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Administrators' newsletter – July 2020
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Our friend WW
Hope you don't mind I just deleted the tagged userpage as we've been just trying to DENY as much as possible per discussion here. He makes a new SP every other hour so I just tend to LTA block immediately and leave user and talk. Hope that's all good. Cheers. Glen 06:38, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
 * And like clockwork... Glen 06:39, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
 * It's fine with me either way. The script I was using creates the user page automatically; I'll make sure to do it by hand if I come across any more. –Darkwind (talk) 06:56, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

Regarding WP:SPECIESOUTCOMES from User talk:Zinedinemay2006
Sorry for fragmenting the discussion, but I don't want to burden someone else's talk page with any discussion we might want to have about this. Yes, I'm familiar with SPECIESOUTCOMES, but AFD precedent does not excuse a sub-stub article with only two bare URLs for reference, much less a whole flood of them. Maybe if they were properly formatted with complete citations, but as it is, all this is doing is creating a flood of pending cleanup work to get these pages to a minimally useful state.

I think maybe my advice to this editor was a little too broad, because I did imply that individual species pages weren't generally useful. I meant that more for this specific case, and not in general. –Darkwind (talk) 21:04, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
 * , Their articles were definitely disruptive, they made a real mess of things. But I think the issue was more the bad machine translation, formatting, and lack of communication, rather than the notability :) CaptainEek  Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 21:08, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for looking at the Ronald_McDonald page
Hi! I don't normally make an RPP, but it seemed necessary to get the IP contributor to talk. Good news is that it probably wasn't necessary.

As I'm sure you know, doing any sort of recent-change (or pending-changes) patrol is a lot like herding cats, and you never know when it's best to chase 'em a little more or just let them go. As it stood with the Ronald_McDonald article, several of us were trying to stem the tide of unsourced changes, and just were not having any luck.

Anyway, I'm sorry I wasted your time with that minutiae, but I really appreciate you were willing to help!

Thanks! &mdash; UncleBubba ( T @ C ) 22:22, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
 * No problem. I think they had a valid point, but didn't know how to express it without being disruptive. –Darkwind (talk) 22:25, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

Mohun Bagan A.C.
Can u revert the change in article name from ATK Mohun Bagan A.C. to its previous one Mohun Bagan A.C. and restore to Revision as of 15:16, 10 July 2020.  ❯❯❯  S A H A   10:18, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
 * I saw ur message in the article talkpage. I want to elaborate that. ATK (football club) is a club, and Mohun Bagan is another. in January it was announced that their football departments will merge. So, MB FC merged with ATK FC while Other departments of the club will operate as usual. There's a page on that ATK Mohun Bagan F.C. (check the citations in this page). Now, the page name of MB changed to ATK MB, which is incorrect.  ❯❯❯  S A H A   10:22, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
 * there are multiple sources for the name in the new article.ATK Mohun Bagan F.C.
 * No need to ping me on my own talk page, just so you know. Anyway, do any of those sources mentioned that the rest of Mohun Bagan (A.C.) is remaining separate? That's the part that should ideally be explicitly sourced. Either way, I don't particularly intend to get more involved in this situation, now that I've established a stable version of the article. I only suggest finding such a source in order to prevent further disruption when the protection expires. –Darkwind (talk) 11:09, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
 * , oh sorry. I mistakenly pinged u here. the press release by the club says that another club has bought shares in its football club. leaving th other departments.  ❯❯❯  S A H A   11:40, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
 * In that case, I would add a sentence to the article that explicitly says as much, perhaps at the end of the paragraph that talks about the merger of the football club, and cite it to the press release (this is one of the few times that a primary source is sufficient). Maybe something like, "The other activities and departments of Mohun Bagan AC will continue under that name and are not being merged."


 * Additionally, if the athletic club will not be conducting any football activities going forward, I would suggest that you move the football statistics either to a separate article (perhaps merge the information with History of Mohun Bagan A.C.) or to the article of the merged club under a section possibly called "pre-merger club histories" or something. The way it stands now, you have an article ostensibly about an athletic club that doesn't participate in football anymore, but the entire second half of the article is football lists and statistics, and doesn't say anything about the hockey or the cricket teams etc. –Darkwind (talk) 20:29, 10 July 2020 (UTC)

one thing for sure has to be reverted, two pages of mb and atkmb cant remain like this. either update on mb with past tense and dissolving, or add all atkmb updates to mb page and keep only that (per tradition). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.1.7.48 (talk) 21:54, 10 July 2020 (UTC)

189.172.79.167
Hi Darkwind, This ip address that you have partially blocked has resume vandalizing/disruptive editing by changing episode titles against primary source (the official website) again on Paradise PD. — Young Forever (talk)   01:33, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for letting me know. I've blocked them for another week. –Darkwind (talk) 04:42, 11 July 2020 (UTC)

