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RfA
Can you transclude my RfA onto the main RfA page? It's semi protected... FredSmit (talk) 16:30, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
- Done, but I'd like to warn you that passage is virtually impossible w/o some demonstration of your previous activity on Wikipedia. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 16:36, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
Can I request that we review why my Central Florida Law Journal page was deleted? The magazine which I publish each month is of importance to the 500 or so attorneys and law professionals who receive it. It covers stories and trends in the legal professions that are of interest to those in law in Florida. I would love to have a listing in Wikipedia and have been a journalist for more than 30 years. I have started this publication so that people in my state can have a way to keep in touch with each other and keep in touch with the issues in the field. Thanks -- Donna Balancia —Preceding unsigned comment added by Donnabalancia (talk • contribs) 14:57, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
- I deleted it because it didn't make any assertion of importance. Interestingly enough, your comment here contains an assertion of importance (500 or so who receive it). I'll restore it for now, but warn you that it may be taken to Articles for deletion in the future. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 14:38, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
- Please be sure to put that assertion (sourced if possible) in the article. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 14:42, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
Thank you so much, Philosopher, I will follow that instruction, much appreciated. I can document no. of pieces sent through the United States Postal Service at next mailing, do you think that will suffice as proof of circulation? Thanks, Donna —Preceding unsigned comment added by Donnabalancia (talk • contribs) 08:40, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
- If you are discussing how to verify, make sure you cite the figures to a published source. Unfortunately, original (unpublished) research is not allowed b/c there is no way for other Wikipedians to verify such information. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 13:36, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
Notable Iowans
Can you look at my second post here and tell me what you think of including just those notable Iowans, and shortening the list on the Iowa page. Please post on that page too. CTJF83Talk 06:41, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
I find it very funny how you are proud of all your wikipedia edits and even list your notable eits, and edit number. I don't mean to be offensive, but it appears that you have no-life. And by the way do you get paid from being an admin for wikipedia? --Manning38 (talk) 20:34, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
Thanks
...for the assist on my semi on Arlen Specter. That tag is important, sorry I forgot to include it!! -Pete (talk) 17:59, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
- No problem! --Philosopher Let us reason together. 23:19, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
Re: Sen-mccoy-2007.jpg
Added a link to the page I got the picture from; WHOIS ties the website to the State of Iowa Legislative Branch, so I'm assuming it's legit.
Thanks for your comment. - YB (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 15:01, 4 May 2009 (UTC).
Thank You
Thanks for un-protecting my talkpage. --→ Ãlways Ãhëad (talk) 02:15, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
- No problem. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 03:50, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
AIV report
I'm curious... what was this about? The IP didn't edit since 2005. -- Mentifisto 04:31, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
- I meant to post it over at the Simple English Wikipedia's simple:WP:AIV. Then when I went back to fix my mistake the bot had beaten me to it. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 04:38, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
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411 1'/\/\ a$|<ing R, "1$ 17?" Written by T3h 1337 b0y (talk) 10:06, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
- No, sorry. This is the English Wikipedia, not the 1337 encyclopedia. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 11:22, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
Template:MP for Hexham
This template was put up for deletion, and your decision was delete. I am not going to dispute that. Would it be possible for someone who knows how to use a bot to change all the articles from {{MP for Hexham to {{subst:MP for Hexham That will leave all the articles with a valid statement. Also applies to Template:MP for Berwick, about 150 articles in all. I will then tidy up any loose ends. Please reply here - I have put a watch on. Twiceuponatime (talk) 12:39, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
- Okay, I have requested that {{MP for Hexham}} be subst'ed. Assuming a bot doesn't do it sooner, I'll go through with AWB later and do it myself. I'll make the same request for Berwick (assuming it is also closed as delete). --Philosopher Let us reason together. 13:15, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
Signature
Unfortunately I have been changing my signature font attributes the hard way, by going back in. The only automatic random colour selector I have been using is my brain, and if I can do it anybody can! ;-)
I go back in and copy over "B. Fairbairn" with " B. Fairbairn", and change the font/colour/size to whatever I want. Normally the colour is one of these:
Violet
Fuchsia
Red
Crimson
Maroon
Purple
Blue
Navy
Lime
Green
Teal
Olive
Gold
Orange
Chocolate
Brown
B. Fairbairn (talk) 03:51, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
- Thanks. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 05:03, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
Could you please explain further...
