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Administrators' newsletter – May 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2024).

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 * Phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship review has concluded. Several proposals have passed outright and will proceed to implementation, including creating a discussion-only period (3b) and administrator elections (13) on a trial basis. Other successful proposals, such as creating a reminder of civility norms (2), will undergo further refinement in Phase II. Proposals passed on a trial basis will be discussed in Phase II, after their trials conclude. Further details on specific proposals can be found in the full report.

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 * Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Wikipedia. This means that administrators have the ability to restrict users from certain actions, including uploading files, moving pages and files, creating new pages, and sending thanks. T280531

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Spam farm you blocked
Hi HJ Mitchell, I stumbled across the spam farm you blocked and found

who registered a little after your initial block wave, uses the visual editor and has overlaps on links being spammed with other socks. Any chance you could check/block them? Pahunkat (talk) 18:15, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

RFA2024 update: phase I concluded, phase II begins
Hi there! Phase I of the Requests for adminship/2024 review has concluded, with several impactful changes gaining community consensus and proceeding to various stages of implementation. Some proposals will be implemented in full outright; others will be discussed at phase II before being implemented; and still others will proceed on a trial basis before being brought to phase II. The following proposals have gained consensus:

See the project page for a full list of proposals and their outcomes. A huge thank-you to everyone who has participated so far :) looking forward to seeing lots of hard work become a reality in phase II. theleekycauldron (talk), via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:09, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Proposals 2 and 9b (phase II discussion): Add a reminder of civility norms at RfA and Require links for claims of specific policy violations
 * Proposal 3b (in trial): Make the first two days discussion-only
 * Proposal 13 (in trial): Admin elections
 * Proposal 14 (implemented): Suffrage requirements
 * Proposals 16 and 16c (phase II discussion): Allow the community to initiate recall RfAs and Community recall process based on dewiki
 * Proposal 17 (phase II discussion): Have named Admins/crats to monitor infractions
 * Proposal 24 (phase II discussion): Provide better mentoring for becoming an admin and the RfA process
 * Proposal 25 (implemented): Require nominees to be extended confirmed

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

 * With love and respect. Maliner (talk) 08:05, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Wow, 14 years as an admin! It's been... interesting! HJ Mitchell &#124; Penny for your thoughts? 18:18, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
 * happy anniversary harry! 196.188.98.47 (talk) 17:16, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue 217, May 2024
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IP address blocked?
Hi there. I can't access my regular account (Looktowindward) as a block was put on my IP address (I think the message suggested my IP was within a 'range' that included accounts which you detected had been abusive). I tried to log-in to contact you about this, as I certainly haven't been abusive on here, but my could not remember my password - and the password reset page is blocked under the IP restriction. So I set up this new account to get in touch and ask if you could remove the block on my IP, so I can use the original Looktowindward account (i.e. so I can access the password reset and go in again that way)! I hope that makes sense and that this can be resolved. Thanks! Looktowindward2 (talk) 15:42, 7 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Hi again. I've now reset my password for my original account (via a different wifi). I will try to access later from the IP address that was blocked. Looktowindward (talk) 08:19, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

68.225.132.241
This IP is back again after your previous blocks. Could you block them again? Thanks. 73.67.145.30 (talk) 15:22, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

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Pioneer Courthouse Square
I do wish you had not removed protection from that page. You might think 16 years after the vandalism started, the vandal would have moved on. Such is not the case. The vandal has been remarkably persistent with this stupid stuff about homeless people, which first appeared in 2006. ] If you don't want "permanent" semi, maybe set it to expire in 10 years or so. Thank you! ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 03:46, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

YGM
Cheers - SchroCat (talk) 12:24, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

