User talk:Miniapolis/Archives/2019/April

Administrators' newsletter – April 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2019).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Reaper Eternal • ThaddeusB
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Bogdangiusca • Christopher Parham • Necrothesp • Schneelocke • Siroxo • Sarah
 * Pictogram voting rename.png →

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Mr. Stradivarius

Bureaucrat changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg DeltaQuad
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Kingturtle

Technical news
 * In Special:Preferences under "Appearance" → "Advanced options", there is now an option to show a confirmation prompt when clicking on a rollback link.
 * The Wikimedia Foundation's Community health initiative plans to design and build a new user reporting system to make it easier for people experiencing harassment and other forms of abuse to provide accurate information to the appropriate channel for action to be taken. Please see meta:Community health initiative/User reporting system consultation 2019 to provide your input on this idea.

Arbitration
 * The Arbitration Committee clarified that the General 1RR prohibition for Palestine-Israel articles may only be enforced on pages with the ARBPIA 1RR editnotice edit notice.

Miscellaneous
 * Two more administrator accounts were compromised. Evidence has shown that these attacks, like previous incidents, were due to reusing a password that was used on another website that suffered a data breach. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately. All admins are strongly encouraged to enable two-factor authentication, please consider doing so. Please always practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.
 * As a reminder, according to WP:NOQUORUM, administrators looking to close or relist an AfD should evaluate a nomination that has received few or no comments as if it were a proposed deletion (PROD) prior to determining whether it should be relisted.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:57, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

A beer for you!

 * Thanks; the article is a bit long, but I've copyedited a few other Gulf Cartel articles and they've been interesting. I couldn't help noting that it was *only* marijuana :-). Good luck with GA and all the best,  Mini  apolis  15:44, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

LOL (Basshunter album)
Thanks. Eurohunter (talk) 19:31, 28 April 2019 (UTC)

Reviewing offer
Hi Miniapolis; would you care to weigh in on my talk page? My legendary teeth --> new-ish editor interface strikes again. I forgot your pings are off; feel free to delete this. :) Cheers,  Baffle☿gab  20:42, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the poke, Baffle. Gotta check my notification settings; I get some stuff, but didn't get yours. All the best,  Mini  apolis  20:55, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
 * No problem; thanks for commenting, I'm aware I can be rather blunt at tines! I forgot to re-sign my comments, so the ping didn't ping. Cheers,  Baffle☿gab  21:43, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
 * In my experience, Baffle, your bark is worse than your bite :-). All the best,  Mini  apolis  21:50, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
 * And I I turned pings back on :-).  Mini  apolis  21:53, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks; my muzzle is in place. Grrrr-ruff! :D I've noticed has signed up as a reviewer for May. His contribs don't fill me with confidence but we'll see... :)  Cheers,  Baffle☿gab  01:13, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads-up. I left them a note on their talk page; we can't afford to discourage enthusiasm :-). All the best,  Mini  apolis  01:50, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

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