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19:18, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

A new user right for New Page Patrollers

Hi Ocaasi.

A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.

If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins).MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:48, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

16:32, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

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15:33, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, Ocaasi. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

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 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

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19:30, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

A Gay Girl in Damascus

Hello again. It has been five years! However, just like Joatsimeon, a new editor Duedemagistris is editing A Gay Girl in Damascus to make Tom MacMaster appear in a more favourable light. I wondered if that editor could be removed as a sockpuppet. Abigailgem (talk) 10:16, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

Attacking editors for disagreeing with your personal biases and removing BLP violations and misstatements is the problem. You should ask yourself why these attacks are so necessary to your personal worth and why you feel a need to continue to defame someone with misstatements. Duedemagistris (talk) 10:50, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
Please keep the discussion civil, focused on the content of the article, and located at the article's talk page. It doesn't belong here. Ocaasi t | c 16:59, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

10:09, 19 December 2016 (UTC)

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20:33, 19 December 2016 (UTC)

Happy Holidays!

 
Wishing you a very happy holiday season and a fulfilling 2017. Thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. --Another Believer (Talk) 18:07, 21 December 2016 (UTC)

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Happy Adminship Anniversary!

  Wishing Ocaasi/Archive 12 a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Lepricavark (talk) 14:52, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

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19:12, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

"420" collaboration

Hey, not sure if you'd be interested in contributing personally or not, but some WikiProject Cannabis members are organizing a 420 collaboration in April. I know some people hear 'cannabis' and immediately envision lazy stoners, but I'd like to get as much community buy-in for this collaboration as possible so we can improve many Wikipedia articles. My hope is that you and Wiki Project Med will support our efforts, especially by improving articles related to medical marijuana and health. I'll be pinging other Wiki Project Med board members and participants for help, too, but just wanted to give you a heads up. Thanks! ---Another Believer (Talk) 23:04, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

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Books and Bytes - Issue 20

  The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 20, November-December 2016
by Nikkimaria (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), UY Scuti (talk · contribs), Samwalton9 (talk · contribs)

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PLOScasts

Great interview! You speak so fluently and engagingly. Tony (talk) 11:56, 24 February 2017 (UTC)

Thanks Tony, that's a lovely complement. I'm glad I got across the message. PLOS was very cool with the interview and let me pause or redo something if I didn't like how it sounded. Probably why it sounds good! Cheers, Ocaasi t | c 00:00, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 10

 

This month, we discuss the new CollaborationKit extension. Here's an image as a teaser:

 

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