User talk:Ddstretch/Archives/2019/April

Administrators' newsletter – April 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2019).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Reaper Eternal • ThaddeusB
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Bogdangiusca • Christopher Parham • Necrothesp • Schneelocke • Siroxo • Sarah
 * Pictogram voting rename.png →

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Mr. Stradivarius

Bureaucrat changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg DeltaQuad
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Kingturtle

Technical news
 * In Special:Preferences under "Appearance" → "Advanced options", there is now an option to show a confirmation prompt when clicking on a rollback link.
 * The Wikimedia Foundation's Community health initiative plans to design and build a new user reporting system to make it easier for people experiencing harassment and other forms of abuse to provide accurate information to the appropriate channel for action to be taken. Please see meta:Community health initiative/User reporting system consultation 2019 to provide your input on this idea.

Arbitration
 * The Arbitration Committee clarified that the General 1RR prohibition for Palestine-Israel articles may only be enforced on pages with the ARBPIA 1RR editnotice edit notice.

Miscellaneous
 * Two more administrator accounts were compromised. Evidence has shown that these attacks, like previous incidents, were due to reusing a password that was used on another website that suffered a data breach. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately. All admins are strongly encouraged to enable two-factor authentication, please consider doing so. Please always practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.
 * As a reminder, according to WP:NOQUORUM, administrators looking to close or relist an AfD should evaluate a nomination that has received few or no comments as if it were a proposed deletion (PROD) prior to determining whether it should be relisted.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:57, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

User Haldraper making odd edits again
The user Haldraper has recently made an edit to Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe which I don't believe to be useful. Having posted a message on their talk page about this I noticed your multiple previous engagements with this user about such edits on other pages. It appears the user hasn't taken your feedback about their editing style onboard? — Preceding unsigned comment added by MattIPv4 (talk • contribs) 15:44, 9 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the message. I have had more, mostly one-sided interchanges with that user than are apparent just by reading their talk page, as they often end up merely deleting my messages without discussion, and ignoring all attempts by myself (and some others) to abide by normal wikipedia practice and courtesies by discussing issues. Occasionally one gets rather pointed comments, most often done by edit summaries, concerning their simple reversions of what one has reinstated. It is very disruptive, which is why I have taken to dealing with the issue more firmly. I suggest you monitor the article to see what happens and if there are further problems, you can raise them either with me or on a relevant adminstrator's notice board. For complex personal reasons, involving long periods of time spent in China dealing with urgent family issues, I may not be as reliably around as ideally I would prefer to be.
 * By the way, please remember to sign your messages always by adding four tildes (the curly horizontal lines) at the end of your messages. Thanks for alerting me to yet more issues concerning this editor.  DDStretch    (talk)  05:42, 10 April 2019 (UTC)


 * Oh, also by the way, I taught an ex student from Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe who was a Chinese student, and who was by then completing a university course at Beijing Normal University after being refused a visa to complete his degree studies at Birmingham University. This was during my time when I lived in China from 2010 to 2015, around 2014 to 2015, if I recall correctly. I taught him introductory statistics.  DDStretch    (talk)  05:48, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

Cheshire portal
Hi Ddstretch -- Glad to see that you're still active here! I note that you mention at the portal wikiproject that you are a maintainer of the Cheshire portal. Would you mind if I added you as a third name to the official maintainers? I'm trying to keep on top of it & planning a major overhaul in response to the current re-envisaging of portals, but my engagement with Wikipedia is always on–off, and I sometimes disappear for months due to real-life issues/accumulated on-wiki stress, so it would be great to have another Cheshire project member who is knowledgeable about portals to be around in an emergency. Any news you can add, if you're living in England at the moment, would be very welcome. (I'm in the wilds of Scotland now, so finding Cheshire news is a bit of a pain.) Cheers, Espresso Addict (talk) 03:28, 29 April 2019 (UTC)