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Article : Nathalie Obadia (french and english version)
Hello,

I would like wikipedia to keep the modification I make for the sheet "NATHALIE OBADIA" in french version and in english version. I am working as press coordinator for the Galerie Nathalie Obadia and it is very important to keep the new texts I uploaded.

French link : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathalie_Obadia the right version of the text is here : https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nathalie_Obadia&oldid=133119871

English link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathalie_Obadia the right version of the text is here : https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nathalie_Obadia&oldid=757236245

Please confirm me asap the articles will stay like this, it is very important for us.

All the best, Pauline — Preceding unsigned comment added by Paulinechiche (talk • contribs) 18:42, 29 December 2016 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Airplaneman!


Happy New Year! Airplaneman, Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.

 Class 455 ( talk  | stand clear of the doors!)''' 17:15, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

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El Maipes necropolis, Agaete
Hi flier, thanks for the review, only just coming back here so haven't seen it before and btw Happy new year to you (the capital here being used as a marker for a set expression which is nevertheless sincere as there aren't that many truly polite ppl here - at least they unfortunately don't look like the majority that they actually make up, altogether. You've respectfully (ta!) asked me what I think about a capital to "necropolis" even though it's not the first word of the sentence, here it is : 1) if I wanted to do that I'd have been born German; 2) I have utterly bad feelings about misplaced capitalisation in general coz it strengthens the institutionalisationist brain-wash, got to make up a new work for it coz it's gone onto a new, so far unexperimented level as humanity's gone into the 3rd millenium and I sure do NOT like that at all; 3) It's done now. 4) It's your world now, am nearly gone from it and this time I think I won't come back to it otherwise than as a visitor. So you choose - and you'll be the one to have to deal with the consequences; so good luck to you with all my heart and soul coz I passionately love this planet, there ain't many like it despite what some'd like us to believe. In fact it's bloody unique. So are each language's idiosyncrasies, and there is no good reason to stick capitals all over the place when it's nothing to do with the rules of a particular language and everything to do with the bad habit of trying to make things look more important than they are - a common trait of political correctness, and as you can see from your own way it's highly contagious. I most sincerely hope that you'll cure yourself from it, but if you don't, no worry: not only you won't be alone, but you'll be right up there with its mostly-self-elected elite. Let's be very clear coz my way of saying things is, as the name says, basic and therefore crude: i really have nothing bad against you for it, all the contrary you are very sympathique, as we say in french. (After I wrote that,) i had a qwik look at your page, found this: "This user knows that Wikipedia has become too Bureaucratic". Here we go, proof by A + B : capital to the bureaucratic. That says it all - including that you're trying to fight it. GOOD for you, and to my eyes there is no better reason than that one for wishing you All The Best For The New Year :DD So long ;) Basicdesign (talk) 13:37, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

Advertising?
According to the definitions as noted in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advertising https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promotion_%28marketing%29

I fail to see how informing users that they can easily upgrade to the latest OS with the assistance of existing free software can be considered "to be advertising" though I can see how this can be considered "for promotional purposes". Any writing is in itself an expression of an idea or thought, which is a promoting that idea or thought. Then logically if "for promotional purposes" is to be against what wikipedia allows, then this is in very violation of wikipedia's existance - the sharing and spreading of knowledge.

reukiodo (talk) 07:20, 12 January 2017 (UTC)

WP:RFPP
Request for Unprotection: only about 600 links, not exactly WP:HRT. --203.186.21.230 (talk) 04:42, 14 January 2017 (UTC)


 * Requested fpr unprotection of template:Infobox lacrosse player. --165.84.174.129 (talk) 10:44, 15 January 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter - February 2017
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Administrator changes
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 * The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.

Arbitration
 * The Arbitration Committee released a response to the Wikimedia Foundation's statement on paid editing and outing.

Obituaries
 * JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.

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Chicago Meetup at Sulzer Regional Library!
Hey there! I'm hosting a meetup at the at the Sulzer Regional Library on Saturday March 25th from 12 PM to 4:30 PM. You're welcome to come and work together with other editors on articles or other contributions, get to know other editors around Chicago, and ask any questions you might about using or contributing to Wikipedia. Food will be available, and we'll likely go out for dinner afterwards as a group. If you're interested in joining us, please RSVP at the event page here! Thanks, I JethroBT drop me a line 20:23, 14 February 2017 (UTC)

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On this day, 9 years ago...

