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Help cleaning up bot-mangled citations

This came up last month, but there hasn't been much movement on it since, and I'm not sure where else I can raise a signal about it. Use of the ReferenceExpander bot without manually checking its output has led to references being contracted instead. For example, the bot sometimes follows a link that now redirects to a new, uninformative place, but since the link technically "works" the auto-generated citation omits the archive-URL and creates a footnote that is nicely templated but completely useless. It also removes all sorts of ancillary information included in manually-formatted citations, like quotations. If multiple citations were gathered into the same footnote, it creates a replacement based on only the first of them. It can see a citation to a chapter in an edited collection and replace the authors' names with the editors of the volume. It can see a URL for a news story and create a {{cite web}} footnote that omits the byline which had been manually included. A list of potentially affected pages is available here.

It's frankly a slog to deal with, and there doesn't seem to be any other option than manually looking at each item.

(Per the big orange box, I have notified the editor whose actions prompted all this, but they are both retired and indeffed.) XOR'easter (talk) 02:13, 18 May 2023 (UTC)

Hey @XOR'easter sorry. I was going to try working through at least a few of these a bit at a time, but I've been busy with a lot of other stuff. Is anyone here interested in gathering together a crew to tackle some of these as a group? It feels pretty daunting for just a few people. –jacobolus (t) 02:43, 18 May 2023 (UTC)

I can help. --JBL (talk) 18:35, 18 May 2023 (UTC)

I started reviewing the list, and fyi, in the 1853 or so citations affected here , I noticed https urls were occasionally converted to http. Beccaynr (talk) 03:08, 18 May 2023 (UTC)

Wow, I hadn't even thought to check for that. XOR'easter (talk) 04:46, 18 May 2023 (UTC)

Have you asked the WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors for help? They are also having a copy-editing drive this month, and maybe something like this could be added to that project. Beccaynr (talk) 05:05, 18 May 2023 (UTC)

I did ask, as it happens; apparently it's not in their wheelhouse. XOR'easter (talk) 16:44, 18 May 2023 (UTC)

WikiFaerie are not as well-organized, so I am not sure how to conduct outreach, but I will try to work through the list you have developed when possible. Thank you for calling attention to this. Beccaynr (talk) 17:48, 18 May 2023 (UTC)

@XOR'easter: Perhaps WP:WikiProject Citation cleanup? Not the most active of projects, I think, though. AddWittyNameHere 21:41, 18 May 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestion; I've commented over there. What gets me is that these are not all obscure pages. DNA, for example, is a Featured Article with almost 2,000 watchers, and yet nobody seems to have noticed when citations were modified to have a last name "Bank", first name "RCSB Protein Data". XOR'easter (talk) 00:10, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

There are so many bots and bot-like gnomes running around making so many hundreds of thousands of minor cleanups to citations on articles, 99% of which are fine, that it makes it very tiresome to consistently check all edits appearing on one's watchlist and notice the thousands of edits that fall into the 1% of cases where the software totally screws up the citation. And yet, these supposed cleanups happen so often and so repetitively to the same articles that it seems that, eventually, all citations will be garbaged by bots. —David Eppstein (talk) 22:44, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

I've been very slowly working my way through one of the more severely damaged articles, Falun Gong (a CTOP I've never edited before). Out of the numerous affected references, I have yet to see the ReferenceExpander script suggest a correct citation. 04:43, 20 May 2023 (UTC) Updating to add that I have now found a correct citation produced by this tool, giving a success rate in my sample around 10%. Even ignoring the information lost from the manually formatted references that are not converted into the cite templates, I'm seeing the tool assign incorrect titles and incorrect dates, leave out authors when a byline is clearly evident at the top of the article, confuse archives with live urls, and associated basic errors.At this point I'm extremely suspect of any edits performed using this script, since its parsing both of the existing reference and of retrieved webpages is, in the general case, objectively inadequate. It might be faster to batch undo as many of these edits as is technically feasible, and I'm sadly wondering if we should formally encourage the maintainer to disable the script pending improvement. Courtesy ping User:BrandonXLF. Folly Mox (talk) 03:29, 20 May 2023 (UTC)

