Per suggestion, I've archived what had been here until recently. A lot of prior material can be found at the imaginatively titled article User talk:Mandsford/Archive.

Even more can be found at [1]. Last year, I had cut out all but the highlights and lowlights of the first two years of the talk page, but didn't archive them.

"Unambiguous copyright infringement: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Giordano memorization system" - What makes you automatically assume that any copyrights were violated? The PDF version of the book that you linked to (http://www.realmemoryimprovement.com/GMS_Manual_RMI.pdf) is actually copyrighted by Vladimir Kozarenko and Ruslans Mescerjakovs, Reg # TXu1-322-757 and I have a written permission from Ruslans to use it. Can you please clear this up as I'd very much like to rewrite the article so that it is encyclopedic so speedy deleting it based on a wrong assumption doesn't help. PaulKulla (talk) 15:57, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Per your comment on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Timberwood Middle School in response to what I wrote, I have created the following in my user space:

User:TrackerTV/HumbleISD

This should resolve this whole AfD if done properly. Also, I plan to fix the remaining Humble ISD articles (it was found that all the links had been broken) and classify the elementary schools by feeder. What do you think? Raymie Humbert (t • c) 17:36, 7 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

But are you interested in a RFA nomination, your AFD insight is my opinion among the best and you sorely needed with the tools. Secret ^account 20:36, 22 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

WP:RFA is the link, requests for adminship Secret ^account 13:55, 23 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Mandsford Secret ^account 14:48, 23 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You need to accept the nomination before it goes live, and explain question number 1 more clearly you don't need the tools to warn users of incivility. Secret ^account 15:21, 24 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Is the comments you said means a withdraw? You are still passing the RFA just an heads up. Secret ^account 03:42, 27 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I appreciate your open-mindedness at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of urban areas in the Nordic countries. Now, if only the Helsinki Treaty of 1962 had produced a uniform definition of "urban area" across all those countries For what it's worth, the idea of "Nordic countries" is far better defined than the endless disputes one would get about "Central Europe" for instance... TheGrappler (talk) 13:20, 24 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

An article that you have been involved in editing, 2B (magazine), has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2B (magazine) (2nd nomination). Thank you.

Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. Lionel (talk) 00:10, 25 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Could you please "opt-in" to allow X!'s edit counter to produce detailed data for the RfA toolbox in your RfA? This can be done by creating a page User:Mandsford/EditCounterOptIn.js with any content (including blank). While such opt-in is not required, it has sort of become customary for RfA candidates in recent months. On a side note, may I suggest that you archive at least a part of your talk page? Thanks, Nsk92 (talk) 11:31, 25 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please note someone has mentioned at BN (Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard#RfA withdraw?) that it looks like you are withdrawing your RfA? You are certainly free to do so, but keep in mind that nearly every RfA attracts opposes; and sometimes a candidate's answer to a particular question might cause one person to support while another oppose - for the very same statement! The individual at BN indicated they thought you should stick it out - even though they were opposing you. Please let me know if you would still like to withdraw, and I can do the paperwork to shut it down. –xeno^talk 13:01, 27 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Try to do some WP:CSD work, and prove the opposers wrong. Secret ^account 13:14, 27 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I appreciate it, but today and tomorrow are both full days for me; on the one hand, not answering a question right away gives the appearance that I'm dodging that question, and on the other hand, trying to come up with thoughtful answers takes up time that I should be spending on my own paperwork. As it is, my wife thinks that I'm too obsessed with Wikipedia. If I need to click on something to make things official, please let me know. Mandsford 13:26, 27 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Most users realize that real life trumps Wikipedia so a delay in answering the questions - especially days into the RFA - won't necessarily be a deal breaker. On the other hand - you should probably listen to your wife unless you want to be in the doghouse! =0 To "officially" withdraw, you should strike the statement "I accept." and append I withdraw. ~~~~ to that line. –xeno^talk 13:30, 27 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Don't withdraw, you are still passing. Secret ^account 14:46, 27 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Also, the questions are optional, not mandatory, that needs to be kept in mind. -- Avi (talk) 15:31, 27 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• That makes a difference for me. Based on everyone's comments, I'll stay in, give honest answers, and let this go on to August 31. Mandsford 17:16, 27 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Cool. Thank you for your offer to serve as an administrator. =) Best of luck, –xeno^talk 17:19, 27 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Good on you. Re my support (and thanks for the lol, I have a rather.. warped.. sense of humour) I see you as somebody who tells it like it is. Wikipedia's admins (and indeed, users) should be people willing to say what they think, even when it's not what the other guy wants to hear. In our encounters we've sometimes agreed, sometimes disagreed, but either way you've a) made your opinion known and b) had a great rationale for it, even in those cases where I vehemently oppose you. Those are things I can respect, and I truly wish we had more users like you. Regards, Ironholds (talk) 17:21, 27 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Mands, I certainly do not think you should feel obliged to answer any 'optional' questions if you don't feel like it. Research has shown that many of those 'optional' questions are posed by children, people wanting quick answers to their own editing problems, general time wasters, and most disturbingly, by admins who never had to answer any any additional questions themselves and might not realise the extra pressure this puts on people, and is one of the strongest deterrents against people wanting to run for office. If I were running the gauntlet (and I might be one day), I will certainly not spend three hours answering anything up to 12 questions compiled into one 'optional' question. I would blatantly ignore it. Sorry that I could not see my way clear to supporting you this time, but do bear in mind that 'neutral' is neutral, not 'weak oppose'. I think you're on a winning streak anyway.--Kudpung (talk) 11:11, 28 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

hey man i see your an admin and i feell ive been unfairly treated by a user named Bbb23 i try hard on my edits and he goes through and keeps reverting stuff. i tried hard to find a source on muslims in the us army in ww2, and put in caps on my summary hat i wanted to find the academic paper as the citation i used only mentioned that it got its figures from the paper, he reverted my edit and has been repeatedly rude, what do i do? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Montbur (talk • contribs) 17:27, 20 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations on your successful RFA! Your bits have been twiddled. I strongly encourage and recommend that you read and become very familiar with Wikipedia:Administrators, the tools page, the blocking and banning policies, and the protection policy. Refer to the policies often, especially if you have questions. Please also don't hesitate to ask questions if you have them. This is especially important for areas where you may not be completely familiar with them or completely sure of how you should proceed. Some editors who participated in your RfA have indicated a willingness to help you out should you have questions, and I strongly encourage you to take them up on those offers. There are plenty of people around, including myself, who are very willing to help you out should you need it. Again, congratulations! ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WikiProject Japan! 18:35, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations! Now get to work! :) ~~ Hi878 ^{(Come shout at me!)} 18:37, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats. Connormah (talk) 19:47, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats as well, if you ever need training let me know. Secret ^account 19:54, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations and good luck! Tyrol5 [Talk] 20:04, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats, dude! Ironholds (talk) 23:16, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Thanks, everyone. I'll probably be asking a lot of questions, since I don't think I know it all yet. And the moment I start acting as if I do know it all, please remind me that I don't. Mandsford 00:30, 1 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations Mandsford! I'm sure you'll make a good admin. In unrelated news, did you ever send that dollar? Olaf Davis (talk) 13:50, 1 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I couldn't winkle out much about you from the RfA page or your "no frills" user page. Are you from the US? Anything more we can add? For example, any admin areas apart from deletions? Any other content areas?Link. Tony (talk) 07:55, 1 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

How's that, now? PS have you browsed through Commons for a pic or two you could put on your main page? Would be easy, especially given your penchant for history / sports history. Tony (talk) 01:07, 2 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Mandsford. First of all: congratulations on your successful RfA! Now to the business at hand. A few hours ago you closed Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/0th grade with the result "Redirect to Danish pre-school education". In an apparent edit conflict, QwerpQwertus closed it as "redirect to Kindergarten", but recanted when discovering that you had already closed it. AfD history For the article itself, the situation was the reverse. QwerpQwertus redirected it to Kindergarten, you redirected to Danish pre-school education and then reverted yourself. article history The end result is that the AfD says one thing and the actual redirect something else. Even though I !voted for the "Danish solution", I find both redirects perfectly acceptable, but it's probably best if there is agreement between AfD and implementation. I'm leaving a talkback on QwerpQwertus' talk page. Cheers, Favonian (talk) 08:48, 2 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• It should actually go to Preschool education because kindergarten is a German word and this is the English wikipedia. Note that South Africa and Sweden also have grade 0.

In such cases, where the content is complex and open to further development and discussion, I suggest that Mandsford simply state that the article should not be deleted and that the target of any merger or redirection be determined by the editors working upon the topic(s). The primary purpose of AFD is to decide whether to press the delete button and, once that is decided, the rest is a matter of ordinary editing. Colonel Warden (talk) 09:24, 2 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It's the English Wikipedia sure enough, but not the British. The originally German word Kindergarten has become integrated in American English as well as other varieties of the language. Favonian (talk) 12:40, 2 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It redirects to Kindergarten for the time being. There have been several editors who have pointed out that the concept isn't unique to Denmark; In addition to the references above to Sweden and South Africa, Phil Bridger referred to the term "Zerówka" in Poland; the history of what the article had said ("0th grade (danish: nulte klasse) is the modern Danish name for the concept known as kindergarden (danish: børnehaveklasse)." is preserved by the redirect [2]. While the decision could be appealed, it would be my hope that someone who wishes to elaborate on the concept would undo the redirect and write about it. Mandsford 15:56, 2 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. My 2 cents: I originally AFD'd this article because the concept of a "0th" anything seemed absurd (and it was a stub). BUT, upon looking closer at it, it seems the term is more of a literal translation common in other countries/cultures who have a word or phrase to describe the earliest period of education as being "no grade" or "before grade." So, it seems to me to be more of a translation issue, rather than a real concept. I suggest redirecting to Preschool education since it is a more general and applies to all forms of this type of education, regardless of the language used. Thanks! The Eskimo (talk) 19:49, 2 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I had actually meant to close it as a redirect to the Danish article too since that was the consensus(too late now), but I copy-pasted the article title from the first vote, wrongly assuming that it suggested the same redirect everyone else wanted. Actually though, it seems to be most predominately used as a word for Kindergarten in Danish, so perhaps that'd be best since it's the most used way? Or maybe a disambig to Kindergarten, Preschool, Danish Education#section, ect.? Also, if we don't decide anything here, we should probably fix it by redirecting to the Danish article per the AFD consensus. ~ QwerpQwertus Talk ツ 23:33, 2 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Oh am sam 64.138.231.250 (talk) 18:28, 15 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You probably have way more important things to think about, but when you cloae an AfD (as here), please could you note the result in the Edit Summary, I like to keep an interest but I also like the admins to do all the work, to reduce my efforts ;-) Thanks in advance (or boo hiss if you shoot down my request!) Bigger digger (talk) 22:52, 6 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, you're right on that one. I'll make sure to do that on future edits. Mandsford 23:51, 6 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Can you please userfy the pages you deleted called Ark (Transformers) and Nemesis (Transformers) to my talk page so I can work on improving them? Thanks! Mathewignash (talk)

Rudi Daniel

Found on a random article search. BLP-prod several days overdue for a deletion. Raymie (t • c) 02:18, 13 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Just letting you know that you forgot the {{oldafd}} tag for Community management talk page after closing it. I've done it for you ;) —CodeHydro 12:17, 13 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

A general discussion at WP:AN#AfD's generally closed too soon also involves some of your edits. You are invited to give your view on this as well. Fram (talk) 06:44, 17 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, I've undone your deletion of Ark (Transformers) and redirected it to List of Transformers spacecraft instead; there was a decent amount of history on the page; the target article could perhaps be expanded further by merging the content, rather than just out-and-out deleting it. There are 100+ articles that link to it, too, so this way we're avoiding a bunch of redlinks that are needlessly broken otherwise. EVula // talk // ☯ // 06:35, 18 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

When you close AfDs as "keep", "no consensus", or "merge", please place {{oldafdfull | date = dateOfNomination | result = result | page = articleName }} on the talk page for documentation purposes. The AfD result template can always be found after the AfD tag on the article, as in List of notable plot twists. Cunard (talk) 07:00, 19 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

For Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lori Douglas, you removed the discussion from the AfD log after you closed it. AfDs should not be removed from the log after they are closed. An exception is when an AfD is relisted, where the admin or user will comment out the AfD as Spartaz did here. Cunard (talk) 07:20, 19 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

When you closed Shirley Phelps-Roper, you wrote "removed tag, AfD discussion closed as keep" in your edit summary. Would you include the link to the AfD in the future? Something like "Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shirley Phelps-Roper closed as keep". From the page history, editors cannot easily access the AfD since neither you nor the nominator included the link in your edit summaries. They would have to go to either the talk page or the old diffs of the article to access the AfD.

These are some minor concerns; nothing to worry about at all. Having reviewed your closes, I am impressed by your closing statements, something which many admins fail to do, even for contentious closures. Best, Cunard (talk) 07:39, 19 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You have not added an oldafd template to Talk:Greater Bangladesh after your closure of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Greater Bangladesh. When you close an AfD in the future, please do so. Cunard (talk) 00:16, 26 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! I'd like to enquire about your closure of the above AfD. In the AfD, there was one argument for deletion due to lack of notability (mine), two arguments to merge due to lack of notability, one 'argument' to keep which was completely unsubstantiated despite significant dialogue, and one argument too keep which provided one or two vaguely reliable sources.

Your statement observed that the "need for more independent and reliable sources to establish notability [is] noted, and it appears that other editors are locating those." However, not a single third party reliable source has been added to the page before or since: since it is completely devoid of such, it transparently fails the general notability guideline, and I therefore consider your decision to have been misguided, and I wonder whether you might consider changing it? Best, ╟─TreasuryTag►Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster─╢ 16:49, 28 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I can't change a ruling without it going to debate of some sort. Wikipedia:Deletion review would be the place you would want to take this up. Alternatively, you can renominate it, citing that sources were not added to the article. Mandsford 22:43, 28 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well, according to WP:DRV#What is this page for? I can't nominate for deletion-review until having asked you to reconsider! However, I will now list it there. ╟─TreasuryTag►inspectorate─╢ 08:43, 29 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

— Preceding unsigned comment added by The Transhumanist (talk • contribs)

Hi Mandsford, Thanks for helping with the afd closures. Just wanted to point out that admins typically add the template linking to the afd to article talk pages of articles that are closed as Keep. Best, --brewcrewer (yada, yada) 20:53, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I brought this up above. Mandsford, when you remove the AfD template from the article, the {{Oldafd}} template is usually placed on the talk page. For example, Nava Applebaum contained the following text:

<!-- Please do not remove or change this AfD message until the issue is settled -->

{{AfDM|page=Nava Applebaum|year=2010|month=October|day=11|substed=yes}}

<!-- For administrator use only: {{Old AfD multi|page=Nava Applebaum|date=11 October 2010|result='''keep'''}} -->

<!-- End of AfD message, feel free to edit beyond this point --> </nowiki>

If an AfD is closed as keep, the template, {{Old AfD multi|page=Nava Applebaum|date=11 October 2010|result='''keep'''}}, should be placed on Talk:Nava Applebaum. I did that here. Cunard (talk) 23:20, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Thanks-- I'll use that as my example. Mandsford 23:21, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. Cunard (talk) 23:23, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

{Old AfD multi|page= (article name)|date=(date it was nominated)day/month/year|result=keep}

Your comment made me LOL. Bearian (talk) 23:56, 27 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings! Female Servants in 18th Century England has been accepted into the Article Incubator. Please see the talk page for the entry review and suggested tasks. Thanks.     Eclipsed   ¤     14:45, 4 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The article you offered comment on no longer exists. Using your comments as a guide, Uncle G did a complete rewrite, added some quite decent sources, and moved the article to its new name... "The Nerds". Perhaps you might wish to revisit the AFD? Schmidt, ^{MICHAEL Q.} 08:29, 7 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I love how you totally dodged the article's lack of sources. Does it not concern you that none exist? Notability is never inherited, you know that. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ^{(Otters want attention)} 04:39, 11 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You don't think that there's a source that would prove that the characters of the #1 show on television were introduced on a 2002 episode of "JAG"? The test for notability of a TV episode is whether it had real world significance. Even guys like I, who always hated the TV episode and TV character articles that predominated when I first came here in 2007, can see the importance of this one. Try something easier, like nominating "The Trouble With Tribbles", or that episode of I Love Lucy where they worked at the candy factory. Sorry 10-lb., I usually agree with you, but you can't win 'em all.

