User talk:Lofty abyss/Archive 7

Administrators' newsletter – April 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2019).

Administrator changes

Reaper Eternal • ThaddeusB

Bogdangiusca • Christopher Parham • Necrothesp • Schneelocke • Siroxo • Sarah

Mentifisto → Lofty abyss

Interface administrator changes

Mr. Stradivarius

Bureaucrat changes

DeltaQuad

Kingturtle

Technical news

• In Special:Preferences under "Appearance" → "Advanced options", there is now an option to show a confirmation prompt when clicking on a rollback link.
• 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. Please see meta:Community health initiative/User reporting system consultation 2019 to provide your input on this idea.

Arbitration

• 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.

Miscellaneous

• 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.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:57, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

Your block of 176.59.207.12

Giving you a heads-up that the vandal has hopped to 176.59.204.51. –Skywatcher68 (talk) 19:31, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

Didn't edit after the warning, so I thought a block was unnecessary, but thanks for informing me. -- Lofty abyss 23:00, 14 April 2019 (UTC)

Pull TPA?

Would you be able to revoke TPA for User:P^o^o^p b^y t^h^e p^a^i^l, who you just blocked? They're repeatedly making trolling unblock requests. Thanks! aboideau^talk 14:50, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

Done. -- Lofty abyss 14:52, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

Thank you! aboideau^talk 14:54, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

Minor mistake on your user page...

I found a mistake on your user page where it says "Ðate", Is that intentional? If not, it should say "Date" instead. -216.25.187.5 (talk) 14:10, 16 April 2019 (UTC)

It was intentional, although not sure how sensible... I thought it would typographically distinguish it from the other word that begins with the same letter two sentences below it. -- Lofty abyss 14:41, 16 April 2019 (UTC)

Another one

With regard to your block of "Enigma man is incompetent" could you please have a look also at "Boing! zaid Sebedee" which is also their creation and is also an attack on an existing user? Thanks DBaK (talk) 22:30, 14 April 2019 (UTC)

Someone else blocked as a sock, but it didn't seem to me to be an attack in the same vein as the former username. -- Lofty abyss 23:00, 14 April 2019 (UTC)

Thanks. Best wishes DBaK (talk) 20:20, 16 April 2019 (UTC)

User talk:Xtreme motherboards

Please revoke their talk page access. —RainFall 09:18, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

Done by Favonian. -- Lofty abyss 09:20, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

user talk:StanProg

Could you please do me a quick favor and unprotected user talk:StanProg. Thanks you. 50.244.15.179 (talk) 20:51, 27 April 2019 (UTC)

As the protecting admin, I very strongly recommend against unprotecting the page in question. Favonian (talk) 20:55, 27 April 2019 (UTC)

It is really fine. I don’t think anybody will hurt that page. 50.244.15.179 (talk) 20:56, 27 April 2019 (UTC)

ArbCom 2019 special circular

Administrators must secure their accounts The Arbitration Committee may require a new RfA if your account is compromised. Use strong, unique passwords for your Wikipedia account and associated email Change your password now if your Wikipedia account password or email password is reused on another website, exposed, or weak Enable two-factor authentication now for improved security

View additional information

Why have I received this message? All administrators are receiving it. What prompted you to send this message? Recently, several Wikipedia admin accounts were compromised. The admin accounts were desysopped on an emergency basis. In the past, the Committee often resysopped admin accounts as a matter of course once the admin was back in control of their account. The committee has updated its guidelines. Admins may now be required to undergo a fresh Request for Adminship (RfA) after losing control of their account. What do I need to do? Only to follow the instructions in this message. Check that your password is unique (not reused across sites). Check that your password is strong (not simple or guessable). Enable Two-factor authentication (2FA), if you can, to create a second hurdle for attackers. How can I find out more about two-factor authentication (2FA)? You can find out more about 2FA at m:2FA.

This message was sent to all administrators following a recent motion. Thank you for your attention. For the Arbitration Committee, Cameron11598 02:41, 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).

Administrator changes

HickoryOughtShirt?4 • RexxS

Necrothesp

Bratsche • Kyle Barbour • Kzollman • Madman

Interface administrator changes

Pharos

Bureaucrat changes

Primefac

CheckUser changes

Reaper Eternal

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 so will 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.

