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Administrators' newsletter – December 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2020). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Andrwsc • Anetode • GoldenRing • JzG • LinguistAtLarge • Nehrams2020

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Izno

Guideline and policy news
 * There is a request for comment in progress to either remove T3 (duplicated and hardcoded instances) as a speedy deletion criterion or eliminate its seven-day waiting period.

Technical news
 * Voting for proposals in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey, which determines what software the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Tech team will work on next year, will take place from 8 December through 21 December. In particular, there are sections regarding administrators and anti-harassment.

Arbitration
 * Voting in the 2020 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 7 December 2020 UTC. Please review the candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:37, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

RFC
Could you take a look at this RFC? I started it before making any changes to the election articles because I wanted to seek a consensus before making any changes. Nobody has responded to the RFC for more than a week. Since there were no objections at the time, I made the changes to the election articles. However, my edits were reverted quickly and people have posted objections on the RFC. I would like to know if I did not wait long enough for people to respond or whether the RFC was not advertised properly. Thanks, Interstellarity (talk) 22:19, 5 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Don't be offended. This is a pretty normal situation. No one has to respond to an RFC or even know that it exists. If you get no response to the RFC, it's okay to proceed on the non-response as if it might be considered "no objections", if not quite the same as consensus. But as with the BRD cycle, sometimes you have to make your proposed change before anyone will notice and voice their disagreement. But now you have what you wanted: a discussion is started, see if you can engage with your objectors to find some common ground.  — jmcgnh (talk) (contribs) 23:02, 5 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the response. I believe I was doing the right thing by engaging in discussion since Wikipedia works by consensus. Just needed some advice on how to proceed. Interstellarity (talk) 23:29, 5 December 2020 (UTC)

New Page Patrol December Newsletter
Hello ,



It has been a productive year for New Page Patrol as we've roughly cut the size of the New Page Patrol queue in half this year. We have been fortunate to have a lot of great work done by who was the reviewer of the most pages and redirects this past year. Thanks and credit go to and  who join Rosguill in repeating in the top 10 from last year. Thanks to, , and who all got the NPR permission this year and joined the top 10. Also new to the top ten is DannyS712 bot III, programmed by which has helped to dramatically reduce the number of redirects that have needed human patrolling by patrolling certain types of redirects (e.g. for differences in accents) and by also patrolling editors who are on on the redirect whitelist.
 * Year in review

has been named reviewer of the year for 2020. John has held the permission for just over 6 months and in that time has helped cut into the queue by reviewing more than 18,000 articles. His talk page shows his efforts to communicate with users, upholding NPP's goal of nurturing new users and quality over quantity.
 * Reviewer of the Year

As a special recognition and thank you has been awarded the first NPP Technical Achievement Award. His work programming the bot has helped us patrol redirects tremendously - more than 60,000 redirects this past year. This has been a large contribution to New Page Patrol and definitely is worthy of recognition.
 * NPP Technical Achievement Award

Six Month Queue Data: Today – 2262 Low – 2232 High – 10271

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Oval portraits in US party convention pages


Hi Interstellarity. I reverted your removal of the oval portraits of presidential and vice presidential nominees from US party convention articles. There's a reason ovals are used in all these articles; I believe it's based on an old convention of how parties announced their tickets after their conventions. See the featured picture on the right for an example. There are two WP:CONSENSUS-related issues here. Firstly, oval portraits have stood in these articles for quite a long time, which indicates at least an implied consensus, and possibly an explicit one based on a discussion I'm not aware of. Secondly, many of these pages have had discussions (some of them quite lengthy) on which images to use in their infoboxes. While I can't speak for all articles, I know this is the case for the 2020 Democratic National Convention. There was some pretty insane edit-warring over Biden's photo that lasted for months. One of the articles you changed, 1880 Republican National Convention, is a stable featured article. Generally, changing infobox images without discussion is ill-advised. Please start talk page discussions instead. If you do make edits like this, you should be prepared to justify them with more than just your personal feeling that the existing images "look terrible". This is especially true when changing a large number of articles in a series, or when editing in a contentious topic area such as American politics. Thanks. ― Tartan357  Talk 08:31, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Hello and thanks for reaching out. You might want to look into this discussion where we discuss the ovals. We also talked out using the ovals on the election pages. You are welcome to comment there. Also, not every convention page uses the ovals so that's part of the reason why I changed them. I hope this helps and hopefully we can come to an agreement on how we should do this. Thanks, Interstellarity (talk) 12:05, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
 * , thanks, I'll weigh in on the RfC. I wouldn't get too hung up on the fact that some articles don't have them; they take time to create and we need to tolerate some inconsistency in order for articles to progress. Also, I'm a fan of making these decisions on an article-by-article basis wherever possible. That's certainly the case for the 2020 convention articles; the oval images for those pages were the products of a lot of discussion. ― Tartan357  Talk 13:44, 12 December 2020 (UTC)

TheWikiWizard-December 2020
Hello, Interstellarity! Here is the December 2020 issue of TheWikiWizard. Pilot Project, trying a smaller and different style newsletter
 * Here are the events of December 2020

Wikipedia News

 * On the French Wikipedia, the new vector skin design has already been rolled out! Check it out here!
 * Wikipedia will soon celebrate it's 20th Birthday very soon! Go back to 2001 by visiting nostalgia.wikipedia.org !
 * EN Wikipedia has more than 6,200,000 Articles!

