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	The Working Man's Barnstar
	For your amazing work on Hawaii Five 0 articles. I can see a featured topic with all seasons being GAs in the future. AmericanAir88 (talk) 01:37, 3 July 2018 (UTC)

@TheDoctorWho: I want to help you get The Hawaii Five 0 2010 series article to FA. I saw your attempt in December and I am sure we can get it to FA for the second try. I see potential. If the main series can get FA and the seasons can achieve GA. A featured topic will come. AmericanAir88 (talk) 01:37, 3 July 2018 (UTC)

@AmericanAir88: I've meant to address the issues but was busy at the time. I should have more time now that it's summer and would love to try and get it to FA status. I was currently thinking about going for a Good Topic but if you think it's possible to get to Featured Topic I'd love to do it! TheDoctorWho (talk) 01:45, 3 July 2018 (UTC)

@TheDoctorWho: On board 100% AmericanAir88 (talk) 01:52, 3 July 2018 (UTC)

@AmericanAir88: Great! I'm looking forward to continue working with you! TheDoctorWho (talk) 02:52, 3 July 2018 (UTC)

The article Hawaii Five-0 (2010 TV series, season 8) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Hawaii Five-0 (2010 TV series, season 8) for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of AmericanAir88 -- AmericanAir88 (talk) 01:41, 3 July 2018 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2018).

Administrator changes

Pbsouthwood • TheSandDoctor

Gogo Dodo

Andrevan • Doug • EVula • KaisaL • Tony Fox • WilyD

Bureaucrat changes

Andrevan • EVula

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC about the deletion of drafts closed with a consensus to change the wording of WP:NMFD. Specifically, a draft that has been repeatedly resubmitted and declined at AfC without any substantial improvement may be deleted at MfD if consensus determines that it is unlikely to ever meet the requirements for mainspace and it otherwise meets one of the reasons for deletion outlined in the deletion policy.
• A request for comment closed with a consensus that the {{promising draft}} template cannot be used to indefinitely prevent a WP:G13 speedy deletion nomination.

Technical news

• Starting on July 9, the WMF Security team, Trust & Safety, and the broader technical community will be seeking input on an upcoming change that will restrict editing of site-wide JavaScript and CSS to a new technical administrators user group. Bureaucrats and stewards will be able to grant this right per a community-defined process. The intention is to reduce the number of accounts who can edit frontend code to those who actually need to, which in turn lessens the risk of malicious code being added that compromises the security and privacy of everyone who accesses Wikipedia. For more information, please review the FAQ.
• Syntax highlighting has been graduated from a Beta feature on the English Wikipedia. To enable this feature, click the highlighter icon () in your editing toolbar (or under the hamburger menu in the 2017 wikitext editor). This feature can help prevent you from making mistakes when editing complex templates.
• IP-based cookie blocks should be deployed to English Wikipedia in July (previously scheduled for June). This will cause the block of a logged-out user to be reloaded if they change IPs. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. For the time being, it only affects users of the desktop interface.

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Good job on nominating the article for GA. Do you know if I can complete the review process? Or did I work too closely on it and therefore would show bias? Hahaha! If I can work on it, I can get it done this weekend. :-) — Miss Sarita 15:57, 17 July 2018 (UTC)

I think you'd fall under the part of the GA banner that says contributed significantly, I mean you wrote pretty much every plot summary . It should have a good chance of passing though whenever someone reviews it (every non-plot sentence is sourced). TheDoctorWho (talk) 19:44, 17 July 2018 (UTC)

Dammit! But, good call. We'll just have to wait for a reviewer to pick it up (I know the GAN backlog is pretty hefty right now so it may take a while). Thanks for keeping the article updated. :-) — Miss Sarita 20:02, 17 July 2018 (UTC)

I've never seen there not be a backlog but I've gotten lucky enough and my last two nominees were reviewed pretty quick. Hopefully its the same for this one. TheDoctorWho (talk) 22:42, 17 July 2018 (UTC)

Maybe @AmericanAir88: would be willing to? TheDoctorWho (talk) 23:48, 17 July 2018 (UTC)

@TheDoctorWho: Of course!

