User talk:Illusion Flame/Archive 4

CVUA Training
Hello Illusion Flame, I am interested in studying at the CVUA under your guidance. Thanks, Knowledgegatherer23  ( Say Hello ) 23:10, 20 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Hello @Knowledgegatherer23! I normally take on students with around 200 edits and don’t have rollback. You have over a thousand and already have rollback, which means you already understand many of our policies. I’m afraid I don’t think my school will teach you anything you don’t already know. Thanks! - 🔥𝑰𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆 (𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌)🔥 15:29, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
 * @Illusion Flame Okay, thanks. Happy Holidays. Knowledgegatherer23  ( Say Hello ) 16:16, 21 December 2023 (UTC)

Since you're on the nice list, I'll say it again:

 * Thanks! - 🔥𝑰𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆 (𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌)🔥 15:29, 21 December 2023 (UTC)

メリークリスマス！ (Merry Christmas)
 🛧 Midori No Sora♪ 🛪 ( ☁＝☁＝✈  ) is wishing you a Merry Christmas! This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Happy New Year!

Spread the cheer by adding {{subst:Xmas2}} to their talk page with a friendly message. 🛧 Midori No Sora♪ 🛪 ( ☁＝☁＝✈  ) 01:25, 25 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Thank you and merry Christmas! - 🔥𝑰𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆 (𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌)🔥 03:19, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

Happy holidays
Happy Holidays text.png Hello Illusion Flame: Enjoy the holiday season&#32;and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, ~ Prodraxis  ( Merry Christmas! ) 02:15, 25 December 2023 (UTC) Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Season's Greetings}} to send this message ~  Prodraxis  ( Merry Christmas! ) 02:15, 25 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Merry Christmas and thank you for the kind message! - 🔥𝑰𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆 (𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌)🔥 03:19, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

Happy holidays!


– robertsky (talk) is wishing you Happy Holidays! This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user Happy Holidays, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Happy New Year!

Spread the cheer by adding {{subst:Happy holidays}} to their talk page with a friendly message. – robertsky (talk) 06:54, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

Question from CRG12 (20:43, 27 December 2023)
Hi! I'm new to editing and adding information. I am trying to honor a colleague who recently retired after a long career in opera and teaching. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mignon_Dunn&action=edit&editintro=Template%3ABLP_editintro

Some of the citations are red-flagged, so I'm not sure what I did wrong. Any help is appreciated. CRG --CRG12 (talk) 20:43, 27 December 2023 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thanks so much for all your hard work @Xaosflux! This election truly couldn’t have happened without you. Happy editing, - 🔥𝑰𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆 (𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌)🔥 01:52, 30 December 2023 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Illusion Flame!


Happy New Year! Illusion Flame, Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.

Shadow 345110  (talk)  12:13, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

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Question from Coffee&2Ideas (23:30, 21 December 2023)
Thank you. How do I publish the page? --Coffee&#38;2Ideas (talk) 23:30, 21 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Hello @Coffee&2Ideas and welcome to Wikipedia! To publish the page you’ve created, I’d recommend using the article creation helper. It will walk you through the whole process. Let me know if you have any further questions. - 🔥𝑰𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆 (𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌)🔥 03:21, 23 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much. I will take a look today.   Coffee&#38;2Ideas (talk) 22:34, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – January 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2023).

Administrator changes
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Arbitration
 * Following the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee:, , , , , , ,.
 * Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee rescinded the restrictions on the page name move discussions for the two Ireland pages that were enacted in June 2009.
 * The arbitration case Industrial agriculture has been closed.

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

Administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * An RfC about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.

Technical news
 * Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size.

Arbitration
 * Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
 * Community feedback is requested for a draft to replace the "Information for administrators processing requests" section at WP:AE.

Miscellaneous
 * Voting in the 2024 Steward elections will begin on 06 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 27 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
 * A vote to ratify the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open till 2 February 2024, 23:59:59 (UTC) via Secure Poll. All eligible voters within the Wikimedia community have the opportunity to either support or oppose the adoption of the U4C Charter and share their reasons. The details of the voting process and voter eligibility can be found here.
 * Community Tech has made some preliminary decisions about the future of the Community Wishlist Survey. In summary, they aim to develop a new, continuous intake system for community technical requests that improves prioritization, resource allocation, and communication regarding wishes. Read more
 * The Unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in February 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with Unreferenced. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!

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

Administrator changes
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 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg East718 · Isabelle Belato · Mzajac · Staecker · Stan Shebs · Sugarfish · Tamzin



Bureaucrat changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * Phase I of the 2024 RfA review is now open for participation. Editors are invited to review, comment on, and propose improvements to the requests for adminship process.
 * Following an RfC, the inactivity requirement for the removal of the interface administrator right increased from 6 months to 12 months.

Technical news
 * The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages.

Miscellaneous
 * The 2024 appointees for the Ombuds commission are だ＊ぜ, AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Doǵu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, MdsShakil, Minorax, Nehaoua, Renvoy and RoySmith as members, with Vermont serving as steward-observer.
 * Following the 2024 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Ajraddatz, Albertoleoncio, EPIC, JJMC89, Johannnes89, Melos and Yahya.

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A beer for you!

