User talk:TheDragonFire300/Archive 9
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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.
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:02, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
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.
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:47, 2 March 2022 (UTC)
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.
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:14, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
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.
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:35, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
Sirio
It would probably be best if you leave the unblock discussion to us admins. Thanks, --Deepfriedokra (talk) 02:44, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
- @Deepfriedokra: This is why I didn't want to touch the unblock request in any way. That said, since I have been named directly in both requests, I thought I might at least defend myself slightly, even if what they propose doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of coming to pass. Regards, User:TheDragonFire300. (Contact me | Contributions). 02:47, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
- Sometimes the less said, the better. You are making it a personal conflict instead of a cut-and-dried deficient unblock request. Ignore them. Fighting with them will only prove to them that they are right instead of understanding the reasons for their block. Best --Deepfriedokra (talk) 02:52, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
- ...you're right. I've certainly my own worries today, not least of which is an election in my home country and some real life work. In any case. I have no plans to intervene further on Sirio's talk page. Let's believe in the snowball's chance, shall we? Regards, User:TheDragonFire300. (Contact me | Contributions). 02:55, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
- I see that Sirio tried goading me into answering their unanswerable question. However, I will not be answering it; I'm washing my hands of all this. Regards, User:TheDragonFire300. (Contact me | Contributions). 03:14, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
- ...you're right. I've certainly my own worries today, not least of which is an election in my home country and some real life work. In any case. I have no plans to intervene further on Sirio's talk page. Let's believe in the snowball's chance, shall we? Regards, User:TheDragonFire300. (Contact me | Contributions). 02:55, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
- Sometimes the less said, the better. You are making it a personal conflict instead of a cut-and-dried deficient unblock request. Ignore them. Fighting with them will only prove to them that they are right instead of understanding the reasons for their block. Best --Deepfriedokra (talk) 02:52, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
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.
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:56, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
How do I treat this?
Sorry to bother you. I removed the PA as you suggested[1] with the RPA tag, but the user reverted it[2]. Now he says again that I'm "sugarcoat[ing] Kasidiaris' criminal past and neo-Nazi ties". What should I do? If I shouldn't be asking here, please let me know. I don't know the hierarchy on WP. AkisAr-26 (talk) 06:07, 22 June 2022 (UTC)
- I would ask for an explanation on WP:ANI, personally. Note that while I disagree with the revert I will not be the one to revert the revert. Regards, User:TheDragonFire300. (Contact me | Contributions). 09:37, 22 June 2022 (UTC)
ANI Close Typo?
Hi, on this ANI close, you wrote that it was purely a conduct matter. Did you mean to write "content"? Apologies if this is a waste of your time! EducatedRedneck (talk) 01:14, 29 June 2022 (UTC)
- Yeah... that's what I meant. I'll go fix it now. The close is already kind of an edge case, since it's so early, but I thought it was worth it. Regards, User:TheDragonFire300. (Contact me | Contributions). 05:47, 29 June 2022 (UTC)