 * Thank you—and way to make me feel old! I think 9 years ago, I would have been tempted to use Comic Sans as well :p. Cheers, Airplaneman   ✈  04:56, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

Requesting to create wikipedia page of Eshal Fayyaz
Hello Airplaneman,

This is Jahanzaib ahmed, from pakistan,Karachi i would like you to considering the page of Eshal Fayyaz, she has done 3 Drama Serials and 1 Telefilm Recently and am not able to find anything about her on Wikipedia.org

Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.8.141.171 (talk) 20:27, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

American Dental Association
I am looking for a local Chicago Wikipedian to help assist the American Dental Association in editing Wikipedia. Do you know of any volunteers interested? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 02:27, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the heads-up. We are working on creating a user group here in Chicago, so hopefully we'll have a more centralized method of outreach soon. I'm willing to help out! Airplaneman   ✈  04:52, 8 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Will email you. Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 05:05, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

Chicago Meetup reminder
Hey there! Just a reminder that the Meetup is today at the Sulzer Regional Library from 12 - 4:30 PM. Please look for the Community Room off to the right when you walk in the front entrance. Thanks! I JethroBT drop me a line 12:20, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

User talk:FreeatlastChitchat
Hey Airplaneman. I'm not seeing any reason why this user's talk page should be semi-protected indefinitely? --Neil N  talk to me 12:44, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the delayed response. Here's the RFPP request. I wouldn't object if someone unprotected the page. It does seem like the "grave dancing" had been a multi-month issue, but yea, indefinite semi-protection may have been a bit heavy-handed. Airplaneman   ✈  18:50, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
 * They're editing again so I've removed the semi for now. --Neil N  talk to me 19:41, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

Hi, airoplaneman..... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Percy7875 (talk • contribs) 16:00, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

Deleted Articles
Hello, I am currently re-drafting two articles that got deleted. I was wondering if you would be able to send me the two deleted articles to assist in my re-drafting process?

The two articles are:

AMX Solutions

Asset Management eXpert (AMX)

Thanks!

JayoCentral — Preceding unsigned comment added by JayoCentral (talk • contribs) 14:26, 24 April 2017 (UTC)

Hey
Thanks for the message! I hope you're doing well. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shwikiagg (talk • contribs) 22:27, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

Publishing a page
Hi We wanted to publish a page with the following text but it's been deleted. This is because our username is the same as the article. It's one of our first edits on Wikipedia. Not sure if you can help or let us know how to publish the page. The text is below. Many Thanks

Mangera Yvars Architects Mangera Yvars Architects (MYAA) is a London and Barcelona based international architectural design studio.

The office designed The Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies for Qatar Foundation at Education City Doha. The building was opened by Moza bint Nasser in 2015. The project won an award at The World Architecture Festival in 2015 in the category of best religious project. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MYAA ARCHITECTS (talk • contribs) 01:48, 29 April 2017 (UTC)

You've got mail!
I just emailed you regarding assistance with requesting undeletion of a page I wish to work on. Thanks for your help! Alex Alexander Antonopoulos (talk) 18:37, 20 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Apologies for my delayed response. You may find the page at User:Alexander Antonopoulos/Philip Gelinas. The page Philip Gelinas is still a red link for the time being. I would recommend that, if you haven't already, look at the articles for deletion entry for this page and try and address the concerns raised there in your rework. I should be more responsive for the next few months, so please let me know if you have any questions on your project. Best, Airplaneman   ✈  03:27, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

Apple Inc. WikiProject Reviving
Hello there, I am trying to revive the Apple WikiProject. Please come back and add your name to the participant list if you'd like to help me. Let's make this awesome. Come by today! Thank you, DJAustin (talk) 14:51, 17 June 2017 (UTC)

Request for indefinite protection removal
Hi Airplaneman, I tried to make a start on making a page today but it seems some stuff went down in 2010 and it's been protected ever since. Can you remove the protection so I can make a start please? Dan Ryckert

Providing some links to make note of the subject being notable enough for an article


