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Hi, how'z life going? - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 15:30, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Fine, real life is getting in the way of wikipedia (and school) other then that its been good. And yours? Signed, The4lines &#124;&#124;&#124;&#124; (You Asked?) (What I have Done.) 01:48, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
 * I was unwell so stopped editing. Then got busy IRL. Started editing again since 8th August . - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 07:17, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2020). Administrator changes
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 * Following a request for comment, the minimum length for site ban discussions was increased to 72 hours, up from 24.
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 * A request for comment is open to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the 2020 English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee election and to resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.
 * An open request for comment asks whether active Arbitrators may serve on the Trust and Safety Case Review Committee or Ombudsman commission.

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Guild of Copy Editors September 2020 Newsletter
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copyright violation
The article I cited "https://www.eurasiareview.com/01102019-the-hidden-ark-how-a-grassroots-initiative-can-help-save-fish-from-extinction/" is actually a copy of this press release which I wrote "https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-10/au-tha093019.php". However, it was done for the university, so my name is not on it. I don't know technically who owns the copyright, but let me know if I should reword it so it is not deleted again. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Popecol (talk • contribs) 12:56, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
 * , Sorry but that content cannot be used on Wikipedia. WP:DONATETEXT contains steps on how to release content under a compatible license. Moneytrees🏝️Talk🌴Help out at CCI! 15:00, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Hmm I don't know who owns the copyright, maybe knows. Signed, The4lines &#124;&#124;&#124;&#124; (You Asked?) (What I have Done.) 14:46, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
 * I will just rewrite it then so it doesn't match the other article. Thank you.Popecol (talk) 11:33, 30 September 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2020). Administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * A request for comment found consensus that incubation as an alternative to deletion should generally only be recommended when draftification is appropriate, namely 1) if the result of a deletion discussion is to draftify; or 2) if the article is newly created.

Technical news
 * The filter log now provides links to view diffs of deleted revisions (T261630).

Arbitration
 * The 2020 CheckUser and Oversight appointment process has begun. The community consultation period will take place from September 27th to October 7th.
 * Following a request for comment, sitting Committee members may not serve on either the Ombuds Commission or the WMF Case Review Committee. The Arbitration Committee passed a motion implementing those results into their procedures.

Miscellaneous
 * The Universal Code of Conduct draft is open for community review and comment until October 6th, 2020.
 * Office actions may now be appealed to the Interim Trust & Safety Case Review Committee.

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A barnstar for you!

 * Thanks! It means a lot to me! Best, Signed, The4lines &#124;&#124;&#124;&#124; (You Asked?) (What I have Done.) 15:03, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

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

Administrator changes
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CheckUser changes
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Oversight changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * Community sanctions now authorize administrators to place under indefinite semiprotection any article on a beauty pageant, or biography of a person known as a beauty pageant contestant, which has been edited by a sockpuppet account or logged-out sockpuppet, to be logged at WP:GS/PAGEANT.

Technical news
 * Sysops will once again be able to view the deleted history of JS/CSS pages; this was restricted to interface administrators when that group was introduced.
 * Twinkle's block module now includes the ability to note the specific case when applying a discretionary sanctions block and/or template.
 * Sysops will be able to use Special:CreateLocalAccount to create a local account for a global user that is prevented from auto-creation locally (such as by a filter or range block). Administrators that are not sure if such a creation is appropriate should contact a checkuser.

Arbitration
 * The 2020 Arbitration Committee Elections process has begun. Eligible editors will be able to nominate themselves as candidates from November 8 through November 17. The voting period will run from November 23 through December 6.
 * The Anti-harassment RfC has concluded with a summary of the feedback provided.

Miscellaneous
 * A reminder that standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to post-1932 politics of the United States and closely related people. (American Politics 2 Arbitration case).

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The Signpost: 1 November 2020
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Administrators' newsletter – December 2020
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Guideline and policy news
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Technical news
 * Voting for proposals in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey, which determines what software the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Tech team will work on next year, will take place from 8 December through 21 December. In particular, there are sections regarding administrators and anti-harassment.