Bearing in mind your view on bus routes [3] and on redirecting without prior discussion [4], what would you think of an edit like this? If it wasn't for redirection without discussion there would be around 200 more bad bus route articles than there are... Alzarian16 (talk) 16:28, 13 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Mandsford. Please remember to use the AfD close templates I informed you about earlier (1 and 2). You forgot to do so at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Southern California Chinatowns and other recent AfDs you closed. Thanks, Cunard (talk) 00:09, 15 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I get it now-- as dopey as it sounds, I was looking on the talk pages to see if there was a tag that would need to be edited to insert the result. I've got something to paste on each one now. Gee, it's so much easier to delete an article than to keep one, and after seeing the process for a merge, I can see why admins don't like doing that. Mandsford 14:05, 15 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

FYI, this script: User:Mr.Z-man/closeAFD - is very useful. Jujutacular ^talk 21:45, 25 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

OK thanks for the tip Linda Rider (talk) 20:38, 17 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Regarding Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Roman Catholic Mariology I think there was 8 votes of 10 consensus to follow my merger proposal of a 3 way merger. Is that the clear consensus? Why is there any need for further merge discussion when 8 out of 10 votes already support. I think Afd closure should respect the 8/10 consensus expressed by the users. And if the users support both mergers, why pick one for merge and the other for discussion. No preference was expressed by voting users for merging with one vs the other except the nominator. The 8 voting users did not ask for more merge flags, but supported my proposal. I think that consensus should be respected now just as the Afd closes. Thanks. History2007 (talk) 19:02, 28 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

So you are saying that there is consensus for a 3 way merger, but we need suggestions on how to merge? If so, please state that on the Afd closure rather suggesting a 2nd round of voting on a merger for Catholic views on Mary. Your help in explicitly recommending the 8/10 consensus for a 3 way merger expressed by the voting users will be appreciated. There needs to be clarity that the 3 articles have been the subject of consensus to merge. Your help in achieving clarity as expressed by consensus will be appreciated. Thanks. History2007 (talk) 19:21, 28 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe someone else can close this to your satisfaction. Mandsford 19:29, 28 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

My apologies, but all I wanted was the acceptance of the 8/10 consensus, as clearly expressed on the page. Thanks. History2007 (talk) 19:30, 28 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have to say it takes a lot of cheek to revert an administrator. I think this is a clear example of own. History2007 is now claiming ownership of the AfD. Unbelievable.Malke 2010 (talk) 19:54, 28 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Mandsford, just letting you know, History2007 just reverted you.[5]. Now you know what it's like trying to edit Marian articles. :/ Malke 2010 (talk) 19:50, 28 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I did not revert him. Mandsford had restored to prior form. I just modified my own comment. History2007 (talk) 19:53, 28 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Did you intend to delete both the article and the AFD page or was this a glitch? :)

Looks like you closed it as "delete" and then deleted the AFD instead of the article. The AFD was restored by another admin. However, looking at the nomination and the 2 delete !votes, the first is actually the nominator's rationale and the second is making an invalid merge and delete argument. Furthermore, from looking at the nominator's talk page and contribs, there's a strong possibility that the nomination was pointy. Therefore, since the article hasn't actually been deleted yet, I think the best course of action is to relist the AFD. --Ron Ritzman (talk) 15:51, 6 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Mandsford. I've expanded the article a bit. Would you mind to check it again and perhaps clarify any confusion regarding anything I've written there? It would be great. No problem if you are not interested. Thanks. --Vejvančický (talk | contribs) 21:01, 17 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It's been awhile since the last update. I guess it's time to dust off the cobwebs. Just in time for the new year. Happy New Year!

By the way, Mandsford, congrats on your adminship.

The set of "Outline of" articles has grown to about 480. The ones currently being worked on are listed below. Please take a look at them to see if you notice anything you can add or improve. Here they are...

Recent additions include:

• Outline of basketball
• Outline of cricket
• Outline of tennis
• Outline of running
• Outline of canoeing and kayaking
• Outline of motorcycles and motorcycling

Outlines recently moved from draft space to article space:

• Outline of Saskatchewan

Outlines undergoing overhaul include:

• Outline of culture
• Outline of geography

Except for Saskatchewan, all the entries above include descriptive annotations to aid in topic selection. Please add as many missing annotations to those as you can.

To assist in the maintenance of the outlines and their support pages (such as in spotting and reversing vandalism), please watchlist them.

The wikiproject page has been overhauled. It includes tasks, guidelines, and a participants list.

See ya there!

The Transhumanist 03:20, 31 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Mandsford is a jerk. i hate him

• I understand. You have the right to seek deletion review at WP:DRV. Sometimes, depending on what the article was about, there are ways to preserve the information. Finally, something can be moved to your userspace where you can work on it at your own pace. If I knew which (deleted) article you're referring to, I could say more. Ask questions, and don't worry that you'll get in trouble, I'm not offended. Mandsford 01:48, 7 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I created the page List of songs by Taylor Swift without aware/known that the page List of Taylor Swift songs previously nominated for deletion.

The page created by mine has new layout and I really hope that it will be kept, as I will make further improvement to it. Have your say here, thank you. I will notice other users joined above AfD, too. Silvergoat (talk∙contrib) 08:39, 8 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Your closing statement notes that No argument has been made that Saarelma would be notable without benefit of WP:ATHLETE which ignores the argument I made that he seems to have significant coverage in Finnish and Estonian sources. Nfitz (talk) 19:51, 9 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Your statement was a suggestion that he would meet WP:GNG, although that's not the same as meeting Wikipedia:Notability (people). However, if you want me to amend the sentence from "No argument has been made" to "No argument has been made, except by User:Nfitz", that is a reasonable request. Mandsford 20:00, 9 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Surely if he meets either WP:GNG or meets the intent of WP:ATHLETE then it's a keep. As he does both, then the issue seems to bigger than simply modifying the closing text. Nfitz (talk) 20:10, 9 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It's not up to me to say that WP:ATHLETE means that "fully professional" was intended to mean "almost completely professional". That's something that should has to be brought up with the people at WikiProject Football. I'm not disagreeing with you about the inequities of the rule. Were it up to me, the free pass would be limited to the persons at the highest level football/soccer leagues in their respective nations. What I would like it to be, however, is not the same as what it is. Mandsford 20:30, 9 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Of course it's up to you. If you don't like the rule, don't close it! But surely that's irrelevant as he appears to meet WP:GNG. Nfitz (talk) 02:16, 10 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The decision stands. You may seek review under Wikipedia:Deletion review. Mandsford 04:24, 10 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I didn't notice that you were closing; it takes me quite a while to compose notes sometime, so it's likely I had started before you posted at the top, though I got no edit conflict notice. Regardless, since it's from our current acting attorney, it's probably worth the addition to the page. :) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 02:13, 15 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there. As you are clearly interested in editing articles about 20th century history, I hope that you will not mind my pointing out that Clement Attlee is spelt thus, and not with a single T. No offence meant, thanks and best wishes, DBaK (talk) 11:00, 17 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much for the nice reply! Happy editing, cheers, DBaK (talk) 14:02, 17 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Mandsford,

As you probably know, I'm in the process of getting the outline development team back up to speed.

The current focus is on increasing the availability of outlines (links and search engine results). If readers can't find the outlines, the outlines can't help them. We need to figure out the best places to put links, and the best ways to attract external traffic directly to these pages.

Here's one possibility for the far future: Wikipedia:Main Page alternative (outline links). If you'd rather not wait, and would like to set this as your default main page, see the instructions.

Tarheel95 and Robert Skyhawk are working on a project to track traffic to outline pages.

Your input is needed at discussion on outline traffic analysis.

All ideas and feedback are welcome. I look forward to seeing you there. The Transhumanist 20:59, 19 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

As you contributed to this article, or commented at its first AfD, you may be like to contribute at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Suicide of Nicola Raphael (2nd nomination). JohnCD (talk) 14:48, 22 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Can you please provide a little more detail as to what was missing from this AfD nomination? Thanks! VQuakr (talk) 02:24, 25 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Mandsford. This message is being sent to inform you that there currently is a discussion at Wikipedia:Wikiquette alerts regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.--Paul McDonald (talk) 15:01, 7 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I like your suggestion of smerging some material from History of the Constitution of the Roman Republic#From the Gracchi to Caesar (133–49 BC) along with its footnotes. However, I feel a fit insecure about how to do that while preserving attribution. Can you please do it, Obi Wan Mandsford? You are my only hope.... I'll cut and past the images for now. Bearian (talk) 22:27, 8 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'm going to take a crack at it this weekend. Please revert me if I screw up. Bearian (talk) 16:44, 11 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Would you mind going to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Abbotts Mill, Delaware and commenting with your opinion on the deletion I proposed? As a past contributor to the Gwinhurst, Delaware deletion thread and numerous other articles, I thought you may have knowledge whether Abbotts Mill, Delaware is a community or not. Thanks. Superman7515 (talk) 02:15, 17 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar is a shiny electronic award. Bearian (talk) 17:59, 17 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello Mandsford. Thanks for the comment on the Syrian protests AfD. I was wondering, where should one list such article to garner further input/discussion. Although I have been involved in some other AfD discussions before, this is the first one I've started, so I'm not quite familiar with the procedure. I'd like to get more input from other uninvolved editors, because I don't want to this to look like a personal vendetta (which is far from it), and a discussion of my motives rather than the article itself. Thanks. Yazan (talk) 11:52, 21 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the advice and the response. I'll just let the AfD take its course I guess, and get back to ancient history (which has a lot of notability, but fewer articles in the NYT than a Lebanese hummus dish). Cheers! Yazan (talk) 08:52, 22 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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I'm not seeing this [6] in today's AFD log. If something's gone south in the relisting process, you're not likely to get any input from uninvolved editors. Of course, I also think the relist reasoning was way off base, as I have commented at the AFD, and think the discussion should just be closed as delete. Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (talk) 23:53, 28 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Here's the latest addition to the religion section of Portal:Contents/Outlines. Wikipedia has rich coverage on this subject. Very interesting, especially from sociological and historical perspectives.

• Outline of Sikhism

This is a call to all members of the Outline WikiProject and outline aficionados to help refine this outline. It needs annotations, missing topics added, and the entries in the general concepts section placed in more specific sections. Let's turn it into a beehive.

Come join in on the fun and get acquainted with members of the Outline WikiProject!

The Transhumanist 04:52, 2 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

P.S.: I had no idea this religion was so extensive or that it had so many followers. Hope to see you on the outline!

Will you look again at Swedish diaspora, I have expanded it from the two sentences and no references it had when you voted to delete, to several paragraphs and a dozen references. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 17:51, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Greetings Mandsford, at this AfD, I'm puzzled by your reversal, particularly when my approach didn't change (it was just worded differently the second time). Would you mind elaborating? I think what is key here is the group of 12 be deleted. The other 20 could be revisited at a later date if they do end up being abandoned. Cheers, Hwy43 (talk) 17:37, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the explanation. It appears I have unnecessarily muddied things by providing a position on the 12 (delete), and stating a preference on the other 20 (delete if they aren't improved) instead of an outright position. To be more direct, my official positions are delete the 12 and keep the 20. However on the latter, I provide the disclaimer that if they survive the AfD, yet aren't improved as a result, my position would be to delete on a second nomination. I will clarify this at the AfD. Based on past experience, can you advise of the likelihood the 12 will be deleted as a result of the AfD, noting that I'm the only one thus to officially provide a bolded position? If slim, would removal of the 20 by the nominator improve the likelihood? Hwy43 (talk) 05:39, 9 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

hi Mandsford, could you please also delete Unchain the Wolves which is within the same AfD result. LibStar (talk) 02:19, 21 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi I noticed you Deleted the page Second Revolution flag, I thought that in terms of no consensus that wiki pages were to be kept not deleted? Can u tell me the policies concerning this issue. [[7]] --Duchamps_comb MFA 15:29, 28 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

First of all, thanks for letting me know, and no need to apologize for any inconvenience. As for the DRV, it seems to me that the user simply missed the 2nd DRV and was therefore confused by the result, and it does look like you tried to clear everything up on their talk page. I actually was going to specify that this was a renomination at the time, but I noticed that the user had been on hiatus for a little while and this probably wasn't necessary. By the look of things, it doesn't seem like the confusion really affected the AfD result, since unless I'm missing something the user didn't start editing again until recently. I'm not really sure if there's a need for a DRV yet; the user had the second AfD pointed out to them and it doesn't seem that they've raised any issue since (although this certainly could change). That being said, based on the look of the 2nd AfD being contested, I'm not sure how any other interpretation could really be seen and it may be somewhat of a WP:SNOW issue. Of course, I easily could be missing or misinterpreting something obvious here, so whatever you think is the right move here is probably OK by me. Best, Yaksar (let's chat) 18:04, 28 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I see, the wrong link was posted in the Twinkle notification, my bad. A lot of what I said above is no longer particularly relevant, although some of it still is. But I've moved my main points to the DRV, so I hope you'll read them there. Thanks again!--Yaksar (let's chat) 01:42, 29 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for chiming in at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Justin Watts. A very similar discussion that you might also find interesting can be found here: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Leslie McDonald. -Blueman33 (talk) 06:11, 29 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Did you have a script misfire and delete Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Top upcoming designer 2011 instead of the related article? You noted the discussion "closed as delete", yet you deleted the AfD. It looks like the same thing happened with Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Haunted Hacienda (novel). —C.Fred (talk) 18:50, 1 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to be thorough, check your deleted contributions history for any others. (None jumped out at me.) For the two mentioned here:

1. Click the red link to the AfD
2. Click "(view/restore)" on the deletion log line
3. "Select all" in the restore revisions
4. Give a reason for the restore, e.g., "Oops, deleted the AfD instead of the article."
5. Restore

Then you can delete the underlying article from the related close. —C.Fred (talk) 18:58, 1 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

One other best-practices note: don't delete the log entry for where you deleted it the first time. Just suck it up and admit that you did it by mistake. I'm sure if I check my logs, I've done the same somewhere along the line. It's easier on everybody to just have an explanation on the restore along the lines of "Didn't mean to do that" than to guess what happened with the deletion. —C.Fred (talk) 19:04, 1 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Haunted Hacienda (novel) I think the article was supposed to go away, NOT the AfD discussion. WuhWuzDat 18:53, 1 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• Re the deletion discussion over article you deleted 'Ahmed Tarek Bahgat Abaza' .. the problem was not enough secondary sources..two more have come:

http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/?t=1601 http://www.thread.co.nz/news/5796/15/Talk-like-an-Egyptian/d,thread-article http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/?t=1602#music

which are enough to show his activities and coverage if added to all original links.--kellyrussell34 (talk) 19:03, 8 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. User Altaf shaik (talk) requested restoration of this article at WP:REFUND#amir of bimlipatnam. I declined and told him to go first to you and then to DRV. He came back on my talk page to say you were offline; I explained about sources and notability, but he asked me to file a DRV for him, so I have done that at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2011 May 12, and this is to notify you. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 09:36, 12 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Outline of relationships was nominated for deletion.

It was then overhauled and the nomination was withdrawn.

Before → After.

Only a couple members from the Outlines WikiProject showed up at the AfD.

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Thank you. The Transhumanist 09:29, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please solve this mystery if you can...

On September 23rd, traffic to Portal:James Bond doubled, and has stayed at the new level since then. I can't figure out what happened.

See http://stats.grok.se/en/201109/Portal%3AJames_Bond

Traffic to Outline of James Bond stayed the same (though it was at the higher-level already), which leads me to suspect changes made somewhere in Wikipedia.

See http://stats.grok.se/en/201109/Outline%20of%20James_Bond

I'd like to find out what happened, in case it reveals helpful link placement tips that can double the traffic to outlines too!

I look forward to your reply. The Transhumanist 22:40, 5 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Usually, sudden increase in interest in a subject can be blamed on it being in the public eye. My first thought was that there had been a movie marathon around September 23, though I see a correlation with news on the same day that the 23rd James Bond film will begin production soon. [8]. Mandsford 23:37, 5 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

One would expect that to affect James Bond and Outline of James Bond as well, but the traffic for those pages stayed about the same. The Transhumanist 23:47, 5 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please go to Portal:Contents/Outlines' and fill in as many missing annotations as you can, even if it's only one or two. Every little bit helps!

The annotating of the entries on Portal:Contents/Outlines is nearing completion.