 * Seconding this! Hours earlier, I had posted a message related to this. I miss you; I hope you're okay. ~ Tails   Wx  (🐾, me!) 02:53, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
 * I emailed you a month ago, but it seems like you haven’t had the chance to reply yet. I hope everything’s going well for you. I really miss you, my friend. – DreamRimmer (talk) 06:16, 4 March 2024 (UTC)
 * @DreamRimmer I am also waiting for your response to an email that I sent you a month ago, but it seems like you haven’t had the chance to reply yet. Maliner (talk) 06:02, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
 * @Maliner, I don't want to clutter Illusion's talk page with unnecessary messages, but since you mentioned it here, I'll respond. Could you please resend the email? It seems I accidentally overlooked it. – DreamRimmer (talk) 12:56, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

Anti-Vandalism Training
Would love start the anti-vandalism academy! Not in your time zone, but no trainers offered is PST. Slacker13 (talk) 15:32, 11 March 2024 (UTC)


 * @Slacker13, Illusion Flame has not edited for the last two months. I think you should consider finding another active trainer at Counter-Vandalism Unit/Academy/Instructors. – DreamRimmer (talk) 16:12, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Question from Dr. Cyril N. Kendall, The World's Most Unique Man7727 (04:23, 1 April 2024)
Hello: I would like to put in my profile on my Wikipedia page. Can you help me with completing this? --Dr. Cyril N. Kendall, The World&#39;s Most Unique Man7727 (talk) 04:23, 1 April 2024 (UTC)


 * @Dr. Cyril N. Kendall, The World's Most Unique Man7727, welcome to Wikipedia. Please note that Wikipedia is not like a database or other social media platforms where you can create profiles about yourself. Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia where you can find information about notable subjects. Every subject needs to pass notability guidelines for inclusion on Wikipedia. If you believe you are notable enough for a Wikipedia article, don't worry, someone will surely write about you soon. – DreamRimmer (talk) 10:42, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

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



Administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news Technical news Arbitration Miscellaneous
 * An RfC is open to convert all current and future community discretionary sanctions to (community designated) contentious topics procedure.
 * The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes.
 * An arbitration case has been opened to look into "the intersection of managing conflict of interest editing with the harassment (outing) policy".
 * Editors are invited to sign up for The Core Contest, an initiative running from April 15 to May 31, which aims to improve vital and other core articles on Wikipedia.

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New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024
Hello ,

Backlog update: The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to, who led with over 2,300 points.

Following that, New Page Patrol organized another backlog drive for articles in January 2024. The January drive started with 13,650 articles and reduced the backlog to 7,430 articles. Congratulations to, who achieved first place with 1,340 points in this drive.

Looking at the graph, it seems like backlog drives are one of the only things keeping the backlog under control. Another backlog drive is being planned for May. Feel free to participate in the May backlog drive planning discussion.

It's worth noting that both queues are gradually increasing again and are nearing 14,034 articles and 22,540 redirects. We encourage you to keep contributing, even if it's just a single patrol per day. Your support is greatly appreciated!

2023 Awards won the 2023 cup with 17,761 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 50/day. There was one Platinum Award (10,000+ reviews), 2 Gold Awards (5000+ reviews), 6 Silver (2000+), 8 Bronze (1000+), 30 Iron (360+) and 70 more for the 100+ barnstar. led on redirect reviews by clearing 36,175 of them. For the full details, see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone for their efforts in reviewing!

WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers deployed the rewritten NewPagesFeed in October, and then gave the NewPagesFeed a slight visual facelift in November. This concludes most major work to Special:NewPagesFeed, and most major work by the WMF Moderator Tools team, who wrapped up their major work on PageTriage in October. The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers will continue small work on PageTriage as time permits.

Recruitment: A couple of the coordinators have been inviting editors to become reviewers, via mass-messages to their talk pages. If you know someone who you'd think would make a good reviewer, then a personal invitation to them would be great. Additionally, if there are Wikiprojects that you are active on, then you can add a post there asking participants to join NPP. Please be careful not to double invite folks that have already been invited.

Reviewing tip: Reviewers who prefer to patrol new pages within their most familiar subjects can use the regularly updated NPP Browser tool.

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Teach
Hey I want to learn about counter-vandalism, can you please teach me? RainbowBambi (talk) 14:27, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

Question from Beingherenow2 (20:02, 21 April 2024)
Hello! I submitted a new page for consideration back on March 17 and I am wondering how to find out its status. I began the article a couple weeks earlier and had some rejections but I do believe it is in acceptable form now. Is it normal to take this long? --Beingherenow2 (talk) 20:02, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

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

Administrator changes
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Bureaucrat changes
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CheckUser changes
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Oversight changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * 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.

Technical news
 * 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

Arbitration
 * The arbitration case Conflict of interest management has been closed.

Miscellaneous
 * This may be a good time to reach out to potential nominees to ask if they would consider an RfA.
 * A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in May 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 15,000 articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!
 * Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is open until 9 May 2024. Read the voting page on Meta-Wiki and cast your vote here!

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

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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.
 * The Committee is seeking volunteers for various roles, including access to the conflict of interest VRT queue.

Miscellaneous
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Question from Beingherenow2 (18:27, 10 June 2024)
Hello. I have been drafting an article on teacher/musician Brian Seeger. I don't understand the explanations of why it is not being accepted. I would like to have a conversation with you, or SOMEONE, about why my draft is unacceptable when other pages exactly like it have been accepted. Your help and guidance would be much appreciated. --Beingherenow2 (talk) 18:27, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

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



Administrator changes
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 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Brianga · De728631 · Georgewilliamherbert · Hyacinth (deceased) · ProveIt · The Night Watch

Technical news
 * Local administrators can now add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without using JavaScript. Documentation is available on MediaWiki.

Miscellaneous
 * The Community Wishlist is re-opening on 15 July 2024. Read more

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