@AmericanAir88: Thank you so much! TheDoctorWho (talk) 01:09, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

@TheDoctorWho: My pleasure. Anytime AmericanAir88 (talk) 01:09, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article The Resident (TV series) you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of AmericanAir88 -- AmericanAir88 (talk) 00:01, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

The article The Resident (TV series) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:The Resident (TV series) for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of AmericanAir88 -- AmericanAir88 (talk) 14:41, 26 July 2018 (UTC)

Congrats! Excellent work! — Miss Sarita 17:02, 26 July 2018 (UTC)

@AmericanAir88: Thank you so much for reviewing! I know this is only the second one I've asked you to but if you're ever not willing to review a GA nomination for me you can just say no and I won't be offended. Also if there's ever anything I can do for you just let me know! Also, @Miss Sarita: Thank you again on your help with the expansion, it wouldn't be a GA now without your help! TheDoctorWho (talk) 02:16, 27 July 2018 (UTC)

@TheDoctorWho: I will never turn down a GA nomination. Always available. Glad to help. AmericanAir88 (talk) 02:19, 27 July 2018 (UTC)

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2018).

Administrator changes

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KaisaL • Ymblanter

Guideline and policy news

• After a discussion at Meta, a new user group called "interface administrators" (formerly "technical administrator") has been created. Come the end of August, interface admins will be the only users able to edit site-wide JavaScript and CSS pages like MediaWiki:Common.js and MediaWiki:Common.css, or edit other user's personal JavaScript and CSS. The intention is to improve security and privacy by reducing the number of accounts which could be used to compromise the site or another user's account through malicious code. The new user group can be assigned and revoked by bureaucrats. Discussion is ongoing to establish details for implementing the group on the English Wikipedia.
• Following a request for comment, the WP:SISTER style guideline now states that in the mainspace, interwiki links to Wikinews should only be made as per the external links guideline. This generally means that within the body of an article, you should not link to Wikinews about a particular event that is only a part of the larger topic. Wikinews links in "external links" sections can be used where helpful, but not automatically if an equivalent article from a reliable news outlet could be linked in the same manner.

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• The WMF Anti-Harassment Tools team is seeking input on the second set of wireframes for the Special:Block redesign that will introduce partial blocks. The new functionality will allow you to block a user from editing a specific set of pages, pages in a category, a namespace, and for specific actions such as moving pages and uploading files.

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Hello TheDoctorWho, I posted this yesterday on the talk page of Big Brother 20 and no one has responded. I may not of put it in the right place. Someone deleted content from the page without having a discussion on Talk. Should the information be returned? My post:

Earlier today this was removed from the Controversy and Criticism section. "During a conversation between Bayleigh Dayton and Angela "Rockstar" Lantry, Dayton claimed that Lantry was the only white person who she knew that didn't like white people. Dayton then said that Lantry dislikes "normal white people" more than she does.[49] Days later, in a conversation with Haleigh Broucher, Dayton referred to her housemates as "crazy-ass white people."[50] Many viewers saw Dayton's statements as racist.[51]" I did not see any conversation about this removal on the Talk page. In parentheses it was written "Does not qualify as a controversy". Should this edit of been discussed before it happened on this page, it seemed to of been properly cited? It may not be viewed as a controversy but wouldn't it be considered a criticism? Sadiex2 (talk) 23:49, 11 August 2018 (UTC)Sadiex2 Sadiex2 (talk) 15:33, 12 August 2018 (UTC)Sadiex2

@Sadiex2: Sorry I wasn't able to get to it sooner but thanks for bringing it to someone's attention! I've added it back in for now. TheDoctorWho (talk) 00:24, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

"This campus contains Oklahoma's largest satellite dish (11 inch in diameter)"

Your edit to Francis Tuttle Technology Center introduced this extraordinary claim about a rather ordinary size. Now OK is not my favorite place nor the most sophisticated impression, but shurely that was supposed to be 'feet'? Shenme (talk) 22:25, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

@Shenme: It was a typo on my part, per their website it's 11 meters in diameter (not inches). That roughly converts to about 433 inches or 36 feet per google.

