User talk:Ale jrb/Archives/March 2018

Administrators' newsletter – March 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2018). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Lourdes†
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg AngelOfSadness • Bhadani • Chris 73 • Coren • Friday • Midom • Mike V
 * † Lourdes has requested that her admin rights be temporarily removed, pending her return from travel.

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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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:00, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

CSDH showing up on prods
This is really just me thinking out loud to any talk page stalkers, but I wonder if there's a way to stop CSDH from showing up on expired prods. It checks for delete-criterion which is present in both CSDs and PROD, but perhaps we could insert  into the launch helper (that's from Template:Proposed deletion/dated). I think that should do the trick without breaking anything? ~ Amory  (u • t • c) 12:14, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

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Updating your script to prevent inadvertent pings via edit summary
Hey there! T32750 will be deployed next Thursday. With this, any link to someone else's userpage (not a subpage) will ping them. I believe User:Ale jrb/Scripts/csdhelper.js will be affected, so I have gone and updated it to prevent pinging. The fix was easy -- just prefix the wikilink with a colon, like. Your other scripts may be affected as well, so I'm going to attempt to review them and make changes as necessary. Hope this is okay! :) Thanks and you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask. &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  00:53, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Cool, thanks! A le_Jrb talk 11:56, 30 March 2018 (UTC)