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November 2021 at Women in Red
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Administrators' newsletter – November 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2021).
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Guideline and policy news
- Phase 2 of the 2021 RfA review has commenced which will discuss potential solutions to address the 8 issues found in Phase 1. Proposed solutions that achieve consensus will be implemented and you may propose solutions till 07 November 2021.
Technical news
- Toolhub is a catalogue of tools which can be used on Wikimedia wikis. It is at https://toolhub.wikimedia.org/.
Arbitration
- GeneralNotability, Mz7 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2021 Arbitration Committee Elections. Ivanvector and John M Wolfson are reserve commissioners.
- Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves to stand in the 2021 Arbitration Committee elections from 07 November 2021 until 16 November 2021.
Miscellaneous
- The 2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of five new CheckUsers and two new Oversighters.
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December 2021 at Women in Red
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"Word Is Out"
Hi. Thanks for your note - what happened here is that I initially typed out an explanation for my "Word Is Out" edit, but it was accidentally lost when I hit the back button. I have now reinstated the edit with an explanation included. Thanks
- most welcome.--—— 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (talk) 07:56, 27 November 2021 (UTC)
Happy Birthday!
 | Happy Birthday, Sakura emad, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a nice day!--Bobherry Talk Edits 15:00, 28 November 2021 (UTC) |
Thank you dear happy to have you here.--—— 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (talk) 15:35, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – December 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2021).
Administrator changes
Technical news
- Unregistered editors using the mobile website are now able to receive notices to indicate they have talk page messages. The notice looks similar to what is already present on desktop, and will be displayed on when viewing any page except mainspace and when editing any page. (T284642)
- The limit on the number of emails a user can send per day has been made global instead of per-wiki to help prevent abuse. (T293866)
Arbitration
- Voting in the 2021 Arbitration Committee Elections is open until 23:59, 06 December 2021 (UTC).
- The already authorized standard discretionary sanctions for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes), broadly construed, have been made permanent.
January 2022 Women in Red
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Administrators' newsletter – January 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2021).
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Guideline and policy news
- Following consensus at the 2021 RfA review, the autopatrolled user right has been removed from the administrators user group; admins can grant themselves the autopatrolled permission if they wish to remain autopatrolled.
- Additionally, consensus for proposal 6C of the 2021 RfA review has led to the creation of an administrative action review process. The purpose of this process will be to review individual administrator actions and individual actions taken by users holding advanced permissions.
Arbitration
- Following the 2021 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Beeblebrox, Cabayi, Donald Albury, Enterprisey, Izno, Opabinia regalis, Worm That Turned, Wugapodes.
Miscellaneous
- The functionaries email list (functionaries-en
lists.wikimedia.org) will no longer accept incoming emails apart from those sent by list members and WMF staff. Private concerns, apart from those requiring oversight, should be directly sent to the Arbitration Committee.
"Template:Prb" listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Template:Prb and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 January 5#Template:Prb until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. MB 15:38, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
- ok thank you. —— 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (talk) 15:46, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
February with Women in Red
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Administrators' newsletter – February 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2022).
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Guideline and policy news
- The Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines have been published for consideration. Voting to ratify this guideline is planned to take place 7 March to 21 March. Comments can be made on the talk page.
Technical news
- The user group
oversightwill be renamedsuppressin around 3 weeks. This will not affect the name shown to users and is simply a change in the technical name of the user group. The change is being made for technical reasons. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections. - The Reply Tool feature, which is a part of Discussion Tools, will be opt-out for everyone logged in or logged out starting 7 February 2022. Editors wishing to comment on this can do so in the relevant Village Pump discussion.
- The user group
Arbitration
- Community input is requested on several motions aimed at addressing discretionary sanctions that are no longer needed or overly broad.
- The Arbitration Committee has published a generalised comment regarding successful appeals of sanctions that it can review (such as checkuser blocks).
- A motion related to the Antisemitism in Poland case was passed following a declined case request.
Miscellaneous
- Voting in the 2022 Steward elections will begin on 07 February 2022, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2022, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
- Voting in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey is open until 11 February 2022.
March editathons
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Administrators' newsletter – March 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2022).
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Guideline and policy news
- A RfC is open to change the wording of revision deletion criterion 1 to remove the sentence relating to non-infringing contributions.
- A RfC is open to discuss prohibiting draftification of articles over 90 days old.
Technical news
- 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)
- Special:Nuke will now allow the selection of standard deletion reasons to be used when mass-deleting pages. This was a Community Wishlist Survey request from 2022. (T25020)
- The ability to undelete the talk page when undeleting a page using Special:Undelete or the API will be added soon. This change was requested in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey. (T295389)
Arbitration
- Several unused discretionary sanctions and article probation remedies have been rescinded. This follows the community feedback from the 2021 Discretionary Sanctions review.
