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Hello! I wanted to drop a quick note for all of our AFC participants; nothing huge and fancy like a newsletter, but a few points of interest.

• AFCH will now show live previews of the comment to be left on a decline.
• The template {{ db-afc-move}} has been created - this template is similar to {{ db-move}} when there is a redirect in the way of an acceptance, but specifically tells the patrolling admin to let you (the draft reviewer) take care of the actual move.

Short and sweet, but there's always more to discuss at WT:AFC. Stop on by, maybe review a draft on the way? Whether you're one of our top reviewers, or haven't reviewed in a while, I want to thank you for helping out in the past and in the future. Cheers, Primefac, via MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 16:00, 16 February 2022 (UTC)

Since you don't seem to be very active on Wikipedia and GitHub at the moment, thought I'd cross-post by GitHub pull request in hopes that I'd catch you at at least one of the two places: https://github.com/mdaniels5757/MDanielsBot-MarkAdminsListUpdater/pull/2. For context, please see Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) § oversight group renamed ( permalink). If you're not available to patch this, someone will likely have to fork the bot. -- Tamzin ^{cetacean needed} (she/they) 16:07, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

In addition to this there is also https://github.com/mdaniels5757/enwikiMarkAdmins/pull/1 which is required as well -- Asartea ^{Talk | Contribs} 20:31, 26 February 2022 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2022).

Guideline and policy news

• A RfC is open to change the wording of revision deletion criterion 1 to remove the sentence relating to non-infringing contributions.
• A RfC is open to discuss prohibiting draftification of articles over 90 days old.

Technical news

• The deployment of the reply tool as an opt-out feature, as announced in last month's newsletter, has been delayed to 7 March. Feedback and comments are being welcomed at Wikipedia talk:Talk pages project. ( T296645)
• Special:Nuke will now allow the selection of standard deletion reasons to be used when mass-deleting pages. This was a Community Wishlist Survey request from 2022. ( T25020)
• The ability to undelete the talk page when undeleting a page using Special:Undelete or the API will be added soon. This change was requested in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey. ( T295389)

Arbitration

• Several unused discretionary sanctions and article probation remedies have been rescinded. This follows the community feedback from the 2021 Discretionary Sanctions review.

Miscellaneous

• The 2022 appointees for the Ombuds commission are Érico, Faendalimas, Galahad, Infinite0694, Mykola7, Olugold, Udehb and Zabe as regular members and Ameisenigel and JJMC89 as advisory members.
• Following the 2022 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AntiCompositeNumber, BRPever, Hasley, TheresNoTime, and Vermont.
• The 2022 Community Wishlist Survey results have been published alongside the ranking of prioritized proposals.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2022).

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open proposing a change to the minimum activity requirements for administrators.

Technical news

• Access to Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have the deletelogentry and deletedhistory rights. This means that those in the Researcher user group and Checkusers who are not administrators can now access Special:RevisionDelete. The users able to view the special page after this change are the 3 users in the Researcher group, as there are currently no checkusers who are not already administrators. ( T301928)
• When viewing deleted revisions or diffs on Special:Undelete a back link to the undelete page for the associated page is now present. ( T284114)

Arbitration

• Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Procedures § Opening of proceedings has been updated to reflect current practice following a motion.
• A arbitration case regarding Skepticism and coordinated editing has been closed.
• A arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been opened.

Miscellaneous

• Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines has closed, and the results were that 56.98% of voters supported the guidelines. The results of this vote mean the Wikimedia Foundation Board will now review the guidelines.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2022).

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, a change has been made to the administrators inactivity policy. Under the new policy, if an administrator has not made at least 100 edits over a period of 5 years they may be desysopped for inactivity.
• Following a discussion on the bureaucrat's noticeboard, a change has been made to the bureaucrats inactivity policy.

Technical news

• The ability to undelete the associated talk page when undeleting a page has been added. This was the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
• A public status system for WMF wikis has been created. It is located at https://www.wikimediastatus.net/ and is hosted separately to WMF wikis so in the case of an outage it will remain viewable.

Arbitration

• Remedy 2 of the St Christopher case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to place a ban on single-purpose accounts who were disruptively editing on the article St Christopher Iba Mar Diop College of Medicine or related pages from those pages.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2022).

