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			== New administrator activity requirement ==
	== ] ==
			{{ivmbox|The administrator policy has been updated with new ] following a successful ].
	This user's ben asking for unblock for over a day now; could you respond to him? Thanks. ] 20:13, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
	:OK. I just put him out of his misery &ndash; . &mdash; ]<span class="plainlinks"> </span> 12:59, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
			Beginning January 1, 2023, administrators who meet one or both of the following criteria may be desysopped for inactivity if they have:
	I sure did, and called you the name that Samir once used, though I refrained from typing it down :-) ] (]) 11:25, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
			#Made neither edits nor administrative actions for at least a 12-month period OR
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	lol! :-)--]<sup><font color="green">]</font></sup> 11:37, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
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	one is for you. ] 09:10, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
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			You have been inactive for more than 6 months and have been removed from the Misplaced Pages Birthday Committee ]. If you become active again please feel free to re-add yourself.
			Best wishes, --] <sup>]</sup> 17:41, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
	Hi Nick, Just letting you know that I replied on my talk page. You can remove this notice now if you like.
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			*It's alright. I'm OK with not receiving birthday messages! :) — ] ] 06:29, 25 August 2022 (UTC)
			== excellent ==
	] 11:12, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
	:I surely won't. I think I have a ] for n00b messages. <small>Oh wait, or was that b00bs?</small> &mdash; ]<span class="plainlinks"> </span> 11:30, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
			still in existence despite what seems a global rendition of the mahabarata,
	maybe it was n00b massages ;) ] 11:39, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
			plague, war, pestilence, and stupidity in all corners. Trust your corner is still sufficient in things like safety, good sense and lack of drama. ] 02:59, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
	I registered to upload a picture!
			:It's all good, sir! — ] ] 11:37, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
	] 21:19, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
			== Administrators' newsletter – May 2022 ==
	== ] ==
			] from the past month (April 2022).
	Please do not delete sections of text or valid links from Misplaced Pages articles{{{{{subst|}}}#if:Barrington Hall|, as you did to ]}}. It is considered ]. If you would like to experiment, use the ]. Thank you. <!-- Template:Test2del (second level warning) --> See the discussion on the ] page - you are incorrectly interpreting ]. ''']''' <small>]</small> 15:54, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
	:Kindly review ] and revert yourself. Also your warning, to a edit made in good faith came as unwarranted. &mdash; ]<span class="plainlinks"> </span> 16:04, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
	::Also, the YouTube links are not ] as any person with an internet connection can upload any kind of file over their website. Many of the vidoes uploaded are copyrighted by their respective owners and links to those should not be used on Misplaced Pages. &mdash; ]<span class="plainlinks"> </span> 16:08, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
	:::Read the discussion on ] and ]. There is no consensus that it is against policy to link to YouTube videos which are not clearly infringing copyright. That particular video clip is claimed to be allowed to be posted on YouTube, and nobody has offered any evidence that the clip exists on YouTube in violation of copyright. Deletion of a link which does not knowingly violate copyright, which has been discussed at grat length on the talk page, is not a good-faith edit. Neither is wholesale removal of links to YouTube throughout Misplaced Pages. ''']''' <small>]</small> 16:24, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
	::::What exactly are you talking about? We do not need consensus on ] for deciding if we need to keep YouTube video links on this website. Speaking of ], the guideline ] &ndash;
	::::*''Any site that misleads the reader by use of factually inaccurate material or unverifiable research. See ].''
	::::*''Links to blogs and personal web pages, except those written by a recognized authority.'' &ndash; YouTube is not an authority, there is not reliability as anyone can upload new videos, including copyrighted ones. Facilitation of copyright violations is not a choice with Misplaced Pages. Either link it to the website retaining the copyrights over the video or remove the link to YouTube.
	::::Kindly get yourself familiar with Misplaced Pages's guidelines of ] and ] and revert yourself. Regards, &mdash; ]<span class="plainlinks"> </span> 16:32, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
	:::::Have you even looked at the videos you delink? In the Barrington Hall case, the video is not some talking head talking about Barrington Hall, it's a video of the actual building; it is by its very nature, a reliable source. The restriction on personal websites, besides being controversial (see the WP:EL talk) is also a '''guideline''' to the potential reliability of a link. The guideline is titled "Links '''normally''' to be avoided". It does not read "Links '''always''' to be avoided". The guideline assumes (not entirely justifiably) that in the "normal" case, most personal web pages are not reliable sources, but it does not ban such links.
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	:::::If you were removing video links after having examined them, and tagging them as copyright violations or irrelevant to the article, or such, you'd be doing useful work. But if you're just going through articles and automatically removing all YouTube links without checking them, you're vandalising Misplaced Pages. Please stop. ''']''' <small>]</small> 16:47, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
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			] '''Administrator changes'''
	There is an ongoing discussion on the ] relevant to this thread &ndash; ]. &mdash; ]<span class="plainlinks"> </span> 17:10, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
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	==''Bitis arietans'' YouTube link removal==
	Hi Nick, I noticed you recently removed a YouTube link from the '']'' article. Most of the YouTube links were removed from this series of articles a while ago because they lacked copyright information, but the one you removed does have copyright information. It's at the end of the video and says "© Al Coritz 2006, Deadly Beautiful Zoological, LLC." Did you accidentally not notice this, or is this copyright information not good enough? If not, what's missing? --] 16:03, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
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	:YouTube links are not ] as any person with an internet connection can upload a file on their website. Moreover, many of these videos are copyrighted by their respective creators and links to those should not be used on Misplaced Pages, as this constitutes direct faciliation of copyright violations. Regards, &mdash; ]<span class="plainlinks"> </span> 16:14, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
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	::So, now we're not allowed to link to anything at YouTube, period? Is that it? Please confirm, but if so, I find that rather harsh. After all, it's not likely that people like Mr. Coritz will be streaming such video material themselves any time soon, since the bandwidth requirements are obviously prohibitive. --] 16:51, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
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	:::Unless the video's copyrights are exclusively owned by YouTube, no &ndash; you cannot link to the site. &mdash; ]<span class="plainlinks"> </span> 16:53, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
			:] ]
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	::::That claim is utterly ridiculous. YouTube merely has to be authoriszed by the copyright holder to display the video for the link to be valid. Claiming that YouTube must '''own''' the copyrights for Misplaced Pages to even '''link''' to the video is far beyond anything required in ], ], or the DCMA. ''']''' <small>]</small> 17:27, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
			] '''Guideline and policy news'''
	You are just not willing to cease your ]? Get over it. &mdash; ]<span class="plainlinks"> </span> 17:35, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
			* Following an ], a change has been made to the ]. Under the new policy, if an administrator has not made at least 100 edits over a period of 5 years they may be desysopped for inactivity.
			* Following a ] on the ], a change has been made to the ].
			] '''Technical news'''
	..."disruption" is a ''grossly'' inappropriate term, and it is uncivil of you to even suggest that a good faith editorial opinion given on a talkpage is "disruptive." Reread the Wiki definition of disruptive, toute de suite.
			* The ability to undelete the associated talk page when undeleting a page has been added. This was the ].
	] 05:55, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
			* A public status system for WMF wikis has been created. It is located at https://www.wikimediastatus.net/ and is hosted separately to WMF wikis so in the case of an outage it will remain viewable.
			] '''Arbitration'''
	:Only if ''"the video's copyrights are exclusively owned by YouTube"''? That does indeed seem a bit exaggerated. Last month, ] removed some of my YouTube links and told me that ''" In order to be linked to YouTube, they need to have a source and copyright status. This could mean saying he made it and he owns the copyright to it, and then he can release it however he likes."'' Since Mr. Coritz has added this information to his latest video material at YouTube, I don't see that copyright is any longer an issue here. --] 22:46, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
			* ] of the ''St Christopher'' case has been rescinded following a ]. The remedy previously authorised administrators to place a ban on single-purpose accounts who were disruptively editing on the article ] or related pages from those pages.
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	::There is an ongoing discussion on ] page, the link has been mentioned above. Feel free to drop a line or two, there. &mdash; ]<span class="plainlinks"> </span> 04:58, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
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	:::I just checked the link. No where on YouTube is it mentioned where it was sourced from, copyright information. If you are only providing the copyright information on Misplaced Pages, that is clearly not justifiable. The copyright information and the terms of usage should be specified on the site which you have sourced. &mdash; ]<span class="plainlinks"> </span> 09:47, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
			] from the past month (May 2022).
	::::Ongoing discussion? That would suggest that there is still disagreement on the issue, in which case it may be premature to go around deleting YouTube links from other people's articles. As for the link itself, as I said before, the required copyright information, which I only quoted, is stated clearly at the '''end''' of the video clip. --] 13:22, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
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	The clip has been copied from another independent source that holds the copyright to that video clip. The copyright information showing at the end of the video-clip does not mean that the copyright holder has licensed YouTube to use the clip. Do you not understand the difference? Why not ] with me and let it rest. There is already consensus regarding the issue on the ] page. Check here &ndash; ]. Regards, &mdash; ]<span class="plainlinks"> </span> 13:25, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
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			] '''Administrator changes'''
	:I've seen ], but from that it looks like I'm not the only one who disagrees with you. Therefore, you must forgive me if I choose not to ]. It is unreasonable to maintain that it is necessary for the creator of a video clip to sign their copyright over to YouTube before we can link to it. Mr. Coritz now clearly indicates in his video clips that he retains the copyright to his material, so it is no longer for us to assume that he did not voluntarily post his material on YouTube. Indeed, in this individual case we must assume the opposite is true unless we have specific reason not to. In other words, innocent until proven guilty, and not vice versa. --] 14:09, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
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			:] {{noping|Sn0wflake}} → {{noping|VersedFenrir}}
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	::That is the administrator noticeboard, in case you did not notice, all the administrators (including myself, ofcourse) have been agreeing with me. You can do whatever you want, but please ]. &mdash; ]<span class="plainlinks"> </span> 14:11, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
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	...that is incorrect: all the admins are NOT agreeing with you. You do not have consensus AT ALL on any of the many discussions on policy pages--consensus is against you, in fact.
	] 07:20, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
			] '''CheckUser changes'''
	:List the number of administrators agreeing with me and those who are not; and you are going to answer yourself. &mdash; ] 07:21, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
			:] ]
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	YOU list them--I could use a laugh. And admin opinions, in any case, donot count for more than anyone else's--takea long look at the NOR and EL policy pages.
	] 07:25, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
			] '''Guideline and policy news'''
	::You are only disrupting Misplaced Pages and making ] arguments without have any knowledge of the copyright laws. Cease your disruption or file an ]. &mdash; ] 07:28, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
