User talk:Timotheus Canens/Archives/2020

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2020

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  • Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold an RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. The RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC and is open to comments from the community.
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spihelper.js

Hello,

Thanks for a great tool. I have one suggestion. I have used the tool to close two cases in the past two days, but once I had finished the closing message, another admin had beat me to the closure. However, the tool still closes the case. What I am suggesting is that if the SPI case page has changed since the page was loaded that the tool warns the user and asks if they still want to continue. This prevents two people from closing the same case if they use the tool. Thanks, Dreamy Jazz talk to me | my contributions 19:47, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

I'll probably not have time to look at this myself any time soon (haven't done any work on that script in years), but would be happy to take a patch. T. Canens (talk) 06:38, 19 July 2020 (UTC)
Timotheus Canens, funny story...I forked spihelper (with the intent of adding a couple new features that had been bugging me, this among them, and then offering a patch), and, uh, ended up rewriting a fair amount of it and adding a bunch of features. You can find it at User:GeneralNotability/spihelper.js and I have a few fellow clerks helping me beta test it. At some point in the next couple weeks, once I've finished my current development sprint, I'd like to talk about how you'd like to deal with this - I'd be willing to take up maintainership of the script, but I'm also happy to keep my fork separate if you want to keep your version. GeneralNotability (talk) 02:24, 21 July 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – August 2020

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Copy of Deleted Contents

Greetings,

I just had two of my articles be deleted as a part of the AFD process. I didn't realize that this process deletes content from user sandbox as well.

Please can I request for the content for my personal sandbox / documentation? Thanks in advance. Ktin (talk) 04:53, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

Your sandbox pages are just a single revision with a redirect. I'm guessing that you want the actual deleted article? T. Canens (talk) 04:58, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
Timotheus Canens, Good clarification. I meant the articles. Thanks much. Ktin (talk) 04:59, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
  Done. T. Canens (talk) 05:05, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
Timotheus Canens, Much appreciated. Ktin (talk) 05:06, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – September 2020

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Nomination of 3rd Gymnasium of Agia Paraskevi for deletion

 

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Maxime Goulet (composer)

You deleted this article in 2015 due to Orangemoody long-term abuse. The AFC script says to read the LTA page before undeleting. Does that only apply to undeletion of the deleted article, or also to re-creation of an article from the beginning? I have a draft, and would like to know whether I should evaluate it according to musical notability, just as I would if it had no history, or should I be cautious because of the history of abuse? Robert McClenon (talk) 02:01, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

Only undeletion. However, if it's an AFC draft, it may well be worth paying more attention given OM's modus operandi (see Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Orangemoody#Paid editing). T. Canens (talk) 01:48, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – November 2020

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How can I get the Dizilik page restored?. The team was working on reviewing his page contents and noticed his page has been put down.

--Nyapue (talk) 07:21, 31 October 2020 (UTC)Drizilik is one of Sierra Leone's leading pop culture artists. Which is why as a team, we are concerned that his WIKIPEDIA page has been put done. Whist we are in the throes of reviewing his page contents to make sure he meets your platforms regulations, we ask that you kindly restore his page. Would be grateful if you worked with us to achieve this.

It's deleted after a discussion for failing the general and musician notability guidelines, and will not be restored unless he is shown to meet at least one of those guidelines. Note that we strongly discourage editing with a conflict of interest, and account sharing is prohibited on Wikipedia. T. Canens (talk) 03:41, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

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Restoring Drizilik's page so i can work on including verified contents

Hello Timothy,

As it is, I cannot access the page to make any changes. Can it please be put up so I can include all verified contents and also contents to show Drizilik meets more than 1 of the criteria. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nyapue (talkcontribs) 10:33, 25 November 2020 (UTC)

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