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Administrators' newsletter – July 2017
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Administrators' newsletter – August 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2017).
Administrator changes
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- Following a series of discussions around new pages patrol, the WMF is helping implement a controlled autoconfirmed article creation trial as a research experiment, similar to the one proposed in 2011. You can learn more about the research plan at meta:Research:Autoconfirmed article creation trial. The exact start date of the experiment has yet to be determined.
- A new speedy deletion criterion, regarding articles created as a result undisclosed paid editing, is currently being discussed (permalink).
- An RfC (permalink) is currently open that proposes expanding WP:G13 to include all drafts, even if they weren't submitted through Articles for Creation.
Technical news
- LoginNotify should soon be deployed to the English Wikipedia. This will notify users when there are suspicious login attempts on their account.
- The new version of XTools is nearing an official release. This suite of tools includes administrator statistics, an improved edit counter, among other tools that may benefit administrators. You can report issues on Phabricator and provide general feedback at mw:Talk:XTools.
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Administrators' newsletter – September 2017
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- ACTRIAL, a research experiment that restricts article creation to autoconfirmed users, will begin on September 7. It will run for six months. You can learn more about the research specifics at meta:Research:Autoconfirmed article creation trial, while Wikipedia talk:Autoconfirmed article creation trial is probably the best venue for general discussion.
- Following an RfC, WP:G13 speedy deletion criterion now applies to any page in the draftspace that has not been edited in six months. There is a bot-generated report, updated daily, to help identify potentially qualifying drafts that have not been submitted through articles for creation.
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- Applications for CheckUser and Oversight are being accepted by the Arbitration Committee until September 12. Community discussion of the candidates will begin on September 18.
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Administrators' newsletter – October 2017
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Administrator changes
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- Following a successful proposal to create it, a new user right called "edit filter helper" is now assignable and revocable by administrators. The right allows non-administrators to view the details of private edit filters, but not to edit them.
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- You can now search for IP ranges at Special:Contributions. Some log pages and Special:DeletedContributions are not yet supported. Wildcards (e.g. 192.168.0.*) are also not supported, but the popular contribsrange gadget will continue to work.
Arbitration
- Community consultation on the 2017 candidates for CheckUser and Oversight has concluded. The Arbitration Committee will appoint successful candidates by October 11.
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Hi Corbie,
I've been researching the basis of this article for the last several hours. While I now believe that I stand somewhat corrected in that you were right that the Rainbow Tribe's claim of having a belief system that has "fully legitimate" Native American roots, is dubious at best, I still think that the article relies way too heavily on Michael Niman, whose observations, while of some value, are quite erroneous on some points. He claims that the foundational tract for the "Tribe" is a Christian tract. That is clearly erroneous. I bought a copy of the tract and skimmed through it. Nowhere does the tract mention the crucifixion, and it claims that the physical resurrection of Jesus was a hoax perpetrated by the Romans. Not exactly "Christian."
There can be no doubt that Michael Niman hasn't "done his homework" on this point, and quoting him in the article to this effect (that the tract is Christian) needs to go. In fact, it appears that in all probability Niman is most probably a Rainbow Tribe member himself, apparently taking an active part in their annual gatherings for the last 20 years or so, and he may be advocating for his own position within the group through his publications.
I can agree to continue to allow the "tone" of the article to "hint strongly" that the Native American basis of the Rainbow Tribe theology is quite flawed, but I see no reason not to also include the voices of Native American authors who would support the Rainbow Tribe's essentially harmless spirituality. The Rainbow Tribe is not "racist" in the sense of advocating hatred between races. They preach non-violence and the unity of mankind, and use a sort of homemade eclectic version of Native American shamanism to justify their preaching. I suppose you can call that racism if you may wish, but I will call it a well intended, but slightly unusual form of humanism, with a little oddly mixed spirituality stirred into the brew.
Whether one uses the cause of "humanism" or of "spirituality" to justify their desire to be peaceful and helpful to their fellow man, makes no difference to me. In either case Wikipedia need not act disparagingly and mockingly towards the movement. It need only point out facts, and can point out facts on both sides of the debate without doing any harm to anyone, and possibly do someone some good. If the article is able to show its impartiality, the Rainbow Tribe folks who may be lost in their odd theology, may tend to read the article a little more seriously, than if the entire article is written like a tract and a diatribe against them.
