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Administrators' newsletter – December 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2020). Administrator changes
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Interface administrator changes
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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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The Signpost: 28 December 2020
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Administrators' newsletter – January 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2020).

Administrator changes
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 * 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 * Speedy deletion criterion T3 (duplication and hardcoded instances) has been repealed following a request for comment.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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The Signpost: 31 January 2021
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Administrators' newsletter – February 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2021).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Hog Farm
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Mattflaschen • Nandesuka • Savidan • Wangi

CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Berean Hunter • Xeno

Oversight changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Someguy1221 • Xeno

Arbitration
 * The standard discretionary sanctions authorized for American Politics were amended by motion to cover post-1992 politics of United States and closely related people, replacing the 1932 cutoff.

Miscellaneous
 * Voting in the 2021 Steward elections will begin on 05 February 2021, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2021, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
 * Wikipedia has now been around for 20 years, and recently saw its billionth edit!

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The Signpost: 28 February 2021
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Administrators' newsletter – March 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2021). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg TJMSmith
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Boing! said Zebedee • Hiberniantears • Lear's Fool • Only • WGFinley

Interface administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * A request for comment is open that proposes a process for the community to revoke administrative permissions. This follows a 2019 RfC in favor of creating one such a policy.
 * A request for comment is in progress to remove F7 (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a, which covers immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
 * A request for comment seeks to grant page movers the delete-redirect userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target. The full proposal is at Page mover/delete-redirect.
 * A request for comment asks if sysops may place the General sanctions/Coronavirus disease 2019 editnotice template on pages in scope that do not have page-specific sanctions?
 * There is a discussion in progress concerning automatic protection of each day's featured article with Pending Changes protection.

Technical news
 * When blocking an IPv6 address with Twinkle, there is now a checkbox with the option to just block the /64 range. When doing so, you can still leave a block template on the initial, single IP address' talkpage.
 * When protecting a page with Twinkle, you can now add a note if doing so was in response to a request at WP:RfPP, and even link to the specific revision.
 * There have been a number of reported issues with Pending Changes. Most problems setting protection appear to have been resolved (T273317) but other issues with autoaccepting edits persist (T275322).

Arbitration
 * By motion, the discretionary sanctions originally authorized under the GamerGate case are now authorized under a new Gender and sexuality case, with sanctions authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, any gender-related dispute or controversy and associated people. Sanctions issued under GamerGate are now considered Gender and sexuality sanctions.
 * The Kurds and Kurdistan case was closed, authorizing standard discretionary sanctions for the topics of Kurds and Kurdistan, broadly construed.

Miscellaneous
 * Following the 2021 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AmandaNP, Operator873, Stanglavine, Teles, and Wiki13.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:14, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

User pages
Hello, Minorax,

Unless an editor's user page is basically a Linked-In profile advertising their business ventures, editors are allowed to have a user page with some personal information. And in this recent case, the editor's ONLY edit was to post their name to their user page. What a nice introduction to Wikipedia for them to return and find warnings on their user talk page! I removed the link in case anyone thought it was spammy and invited them to the Teahouse.

Try to be more welcoming, especially to very inexperienced editors and realize that most newcomers believe they are able to post a profile like on social media. Your job, if you are going to patrol, is to inform them of how they can better use Wikipedia, not tag their pages with deletion notices. You are likely the first Wikipedia editor they encounter so unless they are a vandal, try to welcome them to the project. Thanks. Liz Read! Talk! 02:10, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Noted. --Minorax (talk) 02:11, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Side note, User:GIOAbdul1813814 & User:KiraHake518917 was suppose to trip Special:AbuseFilter/935 --Minorax (talk) 02:13, 20 March 2021 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 March 2021
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Administrators' newsletter – April 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2021). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Alexandria • Happyme22 • RexxS

Guideline and policy news
 * Following a request for comment, F7 (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a has been deprecated; it covered immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
 * Following a request for comment, page movers were granted the delete-redirect userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target.

Technical news
 * When you move a page that many editors have on their watchlist the history can be split and it might also not be possible to move it again for a while. This is because of a job queue problem.
 * Code to support some very old web browsers is being removed. This could cause issues in those browsers.

Arbitration
 * A community consultation on the Arbitration Committee discretionary sanctions procedure is open until April 25.

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The Signpost: 25 April 2021
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Administrators' newsletter – May 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2021). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Enchanter • Carlossuarez46

Interface administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * Following an RfC, consensus was found that third party appeals are allowed but discouraged.
 * The 2021 Desysop Policy RfC was closed with no consensus. Consensus was found in a previous RfC for a community based desysop procedure, though the procedure proposed in the 2021 RfC did not gain consensus.