I kinda figured it was just a thing like that.

As I recently was reminded, WP:COI is not an absolute. Somewhere there is very careful language saying COI-related editing is discouraged (not the right word?) but is possible/permitted when it is a benefit to the article. Perhaps it is in recognition/spirit of that that Drmies reintroduced your edits. Glad to see your edits at Talk:Francis Tuttle Technology Center. Shenme (talk) 01:41, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2018).

Administrator changes

None

Asterion • Crisco 1492 • KF • Kudpung • Liz • Randykitty • Spartaz

Optimist on the run → Voice of Clam

Interface administrator changes

Amorymeltzer • Mr. Stradivarius • MusikAnimal • MSGJ • TheDJ • Xaosflux

Guideline and policy news

• Following a "stop-gap" discussion, six users have temporarily been made interface administrators while discussion is ongoing for a more permanent process for assigning the permission. Interface administrators are now the only editors allowed to edit sitewide CSS and JavaScript pages, as well as CSS/JS pages in another user's userspace. Previously, all administrators had this ability. The right can be granted and revoked by bureaucrats.

Technical news

• Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour.
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• Abuse filters can now use how old a page is. The variable is page_age.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee has resolved to perform a round of Checkuser and Oversight appointments. The usernames of all applicants will be shared with the Functionaries team, and they will be requested to assist in the vetting process. The deadline to submit an application is 23:59 UTC, 12 September, and the candidates that move forward will be published on-wiki for community comments on 18 September.

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2018).

Administrator changes

Justlettersandnumbers • L235

Bgwhite • HorsePunchKid • J Greb • KillerChihuahua • Rami R • Winhunter

Interface administrator changes

Cyberpower678 • Deryck Chan • Oshwah • Pharos • Ragesoss • Ritchie333

Oversight changes

Guerillero • NativeForeigner • Snowolf • Xeno

Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, the process for appointing interface administrators has been established. Currently only existing admins can request these rights, while a new RfC has begun on whether it should be available to non-admins.
• There is an open request for comment on Meta regarding the creation a new user group for global edit filter management.

Technical news

• Partial blocks should be available for testing in October on the Test Wikipedia and the Beta-Cluster. This new feature allows admins to block users from editing specific pages and in the near-future, namespaces and uploading files. You can expect more updates and an invitation to help with testing once it is available.
• The Foundations' Anti-Harassment Tools team is currently looking for input on how to measure the effectiveness of blocks. This is in particular related to how they will measure the success of the aforementioned partial blocks.
• Because of a data centre test, you will be able to read but not edit the Wikimedia projects for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee has, by motion, amended the procedure on functionary inactivity.
• The community consultation for 2018 CheckUser and Oversight appointments has concluded. Appointments will be made by October 11.
• Following a request for comment, the size of the Arbitration Committee will be decreased to 13 arbitrators, starting in 2019. Additionally, the minimum support percentage required to be appointed to a two-year term on ArbCom has been increased to 60%. ArbCom candidates who receive between 50% and 60% support will be appointed to one-year terms instead.
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Backlog

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Hey. I figured if we wanted to revamp the MacGyver page it'd be good to open a direct dialogue (just answer here, I'm watching the page.) I'm hoping you know a bit about the new series, for while I've seen a bit of it, I'm not an expert. The old series however I know quite well (and if necessary can watch again as I have all the seasons on Amazon Prime lol). You are clearly far better at formatting than I am (I'd love to have a infobox like you got!) so I figure I can leave that to you, then I can do editing to get the page a bit crisper. Let me know. Vyselink (talk) 23:46, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

Uh, nevermind lol. I went ahead and made many of the changes myself. I would love if you could check formatting etc. And I think, when the section gets bigger, the Lucas Till character should have an infobox of his own, and that I can't do at all. Any thoughts on my edits etc would be greatly appreciated. Vyselink (talk) 04:26, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

