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kinda need help
dear roysmith hi my name is soheil and im from jordan in im intrsted in helping wikipedia community as u can see i did couple contributes but its not a lot lol i recently made an article for a pelstinian singer Elyanna which got deleted as promotinal article or out natural point of vieW im not conncted to the source or whatevrr but i made that article from WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Palestine and WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Chile plese guide me throw this deletation how come it got deleted many thanks Spacegoat1 (talk) 18:48, 6 April 2022 (UTC)


 * @Spacegoat1 deleted the article, so he would be better able to explain why it was deleted.  In any case, my suggestion would be to try writing this as a draft, i.e. Draft:Elyanna, where the standards aren't as strict and you can get some help from reviewers. -- RoySmith (talk) 19:00, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
 * thx brother for advice i aske dhim he doesnt respond please if its ok for you ask him and lemme know btw ill start to work on draft as u asked and get back to u thx agian! Spacegoat1 (talk) 19:37, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Roy, thanks for ping I've posted guidance on Spacegoat1's talk page. I didn't respond immediately because I have to sleep sometimes (: Jimfbleak - talk to me?  08:03, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2022
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19:43, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

Bear necessities
I preferred your one about the train of thought, as it goes :)    SN54129  14:57, 12 April 2022 (UTC)


 * I guess I just ran out of steam. -- RoySmith (talk) 15:04, 12 April 2022 (UTC)

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New administrator activity requirement
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22:54, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

Draft:Vladislav Sviblov
Hello. Please see this draft. Objections about sources corrected. New sources added. Some fragments of the text removed. Thanks. Валерий Пасько (talk) 18:18, 26 April 2022 (UTC)

Indane Love
Hi, Indane Love isn't blocked. I changed my mind after looking at the evidence more closely and not seeing enough overlap, regards Atlantic306 (talk) 00:56, 27 April 2022 (UTC)


 * Ah, yes. Well, in any case, that's still a reason to close the case :-)  I'll clarify my comment, thanks for the note. -- RoySmith (talk) 01:04, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

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19:32, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Fleetwood Park Racetrack
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Your GA nomination of Fleetwood Park Racetrack
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Harassment account back
A harassment account aimed at Horse Eye's Back that went unblocked in a an April 2021 report is back again. Could it be blocked now? Best, CMD (talk) 02:25, 9 May 2022 (UTC)


 * I haven't really been following Ineedtostopforgetting so I'm not up on the behavioral patterns. Could I ask that you open an SPI report, so somebody else can take a look?  Thanks. -- RoySmith (talk) 02:58, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Don't think its INTSF, see Sockpuppet investigations/隐世高人. Horse Eye&#39;s Back (talk) 04:57, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
 * In this case it's not behavioural patterns that matter, it's the fact it's a troll/harassment account. It's literally in the name. Doesn't need a sock block, just a NOTHERE. CMD (talk) 05:41, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

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 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
 * Incompatibility issues with Kartographer and the FlaggedRevs extension will be fixed: Deployment is planned for May 10 on all wikis. Kartographer will then be enabled on the five wikis which have not yet enabled the extension on May 24.
 * The Vector (2022) skin will be set as the default on several more wikis, including Arabic and Catalan Wikipedias. Logged-in users will be able to switch back to the old Vector (2010). See the latest update about Vector (2022).

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15:21, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2022).

Administrator changes
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 * 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.

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 * 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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 * Some wikis can soon use the add a link feature. This will start on Wednesday. The wikis are . This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally.
 * The Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 will take place online on May 20–22. It will be in English. There are also local hackathon meetups in Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Nigeria and the United States. Technically interested Wikimedians can work on software projects and learn new skills. You can also host a session or post a project you want to work on.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

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18:57, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

Msgs
Hi Roy Smith! thanks for leaving the message on my talk page. I do not know Zaelzo at all, have no connection with any other wiki-editors and this is my only account. I've actually redacted some of Zaelzo's edits for citing uncredible sources sometimes but usually their editing is okay. I see their account on the Kenneth Mejia page. Thank you for keeping Wikipedia safe and accurate. <3 Stay safe and healthy :) Kylerschin (talk) 01:07, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

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Recent changes
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 * The www.wiktionary.org portal page now uses an automated update system. Other project portals will be updated over the next few months.

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 * The Growth team maintains a mentorship program for newcomers. Previously, newcomers weren't able to opt out from the program. Starting May 19, 2022, newcomers are able to fully opt out from Growth mentorship, in case they do not wish to have any mentor at all.
 * Some editors cannot access the content translation tool if they load it by clicking from the contributions menu. This problem is being worked on. It should still work properly if accessed directly via Special:ContentTranslation.

Changes later this week
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00:19, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

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Question regarding an edit
Hey there! I had a question regarding this edit, in which you added a picture of a man, a caption with User:Box (wikilinked to Logan's Run) and an edit summary of 'protein of the sea!', which seems to be a reference to this. If you don't mind me asking, how does it relate to userboxe(s/n)? Cheers! Fakescientist8000 13:13, 29 May 2022 (UTC)


 * The photo is of Roscoe Lee Browne, who is the actor who played the robot Box in Logan's Run (film). "Protein of the sea" is one of the famous lines that Box speaks. -- RoySmith (talk) 14:00, 29 May 2022 (UTC)
 * I see. Thank you! Cheers! Fakescientist8000 14:17, 29 May 2022 (UTC)