Widen a pblock? Or blacklist?
Hi Harry! You pblocked Special:Contributions/106.222.208.0/22 from various articles to do with steel production in India back in March. That hasn't stopped them adding their spamlink to more tangental articles – Tata Steel for instance. Is it worth you widening their pblock to include Tata Steel or would I be better requesting a blacklisting of reninemetal.com? 81.187.192.168 (talk) 17:45, 1 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Blacklisting is definitely one option but there's more than one domain being spammed though there are constructive edits on the range. Might be worth raising at ANI to see if anyone has any bright ideas. HJ Mitchell &#124; Penny for your thoughts? 09:16, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Please renew the block of 193.219.130.166
Last April, you blocked 193.219.130.166 for one year to prevent persistent disruption. The block has expired but they have continued the disruptive behavior and another block would be appreciated. Thanks! ElKevbo (talk) 11:16, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
 * RegentsPark blocked this editor for 36 hours. Given that this disruption has been ongoing for several years from this one IP address and continued after a 1-year block, a block of similar length is likely warranted as a shorter block seems unlikely to be effective. ElKevbo (talk) 21:39, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
 * @ElKevbo they can have a longer break. Thanks. HJ Mitchell &#124; Penny for your thoughts? 09:10, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks but they've just changed to a new IP address. Rather than continuing to play whack-a-mole, I've requested an edit filter be created. ElKevbo (talk) 11:53, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2024).

Administrator changes
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Bureaucrat changes
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Oversight changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * Phase II of the 2024 RfA review has commenced to improve and refine the proposals passed in Phase I.

Technical news
 * The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. T43351

Arbitration
 * The arbitration case Venezuelan politics has been closed.
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The Bugle: Issue 218, June 2024
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Please grunt my Autopatrolled right
Hi. Kindly grant my Autopatrolled rights. You did it, but star Mississippi snatched. Per their obligation I have WP: CIR issue, which don't fit any of my edits. Either grunt me or please block me to please Star Mississippi. Regards- Twinkle1990 (talk) 17:02, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

Brain fever
Harry, while I have you--I was working on this article and ran into phrenitis. The first (the familiar term) dealt mostly with fiction, and the second with the medical term--but of course they're the same thing in the end. I mean, I could try to separate the content between the two, but that seems rather superficial to me, and part of the content I added is really medical. The literature (see the Peterson article that's cited a few times now) also treats them together. You have any thoughts? Gotta get this up to FA! Thanks, Drmies (talk) 16:48, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

Hey writer
...I don't see how this range can publish drafts including shit like this, Draft:Wikipedia supports hamas. The log says they're blocked from "specified non-editing actions", but I can't see what that means. What am I missing? Drmies (talk) 21:29, 10 June 2024 (UTC)


 * @Drmies it meant that they couldn't create an account on that range but could edit. I see has added a restriction on creating new pages. I'm guessing there's too much collateral for a full block. HJ Mitchell &#124; Penny for your thoughts?  15:53, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
 * I see at WP:PBLOCK that "Partial blocks can be leveraged to only block account creation from an IP or IP range, but permit normal editing. To do this, simply impose a partial block but leave the "Pages" and "Namespaces" fields blank." I assume that's what was done here; does that automatically generate the language "specified non-editing actions"? If so, it would be helpful to say that at PBLOCK.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:00, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks Harry, . Yeah, I really was puzzled by the log--maybe I didn't look carefully enough? I think I did click "change block" to see what was there, and I see what's there now, which is of course different. Drmies (talk) 16:14, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Yeah, the language is from the software. Try it on a test account or something. Select partial block and tick (only) block account creation. We could matbe ask the technical folks to write a clearer log entry. <b style="color: teal; font-family: Tahoma">HJ Mitchell</b> &#124; <span style="color: navy; font-family: Times New Roman" title="(Talk page)">Penny for your thoughts? 20:59, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
 * I see it now: thanks! Drmies (talk) 21:25, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Just a note that I flipped the "no page creation" switch because they were (unsurprisingly) creating problematic pages. Primefac (talk) 00:36, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

Totally unrelated, Harry and Bbb, am I wrong in thinking that 2014 Tampines flat stabbing really has no encyclopedic relevance? Drmies (talk) 16:49, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

Request to expand block on IP user
Hi, would you consider a full block for the user per recent edits? Many previous blocks. xRENEGADEx ( talk &#124;  contribs ) 10:38, 27 June 2024 (UTC)


 * @XRENEGADEx the partial block is on the whole /32 which is absolutely enormous. It's likely your juvenile friend here is a different person to the one who was causing problems a few months ago. We can block individual /64s if necessary but there's nothing on that one except those two edits so blocking it would be disproportionate at this time. <b style="color: teal; font-family: Tahoma">HJ Mitchell</b> &#124; <span style="color: navy; font-family: Times New Roman" title="(Talk page)">Penny for your thoughts? 11:27, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