Apologies for the third message in just a few hours, but is it possible to archive the years old discussions on the talk page? And, related question, do you know how to do it? I'm unsure how to do it, and it would just clean it up and allow for the more recent posts, that deal with the edits just done, to be front and center. Thanks much! Vyselink (talk) 05:39, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

Considering the talk page doesn't get much traffic I just manually archived it instead of setting up an automatic one (For future reference WP:ARCHIVE might be able to help you). I'll add an Infobox for the 2016 character soon (Infoboxes are easy Template:Infobox character). I briefly skimmed over the edits you made and will look at them more in depth when I have more time but what I saw looked good. TheDoctorWho (talk) 06:20, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2018).

Administrator changes Sir Sputnik Kudpung • Liz • Lourdes Everyking • Jackmcbarn Interface administrator changes Dinoguy1000

CheckUser changes AGK • Ivanvector • Stwalkerster • TonyBallioni Oversight changes Amorymeltzer • Oshwah • TonyBallioni • Vanamonde93 Keilana

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment determined that non-administrators will not be able to request interface admin access.
• A request for comment is in progress to determine whether the Mediation Committee should be closed and marked as historical.
• A village pump discussion has been ongoing about whether the proposed deletion policy (PROD) should be clarified or amended.
• A request for comment is in progress to determine whether pending changes protection should be applied automatically to today's featured article (TFA) in order to mitigate a recent trend of severe image vandalism.

Technical news

• Partial blocks is now available for testing on the Test Wikipedia. The new functionality allows you to block users from editing specific pages. Bugs may exist and can be reported on the local talk page or on Meta. A discussion regarding deployment to English Wikipedia will be started by community liaisons sometime in the near future.
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• The 2019 Community Wishlist Survey is now accepting new proposals until November 11, 2018. The results of this survey will determine what software the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Tech team will work on next year. Voting on the proposals will take place from November 16 to November 30, 2018. Specifically, there is a proposal category for admins and stewards that may be of interest.

Arbitration

• Eligible editors will be invited to nominate themselves as candidates in the 2018 Arbitration Committee Elections starting on November 4 until November 13. Voting will begin on November 19 and last until December 2.
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Look, I can understand and agree with your naming of the episodes on The Great Christmas Light Fight, I was just trying to have some sort of consistency for them. Secondly, the information you have in the lead is DUPLICATED in the S6 section, which makes it bloated and excessive. We don't just list information like that twice. There are even numerous discussions about avoiding duplicate information in articles. Lastly, your statement about the applications being production still doesn't make it relevant. Remember when they did the Great Halloween Fright Fight episode? They announced then that they were accepting applications for the next Halloween special. Nothing came of it. Game shows and reality shows ALL THE TIME advertise for future contestants but they still go off the air leaving those applications moot. The fact that they were/are accepting applications means NOTHING. So please stop reverting all these changes unless you can cite examples and/or policy where this information is relevant to the article. - SanAnMan (talk) 20:50, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

@SanAnMan: I removed the paragraph for now, I should follow WP:BRD. I'd still like to expand the article though, it seems awfully empty. I'm a little busy right now but I'll do some work later tonight in one of my sandboxes and see if I can make it more consistent by adding more production info but avoid duplicating information. TheDoctorWho (talk) 20:55, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

@TheDoctorWho: I agree on the need for improvements, so we're on the same page there. I was actually the only one adding the episode summaries for the longest time (I even created the article in the first place), I just got too busy IRL to keep up with it. And I am also trying to do the same WP:BRD aspect by engaging you in this conversation we're having now. I think we're on the same page here, just slightly different outlooks on it. I look forward to seeing what you can work on for improvements. Best wishes. - SanAnMan (talk) 21:08, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2018).