Yesterday I found that the ReferenceExpander script also removed Template:pd-notice from every article it had touched in Category:Human trafficking by country, which all incorporate text in the public domain in the US. Not sure how big a problem regarding copyright and attribution that is, but it's definitely an unwanted behaviour. The query User:XOR'easter and them ran back in April returned over 2600 rows. It's dog's work fixing these, but if people could just scroll around a bit and find a couple articles that interest them, we could repair the damage a lot quicklier. The bottom tables, where the script has added in byte size, seem to be pretty low hanging fruit, since action is not always needed. Folly Mox (talk) 13:57, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

Seconding this: it's very much at the stage where having a bunch of people click on five random links and fix or mark as ok the obvious easy ones would be a huge help. --JBL (talk) 18:34, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

I've come across ReferenceExpander in a few of the articles I watch and similarly find it to have an extraordinarily low rate of success. If it's to remain available its users must not only check the output very carefully indeed but also actually understand how our citation templates work. XAM2175  16:54, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

I finally found one that wasn't a problem! This edit to Penguin looks fine. XOR'easter (talk) 15:00, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

Nope. Both citations had archive URLs that were deleted by the script leaving only a dead URL in the new cite, and in the first one the script also commits the grossly stupid error of cramming two different corporate publishers into a single set of |first= and |last= fields. XAM2175  15:19, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

Wow. OK, back to 0% success in those I've examined, then. XOR'easter (talk) 16:15, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

I started checking History of Misplaced Pages and just had to give up. Lost content restored up through line 108, but I need to lie down now. XOR'easter (talk) 23:00, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

Fair. I've definitely had two or three repairs that took me multiple hours of work and required a break or a night's sleep. For a single diff. Smh. Folly Mox (talk) 03:55, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

It has to get easier after Zionism, right? Right? XOR'easter (talk) 18:55, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

I've mostly been backing out of the articles where the size has been reduced by multiple kilobytes unless I have a whole day available to devote to reference repair, and I appreciate that you've been tackling the top of the list while I've been scrolling arbitrarily and repairing whatever.

Perhaps the most egregious behaviour I saw yesterday was at Mead, where ReferenceExpander took a properly formatted book citation, already in a template, and discarded the page= parameter. I cannot pretend to understand why this functionality would be programmed in. Folly Mox (talk) 12:13, 25 May 2023 (UTC)

Having been on Sub-Saharan Africa for the past few days, I can safely say: Prolly not. ~Judy _{(job requests)} 15:40, 26 May 2023 (UTC)

I am having to take Left-libertarianism in tiny morsels. XOR'easter (talk) 19:18, 27 May 2023 (UTC)

I checked several diffs; will try to check more later. The edit to Toki Pona seems to have been good, as far as how it formatted the reference, although the entire reference was subsequently removed for being a random youtube video. -sche (talk) 19:25, 26 May 2023 (UTC)

Here's an odd one: as far as I can tell, everything here was fine except that it dropped a space which was present between two of the words in the title, smooshing them together. (Am I missing any other issues?) I'm surprised a script that causes as many problems as have been discussed here, and as many different kinds of problems, doesn't seem(?) to have been disabled yet. -sche (talk) 22:23, 26 May 2023 (UTC)

Would it be improper (or even possible) to propose that it be disabled by community consensus? XAM2175  22:47, 26 May 2023 (UTC)

Is there a bot? Philoserf (talk · contribs) is indefinitely blocked. Is any other user running User:BrandonXLF/ReferenceExpander in a problematic way? If ReferenceExpander is thought to have problems, BrandonXLF can be asked for a fix but there would need to be a list of, say, five examples of a problem with a brief explanation. If the script produces more problems than it solves, it could easily be disabled. Johnuniq (talk) 01:17, 27 May 2023 (UTC)

