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- In Special:Preferences under "Appearance" → "Advanced options", there is now an option to show a confirmation prompt when clicking on a rollback link.
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- The Arbitration Committee clarified that the General 1RR prohibition for Palestine-Israel articles may only be enforced on pages with the {{ARBPIA 1RR editnotice}} edit notice.
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- Two more administrator accounts were compromised. Evidence has shown that these attacks, like previous incidents, were due to reusing a password that was used on another website that suffered a data breach. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately. All admins are strongly encouraged to enable two-factor authentication, please consider doing so. Please always practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.
- As a reminder, according to WP:NOQUORUM, administrators looking to close or relist an AfD should evaluate a nomination that has received few or no comments as if it were a proposed deletion (PROD) prior to determining whether it should be relisted.
revert
Hey Fabrictramp, can you tell me where I can find on Wiki help how to revert, Thanks Mitch Mitchellhobbs (talk) 17:52, 9 April 2019 (UTC)
Never mind ~lol ~ I found it Mitchellhobbs (talk) 17:53, 9 April 2019 (UTC)
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ArbCom 2019 special circular
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Administrators must secure their accounts
The Arbitration Committee may require a new RfA if your account is compromised.
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This message was sent to all administrators following a recent motion. Thank you for your attention. For the Arbitration Committee, Cameron11598 02:38, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
Administrator account security (Correction to Arbcom 2019 special circular)
ArbCom would like to apologise and correct our previous mass message in light of the response from the community.
Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are required to "have strong passwords and follow appropriate personal security practices." We have updated our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular, two-factor authentication remains an optional means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised.
We are sorry for the wording of our previous message, which did not accurately convey this, and deeply regret the tone in which it was delivered.
For the Arbitration Committee, -Cameron11598 21:03, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – May 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2019).
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Guideline and policy news
- A request for comment concluded that creating pages in the portal namespace should be restricted to autoconfirmed users.
- Following a request for comment, the subject-specific notability guideline for pornographic actors and models (WP:PORNBIO) was removed; in its place, editors should consult WP:ENT and WP:GNG.
Technical news
- XTools Admin Stats, a tool to list admins by administrative actions, has been revamped to support more types of log entries such as AbuseFilter changes. Two additional tools have been integrated into it as well: Steward Stats and Patroller Stats.
Arbitration
- In response to the continuing compromise of administrator accounts, the Arbitration Committee passed a motion amending the procedures for return of permissions (diff). In such cases,
the committee will review all available information to determine whether the administrator followed "appropriate personal security practices" before restoring permissions
; administrators found failing to have adequately done sowill not be resysopped automatically
. All current administrators have been notified of this change. - Following a formal ratification process, the arbitration policy has been amended (diff). Specifically, the two-thirds majority required to remove or suspend an arbitrator now excludes (1) the arbitrator facing suspension or removal, and (2) any inactive arbitrator who does not respond within 30 days to attempts to solicit their feedback on the resolution through all known methods of communication.
- In response to the continuing compromise of administrator accounts, the Arbitration Committee passed a motion amending the procedures for return of permissions (diff). In such cases,
Miscellaneous
- A request for comment is currently open to amend the community sanctions procedure to exclude non XfD or CSD deletions.
- A proposal to remove pre-2009 indefinite IP blocks is currently open for discussion.
Talk:Individuality (song)
Talk:Individuality (song) was created by a blocked sockpuppet of Zawl (see creation and block) --DannyS712 (talk) 04:25, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
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You deleted my article in progress...
Hello Fabricamp, You deleted an article that I was working on. I would like a reason why.
Best regards, Tkefan29 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tkefan29 (talk • contribs) 16:51, 2 June 2019 (UTC)
- I don't see any articles of yours that I deleted, only a template Template:Schindler 330A. Assuming that's what you're talking about, another user requested speedy deletion since it consisted only of an infobox skeleton that only had a title and had not been worked on for several hours.
- When you have articles or templates that are going to take multiple edits to create, especially if you are going to leave them for several hours, create them in your sandbox or in draft space. Then you will get much more (but not unlimited) time to get them ready for the encyclopedia. ----Fabrictramp | talk to me 00:42, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – June 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2019).
Administrator changes
Andonic • Consumed Crustacean • Enigmaman • Euryalus • EWS23 • HereToHelp • Nv8200pa • Peripitus • StringTheory11 • Vejvančický
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Guideline and policy news
- An RfC seeks to clarify whether WP:OUTING should include information on just the English Wikipedia or any Wikimedia project.
- An RfC on WT:RfA concluded that Requests for adminship and bureaucratship are discussions seeking to build consensus.
- An RfC proposal to make the templates for discussion (TfD) process more like the requested moves (RM) process, i.e. "as a clearinghouse of template discussions", was closed as successful.
Technical news
- The CSD feature of Twinkle now allows admins to notify page creators of deletion if the page had not been tagged. The default behavior matches that of tagging notifications, and replaces the ability to open the user talk page upon deletion. You can customize which criteria receive notifications in your Twinkle preferences: look for Notify page creator when deleting under these criteria.
- Twinkle's d-batch (batch delete) feature now supports deleting subpages (and related redirects and talk pages) of each page. The pages will be listed first but use with caution! The und-batch (batch undelete) option can now also restore talk pages.
Miscellaneous
- The previously discussed unblocking of IP addresses indefinitely-blocked before 2009 was approved and has taken place.
- The 2019 talk pages consultation produced a report for Phase 1 and has entered Phase 2.
+1 for "You deleted my article"
Hello,
You messaged this account to inform us that you have deleted our article that we have been working on. You incorrectly claimed that it is an article about "myself" however this account was created by an affiliated political organization to create an article about one of our candidates, Evan Price, who is an active Canadian politician. The article was clearly a work-in-progress that a team of dedicated volunteers were working very hard on; they do not appreciate their work being deleted with no attempts to communicate with us.
Wikipedia is a place for communication and knowledge sharing. Deleting articles in progress is an obvious way to cause this sort of issue where you can make incorrect assumptions and delete somebody's hard work. Should we have completed the article first before creating the Wikipedia entry? Perhaps, but that could've been communicated with us.
As per your message, please kindly revert your deletion of our article and flag it as an article in progress. Once the article is completed, if you still feel that it does not belong on Wikipedia, then you can communicate with us again about your reasoning. However, since our article is about an active politician whose colleagues have their own Wikipedia articles, there should be no problem with this article entry *once it is completed* (you cannot claim that there are no sources when it is not complete). Regardless, this does not violate the Wikipedia policies of creating a "self-biography" as we are a separate organization entity.
Thank you for your efforts to make Wikipedia a better place and we hope that you will work with us to achieve the same common goal. We look forward to having our article contents restored.
EDIT: In reading some of your responses below, we see that the better option for us to take would have to first create the article in sandbox before publicly sharing. That is fair, though you still should've communicated this prior to deleting the article entirely. We now need you to revert your deletion and share the article contents to our sandbox section so that our team of volunteers can continue to work on it.
Sincerely, username: Eaprice (talk) 05:10, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
- @Eaprice: There are so many problems here...
- You are not allowed to have a user name that impersonates other people. (see WP:IMPERSONATE) Since you admit you are not, in fact, Evan Price, you will need to change this user name immediately.
- You are not allowed to have one account that is shared by multiple people (see WP:ROLE). Your account will be blocked for this, although you will be allowed to create new accounts, one per individual who edits.
- Since Evan Price is "one of our candidates", you are also running afoul of WP:COI. Wikipedia strongly discourages creating or editing articles where you have a close connection, because it's almost impossible to create a neutral article in that situation. In fact, the article sounded like a promotional piece.
- I did not delete your article, I merely proposed it be deleted, and notified you of that fact on your talk page, which is how you came here. There was a deletion discussion for over a week (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Evan Price (Canadian Politician)), and then the article was deleted after unanimous consensus. I also did not claim there were no sources at all, instead the deletion reason was "no sources that show this person meets the notability guidelines". I suggest you read those guidelines carefully -- you'll find them at WP:NOTABILITY.
- Given the COI issue and promotional nature of the article, I am going to decline to restore the article. You may have better luck at WP:REFUND.----Fabrictramp | talk to me 01:50, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
The June 2019 Signpost is out!
- Discussion report: A constitutional crisis hits English Wikipedia
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Administrators' newsletter – July 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2019).
Administrator changes
- 28bytes • Ad Orientem • Ansh666 • Beeblebrox • Boing! said Zebedee • BU Rob13 • Dennis Brown • Deor • DoRD • Floquenbeam1 • Flyguy649 • Fram2 • Gadfium • GB fan • Jonathunder • Kusma • Lectonar • Moink • MSGJ • Nick • Od Mishehu • Rama • Spartaz • Syrthiss • TheDJ • WJBscribe
- 1Floquenbeam's access was removed, then restored, then removed again.
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Guideline and policy news
- A request for comment seeking to alleviate pressures on the request an account (ACC) process proposes either raising the account creation limit for extended confirmed editors or granting the account creator permission on request to new ACC tool users.
- In a related matter, the account throttle has been restored to six creations per day as the mitigation activity completed.
- The scope of CSD criterion G8 has been tightened such that the only redirects that it now applies to are those which target non-existent pages.
- The scope of CSD criterion G14 has been expanded slightly to include orphan "Foo (disambiguation)" redirects that target pages that are not disambiguation pages or pages that perform a disambiguation-like function (such as set index articles or lists).
- A request for comment seeks to determine whether Wikipedia:Office actions should be a policy page or an information page.
Technical news
- The Wikimedia Foundation's Community health initiative plans to design and build a new user reporting system to make it easier for people experiencing harassment and other forms of abuse to provide accurate information to the appropriate channel for action to be taken. Community feedback is invited.
