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Article protection[edit]

Hello Rlendog. I am requesting full protection of

Make Her Feel Good (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) as a redirect per Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Make Her Feel Good
Sincerely Yours (Teairra Marí EP) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) as a redirect per Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sincerely Yours (Teairra Marí EP)

Please also consider blocking MrWriter245 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) for persistent disruptive editing, for which he has been blocked three times already. Thanks. — JJMC89 (T·C) 15:34, 28 July 2016 (UTC) Updated: 16:20, 28 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I have protected them for a month and left a warning for MrWriter. Protection may be overkill because only a single editor is violating the AfD consensus, but I see little harm in a temporary precaution given that there is an established consensus that these should be redirects. Rlendog (talk) 23:38, 28 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

At this point I have to agree with you. He has had plenty of chances but doesn't change. I have blocked MrWriter245 indefinitely. Rlendog (talk) 15:16, 9 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Rlendog. — JJMC89 (T·C) 15:52, 9 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Johannes Eggestein[edit]

Hi. In May 2015, you found that the result of an AfD for Johannes Eggestein was delete. An article on him would now pass notability guidelines having made professional debuts in 3. Liga and DFB-Pokal. I would like to request the un-deletion of the page. Regards, Robby.is.on (talk) 13:33, 27 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like someone beat me to it. Rlendog (talk) 19:11, 27 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I believe it was created from scratch. Thanks for the reply. Robby.is.on (talk) 19:43, 27 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Wanting to have the List of Stanley Cup Finals broadcasters article deleted[edit]

I've noticed that you helped spear-headed the campaign to have that particular article deleted from Wikipedia. It isn't fair that the National Hockey League's premiere championship event doesn't have its own individual article for its broadcasters while other sports do. That article took a really long time to set up and put together to just let it go by the waste-side. And just because they aren't fully sourced on the proper article itself, doesn't necessarily mean that they aren't non the less, more thoroughly sourced on the respective articles for said television networks. BornonJune8 (talk) 01:06, 19 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I voted to delete the East and West finals lists but stated that I thought the Finals list should be discussed separately. Rlendog (talk) 13:13, 19 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Extended confirmed protection[edit]

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Extended confirmed protection (also known as "30/500 protection") is a new level of page protection that only allows edits from accounts at least 30 days old and with 500 edits. The automatically assigned "extended confirmed" user right was created for this purpose. The protection level was created following this community discussion with the primary intention of enforcing various arbitration remedies that prohibited editors under the "30 days/500 edits" threshold to edit certain topic areas.

In July and August 2016, a request for comment established consensus for community use of the new protection level. Administrators are authorized to apply extended confirmed protection to combat any form of disruption (e.g. vandalism, sock puppetry, edit warring, etc.) on any topic, subject to the following conditions:

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File:Shes Got a Way 1972 single cover.jpg listed for discussion[edit]

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Disputed non-free use rationale for File:Tangled Up in Blue Cover.jpg[edit]

Thank you for uploading File:Tangled Up in Blue Cover.jpg. However, there is a concern that the rationale provided for using this file on Wikipedia may not meet the criteria required by Wikipedia:Non-free content. This can be corrected by going to the file description page and adding or clarifying the reason why the file qualifies under this policy. Adding and completing one of the templates available from Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline is an easy way to ensure that your file is in compliance with Wikipedia policy. Please be aware that a non-free use rationale is not the same as an image copyright tag; descriptions for files used under the non-free content policy require both a copyright tag and a non-free use rationale.

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Latin American 10,000 Challenge invite[edit]

Hi. The Wikipedia:WikiProject Latin America/The 10,000 Challenge ‎ has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge and Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Argentina etc, much like Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. At some stage we hope to run some contests to benefit Latin American content, a destubathon perhaps, aimed at reducing the stub count would be a good place to start, based on the current Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon. If you would like to see this happening for Latin America, and see potential in this attracting more interest and editors for the country/countries you work on please sign up and being contributing to the challenge! This is a way we can target every country of Latin America, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant!♦ --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 00:50, 27 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hatnotes aren't required if article title is unambiguous[edit]

Hi there,

Please read the sub-article "Disambiguating article names that are not ambiguous" for why Sheer Heart Attack (song) doesn't need a hatnote.

The article title makes clear that it's about the song, not the album, so no-one is likely to arrive there directly if they're looking for the album.

OTOH, the hatnote at Sheer Heart Attack is useful, since that article doesn't include "album" in the title. As I said, please read the linked article for full details, thanks!

Ubcule (talk) 13:44, 3 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Lewis[edit]

Why did you do my revision? I fixed it according to the official template.Jordandlee (talk) 16:21, 6 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins[edit]

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A new user right for New Page Patrollers[edit]

Hi Rlendog.

A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.

If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins).MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:47, 15 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open![edit]

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Extended confirmed protection policy RfC[edit]

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Happy Holidays![edit]

	Happy Holidays!
	Hi, Rlendog! Have a happy and safe season, and a blessed new year! Holiday cheers, --Discographer (talk) 00:16, 24 December 2016 (UTC) [reply]

Thanks! Same to you, Rlendog (talk) 03:42, 26 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Merry, merry![edit]

From the icy Canajian north; to you and yours! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 19:13, 26 December 2016 (UTC) [reply]

Thank you. You too. Rlendog (talk) 19:34, 26 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Request for Comments on use of certain files not copyrighted in the US[edit]

Hello,

There is an ongoing discussion about the use of files on Wikipedia that are not protected by copyright in the US because there is no copyright relations between the US and the country of publication. You commented in a 2012 discussion on the same topic that resulted in no consensus. You are invited to share your views in the ongoing discussion. AHeneen (talk) 21:16, 3 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Request page protection[edit]

I am so sick and tired of being targeted by other users. I need you to please protect the articles that i contribute to because other users just keep reverting all my edits when they are not even letting me make Wikipedia a better place. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TheBigProject (talk • contribs) 21:26, 14 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

WP:Sockpuppet investigations/MrWriter245. Sundayclose (talk) 21:38, 14 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

List of the Presidents of the United States Senate[edit]

Despite my best efforts, this article was deleted, and redirected to List of Vice Presidents of the United States, because it was not deemed to be sufficiently distinct from that article and the article on the Presiding Officer of the United States Senate to merit its continued existence. However, the information that used to be in that article now forms a section of the following article: Presiding_Officer_of_the_United_States_Senate. Just go to the article and click on "show" to reveal the information. I already edited it to add Mike Pence as the new President of the Senate (and used the photo that you had used for your addition to the deleted article, for which I thank you). AuH2ORepublican (talk) 17:36, 20 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I like it. Thanks. Rlendog (talk) 19:19, 20 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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DYK for Nothing Was Delivered[edit]

On 15 March 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Nothing Was Delivered, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Bob Dylan's "Nothing Was Delivered" has inspired interpretations ranging from a failed drug deal to Judas Iscariot's betrayal of Jesus? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Nothing Was Delivered. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Nothing Was Delivered), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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Brooke Valentine[edit]

Hi, is there anyway you could lift the protection ban on Brooke Valentine please? Miss. Undaztood (talk) 06:24, 14 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately that article has been the subject of inappropriate editing behavior recently, such as sockpuppetry and edit warring. So I do not think it would be prudent to undo the protection at this time. The article is only semi-protected so once you have enough experience editing you will be able to edit it, even if the protection remains. Until then if there are edits you would like to make to the article you can propose them on the article's talk page. Rlendog (talk) 13:49, 14 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

As we speak, I'm on 54 edits, will I be able to edit it once I'm in the hundreds or is that still too new? Miss. Undaztood (talk) 06:04, 15 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Block evasion by User:MariaJaydHicky. Binksternet (talk) 07:50, 15 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Song/singes templates in musician/group template categories[edit]

Please stop reverting these categories because they are incorrect as I stated: "these categories are for the overall musician/band navigational templates and not for songs/singles navigational templates". There are distinct songs/singles navigational template categories that all of these templates are already located in. If you had a concern with my edits you should have come to me to discuss them, instead of mass reverting without any edit summary, which it tells you not to do when you hit the "Undo" button. Aspects (talk) 19:58, 28 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

These categories are correct despite your assertion to the contrary. They have been in place on many of these templates for years. If you think they are correct you are welcome to discuss. Under WP:BRD, it is ok to make bold edits as you did but other editors are permitted to revert if they disagree and then there can be discussion to resolve the disagreements. The fact that you made mass unilateral edits does not mean that they cannot be reverted. Rlendog (talk) 20:03, 28 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

One, you are not supposed to use the "Undo" button without an edit summary because it makes it look like my edits were vandalism when they were not. Second, if you saw a lot of edits you disagreed with from one editor, it is more helpful to discuss with that editor instead of reverting all of the edits. Now there is a discussion here between us, but you are still reverting my edits without explaining how they are correct categories. Most of the songs/singles templates were not in these overall musician/group template categories and I was making them consistent. Just because some of these templates were in the categories does not mean they were correct. All of these combined makes it looking like you are editing warring, which makes me surprised you are a sysop. If you feel this discussion should take place elsewhere, please suggest a place, since these templates were across many different categories. Aspects (talk) 20:16, 28 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

As the edit summary for your category removals simply stated "removal of incorrect category" I assumed that it would be understood that my reversal simply meant that I disagreed with that statement. Had I meant to imply that you were vandalizing I would have stated that in my edit summary. There was no implication of vandalism intended and I apologize if you understood it differently. When I saw your edit summary on your re-reverts I included more substantive edit summaries to be clearer.

