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Vandalism at Turkish-Kurdish conflict articles

The IP editor is continuing to conduct his POV vandalism at all three articles and thus I have requested that all three articles be temporarily semi-protected. See here. The request is pending at the moment. EkoGraf (talk) 20:04, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

I added one more articleShadow4dark (talk) 20:34, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

Template PKK-Turkish Conflict

Hi Shadow4dark, I wonder why you reverted me. We actually already have a template Template:Kurdish–Turkish conflict (1978–present) for the time and if we make it even with an unlimited timeframe, it will become even larger. What are your thoughts?Paradise Chronicle (talk) 19:55, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

I did it because the infobox had attacks from TAX wich is not PKK. If you want revert me back you need remove all non PKK events.Shadow4dark (talk) 23:14, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

Ahhh, got your point. I do not want to revert "you" back in this case. Just bring some sense to the template, just as I guess you wanted to bring too. Ok, I'll do the edits. If ou agree great, if not, do not hesitate in contacting me. Paradise Chronicle (talk) 23:21, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

@Konli17: @Paradise Chronicle: again.... Shadow4dark (talk) 21:58, 10 June 2020 (UTC)

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Gala1900 return, AKA Masitara

New account and IP user, evasive edits at Operations Claw-Eagle and Tiger - Gala1900 return?? Mr.User200 (talk) 19:47, 2 July 2020 (UTC) likely.Shadow4dark (talk) 03:26, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

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igdir

hi, i found you undo my last edition in igdir article which was according to sources. Can you say me what was wrong? thanks a lotعلی مکریانی (talk) 11:02, 7 July 2020 (UTC)

Your source was about the Iğdır Province Shadow4dark (talk) 11:05, 7 July 2020 (UTC)

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Paradise Chronicle (talk) 08:35, 13 July 2020 (UTC)

Rollback granted

Hi Shadow4dark. After reviewing your request for "rollbacker", I have temporarily enabled rollback on your account until 2020-08-17. Keep in mind these things when going to use rollback:

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Is there an RFC?

Did you request an RfC? I haven't seen any about Tell Abyad. See here. I have requested help at the NPOV noticeboard. EdJohnston mentioned he'd be willing to close an RfC. Lets wait some more days...I also hope for a solution. I think if we open to discussions at different noticeboards, it might get confusing. You could request dispute solution under a different pretext at another Noticeboard, but I don't know if this might prolong the dispute.Paradise Chronicle (talk) 17:16, 17 July 2020 (UTC)

We better wait first yes. Shadow4dark (talk) 18:06, 17 July 2020 (UTC)

Sockpuppet investigation.

Hello, just checking some articles noticed same edit patern and behaviour in this 3 users. Shubuhat Anon Vandal Ömer Nasuhi Bilmen. Possibly they are the same person and even could be Gala19000. Do you know how to request a SPI. I have evidence.Mr.User200 (talk) 01:21, 18 July 2020 (UTC)

@Mr.User200: Yes likely look here i suspected this early. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Paradise_Chronicle#Hi_you_fighting_against_socks Should i start SP on Gala19000 or on ip. Shubuhat is older. And look this [[1]] Shadow4dark (talk) 12:35, 18 July 2020 (UTC)

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@Doug Weller: Wich page did i break this rule? Shadow4dark (talk) 14:51, 23 July 2020 (UTC)

It doesn't say you broke anything. Doug Weller talk 14:52, 23 July 2020 (UTC)

Insurgency

I am not sure if we talk about the same conflict. There is an insurgence, but here is also a political conflict. Both conflicts are somehow intertwined as most politicians get accused of supporting an "organization" and it is mainly thought to be the PKK. But it is not named the PKK, so there is a doubt, which organization they are talking about. Maybe it is the UNICEF they are talking about. Who knows? I suggest, you to create a PKK-Turkey conflict article or I'll create it.Paradise Chronicle (talk) 00:28, 24 July 2020 (UTC)

We have also this page Kurdish rebellions in Turkey Shadow4dark (talk) 00:33, 24 July 2020 (UTC)

Possible Sock Return.

Seems that he have returned.[2]. But most likely is not Gala19000, but RamdonUser sock.Mr.User200 (talk) 13:33, 6 August 2020 (UTC)

Rollback granted

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Removal of Konli17

I thought I remove the Peacetowikied (he is blocked) edit just beside the Konli edit, sorry and thanks.Paradise Chronicle (talk) 21:59, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

Possible return of SP

Possible Gala or Ramdom123567 SP?? Here.Mr.User200 (talk) 13:18, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

Possible Gala, his next edits should be watched.Shadow4dark (talk) 13:23, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

SOck return.

