User talk:TheSandDoctor/Archives/2019/December

Ramskq
As part of the wrap-up of Ramskq's SPI I had Draft:Volker Schöffl G5d. It's been recreated by an IP. Could you compare it to the deleted version please? If it's a match, and deserves another G5, then the IP's other creation Nabil F. Saba should probably be considered too. Thanks, Cabayi (talk) 08:59, 30 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi ! The latest creation of Draft:Volker Schöffl is not an exact match but does have the interesting similarity of the first reference (for Awards in infobox) being the same. The awards section is reworded but uses the same plainlist format for a singular entry. That is a strange overlap, but otherwise they appear to be different. I am not sure if G5 is the right choice here (on the fence and tempted both ways), but I can definitely G7 it given that the IP address blanked it after creation. Either way, I do not see a block as being worthwhile due to the dynamic nature of (most) IPs. -- The SandDoctor Talk 23:53, 30 November 2019 (UTC)
 * I G7'd the draft. I have no comment on Nabil F. Saba at the moment though. -- The SandDoctor Talk 23:55, 30 November 2019 (UTC)

Talk page access
You might want to consider revoking talk page access: Special:Diff/928581096 --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 16:07, 30 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi, thanks for reaching out. I have gone ahead and (1): converted to a hard block and (2): disabled talk page access per the conduct of the user on their talk page. -- The SandDoctor Talk 23:44, 30 November 2019 (UTC)

Revdel restored.
Was a mistake, now corrected. At first - and a quick glance - it seemed to be disparaging someone. Cheers. -- Alexf(talk) 00:47, 7 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks and no problem. Without the context and at a quick glance I can easily see why you made that call. Thanks for fixing it. -- The SandDoctor  Talk 00:50, 1 December 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2019). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg EvergreenFir • ToBeFree
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Akhilleus • Athaenara • John Vandenberg • Melchoir • MichaelQSchmidt • NeilN • Youngamerican • 😂

CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Beeblebrox
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Deskana

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Evad37

Guideline and policy news
 * An RfC on the administrator resysop criteria was closed. 18 proposals have been summarised with a variety of supported and opposed statements. The inactivity grace period within which a new request for adminship is not required has been reduced from three years to two. Additionally, Bureaucrats are permitted to use their discretion when returning administrator rights.
 * Following a proposal, the edit filter mailing list has been opened up to users with the Edit Filter Helper right.

Technical news
 * Wikimedia projects can set a default block length for users via MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry. A new page, MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry-ip, allows the setting of a different default block length for IP editors. Neither is currently used. (T219126)

Arbitration
 * Voting in the 2019 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 2 December 2018 UTC. Please review the candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page.

Miscellaneous
 * The global consultation on partial and temporary office actions that ended in October received a closing statement from staff concluding, among other things, that the WMF will no longer use partial or temporary Office Action bans... until and unless community consensus that they are of value or Board directive.

Discuss this newsletter

Subscribe

Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:48, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-49
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * Mix'n'match is a tool to connect Wikidata items to information in other databases. It can be used to find subjects that are missing in a Wikipedia. It now has more than 3000 datasets. Before it was closer to 2000.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 December. It will be on all wikis from 5 December (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg There will be a new schema for XML dumps. Scripts and apps that use them will need to be updated. If they are not updated they will no longer work.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The  magic word will no longer work in the content namespaces. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it returns   (empty string). When you read a page it returns   (dash). In the future this will also affect other namespaces. The next ones are file and category namespaces.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  16:59, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-50
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * Wikimedia projects use Translatewiki to translate the wiki interface. You can now use WatchTranslations to watch projects there. You would get an email if there are missing translations to your language.
 * Octicons-tools.svg There is a new dataset you can use. It shows the number of editors per country per month for a number of countries. You can read the documentation and download the dataset.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 December. It will be on all wikis from 12 December (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * You can test a new reference tool. It makes it possible to reference different parts of a source without repeating all information. You can test it on the beta cluster. You can see an example article.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  16:38, 9 December 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of 2019 Gabriola Island crash for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article 2019 Gabriola Island crash is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/2019 Gabriola Island crash until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. ...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 14:49, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-51
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * The Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. It did not show new changes last week. This was because of an API problem. It is now working again.
 * Special:Watchlist can show the wrong information again. It does not always show which edits are read and which are unread. This is because of a database problem. The developers are working on solving the problem.

Changes later this week
 * You can get email notifications. You can get them immediately, a summary every day or a summary once every week. If you choose a summary you can soon choose not to get notifications you have already marked as read on the wiki.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 December. It will be on all wikis from 19 December (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 18 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * The partial blocks feature is now stable. It will come to most wikis on 6 January. Your wiki can ask to wait. Contact NKohli (WMF) if you don't want it now.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  00:18, 17 December 2019 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Grandview Heights Aquatic Centre
Please see note on your DYK review. Yoninah (talk) 23:55, 17 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Corrected, thanks . -- The SandDoctor Talk 02:29, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Sony α7S II
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 19 December 2019 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

 * Thank you, ! I wish you the same . -- The SandDoctor Talk 01:08, 22 December 2019 (UTC)

Season's Greetings
00:47, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:2019 Gabriola Piper PA-60-602P crash scene and wreckage.jpg
Thanks for uploading File:2019 Gabriola Piper PA-60-602P crash scene and wreckage.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 03:46, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

Page mover
Hey TSD, I realized I can only uncheck "Leave a redirect behind" because I am a global rollback. Can I get page mover/extended mover so that I can move pages without redirects where appropriate in accordance with the global rights policy? ~ riley  ( talk  ) 06:38, 23 December 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅. -- The SandDoctor Talk 08:00, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-52
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News
 * Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 6 January 2020.

Recent changes
 * All mobile site users now have new features. Features include: tabs for page/discussion; an expanded user-menu; direct access to history pages. These features were initially part of the "advanced mode".

Changes later this week
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.

Future changes
 * You can use  in the URL to change the user interface language. This will no longer happen automatically. When you open the link you will be asked to confirm the language change. This will not happen if Javascript is not working in your browser.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  20:08, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

Starbug again
User:Starbug22 is at it again at Reliant Motors. --jpgordon&#x1d122;&#x1d106; &#x1D110;&#x1d107; 21:44, 24 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Blocked for 2 weeks. If it persists yet again, the next move may be a WP:NOTHERE indef. I have added the account to my watchlist. Totally unrelated: Merry/Happy Christmas! -- The SandDoctor  Talk 04:26, 25 December 2019 (UTC)

Joyous Season
 Happy Holidays text 2.png

I wish that you may have a very Happy Holiday! Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Hogmanay, Festivus or your hemisphere's Solstice, this is a special time of year for almost everyone! May the New Year provide you joy and fulfillment! Thanks for everything you do here. — Coffee //  have a ☕️ //  beans  // 10:51, 25 December 2019 (UTC)

Spread the holiday cheer by adding to your fellow editors' talk pages.


 * Thank you ! Wishing you the same -- The SandDoctor  Talk 20:23, 25 December 2019 (UTC)

Happy New Year TheSandDoctor!
Happy New Year! Hello TheSandDoctor: Thanks for all of your contributions to improve the encyclopedia for Wikipedia's readers, and have a happy and enjoyable New Year! Cheers, Donner60 (talk) 06:26, 27 December 2019 (UTC) Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks (static)}} to user talk pages with a friendly message.

Happy New Year!




 TheSandDoctor , Thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia, and a Happy New Year to you and yours! CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 00:54, 31 December 2019 (UTC)


 * – Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year}} to user talk pages.