You still have not explained why you think these categories are incorrect. The fact that there may be other similar templates that do not use these categories does not make them incorrect - maybe those templates should add these categories. Templates are permitted to incorporate multiple categories. You have removed the categories from a lot of templates, including some of the most popular artists whose templates are used by many editors and have had those categories for several years without anyone registering a problem. In some cases, the category name has been revised but the category has essentially remained, indicating that other editors agreed with the need for those categories but disagreed with the original name. So I am not sure what you find "incorrect" about them. Rlendog (talk) 22:14, 28 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Reflist|2[edit]

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Thanks. Rlendog (talk) 16:11, 30 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Avatar (2016 film) listed at Redirects for discussion[edit]

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Template:Did you know nominations/Ramellogammarus similimanus[edit]

Would you please consider the alts. I also asked the article creator for his input. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 16:39, 6 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I reviewed ALT1. It is fine. Rlendog (talk) 03:37, 7 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Jemima Surrender[edit]

On 10 May 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Jemima Surrender, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the lascivious lyrics of The Band's "Jemima Surrender" inspired Naomi Weisstein to form the Chicago Women's Liberation Rock Band? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Jemima Surrender. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Jemima Surrender), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Mifter (talk) 04:52, 10 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

DYK nomination of The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show[edit]

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Thanks. I added a reference to the section. Rlendog (talk) 23:11, 12 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show[edit]

On 22 May 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that "The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show" was based on old minstrel and medicine shows, but was interpreted as an allegory on the dangers of success in the music business? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Mifter (talk) 00:04, 22 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Precious five years![edit]

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:58, 29 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!

... and six! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:52, 29 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – June 2017[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2017).

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IFRS 17[edit]

Hi, I made a few minor changes to the IFRS 17 article. There are some problems showing with the date format at the moment, which I have no idea how to fix. Any idea? user IFRS17

Administrators' newsletter – July 2017[edit]

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Guideline and policy news

The RFC discussion regarding WP:OUTING and WMF essay about paid editing and outing (see more at the ArbCom noticeboard archives) is now archived. Milieus #3 and #4 received support; so did concrete proposal #1.

Technical news

Fuzzy search will soon be added to Special:Undelete, allowing administrators to search for deleted page titles with results similar to the search query. You can test this by adding ?fuzzy=1 to the URL, as with Special:Undelete?fuzzy=1. Currently the search only finds pages that exactly match the search term.
A new bot will automatically revision delete unused file versions from files in Category:Non-free files with orphaned versions more than 7 days old.

Miscellaneous

A newly revamped database report can help identify users who may be eligible to be autopatrolled.
A potentially compromised account from 2001–2002 attempted to request resysop. Please practice appropriate account security by using a unique password for Wikipedia, and consider enabling two-factor authentication. Currently around 17% of admins have enabled 2FA, up from 16% in February 2017.
Did you know: On 29 June 2017, there were 1,261 administrators on the English Wikipedia – the exact number of administrators as there were ten years ago on 29 June 2007. Since that time, the English Wikipedia has grown from 1.85 million articles to over 5.43 million.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:59, 6 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Giant tree-rat[edit]

Just an FYI, the tree-rats in this family all should have dashes, both to stay consistent, and to distinguish from squirrels and other such things that are colloquially called tree rats without the dash....Pvmoutside (talk) 22:37, 29 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I am not seeing much support for that in reliable sources. Most seem to lack dashes. Rlendog (talk) 22:39, 29 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

when I was editing Echimyidae pages over the past 2 or 3 days, 80% of tree-rat species had dashes. I'm OK with removing, but other pages should be moved also?....I'm moving on to other stuff.....Pvmoutside (talk) 23:36, 29 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It seems that many of the Wikipedia tree rat articles have dashes, but that doesn't seem common in other sources. I am not to concerned about a dash though if no one else is. Rlendog (talk) 23:38, 29 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – August 2017[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2017).

Administrator changes

Anarchyte • GeneralizationsAreBad • Cullen328 ^{(first RfA to reach WP:300)}

Cprompt • Rockpocket • Rambo's Revenge • Animum • TexasAndroid • Chuck SMITH • MikeLynch • Crazytales • Ad Orientem

Guideline and policy news

Following a series of discussions around new pages patrol, the WMF is helping implement a controlled autoconfirmed article creation trial as a research experiment, similar to the one proposed in 2011. You can learn more about the research plan at meta:Research:Autoconfirmed article creation trial. The exact start date of the experiment has yet to be determined.
A new speedy deletion criterion, regarding articles created as a result undisclosed paid editing, is currently being discussed (permalink).
An RfC (permalink) is currently open that proposes expanding WP:G13 to include all drafts, even if they weren't submitted through Articles for Creation.

Technical news

LoginNotify should soon be deployed to the English Wikipedia. This will notify users when there are suspicious login attempts on their account.
The new version of XTools is nearing an official release. This suite of tools includes administrator statistics, an improved edit counter, among other tools that may benefit administrators. You can report issues on Phabricator and provide general feedback at mw:Talk:XTools.

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Hello, why do you delete the article named Marčel Hudima ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Unleashthefury (talk • contribs) 19:35, 9 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, why do you delete the article named Marcel Hudima? Unleashthefury (talk) 19:41, 9 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, why do you delete the article named Marcel Hudima? Unleashthefury Unleashthefury (talk) 19:45, 9 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, why do you delete the article named Marcel Hudima? (talk) Unleashthefury (talk) 19:52, 9 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Investment[edit]

Hey there! I just re-launched the WikiProject Investment.

The site has been fully revamped and updated and I would like to invite you the project.

Feel free to check out the project and ping me if you have any questions.

I'd like to invite you to join the Investment WikiProject. There are a lot of Investment related articles on Wikipedia that could use a little attention, and I hope this project can help organize an effort to improve them. So please, take a look and if you like what you see, help get this project off the ground and a few Investment pages into the front ranks of Wikipedia articles. Thanks!

Cheers! WikiEditCrunch (talk) 20:11, 22 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – September 2017[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2017).

Administrator changes

Nakon • Scott

Sverdrup • Thespian • Elockid • James086 • Ffirehorse • Celestianpower • Boing! said Zebedee

Guideline and policy news

ACTRIAL, a research experiment that restricts article creation to autoconfirmed users, will begin on September 7. It will run for six months. You can learn more about the research specifics at meta:Research:Autoconfirmed article creation trial, while Wikipedia talk:Autoconfirmed article creation trial is probably the best venue for general discussion.
Following an RfC, WP:G13 speedy deletion criterion now applies to any page in the draftspace that has not been edited in six months. There is a bot-generated report, updated daily, to help identify potentially qualifying drafts that have not been submitted through articles for creation.

Technical news

You will now get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account and fails. If they try from a device that has logged into your account before, you will be notified after five failed attempts. You can also set in your preferences to get an email when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address, which may be encouraged for admins and accounts with sensitive permissions.
Syntax highlighting is now available as a beta feature (more info). This may assist administrators and template editors when dealing with intricate syntax of high-risk templates and system messages.
In your notification preferences, you can now block specific users from pinging you. This functionality will soon be available for Special:EmailUser as well.

Arbitration

Applications for CheckUser and Oversight are being accepted by the Arbitration Committee until September 12. Community discussion of the candidates will begin on September 18.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:35, 1 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – October 2017[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2017).

Administrator changes

Boing! said Zebedee • Ansh666 • Ad Orientem

Tonywalton • AmiDaniel • Silence • BanyanTree • Magioladitis • Vanamonde93 • Mr.Z-man • Jdavidb • Jakec • Ram-Man • Yelyos • Kurt Shaped Box

Guideline and policy news

Following a successful proposal to create it, a new user right called "edit filter helper" is now assignable and revocable by administrators. The right allows non-administrators to view the details of private edit filters, but not to edit them.
Following a discussion about mass-application of ECP and how the need for logging and other details of an evolving consensus may have been missed by some administrators, a rough guide to extended confirmed protection has been written. This information page describes how the extended-confirmed aspects of the protection policy are currently being applied by administrators.

Technical news

You can now search for IP ranges at Special:Contributions. Some log pages and Special:DeletedContributions are not yet supported. Wildcards (e.g. 192.168.0.*) are also not supported, but the popular contribsrange gadget will continue to work.

Arbitration

Community consultation on the 2017 candidates for CheckUser and Oversight has concluded. The Arbitration Committee will appoint successful candidates by October 11.
A request for comment is open regarding the structure, rules, and procedures of the December 2017 Arbitration Committee election, and how to resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:23, 2 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

"Wasn't Born to Follow" article & a request[edit]

Hey Rlendog, well done for creating and doing such a good job on the "Wasn't Born to Follow" article. It's high time that this song had its own article, so it's nice to see you tackle it. On another Byrds-related matter, there's a discussion about the lead of The Byrds article on that page's talk page that you might want to weigh in on. Thanks. --Kohoutek1138 (talk) 15:17, 25 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – November 2017[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2017).

Administrator changes

Longhair • Megalibrarygirl • TonyBallioni • Vanamonde93

Allen3 • Eluchil404 • Arthur Rubin • Bencherlite

Technical news

The Wikimedia Foundation's Anti-Harassment Tools team is creating an "Interaction Timeline" tool that intends to assist administrators in resolving user conduct disputes. Feedback on the concept may be posted on the talk page.
A new function is now available to edit filter managers that will make it easier to look for multiple strings containing spoofed text.