 * The University Daily Kansan http://www.kansan.com/arts_and_culture/university-alumnus-and-guinness-world-record-holder-determined-to-win/article_3cb4506c-f8df-11e6-ae17-23854649fb7e.html


 * The Kansas City Star http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/article158520509.html


 * Cosmopolitan (magazine) http://www.cosmopolitan.com/food-cocktails/g10228279/taco-bell-wedding-las-vegas/?src=socialflowTW


 * Mashable http://mashable.com/2017/06/27/taco-bell-wedding/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-main-link#JjhrBJhsLmq3


 * Vice Media https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mvxp7a/how-games-website-giant-bomb-bounced-back-from-the-death-of-its-founding-editor-123


 * ESPN http://www.espn.com/blog/playbook/fandom/post/_/id/21948/jose-canseco-writes-fan-foreword-for-free


 * MidBoss https://midboss.com/2016/06/2064-read-memories-gameplay-trailer-cast-announcement/


 * Polygon (website) https://www.polygon.com/2014/10/3/6905667/super-mario-bros-3-roller-coaster


 * The A.V. Club http://www.avclub.com/article/giant-bomb-discovers-its-difficult-play-super-mari-210079

Thanks! FLStyle (talk) 18:07, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Replied  Airplaneman   ✈  00:30, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

Milk articles
thanks, it was very courteous of you to check with me. I have no attachment to those articles so go ahead make whatever changes you see fit. Typed on cell phone. Andrew Gradman talk/WP:Hornbook 05:39, 29 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Awesome! I will add that to my (ever-expanding) to-do list. Cheers, Airplaneman   ✈  05:47, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

Semi-protect
Can you semi-protect No More Sad Songs, Feel the Love, Love How It Hurts, My Name (song), All Summer Long (Kid Rock song), Boom Clap, Draft:Music for Cars (album), Galway Girl (Ed Sheeran song), Power (Little Mix song), Malibu (Miley Cyrus song), Disconnect (song). Persistent Long-term abuse of Wikidesctruction vandal. 183.171.183.155 (talk) 18:57, 29 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Doing... Airplaneman   ✈  19:08, 29 June 2017 (UTC)
 * ...and they should now all be semi-protected for 3 months. Best, Airplaneman   ✈  19:11, 29 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Took a closer look as per this edit and am aware that the Draft page doesn't seem to be protected. Airplaneman   ✈  23:56, 5 July 2017 (UTC)
 * I protected that draft page for two days instead of 3 months. It's fixed now. Airplaneman   ✈  00:00, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

Happy Anniversary
I'm not sure what Roger Moore in a trenchcoat has to do with your administrative anniversary but its the only image I could find. &#8213; Buster7  &#9742;   01:57, 25 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you, Buster7! Airplaneman   ✈  19:45, 6 October 2017 (UTC)

Pablo Escobar
Hi. Would you please semiprotect it longer? It seems a year wasn't enough. — Jeff G. ツ 07:34, 13 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Note to self: article is protected until September 2022. Airplaneman   ✈  17:54, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

Gender correction
Jimin is male not female!!!! He is from kpop group BTS!! Please correct!! ASAP

Edits on Philip Gelinas page
Thank you Airplaneman for your assistance in helping me access the deleted page for Philip Gelinas. I have made some edits that I am eager to get feedback on. Looking forward to hearing from you! Alexander Antonopoulos (talk) 15:20, 1 November 2017 (UTC) Alexander Antonopoulos (talk) 15:20, 1 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Responded on email. Summary of email: I'm not sure the sources address concerns raised at the AfD. Airplaneman   ✈  18:25, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2017). Administrator changes
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Technical news
 * The Wikimedia Foundation's Anti-Harassment Tools team is creating an "Interaction Timeline" tool that intends to assist administrators in resolving user conduct disputes. Feedback on the concept may be posted on the talk page.
 * A new function is now available to edit filter managers that will make it easier to look for multiple strings containing spoofed text.

Arbitration
 * Eligible editors will be invited to submit candidate statements for the 2017 Arbitration Committee Elections starting on November 12 until November 21. Voting will begin on November 27 and last until December 10.
 * Following a request for comment,, and  will serve as the Electoral Commission for the 2017 ArbCom Elections.

