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Interface admin inaccuracy

Following the discussion at Meta, on 27 August admins will lose their rights to edit sitewide and user JavaScript and CSS pages. This does not affect user JavaScript subpages, such as user scripts. Admins will lose their right to edit other people's user JavaScript and CSS subpages. No one, admin or not, will lose the right to edit their own user JavaScript and CSS subpages. Anomie⚔ 20:05, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

Fixed. — pythoncoder  (talk | contribs) 22:53, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

I made it more clear that it's for other users. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 04:23, 6 August 2018 (UTC)

Thanks

• I have particularly found this section interesting. Thanks for writing it. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 23:14, 3 August 2018 (UTC)

How to contact an interface admin

• Many years ago, when I was a very new user, I tried to edit my JSS file to implement some enhancement, and locked myself out. With no idea of what to do, I contacted a user I trusted, who in turn contacted an admin she knew. The admin at first was uncertain that he could edit my JSS, but found out he could, and fixed it. WP is cluttered enough with policies, guidelines, how-tos, essays, etc., but we may need a notice accessible to inexperienced users explaining how to contact an interface admin without being logged in. - Donald Albury 13:39, 10 August 2018 (UTC)

  @Donald Albury: You can bypass your own JS with safemode=1. To edit your own common.js without it interfering, you can go to //en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:MyPage/common.js&action=edit&safemode=1. (This should probably be mentioned somewhere more prominent.) --Yair rand (talk) 18:15, 22 July 2019 (UTC)