Administrator changes

Al Ameer son • Randykitty • Spartaz

Boson • Daniel J. Leivick • Efe • Esanchez7587 • Fred Bauder • Garzo • Martijn Hoekstra • Orangemike

Interface administrator changes

Deryck Chan

Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, the Mediation Committee is now closed and will no longer be accepting case requests.
• A request for comment is in progress to determine whether members of the Bot Approvals Group should satisfy activity requirements in order to remain in that role.
• A request for comment is in progress regarding whether to change the administrator inactivity policy, such that administrators "who have made no logged administrative actions for at least 12 months may be desysopped". Currently, the policy states that administrators "who have made neither edits nor administrative actions for at least 12 months may be desysopped".
• A proposal has been made to temporarily restrict editing of the Main Page to interface administrators in order to mitigate the impact of compromised accounts.

Technical news

• Administrators and bureaucrats can no longer unblock themselves unless they placed the block initially. This change has been implemented globally. See also this ongoing village pump discussion (permalink).
• To complement the aforementioned change, blocked administrators will soon have the ability to block the administrator that placed their block to mitigate the possibility of a compromised administrator account blocking all other active administrators.
• Since deployment of Partial blocks on Test Wikipedia, several bugs were identified. Most of them are now fixed. Administrators are encouraged to test the new deployment and report new bugs on Phabricator or leave feedback on the Project's talk page. You can request administrator access on the Test Wiki here.

Arbitration

• Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 3 December 2018. Please review the candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page.

Miscellaneous

• In late November, an attacker compromised multiple accounts, including at least four administrator accounts, and used them to vandalize Wikipedia. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately. Sharing the same password across multiple websites makes your account vulnerable, especially if your password was used on a website that suffered a data breach. As these incidents have shown, these concerns are not pure fantasies.
• Wikipedia policy requires administrators to have strong passwords. To further reinforce security, administrators should also consider enabling two-factor authentication. A committed identity can be used to verify that you are the true account owner in the event that your account is compromised and/or you are unable to log in.

Obituaries

• Shock Brigade Harvester Boris (Raymond Arritt) passed away on 14 November 2018. Boris joined Wikipedia as Raymond arritt on 8 May 2006 and was an administrator from 30 July 2007 to 2 June 2008.

Hello TheDoctorWho,

Reviewer of the Year

This year's award for the Reviewer of the Year goes to Onel5969. Around on Wikipedia since 2011, their staggering number of 26,554 reviews over the past twelve months makes them, together with an additional total of 275,285 edits, one of Wikipedia's most prolific users.

Thanks are also extended for their work to JTtheOG (15,059 reviews), Boleyn (12,760 reviews), Cwmhiraeth (9,001 reviews), Semmendinger (8,440 reviews), PRehse (8,092 reviews), Arthistorian1977 (5,306 reviews), Abishe (4,153 reviews), Barkeep49 (4,016 reviews), and Elmidae (3,615 reviews).
Cwmhiraeth, Semmendinger, Barkeep49, and Elmidae have been New Page Reviewers for less than a year — Barkeep49 for only seven months, while Boleyn, with an edit count of 250,000 since she joined Wikipedia in 2008, has been a bastion of New Page Patrol for many years.

See also the list of top 100 reviewers.

Less good news, and an appeal for some help

The backlog is now approaching 5,000, and still rising. There are around 640 holders of the NPR flag, most of whom appear to be inactive. The 10% of the reviewers who do 90% of the work could do with some support especially as some of them are now taking a well deserved break.

Really good news - NPR wins the Community Wishlist Survey 2019

At #1 position, the Community Wishlist poll closed on 3 December with a resounding success for NPP, reminding the WMF and the volunteer communities just how critical NPP is to maintaining a clean encyclopedia and the need for improved tools to do it. A big 'thank you' to everyone who supported the NPP proposals. See the results.

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:14, 14 December 2018 (UTC)

Why have you trashed the infoboxes? These are there so people can QUICKLY find out who entered and exited on which day.DonutsAndBakewells (talk) 00:52, 22 December 2018 (UTC)

@DonutsAndBakewells: I did not "trash" the Infoboxes, after a community discussion at Templates for Discussion and at WT:BIGBRO it was decided to by consensus to replace the Infoboxes. TheDoctorWho (talk) 00:57, 22 December 2018 (UTC)

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