			* Several areas of improvement collated from ] have been identified in the ]. The areas of improvement have been sent back for review and you are ] on these areas.
			] '''Technical news'''
	Your legal ignorance is currently placing Misplaced Pages in who knows how much legal jeopardy regarding libel--unsubstantiated allegations ofcopyright violation--and there is consensus that YOU are disruptive: please see current discussion at EL regarding filing a user conduct RFC against you, that you should be apologizing, etc.
			* Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access ] directly from user pages. ({{phab|T307341}})
	] 02:37, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
			* The ] has been ] to all wikis as a Beta Feature. Any autoconfirmed user may enable the feature using the "IP info" checkbox under {{myprefs|Beta features}}. Autoconfirmed users will be able to access basic information about an IP address that includes the country and connection method. Those with advanced privileges (admin, bureaucrat, checkuser) will have access to extra information that includes the Internet Service Provider and more specific location.
			] '''Arbitration'''
	== YouTube link removals ==
			* ] of the ''Rachel Marsden'' case has been rescinded following a ]. The remedy previously authorised administrators to delete or reduce to a stub, together with their talk pages, articles related to ] when they violate ].
			* An arbitration case regarding ] has been closed.
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	Please stop removing the YouTube links on "Daniel Edwards" Misplaced Pages page. I'm the filmmaker that made those short films and I have given my permission for the links to be there. www.GoodnightFilm.com
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	You link to in your edit summaries, but I don't see anything like "Sites which fail to provide licensing information" in the criteria. Am I missing something? ] 16:20, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
	:''Any site that misleads the reader by use of factually inaccurate material or unverifiable research. See ]'' and ''Links to blogs and personal web pages, except those written by a recognized authority.'' YouTube is not a recognised authority, as I have reiterated above, anyone with an internet connection can upload a video file to their website. Many of these videos are copyrighted by their respective creators and links to those should not be used on Misplaced Pages, as this constitutes direct faciliation of copyright violations. &mdash; ]<span class="plainlinks"> </span> 16:25, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
			] from the past month (June 2022).
	:Transutopian, please see my talkpage, "Ongoing draft of RFC re Nick" and feel free to join in on the RFC/Arbcom case which will be filed.
	] 09:38, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
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	Sorry about the images in my signiature. I didn't know about that guideline. I removed them as soon as I read the message you gave me. - <span style="font-family: viner hand itc">] ]</span> 06:51, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
	:Thank you for your co-operation. Although, you didn't have to be sorry about it. Cheers. &mdash; ]<span class="plainlinks"> </span> 06:53, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
			] '''Administrator changes'''
	==Islamic terrorism==
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	Hi again Sir Nicho. I thought most of the views at the Afd were for naming it Islamist terrorism instead of Islamic terrorism. Cheers -- '']'' - <small>]</small> 12:28, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
			:] {{noping|Drilnoth}} → {{noping|AFigureOfBlue}}
	:{{tl|sofixit}} by all means. Godspeed! &mdash; ]<span class="plainlinks"> </span> 12:29, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
	::Oh-kay. I corrected it myself. Looks like I made a *horrible mistake*. &mdash; ]<span class="plainlinks"> </span> 14:14, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
	:::Thanks mate. It's not a ''horrible mistake''. It was just a simple mistake. -- '']'' - <small>]</small> 13:10, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
	::::Uh, well. Lots of difference between Islamist and Islamic. <tt>:/</tt> &mdash; ] 13:19, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
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	== rfa/agathoclea ==
			:] ]
	"And that is why, children"
	:I didn't quite get that :) ''What'' is why? - <b>]</b><small> ]</small> 18:11, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
	::So that they may defend innocent users from the onslaught of communism. <tt>^_^</tt> &mdash; ]<span class="plainlinks"> </span> 09:19, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
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	==Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Islamic extremist terrorism==
	Thanks for closing the ]. ] 19:43, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
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	== Noticed you removed link to hurricane video... ==
			] '''Interface administrator changes'''
	Not complaining, since it appears to be Wik policy, but is there a proper way to link to a video clip? - ] 19:52, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
			:] ]
	:You can link to those websites that *own* the copyrights of the videos or mention the "licensing information" as to whether they have the rights to host the video on their servers or not. Regards, &mdash; ]<span class="plainlinks"> </span> 12:35, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
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	== Archiving Zora's talk page ==
			] '''Technical news'''
	Dear Nick,
			* <code>user_global_editcount</code> is a new variable that can be used in ] to avoid affecting globally active users. ({{phab|T130439}})
			] '''Arbitration'''
	That's sweet of you to suggest it, but after looking at the Werdnabot talk page, I think I'd rather not be a beta tester. I think I will archive monthly, however; I can put it in my computer scheduling program (Above and Beyond) which runs my life and damn well too. ] 01:23, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
			* An arbitration case regarding ] has been opened.
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	== Block ] ==
			* The New Pages Patrol queue has around 10,000 articles to be reviewed. As all administrators have the patrol right, please consider helping out. The queue is ]. For further information on the state of the project, see the latest ].
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	Hi, you have blocked ] for 48h for his 3RR on the ] article. The editing there is a complicated story. Around 23:30 user discovered a bad troll and in some edits (like ) a clear vandal operated from the open proxy (see ]). Mustafa made two reverts fighting this troll, and finally got the troll blocked.
			] from the past month (July 2022).
	According to Mustafa's E-mail he believed that reversions of such a user does not count towards the 3RR. Later in a completely unrelated editorial argument between Mustafa and ] he made two more reverts. He believed that he did not violate ] as such noncontraversial edits as reversion an open proxy are not counts.
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	I agree that Mustafa formally violated ] - edits by the open proxy to the ] article had not been a simple vandalism. On the other hand, he acted in good faith believing he followed the letter and spirit of the policy.
			] '''Administrator changes'''
	In this case 48h block appears to be excessive. Is it possible to shorten it? ] 07:32, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
			:] ]
	:Go ahead, I trust your judgment. However, ask Mustafa not to violate ] in any case; and look for consensus. Best regards, &mdash; ]<span class="plainlinks"> </span> 08:09, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
			:] ] (]) • ] • ]
	::I can also see disruption by removing clearly reliable sources from ] though. That is disturbing. However, if you can assure me that he will regard the guidelines and policies, you can unblock him. &mdash; ]<span class="plainlinks"> </span> 08:43, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
			] '''Guideline and policy news'''
	==3RR==
			* ] has been closed with consensus to add javascript that will show edit notices for editors editing via a mobile device. This only works for users using a mobile browser, so iOS app editors will still not be able to see edit notices.
	Thank you; I will now return to my regularly scheduled railroading. --] 11:11, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
			* ] has been closed with the consensus that train stations are not inherently notable.
			] '''Technical news'''
	== Unblock ==
			* The ] will take place virtually from 11 August to 14 August.
			* Administrators will now see links on user pages for "Change block" and "Unblock user" instead of just "Block user" if the user is already blocked. (])
			] '''Arbitration'''
	Dear Nicholas,
			* The arbitration case request '']'' has been automatically closed after a 3 month suspension of the case.
	Thanks for your good faith.
	Also thanks to Alex for his referance fom me.
	I will under pressure of obligation to respect to this referanceand your good faith in my future edits.
	I think this is my responsibility.
	Please let me state some points;
	My first/main mission is to organise/categorise/wikify/contribute Turkey related articles. Unfortunately there are not so much Turkish users in wiki. Of course there are much users which interested in these articles,but some (a group of) users ,put some misinformation, unsourced infos, strong anti-Turkish POVs to these articles. As a conclusion I defence these articles( I accept that some time in a aggressive way under stress).
	In persianate case; of course Iranica can be accepted as a reliable source, but I have some suspicion for '''Iranica in Persianate'''. Like as Islam Encyclopidia for Muslim.
	Just for my info;Can I restrict my self for 1RR (to protect myself for a period of time, to calm down), where can I find details in wiki.?
	Thanks again.
	Sincerely yours.
	<font face="Brush Script MT" color="red" size="4">]</font>] 12:22, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
	:Please refrain from editing the ] page till the period your block would have naturally expired. Also avoid the talk page of the article, so that other users may ] with you. &mdash; ]<span class="plainlinks"> </span> 12:32, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
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	== TfD ==
			* You can vote for candidates in the ] from 16 August to 30 August. Two community elected seats are up for election.
			* ] is taking place virtually from 11 August to 14 August. The schedule for wikimania is listed ]. There are also a number of ] associated with Wikimania around the world.
			* '''Tech tip''': When revision-deleting on desktop, hold {{key|shift}} between clicking two checkboxes to select every box in that range.
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	I am here again.(Since you brought me to life, I wait additional care now.!!)
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	Please take a look to this case(If you have time);
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	I opened a TfD.
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	Creator of Template deleted/divided and transferred my and some other comments. I sent many messages to that user about Tfd.
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	* He logged-in as IP and Username, (I think there is no bad faith here), but he emptied IP talk page and User talk page, I found them from my contributions here talk messages;,
	Also you can find his comments on my Talk page.
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	...but I do not know how myself. It is incredibly frustrating when dealing with people who simply won't listen. I deal with a significant number of people who simply ignore the rules because they think they know better but so far have not (I believe) attacked anyone - which I think is pretty good as I'm now at ~5250 edits :).-]<sup>]</sup> 16:55, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
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	Hello there, I was wondering if you would please modify your signature to conform to the guidelines laid out at ]. The general guidelines are that signatures shouldn't contain images, they shouldn't contain unnecessary internal links or ''any'' external links, and they shouldn't be unnecessarily long in Wiki source. The reasoning for this final bit is that overly long signatures tend to overwhelm the actual comments in edit mode, making it hard to track down and respond to specific comments. You can fix your signature by removing any images and external links, any unnecessary links (like links to Wikipedian organizations, articles, or subpages in userspace), and removing excessive color, font, and formatting code. Thank you. --] 17:49, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
	:Ogiedogie &ndash; . &mdash; ] 17:56, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
	:I ''did'' like the old one... </font></font>&mdash;<font style="background:white" size="1">''''']''''']]]</font><sup><font face=papyrus color=darkred>]</font></sup> 18:22, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
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	hi Nick - I don't want to get embroiled in the AP:EL border wars, but I did want to ask you about your removal from of the 2 you tube clips. They were not add-ons in an "external link" section, but actually integrated into, and illustrative of, points being made in the text. I stopped reading the EL talk page because I couldn't take it any more, but I recall there being some movement against wholesale removal of You Tube references just because they are You Tube. So are you sure that these 2 need to be removed? thanks ] 20:05, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
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	:Please see ], ] and ]. YouTube links are either copyright infringements or not reliable. &mdash; ] 07:41, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
	::''YouTube links are either copyright infringements or not reliable.'' Not necessarily so. ''Policies'' and ''guidelines'' can't exercise judgement, only editors can do that. So when you delete a link, you have to justify why the clip violates policies, not just brand YouTube as "bad." -- ]&nbsp;(<big><font color="darkred">]&nbsp;]&nbsp;]</font></big>) 19:55, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
