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News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2019).

Guideline and policy news

• Following a discussion, a new criterion for speedy category renaming was added: C2F: One eponymous article, which applies if the category contains only an eponymous article or media file, provided that the category has not otherwise been emptied shortly before the nomination. The default outcome is an upmerge to the parent categories.

Technical news

• As previously noted, tighter password requirements for Administrators were put in place last year. Wikipedia should now alert you if your password is less than 10 characters long and thus too short.

Arbitration

• The 2019 CheckUser and Oversight appointment process has begun. The community consultation period will take place October 4th to 10th.
• The arbitration case regarding Fram was closed. While there will be a local RfC focus[ing] on how harassment and private complaints should be handled in the future, there is currently a global community consultation on partial and temporary office actions in response to the incident. It will be open until October 30th.

Miscellaneous

• The Community Tech team has been working on a system for temporarily watching pages, and welcomes feedback.

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Destiny1923 (talk) 03:16, 29 October 2019 (UTC)== Hi, I created a page regarding the Koon Karavas in Sri Lanka ==

May I know why the page was removed? and how I can get info to support it?

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2019).

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC was closed with the consensus that the resysop criteria should be made stricter.

• The follow-up RfC to develop that change is now open at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/2019 Resysop Criteria (2).

• A related RfC is seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure.

Arbitration

• Eligible editors may now nominate themselves as candidates for the 2019 Arbitration Committee Elections. The self-nomination period will close November 12, with voting running from November 19 through December 2.

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It would be very useful to see your reasoning for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Specimen_of_the_Botany_of_New_Holland

It would also help in understanding why https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ORES differs.

As the Australian biota project is always trying to improve assessment and quality of articles that lie within the ambit, it is interesting to see your reassessment viz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Australian_biota_articles_by_quality_log - thanks. JarrahTree 00:26, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

Hi JarrahTree, I assume you're referring to my change to the article's rankings (from start to stub). I made this change because the article is both under 1,500 characters long (the DYK requirement) and has less than 500 words (the AWB automatic removal requirement). I've always gone by the DYK character count as my basis for whether an article is a stub or not; the DYK Check tool says Prose size (text only): 1182 characters (197 words) "readable prose size". Also, I'm not sure how ORES relates here. Isn't that more about vandalism prevention and so forth? Anarchyte (talk | work) 07:46, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

ORES is nothing to do with vandalism, inside the 'rater' device that I use it is machine based assessment device that can be explained here:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence_in_Wikimedia_projects#ORES

I do hope that if you insist on your assessment process, that your incursion is done with a sensitivity that some other plants project members exhibit - as to call the specific article stub against the thousands of articles that are less than that are potentially at risk of your visit(s), (the awb automatic removal requirement as you put it would decimate the Australian biota project beyond recognition). So in one sense thanks for your reply, but that is about all that I can say at this point.JarrahTree 07:55, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

The rating of an article has no bearing on its validity. The stub rating simply means it's a very short article (and WP:STUB notes that there is no true cutoff). The article is question has 197 words (1182 characters) spread over eight sentences and a 32-item dotpoint list (that, if included, does bring it above 1,500 characters by ~1,000). The WikiProject Australia quality scale says "[a stub] is either a very short article or a rough collection of information that will need much work to become a meaningful article. It is usually very short; but, if the material is irrelevant or incomprehensible, an article of any length falls into this category". Obviously the latter part does not apply, but the article remains very short (excluding the list) and does not give the reader all that much information especially as there is more available online that isn't included (such as this claim of it being the "first book devoted solely to the botany of Australia" (pg. 57 (92 in pdf)). This SA Library description is longer than the article.

The Australian biota project has articles with less than 200 words and 1,200 characters listed as start-class articles (Abutilon listeri & Acacia betchei among others) which directly contradict the quality scale of the WikiProject they're under. These articles, as they stand, are incorrectly rated and would benefit from being fixed (they don't even have the stub template on them, making them even harder to find and fix); they are not "at risk of [my] visits". Anarchyte (talk | work) 08:23, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

Please excuse my sense of humour, I tend to see where it must be bewildering to even comprehend the Biota Project from an outsiders perspective, my apologies, and a small explanation, with some contriteness as to my level of paranoia....(even more so I seem to replying within a process I quite say horrible things off wiki about ((now even bad grammar))

Last year [1] I was taken aback that the biota project had over 15,000 unassessed articles, even more so that many articles were not even tagged with australia or biota... so anyways with very little help from anyone we (Darren and I from western australia as well) are now down to less than 2,000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Low-importance_Australian_biota_articles

and after consulting with some who know whatthe scopes of other collections of information are in much larger quantity, and results of multiple pass (sic) reviews of content, referencing and maps and photographs, the 'oz biota' thing is hardly started. There is a serious case of speciesisms (bias) where some thousands of insects and moths have entries found in australia whereas, there are some plants that are identified down to very specific geographic locations with gps accuracy.

