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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Bali myna

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Naba Kailash Mandir

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Happy holidays!

Hello MER-C: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 14:26, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Season's Greetings}} to send this message

MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 14:26, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

new spam

Noticed a recreated spam page (it was declined on AfC and was deleted a few times); en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G5_Entertainment. It has also cross-wiki spam signs(was uploaded to Ukrainian wiki a few years ago and simultaneously to Belarus wiki and after one day to English wiki under this name: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G5_Entertainment_Group but go deleted by GSS admin). And recently, it was added to Simple wiki. 2003:E7:5F18:53F5:90C9:4043:7CB0:638 (talk) 13:49, 16 December 2023 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Sabella pavonina

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Sabella pavonina - Hippocampus hippocampus - Porto Cesareo, Italy (DSC2314M).jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 10:15, 19 December 2023 (UTC)

Seasons Greetings

Merry Christmas, MER-C/archives! Or Season's Greetings or Happy Winter Solstice! As the year winds to a close, I would like to take a moment to recognize your hard work and offer heartfelt gratitude for all you do for Wikipedia. May this Holiday Season bring you nothing but joy, health and prosperity. Onel5969 TT me 15:00, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

Onel5969 ^{TT me} 15:00, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Ugandan kobs mating

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Merry Christmas!

~~~ Merry Christmas! ~~~
Joyeux Noël! ~ Buon Natale! ~ Vrolijk Kerstfeest! ~ Frohe Weihnachten!
¡Feliz Navidad! ~ Feliz Natal! ~ Καλά Χριστούγεννα! ~ Hyvää Joulua!
God Jul! ~ Glædelig Jul! ~ Linksmų Kalėdų! ~ Priecīgus Ziemassvētkus!
Häid Jõule! ~ Wesołych Świąt! ~ Boldog Karácsonyt! ~ Veselé Vánoce!
Veselé Vianoce! ~ Crăciun Fericit! ~ Sretan Božić! ~ С Рождеством!
শুভ বড়দিন! ~ 圣诞节快乐！~ メリークリスマス！~ 메리 크리스마스!
สุขสันต์วันคริสต์มาส! ~ Selamat Hari Natal! ~ Giáng sinh an lành!
Весела Коледа! ~ Meri Kirihimete!

Hello, MER-C! Thank you for your work to maintain and improve Wikipedia! Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Chris Troutman (talk) 23:16, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Great blue turaco

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:017 Great blue turaco at Kibale forest National Park Photo by Giles Laurent.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 03:15, 30 December 2023 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Little ringed plover

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Flussregenpfeifer im flachen Wasser 01.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 10:02, 30 December 2023 (UTC)

spam

This page is a paid spam Buoy Health and I have evidence of it. 23.164.184.64 (talk) 19:03, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

Blocked and quarantined. Thanks for reporting. MER-C 03:31, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

Draft:Betterme (app)

Hi MER-C. I noticed that you previously G5ed BetterMe, so I just wanted to bring this to your attention. Cheers! Jeraxmoira🐉 (talk) 16:30, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

Looks like a sock. Article is a clear derivative of the deleted text. Blocked, thanks for reporting. MER-C 19:29, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

And it's hello from me: BetterMe was just recreated, at Betterme World for some reason. Thanks, Wikishovel (talk) 14:11, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

Ukrainians again

Hi, please take a look on templates being deleted in Nick_Bilogorskiy by Максим Огородник in September Diff. Why would one do this without adding any content... Anntinomy (talk) 18:40, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

It could be a WP:PROXYING thing - the Qq8 account dates back to 2007. I need more evidence than this to block. MER-C 19:36, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

ok, may be COI template then? since Qq8 is Ihor Markov Igor L. Markov, who is on the board of Nova Ukraine with Bilogorskiy and Ostap Korkuna. Anntinomy (talk) 22:28, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

Sockpuppet blocks

Hello, MER-C,

I was looking at User talk:SergeyAntloy and noticed that there was no notice that this editor was blocked for sockpuppetry. I was surprised because this has been the practice for the checkusers and SPI clerks I have worked with in the past. If you are following up the closure of an SPI case and blocking sockpuppets could you take a moment and put a notice on the User talk page? It helps editors who are following up their edits with questions also a block notice tells the editor how to appeal their block and I don't think it will take more than a minute or two of your time.

I wouldn't make this request if I didn't think this was standard practice for admins who help with SPI cases but I think it is. You can ask your fellow admins if my perception is accurate. Many thanks for all of the work you are doing, especially with some of these very large sockpuppet cases. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:13, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

I do a lot of blocking outside of SPI but will keep this in mind. MER-C 19:27, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Steamboat Willie (2)

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Graceful pitta

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Red-chested cuckoo

