User talk:SlimVirgin/October 2018

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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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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:13, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

So...will you be reverting no matter what?

The categories I deleted for the most part lacked sources. ('Becky' didn't have any that mentioned misogynistic or slur). So it could be read as original research. More importantly, some of the entries are arguably subtle sexism at best, and inclusion of them only weaken the meaning of having validly referenced misogynistic slur entries on the page. Anyway I expect this post to not amount to anything, but some people in my shoes need reasons if they've found out some of their time's been wasted. Barely made one (talk) 17:18, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

The articles from which you removed the category (e.g. here) are clearly about misogynist slurs. SarahSV ^(talk) 18:12, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

Sorry, late reply but as I’ve suggested before, those terms are better limited to a category like this, especially when more pejorative articles like gold digger, yellow cab, and even maybe MILF don’t have the category. Barely made one (talk) 22:55, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

Nazi Germany article

Hello: with this edit you state a page cite is needed [1]. I did not add this particular sentence and citation to the article, but it does have a sfn RS cite therein. Can you tell me what you believe is still needed there. Thanks, Kierzek (talk) 13:22, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

Hi Kierzek, I've responded on talk. SarahSV ^(talk) 14:38, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

Got it. Thanks, Kierzek (talk) 16:42, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)

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Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Taiwan stations)

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Books & Bytes, Issue 30

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 30, August – Septmeber 2018

• Library Card translation
• Spotlight: 1Lib1Ref spreads to the Southern Hemisphere and beyond
• Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
• Global branches update
• Bytes in brief

French version of Books & Bytes is now available in meta!
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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:43, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

Green Park tube station

Hi, you tagged Green Park tube station with a failed verification tag. Could you clarify what you feel was unverified.

The text the citation was supporting was "Tunnelling began in 1902 shortly before the B&PCR was merged with the Great Northern and Strand Railway to create the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway (GNP&BR, the predecessor of the Piccadilly line)".

The text cited on page 181 of Wolmar says:

"... Yerkes's joint proposal melding the various sections of the Great Northern and Brompton schemes into what became the Piccadilly ... was given the go ahead by Parliament in August 1902. Various other rival proposal for parts of that route failed to get Parliamentary approval, leaving Yerkes a clear field. Indeed, so confident was he of victory that the work had already started at Knightsbridge the previous month, before the formality of Parliamentary approval."

Here the "Great Northern and Brompton schemes" are the Great Northern and Strand Railway and the B&PCR respectively. The parliamentary approval to allow the the merger was in August 1902 and the tunnelling started in July.--DavidCane (talk) 20:14, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

Hi David, I'll move this to the talk page and reply there. SarahSV ^(talk) 21:00, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

Joanna Michlic

Hi, this page is being edited by (apparently) the subject herself and is a mess as a result. Since you've done such a fine job on another Polish historian, I wonder if you could have a look and bring the page into compliance. That would be much appreciated. --K.e.coffman (talk) 01:29, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

Hi K.e.coffman, thank you for the kind words and for thinking of me. I'll look at it, but I have limited time at the moment and several WP-related things stacking up that I'd like to do, so it's unlikely that I'll get to it. It looks like a lot of work. SarahSV ^(talk) 01:40, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

Ah, it turned out that all of the new content was a copyright violation: Talk:Joanna_Michlic#Copyright_violation_removed. I reverted. But if you could keep this article in mind as a future project that would be great. --K.e.coffman (talk) 01:45, 30 October 2018 (UTC)