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Hello Less Unless: Thanks for all of your contributions to improve Wikipedia, and have a happy and enjoyable Halloween!   –   —  W ILD S TAR  talk  18:30, 20 October 2021 (UTC) Send Halloween cheer by adding {{subst:Happy Halloween}} to user talk pages with a friendly message.

Administrators' newsletter – November 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2021).

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 * Phase 2 of the 2021 RfA review has commenced which will discuss potential solutions to address the 8 issues found in Phase 1. Proposed solutions that achieve consensus will be implemented and you may propose solutions till 07 November 2021.

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 * The 2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of five new CheckUsers and two new Oversighters.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:44, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

GAR
! Have you ever done a GA review? —  W ILD S TAR  talk 13:46, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Hey, ! I've thought about it and even started improving an article I've created but I've never got it that far) What about you? Any ideas? Less Unless (talk) 17:40, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
 * , oh yes I will one day, do a GAR once I see something interesting and in my wheelhouse. I nominated this article, which I wrote over a year ago, and for which two previous GA nominees (see here) were kind enough to help me prep for the GAR. Not really sure if it's a good idea, but how would you feel doing this GAR?  Thanks!  —  W ILD S TAR  talk  19:02, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
 * , Wow, this article is a masterpiece, you've done an amazing job! Thank you for offering but I'm afraid I'll have to say no for now, I don't feel competent enough at the moment and I don't have enough energy to go through a new procedure where I'll definitely feel stressed. I hope you understand. If I get into doing reviews later, I'd be glad to help you with it. Less Unless (talk) 19:44, 5 November 2021 (UTC)
 * , I figured you wouldn't be comfortable doing one yet, especially that one as a first, so I totally I understand and not to worry, you are still on my Christmas list! :-)   —  W ILD S TAR  talk  21:45, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

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Thanks for your participation in the November 2021 New Pages Patrol drive
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Administrators' newsletter – December 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2021).



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Technical news
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Arbitration
 * Voting in the 2021 Arbitration Committee Elections is open until 23:59, 06 December 2021 (UTC).
 * The already authorized standard discretionary sanctions for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes), broadly construed, have been made permanent.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:24, 3 December 2021 (UTC)

Access-date parameter in citations
(Coming here from WP:CLEANUP so as not to clutter that page.) I don't know if it's in the documentation or not that the citation parameter |access-date= needs a full date. I've encountered several error messages in my citation work over time and have just 'figured them out'. The |date= parameter will take a lot of abuse and numerous formats, but maybe not the |access-date= parameter. Most of the time when I've seen that error message, it means the date isn't complete.

Just yesterday I found another weird citation error message: the preview kept complaining that four citations were defined but not called. They had been defined in the references section and were called in the article body. Everything looked fine. I even tried to drag it from references section up to where it was called, and removed the name. Didn't stop the error message. Turns out the problem was the prior citation way up the page that was missing its tag. I sure don't know why preview told me the next four citations were defined but not called. Bizarre. Figured it out and went on my way. Platonk (talk) 17:34, 3 December 2021 (UTC)


 * next time, do what I do. Click on the help wikilink, seen next to the help near the citation. I tell ya, those help links will keep you from losing it!  😂  —  W ILD S TAR  TALK  17:23, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
 * , thank you, guys! Learning every day :) Less Unless (talk) 21:43, 8 December 2021 (UTC)

Administrators will no longer be autopatrolled
A recently closed Request for Comment (RFC) reached consensus to remove Autopatrolled from the administrator user group. You may, similarly as with Edit Filter Manager, choose to self-assign this permission to yourself. This will be implemented the week of December 13th, but if you wish to self-assign you may do so now. To find out when the change has gone live or if you have any questions please visit the Administrator's Noticeboard. 20:06, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

Ictheridium laterale
Sorry - I didn't spot that you were also working on this. I'll leave the taxobox for you. Ingratis (talk) 18:34, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

Merry Christmas Less Unless


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January 2022 with Women in Red
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Happy New Year, Less Unless!


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

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2021).

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Guideline and policy news


 * Following consensus at the 2021 RfA review, the autopatrolled user right has been removed from the administrators user group; admins can grant themselves the autopatrolled permission if they wish to remain autopatrolled.


 * Additionally, consensus for proposal 6C of the 2021 RfA review has led to the creation of an administrative action review process. The purpose of this process will be to review individual administrator actions and individual actions taken by users holding advanced permissions.

Arbitration


 * Following the 2021 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee:, , , , , , ,.

Miscellaneous


 * The functionaries email list () will no longer accept incoming emails apart from those sent by list members and WMF staff. Private concerns, apart from those requiring oversight, should be directly sent to the Arbitration Committee.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:24, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

How we will see unregistered users
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February with Women in Red
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Administrators' newsletter – February 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2022).

