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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - January 2021
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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 * Speedy deletion criterion T3 (duplication and hardcoded instances) has been repealed following a request for comment.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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ArchiveSent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:08, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

CallMeCarson Draft
Hello! I was in the process of accepting Draft:CallMeCarson, but noticed that you had create-protected the page. I think this draft falls safely within the GNG, particularly with the new sexual misconduct allegations. If you could unprotect the page or let me know why not, it would be much appreciated. Thanks! AviationFreak 💬 05:17, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
 * title unsalted. Nthep (talk) 10:04, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

DiscussionTools update
Hello,

The Editing team has scheduled a major update to mw:Extension:DiscussionTools (the new Reply tool) for next week's deployment train. Since you invoke the feature from a script (I do, too), you're probably going to see that update next week, before it's officially released in the Beta Feature system. The new update will use a similar system for starting a ==New discussion==. As before, full-page wikitext editing will not be affected. There is more information on the project page at Talk pages project/New discussion.

You don't have to do anything about this; I just didn't want you to be surprised. If you encounter problems next week, please ping me or leave a note on the talk page for the project. Thanks, Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 22:09, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXXVII, January 2021
The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here. If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 00:06, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

Wiki page
Hi my name is I was wondering how wiki pages are made.

Thanks Editzz16 (talk) 14:08, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

Books & Bytes - Issue 42
 The Wikipedia Library Books & Bytes

Issue 42, November – December 2020 
 * New EBSCO collections now available
 * 1Lib1Ref 2021 underway
 * Library Card input requested
 * Libraries love Wikimedia, too!

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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - February 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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ArchiveSent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:10, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

Can this IP be blocked?
Hello admin, can this IP be blocked as soon as possible? -- Ashley yoursmile!  13:13, 19 February 2021 (UTC)


 * done. Nthep (talk) 13:18, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Ashley  yoursmile!  13:19, 19 February 2021 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXXVIII, February 2021
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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - March 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
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg AmandaNP

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)

Re your suggestion
You do realise that what you said is victim blaming? If someone improves an article then that's one thing but just deleting everything is completely against the ethos of wikipedia. Will you be writing something on the talk page of the people who did the deleting warning them not to do it and to try to improve pages instead, or is it just me you seek to correct?SandrinaHatman (talk) 19:37, 6 March 2021 (UTC)


 * or you could just try writing articles that, you know, meet our inclusion criteria. Try this page for some suggestions of how to avoid your work being deleted. Nick (talk) 19:48, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry you feel that a note meant as suggestion to how to avoid more of the same is victim blaming but Wikipedia has standards and while, yes, in an ideal world everything would be given the opportunity to be improved rather than deleted but there is so much rubbish knocking about (for whatever reason) that stuff that doesn't obviously meet the standards does tend to get summarily deleted. That's a statement not an excuse for anyone's actions and others may have done things differently but as Nick says understanding what the criteria are is a good place to start. Nthep (talk) 20:16, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 42
 The Wikipedia Library Books & Bytes

Issue 42, January – February 2021 
 * New partnerships: PNAS, De Gruyter, Nomos
 * 1Lib1Ref
 * Library Card

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The Bugle: Issue CLXXIX, March 2021
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Peter Gutwein image
Hi,

I can confirm this picture was posted by the Tasmanian government, I can send a link to the government page if you want.

Cheers - Tom — Preceding unsigned comment added by TomVenam2021 (talk • contribs) 23:13, 27 March 2021 (UTC)

Hi,

Should I try and find if this image is in the public domain? If not, how do you know the other images are not? — Preceding unsigned comment added by TomVenam2021 (talk • contribs) 23:15, 27 March 2021 (UTC)
 * You can ask the Tasmanian government but the permission has to be explicit. The existing image is licenced as the photographer's own work and has attached EXIF information that strongly suggests that this is the case. Nthep (talk) 23:21, 27 March 2021 (UTC)