The Niman bit about them really being "Christians in disguise" needs to go.
Thanks,
Scott P. (talk) 07:14, 7 October 2017 (UTC)
- PS: One more thing that strikes me about this article is Wikipedia's inherent "racism," if you will, towards native peoples, that seems to me to be subconsciously demonstrated throughout this article. Please let me explain. I have attempted to do my best, to view this article through the eyes of a Native American, in the hopes of maybe making Wikipedia more helpful for Native Americans. Through such eyes, this is how I see the article as it is currently written: The article reads as a bunch of young white dudes debating amongst themselves what they believe a true "Native American" ought to be. I don't see a single bona fide Native American author or voice being cited or authentically "accurately" expressed as a reference in the article!
- You are certainly correct that there are indeed Native American authors who abhor what the Rainbow Tribe is doing, but none of them are cited in the article and I see no reason why these anti-Rainbow Tribe Native American authors couldn't be cited. So should the pro-Rainbow Tribe Native American authors be cited as well. The Rainbow Tribe is neither all good, nor all bad, and in my not so humble opinion, while according to current WP policy, we can certainly "judge in favor of" the anti-Rainbow Tribe authors within the article, that doesn't mean that we also have to "silence" the pro-Rainbow Tribe Native American voice, only that we need to allow "precedence" to the anti-Rainbow Tribe voice.
- Scott P. (talk) 16:12, 7 October 2017 (UTC)
- The Legend of the Rainbow Warriors article is not about the hippie group, The Rainbow Family, it's about the fakelore itself, which has been traced to that book as the source. So you misunderstand when you write that Niman is calling that particular hippie group, "Christian." The book and the legend have Christian underpinnings, as opposed to Indigenous ones; the point of the fake prophechy is anti-Indigenous and evangelical. The issue is not whether it fits your preferred subset of Christianity, but that the legend does not have an Indigenous origin. There are some legends that have similar names and motifs (a rainbow, for instance), but those legends do not contain the central, harmful message that white people will replace Indigenous people in their own lands and cultures. That is the essence of the fakelore prophecy.
- Re-read the article about the Legend again, on its own merits, without mistakenly assuming the book was written about the hippie group. Members of Wikiproject Indigenous work on the article, myself included, and Indigenous writers are quoted in the article. Also, if it takes you over thirty edits to compose a message on someone's talk page, please compose that message offline before posting it on a Wikipedian's talk page. Your edit here resulted in thirty email notifications. This has the effect of spamming an editor's inbox and may be perceived as disruptive editing. - CorbieV ☊ ☼ 17:26, 7 October 2017 (UTC)
Scott P. Hi! Indigenous person here. Please don't speak for my community. Especially in attempting to defend large scale appropriation. Thx. Indigenous girl (talk) 17:31, 7 October 2017 (UTC)
- Striking my earlier comment about adding more "Rainbow Family" content to the fake Prophecy article. There's no reason to cater to lack of reading comprehension. The fake prophecy applies to all sorts of groups. The specific groups that have their own issues are addressed in those specific articles. - CorbieV ☊ ☼ 17:54, 7 October 2017 (UTC)
Scott P. You said,"I see no reason why these anti-Rainbow Tribe Native American authors couldn't be cited" did you even look at the sources? Why do you assume this fake myth has anything to do with the Rainbow Family? They are two distinct articles. Why should fake sources be included? How is that remotely beneficial to indigenous peoples? Indigenous girl (talk) 18:27, 7 October 2017 (UTC)
- Scottperry (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log), looking over the 31 edits of posts, deletions, more posts and edits, that you made on my talk page last night, I am going to now ask you to not post here again. Please confine your posts about the articles to article talk space. Other Wikipedians' pages are not the place for you to draft and refine, edit and re-edit your personal essays. That is not what Wikipedia is for. Use article talk to improve articles and please think very carefully about how your actions are affecting others on the project and their ability to use their time here improving the 'pedia. - CorbieV ☊ ☼ 18:59, 7 October 2017 (UTC)
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Clarification on discussion in the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Wiki page
