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Administrators' newsletter – April 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2020).

Administrator changes
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Arbitration
 * Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold a Arbcom RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. A draft RfC has been posted at Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC (Draft) and not open to comments from the community yet. Interested editors can comment on the RfC itself on its talk page.

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 * The WMF has begun a pilot report of the pages most visited through various social media platforms to help with anti-vandalism and anti-disinformation efforts. The report is updated daily and will be available through the end of May.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:00, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

Auckland railway stations
Re the List of Auckland railway stations, someone has "had a go" at it by altering some station names so that they appear as "redlinks" to stations supposedly in Wellington, Lower Hutt or the Wellington Region – but when/who?: Hugo999 (talk) 09:17, 10 April 2020 (UTC) PS: and to some station articles e.g. Ellerslie railway station re Penrose in infobox.
 * Southern Line
 * Newmarket (Wellington Region)
 * Penrose (Wellington Region)
 * Eastern Line
 * Panmure (Wellington Region)
 * Onehunga Line
 * Newmarket (Wellington Region)
 * Penrose (Wellington Region)
 * Western Line
 * Newmarket (Wellington Region)
 * Grafton (Lower Hutt)
 * Kingsland (Lower Hutt)
 * Morningside (Wellington Region)
 * Avondale (Wellington Region)
 * The problematic edit appears to be this one, but I suspect this is an error rather than vandalism.- gadfium 09:35, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

Request
Hi, the last time i requested autopatrol permission ([here you declined it. So I requested here may be if you can grant the request. Much Regards ([[User:F5pillar|F5pillar]] --> (Let's talk) 09:05, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Well, this is definitely the wrong place to apply for it.  Schwede 66  00:58, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

Otaihunga railway station article
I propose to make Otaihunga railway station a redirect to Otaihanga railway station and have put it on the WikiProject NZR list of tasks. Current spelling and also the spelling in WMR advertisements and in Douglas Hoy’s 1972 book on the WMR (p52,120). I do not have access to Ken Cassell’s "Uncommon Carrier" at present. Hugo999 (talk) 00:04, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

What to do when a user keeps misusing the "minor edit" option
Hello. I noticed that you also have left a message on the user page of Ojotaranios concerning that user's continual marking of non-minor edits as minor. These notices have apparently been disregarded. The user additionally appears to continue to engage in edit warring and/or tendentious behavior. I'm wondering which next steps should be taken, and I'm mainly just hoping that you're keeping an eye on the situation. BirdValiant (talk) 07:16, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
 * personally, I get quite annoyed by non-minor edits marked as minor. But then I remind myself: will this stop Wikipedia being a brilliant project? Well, of course not. In fact, it doesn’t really matter (unless it’s done with malicious intent). If you’ve seen the long deleted note that I’ve left this user, you will have seen that I predict a short tenure. Minor edits won’t be their downfall so don’t get distracted by it.  Schwede 66  08:59, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

Draft:Sophie Morris
If you have time, could you take a look at this draft article? It seems very borderline notable to me but hard to determine as there are some reliable sources about her, although nothing in the last 2-3 years. TIA! MurielMary (talk) 11:27, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Another editor has already approved it so let’s see what will happen. Without reading the refs themselves, it looks ok. Notability isn’t temporary so it doesn’t matter if reporting stops at some point.  Schwede 66  18:18, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for having a look. You are right about past notability being notability still; I was thinking that there seemed to be only one notable event (the 10 Tenors tour) which would put the article into that "notable for one event" exclusion (there's a criteria around that for bios from memory). MurielMary (talk) 22:20, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Well, that's true. There seemed to be unrelated reporting (singing carols on a plane).  Schwede 66  22:34, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

Verna Coutts
Hi. Hope you are well. If you have a moment, I was wondering if you could find any more info on Verna Coutts, who played for the New Zealand women's cricket team in the 1950s? Cricinfo has her as still being alive, but Cricket Archive shows she died in January 2010. The latter is behind a paywall, but it does include her full name of Verna Reed Coutts, her married name of MacDonald, and that she worked as a radiographer at Wellington Hospital. Thank you.  Lugnuts  Fire Walk with Me 18:42, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Nothing jumps out, eh? A mention on the NZCricketMuseum website and beyond that nothing.  Schwede 66  19:00, 27 April 2020 (UTC)


 * Yes, that was all I was able to find. Oh well, thanks for taking a second look.  Lugnuts  Fire Walk with Me 06:38, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

50,000 Destubbing Challenge Focus of the Week
Hello there. This is an invitation to join the 50,000 Destubbing Challenge Focus of the Week. £250 (c. $310) is being given away in May, June and July with £20 worth of prizes to give away every week for most articles destubbed. Each week there is a different region of focus, including the last week dedicated to NZ and Oceania, though half the prize will still be rewarded for articles on any subject. There's a potential £120 to be won in total for destubbing on any subject or region of your choice. Sign up if you want to contribute at least one of the weeks or support the idea! † Encyclopædius  12:03, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2020). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Gnangarra • Kaisershatner • Malcolmxl5

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Oversight changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg HJ Mitchell

Guideline and policy news
 * Discretionary sanctions have been authorized for all pages and edits related to COVID-19, to be logged at WP:GS/COVID19.
 * Following a recent discussion on Meta-Wiki, the edit filter maintainer global group has been created.
 * A request for comment has been proposed to create a new main page editor usergroup.
 * A request for comment has been proposed to make the bureaucrat activity requirements more strict.

