User talk:Interstellarity/Archives/2020/November
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Administrators' newsletter – November 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2020).
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Guideline and policy news
- 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
Page mover granted
Hello, Interstellarity. Your account has been granted the "extendedmover" user right, either following a request for it or demonstrating familiarity with working with article names and moving pages. You are now able to rename pages without leaving behind a redirect, move subpages when moving the parent page(s), and move category pages.
Please take a moment to review Wikipedia:Page mover for more information on this user right, especially the criteria for moving pages without leaving redirect. Please remember to follow post-move cleanup procedures and make link corrections where necessary, including broken double-redirects when suppressredirect is used. This can be done using Special:WhatLinksHere. It is also very important that no one else be allowed to access your account, so you should consider taking a few moments to secure your password. As with all user rights, be aware that if abused, or used in controversial ways without consensus, your page mover status can be revoked.
Useful links:
- Wikipedia:Requested moves
- Category:Articles to be moved, for article renaming requests awaiting action.
If you do not want the page mover right anymore, just let me know, and I'll remove it. Thank you, and happy editing! – bradv🍁 15:24, 1 November 2020 (UTC)
- @Bradv: Thank you. I will use this right wisely. Interstellarity (talk) 18:36, 1 November 2020 (UTC)
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
Archiving
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I set my archive settings to archive after 2 weeks (14 days), however, it seems to archive after a month or so. I would like to change it to 2 weeks. Can you show me how to do that or do it for me please? Interstellarity (talk) 20:36, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
- I think it is working as intended, what you have is more or less what I've had for years now. I think Lowercase sigmabot III just has a lesser checking rate. There are some items moved in less than a month, but it's never been an instant move once the date is hit in my experience. — IVORK Talk 21:32, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
- @IVORK: Thank you for your response. I never thought it would be the bot's fault and I'll just keep things as intended. I'll leave a note on the operator's talk page so they can address this. Interstellarity (talk) 23:12, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
Orphaned non-free image File:ShrekHuman.png
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Donald Trump
Howdy. We don't show the departure date, until the official's term is up. GoodDay (talk) 14:48, 12 November 2020 (UTC)
- @GoodDay: My apologies. I didn't know that. Interstellarity (talk) 15:35, 12 November 2020 (UTC)
TheWikiWizard-November 2020
Hello, Interstellarity! Here is the November 2020 issue of TheWikiWizard.
- What's Hot! (Lots of turkey)
- Articles (New Ones this month!)
- Interviews (This month, we focused the interview on a certain topic)
- News about Wikipedia! (Updates about Wikipedia)
- Editor's Notes (News/Updates!)
- Activity Page (Activities!)
- Ads (Super Cool Ads)
To change your subscription, or to subscribe click Here. We hope you like this month's issue! If you'd like to discuss this issue, please go to this issue's talk page. Happy Reading & stay safe! --つがる Talk to つがる:) 🍁 02:34, 23 November 2020 (UTC)
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Stubs to Starts, Starts to C-class or B-class
Personally, after working to improve a Stub, I feel comfortable in regrading it to Start. Similar for Start to C-class. However, after working to improve a C-class article, rather than self-grade it to B-class, I leave a note on the Talk page that I have edited the article, but am leaving the decision to other editors. Whenever I intend to raise a C-class or B-class article to be worthy of a Good Article nomination, I state that intent on the Talk page. For an article as simple as Luna moth I did scores of edits before nominating (July 29-Aug 5, 2018) and then scores more in response to the reviewer. David notMD (talk) 10:36, 28 November 2020 (UTC)
- @David notMD: Thanks for the info. I'm assuming that you read my question at the Teahouse regarding good articles. Interstellarity (talk) 19:26, 28 November 2020 (UTC)
- Yes. And I will add that before any of my GA nominations, I checked every reference.David notMD (talk) 00:41, 29 November 2020 (UTC)
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
- Featured content: Frontonia sp. is thankful for delicious cyanobacteria
- 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
- Wikicup report: Lee Vilenski wins the 2020 WikiCup
- Recent research: Wikipedia's Shoah coverage succeeds where libraries fail
- Essay: Writing about women