Arbitration

Eligible editors will be invited to submit candidate statements for the 2017 Arbitration Committee Elections starting on November 12 until November 21. Voting will begin on November 27 and last until December 10.
Following a request for comment, Ritchie333, Yunshui and Ymblanter will serve as the Electoral Commission for the 2017 ArbCom Elections.

Obituaries

The Wikipedia community has recently learned that Allen3 (William Allen Peckham) passed away on December 30, 2016, the same day as JohnCD. Allen began editing in 2005 and became an administrator that same year.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:49, 2 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Bhanotia[edit]

Hi.
I couldn't understand why there are names of persons following the names species on page Bhanotia. Do you think it should have a clarification there? At first I thought they were names of books lol. —usernamekiran(talk) 20:54, 2 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Those are the names of the people who originally described each species. For example Bhanotia fasciolata was originally described by Auguste Duméril in 1870. Rlendog (talk) 21:37, 2 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free image File:The Way We Were cover.jpg[edit]

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Orphaned non-free image File:Mrs Lennon cover.jpg[edit]

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Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 18:22, 25 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Women in Red World Contest[edit]

Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!

Administrators' newsletter – December 2017[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2017).

Administrator changes

Joe Roe

JzG

Ericorbit • Perceval • Thingg • Tristanb • Violetriga

Guideline and policy news

Following a request for comment, a new section has been added to the username policy which disallows usernames containing emoji, emoticons or otherwise "decorative" usernames, and usernames that use any non-language symbols. Administrators should discuss issues related to these types of usernames before blocking.

Technical news

Wikimedians are now invited to vote on the proposals in the 2017 Community Wishlist Survey on Meta Wiki until 10 December 2017. In particular, there is a section of the survey regarding new tools for administrators and for anti-harassment.
A new function is available to edit filter managers which can be used to store matches from regular expressions.

Arbitration

Voting in the 2017 Arbitration Committee elections is open until Sunday 23:59, 10 December 2017 (UTC). There are 12 candidates running for 8 vacant seats.

Miscellaneous

Over the last few months, several users have reported backlogs that require administrator attention at WP:ANI, with the most common backlogs showing up on WP:SPI, WP:AIV and WP:RFPP. It is requested that all administrators take some time during this month to help clear backlogs wherever possible. It should be noted that AIV reports are not always valid; however, they still need to be cleared, which may include needing to remind users on what qualifies as vandalism.
The Wikimedia Foundation Community health initiative is conducting a survey for English Wikipedia contributors on their experience and satisfaction level with Administrator’s Noticeboard/Incidents. This survey will be integral to gathering information about how this noticeboard works (i.e. which problems it deals with well and which problems it struggles with). If you would like to take this survey, please sign up on this page, and a link for the survey will be emailed to you via Special:EmailUser.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:57, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom 2017 election voter message[edit]

Hello, Rlendog. Voting in the 2017 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 10 December. All users who registered an account before Saturday, 28 October 2017, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Wednesday, 1 November 2017 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2017 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for The Luck of the Irish (song)[edit]

On 15 December 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article The Luck of the Irish (song), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that "The Luck of the Irish" received an Apple Records catalogue number despite never being released as a single? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Luck of the Irish (song). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, The Luck of the Irish (song)), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Coffee // have a ☕️ // beans // 00:02, 15 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Seasons' Greetings[edit]

...to you and yours, from the Great White North! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 02:48, 24 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Rlendog (talk) 00:13, 25 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Prod and AFD[edit]

Rlendog, when you contested the prod on division articles, you should not have blanked the page and redirected it. The correct process should be an AFD to properly delete the page history and create a redirect. Flibirigit (talk) 21:51, 26 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

There is no reason not to redirect a contested prod. Redirecting is an editing task that is available for any article, whether or not it had been prodded. If you feel the redirect needs to be deleted for some reason RfD provides a forum. Although I see no need to delete the history, which may be valuable if someone feels there is something to merge from there. Rlendog (talk) 21:57, 26 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Help with article?[edit]

Hi there,

I noticed you're a member of the Wikipedia Finance and Investment project. I've written a new article and I wonder if you'd be willing to help out by reviewing it - Draft: Fifth Wall Ventures and making it live if you think it's ready? It's about a VC-firm focused on real estate.

Although I am an experienced Wikipedia editor and always try my best to abide by the five pillars, in this case I have a conflict of interest, so Wikipedia policy requires that all my work be reviewed by an independent editor before it's published. (Moved from "Draft" to "Wikipedia" under the "More" tab in the nav.) I'd be glad to do any additional work you think the article requires.

Thanks for considering this!

Ed

BC1278 (talk) 23:49, 1 January 2018 (UTC)BC1278[reply]

It looks like someone had already moved it into mainspace. For what it's worth, it seems to me that it has adequate sources to support being there. Rlendog (talk) 18:50, 2 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – January 2018[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2017).

Administrator changes

Muboshgu

Anetode • Laser brain • Worm That Turned

None

Bureaucrat changes

Worm That Turned

Guideline and policy news

A request for comment is in progress to determine whether the administrator policy should be amended to require disclosure of paid editing activity at WP:RFA and to prohibit the use of administrative tools as part of paid editing activity, with certain exceptions.

Technical news

The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey results have been posted. The Community Tech team will investigate and address the top ten results.
The Anti-Harassment Tools team is inviting comments on new blocking tools and improvements to existing blocking tools for development in early 2018. Feedback can be left on the discussion page or by email.

Arbitration

Following the results of the 2017 election, the following editors have been (re)appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Alex Shih, BU Rob13, Callanecc, KrakatoaKatie, Opabinia regalis, Premeditated Chaos, RickinBaltimore, Worm That Turned.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:37, 3 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – February 2018[edit]

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

Administrator changes

None

Blurpeace • Dana boomer • Deltabeignet • Denelson83 • Grandiose • Salvidrim! • Ymblanter

Guideline and policy news

An RfC has closed with a consensus that candidates at WP:RFA must disclose whether they have ever edited for pay and that administrators may never use administrative tools as part of any paid editing activity, except when they are acting as a Wikipedian-in-Residence or when the payment is made by the Wikimedia Foundation or an affiliate of the WMF.
Editors responding to threats of harm can now contact the Wikimedia Foundation's emergency address by using Special:EmailUser/Emergency. If you don't have email enabled on Wikipedia, directly contacting the emergency address using your own email client remains an option.

Technical news

A tag will now be automatically applied to edits that blank a page, turn a page into a redirect, remove/replace almost all content in a page, undo an edit, or rollback an edit. These edits were previously denoted solely by automatic edit summaries.

Arbitration

The Arbitration Committee has enacted a change to the discretionary sanctions procedure which requires administrators to add a standardized editnotice when placing page restrictions. Editors cannot be sanctioned for violations of page restrictions if this editnotice was not in place at the time of the violation.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:51, 4 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – March 2018[edit]

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

Administrator changes

Lourdes†

AngelOfSadness • Bhadani • Chris 73 • Coren • Friday • Midom • Mike V

† Lourdes has requested that her admin rights be temporarily removed, pending her return from travel.

Guideline and policy news

The autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) is scheduled to end on 14 March 2018. The results of the research collected can be read on Meta Wiki.
Community ban discussions must now stay open for at least 24 hours prior to being closed.
A change to the administrator inactivity policy has been proposed. Under the proposal, if an administrator has not used their admin tools for a period of five years and is subsequently desysopped for inactivity, the administrator would have to file a new RfA in order to regain the tools.
A change to the banning policy has been proposed which would specify conditions under which a repeat sockmaster may be considered de facto banned, reducing the need to start a community ban discussion for these users.

Technical news

CheckUsers are now able to view private data such as IP addresses from the edit filter log, e.g. when the filter prevents a user from creating an account. Previously, this information was unavailable to CheckUsers because access to it could not be logged.
The edit filter has a new feature contains_all that edit filter managers may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string.

Miscellaneous

Following the 2018 Steward elections, the following users are our new stewards: -revi, Green Giant, Rxy, There'sNoTime, علاء.

Obituaries

Bhadani (Gangadhar Bhadani) passed away on 8 February 2018. Bhadani joined Wikipedia in March 2005 and became an administrator in September 2005. While he was active, Bhadani was regarded as one of the most prolific Wikipedians from India.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:00, 2 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free image File:Eric clapton-willie and the hand jive s 1.jpg[edit]

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Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 08:45, 25 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – April 2018[edit]

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

Administrator changes

331dot • Cordless Larry • ClueBot NG

Gogo Dodo • Pb30 • Sebastiankessel • Seicer • SoLando

Guideline and policy news

Administrators who have been desysopped due to inactivity are now required to have performed at least one (logged) administrative action in the past 5 years in order to qualify for a resysop without going through a new RfA.
Editors who have been found to have engaged in sockpuppetry on at least two occasions after an initial indefinite block, for whatever reason, are now automatically considered banned by the community without the need to start a ban discussion.
The notability guideline for organizations and companies has been substantially rewritten following the closure of this request for comment. Among the changes, the guideline more clearly defines the sourcing requirements needed for organizations and companies to be considered notable.
The six-month autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) ended on 14 March 2018. The post-trial research report has been published. A request for comment is now underway to determine whether the restrictions from ACTRIAL should be implemented permanently.

Technical news

There will soon be a calendar widget at Special:Block, making it easier to set expiries for a specific date and time.