Re Pro Wrestling Australia Draft
I take note of what you said in declining my application for move protection of Draft:Pro Wrestling Australia. I did tell him on his talk page not to do it again or he would be reported. He has made no attempt to improve the article at all (it is littered with fact tags and there is also a past AfD delete of the same promotion under a slightly different name). That is the main reason why I not only believe that it's not ready for publication, but I also believe that procedure should be enforced in this case. I am certain he moved it instead of improving it to stop it from being deleted per draft procedure at six months. The user also has a history of not discussing anything from what I can tell so it can be maintained that the move was made in bad faith. If you have any other ideas to ensure that he doesn't move it again in just under six months yet again I'll be happy to read it. Addicted4517 (talk) 08:43, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
 * The point I was trying to make is that there is no "procedure" that can "be enforced" here. Nobody is required to request a review of a draft before moving it to mainspace, even if it hasn't been substantially changed or improved since it was drafted. They boldly published it, you reverted them, now it's time to discuss it with them. As I mentioned, if they continue to move the page without discussing it, that can be taken up on a behavior noticeboard.


 * Let's assume for this discussion that the draft is in fact not ready to be published. (I have not reviewed it in detail, so I'll accept your assessment for now.) Move protecting the page places an unnecessary burden on the next editor who actually does take the time to improve the draft and get it ready to go live. Having to ask an admin to move the page or unprotect it may seem like a small hoop to jump through, but the protection policy is specifically written (in accordance with Wikimedia's founding principles) with the goal of placing as few of these technical restrictions in the way of editors as possible. Having to move the page back once every six months or so is, under policy, the preferred alternative.


 * In the absence of any discussion from the user, we must continue to assume good faith. So what if they are moving it back and forth to avoid deletion? Maybe they plan to improve it, but they don't have time to work on it right now. CSD G13 isn't exactly crucial to the success of the encyclopedia, and having the draft stick around for another six months or longer is not going to hurt anything. If they haven't posted anything on the draft talk page, maybe try writing them a non-template message on their talk page directly, to ask them what they plan to do with the draft. It couldn't hurt. –Darkwind (talk) 09:53, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
 * It would take too long to go looking for the history of the user concerned. All I can say is that he has a rep that IMHO has exhausted any right to AGF. That's why discussing it from my POV is a waste of time. I do know however that there isn't any point pursuing that without the detail. So I have an alternative suggestion. If he doesn't change anything and says nothing in the meantime, and moves it again into the main space I should nominate it for deletion for similar reasons to my original intention (previously deleted and not ready to be published). Addicted4517 (talk) 08:14, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Sorry to necro bump this, but Pidzz did it again - brought the draft out without getting it reviewed first. I decided to try a speedy deletion under G4 given the previous AfD, but he contested it and on the talk page gave as his reasons something that went nowhere near anything reasonable for a reason. So I have nominated it for AfD. Addicted4517 (talk) 09:44, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2020
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Need To Create A Wikipeida Page
hi ryan hope you are doing well can you help me out how can i create a wikipedia page that will not get deleted ?? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Syedmfaisal (talk • contribs) 13:51, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2021
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 * Speedy deletion criterion T3 (duplication and hardcoded instances) has been repealed following a request for comment.

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 * You can now put pages on your watchlist for a limited period of time.

Arbitration
 * By motion, standard discretionary sanctions have been temporarily authorized for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes). The effectiveness of the discretionary sanctions can be evaluated on the request by any editor after March 1, 2021 (or sooner if for a good reason).
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ANI ping
There is currently a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents Sorry, I'm not sure if I have to inform you (since I mentioned your edit) even though the report is not about you. I'm not on ANI very often. Just to clarify, I have no objection to you having declined the AIV report, and I appreciate that you left a reason. Meters (talk) 12:08, 10 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks for letting me know. FYI there's no specific obligation to ping the declining admin from AIV unless you need something else from them, e.g. you would like them to further explain why they declined to take action, or you think the discussion at ANI will involve them in some way etc. –Darkwind (talk) 02:46, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Meters (talk) 02:50, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

Why a partial block?
An editor said it needed more sources to satisfy GNG. It didn't -- as you can see. Take a look. There were already more than half a dozen articles entirely on her, by the Financial Times, NY Times, NY Post, and NY Daily News. If anything, you should block that editor.

But I opened up talk page discussion with the editor - that he never responded to.

And I opened up discussion on his page - that he never responded to.