So it's a work in trepidation progress, to get past the first pass of identifying possible items not yet identified, and the next part of the process will be to deal with the large amount of holes that however hard we try there always seems to be more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Australian_biota_articles_by_quality_log

Ultimately to be able to share data and information with other databases our capacity to even withstand the usual tribulations of being a collection of reliable information able to survive scrutiny - the 20k items (no doubt hundreds without even being identified yet) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Australian_biota feels like a long way off, so yes, thanks - you are correct, stubs are not adequately identified at this stage. Oh dear, it seems a long long way off... JarrahTree 08:47, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

@JarrahTree: I'm happy to help you assess the remaining articles if you'd like. Anarchyte (talk | work) 09:52, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

That is indeed very generous in the face of my rather eccentric explanation of a 'sector' of biota material - one problem, as you rightly identify your criterion (a), australian project criterion (b), and the biota criterion (c), and what has been done to reduce the unimportant (d) - is indeed a coarse and somewhat arbitrary rough and ready prognosis at times (there is very little redemption for an item that is identified as x is found in australia / no viable ext links and no working ref, and a line of text ) which one somewhat staggered at the audacity, (but suprising persistence in adding has occured for such items) - the tendency is leave in the ambience of the project however lacking...and in some cases (d) are very rough indeed... with much to be improved. On a conversation 6 months ago with someone who knows a lot more about the very larger databases of biota material that are held for australian biota, we are but a pinprick of a collection on the actual potential range of notable items that constitute the total range of notable biota items for australia - the discussion involved understanding that what darren and I have dealt with is simply the 'first pass' of the process, it was intimated that we need up to maybe 3 or 4 more of the whole collection to identify things like fixing inadequate sources, inadequate range/description, maps/photos, and so on. There is a lot more to it all than what is mentioned here. Any help appreciated, in the end. Thanks. JarrahTree 11:59, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2019).

Administrator changes

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CheckUser changes

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Interface administrator changes

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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.

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Hello Anarchyte, I've noticed you are also a member of Wikipedia:WikiProject Apps. I've recently added a table of reliable sources in Wikipedia:WikiProject Apps#Sources but most of the sources are iOS related. Do you happen to know reliable Windows and Android related reliable sources to complete the table?

Also, I've just created another article within the scope of Wikipedia:WikiProject Apps and I would like to know if you find the article well referenced. Could you please take a look at it (Landka)?

Best regards, Coel Jo (talk) 01:37, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

@Coel Jo: Your best bet would be to check WP:VG/RS. Also, make sure your sources are reliable. I think I've seen a few of those being called not reliable. Anarchyte (talk | work) 04:22, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for the help. I didn't even knew that there was such a thing as WP:VG/RS#Unreliable sources. It is an excellent idea to implement a similar table in Wikipedia:WikiProject Apps#Sources to websites based on sponsored reviews.

I've double checked the references in Landka and none is in the unreliable list. Around 1/3 are from newspapers (which it is not a bad metric) and I've deleted the last half-a-dozen references that were linking to the AppStore.

I'll be doing some changes in Wikipedia:WikiProject Apps#Sources soon and, if it is ok with you, I'll come back to you then to have your opinion.

Thanks again,Coel Jo (talk) 16:18, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

Hello, you recently deleted Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cyber attack on Pensacola, Florida. I would like the contents of the deleted article to work on in a draft space. Thanks Elijahandskip (talk) 16:47, 17 December 2019 (UTC)

@Elijahandskip: Done. See User:Elijahandskip/Cyber attack on Pensacola, Florida. Anarchyte (talk | work) 09:23, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

Thank you Elijahandskip (talk) 19:07, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Energy Institute. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Praxidicae (talk) 15:56, 19 December 2019 (UTC)

Damon Runyon's short story "Dancing Dan's Christmas" is a fun read if you have the time. Right from the start it extols the virtues of the hot Tom and Jerry This hot Tom and Jerry is an old-time drink that is once used by one and all in this country to celebrate Christmas with, and in fact it is once so popular that many people think Christmas is invented only to furnish an excuse for hot Tom and Jerry, although of course this is by no means true. No matter what concoction is your favorite to imbibe during this festive season I would like to toast you with it and to thank you for all your work here at the 'pedia this past year. Best wishes for your 2020 as well A. MarnetteD|Talk 19:34, 19 December 2019 (UTC)

Hello Dear respected Administrator.

This article was created in past by few people but it was deleted as no notable references were found but now it has notable links including BBC Asia Network , Tribune and Dawn. This page is drafted since a month can i request you to approve this as i have fixed the article and have added notable links which is clearly passing WP Artist Notability.^[1]

Thank you Memon KutianaWala (talk) 13:13, 20 December 2019 (UTC)

Hi Memon KutianaWala. The article in question was deleted because of two AfDs (one, two) and I'm not sure it'd survive another one, even with these new sources. I won't overturn the five deletions and protections done by other administrators. Your best bet would be to contact the people involved in that discussion (and perhaps RHaworth, the protecting admin) or go to WP:TEAHOUSE where people may be more familiar with the content matter. Anarchyte (talk | work) 13:19, 20 December 2019 (UTC)

Ok thank you so much :) Memon KutianaWala (talk) 13:27, 20 December 2019 (UTC)

Could you please block user:69.58.36.5 ASAP. She clearly won't stop until blocked. CLCStudent (talk) 15:12, 20 December 2019 (UTC)

60h. Hopefully that's enough to bore them. Anarchyte (talk | work) 15:14, 20 December 2019 (UTC)

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	Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2020!
	Hope you enjoy the Christmas eve with the ones you love and step into the new year with lots of happiness and good health. Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year!CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 12:46, 21 December 2019 (UTC)

A tag has been placed on Category:Tornadoes of 2020 requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

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. UnitedStatesian (talk) 05:44, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

Hi there, you recently declined a speedy deletion tag I placed on Autocerfa. A Google search turned up nothing for news coverage. ZXVZ (talk) 05:16, 26 December 2019 (UTC)

@ZXVZ: That's where AFD comes in. A7 is for articles with no claims of importance or significance. Being sourced plays no part. Anarchyte (talk | work)

– North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 14:36, 31 December 2019 (UTC)

– Utopes (talk) 09:00, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

Greetings Anarchyte and a happy new year to you. As the protecting editor I wonder if you could look at Keir Starmer's page? I will admit I have no enthusiasm for persistent WP:BLP editing to push uncited WP:POV and it appears to be a single IP. Regards JRPG (talk) 18:45, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

@JRPG: Gave it another week. Anarchyte (talk | work) 05:52, 2 January 2020 (UTC)

Many thanks JRPG (talk) 22:26, 2 January 2020 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2019).