Miscellaneous
- In February 2019, the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) changed its office actions policy to include temporary and project-specific bans. The WMF exercised this new ability for the first time on the English Wikipedia on 10 June 2019 to temporarily ban and desysop Fram. This action has resulted in significant community discussion, a request for arbitration (permalink), and, either directly or indirectly, the resignations of numerous administrators and functionaries. The WMF Board of Trustees is aware of the situation, and discussions continue on a statement and a way forward. The Arbitration Committee has sent an open letter to the WMF Board.
Ubongo (company) page
Hi Fabrictramp,
A Wikipedia page I created, Ubongo (company) , was deleted 17 days ago. I tried to start a collective draft on Creating Draft:Ubongo (company) but when I try to leave the page, it says I risk losing the entire page.
Also, I was told my page doesn't meet the notability criteria and I will have to fundamentally re-write the page for it to be approved for Wikipedia. Ubongo as a company absolutely meets notability criteria – it's become a household name in like 9 different African countries. It's an incredibly popular cartoon series. They have 11 million viewers a week.
Can you help give me some pointers about how to re-write this in order for it to be approved? Thank you!!
Francescadannunzio (talk) 13:13, 9 July 2019 (UTC)
- @Francescadannunzio: I think you need to carefully reread all the messages on your talk page. You'll find links to what's needed for a good article, and information on why you should not be trying to write this article because of your conflict of interest.----Fabrictramp | talk to me 21:10, 9 July 2019 (UTC)
Ubongo (company) page
replying to this:
- Francescadannunzio (talk) 13:13, 9 July 2019 (UTC)
@Francescadannunzio: I think you need to carefully reread all the messages on your talk page. You'll find links to what's needed for a good article, and information on why you should not be trying to write this article because of your conflict of interest.----Fabrictramp | talk to me 21:10, 9 July 2019 (UTC)
Okay yes I understand that. I read all the pages and it states you can write a Wiki article even if you have a conflict of interest as long as it follows guidelines.
I don't understand how my page doesn't follow guidelines. It's straight to the point, not fluffy, and isn't self promoting. I'm simply stating WHAT the company is and what they do. I'm not making any value statements about them (good/bad).
Can you offer more help please?
Francescadannunzio (talk) 06:37, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
- First, don't confuse "can" and "should". You can write an article about Ubongo, but given that you have failed several times to write an article that shows the company is notable from a neutral point of view means that you probably should not. Looking at the deleted version of the article, it reads like a brochure from Ubongo, not an encyclopedia article.
- Second, as I said before, the links on your talk page have information on what is needed for a good article. Jimfbleak has also given you a tremendous amount of good advice there. ----Fabrictramp | talk to me 22:09, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
Deletion of article - Pre-Poll & Post-Poll Surveys
Hi,
I See you have deleted the page that I had created citing the reason that it probably is a duplicate. However I would like to clarify that there is a stark difference between Pre-Poll Survey and Opinion Polls and also between an Exit Poll and Post-Poll Survey.
- Adding a signature so this gets archived eventually.----Fabrictramp | talk to me 22:10, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
Rajesh Khanna MD Page
I used the ADVT tag and i hope the community with help. Plus i will gather more information to solve this issue. Please support me as i am very old contributer to wikipedia. Regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pankaj verma 23 (talk • contribs) 19:48, 16 July 2019 (UTC)
- I really don't understand what you're asking here.----Fabrictramp | talk to me 19:50, 16 July 2019 (UTC)
RAJESH KHANNA MD - More details
He is a notable person and if you view Corbin Bleu and Brenda song american stars are his patients. He has done a lot for the los angeles. I will publish soon. He has done a lot for the community in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles and is all over the news and magazines and tv. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pankaj verma 23 (talk • contribs) 19:54, 16 July 2019 (UTC)
Rajesh Khanna MD - Notable Person
Sorry to disturb u again please see Corbin Bleu and Brenda Song videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80SyS_facWs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ciTeOirHe4 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pankaj verma 23 (talk • contribs) 20:01, 16 July 2019 (UTC)
Regarding Rajesh Khanna MD Page
I contribute a lot at Wikipedia. Regarding this page of Rajesh Khanna. Will add more details soon. As i want to learn more and work hard to serve the community. I am added the ADVT TAG as i got message from wikipedia that i can use this and also ask for help. Hope you will give this Budding Wikipedia love a chance to contribute to the community. Regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pankaj verma 23 (talk • contribs) 20:14, 16 July 2019 (UTC)
Deletion of Profiles for People
You were very quick to delete this page which is being newly curated. Profiles for People is non commercial (although once, it was). Please verify this fact, by trying to discover a way to buy this "product". The PfP profiling methodology sits in a space alongside other non commercial and commerical methodologies such as MBTI, and the article, had you not deleted it, would have discussed the different approaches to psychometric assessments such as the Jungian approach adopted by two unqualified fans of Karl Jung whose work somehow became MBTI, the current "go-to" assessment. PfP occupies a space with assessment methodologies that are based around behaviour rather than psychology or personality. Furthermore an API is close to public release so that anyone may create their own assessment. Contrast this with Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) which has its own wikipedia entry yet is clearly part of a business masquerading as a service to society - it charges USD 50 per assessment (https://www.mbtionline.com/TaketheMBTI). Please, if you wish to sit in judgement, then take that page down before you take down a page that represents an organisation making zero money for its service. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dakisan (talk • contribs) 08:33, 17 July 2019 (UTC)
- Between the article and this post here, you clearly aren't able to write about this subject in a neutral point of view. Take a few minutes to read WP:COI to see why writing about this is strongly discouraged.----Fabrictramp | talk to me 03:34, 18 July 2019 (UTC)
Brands more notable outside of the English speaking world
With regard to User_talk:Johan_M._Olofsson#Proposed_deletion_of_Woxter:
I'll have to rely on your experience. In the Spanish speaking world, I guess the criterion for notability is met if we trust Grupo Informaria; But I've no idea if that's a trustworthy source. And I know even less if that's a reason to include an article in en.wikipedia.
Johan M. Olofsson (talk) 12:52, 18 July 2019 (UTC)
- My Spanish is weak, but it sure reads like a press release. 🤷♀️ ----Fabrictramp | talk to me 01:02, 19 July 2019 (UTC)
Rajesh Khanna MD Page
Boss as you already know that i have added the Advt tag and ask for support from fellow wikipedians. You encouraged me a lot and thanks for ur support for helping a budding wikipedian. Regards Pankaj verma 23 (talk) 22:38, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
Rajesh Khanna MD Page
I am a budding wikipedian. Just have to say that even My Lord Jesus Christ had to face the opposition as people were not able to see HIS real self.
You all guys are learned and i am not even 1% of your value. Even though recently i have completed my 100 edits on wikipedia and i feel awesome. I just request to see the person worth on the links like Google search... books... videos
Hope justice to my hardwork prevail and i have also placed the ADVT TAG which i received as info from wikipedia to add on page and ask for community support. Regards Pankaj verma 23 (talk) 23:22, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
- You've posted this identical message in multiple places. Please stop. Spamming other editors is not a good way to get anyone to help you. ----Fabrictramp | talk to me 00:53, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
I'm surprised you deleted this page as I had just removed the speedy tag from it. I thought it was more suitable for the subject of an AfD. Liz Read! Talk! 03:27, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
- @Liz: Our edits must have crossed. I spent a minute or so trying to decide if it should go to AfD instead and really couldn't find any claim of importance in the article, so I A7'd it. If you want it to go to AfD, I'm happy to restore it.----Fabrictramp | talk to me 03:30, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
- And in an ironic twist of fate, you just deleted an article I was about to remove the speedy tag from. :) ----Fabrictramp | talk to me 03:33, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
- I'm a multiple national bestseller and award winning author. You couldn't find a "claim of importance"? That makes me far more significant than quite a few other authors. So what is your actual concern? I'm going to assume you don't like my public persona, and probably assume I'm an uber-Trump supporter and must be scourged. Even though I'm not. I'm going to suggest to the mods that you have no place on this site. There will be no further response from me.Mzmadmike (talk) 06:07, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
- And in an ironic twist of fate, you just deleted an article I was about to remove the speedy tag from. :) ----Fabrictramp | talk to me 03:33, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
- As I count three people who've challenged the deletion here—and this was an article that has previously been kept at AfD, so a speedy deletion was unlikely ever to be appropriate—I've restored the article and started a procedural AfD discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michael Z. Williamson (2nd nomination). ‑ Iridescent 06:31, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
You deleted a published bestselling author page who has been listed since 2008. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Michael_Z._Williamson — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1010:B018:78FA:9734:44E5:762F:E007 (talk) 06:17, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
- And I've suggested a community ban on the subject of the article for harassment at FB. Doug Weller talk 17:16, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
- It was a good deletion. The article included no claim of significance. None. It literally didn't. Not that Liz was in the wrong to decline, that IP's speedy deletion nomination appears to be trolling, and I would probably have not humored it either, but your deletion was perfectly valid here. Sorry you're being denigrated on Facebook over what should not have been a controversial admin action. It looks like the article will be deleted by the community and the user will be banned. Let me know if you need anything. ~Swarm~ {sting} 20:15, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
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The Signpost: 31 July 2019
- In the media: Politics starts getting rough
- Discussion report: New proposals in aftermath of Fram ban
- Arbitration report: A month of reintegration
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
- Community view: Video based summaries of Wikipedia articles. How and why?
- News from the WMF: Designing ethically with AI: How Wikimedia can harness machine learning in a responsible and human-centered way
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Administrators' newsletter – August 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2019).
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Guideline and policy news
- Following a request for comment, the page Wikipedia:Office actions has been changed from a policy page to an information page.
- A request for comment (permalink) is in progress regarding the administrator inactivity policy.
