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

Administrator changes Sdkb The Night Watch East718 Isabelle Belato Mzajac Staecker Stan Shebs Sugarfish Tamzin

Bureaucrat changes SilkTork

Guideline and policy news

• Phase I of the 2024 RfA review is now open for participation. Editors are invited to review, comment on, and propose improvements to the requests for adminship process.
• Following an RfC, the inactivity requirement for the removal of the interface administrator right increased from 6 months to 12 months.

Technical news

• The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. (T353388)

Miscellaneous

• The 2024 appointees for the Ombuds commission are だ＊ぜ, AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Doǵu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, MdsShakil, Minorax, Nehaoua, Renvoy and RoySmith as members, with Vermont serving as steward-observer.
• Following the 2024 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Ajraddatz, Albertoleoncio, EPIC, JJMC89, Johannnes89, Melos and Yahya.

I think you made a mistake in deleting User talk:ClydeFranklin. WP:U2 excludes "redirects created due to a user being renamed". SilverLocust 💬 13:13, 3 March 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240303131300","author":"SilverLocust","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-SilverLocust-20240303131300-U2_of_renamed_user","replies":["c-Elli-20240303134200-SilverLocust-20240303131300"]}}-->

(talk page stalker) @SilverLocust: in practice this is allowed with consent of the renamed user (this should probably be clarified in policy somewhere). Elli (talk | contribs) 13:42, 3 March 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240303134200","author":"Elli","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Elli-20240303134200-SilverLocust-20240303131300","replies":["c-Bradv-20240311175100-Elli-20240303134200"]}}-->

You are correct, the policy as written doesn't fully reflect current practice, and in many cases there are legitimate reasons for wanting these redirects removed. – bradv 17:51, 11 March 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240311175100","author":"Bradv","type":"comment","level":3,"id":"c-Bradv-20240311175100-Elli-20240303134200","replies":["c-SilverLocust-20240321204000-Bradv-20240311175100"]}}-->

@Bradv: Then you should try to change the CSD rather than making out-of-process deletions. SilverLocust 💬 20:40, 21 March 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240321204000","author":"SilverLocust","type":"comment","level":4,"id":"c-SilverLocust-20240321204000-Bradv-20240311175100","replies":[]}}-->

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

Administrator changes

• Kbdank71
• Kosack
• NrDg
• TLSuda

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open to convert all current and future community discretionary sanctions to (community designated) contentious topics procedure.

Technical news

• The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (T313405)

Arbitration

• An arbitration case has been opened to look into "the intersection of managing conflict of interest editing with the harassment (outing) policy".

Miscellaneous

• Editors are invited to sign up for The Core Contest, an initiative running from April 15 to May 31, which aims to improve vital and other core articles on Wikipedia.

Hello Bradv,

Backlog update: The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to Schminnte, who led with over 2,300 points.

Following that, New Page Patrol organized another backlog drive for articles in January 2024. The January drive started with 13,650 articles and reduced the backlog to 7,430 articles. Congratulations to JTtheOG, who achieved first place with 1,340 points in this drive.

Looking at the graph, it seems like backlog drives are one of the only things keeping the backlog under control. Another backlog drive is being planned for May. Feel free to participate in the May backlog drive planning discussion.

It's worth noting that both queues are gradually increasing again and are nearing 14,034 articles and 22,540 redirects. We encourage you to keep contributing, even if it's just a single patrol per day. Your support is greatly appreciated!

2023 Awards

Onel5969 won the 2023 cup with 17,761 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 50/day. There was one Platinum Award (10,000+ reviews), 2 Gold Awards (5000+ reviews), 6 Silver (2000+), 8 Bronze (1000+), 30 Iron (360+) and 70 more for the 100+ barnstar. Hey man im josh led on redirect reviews by clearing 36,175 of them. For the full details, see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone for their efforts in reviewing!

WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers deployed the rewritten NewPagesFeed in October, and then gave the NewPagesFeed a slight visual facelift in November. This concludes most major work to Special:NewPagesFeed, and most major work by the WMF Moderator Tools team, who wrapped up their major work on PageTriage in October. The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers will continue small work on PageTriage as time permits.

