User talk:Hallward's Ghost/Archives/2022/October

The Signpost: 30 September 2022

• News and notes: Board vote results, bot's big GET, crat chat gives new mop, WMF seeks "sound logo" and "organizer lab"

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ryan Grantham

I reverted your comment, since the page should not have been modified. But I don't understand why you're "not currently in a position to take this to deletion review". Why not? StAnselm (talk) 17:41, 17 October 2022 (UTC)

• I'm currently very busy IRL. And I left that comment in the space specifically listed to "Reply" to the close. So please unrevert it. Kevin ^{Hallward's Ghost (Let's talk)} 21:37, 17 October 2022 (UTC)

You make a good point regarding that "reply" button. I don't think it should be there on closed pages. But I will need to ask it somewhere. I think I will do this at WP:AN, but I don't need to mention you. StAnselm (talk) 02:30, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

The reply I got at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Help needed: replying to closed discussion leads me to decline your unrevert request. StAnselm (talk) 14:21, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

I replied briefly there. This seems like an easy issue to fix by removing the big blue "REPLY" button from the extremely controversial close, but whatever. Hopefully someone with more time will challenge that ludicrous close. Administrators should not simply substitute their own policy views for the overwhelming community consensus on an issue. That's not what NOTAVOTE was ever intended to be used for. It was intended for close calls where one side technically "won" if it were just a "vote" count, not for when the community's consensus was clear and overwhelming. But my long experience of administrator actions doesn't leave me optimistic about (A) this particular issue, and (B) the long term health of this project. Kevin ^{Hallward's Ghost (Let's talk)} 20:14, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 October 2022

• From the team: A new goose on the roost

• News and notes: Wikipedians question Wikimedia fundraising ethics after "somewhat-viral" tweet

• News from the WMF: Governance updates from, and for, the Wikimedia Endowment

• In the media: Scribing, searching, soliciting, spying, and systemic bias

• Disinformation report: From Russia with WikiLove

• Recent research: Disinformatsiya: Much research, but what will actually help Wikipedia editors?

• Interview: Isabelle Belato on their Request for Adminship

• Featured content: Topics, lists, submarines and Gurl.com

• Serendipity: We all make mistakes – don’t we?

• Traffic report: Mama, they're in love with a criminal

• From the archives: Paid advocacy, a lawsuit over spelling mistakes, deleting Jimbo's article, and the death of Toolserver

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