User talk:Anarchyte/Archive 16

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

Administrator changes

Clovermoss

Dennis Brown

• Julia W
• Marasmusine
• PBS

CheckUser changes

• Aoidh
• HJ Mitchell
• Sdrqaz
• Spicy
• ToBeFree
• Vanamonde93
• Z1720

Maxim

• Enterprisey
• Izno
• SilkTork

Oversighter changes

• Aoidh
• Firefly
• Sdrqaz
• ToBeFree
• Z1720

Maxim

• Enterprisey
• Izno
• SilkTork

Arbitration

• Following the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Aoidh, Cabayi, Firefly, HJ Mitchell, Maxim, Sdrqaz, ToBeFree, Z1720.
• Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee rescinded the restrictions on the page name move discussions for the two Ireland pages that were enacted in June 2009.
• The arbitration case Industrial agriculture has been closed.

Miscellaneous

• The New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in January 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 13,000 unreviewed articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!

for the 2O. Cabayi (talk) 11:44, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

A tag has been placed on Survival Island (disambiguation) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G14 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a disambiguation page which either

• disambiguates only one extant Wikipedia page and whose title ends in "(disambiguation)" (i.e., there is a primary topic);
• disambiguates zero extant Wikipedia pages, regardless of its title; or
• is an orphaned redirect with a title ending in "(disambiguation)" that does not target a disambiguation page or page that has a disambiguation-like function.

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such pages may be deleted at any time. Please see the disambiguation page guidelines for more information.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2024).

Administrator changes

• Red-tailed hawk
• Robertsky

• Ameliorate!
• Ancheta Wis
• Anthony Bradbury (deceased)
• Cobi
• Ev
• Moondyne
• Worm That Turned

Bureaucrat changes

Worm That Turned

CheckUser changes

Wugapodes

Interface administrator changes

• Enterprisey
• Izno

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.

Technical news

• Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. (T326065)

Arbitration

• Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
• Community feedback is requested for a draft to replace the "Information for administrators processing requests" section at WP:AE.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2024 Steward elections will begin on 06 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 27 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• A vote to ratify the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open till 2 February 2024, 23:59:59 (UTC) via Secure Poll. All eligible voters within the Wikimedia community have the opportunity to either support or oppose the adoption of the U4C Charter and share their reasons. The details of the voting process and voter eligibility can be found here.
• Community Tech has made some preliminary decisions about the future of the Community Wishlist Survey. In summary, they aim to develop a new, continuous intake system for community technical requests that improves prioritization, resource allocation, and communication regarding wishes. Read more
• The Unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in February 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!

Greeting Anarchyte!

Just to inform you, since you are an administrator here on Wikipedia, I was wondering if you could suppress my ip address on the view histories of these following wikipedia pages:

(Redacted)

The IP address I wish for you to remove from all of these pages is (Redacted). Parchokhalq (talk) 19:22, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

@Parchokhalq: Done. In the future, please email me directly or use the oversight email address to request suppression as it means you do not need to post private information on talk pages. Anarchyte (talk) 07:09, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

Syed Sohel Ryan has been created many times and deleted. He has starred in at least four films as lead role (Lucky Lakshman (2022), Organic Mama Hybrid Alludu (2023), Mr. Pregnant (2023) and Bootcut Balaraju (2024)). He meets WP:NACTOR so I want to make a draft and put it through Articles for Creation. I don't care about the prose of the past articles at all but can you include the filmography table? The reason for that his credited names include Rahul (Music Magic), Munna (Eureka), etc. so it is hard to find what all films he acted in. DareshMohan (talk) 20:53, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

I'm not sure what your request is. Anarchyte (talk) 08:11, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2024).

Administrator changes Sdkb The Night Watch East718 Isabelle Belato Mzajac Staecker Stan Shebs Sugarfish Tamzin

Bureaucrat changes SilkTork

Guideline and policy news

• Phase I of the 2024 RfA review is now open for participation. Editors are invited to review, comment on, and propose improvements to the requests for adminship process.
• Following an RfC, the inactivity requirement for the removal of the interface administrator right increased from 6 months to 12 months.

Technical news

• The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. (T353388)

Miscellaneous

• The 2024 appointees for the Ombuds commission are だ＊ぜ, AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Doǵu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, MdsShakil, Minorax, Nehaoua, Renvoy and RoySmith as members, with Vermont serving as steward-observer.
• Following the 2024 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Ajraddatz, Albertoleoncio, EPIC, JJMC89, Johannnes89, Melos and Yahya.