Arbitration

The Arbitration Committee is considering a change to the discretionary sanctions procedures which would require an editor to appeal a sanction to the community at WP:AE or WP:AN prior to appealing directly to the Arbitration Committee at WP:ARCA.

Miscellaneous

A discussion has closed which concluded that administrators are not required to enable email, though many editors suggested doing so as a matter of best practice.
The Foundations' Anti-Harassment Tools team has released the Interaction Timeline. This shows a chronologic history for two users on pages where they have both made edits, which may be helpful in identifying sockpuppetry and investigating editing disputes.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:23, 2 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of List of NFC champions[edit]

The article List of NFC champions has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Redundant (much of this is covered already in the NFC Championship article).

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Piranha 249 16:51, 8 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of List of AFC champions for deletion[edit]

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article List of AFC champions is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of AFC champions until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Piranha 249 16:56, 8 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of List of NFC champions for deletion[edit]

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article List of NFC champions is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of NFC champions until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Piranha 249 16:58, 8 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free image File:Ain't Too Proud to Beg RS cover.jpg[edit]

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Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 14:58, 18 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion Review[edit]

Hi, there. You deleted a page I created back in 2012 (I know it has been a long time). There was a consensus at that time and everything was done right. At that time I had no much idea about how Wikipedia worked. The reason to delete the article it was because the subject in question, a footballer, had not played any pro match in his career, since the Bosnian League was not, at that time, considered fully pro. Alright, since 2016, the league is considered fully pro. The footballer has played in the league in the 2016/2017 season and therefore his is notable enough for an article. Well, I was thinking if it is possible to "revert" the deletion and restore the article. I don't even know if it is possible, but would be easier than I recreate the article. But if it is not possible I will recreate. Regards.--SirEdimon (talk) 02:50, 20 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It appears that this player has played for Celik Zenica since the league became fully professional, so I will undelete. Rlendog (talk) 15:02, 20 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you--SirEdimon (talk) 19:18, 20 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

List of YouTubers[edit]

There is another deletion discussion on List of YouTubers. If you would like to weigh in, you can do so by checking out the discussion here. Mr. C.C.^{Hey yo!}_{I didn't do it!} 05:28, 30 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – May 2018[edit]

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

Administrator changes

None

Chochopk • Coffee • Gryffindor • Jimp • Knowledge Seeker • Lankiveil • Peridon • Rjd0060

Guideline and policy news

The ability to create articles directly in mainspace is now indefinitely restricted to autoconfirmed users.
A proposal is being discussed which would create a new "event coordinator" right that would allow users to temporarily add the "confirmed" flag to new user accounts and to create many new user accounts without being hindered by a rate limit.

Technical news

AbuseFilter has received numerous improvements, including an OOUI overhaul, syntax highlighting, ability to search existing filters, and a few new functions. In particular, the search feature can be used to ensure there aren't existing filters for what you need, and the new equals_to_any function can be used when checking multiple namespaces. One major upcoming change is the ability to see which filters are the slowest. This information is currently only available to those with access to Logstash.
When blocking anonymous users, a cookie will be applied that reloads the block if the user changes their IP. 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. This currently only occurs when hard-blocking accounts.
The block notice shown on mobile will soon be more informative and point users to a help page on how to request an unblock, just as it currently does on desktop.
There will soon be a calendar widget at Special:Block, making it easier to set expiries for a specific date and time.

Arbitration

The Arbitration Committee is seeking additional clerks to help with the arbitration process.

Obituaries

Lankiveil (Craig Franklin) passed away in mid-April. Lankiveil joined Wikipedia on 12 August 2004 and became an administrator on 31 August 2008. During his time with the Wikimedia community, Lankiveil served as an oversighter for the English Wikipedia and as president of Wikimedia Australia.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:05, 2 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguation link notification for May 3[edit]

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Help: formatting options[edit]

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I had selected the "justify paragraphs" option in every wiki that I visit, I am used to save everyday the main page of wikipedia in a dozen of languages and pages from the projects that I am interested to... the option no longer works, it also seems that it has been removed from "preferences". I assume that the media wiki package has been updated? or is it a new bug?--Brain (talk) 23:11, 6 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

WP:Village pump (technical) is probably a good place to ask about MediaWiki updates. That said, a quick search of the archives gave this old discussion which has a suggestion on how to enable justified paragraphs yourself, without the preferences. Huon (talk) 23:42, 6 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much, issue solved :) Brain (talk) 23:41, 13 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation to the new Portals WikiProject[edit]

WikiProject Portals was rebooted April 17th.

Seventy-four editors have joined so far, and we are redesigning the entire portal system, and having a blast doing it.

We can make it...

Better.

Stronger.

Faster.

We have the technology.

You are invited to join in on the fun.

We have:

A watchlist of all the pages in portal space
New tools
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Plenty to keep your active mind engaged and entertained.

Come check us out. — The Transhumanist 03:49, 16 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much[edit]

The RfC discussion to eliminate portals was closed May 12, with the statement "There exists a strong consensus against deleting or even deprecating portals at this time." This was made possible because you and others came to the rescue. Thank you for speaking up.

By the way, the current issue of the Signpost features an article with interviews about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.

I'd also like to let you know that the Portals WikiProject is working hard to make sure your support of portals was not in vain. Toward that end, we have been working diligently to innovate portals, while building, updating, upgrading, and maintaining them. The project has grown to 80 members so far, and has become a beehive of activity.

Our two main goals at this time are to automate portals (in terms of refreshing, rotating, and selecting content), and to develop a one-page model in order to make obsolete and eliminate most of the 150,000 subpages from the portal namespace by migrating their functions to the portal base pages, using technologies such as selective transclusion. Please feel free to join in on any of the many threads of development at the WikiProject's talk page, or just stop by to see how we are doing. If you have any questions about portals or portal development, that is the best place to ask them.

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2018[edit]

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

Administrator changes

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Guideline and policy news

Following a successful request for comment, administrators are now able to add and remove editors to the "event coordinator" group. Users in the event coordinator group have the ability to temporarily add the "confirmed" flag to new user accounts and to create many new user accounts without being hindered by a rate limit. Users will no longer need to be in the "account creator" group if they are in the event coordinator group.
Following an AN discussion, all pages with content related to blockchain and cryptocurrencies, broadly construed, are now under indefinite general sanctions.

Technical news

IP-based cookie blocks should be deployed to English Wikipedia in 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.
The Wikimedia Foundation's Anti-Harassment Tools team will build granular types of blocks in 2018 (e.g. a block from uploading or editing specific pages, categories, or namespaces, as opposed to a full-site block). Feedback on the concept may be left at the talk page.
There is now a checkbox on Special:ListUsers to let you see only users in temporary user groups.
It is now easier for blocked mobile users to see why they were blocked.

Arbitration

A recent technical issue with the Arbitration Committee's spam filter inadvertently caused all messages sent to the committee through Wikipedia (i.e. Special:EmailUser/Arbitration Committee) to be discarded. If you attempted to send an email to the Arbitration Committee via Wikipedia between May 16 and May 31, your message was not received and you are encouraged to resend it. Messages sent outside of these dates or directly to the Arbitration Committee email address were not affected by this issue.

Miscellaneous

In early May, an unusually high level of failed login attempts was observed. The WMF has stated that this was an "external effort to gain unauthorized access to random accounts". Under Wikipedia policy, administrators are required 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.

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Category:Taxa named by Francis Walker (entomologist) has been nominated for discussion[edit]

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Orphaned non-free image File:Back in the USSR Swedish cover.jpg[edit]

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File:Death to My Hometown cover.jpg listed for discussion[edit]

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Death to My Hometown cover.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for discussion. Please see the discussion to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you. SummerPhD^v2.0 17:29, 30 June 2018 (UTC) == Article protection ==[reply]

Hello Rlendog. I am requesting full protection of

Make Her Feel Good (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) as a redirect per Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Make Her Feel Good
Sincerely Yours (Teairra Marí EP) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) as a redirect per Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sincerely Yours (Teairra Marí EP)

Please also consider blocking MrWriter245 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) for persistent disruptive editing, for which he has been blocked three times already. Thanks. — JJMC89 (T·C) 15:34, 28 July 2016 (UTC) Updated: 16:20, 28 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I have protected them for a month and left a warning for MrWriter. Protection may be overkill because only a single editor is violating the AfD consensus, but I see little harm in a temporary precaution given that there is an established consensus that these should be redirects. Rlendog (talk) 23:38, 28 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

At this point I have to agree with you. He has had plenty of chances but doesn't change. I have blocked MrWriter245 indefinitely. Rlendog (talk) 15:16, 9 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Rlendog. — JJMC89 (T·C) 15:52, 9 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Johannes Eggestein[edit]

Hi. In May 2015, you found that the result of an AfD for Johannes Eggestein was delete. An article on him would now pass notability guidelines having made professional debuts in 3. Liga and DFB-Pokal. I would like to request the un-deletion of the page. Regards, Robby.is.on (talk) 13:33, 27 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like someone beat me to it. Rlendog (talk) 19:11, 27 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I believe it was created from scratch. Thanks for the reply. Robby.is.on (talk) 19:43, 27 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Wanting to have the List of Stanley Cup Finals broadcasters article deleted[edit]

I've noticed that you helped spear-headed the campaign to have that particular article deleted from Wikipedia. It isn't fair that the National Hockey League's premiere championship event doesn't have its own individual article for its broadcasters while other sports do. That article took a really long time to set up and put together to just let it go by the waste-side. And just because they aren't fully sourced on the proper article itself, doesn't necessarily mean that they aren't non the less, more thoroughly sourced on the respective articles for said television networks. BornonJune8 (talk) 01:06, 19 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I voted to delete the East and West finals lists but stated that I thought the Finals list should be discussed separately. Rlendog (talk) 13:13, 19 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Extended confirmed protection[edit]

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Extended confirmed protection (also known as "30/500 protection") is a new level of page protection that only allows edits from accounts at least 30 days old and with 500 edits. The automatically assigned "extended confirmed" user right was created for this purpose. The protection level was created following this community discussion with the primary intention of enforcing various arbitration remedies that prohibited editors under the "30 days/500 edits" threshold to edit certain topic areas.