Annotated entries look like this:

• Basketball – team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules.
• Canoeing and kayaking – two closely related forms of watercraft paddling, involving manually propelling and navigating specialized boats called canoes and kayaks using a blade that is joined to a shaft, known as a paddle, in the water.
• Cricket – bat-and-ball team sport, the most popular form played on an oval-shaped outdoor arena known as a cricket field at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard (20.12 m) long pitch that is the focus of the game.
• Martial arts – extensive systems of codified practices and traditions of combat, practiced for a variety of reasons, including self-defense, competition, physical health and fitness, as well as mental and spiritual development.

Entries needing annotations look like this:

• Industry –
• Construction –
• Architecture –
• Machines –
• Industrial machinery –
• Robotics –
• Mining –

The links to the country outlines don't need annotations (they are listed by region).

Even if all you can do is one or two, the support will be greatly felt. Many hands make light work.

Thank you. The Transhumanist 00:33, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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In the article May 1943, you wrote 'Dr. Josef Mengele began his service as a medical officer in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, and spent nearly three years conducting bizarre surgical experiments on the captive patients.' Auschwitz was taken by Soviet troops in early 1945. That is less than two years time. So the article needs correcting, but I think it should say something along he continued conducting experiments till the Soviets took the camp in January 1945 or something like that. A year and 7.5 months is more like like a year and a half than two years. What do you think?

In August 2000, I toured Auschwitz along with my wife and Polish priest friend of ours. It is the bleakest place I ever visited....William 00:05, 15 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Sir, in view of your assistance in the debate on Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Abbotts_Mill,_Delaware and subsequent logic displayed there, it would be appreciated if you could find a moment to check in on Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Adams_Crossroads,_Delaware and weigh in with your opinion. Superman7515 (talk) 14:20, 20 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Mandsford, I found out that admin intervention is required for moving a page to an existing page so I picked you at random to ask for help.

NBC Sports Network has been renamed by NBC to NBCSN. When I attempted the move, I discovered that NBCSN already exists (it redirects to NBC Sports Network. Could you possibly make the move? thanks, Rockypedia (talk) 19:41, 4 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

just including a quick link that I googled to save some time: http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/495034-NBC_Sports_Network_Rebranding_as_NBCSN.php

Hello. You participated in a 2007 discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Teflon character. Consensus of that discussion was to keep the article, which has since been moved to Teflon (nickname). I note, however, that the article contains no treatment of the nickname as such. Perhaps it would be better recast as a stand-alone list. If you are interested, please see Talk:Teflon (nickname)#Is it a list? Cnilep (talk) 05:20, 19 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see a problem with it as is. The reason why people prefer not to create stand alone lists is because that type of article tends to end up on the Wikipedia: Articles for deletion list. Bear in mind that, as a Wikipedia user, you have the same right to edit as everyone else, no matter what you might have been told by anyone who claims to be an "experienced Wikipedian". This holds true for the next person who edits the article. The concept is pretty well summed up in WP:SOFIXIT, the principle being that you don't need to get approval to fix a problem with an article. Needless to say, I hope that you don't erase information in the process of rewriting anything. Mandsford 14:35, 19 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, just to let you know that I've started a discussion in the talk page of the May 1975 article about the addition of the birth of Peterson and why it shouldn't be included in the article.--Shakehandsman (talk) 21:14, 26 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I appreciate the notice. WP:N applies to whether someone should have their own independent article, though, rather than the mention of their existence somewhere else. If you feel that you must eliminate all references to well-known people whom you consider non-notable, this is the encyclopedia that anyone can edit, but that means that someone else can edit the page again to include it. The pages do need to be policed regularly for out-and-out vandalism, but I don't see the need to go through the several hundred articles to debate whether someone is or isn't worthy of mention. We're a lot more concerned about the addition of the additions of people that nobody ever heard of, something that's usually explained as someone's strange idea of a birthday greeting. I guess it's cheaper than buying them a gift. Mandsford 19:39, 27 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi there, a while back NBC changed the name of NBC Sports Network to NBCSN, so when I noticed the article title had not changed, I enlisted your help to help me make the change. There was one user who disagreed and we discussed it on the talk page, but I thought the issue had been settled. A few days ago, with no discussion, the page was moved back to NBC Sports Network. I've attempted to discuss this on Talk:NBC_Sports_Network but so far it appears that at least one user, ViperSnake151  Talk  , is steadfastly refusing to accept any point of view different from his own, and will probably continue to revert the page back to the old, outdated name of the network.

I'm hoping you can help out again. I'm going to revert the page back to NBCSN one more time but I don't wish to get into an edit war with the other user, so I'd like a real discussion to take place on the talk page. Any help you can contribute would be appreciated. thanks, Rockypedia (talk) 15:22, 19 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Good evening. Pardon the late reply to the Thank You message on my talk page but like you, I had a busy few months and didn't have time to look back at the articles. Thank you for editing the work, adding some new things I never have found, and making a few corrections where needed. In answer to your style questions, please by all means go with the styles used in previous 1913 articles. I had been debating which to go and the rule is to try and be an consistent. I had been trying to do the 1914 articles but had been running into a bit of resistance from admin, saying the article does exist even though it is a just a brief summary that is part of the larger year 1914 article and was meant to an in-depth as the ones you and Deb have been doing. I tried to relay the explanation to them but it appeared not to have gotten through or else has not been replied to. Anyway to get around that?? Freeman1856 (talk) 06:34, 3 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Back in 2011 you commented on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Evolution Day: "While I don't think any of the editors made it up, I think that it got taken off of a website where someone else made it up."

After doing a recent web search, I found evidence that the term had been used at least as early as 1996, in TES (magazine): [9] If this is sufficient information that would have changed your vote from "Delete" to "Keep", would you mind putting a comment to that effect on User_talk:Postdlf#Evolution_Day? Thanks! -- Limulus (talk) 09:28, 25 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

That's an unusual request. If I could change anything about the spring of 2011, I would have spent more time with my wife and less on Wikipedia. You wouldn't have any way of knowing this, but she died, unexpectedly, a few weeks after this comment was written on March 13, 2011. After she was gone, I never went back to the whole Articles for Deletion thing, and never wanted to. Why not just write another article about "Evolution Day"? Mandsford 21:29, 25 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A new article will probably get written, but because it was deleted there's extra steps involved. I'm sorry for your loss; hope things have gotten better since. -- Limulus (talk) 00:31, 26 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Just wanted to let you know that the deletion review was successful and a new version of the article is now up! :) -- Limulus (talk) 22:53, 1 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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You previously voted here as a keep for an article [10]. It is up for AFD again [11]. I was wondering if you could look at the article again and vote in the New AFD here. The newer article has more information and better formats. Also if you could see any ways to improve the article it would be appreciated. Thank you. CrazyAces489 (talk) 03:04, 22 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Guideline and policy news

• A discussion to workshop proposals to amend the administrator inactivity policy at Wikipedia talk:Administrators has been in process since late December 2016.
• Wikipedia:Pending changes/Request for Comment 2016 closed with no consensus for implementing Pending changes level 2 with new criteria for use.
• Following an RfC, an activity requirement is now in place for bots and bot operators.

Technical news

• When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)
• Following the latest RfC concluding that Pending Changes 2 should not be used on the English Wikipedia, an RfC closed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. (T156448)
• The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee released a response to the Wikimedia Foundation's statement on paid editing and outing.

Obituaries

• JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2017).

Administrator changes

Amortias • Deckiller • BU Rob13

Ronnotel • Islander • Chamal N • Isomorphic • Keeper76 • Lord Voldemort • Shereth • Bdesham • Pjacobi

Guideline and policy news

• A recent RfC has redefined how articles on schools are evaluated at AfD. Specifically, secondary schools are not presumed to be notable simply because they exist.
• AfDs that receive little participation should now be closed like an expired proposed deletion, following a deletion process RfC.
• Defender, HakanIST, Matiia and Sjoerddebruin are our newest stewards, following the 2017 steward elections.
• The 2017 appointees for the Ombudsman commission are Góngora, Krd, Lankiveil, Richwales and Vogone. They will serve for approximately 1 year.

Technical news

• A recent query shows that only 16% of administrators on the English Wikipedia have enabled two-factor authentication. If you haven't already enabled it please consider doing so.
• Cookie blocks should be deployed to the English Wikipedia soon. This will extend the current autoblock system by setting a cookie for each block, which will then autoblock the user after they switch accounts under a new IP.
• A bot will now automatically place a protection template on protected pages when admins forget to do so.

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Guideline and policy news

• Following a discussion on the backlog of unpatrolled files, consensus was found to create a new user right for autopatrolling file uploads. Implementation progress can be tracked on Phabricator.
• The BLPPROD grandfather clause, which stated that unreferenced biographies of living persons were only eligible for proposed deletion if they were created after March 18, 2010, has been removed following an RfC.
• An RfC has closed with consensus to allow proposed deletion of files. The implementation process is ongoing.
• After an unsuccessful proposal to automatically grant IP block exemption, consensus was found to relax the criteria for granting the user right from needing it to wanting it.

Technical news

• After a recent RfC, moved pages will soon be featured in a queue similar to Special:NewPagesFeed and require patrolling. Moves by administrators, page movers, and autopatrolled editors will be automatically marked as patrolled.
• Cookie blocks have been deployed. This extends the current autoblock system by setting a cookie for each block, which will then autoblock the user if they switch accounts, even under a new IP.

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Gdr • Tyrenius • JYolkowski • Longhair • Master Thief Garrett • Aaron Brenneman • Laser brain • JzG • Dragons flight

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC has clarified that user categories should be emptied upon deletion, but redlinked user categories should not be removed if re-added by the user.
• Discussions are ongoing regarding proposed changes to the COI policy. Changes so far have included clarification that adding a link on a Wikipedia forum to a job posting is not a violation of the harassment policy.

Technical news

• You can now see a list of all autoblocks at Special:AutoblockList.
• There is a new tool for adding archives to dead links. Administrators are able to restrict other user's ability to use the tool, and have additional permissions when changing URL and domain data.
• Administrators, bureaucrats and stewards can now set an expiry date when granting user rights. (discuss, permalink)

Miscellaneous

• Following an RfC, the editing restrictions page is now split into a list of active restrictions and an archive of those that are old or on inactive accounts. Make sure to check both pages if searching for a restriction.

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Administrator changes

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ThaddeusB • Yandman • Bjarki S • OldakQuill • Shyam • Jondel • Worm That Turned

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC proposing an off-wiki LTA database has been closed. The proposal was broadly supported, with further discussion required regarding what to do with the existing LTA database and defining access requirements. Such a tool/database formed part of the Community health initiative's successful grant proposal.
• Some clarifications have been made to the community banning and unblocking policies that effectively sync them with current practice. Specifically, the community has reached a consensus that when blocking a user at WP:AN or WP:ANI, it is considered a "community sanction", and administrators cannot unblock unilaterally if the user has not successfully appealed the sanction to the community.
• An RfC regarding the bot policy has closed with changes to the section describing restrictions on cosmetic changes.

Technical news

• Users will soon be able to blacklist specific users from sending them notifications.

Miscellaneous

• Following the 2017 elections, the new members of the Board of Trustees include Raystorm, Pundit and Doc James. They will serve three-year terms.

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I don't understand the issue with this article. You reverted the edit I made with no edit summary (no explanation). The edit I made was to change a wikilink for an article that underwent a page move. I wanted to change it to it's new title and move image at the top of the page nearer to the entry it was directly connected to it. The image was nearly half the width of the page so I decreased it. If you would have asked me on my talk page, then I would have been more than happy to further elaborate on why I performed the edit. Mitchumch (talk) 20:48, 7 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2017).

Administrator changes

Happyme22 • Dragons flight

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Guideline and policy news

• The RFC discussion regarding WP:OUTING and WMF essay about paid editing and outing (see more at the ArbCom noticeboard archives) is now archived. Milieus #3 and #4 received support; so did concrete proposal #1.

Technical news

• Fuzzy search will soon be added to Special:Undelete, allowing administrators to search for deleted page titles with results similar to the search query. You can test this by adding ?fuzzy=1 to the URL, as with Special:Undelete?fuzzy=1. Currently the search only finds pages that exactly match the search term.
• A new bot will automatically revision delete unused file versions from files in Category:Non-free files with orphaned versions more than 7 days old.

Miscellaneous

• A newly revamped database report can help identify users who may be eligible to be autopatrolled.
• A potentially compromised account from 2001–2002 attempted to request resysop. Please practice appropriate account security by using a unique password for Wikipedia, and consider enabling two-factor authentication. Currently around 17% of admins have enabled 2FA, up from 16% in February 2017.
• Did you know: On 29 June 2017, there were 1,261 administrators on the English Wikipedia – the exact number of administrators as there were ten years ago on 29 June 2007. Since that time, the English Wikipedia has grown from 1.85 million articles to over 5.43 million.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2017).

Administrator changes

Anarchyte • GeneralizationsAreBad • Cullen328 ^{(first RfA to reach WP:300)}

Cprompt • Rockpocket • Rambo's Revenge • Animum • TexasAndroid • Chuck SMITH • MikeLynch • Crazytales • Ad Orientem

Guideline and policy news

• Following a series of discussions around new pages patrol, the WMF is helping implement a controlled autoconfirmed article creation trial as a research experiment, similar to the one proposed in 2011. You can learn more about the research plan at meta:Research:Autoconfirmed article creation trial. The exact start date of the experiment has yet to be determined.
• A new speedy deletion criterion, regarding articles created as a result undisclosed paid editing, is currently being discussed (permalink).
• An RfC (permalink) is currently open that proposes expanding WP:G13 to include all drafts, even if they weren't submitted through Articles for Creation.

Technical news

• LoginNotify should soon be deployed to the English Wikipedia. This will notify users when there are suspicious login attempts on their account.
• The new version of XTools is nearing an official release. This suite of tools includes administrator statistics, an improved edit counter, among other tools that may benefit administrators. You can report issues on Phabricator and provide general feedback at mw:Talk:XTools.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2017).

Administrator changes

Nakon • Scott

Sverdrup • Thespian • Elockid • James086 • Ffirehorse • Celestianpower • Boing! said Zebedee

Guideline and policy news

• ACTRIAL, a research experiment that restricts article creation to autoconfirmed users, will begin on September 7. It will run for six months. You can learn more about the research specifics at meta:Research:Autoconfirmed article creation trial, while Wikipedia talk:Autoconfirmed article creation trial is probably the best venue for general discussion.
• Following an RfC, WP:G13 speedy deletion criterion now applies to any page in the draftspace that has not been edited in six months. There is a bot-generated report, updated daily, to help identify potentially qualifying drafts that have not been submitted through articles for creation.

Technical news

• You will now get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account and fails. If they try from a device that has logged into your account before, you will be notified after five failed attempts. You can also set in your preferences to get an email when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address, which may be encouraged for admins and accounts with sensitive permissions.
• Syntax highlighting is now available as a beta feature (more info). This may assist administrators and template editors when dealing with intricate syntax of high-risk templates and system messages.
• In your notification preferences, you can now block specific users from pinging you. This functionality will soon be available for Special:EmailUser as well.

Arbitration

• Applications for CheckUser and Oversight are being accepted by the Arbitration Committee until September 12. Community discussion of the candidates will begin on September 18.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2017).

Administrator changes

Boing! said Zebedee • Ansh666 • Ad Orientem

Tonywalton • AmiDaniel • Silence • BanyanTree • Magioladitis • Vanamonde93 • Mr.Z-man • Jdavidb • Jakec • Ram-Man • Yelyos • Kurt Shaped Box

Guideline and policy news

• Following a successful proposal to create it, a new user right called "edit filter helper" is now assignable and revocable by administrators. The right allows non-administrators to view the details of private edit filters, but not to edit them.
• Following a discussion about mass-application of ECP and how the need for logging and other details of an evolving consensus may have been missed by some administrators, a rough guide to extended confirmed protection has been written. This information page describes how the extended-confirmed aspects of the protection policy are currently being applied by administrators.

Technical news

• You can now search for IP ranges at Special:Contributions. Some log pages and Special:DeletedContributions are not yet supported. Wildcards (e.g. 192.168.0.*) are also not supported, but the popular contribsrange gadget will continue to work.

Arbitration

• Community consultation on the 2017 candidates for CheckUser and Oversight has concluded. The Arbitration Committee will appoint successful candidates by October 11.
• A request for comment is open regarding the structure, rules, and procedures of the December 2017 Arbitration Committee election, and how to resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2017).