And I kept on adding more sources anyway - for that there is a block? --184.153.21.19 (talk) 05:06, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

Edit summary removal
please remove the offensive edit summary calling people rapists. Walrus Ji (talk) 07:27, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

user:2603:7000:2143:8500:95F7:477A:7FA6:7EB5
Hey Ryan — you blocked this user today. Could you please take a look at the edits they made around their relentless efforts to promote this NYC mayoral candidate Dianne Morales, which was recently put through AfD? I already undid a whole bunch of the IP’s edits and got immediately reverted, don’t want to join the edit war. Would appreciate a second set of eyes... thanks! -- Y not? 04:53, 13 January 2021 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2021
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Enquiry: Sam Adeyemi
Hi Darkwind, while attempting to create a page for Sam Adeyemi, I was notified that you previously deleted or moved a page with the same name.

Please confirm the reason for the previous deletion or move, so I can avoid repeating the same mistake. The subject of the article is the Pastor of a megachurch, an author of many books and a popular international motivational speaker. I was quite astonished to find that there was no Wikipedia page for him.

Looking forward to your feedback. Do have a wonderful day. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ProfParochus (talk • contribs) 02:37, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Hello! Sorry for the delay in responding, I'm dealing with a personal injury and haven't been using my computer a lot.
 * I deleted that page in 2019 based on the results of a deletion discussion, which you can review at Articles for deletion/Sam Adeyemi; the people who participated in that discussion will have described their reasoning in detail there.
 * Given that the page is currently protected from creation, I suggest you create a draft of your proposed article (click for instructions) and then ask for it to be reviewed and published. –Darkwind (talk) 04:14, 10 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Given that the page is currently protected from creation, I suggest you create a draft of your proposed article (click for instructions) and then ask for it to be reviewed and published. –Darkwind (talk) 04:14, 10 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Given that the page is currently protected from creation, I suggest you create a draft of your proposed article (click for instructions) and then ask for it to be reviewed and published. –Darkwind (talk) 04:14, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

Zach Deputy page
Greetings. Since there is no "talk" stream for the page, I figured I needed to ask you, because you put the lock on page. It looks like someone added that Zach Deputy was part of the mob at the US Capital, which Deputy proudly admitted in a long published interview. Why is that not allowed on the page, if he said it was true? (I'm asking as an incredibly sad fan of his.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Paulehoffman (talk • contribs) 16:12, 14 January 2021 (UTC) --Paulehoffman (talk) 16:41, 16 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Hello! I'm sorry for the delay in answering you; I am dealing with a personal injury and haven't been using my computer.


 * I came to that article based on someone posting at requests for page protection that there was disruptive editing going on at that page. In reviewing the recent edits to the article, I saw that many people were violating the biographies of living persons policy by making statements calling him and his brother inappropriate names, etc.  As the BLP policy states, all additions to an article about a living person must include a valid citation for any controversial material -- basically, you have to prove what you're adding to the article.  Also, you can't call people names etc., that's vandalism.


 * In the future, if you encounter this situation, you can create a section on the talk page and put your proposed changes there, including your source, following the instructions at WP:ER. Someone will review the change and add it if it is appropriate. –Darkwind (talk) 04:31, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

Sd004973
Good afternoon Darkwind. I recently reported to AIV, and the account has now been globally locked, but also appears to be another sockpuppet of Sd004973 based on the SPI evidence and the other socks. Does the new account need to be added as a CU block, or does it not matter since they are globally locked? Also, does (what appears to be) their IP need to be blocked as the same person, for a period of time, or wait until they use it for more vandalism? . Thank you Agent00x (talk) 15:17, 25 February 2021 (UTC).

Administrators' newsletter – March 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2021). Administrator changes
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 * A request for comment is in progress to remove F7 (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a, which covers immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
 * A request for comment seeks to grant page movers the delete-redirect userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target. The full proposal is at Page mover/delete-redirect.
 * A request for comment asks if sysops may place the General sanctions/Coronavirus disease 2019 editnotice template on pages in scope that do not have page-specific sanctions?
 * There is a discussion in progress concerning automatic protection of each day's featured article with Pending Changes protection.

Technical news
 * When blocking an IPv6 address with Twinkle, there is now a checkbox with the option to just block the /64 range. When doing so, you can still leave a block template on the initial, single IP address' talkpage.
 * When protecting a page with Twinkle, you can now add a note if doing so was in response to a request at WP:RfPP, and even link to the specific revision.
 * There have been a number of reported issues with Pending Changes. Most problems setting protection appear to have been resolved (T273317) but other issues with autoaccepting edits persist (T275322).

Arbitration
 * By motion, the discretionary sanctions originally authorized under the GamerGate case are now authorized under a new Gender and sexuality case, with sanctions authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, any gender-related dispute or controversy and associated people. Sanctions issued under GamerGate are now considered Gender and sexuality sanctions.
 * The Kurds and Kurdistan case was closed, authorizing standard discretionary sanctions for the topics of Kurds and Kurdistan, broadly construed.