Ramdon User return very likely as a Anon IP here and here. Care to Keep an eye.Mr.User200 (talk) 15:05, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

Rollback granted

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Naming of the “Iraqi civil war (2014–2017)” article

I believe Iraq–ISIL War or War in Iraq (2013–2017) are much better so we should change it back to either, 0 references call the conflict a civil war and the name change to “iraqi civil war (2014–2017)” happened in mid-late 2014 when the conflict escalated before everyone knew what type of conflict it was, which makes the name outdated. Ehoah88880 (talk) 17:33, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

“Iraqi Civil War (2014–2017)”

Now that we saw most people supporting the name “War in Iraq (2013–2017)” can you please close the discussion and move the article? Thanks. Ehoah88880 (talk) 15:22, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

It is clossed after 7 days. Shadow4dark (talk) 15:25, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

It’s been well over 7 days now. Ehoah88880 (talk) 13:30, 25 November 2020 (UTC)

you just read my mind LOL

Well done on opening that move discussion. I was just getting ready to do that. And I forgot to thank you for helping me bust that long running sockpuppet. I couldn't have done it without you. Thepharoah17 (talk) 17:56, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

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Keep an eye on this article.

Disruptive editing at Saudi–Yemen barrier, a paragrpah of text and its sources some more reliable than other is being errased and replaced with a unsourced statetment.Mr.User200 (talk) 18:13, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

I guess only Turks know the Turkish Land Forces.

Hi, I've told you this before. Hisar-U and S-400 belong to the land forces. Look at Aselsan's website. But unfortunately you are fighting us.

Firstly, Heron cannot be used with weapon.

Secondly, Kaplan tank / armored vehicle consists of two versions, such as Tulpar. Turreted tank, turretless armored vehicle.

Oh and Aksungur is not a tank, edit. Ata Barış (talk) 16:34, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

Someone is reverting your edits

Hi, I just wanted to say that there is a person called InellectualThinker who is reverting your edits and also vandalizing other pages related to Turkey, can you take an eye please? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.184.124.114 (talk) 14:31, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

Kurds case

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About Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Hello, I saw you undone the my edit on the page about Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Not important his other brothers/sisters? But Makbule Atadan important? I do not think so.Ata Barış (talk) 18:30, 27 February 2021 (UTC)

Because she has own wiki page.Shadow4dark (talk) 18:38, 27 February 2021 (UTC)

I don't think this is important. Pages about to them can be edited. There was a source. You did not necessary to delete this information (?)Ata Barış (talk) 18:58, 27 February 2021 (UTC)

Also not necessary to add them there. You can just add "Makbule Atadan and 3 others" Shadow4dark (talk) 19:07, 27 February 2021 (UTC)

Extra information is no problem. People look here for learn and you don't necessary to delete anything sourced. Nonsense to delete just because they don't have their own pages.Ata Barış (talk) 19:19, 27 February 2021 (UTC)

User:HakurSakur

I have a job for you as well: does this user come out of nowhere, or is there someone whom it might be. Drmies (talk) 23:02, 27 February 2021 (UTC)

@Drmies: this user is new and starts immediately RfC which is odd. But if i look his edit summary it is similair to RandomAccount1235423 and Gala19000. If they change content they refer to talk page but there is no consensus, but their tone looks me to above socks. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2019%E2%80%932020_Western_Libya_campaign&diff=prev&oldid=933960365 or https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2019%E2%80%932020_Western_Libya_campaign&diff=prev&oldid=980451598 Shadow4dark (talk) 06:18, 28 February 2021 (UTC)

Hmm. Yeah, one of two--I don't know what to do with that. I mean, I could run a whole bunch of checks to see which of the two it might be, but I don't know if that's worth the trouble. You might could file a new SPI for the one you think is the best match, indicate that they've already been blocked, but that it's worth categorizing them properly--if you think that's worth it. Thanks. Drmies (talk) 15:23, 28 February 2021 (UTC)

@Mr.User200: wich one should we file this SP User:HakurSakur? He is probably one of these users above Shadow4dark (talk) 15:38, 28 February 2021 (UTC)

Forum for Democracy

Hello, I've started a discussion here about reducing the ideology section in the infobox. If you're interested I'd appreciate it if you can join. Vacant0 (talk) 20:18, 18 March 2021 (UTC)

Multiple accounts

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TFX page grammatical concern.

Hey, I've seen your latest edit "It will enter in service in 2030s". I'm not a native speaker but I think something like "TF-X is expected to be delivered in 2030s" or "TF-X will go into service in 2030s" would be better. I can't really make a perfect sentence neither so I just wanted to show you my ideas. I looked at some examples and "into" is used alot.

Another topic: I've watched a recent interview of Ismail Demir and he said that they expect TFX to go into service 4 or 5 years after first flight date wich is around 2029/2030. I'm thinking about giving an exact date like 2029 or 2030 instead of 2030s, with sources. ŞeyhMuşmula (talk) 00:46, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

Some baklava for you!

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Kullanıcı İsmi disruptive edits

Hello Shadow4dark, I hope you are doing well. I wanted to point out some recent, potentially disruptive, editing by editor Kullanıcı İsmi who you seemed to have had experience in the past. Namely, the editor in question added a separation line into the infoboxes of almost four dozen Syrian civil war battle articles so to separate the al-Nusra Front from other rebel groups. As per established parameters, the separation line is reserved for those who are fighting against the same enemy, but are not fighting as allies. These groups fought side-by-side as allies during the battles. Furthermore, Kullanıcı İsmi went as far as to remove sourced content and its sources (such as BBC News) in a few of the articles as well without any explanation. He seems to have done this in the past as well. He marked almost all of his edits as minor, which they are not. I think an eye should be kept on Kullanıcı İsmi's behavior and action considered if it continues. He seems to have been blocked three times already in just one month since starting to edit, but apparently to no effect. In any case, your help on resolving the issue in a way that would be beneficial to all if possible would be greatly appreciated. Cheers and have a great day! EkoGraf (talk) 19:55, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

