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Administrators' newsletter – December 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2019). Administrator changes
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 * An RfC on the administrator resysop criteria was closed. 18 proposals have been summarised with a variety of supported and opposed statements. The inactivity grace period within which a new request for adminship is not required has been reduced from three years to two. Additionally, Bureaucrats are permitted to use their discretion when returning administrator rights.
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Arbitration
 * Voting in the 2019 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 2 December 2018 UTC. Please review the candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page.

Miscellaneous
 * The global consultation on partial and temporary office actions that ended in October received a closing statement from staff concluding, among other things, that the WMF will no longer use partial or temporary Office Action bans... until and unless community consensus that they are of value or Board directive.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:47, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

GOCE December 2019 Newsletter
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Category:Generals of Byzantine Emperors has been nominated for discussion
Category:Generals of Byzantine Emperors, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Constantine  ✍  23:23, 6 December 2019 (UTC)

Marcian
Hello:

The copy edit you requested from the Guild of Copy Editors of the Article Marcian has been completed.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

I'll draw your attention to a couple of points that came up during my edit.

This appears in the Politics section:

"Despite Aspar's great influence, the Eastern Roman elites retained much of their anti-German sentiment. Marcian patronized the Blues, who were one of the original four circus teams. The two teams which remained had become more like political parties than sports teams by his time, wielding large influence in the empire, the other being the Greens; both vied for power. After the Greens responded angrily to his patronage, Marcus censured them, forbidding any of them to hold any public office for three years. Marcian's patronage of the Blues may have had dynastic motivations, as Chrysaphius had been favorable to the Greens.[2]"

This mention of "anti-German sentiment" comes up out of the blue here with no earlier reference to it. I would suggest this needs some further explanation. Also the circus teams information has appeared abruptly, again with no explanation.

As well, this sentence from the section headed Relationship with the Western Roman Empire:

"When Marcian was elected in 450, it was done without consulting the Western Emperor, Valentinian III,[11][12][13] who would not recognize him until March 452.[14][a] Valentinian also did not recognize the Eastern Roman consul—Marcian for 451, or Sporacius for 452."

It reads that Valentinian did not recognize Marcian until 452 but then it reads 451; and should the word "for" be replaces with "until"?

Best of luck with the FAC.

Regards,

Twofingered Typist (talk) 13:17, 13 December 2019 (UTC)

Nikephoros III Botaneiates

 * One small issue that I wondered about is that, both in the lead and the main text, there is a statement about Nikephoros declaring himself emperor on 2 July 1078, and then following in the text a reference to him entering Constantinople and seizing the throne on 24 March 1078. Are these the correct dates? That is, did he "seize the throne" and then wait three months before "declaring himself emperor" (perhaps referring to a formal crowning ceremony or some such)? It would seem more likely that he first declared himself emperor to rally troops and supporters before attacking Constantinople, in which case maybe the attack happened on 24 March 1079? If this is the correct chronological order it would also explain why it is mentioned later in the text, otherwise the order is a bit strange. Regards, Tdslk (talk) 06:27, 17 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Good catch; the 24th date is actually in neither of the sources cited to it, so I'm not sure where it came from. I've removed it for the moment. -- Iazyges   Consermonor   Opus meum  18:36, 17 December 2019 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXIV, December 2019
The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here. If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 12:48, 19 December 2019 (UTC)

Thank you ...
... for improving article quality in December! There's a peer review open for Clara Schumann and a FAC for Jauchzet, frohlocket!, DYK? We miss Brian who would have helped. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:09, 19 December 2019 (UTC)

Precious anniversary
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:35, 20 December 2019 (UTC)

New Page Review newsletter December 2019


This year's Reviewer of the Year is. Having gotten the reviewer PERM in August 2018, they have been a regular reviewer of articles and redirects, been an active participant in the NPP community, and has been the driving force for the emerging NPP Source Guide that will help reviewers better evaluate sourcing and notability in many countries for which it has historically been difficult.
 * Reviewer of the Year

Special commendation again goes to who ends the year as one of our most prolific reviewers for the second consecutive year. Thanks also to and  who have been in the top 5 for the last two years as well.

Several newer editors have done a lot of work with CAPTAIN MEDUSA and DannyS712 (who has also written bots which have patrolled thousands of redirects) being new reviewers since this time last year.

Thanks to them and to everyone reading this who has participated in New Page Patrol this year.

(The top 100 reviewers of the year can be found here)

A recent Request for Comment on creating a new redirect autopatrol pseduo-permission was closed early. New Page Reviewers are now able to nominate editors who have an established track record creating uncontroversial redirects. At the individual discretion of any administrator or after 24 hours and a consensus of at least 3 New Page Reviewers an editor may be added to a list of users whose redirects will be patrolled automatically by.
 * Redirect autopatrol

Set to launch early in the new year is our first New Page Patrol Source Guide discussion. These discussions are designed to solicit input on sources in places and topic areas that might otherwise be harder for reviewers to evaluate. The hope is that this will allow us to improve the accuracy of our patrols for articles using these sources (and/or give us places to perform a WP:BEFORE prior to nominating for deletion). Please watch the New Page Patrol talk page for more information.
 * Source Guide Discussion

While New Page Reviewers are an experienced set of editors, we all benefit from an occasional review. This month consider refreshing yourself on Notability (geographic features). Also consider how we can take the time for quality in this area. For instance, sources to verify human settlements, which are presumed notable, can often be found in seconds. This lets us avoid the (ugly) 'Needs more refs' tag. Delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) at 16:10, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
 * This month's refresher course