Technical news
 * The user group  will be renamed to  . This is for technical reasons. You can comment at  if you have objections.

Arbitration
 * The community consultation on the Arbitration Committee discretionary sanctions procedure was closed, and an initial draft based on feedback from the now closed consultation is expected to be released in early June to early July for community review.

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2021). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Ashleyyoursmile • Less Unless
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Husond • MattWade • MJCdetroit • Carioca • Vague Rant • Kingboyk • Thunderboltz • Gwen Gale • AniMate • SlimVirgin (deceased)

Guideline and policy news
 * Consensus was reached to deprecate Editor assistance.
 * Following a Request for Comment the Book namespace was deprecated.

Technical news
 * Wikimedia previously used the IRC network Freenode. However, due to changes over who controlled the network with reports of a forceful takeover by several ex-staff members, the Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts decided to move to the new Libera Chat network. It has been reported that Wikimedia related channels on Freenode have been forcibly taken over if they pointed members to Libera. There is a migration guide and Wikimedia discussions about this.

Arbitration
 * After a Clarification request, the Arbitration Committee modified Remedy 5 of the Antisemitism in Poland case. This means sourcing expectations are a discretionary sanction instead of being present on all articles. It also details using the talk page or the Reliable Sources Noticeboard to discuss disputed sources.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:45, 9 June 2021 (UTC)

WP:A3
You tagged several drafts with A3, which is not applicable to draft space. A few of them I deleted per WP:G2, principally because I found the titles of the drafts to be blatantly disruptive, but you should know better than to use speedy delete tags on pages for which they are clearly ineligible.--Bbb23 (talk) 12:41, 10 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi, thanks for the note. I've tagged the pages based on the fine print at the section which states "Db-a3 everywhere else", and totally missed out the header of the section. Sorry for any inconvenience. --Minorax (talk) 12:50, 10 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Maybe you just don't do much speedy tagging, but the letters before the numbers on the criteria represent the name space of the criterion: A applies to article space, R to redirects, etc. There is nothing specific to draft space, but G (general) applies to all spaces and is the one most often used for drafts.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:06, 10 June 2021 (UTC)

Tagging pages for G13 speedy deletion
Hello, Minorax,

Please review Criteria for speedy deletion to see the necessary criteria to qualify for a CSD G13 deletion. Not all pages in User space qualify. Thanks. Liz Read! Talk! 15:59, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi, thanks for the note. Yes, User:Blackpetal03/sandbox was a bad tag but User:Mileymusicworld/sandbox definitely qualifies for G13, as per the 2nd point listed at WP:G13. The AFC submission template isn't showing properly as there is a missing  within the template. -- Minorax &laquo;&brvbar;talk&brvbar;&raquo; 00:05, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Well, editing on Wikipedia is a constant learning experience. Liz Read! Talk! 04:39, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

File mover granted
Hello Minorax. Your account has been [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=rights&user=&page=User%3AMinorax granted] the "filemover" user right, either following a request for it or due to a clear need for the ability to move files. Please take a moment to review File mover for more information on this user right and under what circumstances it is okay to move files. When you move a file please remember to update any links to the new name as well! If you do not want the file mover right anymore, just let me know, and I'll remove it. Thank you, and happy editing! Seddon talk 21:20, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

The Signpost: 27 June 2021
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Administrators' newsletter – July 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2021).

Administrator changes
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 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg AGK • Eliz81 • Mulad • ThaddeusB • Vianello • Who
 * Pictogram voting rename.png →

Interface administrator changes
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CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg AGK • DGG

Oversighter changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg AGK

Guideline and policy news
 * Consensus has been reached to delete all books in the book namespace. There was rough consensus that the deleted books should still be available on request at WP:REFUND even after the namespace is removed.
 * An RfC is open to discuss the next steps following a trial which automatically applied pending changes to TFAs.

Technical news
 * IP addresses of unregistered users are to be hidden from everyone. There is a rough draft of how IP addresses may be shown to users who need to see them. This currently details allowing administrators, checkusers, stewards and those with a new usergroup to view the full IP address of unregistered users. Editors with at least 500 edits and an account over a year old will be able to see all but the end of the IP address in the proposal. The ability to see the IP addresses hidden behind the mask would be dependent on agreeing to not share the parts of the IP address they can see with those who do not have access to the same information. Accessing part of or the full IP address of a masked editor would also be logged. Comments on the draft are being welcomed at the talk page.

