User talk:Finlay McWalter/archive19

Administrators will no longer be autopatrolled
A recently closed Request for Comment (RFC) reached consensus to remove Autopatrolled from the administrator user group. You may, similarly as with Edit Filter Manager, choose to self-assign this permission to yourself. This will be implemented the week of December 13th, but if you wish to self-assign you may do so now. To find out when the change has gone live or if you have any questions please visit the Administrator's Noticeboard. 20:05, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

How we will see unregistered users
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When someone edits a Wikimedia wiki without being logged in today, we show their IP address. As you may already know, we will not be able to do this in the future. This is a decision by the Wikimedia Foundation Legal department, because norms and regulations for privacy online have changed.

Instead of the IP we will show a masked identity. You as an admin will still be able to access the IP. There will also be a new user right for those who need to see the full IPs of unregistered users to fight vandalism, harassment and spam without being admins. Patrollers will also see part of the IP even without this user right. We are also working on better tools to help.

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We have two suggested ways this identity could work. We would appreciate your feedback on which way you think would work best for you and your wiki, now and in the future. You can let us know on the talk page. You can write in your language. The suggestions were posted in October and we will decide after 17 January.

Thank you. /Johan (WMF)

18:12, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Technical Request Needs Administrator
Hello, Finlay McWalter,

I submitted a technical request for a draft to be moved into the main space for a page that's currently a redirect. Thought it would be good if others could also be able to add on to article while its under construction. If you were able to do the move it would be highly appreciated! Thanks in advance. - DovahDuck (talk) 11:30, 7 January 2022 (UTC)

New administrator activity requirement
22:52, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

Penang
In response to your talk page post on Penang – I'd say just be WP:BOLD, after all you're a long-term seasoned editor. There seems to be a whole lot of exaggerated boosterism throughout the article that leads me to think there has been some sort of involvement by the state's tourism agency or something. Also note how most of the major contributors to the article, which are also the accounts that added most of the content you brought up, were sockpuppets – 1, 2, 3, and hence shouldn't really require much justification for removal. 203.234.189.103 (talk) 17:01, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

Missouri
There's been a string of vandalism over the last couple days. Do you think it's same person from multiple computers? —Confession0791 talk 18:39, 10 July 2022 (UTC)


 * It seems to be from a very wide range of addresses, and each vandal seems to do different things. I'm guessing it's some forum somewhere, where someone has said "let's vandalise the wikipedia article about Missouri". I don't think there's any block to be done; none of the vandals persist long enough for that to be effective. We could semiprotect Missouri, but the rate of vandalism is quite low, and reverting these vandal edits gives us a pointer to any collateral damage they've done elsewhere. Unless it gets worse, I'm inclined to revert and ignore. -- Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 18:48, 10 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Looks like Favonian semi-protected it. —Confession0791 talk 21:32, 10 July 2022 (UTC)