	:::Exactly right, ]. Nick, at least please acknowledge that there is a difference of opinion regarding this guideline. I would like a specific response, not a referralto general guideline pages. Thank you. ] 05:27, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
	::::I think I have had more than my share of discussions on ]. I have cared to present all the evidence as to *why* those links should not be used &ndash; . There is a notification of an RfC filed on this issue. Please feel free to chime in. David, I think the users *have* exercised their judgment in framing the policies and guidelines. So, when you put in a link to YouTube, you need to justify how it *does not* violate copyrights and *why* it should not be removed. Regards, &mdash; ] 05:35, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
	Yes, Tvoz, there is a difference of opinion on this matter, and all the administrators who are comfortably aware of the policies and guidelines of this place have their reasons as to why YouTube links should be removed. Have a look here ] (admin), ] (admin). Regards, &mdash; ] 05:36, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
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	:::Well, I have to say that a) I find the implication of the statement "all the administrators who are comfortably aware of the policies and guidelines of this place" insulting not only to me, but also to anyone who disagrees with you; and b) I've seen the hit list and a random sampling shows no valid reason for some of those pages even being included on the list. So I have no idea what the point is other than for systematic and indiscriminate excision of all material that you think could be tainted. Directing me to those two pages was a waste of both of our time as it illuminated nothing. This entire discussion is so far out of line with what I understand Misplaced Pages pillars to mean that I choose not to continue having it with you. I asked for a specific reading on a specific removal that you made and you told me that wiser heads than mine "have their reasons". That, sir, is classic totalitarianism, and it has no business here. ] 06:10, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
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	::::Comment at the RfC, sir. &mdash; ] 06:17, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
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	The overwhelming consensus on policy pages is NOT a blanket You Tube ban--the overwhelming consensus is that there are some valid You Tube links, and therefore no blanekt ban is possible. You are grossly in error, and aware of it--you are, at this point, deliberately misrepresenting the truth. We call this lying, and it is evidence of bad faith. The current RFC is a user conduct RFC against you, and to the extent that anyone has even suggested it pertains to You Tube and policy it regards your disruptive behavior in refusing to honor the fact that there is no blanket You Tube ban. See EL, ANI, etc.
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	:Please stop it, Cindery; and comment at the RfC. &mdash; ] 05:55, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
	The ONLY words you should be saying to me are "I was wrong, I apologize."
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	:I apologise for trying to be so helpful, Cindery. &mdash; ] 06:07, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
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	You are not helpful, Nick, as you are aware--you are lying, bullying people, and disrupting Misplaced Pages.
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	*Sheesh*, what can I say? &mdash; ] 06:27, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
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	I missed the part where you apologized to the community.
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	:Please stop wasting my time, and find yourself a good hobby. &mdash; ] 07:20, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
			] from the past month (September 2022).
	Stop wasting MY time, and the community's time--keeping bullies in check is a dirty job, but bummer for you-- I WILL be doing it. Again: you do not have consensus. You are lying about it. The ''consensus'' at the RFC is that you should desist and apologize. Below, a member of the extreme *minority* to which you belong has noted that you are incapable of knowing when the "drop it and move on." There isn't anything for you to do except apologize/get over it/admit you were wrong/move on already.
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	The debate over the barrington link has become a waste of time. The same arguments are being repeated over and over. I think at this point it is a better use of our time to simply move on. ---] <sup>(]/])</sup> 23:04, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
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	Hi. I noticed that you most of your edit summaries to talk pages are just "comment", i.e. that you overwrite the automatic edit summary (normally consisting of section heading). May I politely suggest that you don't do that? — I'm often interested in which section someone has commented, especially in long pages such as ], and when you erase the section name, the edit summary totally loses the purpose: I still have to use the diff to find out '''where''' you commented. At least, please '''append''' the "comment" to the section title. Now that you're an admin, you don't have to be anal about 100% edit summaries {{smiley}} — the automatic one works better on talk pages. ]<span style="font-size:70%;">]</span> 09:29, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
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	:<s>Can the developers on Meta not fix it? I can't imagine myself going around leaving ''no edit sumarries'' <tt>;)</tt></s> &mdash; ] 09:36, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
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	:::Actually, that one is fine (it contains the section title), but and weren't; it's fairly difficult to find out where those ended up. ]<span style="font-size:70%;">]</span> 10:09, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
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	::::Yes, I got ya! Cheers! &mdash; ] 10:10, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
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	:::::Although, it will definitely take sometime before I get used to it. I wonder why nobody else cared to tell that to me, when I have been *grossly abusing the system* since such a loooong time. <tt>>:)</tt> &mdash; ] 10:12, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
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	::::::Probably because it's a) only minorly annoying issue (e.g. how long time would it take until you decide to tell a person not to scratch his ass in public every while? <code>>:)</code>) b) difficult to spot on high-traffic pages — it only happened that I saw it twice in a short period on my own watchlist, and I probably wouldn't have noticed even then if you hadn't such a long user name. ]<span style="font-size:70%;">]</span> 10:36, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
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	''/me scratches ass in public''. &mdash; ] 10:52, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
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			== Administrators' newsletter – November 2022 ==
	Hi there. I was looking at your block log summary , and I noticed you used the phrasing "etc, etc." Do you think you could avoid using imprecise and open-ended expressions like that? It would be best to say what you can fit in, and what exactly the block was for, rather than vague hand-waving. Thanks. ] 16:01, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
	:Please see ] and his block-log for previous history of disruption. &mdash; ] 16:03, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
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	How exactly did you arrive at Keep? ''']''' (]) 21:09, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
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	:To clarify, I think there was a consensus to delete, but even if you don't believe this to be true, there certainly wasn't a consensus to keep -- no consensus maybe? ''']''' (]) 01:42, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
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	::What consensus? As far as I can see, there were only five participants in the discussion. I produced the sources and closed it. Please don't take this personally. I have made worse mistakes. Cheers! <tt>:)</tt> &mdash; ] 05:23, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
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	:::I appreciate your good humor about it, but producing sources is really not your role in the deletion process if you're also going to close the debate. Besides, there were 3 delete votes, the nomination, and one keep vote which professed ignorance as to "alphabetti spaghetti." At any rate, you closed the deletion with a consensus of Keep, and certainly there was not. I am going to reopen and relist the AFD, since I don't think you handled it properly. No hard feelings. ''']''' (]) 16:30, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
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	::::Take it to ]. &mdash; ] 16:31, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
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	::::::Do you understand what consensus is? 5 people participating is hardly what it means. Please take it to ]. &mdash; ] 16:52, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
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	:::::::AfD is not a vote. Therefore, consensus is not about numbers -- it can exist within a group of 5 users or a group of 500 users. ''']''' (]) 16:56, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
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	I am deeply troubled by yet-another out of process action by this admin and the in-civil, flip response. &mdash;] (] <small>•</small> ]) 16:49, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
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	:I wouldn't go so far as to call any of this in-civil. ''']''' (]) 16:56, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
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	::The admin closing the AFD is expected to issue discression. Sometimes the admin is wrong. Thats what deletion review is for. This might be a case of misaplied SNOW, and DRV will sort it out. ---] <sup>(]/])</sup> 17:15, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
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	:::This is not even close to a case of SNOW -- nor has anyone brought that policy up. The AfD was not properly closed and we don't need any input on the decision, we just need a new AfD. Also, J.S., no offense, but you've been an admin for a total of 10 days, I'd recommend picking up some experience before sticking your neck out with possibly iffy policy interpretations. I don't mind, but there are some users who might not be so understanding. ''']''' (]) 18:07, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
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	Mimsy: did you happen to read the policy on how an admin should close an AfD debate? You're supposed to gauge consensus, not use your position to push a decision. &mdash;] (] <small>•</small> ]) 18:32, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
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	:Malber, do you wish to get blocked? &mdash; ] 08:40, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
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	I'm not sure why Andre is so against going to DRV. Surely it would be an ideal place to '''Review''' a '''Deletion'''? --] 12:07, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
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	== YSR page protect ==
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	While I normally applaud any moves to protect a page that is seeing massive reverts, I think that you came in perhaps a tad too early on this one; my last statement on the talk page after removing a section of the article was , indicating that the section needed merely to be rewritten. The request to discuss was ignored once, but I doubt it would have been ignored twice, when my edit summary specifically requested it. (There are some newbies involved, I think). The discussion on that had not begun yet, and so perhaps a page-protect was not immediately called for, as there was insufficient evidence to my mind that people were unwilling to talk.
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	Just a thought. ] 11:41, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
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			== Administrators' newsletter – December 2022 ==
	== Meh. ==
			] from the past month (November 2022).
	Can you honestly say there was consensus for a delete and re-direct ]? -- ] <sup>]</sup><sup>|</sup><sup>]</sup> 14:35, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
	:No, I was simply too ]. Take it to ], if you have problems. Cheers! &mdash; ] 15:09, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
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	Hi, Sir Nicholas. Since I was one of the people who disagreed with your block of User:Malber, I also wanted you to know that I don't agree either with some of the more vociferous criticism that followed the block. The policy against an admin's blocking someone whom he or she is personally in a dispute with (whether it's a content dispute or, as here, more of a policy dispute) is a good one. The other problem I had with it was that you went pretty quickly from what seemed like partly joking around ("/me desyops myself ... /me desysops badlydrawnjeff") straight to a pretty long block, which I think surprised a lot of people, and 48 hours was a longish block just for disrupting a noticeboard. But at the same time I definitely hope this user will take into account some of the comments that have been made about his questioning style. We shall see what happens; hoping for the best. Regards, ] 17:15, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
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	:We can only *hope* for the best. As it is quite evident, Malber has not yet quit his disruptive editing &ndash; , nor has he waited for consensus &ndash; , , . Such long history of systematic disruption is not to be dealt in the way it is currently dealt in. &mdash; ] 17:22, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