Miscellaneous
- The 2022 appointees for the Ombuds commission are Érico, Faendalimas, Galahad, Infinite0694, Mykola7, Olugold, Udehb and Zabe as regular members and Ameisenigel and JJMC89 as advisory members.
- Following the 2022 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AntiCompositeNumber, BRPever, Hasley, TheresNoTime, and Vermont.
- The 2022 Community Wishlist Survey results have been published alongside the ranking of prioritized proposals.
April Editathons from Women in Red
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Administrators' newsletter – April 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2022).
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Guideline and policy news
- An RfC is open proposing a change to the minimum activity requirements for administrators.
Technical news
- Access to Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have the
deletelogentryanddeletedhistoryrights. This means that those in the Researcher user group and Checkusers who are not administrators can now access Special:RevisionDelete. The users able to view the special page after this change are the 3 users in the Researcher group, as there are currently no checkusers who are not already administrators. (T301928) - When viewing deleted revisions or diffs on Special:Undelete a back link to the undelete page for the associated page is now present. (T284114)
Arbitration
- Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Procedures § Opening of proceedings has been updated to reflect current practice following a motion.
- A arbitration case regarding Skepticism and coordinated editing has been closed.
- A arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been opened.
Miscellaneous
- Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines has closed, and the results were that 56.98% of voters supported the guidelines. The results of this vote mean the Wikimedia Foundation Board will now review the guidelines.
May 2022 at Women in Red
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Administrators' newsletter – May 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2022).
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Guideline and policy news
- Following an RfC, a change has been made to the administrators inactivity policy. Under the new policy, if an administrator has not made at least 100 edits over a period of 5 years they may be desysopped for inactivity.
- Following a discussion on the bureaucrat's noticeboard, a change has been made to the bureaucrats inactivity policy.
Technical news
- 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.
June events from Women in Red
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Administrators' newsletter – June 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2022).
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Guideline and policy news
- 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.
Technical news
- Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. (T307341)
- The IP Info feature has been deployed to all wikis as a Beta Feature. Any autoconfirmed user may enable the feature using the "IP info" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features. Autoconfirmed users will be able to access basic information about an IP address that includes the country and connection method. Those with advanced privileges (admin, bureaucrat, checkuser) will have access to extra information that includes the Internet Service Provider and more specific location.
Arbitration
- 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.
Women in Red in July 2022
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Administrators' newsletter – July 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2022).
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Technical news
user_global_editcountis a new variable that can be used in abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users. (T130439)
Arbitration
- An arbitration case regarding conduct in deletion-related editing has been opened.
Miscellaneous
- The New Pages Patrol queue has around 10,000 articles to be reviewed. As all administrators have the patrol right, please consider helping out. The queue is here. For further information on the state of the project, see the latest NPP newsletter.
Women in Red August 2022
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Administrators' newsletter – August 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2022).
Administrator changes
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.
Women in Red in September 2022
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| I just wanted to stop by, and say that I love the aesthetics of your signature and talk — the flower at the bottom right is particularly neat! — The Most Comfortable Chair 14:07, 6 August 2022 (UTC) |
thank you very much for the gift it i really made me happy; and i love cherry blossom 🌸; also thank you for dropping this message it reminded me of happy timings that i spent here on Wikipedia, when i was still healthy both in mind and body. —— 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (talk) 16:36, 6 August 2022 (UTC)
- Cherry blossoms are beautiful indeed. I went through a particularly rough phase recently and experienced things I never thought I would have to. I am still not over all that I suppose — well, clearly not since I am rambling about that here! I know that everyone's struggle is distinct but I understand how it feels when you are depressed, and I truly hope that things get better at your end. Until then, know that you are never alone — you can always email this perfect stranger, should you want to talk :) — The Most Comfortable Chair 03:46, 7 August 2022 (UTC)
- @The Most Comfortable Chair: 🌸 thank you, because of depression i couldn't enjoy wikipedia as much as i did before, i lost the vitality that i had before; it prevented me to fully do my activities here, i had to do them queitly and as gentle as possible with myself, otherwise i couldn't concentrate and the headache hunted me down everywhere that i went.