Guideline and policy news

• Several areas of improvement collated from community member votes have been identified in the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines. The areas of improvement have been sent back for review and you are invited to provide input on these areas.

Technical news

• Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. ( T307341)
• The IP Info feature has been deployed to all wikis as a Beta Feature. Any autoconfirmed user may enable the feature using the "IP info" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features. Autoconfirmed users will be able to access basic information about an IP address that includes the country and connection method. Those with advanced privileges (admin, bureaucrat, checkuser) will have access to extra information that includes the Internet Service Provider and more specific location.

Arbitration

• Remedy 2 of the Rachel Marsden case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to delete or reduce to a stub, together with their talk pages, articles related to Rachel Marsden when they violate Wikipedia's biographies of living persons policy.
• An arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been closed.

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Hello, I hope you are having a nice day. I wanted to let you know that it appears that there was an unresolved edit conflict in this edit by your bot MDanielsBot earlier today. I added a report to that page and in the same minute your bot removed it. ― Jochem van Hees ( talk) 00:20, 7 July 2022 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2022).

Technical news

• user_global_editcount is a new variable that can be used in abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users. ( T130439)

Arbitration

• An arbitration case regarding conduct in deletion-related editing has been opened.

Miscellaneous

• The New Pages Patrol queue has around 10,000 articles to be reviewed. As all administrators have the patrol right, please consider helping out. The queue is here. For further information on the state of the project, see the latest NPP newsletter.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2022).

Administrator changes

Valereee

Anthony Appleyard ( deceased) • Capitalistroadster • Samsara

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC has been closed with consensus to add javascript that will show edit notices for editors editing via a mobile device. This only works for users using a mobile browser, so iOS app editors will still not be able to see edit notices.
• An RfC has been closed with the consensus that train stations are not inherently notable.

Technical news

• The Wikimania 2022 Hackathon will take place virtually from 11 August to 14 August.
• Administrators will now see links on user pages for "Change block" and "Unblock user" instead of just "Block user" if the user is already blocked. ( T308570)

Arbitration

• The arbitration case request Geschichte has been automatically closed after a 3 month suspension of the case.

Miscellaneous

• You can vote for candidates in the 2022 Board of Trustees elections from 16 August to 30 August. Two community elected seats are up for election.
• Wikimania 2022 is taking place virtually from 11 August to 14 August. The schedule for wikimania is listed here. There are also a number of in-person events associated with Wikimania around the world.
• Tech tip: When revision-deleting on desktop, hold ⇧ Shift between clicking two checkboxes to select every box in that range.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2022).

Guideline and policy news

• A discussion is open to define a process by which Vector 2022 can be made the default for all users.
• An RfC is open to gain consensus on whether Fox News is reliable for science and politics.

Technical news

• The impact report on the effects of disabling IP editing on the Persian (Farsi) Wikipedia has been released.
• The WMF is looking into making a Private Incident Reporting System (PIRS) system to improve the reporting of harmful incidents through easier and safer reporting. You can leave comments on the talk page by answering the questions provided. Users who have faced harmful situations are also invited to join a PIRS interview to share the experience. To sign up please email Madalina Ana.

Arbitration

• An arbitration case regarding Conduct in deletion-related editing has been closed. The Arbitration Committee passed a remedy as part of the final decision to create a request for comment (RfC) on how to handle mass nominations at Articles for Deletion (AfD).
• The arbitration case request Jonathunder has been automatically closed after a 6 month suspension of the case.

Miscellaneous

• The new pages patrol (NPP) team has prepared an appeal to the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) for assistance with addressing Page Curation bugs and requested features. You are encouraged to read the open letter before it is sent, and if you support it, consider signing it. It is not a discussion, just a signature will suffice.
• Voting for candidates for the Wikimedia Board of Trustees is open until 6 September.