Hey there! This is to let you know that phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship (RfA) review is now no longer accepting new proposals. Lots of proposals remain open for discussion, and the current round of review looks to be on a good track towards making significant progress towards improving RfA's structure and environment. I'd like to give my heartfelt thanks to everyone who has given us their idea for change to make RfA better, and the same to everyone who has given the necessary feedback to improve those ideas. The following proposals remain open for discussion:

• Proposal 2, initiated by HouseBlaster, provides for the addition of a text box at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship reminding all editors of our policies and enforcement mechanisms around decorum.
• Proposals 3 and 3b, initiated by Barkeep49 and Usedtobecool, respectively, provide for trials of discussion-only periods at RfA. The first would add three extra discussion-only days to the beginning, while the second would convert the first two days to discussion-only.
• Proposal 5, initiated by SilkTork, provides for a trial of RfAs without threaded discussion in the voting sections.
• Proposals 6c and 6d, initiated by BilledMammal, provide for allowing users to be selected as provisional admins for a limited time through various concrete selection criteria and smaller-scale vetting.
• Proposal 7, initiated by Lee Vilenski, provides for the "General discussion" section being broken up with section headings.
• Proposal 9b, initiated by Reaper Eternal, provides for the requirement that allegations of policy violation be substantiated with appropriate links to where the alleged misconduct occured.
• Proposals 12c, 21, and 21b, initiated by City of Silver, Ritchie333, and HouseBlaster, respectively, provide for reducing the discretionary zone, which currently extends from 65% to 75%. The first would reduce it 65%–70%, the second would reduce it to 50%–66%, and the third would reduce it to 60%–70%.
• Proposal 13, initiated by Novem Lingaue, provides for periodic, privately balloted admin elections.
• Proposal 14, initiated by Kusma, provides for the creation of some minimum suffrage requirements to cast a vote.
• Proposals 16 and 16c, initiated by Thebiguglyalien and Soni, respectively, provide for community-based admin desysop procedures. 16 would desysop where consensus is established in favor at the administrators' noticeboard; 16c would allow a petition to force reconfirmation.
• Proposal 16e, initiated by BilledMammal, would extend the recall procedures of 16 to bureaucrats.
• Proposal 17, initiated by SchroCat, provides for "on-call" admins and 'crats to monitor RfAs for decorum.
• Proposal 18, initiated by theleekycauldron, provides for lowering the RfB target from 85% to 75%.
• Proposal 24, initiated by SportingFlyer, provides for a more robust alternate version of the optional candidate poll.
• Proposal 25, initiated by Femke, provides for the requirement that nominees be extended-confirmed in addition to their nominators.
• Proposal 27, initiated by WereSpielChequers, provides for the creation of a training course for admin hopefuls, as well as periodic retraining to keep admins from drifting out of sync with community norms.
• Proposal 28, initiated by HouseBlaster, tightens restrictions on multi-part questions.

To read proposals that were closed as unsuccessful, please see Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review/Phase I/Closed proposals. You are cordially invited once again to participate in the open discussions; when phase I ends, phase II will review the outcomes of trial proposals and refine the implementation details of other proposals. Another notification will be sent out when this phase begins, likely with the first successful close of a major proposal. Happy editing! theleekycauldron (talk • she/her), via:

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:52, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

Hi Anarchyte, this butthead was so funny to include an actual address in their stupid messages. Definitely not okay. soetermans. ^{↑↑↓↓←→←→ B A TALK} 18:42, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

Hi, sorry for the delay — was away for a couple days. All resolved now. Anarchyte (talk) 11:24, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

No worries, I appreciate it. User talk:67.84.153.93 made extreme BLP violations, one has already been revdel'ed. Is there another way to report this? I don't want to keep troubling you. soetermans. ^{↑↑↓↓←→←→ B A TALK} 22:19, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

Just suppressed the rest. For suppression, you can email the Oversight team to notify the whole team, or email me directly. Anarchyte (talk) 11:47, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

Great, thanks again. If it's okay with you, I'll email you next time. It's probably a bit faster than Wikipedia. soetermans. ^{↑↑↓↓←→←→ B A TALK} 11:28, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2024).

Administrator changes

• Kbdank71
• Kosack
• NrDg
• TLSuda

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open to convert all current and future community discretionary sanctions to (community designated) contentious topics procedure.

Technical news

• The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (T313405)

Arbitration

• An arbitration case has been opened to look into "the intersection of managing conflict of interest editing with the harassment (outing) policy".

Miscellaneous

• Editors are invited to sign up for The Core Contest, an initiative running from April 15 to May 31, which aims to improve vital and other core articles on Wikipedia.

Happy First Edit Day! Hi Anarchyte! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of the day you made your first edit and became a Wikipedian! The Herald (Benison) (talk) 03:08, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

Pokémon Go since the game isn't in trend right now, maybe you perhaps the test it by removing the protection? thank you. 🥒Greenish Pickle!🥒 (🔔) 03:06, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

I've lowered it to temp 3 month pending change protection to see whether any form of protection is necessary at all. Anarchyte (talk) 05:23, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

Hi Anarchyte, I'm new to wikipedia as a contributor and don't know and understand much of how it works. I hope you are the right person and this is a right place to write my concern since I didn't find any other way to convey my thoughts to you. I recently modified one page named Trading Card with one useful resource citing which has been rolled back by use 'count count'. I contributed that only because I found that external source pretty useful for trading card enthusiasts like me and it seemed to have well-formatted content, nothing else. Could you please review the matter?