 * And if it’s copyrighted, is there anyway we could get a better quality image instead of the low quality one right now? — Preceding unsigned comment added by TomVenam2021 (talk • contribs) 23:32, 27 March 2021 (UTC)
 * you don't need to add a new heading every time you comment on a talk page. Finding a replacement photo is easy as anyone can take a photo of him and upload it accordingly.  The hard bit is being in the right place at the right time to get one. Nthep (talk) 23:37, 27 March 2021 (UTC)

A quick but possibly dumb question about speedy deletion criteria
I have requested this image that I've uploaded for the article Everywhere at the End of Time to be deleted in, as I did with some audio samples from that article. After an interesting conversation with another administrator, where I had rickrolled him, I realized just how many non-free content I had put in that article. He pointed me out to this list, where the EatEoT article was at the top of. While yes, the article's topic is very abstract (a musical depiction of the stages of Alzheimer's) and very long (a series of six different albums), that does not justify such a large amount of non-free content as I usually though it would.

Anyway, my question is: since an administrator speedily deleted the audio samples I had uploaded, due to criterion G7, could I do that to the previously mentioned image, too? I am genuinely curious about this, as I see a "delete" button just after the name of the file on, but I have no idea where it takes me or if I have the permission to delete the image. The criterion in question states that, if the uploader of the file him(her)self supports its deletion, it should be speedily deleted. And I am the uploader of the image (two obvious facts). But the criterion says nothing about if the uploader can delete the file if he supports so, which I obviously do.

So, in summary: can a file be speedily deleted by its own uploader, even if he does not hold a higher position on Wikipedia?

Wetrorave (talk) 22:56, 30 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Hi, simple answer is no. Deletion of files, articles, indeed anything requires administrator rights. G7 is simply a criterion for speedy deletion, not the actual mechanism. You're right that G7 is in an indication that the creator agrees to the deletion of the content but it is also part of G7 that there has to be little or no other editing made by anyone else. If G7 were unbundled from admin rights (I'm not sure if that is technically possible) then the possibility for abuse is huge,  if page creators could delete content solely because they were the first to edit a page. Nthep (talk) 08:16, 31 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Tanks. Wetrorave (talk) 12:35, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

April 2021 WikiProject Military History Reviewing Drive
Hey y'all, the April 2021 WikiProject Military History Reviewing Drive begins at 00:01 UTC on April 1, 2021 and runs through 23:59 UTC on April 31, 2021. Points can be earned through reviewing articles on the AutoCheck report, reviewing articles listed at WP:MILHIST/ASSESS, reviewing MILHIST-tagged articles at WP:GAN or WP:FAC, and reviewing articles submitted at WP:MILHIST/ACR. Service awards and barnstars are given for set points thresholds, and the top three finishers will receive further awards. To participate, sign up at WikiProject_Military_History/April 2021 Reviewing Drive and create a worklist at WikiProject Military history/April 2021 Reviewing Drive/Worklists (examples are given). Further details can be found at the drive page. Questions can be asked at the drive talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:26, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

Happy Adminship Anniversary!
 Happy Adminship Anniversary! Have a very happy adminship anniversary on your special day!

Best wishes, CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 20:05, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

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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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:20, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

Garth Crooks and Rear Of the Year troll
Hi Ijust wanted to let you know that there is a annoying editor on the Rear of The Year page named Ceej1979mo who also edits the same things unregistered who is changing names of yearly winners to Ralf Little and Garth Crooks when the official website which is on the page confirms it's actually John Altman and Andy Murray respectively. He's very persistent and when I revert it he reverts it automatically and often.

Just saw you and Favonian blocking other people that have edited this so just hopeful you can block this one too. Can you check this out? Thanks135.0.252.54 (talk) 16:19, 4 April 2021 (UTC) Here is one that you did recently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/2A02:C7F:18AE:4900:C28:AD45:3B7C:E71F and here is Ceej1979mo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Ceej1979mo

I am getting a bit fed up about this. I'm sure he'll continue to do this under different registered threads. Thanks in advance1135.0.252.54 (talk) 16:24, 4 April 2021 (UTC)
 * He's blocked. Nthep (talk) 17:20, 4 April 2021 (UTC)