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I was wondering whether you could expand the task (and possibly file a new BRFA if needed) to also remove reports that are declined rather than stale in a shorter timespan, as well as clerking WP:AIV/TB2 too. DatGuy ^Talk _Contribs 13:44, 2 September 2022 (UTC)

Hello. Hope you're doing well. It's been 7 months since it's data source has been updated, possible for you to update it again or state that you're ok for people to fork it out and make it into a gadget? -- Minorax^{«¦ talk¦»} 03:34, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

Hi @ Minorax! I was on a wikibreak, but actually just started back up. MDanielsBot's tasks updating markAdmins data have been fixed, and I'm now monitoring this and all other tasks for more issues. Best, —‍ Mdaniels5757 ( talk •  contribs) 12:37, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

I have one quick request, if you don't mind: because the oversight group was renamed to suppress, the bot updated all users in the data page, but in the core page the group is still labelled as oversight, meaning that none of the people with suppress show up with the OS tag. Would you mind updating it? Thanks, Giraffer ^{( talk· contribs)} 09:55, 25 September 2022 (UTC)

@ Minorax: Oops, forgot to fix that! Should be done now. —‍ Mdaniels5757 ( talk •  contribs) 14:42, 25 September 2022 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2022).

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, consensus was found that if the rationale for a block depends on information that is not available to all administrators, that information should be sent to the Arbitration Committee, a checkuser or an oversighter for action (as applicable, per ArbCom's recent updated guidance) instead of the administrator making the block.
• Following an RfC, consensus has been found that, in the context of politics and science, the reliability of FoxNews.com is unclear and that additional considerations apply to its use.
• Community comment on the revised Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines is requested until 8 October.

Technical news

• The Articles for creation helper script now automatically recognises administrator accounts which means your name does not need to be listed at WP:AFCP to help out. If you wish to help out at AFC, enable AFCH by navigating to Preferences → Gadgets and checking the "Yet Another AfC Helper Script" box.

Arbitration

• Remedy 8.1 of the Muhammad images case will be rescinded 1 November following a motion.
• A modification to the deletion RfC remedy in the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been made to reaffirm the independence of the RfC and allow the moderators to split the RfC in two.
• The second phase of the 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review closes 3 October.

Miscellaneous

• An administrator's account was recently compromised. Administrators are encouraged to check that their passwords are secure, and reminded that ArbCom reserves the right to not restore adminship in cases of poor account security. You can also use two-factor authentication (2FA) to provide an extra level of security.
• Self-nominations for the electoral commission for the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections open 2 October and close 8 October.
• You are invited to comment on candidates in the 2022 CUOS appointments process.
• An RfC is open to discuss whether to make Vector 2022 the default skin on desktop.
• Tech tip: You can do a fuzzy search of all deleted page titles at Special:Undelete.

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Good evening @ Mdaniels5757, I hope you're well. I know that it would be more appropiate that I had written you in Commons, but an abuse filter log forbids me to write in your talk page there. I'm writting you because I think that, in Commons the user Pswank91 has reincarnated in SwankPhilipR because this username is quite similar to that used by another Pswank91's sock and, also, some of this user's contributions are similar to those made by a different Pswank91's sock. I'd opened a request to check this user's identity. Can you be able to verify this is correct please? Thanks and best regards. 83.61.243.178 ( talk) 19:11, 27 October 2022 (UTC)

Yeah, looks similar. —‍ Mdaniels5757 ( talk •  contribs) 20:28, 27 October 2022 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2022).

Guideline and policy news

• The article creation at scale RfC opened on 3 October and will be open until at least 2 November.
• An RfC is open to discuss having open requests for adminship automatically placed on hold after the seven-day period has elapsed, pending closure or other action by a bureaucrat.

Arbitration

• Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 13 November 2022 until 22 November 2022 to stand in the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections.
• The arbitration case request titled Athaenara has been resolved by motion.
• The arbitration case Reversal and reinstatement of Athaenara's block has entered the proposed decision stage.
• AmandaNP, Mz7 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2022 Arbitration Committee Elections. Xaosflux and Dr vulpes are reserve commissioners.

Miscellaneous

• The 2022 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of two new CheckUsers.
• You can add yourself to the centralised page listing time zones of administrators.
• Tech tip: Wikimarkup in a block summary is parsed in the notice that the blockee sees. You can use templates with custom options to specify situations like {{ rangeblock|create=yes}} or {{ uw-ublock|contains profanity}}.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2022).

Guideline and policy news

• Consensus has been found in an RfC to automatically place RfAs on hold after one week.
• The article creation at scale RfC has been closed.
• An RfC on the banners for the December 2022 fundraising campaign has been closed.