Obituaries
 * The Wikipedia community has recently learned that (William Allen Peckham) passed away on December 30, 2016, the same day as . Allen began editing in 2005 and became an administrator that same year.

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Your welcome template
I edited User:Airplaneman/W. I believe that I improved it by properly nesting two tables inside ; before, the two tables opened with   between and closed with  after the collapse controls. I also removed two stripped  tags. If I messed anything up, please revert! —Anomalocaris (talk) 08:59, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you! I appreciate it. I knew that there was a formatting error but gave up on finding a fix. I haven't used that template in forever, but maybe this will encourage me to keep updating it and using it :). I think I want to change the colors next... Airplaneman   ✈  17:50, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2017). Administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * Following a request for comment, a new section has been added to the username policy which disallows usernames containing emoji, emoticons or otherwise "decorative" usernames, and usernames that use any non-language symbols. Administrators should discuss issues related to these types of usernames before blocking.

Technical news
 * Wikimedians are now invited to vote on the proposals in the 2017 Community Wishlist Survey on Meta Wiki until 10 December 2017. In particular, there is a section of the survey regarding new tools for administrators and for anti-harassment.
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"tis the season...."
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Administrators' newsletter – January 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2017). Administrator changes
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Bureaucrat changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * A request for comment is in progress to determine whether the administrator policy should be amended to require disclosure of paid editing activity at WP:RFA and to prohibit the use of administrative tools as part of paid editing activity, with certain exceptions.

Technical news
 * The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey results have been posted. The Community Tech team will investigate and address the top ten results.
 * The Anti-Harassment Tools team is inviting comments on new blocking tools and improvements to existing blocking tools for development in early 2018. Feedback can be left on the discussion page or by email.

Arbitration
 * Following the results of the 2017 election, the following editors have been (re)appointed to the Arbitration Committee:, , , , , , ,.

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WikiProject Wikify: Current Backlog Reduction Plan
Hey, I noticed you marked yourself as a member of WikiProject Wikify and you are currently listed as active. I was wondering if you would be able to assist with our current backlog reduction plan. While traditional drives are more structured month-long sprints by WikiProject Wikify members, there is currently lacking activity within the project and in order to significantly reduce the incredible backlog, members are encouraged to review all articles marked with the Underlinked Template Message to analyze the worthiness of the template message on the given article. Articles that have nothing to link or are have had wikilinks sufficiently added should have the template removed to clear the backlog and make it easier for editors to find articles in genuine need of wikification. This can be done by any editor; however, all editors should consider joining if they haven't done so already. Thank you!

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Steak
I haven't seen you in a while. I see on your page you like steak. Me too I like steak. Couldn't resist an excuse to show off my userbox. Slight Smile</i> 03:13, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
 * ayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy nice userbox; thanks for sharing :) Airplaneman   ✈  04:39, 11 January 2018 (UTC)

HKIA
Hi! I am CloudyBark50924 so pls. put something in Hong Kong International Airport in Wikipedia then find Cebu Pacific at Airlines and Destination then write their is Davao (Begins this year and unknown month and date) and thats it. Bye. — Preceding unsigned comment added by CloudyBark50924 (talk • contribs) 11:57, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I'm not currently familiar with policies related to airline destinations; I do know that there are often editing conflicts regarding them. I unfortunately don't have the time to research this in the near future so I'm not going to make a change right now. Best, Airplaneman   ✈  04:44, 11 January 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – February 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2018). Administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * An RfC has closed with a consensus that candidates at WP:RFA must disclose whether they have ever edited for pay and that administrators may never use administrative tools as part of any paid editing activity, except when they are acting as a Wikipedian-in-Residence or when the payment is made by the Wikimedia Foundation or an affiliate of the WMF.
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Technical news
 * A tag will now be automatically applied to edits that blank a page, turn a page into a redirect, remove/replace almost all content in a page, undo an edit, or rollback an edit. These edits were previously denoted solely by automatic edit summaries.

Arbitration
 * The Arbitration Committee has enacted a change to the discretionary sanctions procedure which requires administrators to add a standardized editnotice when placing page restrictions. Editors cannot be sanctioned for violations of page restrictions if this editnotice was not in place at the time of the violation.