Arbitration
- Editors may now use the template {{Ds/aware}} to indicate that they are aware that discretionary sanctions are in force for a topic area, so it is unnecessary to alert them.
Miscellaneous
- Following a research project on masking IP addresses, the Foundation is starting a new project to improve the privacy of IP editors. The result of this project may significantly change administrative and counter-vandalism workflows. The project is in the very early stages of discussions and there is no concrete plan yet. Admins and the broader community are encouraged to leave feedback on the talk page.
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I'm a little confused. I tagged the article because it is a deliberate attempt to re-create an article that has been deleted and SALTed due to numerous re-creations. The author used the DAB to evade admin review and used a sock or meat puppet to accept the article through draft review. I could very well be missing something, but it didn't seem that premature given the circumstances. Best, GPL93 (talk) 15:25, 4 August 2019 (UTC)
Copy of deleted article
Can you provide me with a copy of the deleted article "Queer Glass" --- two new RS have appeared and I'm also told that a major museum exhibition will occur in 2020 under that title and with that genre.... I'm hoping to wait until enough 4-5 more reliable sources are published and then re-submit updated article for review... Thank you in advance --BoriquaZurdo (talk) 18:20, 6 August 2019 (UTC)
@BoriquaZurdo: I've restored it and moved it to Draft:Queer Glass so you have more, but not unlimited, time to add reliable sources. Be sure you've fully addressed the issues that led to its deletion (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Queer Glass), or it will probably be deleted again quickly. I'd recommend having someone review it before moving the article to main space, by submitting it to AfC first. ----Fabrictramp | talk to me 21:33, 6 August 2019 (UTC)
@Fabrictramp:: Thank you! Appreciate the quick response! --BoriquaZurdo (talk) 17:58, 7 August 2019 (UTC)
Florin Help 11/08/2019
I am new to wiki can you please tell me what I did wrong with my artical and I will do my best to fix it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mavdog2020 (talk • contribs) 21:31, 11 August 2019 (UTC)
- There are so many links that on your talk page that would help you if you read them. I doubt I can add anything to that. ----Fabrictramp | talk to me 21:58, 11 August 2019 (UTC)
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Hey, Fabrictramp. I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! Mjs1991 (talk) 05:58, 13 August 2019 (UTC) |
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Speedy deletion nomination of User talk:Mmz ilivelife
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A tag has been placed on User talk:Mmz ilivelife, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. Railfan23 (talk) 02:35, 25 August 2019 (UTC)
User:Mmz ilivelife
Hi Fabrictramp, you recently indef blocked User:Mmz ilivelife for spam (thanks!). They are continuing to use their talk page for promotional material. Could you remove talk page access for them too? Many thanks, Railfan23 (talk) 02:39, 25 August 2019 (UTC)
Done ----Fabrictramp | talk to me 02:41, 25 August 2019 (UTC)
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?
Administrators' newsletter – September 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2019).
Administrator changes
Bradv • Chetsford • Izno
Floquenbeam • Lectonar- DESiegel • Jake Wartenberg • Rjanag • Topbanana
CheckUser changes
Oversight changes
- Callanecc • Fox • HJ Mitchell • LFaraone • There'sNoTime
Technical news
- 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.
Arbitration
- 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.
Miscellaneous
- 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.
Draft deleted?
I would like to contest the deletion of Draft:State of Malinovia. Malinovia is a micronation and not a "fictitious" state. It does exist and has considerable notability, to say the least. In addition, drafts shouldn't be deleted as they are only drafts and serve as a page development space, and it won't be approved unless sources can be cited properly. The draft in question is Draft:State of Malinovia and it hadn't been sent for review yet and it wouldn't have been for at least another two weeks. I would suggest not deleting drafts. Standardwikiman (talk) 18:07, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
- @Standardwikiman: How odd that I found exactly zero reliable sources for a micronation that has so much notability. Drafts are intended to give you time to develop an article that will eventually meet Wikipedia's quality standards. Articles for a state that only exists in a couple of wikis have no hope of meeting those standards.----Fabrictramp | talk to me 19:28, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
New Page Review newsletter September-October 2019
Hello Fabrictramp,
- Backlog
Instead of reaching a magic 300 as it once did last year, the backlog approaching 6,000 is still far too high. An effort is also needed to ensure that older unsuitable older pages at the back of the queue do not get automatically indexed for Google.
- Coordinator
A proposal is taking place here to confirm a nominated user as Coordinator of NPR.
- This month's refresher course
Why I Hate Speedy Deleters, a 2008 essay by long since retired Ballonman, is still as valid today. Those of us who patrol large numbers of new pages can be forgiven for making the occasional mistake while others can learn from their 'beginner' errors. Worth reading.
- Deletion tags
Do bear in mind that articles in the feed showing the trash can icon (you will need to have 'Nominated for deletion' enabled for this in your filters) may have been tagged by inexperienced or non NPR rights holders using Twinkle. They require your further verification.
- Paid editing
Please be sure to look for the tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary. WMF policy requires paid editors to connect to their adverts.
- Subject-specific notability guidelines' (SNG). Alternatives to deletion
- Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves once more with notability guidelines for organisations and companies.
- Blank-and-Redirect is a solution anchored in policy. Please consider this alternative before PRODing or CSD. Note however, that users will often revert or usurp redirects to re-create deleted articles. Do regularly patrol the redirects in the feed.
- Not English
- A common issue: Pages not in English or poor, unattributed machine translations should not reside in main space even if they are stubs. Please ensure you are familiar with WP:NPPNE. Check in Google for the language and content, and if they do have potential, tag as required, then move to draft. Modify the text of the template as appropriate before sending it.
- Tools
Regular reviewers will appreciate the most recent enhancements to the New Pages Feed and features in the Curation tool, and there are still more to come. Due to the wealth of information now displayed by ORES, reviewers are strongly encouraged to use the system now rather than Twinkle; it will also correctly populate the logs.
Stub sorting, by SD0001: A new script is available for adding/removing stub tags. See User:SD0001/StubSorter.js, It features a simple HotCat-style dynamic search field. Many of the reviewers who are using it are finding it an improvement upon other available tools.
Assessment: The script at User:Evad37/rater makes the addition of Wikiproject templates extremely easy. New page creators rarely do this. Reviewers are not obliged to make these edits but they only take a few seconds. They can use the Curation message system to let the creator know what they have done.
DannyS712 bot III is now patrolling certain categories of uncontroversial redirects. Curious? Check out its patrol log.
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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
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Administrators' newsletter – October 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2019).
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Guideline and policy news
- 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
Technical news
- 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.
Arbitration
- 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.
Miscellaneous
- The Community Tech team has been working on a system for temporarily watching pages, and welcomes feedback.
Request copy of deleted article in my user space
Hello, can you please provide me copy of recently deleted article Roop Chand Joshi, thanks in advance Jethwarp (talk) 12:06, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
- Done I have restored the article and moved it to User:Jethwarp/Roop Chand Joshi. Remember that this article has been deleted through WP:AFD twice now, so it will need incredibly major changes to survive in article space. I'd highly recommend you request a review before attempting to move it into main space, since your comments at AfD show that you aren't clear on what the problems with the article are. ----Fabrictramp | talk to me 13:26, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks, I will try to find out further more WP:IS as of now just wanted to preserve it in my space. To be frank, the article was worthy of a page on Wikipedia and certainly passed WP:GNG, there should be some policy on wiki to seek vote of expert in some articles where general wikipedians have no idea of that particular subject - because Astrology is an off-beat subject known in-depth to very few and the fact is that Roop Chand Joshi is founder of Lal Kitab branch of astrology. It was unfortunate that article got deleted without much debate and voting from the people who know the subject. Thanks again !Jethwarp (talk)
Ebbsfleet Development Corporation
I believe this page should not have been deleted as it's about an important, relatively new executive non-departmental public body which is particularly noteworthy and newsworthy especially in Kent, where it's about to develop a new town [1]. It will act as a Local Planning Authority, with legal powers and duties, including processing planning applications and raising compulsory purchase orders, powerful legal tools. Development Corporations are commercial entities, but ones which play an important part in the democratic relationship between urban development and a community. Listing them here helps increase the transparency of local government. The article cited legislation and GOV.UK, both authoritative sources. —Psd (talk) 15:19, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
- Of course, the article said none of that and we can't read minds. The article did cite authoritative sources, but never said anything about importance. I've restored it to Draft:Ebbsfleet Development Corporation, which will give you more, but not unlimited time to show why this is both important and notable.----Fabrictramp | talk to me 03:22, 30 October 2019 (UTC)
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?
New Page Review newsletter November 2019
Hello Fabrictramp,
This newsletter comes a little earlier than usual because the backlog is rising again and the holidays are coming very soon.
- Getting the queue to 0
There are now 816 holders of the New Page Reviewer flag! Most of you requested the user right to be able to do something about the huge backlog but it's still roughly less than 10% doing 90% of the work. Now it's time for action.
Exactly one year ago there were 'only' 3,650 unreviewed articles, now we will soon be approaching 7,000 despite the growing number of requests for the NPR user right. If each reviewer soon does only 2 reviews a day over five days, the backlog will be down to zero and the daily input can then be processed by every reviewer doing only 1 review every 2 days - that's only a few minutes work on the bus on the way to the office or to class! Let's get this over and done with in time to relax for the holidays.
Want to join? Consider adding the NPP Pledge userbox.
Our next newsletter will announce the winners of some really cool awards.
- Coordinator
Admin Barkeep49 has been officially invested as NPP/NPR coordinator by a unanimous consensus of the community. This is a complex role and he will need all the help he can get from other experienced reviewers.
- This month's refresher course
Paid editing is still causing headaches for even our most experienced reviewers: This official Wikipedia article will be an eye-opener to anyone who joined Wikipedia or obtained the NPR right since 2015. See The Hallmarks to know exactly what to look for and take time to examine all the sources.