Technical news

• A new preference named "Enable limited width mode" has been added to the Vector 2022 skin. The preference is also shown as a toggle on every page if your monitor is 1600 pixels or wider. When disabled it removes the whitespace added by Vector 2022 on the left and right of the page content. Disabling this preference has the same effect as enabling the wide-vector-2022 gadget. ( T319449)

Arbitration

• Eligible users are invited to vote on candidates for the Arbitration Committee until 23:59 December 12, 2022 (UTC). Candidate statements can be seen here.
• The proposed decision for the 2021-22 review of the discretionary sanctions system is open.
• The arbitration case Reversal and reinstatement of Athaenara's block has been closed.
• The arbitration case Stephen has been opened and the proposed decision is expected 1 December 2022.
• A motion has modified the procedures for contacting an admin facing Level 2 desysop.

Miscellaneous

• Tech tip: A single IPv6 connection usually has access to a "subnet" of 18 quintillion IPs. Add /64 to the end of an IP in Special:Contributions to see all of a subnet's edits, and consider blocking the whole subnet rather than an IP that may change within a minute.

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Hi,

I noticed that my account was blocked after a warning I did not read before (I know, my fault) so I hope we could leave it to a final warning with me refraining from edits that violate copyright as I need this account for edits.

Countrymaster Countrymaster ( talk) 18:07, 23 December 2022 (UTC)

@ Countrymaster I will reply on your Commons talk page ( c:User talk:Countrymaster. — Mdaniels5757 ( talk •  contribs) 18:26, 23 December 2022 (UTC)

I will look for it. Countrymaster ( talk) 18:30, 23 December 2022 (UTC)

Hello Mdaniels5757. Your account has been granted the "filemover" user right, either following a request for it or due to a clear need for the ability to move files. Please take a moment to review Wikipedia:File mover for more information on this user right and under what circumstances it is okay to move files. When you move a file please remember to update any links to the new name as well! If you do not want the file mover right anymore, just let me know, and I'll remove it. Thank you, and happy editing! DanCherek ( talk) 20:56, 23 December 2022 (UTC)

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

Abishe ( talk) 18:06, 31 December 2022 (UTC)

With Peloneustes slated for TFA, I realize that I don't think I ever properly thanked you for sending me a copy of Noè's pliosaurid thesis at WP:RX (about 1.5 years ago now); my apologies for this major oversight. I cannot stress how useful this resource was not only for getting Peloneustes to FA but also for my work on Liopleurodon. Thanks! -- Slate Weasel [ Talk - Contribs 22:30, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

@ Slate Weasel You're most welcome! I'm glad to have helped! — Mdaniels5757 ( talk •  contribs) 23:41, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2022).

Guideline and policy news

• Speedy deletion criterion A5 (transwikied articles) has been repealed following an unopposed proposal.

Arbitration

• Following the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Barkeep49, CaptainEek, GeneralNotability, Guerillero, L235, Moneytrees, Primefac, SilkTork.
• The 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review has concluded with many changes to the discretionary sanctions procedure including a change of the name to "contentious topics". The changes are being implemented over the coming month.
• The arbitration case Stephen has been closed.

Miscellaneous

• Voting for the Sound Logo has closed and the winner is expected to be announced February to April 2023.
• Tech tip: You can view information about IP addresses in a centralised location using bullseye which won the Newcomer award in the recent Coolest Tool Awards.

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Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MDanielsBot 9 has been approved for trial. Enterprisey ( talk!) 04:45, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

Hi, Files can't be copied to Commons if they have a hidden revision. These should be made visible first. Thanks, Yann ( talk) 14:25, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

@ Yann Hi Yann. Yeah, I know. I've been working on Category:Copy to Wikimedia Commons with hidden file revisions, but am trying to not flood WP:UNDEL too much :). — Mdaniels5757 ( talk •  contribs) 17:05, 24 January 2023 (UTC)

Hi Thanks for create my account, can you create my Userpage ? ELEXN ( talk) 17:01, 24 January 2023 (UTC)

@ ELEXN You're welcome! You should be able to create your own userpage at https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User:ELEXN&action=edit&redlink=1, just type whatever you want there. Let me know if you have any questions or if you run into a problem. Best, — Mdaniels5757 ( talk •  contribs) 17:03, 24 January 2023 (UTC)

Ok, thanks I'm trying. Let you know if any problem. ELEXN ( talk) 17:08, 24 January 2023 (UTC)

Hi! Can you do anything for WP:REX#Otto John please? Thank you – Doc Taxon • Talk • 00:46, 26. Jan 2023 (UTC) – Doc Taxon • Talk • 00:46, 26. Jan 2023 (UTC) 00:46, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

@ Doc Taxon I'll look into it, but probably not :(. — Mdaniels5757 ( talk •  contribs) 03:42, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2023).