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Question about adding to an SPI
I recently submitted an SPI alleging sockpuppetry on a disruptive IP range together with a new user account. I was told that the CheckUser request would be declined and it would be investigated behaviorally; I should not have publicly linked an IP to an account. Since then I have located another user account also operated by the same individual; the behavioral investigation for the old submission is not done yet. How do I go about this? Should I...
 * ...email someone?
 * ...edit the existing SPI submission?
 * ...fill out a new submission, or should it not be a new submission?--Epiphyllumlover (talk) 19:26, 29 May 2022 (UTC)


 * @Epiphyllumlover thanks for your questions. There's a couple of different things intertwined here.  To answer the simple one first, please just fill out a new submission.  It's OK to add new accounts to an existing report, but once somebody starts to work on it, and especially once it's been closed, starting a new report makes the whole process run easier.
 * As for linking IPs to accounts, that's a little more complicated. A Checkuser is forbidden by policy to connect an account with an IP.  However, there's nothing wrong with a non-Checkuser reporting an IP and suggesting that it's connected to an account, based on observed behavior.  Once somebody requests that CU be run, a Checkuser will still evaluate the case to determine if there's sufficient grounds for suspicion to run a check according to policy.  Sometimes the CU will determine that there isn't, and will decline to run a check.  I don't know which SPI you're talking about, but it sounds like that's what happened here.  It's not a big deal, cases get declined all the time. -- RoySmith (talk) 20:12, 29 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your detailed answer. I see I'll need to fill out another SPI form. Your explanation doesn't quite match what two others wrote when explaining it to me. Since that discussion was collapsed, I will transclude it in case it interests you. I don't expect you to take more time explaining things to me; this is only if it interests you.--Epiphyllumlover (talk) 16:55, 30 May 2022 (UTC)


 * It could just be that my understanding is off.--Epiphyllumlover (talk) 16:55, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-22
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Recent changes
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 * The IP Info feature which helps abuse fighters access information about IPs, has been deployed to all wikis as a beta feature. This comes after weeks of beta testing on test.wikipedia.org.

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 * Octicons-sync.svg Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
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 * Octicons-tools.svg The list=usercontribs API will support fetching contributions from an IP range soon. API users can set the   parameter to get contributions from any IP range within the limit.
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Editing newsletter 2022 – #1
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The New topic tool helps editors create new ==Sections== on discussion pages. New editors are more successful with this new tool. You can read the report. Soon, the Editing team will offer this to all editors at most WMF-hosted wikis. You can join the discussion about this tool for the English Wikipedia is at Village pump (proposals). You will be able to turn it off in the tool or at Special:Preferences.

The Editing team plans to change the appearance of talk pages. These are separate from the changes made by the Desktop improvements project and will appear in both Vector 2010 and Vector 2022. The goal is to add some information and make discussions look visibly different from encyclopedia articles. You can see some ideas at Wikipedia talk:Talk pages project.

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23:15, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

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

Administrator 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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NYC Wiknic, June 26
Hold the date. Meetup/NYC Wiknic in Crotona Park, Sunday June 26.

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Nto template
Hi Roy! I just came across Template:Nto in the wild and was thinking...it is probably best if that template is substituted? Would minimize any vandalism potential. Just a thought and curious your opinion. -- The SandDoctor Talk 16:17, 5 June 2022 (UTC)


 * Yeah, sure. My template-fu is pretty weak, but if you know how to make it auto-substitute, please do so.  It would also be nice if it didn't generate an extra newline at the end, so you could add a trailing comment.  I tried to get it to do that, but, well, as I said, I'm kind of clueless when it comes to template syntax :-) -- RoySmith (talk) 16:19, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
 * I am not sure on how to auto-substitute, I just know the Substitution way (when you are saving an edit using the template), but I was able to fix the trailing new line (test). -- The SandDoctor  Talk 16:55, 5 June 2022 (UTC)

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02:45, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

Requesting a cross-reference
Due to the editor's previous uncivil behavior towards me and my concern that they are a frequent socker, I have been monitoring 's unblock request. I do not know the process of requesting this, but I think a merge of the Qaumrambista/Jude Didimus investigation with Sockpuppet investigations/Vishaal Elias Manesh/Archive is a good idea when you compare the known editing patterns of VEM socks and the Q/JD tag-teaming on image uploads (apparently same access to ), editing, and other characteristics. I know I have pursued this issue for two months now, but the severe damage done to an already fragile corner of the Wiki (Indian minority ethnic groups) has continued to capture my concern. Additional evidence to tie the sockfarm to the Q/JD pair can be provided immediately on request. ~ Pbritti (talk) 04:43, 8 June 2022 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your note. The best way to present your evidence is to file a new SPI report. RoySmith-Mobile (talk) 12:29, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

Sockpuppet allegation
You've have unfairly labelled me a sockpuppet and I am now being stalked by one of the accusers across Wikipedia. Do you have any evidence to back up this claim, other than we disagreed with the accusers on the UKIM article?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/PlainAndSimpleTailor/Archive#Comments_by_other_users

Please either rescind your allegation and thus hopefully the flimsy pretence Cambrial is using to stalk me will end or do a full and proper investigation which will clear me and probably everyone else they accused too. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.33.24.203 (talk) 08:57, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

The above editor has confirmed they are the same blocked editor in the second paragraph of this edit. Block of this identified sockpuppet IP will be appreciated. <span style="white-space:nowrap;text-shadow:#4682B4 0.1em 0.1em 1.5em,#4682B4 -0.1em -0.1em 1.5em;color:#000000"><i style="color:#999900">Cambial </i>— <b style="color:#218000">foliar❧</b> 09:50, 8 June 2022 (UTC)


 * This doesn't need to happen on my talk page. Please see Appealing a block. -- RoySmith (talk) 13:12, 8 June 2022 (UTC)