- thank you for your kind reply i really appreciate it. —— 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (talk) 10:09, 7 August 2022 (UTC)
- I recognize how difficult everyday life is when you go through that. Editing Wikipedia has always been personally gratifying and it gives me a lot of joy. When I was at my lowest, I lost all interest and motivation to do anything on here, and with hobbies that I have in real life. How has it been with you lately? By the way, it is awesome how you use cherry blossoms in your messages! You taught me a lovely new thing — sunflowers are my favorite 🌻 — The Most Comfortable Chair 22:23, 7 August 2022 (UTC)
- @The Most Comfortable Chair: 😊 yes life is tough especially when you don't have much support or not surrounded with people who have understand/care/love/friendship for you, you have to be your everything, editing Wikipedia is fun and joyful you feel the freedom that wikipedia gives, plus this big community is fun to work with, it's a pity that i can't do as much as i did before for now but let's try our best to overcome the hardships, lately i am moody i have mood swings what about you?, cherry blossom is my symbol, you found your flower? happy to see that. —— 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (talk) 22:33, 7 August 2022 (UTC)
- I completely understand. I say this to people around me — "if I could edit Wikipedia full-time, I absolutely would!" It is an extraordinary community with extraordinary individuals. You too are extraordinary, and the way you have incorporated cherry blossoms within your Wikipedia world is uniquely marvelous! I learnt that you can now use emojis on Wikipedia! Sunflowers have always been my favorite flower — there are a few dozen sunflower-themed things at my place. My symbol, I suppose would be
— The Most Comfortable Chair 23:43, 7 August 2022 (UTC)
- @The Most Comfortable Chair: sorry for the late reply, you're right i totally agree, thank you for the compliment idk what to say i put my gratitude in this word then "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious", yes we can use emojis in Wikipedia since i saved them on here to use them as fast as possible, happy for you then use sunflower displayed on your talk page like i did (my cherry blossom follows you whenever you scroll). —— 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (talk) 18:46, 9 August 2022 (UTC)
- I completely understand. I say this to people around me — "if I could edit Wikipedia full-time, I absolutely would!" It is an extraordinary community with extraordinary individuals. You too are extraordinary, and the way you have incorporated cherry blossoms within your Wikipedia world is uniquely marvelous! I learnt that you can now use emojis on Wikipedia! Sunflowers have always been my favorite flower — there are a few dozen sunflower-themed things at my place. My symbol, I suppose would be
- @The Most Comfortable Chair: 😊 yes life is tough especially when you don't have much support or not surrounded with people who have understand/care/love/friendship for you, you have to be your everything, editing Wikipedia is fun and joyful you feel the freedom that wikipedia gives, plus this big community is fun to work with, it's a pity that i can't do as much as i did before for now but let's try our best to overcome the hardships, lately i am moody i have mood swings what about you?, cherry blossom is my symbol,
- I recognize how difficult everyday life is when you go through that. Editing Wikipedia has always been personally gratifying and it gives me a lot of joy. When I was at my lowest, I lost all interest and motivation to do anything on here, and with hobbies that I have in real life. How has it been with you lately? By the way, it is awesome how you use cherry blossoms in your messages! You taught me a lovely new thing — sunflowers are my favorite 🌻 — The Most Comfortable Chair 22:23, 7 August 2022 (UTC)
- Cherry blossoms are beautiful indeed. I went through a particularly rough phase recently and experienced things I never thought I would have to. I am still not over all that I suppose — well, clearly not since I am rambling about that here! I know that everyone's struggle is distinct but I understand how it feels when you are depressed, and I truly hope that things get better at your end. Until then, know that you are never alone — you can always email this perfect stranger, should you want to talk :) — The Most Comfortable Chair 03:46, 7 August 2022 (UTC)
,_from_the_series_Snow,_Moon,_and_Flowers_(Setsugekka)_MET_DP141242.jpg)
- I am one-upping you in the "late replies" department! Real life has been insanely busy lately. I found this gorgeous painting with cherry blossoms that look like pastel pink clouds and it made my day — I wanted to share it with you! — The Most Comfortable Chair 05:36, 31 August 2022 (UTC)
- thank you indeed cherry blossom is beautiful. —— 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (talk) 15:46, 31 August 2022 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – September 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2022).
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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.
Happy Birthday!
oh dear Chris troutman thank you alot, happy to have you here. —— 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (talk) 21:16, 28 September 2022 (UTC)
Women in Red October 2022
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Administrators' newsletter – October 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2022).
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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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LordPeterII has given you some cookies! Cookies promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. You can spread the "WikiLove" by giving someone else some cookies, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Hey! I've just randomly landed here, and saw that you are battling depression. I have a real-life friend who suffers from it, and know that it's an arduous, if necessary fight. Keep fighting! And I hope you get all the help irl that you need :) And for what it's worth, here are some virtual cookies :D To spread the goodness of cookies, you can add {{subst:Cookies}} to someone's talk page with a friendly message, or eat this cookie on the giver's talk page with {{subst:munch}}! |
–LordPeterII (talk) 11:01, 12 October 2022 (UTC)
- @LordPeterII: 🥰 omg thank you for the encouragement, ☕✊ i will keep fighting and never give up (화이팅 - 諦めない) , depression is really hard and hope your friend feel better as soon as possible, i love cookies & Nutella they are my favorite thank you. —— 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (talk) 12:21, 12 October 2022 (UTC)
Women in Red November 2022
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Administrators' newsletter – November 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2022).