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Now that its been confirmed that Magonz was socking, this editor was also prolific in creating content forks. I'm wondering what is best to do with all the articles they created? WCM_email 16:22, 5 April 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240405162200","author":"Wee Curry Monster","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Wee_Curry_Monster-20240405162200-Sockpuppet_Magonz","replies":["c-Bradv-20240405233000-Wee_Curry_Monster-20240405162200"],"displayName":"W"}}-->

I haven't seen any such examples, but if there are problematic articles they will need to be dealt with through the usual editing process. WP:G5 and WP:BMB only apply to edits made while a user was banned (i.e. they are not retroactive). Also FYI, there is currently an unblock request at User talk:Magonz#Blocked as a sockpuppet, so it's probably best not to rush into anything. – bradv 23:30, 5 April 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240405233000","author":"Bradv","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Bradv-20240405233000-Wee_Curry_Monster-20240405162200","replies":[]}}-->

Hello. The case page of the Sockpuppet Investigations regarding R2dra was closed on April 4th and archived. However, a brand new user, User:Khalid bin walid II[1], has moved two drafts, Draft:Mughal Invasion of Bikaner (1534) and Draft:Al-Mamun's Invasion of Mewar, both of which were created by Narook, a sock of R2dra. Considering the similarity in editing areas, and the fact that Khalid bin walid II's first edit was made on April 5th, just after all the socks of R2dra were blocked, and both are editing Rajput-related articles, what procedure should I follow to reopen the case? Imperial^[AFCND] 12:16, 12 April 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240412121600","author":"ImperialAficionado","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-ImperialAficionado-20240412121600-How_to_reopen_a_sockpuppet_investigation?","replies":["c-Khalid_bin_walid_II-20240412125000-ImperialAficionado-20240412121600","c-Bradv-20240412141600-ImperialAficionado-20240412121600"],"displayName":"Imperial"}}-->

Stop targeting me and reverting my edits. You are promoting your own ideology on Wikipedia Khalid bin walid II (talk) 12:50, 12 April 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240412125000","author":"Khalid bin walid II","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Khalid_bin_walid_II-20240412125000-ImperialAficionado-20240412121600","replies":[]}}-->

@ImperialAficionado, done. Thanks for letting me know. You can either do the same next time, or open a new investigation at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/R2dra. If you have Twinkle it makes the process easier (see the instructions at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations). – bradv 14:16, 12 April 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240412141600","author":"Bradv","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Bradv-20240412141600-ImperialAficionado-20240412121600","replies":["c-ImperialAficionado-20240412151500-Bradv-20240412141600"]}}-->

Thanks bradv! Imperial^[AFCND] 15:15, 12 April 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240412151500","author":"ImperialAficionado","type":"comment","level":3,"id":"c-ImperialAficionado-20240412151500-Bradv-20240412141600","replies":[],"displayName":"Imperial"}}-->

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

Administrator changes

Nyttend

• JohnOwens
• Killiondude
• MelanieN
• Nihonjoe

Bureaucrat changes

Nihonjoe

CheckUser changes

Joe Roe

Oversight changes

GeneralNotability

Guideline and policy news

• Phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship review has concluded. Several proposals have passed outright and will proceed to implementation, including creating a discussion-only period (3b) and administrator elections (13) on a trial basis. Other successful proposals, such as creating a reminder of civility norms (2), will undergo further refinement in Phase II. Proposals passed on a trial basis will be discussed in Phase II, after their trials conclude. Further details on specific proposals can be found in the full report.

Technical news

• Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Wikipedia. This means that administrators have the ability to restrict users from certain actions, including uploading files, moving pages and files, creating new pages, and sending thanks. T280531

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Conflict of interest management has been closed.

Miscellaneous

• This may be a good time to reach out to potential nominees to ask if they would consider an RfA.
• A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in May 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 15,000 articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!
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There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Disagreement about blocking of 2601:646:201:57F0::/64. Thank you. Graham87 (talk) 08:26, 7 May 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240507082600","author":"Graham87","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Graham87-20240507082600-ANI_notice_about_my_block\/your_unblock","replies":["c-35.139.154.158-20240519162800-Graham87-20240507082600"]}}-->

Reopened a section at ANI, where I mentioned your unblock. 35.139.154.158 (talk) 16:28, 19 May 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240519162800","author":"35.139.154.158","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-35.139.154.158-20240519162800-Graham87-20240507082600","replies":[]}}-->

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

Administrator changes

Graham Beards

• Deskana
• Mets501
• Staxringold

Bureaucrat changes

• Deskana
• Warofdreams

Oversight changes

Dreamy Jazz

Guideline and policy news

• Phase II of the 2024 RfA review has commenced to improve and refine the proposals passed in Phase I.

