User talk:Stwalkerster/Archive June 2018

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2018

Latest comment: 5 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

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

Administrator changes

None

Al Ameer son • AliveFreeHappy • Cenarium • Lupo • MichaelBillington

Guideline and policy news

Following a successful request for comment, administrators are now able to add and remove editors to the "event coordinator" group. Users in the event coordinator group have the ability to temporarily add the "confirmed" flag to new user accounts and to create many new user accounts without being hindered by a rate limit. Users will no longer need to be in the "account creator" group if they are in the event coordinator group.
Following an AN discussion, all pages with content related to blockchain and cryptocurrencies, broadly construed, are now under indefinite general sanctions.

Technical news

IP-based cookie blocks should be deployed to English Wikipedia in June. This will cause the block of a logged-out user to be reloaded if they change IPs. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. For the time being, it only affects users of the desktop interface.
The Wikimedia Foundation's Anti-Harassment Tools team will build granular types of blocks in 2018 (e.g. a block from uploading or editing specific pages, categories, or namespaces, as opposed to a full-site block). Feedback on the concept may be left at the talk page.
There is now a checkbox on Special:ListUsers to let you see only users in temporary user groups.
It is now easier for blocked mobile users to see why they were blocked.

Arbitration

A recent technical issue with the Arbitration Committee's spam filter inadvertently caused all messages sent to the committee through Wikipedia (i.e. Special:EmailUser/Arbitration Committee) to be discarded. If you attempted to send an email to the Arbitration Committee via Wikipedia between May 16 and May 31, your message was not received and you are encouraged to resend it. Messages sent outside of these dates or directly to the Arbitration Committee email address were not affected by this issue.

Miscellaneous

In early May, an unusually high level of failed login attempts was observed. The WMF has stated that this was an "external effort to gain unauthorized access to random accounts". Under Wikipedia policy, administrators are required to have strong passwords. To further reinforce security, administrators should also consider enabling two-factor authentication. A committed identity can be used to verify that you are the true account owner in the event that your account is compromised and/or you are unable to log in.

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Françoise Bonnot

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Hi Stwalkerster, I am DrSolution, the person who edited Françoise Bonnot Wikipedia page. My edit was accurate. Unfortunately, Françoise Bonnot recently passed away on June 9. I just opened a Wikipedia account, my edit was perfect and I am very disappointed that you deleted it. It would be really helpful for the new Wikipedia contributors to be informed of what is necessary to show, in order to have valid edits saved. I just hope that you saved my editing and I will not need to redo it again. Thank you, Dr. Solution my email address [redacted]. Please get back to me. Thanks again. DrSolutiion (talk) 10:58, 13 June 2018 (UTC)

Hi DrSolutiion, Welcome to Wikipedia! I left a comment on your talk page with the reasoning why I removed your edit, which also provides some links to some useful information. A quick summary of my reasoning is that you added potentially contentious information (a death date) without citing it to a reliable source such as a newspaper article. All history of previous contributions is saved - you can click the "View history" tab at the top of a page to see each edit to a page and what has changed in each of those edits. Let me know if you need more help! :) stwalkerster (talk) 11:15, 13 June 2018 (UTC)

Édouard-Jean Empain

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Hi there. Yes, I put a link to the same source that w:fr uses there after the DoB/DoD parentheses: that one. But if there's any dispute about the accuracy of the dates given there and you want to delete it or use a better source (or footnote the controversy?), go ahead. I hadn't seen the edit history, so I wasn't aware you'd previously removed the date. So apols for that. Moscow Mule (talk) 14:05, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

You've got mail

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Hello, Stwalkerster. 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 remove this notice at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template.Walabok (talk) 10:19, 23 June 2018 (UTC)

Hi there,

I'm not happy about you reverting my change on Geoffrey's page as it was already in the news! You just would have to check!

I am new to Wikipedia and try to establish myself as a reliable source and you added a minus point on my profile!

Can you please rectify that!