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment asks whether partial blocks should be enabled on the English Wikipedia. If enabled, this functionality would allow administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces, rather than the entire site.
• A proposal asks whether admins who don't use their tools for a significant period of time (e.g. five years) should have the toolset procedurally removed.
• Following a successful RfC, a whitelist is now available for users whose redirects will be autopatrolled by a bot, removing them from the new pages patrol queue. Admins can add such users to Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Redirect whitelist after a discussion following the guidelines at Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Redirect whitelist.

Arbitration

• The fourth case on Palestine-Israel articles was closed. The case consolidated all previous remedies under one heading, which should make them easier to understand, apply, and enforce. In particular, the distinction between "primary articles" and "related content" has been clarified, with the former being the entire set of articles whose topic relates to the Arab-Israeli conflict, broadly interpreted rather than reasonably construed.
• Following the 2019 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Beeblebrox, Bradv, Casliber, David Fuchs, DGG, KrakatoaKatie, Maxim, Newyorkbrad, SoWhy, Worm That Turned, Xeno.

Miscellaneous

• This issue marks three full years of the Admin newsletter. Thanks for reading!

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Dear Anarchyte,

In December, you deleted a very large portion of my Wikipedia site, including the entire section about my literary career. I thank you for patrolling my site, but I would like to discuss with you how to restore portions of it in an acceptable manner. My site was created by the editors of Wikipedia about 15 years ago. Since then, I have updated it myself and have not tried to hide behind a third party for changes. Evidently, I put in too much material, and some of it in undocumented form. Over the last day, I have restored the most important parts of the site (this took me several hours, as I did not have a backup copy of the site). I attempted to be as spare as possible and also attempted to document all documentable statements.

Please take a look at the site and let me know which portions remain to be documented.

I am not familiar with all of the bells and whistles on Wikipedia. I would be grateful if we could correspond by email. My email address is [email protected].

with appreciation, Alan Lightman — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lightmanalan1 (talk • contribs) 13:16, 3 January 2020 (UTC)

@Lightmanalan1: I will try to send you an email explaining some of this in the coming week. I'm quite busy at the moment unfortunately. Anarchyte (talk | work) 08:09, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

Dear Anarchyte,

I have been working with another editor at Wikipedia who told me how to source all of the references properly. I did restore the most important part of the website (that I could remember) and spent a full day looking up sources and adding them in the footnotes in the proper manner. Someone else has also modified some of my sources. I think that all is in order now. When I, are someone else, updates my site in the future, we will make sure to put in proper sources and leave out any unsourced material. Thank you for your help. Lightmanalan1 (talk) 13:38, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Fable (2004 video game)/Archive 1. Since you had some involvement with the Fable (2004 video game)/Archive 1 redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. Steel1943 (talk) 14:31, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2020).

Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, partial blocks are now enabled on the English Wikipedia. This functionality allows administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces rather than the entire site. A draft policy is being workshopped at Wikipedia:Partial blocks.
• The request for comment seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure closed with wide-spread support for an alternative desysoping procedure based on community input. No proposed process received consensus.

Technical news

• Twinkle now supports partial blocking. There is a small checkbox that toggles the "partial" status for both blocks and templating. There is currently one template: {{uw-pblock}}.
• When trying to move a page, if the target title already exists then a warning message is shown. The warning message will now include a link to the target title. [2]

Arbitration

• Following a recent arbitration case, the Arbitration Committee reminded administrators that checkuser and oversight blocks must not be reversed or modified without prior consultation with the checkuser or oversighter who placed the block, the respective functionary team, or the Arbitration Committee.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2020 Steward elections will begin on 08 February 2020, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 28 February 2020, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• The English Wikipedia has reached six million articles. Thank you everyone for your contributions!

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This was a very appropriate use of the phrase! SmartSE (talk) 10:57, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

@Smartse: No it wasn't. The top comment is quite literally telling people to go to the article and revert the redirection. Anarchyte (talk | work) 14:05, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2020).

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, the blocking policy was changed to state that sysops must not undo or alter CheckUser or Oversight blocks, rather than should not.
• A request for comment confirmed that sandboxes of established but inactive editors may not be blanked due solely to inactivity.

Technical news

• Following a discussion, Twinkle's default CSD behavior will soon change, most likely this week. After the change, Twinkle will default to "tagging mode" if there is no CSD tag present, and default to "deletion mode" if there is a CSD tag present. You will be able to always default to "deletion mode" (the current behavior) using your Twinkle preferences.

Miscellaneous

• Following the 2020 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: BRPever, Krd, Martin Urbanec, MusikAnimal, Sakretsu, Sotiale, and Tks4Fish. There are a total of seven editors that have been appointed as stewards, the most since 2014.
• The 2020 appointees for the Ombudsman commission are Ajraddatz and Uzoma Ozurumba; they will serve for one year.