Technical news

• The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. T43351

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Venezuelan politics has been closed.
• The Committee is seeking volunteers for various roles, including access to the conflict of interest VRT queue.

Miscellaneous

• WikiProject Reliability's unsourced statements drive is happening in June 2024 to replace {{citation needed}} tags with references! Sign up here to participate!

• Lacuna Leemte (talk · contribs)
  • Draft:Kristof Santy (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

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Hallo,

I wrote the article for the Dutch Wikipedia and had it translated by a native English speaker. In the meantime, I have deleted a lot and re-edited the article completely at the request of the reviewers.

In Dutch the artikcle looks completely different, but it makes sense, because there is also a lot written about his hometown Roeselare.

I also removed some primary sources and added reliable secondary sources, totally independent of the subject. The article now contains at least 15 reliable secondary sources that are 100% about Kristof Santy, and abolutely no "just passing mentions".

Most of them are Dutch-language sources, especially newspapers, magazines, the Belgian Radio (VRT) and leading art websites in Belgium. I hope “Reliable" applies also to sources in another language and from foreign countries. The sources that one finds depend in part on the language settings of the PC. I can't find any English newspaper articles.

Kristof Santy is a rising star, who exhibits a lot in England, USA and Austria and gets very good reviews. That's why I published the translated article on the en.wikipedia, which is the first time. I don't have a personal connection with the artist, I just write continuously about art on the Dutch wikipedia and I am actually writing about contemporary Belgian artists, after a serie about contemporary American artists.

I hope it's all right now. If not, just scrap it. I have done everything that is asked and what is possible for me. Sorry, but I don't want to spend any more time on it. Lacuna Leemte (talk) 09:12, 11 June 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240611091200","author":"Lacuna Leemte","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Lacuna_Leemte-20240611091200-Request_on_09:12:05,_11_June_2024_for_assistance_on_AfC_submission_by_Lacuna_Lee-1","replies":["c-Bradv-20240612014200-Lacuna_Leemte-20240611091200"]}}-->

@Lacuna Leemte, Dutch-language sources are fine, but from what I could see they were mostly interviews, which aren't great for establishing notability (see WP:INTERVIEW). But perhaps I'm missing something – what would you say is the single best source that establishes notability (either WP:ANYBIO or WP:NARTIST)? – bradv 01:42, 12 June 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240612014200","author":"Bradv","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Bradv-20240612014200-Lacuna_Leemte-20240611091200","replies":["c-Lacuna_Leemte-20240612071800-Bradv-20240612014200"]}}-->

I can’t agree with your assertion. I know the standards. The references include 6 interviews, 13 articles, 1 encyclopedia and 1 primary source. That is a healthy mix that I encounter in the many en.wikipedia articles I have translated and used for the wikipedia.nl. I have now listed the different kinds for each reference, so you can easily check for yourself. Lacuna Leemte (talk) 07:18, 12 June 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240612071800","author":"Lacuna Leemte","type":"comment","level":3,"id":"c-Lacuna_Leemte-20240612071800-Bradv-20240612014200","replies":[]}}-->

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

Administrator changes

• Elli
• HouseBlaster
• Pickersgill-Cunliffe

• Brianga
• De728631
• Georgewilliamherbert
• Hyacinth (deceased)
• ProveIt
• The Night Watch

Technical news

• Local administrators can now add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without using JavaScript. Documentation is available on MediaWiki. (T6086)

Miscellaneous

• The Community Wishlist is re-opening on 15 July 2024. Read more

Hi, FYI regarding your recent block of User:Cappuccini Fiorentini, this user's edits (Fourniture 7) have appeared on my watchilst and the editing pattern looks similar. Cheers — Gor1995 𝄞 17:52, 18 July 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240718175200","author":"Gor1995","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Gor1995-20240718175200-July_2024","replies":["c-Bradv-20240718183800-Gor1995-20240718175200"]}}-->

 Confirmed. Thanks for letting me know. – bradv 18:38, 18 July 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240718183800","author":"Bradv","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Bradv-20240718183800-Gor1995-20240718175200","replies":[]}}-->

Hey there, welcome to the 25th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since 1 March 2024. We've got a ton of wonderful editors taking back their pitchforks today. Don't worry, for they come in peace, to forcibly fix and extend existing scripts you use with sheer passion. There's so many, them forks have got what's basically their own column now! gift us with some rows before it's too late Aaron Liu (talk) 04:00, 1 August 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240801040000","author":"Aaron Liu","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Aaron_Liu-20240801040000-Scripts++_Newsletter_\u2013_Issue_25","replies":[]}}-->

Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!

