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Administrators' newsletter – March 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2022).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Modussiccandi
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg BOZ • Brookie (deceased) • Jackmcbarn • Jamesday • Jonathunder • Master of Puppets • Saravask



CheckUser changes
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Oversighter changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * A RfC is open to change the wording of revision deletion criterion 1 to remove the sentence relating to non-infringing contributions.
 * A RfC is open to discuss prohibiting draftification of articles over 90 days old.

Technical news
 * The deployment of the reply tool as an opt-out feature, as announced in last month's newsletter, has been delayed to 7 March. Feedback and comments are being welcomed at Wikipedia talk:Talk pages project.
 * Special:Nuke will now allow the selection of standard deletion reasons to be used when mass-deleting pages. This was a Community Wishlist Survey request from 2022.
 * The ability to undelete the talk page when undeleting a page using Special:Undelete or the API will be added soon. This change was requested in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.

Arbitration
 * Several unused discretionary sanctions and article probation remedies have been rescinded. This follows the community feedback from the 2021 Discretionary Sanctions review.

Miscellaneous
 * The 2022 appointees for the Ombuds commission are Érico, Faendalimas, Galahad, Infinite0694, Mykola7, Olugold, Udehb and Zabe as regular members and Ameisenigel and JJMC89 as advisory members.
 * Following the 2022 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AntiCompositeNumber, BRPever, Hasley, TheresNoTime, and Vermont.
 * The 2022 Community Wishlist Survey results have been published alongside the ranking of prioritized proposals.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:46, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

WikiCup 2022 March newsletter
And so ends the first round of the WikiCup. Last year anyone who scored more than zero points moved on to Round 2, but this was not the case this year, and a score of 13 or more was required to proceed. The top scorers in Round 1 were:


 * Epicgenius, a finalist last year, who led the field with 1906 points, gained from 32 GAs and 19 DYKs, all on the topic of New York buildings.
 * 🇨🇽 AryKun, new to the contest, was second with 1588 points, having achieved 2 FAs, 11 GAs and various other submissions, mostly on the subject of birds.
 * Bloom6132, a WikiCup veteran, was in third place with 682 points, garnered from 51 In the news items and several DYKs.
 * GhostRiver was close behind with 679 points, gained from achieving 12 GAs, mostly on ice hockey players, and 35 GARs.
 * 🇺🇳 Kavyansh.Singh was in fifth place with 551 points, with an FA, a FL, and many reviews.
 * Flag of Provo, Utah (1989–2015).svg SounderBruce was next with 454 points, gained from an FA and various other submissions, mostly on United States highways.
 * 🇺🇳 Ktin, another WikiCup veteran, was in seventh place with 412 points, mostly gained from In the news items.

These contestants, like all the others who qualified for Round 2, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. Between them, contestants completed reviews of a large number of good articles as the contest ran concurrently with a GAN backlog drive. Well done all! To qualify for Round 3, contestants will need to finish Round 2 among the top thirty-two participants.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Anything that should have been claimed for in Round 1 is no longer eligible for points. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews Needed.

Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:07, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Pavel Buchnevich
The article Pavel Buchnevich you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Pavel Buchnevich for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Nova Crystallis -- Nova Crystallis (talk) 23:01, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

rejection of article
Hi - You just rejected my article on Richard Gordon Lillard. This was my first submission, so I must have things to learn. I had actually been working on some changes; I never expected the review to happen so fast. Are you able to give me guidance? If I resubmit, will it go back to you, or will it go to someone else? I noticed that you have posted mainly about hockey players. Richard Lillard is more in the academia area. I realized that I should have noted his many honors, national and regional, and the fact that a scholarship is named after him. I think that people using his Outdoor Classroom, or people receiving his scholarship, would be interested in reading about him. Am I on the right track? Thanks for your help. Prof Mo Lill (talk) 20:05, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. While my talk page may be full of hockey players, I have actually written over 100 articles on academics. My main concern with this is that you only cite three sources. This is not enough to show he is notable enough for Wikipedia. You may be unaware but you are allowed to use offline sources on Wikipedia. If you can provide citations for everything in the article, I will re-review it and consider accepting it . HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 20:15, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Thank you! I will work on it. I will take a look at the academic articles you have written, as they may have similar sources. It will take me a month or so - that should be ok, as it is within the six month window, correct? So in a few weeks I will get back to you. (I am going on vacation, not abandoning the project!) Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. Prof Mo Lill (talk) 20:22, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Hello, there is absolutely no rush. Just message me whenever you feel it should be reviewed. Enjoy your vacation . HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 20:25, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Hello again - Just before I engage in a lot of work chasing down exact source citations, I wanted to ask you if I was on the right track. I will be able to establish that Richard Lillard had the Outdoor Classroom named after him (which was an honor, not something he "paid for," though I'm not sure how to "prove" that). Also he was a Fellow of the Historical Society of Southern California (which is an honor). He was given several grants and fellowships - Guggenheim, a listing the The WHite House Library: A Short-Title List, a Fulbright, A non-Fiction award from a Library Assn, a resident scholarship at the Bellagio Study and Conference Center and at the Camargo Foundation, and a Fellowship from the Henry Huntington Library. I did read an article you did on a professor, and I took another look at other author/educator pages, and I realized that wikipedia wants some corroboration that the work done by the person was exceptional, groundbreaking, etc. Are you able to tell me -- of course without any "guarantees," I really do understand that -- if this is the direction I should be going? (If I do not answer for a couple of weeks, it is because I am away. I do appreciate any direction you can provide.) Prof Mo Lill (talk) 21:16, 20 January 2022 (UTC)
 * , Sorry for the delayed response. I did a quick google search and what I found beyond the outdoor classroom includes a large collection with the Online Archives of California. To me, both of these show he passes WP:NPROF #7 but I will need to see the full article before I can confirm. I will also say that I was unaware of your connection to this person before we started communicating and am glad you're already following our COI guidelines (maybe unintentionally). HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 17:10, 22 January 2022 (UTC)

Oh, odd, I answered this once but it didn't show up, so again - thank you so much for the information on the Online Archives. I will pick this up again in a few weeks. And, yes, I was intentionally trying to follow the COI guidelines - I hope I did it right. Prof Mo Lill (talk) 20:34, 22 January 2022 (UTC) Hi. Just trying to fix the "Jacqueline Rhodes" page. It got declined because of unreliable sources? I think it's fixed, but not sure because I'm not sure what's unreliable ABOUT the sources used. I'll keep working. Profjrhodes (talk) 16:14, 23 January 2022 (UTC)profjrhodes

Hello HickoryOughtShirt - I am back from vacation and will be in touch in a few weeks. Prof Mo Lill (talk) 21:05, 23 February 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi, I just tried to resubmit the article on Richard Gordon Lillard. Not sure I pushed the correct button.  Are you finding it?
 * Prof Mo Lill (talk) 00:03, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
 * , You did not submit it properly. I have re-added the banner and you should be able to now. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 22:22, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I tried again.  I have phone calls and emails out to supply the missing citations.
 * Prof Mo Lill (talk) 02:52, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

Draft:Gerd Ulrich Nienhaus
Could you please be so kind and check the current draft once again? I have added more references in the honors section as per your suggestion. Please advise! CSNV (talk) 15:59, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
 * , I've accepted it. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 17:07, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

Thank you so much for your help! CSNV (talk) 08:25, 1 February 2022 (UTC)

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