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

Administrator changes

Andrwsc • Anetode • GoldenRing • JzG • LinguistAtLarge • Nehrams2020

Interface administrator changes

Izno

Guideline and policy news

• There is a request for comment in progress to either remove T3 (duplicated and hardcoded instances) as a speedy deletion criterion or eliminate its seven-day waiting period.

Technical news

• Voting for proposals in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey, which determines what software the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Tech team will work on next year, will take place from 8 December through 21 December. In particular, there are sections regarding administrators and anti-harassment.

Arbitration

• Voting in the 2020 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 7 December 2020 UTC. Please review the candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page.

Per WP:FIES: "Editors should not revert an otherwise good edit because of a missing or confusing edit summary." I hope this can be the end of it. Lazer-kitty (talk) 22:28, 3 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You've cherry-picked the quote from WP:FIES (and also cherry-picked the reality of my revert). The lack of edit summary was one of three things I took issue with: "No edit summary. No reference. Not a minor change as it was marked."

Since you have taken time to read Help:Edit summary I trust you are now more aware of the importance of providing edit summaries, and how they are helpful to your fellow editors.

And a separate issue, but just to reiterate here where you can't delete it, telling anyone they are "despicable beyond belief" is inappropriate conduct. And me telling you that is not a personal attack. Mark83 (talk) 08:17, 4 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't cherry pick anything. The quote is very clear. You are in the wrong here and it's unbelievable that you will not accept it.

If you do not stop harassing me about the second situation I will see you at ANI. I am well within my rights to remove harassment from my own talk page. I would request that in the future you do not interact with me on this website unless it's an apology for your behavior. Lazer-kitty (talk) 14:06, 4 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

On the edit summary point - you are ignoring the fact that I reverted for reasons other than a missing edit summary. A point I made very clearly above.

On the "second situation" I would genuinely welcome you asking for an outside opinion in whatever forum you chose. I reject your claim that anything I wrote on your talk page was "harassment" and I am insulted by that terminology.

"To insist that an editor be sanctioned for an isolated, minor incident, to repeatedly bring up past incivility after an individual has changed their approach, or to treat constructive criticism as an attack, are in themselves potentially disruptive"

I am entitled to reply to your post above on my own talk page, but I too would welcome no further direct interactions. Mark83 (talk) 17:41, 4 January 2021 (UTC) & edited Mark83 (talk) 17:47, 4 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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

Administrator changes Hammersoft Andres • Brion VIBBER • Rkitko • Thatcher

CheckUser changes Barkeep49 • BDD • CaptainEek • Primefac Oversight changes Barkeep49 • BDD • CaptainEek Joe Roe

Guideline and policy news

• Speedy deletion criterion T3 (duplication and hardcoded instances) has been repealed following a request for comment.

Technical news

• You can now put pages on your watchlist for a limited period of time.

Arbitration

• By motion, standard discretionary sanctions have been temporarily authorized for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes). The effectiveness of the discretionary sanctions can be evaluated on the request by any editor after March 1, 2021 (or sooner if for a good reason).
• Following the 2020 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Barkeep49, BDD, Bradv, CaptainEek, L235, Maxim, Primefac.

The article AirForces Monthly has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

search shows that no independent reliable sources exist.

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. Theredproject (talk) 11:08, 12 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

A good collation of current sources at short notice. Thank you for your assistance. Simon Adler (talk) 04:46, 14 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2021).

Administrator changes Hog Farm Mattflaschen • Nandesuka • Savidan • Wangi

CheckUser changes Berean Hunter • Xeno Oversight changes Someguy1221 • Xeno

Arbitration

• The standard discretionary sanctions authorized for American Politics were amended by motion to cover post-1992 politics of United States and closely related people, replacing the 1932 cutoff.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2021 Steward elections will begin on 05 February 2021, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2021, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• Wikipedia has now been around for 20 years, and recently saw its billionth edit!

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2021).

Administrator changes

TJMSmith

Boing! said Zebedee • Hiberniantears • Lear's Fool • Only • WGFinley

Interface administrator changes

AmandaNP

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment is open that proposes a process for the community to revoke administrative permissions. This follows a 2019 RfC in favor of creating one such a policy.
• A request for comment is in progress to remove F7 (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a, which covers immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
• A request for comment seeks to grant page movers the delete-redirect userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target. The full proposal is at Wikipedia:Page mover/delete-redirect.
• A request for comment asks if sysops may place the General sanctions/Coronavirus disease 2019 editnotice template on pages in scope that do not have page-specific sanctions?
• There is a discussion in progress concerning automatic protection of each day's featured article with Pending Changes protection.

Technical news

• When blocking an IPv6 address with Twinkle, there is now a checkbox with the option to just block the /64 range. When doing so, you can still leave a block template on the initial, single IP address' talkpage.
• When protecting a page with Twinkle, you can now add a note if doing so was in response to a request at WP:RfPP, and even link to the specific revision.
• There have been a number of reported issues with Pending Changes. Most problems setting protection appear to have been resolved (phab:T273317) but other issues with autoaccepting edits persist (phab:T275322).

Arbitration

• By motion, the discretionary sanctions originally authorized under the GamerGate case are now authorized under a new Gender and sexuality case, with sanctions authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, any gender-related dispute or controversy and associated people. Sanctions issued under GamerGate are now considered Gender and sexuality sanctions.
• The Kurds and Kurdistan case was closed, authorizing standard discretionary sanctions for the topics of Kurds and Kurdistan, broadly construed.

Miscellaneous

• Following the 2021 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AmandaNP, Operator873, Stanglavine, Teles, and Wiki13.

Is there anyway that Mark 83 who is the Wikipedia contributor for the company Viant Smart Homes Pros located in Utah United States of America contact me? I have news there’s a much urgent need for someone safety in my family regarding this company and I need to know more about their background swiftly. There is indication that this company is disingenuous as they have been federally investigated and have settled for violating protection acts against consumers in several states here in the US. I don’t have lots of time to go through channels. My little brother may be in big trouble and I need sources I can rely on as soon as possible which is why I chose Wikipedia. You may use the email address and watch this it generated from the contact me. I pray and hope I will hear from someone. Cheers respectfully yours EveDru (talk) 15:56, 7 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry I have no real knowledge of this company and have zero relationship with it. I only edited because I was correcting an erroneous edit of someone else. Mark83 (talk) 16:21, 7 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2021).

Administrator changes

Alexandria • Happyme22 • RexxS

Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, F7 (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a has been deprecated; it covered immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
• Following a request for comment, page movers were granted the delete-redirect userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target.

Technical news

• When you move a page that many editors have on their watchlist the history can be split and it might also not be possible to move it again for a while. This is because of a job queue problem. (T278350)
• Code to support some very old web browsers is being removed. This could cause issues in those browsers. (T277803)

Arbitration

• A community consultation on the Arbitration Committee discretionary sanctions procedure is open until April 25.

I think you made a good faith mistake there.... --Urbanoc (talk) 21:37, 10 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

yes sorry, I’ve explained at your talk page. Mark83 (talk) 21:38, 10 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I only used that because the redirect already existed. If you feel its needed, We can always change it to just "scandal". There's no OWN here, I just feel it is worthwhile mentioning another campaign against Virgin that used similar underhanded business tactics. The C of E God Save the Queen! (talk) 20:31, 24 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]