Arbitration
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Additional eyes for AfD on MetaMask
I saw you've added your name to WP:ASSIST. I wonder if you might be willing to provide an additional set of eyes on the AfD nomination of the article MetaMask. The deletion discussion page is Articles_for_deletion/MetaMask. Cheers. N2e (talk) 13:22, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Sure! Signed, The4lines &#124;&#124;&#124;&#124; (You Asked?) (What I have Done.) 15:46, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you for adding your eyes and thoughts to the discussion. N2e (talk) 23:27, 3 December 2020 (UTC)

December 2020 Guild of Copy Editors Newsletter
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= Happy New Year, The4lines! == 

Happy New Year! The4lines, Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.

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Happy New Year! The4lines, Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2020).

Administrator changes
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CheckUser changes
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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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Administrators' newsletter – February 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2021).

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CheckUser changes
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Oversight changes
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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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Article Assistance - SysCAD
Hi, I saw your name on Editor_assistance. I was wondering if you could please review my article Draft:SysCAD and/or assist with publishing? — Preceding unsigned comment added by DanMunchie (talk • contribs) 13:13, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Hello, Thanks for trying to make an article! But since you own it, you have COI (conflict of interest) which means you can't write about things that you are closely related to. Also it still does not meet WP:PRODUCT. You can always write about something else if you want. Best! Signed, The4lines &#124;&#124;&#124;&#124; (You Asked?) (What I have Done.) 18:52, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

Indian Hills
Is there any particular reason for your REVERT of Indian Hills, Colorado? Yours aye, Buaidh  talk contribs 18:28, 7 February 2021 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 February 2021
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Administrators' newsletter – March 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2021). Administrator changes
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Interface administrator changes
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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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Newbie's struggle
Hi. Any advice what to do when you edit something and then nobody reviews it so your edit just sits there in the limbo? I am excited to contribute to the Wiki project but often there is nobody to discuss certain topics (I have niche interests). Any idea how to network better with other users?Norbzzzz (talk) 17:40, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Hello! Sry for taking me so long to response. Only few articles have pending edit prot, which means that most edits will go through right away. If you have niche interests I think you should look for articles of that topic and make it or edit it. If you want to network better with people, I recomend that you stay active in just one part of the wikipedia, like writing articles, or CV, and your going to get to know that people in the part. Thanks for editing the wikipedia! Best, Signed, The4lines &#124;&#124;&#124;&#124; (You Asked?) (What I have Done.) 15:11, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

WikiLoop 2020 Year in Review
Dear editors, developers and friends:

Thank you for supporting Project WikiLoop! The year 2020 was an unprecedented one. It was unusual for almost everyone. In spite of this, Project WikiLoop continued the hard work and made some progress that we are proud to share with you. We also wanted to extend a big thank you for your support, advice, contributions and love that make all this possible.

Head over to our project page on Meta Wikimedia to read a brief 2020 Year in Review for WikiLoop.

Thank you for taking the time to review Wikipedia using WikiLoop DoubleCheck. Your work is important and it matters to everyone. We look forward to continuing our collaboration through 2021!

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Administrators' newsletter – April 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2021). Administrator changes
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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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Administrators' newsletter – May 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2021). Administrator changes
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Interface administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * Following an RfC, consensus was found that third party appeals are allowed but discouraged.
 * The 2021 Desysop Policy RfC was closed with no consensus. Consensus was found in a previous RfC for a community based desysop procedure, though the procedure proposed in the 2021 RfC did not gain consensus.

Technical news
 * The user group  will be renamed to  . This is for technical reasons. You can comment at  if you have objections.

Arbitration
 * The community consultation on the Arbitration Committee discretionary sanctions procedure was closed, and an initial draft based on feedback from the now closed consultation is expected to be released in early June to early July for community review.

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2021). Administrator changes
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 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Husond • MattWade • MJCdetroit • Carioca • Vague Rant • Kingboyk • Thunderboltz • Gwen Gale • AniMate • SlimVirgin (deceased)

Guideline and policy news
 * Consensus was reached to deprecate Editor assistance.
 * Following a Request for Comment the Book namespace was deprecated.

Technical news
 * Wikimedia previously used the IRC network Freenode. However, due to changes over who controlled the network with reports of a forceful takeover by several ex-staff members, the Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts decided to move to the new Libera Chat network. It has been reported that Wikimedia related channels on Freenode have been forcibly taken over if they pointed members to Libera. There is a migration guide and Wikimedia discussions about this.

Arbitration
 * After a Clarification request, the Arbitration Committee modified Remedy 5 of the Antisemitism in Poland case. This means sourcing expectations are a discretionary sanction instead of being present on all articles. It also details using the talk page or the Reliable Sources Noticeboard to discuss disputed sources.

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