Seems the editor has been indefinitely blocked and the issue resolved. EkoGraf (talk) 20:25, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

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Kurdistan Workers' Party edit

Hello Shadow4dark - noticed your edit, I just wanted to ask whether this was added as per one of the sources before. Rather than reverting in case I am missing it. Might be better to provide reference? --TataofTata (talk) 16:58, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

See ref 6, only Öcalan claims these new pkk ideology. Also do you know that these dispute tag was added by sock puppet konli17.Shadow4dark (talk) 17:23, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

@Shadow4dark: Thanks, it might be good to distinguish which citation you're referring to. Also I looked at source (ref 6) which refers to this pdf

page 16: "Notwithstanding their distinct roots, the last decade has seen greater ideological convergence between the PKK and the political parties; both have adopted the tenets of Abdullah Öcalan’s philosophy. Öcalan had already begun to move away from the objective of an independent united Kurdistan by 1993, when he tentatively put forward compromise proposals in favour of autonomy within Turkey. The PKK’s objectives have not simply been reconfigured since Öcalan’s imprisonment, albeit as late as 2000 he still made reference to obtaining a state (Akkaya/Jongerden 2011: 145). Öcalan used his trials as platforms to communicate an elaborate, all-encompassing system of societal organisation and selfgovernance..."

To me this does not describe a denial, but as stated a compromise and aligning of said objective from the PKK itself. --TataofTata (talk) 13:16, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

Ah thanks for this maybe it should be changed to "disputed by Öcalan" Shadow4dark (talk) 21:45, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

PKK Page

I got a notification that my post was removed from wikipedia about the PKK, however I added a source and also I tried adding other sources several times, however all of them were blacklisted. Could you point out to me how I was wrong I my post? K123sunni (talk) 04:59, 19 January 2022 (UTC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_not_a_reliable_source Shadow4dark (talk) 07:18, 19 January 2022 (UTC)

Turkey

You reverted my edit on Turkey as though it were vandalism. It was not. In a section talking about the name of the country and how the official English spelling it is being changed to avoid an association with the bird, the fact that the bird is in fact named for the country is relevant. Lexicon (talk) 23:08, 22 January 2022 (UTC)

I see you actually only reverted the editing of the reference to add the source name. Lexicon (talk) 23:19, 22 January 2022 (UTC)

It was a misclick because rollback is used against vandalism and not for good faith edits. Republic of Turkiye is now in bold on first line. Shadow4dark (talk) 23:20, 22 January 2022 (UTC)

Code Orange (political party)

why did you revert me there? what is the problem there? Gooduserdude (talk) 14:38, 23 April 2022 (UTC)

it is wrong add at least source. Shadow4dark (talk) 15:11, 23 April 2022 (UTC)

VVD move

It was requested at Wikipedia:Requested_moves/Technical_requests (check through the history). Befor eI did the move, I googled both titles and found that VVD indeed have more hits. - UtherSRG (talk) 14:52, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

ok thanks, i should had look your history Shadow4dark (talk) 14:55, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

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Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

By falsely accusing me of "blanking" you are not only using misleading edit summary but also assuming bad faith against my editing.

There is no consensus to include this false claim. Consider self-revert for yourself. Aman Kumar Goel ^(Talk) 17:40, 28 November 2022 (UTC)

Sorry but I don't see a consensus for removing a claim backed by multiple sources. You should go to reliable sources board to ban these sources. Shadow4dark (talk) 17:46, 28 November 2022 (UTC)

Read WP:IRS and familiarize yourself with what constitutes a reliable source.

Where is the consensus for including it? The spurious claim was added without consensus, it was removed, then it is being added without consensus again.

So again, where do you see consensus for inclusion in the first place? Aman Kumar Goel ^(Talk) 17:51, 28 November 2022 (UTC)

I don't see a consensus for removal. But should we not discuss this on WP:RSN and get consensus for not using Indian and Pakistani sources on unconfirmed claims in conflicts? Shadow4dark (talk) 18:24, 28 November 2022 (UTC)

the last comment is changing the consensus but these sources need be discussed tot future claims Shadow4dark (talk) 18:49, 28 November 2022 (UTC)

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The new editor User:Politics of Maharashtra is has same vandalised attitude as User: Shivsena Office Dadar and has vandalised pages Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) & Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena So I request to block this editor to stop him from vandalising further He had joined after 2 days of block of User: Shivsena Office Dadar and may be sockpuppet of User: Shivsena Office Dadar He is sockpuppet of used term Sonia Sena used by User: Shivsena Office Dadar and did the same vandalised edits as him Chennai Super Kings Lover (talk) 10:13, 13 December 2022 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2023).

Administrator changes

Gimmetrow

• Bjelleklang
• Bob the Wikipedian
• Leithp
• WhisperToMe
• 100 inactive admins

CheckUser changes

• BDD
• Bradv
• Donald Albury
• Maxim
• MusikAnimal

Oversighter changes

• BDD
• Bradv
• Donald Albury
• Maxim

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, the administrator policy now requires that prior written consent be gained from the Arbitration Committee to mark a block as only appealable to the committee.
• Following a community discussion, consensus has been found to impose the extended-confirmed restriction over the topic areas of Armenia and Azerbaijan and Kurds and Kurdistan.