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Hello! And then of course, but just like so how much experience would I be needed to accumulate in order to be approved as a pending changes reviewer on Wikipedia? Because afaik there was no minimum requirement allotted on the list when I checked it and reviewed the last time. Thank you very much! A Red Cherry (talk) 22:45, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

@A Red Cherry: I'm pretty inactive at the moment. I don't remember what you're talking about, sorry. Anarchyte (talk | work) 03:13, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2020).

Guideline and policy news

• There is an ongoing request for comment to streamline the source deprecation and blacklisting process.

Technical news

• There is a plan for new requirements for user signatures. You can give feedback.

Arbitration

• Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold a Arbcom RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. A draft RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC (Draft) and not open to comments from the community yet. Interested editors can comment on the RfC itself on its talk page.

Miscellaneous

• The WMF has begun a pilot report of the pages most visited through various social media platforms to help with anti-vandalism and anti-disinformation efforts. The report is updated daily and will be available through the end of May.

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You told that user talk pages don't get deleted but User talk:Widr farted was a user talk page only but it got deleted as reason "talkpage of harassment username with no meaningful talk history. Also delete User talk:My password is poopy as the same reason. 117.97.162.141 (talk) 14:08, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

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Dear Anarchyte

I would request you kindly provide/approve rollback rights. I intend to use this tool to stop vandalism. I have gone through WP:VANDAL and WP:ROLLBACK and have reverted few times vandalism and helped in increasing the page protection on the basis of attacks. I have also made a Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Rollback. Thank you. Amkgp (talk) 17:38, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

Hi Amkgp,
With respect, I think it may be in poor form to independently ask multiple admins in addition to lodging a request at RFP/R. Anarchyte and I may have different personal criteria for granting rollback, and without knowing that you'd also asked the other admin, we'd then be at risk of inadvertently overriding the other's decision. I'll defer. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 18:38, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

As we are going through a hard time due to pandemic, I decided this path. Sorry Juliancolton and Anarchyte, if this way has caused inconvenience. In future will stick to the proper way. Thanks Amkgp (talk) 18:45, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

Hi Amkgp. I feel like either decision I make now could be seen as having been influenced by this notice. I'll abstain. Anarchyte (talk | work) 07:12, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

I just need to request you that please delete page [redacted] as the speedy deletion criteria G6: WP:DENY or the reason "talkpage of harassment username with no meaningful talk history" just like User talk:Widr farted got deleted. Thanks. 182.64.39.88 (talk) 17:46, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

User talk pages do not get deleted. Anarchyte (talk | work) 13:31, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

Why do you think that talk pages don't get deleted? Then why did User talk:Widr farted got deleted? Do delete [redacted] as the same reason ("talkpage of harassment username with no meaningful talk history"). 122.161.220.177 (talk) 09:16, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

User talk pages do not get deleted. Anarchyte (talk | work) 06:22, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

Obsession with usernames + geo-location indicate that the IPs are socks of WP:LTA/NSMUTTE. Favonian (talk) 18:18, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

We are waiting for reply. Do delete page [redacted]. 182.64.214.24 (talk) 17:11, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

User talk pages do not get deleted. Anarchyte (talk | work) 06:22, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

• I am enlisting your request at WP:MfD. --Soumyabrata ^{stay at home} _{wash your hands} ^{to protect from coronavirus} 07:04, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

  Duplicatively  Done. --Soumyabrata ^{stay at home} _{wash your hands} ^{to protect from coronavirus} 07:17, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

I see that you have closed this requested move instead of being relisted. Relisting should be appropriate for this RM because I changed the request after the oppose !votes. --Soumyabrata ^{stay at home} _{wash your hands} ^{to protect from coronavirus} 06:58, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

@Soumya-8974: They opposed any widespread changes. Do them one at a time on their respective talk pages. Anarchyte (talk | work) 07:29, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

Thank you. --Soumyabrata ^{stay at home} _{wash your hands} ^{to protect from coronavirus} 07:56, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

That was quick. I was in the process of tagging it for G11, but G12 also be used whenever there is copyvio. Robert McClenon (talk) 14:53, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

@Robert McClenon: Yup. Sorry about the talk page notification; I guess you moved it a few seconds before I tagged it. Anarchyte (talk | work) 14:55, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

Yes. Twinkle normally notifies all of the editors who created or moved the page being tagged. I commonly get those notifications on G13 for drafts that I moved from a sandbox to draft space, that are then ignored for six months. No harm as long as the original creator does get the notification. In the specific case of G12, I do appreciate having the notice erased, because the G12 template is sort of harsh, and we want to be sort of harsh with regard to copyright. Robert McClenon (talk) 15:38, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

Please see the associated talk page. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 16:18, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Pierpao (talk) 09:00, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

Hello! And then of course, but just like so how much experience would I be needed to accumulate in order to be approved as a pending changes reviewer on Wikipedia? Because afaik there was no minimum requirement allotted on the list when I checked it and reviewed the last time. Thank you very much! A Red Cherry (talk) 22:45, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

@A Red Cherry: I'm pretty inactive at the moment. I don't remember what you're talking about, sorry. Anarchyte (talk | work) 03:13, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

Sorry, I had meant to refer to that time when you rejected my application to become a pending changes reviewer on Wikipedia. A Red Cherry (talk) 04:23, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

@A Red Cherry: You'll need to familiarise yourself with the vandalism policies and so forth, as well as accumulate a few hundred edits (on top of what you currently have) to demonstrate that you understand it. It's the least restrictive permission to get, so you'll be ready soon enough. Anarchyte (talk • work) 08:04, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

...user:Steel1943/VersionPageList/1 per the nomination on WP:RFD I just saw. Steel1943 (talk) 18:42, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

...Also, see my comment at the discussion pertaining to Muslims (version 2). That seems to be the preferred action for redirects like these, and then suppressing the leftover redirect per WP:G6. Steel1943 (talk) 18:46, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

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• Discretionary sanctions have been authorized for all pages and edits related to COVID-19, to be logged at WP:GS/COVID19.
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• A request for comment closed with consensus to create a Village Pump-style page for communication with the Wikimedia Foundation.