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 * The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. You can review the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page.
 * created a script that will show a link to the proper Special:Undelete page when viewing a since-deleted revision, see User:Enterprisey/link-deleted-revs.

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 * A request for comment closed with consensus to create a Village Pump-style page for communication with the Wikimedia Foundation.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:19, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

Seeking suggestions – Water in New Zealand
Hi, I have posted a discussion starter on Talk:Water in New Zealand. However, this article has few watchers, and there has been little editing over many years. The article is rated as High importance, but is currently only at Start Class quality. I am willing to have a go at making significant improvements, but this seems like a big project, and I would prefer to have some collaborators, and to get consensus on direction. I don’t expect to get much reaction from the Talk page as things stand at present. Is there some way I can find other editors who might be interested in helping out ?Marshelec (talk) 22:01, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Takapūneke
Hello! Your submission of Takapūneke at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! BlueMoonset (talk) 14:41, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

awb script needs some work
With, your awb script wikilinked title in a template when url in that same template has an assigned value which causes  errors. Please fix your script.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 10:52, 7 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the heads up. That's not my script failing (I wouldn't know how to teach it to not look within a specific parameter) but me not checking the suggested edit thoroughly enough before I hit the save button.  Schwede 66  21:11, 7 May 2020 (UTC)

Queries relating to draft article - Rangitata Diversion Race
Hi, I seek some brief feedback and help with a couple of points related to an article I am developing about the Rangitata Diversion Race. I hope you can help. Please see a link to the draft article and my questions on my talk page here: User talk: Marshelec Marshelec (talk) 21:28, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Responded on your talk page as requested. Good work!  Schwede 66  22:03, 20 May 2020 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2020). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg CaptainEek • Creffett • Cwmhiraeth
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 * The Wikimedia Foundation that they will develop a universal code of conduct for all WMF projects. There is an open local discussion regarding the same.

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 * A motion was passed to enact a 500/30 restriction on articles related to the history of Jews and antisemitism in Poland during World War II (1933–45), including the Holocaust in Poland. Article talk pages where disruption occurs may also be managed with the stated restriction.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:28, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

New Zealand English
I'm sorry about mispelling "traveller" as "traveler" on the New Zealand articles. I keep on forgetting. But I'll remember now to fix those issues. Andykatib 00:08, June 19, 2020 (UTC)

Hi
Please don't be shady. You have a COI. cookie monster (2020)  755  19:59, 20 June 2020 (UTC)
 * It was rude. cookie monster  (2020)  755  20:00, 20 June 2020 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry but WP:BEFORE simply is part of the process you go through before nominating at AFD. You even stated that you hadn't done it. If you aren't prepared to do the necessary background work first just don't nominate at AFD. You'd do yourself, and all other editors, a favour, as the time that you saved yourself by not doing a proper job is wasted several times over by others having to look into it. And, thus far, they have all come to the conclusion that you got it wrong. Which is exactly my point.  Schwede 66  20:13, 20 June 2020 (UTC)
 * I never stated anything to you nor anyone. I simply asked you not to throw shade or be rude. Which you have done. I am thankful that you have provided resources to help me, but you could have done it with a better attitude. But again, this is the internet so maybe I misunderstood the tone you are using. I will try to be better about policy and guidelines regarding AfD but please don't be rude or throw shade. cookie monster  (2020)  755  20:24, 20 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Whether I got it wrong it not is not a justification for your poor attitude. cookie monster  (2020)  755  20:25, 20 June 2020 (UTC)
 * My intention was not to upset you. Obviously, I have done so, hence I shall apologise. What my intention was is to let you know that WP:BEFORE is part of the process. If you have come to the conclusion that you've got this wrong, the correct thing to do is to withdraw the AfD so that others don't waste more time looking into it; WP:WDAFD gives instructions on how to do that.  Schwede 66  20:32, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

More pie
Howdy - more Campbell-Browne edit-warring from 90.207.98.44, maybe you can intervene. Cheers -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 22:40, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Blocked.  Schwede 66  22:42, 21 June 2020 (UTC)