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, the administrator policy now requires that prior written consent be gained from the Arbitration Committee to mark a block as only appealable to the committee.
• Following a community discussion, consensus has been found to impose the extended-confirmed restriction over the topic areas of Armenia and Azerbaijan and Kurds and Kurdistan.

Technical news

• The Vector 2022 skin has become the default for desktop users of the English Wikipedia.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 has been opened and the proposed decision is expected 24 February 2023.
• In December, the contentious topics procedure was adopted which replaces the former discretionary sanctions system. The contentious topics procedure is now in effect following an initial implementation period. There is a detailed summary of the changes and administrator instructions for the new procedure. The arbitration clerk team are taking suggestions, concerns, and unresolved questions about this new system at their noticeboard.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2023 Steward elections will begin on 05 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• Voting in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey will begin on 10 February 2023 and end on 24 February 2023. You can submit, discuss and revise proposals until 6 February 2023.
• Tech tip: Syntax highlighting is available in both the 2011 and 2017 Wikitext editors. It can help make editing paragraphs with many references or complicated templates easier.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2023).

Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, F10 (useless non-media files) has been deprecated.
• Following a request for comment, the Portal CSD criteria ( P1 (portal subject to CSD as an article) and P2 (underpopulated portal)) have been deprecated.
• A request for comment is open to discuss making the closing instructions for the requested moves process a guideline.

Technical news

• The results of the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey have been posted.

Arbitration

• Remedy 11 ("Request for Comment") of the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been rescinded.
• The proposed decision for the Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 case is expected 7 March 2023.
• A case related to the Holocaust in Poland is expected to be opened soon.

Miscellaneous

• The 2023 appointees for the Ombuds commission are AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, JJMC89, MdsShakil, Minorax and Renvoy as regular members and Zabe as advisory members.
• Following the 2023 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Mykola7, Superpes15, and Xaosflux.
• The Terms of Use update cycle has started, which includes a [p]roposal for better addressing undisclosed paid editing. Feedback is being accepted until 24 April 2023.

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CrowEater ( talk) 17:54, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

@ CrowEater You're welcome! — Mdaniels5757 ( talk •  contribs) 16:35, 10 March 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for welcoming me to Wikipedia! RedSorcery16 ( talk) 23:31, 7 March 2023 (UTC)

@ RedSorcery16 You're welcome! — Mdaniels5757 ( talk •  contribs) 16:35, 10 March 2023 (UTC)

	The Admin's Barnstar
	Thank you so much for making an account for me, I really appreciate your work! Keep it up! :) Ilikecarrotrich ( talk) 15:34, 18 March 2023 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2023).

Guideline and policy news

• A community RfC is open to discuss whether reports primarily involving gender-related disputes or controversies should be referred to the Arbitration enforcement noticeboard.

Technical news

• Some older web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis starting this week. This mainly affects users of Internet Explorer 11. ( T178356)
• The rollback of Vector 2022 RfC has found no consensus to rollback to Vector legacy, but has found rough consensus to disable "limited width" mode by default.
• A link to the user's Special:CentralAuth page will now appear in the subtitle links shown on Special:Contributions. This was voted #17 in the Community Wishlist Survey 2023.

Arbitration

• The Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 case has been closed.
• A case about World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been opened, with the first evidence phase closing 6 April 2023.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2023).

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment about removing administrative privileges in specified situations is open for feedback.

Technical news

• Progress has started on the Page Triage improvement project. This is to address the concerns raised by the community in their 2022 WMF letter that requested improvements be made to the tool.

Arbitration

• The proposed decision in the World War II and the history of Jews in Poland case is expected 11 May 2023.

Miscellaneous

• The Wikimedia Foundation annual plan 2023-2024 draft is open for comment and input through May 19. The final plan will be published in July 2023.