Featured script

inline-diff-inline-patrol by Ponor is this edition's featured script. By loading diffs inline on every page that shows a list of changes, it implements the 2023 community wish m:Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Admins and patrollers/Inline diffs and inline patrol. Hopefully we won't need this script anymore soon, with the WMF's focus on the backlog...

Improve a script

• Many of our favorite scripts such as Fred Gandt/userResourceManager, Guarapiranga/search-shortcuts and Bradv/Superlinks haven't been updated for Vector 2022. You could be the one to change that!
• Elominius/media timer works, but its UI looks alien. Someone could improve it...
• To a lesser extent, the same goes for PrimeHunter/Search sort. I wish someone would integrate the sorts into the sort menu instead of adding 11 portlet links.
• We want...

• ...watchlist notices support for Aaron Liu/Watchlyst Greybar Unsin
• ...a tool to automatically fix CAT:BROKENREFs, preferably a fork/addition to TheJJJunk/ARA
• ...a fix/fork of DannyS712/SectionRemover to make it work

Requested scripts

• Automatically delink all duplicate links within the same section per MOS:LINKONCE.
• Collapsible parentheses in body text, which had a ridiculously long original request title and was accidentally moved to WP:US/L by me. Oops!
• An easily configurable script to add a link to the #p-vector-user-menu-overflow portlet with a name, target, and icon. This one should be a relatively easier one. I would do it myself, but I'm too busy rotting away on Celeste (video game).
• Preview an edit under the mobile viewport on desktop, with perhaps MediaWiki:Gadget-mobile-sidebar.js used for inspiration.
• ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests. Jeeputer and Nardog have been the most active on the page in the past five months.

Updated scripts

• After the ＲＩＩＪ(rewrite it in jQuery) update, Aaron Liu: Watchlyst Greybar Unsin has a dismiss button that allows you to mark an item as read in one click and cycle to the next Watchlist item.
• Lordseriouspig/StatusChangerImproved is just like Enterprisey's script, except you select your status from a dropdown instead of cycling through them with a button. The WMF operates out of car-centric infrastructure anyway. Shame!

Newly maintained scripts

• Aaron Liu has created Duplinks from Evad37/duplinks-alt; his fork adds a config variable to automatically highlight duplicate links on the loading of any page where the portlet link would've appeared.
• BilledMammal/Move+ expands the powers of User:TheTVExpert/rmCloser to include common procedures done with the art of moving pages.
• On a holiday? Somewhere? Gotta learn ye ABCs? CanonNi/StatusSetter puts the fun into Enterprisey/StatusChanger with a quadruple more statuses. That starts with a C!
• In our continuing trend(s?), DaxServer/DiscussionCloser forks DannyS712/DiscussionCloser to make it work. Sadly, this is the end of our lexicographic combo.
• Andrybak:
  • user-tabs-on-contribs is a fork of User:Enterprisey/user-tabs-on-contribs for Vector 2022.
  • Archiver is a fork of User:Enterprisey/archiver with automatic calculation of the destination archive subpage and with support for non-Vector skins.
• Quite coincidentally, Elli/OneClickArchiver has been forked from User:Equazcion/OneClickArchiver to work with the mw:Heading HTML changes.
• FlightTime/OneClickArchiver forks the same thing but also no longer nonsensically prepends {{clear}} to page archives.
  • There are now over 7 OneClickArchivers, legacy or not.

New scripts

• 

  Aaron Liu: MoveTop adds a different padlock topicon for each level of move-protection.
• Andrybak/Not around can help you mark talk pages of inactive users with {{not around}}.
• BrandonXLF/AddCopied automatically tags talk pages of pages you've copied between with {{copied}}.
• Bugghost/UserRoleIndicator adds text labels (which default to emoji) to user links that label the user's usergroups. Wow, that's a mouthful
• CanonNi/AlertAssistant adds a Twinkle-style dialog for alerting users about contentious topics.
• CFA/AttributeTranslation automatically tags articles translated from other places with appropriate attribution.
• In the defense of the 'pedia, the humble Jeeputer/defconIndicator adds the WP:WIKIDEFCON status to the toolbar.
• Tired of staring at a bunch of filtering text and waiting for darn filter logs to load? Msz2001/AbuseFilter analyzer can parse abuse filters into a visual syntax tree and evaluate locally on-demand!
• Polygnotus/DuplicateReferences finds references with the same link and displays the number of them along with a button to add the {{duplicated citations}} tag under the references section. Being lazy has never been easier!
• fastest gun on the net Ponor/really-quick-block really quick add to contribution lists three buttons awesome
• TheTechie/Help Me Tool is a quick and easy way of responding to {{help me}} requests.
• Per MOS:CONFORM, ZKang123/TitleCaseConverter converts all citation titles to... title case, unfortunately.