There are definitely other users running it, but not on anywhere near the same scale. Their edits typically have the same kinds of issues, but they are more likely to self-censor the most egregious ones. In my opinion the script creates a lot of big problems and doesn't really solve anything at all. YMMV. –jacobolus (t) 04:06, 27 May 2023 (UTC)

The script seems to run as intended if the source is the New York Times or if it has a doi number. I've also seen it take a bare url reference and create a citation that was pretty good except for one field filled out naively but not incorrectly. For online news sources, it tends not to make things worse, although it sometimes does.Edits from users other than Philoserf are consistently less worse, because they look at the proposed output and choose not to apply the obviously incorrect updates, but the script has so many problems (way more than five) and gets so many different things wrong and discards so much information present in existing citations that I would never feel comfortable not double checking an edit made using it.Having looked briefly at the code, I think the bugs might actually be upstream in dependency libraries, but disabling the interface is probably the safest move. BrandonXLF has added a warning that editors are responsible for edits made using the script, but has otherwise been silent on the issue. I suppose we could take it to MfD. Folly Mox (talk) 11:08, 27 May 2023 (UTC)

I went ahead and nominated it. — SamX  20:04, 27 May 2023 (UTC)

• More than 450 edits have been checked, reverted, or repaired; that's still less than 20% of the total. Let me again suggest to people who like gnoming that a lot of this is pretty straightforward (one or two references per edit to check to make sure no information was lost) and that's just a matter of hands on deck. --JBL (talk) 17:46, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

  People will want to click through to the target page to ensure the script hasn't – for example – credited editors as authors or put the name of the author or website into the title= parameter. I usually go in with the goal of making the citation reasonably complete, since I'm checking it anyway, which often involves adding parameters like author and publication date, but the tactic of making sure the reference is not worse than before the script touched it is also viable. It is indeed reasonably straightforward, and one hardly ever needs to assess source quality, relevance, or whether it supports the prose. It's easy enough that it's what I've been doing when my brain is done for the day. There's just a lot. Folly Mox (talk) 08:46, 30 May 2023 (UTC)

  Is there any reason to retain the other 1800+ edits while they're being checked? I'm not familiar with this tool at all, but it sounds as if the bot's edits are detrimental, and the project would be better off if we just reverted en masse. Is that correct, or is it better to check before reverting the bot? Nyttend (talk) 21:08, 30 May 2023 (UTC)

  @Nyttend: I'm not a technically apt editor and I haven't done as much repairing as some others so I might not be the best person to answer this question, but I'll share my two cents here anyway. It's impossible to revert many of the edits using Undo, Twinkle, etc. because most were several months ago, and multiple edits to many of the pages have occurred since then. A minority of the citations, particularly to the New York Times, were actually improved by ReferenceExpander. Some of them aren't too bad, and only require something straightforward like adding |archive-url=, |archive-date=, and url-status= to the citation templates or correcting the author paramaters. Some of them are in pretty bad shape, but were already poorly formatted before ReferenceExpander and require quite a bit more work. Most of them can be manually reverted by copying and pasting the wikitext of the citations from the pre-ReferenceExpander revision, although creating a new citation template from scratch is often an improvement over the old revision. There are enough weird behaviors and edge cases that simply reverting them all with a bot or script probably wouldn't be a good option IMO, but others may disagree with me on that point. — SamX  04:32, 31 May 2023 (UTC)