I know you're busy and not around much at the moment, but...
If you have any time, I've got a PR open on the Brighton bomb, running here; it may be of interest to you. Cheers - SchroCat (talk) 15:26, 28 June 2024 (UTC)


 * @SchroCat definitely! I'm easing back into things now that real life is a bit more stable but I'll be sure to have a look. It's right up my street (almost literally these days!), and I might have some sources for you! <b style="color: teal; font-family: Tahoma">HJ Mitchell</b> &#124; <span style="color: navy; font-family: Times New Roman" title="(Talk page)">Penny for your thoughts? 15:44, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Excellent - always happy for more sources, and any comments, of course! Cheers - SchroCat (talk) 11:09, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
 * @SchroCat Fancy a collaboration one day on Balcombe Street siege? Between us we must have most of the sources and enough background knowledge to get it up to FA. <b style="color: teal; font-family: Tahoma">HJ Mitchell</b> &#124; <span style="color: navy; font-family: Times New Roman" title="(Talk page)">Penny for your thoughts? 21:24, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Definitely. It's been on my list for a while (I got some of the sources from the Wiki library when I finished on the Spaghetti House siege, and that was a few years ago now!) Cheers - SchroCat (talk) 06:43, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
 * @SchroCat Mine too. I did the Iranian embassy and Operation Flavius (of "Death on the Rock" fame) years ago and there's an overlap with some of my police shootings. I've been compiling sources for an article on the SAS and the IRA for a while too. Balcombe Street could make an interesting little project. <b style="color: teal; font-family: Tahoma">HJ Mitchell</b> &#124; <span style="color: navy; font-family: Times New Roman" title="(Talk page)">Penny for your thoughts? 15:30, 30 June 2024 (UTC)

"specified non-editing actions"
Hi there! FWIW, I just rolled back this edit] by. There was this strange edit summary "(avoid plague of TAB-s)", and as far as I can see, the edit resulted in nothing visible. I noticed that you range-blocked 83.30.0.0/16 in april for "specified non-editing actions", and I was wondering what this meant, and how this IP can still edit. Cheers - DVdm (talk) 20:34, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

Note: here's another one:, by , with edit summary "(minus FULLWIDTH space)". - DVdm (talk) 09:10, 25 June 2024 (UTC)

Note: looks like is narrowly blocked for a week by. Given the above, that will probably not be sufficient. - DVdm (talk) 10:31, 25 June 2024 (UTC)

Note: See again, Special:Contributions/83.30.172.136 but "partially blocked". Also pinging. - DVdm (talk) 20:53, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Maybe you'd like to bump Special:Contributions/83.30.0.0/16 up to a full block, Harry? Looks like that fellow has been using it for quite some time. (I'd do it myself if it wasn't a CU block.) Extraordinary Writ (talk) 22:01, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
 * @Extraordinary Writ my considerations were that he's not necessarily using the whole /16 at any one time and it's a big and busy range. But you have my permission to make it a full block if you don't think there's a better option. I won't be able to look in any detail today. <b style="color: teal; font-family: Tahoma">HJ Mitchell</b> &#124; <span style="color: navy; font-family: Times New Roman" title="(Talk page)">Penny for your thoughts? 08:13, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Looks like JBW has blocked the /17, which should do the trick for now. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 08:10, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Short blocks on smaller ranges is probably the way to go. I think I blocked a /17 last time but blocked account creation on tge /16 to slow them down a bit. <b style="color: teal; font-family: Tahoma">HJ Mitchell</b> &#124; <span style="color: navy; font-family: Times New Roman" title="(Talk page)">Penny for your thoughts? 09:42, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

recent revert on taylor swift page
hello - you reverted my recent edit - is there a rule POV lead cannot be placed on featured article. we have tried to use talk page - you can see it. but two involved editors are making disruptive reverts and making it impossible. An uninvolved editor who put lot of effort has already quit because of disruptive edits by these users ( see talk page history ). We need that tag so that we can get attention from more editors. please revert your edit. @HJ Mitchell Gsgdd (talk) 13:20, 3 July 2024 (UTC)