Technical news

• The Vector 2022 skin has become the default for desktop users of the English Wikipedia.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 has been opened and the proposed decision is expected 24 February 2023.
• In December, the contentious topics procedure was adopted which replaces the former discretionary sanctions system. The contentious topics procedure is now in effect following an initial implementation period. There is a detailed summary of the changes and administrator instructions for the new procedure. The arbitration clerk team are taking suggestions, concerns, and unresolved questions about this new system at their noticeboard.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2023 Steward elections will begin on 05 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• Voting in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey will begin on 10 February 2023 and end on 24 February 2023. You can submit, discuss and revise proposals until 6 February 2023.
• Tech tip: Syntax highlighting is available in both the 2011 and 2017 Wikitext editors. It can help make editing paragraphs with many references or complicated templates easier.

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Administrators' newsletter – March 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2023).

Administrator changes

The Wordsmith

• Fuhghettaboutit
• Spinningspark (deceased)

CheckUser changes

Callanecc

Oversighter changes

Callanecc

Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, F10 (useless non-media files) has been deprecated.
• Following a request for comment, the Portal CSD criteria (P1 (portal subject to CSD as an article) and P2 (underpopulated portal)) have been deprecated.
• A request for comment is open to discuss making the closing instructions for the requested moves process a guideline.

Technical news

• The results of the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey have been posted.

Arbitration

• Remedy 11 ("Request for Comment") of the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been rescinded.
• The proposed decision for the Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 case is expected 7 March 2023.
• A case related to the Holocaust in Poland is expected to be opened soon.

Miscellaneous

• The 2023 appointees for the Ombuds commission are AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, JJMC89, MdsShakil, Minorax and Renvoy as regular members and Zabe as advisory members.
• Following the 2023 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Mykola7, Superpes15, and Xaosflux.
• The Terms of Use update cycle has started, which includes a [p]roposal for better addressing undisclosed paid editing. Feedback is being accepted until 24 April 2023.

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Administrators' newsletter – April 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2023).

Administrator changes

Aoidh

KillerChihuahua

CheckUser changes

Ferret

Guideline and policy news

• A community RfC is open to discuss whether reports primarily involving gender-related disputes or controversies should be referred to the Arbitration enforcement noticeboard.

Technical news

• Some older web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis starting this week. This mainly affects users of Internet Explorer 11. (T178356)
• The rollback of Vector 2022 RfC has found no consensus to rollback to Vector legacy, but has found rough consensus to disable "limited width" mode by default.
• A link to the user's Special:CentralAuth page will now appear in the subtitle links shown on Special:Contributions. This was voted #17 in the Community Wishlist Survey 2023.

Arbitration

• The Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 case has been closed.
• A case about World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been opened, with the first evidence phase closing 6 April 2023.

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Administrators' newsletter – May 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2023).

Administrator changes

Spicy

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• Dbachmann
• DGG (deceased)
• Jimbo Wales

CheckUser changes

Jimbo Wales

Oversighter changes

Jimbo Wales

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment about removing administrative privileges in specified situations is open for feedback.

Technical news

• Progress has started on the Page Triage improvement project. This is to address the concerns raised by the community in their 2022 WMF letter that requested improvements be made to the tool.

Arbitration

• The proposed decision in the World War II and the history of Jews in Poland case is expected 11 May 2023.

Miscellaneous

• The Wikimedia Foundation annual plan 2023-2024 draft is open for comment and input through May 19. The final plan will be published in July 2023.

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Disambiguation link notification for May 10

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2023).

Administrator changes

Ingenuity

• Ddstretch
• Prodego
• Resolute

CheckUser changes

Courcelles

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, editors indefinitely site-banned by community consensus will now have all rights, including sysop, removed.
• As a part of the Wikimedia Foundation's IP Masking project, a new policy has been created that governs the access to temporary account IP addresses. An associated FAQ has been created and individual communities can increase the requirements to view temporary account IP addresses.

Technical news

• Bot operators and tool maintainers should schedule time in the coming months to test and update their tools for the effects of IP masking. IP masking will not be deployed to any content wiki until at least October 2023 and is unlikely to be deployed to the English Wikipedia until some time in 2024.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been closed. The topic area of Polish history during World War II (1933-1945) and the history of Jews in Poland is subject to a "reliable source consensus-required" contentious topic restriction.

Miscellaneous

• Following a community referendum, the arbitration policy has been modified to remove the ability for users to appeal remedies to Jimbo Wales.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:34, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

Gulen Movement

All the citations in deleted content are Turkish gov owned or Erdogan family owned newspapers, Anadolu Agency, Hurriyet ,Daily Sabah ever one of them. None of them are free media. If you accuse someone with terrorism you need have evidence to support that . You cannot say "prove that you are not a terrorist" , you have to show the proof if you accuse someone with terror, not Gulen supporters. Until you can show evidence please do not re-add the deleted content.

