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2 June 2023

TO: Herpetogenesis

From: Stephen C Bosworth

Thank you for welcoming me in my first attempt to offer a new Wikipeadia Page: Draft: Evaluative proportional representation.

I thoroughly agree that each page has to be notable, neutral, verifiable, and based on reliable sources. I understand that the reason you gave for declining my May 30^th draft is that it “reads more like an essay than an encyclopedia article.” In response, I’ve tried to make some improvements to the current June 1^st draft. I removed some repetition and attempted to clarify five sentences, but most importantly, I added more exact page references for the strong sentences which perhaps sounded as if they were only my personal opinions, rather than merely reporting facts and reasoned conclusions arrived at by named reliable sources.

What do you think? I look forward to hearing from you.

Steve Stephen C Bosworth (talk) 05:29, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

Hi Stephen, it looks like you meant for this message to go to Herpetogenesis, not me. They can be contacted at their user talk page here: User talk:Herpetogenesis. Mz7 (talk) 07:58, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for providing me with the following message:

Submission declined on 31 May 2023 by Herpetogenesis (talk).

This submission reads more like an essay than an encyclopedia article. Submissions should summarise information in secondary, reliable sources and not contain opinions or original research. Please write about the topic from a neutral point of view in an encyclopedic manner.

• If you would like to continue working on the submission, click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.

On June 4th, I'm sending you the following explanation of my new edits and hoping to receive more of your advice in response to my resubmission.

TO: Herpetogenesis

From: Stephen C Bosworth

Thank you for welcoming me during my first attempt to offer a new Wikipedia Page: Draft: Evaluative proportional representation.

I thoroughly agree that each page has to be notable, neutral, verifiable, and based on reliable sources. I understand that the reason you gave for declining my May 30^th draft is that it “reads more like an essay than an encyclopedia article.” In response, I’ve tried to make some improvements to the 31 May 2023 draft. I removed some repetition and clarified five sentences. Most importantly, I added more exact page references for the strong sentences which perhaps sounded as if they were only my personal opinions, instead of reporting facts and reasoned conclusions offered by reliable sources.

What do you think? I look forward to hearing from you.

Steve

Please, what I should do next? Stephen C Bosworth (talk) 04:25, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

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

Administrator changes Ingenuity Ddstretch Prodego Resolute

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Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, editors indefinitely site-banned by community consensus will now have all rights, including sysop, removed.
• As a part of the Wikimedia Foundation's IP Masking project, a new policy has been created that governs the access to temporary account IP addresses. An associated FAQ has been created and individual communities can increase the requirements to view temporary account IP addresses.

Technical news

• Bot operators and tool maintainers should schedule time in the coming months to test and update their tools for the effects of IP masking. IP masking will not be deployed to any content wiki until at least October 2023 and is unlikely to be deployed to the English Wikipedia until some time in 2024.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been closed. The topic area of Polish history during World War II (1933-1945) and the history of Jews in Poland is subject to a "reliable source consensus-required" contentious topic restriction.

Miscellaneous

• Following a community referendum, the arbitration policy has been modified to remove the ability for users to appeal remedies to Jimbo Wales.

Hello Mz7,

Backlog

Redirect drive: In response to an unusually high redirect backlog, we held a redirect backlog drive in May. The drive completed with 23851 reviews done in total, bringing the redirect backlog to 0 (momentarily). Congratulations to Hey man im josh who led with a staggering 4316 points, followed by Meena and Greyzxq with 2868 and 2546 points respectively. See this page for more details. The redirect queue is steadily rising again and is steadily approaching 4,000. Please continue to help out, even if it's only for a few or even one review a day.

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

Administrator changes

Novem Linguae

• Deckiller
• Electionworld
• MBisanz
• Penwhale
• Raul654
• Roadrunner
• Viridae
• Yannismarou

Bureaucrat changes

MBisanz

Guideline and policy news

• Contributions to the English Wikipedia are now released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0) license instead of CC BY-SA 3.0. Contributions are still also released under the GFDL license.

Technical news

• Discussion is open regarding a proposed global policy regarding third-party resources. Third-party resources are computer resources that reside outside of Wikimedia production websites.

Arbitration

• Two arbitration cases are currently open. Proposed decisions are expected 5 July 2023 for the Scottywong case and 9 July 2023 for the AlisonW case.

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LilianaUwU ^{(talk / contributions)} 04:42, 12 July 2023 (UTC)

91.174.128.70 (talk · contribs · WHOIS)

Hi there, did you mean to only block this IP address for one week? I realize that the previous blocks were more than two years ago, so the standard increase in block duration may not normally apply, but the same LTA user has clearly had access to this IP address ever since edits have been appearing from it (since 2020). 2601:1C0:4401:F60:59:78A2:2B68:92B4 (talk) 17:02, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

Yes, it was intentional, but I get where you're coming from. I was thinking that since that particular LTA hadn't been active on that IP for a long time, a shorter block would be sufficient. But it is interesting that this IP is so static that they are still using it after all these years. I'll keep an eye on it, and if the LTA comes back after a week, I will block again for much longer. Mz7 (talk) 03:48, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

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

Administrator changes

Firefangledfeathers

• AlisonW
• Amberrock
• Closedmouth
• Scottywong

Interface administrator changes

Novem Linguae

Technical news

• The tag filter on Special:NewPages and revision history pages can now be inverted. This allows hiding edits made by automated tools. (T334338)
• Special:BlockedExternalDomains is a new tool that allows easier blocking of plain domains (and their subdomains). This is more easily searchable and is faster for the software to use than the existing MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. It does not support regex (for complex cases), URL path-matching, or the MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. (T337431)

Arbitration

• The arbitration cases named Scottywong and AlisonW closed 10 July and 16 July respectively.
• The SmallCat dispute arbitration case is in the workshop phase.

I gotta say, I'm glad that this clusterfuck I indirectly caused is finally over. Hell, I changed my mind at one point, so it all ended up working out for me in the end. (Can't talk for others, though.) LilianaUwU ^{(talk / contributions)} 04:35, 26 August 2023 (UTC)

Yes, thank you for closing this discussion with a thoughtful, on-the-mark closure statement. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 16:33, 30 August 2023 (UTC)

Was taken aback when I saw the resulting talk page; thought it may be worth CSDing and re-instating the talk page (with warnings) because I forgot about deleting revisions, so thank you for doing so! Utopes _{(talk / cont)} 07:07, 29 August 2023 (UTC)