I see you are an administrator for english pages for quite long and I will accept your judgments over this matter. Please let me know how I was wrong here.

Thanks, Abhijeet in (talk) 20:34, 21 April 2024 (UTC) @Anarchyte:

Hi Abhijeet in, thanks for your question. Your edit was reverted because it appeared to be spam, which is because as a new user, the majority of your edits have been to introduce links to an external website. Spam is disallowed on Wikipedia and is reverted when suspected. I took a look at the trading card article more broadly and actually removed the reference to the other websites too, because I felt it was unnecessary to provide any examples. This way no one website is given advertising by the article. Anarchyte (talk) 11:19, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

Op 37.111.165.248 (talk) 15:37, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2024).

Administrator changes

Nyttend

• JohnOwens
• Killiondude
• MelanieN
• Nihonjoe

Bureaucrat changes

Nihonjoe

CheckUser changes

Joe Roe

Oversight changes

GeneralNotability

Guideline and policy news

• Phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship review has concluded. Several proposals have passed outright and will proceed to implementation, including creating a discussion-only period (3b) and administrator elections (13) on a trial basis. Other successful proposals, such as creating a reminder of civility norms (2), will undergo further refinement in Phase II. Proposals passed on a trial basis will be discussed in Phase II, after their trials conclude. Further details on specific proposals can be found in the full report.

Technical news

• Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Wikipedia. This means that administrators have the ability to restrict users from certain actions, including uploading files, moving pages and files, creating new pages, and sending thanks. T280531

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Conflict of interest management has been closed.

Miscellaneous

• This may be a good time to reach out to potential nominees to ask if they would consider an RfA.
• A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in May 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 15,000 articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!
• Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is open until 9 May 2024. Read the voting page on Meta-Wiki and cast your vote here!

Hi there! Phase I of the Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review has concluded, with several impactful changes gaining community consensus and proceeding to various stages of implementation. Some proposals will be implemented in full outright; others will be discussed at phase II before being implemented; and still others will proceed on a trial basis before being brought to phase II. The following proposals have gained consensus:

• Proposals 2 and 9b (phase II discussion): Add a reminder of civility norms at RfA and Require links for claims of specific policy violations
• Proposal 3b (in trial): Make the first two days discussion-only
• Proposal 13 (in trial): Admin elections
• Proposal 14 (implemented): Suffrage requirements
• Proposals 16 and 16c (phase II discussion): Allow the community to initiate recall RfAs and Community recall process based on dewiki
• Proposal 17 (phase II discussion): Have named Admins/crats to monitor infractions
• Proposal 24 (phase II discussion): Provide better mentoring for becoming an admin and the RfA process
• Proposal 25 (implemented): Require nominees to be extended confirmed

See the project page for a full list of proposals and their outcomes. A huge thank-you to everyone who has participated so far :) looking forward to seeing lots of hard work become a reality in phase II. theleekycauldron (talk), via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:08, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article List of most-disliked YouTube videos 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 Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of most-disliked YouTube videos (4th nomination) 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 until the discussion has finished.

―Howard • 🌽³³ 22:23, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2024).

Administrator changes

Graham Beards

• Deskana
• Mets501
• Staxringold

Bureaucrat changes

• Deskana
• Warofdreams

Oversight changes

Dreamy Jazz

Guideline and policy news

• Phase II of the 2024 RfA review has commenced to improve and refine the proposals passed in Phase I.

Technical news

• The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. T43351

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Venezuelan politics has been closed.
• The Committee is seeking volunteers for various roles, including access to the conflict of interest VRT queue.

Miscellaneous

• WikiProject Reliability's unsourced statements drive is happening in June 2024 to replace {{citation needed}} tags with references! Sign up here to participate!

Hello, Anarchyte. Please check your email; you've got mail!
It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template. — Longchess (talk) 16:28, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

Hi Anarchyte, On Jalen Green i made a edit with my IP address could you get it removed for me Thank You . JohnLUcas05 (talk) 14:16, 25 June 2024 (UTC)

Done. Kind regards, Anarchyte (talk) 08:55, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

Hello,

I submitted my first contribution and it was deleted today. Can you please copy the article "Professor Rami Qahwaji" to my user space please so I can improve it further as per Wikipedia guidelines? I am not paid to do this work. Many thanks Rsr19721 (talk) 23:10, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

Hi Rsr19721. Your draft was deleted as being promotional, and having read it, I agree with the deleting admin. I recommend you read WP:COI and WP:NBIO, and start from scratch, avoiding any overly promotional prose. Anarchyte (talk) 10:38, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

Hello,

Many thanks for getting back to me. Can you please help me recover this page and add it to my user page, so I can remove the overly promotional prose. This is my first time and I honestly appreciate the feedback and the experience.