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.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:37, 5 May 2019 (UTC)

Thank You

Hello & thanks for granting me autopatrolled permission. I hope I can be more useful to Wikipedia. Alex-h (talk) 19:54, 7 May 2019 (UTC)

GPL93 (talk) 13:14, 15 May 2019 (UTC)

I noticed you previously blocked User talk:50.235.92.148 this probably merits a more substantial block. Best,

Done, thanks. -- Lofty abyss 13:29, 15 May 2019 (UTC)

A request

Could you add some Holocaust images recently used for vandalism to the bad image list? I've had a request sitting around for a while on the talk page. funplussmart (talk) 22:43, 7 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

CheckUser changes

Ivanvector

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.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:48, 8 June 2019 (UTC)

You've got mail!

Hello, Lofty abyss. Please check your email; you've got mail! The subject is Wikipedia email from user "IanDBeacon".
Message added 02:09, 25 June 2019 (UTC). It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template.

IanDBeacon (talk) 02:09, 25 June 2019 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 7

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (June 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 7th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here

Evad37's MoveToDraft

MJL's textDisallow • Opencooper's talkCount • Guywan's List Entry Annotator

SD0001: DYK-helper • find-archived-section • draft-sort-burst • UnassessedArticleLinks • StubSorter

DannyS712: Subcategories • Examine edits • ExpandHistory • Global watchlist

DannyS712's DiscussionCloser

Open tasks

• FR30799386's mobileUndo (maintained on enwiki by DannyS712) is currently a proposed gadget. Join the discussion at the village pump
• Interstellarity has requested help with forking Joshua Scott's pending changes script to add a feature

Miscellaneous

• After an MfD, DannyS712's MMS was deleted. It was originally created by Abelmoschus Esculentus. If you import either of these scripts, you may want to uninstall them, as they no longer exist.

Having published 6 issues of this newsletter, I decided it was time to move it out from my user space. It is now located at Wikipedia:Scripts++. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 11:45, 30 June 2019 (UTC)

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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.

²Fram's access was removed, then restored, then removed again.

Bureaucrat changes

28bytes • WJBscribe • Wizardman

Interface administrator changes

MSGJ • TheDJ

CheckUser changes

Beeblebrox • BU Rob13 • DoRD

Oversight changes

Beeblebrox • BU Rob13 • DoRD • GB fan

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.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:20, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Move

Hi, Can you please move McBurger back to McMuffin and delete the page McMuffineroooo?

Thank you very much, --BoothSiftTalks 01:03, 16 July 2019 (UTC)

Range block

Hey! I see you blocked 2605:A000:1329:4B86:71B0:B563:EA1C:FE88 and 2605:A000:1329:4B86:1CED:1D1B:FD03:D487. The IPs belong to the following range: 2605:A000:1329:4B86:0:0:0:0/64. Could you block this range, as all IPs in the range belong to the same end-user and the user has already used 4 different dynamic IPs in this range to vandalise Wikipedia? Thanks, MrClog (talk) 21:44, 20 July 2019 (UTC)

user:TwisterWaltzerRollerCoasterMiamiParatrooperDodgem

user:TwisterWaltzerRollerCoasterMiamiParatrooperDodgem is abusing her talkpage. CLCStudent (talk) 00:01, 23 July 2019 (UTC)

My Talk page

Thanks! Best wishes DBaK (talk) 00:26, 27 July 2019 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 8

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (July 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 8th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here

Jackmcbarn's editProtectedHelper

Galobtter's WatchlistLinksNewTab • SD0001's Watchlist title updater • Yair rand's UserBlind

Anne drew Andrew and Drew's ScritSorter • Masumrezarock100's mobilemorelinks

Enterprisey: edit section on hover • Search shortcuts • superjump

ZLEA: EditRequestLinks.js • MMSLink.js

DannyS712's Global watchlist • SD0001's StubSorter

After a discussion, User:Sam Sailor/Scripts/Sagittarius+.js has been redirected to

User:Wugapodes/Capricorn.js, and Wugapodes is maintaining it.

Pending requests

• A script to fill in {{Template:Infobox journal}}
• A tool to simplify merging articles
• ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

Hope everyone is having a good winter (or summer, for those in the northern hemisphere). Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 02:40, 1 August 2019 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – August 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2019).

Administrator changes

Johnuniq • Kosack • Valereee

Ad Orientem • Ched • Gadfium • Jonathunder • Nick • Yelyos

Bald Zebra • Beetstra • Doug Bell • Journalist • Ruud Koot • Splash • Voice of Clam

Interface administrator changes

Dinoguy1000

CheckUser changes

RickinBaltimore

Oversight changes

Beeblebrox

RickinBaltimore

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.
• The new page reviewer right is bundled with the admin tool set. Many admins regularly help out at Special:NewPagesFeed, but they may not be aware of improvements, changes, and new tools for the Curation system. Stay up to date by subscribing here to the NPP newsletter that appears every two months, and/or putting the reviewers' talk page on your watchlist.