Administrator changes

Longhair • Megalibrarygirl • TonyBallioni • Vanamonde93

Allen3 • Eluchil404 • Arthur Rubin • Bencherlite

Technical news

• The Wikimedia Foundation's Anti-Harassment Tools team is creating an "Interaction Timeline" tool that intends to assist administrators in resolving user conduct disputes. Feedback on the concept may be posted on the talk page.
• A new function is now available to edit filter managers that will make it easier to look for multiple strings containing spoofed text.

Arbitration

• Eligible editors will be invited to submit candidate statements for the 2017 Arbitration Committee Elections starting on November 12 until November 21. Voting will begin on November 27 and last until December 10.
• Following a request for comment, Ritchie333, Yunshui and Ymblanter will serve as the Electoral Commission for the 2017 ArbCom Elections.

Obituaries

• The Wikipedia community has recently learned that Allen3 (William Allen Peckham) passed away on December 30, 2016, the same day as JohnCD. Allen began editing in 2005 and became an administrator that same year.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2017).

Administrator changes

Joe Roe

JzG

Ericorbit • Perceval • Thingg • Tristanb • Violetriga

Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, a new section has been added to the username policy which disallows usernames containing emoji, emoticons or otherwise "decorative" usernames, and usernames that use any non-language symbols. Administrators should discuss issues related to these types of usernames before blocking.

Technical news

• Wikimedians are now invited to vote on the proposals in the 2017 Community Wishlist Survey on Meta Wiki until 10 December 2017. In particular, there is a section of the survey regarding new tools for administrators and for anti-harassment.
• A new function is available to edit filter managers which can be used to store matches from regular expressions.

Arbitration

• Voting in the 2017 Arbitration Committee elections is open until Sunday 23:59, 10 December 2017 (UTC). There are 12 candidates running for 8 vacant seats.

Miscellaneous

• Over the last few months, several users have reported backlogs that require administrator attention at WP:ANI, with the most common backlogs showing up on WP:SPI, WP:AIV and WP:RFPP. It is requested that all administrators take some time during this month to help clear backlogs wherever possible. It should be noted that AIV reports are not always valid; however, they still need to be cleared, which may include needing to remind users on what qualifies as vandalism.
• The Wikimedia Foundation Community health initiative is conducting a survey for English Wikipedia contributors on their experience and satisfaction level with Administrator’s Noticeboard/Incidents. This survey will be integral to gathering information about how this noticeboard works (i.e. which problems it deals with well and which problems it struggles with). If you would like to take this survey, please sign up on this page, and a link for the survey will be emailed to you via Special:EmailUser.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2017).

Administrator changes

Muboshgu

Anetode • Laser brain • Worm That Turned

None

Bureaucrat changes

Worm That Turned

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment is in progress to determine whether the administrator policy should be amended to require disclosure of paid editing activity at WP:RFA and to prohibit the use of administrative tools as part of paid editing activity, with certain exceptions.

Technical news

• The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey results have been posted. The Community Tech team will investigate and address the top ten results.
• The Anti-Harassment Tools team is inviting comments on new blocking tools and improvements to existing blocking tools for development in early 2018. Feedback can be left on the discussion page or by email.

Arbitration

• Following the results of the 2017 election, the following editors have been (re)appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Alex Shih, BU Rob13, Callanecc, KrakatoaKatie, Opabinia regalis, Premeditated Chaos, RickinBaltimore, Worm That Turned.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2018).

Administrator changes

None

Blurpeace • Dana boomer • Deltabeignet • Denelson83 • Grandiose • Salvidrim! • Ymblanter

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC has closed with a consensus that candidates at WP:RFA must disclose whether they have ever edited for pay and that administrators may never use administrative tools as part of any paid editing activity, except when they are acting as a Wikipedian-in-Residence or when the payment is made by the Wikimedia Foundation or an affiliate of the WMF.
• Editors responding to threats of harm can now contact the Wikimedia Foundation's emergency address by using Special:EmailUser/Emergency. If you don't have email enabled on Wikipedia, directly contacting the emergency address using your own email client remains an option.

Technical news

• A tag will now be automatically applied to edits that blank a page, turn a page into a redirect, remove/replace almost all content in a page, undo an edit, or rollback an edit. These edits were previously denoted solely by automatic edit summaries.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee has enacted a change to the discretionary sanctions procedure which requires administrators to add a standardized editnotice when placing page restrictions. Editors cannot be sanctioned for violations of page restrictions if this editnotice was not in place at the time of the violation.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2018).

Administrator changes

Lourdes†

AngelOfSadness • Bhadani • Chris 73 • Coren • Friday • Midom • Mike V

† Lourdes has requested that her admin rights be temporarily removed, pending her return from travel.

Guideline and policy news

• The autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) is scheduled to end on 14 March 2018. The results of the research collected can be read on Meta Wiki.
• Community ban discussions must now stay open for at least 24 hours prior to being closed.
• A change to the administrator inactivity policy has been proposed. Under the proposal, if an administrator has not used their admin tools for a period of five years and is subsequently desysopped for inactivity, the administrator would have to file a new RfA in order to regain the tools.
• A change to the banning policy has been proposed which would specify conditions under which a repeat sockmaster may be considered de facto banned, reducing the need to start a community ban discussion for these users.

Technical news

• CheckUsers are now able to view private data such as IP addresses from the edit filter log, e.g. when the filter prevents a user from creating an account. Previously, this information was unavailable to CheckUsers because access to it could not be logged.
• The edit filter has a new feature contains_all that edit filter managers may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string.

Miscellaneous

• Following the 2018 Steward elections, the following users are our new stewards: -revi, Green Giant, Rxy, There'sNoTime, علاء.

Obituaries

• Bhadani (Gangadhar Bhadani) passed away on 8 February 2018. Bhadani joined Wikipedia in March 2005 and became an administrator in September 2005. While he was active, Bhadani was regarded as one of the most prolific Wikipedians from India.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2018).

Administrator changes

331dot • Cordless Larry • ClueBot NG

Gogo Dodo • Pb30 • Sebastiankessel • Seicer • SoLando

Guideline and policy news

• Administrators who have been desysopped due to inactivity are now required to have performed at least one (logged) administrative action in the past 5 years in order to qualify for a resysop without going through a new RfA.
• Editors who have been found to have engaged in sockpuppetry on at least two occasions after an initial indefinite block, for whatever reason, are now automatically considered banned by the community without the need to start a ban discussion.
• The notability guideline for organizations and companies has been substantially rewritten following the closure of this request for comment. Among the changes, the guideline more clearly defines the sourcing requirements needed for organizations and companies to be considered notable.
• The six-month autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) ended on 14 March 2018. The post-trial research report has been published. A request for comment is now underway to determine whether the restrictions from ACTRIAL should be implemented permanently.

Technical news

• There will soon be a calendar widget at Special:Block, making it easier to set expiries for a specific date and time.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee is considering a change to the discretionary sanctions procedures which would require an editor to appeal a sanction to the community at WP:AE or WP:AN prior to appealing directly to the Arbitration Committee at WP:ARCA.

Miscellaneous

• A discussion has closed which concluded that administrators are not required to enable email, though many editors suggested doing so as a matter of best practice.
• The Foundations' Anti-Harassment Tools team has released the Interaction Timeline. This shows a chronologic history for two users on pages where they have both made edits, which may be helpful in identifying sockpuppetry and investigating editing disputes.

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Hi Mandesford, I am hoping to contact you regarding your edit of Spanky and Our Gang of 4/18/18, and have not been sure how to do it (will this show up in your talk page?). Your edit seems factual, but I wanted to clarify some things.. hoping this note reaches your talk page, If it does, I'll contact again later. Emhale (talk) 18:00, 28 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I see I can do this.

The changes you made in the article seem to me to be factual in their important points. To me, your edit suggests you are skeptical that carbon monoxide was the cause of death because there was no mention of this at the time of death, and the first book to assert that this was the cause was published almost 39 years later. I feel sure that the carbon monoxide connection mentioned in published books in 2007 and later is the result of my placing it in the Wikipedia article in 2006 (the S&OG article first appeared in Wikipedia in 2005). I had to remove it from the article some time later, because it was pointed out to me that I did not have a published reference to support it (I was new to Wikipedia). But before it was removed, it was apparently seen by someone and published in that book. Then I put it back into the article, along with the supporting reference which I now had, and which makes the information legitimate to put in the article according to Wikipedias rules. To me, the evidence for carbon monoxide as the cause of death is very strong, although circumstantial. My statement in the Talk page of the article simply describes this evidence, for people to consider. I think it is a valuable contribution. Would you agree to keeping the article exactly as it is now, with your current changes, but restoring the link which takes readers to my statement in the article’s Talk page (“Cause of Malcolm Hale’s Death”)?

I have made this change in the article. If you don’t agree to it you may undo it, and perhaps discuss this further. Emhale (talk) 22:13, 28 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, Mandesford, for your understanding message. Only now do I see how the facts you described (i.e., no mention about carbon monoxide at Malcolm’s time of death, and nearly 39 years before a publication mentioned this possibility) are unsettling, and would raise obvious questions that I had somehow not anticipated.

Newspapers of the day reported the cause of death as bronchopneumonia, in accordance with the coroner’s report. It was several months after Malcolm’s death that I became convinced that the cause was carbon monoxide poisoning (by then I had learned that the red skin discoloration was a sign of carbon monoxide poisoning, and I remembered that carbon monoxide had been found in the apartment). Many of his friends never believed the coroner’s report. Malcolm was visiting his old haunts in the Old Town neighborhood of Chicago earlier on the night he died, and many people I knew talked to him; I spoke to a lot of them in the following days and all said he seemed to be in perfect health).

That the cause was likely to have been carbon monoxide became an understanding among family and friends, I had no thought of trying to bring it to wider attention.

Wikipedia was launched on January 15, 2001. It took quite a while for me to see what Wikipedia was and that it had an article on Spanky and Our Gang, and that I could add information of interest. So it was not until September 2006, 38 years after Malcolm’s death, that I added my edit to the article, indicating that carbon monoxide was the likely cause of death, not bronchopneumonia. I didn’t realize that I should have had a citation in the article to support this, but the edit nevertheless remained as it was for quite a while (the citation was finally added five years later,in 2011). In 2007 that book was published with the monoxide cause, and I’m quite sure this was information obtained from the Wikipedia article.

My feeling is I should now add a very brief explanation such as I’ve given here but much shorter, to my current statement in the article’s Talk page, to explain the puzzling questions you mention.

What do you think?

I see I really should have started this conversation in the talk page of the article where it really belongs, rather than User Talk pages, as it's in the article talk page that such discussions of proposed changes, user edits, and other topics related to improving the article are supposed to happen. People would see it there. Is it against the rules to move these to the article talk page? --to the Cause of Malcolm Hale's Death section? I think it might be easy to do.Emhale (talk) 21:28, 1 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The List of YouTubers is being nominated for deletion again. I don't know why. It's been nominated so many damn times. Take a look here. Mr. C.C.^{Hey yo!}_{I didn't do it!} 00:22, 30 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2018).

Administrator changes

None

Chochopk • Coffee • Gryffindor • Jimp • Knowledge Seeker • Lankiveil • Peridon • Rjd0060

Guideline and policy news

• The ability to create articles directly in mainspace is now indefinitely restricted to autoconfirmed users.
• A proposal is being discussed which would create a new "event coordinator" right that would allow users to temporarily add the "confirmed" flag to new user accounts and to create many new user accounts without being hindered by a rate limit.

Technical news

• AbuseFilter has received numerous improvements, including an OOUI overhaul, syntax highlighting, ability to search existing filters, and a few new functions. In particular, the search feature can be used to ensure there aren't existing filters for what you need, and the new equals_to_any function can be used when checking multiple namespaces. One major upcoming change is the ability to see which filters are the slowest. This information is currently only available to those with access to Logstash.
• When blocking anonymous users, a cookie will be applied that reloads the block if the user changes their IP. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. This currently only occurs when hard-blocking accounts.
• The block notice shown on mobile will soon be more informative and point users to a help page on how to request an unblock, just as it currently does on desktop.
• There will soon be a calendar widget at Special:Block, making it easier to set expiries for a specific date and time.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee is seeking additional clerks to help with the arbitration process.

Obituaries

• Lankiveil (Craig Franklin) passed away in mid-April. Lankiveil joined Wikipedia on 12 August 2004 and became an administrator on 31 August 2008. During his time with the Wikimedia community, Lankiveil served as an oversighter for the English Wikipedia and as president of Wikimedia Australia.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2018).

Administrator changes

None

Al Ameer son • AliveFreeHappy • Cenarium • Lupo • MichaelBillington

Guideline and policy news

• Following a successful request for comment, administrators are now able to add and remove editors to the "event coordinator" group. Users in the event coordinator group have the ability to temporarily add the "confirmed" flag to new user accounts and to create many new user accounts without being hindered by a rate limit. Users will no longer need to be in the "account creator" group if they are in the event coordinator group.
• Following an AN discussion, all pages with content related to blockchain and cryptocurrencies, broadly construed, are now under indefinite general sanctions.

Technical news

• IP-based cookie blocks should be deployed to English Wikipedia in June. This will cause the block of a logged-out user to be reloaded if they change IPs. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. For the time being, it only affects users of the desktop interface.
• The Wikimedia Foundation's Anti-Harassment Tools team will build granular types of blocks in 2018 (e.g. a block from uploading or editing specific pages, categories, or namespaces, as opposed to a full-site block). Feedback on the concept may be left at the talk page.
• There is now a checkbox on Special:ListUsers to let you see only users in temporary user groups.
• It is now easier for blocked mobile users to see why they were blocked.

Arbitration

• A recent technical issue with the Arbitration Committee's spam filter inadvertently caused all messages sent to the committee through Wikipedia (i.e. Special:EmailUser/Arbitration Committee) to be discarded. If you attempted to send an email to the Arbitration Committee via Wikipedia between May 16 and May 31, your message was not received and you are encouraged to resend it. Messages sent outside of these dates or directly to the Arbitration Committee email address were not affected by this issue.

Miscellaneous

• In early May, an unusually high level of failed login attempts was observed. The WMF has stated that this was an "external effort to gain unauthorized access to random accounts". Under Wikipedia policy, administrators are required to have strong passwords. To further reinforce security, administrators should also consider enabling two-factor authentication. A committed identity can be used to verify that you are the true account owner in the event that your account is compromised and/or you are unable to log in.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2018).

Administrator changes

Pbsouthwood • TheSandDoctor

Gogo Dodo

Andrevan • Doug • EVula • KaisaL • Tony Fox • WilyD

Bureaucrat changes

Andrevan • EVula

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC about the deletion of drafts closed with a consensus to change the wording of WP:NMFD. Specifically, a draft that has been repeatedly resubmitted and declined at AfC without any substantial improvement may be deleted at MfD if consensus determines that it is unlikely to ever meet the requirements for mainspace and it otherwise meets one of the reasons for deletion outlined in the deletion policy.
• A request for comment closed with a consensus that the {{promising draft}} template cannot be used to indefinitely prevent a WP:G13 speedy deletion nomination.

Technical news

• Starting on July 9, the WMF Security team, Trust & Safety, and the broader technical community will be seeking input on an upcoming change that will restrict editing of site-wide JavaScript and CSS to a new technical administrators user group. Bureaucrats and stewards will be able to grant this right per a community-defined process. The intention is to reduce the number of accounts who can edit frontend code to those who actually need to, which in turn lessens the risk of malicious code being added that compromises the security and privacy of everyone who accesses Wikipedia. For more information, please review the FAQ.
• Syntax highlighting has been graduated from a Beta feature on the English Wikipedia. To enable this feature, click the highlighter icon () in your editing toolbar (or under the hamburger menu in the 2017 wikitext editor). This feature can help prevent you from making mistakes when editing complex templates.
• IP-based cookie blocks should be deployed to English Wikipedia in July (previously scheduled for June). This will cause the block of a logged-out user to be reloaded if they change IPs. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. For the time being, it only affects users of the desktop interface.

Miscellaneous

• Currently around 20% of admins have enabled two-factor authentication, up from 17% a year ago. If you haven't already enabled it, please consider doing so. Regardless if you use 2FA, please practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2018).