  User:Nyttend, when I come across edits that are the most recent revision during the cleanup, typically I'll straight revert them (sometimes I'll improve them; it depends on how sleepy and grumpy I'm feeling), and I see other editors contributing to this task doing the same, but usually there are intervening edits. If we had a query of all the ReferenceExpander edits where they were the most recent revision, I feel it would be safe to bulk revert the lot and then go back and unrevert any that were genuine improvements, which do occur.Based on my experience with the cleanup, possibly between 10 and 20 per cent of ReferenceExpander edits are net-zero or net-positive, to give a very rough estimate. We've been prioritising the more damaged articles, but the edits which increase the byte size are usually much less worse. The issue, for my brain anyway, is that they're still mostly incomplete and naive, so if I'm in there anyway I'll try to leave it better than ReferenceExpander found it. Folly Mox (talk) 20:37, 31 May 2023 (UTC)

Also it might be good to run the same query for older edits. I think the ReferenceExpander script has been around for a while and I would expect it probably had roughly similar behavior through its life. There are probably at least some older ones that should be checked/fixed (though hopefully not nearly so many). –jacobolus (t) 04:56, 31 May 2023 (UTC)

Sounds like a good idea. If we do that, I think we should also run a query if the script is deleted or disabled after the MFD is closed. — SamX  18:59, 31 May 2023 (UTC)

It is probably safest to check every edit ever committed using this tool. Something that worries me is that the entire core functionality seems to hinge on a function in mediawiki's own Citoid.js library, and I happened upon some citations earlier today or yesterday, not created by ReferenceExpander, that had publication dates in the author-first= field. I'm not sure how many scripts will take anything other than a bare URL as input before creating a citation, which is by far the biggest problem with the ReferenceExpander edits, but once this cleanup is a bit more buttoned up it might be wise to find out which team is responsible for maintaining Citoid.js and see if we can't get them to implement some improvements and add warning messages to editors that the output may not be correct and double checking should be performed. Folly Mox (talk) 20:44, 31 May 2023 (UTC)

For those keeping score at home, we recently passed 25% completion (by number of edits): about 650 out of 2500 have been checked or corrected. The most recent one I fixed was a real doozie. --JBL (talk) 00:27, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

I've seen that same failure mode before. I can't put my finger on where exactly it was, but it definitely did show up in one of the other articles I've fixed. XOR'easter (talk) 15:22, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

Ah, it was in Ballistic movement . XOR'easter (talk) 19:03, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

And it's the same replacement chosen for the two (otherwise unrelated) references! So bizarre. --JBL (talk) 19:22, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

Neither of the references prior to Philoserf's ReferenceExpander edits contained a URL, so it might have something to do with their device's behaviour when it's asked to fetch a URL but only given numeric input data. Just a hunch.I repaired one which I cannot for the life of me track down, where the author fields had been populated |first=Not |last=Anonymous, which is client-side behaviour when redirecting to an unencrypted address on a certain browser, so the "leave SMS voice" thing may have the same tenor as an error message. Folly Mox (talk) 08:02, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

Oh, it was Huldar saga. And it was |first=Not |title=Anonymous. And it was the source that says "unpublished" "do not cite". Good times. Folly Mox (talk) 08:11, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

And it was my saltiest edit summary ever. Not super proud of that. Oops. Anyway we're almost to 800 matches for Template:y on the cleanup page. Folly Mox (talk) 09:01, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

I don't know what happened on Michael Faraday; usually it screws up because an old URL redirects to a useless place, like a "search this site" page, but the given URL still works in this case . And Gilded Age provides an example of how even when the bot script infernal contraption makes the article bigger, it can lead to lost information . The article cited different pages from the same book, ReferenceExpander converted those manual footnotes to (badly formatted) templates, and then reFill blindly merged them because ReferenceExpander had omitted the page numbers. XOR'easter (talk) 22:14, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

