

Hi Smallbones, thanks for asking me, but I'd have no idea how to go about that by Friday. But I do appreciate the invitation. All the best, SarahSV ^(talk) 19:35, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

Page protection

Hi there. It looks like a page you protected from creation - Bandaru Danaiah Kavi - has been created again ([1]). I don't know if the protection was removed at some point, as the logs suggest it was indefinitely protected. Anyway, I am going to file the editor at WP:AIV as he shows no intention of ever stopping his creation of autobiographies. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 15:21, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

Hi Drm310, I see another admin has sorted it out. The account was able to do it because I'd semi-protected it, so he made a few more edits and tried again. SarahSV ^(talk) 19:37, 22 January 2020 (UTC)