User talk:Mz7/September–November 2023

Administrators' newsletter – September 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2023).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Pppery · Theleekycauldron
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Dwheeler · G.A.S · Royalbroil · Ssd



CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Bradv

Oversighter changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Bradv

Guideline and policy news
 * Following an RfC, TFAs will be automatically semi-protected the day before it is on the main page and through the day after.
 * A discussion at WP:VPP about revision deletion and oversight for dead names found that [s]ysops can choose to use revdel if, in their view, it's the right tool for this situation, and they need not default to oversight. But oversight could well be right where there's a particularly high risk to the person. Use your judgment.

Technical news
 * Special:Contributions now shows the user's local edit count and the account's creation date.

Arbitration
 * The SmallCat dispute case has closed. As part of the final decision, editors participating in XfD have been reminded to be careful about forming local consensus which may or may not reflect the broader community consensus. Regular closers of XfD forums were also encouraged to note when broader community discussion, or changes to policies and guidelines, would be helpful.

Miscellaneous
 * Tech tip: The "Browse history interactively" banner shown at the top of Special:Diff can be used to easily look through a history, assemble composite diffs, or find out what archive something wound up in.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:22, 1 September 2023 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Nine Black Robes
Hello, Mz7. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Nine Black Robes, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again&#32;or request that it be moved to your userspace.

If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 03:03, 6 September 2023 (UTC)

Inappropriate closure of election proposal
Hi. On 01:44, 9 September 2023 you closed my proposal about the election of Arbitration Committee members, with the rationale, "hatting this one per WP:SNOW". I reverted your closure on the grounds that i find it highly inappropriate to close a proposal without even giving it a chance to have some discussion, besides this system is used by organizations, read Sortition.

To me it is amazing that an election proposal by a veteran editor would be haphazardly closed just because. Evidently you don't seem to know the history of the origins of Wikipedia and how ridiculed was the idea of making an encyclopedia written by random largely anonymous contributors. I call on you to respect the proposals process and don't try to WP:OWN it without even giving them due time to be discussed. Thanks. Thinker78 (talk) 02:05, 9 September 2023 (UTC)


 * Responded at the discussion. Mz7 (talk) 02:27, 9 September 2023 (UTC)

New page patrol October 2023 Backlog drive
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Banned user
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{{sock list|1=Faizan878|tools_link=yes}}

39.34.174.41 (talk) 18:23, 15 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Reasons: The account was created after previous sock was banned. The users shares the same areas of interest especially Tamasha (season 2). The behaviours of the sock such as adding the newly created television pages to the same category (Category:2023 Pakistani television series debuts) after removing uncategorised tag, and adding blog as references (reviewit.pk). The user also provided no edit summaries as the sock does usually.

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HELP
Hello Mz7 , hopefully you are doing good. I need help. May you please grant me Rollback rights? I use SWViewer and Twinkle to revert vandalism. Alternatively, you can check my request on rollback request page here. Thank you. Tumbuka Arch  ★★★  10:26, 17 September 2023 (UTC)

Protection of pages targetted by sock network
Hi, Thanks for handling the recent SPI case at Sockpuppet investigations/Magichero1234/Archive. Can you please see if the pages that have been targetted by these socks for years can be protected as well. I identify these as below:

Gotitbro (talk) 10:15, 22 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Deccan
 * Deccan Plateau
 * Deccani language
 * Deccan sultanates
 * Deccanis
 * Hyderabad State
 * Hyderabadi cuisine
 * Annexation of Hyderabad
 * Khubani-ka-Meetha
 * Hyderabad massacres
 * Abul A'la Maududi
 * Hyderabadi Muslims
 * Telangana Rebellion
 * Hyderabad


 * Apologies for the delay in responding. I sampled a few of these pages. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like these articles are edited frequently enough to warrant semi-protection under the protection policy. Generally, we only apply semi-protection for a few days or weeks at a time when vandalism is unusually frequent or disruptive. In cases like this where the articles are only edited a few times a month, I'm afraid the solution is usually to simply add them to your watchlist and revert as needed. If there is a particular page that is the target of unusually frequent disruption, I'd be happy to take a second look. Mz7 (talk) 01:15, 27 September 2023 (UTC)
 * I see, though I was basing the request on the strength of recent page protections that have been granted due to extensive sock disruptions in the WP:CASTE space (as can be seen at User talk:Abecedare) which this does somewhat fall into.
 * But in any case please do take a look at Hyderabad State, Deccan (and Deccan Plateau), Hyderabadi Muslims and Khubani-ka-Meetha. These are regularly targetted by this network here without amiss. Gotitbro (talk) 03:37, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

New pages patrol newsletter
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Backlog update: At the time of this message, there are 11,300 articles and 15,600 redirects awaiting review. This is the highest backlog in a long time. Please help out by doing additional reviews!

October backlog elimination drive: A one-month backlog drive for October will start in one week! Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles and redirects patrolled. Articles will earn 4x as many points compared to redirects. You can sign up here.

PageTriage code upgrades: Upgrades to the PageTriage code, initiated by the NPP open letter in 2022 and actioned by the WMF Moderator Tools Team in 2023, are ongoing. More information can be found here. As part of this work, the Special:NewPagesFeed now has a new version in beta! The update leaves the NewPagesFeed appearance and function mostly identical to the old one, but updates the underlying code, making it easier to maintain and helping make sure the extension is not decommissioned due to maintenance issues in the future. You can try out the new Special:NewPagesFeed here - it will replace the current version soon.