Hakikatco (talk) 04:19, 27 June 2023 (UTC)

Hurriyet was independent sources in the past also you deleting non Erdogan sources Shadow4dark (talk) 10:11, 27 June 2023 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
	For your investigations of sockpuppetry shenanigans that was making life difficult for many fellow Wikipedians. Your diligence helps keep so much pointless crap away from the project. Keep up the good work! Peter Isotalo 09:55, 28 June 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2023).

Administrator changes

Novem Linguae

• Deckiller
• Electionworld
• MBisanz
• Penwhale
• Raul654
• Roadrunner
• Viridae
• Yannismarou

Bureaucrat changes

MBisanz

Guideline and policy news

• Contributions to the English Wikipedia are now released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0) license instead of CC BY-SA 3.0. Contributions are still also released under the GFDL license.

Technical news

• Discussion is open regarding a proposed global policy regarding third-party resources. Third-party resources are computer resources that reside outside of Wikimedia production websites.

Arbitration

• Two arbitration cases are currently open. Proposed decisions are expected 5 July 2023 for the Scottywong case and 9 July 2023 for the AlisonW case.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:59, 1 July 2023 (UTC)

Revert

ThanksU|En waarom, beste Shadow4dark zouden dit test edits? zijn? Lotje (talk) 10:41, 14 July 2023 (UTC)

Er was veel informatie verwijderd en het lijkt op een oudere vrrsie. Waarom zijn ze verwijderd? Shadow4dark (talk) 10:49, 14 July 2023 (UTC)

Ik verwijder geen informatie uit artikels, tenzij ik natuurlijk een (grove) onvergeeflijke fout zou gemaakt hebben. Ik voeg een cite web sjabloon toe aan de meest recente versie. Jammer dat het artikel in Het Parool enkel toegankelijk is voor abonnees. Konden ze er toch tenminste voor zorgen dat de de titel volledig leesbaar is (vind ik). Cheers. Lotje (talk) 11:05, 14 July 2023 (UTC)

Revert 2

Hello! I am confused by your revert here as it is lacking an edit summary. Are you able to explain why you reverted Starship.paint's edit, please and thank you? SQL^{Query Me!} 23:54, 7 August 2023 (UTC)

The first one was unnecessary edit as it was his personal page and we should leave that alone. Second his page can be edited if they use sockpuppet. Shadow4dark (talk) 07:05, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

It's his personal page but the information is obsolete. Paradise Chronicle is banned from their own talk page. They cannot reply to queries, they cannot be on Wikipedia in off-and-on doses. Those notices are misleading and will waste editor time and effort if any editor tries to contact Paradise Chronicle and no answer is forthcoming. starship.paint (exalt) 07:33, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

Yes but the arbitration left the page as current version. But it don't bother me if you revert me, you are right about it and is misleading because they can't talk with them as they have no talkpage access. Shadow4dark (talk) 11:55, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

Alright after I posted this, I finally understood what you mean, use a sockpuppet. Alright, fine. Not going to argue, not going to revert. starship.paint (exalt) 07:34, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

if you read the case they are busted with sockpupty in past and it will not surprise me if they do this again. If they do it will be blanked anyway. Shadow4dark (talk) 11:59, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – August 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2023).

Administrator changes

Firefangledfeathers

• AlisonW
• Amberrock
• Closedmouth
• Scottywong

Interface administrator changes

Novem Linguae

Technical news

• The tag filter on Special:NewPages and revision history pages can now be inverted. This allows hiding edits made by automated tools. (T334338)
• Special:BlockedExternalDomains is a new tool that allows easier blocking of plain domains (and their subdomains). This is more easily searchable and is faster for the software to use than the existing MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. It does not support regex (for complex cases), URL path-matching, or the MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. (T337431)

Arbitration

• The arbitration cases named Scottywong and AlisonW closed 10 July and 16 July respectively.
• The SmallCat dispute arbitration case is in the workshop phase.

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Administrators' newsletter – September 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2023).

Administrator changes

• Pppery
• Theleekycauldron

• Dwheeler
• G.A.S
• Royalbroil
• Ssd

CheckUser changes

Bradv

Oversighter changes

Bradv

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, TFAs will be automatically semi-protected the day before it is on the main page and through the day after.
• A discussion at WP:VPP about revision deletion and oversight for dead names found that [s]ysops can choose to use revdel if, in their view, it's the right tool for this situation, and they need not default to oversight. But oversight could well be right where there's a particularly high risk to the person. Use your judgment.

Technical news

• Special:Contributions now shows the user's local edit count and the account's creation date. (T324166)

Arbitration

• The SmallCat dispute case has closed. As part of the final decision, editors participating in XfD have been reminded to be careful about forming local consensus which may or may not reflect the broader community consensus. Regular closers of XfD forums were also encouraged to note when broader community discussion, or changes to policies and guidelines, would be helpful.

Miscellaneous

• Tech tip: The "Browse history interactively" banner shown at the top of Special:Diff can be used to easily look through a history, assemble composite diffs, or find out what archive something wound up in.

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Administrators' newsletter – November 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2023).

Administrator changes

0xDeadbeef

Tamzin

Dennis Brown

Interface administrator changes

Pppery

• Ragesoss
• TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

• The WMF is working on making it possible for administrators to edit MediaWiki configuration directly. This is similar to previous work on Special:EditGrowthConfig. A technical RfC is running until November 08, where you can provide feedback.
• There is a proposed plan for re-enabling the Graph Extension. Feedback on this proposal is requested.