 * @Gsgdd I will be re-reverting your addition of the tag and if you reinstate again I will block you from editing that article; I'm contemplating doing so anyway. I can see that there is an ongoing discussion on the talk page and that you have found your way to the dispute resolution and NPOV noticeboards which has attracted outside opinions, and I can see that the discussion appears to be productive. The only disruption I see is your conduct towards editors who disagree with you. You will struggle to get revolutionary change on Wikipedia; the consensus model just doesn't move that quickly. I suggest you continue working towards evolutionary change and finding a version that most people can agree on. A request for comment has already been suggested as the next step once you have a proposal to ask for feedback on. <b style="color: teal; font-family: Tahoma">HJ Mitchell</b> &#124; <span style="color: navy; font-family: Times New Roman" title="(Talk page)">Penny for your thoughts? 14:49, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Please see this
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 * changing other people comments and doing whatever you want is no way to go. People spend lot of time and effort on this. Im not going to edit that article - i have already said that in my last revision comment. Unless someone take initiative, I'm positive that article will remain the same or not any different because of two people there. One of them wrote the intro. second one only edits taylor swift pages (biased). Gsgdd (talk) 19:52, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Another editor also complained about them - they said these user's are bludgeoning and preventing consensus.
 * Im not the only problem. We tried and failed Gsgdd (talk) 19:57, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:58, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

Sock
There is an ip at special:contribs/2800:810:48E:6DA:3D38:5049:DCE4:93D4 retreading some patters of User:Hidolo, who you recently indeffed. ~ Pinging you here, because you banned him for some checkuser related stuff..? JackTheSecond (talk) 17:35, 7 July 2024 (UTC)


 * @JackTheSecond Thank you. <b style="color: teal; font-family: Tahoma">HJ Mitchell</b> &#124; <span style="color: navy; font-family: Times New Roman" title="(Talk page)">Penny for your thoughts? 17:45, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

Icebear244
Hi, regarding this checkuser block, do you have any information about possible sockmasters? The closest matches I get are to AMuseo (Historicist) and All Rows4 (NoCal1000), although I'm not sure that the various methods I'm testing have the resolution and reliability required to distinguish between them in all cases. Sean.hoyland (talk) 04:46, 8 July 2024 (UTC)


 * @Sean.hoyland there was some suggestion it was Icewhiz. Ultimately the technical evidence wasn't strong enough to definitively state it was one master over any other (hence the lag of a tag) but the combination of edits and technical evidence add up to an account that has likely been sold or compromised by one of the topic area's prolific sockmasters and someone using sophisticated methods to obfuscate their identity. After all these years, I'm not sure it's possible to tell them all apart conclusively. <b style="color: teal; font-family: Tahoma">HJ Mitchell</b> &#124; <span style="color: navy; font-family: Times New Roman" title="(Talk page)">Penny for your thoughts? 12:03, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Okay, thanks. Sean.hoyland (talk) 12:44, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

Blocked IP Address
Hello, I saw you blocked an IP Address of mine, particularly this one. Please note I wasn't doing anything wrong, rather all I wanted to do is fix the location of a little arrow. Unfortunately, the edit filter did not like what I was doing, but I got away with it in the end, as you can see here. My edit was reverted, and then un-reverted. I have reported the false positive of the edit filter, here. I must say, I got more than I bargained for, all of this for a measly edit request! Anyway, I do apologize to you if I caused any inconvenience. Please note, there is no need to unblock the IP Address, as I get a new one every 1-2 hours. Cheers! 2402:8100:24CB:B6DC:706B:CAA8:977:8E81 (talk), now known as 2402:8100:24CC:212C:8D1F:79FA:4C55:A53C (talk) 04:15, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

My IP
Hi, my IP i think is public and this is my cellular data IP thingy, there is a blocked article which is by you and i didn't do, it would be nice if you could remove it because i use this IP to edit and the block notice makes me look like i did it. 2605:8D80:400:9392:3921:D6A3:7729:EE70 (talk) 03:21, 8 July 2024 (UTC)


 * Hi, it's nothing personal. Someone else on that mobile network was causing a problem on that article. They were bouncing around multiple addresses on the range so I put a partial block on the entire /32 but that's no reflection on you. <b style="color: teal; font-family: Tahoma">HJ Mitchell</b> &#124; <span style="color: navy; font-family: Times New Roman" title="(Talk page)">Penny for your thoughts? 12:14, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Shocking that the IP is a (now rangeblocked) sock. -- Ponyo bons mots 17:59, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue 219, July 2024
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