Administrator changes

Sro23

KaisaL • Ymblanter

Guideline and policy news

• After a discussion at Meta, a new user group called "interface administrators" (formerly "technical administrator") has been created. Come the end of August, interface admins will be the only users able to edit site-wide JavaScript and CSS pages like MediaWiki:Common.js and MediaWiki:Common.css, or edit other user's personal JavaScript and CSS. The intention is to improve security and privacy by reducing the number of accounts which could be used to compromise the site or another user's account through malicious code. The new user group can be assigned and revoked by bureaucrats. Discussion is ongoing to establish details for implementing the group on the English Wikipedia.
• Following a request for comment, the WP:SISTER style guideline now states that in the mainspace, interwiki links to Wikinews should only be made as per the external links guideline. This generally means that within the body of an article, you should not link to Wikinews about a particular event that is only a part of the larger topic. Wikinews links in "external links" sections can be used where helpful, but not automatically if an equivalent article from a reliable news outlet could be linked in the same manner.

Technical news

• The WMF Anti-Harassment Tools team is seeking input on the second set of wireframes for the Special:Block redesign that will introduce partial blocks. The new functionality will allow you to block a user from editing a specific set of pages, pages in a category, a namespace, and for specific actions such as moving pages and uploading files.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2018).

Administrator changes

None

Asterion • Crisco 1492 • KF • Kudpung • Liz • Randykitty • Spartaz

Optimist on the run → Voice of Clam

Interface administrator changes

Amorymeltzer • Mr. Stradivarius • MusikAnimal • MSGJ • TheDJ • Xaosflux

Guideline and policy news

• Following a "stop-gap" discussion, six users have temporarily been made interface administrators while discussion is ongoing for a more permanent process for assigning the permission. Interface administrators are now the only editors allowed to edit sitewide CSS and JavaScript pages, as well as CSS/JS pages in another user's userspace. Previously, all administrators had this ability. The right can be granted and revoked by bureaucrats.

Technical news

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour.
• Some abuse filter variables have changed. They are now easier to understand for non-experts. The old variables will still work but filter editors are encouraged to replace them with the new ones. You can find the list of changed variables on mediawiki.org. They have a note which says Deprecated. Use ... instead. An example is article_text which is now page_title.
• Abuse filters can now use how old a page is. The variable is page_age.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee has resolved to perform a round of Checkuser and Oversight appointments. The usernames of all applicants will be shared with the Functionaries team, and they will be requested to assist in the vetting process. The deadline to submit an application is 23:59 UTC, 12 September, and the candidates that move forward will be published on-wiki for community comments on 18 September.

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Hey, I just wanted to say I made the change on 1/2 because MOS:FRAC advises against the character ½ for readability and accessibility concerns (MOS:NOSYMBOLS). I haven't seen a good way to avoid it in article titles like 8½ but generally in text I used {{1/2}} or {{frac|8|1|2}}. On a disambig page I don't really have any strong feelings but in a general article, I stick to the frac or sfrac templates.-Ich (talk) 20:17, 17 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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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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I added a basic table to the above article as you requested. Hope it meets approval. Best regards.--Kieronoldham (talk) 00:01, 8 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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The article Wilhelm Krüger has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

It appears that this is a fake article, because that person never existed : he was confused with Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger at the time of his creation. It has just been deleted from French Wikipedia where it had been copied from English Wikipedia. Please see that discussion page : [12]. Best regards. Gkml

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2018).

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment determined that non-administrators will not be able to request interface admin access.
• A request for comment is in progress to determine whether the Mediation Committee should be closed and marked as historical.
• A village pump discussion has been ongoing about whether the proposed deletion policy (PROD) should be clarified or amended.
• A request for comment is in progress to determine whether pending changes protection should be applied automatically to today's featured article (TFA) in order to mitigate a recent trend of severe image vandalism.

Technical news

• Partial blocks is now available for testing on the Test Wikipedia. The new functionality allows you to block users from editing specific pages. Bugs may exist and can be reported on the local talk page or on Meta. A discussion regarding deployment to English Wikipedia will be started by community liaisons sometime in the near future.
• A user script is now available to quickly review unblock requests.
• The 2019 Community Wishlist Survey is now accepting new proposals until November 11, 2018. The results of this survey will determine what software the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Tech team will work on next year. Voting on the proposals will take place from November 16 to November 30, 2018. Specifically, there is a proposal category for admins and stewards that may be of interest.

Arbitration

• Eligible editors will be invited to nominate themselves as candidates in the 2018 Arbitration Committee Elections starting on November 4 until November 13. Voting will begin on November 19 and last until December 2.
• The Arbitration Committee's email address has changed to arbcom-enwikimedia.org. Other email lists, such as functionaries-en and clerks-l, remain unchanged.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2018).

Administrator changes

Al Ameer son • Randykitty • Spartaz

Boson • Daniel J. Leivick • Efe • Esanchez7587 • Fred Bauder • Garzo • Martijn Hoekstra • Orangemike

Interface administrator changes

Deryck Chan

Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, the Mediation Committee is now closed and will no longer be accepting case requests.
• A request for comment is in progress to determine whether members of the Bot Approvals Group should satisfy activity requirements in order to remain in that role.
• A request for comment is in progress regarding whether to change the administrator inactivity policy, such that administrators "who have made no logged administrative actions for at least 12 months may be desysopped". Currently, the policy states that administrators "who have made neither edits nor administrative actions for at least 12 months may be desysopped".
• A proposal has been made to temporarily restrict editing of the Main Page to interface administrators in order to mitigate the impact of compromised accounts.

Technical news

• Administrators and bureaucrats can no longer unblock themselves unless they placed the block initially. This change has been implemented globally. See also this ongoing village pump discussion (permalink).
• To complement the aforementioned change, blocked administrators will soon have the ability to block the administrator that placed their block to mitigate the possibility of a compromised administrator account blocking all other active administrators.
• Since deployment of Partial blocks on Test Wikipedia, several bugs were identified. Most of them are now fixed. Administrators are encouraged to test the new deployment and report new bugs on Phabricator or leave feedback on the Project's talk page. You can request administrator access on the Test Wiki here.

Arbitration

• Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 3 December 2018. Please review the candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page.

Miscellaneous

• In late November, an attacker compromised multiple accounts, including at least four administrator accounts, and used them to vandalize Wikipedia. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately. Sharing the same password across multiple websites makes your account vulnerable, especially if your password was used on a website that suffered a data breach. As these incidents have shown, these concerns are not pure fantasies.
• Wikipedia policy requires administrators to have strong passwords. To further reinforce security, administrators should also consider enabling two-factor authentication. A committed identity can be used to verify that you are the true account owner in the event that your account is compromised and/or you are unable to log in.

Obituaries

• Shock Brigade Harvester Boris (Raymond Arritt) passed away on 14 November 2018. Boris joined Wikipedia as Raymond arritt on 8 May 2006 and was an administrator from 30 July 2007 to 2 June 2008.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2018).

Guideline and policy news

• There are a number of new or changed speedy deletion criteria, each previously part of WP:CSD#G6:

1. G14 (new): Disambiguation pages that disambiguate only zero or one existing pages are now covered under the new G14 criterion (discussion). This is {{db-disambig}}; the text is unchanged and candidates may be found in Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as unnecessary disambiguation pages.
2. R4 (new): Redirects in the file namespace (and no file links) that have the same name as a file or redirect at Commons are now covered under the new R4 criterion (discussion). This is {{db-redircom}}; the text is unchanged.
3. G13 (expanded): Userspace drafts containing only the default Article Wizard text are now covered under G13 along with other drafts (discussion). Such blank drafts are now eligible after six months rather than one year, and taggers continue to use {{db-blankdraft}}.

• The Wikimedia Foundation now requires all interface administrators to enable two-factor authentication.
• Members of the Bot Approvals Group (BAG) are now subject to an activity requirement. After two years without any bot-related activity (e.g. operating a bot, posting on a bot-related talk page), BAG members will be retired from BAG following a one-week notice.

Technical news

• Starting on December 13, the Wikimedia Foundation security team implemented new password policy and requirements. Privileged accounts (administrators, bureaucrats, checkusers, oversighters, interface administrators, bots, edit filter managers/helpers, template editors, et al.) must have a password at least 10 characters in length. All accounts must have a password:

1. At least 8 characters in length
2. Not in the 100,000 most popular passwords (defined by the Password Blacklist library)
3. Different from their username

User accounts not meeting these requirements will be prompted to update their password accordingly. More information is available on MediaWiki.org.

• Blocked administrators may now block the administrator that blocked them. This was done to mitigate the possibility that a compromised administrator account would block all other active administrators, complementing the removal of the ability to unblock oneself outside of self-imposed blocks. A request for comment is currently in progress to determine whether the blocking policy should be updated regarding this change.
• {{Copyvio-revdel}} now has a link to open the history with the RevDel checkboxes already filled in.

Arbitration

• Following the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: AGK, Courcelles, GorillaWarfare, Joe Roe, Mkdw, SilkTork.

Miscellaneous

• Accounts continue to be compromised on a regular basis. Evidence shows this is entirely due to the accounts having the same password that was used on another website that suffered a data breach. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately.
• Around 22% of admins have enabled two-factor authentication, up from 20% in June 2018. If you haven't already enabled it, please consider doing so. Regardless of whether you use 2FA, please practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.

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

Administrator changes

Enterprisey • JJMC89

BorgQueen

Harro5 • Jenks24 • Graft • R. Baley

Interface administrator changes

Enterprisey

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment is currently open to reevaluate the activity requirements for administrators.
• Administrators who are blocked have the technical ability to block the administrator who blocked their own account. A recent request for comment has amended the blocking policy to clarify that this ability should only be used in exceptional circumstances, such as account compromises, where there is a clear and immediate need.
• A request for comment closed with a consensus in favor of deprecating The Sun as a permissible reference, and creating an edit filter to warn users who attempt to cite it.

Technical news

• A discussion regarding an overhaul of the format and appearance of Wikipedia:Requests for page protection is in progress (permalink). The proposed changes will make it easier to create requests for those who are not using Twinkle. The workflow for administrators at this venue will largely be unchanged. Additionally, there are plans to archive requests similar to how it is done at WP:PERM, where historical records are kept so that prior requests can more easily be searched for.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2019 Steward elections will begin on 08 February 2019, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 28 February 2019, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• A new IRC bot is available that allows you to subscribe to notifications when specific filters are tripped. This requires that your IRC handle be identified.

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Hi. You closed out the AFD for Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Russ Nelson. I disagree with the results because of WP:BLP1E. Point by point through the article, nothing I've done is notable. Writing software? Everybody does that. Being on the Open Source Initiative#Board_members ? Look at all the black and red links there. Harshad Gune is MUCH more notable than me. He runs GNUnify. "GNUnify one of India's biggest open source software conferences is happening in Pune this weekend (13-14 February)." Yet he is a red link because the page was deleted. Same for Chip Salzenberg. You can tell that I'm not notable because the summary of the page has just one event. Per a BLP1E criteria, the discussion was short-term. I'm not notable, and this page should be deleted. Can we renominate it for deletion? RussNelson (talk) 14:52, 21 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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

Guideline and policy news

• The RfC on administrator activity requirements failed to reach consensus for any proposal.
• Following discussions at the Bureaucrats' noticeboard and Wikipedia talk:Administrators, an earlier change to the restoration of adminship policy was reverted. If requested, bureaucrats will not restore administrator permissions removed due to inactivity if there have been five years without a logged administrator action; this "five year rule" does not apply to permissions removed voluntarily.

Technical news

• A new tool is available to help determine if a given IP is an open proxy/VPN/webhost/compromised host.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee announced two new OTRS queues. Both are meant solely for cases involving private information; other cases will continue to be handled at the appropriate venues (e.g., WP:COIN or WP:SPI).
  • paid-en-wpwikipedia.org has been set up to receive private evidence related to abusive paid editing.
  • checkuser-en-wpwikipedia.org has been set up to receive private requests for CheckUser. For instance, requests for IP block exemption for anonymous proxy editing should now be sent to this address instead of the functionaries-en list.

Miscellaneous

• Following the 2019 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Base, Einsbor, Jon Kolbert, Schniggendiller, and Wim b.

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

Technical news

• In Special:Preferences under "Appearance" → "Advanced options", there is now an option to show a confirmation prompt when clicking on a rollback link.
• The Wikimedia Foundation's Community health initiative plans to design and build a new user reporting system to make it easier for people experiencing harassment and other forms of abuse to provide accurate information to the appropriate channel for action to be taken. Please see meta:Community health initiative/User reporting system consultation 2019 to provide your input on this idea.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee clarified that the General 1RR prohibition for Palestine-Israel articles may only be enforced on pages with the {{ARBPIA 1RR editnotice}} edit notice.

Miscellaneous

• Two more administrator accounts were compromised. Evidence has shown that these attacks, like previous incidents, were due to reusing a password that was used on another website that suffered a data breach. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately. All admins are strongly encouraged to enable two-factor authentication, please consider doing so. Please always practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.
• As a reminder, according to WP:NOQUORUM, administrators looking to close or relist an AfD should evaluate a nomination that has received few or no comments as if it were a proposed deletion (PROD) prior to determining whether it should be relisted.

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Someone's joke, or perhaps something I misheard or misread, got me to thinking about this name used for pet foods and I had no idea the mess made of the history of this brand on Wikipedia. I made a couple of changes to Pedigree Petfoods but that's not the place for it. There's so little online information the situation is almost hopeless, unless the Funding Universe history of Kal Kan can be used all by itself as a source. And I don't even think the company still exists.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 20:53, 17 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I need someone to take a look at User:Vchimpanzee/Kal Kan Foods. It wouldn't be a separate article because once I find the proof it is the same company as Pedigree Petfoods I can move a lot of the information there and some to Whiskas. One of my concerns is that I haven't changed the wording enough but I feel confident it isn't technically a copyright violation. It's still a mess.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 17:26, 23 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Mandsford why whas that for? Thank you for your time. Lotje (talk) 05:04, 24 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Mandsford, looking through your userpage, I was wondering if anybody ever informed the CMJ Marian Publishers? :-) Lotje (talk) 15:08, 24 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This message was sent to all administrators following a recent motion. Thank you for your attention. For the Arbitration Committee, Cameron11598 02:44, 4 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom would like to apologise and correct our previous mass message in light of the response from the community.

Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are required to "have strong passwords and follow appropriate personal security practices." We have updated our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular, two-factor authentication remains an optional means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised.

We are sorry for the wording of our previous message, which did not accurately convey this, and deeply regret the tone in which it was delivered.

For the Arbitration Committee, -Cameron11598 21:03, 4 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment concluded that creating pages in the portal namespace should be restricted to autoconfirmed users.
• Following a request for comment, the subject-specific notability guideline for pornographic actors and models (WP:PORNBIO) was removed; in its place, editors should consult WP:ENT and WP:GNG.

Technical news

• XTools Admin Stats, a tool to list admins by administrative actions, has been revamped to support more types of log entries such as AbuseFilter changes. Two additional tools have been integrated into it as well: Steward Stats and Patroller Stats.

Arbitration

• In response to the continuing compromise of administrator accounts, the Arbitration Committee passed a motion amending the procedures for return of permissions (diff). In such cases, the committee will review all available information to determine whether the administrator followed "appropriate personal security practices" before restoring permissions; administrators found failing to have adequately done so will not be resysopped automatically. All current administrators have been notified of this change.
• Following a formal ratification process, the arbitration policy has been amended (diff). Specifically, the two-thirds majority required to remove or suspend an arbitrator now excludes (1) the arbitrator facing suspension or removal, and (2) any inactive arbitrator who does not respond within 30 days to attempts to solicit their feedback on the resolution through all known methods of communication.

Miscellaneous

• A request for comment is currently open to amend the community sanctions procedure to exclude non XfD or CSD deletions.
• A proposal to remove pre-2009 indefinite IP blocks is currently open for discussion.

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The article List of celebrities who own wineries and vineyards has been nominated for deletion. You took part in previous discussions about the article at AfD; feel free to follow this discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of celebrities who own wineries and vineyards (3rd nomination). ɱ (talk) 16:56, 31 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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

Administrator changes

Andonic • Consumed Crustacean • Enigmaman • Euryalus • EWS23 • HereToHelp • Nv8200pa • Peripitus • StringTheory11 • Vejvančický

CheckUser changes

Ivanvector

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC seeks to clarify whether WP:OUTING should include information on just the English Wikipedia or any Wikimedia project.
• An RfC on WT:RfA concluded that Requests for adminship and bureaucratship are discussions seeking to build consensus.
• An RfC proposal to make the templates for discussion (TfD) process more like the requested moves (RM) process, i.e. "as a clearinghouse of template discussions", was closed as successful.