In July and August 2016, a request for comment established consensus for community use of the new protection level. Administrators are authorized to apply extended confirmed protection to combat any form of disruption (e.g. vandalism, sock puppetry, edit warring, etc.) on any topic, subject to the following conditions:

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File:Shes Got a Way 1972 single cover.jpg listed for discussion[edit]

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Disputed non-free use rationale for File:Tangled Up in Blue Cover.jpg[edit]

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Latin American 10,000 Challenge invite[edit]

Hi. The Wikipedia:WikiProject Latin America/The 10,000 Challenge ‎ has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge and Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Argentina etc, much like Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. At some stage we hope to run some contests to benefit Latin American content, a destubathon perhaps, aimed at reducing the stub count would be a good place to start, based on the current Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon. If you would like to see this happening for Latin America, and see potential in this attracting more interest and editors for the country/countries you work on please sign up and being contributing to the challenge! This is a way we can target every country of Latin America, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant!♦ --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 00:50, 27 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hatnotes aren't required if article title is unambiguous[edit]

Hi there,

Please read the sub-article "Disambiguating article names that are not ambiguous" for why Sheer Heart Attack (song) doesn't need a hatnote.

The article title makes clear that it's about the song, not the album, so no-one is likely to arrive there directly if they're looking for the album.

OTOH, the hatnote at Sheer Heart Attack is useful, since that article doesn't include "album" in the title. As I said, please read the linked article for full details, thanks!

Ubcule (talk) 13:44, 3 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Lewis[edit]

Why did you do my revision? I fixed it according to the official template.Jordandlee (talk) 16:21, 6 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins[edit]

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Please note that TOTP based two-factor authentication is now available for all administrators. In light of the recent compromised accounts, you are encouraged to add this additional layer of security to your account. It may be enabled on your preferences page in the "User profile" tab under the "Basic information" section. For basic instructions on how to enable two-factor authentication, please see the developing help page for additional information. Important: Be sure to record the two-factor authentication key and the single use keys. If you lose your two factor authentication and do not have the keys, it's possible that your account will not be recoverable. Furthermore, you are encouraged to utilize a unique password and two-factor authentication for the email account associated with your Wikimedia account. This measure will assist in safeguarding your account from malicious password resets. Comments, questions, and concerns may be directed to the thread on the administrators' noticeboard. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:34, 12 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

A new user right for New Page Patrollers[edit]

Hi Rlendog.

A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.

If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins).MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:47, 15 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open![edit]

Hello, Rlendog. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Extended confirmed protection policy RfC[edit]

You are receiving this notification because you participated in a past RfC related to the use of extended confirmed protection levels. There is currently a discussion ongoing about two specific use cases of extended confirmed protection. You are invited to participate. ~ Rob₁₃^Talk (sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:31, 22 December 2016 (UTC))[reply]

Happy Holidays![edit]

	Happy Holidays!
	Hi, Rlendog! Have a happy and safe season, and a blessed new year! Holiday cheers, --Discographer (talk) 00:16, 24 December 2016 (UTC) [reply]

Thanks! Same to you, Rlendog (talk) 03:42, 26 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Merry, merry![edit]

From the icy Canajian north; to you and yours! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 19:13, 26 December 2016 (UTC) [reply]

Thank you. You too. Rlendog (talk) 19:34, 26 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Request for Comments on use of certain files not copyrighted in the US[edit]

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There is an ongoing discussion about the use of files on Wikipedia that are not protected by copyright in the US because there is no copyright relations between the US and the country of publication. You commented in a 2012 discussion on the same topic that resulted in no consensus. You are invited to share your views in the ongoing discussion. AHeneen (talk) 21:16, 3 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Request page protection[edit]

I am so sick and tired of being targeted by other users. I need you to please protect the articles that i contribute to because other users just keep reverting all my edits when they are not even letting me make Wikipedia a better place. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TheBigProject (talk • contribs) 21:26, 14 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

WP:Sockpuppet investigations/MrWriter245. Sundayclose (talk) 21:38, 14 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

List of the Presidents of the United States Senate[edit]

Despite my best efforts, this article was deleted, and redirected to List of Vice Presidents of the United States, because it was not deemed to be sufficiently distinct from that article and the article on the Presiding Officer of the United States Senate to merit its continued existence. However, the information that used to be in that article now forms a section of the following article: Presiding_Officer_of_the_United_States_Senate. Just go to the article and click on "show" to reveal the information. I already edited it to add Mike Pence as the new President of the Senate (and used the photo that you had used for your addition to the deleted article, for which I thank you). AuH2ORepublican (talk) 17:36, 20 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I like it. Thanks. Rlendog (talk) 19:19, 20 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter - February 2017[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2017). This first issue is being sent out to all administrators, if you wish to keep receiving it please subscribe. Your feedback is welcomed.

Administrator changes

NinjaRobotPirate • Schwede66 • K6ka • Ealdgyth • Ferret • Cyberpower678 • Mz7 • Primefac • Dodger67

Briangotts • JeremyA • BU Rob13

Guideline and policy news

A discussion to workshop proposals to amend the administrator inactivity policy at Wikipedia talk:Administrators has been in process since late December 2016.
Wikipedia:Pending changes/Request for Comment 2016 closed with no consensus for implementing Pending changes level 2 with new criteria for use.
Following an RfC, an activity requirement is now in place for bots and bot operators.

Technical news

When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)
Following the latest RfC concluding that Pending Changes 2 should not be used on the English Wikipedia, an RfC closed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. (T156448)
The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.

Arbitration

The Arbitration Committee released a response to the Wikimedia Foundation's statement on paid editing and outing.

Obituaries

JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.

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DYK for Nothing Was Delivered[edit]

On 15 March 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Nothing Was Delivered, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Bob Dylan's "Nothing Was Delivered" has inspired interpretations ranging from a failed drug deal to Judas Iscariot's betrayal of Jesus? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Nothing Was Delivered. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Nothing Was Delivered), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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Orphaned non-free image File:Save the Children label.jpg[edit]

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Brooke Valentine[edit]

Hi, is there anyway you could lift the protection ban on Brooke Valentine please? Miss. Undaztood (talk) 06:24, 14 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately that article has been the subject of inappropriate editing behavior recently, such as sockpuppetry and edit warring. So I do not think it would be prudent to undo the protection at this time. The article is only semi-protected so once you have enough experience editing you will be able to edit it, even if the protection remains. Until then if there are edits you would like to make to the article you can propose them on the article's talk page. Rlendog (talk) 13:49, 14 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

As we speak, I'm on 54 edits, will I be able to edit it once I'm in the hundreds or is that still too new? Miss. Undaztood (talk) 06:04, 15 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Block evasion by User:MariaJaydHicky. Binksternet (talk) 07:50, 15 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Orphaned non-free image File:Here Without You cover.jpeg[edit]

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Song/singes templates in musician/group template categories[edit]

Please stop reverting these categories because they are incorrect as I stated: "these categories are for the overall musician/band navigational templates and not for songs/singles navigational templates". There are distinct songs/singles navigational template categories that all of these templates are already located in. If you had a concern with my edits you should have come to me to discuss them, instead of mass reverting without any edit summary, which it tells you not to do when you hit the "Undo" button. Aspects (talk) 19:58, 28 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

These categories are correct despite your assertion to the contrary. They have been in place on many of these templates for years. If you think they are correct you are welcome to discuss. Under WP:BRD, it is ok to make bold edits as you did but other editors are permitted to revert if they disagree and then there can be discussion to resolve the disagreements. The fact that you made mass unilateral edits does not mean that they cannot be reverted. Rlendog (talk) 20:03, 28 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

One, you are not supposed to use the "Undo" button without an edit summary because it makes it look like my edits were vandalism when they were not. Second, if you saw a lot of edits you disagreed with from one editor, it is more helpful to discuss with that editor instead of reverting all of the edits. Now there is a discussion here between us, but you are still reverting my edits without explaining how they are correct categories. Most of the songs/singles templates were not in these overall musician/group template categories and I was making them consistent. Just because some of these templates were in the categories does not mean they were correct. All of these combined makes it looking like you are editing warring, which makes me surprised you are a sysop. If you feel this discussion should take place elsewhere, please suggest a place, since these templates were across many different categories. Aspects (talk) 20:16, 28 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

As the edit summary for your category removals simply stated "removal of incorrect category" I assumed that it would be understood that my reversal simply meant that I disagreed with that statement. Had I meant to imply that you were vandalizing I would have stated that in my edit summary. There was no implication of vandalism intended and I apologize if you understood it differently. When I saw your edit summary on your re-reverts I included more substantive edit summaries to be clearer.