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See [1] and the following edit. DatGuy ^Talk _Contribs 11:09, 4 May 2023 (UTC)

@ DatGuy Thanks for reporting. I have no clue why the bot (which I didn't write) is doing this, the only reference in the code to "--" is to SineBot and does not mention this. I hate to punt to someone else, but it would probably be easier for the other bot to be changed... — Mdaniels5757 ( talk •  contribs) 15:13, 4 May 2023 (UTC)

Is the code open sourced by chance? DatGuy ^Talk _Contribs 15:40, 5 May 2023 (UTC)

@ DatGuy It is now! :) See User:MDanielsBot/AIVStale source. — Mdaniels5757 ( talk •  contribs) 20:44, 5 May 2023 (UTC)

@ Mdaniels5757: Try replacing ltrim( rtrim( $line ) ) with $line on line 288. DatGuy ^Talk _Contribs 00:32, 6 May 2023 (UTC)

@ DatGuy Done, thanks! — Mdaniels5757 ( talk •  contribs) 00:46, 6 May 2023 (UTC)

Wikipedia is an open platform, can you please tel me who you are, and what your motivation is to remove my work/input?

2A02:A210:2842:D280:E1F6:7D0D:5D56:C1E3 ( talk) 02:55, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

"Reborn as LLana del Rey" on Lisa Marie Presley is not appropriate. — Mdaniels5757 ( talk •  contribs) 02:57, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

Hello @ Mdaniels5757 and thanks for helping out with EFFP reports. I just wanted to let you know that the tool responds on the section below the one you want it to. Sorry for the inconvenience. - 🔥 𝑰𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆 (𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌)🔥 23:50, 15 May 2023 (UTC)

@ Illusion Flame Huh, I swear it used to work right! Oh well. Best, — Mdaniels5757 ( talk •  contribs) 23:51, 15 May 2023 (UTC)

Sad it doesn’t, would be very helpful if it did. - 🔥 𝑰𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆 (𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌)🔥 23:52, 15 May 2023 (UTC)

Hello. I saw you recently closed a false positive report as not done, even though the edit was constructive and it should have been marked as done. I have changed it to the appropriate template. Please be sure you know how to appropriately handle requests before commenting on them. - 🔥 𝑰𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆 (𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌)🔥 01:50, 17 May 2023 (UTC)

@ Illusion Flame Sorry, thank you. — Mdaniels5757 ( talk •  contribs) 01:54, 17 May 2023 (UTC)

You’re fine, but please exercise caution when reviewing reports. - 🔥 𝑰𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆 (𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌)🔥 01:55, 17 May 2023 (UTC)

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Hi - I see you've reverted Frankirosenthal1002 bad faith edits on Persian_Lessons; he repeated them which I have now undone.

Since I'm not currently a registered user, perhaps you would like to either (a) sanction his unwarranted changes or (b) argue for a (temporarily) more active state of monitoring for this page 118.210.205.59 ( talk) 11:55, 28 May 2023 (UTC)

Hi! I have no authority to impose any type of sanction on Frankirosenthal1002. It looks like he's been warned, so I'll just keep an eye on the page for now. — Mdaniels5757 ( talk •  contribs) 16:25, 28 May 2023 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2023).

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, editors indefinitely site-banned by community consensus will now have all rights, including sysop, removed.
• As a part of the Wikimedia Foundation's IP Masking project, a new policy has been created that governs the access to temporary account IP addresses. An associated FAQ has been created and individual communities can increase the requirements to view temporary account IP addresses.

Technical news

• Bot operators and tool maintainers should schedule time in the coming months to test and update their tools for the effects of IP masking. IP masking will not be deployed to any content wiki until at least October 2023 and is unlikely to be deployed to the English Wikipedia until some time in 2024.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been closed. The topic area of Polish history during World War II (1933-1945) and the history of Jews in Poland is subject to a "reliable source consensus-required" contentious topic restriction.

Miscellaneous

• Following a community referendum, the arbitration policy has been modified to remove the ability for users to appeal remedies to Jimbo Wales.