Notability tip: Professors can meet WP:PROF #1 by having their academic papers be widely cited by their peers. When reviewing professor articles, it is a good idea to find their Google Scholar or Scopus profile and take a look at their h-index and number of citations. As a very rough rule of thumb, for most fields, articles on people with a h-index of twenty or more, a first-authored paper with more than a thousand citations, or multiple papers each with more than a hundred citations are likely to be kept at AfD.

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Administrators' newsletter – September 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2023).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Hey man im josh
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Alex Bakharev · CorbieVreccan · Cyphoidbomb · Davodd · Hog Farm · JamesR · KnightLago · Mark Ironie · Nosebagbear (deceased) · Rschen7754 · Tamzin · TonyBallioni



CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg DatGuy
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Ferret · RickinBaltimore
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg TonyBallioni · Worm That Turned

Oversighter changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg RickinBaltimore
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg TonyBallioni · Worm That Turned

Guideline and policy news
 * An RfC is open regarding amending the paid-contribution disclosure policy to add the following text: Any administrator soliciting clients for paid Wikipedia-related consulting or advising services not covered by other paid-contribution rules must disclose all clients on their userpage.

Technical news
 * Administrators can now choose to add the user's user page to their watchlist when changing the usergroups for a user. This works both via Special:UserRights and via the API.

Arbitration
 * Remedy 9 ("MarioProtIV topic ban") of the WikiProject Tropical Cyclones case has been rescinded.

Miscellaneous
 * The 2023 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of one new CheckUser.
 * Self-nominations for the electoral commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections opens on 2 October and closes on 8 October.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:41, 4 October 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 23 October 2023
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November Articles for creation backlog drive
 Hello Mz7:

WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive!

The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than 2 months outstanding reviews from the current 4+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 November 2023 through 30 November 2023.

You may find Category:AfC pending submissions by age or other categories and sorting helpful.

Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.

There is a backlog of over pages, so start reviewing drafts. We're looking forward to your help! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:24, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – November 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2023).



Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg 0xDeadbeef
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Tamzin
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Dennis Brown

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Pppery
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Ragesoss · TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

Technical news
 * The WMF is working on making it possible for administrators to edit MediaWiki configuration directly. This is similar to previous work on Special:EditGrowthConfig. A technical RfC is running until November 08, where you can provide feedback.
 * There is a proposed plan for re-enabling the Graph Extension. Feedback on this proposal is requested.

Arbitration
 * Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 12 November 2023 until 21 November 2023 to stand in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections.
 * , and  have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee Elections.  is the reserve commissioner.
 * Following a motion, the contentious topic designation of Prem Rawat has been struck. Actions previously taken using this contentious topic designation are still in force.
 * Following several motions, multiple topic areas are no longer designated as a contentious topic. These contentious topic designations were from the Editor conduct in e-cigs articles, Liancourt Rocks, Longevity, Medicine, September 11 conspiracy theories, and Shakespeare authorship question cases.
 * Following a motion, remedies 3.1 (All related articles under 1RR whenever the dispute over naming is concerned), 6 (Stalemate resolution) and 30 (Administrative supervision) of the Macedonia 2 case have been rescinded.
 * Following a motion, remedy 6 (One-revert rule) of the The Troubles case has been amended.
 * An arbitration case named Industrial agriculture has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case close 8 November.

Miscellaneous
 * The Articles for Creation backlog drive is happening in November 2023, with 700+ drafts pending reviews for in the last 4 months or so. In addition to the AfC participants, all administrators and New Page Patrollers can conduct reviews using the helper script, Yet Another AFC Helper Script, which can be enabled in the Gadgets settings. Sign up here to participate!

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:23, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

EnPassant
I believe you're the blocking admin for EnPassant—I seem to be a few months late on this, but the user seems to be fairly adamant on keeping the Retired template on their page despite being a user blocked for sockpuppetry, something they've claimed you're fine with. just wanted to bring it up with you. Darling (talk) 15:46, 13 November 2023 (UTC)


 * @Darling: I can understand the view (established in this discussion) that the retired template should not be used by editors blocked for sockpuppetry, but at the same time, I don't really see it as a big deal. It seems the main argument for disallowing the retired template is that it would be "misleading", but the editor's user page already has a tag which makes it clear they were blocked for sockpuppetry, and if they attempt to appeal their block, it will be evident that they did not retire voluntarily. Personally, I would just leave the editor be, especially considering that, before they were blocked, they did make many thousands of constructive edits. Mz7 (talk) 22:26, 13 November 2023 (UTC)
 * I believe where we left off in that discussion (after a mere six years of discussion) was that it's okay if they're not socking around the block. -- Tamzin  &#91;cetacean needed&#93; (they&#124;xe&#124;she) 22:33, 13 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Aha, I missed that the specific wording is that it would be inappropriate to use the template if they continue socking after being blocked. I am on board with that. I'm not aware of EnPassant continuing to sock after I blocked their account, so using retired should be okay. Mz7 (talk) 00:41, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

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