The more I learn about the whole infrastructure in play here the more concerned I become. The actual Zotero hooks, which will convert DOIs and PMIDs etc into perfectly formatted citations via Citoid, are extremely reliable. I'm not sure where in the stack the "google books" processor is, but it consistently throws out page numbers, never identifies editors, and discards chapter contributions. I hope it's somewhere in a mediawiki library so it can be improved instead of rewritten from scratch to avoid the current serious bugs.I contacted one of the maintainers of ReFill about some improvements that could be made downstream of Citoid, but they've got too much going on to invest more deeply in maintaining other people's code. Someone commented at the MfD that they could likely improve on ReferenceExpander's code, and as much as I've enjoyed the silly bursts of absurdity during this long cleanup effort, it can't feel good for BrandonXLF when most of the errors we're describing – outside of the fundamental design flaw of overwriting existing references – are not even his fault, except insofar as he trusted Citoid to parse pages intelligently, which does happen in some cases.I think my eventual point is that although we're dealing with the fallout of an overlap of some serious mistrusts, script-assisted referencing is not going to become less popular because of one tool, and we really need to commit to the followthrough of improving its reliability as far up the stack as we have access to, so this dark portent can be averted. Folly Mox (talk) 00:03, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

Trying to handle DOIs, news websites, books, etc., all in the same script is biting off an awful lot, maybe more than any single script can actually chew. I think the balance might tip back to the positive if the scope of the tool were less ambitious. XOR'easter (talk) 05:26, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

I think the main thing is that any script author should before releasing their script gather a wide variety of test cases and make sure that they aren't making disimprovements to any of them, and when told about bugs should add additional test cases. For something that is going to run across thousands of pages, the standard has to be very high. Even 1% mistakes is not good enough. But in this case, we are talking about a script that is making something like 75% mistakes, 25% cosmetic changes without significant benefit, and 0% substantial improvements. That should never get past the testing phase. –jacobolus (t) 05:57, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

At detailed logarithmic timeline, it replaced a template that someone had done correctly with a different template that it populated incorrectly, replacing the author's name (Christopher Kemp) with #author.fullName} . There are currently 26 examples of #author.fullName} in articles; I wonder how many this program is responsible for. XOR'easter (talk) 20:55, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

OK, heat pump is not on the list of ReferenceExpander-affected pages, and the errant #author.fullName} was apparently inserted in this edit. So, in this case, it looks like some routine which is upstream from ReferenceExpander and which the citation tool in the Visual Editor also relies upon failed. XOR'easter (talk) 21:03, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

Discretionary sanctions at WP:ITN

• Misplaced Pages:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Long_Term_pattern_of_violations_of_WP:CIVIL_by_The_Rambling_Man
• Misplaced Pages:Administrators'_noticeboard#Oh_joy,_an_out_of_control_ANI_discussion

So several hours ago I read the above thread here at WP:AN, and went to AN/I to see what was going on.

At that point I very nearly shut the whole thing down. I don't think I'd need to explain to any admin why. I think if anyone read the AN/I thread at that point, the reasons would be obvious. (Hence placing the warning there, today.)

But at that time, I decided that a.) "many eyes" were on this and none had yet done so (and I'm a firm believer in "many eyes"). b.) at that point the site ban had been self-closed and the topic ban was about split vote-wise (though, I wouldn't call it a consensus by any stretch of the imagination), but I thought that maybe letting the community continue to discuss, something productive might appear. and c.) with apologies to everyone for whom this is important, I decided some sleep was a better use of my time at that point...

So I come back today, and the vitriol has become worse. And it's devolving into a political fight, rather than an assessment of editor behaviour.

And it seems to me now that I've had some sleep and have re-read all of this, setting aside the questions about the editor in question, that something User:Masem said in the WP:AN/I discussion about a broader issue seems to potentially be informative here. - "We all know at ITN that when the subject of a shooting in the US comes up, things get heated really fast, and yes, no one should be dragging US politics into the mix; I've called for such concerns on the talk page many times. But TRM is not the first, not the last, to be doing that. I'm all for ANI-based caution, but again, civility without being directed any any specific editor is near impossible to enforce or we have to enforce it across the entire board, and I'm pretty sure that will not happen."