Technical news

• The CSD feature of Twinkle now allows admins to notify page creators of deletion if the page had not been tagged. The default behavior matches that of tagging notifications, and replaces the ability to open the user talk page upon deletion. You can customize which criteria receive notifications in your Twinkle preferences: look for Notify page creator when deleting under these criteria.
• Twinkle's d-batch (batch delete) feature now supports deleting subpages (and related redirects and talk pages) of each page. The pages will be listed first but use with caution! The und-batch (batch undelete) option can now also restore talk pages.

Miscellaneous

• The previously discussed unblocking of IP addresses indefinitely-blocked before 2009 was approved and has taken place.
• The 2019 talk pages consultation produced a report for Phase 1 and has entered Phase 2.

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

Administrator changes

28bytes • Ad Orientem • Ansh666 • Beeblebrox • Boing! said Zebedee • BU Rob13 • Dennis Brown • Deor • DoRD • Floquenbeam¹ • Flyguy649 • Fram² • Gadfium • GB fan • Jonathunder • Kusma • Lectonar • Moink • MSGJ • Nick • Od Mishehu • Rama • Spartaz • Syrthiss • TheDJ • WJBscribe

¹Floquenbeam's access was removed, then restored, then removed again.

²Fram's access was removed, then restored, then removed again.

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment seeking to alleviate pressures on the request an account (ACC) process proposes either raising the account creation limit for extended confirmed editors or granting the account creator permission on request to new ACC tool users.

• In a related matter, the account throttle has been restored to six creations per day as the mitigation activity completed.

• The scope of CSD criterion G8 has been tightened such that the only redirects that it now applies to are those which target non-existent pages.
• The scope of CSD criterion G14 has been expanded slightly to include orphan "Foo (disambiguation)" redirects that target pages that are not disambiguation pages or pages that perform a disambiguation-like function (such as set index articles or lists).
• A request for comment seeks to determine whether Wikipedia:Office actions should be a policy page or an information page.

Technical news

• The Wikimedia Foundation's Community health initiative plans to design and build a new user reporting system to make it easier for people experiencing harassment and other forms of abuse to provide accurate information to the appropriate channel for action to be taken. Community feedback is invited.

Miscellaneous

• In February 2019, the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) changed its office actions policy to include temporary and project-specific bans. The WMF exercised this new ability for the first time on the English Wikipedia on 10 June 2019 to temporarily ban and desysop Fram. This action has resulted in significant community discussion, a request for arbitration (permalink), and, either directly or indirectly, the resignations of numerous administrators and functionaries. The WMF Board of Trustees is aware of the situation, and discussions continue on a statement and a way forward. The Arbitration Committee has sent an open letter to the WMF Board.

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

Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, the page Wikipedia:Office actions has been changed from a policy page to an information page.
• A request for comment (permalink) is in progress regarding the administrator inactivity policy.

Arbitration

• Editors may now use the template {{Ds/aware}} to indicate that they are aware that discretionary sanctions are in force for a topic area, so it is unnecessary to alert them.

Miscellaneous

• Following a research project on masking IP addresses, the Foundation is starting a new project to improve the privacy of IP editors. The result of this project may significantly change administrative and counter-vandalism workflows. The project is in the very early stages of discussions and there is no concrete plan yet. Admins and the broader community are encouraged to leave feedback on the talk page.
• The new page reviewer right is bundled with the admin tool set. Many admins regularly help out at Special:NewPagesFeed, but they may not be aware of improvements, changes, and new tools for the Curation system. Stay up to date by subscribing here to the NPP newsletter that appears every two months, and/or putting the reviewers' talk page on your watchlist.

  Since the introduction of temporary user rights, it is becoming more usual to accord the New Page Reviewer right on a probationary period of 3 to 6 months in the first instance. This avoids rights removal for inactivity at a later stage and enables a review of their work before according the right on a permanent basis.

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I would like to thank you for fixing the June 7, 1972 event. Upon reading it, I'm happy that you were able to find sources that verify it since I don't really know how to do that. To be honest, I felt that the June 22 event wasn't really necessary and I just added it without even thinking about what I was doing first. SawuScimitar74 (talk) 05:34, 8 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Thank you, friends. It's hard to believe it's been that long. Mandsford 23:15, 31 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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

Administrator changes

Bradv • Chetsford • Izno

Floquenbeam • Lectonar

DESiegel • Jake Wartenberg • Rjanag • Topbanana

CheckUser changes

Callanecc • LFaraone • There'sNoTime

Oversight changes

Callanecc • Fox • HJ Mitchell • LFaraone • There'sNoTime

Technical news

• Editors using the mobile website on Wikipedia can opt-in to new advanced features via your settings page. This will give access to more interface links, special pages, and tools.
• The advanced version of the edit review pages (recent changes, watchlist, and related changes) now includes two new filters. These filters are for "All contents" and "All discussions". They will filter the view to just those namespaces.

Arbitration

• A request for comment is open to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the 2019 English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee election and to resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.

Miscellaneous

• A global request for comment is in progress regarding whether a user group should be created that could modify edit filters across all public Wikimedia wikis.

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

Guideline and policy news

• Following a discussion, a new criterion for speedy category renaming was added: C2F: One eponymous article, which applies if the category contains only an eponymous article or media file, provided that the category has not otherwise been emptied shortly before the nomination. The default outcome is an upmerge to the parent categories.

Technical news

• As previously noted, tighter password requirements for Administrators were put in place last year. Wikipedia should now alert you if your password is less than 10 characters long and thus too short.

Arbitration

• The 2019 CheckUser and Oversight appointment process has begun. The community consultation period will take place October 4th to 10th.
• The arbitration case regarding Fram was closed. While there will be a local RfC focus[ing] on how harassment and private complaints should be handled in the future, there is currently a global community consultation on partial and temporary office actions in response to the incident. It will be open until October 30th.

Miscellaneous

• The Community Tech team has been working on a system for temporarily watching pages, and welcomes feedback.

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

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC was closed with the consensus that the resysop criteria should be made stricter.

• The follow-up RfC to develop that change is now open at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/2019 Resysop Criteria (2).

• A related RfC is seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure.

Arbitration

• Eligible editors may now nominate themselves as candidates for the 2019 Arbitration Committee Elections. The self-nomination period will close November 12, with voting running from November 19 through December 2.

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

Administrator changes

EvergreenFir • ToBeFree

Akhilleus • Athaenara • John Vandenberg • Melchoir • MichaelQSchmidt • NeilN • Youngamerican • 😂

CheckUser changes

Beeblebrox

Deskana

Interface administrator changes

Evad37

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC on the administrator resysop criteria was closed. 18 proposals have been summarised with a variety of supported and opposed statements. The inactivity grace period within which a new request for adminship is not required has been reduced from three years to two. Additionally, Bureaucrats are permitted to use their discretion when returning administrator rights.
• Following a proposal, the edit filter mailing list has been opened up to users with the Edit Filter Helper right.

Technical news

• Wikimedia projects can set a default block length for users via MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry. A new page, MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry-ip, allows the setting of a different default block length for IP editors. Neither is currently used. (T219126)

Arbitration

• Voting in the 2019 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 2 December 2018 UTC. Please review the candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page.

Miscellaneous

• The global consultation on partial and temporary office actions that ended in October received a closing statement from staff concluding, among other things, that the WMF will no longer use partial or temporary Office Action bans... until and unless community consensus that they are of value or Board directive.

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

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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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. [13]

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Hi Mandsford, this edit of yours appears to be a misuse of the Rollback privilege (WP:ROLLBACKUSE). Can you explain differently? Also, on a lesser note, you appear to be using the minor edit tag inappropriately. (WP:MINOR) Oska (talk) 23:04, 3 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Oska, you've probably got a good point there. In doing the editing in "the encyclopedia that anyone can edit", I should not have used the rollback as a shortcut to restore edits, although I see that you've removed the restored content. If you want to raise a complaint, that's fine, and I'll concede that it was a misuse of rollback. I do disagree with your rationale for removal of some of the entries, particularly in the case of a leader of a worldwide church organization (even if it is small) and in the particular international rugby match (which, in rugby union circles was considered an upset of sorts). In cases where it appears that a section that would otherwise go empty (as in the case of January 24, 1970), the Wales vs. South Africa the choice to fill it. I'll acknowledge that you're also probably right about Mick Jagger and the change of name of the town. However, I'll say this as well. Wikipedia is rather broad in its scope, and in these articles, I try to take that into account. Wikipedia is also heavy-- perhaps way too heavy-- on entertainment and sports. What may not seem significant-- may even seem silly-- to you, or me, often seems significant to other users. You should expect that people will sometimes disagree on your personal view of what doesn't belong. I appreciate that you've maintained civility in this discussion. As said, this is the encyclopedia that anyone can edit; however, I agree that rollback was not the way to go about it. Again, if you wish to raise a formal complaint-- and to cite my own words-- I will remain civil about it as well. Mandsford 00:34, 4 February 2020 (UTC).[reply]

Thanks for your reply Mandsford. No, I won't raise a complaint; after raising the matter first here I am satisfied with your response in acknowledging some fault. With regards to the material I removed from the article I have restored the item about the election of the Mormon leader as I agree that that one has the most merit for inclusion. Oska (talk) 00:49, 4 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

We're good, then, Oska. If you can think of a good replacement for January 24, 1970, let me know. I would say that we probably agree more often than we disagree on what should be included and what shouldn't be. I like to have an event of some sort for each day-- always with a cite to a reliable source like a book from a major publisher or from a contemporary newspaper, one of the goals I've always had for this type of page-- but some days are more eventful than others. Technically, the entry of the murder of Shep Sheppard fills the section, although I'd prefer something more. Mandsford 02:08, 4 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I've begun a search for another event for January 24 but it appears to have been a fairly insignificant day historically. I began by looking at similar articles on other language wikipedias, including French, Spanish, German, Russian, Mandarin, Japanese, Vietnamese, Hungarian, Swedish, Indonesian, Hindi, Arabic and perhaps whimsically, Catalan. The only one of those that included an entry for the date was the German wikipedia, and it wasn't a particularly interesting event. I also tried a web search but, as you probably already know, it's not easy searching for specific (older) dates on the web. I also looked at doing a newspaper archives search but found I'd probably need to go through an institution to gain access to most archives. (Perhaps it's time for me to join up to the institutional access that Wikipedia provides). Anyway, in short I haven't turned up anything decent so far. Oska (talk) 23:43, 4 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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In case you're interested, it's available on Google Books. The 1971 presidential election results are on this page :) Number 57 21:16, 9 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. It appears in so many articles because it was the main source I used when I created them (possibly upwards of a thousand). Number 57 21:49, 9 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Mandsford, I see that instead of responding to the discussion at Template talk:Same date, you have taken to reversing my edits en masse. Because you are re-introducing formatting that causes accessibility issues and contradicts widely accepted consensus (and because you ignored all previous invitations to discuss the changes in advance), I take these reversals as a form of disruptive editing and behavior unbecoming of an administrator. —jameslucas ^{▄▄▄ ▄ ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄} 20:52, 9 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

James, I'm sorry that you feel that way, but it was already clear that you were had no intention of pausing a massive overhaul of articles that a lot of editors have been working on for years. Your changes were made with no warning to the people who researched and documented the content with citation to reliable sources. and have disrupted a framework that has been consistent within a project that has functioned well for more than a decade. It appears from your talk page that you have a history of making surprise changes to the work of other people, generally reversed by the editors affected, and that you get more complaints than praise.. While I appreciate your corrections of typographical errors, and will restore that part of your changes, this most recent effort on your part has been excessive and should not go further. The longtime contributors place a high value on substance, while you appear to be obsessed with form. Ultimately, however, encyclopedias should be maintained by people whose obsession is for accuracy and substantive content. Mandsford 01:49, 10 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I always attempt to provide a reasonable amount notice before making mass changes, and in the relatively rare cases when I have received push-back from dissenting editors, I have a pretty good track-record of either bringing those editors around to my way of thinking or else finding a compromise. In this case I don’t know what more I could have done given that these pages don’t have a central hub article, these pages don’t seem to fall under the purview of any WikiProject, you ignored my requests for discussion, and User:Deb seemed primarily concerned that I was not trying to enforce WP:DATELINK, which I have made a special effort to avoid doing.

Your suggestion that these changes are being made to sate an obsession with form is simply untrue. As has been made clear, these changes have a direct affect on accessibility. I noted to Deb that links in section headers make the articles hard to navigate on mobile devices, and SMcCandlish noted that links in section headers cause problems for blind users and others accessing Wikipedia through alternative media. I also take issue with your suggestion that my editing is causing a disruption: all content is still present, all of it still readable.

If an obsession with form is driving anything here, it is your rejection of the extra line per section, which, yes, is less compact than the problematic links were. But that format that can be changed (or removed entirely if you are willing to forgo the date links) without either pausing or backtracking in the replacements. Your willingness to participate in good faith discussion about that formatting is still welcome, but I do not accept your implications that the formatting violations are acceptable because they were left unaddressed for so long, that you have a greater ownership over these articles, or that a localized exception to a global policy is legitimate, particularly when it hinders accessibility. —jameslucas ^{▄▄▄ ▄ ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄} 00:14, 11 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not convinced that the changes are either useful or necessary. I've tried checking these on my mobile phone to try to understand what you meant, and I hit no problems. You can't really consider links in section headers in an article like this to be a formatting "violation" (not that there is really such a thing), because month articles are a unique type of article. I feel sure there is a compromise solution possible and we just need to think a little more carefully. I hesitate to use the words "think outside the box", but that's essentially what I'm talking about. Deb (talk) 08:00, 11 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

And following up on Deb's statement, the part that brought most inspired the backlash is that there is no need whatsoever to have 31 entries that say "For the same date in other years, see _______". There's disagreement, even among the many contributors to this project, over whether to have blue links to the days; it was something that started because there were such links within the (usually) unsourced year-by-year articles, not because any of us particularly care about what happened on "November 3" in another year. Besides User:Deb, who has been creating, sourcing and policing these articles for the past decade, I would like to bring in other major contributors to the discussion, such as User:Freeman1856, User:Zee money, and others who have contributed sourced content. While we have had minor differences of opinion over some preferences, we've generally had consistency within a project that is now almost 75 percent complete. And Deb is correct, these are a unique type of article, better documented and maintained than most pages on Wikipedia, and the common denominator for them has been faithfulness to the goal of accuracy. I agree with her that there is a compromise solution is possible, and it should follow a discussion among us. Mandsford 14:47, 11 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

That is good background to know. As I said, since there is no obvious hub for this project, so I have no idea (even now) where to find those past conversations.

I’d like to suggest that in the short term we remove the extra paragraphs not by reverting my progress but instead by making the template definition empty. The templates will still be there in the pages, ready to be used if we come up with an alternate formatting, but they won’t be seen. We would, of course, have lost the date links, at least in the short term, but if I take your last note correctly, that may not be the deal-breaker I understood it to be. —jameslucas ^{▄▄▄ ▄ ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄} 15:28, 11 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I was pinged, and am not going to wade deep into this, nor opinion on the quality of every single bit of content under discussion. But I agree, Mandsford, that admins are expected to know and perform better than clumsy mass-reverting that re-introduces accessibility and other problems. See WP:REVERT:

"Ultimately, it is the responsibility of the person reverting edits on the page to be sure that any intervening helpful edits are not reverted, or are re-applied to the article. ... When considering reverting multiple edits, one should examine all of the intervening edits. These are often a mix of both helpful and unhelpful edits. The goal is to remove the effect of the unhelpful edits and leave the helpful ones. This can be done either by undoing the unhelpful edits or reverting to a version of the page prior to the beginning of the unhelpful edits and re-applying, by hand, the helpful edits."

I do not believe for one moment that any long-term editor is unaware of this, or of the fact that mass-reverting is destructive and infuriating, essentially an invitation to protracted dispute instead of any kind of attempt toward dispute's resolution. If one does not have the patience to carefully work on content and preserve what is best in it while weeding out the chaff, then should probably find another hobby.

JamesLucas: As to the substantive content disputes, that really is better discussed at the talk page attached to the page being edited, and WP:BRD is a thing. While's it's not quite a guideline, it's generally accepted practice, and the "D" part of that goes much better if people remain calm and focus on the content rather than on personalities. If people end up not convinced, don't get too worked up over it. There are a few million other articles that need work.