Administrator changes
Interface administrator changes
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}}.
Women in Red in December 2022
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Administrators' newsletter – December 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2022).
Administrator changes
Interface administrator changes
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
/64to 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.
Women in Red January 2023
 
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Administrators' newsletter – January 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2022).
Administrator changes
Interface administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Oversighter changes
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.
Tagging pages for speedy deletion
Hello, Sakura_emad,
Please do not tag any more pages for speedy deletion until you understand that criteria better because you are not tagging pages correctly. And please do not tag A LOT of pages over a short period of time or you are causing work for other editors to undo your mistakes. Please review WP:CSD thoroughly so you understand what criteria apply, what namespaces they apply to, and when it is more appropriate to use PROD or AFD/MRD/CFD/RFD/etc. CSD G6 is not a "catch-all" criteria that you can apply to pages that you don't think are useful. We typically do not delete User space pages unless they have problematic content, they are expiring drafts (with an AFC tag) or they have gone through the MFD process.
If you have questions about Wikipedia's deletion processes, including speedy deletion, please bring them to the Teahouse. And please do not tag a lot of pages for deletion until you are more familiar with the criteria. It might be a good idea for you to spend time looking over the CSD categories which you can find at Category:Candidates for speedy deletion so you can see what kind of pages editors more experienced with CSD are tagging. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 18:21, 7 January 2023 (UTC)
- hi @Liz-san, it's a General criteria, which means it applies to everywhere, and some of the pages were created by new users mostly students on IP user pages not Registered user pages. most of my requests were proceed by other admins, and i reassure you that i already read Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion. just because you delete Problematic user pages doesn't mean my request were invalid. and this is English Wikipedia with almost 300 active admins, if you don't want to deal with my requests others might be able to deal with them. —— 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (talk) 18:37, 7 January 2023 (UTC)
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Reversion on the page of Urvashi Chaudhary
Hello, I am 1OA9, I am a bit new on Wikipedia. However, currently, I am focusing on cleanups and removal of unreliable sources from different articles. While developing my understanding of Wikipedia and reading new polices. I sometimes add information, where I am certain, that it is in accordance to Wikipedia policies. Excluding the initial policy pages like General Notability, Reliable sources, and WP:RSP etc. I also follow User:Kuru/fakesources#Blacklisted sites for my clean ups.
You have reverted my edits on Urvashi Chaudhary, which I don't understand why? From your comment on my talk page, I am led to believe, there has been a misunderstanding as, I had to remove a lot of content. It is my opinion, (Correct me if I am wrong), that while doing a cleanup, we don't have to provide any sources. We are allowed to leave the page with a tag for the other editors.
As stated earlier, I am focusing on cleanups, and adding information/citation, is not a priority task for me right now, as I don't think that I have enough grip on adding. Currently, I am reading Wikipedia:Writing better articles, Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Titles of works, and Wikipedia:Neutral point of view - Wikipedia. I wish to make addition of information/citations my priority, once I have completely understood them.
If you think, I am in the right course of action, then I would like to repeat/revert my cleanup on Urvashi Chaudhary's page, if you think I am not, kindly, advise me in this regard. I would be very grateful for you help. Thank you. 1OA9 (talk) 16:13, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
- @1OA9 Thanks for the service and welcome to wikipedia, sorry for the inconvenience i was busy patrolling recent changes, it seems you're learning how the Encyclopædia works and working professionally on it, after checking the sources i see you have a point. i've reverted my edit. —— 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (talk) 16:25, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
- Thank you @Sakura emad-Chan. Much appreciated. 💖 1OA9 (talk) 16:29, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
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Harassment?
Someone apparently doesn't like you. I just blocked an IP for 3 months that reported you to AIV and tried to frame you for sockpuppetry. If you have any problems with harassment, either drop me a line or alert another admin. -Ad Orientem (talk) 14:34, 13 April 2023 (UTC)
the harassment is just not normal, apparently they do this to me on several wikimedia projects, and i will inform you thanks alot. —— 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (talk) 14:59, 13 April 2023 (UTC)
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You should be aware that someone is using your name on their vandalbot. See Sakura emabot. – bradv 15:41, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
@Bradv: it's more than a month or so, i receive all kinds of cyberbullying: this includes but not limits to: death threats, sexual harassment, defamation, name calling and so on. —— 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (talk) 16:55, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
- I'm sorry to hear that. If you need assistance dealing with this abuse you can try emailing ArbCom. They may be able to help. – bradv 17:11, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
@Bradv: if it was on Enwiki alone sure Arbcom could suffice and ease the situation, but it's out of line and they do to me on multiple projects. notably: on enwiki, commons, among others. —— 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (talk) 17:23, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
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