Actually - We have Misplaced Pages:Contentious topics all set up for such things. And when I look at the list at Misplaced Pages:General sanctions it seems to me that Misplaced Pages:In the news is just naturally a hub for where these and many other topics are just likely to come up.

Now, per Misplaced Pages:Contentious topics#Contentious topic restrictions, as an uninvolved admin, I could right now go and apply the restrictions. But as any admin is trusted to apply these, I think it would be interesting to hear what other admins think. So I think I'd like to hear from other admins first, to see if we can look at the options listed with the "standard set", and agree on something that will work for WP:ITN, but to try to not get too much in the way of the work being done there.

Or in other words, to look at what we can do to reduce disruption, while trying to minimize any disruption such sanctions could potentially cause.

I look forward to your (plural) thoughts. - jc37 19:55, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

As an admin who gets WP:INVOLVED in those U.S. mass shooting nominations Masem was referring to, I 100% support applying discretionary sanctions against users who make uncivil comments there. – Muboshgu (talk) 20:34, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

This would apply it to the page, and so would affect all editors there. It's intended as a (hopefully) preventative measure. - jc37 20:37, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

That's why I support it. We should all be held to account for our behavior and hopefully this will succeed at prevention of bad behavior. – Muboshgu (talk) 21:03, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

per Misplaced Pages:Contentious topics#Contentious topic restrictions, as an uninvolved admin, I could right now go and apply the restrictions is not correct: ITN as a whole does not fall within any of the areas for which these restrictions have been authorized. Now, we as a community could certainly decide to put ITN under general sanctions (although I don't have a strong opinion about whether that's a good idea, it's at least an option), but individual admins definitely don't have the ability to do that unilaterally. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 20:45, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

Arguably there are topics at ITN that fall under various ARBCOM GS and DS, and we had discussed a few months ago the idea of tagging the page with the appropriate notices, but without any closure. This would be a similar idea. Masem (t) 20:47, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

Query from not an admin, and although a long-time editor, I really just don't understand how contentious topics and arb enforcement and the like work, so apply a big grain of salt to my feedback. But an observation about WP:ARBMED; unnecessary discretionary sanctions were applied in this case (evidenced by the fact they have not been invoked once, and the problem completely resolved itself by the removal of a few problematic editors from the topic of drug pricing). Is it really necessary to apply discretionary sanctions to an entire area, until/unless/while problematic behaviors from individuals are in the process of being addressed? It seems to me that some of the alarms going off about the thread that started this are only serving to obscure the issues; why not wait 'til that is settled ? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 20:54, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

I don't know about the specific example you note, but sometimes, just applying the sanctions can help act as a preventative. - jc37 20:57, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

In that case, three (maybe four, memory fails) editors were seeking to install a fait accompli re WP:NOTPRICE. Discretionary sanctions were applied to the entire area, rather than deal with those editors. In this case, a couple of editors made really unnecessary and unhelpful posts at the beginning of the thread; is not this yet another distraction from the matter at hand, and should we not let it work itself out first? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 20:59, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

Even if the community decides to remove one particular editor from the equation; per what we're seeing at AN/I and a perusal of ITN discussions in general, suggests that perhaps this is still not "working itself out", and seems likely to continue. So, seeing if we can act as a preventative, would seem like something worth discussing. - jc37 21:13, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

I concur with jc37. We've had years for ITN's problems to "work itself out". It hasn't. There have been several proposals made to tone down the battleground rhetoric and the forum-like discourse, and they've gone nowhere. People still engage in it, because they don't fear any consequences from administrators. Cheers, ⛵ WaltClipper -(talk) 19:52, 30 May 2023 (UTC)