You still have not explained why you think these categories are incorrect. The fact that there may be other similar templates that do not use these categories does not make them incorrect - maybe those templates should add these categories. Templates are permitted to incorporate multiple categories. You have removed the categories from a lot of templates, including some of the most popular artists whose templates are used by many editors and have had those categories for several years without anyone registering a problem. In some cases, the category name has been revised but the category has essentially remained, indicating that other editors agreed with the need for those categories but disagreed with the original name. So I am not sure what you find "incorrect" about them. Rlendog (talk) 22:14, 28 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Reflist|2[edit]

Hi. Just letting you know that reflist|2/3/4 are all deprecated per Template:Reflist#Columns. If you don't know the best ways to format these are:

{{reflist|35em}} for 2 columns (equivalent to reflist|2)
{{reflist|30em}} for 3 columns
{{reflist|40em}} for 4 columns

--Jennica✿ / ^talk 01:00, 30 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Rlendog (talk) 16:11, 30 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Avatar (2016 film) listed at Redirects for discussion[edit]

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Avatar (2016 film). Since you had some involvement with the Avatar (2016 film) redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. -- Tavix ^(talk) 00:55, 3 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguation link notification for May 5[edit]

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Template:Did you know nominations/Ramellogammarus similimanus[edit]

Would you please consider the alts. I also asked the article creator for his input. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 16:39, 6 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I reviewed ALT1. It is fine. Rlendog (talk) 03:37, 7 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Jemima Surrender[edit]

On 10 May 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Jemima Surrender, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the lascivious lyrics of The Band's "Jemima Surrender" inspired Naomi Weisstein to form the Chicago Women's Liberation Rock Band? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Jemima Surrender. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Jemima Surrender), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Mifter (talk) 04:52, 10 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

DYK nomination of The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show[edit]

Hello! Your submission of The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! SL93 (talk) 21:51, 12 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I added a reference to the section. Rlendog (talk) 23:11, 12 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show[edit]

On 22 May 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that "The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show" was based on old minstrel and medicine shows, but was interpreted as an allegory on the dangers of success in the music business? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Mifter (talk) 00:04, 22 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Precious five years![edit]

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:58, 29 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!

... and six! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:52, 29 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – June 2017[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2017).

Administrator changes

Doug Bell • Dennis Brown • Clpo13 • ONUnicorn

ThaddeusB • Yandman • Bjarki S • OldakQuill • Shyam • Jondel • Worm That Turned

Guideline and policy news

An RfC proposing an off-wiki LTA database has been closed. The proposal was broadly supported, with further discussion required regarding what to do with the existing LTA database and defining access requirements. Such a tool/database formed part of the Community health initiative's successful grant proposal.
Some clarifications have been made to the community banning and unblocking policies that effectively sync them with current practice. Specifically, the community has reached a consensus that when blocking a user at WP:AN or WP:ANI, it is considered a "community sanction", and administrators cannot unblock unilaterally if the user has not successfully appealed the sanction to the community.
An RfC regarding the bot policy has closed with changes to the section describing restrictions on cosmetic changes.

Technical news

Users will soon be able to blacklist specific users from sending them notifications.

Miscellaneous

Following the 2017 elections, the new members of the Board of Trustees include Raystorm, Pundit and Doc James. They will serve three-year terms.

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Orphaned non-free image File:Show Me the Way cover 1975.jpg[edit]

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IFRS 17[edit]

Hi, I made a few minor changes to the IFRS 17 article. There are some problems showing with the date format at the moment, which I have no idea how to fix. Any idea? user IFRS17

Administrators' newsletter – July 2017[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2017).

Administrator changes

Happyme22 • Dragons flight

Zad68

Guideline and policy news

The RFC discussion regarding WP:OUTING and WMF essay about paid editing and outing (see more at the ArbCom noticeboard archives) is now archived. Milieus #3 and #4 received support; so did concrete proposal #1.

Technical news

Fuzzy search will soon be added to Special:Undelete, allowing administrators to search for deleted page titles with results similar to the search query. You can test this by adding ?fuzzy=1 to the URL, as with Special:Undelete?fuzzy=1. Currently the search only finds pages that exactly match the search term.
A new bot will automatically revision delete unused file versions from files in Category:Non-free files with orphaned versions more than 7 days old.

Miscellaneous

A newly revamped database report can help identify users who may be eligible to be autopatrolled.
A potentially compromised account from 2001–2002 attempted to request resysop. Please practice appropriate account security by using a unique password for Wikipedia, and consider enabling two-factor authentication. Currently around 17% of admins have enabled 2FA, up from 16% in February 2017.
Did you know: On 29 June 2017, there were 1,261 administrators on the English Wikipedia – the exact number of administrators as there were ten years ago on 29 June 2007. Since that time, the English Wikipedia has grown from 1.85 million articles to over 5.43 million.

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Giant tree-rat[edit]

Just an FYI, the tree-rats in this family all should have dashes, both to stay consistent, and to distinguish from squirrels and other such things that are colloquially called tree rats without the dash....Pvmoutside (talk) 22:37, 29 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I am not seeing much support for that in reliable sources. Most seem to lack dashes. Rlendog (talk) 22:39, 29 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

when I was editing Echimyidae pages over the past 2 or 3 days, 80% of tree-rat species had dashes. I'm OK with removing, but other pages should be moved also?....I'm moving on to other stuff.....Pvmoutside (talk) 23:36, 29 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It seems that many of the Wikipedia tree rat articles have dashes, but that doesn't seem common in other sources. I am not to concerned about a dash though if no one else is. Rlendog (talk) 23:38, 29 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – August 2017[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2017).

Administrator changes

Anarchyte • GeneralizationsAreBad • Cullen328 ^{(first RfA to reach WP:300)}

Cprompt • Rockpocket • Rambo's Revenge • Animum • TexasAndroid • Chuck SMITH • MikeLynch • Crazytales • Ad Orientem

Guideline and policy news

Following a series of discussions around new pages patrol, the WMF is helping implement a controlled autoconfirmed article creation trial as a research experiment, similar to the one proposed in 2011. You can learn more about the research plan at meta:Research:Autoconfirmed article creation trial. The exact start date of the experiment has yet to be determined.
A new speedy deletion criterion, regarding articles created as a result undisclosed paid editing, is currently being discussed (permalink).
An RfC (permalink) is currently open that proposes expanding WP:G13 to include all drafts, even if they weren't submitted through Articles for Creation.

Technical news

LoginNotify should soon be deployed to the English Wikipedia. This will notify users when there are suspicious login attempts on their account.
The new version of XTools is nearing an official release. This suite of tools includes administrator statistics, an improved edit counter, among other tools that may benefit administrators. You can report issues on Phabricator and provide general feedback at mw:Talk:XTools.

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Hello, why do you delete the article named Marčel Hudima ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Unleashthefury (talk • contribs) 19:35, 9 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, why do you delete the article named Marcel Hudima? Unleashthefury (talk) 19:41, 9 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, why do you delete the article named Marcel Hudima? Unleashthefury Unleashthefury (talk) 19:45, 9 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, why do you delete the article named Marcel Hudima? (talk) Unleashthefury (talk) 19:52, 9 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Investment[edit]

Hey there! I just re-launched the WikiProject Investment.

The site has been fully revamped and updated and I would like to invite you the project.

Feel free to check out the project and ping me if you have any questions.

I'd like to invite you to join the Investment WikiProject. There are a lot of Investment related articles on Wikipedia that could use a little attention, and I hope this project can help organize an effort to improve them. So please, take a look and if you like what you see, help get this project off the ground and a few Investment pages into the front ranks of Wikipedia articles. Thanks!

Cheers! WikiEditCrunch (talk) 20:11, 22 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – September 2017[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2017).

Administrator changes

Nakon • Scott

Sverdrup • Thespian • Elockid • James086 • Ffirehorse • Celestianpower • Boing! said Zebedee

Guideline and policy news

ACTRIAL, a research experiment that restricts article creation to autoconfirmed users, will begin on September 7. It will run for six months. You can learn more about the research specifics at meta:Research:Autoconfirmed article creation trial, while Wikipedia talk:Autoconfirmed article creation trial is probably the best venue for general discussion.
Following an RfC, WP:G13 speedy deletion criterion now applies to any page in the draftspace that has not been edited in six months. There is a bot-generated report, updated daily, to help identify potentially qualifying drafts that have not been submitted through articles for creation.

Technical news

You will now get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account and fails. If they try from a device that has logged into your account before, you will be notified after five failed attempts. You can also set in your preferences to get an email when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address, which may be encouraged for admins and accounts with sensitive permissions.
Syntax highlighting is now available as a beta feature (more info). This may assist administrators and template editors when dealing with intricate syntax of high-risk templates and system messages.
In your notification preferences, you can now block specific users from pinging you. This functionality will soon be available for Special:EmailUser as well.

Arbitration

Applications for CheckUser and Oversight are being accepted by the Arbitration Committee until September 12. Community discussion of the candidates will begin on September 18.

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Administrators' newsletter – October 2017[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2017).

Administrator changes

Boing! said Zebedee • Ansh666 • Ad Orientem

Tonywalton • AmiDaniel • Silence • BanyanTree • Magioladitis • Vanamonde93 • Mr.Z-man • Jdavidb • Jakec • Ram-Man • Yelyos • Kurt Shaped Box

Guideline and policy news

Following a successful proposal to create it, a new user right called "edit filter helper" is now assignable and revocable by administrators. The right allows non-administrators to view the details of private edit filters, but not to edit them.
Following a discussion about mass-application of ECP and how the need for logging and other details of an evolving consensus may have been missed by some administrators, a rough guide to extended confirmed protection has been written. This information page describes how the extended-confirmed aspects of the protection policy are currently being applied by administrators.