- Tools
- It is now possible to select new pages by date range. This was requested by reviewers who want to patrol from the middle of the list.
- It is now also possible for accredited reviewers to put any article back into the New Pages Feed for re-review. The link is under 'Tools' in the side bar.
- Reviewer Feedback
Would you like feedback on your reviews? Are you an experienced reviewer who can give feedback to other reviewers? If so there are two new feedback pilot programs. New Reviewer mentorship will match newer reviewers with an experienced reviewer with a new reviewer. The other program will be an occasional peer review cohort for moderate or experienced reviewers to give feedback to each other. The first cohort will launch November 13.
- Second set of eyes
- Not only are New Page Reviewers the guardians of quality of new articles, they are also in a position to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged for deletion and maintenance and that new authors are not being bitten. This is an important feature of your work, especially while some routine tagging for deletion can still be carried out by non NPR holders and inexperienced users. Read about it at the Monitoring the system section in the tutorial. If you come across such editors doing good work, don't hesitate to encourage them to apply for NPR.
- Do be sure to have our talk page on your watchlist. There are often items that require reviewers' special attention, such as to watch out for pages by known socks or disruptive editors, technical issues and new developments, and of course to provide advice for other reviewers.
- Arbitration Committee
The annual ArbCom election will be coming up soon. All eligible users will be invited to vote. While not directly concerned with NPR, Arbcom cases often lead back to notability and deletion issues and/or actions by holders of advanced user rights.
- Community Wish list
There is to be no wish list for WMF encyclopedias this year. We thank Community Tech for their hard work addressing our long list of requirements which somewhat overwhelmed them last year, and we look forward to a successful completion.
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Administrators' newsletter – November 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2019).
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Guideline and policy news
- 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.
Arbitration
- 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).
Administrator changes
- EvergreenFir • ToBeFree
- Akhilleus • Athaenara • John Vandenberg • Melchoir • MichaelQSchmidt • NeilN • Youngamerican • 😂
CheckUser changes
Interface administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
- 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.
Technical news
- 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)
Arbitration
- 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.
Miscellaneous
- 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
New Page Review newsletter December 2019
- Reviewer of the Year
This year's Reviewer of the Year is Rosguill. Having gotten the reviewer PERM in August 2018, they have been a regular reviewer of articles and redirects, been an active participant in the NPP community, and has been the driving force for the emerging NPP Source Guide that will help reviewers better evaluate sourcing and notability in many countries for which it has historically been difficult.
Special commendation again goes to Onel5969 who ends the year as one of our most prolific reviewers for the second consecutive year. Thanks also to Boleyn and JTtheOG who have been in the top 5 for the last two years as well.
Several newer editors have done a lot of work with CAPTAIN MEDUSA and DannyS712 (who has also written bots which have patrolled thousands of redirects) being new reviewers since this time last year.
Thanks to them and to everyone reading this who has participated in New Page Patrol this year.
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| 1 | Rosguill (talk) | 47,395 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 2 | Onel5969 (talk) | 41,883 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 3 | JTtheOG (talk) | 11,493 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 4 | Arthistorian1977 (talk) | 5,562 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 5 | DannyS712 (talk) | 4,866 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 6 | CAPTAIN MEDUSA (talk) | 3,995 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 7 | DragonflySixtyseven (talk) | 3,812 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 8 | Boleyn (talk) | 3,655 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 9 | Ymblanter (talk) | 3,553 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 10 | Cwmhiraeth (talk) | 3,522 | Patrol Page Curation |
(The top 100 reviewers of the year can be found here)
- Redirect autopatrol
A recent Request for Comment on creating a new redirect autopatrol pseduo-permission was closed early. New Page Reviewers are now able to nominate editors who have an established track record creating uncontroversial redirects. At the individual discretion of any administrator or after 24 hours and a consensus of at least 3 New Page Reviewers an editor may be added to a list of users whose redirects will be patrolled automatically by DannyS712 bot III.
- Source Guide Discussion
Set to launch early in the new year is our first New Page Patrol Source Guide discussion. These discussions are designed to solicit input on sources in places and topic areas that might otherwise be harder for reviewers to evaluate. The hope is that this will allow us to improve the accuracy of our patrols for articles using these sources (and/or give us places to perform a WP:BEFORE prior to nominating for deletion). Please watch the New Page Patrol talk page for more information.
- This month's refresher course
While New Page Reviewers are an experienced set of editors, we all benefit from an occasional review. This month consider refreshing yourself on Wikipedia:Notability (geographic features). Also consider how we can take the time for quality in this area. For instance, sources to verify human settlements, which are presumed notable, can often be found in seconds. This lets us avoid the (ugly) 'Needs more refs' tag.
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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
Fake section to fool archivebot
SAVE THE POLAR BEAR. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Md Asraf Jahangir (talk • contribs) 21:14, 12 October 2019 (UTC) Hi — Preceding unsigned comment added by Md Asraf Jahangir (talk • contribs) 07:27, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
Hi — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:BFB0:1A50:D13A:4C01:14CE:FE6E (talk) 00:06, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
Happy New Year Fabrictramp!
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Thanks for all of your contributions to improve the encyclopedia for Wikipedia's readers, and have a happy and enjoyable New Year! Cheers, Donner60 (talk) 04:07, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
Attempting to Properly Prepare Animus Theatre Company Page
Fabrictramp,
Following your shift of the Animus Theatre Company page to Drafts, I have attempted to make some edits (before others alter them). Any advice you can give is most welcome, particularly as it pertains to listing the members/artists of the company. I have sourced that material from the organization website, and cited countless others which should fulfill the notability guidelines to which you referred me. If you can edit check my sourcing of members/artists both for formatting and to confirm that it's a valid source, I will be most grateful, and any other edits you catch, I will gladly add. Thank you. (ShoeSchool420 (talk) 00:25, 29 December 2019 (UTC))
- Take a few minutes to read WP:N and WP:RS. Also you should read WP:COI, since it appears you have a conflict of interest and the draft as it stands reads more like their "about us" page than an encyclopedia article.----Fabrictramp | talk to me 04:21, 29 December 2019 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – January 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2019).
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Guideline and policy news
- 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.
Arbitration
- 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
Miscellaneous
- This issue marks three full years of the Admin newsletter. Thanks for reading!
Elyse Smith's importance
Hi. Regarding your edit summary, regardless of it being a lower standard than notability, of which I'm well aware, I still see not a single claim of importance for Elyse Smith. The entirety of what the article says about her:
- She has a career.
- She's from a city.
- She graduated from a university.
- She had a job at one TV station in a market that's way down in the ranks and now she'll be working at another in a market somewhat further up in the ranks.
Obviously I'm not of the belief that being seen on television implicitly makes one significant or important. I have the other three going for me, and I'd A7 an article on myself if someone posted one. Largoplazo (talk) 00:49, 24 January 2020 (UTC)
- @Largoplazo:Sorry for the typo in my edit summary. I meant to write news article. I assume you'll be seconding the prod?--Fabrictramp | talk to me 00:53, 24 January 2020 (UTC)
- Oh, OK. I guess that's somewhat different! Largoplazo (talk) 00:56, 24 January 2020 (UTC)
- Well, that's strange. Whenever I PROD a page that's already got a PROD tag using Twinkle, it asks me if I want to second it. This time, it just said there's already a tag, end of story. Hmmmm. Also, Refill is no longer working, and Earwig's Copyvios tool took forever to come up before. The whole place is falling apart. Largoplazo (talk) 00:58, 24 January 2020 (UTC)
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
Speedy deletion of John K. Pe-Ta
Thanks and sorry for the mess. --Wikit2006 (talk) 04:25, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
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.
Technical news
- 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. [2]
Arbitration
- 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
Miscellaneous
- 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!
@Fabrictramp: thank you for pointing out the issues at stake here.
Yes, this is part of a POV push that had begun in 2012. Please look at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#Assamese_language_topic_ban_appeal, (and the cascade of links to background) for the latest development. I think the correct action for this is a redirect to Kamrup region, as done here: [3]. If you think a full discussion on this (Deletion, redirection etc.) is appropriate afterall I shall submit the matter to AfD. Chaipau (talk) 14:32, 2 February 2020 (UTC)
- Either one of those options are fine. Cheers! ----Fabrictramp | talk to me 15:27, 2 February 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks. I was reluctant to redirect myself since I was part of the dispute. If you think it is appropriate for me to redirect, I shall do it. Chaipau (talk) 16:10, 2 February 2020 (UTC)
- Well, there's always the option of doing nothing. I just know that deletion without a discussion isn't the way to go. Even more so since you're involved in the dispute.----Fabrictramp | talk to me 01:50, 3 February 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks. I was reluctant to redirect myself since I was part of the dispute. If you think it is appropriate for me to redirect, I shall do it. Chaipau (talk) 16:10, 2 February 2020 (UTC)
New Page Reviewer newsletter February 2020
Hello Fabrictramp,
- Source Guide Discussion
The first NPP source guide discussion is now underway. It covers a wide range of sources in Ghana with the goal of providing more guidance to reviewers about sources they might see when reviewing pages. Hopefully, new page reviewers will join others interested in reliable sources and those with expertise in these sources to make the discussion a success.
- Redirects
New to NPP? Looking to try something a little different? Consider patrolling some redirects. Redirects are relatively easy to review, can be found easily through the New Pages Feed. You can find more information about how to patrol redirects at WP:RPATROL.
- Discussions and Resources
- There is an ongoing discussion around changing notifications for new editors who attempt to write articles.
- A recent discussion of whether Michelin starred restraunts are notable was archived without closure.
- A resource page with links pertinent for reviewers was created this month.
- A proposal to increase the scope of G5 was withdrawn.