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Guideline and policy news
 * The Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines have been published for consideration. Voting to ratify this guideline is planned to take place 7 March to 21 March. Comments can be made on the talk page.

Technical news
 * The user group  will be renamed   in around 3 weeks. This will not affect the name shown to users and is simply a change in the technical name of the user group. The change is being made for technical reasons. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections.
 * The Reply Tool feature, which is a part of Discussion Tools, will be opt-out for everyone logged in or logged out starting 7 February 2022. Editors wishing to comment on this can do so in the relevant Village Pump discussion.

Arbitration
 * Community input is requested on several motions aimed at addressing discretionary sanctions that are no longer needed or overly broad.
 * The Arbitration Committee has published a generalised comment regarding successful appeals of sanctions that it can review (such as checkuser blocks).
 * A motion related to the Antisemitism in Poland case was passed following a declined case request.

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 * Voting in the 2022 Steward elections will begin on 07 February 2022, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2022, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
 * Voting in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey is open until 11 February 2022.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:01, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

March editathons
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Administrators' newsletter – March 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2022).

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CheckUser changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * A RfC is open to change the wording of revision deletion criterion 1 to remove the sentence relating to non-infringing contributions.
 * A RfC is open to discuss prohibiting draftification of articles over 90 days old.

Technical news
 * The deployment of the reply tool as an opt-out feature, as announced in last month's newsletter, has been delayed to 7 March. Feedback and comments are being welcomed at Wikipedia talk:Talk pages project.
 * Special:Nuke will now allow the selection of standard deletion reasons to be used when mass-deleting pages. This was a Community Wishlist Survey request from 2022.
 * The ability to undelete the talk page when undeleting a page using Special:Undelete or the API will be added soon. This change was requested in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.

Arbitration
 * Several unused discretionary sanctions and article probation remedies have been rescinded. This follows the community feedback from the 2021 Discretionary Sanctions review.

Miscellaneous
 * The 2022 appointees for the Ombuds commission are Érico, Faendalimas, Galahad, Infinite0694, Mykola7, Olugold, Udehb and Zabe as regular members and Ameisenigel and JJMC89 as advisory members.
 * Following the 2022 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AntiCompositeNumber, BRPever, Hasley, TheresNoTime, and Vermont.
 * The 2022 Community Wishlist Survey results have been published alongside the ranking of prioritized proposals.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:46, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

ThePrint
In continuation of the discussion at WP:RFPP. I am not disputing your decline. Just trying to understand how you assess significant disruption. It is subjective I believe. I believe the page has significant disruption. Almost all IP edits last six months are vandalism. So what do you look for when you agree to lock the page? Venkat TL (talk) 14:39, 11 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi, ! Even though all the admins decisions may be called subjective and to an extent they are, there are certain guidelines we follow to evaluate whether the article needs protection of not. I personally am looking at the amount of recent disruption. Recent to me means at least 2-3 days of constant vandalism from multiple accounts. The article you nominated was vandalized once a month for the past 5 month - even though there are disruptive edits, they are not enough to justify page protection. You have to understand that protecting a page makes it impossible for good faith ip editors to contribute. The other thing I keep in mind - how much time does an editor spend to revert the disruptive edits - in this case it's not much. Therefore in my opinion the article you nominated for the moment doesn't need protection. If you believe my decision is wrong, feel free to talk to any other admin active at RFPP. Best, Less Unless (talk) 13:33, 12 March 2022 (UTC)

April Editathons from Women in Red
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Administrators' newsletter – April 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2022).

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Guideline and policy news
 * An RfC is open proposing a change to the minimum activity requirements for administrators.

Technical news
 * Access to Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have the  and   rights. This means that those in the Researcher user group and Checkusers who are not administrators can now access Special:RevisionDelete. The users able to view the special page after this change are the 3 users in the Researcher group, as there are currently no checkusers who are not already administrators.
 * When viewing deleted revisions or diffs on Special:Undelete a back link to the undelete page for the associated page is now present.

Arbitration
 * has been updated to reflect current practice following a motion.
 * A arbitration case regarding Skepticism and coordinated editing has been closed.
 * A arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been opened.