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Hi Anarchyte, you granted me the PCR rights for a month and it will expire on Tuesday, so I'm requesting you for renewal of the rights. Thanks. Antila333 (talk) 05:13, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

@Antila333: Done. Anarchyte (talk • work) 07:56, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

Dear Administrator,

    This is with reference to the article on Great Gama which has been semi-protected by you. As I had mentioned earlier, there is a deliberate attempt to portray the Great Gama as a Pakistani wrestler. The Great Gama was born in India, wrestled in India, and represented India throughout his career when he traveled abroad. Pakistan was created only in 1947, when Gama was 69 years old, and he shifted Pakistan at the age of 69. It is absolutely false to claim that the Great Gama was a Pakistani wrestler when any google search of a neutral website (non Pakistani website) will refer to him as an Indian wrestler. Even the links cited - next to the claim that he was a Pakistani wrestler - do not mention that he was a Pakistani wrestler anywhere. I request you to remove his nationality in the first line if you think it is ambiguous because it is absolutely false for a respected website such as wikipedia to portray him as a Pakistani wrestler when there was no such country during his wrestling career.

   My other point of contention with this article is the last line of the second paragraph that states "he lived for the rest of his life in Lahore" when the link that is cited for this clearly states that Gama shifted to Lahore in 1947. Gama was 69 years old at that time. Again this is a deliberate attempt to portray him as a Pakistani. 

   I request you to remove his nationality from the first paragraph and then replace the last line of the second paragraph which is "He lived for the rest of his days in Lahore." with the line "The Great Gama shifted to Lahore (Pakistan) in 1947 and stayed here till his death." which is exactly what is mentioned in the cited reference for that line. This is my request to maintain the authenticity of an article on a famous person on wikipedia.

thanks, — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chaoticdays (talk • contribs) 14:19, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

@Chaoticdays: Please request any changes to the article on the talk page. Anarchyte (talk • work) 04:57, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

Hi Anarchyte, Chaoticdays is a sock and disrupted the article on multiple Ips for more than dozen of times here [3], here [4] and here [5] to mention a few. Once you have semi protected the article, they have been forced to come out of hiding and I strongly suspect other sleeper accounts also. Can you please look into this or may be indef them?-Kthxbay (talk) 23:50, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

@Kthxbay: Hi, who are they a sock of? I don't follow SPIs all that closely, so unless you can make it obvious to me (or a different admin) that they're a sock, open an SPI (though their edits do look quite duck-like). Anarchyte (talk • work) 06:22, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

This [6] 'Deacon Vorbis' guy appeared out of no where once the sock puppet put a semi-edit request here [7] and started same type of disrupting editing and removal of references here [8]. I am pretty sure that they are the sock of Deacon Vorbis. Sorry I have dragged you in this situation but since long these socks are disrupting the article so do you think with the evidence I provided, you can take some action against the sock at least?-Kthxbay (talk) 07:55, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

@Kthxbay: Both of those users are pretty established. You'll need to start an SPI. Deacon Vorbis responds to edit requests regularly, so that would explain why they responded to the request. Anarchyte (talk • work) 08:02, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

Okay thank you very much. I would rather resort to wait and see strategy and try to gather more evidence (:. Grateful for your concern.-Kthxbay (talk) 08:05, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

May you please take the no editing feature because 6ix9ine's record label is Scumgang and Create Music Group . Create Music Group isn't on there . So please take the feature off so I can put Create Music Group on there .

Thank you , Branwen Branwen Brettle (talk) 17:57, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

@Branwen Brettle: Make an edit request on the article's talk page. Make sure you provide a source. Anarchyte (talk • work) 17:58, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

On basis of a complaint from a reverting vandalizer, who is utilizing a 1993 outdated biased source,:-

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/956244092

You have put this page into protection:- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:History/Maratha_(caste)

At least revert the vandalism to the last edit by the respected experienced user materialscientist:-

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/956237830

Caste is a sensitive topic in India, and misinformation is being spread due to your action preventing us from correcting the matter. Do respond ASAP. 115.96.103.214 (talk) 14:31, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

This would be showing support for the other revision; I do not endorse whatever version is live. Full protection is always a delicate task but as I protected that version I can no longer change it unless a consensus is reached on the talk page. Anarchyte (talk • work) 14:34, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

You can very well revert the page, since the vandalizer utilizes a 1993 source which is well outdated by Wikipedia Reliability standards. The profile itself has engaged in nothing but back to back defacing of the "Yeoman" Maratha castes as if is a confederacy of other completely different castes based on a single source.