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:024 Red-chested cuckoo at Kibale forest National Park Photo by Giles Laurent.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 16:20, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Trisopterus luscus

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Nam Dok Mai

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paid account (SPA)

https://xtools.wmcloud.org/pages/en.wikipedia.org/NamanNomad/all#0 please review highly promotional articles. I know that this user is paid (I can share more details via email). 2603:7000:3FF0:9480:84BB:6445:F225:F5A8 (talk) 12:28, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Eva Nogales

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Grey-headed kingfisher

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:044 Grey-headed kingfisher at Queen Elizabeth National Park Photo by Giles Laurent.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 16:07, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Upper Belvedere

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recreated page in violation of G5

https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/G5_Entertainment_Group This page created by Bodiadub sock in Ukrainian Wikipedia was created by another sock (already blocked for socking) in English: G5 Entertainment, while A412 user is always there to defend the page. 80.139.9.212 (talk) 15:16, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/NamanNomad/Archive 80.139.9.212 (talk) 15:20, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

G5 Entertainment = Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Cassandra Grim, GuarantCo = Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Bigneeerman. I quarantined two pages and blocked two historical sockpuppets. MER-C 16:23, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

Hm, there's some bizzare crossfire of two sockfarms, (one WP:FORUMSHOPPING different noticeboards / IP hopping, one apparently UPE), going on here. This is the fourth thread about it.

See:

• User talk:Callanecc#the same blocked user is here.
• User talk:Liz#paid user
• Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1147#A user from an IP address is accusing my account of belonging to a sockpuppet farm
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/141.136.89.195
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/80.139.9.212
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/89.151.38.106

~ A412 ^talk! 18:21, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

I guess I'll reply to the accusation that "A412 user is always there to defend the page".

I have no relation to this page. I picked it up out of the NPP queue, and it's on my watchlist. Either new users love proposing deletion of this page, or someone's socking. (It pretty clearly passes WP:NCORP to my eyes, although to be fair to the IP, it is mildly promotional, probably UPE, though not more egregious than the average corporation article). It was AFDed by some new user, speedy closed as kept, then speedy deletion nominated earlier today. ~ A412 ^talk! 18:29, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

@MER-C I think you forgot to quarantine G5 Entertainment 80.139.9.212 (talk) 13:07, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

@80.139.9.212 I am requesting you engage with me on any of the pages where you're trying to discuss this article instead of going on this admin talk page end run. What is the issue with the current version of the article? If you think it does not pass inclusion guidelines, please take it to AFD. It's not G5 eligible, and I contest the deletion in any case. ~ A412 ^talk! 16:18, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Bluespotted ribbontail ray

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Raya de arrecife (Taeniura lymma), mar Rojo, Egipto, 2023-04-14, DD 64.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 22:48, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Alpine Ibex (2024)

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:003 Wild Alpine Ibex Sunset Creux du Van Mont Racine Photo by Giles Laurent.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 22:51, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

Unblock

I have imposed the request of unprotection per Requests for page protection/Decrease (now archived) about the revoke of the padlock in Domain name, which is currently in protection to prevent further vandalism. However, when I check the date of Domain name, it was dated in 2017 or simply 6 years back from now. Would you mind granting access for anonymous users so that not everyone willingly disrupts, but can contribute to the encyclopedia? 2405:4802:64C7:BF70:B50C:773B:1A40:16BA (talk) 01:05, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

@MER-C: I tagged you to know in advance. Thanks for your engagement. 2405:4802:64C7:BF70:B50C:773B:1A40:16BA (talk) 01:06, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

The page was protected against random SEOs adding links. This page is a high profile spam target. No amount of time will make that problem go away. MER-C 17:32, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

No, six years is long enough to break the game. This encyclopedia is open, so unprotected seems fine. 2405:4802:64C7:CFE0:20BF:895B:4915:B58A (talk) 01:36, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

The spamming has been going on since 2006. It will take only days for the spammers to realise they can spam again. You can lodge a protected edit request on Talk:Domain name. MER-C 17:20, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

I have proposed a edit request in Talk:Domain name. 2001:EE0:4BC8:4F00:71D2:A29:A5C4:100E (talk) 11:13, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

The edit was made. MER-C 19:58, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The Wounded Angel