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	You are quite unclear on what constitutes "disruption" (hint: diagreeing with you is NOT it) and this makes your apology regarding the block, your "plea" to the community to forgive to appear rather, er, insincere and contrived...
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	Tell you what, I'll drop the whole matter and just get back to editing if you'd <personal attack redacted> just apologize for the inappropriate and out-of-process block. Here's your chance to be civil. &mdash;] (] <small>•</small> ]) 17:10, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
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	==List_of_big-bust_models_and_performers on deletion review==
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	Hi, I disagreed with your deletion of article List_of_big-bust_models_and_performers for the following reasons:
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	Please take a look at ]. Regards, - ] (]) 19:04, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
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	*This is strange. The <nowiki>{{recreated}}</nowiki> template must have changed since I started using it, because last time I remember checking it, it simply stated "Your re-created article was deleted per WP policy, do not re-create it, use ]." The "you might be blocked without warning" bit was added since then. I guess I'll use test2article, although it doesn't specifically address the re-creation issue, but can you tell me why the recreated template was made so much harsher? ] 20:19, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
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	Thanks for letting me know about it, Nick. ] <sup><font color="Purple">]</font></sup> 23:08, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
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	I cannot understand your deleting a link from the ] page for a YouTube video interview link. The intereview in question was SHOT for YouTube and identified as such at the head of the interview in front of all of the participants. Yet you deleted the link because of a COPYRIGHT question? We already went through this once, and you have repeated the same mistake. Furthermore, as even Jimmy Wales has publicly stated, the DMCA is the means to resolve YouTube type questions, not Misplaced Pages as an arbiter. And this is NOT even one of those issues, and it couldn't be more clear. The other link you deleted is covered under the DMCA, and the language you refer to I cannot find on WP:EL, although it may have been there at one point. Mr. Sherinian is very familiar his Misplaced Pages page, as is indicated on the Talk page, and has approved all of the outside links included. Reverted again. ] 01:59, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
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	Please see my talkpage, beginning with "Nearly Headless Nick," and feel free to join in the user conduct RFC/Arbcom case which will be filed against him to desysop him and prevent him from engaging in the long course of unacceptable conduct regarding this issue.
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	Hi, you recently deleted: ] because of an AfD, could you please restore the talk page? thank you. have a merry christmas. Best wishes, ] (]) 02:59, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
	:Where do you want me to restore it? &mdash; ] 08:43, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
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	Hi - could you explain why this article was deleted please? Was there some confusion with the irrelevant Tuba article talk, or is this a precursor to eliminating all artists in the fantasy field from Misplaced Pages? <small>—The preceding ] comment was added by ] (] • ]){{#if:{{{2|}}}|&#32;{{{2}}}|}}.</small><!-- Template:Unsigned -->
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	:The article did not fulfill the requirements of ]. A person, in general, has to be notable to a certain extent to have an article on Misplaced Pages. The guideline provides the prerequisites. Regards, &mdash; ] 12:35, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
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	::Did you see the edit I made to the article the day before you deleted it? It fulfilled two of the requirements of the ] and I included many verifiable references to point out that fact; they proved not only is she notable but a.) she's one of the most prolific and desired watercolorists in contemporary fantasy art, and b.) she's just as or more notable than most similar articles (on contemporary fantasy artists) that remain on Misplaced Pages. Would you please review that edit I made and reconsider your decision? ] 00:51, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
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	Hi, I appreciate the discretion you used when you posted the first admin noticeboard discussion on my talk page. I just wanted to get a summary from you on your concerns. I would appreciate it if you could post them here as I would prefer to get your independent thoughts without the others chiming in. Thanks. ] 04:23, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
	:Alan. I know you have been acting in good-faith; but others don't think so. I saw that some of the articles you prod'ed were clearly notable; or atleast deserved an AfD. You have been propounding the beauty of {{tl|prod}} and saying that if the articles are notable then someone will remove the tags, and when Chacor and Tixotd decide to remove some of the tags from the page, you accuse them of contrib crawling. Please see that you tag the articles properly, otherwise it will only cause misunderstandings between users. You can take help from ], who, in my opinion, is an exemplary administrator. Cheers! &mdash; ] 08:43, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
	::Thanks for recognizing my good-faith intentions. I think I'm going to have some ] discussion with other editors as it seems that the policy may not represent consensus. It seems that things change here as far as policy and maybe someone taking a fresh look at a newer version of a policy reaches a different conclusion than someone who has been around through the evolution of it. Aaron's advice was prophetic and I hope to grow from the experience. I hope we can meet up again under better circumstances. ] 10:03, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
	:::Thank you very much. That would be a more appreciable way. Hope to hear soon from you! &mdash; ] 10:04, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
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	:I'll have a look in sometime. But as you can see from above, I have been keeping rather busy. Cheers! &mdash; ] 10:09, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
	::Sounds good, just post the review on my talk page so I don't have to keep watching yours. Thanks. ] 10:17, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
	:::I'll post it on the talk page of the article. However, there are d00ds who are much better at writing articles than me &ndash; ], ], ], ] &ndash; you could ask them to chip in too, just don't tell them I sent you <tt>;)</tt> &mdash; ] 10:19, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
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	I am an IRC fairy, not an IRC pixie. There's a huge difference, and I don't appreciate you changing it on my userpage, especially not without talking to me. Please don't do this again. ] (]) 15:11, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
	:Ouch. &mdash; ] 11:25, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
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	::Is there any particular reason that you have chosen to stand up for a particularly vile troll, SAJordan? Kuntan and his idiotic sockpuppets have merrily trolled a number of RfA's, ANI, userspace, etc... -- ] 05:50, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
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	:::I'm not addressing his contrib history, I'm addressing the ''username'' issue &mdash; which is the only thing he ''was'' blocked for. If you want to have him blocked for trolling and sockpuppetry instead (and can ''prove'' those, better than the accusation about his name), go right ahead. But why is this spurious username block defended by simply ? <small>&ndash; ] <sup>]</sup><sub>]</sub> ''07:34, 25 Dec 2006 (UTC).''</small>
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	::::If you check the history of ], you can see users including myself requesting him to change his obscene username. The word has an obscene meaning in ]. The user in question is indeed a ] and is very much aware of the meaning of the word, as can been see from his edits to the ] article he made. The hideous images he had on his user page further point out his disruptive nature. Also, I also fully endorse the above mentioned revert. A blocked user's userpage is not the place to put up questions regarding his block.--]<sup><font color="green">]</font></sup> 08:54, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
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	:::::No, a blocked user's '''''talk''''' page is where an {unblock} request would be posted &mdash; but since that's been protected as a redirect to the user page, the user page is as close as anyone can get... and the blocked user himself can't post there, thus can't appeal on his own behalf. And with "Kuntan" being the name of a town in Malaysia, what happens when one of its residents says where he's from? Or wants his home town in his username, like ] or ]? <small>&ndash; ] <sup>]</sup><sub>]</sub> ''20:40, 25 Dec 2006 (UTC).''</small>
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	::::Common sense: don't advocate for trolls. Kuntan was blocked, and it's a good thing as he was inordinately disruptive (and still is; look at the offensive sockpuppets he's making). You don't know the history, and haven't taken the time to look it up, so I'd suggest that you not try to vilify Nick for a good administrative action. -- ] 09:35, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
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	I don't care whatever definitions exist for the word "Kuntan", he created the account for trolling and hence the ] was absolutely inappropriate. You can check the contents of those particular categories and the later part of my talk page to see how he continues to disrupt Misplaced Pages by creating sockpuppets. Also, do not come up here after receiving requests from trolls. I know what I am doing. &mdash; ] 11:08, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
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	:If someone creates an account ] (because he's from ]), the fact that "Hell" is in other contexts an expletive does not make it inappropriate in ''this'' context. We have a ], despite any possible accusation anyone might make that it contains the obscene word "Drek", because "Dreko" is a real-world given name, and even a company name. "Kuntan" is also a real-world given name (a football player and a police superintendant were given as examples in newspaper citations above), as well as a real-world town name. The same reasoning should apply. And if anyone, of any name, including "Nick" or "SA", uses an account for blockable offenses, that makes a block ''for those actions'' appropriate, but it doesn't make the ] inappropriate. As for "do not come up here", does that mean don't communicate with you via your talk page? <small>&ndash; ] <sup>]</sup><sub>]</sub> ''20:40, 25 Dec 2006 (UTC).''</small>
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	Hi Nick. You posted a final warning about vandalism on my page. I'm mystified by this - I'm a completely responsible contributor, and have never fooled around with article content; nor will I ever do so. Comments / explanation welcome. Regards, ] 06:28, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
	:Wasn't Nick. It was ], who has been blocked. Check the history on your talk page. ''']''' <small>]</small> 06:34, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
	::Thanks Arg - pardon my newbie ignorance. MC & HNY, ] 06:39, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
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	:Same issue as above. Faked. &ndash; ]] 06:49, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
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	Can you take a look at my talk page please?? And this link as well http://en.wikipedia.org/Special:Contributions/Santa06 I believe him to be the culprit you can reply on my talk page so I se it or just dump it off my talk page or mark it as fake either way it will work for me thanks - ] 05:51, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
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	Ignoring that the article topic passed the criteria of ], I don't believe that 4:3 qualifies as consensus. I think the delete should be reconsidered. - ] ] <small>(])</small> 06:45, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
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	I've got Your warning about vandalizm. What's matter? --] 07:10, 25 December 2006 (UTC)--] 06:12, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
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	:Same issue as above. &ndash; ]] 07:12, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
	:* Apparently some vandal has been imposting Sir Nicholas with sockpuppets and posting {{tl|test4}}s with his signature. They are being dealt with as far as I know. - ] 08:55, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
	::Turned out to be dear ol' ]. <tt>^_^</tt> &mdash; ] 08:56, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
	:Yep, I got one, too. He seems to have hit 14 editors so far, from his "contribs" log . Another editor has already reverted the warning on my page. Thanks for the quick work. ] 09:40, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
	::His IP range has been blocked for a week. &mdash; ] 09:46, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
	:::Should be obvious, he signed "Nearly Headless Dick", not "Nick"... &ndash; ]] 10:16, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
	::::], created in the honour of two brave warriors of the wiki &ndash; ] and yours truly. &mdash; ] 10:28, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
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New administrator activity requirement