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/956244092

Also this vandalizer has not referred to which Talk section on the Talk page we must indulge him in, this marks the insincerity of the actions. With this you are in fully legitimate authority to support the action of your other experience Editor comrade materialscientist. 115.96.103.214 (talk) 14:45, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

It's been three hours. I'm not changing the article until there's a consensus on the talk page even if the discussion doesn't include them. Anarchyte (talk • work) 14:47, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

Here you go Sir, I have raised up most of the issues:-

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Maratha_(caste)#Vandalism_of_the_Page

115.96.103.214 (talk) 15:26, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

Dear Sir(Anarchyte), I did some research and yeoman is the correct word to use. Please change back to yeoman. I am marathi myself (a Pathare Prabhu) and caste issues are sensitive, marathas and prabhus are warrior castes. Yeoman summarizes it correctly. The objection raised is correct. I think individual caste names are unnecessary. Thanks 117.199.52.192 (talk) 20:08, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

Hi there, I came across your reply at Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Rollback#User:Landihan and just wanted to let you know that STiki hasn't been working since March. Thanks! ◢   Ganbaruby!   (Say hi!) 09:41, 13 May 2020 (UTC)

You protected the Różan article, and this is the talk 'discussion' we get - pure WP:NPAs. Can you block the IP vandal (not that it will do much good since he already uses dynamic IPs: [9], [10]) and change the protection to semi, since that editor is clearly not here to build an encyclopedia, but to edit war and attack others with, for now, impunity? Also, as I said, we are very likely dealing with a sock of an indef (and topic-banned) vandal, the following makes it even more obvious as he was active in the same article before removing same or related information: compare [11] and [12], also see this ArbCom evidence for a pattern (reminder: that editor got topic banned, and shortly afterward, indef banned). PS. Also as I noted on talk, the source added to Rozan violates ArbCom's ruling; but what's the point of edit warring with a sock that will happily ignore any rules, restrictions and bans? Isn't this what a semi is for? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 01:51, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

@Piotrus: Hi, thanks for giving diffs to prove the LTA. I've lowered it from full to semi for the remainder of the protection period. Anarchyte (talk • work) 04:38, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

Thank you. Could we just semi it for a longer period? I am pretty sure the anon will be back as soon as the semi expires, but leaving it in a semi might help draw out some long-term socks (I am in the process of writing up an analysis for SPI, let me know if you'd like to be pinged there). --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 04:48, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

@Piotrus: Given how on and off the editing is, I'm inclined to leave it at its current length. If they come back after I'll reprotect it. Anarchyte (talk • work) 04:55, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

Thanks. And we already have a bite. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 05:20, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

Hello A. I hope you are well. Regarding this protection removal the fact that the PP template is still on the page means the redirect eventually shows up in the Category:Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates. If you can remember to remove the template that would be great. Now it is not a big deal if you forget - those of us who monitor the cat will find it and zap it in time like I did here. Thanks for your time and stay safe. MarnetteD|Talk 02:13, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

Hi again. It just dawned on me that you might have thought Musikbot would get those PP templates. To find out whether that bot is set up to do that I started this thread User talk:MusikAnimal#Question to find out what is what. Regards. MarnetteD|Talk 02:38, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

Hi MarnetteD — yes, I was under the impression that a bot would remove those tags if the page became unprotected. If it turns out that MusikAnimal's bot doesn't do this, I'll start removing the tags myself after I unprotect a page. Anarchyte (talk • work) 11:37, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

Hello again. MusikAnimal found this situation odd too. The more I look at it the more it seems like a one off but if you see it again you might let MA or me know about it. Cheers. MarnetteD|Talk 18:17, 13 May 2020 (UTC)

@MarnetteD and MusikAnimal: Hermetic Lunar Week Calendar has the semi-protected rcat. Let's see what happens. Anarchyte (talk • work) 12:27, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up A. MarnetteD|Talk 15:03, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

I need to request you that please delete the revision [13] as RD3 as that revision was purely disruptive or delete as the reason WP:RD2 as it also violates a biography of a living person or delete as the reason "Vandalism" because that revision is not supposed to be visible. Thanks. 182.64.162.148 (talk) 14:30, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

Done. Anarchyte (talk • work) 15:09, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

• no to rollback
• has been caught using sockpuppets in the past
• recently been reported for admin intervention
• constantly edit wars and breaks 3rr

@Cardomahalay: really now? You have just created an account and the first thing you do is slander me eh? You say constantly edit wars and breaks 3RRs, sounds like you're one of those users that I've either reported for sockpuppetry or for edit warring. You say recent, but you forget that the user got the boomerang because the IP user that reported me got banned. Gardo Versace (talk) 21:42, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

@CommanderWaterford: Replied. Anarchyte (talk • work) 13:19, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

Wrong template ;-)) Thanks anyway. CommanderWaterford (talk) 13:37, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

Hello Anarchyte. Please check my reply [14]. Wished my request is granted by now. Thank you! KMagz04 (talk) 22:41, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

This is an article that you semiprotected and set pending changes for back on May 1 (PC is still in effect, but the semiprotection period ended on the 3rd). I am concerned about a series of edits that has led to semiprotection of the article, and is still occurring, with IPs and even registered accounts which have not reached confirmed/autoconfirmed status continuously altering the write-up on the character of Gibby, writing clearly false and slanderous content, such as this most recent edit ([15]). If you could review the edits since May 3, or even watch this article for a while, I'd appreciate it. It may be borderline as to whether to let pending changes continue without further article protection, and actually needing this article to be semiprotected again. MPFitz1968 (talk) 16:15, 20 May 2020 (UTC)