- Refresher
Geographic regions, areas and places generally do not need general notability guideline type sourcing. When evaluating whether an article meets this notability guideline please also consider whether it might actually be a form of WP:SPAM for a development project (e.g. PR for a large luxury residential development) and not actually covered by the guideline.
Six Month Queue Data: Today – 7095 Low – 4991 High – 7095
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Disabled child making accidental edits
I visited Wikipedia today to see that I had notifications of attempts to edit WP being marked as "vandalism"; based on the items in question (See my IP usertalk page), I believe these edits to have been made accidentally by my son who is disabled, and certainly did not intend to make edits (he wouldn't have even know what that phrase means). Is there some way to lock this IP so that anonymous edits can never be made from this IP, but people who create an account and login can still make edits? Thanks for your help. —Preceding undated comment added 21:16, 24 February 2020 (UTC)
The Signpost: 1 March 2020
- From the editor: The ball is in your court
- News and notes: Alexa ranking down to 13th worldwide
- Special report: More participation, more conversation, more pageviews
- Discussion report: Do you prefer M or P?
- Arbitration report: Two prominent administrators removed
- Community view: The Incredible Invisible Woman
- In focus: History of The Signpost, 2015–2019
- From the archives: Is Wikipedia for sale?
- Traffic report: February articles, floating in the dark
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- Opinion: Wikipedia is another country
- Humour: The Wilhelm scream
Administrators' newsletter – March 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2020).
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- Following an RfC, the blocking policy was changed to state that sysops
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- Following an RfC, the blocking policy was changed to state that sysops
Technical news
- Following a discussion, Twinkle's default CSD behavior will soon change, most likely this week. After the change, Twinkle will default to "tagging mode" if there is no CSD tag present, and default to "deletion mode" if there is a CSD tag present. You will be able to always default to "deletion mode" (the current behavior) using your Twinkle preferences.
Miscellaneous
- Following the 2020 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: BRPever, Krd, Martin Urbanec, MusikAnimal, Sakretsu, Sotiale, and Tks4Fish. There are a total of seven editors that have been appointed as stewards, the most since 2014.
- The 2020 appointees for the Ombudsman commission are Ajraddatz and Uzoma Ozurumba; they will serve for one year.
The Signpost: 29 March 2020
- From the editors: The bad and the good
- News and notes: 2018 Wikipedian of the year blocked
- WikiProject report: WikiProject COVID-19: A WikiProject Report
- Special report: Wikipedia on COVID-19: what we publish and why it matters
- In the media: Blocked in Iran but still covering the big story
- Discussion report: Rethinking draft space
- Arbitration report: Unfinished business
- In focus: "I have been asked by Jeffrey Epstein …"
- Community view: Wikimedia community responds to COVID-19
- From the archives: Text from Wikipedia good enough for Oxford University Press to claim as own
- Traffic report: The only thing that matters in the world
- Gallery: Visible Women on Wikipedia
- News from the WMF: Amid COVID-19, Wikimedia Foundation offers full pay for reduced hours, mobilizes all staff to work remote, and waives sick time
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
Administrators' newsletter – April 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2020).
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Guideline and policy news
- There is an ongoing request for comment to streamline the source deprecation and blacklisting process.
Technical news
- There is a plan for new requirements for user signatures. You can give feedback.
Arbitration
- Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold a
Arbcom RfC regarding on-wiki harassment
. A draft RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC (Draft) and not open to comments from the community yet. Interested editors can comment on the RfC itself on its talk page.
- Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold a
Miscellaneous
- The WMF has begun a pilot report of the pages most visited through various social media platforms to help with anti-vandalism and anti-disinformation efforts. The report is updated daily and will be available through the end of May.
Recreate Article Deleted Before Vera Von Monika
I would like to recreate my article that was deleted for lack of reliable sources. I've got more reliable sources. How can I procede? Hanamikodevil (talk) 13:11, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
- @Hanamikodevil: I have restored it at Draft:Vera Von Monika.----Fabrictramp | talk to me 17:42, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
Deletion of Category:Users who are new to WP: Mac Henni
I'm using this cat as a self-organization cat. If you still don't agree, is there any way I could do this without a cat? Maccore Henni Mii! Pictochat Mii! (Note: respond on minha (my) talk page) 19:44, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
The Signpost: 26 April 2020
- News and notes: Unbiased information from Ukraine's government?
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- Discussion report: Redesigning Wikipedia, bit by bit
- Featured content: Featured content returns
- Arbitration report: Two difficult cases
- Traffic report: Disease the Rhythm of the Night
- Recent research: Trending topics across languages; auto-detecting bias
- Opinion: Trusting Everybody to Work Together
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
- In focus: Multilingual Wikipedia
- WikiProject report: The Guild of Copy Editors
Just FYI
You can {{tb}} to me. I just want some notification that you have messaged me on my talk page. Maccore Henni Mii! Pictochat Mii! (Note: respond on minha (my) talk page) 19:14, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
- Normally I @Mac Henni:, but your signature seemed pretty explicit as to what you want.----Fabrictramp | talk to me 19:53, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
- Should I disambiguate that in my sig? It could work that way. Maccore Henni Mii! Pictochat Mii! (Note: respond on minha (my) talk page) 19:54, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
- Yeah, I think that would be easier for most users. Cheers! ----Fabrictramp | talk to me 19:56, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – May 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2020).
Administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Oversight changes
Guideline and policy news
- Discretionary sanctions have been authorized for all pages and edits related to COVID-19, to be logged at WP:GS/COVID19.
- Following a recent discussion on Meta-Wiki, the edit filter maintainer global group has been created.
- A request for comment has been proposed to create a new main page editor usergroup.
- A request for comment has been proposed to make the bureaucrat activity requirements more strict.
Technical news
- The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. You can review the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page.
- Enterprisey created a script that will show a link to the proper Special:Undelete page when viewing a since-deleted revision, see User:Enterprisey/link-deleted-revs.
Miscellaneous
- A request for comment closed with consensus to create a Village Pump-style page for communication with the Wikimedia Foundation.
Article Request
About Jayasurya Mayilsamy — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2409:4072:649F:5E64:1A8:43F8:D78:4A25 (talk) 07:28, 5 May 2020 (UTC)
- Can you tell me what your request is? Thanks!----Fabrictramp | talk to me 17:30, 10 May 2020 (UTC)
FYI on Draft:Gamexchange
I appreciate you moving Gamexchange to Draft:Gamexchange. As an FYI, that same page had been deleted for A7 back in 2008 here, so it's not changed in 12 years so I don't think they're going to make any changes to it regardless of the time. I have thoughts as to why it might only have that level of info, but maybe if it comes back that will be indicative. TC ToeFungii (talk) 08:50, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
- FWIW, I don't put too much stock into that 2008 deletion -- it was tagged for speedying 3 minutes after creation. That tends to put newish editors into panic mode and keeps them from making the improvements they need to make. ----Fabrictramp | talk to me 14:33, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
The Signpost: 31 May 2020
- From the editor: Meltdown May?
- News and notes: 2019 Picture of the Year, 200 French paid editing accounts blocked, 10 years of Guild Copyediting
- Discussion report: WMF's Universal Code of Conduct
- Featured content: Weathering the storm
- Arbitration report: Board member likely to receive editing restriction
- Traffic report: Come on and slam, and welcome to the jam
- Gallery: Wildlife photos by the book
- News from the WMF: WMF Board announces Community Culture Statement
- Recent research: Automatic detection of covert paid editing; Wiki Workshop 2020
- Community view: Transit routes and mapping during stay-at-home order downtime
- WikiProject report: Revitalizing good articles
- On the bright side: 500,000 articles in the Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia
Administrators' newsletter – June 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2020).
Administrator changes
- CaptainEek • Creffett • Cwmhiraeth
- Anna Frodesiak • Buckshot06 • Ronhjones • SQL
CheckUser changes
Guideline and policy news
- A request for comment asks whether the Unblock Ticket Request System (UTRS) should allowed any unblock request or just private appeals.
- The Wikimedia Foundation announced that they will develop a universal code of conduct for all WMF projects. There is an open local discussion regarding the same.
Arbitration
New Page Reviewer newsletter June 2020
Hello Fabrictramp,
- Your help can make a difference
NPP Sorting can be a great way to find pages needing new page patrolling that match your strengths and interests. Using ORES, it divides articles into topics such as Literature or Chemistry and on Geography. Take a look and see if you can find time to patrol a couple pages a day. With over 10,000 pages in the queue, the highest it's been since ACPERM, your help could really make a difference.
- Google Adds New Languages to Google Translate
In late February, Google added 5 new languages to Google Translate: Kinyarwanda, Odia (Oriya), Tatar, Turkmen and Uyghur. This expands our ability to find and evaluate sources in those languages.
- Discussions and Resources
- A discussion on handling new article creation by paid editors is ongoing at the Village Pump.
- Also at the Village Pump is a discussion about limiting participation at Articles for Deletion discussion.
- A proposed new speedy deletion criteria for certain kinds of redirects ended with no consensus.
- Also ending with no change was a proposal to change how we handle certain kinds of vector images.
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The Signpost: 28 June 2020
- News and notes: Progress at Wikipedia Library and Wikijournal of Medicine
- Community view: Community open letter on renaming
- Gallery: After the killing of George Floyd
- In the media: Part collaboration and part combat
- Discussion report: Community reacts to WMF rebranding proposals
- Featured content: Sports are returning, with a rainbow
- Arbitration report: Anti-harassment RfC and a checkuser revocation
- Traffic report: The pandemic, alleged murder, a massacre, and other deaths
- News from the WMF: We stand for racial justice
- Recent research: Wikipedia and COVID-19; automated Wikipedia-based fact-checking
- Humour: Cherchez une femme
- On the bright side: For what are you grateful this month?
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Black Lives Matter
Administrators' newsletter – July 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2020).