  Since the introduction of temporary user rights, it is becoming more usual to accord the New Page Reviewer right on a probationary period of 3 to 6 months in the first instance. This avoids rights removal for inactivity at a later stage and enables a review of their work before according the right on a permanent basis.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:23, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

Rangeblock?

Hello Lofty abyss. I see that you blocked 86.29.46.67 for vandalism. I'm looking at the WHOIS info and it looks like there a range of IPs, including one (86.29.46.67) that was also blocked for vandalism. I'm just wondering if a IP rangeblock would be in order? Thanks! -- LuK3 (Talk) 18:55, 4 September 2019 (UTC)

86.29.32.0/19 for 24 hours, since it seems they began vandalizing recently. -- Lofty abyss 19:09, 4 September 2019 (UTC)

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

Callanecc • LFaraone • There'sNoTime

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.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:37, 7 September 2019 (UTC)

IP copyright vio on talk page

Hello, An IP you just blocked (62.255.13.162) has added copyrighted text from a BBC news article to there talk page here: User_talk:62.255.13.162, the news article in question is here. - Scio c (talk) 12:39, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – October 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2019).

Administrator changes

Barkeep49

Beetstra • KillerChihuahua • Kusma

Arcadian • Extraordinary Machine • Xeno

JamesBWatson → JBW

Interface administrator changes

Evad37

CheckUser changes

Courcelles • SilkTork • Timotheus Canens

Oversight changes

Courcelles • SilkTork • Timotheus Canens

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.

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.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:55, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 9

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past two months (August and September, 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 9th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here

Enterprisey's links-in-logs

Tokenzero's infoboxJournal • SD0001's RFUD-helper • Danski454's code edit window size

BrandonXLF: FloatHead • ShowRevisionID • EditorFirst

Þjarkur: NeverUseMobileVersion • CleanDiffURLs

Galobtter's admin highlighter • ZLEA's Dashboard • Cobaltcigs's DisableDragDrop

SD0001's archived section finder

Miscellaneous

• MJL's Archer was used to break a Wikipedia record. See the edit in question & the updated records page for more.

Sorry for falling behind a bit. Please let me know if I missed any new scripts. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 01:55, 7 October 2019 (UTC)

Pending requests

• A script to simplify merging
• A script to tweak rollback links
• ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

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MH 17 vandal

Please block the whole range, and for longer than a day. It's not their first rodeo. See here [1]. Thanks. Hydromania (talk) 06:39, 7 October 2019 (UTC)

Done for a year, before that the editing was different. -- Lofty abyss 08:18, 7 October 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for the block

Thanks for blocking 2604:3D09:6C7F:2000:FC4F:BD64:C081:92DE (talk · contribs · WHOIS). I think page protection on O Canada might be the better choice now that the blocked anon has switched to 2604:3d09:6c7f:2000:30ca:3bd:45f0:54a1 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), unless you feel like a range block? I'll leave it up to you. Walter Görlitz (talk) 06:36, 16 October 2019 (UTC)

GodSaveOurGraciousBoris

user:GodSaveOurGraciousBoris is abusing her talkpage. CLCStudent (talk) 14:46, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2019).

Administrator changes

GermanJoe • Girth Summit • Kees08 • Nosebagbear

DESiegel • GB fan • MSGJ • Voice of Clam • WilyD

DeltaQuad • Fang Aili • Pakaran

Bureaucrat changes

DeltaQuad • Pakaran

Interface administrator changes

MSGJ

CheckUser changes

L235 • Mz7 • SQL • ST47

Ivanvector

DeltaQuad

Oversight changes

L235 • Mz7 • ST47 • Stwalkerster • The Blade of the Northern Lights • Xaosflux

DeltaQuad • DGG • Julia W

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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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:15, 3 November 2019 (UTC)

WNBA

Hi! Thanks for blocking User:Imafanboy. Perhaps protecting WNBA would be prudent now? "Someone" is making very similar edits from an IP. However, if you feel protection is unnecessary, I support that too. Thanks! GrammarDamner (talk) 19:34, 29 October 2019 (UTC)

Done. -- Lofty abyss 19:43, 29 October 2019 (UTC)