Thanks!

walabok 23.06.2018 Entry for Geoffrey Oryema

Hi Walabok - our policy on biographies of living (or recently deceased) people requires that a reliable source be given, and your edit did not provide this. That is why I removed your edit. If it was already in the news at that point, it should have been trivial for you to provide a source. I should also point out - you are not a reliable source by our definition here - a reliable source is (roughly speaking) a publication with editorial oversight and a reputation for fact-checking - it's simply not possible for an individual to become a reliable source. stwalkerster (talk) 11:51, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

Black Pink Ddu-Du Ddu-DU

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Hi Stwalkerster, I was wondering if you could take a look at these sources to add the single Ddu-Du Ddu-Du to BlackPinks at number 9 in List of most viewed online videos in the first 24 hours, because it reached 30 million views in the first 23 hours. Sources: http://ekr.chosunonline.com/site/data/html_dir/2018/06/18/2018061800699.html http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2018/06/18/2018061800934.html http://star.hankookilbo.com/News/Read/cb88868b9e484ab9b42a4bee3de20be9 http://star.mbn.co.kr/view.php?year=2018&no=395302&refer=portal https://www.out.com/entertainment/2018/6/20/blackpink-revolution-age-k-pop-takeover Thank, Alessiol01 (talk) 17:27, 25 June 2018 (UTC).

Yvonne Gilan

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I am new to editing wikis and cannot understand why my factual corrections re my great friend the late Yvonne Gilan have not been saved. I knew her well for 62 years and lived next door to her for a very long time. My husband is taking her funeral next week, at her request, and we, together with Yvonne and her grandson Louis Gill, worked out the order of service shortly before she died in Edenhall Hospice. I simply I wanted to update the information about her. This also meant changing the present tense of the descriptions of her work into the past tense. What is the problem here? I also know for a fact that she is Scottish and was born at 70 Northumberland Street Edinburgh and not in London, as previously stated. There is a long YouTube interview which you can watch where, last year, she visited her old school in Edinburgh and talked about her schooldays and her life. I knew not only her husband Michael and late sons but also her mother and her cousins. I am in regular contact with Louis who is also her executor, and who has all her documents. Please can you tell me what the problem is? It really upsets me to see her referred to in the present tense. I did not give my email address when I registered as it said this was optional. Is this the problem? Happy to provide it if so - Louis himself is distressed that the wiki should be out of date, and asked me to update it when I saw him last week to finalise funeral details. My alias is Ruth Northumberland. Ruth Northumberland (talk) 15:34, 26 June 2018 (UTC)

Hi there - firstly, my condolences for your recent loss.

We have a policy on Wikipedia to cite any facts which are reported to a reliable source (a publication with editorial oversight such as a newspaper), allowing readers to verify for themselves what is written. While this is always important, it is even more important when dealing with biographies of living (or recently deceased) people - we even have a special policy for it. This helps ensure that any material which is potentially damaging to someone is backed up by a publication which has a reputation for fact checking and editorial oversight; meaning people can't make up untrue information about someone. It also means that we can't just accept the word of someone no matter how well they knew the subject of the article, as our readers can't verify the information for themselves.

While I understand that this can be frustrating (especially as you knew them), but please try to think of it the other way around - a new (or unregistered) user changed the article to report a family member or close friend of yours was dead, when they were actually alive - it would probably be even more upsetting than the article simply appearing out-of-date, especially if other people saw the article and took action such as publishing obituaries or sending condolence cards for someone still alive.

If you have an obituary from a newspaper or something similar, then feel free to re-add the information about her death with a link to that source. In the meantime, I've removed the also unsourced London birth location, and changed the nationality in the first sentence to British.

Once again, please accept my condolences for the loss, and please understand that we're trying to protect the subjects of articles. stwalkerster (talk) 16:42, 26 June 2018 (UTC)

Yvonne's grandchildren Louis Gill and Flora Gill will be writing an obituary for the Other Lives tributes in The Guardian, but Louis has no plans for a newspaper announcement of her death. It may take several weeks or even months for the Guardian tribute to be published. Louis has been through Yvonne's address book and contacted everyone in it. While she was in the hospice, she had more visitors than anyone else, so I think it highly unlikely that anyone close to her is unaware of her illness and death. Would it help if we scanned you a copy next week of her funeral order of service from Leverton's, the funeral directors, who, incidentally, hold the Royal Warrant? Ruth Northumberland (talk) 22:44, 26 June 2018 (UTC)

Ruth Northumberland, There's no rush, we can wait for the obit to appear in The Guardian. stwalkerster (talk) 13:47, 27 June 2018 (UTC)