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Administrators' newsletter – July 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2020).

Administrator changes
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 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg John • TheCoffee • Tim!
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Interface administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * A request for comment is in progress to remove the T2 (template that misrepresents established policy) speedy deletion criterion.

Technical news
 * Protection templates on mainspace pages are now automatically added by User:MusikBot II (BRFA).

Arbitration
 * Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold an RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. The RfC has been posted at Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC and is open to comments from the community.
 * The Medicine case was closed, with a remedy authorizing standard discretionary sanctions for all discussions about pharmaceutical drug prices and pricing and for edits adding, changing, or removing pharmaceutical drug prices or pricing from articles.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:25, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

AfD
I was curious, so I threw together a quick script and pulled the AfD logs for November 2019. These were the results of the 1707 AfDs: Count	Result 1	closed 945	delete 14	delete and redirect 1	Don't delete 1	draftified 6	draftify 1	Draftify and then Speedy delete per G7 1	dratify 286	keep 1	keep and retitle 1	Keep two articles, no consensus on the others 49	merge 1	move completed 2	move to draft 1	moved back to userspace 81	no consensus 2	no consensus to delete 1	Nom withdrawn as article was draftified 1	nomination withdrawn 3	Procedural Close 1	procedural close - delete 1	Procedural close/keep or merge 1	procedural keep 186	redirect 1	Redirected already 1	Rename 1	Restored redirect 27	soft delete 1	Soft redirect 1	Soft redirect to Wiktionary 2	Speedily Delete 32	speedy delete 1	speedy delete G5 2	speedy deleted 29	speedy keep 1	speedy redirect 1	turned into a disambiguation page 1	userfy 7	Withdrawn 2	withdrawn by nominator 1	Wrong forum 8	(unknown) Enjoy. —[ Alan M 1  (talk) ]— 23:08, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

2019 v 2020
And here's some more preliminary/unscrubbed data comparing March/April/May 2019 (4146 articles) with the same months in 2020 (5515 articles):

March/April/May 2019
4146 articles: 1	redirect 1	Already deleted 1	Article 13'd 1	Article already moved. 1	CSD-G4. 2251	delete 18	delete and redirect 1	delete and salt 1	delete as G11 advertisement 1	Delete seasons 1905, 1906 and 1907, keep seasons 1908, 1911 and 1917 11	delete. 2	deleted 1	doesn't delete sys32 virus 1	draftified 8	Draftify 1	G5'd 1	good puns 1	grounded until the Note 7 flies over the moon 1	haha very funny (keep) 1	I CAN DO ANYTHING! 1	Irrelevant 715	keep 1	Keep - Withdrawn 1	Keep (SNOW) 1	Keep and withdraw 1	Keep but begin merge discussion 1	Keep but consider repurposing 1	Keep the article, no consensus on the author 1	keep/merge 2	keep/withdrawn 1	Kept 1	Life 100	merge 1	merge and redirect 1	moot 1	Move 1	move to draft 1	Move to Draft space. 2	moved to draft 1	no action 269	no consensus 1	No consensus for deletion 1	No consensus on some, redirect most 4	no consensus to delete 1	no consensus to delete at this time 1	no consensus with no prejudice against speedy renomination 5	nomination withdrawn 1	not saved 1	Procedural 3	Procedural close 1	Procedural keep 248	redirect 1	redirect and delete 1	redirect to potato 2	redirect to present 1	resolved 1	Retarget 1	Revert to disambiguation page 1	saved by the 9-year old army. 1	send home 3	Snow Keep 1	Snowball keep 227	soft delete 1	Speedily deleted 5	speedy close 38	Speedy Delete 1	speedy delete G11 2	speedy delete G5 1	speedy delete under A7 11	Speedy deleted 1	Speedy Deleted (G4) 1	speedy deleted (procedural closure) 1	Speedy deleted per CSD A7 - the article did not make any claims of notability for this company 1	speedy draftify 95	speedy keep 6	speedy redirect 1	Spirit of Eagle's pizza party being catered by Spider-Man 1	Stick 1	temporarily surpassed by PewDiePie 1	the year 2016 and everything that happened that year being removed from existence 1	Transwikify to Wikisource. 1	Try again on April Fools' Day 1	Was deleted by author request after draftification 2	Withdraw 19	withdrawn 4	withdrawn by nominator 1	Withdrawn nomination 1	wrong forum 1	Wrong venue 31	(unknown)