Arbitration

• Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 12 November 2023 until 21 November 2023 to stand in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections.
• Xaosflux, RoySmith and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee Elections. BusterD is the reserve commissioner.
• Following a motion, the contentious topic designation of Prem Rawat has been struck. Actions previously taken using this contentious topic designation are still in force.
• Following several motions, multiple topic areas are no longer designated as a contentious topic. These contentious topic designations were from the Editor conduct in e-cigs articles, Liancourt Rocks, Longevity, Medicine, September 11 conspiracy theories, and Shakespeare authorship question cases.
• Following a motion, remedies 3.1 (All related articles under 1RR whenever the dispute over naming is concerned), 6 (Stalemate resolution) and 30 (Administrative supervision) of the Macedonia 2 case have been rescinded.
• Following a motion, remedy 6 (One-revert rule) of the The Troubles case has been amended.
• An arbitration case named Industrial agriculture has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case close 8 November.

Miscellaneous

• The Articles for Creation backlog drive is happening in November 2023, with 700+ drafts pending reviews for in the last 4 months or so. In addition to the AfC participants, all administrators and New Page Patrollers can conduct reviews using the helper script, Yet Another AFC Helper Script, which can be enabled in the Gadgets settings. Sign up here to participate!

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2023).

Administrator changes

• Ganesha811
• JPxG

• Ajpolino
• Lourdes
• Mairi
• RockMFR
• Somno
• WilyD

Beeblebrox → Just Step Sideways

CheckUser changes

• Beeblebrox
• Opabinia regalis

Oversight changes

• Beeblebrox
• Opabinia regalis

Guideline and policy news

• Following a talk page discussion, the Administrators' accountability policy has been updated to note that while it is considered best practice for administrators to have notifications (pings) enabled, this is not mandatory. Administrators who do not use notifications are now strongly encouraged to indicate this on their user page.

Arbitration

• Following a motion, the Extended Confirmed Restriction has been amended, removing the allowance for non-extended-confirmed editors to post constructive comments on the "Talk:" namespace. Now, non-extended-confirmed editors may use the "Talk:" namespace solely to make edit requests related to articles within the topic area, provided that their actions are not disruptive.
• The Arbitration Committee has announced a call for Checkusers and Oversighters, stating that it will currently be accepting applications for CheckUser and/or Oversight permissions at any point in the year.
• Eligible users are invited to vote on candidates for the Arbitration Committee until 23:59 December 11, 2023 (UTC). Candidate statements can be seen here.

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2023).

Administrator changes

Clovermoss

Dennis Brown

• Julia W
• Marasmusine
• PBS

CheckUser changes

• Aoidh
• HJ Mitchell
• Sdrqaz
• Spicy
• ToBeFree
• Vanamonde93
• Z1720

Maxim

• Enterprisey
• Izno
• SilkTork

Oversighter changes

• Aoidh
• Firefly
• Sdrqaz
• ToBeFree
• Z1720

Maxim

• Enterprisey
• Izno
• SilkTork

Arbitration

• Following the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Aoidh, Cabayi, Firefly, HJ Mitchell, Maxim, Sdrqaz, ToBeFree, Z1720.
• Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee rescinded the restrictions on the page name move discussions for the two Ireland pages that were enacted in June 2009.
• The arbitration case Industrial agriculture has been closed.

Miscellaneous

• The New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in January 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 13,000 unreviewed articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:54, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

Vandalism and reverting edits without reason

Hi i want to contact you about user named LLC226699 which is editing in List of equipment of the Turkish Land Forces. I warned him/her ,but he/she continued to make changes either without citing the source or citing not reliable source. Also doesnt stop reverting my reverts too. No any explanation or anything about his edits or reverts whatsoever. IR-TheFirstSoldier (talk) 18:04, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

Revert of "Category: Racially motivated violence in Africa" from Ethnic violence in South Sudan"?

Hello, why was this edit done?

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ethnic_violence_in_South_Sudan&diff=prev&oldid=1195145050

It's not like "Racially motivated violence in Africa" is that full category (it has ... like 5 articles there) and it doesn't really make sense (when is it ethnical and when racial conflict?)... but then let's just delete the category and all articles? - Running 10:10, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

I reverted blocked sockpuppet. Feel free to add them back if it was correct. Shadow4dark (talk) 10:13, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

Yeah I agree that it's a weird category and probably some kind of sockpuppet, fits the pattern here - Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Timoy3456/Archive - so I'll instead remove the entire category and all articles there. Or maybe just think really hard what should even be there - Running 13:00, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – February 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2024).

Administrator changes

• Red-tailed hawk
• Robertsky

• Ameliorate!
• Ancheta Wis
• Anthony Bradbury (deceased)
• Cobi
• Ev
• Moondyne
• Worm That Turned

Bureaucrat changes

Worm That Turned

CheckUser changes

Wugapodes

Interface administrator changes

• Enterprisey
• Izno

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.