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/London King's Cross railway station

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:King's Cross Western Concourse - central position - 2012-05-02.75.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 00:18, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Indochinese green magpie

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Jorge Amado

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Jorge Amado, gtfy.00010.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 19:54, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

Question about Skidmore-Tynan Independent School District

Hi! I notice Skidmore-Tynan Independent School District was deleted due to copyright problems. Aren't there revisions of this article from before any copyvio content came up, or was the original revision a copyvio?

If the copyvio stuff came later, the original revisions should be restored (as in stuff before any copyvio stuff was added).

I know a user at Wikipedia:Copyright_problems/2022_October_23 stated this was "foundational" but I recall a bunch of school district articles being created in the mid-2000s and I don't recall those having copyright violations in the initial revisions?

WhisperToMe (talk) 05:15, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

This article wasn't one of them. The first revision was written in the first person by Jdhenshall. MER-C 17:26, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

I see. Thanks for letting me know! I'll just write a new article for it. WhisperToMe (talk) 23:45, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

Ruigeroeland

I see recently that you consolidated diffs from pages 50-62 into page 49. Since then, all pages after page 14 have been mostly cleared. I was wondering if there was any way you could consolidate the edits after page 14 again. Scorpions1325 (talk) 02:41, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

Never mind. I'll do it myself. Some of the larger pages should be easy. Scorpions1325 (talk) 17:16, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Forte de Santo Antônio da Barra

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Orbicular batfish

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notification

Isn't that article clearly spam and an example of UPE? Should I leave it as is or notify someone elsewhere? Tony Nyland 2001:8A0:6617:B400:499B:9919:E0C8:F05F (talk) 14:29, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

@MER-C 2001:8A0:6617:B400:499B:9919:E0C8:F05F (talk) 14:30, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

It's been moved to draft. MER-C 11:06, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

Serghiy Hrabarook again

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log?type=delete&user=&page=Spacebit&wpdate=&tagfilter=&subtype=&wpFormIdentifier=logeventslist here you deleted several years ago Spacebit company created by WMF banned Serhiy Hrabarook sock. Later Spacebit's CEO page about Pavlo Tanasyuk was published by another sock of Hrabarook/Masckarpone - Antonio Vinzaretti. And in Jan 2024, again Spacebit was uploaded by another sock Andy Salvatore (they name their socks in Italian style). 2A02:1810:CD25:8900:1A53:5A5C:57E4:B64C (talk) 23:08, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

I agree, see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Masckarpone. MER-C 11:41, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Bearded vulture

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:010e Wild Bearded Vulture in flight at Pfyn-Finges (Switzerland) Photo by Giles Laurent.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 20:56, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Chester Cathedral

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Chester Cathedral Lady Chapel, Cheshire, UK - Diliff.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 21:01, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Matterport

You deleted this G5 in 2021. Was wondering if you can compare the current creation with the one that was deleted. The concern I have is although it was just created, there are some "access date" on the references that are dated from previous years which indicates the content is not new. CNMall41 (talk) 07:01, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Indeed, the page appears to be a case of undisclosed paid editing (UPE), as evidenced by the nature and history of edits made by the new contributor. Moreover these edits suggest that the contributor lacks both familiarity with and interest in the subject matter. It is possible that the respected user has been "compensated" to make these changes. 2A02:1210:16B5:8F00:BC7B:CEAD:D75B:661B (talk) 10:14, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

This is a Wikibusines article but this account has 12500 edits and is older than the Wikibusines sockfarm. Probably a different spammer, if it is spam. Please don't comment on possible TTPs here, this page is frequented by spammers. MER-C 19:50, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Black-crowned Barwing

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Black-crowned Barwing 0A2A7804.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 19:40, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Auricularia auricula-judae

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Jelly Ear, Auricularia auricula-judae, UK 2.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 19:46, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

Help request

