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Administrators' newsletter - February 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2017). This first issue is being sent out to all administrators, if you wish to keep receiving it please subscribe. Your feedback is welcomed.

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg NinjaRobotPirate • Schwede66 • K6ka • Ealdgyth • Ferret • Cyberpower678 • Mz7 • Primefac • Dodger67
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Briangotts • JeremyA • BU Rob13

Guideline and policy news
 * A discussion to workshop proposals to amend the administrator inactivity policy at Wikipedia talk:Administrators has been in process since late December 2016.
 * Pending changes/Request for Comment 2016 closed with no consensus for implementing Pending changes level 2 with new criteria for use.
 * Following an RfC, an activity requirement is now in place for bots and bot operators.

Technical news
 * When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)
 * Following the latest RfC concluding that Pending Changes 2 should not be used on the English Wikipedia, an RfC closed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. (T156448)
 * The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.

Arbitration
 * The Arbitration Committee released a response to the Wikimedia Foundation's statement on paid editing and outing.

Obituaries
 * JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.

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13:37, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Formal sector
Hello SebastianHelm,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Formal sector for deletion, because it doesn't appear to contain any encyclopedic content. Take a look at our suggestions for essential content in short articles to learn what should be included.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions.

Dr Strauss  talk  16:44, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

File:Bilabial plosives English.PNG listed for discussion
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Bilabial plosives English.PNG, has been listed at Files for discussion. Please see the to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you. Jon Kolbert (talk) 08:04, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

June 30, Talkback
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Nomination for deletion of Template:Gender-neutral
Template:Gender-neutral has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. KMF (talk) 04:28, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

Talk:Balto-Slavic languages
Hello, Sebastian, I would like to ask you for third opinion on this page. Discussion is below a chapter "Raising of stressed *o to *u in a final syllable". If you wouldn't do it personally could you ask about it other users, please?--Ed1974LT (talk) 18:17, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

Kircher
I don't have any profound knowledge of Athanasius Kircher. I've just seen various of his diagrams and maps for many years, and know that he was attempting a kind of grand synthesis of traditional systems and schemas at a time when many of them would soon be pushed aside by the rise of modern science. (A little similar to Casaubon in Middlemarch, maybe.) AnonMoos (talk) 14:45, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

Assyrian cuneiform
I was planning to first, do post-upload cross-checking and minor error-corrections, then sort them by according to Unicode order, then decide which is the basic or most typical sign (in cases where multiple Assyrian Cuneiform glyphs correspond to a single Unicode code point). However, I only ever got 30% of the way through post-upload cross-checking and minor error-corrections. I could give you a table of the SVGs in Unicode order, but it would be missing some of the cross-checking, and there would be multiple SVGs for some Unicode code points... AnonMoos (talk) 14:45, 25 October 2017 (UTC)


 * Sorry for the delay in replying, but the Assyrian Cuneiform project has kind of been on the back-burner for several months, and I had to set aside some time to bring myself back up to speed.
 * As for File:Assyrian cuneiform U1212C MesZL 3 or U12400 MesZL 2.svg, there's not a one-to-one correspondence between Old Babylonian and Neo-Assyrian cuneiform signs. Generally, Old Babylonian makes more distinctions (which is why it was chosen as the basis of the Unicode standard), but sometimes a single Old Babylonian sign will correspond to multiple Assyrian signs.  See the chart beginning on page 11 of the PDF file included in http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/AkkadianAssyrian.zip for a visual guide to this.
 * I hadn't really decided whether or not to rename files, but the error-checking I've done so far revealed has shown that File:Assyrian cuneiform MesZL 27.svg is closer to U1234B than to any other Unicode character, while the Unicode way of writing File:Assyrian cuneiform MesZL 133.svg is U12137 followed by U122BB (even though Studt and Borger disapprove of that).
 * As for ordering, you're probably right -- I guess I confused Cuneiform (Unicode block) with List of cuneiform signs. I'm not sure whether I would add them to Cuneiform (Unicode block) (which would require Unicode ordering)... AnonMoos (talk) 05:01, 30 October 2017 (UTC)