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Administrators' newsletter – March 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2018). Administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * The autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) is scheduled to end on 14 March 2018. The results of the research collected can be read on Meta Wiki.
 * Community ban discussions must now stay open for at least 24 hours prior to being closed.
 * A change to the administrator inactivity policy has been proposed. Under the proposal, if an administrator has not used their admin tools for a period of five years and is subsequently desysopped for inactivity, the administrator would have to file a new RfA in order to regain the tools.
 * A change to the banning policy has been proposed which would specify conditions under which a repeat sockmaster may be considered de facto banned, reducing the need to start a community ban discussion for these users.

Technical news
 * CheckUsers are now able to view private data such as IP addresses from the edit filter log, e.g. when the filter prevents a user from creating an account. Previously, this information was unavailable to CheckUsers because access to it could not be logged.
 * The edit filter has a new feature  that edit filter managers may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string.

Miscellaneous
 * Following the 2018 Steward elections, the following users are our new stewards:, , , ,.

Obituaries
 * Bhadani (Gangadhar Bhadani) passed away on 8 February 2018. Bhadani joined Wikipedia in March 2005 and became an administrator in September 2005. While he was active, Bhadani was regarded as one of the most prolific Wikipedians from India.

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Administrators' newsletter – April 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2018). Administrator changes
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 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Gogo Dodo • Pb30 • Sebastiankessel • Seicer • SoLando

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
 * There will soon be a calendar widget at Special:Block, making it easier to set expiries for a specific date and time.

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.

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Reminder: Share your feedback in this Wikimedia survey
Every response for this survey can help the Wikimedia Foundation improve your experience on the Wikimedia projects. So far, we have heard from just 26% of Wikimramedia contributors who Wikimedia programs like the Education program, editathons, or image contests. The survey is available in various languages and will take between 20 and 40 minutes to be completed. Take the survey now.

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Every response for this survey can help the Wikimedia Foundation improve your experience on the Wikimedia projects. So far, we have heard from just 26% of Wikimramedia contributors who Wikimedia programs like the Education program, editathons, or image contests. The survey is available in various languages and will take between 20 and 40 minutes to be completed.Take the survey now.

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Your feedback matters: Final reminder to take the global Wikimedia survey
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Administrators' newsletter – May 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2018). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg None
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Chochopk • Coffee • Gryffindor • Jimp • Knowledge Seeker • Lankiveil • Peridon • Rjd0060

Guideline and policy news
 * The ability to create articles directly in mainspace is now indefinitely restricted to autoconfirmed users.
 * A proposal is being discussed which would create a new "event coordinator" right that would allow users to temporarily add the "confirmed" flag to new user accounts and to create many new user accounts without being hindered by a rate limit.

Technical news
 * AbuseFilter has received numerous improvements, including an OOUI overhaul, syntax highlighting, ability to search existing filters, and a few new functions. In particular, the search feature can be used to ensure there aren't existing filters for what you need, and the new  function can be used when checking multiple namespaces. One major upcoming change is the ability to see which filters are the slowest. This information is currently only available to those with access to Logstash.
 * When blocking anonymous users, a cookie will be applied that reloads the block if the user changes their IP. 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. This currently only occurs when hard-blocking accounts.
 * The block notice shown on mobile will soon be more informative and point users to a help page on how to request an unblock, just as it currently does on desktop.
 * There will soon be a calendar widget at Special:Block, making it easier to set expiries for a specific date and time.

Arbitration
 * The Arbitration Committee is seeking additional clerks to help with the arbitration process.

Obituaries
 * (Craig Franklin) passed away in mid-April. Lankiveil joined Wikipedia on 12 August 2004 and became an administrator on 31 August 2008. During his time with the Wikimedia community, Lankiveil served as an oversighter for the English Wikipedia and as president of Wikimedia Australia.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:05, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