PS: Deb, if you are not vision-impaired and using a screen reader (text-to-audio), then your tests are meaningless with regard to the accessibility issues. Mobile usability is not the same thing as accessibility for the disabled. (And "works in my one mobile browser scenario" isn't a meaningful mobile usability test, for that matter.) If you have questions about accessibility issues (and it is much better to have questions than assumptions about that) try WT:WikiProject Accessibility or WT:MOSACCESS.
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• The deployment of the reply tool as an opt-out feature, as announced in last month's newsletter, has been delayed to 7 March. Feedback and comments are being welcomed at Wikipedia talk:Talk pages project. (T296645)
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Arbitration

• Several unused discretionary sanctions and article probation remedies have been rescinded. This follows the community feedback from the 2021 Discretionary Sanctions review.

Miscellaneous

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Has there been some recent discussion leading to consensus on removing date links? Only I notice you've been removing them recently, without mentioning it in your edit summaries. Deb (talk) 08:13, 12 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there. Just a note to respectfully point out your use of the spelling encylopedia in a couple of recent edits about Lambert and his dates. I'm sure this is not a regular event for you, but I only wanted to mention it in case you were using a text snippet to copy and paste from, and there might be some more in the offing! Otherwise, I've corrected them and I think we are done here. Hops this helps, with all good wishes, DBaK (talk) 00:20, 13 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Happy First Edit Day! Hi Mandsford! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy 15th anniversary of the day you made your first edit and became a Wikipedian! Chris Troutman (talk) 20:07, 9 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Fifteen Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for fifteen years or more. ​

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Chris Troutman (talk) 20:07, 9 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Chris-- I would be honored, thank you. Mandsford 17:05, 12 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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• The ability to undelete the associated talk page when undeleting a page has been added. This was the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
• A public status system for WMF wikis has been created. It is located at https://www.wikimediastatus.net/ and is hosted separately to WMF wikis so in the case of an outage it will remain viewable.

Arbitration

• Remedy 2 of the St Christopher case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to place a ban on single-purpose accounts who were disruptively editing on the article St Christopher Iba Mar Diop College of Medicine or related pages from those pages.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2022).

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• Several areas of improvement collated from community member votes have been identified in the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines. The areas of improvement have been sent back for review and you are invited to provide input on these areas.

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• Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. (T307341)
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• Remedy 2 of the Rachel Marsden case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to delete or reduce to a stub, together with their talk pages, articles related to Rachel Marsden when they violate Wikipedia's biographies of living persons policy.
• An arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been closed.

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• user_global_editcount is a new variable that can be used in abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users. (T130439)

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• An arbitration case regarding conduct in deletion-related editing has been opened.

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Guideline and policy news

• An RfC has been closed with consensus to add javascript that will show edit notices for editors editing via a mobile device. This only works for users using a mobile browser, so iOS app editors will still not be able to see edit notices.
• An RfC has been closed with the consensus that train stations are not inherently notable.

Technical news

• The Wikimania 2022 Hackathon will take place virtually from 11 August to 14 August.
• Administrators will now see links on user pages for "Change block" and "Unblock user" instead of just "Block user" if the user is already blocked. (T308570)

Arbitration

• The arbitration case request Geschichte has been automatically closed after a 3 month suspension of the case.

Miscellaneous

• You can vote for candidates in the 2022 Board of Trustees elections from 16 August to 30 August. Two community elected seats are up for election.
• Wikimania 2022 is taking place virtually from 11 August to 14 August. The schedule for wikimania is listed here. There are also a number of in-person events associated with Wikimania around the world.
• Tech tip: When revision-deleting on desktop, hold ⇧ Shift between clicking two checkboxes to select every box in that range.

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Thank you Chris! 14:16, 31 August 2022 (UTC) Mandsford 14:16, 31 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Happy adminship anniversary! Hi Mandsford! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of your successful request for adminship. Enjoy this special day! CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 20:22, 31 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2022).

Guideline and policy news

• A discussion is open to define a process by which Vector 2022 can be made the default for all users.
• An RfC is open to gain consensus on whether Fox News is reliable for science and politics.

Technical news

• The impact report on the effects of disabling IP editing on the Persian (Farsi) Wikipedia has been released.
• The WMF is looking into making a Private Incident Reporting System (PIRS) system to improve the reporting of harmful incidents through easier and safer reporting. You can leave comments on the talk page by answering the questions provided. Users who have faced harmful situations are also invited to join a PIRS interview to share the experience. To sign up please email Madalina Ana.

Arbitration

• An arbitration case regarding Conduct in deletion-related editing has been closed. The Arbitration Committee passed a remedy as part of the final decision to create a request for comment (RfC) on how to handle mass nominations at Articles for Deletion (AfD).
• The arbitration case request Jonathunder has been automatically closed after a 6 month suspension of the case.

Miscellaneous

• The new pages patrol (NPP) team has prepared an appeal to the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) for assistance with addressing Page Curation bugs and requested features. You are encouraged to read the open letter before it is sent, and if you support it, consider signing it. It is not a discussion, just a signature will suffice.
• Voting for candidates for the Wikimedia Board of Trustees is open until 6 September.

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Hello, can you please fix the months articles for the 1950s, especially for 1953 and 1954 and to an extent, 1955. 208.127.190.114 (talk) 15:01, 6 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2022).

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, consensus was found that if the rationale for a block depends on information that is not available to all administrators, that information should be sent to the Arbitration Committee, a checkuser or an oversighter for action (as applicable, per ArbCom's recent updated guidance) instead of the administrator making the block.
• Following an RfC, consensus has been found that, in the context of politics and science, the reliability of FoxNews.com is unclear and that additional considerations apply to its use.
• Community comment on the revised Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines is requested until 8 October.

Technical news

• The Articles for creation helper script now automatically recognises administrator accounts which means your name does not need to be listed at WP:AFCP to help out. If you wish to help out at AFC, enable AFCH by navigating to Preferences → Gadgets and checking the "Yet Another AfC Helper Script" box.

Arbitration

• Remedy 8.1 of the Muhammad images case will be rescinded 1 November following a motion.
• A modification to the deletion RfC remedy in the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been made to reaffirm the independence of the RfC and allow the moderators to split the RfC in two.
• The second phase of the 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review closes 3 October.

Miscellaneous

• An administrator's account was recently compromised. Administrators are encouraged to check that their passwords are secure, and reminded that ArbCom reserves the right to not restore adminship in cases of poor account security. You can also use two-factor authentication (2FA) to provide an extra level of security.
• Self-nominations for the electoral commission for the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections open 2 October and close 8 October.
• You are invited to comment on candidates in the 2022 CUOS appointments process.
• An RfC is open to discuss whether to make Vector 2022 the default skin on desktop.
• Tech tip: You can do a fuzzy search of all deleted page titles at Special:Undelete.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2022).

Guideline and policy news

• The article creation at scale RfC opened on 3 October and will be open until at least 2 November.
• An RfC is open to discuss having open requests for adminship automatically placed on hold after the seven-day period has elapsed, pending closure or other action by a bureaucrat.

Arbitration

• Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 13 November 2022 until 22 November 2022 to stand in the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections.
• The arbitration case request titled Athaenara has been resolved by motion.
• The arbitration case Reversal and reinstatement of Athaenara's block has entered the proposed decision stage.
• AmandaNP, Mz7 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2022 Arbitration Committee Elections. Xaosflux and Dr vulpes are reserve commissioners.

Miscellaneous

• The 2022 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of two new CheckUsers.
• You can add yourself to the centralised page listing time zones of administrators.
• Tech tip: Wikimarkup in a block summary is parsed in the notice that the blockee sees. You can use templates with custom options to specify situations like {{rangeblock|create=yes}} or {{uw-ublock|contains profanity}}.

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Hi Mandsford, I just wanted to let you know that I have added the autopatrolled user right to your account. This means that pages you create will automatically be marked as 'reviewed', and no longer appear in the new pages feed. Autopatrolled is assigned to prolific creators of articles, where those articles do not require further review, and may have been requested on your behalf by someone else. It doesn't affect how you edit; it is used only to manage the workload of new page patrollers.

Since the articles you create will no longer be systematically reviewed by other editors, it is important that you maintain the high standard you have achieved so far in all your future creations. Please also try to remember to add relevant WikiProject templates, stub tags, categories, and incoming links to them, if you aren't already in the habit; user scripts such as Rater and StubSorter can help with this. As you have already shown that you have a strong grasp of Wikipedia's core content policies, you might also consider volunteering to become a new page patroller yourself, helping to uphold the project's standards and encourage other good faith article writers.

Feel free to leave me a message if you have any questions. Happy editing! Schwede66 21:48, 18 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, Schwede66. I want to keep the highest standards of accuracy and verifiability that I can. I'll consider the possibility of patrolling new pages. Mandsford 01:51, 19 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2022).

Guideline and policy news

• Consensus has been found in an RfC to automatically place RfAs on hold after one week.
• The article creation at scale RfC has been closed.
• An RfC on the banners for the December 2022 fundraising campaign has been closed.

Technical news

• A new preference named "Enable limited width mode" has been added to the Vector 2022 skin. The preference is also shown as a toggle on every page if your monitor is 1600 pixels or wider. When disabled it removes the whitespace added by Vector 2022 on the left and right of the page content. Disabling this preference has the same effect as enabling the wide-vector-2022 gadget. (T319449)

Arbitration

• Eligible users are invited to vote on candidates for the Arbitration Committee until 23:59 December 12, 2022 (UTC). Candidate statements can be seen here.
• The proposed decision for the 2021-22 review of the discretionary sanctions system is open.
• The arbitration case Reversal and reinstatement of Athaenara's block has been closed.
• The arbitration case Stephen has been opened and the proposed decision is expected 1 December 2022.
• A motion has modified the procedures for contacting an admin facing Level 2 desysop.

Miscellaneous

• Tech tip: A single IPv6 connection usually has access to a "subnet" of 18 quintillion IPs. Add /64 to the end of an IP in Special:Contributions to see all of a subnet's edits, and consider blocking the whole subnet rather than an IP that may change within a minute.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2022).

Guideline and policy news

• Speedy deletion criterion A5 (transwikied articles) has been repealed following an unopposed proposal.

Arbitration

• Following the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Barkeep49, CaptainEek, GeneralNotability, Guerillero, L235, Moneytrees, Primefac, SilkTork.
• The 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review has concluded with many changes to the discretionary sanctions procedure including a change of the name to "contentious topics". The changes are being implemented over the coming month.
• The arbitration case Stephen has been closed.

Miscellaneous

• Voting for the Sound Logo has closed and the winner is expected to be announced February to April 2023.
• Tech tip: You can view information about IP addresses in a centralised location using bullseye which won the Newcomer award in the recent Coolest Tool Awards.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2023).

Guideline and policy news

• 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.
• Following a community discussion, consensus has been found to impose the extended-confirmed restriction over the topic areas of Armenia and Azerbaijan and Kurds and Kurdistan.

Technical news

• The Vector 2022 skin has become the default for desktop users of the English Wikipedia.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 has been opened and the proposed decision is expected 24 February 2023.
• In December, the contentious topics procedure was adopted which replaces the former discretionary sanctions system. The contentious topics procedure is now in effect following an initial implementation period. There is a detailed summary of the changes and administrator instructions for the new procedure. The arbitration clerk team are taking suggestions, concerns, and unresolved questions about this new system at their noticeboard.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2023 Steward elections will begin on 05 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• Voting in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey will begin on 10 February 2023 and end on 24 February 2023. You can submit, discuss and revise proposals until 6 February 2023.
• Tech tip: Syntax highlighting is available in both the 2011 and 2017 Wikitext editors. It can help make editing paragraphs with many references or complicated templates easier.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2023).

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.
• A request for comment is open to discuss making the closing instructions for the requested moves process a guideline.

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.
• Following the 2023 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Mykola7, Superpes15, and Xaosflux.
• The Terms of Use update cycle has started, which includes a [p]roposal for better addressing undisclosed paid editing. Feedback is being accepted until 24 April 2023.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2023).

Guideline and policy news

• A community RfC is open to discuss whether reports primarily involving gender-related disputes or controversies should be referred to the Arbitration enforcement noticeboard.

Technical news

• 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)
• The rollback of Vector 2022 RfC has found no consensus to rollback to Vector legacy, but has found rough consensus to disable "limited width" mode by default.
• A link to the user's Special:CentralAuth page will now appear in the subtitle links shown on Special:Contributions. This was voted #17 in the Community Wishlist Survey 2023.

Arbitration

• The Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 case has been closed.
• A case about World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been opened, with the first evidence phase closing 6 April 2023.

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For the moment, I have finished the process of condensing the public domain entries from the Grimwood and Brooks NASA chronologies which I added to various "months of the 20th century" articles. There are probably still places where I did not achieve an ideal balance between fullness and concision, but I think the current entries are an improvement over what I originally added. Thank you for your help with these additions, Mandsford. I really appreciate it. Gildir (talk) 23:58, 28 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Gildir-- I think you've done a great job in compressing (and in some cases, deleting) the space exploration information while leaving intact the most important aspects. I learned quite a lot in going over the progress of the Gemini program, and I know you spent a lot of the month of April editing this. We've got a good team of people on the months of the 1900s project-- not just you and me, but folks like Deb and Freeman1856. The offer of access to newspapers.com stands, of course. Let me know anytime you want to explore it. Mandsford 02:44, 29 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2023).

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.

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Hello, I'm Eric. I wanted to let you know that I removed one or more of your recent additions to the page Isère because it appeared to be in a language other than English. We can only accept English-language text on this version of Wikipedia; if you would like to contribute to a Wikipedia in another language, please visit the List of Wikipedias and see if a version of Wikipedia exists in your desired language. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks! Eric ^talk 14:12, 5 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Happy First Edit Day! Hi Mandsford! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of the day you made your first edit and became a Wikipedian! interstatefive  00:12, 9 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2023).

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, editors indefinitely site-banned by community consensus will now have all rights, including sysop, removed.
• As a part of the Wikimedia Foundation's IP Masking project, a new policy has been created that governs the access to temporary account IP addresses. An associated FAQ has been created and individual communities can increase the requirements to view temporary account IP addresses.

Technical news

• Bot operators and tool maintainers should schedule time in the coming months to test and update their tools for the effects of IP masking. IP masking will not be deployed to any content wiki until at least October 2023 and is unlikely to be deployed to the English Wikipedia until some time in 2024.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been closed. The topic area of Polish history during World War II (1933-1945) and the history of Jews in Poland is subject to a "reliable source consensus-required" contentious topic restriction.

Miscellaneous

• Following a community referendum, the arbitration policy has been modified to remove the ability for users to appeal remedies to Jimbo Wales.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2023).

Administrator changes

Novem Linguae

• Deckiller
• Electionworld
• MBisanz
• Penwhale
• Raul654
• Roadrunner
• Viridae
• Yannismarou

Bureaucrat changes

MBisanz

Guideline and policy news

• Contributions to the English Wikipedia are now released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0) license instead of CC BY-SA 3.0. Contributions are still also released under the GFDL license.

Technical news

• Discussion is open regarding a proposed global policy regarding third-party resources. Third-party resources are computer resources that reside outside of Wikimedia production websites.

Arbitration

• Two arbitration cases are currently open. Proposed decisions are expected 5 July 2023 for the Scottywong case and 9 July 2023 for the AlisonW case.

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Please don't add spaces before ref tags. See MOS:REFPUNCT. I see you've been around forever and assume you have some sort of axe to grind, but I wanted to put this request here just to have it on the record. GA-RT-22 (talk) 22:47, 15 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sure we all have axes to grind, GART, but I'm not on a campaign to add spaces before ref tags; I like adding references to back up statements of fact, and was unaware of this policy until you pointed it out. Thank you for alerting me!. 00:27, 16 July 2023 (UTC) Mandsford 00:27, 16 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2023).

Administrator changes

Firefangledfeathers

• AlisonW
• Amberrock
• Closedmouth
• Scottywong

Interface administrator changes

Novem Linguae

Technical news

• The tag filter on Special:NewPages and revision history pages can now be inverted. This allows hiding edits made by automated tools. (T334338)
• Special:BlockedExternalDomains is a new tool that allows easier blocking of plain domains (and their subdomains). This is more easily searchable and is faster for the software to use than the existing MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. It does not support regex (for complex cases), URL path-matching, or the MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. (T337431)

Arbitration

• The arbitration cases named Scottywong and AlisonW closed 10 July and 16 July respectively.
• The SmallCat dispute arbitration case is in the workshop phase.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2023).