• Speaking as an admin who has done a fair bit of CT/DS work; I recognize the need for a more civil atmosphere at ITN, and perhaps CT restrictions will help, but it's procedurally a little messier than is suggested above. ITN as a whole cannot be placed under CT restrictions; as ExtraordinaryWrit points out, it's out of scope, and I don't know what page-level sanctions would be useful anyway. However, both US politics and gun control already are designated as contentious topics, and uninvolved admins may unilaterally sanction users who have been made aware of the CT restrictions. As such, I think it likely that ITN will benefit from administrators watching the rather frequent discussions about mass shootings in the US, making users who stray from the straight and narrow aware of the CT restrictions, and imposing sanctions if they become needed. This is something we can already do, however; no community consensus is necessary. If we wish to place ITN as a whole under general sanctions that would need a proposal at AN, and I'm not sure I would support that, as I don't see ITN as a whole being disrupted any more frequently than the rest of the encyclopedia. And if you want to use CT restrictions specifically on ITN as a whole, you would need authorization from ARBCOM, and I don't see ARBCOM accepting a case about ITN as a whole. Vanamonde (Talk) 21:32, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

  (ec) Thank you, I very much appreciate the clarification. - jc37 21:41, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

  So could someone give the first CT alert to those misbehaving at ANI and at ITN now? (I can't post at one of the user talk pages, and the CT alert would carry more weight from an admin anyway.) I'm asking because I'm all in favor of avoiding an arbcase if there are other things that can be tried. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 21:39, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

  Someone whose misconduct is relevant to AmPol or Gun control should receive an alert if they haven't already. I will not personally be leaving any, and with respect to TRM specifically I'm INVOLVED. Vanamonde (Talk) 00:21, 30 May 2023 (UTC)

• I have stated my recommendation at WP:ANI once, and have stated it here at WP:AN above, which is that ArbCom should be asked to deal with The Rambling Man. I don't expect anyone to jump up and write an RFAR, so if this drags on without any resolution, I will write an RFAR, but probably not this month. Robert McClenon (talk) 22:10, 29 May 2023 (UTC)
• Question - Can an uninvolved admin topic-ban The Rambling Man from gun control and American politics? That would deal with one area of incivility, and would allow us at least to think that we have accomplished something. Robert McClenon (talk) 22:10, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

  As a procedural note, I can find a diff showing awareness of Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Article titles and capitalisation, at Special:AbuseLog/13823181. Has this editor 3ver been formally made aware of AP2, or GC? Noting I’ve not done any deeper checks than just looking through their talk page filter log. Courcelles (talk) 00:48, 30 May 2023 (UTC)

• (non-admin comment) I've been one of the louder voices for reform at WP:ITN. I wrote about the issue at WP:VPP#Misplaced Pages guidelines and In the news, but the gist of it is that there's virtually no guidance for what's "significant" enough to post, and editors are asked to debate their own subjective opinions and engage in original research. This facilitates arguments more than anything, and I don't believe the issue will go away until this is addressed. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 01:02, 30 May 2023 (UTC)

  Interesting thread; we have editors at VPP saying on May 15 there is no problem at ITN, and we have lots of editors at ANI saying two weeks later there are big problems at ITN. You already started a VPP thread, and I'm not yet seeing how this is a matter for ArbCom, so ... back to CT warnings? Is there a precedent of ArbCom having to look at an entire content area (I recall the Cyclone/Hurricane/Discord matter-- unsure if similar)? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 02:13, 30 May 2023 (UTC)

  The closest I can think of is probably WP:ARBGGTF that imposed Discretionary Sanctions on the Gender Gap Task Force. There's also WP:ARBDEL which had a lot of discussion about ARS, but no real remedies for the area as a whole. The Wordsmith 01:42, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

• (non-admin comment) In the interest of contributing to the discussion and providing a reference case (possibly the only existing reference case), please find a AE Case relating to the usage of DS/CT restrictions at ITN which directly resulted in sanctions. The case relates to myself, and my posting the case here should not be construed as commentary on the case itself. Carter00000 (talk) 04:45, 30 May 2023 (UTC)