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Guideline and policy news
- A request for comment is in progress to remove the T2 (template that misrepresents established policy) speedy deletion criterion.
Technical news
- Protection templates on mainspace pages are now automatically added by User:MusikBot II (BRFA).
Arbitration
- Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold an
RfC regarding on-wiki harassment
. The RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC and is open to comments from the community. - The Medicine case was closed, with a remedy authorizing standard discretionary sanctions for
all discussions about pharmaceutical drug prices and pricing and for edits adding, changing, or removing pharmaceutical drug prices or pricing from articles
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- Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold an
Deletion of Wesley Barrell page
This was a year ago now, however I would like to reinstate the page yo deleted.
This was a significant company in production of furniture, running for 124 years, as as much merit as for instance Multiyork which has an article.
How does one recover the significant work done on the article in order to improve it?
- @Dhutch: I have restored the article and moved it to Draft:Wesley Barrell to give you more, but not unlimited, time to work on it. Take a few minutes to read the notability guide for what sources this article needs and how to sign talk pages.----Fabrictramp | talk to me 22:11, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – August 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2020).
Administrator changes
Oversight changes
Guideline and policy news
- There is an open request for comment to decide whether to increase the minimum duration a sanction discussion has to remain open (currently 24 hours).
- Speedy deletion criterion T2 (template that misrepresents established policy) has been repealed following a request for comment.
- Speedy deletion criterion X2 (pages created by the content translation tool) has been repealed following a discussion.
- There is a proposal to restrict proposed deletion to confirmed users.
The Signpost: 2 August 2020
- Special report: Wikipedia and the End of Open Collaboration?
- COI and paid editing: Some strange people edit Wikipedia for money
- News and notes: Abstract Wikipedia, a hoax, sex symbols, and a new admin
- In the media: Dog days gone bad
- Discussion report: Fox News, a flight of RfAs, and banning policy
- Featured content: Remembering Art, Valor, and Freedom
- Traffic report: Now for something completely different
- News from the WMF: New Chinese national security law in Hong Kong could limit the privacy of Wikipedia users
- Obituaries: Hasteur and Brian McNeil
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Happy First Edit Day!
Have a very happy first edit anniversary!
From the Birthday Committee, CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 18:25, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
I noticed you added sources but I don't think a Mayor of a town of 750 some odd people is notable per WP:NPOL and the "coverage" of the "scandal" is minimal at best. Do you have any objection to me redirecting it to the town? Praxidicae (talk) 12:32, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
- @Praxidicae: Go for it. I got interrupted while adding a prod to it. I couldn't find more sources to make this not be a case of WP:ONEEVENT.----Fabrictramp | talk to me 13:06, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
The Signpost: 30 August 2020
- News and notes: The high road and the low road
- In the media: Storytelling large and small
- Featured content: Going for the goal
- Special report: Wikipedia's not so little sister is finding its own way
- Op-Ed: The longest-running hoax
- Traffic report: Heart, soul, umbrellas, and politics
- News from the WMF: Fourteen things we’ve learned by moving Polish Wikimedia conference online
- Recent research: Detecting spam, and pages to protect; non-anonymous editors signal their intelligence with high-quality articles
- Arbitration report: A slow couple of months
- From the archives: Wikipedia for promotional purposes?
Administrators' newsletter – September 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2020).
Administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Guideline and policy news
- Following a request for comment, the minimum length for site ban discussions was increased to 72 hours, up from 24.
- A request for comment is ongoing to determine whether paid editors
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Arbitration
- A request for comment is open to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the 2020 English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee election and to resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.
- An open request for comment asks whether active Arbitrators may serve on the Trust and Safety Case Review Committee or Ombudsman commission.
Happy Adminship Anniversary!
Have a very happy adminship anniversary on your special day!
Best wishes, CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 06:37, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
Happy Adminship Anniversary!
The Signpost: 27 September 2020
- Special report: Paid editing with political connections
- News and notes: More large-scale errors at a "small" wiki
- In the media: WIPO, Seigenthaler incident 15 years later
- Featured content: Life finds a Way
- Arbitration report: Clarifications and requests
- Traffic report: Is there no justice?
- Recent research: Wikipedia's flood biases
The Signpost: 27 September 2020
- Special report: Paid editing with political connections
- News and notes: More large-scale errors at a "small" wiki
- In the media: WIPO, Seigenthaler incident 15 years later
- Featured content: Life finds a Way
- Arbitration report: Clarifications and requests
- Traffic report: Is there no justice?
- Recent research: Wikipedia's flood biases
Administrators' newsletter – September 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2020).
Administrator changes
- Ajpolino • LuK3
- Jackmcbarn
- Ad Orientem • Harej • Lid • Lomn • Mentoz86 • Oliver Pereira • XJaM
There'sNoTime → TheresNoTime
Guideline and policy news
- A request for comment found consensus that incubation as an alternative to deletion should generally only be recommended when draftification is appropriate, namely
1) if the result of a deletion discussion is to draftify; or 2) if the article is newly created
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- A request for comment found consensus that incubation as an alternative to deletion should generally only be recommended when draftification is appropriate, namely
Technical news
- The filter log now provides links to view diffs of deleted revisions (phab:T261630).
Arbitration
- The 2020 CheckUser and Oversight appointment process has begun. The community consultation period will take place from September 27th to October 7th.
- Following a request for comment, sitting Committee members may not serve on either the Ombuds Commission or the WMF Case Review Committee. The Arbitration Committee passed a motion implementing those results into their procedures.
Miscellaneous
- The Universal Code of Conduct draft is open for community review and comment until October 6th, 2020.
- Office actions may now be appealed to the Interim Trust & Safety Case Review Committee.
Lord of Little Stambridge
Hi, Just looking for any ideas on what to add many thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by EvWills (talk • contribs) 16:40, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – November 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2020).
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- Community sanctions now authorize administrators to place under indefinite semiprotection
any article on a beauty pageant, or biography of a person known as a beauty pageant contestant, which has been edited by a sockpuppet account or logged-out sockpuppet
, to be logged at WP:GS/PAGEANT.
- Community sanctions now authorize administrators to place under indefinite semiprotection
Technical news
- Sysops will once again be able to view the deleted history of JS/CSS pages; this was restricted to interface administrators when that group was introduced.
- Twinkle's block module now includes the ability to note the specific case when applying a discretionary sanctions block and/or template.
- Sysops will be able to use Special:CreateLocalAccount to create a local account for a global user that is prevented from auto-creation locally (such as by a filter or range block). Administrators that are not sure if such a creation is appropriate should contact a checkuser.
Arbitration
- The 2020 Arbitration Committee Elections process has begun. Eligible editors will be able to nominate themselves as candidates from November 8 through November 17. The voting period will run from November 23 through December 6.
- The Anti-harassment RfC has concluded with a summary of the feedback provided.
Miscellaneous
- A reminder that
standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to post-1932 politics of the United States and closely related people.
(American Politics 2 Arbitration case).
- A reminder that
The Signpost: 1 November 2020
- News and notes: Ban on IPs on ptwiki, paid editing for Tatarstan, IP masking
- In the media: Murder, politics, religion, health and books
- Book review: Review of Wikipedia @ 20
- Discussion report: Proposal to change board composition, In The News dumps Trump story
- Featured content: The "Green Terror" is neither green nor sufficiently terrifying. Worst Hallowe'en ever.
- Traffic report: Jump back, what's that sound?
- Interview: Joseph Reagle and Jackie Koerner
- News from the WMF: Meet the 2020 Wikimedian of the Year
- Recent research: OpenSym 2020: Deletions and gender, masses vs. elites, edit filters
- In focus: The many (reported) deaths of Wikipedia
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The Signpost: 29 November 2020
- News and notes: Jimmy Wales "shouldn't be kicked out before he's ready"
- Op-Ed: Re-righting Wikipedia
- Opinion: How billionaires re-write Wikipedia
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- Traffic report: 007 with Borat, the Queen, and an election
- News from Wiki Education: An assignment that changed a life: Kasey Baker
- GLAM plus: West Coast New Zealand's Wikipedian at Large
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- Recent research: Wikipedia's Shoah coverage succeeds where libraries fail
- Essay: Writing about women
Administrators' newsletter – December 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2020).
Administrator changes
- Andrwsc • Anetode • GoldenRing • JzG • LinguistAtLarge • Nehrams2020
Interface administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
- There is a request for comment in progress to either remove T3 (duplicated and hardcoded instances) as a speedy deletion criterion or eliminate its seven-day waiting period.
Technical news
- Voting for proposals in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey, which determines what software the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Tech team will work on next year, will take place from 8 December through 21 December. In particular, there are sections regarding administrators and anti-harassment.
Arbitration
- Voting in the 2020 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 7 December 2020 UTC. Please review the candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page.
New Page Patrol December Newsletter
Hello Fabrictramp,
- Year in review
It has been a productive year for New Page Patrol as we've roughly cut the size of the New Page Patrol queue in half this year. We have been fortunate to have a lot of great work done by Rosguill who was the reviewer of the most pages and redirects this past year. Thanks and credit go to JTtheOG and Onel5969 who join Rosguill in repeating in the top 10 from last year. Thanks to John B123, Hughesdarren, and Mccapra who all got the NPR permission this year and joined the top 10. Also new to the top ten is DannyS712 bot III, programmed by DannyS712 which has helped to dramatically reduce the number of redirects that have needed human patrolling by patrolling certain types of redirects (e.g. for differences in accents) and by also patrolling editors who are on on the redirect whitelist.