The administrator policy has been updated with new activity requirements following a successful Request for Comment.

Beginning January 1, 2023, administrators who meet one or both of the following criteria may be desysopped for inactivity if they have:

1. Made neither edits nor administrative actions for at least a 12-month period OR
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Birthday Commitee Removal due to Inactivity

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Best wishes, --Isro! 17:41, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

• It's alright. I'm OK with not receiving birthday messages! :) — Nearly Headless Nick {c} 06:29, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

excellent

still in existence despite what seems a global rendition of the mahabarata,

plague, war, pestilence, and stupidity in all corners. Trust your corner is still sufficient in things like safety, good sense and lack of drama. JarrahTree 02:59, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

It's all good, sir! — Nearly Headless Nick {c} 11:37, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2022).

Administrator changes Colin M David.Monniaux • Fribbler • Grue • Kpjas • West.andrew.g

CheckUser changes Ks0stm Oversighter changes Ks0stm

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, a change has been made to the administrators inactivity policy. Under the new policy, if an administrator has not made at least 100 edits over a period of 5 years they may be desysopped for inactivity.
• Following a discussion on the bureaucrat's noticeboard, a change has been made to the bureaucrats inactivity policy.

Technical news

• The ability to undelete the associated talk page when undeleting a page has been added. This was the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
• A public status system for WMF wikis has been created. It is located at https://www.wikimediastatus.net/ and is hosted separately to WMF wikis so in the case of an outage it will remain viewable.

Arbitration

• Remedy 2 of the St Christopher case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to place a ban on single-purpose accounts who were disruptively editing on the article St Christopher Iba Mar Diop College of Medicine or related pages from those pages.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2022).

Administrator changes Tamzin Barek • Darkwind • Geometry guy • ProcseeBot • RoyBoy • Sean Whitton • Valereee • Visorstuff • WAvegetarian Sn0wflake → VersedFenrir

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Guideline and policy news

• Several areas of improvement collated from community member votes have been identified in the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines. The areas of improvement have been sent back for review and you are invited to provide input on these areas.

Technical news

• Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. (T307341)
• The IP Info feature has been deployed to all wikis as a Beta Feature. Any autoconfirmed user may enable the feature using the "IP info" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features. Autoconfirmed users will be able to access basic information about an IP address that includes the country and connection method. Those with advanced privileges (admin, bureaucrat, checkuser) will have access to extra information that includes the Internet Service Provider and more specific location.

Arbitration

• Remedy 2 of the Rachel Marsden case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to delete or reduce to a stub, together with their talk pages, articles related to Rachel Marsden when they violate Misplaced Pages's biographies of living persons policy.
• An arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been closed.

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2022).

Administrator changes AA • Gwalla • Ioeth • Laurascudder • Moriori (deceased) • Nat • Rfl Drilnoth → AFigureOfBlue Bureaucrat changes Lee Vilenski

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Technical news

• user_global_editcount is a new variable that can be used in abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users. (T130439)

Arbitration

• An arbitration case regarding conduct in deletion-related editing has been opened.

Miscellaneous

• The New Pages Patrol queue has around 10,000 articles to be reviewed. As all administrators have the patrol right, please consider helping out. The queue is here. For further information on the state of the project, see the latest NPP newsletter.

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Administrators' newsletter – August 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2022).

Administrator changes

Valereee

Anthony Appleyard (deceased) • Capitalistroadster • Samsara

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC has been closed with consensus to add javascript that will show edit notices for editors editing via a mobile device. This only works for users using a mobile browser, so iOS app editors will still not be able to see edit notices.
• An RfC has been closed with the consensus that train stations are not inherently notable.

Technical news

• The Wikimania 2022 Hackathon will take place virtually from 11 August to 14 August.
• Administrators will now see links on user pages for "Change block" and "Unblock user" instead of just "Block user" if the user is already blocked. (T308570)

Arbitration

• The arbitration case request Geschichte has been automatically closed after a 3 month suspension of the case.

Miscellaneous

• You can vote for candidates in the 2022 Board of Trustees elections from 16 August to 30 August. Two community elected seats are up for election.
• Wikimania 2022 is taking place virtually from 11 August to 14 August. The schedule for wikimania is listed here. There are also a number of in-person events associated with Wikimania around the world.
• Tech tip: When revision-deleting on desktop, hold ⇧ Shift between clicking two checkboxes to select every box in that range.

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Administrators' newsletter – September 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2022).

Administrator changes DanCherek • DatGuy • Femke • Z1720 Aldux • Graham Beards • Nyttend

Interface administrator changes Mr. Stradivarius

Guideline and policy news

• A discussion is open to define a process by which Vector 2022 can be made the default for all users.
• An RfC is open to gain consensus on whether Fox News is reliable for science and politics.

Technical news

• The impact report on the effects of disabling IP editing on the Persian (Farsi) Misplaced Pages has been released.
• The WMF is looking into making a Private Incident Reporting System (PIRS) system to improve the reporting of harmful incidents through easier and safer reporting. You can leave comments on the talk page by answering the questions provided. Users who have faced harmful situations are also invited to join a PIRS interview to share the experience. To sign up please email Madalina Ana.

Arbitration

• An arbitration case regarding Conduct in deletion-related editing has been closed. The Arbitration Committee passed a remedy as part of the final decision to create a request for comment (RfC) on how to handle mass nominations at Articles for Deletion (AfD).
• The arbitration case request Jonathunder has been automatically closed after a 6 month suspension of the case.

Miscellaneous

• The new pages patrol (NPP) team has prepared an appeal to the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) for assistance with addressing Page Curation bugs and requested features. You are encouraged to read the open letter before it is sent, and if you support it, consider signing it. It is not a discussion, just a signature will suffice.
• Voting for candidates for the Wikimedia Board of Trustees is open until 6 September.

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Administrators' newsletter – October 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2022).

Administrator changes ScottishFinnishRadish Staxringold Ahoerstemeier (deceased) • Ched

Interface administrator changes Cyberpower678 CheckUser changes GorillaWarfare

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, consensus was found that if the rationale for a block depends on information that is not available to all administrators, that information should be sent to the Arbitration Committee, a checkuser or an oversighter for action (as applicable, per ArbCom's recent updated guidance) instead of the administrator making the block.
• Following an RfC, consensus has been found that, in the context of politics and science, the reliability of FoxNews.com is unclear and that additional considerations apply to its use.
• Community comment on the revised Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines is requested until 8 October.

Technical news

• The Articles for creation helper script now automatically recognises administrator accounts which means your name does not need to be listed at WP:AFCP to help out. If you wish to help out at AFC, enable AFCH by navigating to Preferences → Gadgets and checking the "Yet Another AfC Helper Script" box.

Arbitration

• Remedy 8.1 of the Muhammad images case will be rescinded 1 November following a motion.
• A modification to the deletion RfC remedy in the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been made to reaffirm the independence of the RfC and allow the moderators to split the RfC in two.
• The second phase of the 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review closes 3 October.