The names are almost identical, but the Lausanne-Geneva railway is redirected to Jura Foot Railway. Should it be redirected to Lausanne–Geneva railway? Or should both be redirected to Jura Foot Railway?--Horizon Sunset (talk) 22:43, 23 May 2020 (UTC)

@Horizon Sunset: Lausanne-Geneva railway should point to Lausanne–Geneva railway. Put {{R from alternative hyphenation}} on it. Anarchyte (talk • work) 06:06, 24 May 2020 (UTC)

Thanks!--Horizon Sunset (talk) 12:59, 24 May 2020 (UTC)

I have created the page Abey Belasco, but this boxer's name was usually referred to as Aby Belasco by the major publications of the day, particularly Puglistica, the most important source. Can you provide a link or merge so that if someone types Aby Belasco, the Abey Belasco page, already created, will display. I have had trouble trying to do this myself. If you don't know how to do think, can you refer me to someone who does?

Dcw2003 (talk)dcw2003

@Dcw2003: someone has already made a redirect at Aby Belasco. Do you want me to move the article to that title too? From a quick google search and the sources in the article, it does seem like "Aby" is the most common spelling. Anarchyte (talk • work) 07:38, 23 May 2020 (UTC)

It's also possible Abraham Belasco would be a suitable name too, though I'm not familiar with the naming of boxers. Anarchyte (talk • work) 07:42, 23 May 2020 (UTC)

Dcw2003 (talk) 16:29, 24 May 2020 (UTC)Someone did put in a redirect to Abey Belasco from the blank Aby Belasco page. I meant to do this myself but I made an error in the process. His name was of course Abraham and another redirect could be put in from Abraham, as the page I wrote is long and worth the effort to make it easier to find. I hope its not deleted as for a boxer he was not technically a champion, which is usually required to retain a boxer page in Wiki. He was easily rated in the top five for welterweights, but such ratings didn't really exist at the time in the 1820's in England. I've edited close to thirty of the Jewish boxers on wiki, but been careful to make sure they were weight class champions to insure they are not deleted.

What is the process for putting in a redirect? I used the MOVE pulldown, selected article on the left, and typed the name of the page to redirect to (Abey Belasco), but that didn't seem to work. Did I need to put the redirect or move in the Abey Belasco page which was complete? I don't think that would have been correct. Can you describe the process briefly after you select the Move pulldown? Thanks, David Wasserman

@Dcw2003: You're getting two processes mixed up. To create a redirect you simply create a new page that contains the following: #REDIRECT [[location]]. Aby Belasco currently contains #REDIRECT [[Abey Belasco]]. For more information on redirects, see Help:Redirects. Moving a page is slightly more complicated. As a non-admin, the target page either must not exist or only have one revision. As such, you cannot move Abey Belasco to Aby Belasco. I recommend going to the talk page and creating a move request. The instructions are here. Anarchyte (talk • work) 04:15, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:35, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

Dcw2003 (talk) 19:34, 27 May 2020 (UTC) Anarchyte- I inadvertently changed the font on my source pages (When I edit any wiki article) to bold font, and can't seem to change it back. Do you know the pull down series to fix this? Thanks...……

I've also noted you are an administrator with five years of experience on wiki. I've written 100s of articles and would like a few admin privlidges, though I wouldn't use them extensively. For example, it would be nice to have put in a link to an article I had written in its entirety, though I didn't mind asking you as an admin, and I greatly appreciated your help. Apparently, I can't put in redirects myself if they go to articles that have been edited, even if I was the sole writer on the article. I could use a redirect Abraham Belasco to Abey Belasco, but that's up to you. Unfortunately I titled the article Abey Belasco, and I've very rarely seen that abbreviation used, its always Aby Belasco in both Puglistica and Boxiana, the two primary sources for nineteenth century English boxing. Either way, thanks for your help.

David

Hi Dcw2003, I'm not entirely sure what you're requesting. We can't distribute admin permissions outside of being an admin, with the exception of those listed at WP:PERMS. No one except admins can overwrite pages with more than one revision so the way to get around it is to create a requested move on the talk page. Anarchyte (talk • work) 07:09, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

Hi Anarchyte, I was wondering if it is enough to add the edit summary "please discuss it on the talk page" was enough to initiate a rollback, or should I pertain to only to my personal area of interest. I now only refer to the red marked edits at the recent edits page. In two edits I was unsure, (both had a consensus final, the 1st I corrected and the 2nd one someone else corrected ) and I'd like to have further counseling. Can I rollback red marked edits with the edit summary "discuss it at the talk page" or not. Thank you for your advice. Paradise Chronicle (talk) 21:43, 30 May 2020 (UTC)

@Paradise Chronicle: I'm not sure what you mean by red marked. Do you mean on recent changes how possibly bad edits are marked in red? If so, simply being marked as such is not enough justification for rollback. You should only use rollback for edits where anyone could view it and say "that's vandalism". If there's any ambiguity, use the undo tool or Twinkle. Anarchyte (talk • work) 05:08, 31 May 2020 (UTC)

Got it. Thanks for the helpful explanation.Paradise Chronicle (talk) 10:43, 31 May 2020 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2020).

Administrator changes

CaptainEek • Creffett • Cwmhiraeth

Anna Frodesiak • Buckshot06 • Ronhjones • SQL

CheckUser changes

SQL

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment asks whether the Unblock Ticket Request System (UTRS) should allowed any unblock request or just private appeals.
• The Wikimedia Foundation announced that they will develop a universal code of conduct for all WMF projects. There is an open local discussion regarding the same.