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I would like to have a conversation with you, @ Mdaniels5757. Let me begin by saying that I am a student of microbiology who wishes to learn and practice content writing. During this process, I became aware of Wikipedia and the respected editors who are putting in so much effort to ensure that anyone in the world can obtain information on anything in just a few clicks. As a result, I want to learn how to edit pages on Wikipedia because it is one of the best websites for sharing one's knowledge while learning. So dear mdaniels5757, I acknowledge that I m a beginner and have done mistakes by not licensing the photos nd uploading it on [wikimedia commons] but I want to learn I dont want to get obstructed in such a way sir . . this was not expected from wikipedia foundation and from the senior editors that without a warning or anything all the efforts of someone gets vanished in a number of clicks. Yesterday I was editing an article in my sandbox and I wanted some pictures for it, so I uploaded pictures of the campus and the academic block. And today, I received notification that my account was blocked and that my contribution was taken down by the reason of sockpuppets. Sir let me clarify that this was the most genuine image available on that topic nd there is no intention of doing anything wrong . Sir I have seen thousands of pages on wikipedia and editors who mention a image as their own work and take images from official website and mention it as own work and upload it on wikimedia commons and when you do reverse search on it emerges out as copyright material.

You tell me sir ..is it right that same thing is done in many reputed pages is okay and if done by a newcomer is wrong and then without any warning , everything is gone in matter of time. Sir, I just want you to understand that the material i used was not a copyrighted material, it is publicly available, I just made the mistake of not putting the source link, because I find out that when I put the source link, it was also taken down by saying that it was copyright material. Sir, If I am editing about a university or page is it wrong use their website content like campus , academic block to provide better content. Sir, I created this account so you can hear my point of view and understand me... I hope you will listen to my concern and assist me in this matter. I will wait for your reply... The message regarding this issue is provided below : /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Tonystark877 Obvious block evasion. Username similarity, I assume obvious connections in deleted contribs here, but is definitely obvious on Commons (reuploading same files, 1 vs 2, 3 vs 4). — Mdaniels5757 Tonystarkmdaniels57578 ( talk) 10:16, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for your help finding that copy of the article for me. The lack of that was blocking Uranium mining in the Bancroft area from reaching Featured Article status, and now it's (hopefully, probably) back on track. This means a lot to me. I appreciate your rapid help.

CT55555( talk) 15:49, 14 June 2023 (UTC)

Resource requests with no activity for 90+ days are supposed to be archived automatically, but ClueBot III fails frequently.

For example, sections "Tanystropheus longobardicus (Wild, 1973)" and "Bulletin Du Musée d'anthropologie Préhistorique De Monaco" had gone 103 days and 96 days respectively without any activity. The only activity on 91-day-old section "Dinner at Deviant's Palace" was on 12 May, when I supplied one of the requested items. ClueBot III considers the thread only 40 days old because my post restarted the clock, but that doesn't make operational sense, because my post didn't provide any new information that could be used to fulfill the request, and no one has indicated that they're working on any remaining part of the request.

I see that you've volunteered to try getting the second one, which is great. Can we please mark the other two {{ stale}} to get them off the list and jolt ClueBot III back into proper operation? -- Worldbruce ( talk) 05:28, 22 June 2023 (UTC)

@ Worldbruce Sure, done. I mostly wanted to just do the second one anyways. Best. — Mdaniels5757 ( talk •  contribs) 16:47, 22 June 2023 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2023).

Administrator changes

Novem Linguae

• Deckiller
• Electionworld
• MBisanz
• Penwhale
• Raul654
• Roadrunner
• Viridae
• Yannismarou

Bureaucrat changes

MBisanz

Guideline and policy news

• Contributions to the English Wikipedia are now released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0) license instead of CC BY-SA 3.0. Contributions are still also released under the GFDL license.

Technical news

• Discussion is open regarding a proposed global policy regarding third-party resources. Third-party resources are computer resources that reside outside of Wikimedia production websites.

Arbitration

• Two arbitration cases are currently open. Proposed decisions are expected 5 July 2023 for the Scottywong case and 9 July 2023 for the AlisonW case.

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Sideswipe9th ( talk) 20:18, 1 July 2023 (UTC)

I saw that you fixed up my page references a bit, thanks for that. Good to know people are already finding my page. Nws5683 ( talk) 01:15, 4 July 2023 (UTC)

You're welcome! — Mdaniels5757 ( talk •  contribs) 20:26, 4 July 2023 (UTC)

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --11:22, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2023).

