User talk:Dominic/Archive35

Administrator account security (Correction to Arbcom 2019 special circular)
ArbCom would like to apologise and correct our previous mass message in light of the response from the community.

Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are required to "have strong passwords and follow appropriate personal security practices." We have updated our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular, two-factor authentication remains an optional means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised.

We are sorry for the wording of our previous message, which did not accurately convey this, and deeply regret the tone in which it was delivered.

For the Arbitration Committee, -Cameron11598 21:03, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

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--UTRSBot (talk) 18:21, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
 * I don't necessarily have any issue with this—honestly, I barely remember it! Though maybe he should be unblocked on condition that he not edit wrestling articles for a year, or something along those lines, as that seems to have been the problematic area. I would also note, if it matters, that his claim about it being "12 years ago" is not accurate, because if you look back at the old sockpuppetry cases, he continued to have sockpuppets getting blocked into 2010. Dominic·t 17:54, 6 June 2019 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Wikipedia:GLAM/NAL participants (staff)


A tag has been placed on Category:Wikipedia:GLAM/NAL participants (staff) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. UnitedStatesian (talk) 01:35, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
 * I am assuming this is in error? You added the tag mere hours after I created the page, and before I had a chance to use it, even though your message above states it has been empty for 7 days. Dominic·t 14:27, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
 * not a mistake at all: every empty category appears in Database reports/Empty categories and is normally then tagged for speedy deletion; that process puts it into a holding category for the seven-day period that is required by WP:CSD. The normal practice is to categorize a page into a new category before the category is created, the click on the resulting category redlink to create the category. This ensures new categories are always created with at least one page.  Since the category is still empty, and still appearing on the report, you can expect it may be nominated for deletion again (though not by me).  UnitedStatesian (talk) 03:16, 28 November 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Wikipedia:GLAM/NAL participants (staff)


A tag has been placed on Category:Wikipedia:GLAM/NAL participants (staff) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Liz Read! Talk! 02:21, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

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