Could you please explain your deletion of Ibrahim Mohammed Khalil? The record shows this was the conclusion of a {{prod}}. When concluding a {{prod}} is confirming that the nominator informed the person who started the article one of the administrator's responsibilities? Geo Swan (talk) 03:00, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
- This was deleted over half a year ago - I suggest that in the future you watch the page - that way you will be able to see changes to the article and a notice will appear in your watchlist if the article is deleted.
- If you would like the article restored, however, I would be glad to do that - articles deleted via prod are eligible for restoration on request. Note that the article may still be nominated for an WP:AfD. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 03:18, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
- I am prolific. I have edited over ten thousand articles. The watchlist system is not sufficient for warning prolific people of when their articles have been deleted -- particularly if someone else makes a minor edit to the article, after the tagging -- because then the watchlist shows their edit summary, and not that of the tagger.
- Please userify the article, its revision history, and talk page, to User:Geo Swan/review/Ibrahim Mohammed Khalil. Geo Swan (talk) 03:42, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
- Done --Philosopher Let us reason together. 16:15, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
- Please userify the article, its revision history, and talk page, to User:Geo Swan/review/Ibrahim Mohammed Khalil. Geo Swan (talk) 03:42, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
Canopy Group (disambiguation)
Hi, I'm also an admin and was clearing out the Candidate for Speedy Deletion backlog, when you deleted the article. I don't disagree with your deletion, however I was on the fence about it myself. I think that it may be that this group could rise to a level of significance, even if the article doesn't indicate it well. To this end I have userfied the text at the author's user page, and left a message on his talk page explaining how I think the article might be improved. I also explained how disambig pages are suppose to work, since he didn't seem to understand that. I thought you might like to know what I've done. Dsmdgold (talk) 23:27, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
- Thanks for letting me know! --Philosopher Let us reason together. 23:29, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
My rollback
Could you please revoke my rollback privileges? Thanks. —Mythdon t/c 02:47, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
- Done. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 03:12, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
- Thank you. If I were to request return of the feature, should I just ask you to return it, or should I go to Wikipedia:Requests for permissions for request of its return?. —Mythdon t/c 03:17, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
- Feel free to come back to me - though if you prefer going to RfR you could do that, it's up to you. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 03:22, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
- Thank you. If I were to request return of the feature, should I just ask you to return it, or should I go to Wikipedia:Requests for permissions for request of its return?. —Mythdon t/c 03:17, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
Sig colors
Thanks Philosopher, I will take a look at User:Chenzw/Sig. B. Fairbairn Talk 10:23, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
Iowa
Phil- Could you please put a temp lock on Iowa? Lots of vandalism lately. Thanks, Bill Whittaker (talk) 12:56, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
- Looks like someone beat me to it. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 21:33, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
The most likely speedy deletion criterion for this lil' gem was WP:CSD#A1. See the search I used in the comments via the deletion log. Cheers! - CobaltBlueTony™ talk 17:45, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
Patrick Henry College
"I undid an edit you made to Patrick Henry College's English motto - it is supposed to read "For Christ and for Liberty", as evidenced here and here." Your edit should stand as per the web page you have referenced. The college has translated the Latin wrong, but that is their business. Best wishes. Bigturtle (talk) 13:54, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
Wikitravel Iowa regions
Hello! I'm working on Wikitravel, and hoping to come up with well-defined travel regions for Iowa [1]. Unfortunately I haven't been able to find anyone with expertise to lend on Wikitravel itself, so I've wandered over here. I see you are active here on WikiProject Iowa, and wondered if you might be interested in contributing to the discussion. If not, feel free to pass on the idea to someone else who might be interested, or just ignore! Thanks, --Peter Talk 04:53, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
Regional vocabularies of American English
As you probably know, following AfD discussion the consensus was to keep and clean up Regional vocabularies of American English. This will require adding references where possible, and removing large amounts of unreferenced material. I have begun this process; your help would be greatly appreciated. Cnilep (talk) 15:03, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
Tech News: 2019-34
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The Signpost: 30 August 2019
- News and notes: Documenting Wikimania and our beginnings
- In focus: Ryan Merkley joins WMF as Chief of Staff
- Discussion report: Meta proposals on partial bans and IP users
- Traffic report: Once upon a time in Greenland with Boris and cornflakes
- News from the WMF: Meet Emna Mizouni, the newly minted 2019 Wikimedian of the Year
- Recent research: Special issue on gender gap and gender bias research
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
WikiCup 2019 September newsletter
The fourth round of the competition has finished in a flurry of last minute activity, with 454 points being required to qualify for the final round. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants with over 400 points being eliminated, and all but two of the finalists having achieved an FA during the round. Casliber, our 2016 winner, was the highest point-scorer, followed by Enwebb and Lee Vilenski, who are both new to the competition. In fourth place was SounderBruce, a finalist last year. But all those points are swept away as we start afresh for the final round.