Hi - I hope you don't mind my contacting you; another admin has recommended you for your expertise in this area. There's an article Pumi dog that has been blanked out for seven days now because of an alleged copyvio, which concerns a single sentence where the wording followed that of the American Kennel Club breed standard. Unfortunately the reporting editor has placed the flag at the top of the article, rather than in the relevant section, thus removing the entire article from view, since when nothing has moved. I've followed procedure and posted an amended version of the article, which deals with the matter, at Talk:Pumi dog/Temp, and I hope it's just a question of an admin copying this back to the main page and removing the flag? With the world's biggest dog show now underway, this is a period when dog breed pages always get more views. Could you kindly drop by here and take a look, please? Thanks in anticipation.... MapReader (talk) 08:45, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

Dealt with. MER-C 19:05, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

Thank you kindly. MapReader (talk) 20:10, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

I see the reporting editor has now placed a revdel tag in the article. In my view this is a further overreaction; as the admin who dealt with the original report, you may wish to make a decision on the revdel also? Kind regards, MapReader (talk) 11:52, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

Someone else has dealt with the revdel request. I will not take further action. MER-C 16:10, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Raising a Flag over the Reichstag

Could you have a look at the Alt here? Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.8% of all FPs.} 14:19, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

You've got mail

Hello, MER-C/archives. Please check your email; you've got mail!
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. STei (WMF) (talk) 13:45, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The Cheat

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:The Cheat LCCN2010649713-restored.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 21:30, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Lophocampa caryae

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Lophocampa caryae caterpillar.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 21:32, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

RFA2024 update: no longer accepting new proposals in phase I

Hey there! This is to let you know that phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship (RfA) review is now no longer accepting new proposals. Lots of proposals remain open for discussion, and the current round of review looks to be on a good track towards making significant progress towards improving RfA's structure and environment. I'd like to give my heartfelt thanks to everyone who has given us their idea for change to make RfA better, and the same to everyone who has given the necessary feedback to improve those ideas. The following proposals remain open for discussion:

• Proposal 2, initiated by HouseBlaster, provides for the addition of a text box at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship reminding all editors of our policies and enforcement mechanisms around decorum.
• Proposals 3 and 3b, initiated by Barkeep49 and Usedtobecool, respectively, provide for trials of discussion-only periods at RfA. The first would add three extra discussion-only days to the beginning, while the second would convert the first two days to discussion-only.
• Proposal 5, initiated by SilkTork, provides for a trial of RfAs without threaded discussion in the voting sections.
• Proposals 6c and 6d, initiated by BilledMammal, provide for allowing users to be selected as provisional admins for a limited time through various concrete selection criteria and smaller-scale vetting.
• Proposal 7, initiated by Lee Vilenski, provides for the "General discussion" section being broken up with section headings.
• Proposal 9b, initiated by Reaper Eternal, provides for the requirement that allegations of policy violation be substantiated with appropriate links to where the alleged misconduct occured.
• Proposals 12c, 21, and 21b, initiated by City of Silver, Ritchie333, and HouseBlaster, respectively, provide for reducing the discretionary zone, which currently extends from 65% to 75%. The first would reduce it 65%–70%, the second would reduce it to 50%–66%, and the third would reduce it to 60%–70%.
• Proposal 13, initiated by Novem Lingaue, provides for periodic, privately balloted admin elections.
• Proposal 14, initiated by Kusma, provides for the creation of some minimum suffrage requirements to cast a vote.
• Proposals 16 and 16c, initiated by Thebiguglyalien and Soni, respectively, provide for community-based admin desysop procedures. 16 would desysop where consensus is established in favor at the administrators' noticeboard; 16c would allow a petition to force reconfirmation.
• Proposal 16e, initiated by BilledMammal, would extend the recall procedures of 16 to bureaucrats.
• Proposal 17, initiated by SchroCat, provides for "on-call" admins and 'crats to monitor RfAs for decorum.
• Proposal 18, initiated by theleekycauldron, provides for lowering the RfB target from 85% to 75%.
• Proposal 24, initiated by SportingFlyer, provides for a more robust alternate version of the optional candidate poll.
• Proposal 25, initiated by Femke, provides for the requirement that nominees be extended-confirmed in addition to their nominators.
• Proposal 27, initiated by WereSpielChequers, provides for the creation of a training course for admin hopefuls, as well as periodic retraining to keep admins from drifting out of sync with community norms.
• Proposal 28, initiated by HouseBlaster, tightens restrictions on multi-part questions.

To read proposals that were closed as unsuccessful, please see Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review/Phase I/Closed proposals. You are cordially invited once again to participate in the open discussions; when phase I ends, phase II will review the outcomes of trial proposals and refine the implementation details of other proposals. Another notification will be sent out when this phase begins, likely with the first successful close of a major proposal. Happy editing! theleekycauldron (talk • she/her), via:

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:53, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Westminster Cathedral

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Ornge AgustaWestland AW139

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AfD comment

Hello! I noticed "Rodgers V" has been blocked. I striked out their vote and noted the block at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zupan's Markets, thinking this was common practice, but another editor took issue with this. I saw you noted the block at AfDs started by Rodgers V, but do you think a comment is helpful/justified here, too? I don't feel strongly either way, just asking because I don't know standard practice. Thanks! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 20:30, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

See also: Wikipedia_talk:Deletion_policy § Striking_blocked_users_at_AfD?

Can we stop this spammer?

Hi. Could you please take a look at Elizzzzz (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) contributions? They are just posting all sort of spammy obscure topics such as ChargeFinder, Vanguart (watches), Jennifer Dustow, Martin Woodall, Draft:WhosHere Plus, Draft:Johann Siegmundt Sultzberger, Draft:Philipp Herold. They didn't respond to disclosure requirement and certainly know what they do and operate multiple accounts. A block is justified until they disclose it. 77.69.158.128 (talk) 16:59, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Silver-breasted broadbill

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Silver-breasted Broadbill 0A2A9641.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 05:54, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

CCI update

Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/S710 is now complete. Thank you for your assistance in the evaluation of this CCI!

Sennecaster (Chat) 20:06, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Grey-breasted partridge

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Victorious Youth

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Wood stork and Yacare caiman

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AN technical discussion

Hi!

This is a friendly notice that there's an important discussion going on at WP:AN#I'd like to create Portal:Portal_sandbox involving you. Your participation would be very helpful. Cheers, RadioactiveBoulevardier (talk) 07:58, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

Draft:Ricardo de los Santos Polanco

Hi. You draftified and tagged Draft:Ricardo de los Santos Polanco as being likely covert advertising; can you clarify in what way you think this is covert advertising? I see it was created and edited by a chain of sockpuppets, but unless there is some meta reasoning with the socks I am unaware of, this brief article does not seem to have any advertising to my eyes. Curbon7 (talk) 00:39, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

...and the socks were blocked for promotional editing and likely undisclosed paid advocacy in the first place. Like in the real world, a page can be an advertisement even if the text is neutral. MER-C 17:27, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Iberian lynx

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Clementine

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CCI update

Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Jjanhone is now complete. Thank you for your assistance in the evaluation of this CCI!

Last bit is at CP for PDEL, but we're good otherwise :) Sennecaster (Chat) 20:42, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/African blue flycatcher

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Article Moved to Draft -- likely deemed conflict of interest

Good day,

An article we had published by a vendor appears to have been published with a conflict of interest.

It appears the author did not disclose they had been paid for the work.

They were paid for the work. My company paid them on behalf of a client who pays us. It was our understanding the author would work consistent with the guidelines. Had we known they intended to not follow the rules we would not have hired them.

The article: Draft:Spectrio

We would appreciate the opportunity to improve the article, and will gladly disclose that we are a marketing agency working on behalf of Spectrio, the client.

If you look at my user account you will see that I use my real name, my Wikipedia username matches my Twitter(X) username and I have a long history both in my industry and as a user and editor (albeit not at all frequently or recently) on Wikipedia.

It was not our intention to publish in conflict with the guidelines. It was our intention to publish with a neutral point of view.

Some of the companies recently acquired by our client have Wikipedia entries as do many of their competitors and it seems appropriate Spectrio, our client, would as well.

If our client is allowed to continue developing their Wikipedia article we will assure we conform to the very letter of the guidelines, including disclosure in the article and on my personal user page if necessary, and that the work is neutral.

Thanks in advance for your guidance.

Will W2scott (talk) 22:00, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

You're free to redraft the article but remember that Wikipedia is not for advertising - not even informative advertising. MER-C 18:25, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! We'll do that.

Once done are we free to move it out of draft, or is it better to get your eyes on it first?

Again, thanks! W2scott (talk) 21:04, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