Miscellaneous
 * Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines has closed, and the results were that 56.98% of voters supported the guidelines. The results of this vote mean the Wikimedia Foundation Board will now review the guidelines.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:13, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

Dejan Kulusevski
Hey there! I saw you just recently protected this page, but only for three days. As you can see in the logs for the article, it has been persistently vandalized in recent months and had multiple protections placed on it as a result. Is it possible you could make the protection last longer? Preferably several months at this point, since it already had a month long protection period, and as it is unlikely the disruption will stop given his high profile role in the Premier League where most of the high profile players have their Wikipedia articles persistently vandalized. I appreciate you protecting the article but just some food for thought given the recent history of it, cheers and thanks! --TylerBurden (talk) 22:01, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi . Let's see what happens after the protection expires, if the destructive activities continue, I'll protect the page for longer. Thank you for your contributions and dedication! Best, Less Unless (talk) 19:38, 14 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Seems fair enough to me, thank you and likewise! TylerBurden (talk) 22:11, 14 April 2022 (UTC)

New administrator activity requirement
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May Women in Red events
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Administrators' newsletter – May 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2022).

Administrator changes
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Oversighter changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * Following an RfC, a change has been made to the administrators inactivity policy. Under the new policy, if an administrator has not made at least 100 edits over a period of 5 years they may be desysopped for inactivity.
 * Following a discussion on the bureaucrat's noticeboard, a change has been made to the bureaucrats inactivity policy.

Technical news
 * The ability to undelete the associated talk page when undeleting a page has been added. This was the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
 * A public status system for WMF wikis has been created. It is located at https://www.wikimediastatus.net/ and is hosted separately to WMF wikis so in the case of an outage it will remain viewable.

Arbitration
 * Remedy 2 of the St Christopher case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to place a ban on single-purpose accounts who were disruptively editing on the article St Christopher Iba Mar Diop College of Medicine or related pages from those pages.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:34, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter May 2022
Hello ,

At the time of the last newsletter (No.26, September 2021), the backlog was 'only' just over 6,000 articles. In the past six months, the backlog has reached nearly 16,000, a staggering level not seen in several years. A very small number of users had been doing the vast majority of the reviews. Due to "burn-out", we have recently lost most of this effort. Furthermore, several reviewers have been stripped of the user right for abuse of privilege and the articles they patrolled were put back in the queue.

Several discussions on the state of the process have taken place on the talk page, but there has been no action to make any changes. The project also lacks coordination since the "position" is vacant.

In the last 30 days, only 100 reviewers have made more than 8 patrols and only 50 have averaged one review a day. There are currently Special:ListUsers/patroller New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All administrators have this permission, but only about a dozen significantly contribute to NPP.

This means we have an active pool of about 450 to address the backlog. We cannot rely on a few to do most of the work as that inevitably leads to burnout. A fairly experienced reviewer can usually do a review in a few minutes. If every active reviewer would patrol just one article per day, the backlog would very quickly disappear.

If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, do suggest they help the effort by placing on their talk page.

If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process and its software.

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Happy Adminship Anniversary!
 '''Wishing Less Unless a very Unless happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Birthday Committee! Best wishes! CAPTAIN RAJU''' (T) 18:41, 23 May 2022 (UTC)

Articles_for_deletion/Najla_Mahfouz
The normal week has passed. 100% of the people who commented said keep. I think it has been demonstrated that she is notable. Why do we need more time when it seems WP:SNOWBALL? You asked for non-English sources, which is what I provided already. I cannot imagine us getting to this point if someone tried to delete an article about the deputy editor in chief of a top US or European newspaper. Typically unanimous agreement to keep would be closed as such, in my experience. I humbly ask you to consider if this could be closed as keep as it stands. CT55555 (talk) 14:42, 28 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi! I understand your rationale and your perspective but I don't think the sources are strong enough to call it an unambiguous policy based decision. That's why I am hoping for more people to join the discussion and add more IRS. If you could do a further research and find any book reviews that would be great too. But for now i stick to my decision to relist it. Best, Less Unless (talk) 19:03, 29 May 2022 (UTC)
 * I think three people saying keep equals consensus, but it's okay for us to disagree. I'll drop the matter here. CT55555 (talk) 22:53, 29 May 2022 (UTC)

June events from Women in Red
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Administrators' newsletter – June 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2022).

Administrator changes
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CheckUser changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * Several areas of improvement collated from community member votes have been identified in the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines. The areas of improvement have been sent back for review and you are invited to provide input on these areas.

Technical news
 * Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages.
 * The IP Info feature has been deployed to all wikis as a Beta Feature. Any autoconfirmed user may enable the feature using the "IP info" checkbox under . Autoconfirmed users will be able to access basic information about an IP address that includes the country and connection method. Those with advanced privileges (admin, bureaucrat, checkuser) will have access to extra information that includes the Internet Service Provider and more specific location.

Arbitration
 * Remedy 2 of the Rachel Marsden case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to delete or reduce to a stub, together with their talk pages, articles related to Rachel Marsden when they violate Wikipedia's biographies of living persons policy.
 * An arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been closed.

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