Administrators' newsletter – April 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2018).

 

  Administrator changes

  331dotCordless LarryClueBot NG
  Gogo DodoPb30SebastiankesselSeicerSoLando

  Guideline and policy news

  • Administrators who have been desysopped due to inactivity are now required to have performed at least one (logged) administrative action in the past 5 years in order to qualify for a resysop without going through a new RfA.
  • Editors who have been found to have engaged in sockpuppetry on at least two occasions after an initial indefinite block, for whatever reason, are now automatically considered banned by the community without the need to start a ban discussion.
  • The notability guideline for organizations and companies has been substantially rewritten following the closure of this request for comment. Among the changes, the guideline more clearly defines the sourcing requirements needed for organizations and companies to be considered notable.
  • The six-month autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) ended on 14 March 2018. The post-trial research report has been published. A request for comment is now underway to determine whether the restrictions from ACTRIAL should be implemented permanently.

  Technical news

  Arbitration

  • The Arbitration Committee is considering a change to the discretionary sanctions procedures which would require an editor to appeal a sanction to the community at WP:AE or WP:AN prior to appealing directly to the Arbitration Committee at WP:ARCA.

  Miscellaneous

  • A discussion has closed which concluded that administrators are not required to enable email, though many editors suggested doing so as a matter of best practice.
  • The Foundations' Anti-Harassment Tools team has released the Interaction Timeline. This shows a chronologic history for two users on pages where they have both made edits, which may be helpful in identifying sockpuppetry and investigating editing disputes.

Prasanth Manghat Article

I appreciate your help User:Malinaccier. We are restricted to make edits on article so we have submitted an edit request. Please review it if it meets and complies Wikipedia's guidelines and policy, then please approve it. Much appreciated. Thanks--124.155.255.219 (talk) 18:11, 4 September 2017 (UTC)

Hi, I changed things up in your edit request a bit to make it more suitable for Wikipedia, but this should work fine. Malinaccier (talk) 18:40, 4 September 2017 (UTC)
Hi Malinaccier, have emailed you a few more details about the article. Request you to have a look and revert. Thank you. Anurag Dev Kashyap (talk) 14:48, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi Malinaccer, we are eagerly looking forward to your inputs on the redrafted article. Request you to please have a look at my email and advise on the best way forward. As confessed earlier I’m not an expert in Wikipedia and consider you as my cognitive senior in this matter. Thank you. Anurag Dev Kashyap (talk) 13:38, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi, please see my email response. Malinaccier (talk) 13:42, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

User talk:The murdered family that is alive in the woods

You may wish to revoke talk page access.--Cahk (talk) 07:04, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the note! I don't see the isolated post as abusive. If the user continues, I will definitely protect. Thanks again, Malinaccier (talk) 13:43, 16 April 2018 (UTC)