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Happy New Year, Interstellarity!


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

– Davey 2010 Talk 00:34, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

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 * Thanks for the wonderful wishes. I wish you the same. Interstellarity (talk) 02:30, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
 * , You're vey welcome and many thanks!, All the best for 2021!, – Davey 2010 Talk 11:21, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – January 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2020).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Hammersoft
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Andres • Brion VIBBER • Rkitko • Thatcher

CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Barkeep49 • BDD • CaptainEek • Primefac

Oversight changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Barkeep49 • BDD • CaptainEek
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Joe Roe

Guideline and policy news
 * Speedy deletion criterion T3 (duplication and hardcoded instances) has been repealed following a request for comment.

Technical news
 * You can now put pages on your watchlist for a limited period of time.

Arbitration
 * By motion, standard discretionary sanctions have been temporarily authorized for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes). The effectiveness of the discretionary sanctions can be evaluated on the request by any editor after March 1, 2021 (or sooner if for a good reason).
 * Following the 2020 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee:, , , , , ,.

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Requested move, 11 Jan 2021
Hello I’ve taken the liberty of tweaking the layout of the renaming proposal you made here. Please revert if you are unhappy with it. Regards, Xyl 54 (talk) 02:38, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
 * That is much better. I do not object. Interstellarity (talk) 12:41, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

Revision deletion criteria 2 vs criteria 3
I have been reading WP:REVDEL and looking at the criteria at WP:CRD. All of the criteria are understandable to me, but I'm having trouble deciphering the difference between criteria 2 and criteria 3. Can someone explain the difference between those two criteria and give some examples on what edits would fall into criteria 2 as well as criteria 3? Thanks, Interstellarity (talk) 14:11, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
 * , I would say CRD2 is something like "Person is a slur" while CRD3 would be more similar to something like "Person is a serial killer". I believe CRD2 is intended to cover more blatant insults and pejoratives, while CRD3 is for statements of fact (or threats, or harassment, as well as the other bits CRD3 covers). I'm leaving the helpme up in case someone who actually knows what they're talking about, as this is just what I could glean from the CRD list. Perryprog (talk) 14:51, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
 * @Perryprog, @Interstellarity: RD2 applies to BLP concerns and insults – "[Living person] is a [slur]" may well be covered by that. "[Living person] is a serial killer" would also be covered by RD2, but is, in my non-admin and non-oversighter opinion, also oversightable (see WP:OSPOL). RD3 covers other kinds of disruption, such as threats or shock images. For example, a while back, a compromised account spammed some images that were rather uncomfortable to look at on an article about a politician; that was a case for RD3. Blablubbs | talk 15:08, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Can you give me an example of what exactly a slur is? I have no idea what it is? Thanks, Interstellarity (talk) 16:42, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
 * The usual example would be the N-word. Writ Keeper &#9863;&#9812; 16:44, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Correct. Racial slurs or anything of the sort would be RD2. Serious BLP violations also fall into RD2. Things such as shock sites, threats, links to viruses, HTML page breaking code, etc would be RD3. :-)  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   17:32, 13 January 2021 (UTC)

User:Oshwah/Templates/TalkpageMainTemplate
Thank you for reverting my edit to User:Oshwah/Templates/TalkpageMainTemplate. I was chasing down lint errors. I had previously edited User:Oshwah/Templates/TalkpageHeader to fix a div-span-flip lint error. It seems that this tab had inadvertently become an editing sandbox and I didn't realize this when I saw this lint-free tab five hours later and saved it by mistake. I'm usually very careful, but I messed this one up. Good catch! —Anomalocaris (talk) 20:00, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
 * It's OK. We all make mistakes. Interstellarity (talk) 01:35, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

Motion at Amendment request: American politics 2 enacted and amendment request closed.
A majority of arbitrators voted for Motion: American politics 2 (1992 cutoff) in the amendment request you filed (Amendment request: American politics 2). Said motion has been enacted and the amendment request has also been closed. A permalink to the amendment request can be found here. For the Arbitration Committee, Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 22:26, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
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TheWikiWizard-January 2021
Hello, Interstellarity! Here is the January 2021 issue of TheWikiWizard. Pilot Project, trying a smaller and different style newsletter
 * Here are the events of January!!

Wikipedia News

 * Wikipedia is now 20 years old!! Notice a different logo?
 * There is now more than 1 billion edits on Wikipedia!
 * The Simple English Wikipedia now has more than 180,000 Articles! So close to 200,000!

Humor

 * Did you realize that the word "Humour" has been spelt wrong? I didn't until now! ;)
 * I hope you didn't edit Wikipedia straight on and Missed Christmas...

Clarification request: Amendment request: American politics 2 closed
Per your request, the amendment request / clarification request you submitted has been closed. A permalink to it is here. For the Arbitration Committee, Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 16:22, 26 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Hello . Thanks for closing this. Two things: I think you gave the wrong permalink. It think it should be . Also, it looks like you use five tildes instead of four tildes to sign. I prefer to see who sent this message rather than go into the edit history to see who sent it. I'm sure you know our signature policy since you are an admin here, but I think it's worth pointing out the mistakes of other editors. Interstellarity (talk) 17:51, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Whoops. I did mean to use four, but I must have been too over excited with the tildes . I've added in the rest of the signature just for clarity with ins tags . I always link the pre-hatted version of any motion / arca request for the permalink so that those who are viewing it don't have to press "show". Although pressing "show" isn't any effort, it saves the extra click. I get the permalink from the edit before I hat the section, so it is the last version before the closure and the closure itself does not make any change (except from hatting). Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 17:59, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks for clarifying. I figured you made a mistake in the signature. I also appreciate you explaining your actions regarding the links. All the best, Interstellarity (talk) 18:56, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

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