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Administrators' newsletter – April 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2020).
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Guideline and policy news
- There is an ongoing request for comment to streamline the source deprecation and blacklisting process.
Technical news
- There is a plan for new requirements for user signatures. You can give feedback.
Arbitration
- Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold a
Arbcom RfC regarding on-wiki harassment
. A draft RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC (Draft) and not open to comments from the community yet. Interested editors can comment on the RfC itself on its talk page.
- Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold a
Miscellaneous
- The WMF has begun a pilot report of the pages most visited through various social media platforms to help with anti-vandalism and anti-disinformation efforts. The report is updated daily and will be available through the end of May.
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WOHA-FM
Hey, I just pinged you over here. Would you mind taking a look at this mess? It's a history merge/callsign merge between this and WONB. Thanks! - Neutralhomer • Talk • 02:35 on April 9, 2020 (UTC) • #StayAtHome
- I noticed you haven't edited since the 5th. I hope you are well. :) - Neutralhomer • Talk • 02:29 on April 10, 2020 (UTC) • #StayAtHome
- Thanks - doing okay. I've been out of work since October and heavy on the job hunt, and the current situation isn't making it any easier. Plus, my wife has a crappy immune system, so I've picked up anything that involves going outdoors. As a result, I just haven't had a lot of headspace for being around here. I'll mostly go in spurts, and then ghost for a while.
- I stopped by that deletion discussion and added my two cents. Hope you're well also. Mlaffs (talk) 15:46, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
- Understood, my Mom has Lupus and this crap has me worried. Dad has to go to work. He is working on the fire sprinkler system for one of the schools in Fairfax County, Virginia, so he has to keep going. So, I know what you mean. I'm not sure if Canada has a version of Manpower or not, but they might be able to help you find something temporary (usually it turns into permanent). Also, check your local school system. Custodial work isn't pretty or glamorous, but it pays the bills. I'm a custodian for a local school system and right now I'm home sitting on my tail, but they are paying us. If they need us for outdoor work (mowing lawns, trimming trees, etc.), they are gonna call me back in.
- I'm doing well, just trying to stay active, stay out of the fridge :), and stay off Facebook. Too maddening and depressing. Luckily, there is PLENTY to watch right now and I am catching up on shows I have had setting around waiting for me to watch for awhile. :)
- Anywho, thanks for taking a look at that AfD. Much appreciated. Stay safe, both of you stay well, and I'll see ya on the flip side. :) - Neutralhomer • Talk • 21:04 on April 10, 2020 (UTC) • #StayAtHome
I noticed that someone changed the logo to TUDN, which I thought was an affiliation, not a branding; there is still the same website showing that WEFL is branded as "ESPN Deportes". Would you take a look and re-edit if appropriate? User: Rudy2alan (talk)
- Taken care of. :) Checked the WEFL website, it's still showing the ESPN Deportes logo. Did some further searching and I'm seeing ESPN Deportes all around, so I reedited the page. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 21:10 on April 10, 2020 (UTC) • #StayAtHome
Wikieditor101 moved WEQP (FM) from WEQP to it's current spot because it was a "More accurate title". Other editors and myself have had to revert this editor's additions to this page. Since this editor appeared after not editing for 4 years, I am concerned we have an account that has been compromised or is potentionally editing unconstructively. Regardless of the latter, would you mind moving the page back to WEQP when you get a moment? Thanks! - Neutralhomer • Talk • 03:26 on April 15, 2020 (UTC) • #StayAtHome
- Neutralhomer The account is not compromised. I just haven't signed in 4 years. The edits I made were made in good faith, such as moving a page to a more accurate title, such as putting FM as other station pages have that in it to specify,and updating dead links to the right ones, the FCC public file and nielson data, along with the webstream link. Wikieditor101 (talk) 05:39, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
- Neutralhomer Please stop undoing edits and not leaving a reason why. The edits I just made today were citations and cleaning up of auto-generated dead links. Wikieditor101 (talk) 06:51, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
- Wikieditor101 The page move was more unnecessary than inaccurate. The "dead links" you "updated", you actually just added links that went to 404 pages (on the Nielsen site) and the FCC site, that one wasn't necessary as it was correct, but had to be reverted as you goofed up the reference data.
- Now, you just reverted sourced data. You've been issued a vandalism warning for that. Don't let it happen again. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 06:52 on April 15, 2020 (UTC) • #StayAtHome
Just checking in here. It appears the article is back at WEQP right now, so nothing immediate needed from me. Wikieditor101, the naming convention for U.S. broadcast stations is that the article should be titled with the FCC-assigned call sign. The only reason a disambiguator like "(FM)" would be needed in the title is if a disambiguation page were needed because of multiple articles that could be referred to by that article name. As an example, see WCBS — the article for the AM radio station is titled WCBS (AM) because there is also a WCBS-FM and a WCBS-TV, as well as a sports organization that uses WCBS as an initialism. If those other stations and the sports organization didn't exist, then the article would simply be titled WCBS.
There are no other broadcast stations currently using any variant on the WEQP call sign and, based on a search, I see no other organizations with a Wikipedia article that would use WEQP as an initialism. The only broadcast station that's used that call sign historically last did so more than five years ago, and is linked via a hatnote from the top of the WEQP article. Adding the "(FM)" to the article title is unnecessary in this situation. Mlaffs (talk) 23:50, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
- Unfortunately, the user has decided to retire. :( Not what I had intended, but there it is. I can't take credit for the page move, that was Tdl1060. Thanks to him for that. :) - Neutralhomer • Talk • 01:18 on April 16, 2020 (UTC) • #StayAtHome