Miscellaneous

• An administrator's account was recently compromised. Administrators are encouraged to check that their passwords are secure, and reminded that ArbCom reserves the right to not restore adminship in cases of poor account security. You can also use two-factor authentication (2FA) to provide an extra level of security.
• Self-nominations for the electoral commission for the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections open 2 October and close 8 October.
• You are invited to comment on candidates in the 2022 CUOS appointments process.
• An RfC is open to discuss whether to make Vector 2022 the default skin on desktop.
• Tech tip: You can do a fuzzy search of all deleted page titles at Special:Undelete.

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Happy Birthday!

Wishing Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington a very happy birthday on behalf of the Birthday Committee!   Chris Troutman (talk) 11:49, 21 October 2022 (UTC)

Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday! Hi Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy birthday! Enjoy this special day! CAPTAIN RAJU 21:15, 21 October 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2022).

Administrator changes

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Interface administrator changes

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CheckUser changes

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Oversight changes

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Guideline and policy news

• The article creation at scale RfC opened on 3 October and will be open until at least 2 November.
• An RfC is open to discuss having open requests for adminship automatically placed on hold after the seven-day period has elapsed, pending closure or other action by a bureaucrat.

Arbitration

• Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 13 November 2022 until 22 November 2022 to stand in the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections.
• The arbitration case request titled Athaenara has been resolved by motion.
• The arbitration case Reversal and reinstatement of Athaenara's block has entered the proposed decision stage.
• AmandaNP, Mz7 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2022 Arbitration Committee Elections. Xaosflux and Dr vulpes are reserve commissioners.

Miscellaneous

• The 2022 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of two new CheckUsers.
• You can add yourself to the centralised page listing time zones of administrators.
• Tech tip: Wikimarkup in a block summary is parsed in the notice that the blockee sees. You can use templates with custom options to specify situations like {{rangeblock|create=yes}} or {{uw-ublock|contains profanity}}.

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MfD nomination of User:JRSpriggs

User:JRSpriggs, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Misplaced Pages:Miscellany for deletion/User:JRSpriggs (2nd nomination) and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of User:JRSpriggs during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. — Sundostund mppria 23:03, 8 November 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2022).

Administrator changes

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• Stephen

Interface administrator changes

TheresNoTime

TheresNoTime

CheckUser changes

TheresNoTime

Oversight changes

TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

• Consensus has been found in an RfC to automatically place RfAs on hold after one week.
• The article creation at scale RfC has been closed.
• An RfC on the banners for the December 2022 fundraising campaign has been closed.

Technical news

• A new preference named "Enable limited width mode" has been added to the Vector 2022 skin. The preference is also shown as a toggle on every page if your monitor is 1600 pixels or wider. When disabled it removes the whitespace added by Vector 2022 on the left and right of the page content. Disabling this preference has the same effect as enabling the wide-vector-2022 gadget. (T319449)

Arbitration

• Eligible users are invited to vote on candidates for the Arbitration Committee until 23:59 December 12, 2022 (UTC). Candidate statements can be seen here.
• The proposed decision for the 2021-22 review of the discretionary sanctions system is open.
• The arbitration case Reversal and reinstatement of Athaenara's block has been closed.
• The arbitration case Stephen has been opened and the proposed decision is expected 1 December 2022.
• A motion has modified the procedures for contacting an admin facing Level 2 desysop.

Miscellaneous

• Tech tip: A single IPv6 connection usually has access to a "subnet" of 18 quintillion IPs. Add /64 to the end of an IP in Special:Contributions to see all of a subnet's edits, and consider blocking the whole subnet rather than an IP that may change within a minute.

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2022).

Administrator changes

• ComplexRational
• Extraordinary Writ

Stephen

• Andrew Yong
• Dbenbenn
• DESiegel
• GlassCobra
• Joe Decker
• Nancy
• Pathoschild
• StuffOfInterest
• William Pietri
• Wwwwolf
• Xdamr

Interface administrator changes

Nihiltres

CheckUser changes

Moneytrees

• Ivanvector
• SilkTork

Oversighter changes

• GeneralNotability
• Moneytrees

• Guerillero
• SilkTork

Guideline and policy news

• Speedy deletion criterion A5 (transwikied articles) has been repealed following an unopposed proposal.

Arbitration

• Following the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Barkeep49, CaptainEek, GeneralNotability, Guerillero, L235, Moneytrees, Primefac, SilkTork.
• The 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review has concluded with many changes to the discretionary sanctions procedure including a change of the name to "contentious topics". The changes are being implemented over the coming month.
• The arbitration case Stephen has been closed.

Miscellaneous

• Voting for the Sound Logo has closed and the winner is expected to be announced February to April 2023.
• Tech tip: You can view information about IP addresses in a centralised location using bullseye which won the Newcomer award in the recent Coolest Tool Awards.

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2023

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

Administrator changes Gimmetrow Bjelleklang Bob the Wikipedian Leithp WhisperToMe 100 inactive admins

CheckUser changes BDD Bradv Donald Albury Maxim MusikAnimal Oversighter changes BDD Bradv Donald Albury Maxim

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, the administrator policy now requires that prior written consent be gained from the Arbitration Committee to mark a block as only appealable to the committee.
• Following a community discussion, consensus has been found to impose the extended-confirmed restriction over the topic areas of Armenia and Azerbaijan and Kurds and Kurdistan.

Technical news

• The Vector 2022 skin has become the default for desktop users of the English Misplaced Pages.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 has been opened and the proposed decision is expected 24 February 2023.
• In December, the contentious topics procedure was adopted which replaces the former discretionary sanctions system. The contentious topics procedure is now in effect following an initial implementation period. There is a detailed summary of the changes and administrator instructions for the new procedure. The arbitration clerk team are taking suggestions, concerns, and unresolved questions about this new system at their noticeboard.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2023 Steward elections will begin on 05 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• Voting in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey will begin on 10 February 2023 and end on 24 February 2023. You can submit, discuss and revise proposals until 6 February 2023.
• Tech tip: Syntax highlighting is available in both the 2011 and 2017 Wikitext editors. It can help make editing paragraphs with many references or complicated templates easier.

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Administrators' newsletter – March 2023

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

Administrator changes The Wordsmith Fuhghettaboutit Spinningspark (deceased)

CheckUser changes Callanecc Oversighter changes Callanecc

Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, F10 (useless non-media files) has been deprecated.
• Following a request for comment, the Portal CSD criteria (P1 (portal subject to CSD as an article) and P2 (underpopulated portal)) have been deprecated.
• A request for comment is open to discuss making the closing instructions for the requested moves process a guideline.

Technical news

• The results of the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey have been posted.

Arbitration

• Remedy 11 ("Request for Comment") of the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been rescinded.
• The proposed decision for the Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 case is expected 7 March 2023.
• A case related to the Holocaust in Poland is expected to be opened soon.

Miscellaneous

• The 2023 appointees for the Ombuds commission are AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, JJMC89, MdsShakil, Minorax and Renvoy as regular members and Zabe as advisory members.
• Following the 2023 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Mykola7, Superpes15, and Xaosflux.
• The Terms of Use update cycle has started, which includes a roposal for better addressing undisclosed paid editing. Feedback is being accepted until 24 April 2023.

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Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Happy adminship anniversary! Hi Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of your successful request for adminship. Enjoy this special day! CAPTAIN RAJU 23:38, 4 March 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2023

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

Administrator changes Aoidh KillerChihuahua

CheckUser changes Ferret

Guideline and policy news

• A community RfC is open to discuss whether reports primarily involving gender-related disputes or controversies should be referred to the Arbitration enforcement noticeboard.

Technical news

• Some older web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis starting this week. This mainly affects users of Internet Explorer 11. (T178356)
• The rollback of Vector 2022 RfC has found no consensus to rollback to Vector legacy, but has found rough consensus to disable "limited width" mode by default.
• A link to the user's Special:CentralAuth page will now appear in the subtitle links shown on Special:Contributions. This was voted #17 in the Community Wishlist Survey 2023.

Arbitration

• The Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 case has been closed.
• A case about World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been opened, with the first evidence phase closing 6 April 2023.

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Administrators' newsletter – May 2023

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

Administrator changes Spicy Ale jrb Dbachmann DGG (deceased) Jimbo Wales

CheckUser changes Jimbo Wales Oversighter changes Jimbo Wales

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment about removing administrative privileges in specified situations is open for feedback.

Technical news

• Progress has started on the Page Triage improvement project. This is to address the concerns raised by the community in their 2022 WMF letter that requested improvements be made to the tool.

Arbitration

• The proposed decision in the World War II and the history of Jews in Poland case is expected 11 May 2023.

Miscellaneous

• The Wikimedia Foundation annual plan 2023-2024 draft is open for comment and input through May 19. The final plan will be published in July 2023.

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2023

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

Administrator changes Ingenuity Ddstretch Prodego Resolute

CheckUser changes Courcelles

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 Misplaced Pages 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.

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2023

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 Misplaced Pages 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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Administrators' newsletter – August 2023

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.

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Administrators' newsletter – September 2023

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

Administrator changes Pppery Theleekycauldron Dwheeler G.A.S Royalbroil Ssd

CheckUser changes Bradv Oversighter changes Bradv

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, TFAs will be automatically semi-protected the day before it is on the main page and through the day after.
• A discussion at WP:VPP about revision deletion and oversight for dead names found that ysops can choose to use revdel if, in their view, it's the right tool for this situation, and they need not default to oversight. But oversight could well be right where there's a particularly high risk to the person. Use your judgment.

Technical news

• Special:Contributions now shows the user's local edit count and the account's creation date. (T324166)

Arbitration

• The SmallCat dispute case has closed. As part of the final decision, editors participating in XfD have been reminded to be careful about forming local consensus which may or may not reflect the broader community consensus. Regular closers of XfD forums were also encouraged to note when broader community discussion, or changes to policies and guidelines, would be helpful.