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

Administrator changes

Isabelle Belato

• Ian.thomson
• Modussiccandi

Interface administrator changes

Izno

CheckUser changes

Barkeep49

Technical news

• Global blocks may now target accounts as well as IP's. Administrators may locally unblock when appropriate.
• Users wishing to permanently leave may now request "vanishing" via Special:GlobalVanishRequest. Processed requests will result in the user being renamed, their recovery email being removed, and their account being globally locked.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee appointed the following administrators to the conflict of interest volunteer response team: Bilby, Extraordinary Writ

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Five years!

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New pages patrol | September 2024 Backlog Drive
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2024).

Administrator changes

Pppery

Interface administrator changes

Pppery

Oversighter changes

Wugapodes

CheckUser changes

• Courcelles
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Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, there is a new criterion for speedy deletion: C4, which applies to unused maintenance categories, such as empty dated maintenance categories for dates in the past.
• A request for comment is open to discuss whether Notability (species) should be adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline.

Arbitration

• Following a motion, remedies 5.1 and 5.2 of World War II and the history of Jews in Poland (the topic and interaction bans on My very best wishes, respectively) were repealed.
• Remedy 3C of the German war effort case ("Cinderella157 German history topic ban") was suspended for a period of six months.
• The arbitration case Historical Elections is currently open. Proposed decision is expected by 3 September 2024 for this case.

Miscellaneous

• Editors can now enter into good article review circles, an alternative for informal quid pro quo arrangements, to have a GAN reviewed in return for reviewing a different editor's nomination.
• A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in September 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles and redirects in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 13,900 articles and 26,200 redirects awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!

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

Administrator changes

• Asilvering
• Significa liberdade

• Good Olfactory
• Hesperian
• I JethroBT
• TommyBoy
• Woody

CheckUser changes

• Barkeep49
• Izno

• Doug Weller
• Spicy

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• Administrator elections are a proposed new process for selecting administrators, offering an alternative to requests for adminship (RfA). The first trial election will take place in October 2024, with candidate sign-up from October 8 to 14, a discussion phase from October 22 to 24, and SecurePoll voting from October 25 to 31. For questions or to help out, please visit the talk page at Wikipedia talk:Administrator elections.
• Following a discussion, the speedy deletion reason "File pages without a corresponding file" has been moved from criterion G8 to F2. This does not change what can be speedily deleted.
• A request for comment is open to discuss whether there is a consensus to have an administrator recall process.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Historical elections has been closed.
• An arbitration case regarding Backlash to diversity and inclusion has been opened.
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Just noticed that Snippets isn't showing up. Something on my end, or have all of the dark mode shenanigans lately caused it to stop working? Primefac (talk) 19:59, 21 September 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240921195900","author":"Primefac","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Primefac-20240921195900-Snippets_broken?","replies":["c-Bradv-20241004181200-Primefac-20240921195900"]}}-->

Huh. I don't remember writing that script, and don't even have it installed. But I'll take a look. – bradv 18:12, 4 October 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241004181200","author":"Bradv","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Bradv-20241004181200-Primefac-20240921195900","replies":["c-Primefac-20241005171600-Bradv-20241004181200"]}}-->

Hah! I think I am/was the only one using it, because we were chatting about it and you said "that's probably doable..." ;-) Primefac (talk) 17:16, 5 October 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241005171600","author":"Primefac","type":"comment","level":3,"id":"c-Primefac-20241005171600-Bradv-20241004181200","replies":[]}}-->

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

Administrator changes

• Crisco 1492

• Babajobu
• Daniel
• Elf
• Jayron32
• Thue
• Wugapodes

CheckUser changes

Maxim

Oversighter changes

Maxim

Guideline and policy news

• Following a discussion, the discussion-only period proposal that went for a trial to refine the requests for adminship (RfA) process has been discontinued.
• Following a request for comment, Administrator recall is adopted as a policy.