Administrator changes

Firefangledfeathers

• AlisonW
• Amberrock
• Closedmouth
• Scottywong

Interface administrator changes

Novem Linguae

Technical news

• The tag filter on Special:NewPages and revision history pages can now be inverted. This allows hiding edits made by automated tools. ( T334338)
• Special:BlockedExternalDomains is a new tool that allows easier blocking of plain domains (and their subdomains). This is more easily searchable and is faster for the software to use than the existing MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. It does not support regex (for complex cases), URL path-matching, or the MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. ( T337431)

Arbitration

• The arbitration cases named Scottywong and AlisonW closed 10 July and 16 July respectively.
• The SmallCat dispute arbitration case is in the workshop phase.

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Hi, just wanted to say thank you for making my account! CisaaIsOnWikipedia ( talk) 20:43, 13 August 2023 (UTC)

@ CisaaIsOnWikipedia You're welcome! — Mdaniels5757 ( talk •  contribs) 21:58, 13 August 2023 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2023).

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, TFAs will be automatically semi-protected the day before it is on the main page and through the day after.
• A discussion at WP:VPP about revision deletion and oversight for dead names found that [s]ysops can choose to use revdel if, in their view, it's the right tool for this situation, and they need not default to oversight. But oversight could well be right where there's a particularly high risk to the person. Use your judgment.

Technical news

• Special:Contributions now shows the user's local edit count and the account's creation date. ( T324166)

Arbitration

• The SmallCat dispute case has closed. As part of the final decision, editors participating in XfD have been reminded to be careful about forming local consensus which may or may not reflect the broader community consensus. Regular closers of XfD forums were also encouraged to note when broader community discussion, or changes to policies and guidelines, would be helpful.

Miscellaneous

• Tech tip: The "Browse history interactively" banner shown at the top of Special:Diff can be used to easily look through a history, assemble composite diffs, or find out what archive something wound up in.

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Thanks for uploading File:Mars One logo.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) 17:19, 11 September 2023 (UTC)

No objection to deletion. — Mdaniels5757 ( talk •  contribs) 18:04, 11 September 2023 (UTC)

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --14:27, 12 September 2023 (UTC)

Hi! Can you give ILL a try with WP:REX#Coniatus tamarisci please? Thank you – Doc Taxon • Talk • 10:41, 16 September 2023 (UTC)

@ Doc Taxon Submitted an ILL request, looks like Cornell has it ( OCLC  1019562705) so my library might be able to get it. — Mdaniels5757 ( talk •  contribs) 20:39, 16 September 2023 (UTC)

Thanks, I hope so – Doc Taxon • Talk • 22:30, 16 September 2023 (UTC)

Thank you very much, – Doc Taxon • Talk • 19:27, 19 September 2023 (UTC)

Hi, can you do something with this request please? – Doc Taxon • Talk • 11:24, 2 October 2023 (UTC)

@ Doc Taxon Unfortunately last time I requested something from this publisher my library couldn't get it via ILL. Sorry. — Mdaniels5757 ( talk •  contribs) 00:57, 3 October 2023 (UTC)

Thank you – Doc Taxon • Talk • 08:31, 3 October 2023 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2023).

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open regarding amending the paid-contribution disclosure policy to add the following text: Any administrator soliciting clients for paid Wikipedia-related consulting or advising services not covered by other paid-contribution rules must disclose all clients on their userpage.

Technical news

• Administrators can now choose to add the user's user page to their watchlist when changing the usergroups for a user. This works both via Special:UserRights and via the API. ( T272294)

Arbitration

• Remedy 9 ("MarioProtIV topic ban") of the WikiProject Tropical Cyclones case has been rescinded.

Miscellaneous

• The 2023 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of one new CheckUser.
• Self-nominations for the electoral commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections opens on 2 October and closes on 8 October.

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Thanks for uploading File:Beyond Words.png. 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) 02:07, 6 October 2023 (UTC)

hey @ Mdaniels5757: i have a problem. when i try to search something it logs me out of my account. Do you have anything that might help me? jpt ( talk) 16:34, 19 October 2023 (UTC)

@ UFGC That's odd. I haven't heard of this problem, I'd ask at the Help desk. — Mdaniels5757 ( talk •  contribs) 15:50, 20 October 2023 (UTC)