Humor

 * Santa is watching you.... Don't vandalise Wikipedia, or he will reward you a block and no presents this year if you do so. (Seriously don't vandalise Wikipedia, even if santa isn't watching)
 * More turkey on Christmas

God Jul och Gott Nytt År!
 Gråbergs Gråa Sång is wishing you the season's greetings. Whether you celebrate your hemisphere's solstice or Christmas, Diwali, Hogmanay, Hanukkah, Lenaia, Festivus, or the Saturnalia, this is a special time of year for (almost) everyone.


 * Thank you. That is so sweet. I wish you the same. Interstellarity (talk) 13:57, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for your message...



 * ...and a Happy Christmas from me too.
 * See The Night Before Wikimas
 * Nick Moyes (talk) 14:45, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Hello !! Although this year was not a normal year, we got through it. Hopefully 2021 will be a better year than this one. Interstellarity (talk) 14:49, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Yep - couldn't be much worse. At least we got something to take our minds off Brexit here in the UK for the last year. I'm not sure if you can view this on BBC iPlayer, wherever you are in the world, but our family just watched this on TV and had a jolly good chuckle over its topicality. Nick Moyes (talk) 14:54, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I would love to see it, however, I'm not in the UK. I'm in the US and it says that I can't watch it unless in the UK. Anyway, not a big deal if I can't watch it here. Interstellarity (talk) 15:09, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

Merry December


Best Wishes,  Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 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.
 * Thank you for your kind message. I wish you the same. However, your signature has the phrase best wishes in it and it has messed up the greeting. You might want to consider removing that phrase and manually type it in to make it easier. Best, Interstellarity (talk) 18:23, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

Awesome prose
Thank you! Warmest wishes, Interstellarity!!  Atsme 💬 📧 19:18, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
 * And to you as well!! Interstellarity (talk) 19:32, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your kind messages Interstellarity! I've enjoyed working with you on the Vital Articles WikiProject and wish you all the best during the holidays and in 2021. Gizza  (talk • voy) 01:18, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I enjoy working with you as well. Happy holidays and a happy 2021 to you as well!! Interstellarity (talk) 01:23, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

Best wishes to you too. Take care, Cobblet (talk) 06:42, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

Slow as Christmas!!

 * Thanks !! Interstellarity (talk) 12:11, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

Happy holidays
Hi Interstellarity - thanks for the festive poem on my talk, I'm afraid I don't have anything half so creative to give you in return! I hope you have a peaceful holiday season, and a Better New Year. Cheers Girth Summit  (blether)  13:50, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
 * No worries. I wish you and your family the same. Not everyone on here is creative, but someone who is creative can come from anywhere. Interstellarity (talk) 17:01, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

 * Thank you for the wonderful wishes!! I wish you the same. Interstellarity (talk) 23:03, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!
 Merry Christmas! Joyeux Noël! ~ Buon Natale! ~ Vrolijk Kerstfeest! ~ Frohe Weihnachten! ¡Feliz Navidad! ~ Feliz Natal! ~ Καλά Χριστούγεννα! ~ Hyvää Joulua! God Jul! ~ Glædelig Jul! ~ Linksmų Kalėdų! ~ Priecīgus Ziemassvētkus! Häid Jõule! ~ Wesołych Świąt! ~ Boldog Karácsonyt! ~ Veselé Vánoce! Veselé Vianoce! ~ Crăciun Fericit! ~ Sretan Božić! ~ С Рождеством! শুভ বড়দিন! ~ 圣诞节快乐！~ メリークリスマス！~ 메리 크리스마스! สุขสันต์วันคริสต์มาส! ~ Selamat Hari Natal! ~ Giáng sinh an lành! Hello, Interstellarity! Thank you for your work to maintain and improve Wikipedia! Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Linguist111talk 23:10, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Spread the WikiLove and leave other users this message by adding {{subst:Multi-language Season's Greetings}}
 * Thank you for the wonderful greeting. I like this one because it shows multiple languages and I have always been facinated by other languages. Interstellarity (talk) 23:15, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!
May this Christmas fill your life with new hope, positivity, joy and bliss. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and your dear ones! RAJIVVASUDEV (talk) 03:35, 25 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the wonderful wishes!! I wish you the same. Interstellarity (talk) 11:55, 25 December 2020 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

 * Thanks for the wonderful wishes!! I wish you the same. Also, the date in your signature should be 2020 and not 2019. Interstellarity (talk) 11:56, 25 December 2020 (UTC)
 * , you were the only one to catch the date...  Onel 5969  TT me 02:17, 27 December 2020 (UTC)

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 * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:25, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

Happy New Year!

 * Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Happy New Year elves}} to send this message


 * Thanks for the wonderful wishes!! I wish you the same. Interstellarity (talk) 17:03, 31 December 2020 (UTC)