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Administrators' newsletter – May 2025

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This Month in Education: April 2025

Tech News: 2025-20

MediaWiki message delivery 22:34, 12 May 2025 (UTC)

PEPCON Disaster

Hi DMacks. I would like to disagree with your assessment that the YT links are reliable. According to WP:NOYT and WP:COPYLINK, Youtube links should be by the primary publisher or a reliable secondary publisher. If the video is not affiliated with the original publisher, as is likely in this case, it probably violates copyright and should not be linked per WP:COPYLINK. You are free to disagree, this was just my reasoning for marking the sources. Yes I am a nerd -XCBRO172 (How could you tell?) 15:59, 13 May 2025 (UTC)

I agree that YouTube content is often suspicious. Anyone can post anything...possible reliability problem for works created by the uploader and possible copyvio problem for works created by others. But those are two independent and sometimes mutually exclusive problems. An authentic copy is not actually "created" by the uploader, but instead its reliability depends on who the creator actually is. The citation should point to the original, to the extent it's known, just like we cite an actual book or journal article rather than the database or library that gave us access. So I disagree that a YT clip of a commerical broadcast is generally a reliability problem. Look at my later edits, where I found a more complete version that even more strongly confirms the claims (and provides more detail). However, you're right that because it is a copyvio, it should not be linked. Fixed. DMacks (talk) 07:02, 14 May 2025 (UTC)
You make fair points. Generally I wouldn't say people falsify this stuff because it serves no purpose, but either way thanks for acknowledging my point about copyvios. Yes I am a nerd -XCBRO172 (How could you tell?) 06:08, 17 May 2025 (UTC)

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This Month in Education: May 2025

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Deletion review for Urutau (3D Printable Firearm)

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Urutau (3D Printable Firearm). 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. Superlincoln (talk) 14:32, 4 June 2025 (UTC)

Hi. I don't believe the deletion of Template:Transl was appropriate. This is a long-standing template title, used since 2007 and only moved away from the title in 2022 (unlike the other redirects nominated in the RfD, which were created much more recently), and deletion unnecessariliy broke a lot of historical usage. I don't believe that there was consensus in the discussion to delete Template:Transl, as opposed to the others. I'm tempted to just IAR and re-create the redirect, though that probably won't last, so here I am following procedure to bring it up with the RfD closer before starting a DRV. --Paul_012 (talk) 13:40, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

Hi Paul_012. I stand by my decision based on the current discussion, which had many substantive comments and was open for much longer than usual to allow extensive participation. The concern about one-time pain during the migration was raised, but was reasonably addressed by bot action. Is there any current breakage? Does longevity have a basis in policy, especially when the longevity is of a problem that has a solution? Note that unambiguous shortcuts were proposed and I did not rule them out in my close (though because they were only a minority topic for discussion at all I did not give them substantial air in my closing statement). DMacks (talk) 15:18, 4 June 2025 (UTC)

Hi DMacks, you made an edit remark on the AN/WQX-2 article on 25 August 2022 saying you felt the article meets WP:GNG. This article caught my attention last summer and I finally seem to have time to put some effort into editing it. In your edit remark, you quoted some report apparently, but I’m struggling to find the source. Do you happen to recall where you found that? — TadgStirkland401 (TadgTalk) 03:00, 28 May 2025 (UTC)

That is from the "Coast Guard’s Underwater Port Security" item in the External links (see the first paragraph of its "Technology Development" section). I don't know anything about this topic, so I don't think I can help find any new refs or shed more light beyond what others might find. DMacks (talk) 15:23, 4 June 2025 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2025

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2025).

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  • An RfC is open to determine whether the English Wikipedia community should adopt a position on AI development by the WMF and its affiliates.

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  • An arbitration case named Indian military history has been opened. Evidence submissions for this case close on 8 June.