Technical news

• Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. (T326065)

Arbitration

• Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
• Community feedback is requested for a draft to replace the "Information for administrators processing requests" section at WP:AE.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2024 Steward elections will begin on 06 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 27 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• A vote to ratify the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open till 2 February 2024, 23:59:59 (UTC) via Secure Poll. All eligible voters within the Wikimedia community have the opportunity to either support or oppose the adoption of the U4C Charter and share their reasons. The details of the voting process and voter eligibility can be found here.
• Community Tech has made some preliminary decisions about the future of the Community Wishlist Survey. In summary, they aim to develop a new, continuous intake system for community technical requests that improves prioritization, resource allocation, and communication regarding wishes. Read more
• The Unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in February 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:01, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Stumbled across your revert and had some questions

Moin! You reverted an edit by an IP user on Kemal Pir which labelled him as a torture victim.

Considering the disgusting inhumane actions by Esat Oktay Yıldıran at Diyarbakir prison, which even his wiki page states he was known for torturing Kurds and PKK-aligned Kurds, why would you remove the edit on Kemal Pir’s page? Volkish Kurden (talk) 15:39, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

It is a blocked sock user https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Timoy3456/Archive#Timoy3456 Shadow4dark (talk) 15:43, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

I see, would you say I have the go ahead to revert back to that edit, or better yet add it myself? Volkish Kurden (talk) 14:18, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

You can add it back by self. Shadow4dark (talk) 14:20, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

thank you! Volkish Kurden (talk) 23:37, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2024).

Administrator changes

• Sdkb
• The Night Watch

• East718
• Isabelle Belato
• Mzajac
• Staecker
• Stan Shebs
• Sugarfish
• Tamzin

Bureaucrat changes

SilkTork

Guideline and policy news

• Phase I of the 2024 RfA review is now open for participation. Editors are invited to review, comment on, and propose improvements to the requests for adminship process.
• Following an RfC, the inactivity requirement for the removal of the interface administrator right increased from 6 months to 12 months.

Technical news

• The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. (T353388)

Miscellaneous

• The 2024 appointees for the Ombuds commission are だ＊ぜ, AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Doǵu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, MdsShakil, Minorax, Nehaoua, Renvoy and RoySmith as members, with Vermont serving as steward-observer.
• Following the 2024 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Ajraddatz, Albertoleoncio, EPIC, JJMC89, Johannnes89, Melos and Yahya.

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Administrators' newsletter – April 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2024).

Administrator changes

• Kbdank71
• Kosack
• NrDg
• TLSuda

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open to convert all current and future community discretionary sanctions to (community designated) contentious topics procedure.

Technical news

• The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (T313405)

Arbitration

• An arbitration case has been opened to look into "the intersection of managing conflict of interest editing with the harassment (outing) policy".

Miscellaneous

• Editors are invited to sign up for The Core Contest, an initiative running from April 15 to May 31, which aims to improve vital and other core articles on Wikipedia.

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Administrators' newsletter – May 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2024).

Administrator changes

Nyttend

• JohnOwens
• Killiondude
• MelanieN
• Nihonjoe

Bureaucrat changes

Nihonjoe

CheckUser changes

Joe Roe

Oversight changes

GeneralNotability

Guideline and policy news

• Phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship review has concluded. Several proposals have passed outright and will proceed to implementation, including creating a discussion-only period (3b) and administrator elections (13) on a trial basis. Other successful proposals, such as creating a reminder of civility norms (2), will undergo further refinement in Phase II. Proposals passed on a trial basis will be discussed in Phase II, after their trials conclude. Further details on specific proposals can be found in the full report.

Technical news

• Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Wikipedia. This means that administrators have the ability to restrict users from certain actions, including uploading files, moving pages and files, creating new pages, and sending thanks. T280531

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Conflict of interest management has been closed.

Miscellaneous

• This may be a good time to reach out to potential nominees to ask if they would consider an RfA.
• A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in May 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 15,000 articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!
• Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is open until 9 May 2024. Read the voting page on Meta-Wiki and cast your vote here!

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ITN recognition for Tyson Fury vs Oleksandr Usyk

On 19 May 2024, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Tyson Fury vs Oleksandr Usyk, which you nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Stephen 22:38, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2024).

Administrator changes

Graham Beards

• Deskana
• Mets501
• Staxringold

Bureaucrat changes

• Deskana
• Warofdreams

Oversight changes

Dreamy Jazz

Guideline and policy news

• Phase II of the 2024 RfA review has commenced to improve and refine the proposals passed in Phase I.

Technical news

• The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. T43351

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Venezuelan politics has been closed.
• The Committee is seeking volunteers for various roles, including access to the conflict of interest VRT queue.

Miscellaneous

• WikiProject Reliability's unsourced statements drive is happening in June 2024 to replace {{citation needed}} tags with references! Sign up here to participate!

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2024).

Administrator changes

• Elli
• HouseBlaster
• Pickersgill-Cunliffe

• Brianga
• De728631
• Georgewilliamherbert
• Hyacinth (deceased)
• ProveIt
• The Night Watch

Technical news

• Local administrators can now add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without using JavaScript. Documentation is available on MediaWiki. (T6086)

Miscellaneous

• The Community Wishlist is re-opening on 15 July 2024. Read more

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Administrators' newsletter – August 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2024).