Your comment was moved to the appropriate section on that same Talk page. The edit you want to make are the same as made by another editor in August 2016. The only difference between your comments and the previous editor's comments is that you cite a CBC article and the previous editor cited a BBC article. The content of both the CBC article and BBC article are the same. The section that this argument occurred in is titled "Dispute over number of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women". I have verified with the Native Women's Association of Canada's website the information that they cited in 2016. So, what is the new point of view to this argument that you would like to bring?DivaNtrainin (talk) 21:30, 22 October 2017 (UTC)
- If you want to discuss blocking, let's do it on your Talk page. Before you start lecturing anyone on [Wikipedia:Blocking policy|Wikipedia's blocking policy], then read about it first. Since you have been spending more time criticizing my behaviour then talking about the topic at hand (i.e. Missing and murdered Indigenous women), it reminds me of the tactics of Donald Trump. Seriously, this is EXACTLY what he does. Distract you with personal attacks rather than discuss the topic at hand. It makes me even wonder. Do you even care about Missing and murdered Indigenous women, because if you did, you would spend more time talking about how to improve the Wikipedia article, then lecturing someone about a policy that you don't even know about.DivaNtrainin (talk) 23:23, 25 October 2017 (UTC)
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- Your silence is being taken as consent for my suggestions. If I don't get some feedback, one way or another on the Talk:Missing and murdered Indigenous women page, then I will start editing the page tomorrow. You can still provide feedback, but at this point, it can be argued that consensus has been reached, and I will start editing as per OwlsMcGee suggested.DivaNtrainin (talk) 23:20, 28 October 2017 (UTC)
- Silence is not consent. No one is required to drag this out with you. You are a tendentious POV-pusher.
- Owls McGee did not suggest either continued discussion, nor did they support your edits. We agreed the text with both figures is sourced to WP:RS standards, is relevant, and should stand.
- You simply repeated yourself on the talk page. You offered zero compromise. No one agreed with you. You are still editing against consensus. No one is required to repeat themselves endlessly.
- Consensus is to include both figures in lede. You are the only one who wants to exclude all but the police figures.
- Read the sources and the talk page again more carefully. Read WP policies again more carefully. You are grossly misrepresenting all of the above, as you have in the past, and you have been blocked in the past for doing exactly what you are doing now. Personal attacks and edit-warring are not an attempt to reach consensus. Nor is endlessly repeating yourself and badgering others in an attempt to wear other editors down. Removing the warnings from your page is further disruption, not clearing your slate. - CorbieV ☊ ☼ 18:16, 29 October 2017 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – November 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2017).
Administrator changes
- Longhair • Megalibrarygirl • TonyBallioni • Vanamonde93
- Allen3 • Eluchil404 • Arthur Rubin • Bencherlite
Technical news
- The Wikimedia Foundation's Anti-Harassment Tools team is creating an "Interaction Timeline" tool that intends to assist administrators in resolving user conduct disputes. Feedback on the concept may be posted on the talk page.
- A new function is now available to edit filter managers that will make it easier to look for multiple strings containing spoofed text.
Arbitration
- Eligible editors will be invited to submit candidate statements for the 2017 Arbitration Committee Elections starting on November 12 until November 21. Voting will begin on November 27 and last until December 10.
- Following a request for comment, Ritchie333, Yunshui and Ymblanter will serve as the Electoral Commission for the 2017 ArbCom Elections.
Obituaries
- The Wikipedia community has recently learned that Allen3 (William Allen Peckham) passed away on December 30, 2016, the same day as JohnCD. Allen began editing in 2005 and became an administrator that same year.
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Elizabeth Warren
Hi! Would you consider moving your new info and link (as explained in Rebecca Nagle's "I am a Cherokee woman. Elizabeth Warren is not." and the background pieces linked therein.) up to the comment section? I would like to keep that bottom section for summaries rather than restatements and addenda. Thanks! YoPienso (talk) 02:53, 5 December 2017 (UTC)
Whether "Squaw" is a racist term
I changed the opening of the Squaw article to include the idea that it is seen by some as racist. The word has a non-racist etymology. It has been deemed to be racist by some in recent years. But that does not change its origin, nor does it automatically include all uses of it. The position that it is a racist term is held very strongly by some, but that does not automatically make all uses of it racist. Pete unseth (talk) 22:45, 7 December 2017 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – December 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2017).
Administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
- Following a request for comment, a new section has been added to the username policy which disallows usernames containing emoji, emoticons or otherwise "decorative" usernames, and usernames that use any non-language symbols. Administrators should discuss issues related to these types of usernames before blocking.
Technical news
- Wikimedians are now invited to vote on the proposals in the 2017 Community Wishlist Survey on Meta Wiki until 10 December 2017. In particular, there is a section of the survey regarding new tools for administrators and for anti-harassment.
- A new function is available to edit filter managers which can be used to store matches from regular expressions.
Arbitration
- Voting in the 2017 Arbitration Committee elections is open until Sunday 23:59, 10 December 2017 (UTC). There are 12 candidates running for 8 vacant seats.
Miscellaneous
- Over the last few months, several users have reported backlogs that require administrator attention at WP:ANI, with the most common backlogs showing up on WP:SPI, WP:AIV and WP:RFPP. It is requested that all administrators take some time during this month to help clear backlogs wherever possible. It should be noted that AIV reports are not always valid; however, they still need to be cleared, which may include needing to remind users on what qualifies as vandalism.
- The Wikimedia Foundation Community health initiative is conducting a survey for English Wikipedia contributors on their experience and satisfaction level with Administrator’s Noticeboard/Incidents. This survey will be integral to gathering information about how this noticeboard works (i.e. which problems it deals with well and which problems it struggles with). If you would like to take this survey, please sign up on this page, and a link for the survey will be emailed to you via Special:EmailUser.
St. Joseph's Indian School
Hi Corbie,
I would like to disagree with you about my changes being deemed as promotional. I am in fact, a bit of a critic of their fundraising. But, I have looked into this school and the wikipedia page is biased without including the full story...even the history is incorrect. So, I was trying to flesh out the entire controversy. I am new to this and am unsure how to add the new info, fix the clearly wrong parts, and add the references needed to allow show. Can you tell me how to make the changes in the most constructive way possible? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Historian1868 (talk • contribs) 02:12, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
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Administrators' newsletter – January 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2017).
Administrator changes
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Bureaucrat changes
Guideline and policy news
- A request for comment is in progress to determine whether the administrator policy should be amended to require disclosure of paid editing activity at WP:RFA and to prohibit the use of administrative tools as part of paid editing activity, with certain exceptions.
Technical news
- The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey results have been posted. The Community Tech team will investigate and address the top ten results.
- The Anti-Harassment Tools team is inviting comments on new blocking tools and improvements to existing blocking tools for development in early 2018. Feedback can be left on the discussion page or by email.
Arbitration
- Following the results of the 2017 election, the following editors have been (re)appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Alex Shih, BU Rob13, Callanecc, KrakatoaKatie, Opabinia regalis, Premeditated Chaos, RickinBaltimore, Worm That Turned.
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Question on Frybread Barnstar Award
Hi Corbie, I am a student completing research contextualizing the Dakota Access Pipeline protests. I saw that you gave Gandydancer the Frybread Barnstar award in September of 2016 for their contributions to the article. I am wondering how you were able to do this. Can any contributor of the article give the award, or were you specially able to give the award because of your long and impressive history contributing to Wikipedia? I appreciate whatever help you may have for me. Thank you! Hgaba (talk) 14:47, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
- There used to be an official wikiproject for approving barnstars, but it became cumbersome. Still, reading up on barnstars on WP will give a sense of the history of them. I made the award for Indigenous articles, and would like it to be used by members of the North American Indigenous wikiproject. - CorbieV ☊ ☼ 16:42, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
Edit war
Sorry for the error on this verb of course, I do not insist. However I still find the article hard to read: not enough linear, I get confused. Anyway I don't revert. That said, I find it unfortunate to delete a valid reference, as you did. GraemeKad (talk) 10:47, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
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Administrators' newsletter – February 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2018).