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Tech News: 2025-24

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The redirect War 2 has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 June 14 § War 2 until a consensus is reached. GTrang (talk) 00:41, 14 June 2025 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2025-25

MediaWiki message delivery 23:35, 16 June 2025 (UTC)

Sorry

Not entirely sure what happened there either. Thanks for fixing it for me. Patient Zerotalk 03:14, 22 June 2025 (UTC)

Oh - I thought the curly bracket wasn't fully closed and tried to fix it. Sorry about that. I didn't realise that had also changed all the dashes. Patient Zerotalk 03:15, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
No worries! Systematic names are a good pathological test of pretty much any parser, let alone trying to deal with the special syntactical meaning of braces and brackets in wikitext. DMacks (talk) 03:18, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
You're absolutely right there...! Thanks once again - really appreciate you taking the time to explain in the edit summary, also. Patient Zerotalk 03:24, 22 June 2025 (UTC)

Deletion review for Template:Transl

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This Month in Education: June 2025

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:38, 30 June 2025 (UTC)

Please move User talk:Is it ture you are faking depression to User talk:Guerillero, this was done by User:Farmy1 who is now blocked indefinitely. Untamed1910 (talk) 03:14, 5 July 2025 (UTC)

 Done Thanks for catching that! DMacks (talk) 03:26, 5 July 2025 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2025

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2025).

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  • The 2025 Developing Countries WikiContest will run from 1 July to 30 September. Sign up now!
  • Administrator elections will take place this month. Administrator elections are an alternative to RFA that is a gentler process for candidates due to secret voting and multiple people running together. The call for candidates is July 9–15, the discussion phase is July 18–22, and the voting phase is July 23–29. Get ready to submit your candidacy, or (with their consent) to nominate a talented candidate!

Tech News: 2025-28

MediaWiki message delivery 00:02, 8 July 2025 (UTC)

Regarding Triton X114

Hi,

Thank you going through the article and your comments. I do realize that it was not quite ready when I submitted it but I had few questions. This happens most of the time I start drafting page and often it results it being rejected or going back to draft. I always had few questions in back of my head but i wasn't sure whom to ask and since this keeps happening in loop i think its about time I clarified my doubts before I submit any more articles here.

I do use LLM to just draft the skeleton and then start writing. I usually work on the articles in my free time (I have a full time work). Many a times I have like 10-20 mins between work and I start working on the draft but before closing my computer I have to submit the page otherwise all what I have written goes to waste. That brings me to my first question:

  1. Is there a way in which i can keep working on drafts (for about a week or till i think its good to go). I know Articles for creation (AfC) submission but it takes ages for review to happen and then page to go online.
  2. I saw on your page that you work in the area of Chemistry so I though since this was my first submission in science category, I'll just quickly ask if we need to write the article in simple but technical way how we would usually write for book chapter or reports.
  3. I struggle with sources. Adding the sources automatically works but when it doesn't, I don't know how to. When i somehow manage to add them Wikipedia shows errors which I again don't understand what went wrong.

Asikm03 (talk) 07:09, 9 July 2025 (UTC)

Theodor Dingermann

I made the article Theodor Dingermann Rafael! 20:39, 9 July 2025 (UTC)

Yes. Be aware that the German Wikipedia often does not have enough (or good enough) references to meet the English Wikipedia requirements. DMacks (talk) 00:06, 10 July 2025 (UTC)

Regarding Shreya Ghoshal YouTube information removation.

Hi DMacks, I want to ask you why you removed my work regarding YouTube information of Shreya Ghoshal? please specify So I can understand my Mistakes. Monit2004 (talk) 16:21, 12 July 2025 (UTC)

My edit-summary was "Undue weight on social-media for someone whose main notability is not that." Just because she has a YouTube channel doesn't mean that is an independent or major aspect. Based on the article itself, she is a singer not a social-media influencer, and she works in broadcast/cinema format rather than having YouTube as a primary medium. Therefore, while we can note her web presence (which we do), it's up to her whether she wishes to have that site link to YT or other social media. And we can have a single social-media link in the External links section. Currently it's Twitter. But switching that you YouTube, if that is her major outlet, is reasonable. I specified single social-media link and focused on what her own website links are based on the WP:EL guideline. DMacks (talk) 16:34, 12 July 2025 (UTC)
Ok, now I understand, next time I will keep these rules in mind while editing. Thanks bro for letting me know, actually I am new to Wikipedia, so sometimes mistakes can happen,I don't even know many rules of Wikipedia. But I will learn them all in future. Monit2004 (talk) 17:10, 12 July 2025 (UTC)
You're welcome! Thanks for asking. We were all new once. DMacks (talk) 18:51, 12 July 2025 (UTC)
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