Gaming of the system
I have been watching some pages and am extremely concerned that there is large-scale tag-teaming and gaming going on to circumvent WP:NOCON and WP:STATUSQUO. There's two articles where this behaviour is very suspicious with the same characters and same edit war tactics to retain the non-consensus revisions before obtaining page protections. Until now I have not been active on these articles but a concerned observer. Yesterday, starting at 06:05 this started on History of Gilgit Baltistan, resulting in a page protection (fortuitously) and it is continuing today with the same characters on Princely state where there is a major ongoing dispute on the talkpage. The page was quite stable until 30 April when a sleeper account (which has disappeared since!) turned up to do a revert of a longstanding edit made on the 5th of April (explained then, with no forthcoming objection until 30 April/1 May) and since then there is an ongoing edit war with the seeming intent to obtain a false WP:STATUSQUO while talkpage discussion is still going. Hopefully you can restore the real WP:STATUSQUO, fully protect it and settle it. Best wishes :) JosephusOfJerusalem (talk) 06:04, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
 * I did spend some time looking into it after seeing a WP:RFPP request, but I unfortunately don't have the time to be the one to mediate the disagreement. I'll try and check in from time to time and do what I can. Best, Airplaneman   ✈  06:21, 6 May 2018 (UTC)

Request for unprotection
Greetings! Recently we received a request at WP:AFC/R that the page Idubbbz be redirected to IDubbbz as a redirect from an alternative capitalization. However, I cannot fulfill that request because you salted that title a couple of years ago. Now that the topic exists at a different location and appears to be notable, I was wondering if you'd be willing to unprotect the page. —Compassionate727 (T·C) 19:52, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
 * done! Airplaneman   ✈  00:11, 5 May 2018 (UTC)

Unprotection
Can you remove protection from Grawp and Hagrid so I can categorize them. They’re redirected to Rubeus Hagrid. 2600:387:6:80D:0:0:0:BA (talk) 23:05, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Sorry, they're protected due to long-term abuse. Which categories did you want to add? Airplaneman   ✈  03:16, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

Account blocking.
Hi, I come to you because you're a sysop and only sysops can perform certain tasks.

I ask you to block my account so that I won't be a nuisance to some other wikipedians. Thanks in advance. LouisAlain (talk) 13:03, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

Clash Royale
Hi, I was just wondering if you think it's time we try unprotecting or lowering the protection on Clash Royale. Your indef semi has been there since September 2016. <b style="font-family:Papyrus"> Anarchyte ( work  &#124;  talk ) </b> 10:52, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Just updating to let you know I've unprotected it myself as you're currently inactive. I'll keep an eye on the page and reindef it if the vandalism comes back. <b style="font-family:Papyrus"> Anarchyte ( work  &#124;  talk ) </b> 06:16, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2018). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg None
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg 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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Administrators' newsletter – July 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2018). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Pbsouthwood • TheSandDoctor
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Gogo Dodo
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Andrevan • Doug • EVula • KaisaL • Tony Fox • WilyD

Bureaucrat changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Andrevan • EVula

Guideline and policy news
 * An RfC about the deletion of drafts closed with a consensus to change the wording of WP:NMFD. Specifically, a draft that has been repeatedly resubmitted and declined at AfC without any substantial improvement may be deleted at MfD if consensus determines that it is unlikely to ever meet the requirements for mainspace and it otherwise meets one of the reasons for deletion outlined in the deletion policy.
 * A request for comment closed with a consensus that the promising draft template cannot be used to indefinitely prevent a WP:G13 speedy deletion nomination.

Technical news
 * Starting on July 9, the WMF Security team, Trust & Safety, and the broader technical community will be seeking input on an upcoming change that will restrict editing of site-wide JavaScript and CSS to a new technical administrators user group. Bureaucrats and stewards will be able to grant this right per a community-defined process. The intention is to reduce the number of accounts who can edit frontend code to those who actually need to, which in turn lessens the risk of malicious code being added that compromises the security and privacy of everyone who accesses Wikipedia. For more information, please review the FAQ.
 * Syntax highlighting has been graduated from a Beta feature on the English Wikipedia. To enable this feature, click the highlighter icon (Codemirror-icon.png) in your editing toolbar (or under the hamburger menu in the 2017 wikitext editor). This feature can help prevent you from making mistakes when editing complex templates.
 * IP-based cookie blocks should be deployed to English Wikipedia in July (previously scheduled for 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.

Miscellaneous
 * Currently around 20% of admins have enabled two-factor authentication, up from 17% a year ago. If you haven't already enabled it, please consider doing so. Regardless if you use 2FA, please practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.

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