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| 1 | DannyS712 bot III (talk) | 67,552 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 2 | Rosguill (talk) | 63,821 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 3 | John B123 (talk) | 21,697 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 4 | Onel5969 (talk) | 19,879 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 5 | JTtheOG (talk) | 12,901 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 6 | Mcampany (talk) | 9,103 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 7 | DragonflySixtyseven (talk) | 6,401 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 8 | Mccapra (talk) | 4,918 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 9 | Hughesdarren (talk) | 4,520 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 10 | Utopes (talk) | 3,958 | Patrol Page Curation |
- Reviewer of the Year
John B123 has been named reviewer of the year for 2020. John has held the permission for just over 6 months and in that time has helped cut into the queue by reviewing more than 18,000 articles. His talk page shows his efforts to communicate with users, upholding NPP's goal of nurturing new users and quality over quantity.
- NPP Technical Achievement Award
As a special recognition and thank you DannyS712 has been awarded the first NPP Technical Achievement Award. His work programming the bot has helped us patrol redirects tremendously - more than 60,000 redirects this past year. This has been a large contribution to New Page Patrol and definitely is worthy of recognition.
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Proposed deletion of Utrecht School of Law Clinical Programme on Conflict, Human Rights and International Justice
The article Utrecht School of Law Clinical Programme on Conflict, Human Rights and International Justice has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
This can not be fixed nor merged to an existing target
While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.
You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.
Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Bearian (talk) 17:05, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
- Overnotification. I did minor gnomish tagging on that article 10 years ago.----Fabrictramp | talk to me 05:15, 19 December 2020 (UTC)
Need help deleting a section please
Due to blanket IP blocking, we are unable to delete a section on this article -https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunt_(community) Kindly delete this section - ‘varna classification’ that was added 5 months back by some LovSLif or someone. Its a completely false section added by a miscreant trying to stir up political trouble and needs to be removed. If you block the article after reverting it to its state prior a year or so, even that’s fine, but vandalism might have started after such content started getting added. Blocking is fine for us but please help revert all changes that happened since a year.
Thank you. Alva000 (talk) 08:48, 19 December 2020 (UTC)
- Sorry, no. I have no knowledge of this dispute, and you are a new account who has exactly two edits, both on my page. That sounds to me like you are a sock puppet who is admin shopping.----Fabrictramp | talk to me 15:55, 19 December 2020 (UTC)
The Signpost: 28 December 2020
- Arbitration report: 2020 election results
- Featured content: Very nearly ringing in the New Year with "Blank Space" – but we got there in time.
- Traffic report: 2020 wraps up
- Recent research: Predicting the next move in Wikipedia discussions
- Essay: Subjective importance
- Gallery: Angels in the architecture
- Humour: 'Twas the Night Before Wikimas
Administrators' newsletter – January 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2020).
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- Speedy deletion criterion T3 (duplication and hardcoded instances) has been repealed following a request for comment.
Technical news
- You can now put pages on your watchlist for a limited period of time.
Arbitration
- By motion, standard discretionary sanctions have been temporarily authorized
for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes)
. The effectiveness of the discretionary sanctions can be evaluated on the request by any editor after March 1, 2021 (or sooner if for a good reason). - Following the 2020 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Barkeep49, BDD, Bradv, CaptainEek, L235, Maxim, Primefac.
- By motion, standard discretionary sanctions have been temporarily authorized
The Signpost: 31 January 2021
- News and notes: 1,000,000,000 edits, board elections, virtual Wikimania 2021
- Special report: Wiki reporting on the United States insurrection
- In focus: From Anarchy to Wikiality, Glaring Bias to Good Cop: Press Coverage of Wikipedia's First Two Decades
- Technology report: The people who built Wikipedia, technically
- Videos and podcasts: Celebrating 20 years
- News from the WMF: Wikipedia celebrates 20 years of free, trusted information for the world
- Recent research: Students still have a better opinion of Wikipedia than teachers
- Humour: Dr. Seuss's Guide to Wikipedia
- Featured content: New Year, same Featured Content report!
- Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2020
- Obituary: Flyer22 Frozen
Administrators' newsletter – February 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2021).
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Arbitration
- The standard discretionary sanctions authorized for American Politics were amended by motion to cover
post-1992 politics of United States and closely related people
, replacing the 1932 cutoff.
- The standard discretionary sanctions authorized for American Politics were amended by motion to cover
Miscellaneous
- Voting in the 2021 Steward elections will begin on 05 February 2021, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2021, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
- Wikipedia has now been around for 20 years, and recently saw its billionth edit!
The Signpost: 28 February 2021
- News and notes: Maher stepping down
- Disinformation report: A "billionaire battle" on Wikipedia: Sex, lies, and video
- In the media: Corporate influence at OSM, Fox watching the hen house
- News from the WMF: Who tells your story on Wikipedia
- Featured content: A Love of Knowledge, for Valentine's Day
- Traffic report: Does it almost feel like you've been here before?
- Gallery: What is Black history and culture?
Administrators' newsletter – March 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2021).
Administrator changes
Interface administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
- A request for comment is open that proposes a process for the community to revoke administrative permissions. This follows a 2019 RfC in favor of creating one such a policy.
- A request for comment is in progress to remove F7 (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a, which covers immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
- A request for comment seeks to grant page movers the
delete-redirectuserright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target. The full proposal is at Wikipedia:Page mover/delete-redirect. - A request for comment asks if sysops may
place the General sanctions/Coronavirus disease 2019 editnotice template on pages in scope that do not have page-specific sanctions
? - There is a discussion in progress concerning automatic protection of each day's featured article with Pending Changes protection.
Technical news
- When blocking an IPv6 address with Twinkle, there is now a checkbox with the option to just block the /64 range. When doing so, you can still leave a block template on the initial, single IP address' talkpage.
- When protecting a page with Twinkle, you can now add a note if doing so was in response to a request at WP:RfPP, and even link to the specific revision.
- There have been a number of reported issues with Pending Changes. Most problems setting protection appear to have been resolved (phab:T273317) but other issues with autoaccepting edits persist (phab:T275322).
Arbitration
- By motion, the discretionary sanctions originally authorized under the GamerGate case are now authorized under a new Gender and sexuality case, with sanctions
authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, any gender-related dispute or controversy and associated people.
Sanctions issued under GamerGate are now considered Gender and sexuality sanctions. - The Kurds and Kurdistan case was closed, authorizing standard discretionary sanctions for
the topics of Kurds and Kurdistan, broadly construed
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- By motion, the discretionary sanctions originally authorized under the GamerGate case are now authorized under a new Gender and sexuality case, with sanctions
Miscellaneous
- Following the 2021 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AmandaNP, Operator873, Stanglavine, Teles, and Wiki13.
Delete this
Kindly delete this - ‘varna classification’ that you added 5 months back thats generating wayy too much friction. Its a completely false section and needs to be removed. Thank you, here is the link - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunt_(community). Alos, do let me know who has asked you to add this section.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Alva000 (talk • contribs)
- @Alva000: I don't quite understand what you want. I have never edited that article.----Fabrictramp | talk to me 05:14, 19 December 2020 (UTC)
The Signpost: 28 March 2021
- News and notes: A future with a for-profit subsidiary?
- Gallery: Wiki Loves Monuments
- In the media: Wikimedia LLC and disinformation in Japan
- News from the WMF: Project Rewrite: Tell the missing stories of women on Wikipedia and beyond
- Recent research: 10%-30% of Wikipedia’s contributors have subject-matter expertise
- From the archives: Google isn't responsible for Wikipedia's mistakes
- Obituary: Yoninah
- From the editor: What else can we say?
- Arbitration report: Open letter to the Board of Trustees
- Traffic report: Wanda, Meghan, Liz, Phil and Zack
Administrators' newsletter – April 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2021).
Administrator changes
- Alexandria • Happyme22 • RexxS
Guideline and policy news
- Following a request for comment, F7 (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a has been deprecated; it covered immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
- Following a request for comment, page movers were granted the
delete-redirectuserright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target.
Technical news
- When you move a page that many editors have on their watchlist the history can be split and it might also not be possible to move it again for a while. This is because of a job queue problem. (T278350)
- Code to support some very old web browsers is being removed. This could cause issues in those browsers. (T277803)
Arbitration
- A community consultation on the Arbitration Committee discretionary sanctions procedure is open until April 25.
The Signpost: 25 April 2021
- From the editor: A change is gonna come
- Disinformation report: Paid editing by a former head of state's business enterprise
- In the media: Fernando, governance, and rugby
- Opinion: The (Universal) Code of Conduct
- Op-Ed: A Little Fun Goes A Long Way
- Changing the world: The reach of protest images on Wikipedia
- Recent research: Quality of aquatic and anatomical articles
- Traffic report: The verdict is guilty, guilty, guilty
- News from Wiki Education: Encouraging professional physicists to engage in outreach on Wikipedia
The Signpost: 25 April 2021
- From the editor: A change is gonna come
- Disinformation report: Paid editing by a former head of state's business enterprise
- In the media: Fernando, governance, and rugby
- Opinion: The (Universal) Code of Conduct
- Op-Ed: A Little Fun Goes A Long Way
- Changing the world: The reach of protest images on Wikipedia
- Recent research: Quality of aquatic and anatomical articles
- Traffic report: The verdict is guilty, guilty, guilty
- News from Wiki Education: Encouraging professional physicists to engage in outreach on Wikipedia
Administrators' newsletter – May 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2021).
Administrator changes
Interface administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
- Following an RfC, consensus was found that third party appeals are allowed but discouraged.
- The 2021 Desysop Policy RfC was closed with no consensus. Consensus was found in a previous RfC for a community based desysop procedure, though the procedure proposed in the 2021 RfC did not gain consensus.
Technical news
- The user group
oversightwill be renamed tosuppress. This is for technical reasons. You can comment at T112147 if you have objections.
- The user group
Arbitration
- The community consultation on the Arbitration Committee discretionary sanctions procedure was closed, and an initial draft based on feedback from the now closed consultation is expected to be released in early June to early July for community review.