Many thanks

Rsr19721 (talk) 10:41, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

Unfortunately the entire article is promotional. There would be nothing to save. I will email you a copy of the article, but please note that if you just recreate it as-is, it will be deleted again. Anarchyte (talk) 11:18, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2024).

Administrator changes

• Elli
• HouseBlaster
• Pickersgill-Cunliffe

• Brianga
• De728631
• Georgewilliamherbert
• Hyacinth (deceased)
• ProveIt
• The Night Watch

Technical news

• Local administrators can now add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without using JavaScript. Documentation is available on MediaWiki. (T6086)

Miscellaneous

• The Community Wishlist is re-opening on 15 July 2024. Read more

Happy adminship anniversary! Hi Anarchyte! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of your successful request for adminship. Enjoy this special day! The Herald (Benison) (talk) 06:54, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

Precious

Seven years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:27, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2024).

Administrator changes

Isabelle Belato

• Ian.thomson
• Modussiccandi

Interface administrator changes

Izno

CheckUser changes

Barkeep49

Technical news

• Global blocks may now target accounts as well as IP's. Administrators may locally unblock when appropriate.
• Users wishing to permanently leave may now request "vanishing" via Special:GlobalVanishRequest. Processed requests will result in the user being renamed, their recovery email being removed, and their account being globally locked.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee appointed the following administrators to the conflict of interest volunteer response team: Bilby, Extraordinary Writ

Hello,

When I added some useful links, those got undone with given reason "SPAM". How come Baseball Cards, Trading Card got chasingmajors, price guides (which have very low DA anyway and no other backlinks than wikipedia itself) under external links and those are not spams now? Just trying to understand, what's the deal here at wikipedia. Abhijeet in (talk) 21:17, 1 August 2024 (UTC)

Hi Abhijeet in. Just because a link is on one page doesn't mean that it's a) supposed to be there or b) allowed on another page. Price guides should not be on Wikipedia anywhere. Anarchyte (talk) 06:54, 3 August 2024 (UTC)

Hi Anarchyte, I was just relating both the cases. a) These websites are of very low DA (even lower than the ones I submitted) with almost no other backlinks except wikipedia and the replicas. b) If you check with more attention, my referred sites were not "price guides" but "checklists guide", there's a huge difference I believe.

I think I somewhat understand the wikipedia way, it's not about how useful content or source you can contribute, it's more about how old and long profile you have before you try to do so. Abhijeet in (talk) 14:53, 3 August 2024 (UTC)

The links have now been removed from the other two pages now. Please see WP:NOTGUIDE. I fail to see how adding or removing links correlates with account age, but I can assure you there is no relation. Anarchyte (talk) 07:10, 4 August 2024 (UTC)

The same listing is on Hockey card page as well. Abhijeet in (talk) 23:03, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2024).

Administrator changes

Pppery

Interface administrator changes

Pppery

Oversighter changes

Wugapodes

CheckUser changes

• Courcelles
• GeneralNotability

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, there is a new criterion for speedy deletion: C4, which applies to unused maintenance categories, such as empty dated maintenance categories for dates in the past.
• A request for comment is open to discuss whether Notability (species) should be adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline.

Arbitration

• Following a motion, remedies 5.1 and 5.2 of World War II and the history of Jews in Poland (the topic and interaction bans on My very best wishes, respectively) were repealed.
• Remedy 3C of the German war effort case ("Cinderella157 German history topic ban") was suspended for a period of six months.
• The arbitration case Historical Elections is currently open. Proposed decision is expected by 3 September 2024 for this case.

Miscellaneous

• Editors can now enter into good article review circles, an alternative for informal quid pro quo arrangements, to have a GAN reviewed in return for reviewing a different editor's nomination.
• A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in September 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles and redirects in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 13,900 articles and 26,200 redirects awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!

I put in a new entry into the top section bio in my Wikipedia page, with proper references, and after that I have been blocked from making further edits. I understand the Wikipedia policies on editing and references and believe I have done nothing wrong. I request that my editing be unblocked., Lightmanalan1 (talk) 11:48, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

Hi Lightmanalan1, you are not blocked and never have been. Anarchyte (talk) 03:51, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

Hi there! The trial of the RfA discussion-only period passed at WP:RFA2024 has concluded, and after open discussion, the RfC is now considering whether to retain, modify, or discontinue it. You are invited to participate at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review/Phase II/Discussion-only period. Cheers, and happy editing! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:38, 27 September 2024 (UTC)