Miscellaneous

• Tech tip: The "Browse history interactively" banner shown at the top of Special:Diff can be used to easily look through a history, assemble composite diffs, or find out what archive something wound up in.

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Administrators' newsletter – November 2023

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

Administrator changes

0xDeadbeef

Tamzin

Dennis Brown

Interface administrator changes

Pppery

• Ragesoss
• TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

• The WMF is working on making it possible for administrators to edit MediaWiki configuration directly. This is similar to previous work on Special:EditGrowthConfig. A technical RfC is running until November 08, where you can provide feedback.
• There is a proposed plan for re-enabling the Graph Extension. Feedback on this proposal is requested.

Arbitration

• Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 12 November 2023 until 21 November 2023 to stand in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections.
• Xaosflux, RoySmith and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee Elections. BusterD is the reserve commissioner.
• Following a motion, the contentious topic designation of Prem Rawat has been struck. Actions previously taken using this contentious topic designation are still in force.
• Following several motions, multiple topic areas are no longer designated as a contentious topic. These contentious topic designations were from the Editor conduct in e-cigs articles, Liancourt Rocks, Longevity, Medicine, September 11 conspiracy theories, and Shakespeare authorship question cases.
• Following a motion, remedies 3.1 (All related articles under 1RR whenever the dispute over naming is concerned), 6 (Stalemate resolution) and 30 (Administrative supervision) of the Macedonia 2 case have been rescinded.
• Following a motion, remedy 6 (One-revert rule) of the The Troubles case has been amended.
• An arbitration case named Industrial agriculture has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case close 8 November.

Miscellaneous

• The Articles for Creation backlog drive is happening in November 2023, with 700+ drafts pending reviews for in the last 4 months or so. In addition to the AfC participants, all administrators and New Page Patrollers can conduct reviews using the helper script, Yet Another AFC Helper Script, which can be enabled in the Gadgets settings. Sign up here to participate!

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ArbCom 2023 Elections voter message

Hello! Voting in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 11 December 2023. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Misplaced Pages 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.

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2023

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

Administrator changes

• Ganesha811
• JPxG

• Ajpolino
• Lourdes
• Mairi
• RockMFR
• Somno
• WilyD

Beeblebrox → Just Step Sideways

CheckUser changes

• Beeblebrox
• Opabinia regalis

Oversight changes

• Beeblebrox
• Opabinia regalis

Guideline and policy news

• Following a talk page discussion, the Administrators' accountability policy has been updated to note that while it is considered best practice for administrators to have notifications (pings) enabled, this is not mandatory. Administrators who do not use notifications are now strongly encouraged to indicate this on their user page.

Arbitration

• Following a motion, the Extended Confirmed Restriction has been amended, removing the allowance for non-extended-confirmed editors to post constructive comments on the "Talk:" namespace. Now, non-extended-confirmed editors may use the "Talk:" namespace solely to make edit requests related to articles within the topic area, provided that their actions are not disruptive.
• The Arbitration Committee has announced a call for Checkusers and Oversighters, stating that it will currently be accepting applications for CheckUser and/or Oversight permissions at any point in the year.
• Eligible users are invited to vote on candidates for the Arbitration Committee until 23:59 December 11, 2023 (UTC). Candidate statements can be seen here.

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2024

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

Administrator changes

Clovermoss

Dennis Brown

• Julia W
• Marasmusine
• PBS

CheckUser changes

• Aoidh
• HJ Mitchell
• Sdrqaz
• Spicy
• ToBeFree
• Vanamonde93
• Z1720

Maxim

• Enterprisey
• Izno
• SilkTork

Oversighter changes

• Aoidh
• Firefly
• Sdrqaz
• ToBeFree
• Z1720

Maxim

• Enterprisey
• Izno
• SilkTork

Arbitration

• Following the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Aoidh, Cabayi, Firefly, HJ Mitchell, Maxim, Sdrqaz, ToBeFree, Z1720.
• Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee rescinded the restrictions on the page name move discussions for the two Ireland pages that were enacted in June 2009.
• The arbitration case Industrial agriculture has been closed.

Miscellaneous

• The New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in January 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 13,000 unreviewed articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2024).

Administrator changes

• Red-tailed hawk
• Robertsky

• Ameliorate!
• Ancheta Wis
• Anthony Bradbury (deceased)
• Cobi
• Ev
• Moondyne
• Worm That Turned

Bureaucrat changes

Worm That Turned

CheckUser changes

Wugapodes

Interface administrator changes

• Enterprisey
• Izno

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.

Technical news

• Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. (T326065)

Arbitration

• Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
• Community feedback is requested for a draft to replace the "Information for administrators processing requests" section at WP:AE.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2024 Steward elections will begin on 06 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 27 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• A vote to ratify the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open till 2 February 2024, 23:59:59 (UTC) via Secure Poll. All eligible voters within the Wikimedia community have the opportunity to either support or oppose the adoption of the U4C Charter and share their reasons. The details of the voting process and voter eligibility can be found here.
• Community Tech has made some preliminary decisions about the future of the Community Wishlist Survey. In summary, they aim to develop a new, continuous intake system for community technical requests that improves prioritization, resource allocation, and communication regarding wishes. Read more
• The Unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in February 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!

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Administrators' newsletter – March 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2024).

Administrator changes Sdkb The Night Watch East718 Isabelle Belato Mzajac Staecker Stan Shebs Sugarfish Tamzin

Bureaucrat changes SilkTork

Guideline and policy news

• Phase I of the 2024 RfA review is now open for participation. Editors are invited to review, comment on, and propose improvements to the requests for adminship process.
• Following an RfC, the inactivity requirement for the removal of the interface administrator right increased from 6 months to 12 months.

Technical news

• The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. (T353388)

Miscellaneous

• The 2024 appointees for the Ombuds commission are だ＊ぜ, AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Doǵu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, MdsShakil, Minorax, Nehaoua, Renvoy and RoySmith as members, with Vermont serving as steward-observer.
• Following the 2024 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Ajraddatz, Albertoleoncio, EPIC, JJMC89, Johannnes89, Melos and Yahya.

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Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Happy adminship anniversary! Hi Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of your successful request for adminship. Enjoy this special day! The Herald (Benison) (talk) 01:58, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! — Nearly Headless Nick {c} 09:51, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

RUPP and Misplaced Pages

Hello, I educate researchers in how to use Misplaced Pages for science outreach. I also have research collaboration with RUPP and have as a long-term plan to engage researchers and students at RUPP to help develop kmwp as a part of their education. Since I saw your picture File:Department of Media and Communications, Royal University of Phnom Penh - Misplaced Pages Workshop 25 May 2018.jpg - Wikimedia Commons I wonder what experiences you have and if this is something you can share. Perhaps easier per email? Olle Terenius (UU) (talk) 08:36, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

Sure, just send me an email. — Nearly Headless Nick {c} 10:23, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2024).

Administrator changes

• Kbdank71
• Kosack
• NrDg
• TLSuda

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open to convert all current and future community discretionary sanctions to (community designated) contentious topics procedure.

Technical news

• The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (T313405)

Arbitration

• An arbitration case has been opened to look into "the intersection of managing conflict of interest editing with the harassment (outing) policy".

Miscellaneous

• Editors are invited to sign up for The Core Contest, an initiative running from April 15 to May 31, which aims to improve vital and other core articles on Misplaced Pages.

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Administrative permissions and inactivity reminder

This is a reminder that established policy provides for removal of the administrative permissions of users who have made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period. You are receiving this annual reminder since you have averaged less than 50 edits per year over the last 5 years.

Inactive administrators are encouraged to reengage with the project in earnest rather than to make token edits to avoid loss of administrative permissions. Resources and support for reengaging with the project are available at Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Editor Retention/administrators. If you do not intend to be engaged with the project in the foreseeable future, please consider voluntarily resigning your administrative permissions by making a request at the bureaucrats' noticeboard.

Thank you for your past contributions to the project. — JJMC89 bot 00:23, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2024).

Administrator changes

Nyttend

• JohnOwens
• Killiondude
• MelanieN
• Nihonjoe

Bureaucrat changes

Nihonjoe

CheckUser changes

Joe Roe

Oversight changes

GeneralNotability

Guideline and policy news

• Phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship review has concluded. Several proposals have passed outright and will proceed to implementation, including creating a discussion-only period (3b) and administrator elections (13) on a trial basis. Other successful proposals, such as creating a reminder of civility norms (2), will undergo further refinement in Phase II. Proposals passed on a trial basis will be discussed in Phase II, after their trials conclude. Further details on specific proposals can be found in the full report.

Technical news

• Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Misplaced Pages. This means that administrators have the ability to restrict users from certain actions, including uploading files, moving pages and files, creating new pages, and sending thanks. T280531

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Conflict of interest management has been closed.

Miscellaneous

• This may be a good time to reach out to potential nominees to ask if they would consider an RfA.
• A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in May 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 15,000 articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!
• Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is open until 9 May 2024. Read the voting page on Meta-Wiki and cast your vote here!

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2024).

Administrator changes

Graham Beards

• Deskana
• Mets501
• Staxringold

Bureaucrat changes

• Deskana
• Warofdreams

Oversight changes

Dreamy Jazz

Guideline and policy news

• Phase II of the 2024 RfA review has commenced to improve and refine the proposals passed in Phase I.

Technical news

• The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. T43351

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Venezuelan politics has been closed.
• The Committee is seeking volunteers for various roles, including access to the conflict of interest VRT queue.

Miscellaneous

• WikiProject Reliability's unsourced statements drive is happening in June 2024 to replace {{citation needed}} tags with references! Sign up here to participate!

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2024).