Round 4 saw the achievement of 11 featured articles. In addition, Adam Cuerden scored with 18 FPs, Lee Vilenski led the GA score with 8 GAs while Kosack performed 15 GA reviews. There were around 40 DYKs, 40 GARs and 31 GAs overall during round 4. Even though contestants performed more GARs than they achieved GAs, there was still some frustration at the length of time taken to get articles reviewed.
As we start round 5, we say goodbye to the eight competitors who didn't quite make it; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia, and we hope you will join us again next year. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them (some people have fallen foul of this rule and the points have been removed).
If you are concerned that your nomination, whether it be for a good article, a featured process, or anything else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66, Vanamonde and Cwmhiraeth MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:44, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
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Administrators' newsletter – September 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2019).
- Bradv • Chetsford • Izno
- Floquenbeam • Lectonar
- DESiegel • Jake Wartenberg • Rjanag • Topbanana
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Precious anniversary
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:03, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
... and six! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:25, 10 September 2019 (UTC)
Precious anniversary
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:26, 11 September 2016 (UTC)
... and six! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:27, 10 September 2019 (UTC)
WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 15
A final update, for now:
The third grant-funded round of WikiProject X has been completed. Unfortunately, while this round has not resulted in a deployed product, I am not planning to resume working on the project for the foreseeable future. Please see the final report for more information.
Regards,
-— Isarra ༆ 19:24, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
The Signpost: 30 September 2019
- From the editors: Where do we go from here?
- Special report: Post-Framgate wrapup
- Traffic report: Varied and intriguing entries, less Luck, and some retreads
- News from the WMF: How the Wikimedia Foundation is making efforts to go green
- Recent research: Wikipedia's role in assessing credibility of news sources; using wikis against procrastination; OpenSym 2019 report
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
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Administrators' newsletter – October 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2019).
Interface administrator changes
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- 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
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- Following a discussion, a new criterion for speedy category renaming was added: C2F: One eponymous article, which
- 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.
- 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.
- The Community Tech team has been working on a system for temporarily watching pages, and welcomes feedback.
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JzG (RevDel)
Hi, there's a Wikipedian (StoneRazor) who is speculating about the identity of someone from Reddit and trying to pin edits to Wikipedia to someone on Reddit. I think this goes against the privacy policies of Wikipedia. You can read his other less than civil comments on the talk page.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:JzG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Intellectual_dark_web#UFMG_IDW_Study --Where be me spice (talk) 11:20, 11 October 2019 (UTC)
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The Signpost: 31 October 2019
- In the media: How to use or abuse Wikipedia for fun or profit
- Special report: “Catch and Kill” on Wikipedia: Paid editing and the suppression of material on alleged sexual abuse
- Interview: Carl Miller on Wikipedia Wars
- Community view: Observations from the mainland
- Arbitration report: October actions
- Gallery: Wiki Loves Broadcast
- Recent research: Research at Wikimania 2019: More communication doesn't make editors more productive; Tor users doing good work; harmful content rare on English Wikipedia
- News from the WMF: Welcome to Wikipedia! Here's what we're doing to help you stick around
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
WikiCup 2019 November newsletter
The WikiCup is over for another year! Our Champion this year is Adam Cuerden (submissions), who over the course of the competition has amassed 91 featured pictures, including 32 in the final round. Our finalists this year were:
- Adam Cuerden (submissions) with 964 points
- Lee Vilenski (submissions) with 899 points
- Casliber (submissions) with 817 points
- Kosack (submissions) with 691 points
- SounderBruce (submissions) with 388 points
- Enwebb (submissions) with 146 points
- Usernameunique (submissions) with 145 points
- HaEr48 (submissions) with 74 points
All those who reached the final will win awards. The following special awards will be made based on high performance in particular areas of content creation. So that the finalists do not have an undue advantage, these prizes are awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field in a single round, or in the event of a tie, to the overall leader in this field. Awards will be handed out in the coming weeks. Please be patient!
- Casliber (submissions) wins the featured article prize, for a total of 7 FAs during the course of the competition.