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, TFAs will be automatically semi-protected the day before it is on the main page and through the day after.
• A discussion at WP:VPP about revision deletion and oversight for dead names found that [s]ysops can choose to use revdel if, in their view, it's the right tool for this situation, and they need not default to oversight. But oversight could well be right where there's a particularly high risk to the person. Use your judgment.

Technical news

• Special:Contributions now shows the user's local edit count and the account's creation date. (T324166)

Arbitration

• The SmallCat dispute case has closed. As part of the final decision, editors participating in XfD have been reminded to be careful about forming local consensus which may or may not reflect the broader community consensus. Regular closers of XfD forums were also encouraged to note when broader community discussion, or changes to policies and guidelines, would be helpful.

Miscellaneous

• Tech tip: The "Browse history interactively" banner shown at the top of Special:Diff can be used to easily look through a history, assemble composite diffs, or find out what archive something wound up in.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2023).

Administrator changes

0xDeadbeef

Tamzin

Dennis Brown

Interface administrator changes

Pppery

• Ragesoss
• TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

• The WMF is working on making it possible for administrators to edit MediaWiki configuration directly. This is similar to previous work on Special:EditGrowthConfig. A technical RfC is running until November 08, where you can provide feedback.
• There is a proposed plan for re-enabling the Graph Extension. Feedback on this proposal is requested.

Arbitration

• Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 12 November 2023 until 21 November 2023 to stand in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections.
• Xaosflux, RoySmith and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee Elections. BusterD is the reserve commissioner.
• Following a motion, the contentious topic designation of Prem Rawat has been struck. Actions previously taken using this contentious topic designation are still in force.
• Following several motions, multiple topic areas are no longer designated as a contentious topic. These contentious topic designations were from the Editor conduct in e-cigs articles, Liancourt Rocks, Longevity, Medicine, September 11 conspiracy theories, and Shakespeare authorship question cases.
• Following a motion, remedies 3.1 (All related articles under 1RR whenever the dispute over naming is concerned), 6 (Stalemate resolution) and 30 (Administrative supervision) of the Macedonia 2 case have been rescinded.
• Following a motion, remedy 6 (One-revert rule) of the The Troubles case has been amended.
• An arbitration case named Industrial agriculture has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case close 8 November.

Miscellaneous

• The Articles for Creation backlog drive is happening in November 2023, with 700+ drafts pending reviews for in the last 4 months or so. In addition to the AfC participants, all administrators and New Page Patrollers can conduct reviews using the helper script, Yet Another AFC Helper Script, which can be enabled in the Gadgets settings. Sign up here to participate!

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2023).

Guideline and policy news

• Following a talk page discussion, the Administrators' accountability policy has been updated to note that while it is considered best practice for administrators to have notifications (pings) enabled, this is not mandatory. Administrators who do not use notifications are now strongly encouraged to indicate this on their user page.

Arbitration

• Following a motion, the Extended Confirmed Restriction has been amended, removing the allowance for non-extended-confirmed editors to post constructive comments on the "Talk:" namespace. Now, non-extended-confirmed editors may use the "Talk:" namespace solely to make edit requests related to articles within the topic area, provided that their actions are not disruptive.
• The Arbitration Committee has announced a call for Checkusers and Oversighters, stating that it will currently be accepting applications for CheckUser and/or Oversight permissions at any point in the year.
• Eligible users are invited to vote on candidates for the Arbitration Committee until 23:59 December 11, 2023 (UTC). Candidate statements can be seen here.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2023).

Arbitration

• Following the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Aoidh, Cabayi, Firefly, HJ Mitchell, Maxim, Sdrqaz, ToBeFree, Z1720.
• Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee rescinded the restrictions on the page name move discussions for the two Ireland pages that were enacted in June 2009.
• The arbitration case Industrial agriculture has been closed.

Miscellaneous

• The New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in January 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 13,000 unreviewed articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!

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Sorry about the edit conflict on August 1974 a little while ago, Mandsford. I really appreciate the work you do on the "Months in the 1900s" articles. Gildir (talk) 15:30, 4 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

And I appreciate all you do in adding to and perfecting the articles, Gildir. More than any other editor, you've kept the Manual of Style people from trying to tear down the information that you and I and other people have built over the years. Best wishes for this new year!Mandsford 15:45, 4 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Astronomer. That was me. Fifteen years ago. On the plus side, I left lots of unused sources waiting to mine. I forgot about this one. It's a do-it-yourself GA class page. BusterD (talk) 01:11, 8 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That's about how long I've been on Wikipedia-- I started 16 years ago, and was even more obnoxious in 2007 than I am now.Mandsford 02:01, 8 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm far more obnoxious now. Then I was doing somewhat mechanical work, creating a dozen of the superintendent articles to help get the "List of..." page to featured status. As it turns out, such army leaders tend to be well-documented, so made easy start-class works. Nice to meet you. BusterD (talk) 03:16, 8 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Likewise. Feel free to message anytime.Mandsford 03:22, 8 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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I don't know. I can see writing "added citation", but I see no reason to say "added content" when the article history always shows the number of characters that have been added or subtracted, and the "prev" button shows, with highlights, the difference between one page version and its previous version. When I review and the article history as part of maintenance or taking out vandalism, I think it's common sense that a large number is an indicator that content has been added in or taken out. Regarding minor changes, I don't see the logic in using 17 characters to explain that I added two characters by putting in a comma and a space for punctuation. Perhaps a committee can devise a list of simple codes (like "punc", "spel", "gram", "remcon" or "addcon") to summarize a minor change concisely.Mandsford 16:42, 14 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Duncan, Thank you for bringing that to my attention. I had been revising 1024 on my own user page, and catching any visible errors that I made in user space, but wasn't checking to see whether links to url cites were working. I'll have to say that "sfn" has caught me by surprise as a method of citation when I'm adding an item, in that I'm used to the "ref name= " format and the full description of the source. In other cases, I've had to reconstruct a source where there's no link and no mention of the publisher. However, I agree that on a style that was already in an existing article, I should avoid changing it. Mandsford 13:58, 17 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello Mandsford, we've discussed about your plan to revert my edits I did between March and May of this year and I need to know this. So about the "which article is "notable" and which article isn't" talk back in late May, I wanna know why in one of your changes on the June 17, 1963 section you did not put the infamous Vietnam riots in the top? Wouldn't that be more notable? I fail to see how that is not notable then the articles on that section. You probably know what I'm talking about since I just saw your edits in June 1963. Also, I wanna know more about why my edits aren't allowed for the 1960s wiki pages. Are my edits breaking any rules here or is it just because you don't like the way I changed all the stuff in order of how my sentences they have? I am genuinely curious about why it is a big deal. Arcadia (talk) 09:05, 19 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Arcadia16. I appreciate your statement. Please feel free to put put the Vietnam riots entry on top of the June 17 section if you believe that that event is more notable. Wikipedia is the encyclopedia that anyone can edit, and perhaps the Vietnam riots were the more notable even of the day. In addition, additional events that you've discovered through your own research are welcome anytime. However, I've seen from your talk page that you seem to believe that everyone else who has done the work of researching and writing has created "a jumbled mess" and that you intend to re-arrange items to satisfy your criteria that you have "changed all the stuff in order of how many sentences they have." Notwithstanding that this number-of-sentences isn't the way that almanacs or encyclopedias are usually organized, or that by that measure a person could move an event upward or downward by adding or deleting sentences, there is a policy summarized in Wikipedia:Notability (events), in particular the section about Inclusion criteria (which can be found at Wikipedia:Notability (events)#Inclusion criteria. The ranking in the criteria includes "enduring historical significance" and "widespread (national or international) impact" or having been "widely covered in diverse sources", or having the notability of being re-analyzed afterward. You asked whether your edits are breaking any rules, and I would note that "changing all the stuff" in an arbitrary manner would likely be considered disruptive editing. You aren't the first editor to attempt a mission of wanting to change everything, though attempting to change all 120 of the 1960s articles is a wider ambition than we usually see. Rather than looking at the other editors as unworthy opponents, joining us in collectively building and adding to a project. We've worked hard on building these articles, and we invite you to add to them, as well as to add to the project by addressing those that have not been covered (an example cited before would be January 1957, which is simply a redirect to 1957. You can make a lot of great contributions to Wikipedia. However, attempting a massive overhaul of what others have done will receive a response.Mandsford 15:43, 19 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Mandsford how are you? The Transylvania events in 1848-49 was obviously complex and tragic. In an attempt to not falling into the trick of favoring or blaming either ethnic/nationalistic narratives (be it Hungarian or Romanian), being balanced and neutral is the key. So I wonder where would be the best places (book) to get a full picture of what happened in Transylvania between 1848-49 or probably other preludes to it? I am only asking this because the article posted on EN wiki is far from it. 2604:3D09:D07F:E580:0:0:0:A28A (talk) 21:18, 10 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If convenient and possible for you, would it be okay if we discuss via emails? Please reply thank you. 2604:3D09:D07F:E580:0:0:0:A28A (talk) 21:23, 10 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

2604-- I prefer not to get into an e-mail discussion, and suggest that you create a talk page, but in looking over the current English language article 1848–1849 massacres in Transylvania, it looks as if most of this is based on an 1894 book, "1848–1849-iki magyar szabadságharc története" that's written in Hungarian and isn't available on Google Books. One of the sources on that page, "History Derailed" is here https://www.google.com/books/edition/History_Derailed/a9csmhIT_BQC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Nagyenyed+1849&pg=PA112&printsec=frontcover

As far as other stuff, I'd recommend comparing the Hungarian, Romanian and Bosnian articles and see what they say, and to go to Google Books and type in stuff like "Abrudbanya 1849". What little else I've found in English is this https://www.google.com/books/edition/History_of_the_War_in_Hungary_in_1848_an/P7AAAAAAcAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Abrudbanya+1849&pg=PA325&printsec=frontcover and this https://www.google.com/books/edition/Nationalism_and_the_Crowd_in_Liberal_Hun/urIXKGuEHCEC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Zalatna+1848&pg=PA80&printsec=frontcover 13:30, 11 September 2024 (UTC) Mandsford 13:30, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much for your kind response to my questions, No problem totally understand about not to get into email discussion. Yeah I found Alice Freifeld's book and started reading it and her account was balanced and neutral with more deeper analysis (I also emailed her). I've started reading Otto Wenkstern's book and his tone obviously reflected the age of nationalism (i.e.Hungarian War of 1848 ended because gorgey was a traitor and by the self-seeking, the greed, and the envy of others... contemporary like Istavan Deak had new research proved otherwise). I only wish there are more recent publications on the matter without favoring or blaming ethnic/nationalistic narrative (as shown in some wiki articles on sensitive and complex topics). But anyway, I guess I might contact Transylvania History Mesume or expert in Transylvania History to find something useful about this. But again thank you for your response. 2604:3D09:D07F:E580:0:0:0:A28A (talk) 17:29, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. Some interesting piece of information I read regarding Revolution 1848-49 was that the Imperial armies were racially and lingustically mixed (even included Hungarians, Italians and Poles), and Haynau was actually admired by his soilders as a dashing and caring leader. History was really trully complex. 2604:3D09:D07F:E580:0:0:0:A28A (talk) 17:41, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

History definitely has been complex, though I guess that's what makes it interesting. I hadn't known about the extent of the killing in the 1848 revolutions, and it's good that you're revealing the history on the English language Wikipedia. A lot of times you can go through your local library for an inter-library loan of a book that isn't available. If there's any other suggestions I can make, please feel free to send message.Mandsford 18:19, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I only discover the Wiki Talk Page recently and found it very useful so decided to take the chance to write a bit on Hungarian Revolution article's talk page about neo-absolutism and imperial forces. Neo-absolutism despite its namesake was a fascinating period of rapid changes and growth. The bit about composition of imperial forces was a response to the claim that "Most *** groups support Hungary" on article because it's such a broad generalization and disregard the complexities of a multinational state and class and ethnicity.

P.S. I think had Joseph had patience and given much more consideration and diligence with regards to his reforms or Leopold II lived longer or even Ferdinand I was able to govern, maybe the emancipation of serfs and other needed reforms would started sooner and maybe the turbulent years of 48-49 wouldn't happen. 216.10.229.109 (talk) 08:22, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry to bother you again Mandsford, I think the problematic discipline of different armies (be it regular or militia) and disregard for human lives and values (in comparison to today's world, but even today's world these problems still exist unfortunately) also presented a major challenge back then. The longer one's fighting the longer one could have become more insensitive. For instance, I've read it after being routed at Novara 1849, there were stragglers of Sardinian army who felt bitter because of being "involuntarily" conscripted for fighting the war, and they looted their own countrymen from villages as they passed through. And Novi Sad's population fell from 20000 to 7000 (including those who returned later) and 3/4 of town was devastated

after heavy bombardment and being captured by Hungarians in 1848-49 War. It's truly sad what war could do to people. 216.10.229.109 (talk) 07:30, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello Mandsford, it's been awhile since we last spoke. I've been wondering how the 1960s wiki pages are going and if all the pages have been changed yet. I've also been wondering if there are any plans on how to prevent any sort of edits (like what I did back in March-May 2024) in the near future. (EX: Will they be more secure? Will all edits got to an admin for review before being posted?) Arcadia (talk) 04:49, 2 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Arcadia. At the moment, review of the 1960s pages is only partway along, so it's a long way from being completed. The two goals are to re-evaluate placement of events in a section for significance and to put them in that order, and to avoid deleting additions where possible. The only exception for me is in trimming down all the NASA additions (which were added, word-for-word, from a couple of books), and in some cases, removing them, which has been OK with the author, who has also worked on shortening or even removing some. In answering your specific questions, edits don't have to be pre-approved by an administrator, but admins and other editors go through "page patrol" on a regular basis to look for what's been changed. Things like "birthday greetings"-- you've seen those before, where people mention that their friend was born on a particular day-- are pulled out quickly. Regarding security, besides looking at what's been added, we look to see what's been taken out and whether there was a rational reason for it. The hope is to keep the month articles as something that everyone can help build, and to maintain some consistency and to keep these as a go-to for finding out the events of a particular day. It's good to hear from you, and I'm glad to see your continued interest in making these better. I hope that you'll feel welcome to add to these pages, and I'm happy to discuss your suggestions and concerns.Mandsford 13:58, 2 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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• RoySmith, Barkeep49 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2024 Arbitration Committee Elections. ThadeusOfNazereth and Dr vulpes are reserve commissioners.
• Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate from 3 November 2024 until 12 November 2024 to stand in the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections.
• The Arbitration Committee is seeking volunteers for roles such as clerks, access to the COI queue, checkuser, and oversight.

Miscellaneous

• An unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in November 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!

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Hello, there’s month articles only for September-December 1957. More month articles need to be created from January-August. 2600:100C:A218:9A7B:940:F201:CF51:A8F8 (talk) 12:32, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2024).

Administrator changes

• Ahecht
• DoubleGrazing
• Dr vulpes
• FOARP
• Peaceray
• Queen of Hearts
• Rsjaffe
• SD0001
• SilverLocust
• Sohom Datta
• ThadeusOfNazereth
• Voorts

• Ajpolino
• Fathoms Below
• Pppery
• Tamzin
• Worm That Turned

• Aervanath
• Christopher Sundita
• Dank
• Dennis Brown
• Dragons flight
• Fastily
• Graham87
• JaGa
• Kbh3rd
• Marine 69-71
• Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington
• Yamamoto Ichiro

Interface administrator changes

• SD0001
• Sohom Datta

Pppery

CheckUser changes

• Spicy
• TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RFC, the policy on restoration of adminship has been updated. All former administrators may now only regain the tools following a request at the Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard within 5 years of their most recent admin action. Previously this applied only to administrators deysopped for inactivity.
• Following a request for comment, a new speedy deletion criterion, T5, has been enacted. This applies to template subpages that are no longer used.

Technical news

• Technical volunteers can now register for the 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon, which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey. Application for travel and accommodation scholarships is open from November 12 to December 10, 2024.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Yasuke (formerly titled Backlash to diversity and inclusion) has been closed.
• An arbitration case titled Palestine-Israel articles 5 has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case will close on 14 December.

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