		The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		Thanks for your help with WNBA! GrammarDamner (talk) 17:19, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 10

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (October 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 10th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here

Ahecht's page swap

MoonyTheDwarf's wikimap

SD0001: hide-reverted-edits • T-Watch • W-Ping • easy-merge

Enterprisey: diff-permalink • search-links • section-redir-note • fancy-diffs • EditWarChecker

Pending requests

Inline editor for cleanup tags

Script to remove empty parameters

...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

Have a great November, --DannyS712 (talk) 22:18, 7 November 2019 (UTC)

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ArbCom 2019 election voter message

Hello! Voting in the 2019 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 on Monday, 2 December 2019. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate in the 2019 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add {{NoACEMM}} to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:07, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 11

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (November 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 11th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here

Enterprisey's reply-link

Evad37's Thanky • SuperHamster's CiteUnseen • Mattflaschen's Compare link.js

Enterprisey: diff-context • fancy-diffs • offset-history-link

BrandonXLF: NoRedirect • WatchDoc • HotDefaultSort • TodoList

Twinkle has received multiple updates

Evad37's rater is now at version 2; see the announcement here

Open tasks

• For those who haven't noticed, per phabricator:T234576, using editToken instead of csrfToken no longer works

Miscellaneous

• Following a discussion, XFDcloser is now available as a gadget
• Evad37's extra.js collection of helper functions is now available as MediaWiki:Gadget-libExtraUtil.js
• Twinkle's morebits is now a gadget, and is easier to use in as a dependency in other scripts (see here for more)
• Last month's issue misidentified the creator of the new EditWarChecker script; it was created by Evad37

Pending requests

• A button to mark templates in the TfD holding cell as ready for deletion
• ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

Enjoy your thanksgiving --DannyS712 (talk) 08:22, 28 November 2019 (UTC)

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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

Beeblebrox

Deskana

Interface administrator changes

Evad37

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)

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:48, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

Talk page access

Hey Lofty abyss, hope all is well. Would it be possible to revoke talk page access for YouKnowWhenDatHotlineBling? Thank you! -- LuK3 (Talk) 14:00, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

Locked instead which has the same effect. --Lofty abyss 14:04, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

AIV

Could you do me a favour and take a look at WP:AIV. there are quite a few reports that have been waiting a while and are still vandalising. dmartin969 06:09, 6 December 2019 (UTC)

If you mean Contributions/122.2.109.154 I'm not sure what kind of edits those are, not blatant vandalism at least, and may have stopped now. --Lofty abyss 06:24, 6 December 2019 (UTC)

Happy New Year Lofty abyss!

Happy New Year!

Hello Lofty abyss:
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) 05:27, 27 December 2019 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2019).

Administrator changes

Dreamy Jazz • Newslinger • Rosguill

Deor • Spartaz • Xeno

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CheckUser changes

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Oversight changes

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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 than reasonably 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.

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• This issue marks three full years of the Admin newsletter. Thanks for reading!

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Ip address

Sorry to bother you, but you recently protected the page Atlanta, and all of the edits made by this ip address are very inappropriate, so they should be deleted. Lcodyh803 (talk) 03:00, 30 January 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – February 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2020).

Administrator changes

Ergo Sum • Nick Moyes • QEDK • Wugapodes

Dennis Brown

Aude • BrownHairedGirl • CALR • Jengod • John Reaves • J.smith • Kim Dent-Brown • K1Bond007 • MECU • Refdoc • RHaworth

CheckUser changes

Opabinia regalis • Premeditated Chaos

Interface administrator changes

Ragesoss

Guideline and policy news

• 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.

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.
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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:05, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

Accidental rollback

Right there I wanted to thank you for blocking that vandal, instead I accidentally pressed the rollback button. Sorry for that and thanks for being around ready to block misbehaving editors! Best, Tymon.r Do you have any questions? 01:10, 8 February 2020 (UTC)

No problems! --Lofty abyss 01:23, 8 February 2020 (UTC)

Revoke TPA

Please reblock Mrroyezra23 without talk page access. The user is blatantly abusing it. funplussmart (talk) 20:19, 8 February 2020 (UTC)

Edit conflict

Oops. We just overlapped in blocking User:69.74.139.163, and I inadvertantly increased the block period you applied. Feel free to revert it if you feel it was too long for a second block. Nick Moyes (talk) 14:27, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

They might or might not edit throughout, so the length can still make sense. --Lofty abyss 14:42, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

