User talk:Interstellarity/Archives/2020/August

Administrators' newsletter – August 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2020). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Red Phoenix
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Euryalus • SQL
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Jujutacular • Monty845 • Rettetast • Madchester

Oversight changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg GB fan
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Keegan • Opabinia regalis • Premeditated Chaos

Guideline and policy news
 * There is an open request for comment to decide whether to increase the minimum duration a sanction discussion has to remain open (currently 24 hours).
 * Speedy deletion criterion T2 (template that misrepresents established policy) has been repealed following a request for comment.
 * Speedy deletion criterion X2 (pages created by the content translation tool) has been repealed following a discussion.
 * There is a proposal to restrict proposed deletion to confirmed users.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:20, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

AFD stats
Re your 30 June 2020 Help Desk question (pinging participants and ), I found some data published in 2019. Analyzing Wikipedia Deletion Debates with a Group Decision-Making Forecast Model looked at 369,592 discussions from January 1, 2005, to December 31, 2018, and found the following: of votes (2005-2018) 54.9% were for deletion, 28.4% for keep, 3.6% for merge, 3.8% for redirect, and 9.3% for 'Other', which is presumably mainly 'draftify' or 'userfy' votes. The outcomes found 63.9% closed as delete, 20.7% as keep, 3.2% as merge, 6.0% as redirect, and 6.2% for 'Other'. The caveat here is that they excluded all discussions "without an outcome label from an administrator", presumably NACs, which would skew the result more towards delete (since non-admins generally cannot close a discussion as delete). Also excluded is discussions with no votes after nomination, which makes up 3.0% of discussions.

They also note that we have "37 policy pages with 377 sections, 44 guideline pages with 398 sections, and 71 essay pages with 201 sections, all linked by a total of 2,111 shorthand aliases", just a fascinatingly high amount. Also, "all source code available is released under an open source license" so I will look into performing a more up to date analysis. Also worth noting is that "outcomes are more deletionist than votes" and "Across all votes in AfD’s history, 67.9% have been successful; this number rises to 75.6% when only considering votes for Keep or Delete outcomes and excluding votes for rare outcomes. Overall, deletionism is more successful: Delete votes are successful 82.0% of the time, while Keep votes have a 64.0% success rate". Anyways, thought you might want to see this when I stumbled upon it. Best wishes, Eddie891 Talk Work 11:37, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the insight. That is helpful. Interstellarity (talk) 22:27, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 2 August 2020
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Please try again
Hello a page which you nominated at AFD, was not correctly transcluded into the log. Please try again.(Note: I reverted the edits to restore the format at Afd). Cheers Megan Barris   (Lets talk📧)  12:53, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Hello ! I have received errors while creating the deletion discussion with Twinkle. I have created it manually at Articles for deletion/Flags of the World (website). Thanks for being concerned. Interstellarity (talk) 12:55, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
 * ,, added it’s back to the logs. Cheers Megan Barris   (Lets talk📧)  12:58, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 30 August 2020
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