Administrator changes

• Elli
• HouseBlaster
• Pickersgill-Cunliffe

• Brianga
• De728631
• Georgewilliamherbert
• Hyacinth (deceased)
• ProveIt
• The Night Watch

Technical news

• Local administrators can now add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without using JavaScript. Documentation is available on MediaWiki. (T6086)

Miscellaneous

• The Community Wishlist is re-opening on 15 July 2024. Read more

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Pending suspension of administrative permissions due to insufficient activity

Established policy provides for the removal of the administrative permissions of users who have made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period. Your administrative permissions will be removed if you do not return to the required activity level before the beginning of November 2024.

Inactive administrators are encouraged to engage with the project in earnest rather than to make token edits to avoid loss of administrative permissions. Resources and support for re-engaging with the project are available at Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Editor Retention/administrators. If you do not intend to re-engage with the project in the foreseeable future, please consider voluntarily resigning your administrative permissions by making a request at the bureaucrats' noticeboard.

Thank you for your past contributions to the project. — JJMC89 bot 00:26, 1 August 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – August 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2024).

Administrator changes

Isabelle Belato

• Ian.thomson
• Modussiccandi

Interface administrator changes

Izno

CheckUser changes

Barkeep49

Technical news

• Global blocks may now target accounts as well as IP's. Administrators may locally unblock when appropriate.
• Users wishing to permanently leave may now request "vanishing" via Special:GlobalVanishRequest. Processed requests will result in the user being renamed, their recovery email being removed, and their account being globally locked.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee appointed the following administrators to the conflict of interest volunteer response team: Bilby, Extraordinary Writ

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Administrators' newsletter – September 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2024).

Administrator changes

Pppery

Interface administrator changes

Pppery

Oversighter changes

Wugapodes

CheckUser changes

• Courcelles
• GeneralNotability

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, there is a new criterion for speedy deletion: C4, which applies to unused maintenance categories, such as empty dated maintenance categories for dates in the past.
• A request for comment is open to discuss whether Notability (species) should be adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline.

Arbitration

• Following a motion, remedies 5.1 and 5.2 of World War II and the history of Jews in Poland (the topic and interaction bans on My very best wishes, respectively) were repealed.
• Remedy 3C of the German war effort case ("Cinderella157 German history topic ban") was suspended for a period of six months.
• The arbitration case Historical Elections is currently open. Proposed decision is expected by 3 September 2024 for this case.

Miscellaneous

• Editors can now enter into good article review circles, an alternative for informal quid pro quo arrangements, to have a GAN reviewed in return for reviewing a different editor's nomination.
• A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in September 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles and redirects in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 13,900 articles and 26,200 redirects awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!

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Imminent suspension of administrative permissions due to insufficient activity

Established policy provides for the removal of the administrative permissions of users who have made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period. Your administrative permissions will be removed if you do not return to the required activity level before the beginning of November 2024.

Inactive administrators are encouraged to engage with the project in earnest rather than to make token edits to avoid loss of administrative permissions. Resources and support for re-engaging with the project are available at Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Editor Retention/administrators. If you do not intend to re-engage with the project in the foreseeable future, please consider voluntarily resigning your administrative permissions by making a request at the bureaucrats' noticeboard.

Thank you for your past contributions to the project. — JJMC89 bot 00:24, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – October 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2024).

Administrator changes

• Asilvering
• Significa liberdade

• Good Olfactory
• Hesperian
• I JethroBT
• TommyBoy
• Woody

CheckUser changes

• Barkeep49
• Izno

• Doug Weller
• Spicy

Guideline and policy news

• Administrator elections are a proposed new process for selecting administrators, offering an alternative to requests for adminship (RfA). The first trial election will take place in October 2024, with candidate sign-up from October 8 to 14, a discussion phase from October 22 to 24, and SecurePoll voting from October 25 to 31. For questions or to help out, please visit the talk page at Misplaced Pages talk:Administrator elections.
• Following a discussion, the speedy deletion reason "File pages without a corresponding file" has been moved from criterion G8 to F2. This does not change what can be speedily deleted.
• A request for comment is open to discuss whether there is a consensus to have an administrator recall process.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Historical elections has been closed.
• An arbitration case regarding Backlash to diversity and inclusion has been opened.
• Editors are invited to nominate themselves to serve on the 2024 Arbitration Committee Electoral Commission until 23:59 October 8, 2024 (UTC).

Miscellaneous

• If you are interested in stopping spammers, please put MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist and MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist on your watchlist, and help out when you can.

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Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday! Hi Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy birthday! Enjoy this special day! DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 01:00, 21 October 2024 (UTC)

Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday! Hi Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy birthday! Enjoy this special day! The Herald (Benison) (talk) 08:14, 21 October 2024 (UTC)

Invitation to participate in a research

Hello,

The Wikimedia Foundation is conducting a survey of Wikipedians to better understand what draws administrators to contribute to Misplaced Pages, and what affects administrator retention. We will use this research to improve experiences for Wikipedians, and address common problems and needs. We have identified you as a good candidate for this research, and would greatly appreciate your participation in this anonymous survey.

You do not have to be an Administrator to participate.

The survey should take around 10-15 minutes to complete. You may read more about the study on its Meta page and view its privacy statement .

Please find our contact on the project Meta page if you have any questions or concerns.

Kind Regards,

WMF Research Team

BGerdemann (WMF) (talk) 19:22, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

Suspension of administrative permissions due to insufficient activity

Established policy provides for the removal of the administrative permissions of users who have made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period. Your administrative permissions have been removed.

Subject to certain time limits and other restrictions, your administrative permissions may be returned upon request at WP:BN.

Thank you for your past contributions to the project. — xaosflux 00:01, 1 November 2024 (UTC)

• dang. I didn't see that coming. —usernamekiran (talk) 23:49, 5 November 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2024).

Administrator changes

• Crisco 1492

• Babajobu
• Daniel
• Elf
• Jayron32
• Thue
• Wugapodes

CheckUser changes

Maxim

Oversighter changes

Maxim

Guideline and policy news

• Following a discussion, the discussion-only period proposal that went for a trial to refine the requests for adminship (RfA) process has been discontinued.
• Following a request for comment, Administrator recall is adopted as a policy.

Technical news

• Mass deletions done with the Nuke tool now have the 'Nuke' tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. T366068

Arbitration

• RoySmith, Barkeep49 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2024 Arbitration Committee Elections. ThadeusOfNazereth and Dr vulpes are reserve commissioners.
• Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate from 3 November 2024 until 12 November 2024 to stand in the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections.
• The Arbitration Committee is seeking volunteers for roles such as clerks, access to the COI queue, checkuser, and oversight.

Miscellaneous

• An unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in November 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:21, 3 November 2024 (UTC)

Reminder to participate in Misplaced Pages research

Hello,

I recently invited you to take a survey about administration on Misplaced Pages. If you haven’t yet had a chance, there is still time to participate– we’d truly appreciate your feedback. The survey is anonymous and should take about 10-15 minutes to complete. You may read more about the study on its Meta page and view its privacy statement.

Take the survey here.

Kind Regards,

WMF Research Team

BGerdemann (WMF) (talk) 00:18, 13 November 2024 (UTC)

ArbCom 2024 Elections voter message

Hello! Voting in the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 2 December 2024. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Misplaced Pages 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 2024 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add {{NoACEMM}} to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:09, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2024).

Administrator changes

• Ahecht
• DoubleGrazing
• Dr vulpes
• FOARP
• Peaceray
• Queen of Hearts
• Rsjaffe
• SD0001
• SilverLocust
• Sohom Datta
• ThadeusOfNazereth
• Voorts

• Ajpolino
• Fathoms Below
• Pppery
• Tamzin
• Worm That Turned

• Aervanath
• Christopher Sundita
• Dank
• Dennis Brown
• Dragons flight
• Fastily
• Graham87
• JaGa
• Kbh3rd
• Marine 69-71
• Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington
• Yamamoto Ichiro

Interface administrator changes

• SD0001
• Sohom Datta

Pppery

CheckUser changes

• Spicy
• TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RFC, the policy on restoration of adminship has been updated. All former administrators may now only regain the tools following a request at the Misplaced Pages:Bureaucrats' noticeboard within 5 years of their most recent admin action. Previously this applied only to administrators deysopped for inactivity.
• Following a request for comment, a new speedy deletion criterion, T5, has been enacted. This applies to template subpages that are no longer used.

Technical news

• Technical volunteers can now register for the 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon, which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey. Application for travel and accommodation scholarships is open from November 12 to December 10, 2024.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Yasuke (formerly titled Backlash to diversity and inclusion) has been closed.
• An arbitration case titled Palestine-Israel articles 5 has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case will close on 14 December.

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2025

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2024).

Administrator changes

Sennecaster

• Daniel
• Hog Farm

• BozMo
• Ferret
• John M Wolfson
• MaxSem
• Panyd
• Tide rolls
• Titoxd

CheckUser changes

• Daniel
• Elli
• Liz
• ScottishFinnishRadish
• Theleekycauldron

Worm That Turned

Ferret

Oversight changes

• Daniel
• Elli
• Liz
• ScottishFinnishRadish
• Theleekycauldron

Worm That Turned

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RFC, Misplaced Pages:Notability (species) was adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline.
• A request for comment is open to discuss whether admins should be advised to warn users rather than issue no-warning blocks to those who have posted promotional content outside of article space.

Technical news

• The Nuke feature also now provides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions.

Arbitration

• Following the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been elected to the Arbitration Committee: CaptainEek, Daniel, Elli, KrakatoaKatie, Liz, Primefac, ScottishFinnishRadish, Theleekycauldron, Worm That Turned.

Miscellaneous

• A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in January 2025 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles and redirects in the new pages feed. Sign up here to participate!

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