March/April/May 2020
5515 articles: 1	 Redirected 1	 Speedy deleted as a copyright violation. 5	Already deleted 1	Already G5'd 6	April Fools 6	April Fool's is over 1	Ask the elder 1	Backlog emptied 1	boldly reconfigured into a larger topic 1	Cancelled 1	Citation needed 1	closed, wrong process. 1	Clusterfuck 1	Convicted 3084	delete 1	delete all 25	delete and redirect 2	delete and salt 1	delete both 1	Delete originally nominated article 1	Delete primary, NC on the others 3	Deleted 1	deleted and locked 1	deleted as A7 4	deleted as G11 1	deleted as G12 1	deleted as G4 3	deleted as G5 1	deleted as G7 1	discussion procedurally closed 22	Draftify 1	Draftify + redirect 1	draftify both articles 3	Editorial solution to be found 1	Fire 1	get out of quarantine 1	happiness 1	Il nâ€™y a pas de consensus 1	Incubate in draftspace 1	involved snow set index-ify 1	it died. 843	keep 1	keep Tim Richmond, delete Brandon Lynn and Eddie Fatscher 1	Keep, without prejudice against resubmission 1	Keep: 1	Manual redirect to the relevant articles. 1	Meow 138	merge 1	merge to place to be determined 1	Merged into village article 1	MISSEDTHEJO 1	missing from some maps. 1	Move 2	move to draft 1	moved 1	Multi 298	no consensus 3	no consensus to delete 1	no contest 1	No hay consenso 1	No longer relevant 1	No more Captain Marvel 1	No more Comic Sans 1	No more war 1	Nom Withdrawn 1	nominate at FfD 1	nomination withdraw 5	nomination withdrawn 1	Nomination Withdrawn - Procedural Keep 1	on 2	Page deleted per G5 1	Pang 13	Procedural Close 1	Procedural close. 1	Procedural closure 1	procedural keep 1	Recurse 377	redirect 2	redirect all 1	redirect and keep 1	Redirect to respective SSSI lists for each English county. 1	redirected 1	Remove to draft 1	rename 1	Renamed 1	Resolved - already speedied 1	Rest in Peace Kobe Bryant 1	Restock 1	SLAP 1	Snow delete 1	snow keep 265	soft delete 1	Speedied G7 3	speedily deleted 1	Speedy close 82	speedy delete 1	speedy delete (A7 + G11) 1	Speedy Delete (A7) 2	speedy delete (G5) 1	Speedy delete and protected redirect 1	speedy delete G3 1	speedy delete per G7 6	speedy deleted 1	Speedy deleted A7 and A11. 1	Speedy deleted as obvious spam with no good versions to revert to 1	speedy deleted G7 1	speedy deleted on author request 1	speedy deleted per G5 1	speedy deleted U5 1	speedy deleted. 125	speedy keep 5	speedy redirect 1	speedy Speedy Delete 1	speedy Withdrawn 1	speedy-delete (G11) 1	speedy-delete (G3) 1	the dubber takes it all 1	the Earth being blown up because some people on the internet said so 1	the war ended 1	time's arrow flies relentlessly 1	To draft 1	Too late 1	too late to keep. 1	Trouted 1	unpersoned 2	userfy 1	we lost it 1	withdraw 14	withdrawn 7	withdrawn by nominator 1	withdrawn by nominator as substantially improved 1	Withdrawn...wrong forum. 4	Wrong venue 53	(unknown)
 * Wow, that really helps. Thanks a lot. Interstellarity (talk) 01:23, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

Redirects
I would like to redirect Interstellarity to my user page at User:Interstellarity. I would like to redirect Talk:Interstellarity to this talk page. Am I allowed to do that? Interstellarity (talk) 12:18, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
 * That would be a cross-namespace redirect, and it'd probably be speedy deleted per WP:R2. So, not a good idea. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 12:32, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the feedback. I will not do that. Interstellarity (talk) 12:33, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

Simply south
I no longer use this account so please direct any further messages to User talk:Difficultly north. Difficultly north (talk) Simply south alt. 21:25, 15 July 2020 (UTC)

Important Notice
Doug Weller talk 14:13, 16 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Hello . I do not quite understand what this means. Is the policy behind this similar to BLPs? I know in BLPs, we need to be careful about what we write about them because it can damage their reputation. If you could provide clarification, that would be helpful. Interstellarity (talk) 00:45, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Basically it means that on all pages (not just articles) including user talk pages, you need to follow policies and guidelines carefully, be civil, and avoid editwarring. Those who don't can be blocked sitewide or topic banned from the area. Note that this is a very wide area. Doug Weller  talk 12:12, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the explanation. No matter which topic area I edit in, I always try my best to follow Wikipedia policies and guidelines. I haven’t had any recent issues with my editing that involves incivility and edit warring although I am aware of those policies. I was blocked before and learnt from it. I’m trying my best to help Wikipedia whenever I can. Interstellarity (talk) 15:18, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Good. I do need to point out that your edit at BLM removing "anti-racist" was the sort of edit that you should avoid making. It was a very major change and anything like that needs discussion first on the talk page. You also should have checked to see if it was sourced in the body of the article. Doug Weller  talk 15:22, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
 * If you haven't seen it, I have opened up a discussion about my edit on the talk page. See here. I do get edits that are reverted a lot, but I try to do the right thing by discussing it on talk. Interstellarity (talk) 17:48, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
 * That's good. Doug Weller  talk 18:31, 17 July 2020 (UTC)

Your help desk question
I just read this help desk question which no one responded to. Sorry I'm way behind on the archives. Did you find an answer? I wouldn't know how.— Vchimpanzee  •  talk  •  contributions  •  21:48, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
 * It's all resolved. Interstellarity (talk) 01:39, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

State visit of Michael D. Higgins to the United Kingdom
Where was the consensus for the name change that you made? Laurel Lodged (talk) 12:18, 29 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Hello and thanks for reaching out. I thought this move might be uncontroversial so I didn't seek a consensus before moving it. You are welcome to move it back, but to avoid move warring, opening up a move discussion on the talk page might help. Interstellarity (talk) 20:40, 29 July 2020 (UTC)

Our dispute
Interstellarity, I just want to apologize for not initially responding to you. I was afraid because I'm a noob (lol) and didn't want to cause conflict. Was that wrong of me? Yes. We may still disagree about the RMs, but I don't want that to define our interactions now or in the future and so in the end I have decided to let someone else make the closing decisions. I don't want to be enemies, and I think we kind of got off on the wrong foot. Can we begin anew? Supernova58 (talk) 04:41, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Hello and thanks for reaching out. It seems like you are a good faith contributor that wants the best for Wikipedia. I certainly don't want to be enemies with you. There are editors who have a rough start on Wikipedia who eventually become productive contributors. We certainly can interact with each other in a positive way. I recommend that you ask questions and get help at the Teahouse where experienced editors can guide you in the right direction. I hope this helps. Interstellarity (talk) 11:27, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Glad we could make amends :) Supernova58 (talk) 14:50, 30 July 2020 (UTC)