Technical news

• Mass deletions done with the Nuke tool now have the 'Nuke' tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. T366068

Arbitration

• RoySmith, Barkeep49 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2024 Arbitration Committee Elections. ThadeusOfNazereth and Dr vulpes are reserve commissioners.
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Miscellaneous

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Thanks, I recalled participating in the previous AfD but could not remember how identical it was. Off to AfD it goes... Dclemens1971 (talk) 21:09, 20 November 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241120210900","author":"Dclemens1971","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Dclemens1971-20241120210900-Declined_G4_on_Shibu_Chacko_MBE","replies":["c-Bradv-20241120211000-Dclemens1971-20241120210900"]}}-->

Hold off on that AfD - I just moved it to draft space. – bradv 21:10, 20 November 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241120211000","author":"Bradv","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Bradv-20241120211000-Dclemens1971-20241120210900","replies":["c-Bradv-20241120211500-Bradv-20241120211000"]}}-->

Nevermind. They're a sock. Now deleted as G5. – bradv 21:15, 20 November 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241120211500","author":"Bradv","type":"comment","level":3,"id":"c-Bradv-20241120211500-Bradv-20241120211000","replies":["c-Dclemens1971-20241120212000-Bradv-20241120211500"]}}-->

Thanks! Dclemens1971 (talk) 21:20, 20 November 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241120212000","author":"Dclemens1971","type":"comment","level":4,"id":"c-Dclemens1971-20241120212000-Bradv-20241120211500","replies":[]}}-->

Just a note on the CSD you recently declined: I run such pages through Google Translate to see if there are glaring issues. This one turned out to be blatantly promotional. TornadoLGS (talk) 21:22, 20 November 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241120212200","author":"TornadoLGS","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-TornadoLGS-20241120212200-CSD_decline","replies":["c-Bradv-20241120212300-TornadoLGS-20241120212200"]}}-->

Which one? – bradv 21:23, 20 November 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241120212300","author":"Bradv","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Bradv-20241120212300-TornadoLGS-20241120212200","replies":["c-TornadoLGS-20241120212600-Bradv-20241120212300"]}}-->

This one User:Fjellhamar forskningsinstitutt/sandbox TornadoLGS (talk) 21:26, 20 November 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241120212600","author":"TornadoLGS","type":"comment","level":3,"id":"c-TornadoLGS-20241120212600-Bradv-20241120212300","replies":["c-Bradv-20241120213000-TornadoLGS-20241120212600"]}}-->

I don't understand this need to police people's sandboxes. This isn't hurting anyone. Plus, "promotional" really doesn't count when it's written in Norwegian, on the English Wikipedia, in a completely hidden and unindexed page. Surely we have bigger problems to deal with. – bradv 21:30, 20 November 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241120213000","author":"Bradv","type":"comment","level":4,"id":"c-Bradv-20241120213000-TornadoLGS-20241120212600","replies":["c-TornadoLGS-20241120215500-Bradv-20241120213000"]}}-->

Eh, fair point. I mostly do it so it's dealt with before they get a chance to move their vanity pages into mainspace. TornadoLGS (talk) 21:55, 20 November 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241120215500","author":"TornadoLGS","type":"comment","level":5,"id":"c-TornadoLGS-20241120215500-Bradv-20241120213000","replies":["c-Bradv-20241120220400-TornadoLGS-20241120215500"]}}-->

Sorry, didn't mean to grump at you. That's a fair perspective, but in this case there's no imminent risk of disruption, and we need to balance that risk against the risk of frustrating or demotivating new editors. – bradv 22:04, 20 November 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241120220400","author":"Bradv","type":"comment","level":6,"id":"c-Bradv-20241120220400-TornadoLGS-20241120215500","replies":["c-TornadoLGS-20241120220900-Bradv-20241120220400"]}}-->

No problem. I can see that, though I do think it good to discourage WP:NOTHERE-type behavior, though I understand that has to be balanced against AGF. TornadoLGS (talk) 22:09, 20 November 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241120220900","author":"TornadoLGS","type":"comment","level":7,"id":"c-TornadoLGS-20241120220900-Bradv-20241120220400","replies":[]}}-->

Special:Contributions/122.99.21.46 is a proxy per [2], therefore it might be worth increasing the length of block per WP:OPENPROXY.- Ratnahastin (talk) 01:40, 22 November 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241122014000","author":"Ratnahastin","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Ratnahastin-20241122014000-122.99.21.46","replies":[]}}-->

The article at https://www.latestlaws.com/bare-acts/central-acts-rules/indian-enterprise-development-service-rules-2019/ is simply contains a copy of the official gazette notification from the government of India, which can also be found at official links like that on https://www.dcmsme.gov.in/employ-corner/IEDS/gazzate_notification_ieds.pdf.