- Lee Vilenski (submissions) wins the good article prize, for 14 GAs in round 5.
- Yashthepunisher (submissions) wins the featured list prize, for 4 FLs overall.
- Adam Cuerden (submissions) wins the featured picture prize, for 91 FPs overall.
- MPJ-DK (submissions) wins the topic prize, for 7 articles in good topics in round 2.
- Lee Vilenski (submissions) wins the DYK prize, for 14 did you know articles in round 5.
- Muboshgu (submissions) wins the ITN prize, for 7 in the news articles in round 1.
- Ed! (submissions) wins the reviewer prize, for 56 good article reviews in round 1.
Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether you made it to the final rounds or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup who have achieved much this year. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition, not forgetting User:Jarry1250, who runs the scoring bot.
We have opened a scoring discussion on whether the rules and scoring need adjustment. Please have your say. Next year's competition will begin on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to see you all in the 2020 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66, Vanamonde and Cwmhiraeth 14:18, 2 November 2019 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – November 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2019).
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- 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.
- 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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The Signpost: 29 November 2019
- From the editor: Put on your birthday best
- News and notes: How soon for the next million articles?
- In the media: You say you want a revolution
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
- Arbitration report: Two requests for arbitration cases
- Traffic report: The queen and the princess meet the king and the joker
- Technology report: Reference things, sister things, stranger things
- Gallery: Winter and holidays
- Recent research: Bot census; discussions differ on Spanish and English Wikipedia; how nature's seasons affect pageviews
- Essay: Adminitis
- From the archives: WikiProject Spam, revisited
Administrators' newsletter – December 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2019).
- EvergreenFir • ToBeFree
- Akhilleus • Athaenara • John Vandenberg • Melchoir • MichaelQSchmidt • NeilN • Youngamerican • 😂
Interface administrator changes
- 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.
- 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)
- 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.
- 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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- 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
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The Signpost: 27 December 2019
- From the editors: Caught with their hands in the cookie jar, again
- News and notes: What's up (and down) with administrators, articles and languages
- In the media: "The fulfillment of the dream of humanity" or a nightmare of PR whitewashing on behalf of one-percenters?
- Discussion report: December discussions around the wiki
- Arbitration report: Announcement of 2020 Arbitration Committee
- Traffic report: Queens and aliens, exactly alike, once upon a December
- Technology report: User scripts and more
- Gallery: Holiday wishes
- Recent research: Acoustics and Wikipedia; Wiki Workshop 2019 summary
- From the archives: The 2002 Spanish fork and ads revisited (re-revisited?)
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
- WikiProject report: Wikiproject Tree of Life: A Wikiproject report
Welcome to the 2020 WikiCup!
Happy New Year, Happy New Decade and Happy New WikiCup! The competition begins today and all article creators, expanders and improvers are welcome to take part. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page. We are relaxing the rule that only content on which you have completed significant work during 2020 will count; now to be eligible for points in the competition, you must have completed significant work on the content at some time! Any questions on the rules or on anything else connected to the Cup should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. Good luck! The judges for the WikiCup are Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Godot13 (talk · contribs · email), Vanamonde93 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk) 11:43, 1 January 2020 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – January 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2019).
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- 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.
- 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 thanreasonably 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.
- 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
- This issue marks three full years of the Admin newsletter. Thanks for reading!
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The Signpost: 27 January 2020
- From the editor: Reaching six million articles is great, but we need a moratorium
- News and notes: Six million articles on the English language Wikipedia
- Special report: The limits of volunteerism and the gatekeepers of Team Encarta
- Arbitration report: Three cases at ArbCom
- Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2019
- News from the WMF: Capacity Building: Top 5 Themes from Community Conversations
- Community view: Our most important new article since November 1, 2015
- From the archives: A decade of The Signpost, 2005-2015
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Japan: a wikiProject Report
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Administrators' newsletter – February 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2020).
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- 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.
- 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. [54]
- Following a recent arbitration case, the Arbitration Committee reminded administrators
that checkuser and oversight blocks must not be reversed or modified without prior consultation with the checkuser or oversighter who placed the block, the respective functionary team, or the Arbitration Committee.
- Following a recent arbitration case, the Arbitration Committee reminded administrators
- Voting in the 2020 Steward elections will begin on 08 February 2020, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 28 February 2020, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
- The English Wikipedia has reached six million articles. Thank you everyone for your contributions!
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