Technical news

You can now search for IP ranges at Special:Contributions. Some log pages and Special:DeletedContributions are not yet supported. Wildcards (e.g. 192.168.0.*) are also not supported, but the popular contribsrange gadget will continue to work.

Arbitration

Community consultation on the 2017 candidates for CheckUser and Oversight has concluded. The Arbitration Committee will appoint successful candidates by October 11.
A request for comment is open regarding the structure, rules, and procedures of the December 2017 Arbitration Committee election, and how to resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:23, 2 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

"Wasn't Born to Follow" article & a request[edit]

Hey Rlendog, well done for creating and doing such a good job on the "Wasn't Born to Follow" article. It's high time that this song had its own article, so it's nice to see you tackle it. On another Byrds-related matter, there's a discussion about the lead of The Byrds article on that page's talk page that you might want to weigh in on. Thanks. --Kohoutek1138 (talk) 15:17, 25 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – November 2017[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2017).

Administrator changes

Longhair • Megalibrarygirl • TonyBallioni • Vanamonde93

Allen3 • Eluchil404 • Arthur Rubin • Bencherlite

Technical news

The Wikimedia Foundation's Anti-Harassment Tools team is creating an "Interaction Timeline" tool that intends to assist administrators in resolving user conduct disputes. Feedback on the concept may be posted on the talk page.
A new function is now available to edit filter managers that will make it easier to look for multiple strings containing spoofed text.

Arbitration

Eligible editors will be invited to submit candidate statements for the 2017 Arbitration Committee Elections starting on November 12 until November 21. Voting will begin on November 27 and last until December 10.
Following a request for comment, Ritchie333, Yunshui and Ymblanter will serve as the Electoral Commission for the 2017 ArbCom Elections.

Obituaries

The Wikipedia community has recently learned that Allen3 (William Allen Peckham) passed away on December 30, 2016, the same day as JohnCD. Allen began editing in 2005 and became an administrator that same year.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:49, 2 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Bhanotia[edit]

Hi.
I couldn't understand why there are names of persons following the names species on page Bhanotia. Do you think it should have a clarification there? At first I thought they were names of books lol. —usernamekiran(talk) 20:54, 2 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Those are the names of the people who originally described each species. For example Bhanotia fasciolata was originally described by Auguste Duméril in 1870. Rlendog (talk) 21:37, 2 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free image File:The Way We Were cover.jpg[edit]

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Orphaned non-free image File:Mrs Lennon cover.jpg[edit]

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Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 18:22, 25 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Women in Red World Contest[edit]

Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!

Administrators' newsletter – December 2017[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2017).

Administrator changes

Joe Roe

JzG

Ericorbit • Perceval • Thingg • Tristanb • Violetriga

Guideline and policy news

Following a request for comment, a new section has been added to the username policy which disallows usernames containing emoji, emoticons or otherwise "decorative" usernames, and usernames that use any non-language symbols. Administrators should discuss issues related to these types of usernames before blocking.

Technical news

Wikimedians are now invited to vote on the proposals in the 2017 Community Wishlist Survey on Meta Wiki until 10 December 2017. In particular, there is a section of the survey regarding new tools for administrators and for anti-harassment.
A new function is available to edit filter managers which can be used to store matches from regular expressions.

Arbitration

Voting in the 2017 Arbitration Committee elections is open until Sunday 23:59, 10 December 2017 (UTC). There are 12 candidates running for 8 vacant seats.

Miscellaneous

Over the last few months, several users have reported backlogs that require administrator attention at WP:ANI, with the most common backlogs showing up on WP:SPI, WP:AIV and WP:RFPP. It is requested that all administrators take some time during this month to help clear backlogs wherever possible. It should be noted that AIV reports are not always valid; however, they still need to be cleared, which may include needing to remind users on what qualifies as vandalism.
The Wikimedia Foundation Community health initiative is conducting a survey for English Wikipedia contributors on their experience and satisfaction level with Administrator’s Noticeboard/Incidents. This survey will be integral to gathering information about how this noticeboard works (i.e. which problems it deals with well and which problems it struggles with). If you would like to take this survey, please sign up on this page, and a link for the survey will be emailed to you via Special:EmailUser.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:57, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom 2017 election voter message[edit]

Hello, Rlendog. Voting in the 2017 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 10 December. All users who registered an account before Saturday, 28 October 2017, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Wednesday, 1 November 2017 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2017 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for The Luck of the Irish (song)[edit]

On 15 December 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article The Luck of the Irish (song), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that "The Luck of the Irish" received an Apple Records catalogue number despite never being released as a single? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Luck of the Irish (song). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, The Luck of the Irish (song)), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Coffee // have a ☕️ // beans // 00:02, 15 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Seasons' Greetings[edit]

...to you and yours, from the Great White North! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 02:48, 24 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Rlendog (talk) 00:13, 25 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Prod and AFD[edit]

Rlendog, when you contested the prod on division articles, you should not have blanked the page and redirected it. The correct process should be an AFD to properly delete the page history and create a redirect. Flibirigit (talk) 21:51, 26 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

There is no reason not to redirect a contested prod. Redirecting is an editing task that is available for any article, whether or not it had been prodded. If you feel the redirect needs to be deleted for some reason RfD provides a forum. Although I see no need to delete the history, which may be valuable if someone feels there is something to merge from there. Rlendog (talk) 21:57, 26 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Help with article?[edit]

Hi there,

I noticed you're a member of the Wikipedia Finance and Investment project. I've written a new article and I wonder if you'd be willing to help out by reviewing it - Draft: Fifth Wall Ventures and making it live if you think it's ready? It's about a VC-firm focused on real estate.

Although I am an experienced Wikipedia editor and always try my best to abide by the five pillars, in this case I have a conflict of interest, so Wikipedia policy requires that all my work be reviewed by an independent editor before it's published. (Moved from "Draft" to "Wikipedia" under the "More" tab in the nav.) I'd be glad to do any additional work you think the article requires.

Thanks for considering this!

Ed

BC1278 (talk) 23:49, 1 January 2018 (UTC)BC1278[reply]

It looks like someone had already moved it into mainspace. For what it's worth, it seems to me that it has adequate sources to support being there. Rlendog (talk) 18:50, 2 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – January 2018[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2017).

Administrator changes

Muboshgu

Anetode • Laser brain • Worm That Turned

None

Bureaucrat changes

Worm That Turned

Guideline and policy news

A request for comment is in progress to determine whether the administrator policy should be amended to require disclosure of paid editing activity at WP:RFA and to prohibit the use of administrative tools as part of paid editing activity, with certain exceptions.

Technical news

The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey results have been posted. The Community Tech team will investigate and address the top ten results.
The Anti-Harassment Tools team is inviting comments on new blocking tools and improvements to existing blocking tools for development in early 2018. Feedback can be left on the discussion page or by email.

Arbitration

Following the results of the 2017 election, the following editors have been (re)appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Alex Shih, BU Rob13, Callanecc, KrakatoaKatie, Opabinia regalis, Premeditated Chaos, RickinBaltimore, Worm That Turned.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:37, 3 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – February 2018[edit]

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

Administrator changes

None

Blurpeace • Dana boomer • Deltabeignet • Denelson83 • Grandiose • Salvidrim! • Ymblanter

Guideline and policy news

An RfC has closed with a consensus that candidates at WP:RFA must disclose whether they have ever edited for pay and that administrators may never use administrative tools as part of any paid editing activity, except when they are acting as a Wikipedian-in-Residence or when the payment is made by the Wikimedia Foundation or an affiliate of the WMF.
Editors responding to threats of harm can now contact the Wikimedia Foundation's emergency address by using Special:EmailUser/Emergency. If you don't have email enabled on Wikipedia, directly contacting the emergency address using your own email client remains an option.

Technical news

A tag will now be automatically applied to edits that blank a page, turn a page into a redirect, remove/replace almost all content in a page, undo an edit, or rollback an edit. These edits were previously denoted solely by automatic edit summaries.

Arbitration

The Arbitration Committee has enacted a change to the discretionary sanctions procedure which requires administrators to add a standardized editnotice when placing page restrictions. Editors cannot be sanctioned for violations of page restrictions if this editnotice was not in place at the time of the violation.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:51, 4 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – March 2018[edit]

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

Administrator changes

Lourdes†

AngelOfSadness • Bhadani • Chris 73 • Coren • Friday • Midom • Mike V

† Lourdes has requested that her admin rights be temporarily removed, pending her return from travel.

Guideline and policy news

The autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) is scheduled to end on 14 March 2018. The results of the research collected can be read on Meta Wiki.
Community ban discussions must now stay open for at least 24 hours prior to being closed.
A change to the administrator inactivity policy has been proposed. Under the proposal, if an administrator has not used their admin tools for a period of five years and is subsequently desysopped for inactivity, the administrator would have to file a new RfA in order to regain the tools.
A change to the banning policy has been proposed which would specify conditions under which a repeat sockmaster may be considered de facto banned, reducing the need to start a community ban discussion for these users.

Technical news

CheckUsers are now able to view private data such as IP addresses from the edit filter log, e.g. when the filter prevents a user from creating an account. Previously, this information was unavailable to CheckUsers because access to it could not be logged.
The edit filter has a new feature contains_all that edit filter managers may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string.

Miscellaneous

Following the 2018 Steward elections, the following users are our new stewards: -revi, Green Giant, Rxy, There'sNoTime, علاء.

