User talk:Ddstretch/Archives/2017/March

Administrators' newsletter – March 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2017).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Amortias • Deckiller • BU Rob13
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Ronnotel • Islander • Chamal N • Isomorphic • Keeper76 • Lord Voldemort • Shereth • Bdesham • Pjacobi

Guideline and policy news
 * A recent RfC has redefined how articles on schools are evaluated at AfD. Specifically, secondary schools are not presumed to be notable simply because they exist.
 * AfDs that receive little participation should now be closed like an expired proposed deletion, following a deletion process RfC.
 * Defender, HakanIST, Matiia and Sjoerddebruin are our newest stewards, following the 2017 steward elections.
 * The 2017 appointees for the Ombudsman commission are Góngora, Krd, Lankiveil, Richwales and Vogone. They will serve for approximately 1 year.

Technical news
 * A recent query shows that only 16% of administrators on the English Wikipedia have enabled two-factor authentication. If you haven't already enabled it please consider doing so.
 * Cookie blocks should be deployed to the English Wikipedia soon. This will extend the current autoblock system by setting a cookie for each block, which will then autoblock the user after they switch accounts under a new IP.
 * A bot will now automatically place a protection template on protected pages when admins forget to do so.

Discuss this newsletter

Subscribe

Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 05:14, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

Christleton High School
Hi Ddstretch. Is there a reason why you used ECP here instead of semi-protect? --Neil N  talk to me 14:33, 7 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Hello. I used it because I have a recollection that in similar cases, disruption occurred after semi-protection by newly registered editors who register an account solely to make disruptive edits. If, however, you feel that this is not justified, then I am happy for you to change the level of protection, and I welcome your input to this.  DDStretch    (talk)  18:26, 7 March 2017 (UTC)
 * It looks like a standard school article where semi-protect would be enough to stop the IP and unconfirmed registered editor edits. We can't use ECP as a preemptive measure against disruption by autoconfirmed editors that hasn't yet occurred. --Neil N  talk to me 18:52, 7 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Ok I'll change the protection!   DDStretch    (talk)  19:30, 7 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks. If you haven't seen it, policy for ECP is here. I only came across your protection because all recent ECPs are listed at WP:AN. --Neil N  talk to me 19:39, 7 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes, I read it. I used it because of prior disruption to this article (though it had died down a bit) and because of prior disruption by the same editor who is adding this person to a number of articles. Anyway, let's see what happens now.  DDStretch    (talk)  19:43, 7 March 2017 (UTC)