Arbitration
 * The community authorised COVID-19 general sanctions have been superseded by the COVID-19 discretionary sanctions following a motion at a case request. Alerts given and sanctions placed under the community authorised general sanctions are now considered alerts for and sanctions under the new discretionary sanctions.

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The Gift
Hi. After performing your requested move, I saw that The Gift (Turkish TV series) is also from 2019, so that The Gift (2019 TV series) is still ambiguous. I therefore further moved the Philippine series to The Gift (2019 Philippine TV series). Lennart97 (talk) 16:20, 4 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks, didn't realise the Turkish one was also from 2019. -- Minorax &laquo;&brvbar;talk&brvbar;&raquo; 23:39, 4 July 2021 (UTC)

CSD G13s
Hello, Minorax,

If you want to tag stale drafts for deletion, please check their edit history. Drafts are tagged six months after the last human edit and not before that hour and date. I don't know where you live, but if you are in the United States, be aware that January 2021 was in Standard Time while July 2021 is in Daylights Savings Time. So, if your computer displays local time (and not the Wikipedia standard UTC time), a draft whose last edit was 7 pm January 8, 2021 (ST) could only be tagged at 8 pm July 8, 2021 (DST) or later. And then the whole thing gets reversed in the fall when the time changes again and we are an hour behind. There are actually only a few weeks out of the year where the time period of six months ago is the same as the time period of the current day. The reason for being this strict is because there are over a dozen editors and admins who handle CSD G13s and we need to work on the same clock so we aren't working at cross-purposes. So, please do not tag drafts prematurely.

I do appreciate you posting notifications on the talk page of the draft page creators, a step that is often overlooked. Thanks for your work! Liz Read! Talk! 01:49, 9 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Hello Liz. For this whole time, I thought that G13 can be applied as long as it's 6 months after the day of the last edit. Thanks for the clarification. -- Minorax &laquo;&brvbar;talk&brvbar;&raquo; 05:36, 9 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Well, things use to be much looser years ago. There is a database report, Database reports/Stale drafts, that gets issued in the middle of the night listing all of the stale drafts and some industrious editors would tag the hundreds of drafts appearing on the list and they'd all be deleted by an admin in one fell swoop.
 * But at the end of summer 2020, SDZeroBot got started and it issues lists of drafts and when they expire (see User:SDZeroBot/G13 soon for an example). There is also Category:AfC G13 eligible soon submissions which lists stale drafts in order of their time of expiration. So, now drafts are being tagged & deleted throughout the day and night when they hit the six month mark. I have to say that the old way was much simpler but now that we do things the current way, it would be hard to get all of the editors who tag drafts & admins who delete them to refrain and wait until a daily database report is issued. So, the best we can do is have everyone follow the same general practices. Liz Read! Talk! 05:47, 10 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Also, when you tag a page for deletion (CSD, PROD, AFD/CFD/MFD/etc.), please post a notification on the talk page of the page creator. I recommend using Twinkle because once you set up your Preferences to "Notify page creator", Twinkle will post these notices for you which makes things easy. You can even set up Twinkle to keep a log of your deletion tags which can be interesting to keep track of. I know I look at my list sometimes to see if some pages have been recreated or if a page has been kept, the reasons why it wasn't deleted. Thanks again! Liz Read! Talk! 03:19, 12 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Is there something I'm missing out on? I've been using Twinkle and it automatically leaves a note for the page creator. -- Minorax &laquo;&brvbar;talk&brvbar;&raquo; 04:13, 12 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Okay, that's a fair question. First, these days I mostly do page deletions and I leave this message on a lot of talk pages so I apologize if it sounded rehearsed. The reason I'm so uptight about this is because the only time an editor filed a complaint against me on ANI is when I didn't post a deletion notification on their talk page about a category deletion. So, I might go overboard about this issue. They were quite upset.
 * I had to go into my deletion log to see what page I was referring to and it was Draft:Iaminvi. As for Twinkle, what I found out (when I messed up that notification that brought me to ANI), is that in Twinkle's Preferences, you can select what types of CSD cases where you notify the editor. You have to have all of the CSD criteria boxes checked and, in my case, I didn't have the CSD C1 box checked, I think I just had a couple of the more common CSD criteria checked. So, you might check your Twinkle Preferences.
 * But this was only one instance so, again, I apologize if it sounded like I'm making a habit of correcting you. With CSDs and PRODs, I randomly check to see if the page creator was notified and in about 1/3 of the cases, they aren't, so I post this message. I appreciate you taking it in the spirit that you did. Liz Read! Talk! 05:36, 12 July 2021 (UTC)