You should not move it out of draft. Use {{subst:submit}} and someone will review it. MER-C 16:25, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! W2scott (talk) 09:28, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

Problematic user

Hi MER-C, would you mind looking at Jhanda Singh (talk · contribs), if you have time? I've spot checked a few of their edits and many have copyright issues (e.g. [1] and Diff/1212001090).

I'm currently dealing with Panchayati Revolution at CP, which has a ridiculous amount of copying, and they might need a block (they have only had one warning so far, but they have still added copyvios since then), or at the very least a very stern warning. – Isochrone (talk) 15:01, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

Blocked. The non-responsiveness is enough. MER-C 18:19, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Ibn Khaldun

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Reminder to vote now to select members of the first U4C

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You are receiving this message because you previously participated in the UCoC process.

This is a reminder that the voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) ends on May 9, 2024. Read the information on the voting page on Meta-wiki to learn more about voting and voter eligibility.

The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community members were invited to submit their applications for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please review the U4C Charter.

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RFA2024 update: phase I concluded, phase II begins

Hi there! Phase I of the Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review has concluded, with several impactful changes gaining community consensus and proceeding to various stages of implementation. Some proposals will be implemented in full outright; others will be discussed at phase II before being implemented; and still others will proceed on a trial basis before being brought to phase II. The following proposals have gained consensus:

• Proposals 2 and 9b (phase II discussion): Add a reminder of civility norms at RfA and Require links for claims of specific policy violations
• Proposal 3b (in trial): Make the first two days discussion-only
• Proposal 13 (in trial): Admin elections
• Proposal 14 (implemented): Suffrage requirements
• Proposals 16 and 16c (phase II discussion): Allow the community to initiate recall RfAs and Community recall process based on dewiki
• Proposal 17 (phase II discussion): Have named Admins/crats to monitor infractions
• Proposal 24 (phase II discussion): Provide better mentoring for becoming an admin and the RfA process
• Proposal 25 (implemented): Require nominees to be extended confirmed

See the project page for a full list of proposals and their outcomes. A huge thank-you to everyone who has participated so far :) looking forward to seeing lots of hard work become a reality in phase II. theleekycauldron (talk), via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:09, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

CCI

Could you extend this Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Cs california? Dianna just indeffed them after I spotted they'd carried on. And, in general, thanks for everything you've already done. GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 20:47, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

Results posted at Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Cs california 05. MER-C 10:35, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Buddha Vairocana

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Dorcus parallelipipedus

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/American robin

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Narbonne Cathedral interior

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CCI 20240516

User:Дмитрий Дж. appears to be an alternative account of 20240516. They haven't edited since 2012, so I don't know if a block is needed, but would you mind adding their contributions to the CCI? GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 08:22, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

Blocked and done (it's just the one article). MER-C 18:37, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

(Sorry, thought I responded) Thanks so much! GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 07:42, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Map of Brazil in the Miller Atlas

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Block evasion

Based on my findings, Freezejunk (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is the same user (Marnie Hawes) you blocked in 2019 for spamming. When I asked her to disclose her connection with that account, she claimed, "I'm not obligated to disclose these since they weren’t my accounts." However, the similarities strongly indicate that the user account "Marnie Hawes" belongs to her, along with two more accounts. I have already shared the details with ArbCom, but if you would like to review them, please let me know. Thank you, GSS ^💬 12:53, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

As this involves private evidence, I will leave it up to WP:COIVRT. MER-C 18:25, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

Not entirely private, since she has already disclosed her Upwork profile, making things pretty much public and clear. Out of all the jobs she has worked on through Upwork, four involve user "Marnie Hawes", including the creation of Rutger Hoedemaekers and editing Rocky De La Fuente. She repeatedly claims she outsourced her work to Marnie Hawes, but there are similarities that confirm they are the same individual. I have sent those details to your inbox; please check. GSS ^💬 04:56, 27 May 2024 (UTC)