User talk:Stwalkerster/Archive April 2019

Administrators' newsletter – April 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2019).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Reaper Eternal • ThaddeusB
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Bogdangiusca • Christopher Parham • Necrothesp • Schneelocke • Siroxo • Sarah
 * Pictogram voting rename.png →

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Mr. Stradivarius

Bureaucrat changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg DeltaQuad
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Kingturtle

Technical news
 * In Special:Preferences under "Appearance" → "Advanced options", there is now an option to show a confirmation prompt when clicking on a rollback link.
 * The Wikimedia Foundation's Community health initiative plans to design and build a new user reporting system to make it easier for people experiencing harassment and other forms of abuse to provide accurate information to the appropriate channel for action to be taken. Please see meta:Community health initiative/User reporting system consultation 2019 to provide your input on this idea.

Arbitration
 * The Arbitration Committee clarified that the General 1RR prohibition for Palestine-Israel articles may only be enforced on pages with the ARBPIA 1RR editnotice edit notice.

Miscellaneous
 * Two more administrator accounts were compromised. Evidence has shown that these attacks, like previous incidents, were due to reusing a password that was used on another website that suffered a data breach. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately. All admins are strongly encouraged to enable two-factor authentication, please consider doing so. Please always practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.
 * As a reminder, according to WP:NOQUORUM, administrators looking to close or relist an AfD should evaluate a nomination that has received few or no comments as if it were a proposed deletion (PROD) prior to determining whether it should be relisted.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:57, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

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- FlightTime  ( open channel ) 14:51, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

regarding Richard C Holt
Hello. I am Eric Hehner. Ric Holt was my close friend for 50 years. I even lived in his house for a while. He died recently, and I wanted to add that to his Wikipedia page. I discovered that the page was incorrect and incomplete, so I rewrote it. It has twice been reverted to the incorrect version, saying my version lacked sources. If I'm not a source, then I offer his wife Marie or his son Adam as sources. I have known Marie for the same 50 years, and I have known Adam all his life. I don't know what else to offer. And I point out that the incorrect version that I am trying to replace certainly lacks sources.

I don't know how to fix the side panel that displays when you google Richard C Holt. It wrongly says Holt was born in Toronto, wrongly says that he attended Bloor Collegiate Institute, and wrongly implies he is alive. I can once again correct his page, but can you help by correcting his side panel? I would like it to say:

Born 13 February 1941 Bartlesville Oklahoma Died 12 April 2019 Quadra Island British Columbia Nationality American, Canadian Alma Mater Cornell University Institutions University of Toronto, University of Waterloo

If you have any further questions or doubts, feel free to email me. 135.23.107.19 (talk) 14:01, 26 April 2019 (UTC)


 * Hi Eric - firstly, my condolences for the recent loss of your friend, and secondly my apologies for taking time to get back to you on this.
 * We have a policy on Wikipedia to cite any facts which are reported to a reliable source (a publication with editorial oversight such as a newspaper), allowing readers to verify for themselves what is written. While this is always important, it is even more important when dealing with biographies of living (or recently deceased) people - we even have a special policy for it. This helps ensure that any material which is potentially damaging to someone is backed up by a publication which has a reputation for fact checking and editorial oversight; meaning people can't make up untrue information about someone. We're not a news website - it doesn't matter if we're simply out of date, but it does matter if we're wrong. Unfortunately, that does mean we can't just trust what people claim directly like you have above as it's impossible for readers to verify independently without constantly contacting you or Ric's family - and they'd be trusting that you are indeed who you say you are.
 * While I understand that this can be frustrating (especially so as someone close to them), but please try to think of it the other way around - a new (or unregistered) user changed the article to report a family member or close friend of yours was dead, when they were actually alive - it would probably be even more upsetting, especially if other people saw the article and took action such as publishing obituaries or sending condolence cards for someone who is still alive.
 * As such, I removed your edits because the changes you made were not cited to any published, reliable sources as mentioned above, and also because your edit removed the existing sources in the article. At the time, I checked for a source that would back up the claims you added, but I couldn't find one. I see now that Connormah has found a source for this. You also mention the "side panel", but no infobox is present in the article. I presume you thus refer to Google's box that appears on the search results - we have absolutely zero control over that box, inquires concerning that are better directed to Google themselves.
 * I hope this answers your questions and concerns. stwalkerster (talk) 22:53, 28 April 2019 (UTC)

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