Anthony David, Neuropsychiatrist page

Hi. Please excuse my lack of Wikipedia literacy. I tried to edit my page (Anthony David Neuropsychiatrist) yesterday because someone pointed out to me that it was out of date. So I updated my current position (I moved in 2018 to a different university) and also added a previous publication from 2009 and a new book from 2020. I didn't realise until now that I am not able to edit my own page, hence all the edits have been deleted. I would like to ask that these edits are reinstated. I can confirm that I am not in breach of any of the Wiki guidelines Anthony.S.David (talk) 14:05, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

Anthony.S.David, what were removed are the external links, which you could try putting here or possibly as part of the references. I don't think it would be particularly controversial for relevant links to be included in the appropriate sections, but if you want to avoid any appearance of a conflict of interest you can always leave a note on the talk page. --Lofty abyss 17:34, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

Thanks very much for your feedback. If it is the link to the publishers of the new book that is causing concern - I would be happy if this was removed. Otherwise is it all OK? Is there anything else I need to do? Anthony.S.David (talk) 17:44, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

I thought adding it to the already existent bibliography was even more appropriate, actually, so I went ahead and added it using its ISBN instead of a single link. --Lofty abyss 18:47, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

A year ago ...

fighting vandalism
... you were recipient no. 2175 of Precious, a prize of QAI!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:35, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

Time does fly (now if only it flies a bit faster in certain situations...) --Lofty abyss 13:48, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

Requesting your assistance

At List of Ugandans by net worth, the page is attracting a lot of vandalism from unregistered editors. I am requesting you to partially block the site so that only confirmed editors can edit the page, at least for several months in the future. Maybe that will discourage the bad guys. Thanks. Fsmatovu (talk) 19:28, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

For the last month there were only two edits from IPs, nearly spaced by the entire month... this does not seem to be a lot in my opinion, but you can still seek out different opinions here. --Lofty abyss 20:09, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

grieving

about 6 years to late.. --Deepfriedokra (talk) 06:40, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

Salting Template:Harassing Hell?

Upon reviewing the block logs on the template, possible to have the template salted for creation? Seems like a repeated vandal using the same template name. – robertsky (talk) 03:22, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

Sounds like the practical thing to do. Lofty abyss 03:25, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

Block of IP 2607:FEA8:A940:7DC:E06F:2A33:8B7:7779

May I persuade you to increase your block to 2607:FEA8:A940:7DC::/64? The same user has been also using the address 2607:FEA8:A940:7DC:5596:5E2:D510:2A3E to make the same kind of vandalism tonight. Seems to have been alternating between the two. Regards, Tarl N. (discuss) 04:40, 4 August 2020 (UTC)

Done for a bit. Lofty abyss 05:36, 4 August 2020 (UTC)

Hey

Thanks for blocking that swine, but if you do, please also remove talk page and email access. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 13:56, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

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user:Osaslosk is abusing her talkpage. CLCStudent (talk) 19:39, 20 January 2021 (UTC)

David Cicilline

Thanks for protecting the article just now. I didn't realize that he is one of the impeachment managers when I posted the RPP, but looking back at the IP vandal edits, it is clear that they were focused on that role. Perhaps temp protection for more than a couple of days might be in order? Thanks! Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 00:41, 11 February 2021 (UTC)

Seems it might take around a week, so set it at that. ~Lofty abyss 00:48, 11 February 2021 (UTC)

And thank you kindly! Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 18:23, 11 February 2021 (UTC)

MENGONTOL

Can user:MENGONTOL please be blocked ASAP for vandalism. If you look at the article history, you will see that this is likely the same person behind the IP who already received a level 4 warning. CLCStudent (talk) 13:06, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for blocking Sarahj282911092

Yeah thanks for accepting the request. They were being very disruptive and quite frankly, rude as well (Exhibit 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Persona_5&diff=1008391031&oldid=1008390648&diffmode=source). Thanks again, and have a great night. ;D — Preceding unsigned comment added by WiiBoi (talk • contribs) 02:28, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

Have a good night too. ~Lofty abyss 02:36, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious

Two years!

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Request for removing talk page access

Please remove talk page access of 88.105.156.32 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) which you recently blocked as they are misusing their talk page by using it for personal attack. Pachu Kannan (talk) 03:14, 26 November 2021 (UTC)

Done. ~Lofty abyss 03:39, 26 November 2021 (UTC)

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Precious anniversary

Precious

Three years!

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