Administrator changes
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- Blurpeace • Dana boomer • Deltabeignet • Denelson83 • Grandiose • Salvidrim! • Ymblanter
Guideline and policy news
- An RfC has closed with a consensus that candidates at WP:RFA must disclose whether they have ever edited for pay and that administrators may never use administrative tools as part of any paid editing activity, except when they are acting as a Wikipedian-in-Residence or when the payment is made by the Wikimedia Foundation or an affiliate of the WMF.
- Editors responding to threats of harm can now contact the Wikimedia Foundation's emergency address by using Special:EmailUser/Emergency. If you don't have email enabled on Wikipedia, directly contacting the emergency address using your own email client remains an option.
Technical news
- A tag will now be automatically applied to edits that blank a page, turn a page into a redirect, remove/replace almost all content in a page, undo an edit, or rollback an edit. These edits were previously denoted solely by automatic edit summaries.
Arbitration
- The Arbitration Committee has enacted a change to the discretionary sanctions procedure which requires administrators to add a standardized editnotice when placing page restrictions. Editors cannot be sanctioned for violations of page restrictions if this editnotice was not in place at the time of the violation.
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Administrators' newsletter – March 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2018).
Administrator changes
- Lourdes†
- AngelOfSadness • Bhadani • Chris 73 • Coren • Friday • Midom • Mike V
- † Lourdes has requested that her admin rights be temporarily removed, pending her return from travel.
Guideline and policy news
- The autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) is scheduled to end on 14 March 2018. The results of the research collected can be read on Meta Wiki.
- Community ban discussions must now stay open for at least 24 hours prior to being closed.
- A change to the administrator inactivity policy has been proposed. Under the proposal, if an administrator has not used their admin tools for a period of five years and is subsequently desysopped for inactivity, the administrator would have to file a new RfA in order to regain the tools.
- A change to the banning policy has been proposed which would specify conditions under which a repeat sockmaster may be considered de facto banned, reducing the need to start a community ban discussion for these users.
Technical news
- CheckUsers are now able to view private data such as IP addresses from the edit filter log, e.g. when the filter prevents a user from creating an account. Previously, this information was unavailable to CheckUsers because access to it could not be logged.
- The edit filter has a new feature
contains_allthat edit filter managers may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string.
Miscellaneous
- Following the 2018 Steward elections, the following users are our new stewards: -revi, Green Giant, Rxy, There'sNoTime, علاء.
Obituaries
- Bhadani (Gangadhar Bhadani) passed away on 8 February 2018. Bhadani joined Wikipedia in March 2005 and became an administrator in September 2005. While he was active, Bhadani was regarded as one of the most prolific Wikipedians from India.
Kelsey Chow
Sorry, I'm not good with this.
But here: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2080328/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm and here: http://www.pechanga.net/content/eastern-band-cherokee-indians-says-wind-river-and-yellowstone-actress-not-enrolled-nor-desce are my sources.
I didn't feel like the original statement gave enough information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Krilloilbob (talk • contribs) 02:58, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
- OK, since IMDb isn't sourced, and anyone can edit it, on Wikipedia we add IMDb down in the external links section, but it can't be used as an WP:RS-level, inline, "reliable source." The Pechanga article is already cited as a source in the article, as it's one of the places the official Cherokee statement that she is not Cherokee was published. The only mention of Taiwanese therein was their quote from the inaccurate New York Times article. Given the misinformation already found in the Times article, I would not rely on anything in that article for this topic. The Pechanga and Cherokee responses had to be written largely in response to the misinformation in that article. It seems the New York times writer did not do due diligence, and most likely simply repeated the misinformation in her press kit, or something similar. It's not the only time something like this has happened, unfortunately. I am not an expert on her career or family, and only came in to fact-check on the Cherokee claim. I don't know if anyone has done research on her father. - CorbieV ☊ ☼ 22:37, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
Your revert hardly needs to go the talk page because it is well cited within the article in the last paragraph of the Name section. I thought you should know in case you missed it. Cheers ww2censor (talk) 21:17, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
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