The deletion was completely unwarranted. Latestlaws.com doesnt hold a copyright to this text, it was released as a public notification by the government of India, and definetely released before Latestlaws.com added a copy on their website.

I request an immediate reversal of the deletion.

16AdityaG09 (talk) 04:03, 23 November 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241123040300","author":"16AdityaG09","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-16AdityaG09-20241123040300-Regarding_deletion_of_Indian_Enterprise_Development_Service","replies":["c-Bradv-20241123041000-16AdityaG09-20241123040300"]}}-->

I'll look into that, but why are we copying laws verbatim onto Wikipedia? This is an encyclopedia, not a web hosting service. – bradv 04:10, 23 November 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241123041000","author":"Bradv","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Bradv-20241123041000-16AdityaG09-20241123040300","replies":["c-16AdityaG09-20241123041300-Bradv-20241123041000"]}}-->

The article was created a few hours ago by me, do you not think this could have discussed and the article improved? My issue is against the deletion, not the content. Please don't strawman.

An official copy is also available on searching the gazette database. The link is https://egazette.gov.in/(S(f4xgckrmbyn0lukkh5lpfqkr))/ViewPDF.aspx 16AdityaG09 (talk) 04:13, 23 November 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241123041300","author":"16AdityaG09","type":"comment","level":3,"id":"c-16AdityaG09-20241123041300-Bradv-20241123041000","replies":["c-Bradv-20241123042800-16AdityaG09-20241123041300"]}}-->

You will need to demonstrate that these documents have been released by the copyright holder into the public domain, or with a licence compatible with CC BY-SA 4.0. I can't find such a declaration on either of the websites you linked. – bradv 04:28, 23 November 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241123042800","author":"Bradv","type":"comment","level":4,"id":"c-Bradv-20241123042800-16AdityaG09-20241123041300","replies":["c-16AdityaG09-20241123043300-Bradv-20241123042800"]}}-->

Please see the link at https://egazette.gov.in/(S(cypjei5ltzwlfqwct1oaf3su))/Aboutus.aspx#:~:text=This%20is%20an%20authorized%20legal,available%20in%20the%20public%20domain.

Does it work?

"All parts, section and Sub-section of Gazette of India are uploaded in the egazette website by the concerned Government of India Printing Presses which can be accessed free of cost by the general public being available in the public domain." 16AdityaG09 (talk) 04:33, 23 November 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241123043300","author":"16AdityaG09","type":"comment","level":5,"id":"c-16AdityaG09-20241123043300-Bradv-20241123042800","replies":["c-16AdityaG09-20241123043400-16AdityaG09-20241123043300"]}}-->

Latestlaws.com also probably used this provision to copy the text. 16AdityaG09 (talk) 04:34, 23 November 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241123043400","author":"16AdityaG09","type":"comment","level":6,"id":"c-16AdityaG09-20241123043400-16AdityaG09-20241123043300","replies":["c-Bradv-20241123044100-16AdityaG09-20241123043400"]}}-->

Done. I've moved it to draftspace as it should be written using third-party reliable sources. You have six months to work on it and submit it for review. – bradv 04:41, 23 November 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241123044100","author":"Bradv","type":"comment","level":7,"id":"c-Bradv-20241123044100-16AdityaG09-20241123043400","replies":[]}}-->

Actually, he has admitted on his talk page to being "the CEO and Founder of Oxerv", even though he hasn't made the COI declaration on his user page. I can't reply to your comments but perhaps you'd like to reword them? Deb (talk) 16:01, 23 November 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241123160100","author":"Deb","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Deb-20241123160100-User:OxervEditor","replies":["c-Bradv-20241123160700-Deb-20241123160100"]}}-->

I see that now. I guess they can't make the COI disclosure while blocked, so I'll leave it for you or someone else to review. – bradv 16:07, 23 November 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241123160700","author":"Bradv","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Bradv-20241123160700-Deb-20241123160100","replies":[]}}-->