Idi Amin confusion
Hey there! I noticed someone went and reverted my edit on Idi Amin because nicknames are never bolded; that doesn't quite make sense because, on Kalākaua, his nickname is "The Merrie Monarch", and it is fact bolded. I'm not sure if there are specific exceptions are made for certain people or what, but it left me scratching my head. Some clarity would be much appreciated; thanks! 
LittleMissDexterous (talk) | Sent from Mail for Windows 10 | 02:54, 11 May 2021 (UTC)
- @LittleMissDexterous: I don't see that I've ever been involved with either page, so I'm not the best person to ask. ----Fabrictramp | talk to me 21:18, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – June 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2021).
Administrator changes
- Ashleyyoursmile • Less Unless
- Husond • MattWade • MJCdetroit • Carioca • Vague Rant • Kingboyk • Thunderboltz • Gwen Gale • AniMate • SlimVirgin (deceased)
Guideline and policy news
- Consensus was reached to deprecate Wikipedia:Editor assistance.
- Following a Request for Comment the Book namespace was deprecated.
Technical news
- Wikimedia previously used the IRC network Freenode. However, due to changes over who controlled the network with reports of a forceful takeover by several ex-staff members, the Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts decided to move to the new Libera Chat network. It has been reported that Wikimedia related channels on Freenode have been forcibly taken over if they pointed members to Libera. There is a migration guide and Wikimedia discussions about this.
Arbitration
- After a Clarification request, the Arbitration Committee modified Remedy 5 of the Antisemitism in Poland case. This means sourcing expectations are a discretionary sanction instead of being present on all articles. It also details using the talk page or the Reliable Sources Noticeboard to discuss disputed sources.
The Signpost: 27 June 2021
- News and notes: Elections, Wikimania, masking and more
- In the media: Boris and Joe, reliability, love, and money
- Disinformation report: Croatian Wikipedia: capture and release
- Recent research: Feminist critique of Wikipedia's epistemology, Black Americans vastly underrepresented among editors, Wiki Workshop report
- Traffic report: So no one told you life was gonna be this way
- News from the WMF: Searching for Wikipedia
- WikiProject report: WikiProject on open proxies interview
- Forum: Is WMF fundraising abusive?
- Discussion report: Reliability of WikiLeaks discussed
- Obituary: SarahSV
Administrators' newsletter – July 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2021).
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Guideline and policy news
- Consensus has been reached to delete all books in the book namespace. There was rough consensus that the deleted books should still be available on request at WP:REFUND even after the namespace is removed.
- An RfC is open to discuss the next steps following a trial which automatically applied pending changes to TFAs.
Technical news
- IP addresses of unregistered users are to be hidden from everyone. There is a rough draft of how IP addresses may be shown to users who need to see them. This currently details allowing administrators, checkusers, stewards and those with a new usergroup to view the full IP address of unregistered users. Editors with at least 500 edits and an account over a year old will be able to see all but the end of the IP address in the proposal. The ability to see the IP addresses hidden behind the mask would be dependent on agreeing to not share the parts of the IP address they can see with those who do not have access to the same information. Accessing part of or the full IP address of a masked editor would also be logged. Comments on the draft are being welcomed at the talk page.
Arbitration
- The community authorised COVID-19 general sanctions have been superseded by the COVID-19 discretionary sanctions following a motion at a case request. Alerts given and sanctions placed under the community authorised general sanctions are now considered alerts for and sanctions under the new discretionary sanctions.
The Signpost: 25 July 2021
- News and notes: Wikimania and a million other news stories
- Special report: Hardball in Hong Kong
- In the media: Larry is at it again
- Board of Trustees candidates: See the candidates
- Traffic report: Football, tennis and marveling at Loki
- News from the WMF: Uncapping our growth potential – interview with James Baldwin, Finance and Administration Department
- Humour: A little verse
Administrators' newsletter – July 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2021).
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Guideline and policy news
- An RfC is open to add a delay of one week from nomination to deletion for G13 speedy deletions.
Technical news
- Last week all wikis were very slow or not accessible for 30 minutes. This was due to server lag caused by regenerating dynamic lists on the Russian Wikinews after a large bulk import. (T287380)
Arbitration
- Following an amendment request, the committee has clarified that the Talk page exception to the 500/30 rule in remedy 5 of the Palestine-Israel articles 4 case does not apply to requested move discussions.
Miscellaneous
- You can vote for candidates in the 2021 Board of Trustees elections from 4 August to 17 August. Four community elected seats are up for election.
Happy First Edit Day!
Have a very happy first edit anniversary!
From the Birthday Committee, CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 06:24, 13 August 2021 (UTC)
The Signpost: 29 August 2021
- News and notes: Enough time left to vote! IP ban
- In the media: Vive la différence!
- Wikimedians of the year: Seven Wikimedians of the year
- Gallery: Our community in 20 graphs
- News from Wiki Education: Changing the face of Wikipedia
- Recent research: IP editors, inclusiveness and empathy, cyclones, and world heritage
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Days of the Year Interview
- Traffic report: Olympics, movies, and Afghanistan
- Community view: Making Olympic history on Wikipedia
Administrators' newsletter – September 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2021).
Administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
- Feedback is requested on the Universal Code of Conduct enforcement draft by the Universal Code of Conduct Phase 2 drafting committee.
- A RfC is open on whether to allow administrators to use extended confirmed protection on high-risk templates.
- A discussion is open to decide when, if ever, should discord logs be eligible for removal when posted onwiki (including whether to oversight them)
- A RfC on the next steps after the trial of pending changes on TFAs has resulted in a 30 day trial of automatic semi protection for TFAs.
Technical news
- The Score extension has been re-enabled on public wikis. It has been updated, but has been placed in safe mode to address unresolved security issues. Further information on the security issues can be found on the mediawiki page.
Arbitration
- A request for comment is in progress to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the Arbitration Committee election and resolve any issues not covered by existing rules. Comments and new proposals are welcome.
Miscellaneous
- The 2021 RfA review is now open for comments.
New Page Patrol newsletter September 2021
Hello Fabrictramp,
Please join this discussion - there is increase in the abuse of Wikipedia and its processes by POV pushers, Paid Editors, and by holders of various user rights including Autopatrolled. Even our review systems themselves at AfC and NPR have been infiltrated. The good news is that detection is improving, but the downside is that it creates the need for a huge clean up - which of course adds to backlogs.
Copyright violations are also a serious issue. Most non-regular contributors do not understand why, and most of our Reviewers are not experts on copyright law - and can't be expected to be, but there is excellent, easy-to-follow advice on COPYVIO detection here.
At the time of the last newsletter (#25, December 2020) the backlog was only just over 2,000 articles. New Page Review is an official system. It's the only firewall against the inclusion of new, improper pages.
There are currently 706 New Page Reviewers plus a further 1,080 admins, but as much as nearly 90% of the patrolling is still being done by around only the 20 or so most regular patrollers.
If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process or its software.
Various awards are due to be allocated by the end of the year and barnstars are overdue. If you would like to manage this, please let us know. Indeed, if you are interested in coordinating NPR, it does not involve much time and the tasks are described here.
To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here. Sent to 827 users. 04:31, 16 September 2021 (UTC)
Happy Adminship Anniversary!
The Signpost: 26 September 2021
- News and notes: New CEO, new board members, China bans
- In the media: The future of Wikipedia
- Op-Ed: I've been desysopped
- Disinformation report: Paid promotional paragraphs in German parliamentary pages
- Discussion report: Editors discuss Wikipedia's vetting process for administrators
- Recent research: Wikipedia images for machine learning; Experiment justifies Wikipedia's high search rankings
- Community view: Is writing Wikipedia like making a quilt?
- Traffic report: Kanye, Emma Raducanu and 9/11
- News from Diff: Welcome to the first grantees of the Knowledge Equity Fund
- WikiProject report: The Random and the Beautiful
Administrators' newsletter – October 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2021).
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Guideline and policy news
- Following an RfC, extended confirmed protection may be used preemptively on certain high-risk templates.
- Following a discussion at the Village Pump, there is consensus to treat discord logs the same as IRC logs. This means that discord logs will be oversighted if posted onwiki.
Technical news
- DiscussionTools has superseded Enterprisey's reply-link script. Editors may switch using the "Discussion tools" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features.
Arbitration
- A motion has standardised the 500/30 (extended confirmed) restrictions placed by the Arbitration Committee. The standardised restriction is now listed in the Arbitration Committee's procedures.
- Following the closure of the Iranian politics case, standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, post-1978 Iranian politics, broadly construed.
- The Arbitration Committee encourages uninvolved administrators to use the discretionary sanctions procedure in topic areas where it is authorised to facilitate consensus in RfCs. This includes, but is not limited to, enforcing sectioned comments, word/diff limits and moratoriums on a particular topic from being brought in an RfC for up to a year.
Miscellaneous
- Editors have approved expanding the trial of Growth Features from 2% of new accounts to 25%, and the share of newcomers getting mentorship from 2% to 5%. Experienced editors are invited to add themselves to the mentor list.
- The community consultation phase of the 2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process is open for editors to provide comments and ask questions to candidates.
The Signpost: 31 October 2021
- From the editor: Different stories, same place
- News and notes: The sockpuppet who ran for adminship and almost succeeded
- Discussion report: Editors brainstorm and propose changes to the Requests for adminship process
- Recent research: Welcome messages fail to improve newbie retention
- Community view: Reflections on the Chinese Wikipedia
- Traffic report: James Bond and the Giant Squid Game
- Technology report: Wikimedia Toolhub, winners of the Coolest Tool Award, and more
- Serendipity: How Wikipedia helped create a Serbian stamp
- Book review: Wikipedia and the Representation of Reality
- WikiProject report: Redirection
- Humour: A very Wiki crossword