Administrator changes

Isabelle Belato

• Ian.thomson
• Modussiccandi

Interface administrator changes

Izno

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Technical news

• Global blocks may now target accounts as well as IP's. Administrators may locally unblock when appropriate.
• Users wishing to permanently leave may now request "vanishing" via Special:GlobalVanishRequest. Processed requests will result in the user being renamed, their recovery email being removed, and their account being globally locked.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee appointed the following administrators to the conflict of interest volunteer response team: Bilby, Extraordinary Writ

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Administrators' newsletter – September 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2024).

Administrator changes

Pppery

Interface administrator changes

Pppery

Oversighter changes

Wugapodes

CheckUser changes

• Courcelles
• GeneralNotability

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, there is a new criterion for speedy deletion: C4, which applies to unused maintenance categories, such as empty dated maintenance categories for dates in the past.
• A request for comment is open to discuss whether Notability (species) should be adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline.

Arbitration

• Following a motion, remedies 5.1 and 5.2 of World War II and the history of Jews in Poland (the topic and interaction bans on My very best wishes, respectively) were repealed.
• Remedy 3C of the German war effort case ("Cinderella157 German history topic ban") was suspended for a period of six months.
• The arbitration case Historical Elections is currently open. Proposed decision is expected by 3 September 2024 for this case.

Miscellaneous

• Editors can now enter into good article review circles, an alternative for informal quid pro quo arrangements, to have a GAN reviewed in return for reviewing a different editor's nomination.
• A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in September 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles and redirects in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 13,900 articles and 26,200 redirects awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:44, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

hello shadow it’s about battle of suleymaniah (1991)

bro someone change the battle and it was kurdish rebels victory not iraqi because if you read the caption you can easily see that’s in 20 july peshmerga control the city so it was kurdish rebels victory 185.84.71.166 (talk) 10:26, 7 September 2024 (UTC)

Notice of noticeboard discussion

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. voorts (talk/contributions) 20:25, 14 September 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – October 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2024).

Administrator changes

• Asilvering
• Significa liberdade

• Good Olfactory
• Hesperian
• I JethroBT
• TommyBoy
• Woody

CheckUser changes

• Barkeep49
• Izno

• Doug Weller
• Spicy

Guideline and policy news

• Administrator elections are a proposed new process for selecting administrators, offering an alternative to requests for adminship (RfA). The first trial election will take place in October 2024, with candidate sign-up from October 8 to 14, a discussion phase from October 22 to 24, and SecurePoll voting from October 25 to 31. For questions or to help out, please visit the talk page at Wikipedia talk:Administrator elections.
• Following a discussion, the speedy deletion reason "File pages without a corresponding file" has been moved from criterion G8 to F2. This does not change what can be speedily deleted.
• A request for comment is open to discuss whether there is a consensus to have an administrator recall process.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Historical elections has been closed.
• An arbitration case regarding Backlash to diversity and inclusion has been opened.
• Editors are invited to nominate themselves to serve on the 2024 Arbitration Committee Electoral Commission until 23:59 October 8, 2024 (UTC).

Miscellaneous

• If you are interested in stopping spammers, please put MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist and MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist on your watchlist, and help out when you can.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:00, 2 October 2024 (UTC)

Merger discussion for Mahsa Amini

An article that you have been involved in editing—Mahsa Amini—has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. Belbury (talk) 10:31, 4 October 2024 (UTC)

about altay tank origin

hey, altay tank article says "main battle tank designed by Otokar based on South Korean K2 Black Panther to be produced by BMC under design assistance and technology transfer by Hyundai Rotem."

doesn't this make the origin from south korea? Throat0390 (talk) 14:02, 9 October 2024 (UTC)

i don't think as is is fully builded in Turkey and not in south Korea. Currently only Turkish BMC is responsibly for the development. But this should be discussed in the talk page. Shadow4dark (talk) 17:33, 9 October 2024 (UTC)

about battle of zakho

hello shadow battle of zakho it was not iraqi victory and someone changed this page there was no source for iraqi victory 185.240.17.102 (talk) 12:20, 24 October 2024 (UTC)

shadow i send you link sources in battle of zakho

shadow i send you link sources in battle of zakho 185.84.70.211 (talk) 09:41, 25 October 2024 (UTC)

shadow i send another source about battle of zakho

link:https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Battle_of_Zakho 185.84.71.184 (talk) 10:47, 25 October 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2024).

Administrator changes

• Crisco 1492

• Babajobu
• Daniel
• Elf
• Jayron32
• Thue
• Wugapodes

CheckUser changes

Maxim

Oversighter changes

Maxim

Guideline and policy news

• Following a discussion, the discussion-only period proposal that went for a trial to refine the requests for adminship (RfA) process has been discontinued.
• Following a request for comment, Administrator recall is adopted as a policy.

Technical news

• Mass deletions done with the Nuke tool now have the 'Nuke' tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. T366068

Arbitration

• RoySmith, Barkeep49 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2024 Arbitration Committee Elections. ThadeusOfNazereth and Dr vulpes are reserve commissioners.
• Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate from 3 November 2024 until 12 November 2024 to stand in the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections.
• The Arbitration Committee is seeking volunteers for roles such as clerks, access to the COI queue, checkuser, and oversight.

Miscellaneous

• An unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in November 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!

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