Arbitration

• A motion was passed to enact a 500/30 restriction on articles related to the history of Jews and antisemitism in Poland during World War II (1933–45), including the Holocaust in Poland. Article talk pages where disruption occurs may also be managed with the stated restriction.

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I looked at my preferences, and I saw that my rollbacj rights expried in a day. I was wondering if you could extend them? Regards. Stay safe and well, --Total Eclipse 2017 ^{(talk | contribs)} 20:35, 9 June 2020 (UTC)

Done. Your rollback permission no longer has an expiry date. Anarchyte (talk • work) 04:59, 11 June 2020 (UTC)

Thank you!! Stay safe and well, --Total Eclipse 2017 ^{(talk | contribs)} 16:59, 11 June 2020 (UTC)

Hello, since my rollback rights have just expired, I was wondering if I could receive a renewal? Rollback rights have made it faster and more convenient for me to revert vandalism and disruptive content. Thank you, ɴᴋᴏɴ21 ❯❯❯ talk 01:57, 12 June 2020 (UTC)

Hello, I would like to request for the pending changes reviewer rights. I know there is a page to request that but I prefer asking individual administrators who can look through my work independently. If you can take a look at My contributions I have tried to help Wikipedia get rid of vandals and maybe try help those same vandals make constructive contributions for the better of Wikipedia. I mostly specialize in BLP and I know most if not all of the guidelines and policies regarding them. I currently have rollback which I have used efficiently and would like to extend my work to pending changes. If you don’t like my work, don’t worry I’ll understand and I don’t mind if you will reject my application. Thank you for your precious time. Regards Got a smart idea^{Tell me about it📩} 09:47, 12 June 2020 (UTC)

@Get a smart idea: As it stands, you've only made 44 non-automated edits in mainspace. Pending changes requires the user to understand content policy, not just how to detect vandalism, and I don't think you can demonstrate this yet, especially given your most edited article has only 10 edits and they're all reverts. Anarchyte (talk • work) 09:53, 12 June 2020 (UTC)

Anarchyte, I understand, Thanks for your time. Got a smart idea^{Tell me about it📩} 09:56, 12 June 2020 (UTC)

A discussion is taking place to address the redirect History of the world. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 June 14#History of the world until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Interstellarity (talk) 17:24, 14 June 2020 (UTC)

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Please unblock me. I have been blocked for a long times. I friendly request to you to unblock me. Yours Loving Sarbashis Kumar Paul

Dear Anarchyte,

Thank you for your interest and contributions to WikiLoop Battlefield. We are holding a voting for proposed new name. We would like to invite you to this voting. The voting is held at m:WikiProject_WikiLoop/New_name_vote and ends on July 13th 00:00 UTC.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2020).

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment is in progress to remove the T2 (template that misrepresents established policy) speedy deletion criterion.

Technical news

• Protection templates on mainspace pages are now automatically added by User:MusikBot II (BRFA).

Arbitration

• Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold an RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. The RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC and is open to comments from the community.
• The Medicine case was closed, with a remedy authorizing standard discretionary sanctions for all discussions about pharmaceutical drug prices and pricing and for edits adding, changing, or removing pharmaceutical drug prices or pricing from articles.

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03:23, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

Precious

Three years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:22, 7 July 2020 (UTC)

Hello! And then of course, but just like so how much experience would I be needed to accumulate in order to be approved as a pending changes reviewer on Wikipedia? Because afaik there was no minimum requirement allotted on the list when I checked it and reviewed the last time. Thank you very much! A Red Cherry (talk) 22:45, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

@A Red Cherry: I'm pretty inactive at the moment. I don't remember what you're talking about, sorry. Anarchyte (talk | work) 03:13, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

Sorry, I had meant to refer to that time when you rejected my application to become a pending changes reviewer on Wikipedia. A Red Cherry (talk) 04:23, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

@A Red Cherry: You'll need to familiarise yourself with the vandalism policies and so forth, as well as accumulate a few hundred edits (on top of what you currently have) to demonstrate that you understand it. It's the least restrictive permission to get, so you'll be ready soon enough. Anarchyte (talk • work) 08:04, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

Okay, no worries I'll definedly do that for sure (and indeed have already check out the vandalism policies beforehand). Should I simply re-apply once this criteria has been met, and sorry about the hassle! A Red Cherry (talk) 17:11, 12 July 2020 (UTC)

@A Red Cherry: Yes - when you think you're ready again, simply reapply. Anarchyte (talk • work) 08:13, 13 July 2020 (UTC)

Template:Stardust has been nominated for merging with Template:Housemarque. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. soetermans. ^{↑↑↓↓←→←→ B A TALK} 14:09, 15 July 2020 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2020).

Administrator changes

Red Phoenix

Euryalus • SQL

Jujutacular • Monty845 • Rettetast • Madchester

Oversight changes

GB fan

Keegan • Opabinia regalis • Premeditated Chaos

Guideline and policy news

• There is an open request for comment to decide whether to increase the minimum duration a sanction discussion has to remain open (currently 24 hours).
• Speedy deletion criterion T2 (template that misrepresents established policy) has been repealed following a request for comment.
• Speedy deletion criterion X2 (pages created by the content translation tool) has been repealed following a discussion.
• There is a proposal to restrict proposed deletion to confirmed users.

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