Miscellaneous
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Administrators' newsletter – April 2021
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Guideline and policy news
 * Following a request for comment, F7 (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a has been deprecated; it covered immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
 * Following a request for comment, page movers were granted the delete-redirect userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target.

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 * When you move a page that many editors have on their watchlist the history can be split and it might also not be possible to move it again for a while. This is because of a job queue problem.
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Arbitration
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Administrators' newsletter – May 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2021). Administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * Following an RfC, consensus was found that third party appeals are allowed but discouraged.
 * The 2021 Desysop Policy RfC was closed with no consensus. Consensus was found in a previous RfC for a community based desysop procedure, though the procedure proposed in the 2021 RfC did not gain consensus.

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 * The user group  will be renamed to  . This is for technical reasons. You can comment at  if you have objections.

Arbitration
 * The community consultation on the Arbitration Committee discretionary sanctions procedure was closed, and an initial draft based on feedback from the now closed consultation is expected to be released in early June to early July for community review.

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2021). Administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * Consensus was reached to deprecate Editor assistance.
 * Following a Request for Comment the Book namespace was deprecated.

Technical news
 * Wikimedia previously used the IRC network Freenode. However, due to changes over who controlled the network with reports of a forceful takeover by several ex-staff members, the Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts decided to move to the new Libera Chat network. It has been reported that Wikimedia related channels on Freenode have been forcibly taken over if they pointed members to Libera. There is a migration guide and Wikimedia discussions about this.

Arbitration
 * After a Clarification request, the Arbitration Committee modified Remedy 5 of the Antisemitism in Poland case. This means sourcing expectations are a discretionary sanction instead of being present on all articles. It also details using the talk page or the Reliable Sources Noticeboard to discuss disputed sources.

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Feedback request: Wikipedia policies and guidelines request for comment
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GOCE June 2021 newsletter
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Administrators' newsletter – July 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2021).

Administrator changes
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 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg AGK • Eliz81 • Mulad • ThaddeusB • Vianello • Who
 * Pictogram voting rename.png →

Interface administrator changes
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CheckUser changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * Consensus has been reached to delete all books in the book namespace. There was rough consensus that the deleted books should still be available on request at WP:REFUND even after the namespace is removed.
 * An RfC is open to discuss the next steps following a trial which automatically applied pending changes to TFAs.

Technical news
 * IP addresses of unregistered users are to be hidden from everyone. There is a rough draft of how IP addresses may be shown to users who need to see them. This currently details allowing administrators, checkusers, stewards and those with a new usergroup to view the full IP address of unregistered users. Editors with at least 500 edits and an account over a year old will be able to see all but the end of the IP address in the proposal. The ability to see the IP addresses hidden behind the mask would be dependent on agreeing to not share the parts of the IP address they can see with those who do not have access to the same information. Accessing part of or the full IP address of a masked editor would also be logged. Comments on the draft are being welcomed at the talk page.

Arbitration
 * The community authorised COVID-19 general sanctions have been superseded by the COVID-19 discretionary sanctions following a motion at a case request. Alerts given and sanctions placed under the community authorised general sanctions are now considered alerts for and sanctions under the new discretionary sanctions.

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2021).

Administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * An RfC is open to add a delay of one week from nomination to deletion for G13 speedy deletions.

Technical news
 * Last week all wikis were very slow or not accessible for 30 minutes. This was due to server lag caused by regenerating dynamic lists on the Russian Wikinews after a large bulk import.

Arbitration
 * Following an amendment request, the committee has clarified that the Talk page exception to the 500/30 rule in remedy 5 of the Palestine-Israel articles 4 case does not apply to requested move discussions.

Miscellaneous
 * You can vote for candidates in the 2021 Board of Trustees elections from 4 August to 17 August. Four community elected seats are up for election.

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Administrators' newsletter – September 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2021).

Administrator changes
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 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Emperor • Viridian Bovary
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Guideline and policy news
 * Feedback is requested on the Universal Code of Conduct enforcement draft by the Universal Code of Conduct Phase 2 drafting committee.
 * A RfC is open on whether to allow administrators to use extended confirmed protection on high-risk templates.
 * A discussion is open to decide when, if ever, should discord logs be eligible for removal when posted onwiki (including whether to oversight them)
 * A RfC on the next steps after the trial of pending changes on TFAs has resulted in a 30 day trial of automatic semi protection for TFAs.

Technical news
 * The Score extension has been re-enabled on public wikis. It has been updated, but has been placed in safe mode to address unresolved security issues. Further information on the security issues can be found on the mediawiki page.

Arbitration
 * A request for comment is in progress to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the Arbitration Committee election and resolve any issues not covered by existing rules. Comments and new proposals are welcome.

Miscellaneous
 * The 2021 RfA review is now open for comments.

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