User talk:TheSandDoctor/Archives/2020/February

Latest comment: 4 years ago by Peacemaker67 in topic March Madness 2020


Administrators' newsletter – February 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2020).

  Guideline and policy news

  • Following a request for comment, partial blocks are now enabled on the English Wikipedia. This functionality allows administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces rather than the entire site. A draft policy is being workshopped at Wikipedia:Partial blocks.
  • The request for comment seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure closed with wide-spread support for an alternative desysoping procedure based on community input. No proposed process received consensus.

  Technical news

  • Twinkle now supports partial blocking. There is a small checkbox that toggles the "partial" status for both blocks and templating. There is currently one template: {{uw-pblock}}.
  • When trying to move a page, if the target title already exists then a warning message is shown. The warning message will now include a link to the target title. [1]

  Arbitration

  • Following a recent arbitration case, the Arbitration Committee reminded administrators that checkuser and oversight blocks must not be reversed or modified without prior consultation with the checkuser or oversighter who placed the block, the respective functionary team, or the Arbitration Committee.

  Miscellaneous



20:05, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

Recreation of a page you deleted

Hello, Kindly provide the necessary assistance as I want to recreate the page Tobiloba which you deleted sometime ago. I have good improvements on the page and links from qualified sources which establish notability of the individual. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tobiloba Kojomo (talk) 14:33, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

@Kojomo: Could you please provide some examples of new sources that were uncovered and help to establish notability? --TheSandDoctor Talk 06:23, 5 February 2020 (UTC)
@TheSandDoctor: Yes, I can. https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2020/01/10/the-truth-according-to-music-artiste-tobiloba/ and https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/01/not-all-gospel-songs-are-healthy-to-spiritual-growth-tobiloba/ Kojomo (talk) 15:54, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

19:12, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

My deepest condolences, friend

TSD, I'm very sorry to hear about your recent loss. My heart goes out to you and yours through this difficult time. OhKayeSierra (talk) 15:36, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

I appreciate your comments, thank you. --TheSandDoctor Talk 15:42, 22 January 2020 (UTC)
I'm really sorry to hear that. My deepest condolences, take all the time you need. --qedk (t c) 15:59, 22 January 2020 (UTC)
Thank you very much, QEDK! It was definitely a shock :( --TheSandDoctor Talk 16:24, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

Gurbaksh Chahal

The other editor did a wholesale revert. Much of the work I did on that page was basic copy editing -- fixing grammatical errors and so on. As to his domestic battery activity, look at the last discussion on the Gurbaksh Chahal Talk page where other editors congratulate me on reaching a consensus. Have you been following this article? Chisme (talk) 05:52, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

I have replied on your talk page. --TheSandDoctor Talk 06:11, 13 February 2020 (UTC)
I replied to you on my Talk page. Chisme (talk) 18:14, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

Hello

 

Just saying hello, —PaleoNeonate03:43, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

@PaleoNeonate: Hello there! How are you? --TheSandDoctor Talk 06:13, 13 February 2020 (UTC)
Doing great, thanks, PaleoNeonate11:21, 13 February 2020 (UTC)
Hello @PaleoNeonate:. ~riley (talk) 16:16, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

New Page Reviewer newsletter February 2020

 

Hello TheSandDoctor/Archives/2020,

Source Guide Discussion

The first NPP source guide discussion is now underway. It covers a wide range of sources in Ghana with the goal of providing more guidance to reviewers about sources they might see when reviewing pages. Hopefully, new page reviewers will join others interested in reliable sources and those with expertise in these sources to make the discussion a success.

Redirects

New to NPP? Looking to try something a little different? Consider patrolling some redirects. Redirects are relatively easy to review, can be found easily through the New Pages Feed. You can find more information about how to patrol redirects at WP:RPATROL.

Discussions and Resources
Refresher

Geographic regions, areas and places generally do not need general notability guideline type sourcing. When evaluating whether an article meets this notability guideline please also consider whether it might actually be a form of WP:SPAM for a development project (e.g. PR for a large luxury residential development) and not actually covered by the guideline.

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16:08, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

Your wisdom and insight are needed at ANI

here. Sorry.-- Deepfriedokra 03:03, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

16:17, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

Kedge Business School

I was working on the article Kedge Business School to remove promotional content, adding source, etc.... 92.184.96.8 (talk) 21:51, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

You were edit warring to restore unsourced, promotional, and blatantly false content. Wikipedia doesn't work like that. Please read WP:V and WP:EW. Waggie (talk) 21:57, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
I don’t think I have invited you in this discussion. Please don’t say something wrong and careful look of what I have done. The article now is shitty with to box !! Crazy. 92.184.96.8 (talk) 22:00, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
No, you didn't invite me, but I saw TheSandDoctor's activity, and was going to comment here, then saw your own comments. I agree regarding the second infobox, and I have removed it. I'm not sure what you mean by "Please don't say something wrong". I have acted according to Wikipedia policy and guidelines. I would invite you to please discuss things on the talk page of the article. I'm happy to collaborate with you there. Waggie (talk) 22:04, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
Your last edit makes me smile. It was mine. So now my job was not so bad? Are you sure you want to work seriously? Crazy! 92.184.96.8 (talk) 22:05, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
What do you mean "It was mine." You're proud of restoring unsourced, promotional, and blatantly false content? There is nothing good about restoring a bunch of policy-violating content and trying to make it better from there. Waggie (talk) 22:11, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
I think they other contributor was right : https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=KEDGE_Business_School&type=revision&diff=941483296&oldid=941483215 ; I kindly suggest everyone relax and cool down. 65.98.241.200 (talk) 22:23, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Sunaokin

I properly filed the above case, but Elielgu was (unfortunately) renamed to Anon596 (talk · contribs · count), so the master should now be Anon596, and it should be moved (again) to that username. Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:49, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

@Bbb23: Oh, ok. I’ll update that shortly. I was just moving per Mz7 (iirc). —TheSandDoctor Talk 20:14, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
@Bbb23: Should all be fixed now. Thanks for the heads up. --TheSandDoctor Talk 06:46, 21 February 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:27, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

A goat for you!

 

I need to post an article about myself because I'm doing a research project for school. I sent you a goat because youd be a goat if you did this for me. If you want to talk to me about this my email is vanessacurtyy@gmail.com

VanessaCurty (talk) 01:22, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

Hello VanessaCurty. Please see WP:AUTOBIO and WP:NBIO. A school requiring an autobiographical article to be published should probably re-think its criteria as that probably quite unlikely to be accepted, generally speaking. Articles must be supported by independent reliable sources in order to demonstrate notability. Without that, a draft article will be declined or, if an existing published article, nominated for deletion. --TheSandDoctor Talk 02:43, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

21:00, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

March Madness 2020

G'day all, March Madness 2020 is about to get underway, and there is bling aplenty for those who want to get stuck into the backlog by way of tagging, assessing, updating, adding or improving resources and creating articles. If you haven't already signed up to participate, why not? The more the merrier! Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 08:19, 29 February 2020 (UTC) for the coord team