Obituaries

Bhadani (Gangadhar Bhadani) passed away on 8 February 2018. Bhadani joined Wikipedia in March 2005 and became an administrator in September 2005. While he was active, Bhadani was regarded as one of the most prolific Wikipedians from India.

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Administrators' newsletter – April 2018[edit]

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

Administrator changes

331dot • Cordless Larry • ClueBot NG

Gogo Dodo • Pb30 • Sebastiankessel • Seicer • SoLando

Guideline and policy news

Administrators who have been desysopped due to inactivity are now required to have performed at least one (logged) administrative action in the past 5 years in order to qualify for a resysop without going through a new RfA.
Editors who have been found to have engaged in sockpuppetry on at least two occasions after an initial indefinite block, for whatever reason, are now automatically considered banned by the community without the need to start a ban discussion.
The notability guideline for organizations and companies has been substantially rewritten following the closure of this request for comment. Among the changes, the guideline more clearly defines the sourcing requirements needed for organizations and companies to be considered notable.
The six-month autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) ended on 14 March 2018. The post-trial research report has been published. A request for comment is now underway to determine whether the restrictions from ACTRIAL should be implemented permanently.

Technical news

There will soon be a calendar widget at Special:Block, making it easier to set expiries for a specific date and time.

Arbitration

The Arbitration Committee is considering a change to the discretionary sanctions procedures which would require an editor to appeal a sanction to the community at WP:AE or WP:AN prior to appealing directly to the Arbitration Committee at WP:ARCA.

Miscellaneous

A discussion has closed which concluded that administrators are not required to enable email, though many editors suggested doing so as a matter of best practice.
The Foundations' Anti-Harassment Tools team has released the Interaction Timeline. This shows a chronologic history for two users on pages where they have both made edits, which may be helpful in identifying sockpuppetry and investigating editing disputes.

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Proposed deletion of List of NFC champions[edit]

The article List of NFC champions has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Redundant (much of this is covered already in the NFC Championship article).

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Piranha 249 16:51, 8 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of List of AFC champions for deletion[edit]

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article List of AFC champions is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of AFC champions until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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Nomination of List of NFC champions for deletion[edit]

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article List of NFC champions is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of NFC champions until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Piranha 249 16:58, 8 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free image File:Ain't Too Proud to Beg RS cover.jpg[edit]

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Deletion Review[edit]

Hi, there. You deleted a page I created back in 2012 (I know it has been a long time). There was a consensus at that time and everything was done right. At that time I had no much idea about how Wikipedia worked. The reason to delete the article it was because the subject in question, a footballer, had not played any pro match in his career, since the Bosnian League was not, at that time, considered fully pro. Alright, since 2016, the league is considered fully pro. The footballer has played in the league in the 2016/2017 season and therefore his is notable enough for an article. Well, I was thinking if it is possible to "revert" the deletion and restore the article. I don't even know if it is possible, but would be easier than I recreate the article. But if it is not possible I will recreate. Regards.--SirEdimon (talk) 02:50, 20 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It appears that this player has played for Celik Zenica since the league became fully professional, so I will undelete. Rlendog (talk) 15:02, 20 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you--SirEdimon (talk) 19:18, 20 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

List of YouTubers[edit]

There is another deletion discussion on List of YouTubers. If you would like to weigh in, you can do so by checking out the discussion here. Mr. C.C.^{Hey yo!}_{I didn't do it!} 05:28, 30 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – May 2018[edit]

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

Administrator changes

None

Chochopk • Coffee • Gryffindor • Jimp • Knowledge Seeker • Lankiveil • Peridon • Rjd0060

Guideline and policy news

The ability to create articles directly in mainspace is now indefinitely restricted to autoconfirmed users.
A proposal is being discussed which would create a new "event coordinator" right that would allow users to temporarily add the "confirmed" flag to new user accounts and to create many new user accounts without being hindered by a rate limit.

Technical news

AbuseFilter has received numerous improvements, including an OOUI overhaul, syntax highlighting, ability to search existing filters, and a few new functions. In particular, the search feature can be used to ensure there aren't existing filters for what you need, and the new equals_to_any function can be used when checking multiple namespaces. One major upcoming change is the ability to see which filters are the slowest. This information is currently only available to those with access to Logstash.
When blocking anonymous users, a cookie will be applied that reloads the block if the user changes their IP. 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. This currently only occurs when hard-blocking accounts.
The block notice shown on mobile will soon be more informative and point users to a help page on how to request an unblock, just as it currently does on desktop.
There will soon be a calendar widget at Special:Block, making it easier to set expiries for a specific date and time.

Arbitration

The Arbitration Committee is seeking additional clerks to help with the arbitration process.

Obituaries

Lankiveil (Craig Franklin) passed away in mid-April. Lankiveil joined Wikipedia on 12 August 2004 and became an administrator on 31 August 2008. During his time with the Wikimedia community, Lankiveil served as an oversighter for the English Wikipedia and as president of Wikimedia Australia.

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Help: formatting options[edit]

This help request has been answered. If you need more help, you can ask another question on your talk page, contact the responding user(s) directly on their user talk page, or consider visiting the Teahouse.

I had selected the "justify paragraphs" option in every wiki that I visit, I am used to save everyday the main page of wikipedia in a dozen of languages and pages from the projects that I am interested to... the option no longer works, it also seems that it has been removed from "preferences". I assume that the media wiki package has been updated? or is it a new bug?--Brain (talk) 23:11, 6 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

WP:Village pump (technical) is probably a good place to ask about MediaWiki updates. That said, a quick search of the archives gave this old discussion which has a suggestion on how to enable justified paragraphs yourself, without the preferences. Huon (talk) 23:42, 6 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much, issue solved :) Brain (talk) 23:41, 13 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation to the new Portals WikiProject[edit]

WikiProject Portals was rebooted April 17th.

Seventy-four editors have joined so far, and we are redesigning the entire portal system, and having a blast doing it.

We can make it...

Better.

Stronger.

Faster.

We have the technology.

You are invited to join in on the fun.

We have:

A watchlist of all the pages in portal space
New tools
New tasks
A newsletter
Many ongoing design discussions

Plenty to keep your active mind engaged and entertained.

Come check us out. — The Transhumanist 03:49, 16 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much[edit]

The RfC discussion to eliminate portals was closed May 12, with the statement "There exists a strong consensus against deleting or even deprecating portals at this time." This was made possible because you and others came to the rescue. Thank you for speaking up.

By the way, the current issue of the Signpost features an article with interviews about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.

I'd also like to let you know that the Portals WikiProject is working hard to make sure your support of portals was not in vain. Toward that end, we have been working diligently to innovate portals, while building, updating, upgrading, and maintaining them. The project has grown to 80 members so far, and has become a beehive of activity.

Our two main goals at this time are to automate portals (in terms of refreshing, rotating, and selecting content), and to develop a one-page model in order to make obsolete and eliminate most of the 150,000 subpages from the portal namespace by migrating their functions to the portal base pages, using technologies such as selective transclusion. Please feel free to join in on any of the many threads of development at the WikiProject's talk page, or just stop by to see how we are doing. If you have any questions about portals or portal development, that is the best place to ask them.

If you would like to keep abreast of developments on portals, keep in mind that the project's members receive updates on their talk pages. The updates are also posted here, for your convenience.

Again, we can't thank you enough for your support of portals, and we hope to make you proud of your decision. Sincerely, — The Transhumanist 00:21, 27 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

P.S.: if you reply to this message, please {{ping}} me. Thank you. -TT

Orphaned non-free image File:Setting Me Up single label.jpg[edit]

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2018[edit]

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

Administrator changes

None

Al Ameer son • AliveFreeHappy • Cenarium • Lupo • MichaelBillington

Guideline and policy news

Following a successful request for comment, administrators are now able to add and remove editors to the "event coordinator" group. Users in the event coordinator group have the ability to temporarily add the "confirmed" flag to new user accounts and to create many new user accounts without being hindered by a rate limit. Users will no longer need to be in the "account creator" group if they are in the event coordinator group.
Following an AN discussion, all pages with content related to blockchain and cryptocurrencies, broadly construed, are now under indefinite general sanctions.

Technical news

IP-based cookie blocks should be deployed to English Wikipedia in 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.
The Wikimedia Foundation's Anti-Harassment Tools team will build granular types of blocks in 2018 (e.g. a block from uploading or editing specific pages, categories, or namespaces, as opposed to a full-site block). Feedback on the concept may be left at the talk page.
There is now a checkbox on Special:ListUsers to let you see only users in temporary user groups.
It is now easier for blocked mobile users to see why they were blocked.

Arbitration

A recent technical issue with the Arbitration Committee's spam filter inadvertently caused all messages sent to the committee through Wikipedia (i.e. Special:EmailUser/Arbitration Committee) to be discarded. If you attempted to send an email to the Arbitration Committee via Wikipedia between May 16 and May 31, your message was not received and you are encouraged to resend it. Messages sent outside of these dates or directly to the Arbitration Committee email address were not affected by this issue.

Miscellaneous

In early May, an unusually high level of failed login attempts was observed. The WMF has stated that this was an "external effort to gain unauthorized access to random accounts". Under Wikipedia policy, administrators are required 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.

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Category:Taxa named by Francis Walker (entomologist) has been nominated for discussion[edit]

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Orphaned non-free image File:Back in the USSR Swedish cover.jpg[edit]

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File:Death to My Hometown cover.jpg listed for discussion[edit]

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