• I could get behind community-imposed General Sanctions on the ITN-related project pages. The current Arbcom CT restrictions seem like they're built more for article topic areas, though. I think WP:ARBPIA-style restrictions (which have been used by the community many times before with success) might be more effective. An example of the wording would be at WP:GS/Crypto#GS. We could cut out the part about page restrictions unless things like edit wars are an actual problem on ITN pages, but from what I see the problem is mostly civility. The Wordsmith 01:50, 2 June 2023 (UTC)
• To formally state my opinion: yes, I support the imposition of general or discretionary sanctions on ITN. The incivility is getting out of hand. It's almost a guarantee that discourse will become uncivil on any contentious nom, particularly those related to gun violence, even without TRM's presence. In fact, just about any nom regarding an event that occurs in the United States is a potential flashpoint. --Cheers, ⛵ WaltClipper -(talk) 13:21, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

Unblock appeal by HugoAcosta9

HugoAcosta9 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is requesting to have their indefinite block lifted. He was initially blocked for disruption surrounding AfDs and personal attacks, and then engaged in sockpuppetry and block evasion after being indefinitely blocked. That said, there was certainly a fair amount of constructive editing before things came to that point as well, and there is at least some support for the position that HugoAcosta9 did have a point about what was going on, even if it wasn't expressed in an appropriate way. Given the various factors involved here, I think it should be discussed by the community whether this editor should be unblocked, and if so what, if any, restrictions should be applied. Quoted text of the appeal follows below. Seraphimblade 01:12, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

I am writing to request an appeal of my block that was imposed in October of 2022. I was wrong and had been uploading disruptive edits, including personal attacks, disruption at AfDs - doubles down at thread brought by user to ANI. This behavior ultimately led to my block from Misplaced Pages. I acknowledge that I was frequently advised to stop, but I chose to ignore the warnings and continued my actions, which resulted in my block. At that time, I frequently added disruptive edits to discussions, including sockpuppettering six months ago despite editors' instructions that I do not do so. I disregarded their warnings and persisted in my irresponsible behavior. After I was blocked, instead of taking time off to do other things, I was deceitful and frequently engaged in Misplaced Pages:Sockpuppetry, originally using the IPs. I also utilized a wide range of various IP addresses. In December 2022, I was not aware that I had engaged in sockpuppetry and believed that I was able to request a standard offer (SO) in good faith. I now understand that my actions were inappropriate and have since learned more about Misplaced Pages's policies and guidelines. While I recognize that this does not excuse my behavior, it does help explain why I have kept coming back to the site. I want to emphasize that I did not have any malicious intent and did not intend to violate any of Misplaced Pages's rules. I am a passionate supporter of Misplaced Pages and deeply regret any harm that my actions may have caused to the community. Since my account was banned, I have taken steps to educate myself about Misplaced Pages's policies and guidelines, and I have stayed away from the site for over six months. I am eager to return to the community and make meaningful contributions. And for over six months, I have been editing at Spanish Misplaced Pages, making positive contributions like creating new articles. I feel that it could benefit my contributions to Misplaced Pages, especially with football articles. I realize that my past behavior was unacceptable and violated Misplaced Pages's policies. However, I am deeply remorseful for my actions and am committed to making positive contributions to the community. I want to prove that I can continue to contribute to Misplaced Pages in a responsible and productive manner. HugoAcosta9 (talk) 22:14, 1 June 2023 (UTC)

• For ease, copying my Undeniably involved comment, I do somewhat agree with @Nfitz: above that "the AFD system completely failed", which was a big part of what led to Hugo's frustration. I was the closer of some of the original AfDs and ultimately ended up agreeing with them being relisted/restored once the full picture became more clear. Courtesy links: Misplaced Pages:Deletion review/Log/2022 October 19, Misplaced Pages:Administrators'_noticeboard/IncidentArchive1112#Concerns_about_articles_nominated_for_deletion. I'm not going to take action and have not reviewed the Spanish edits they refer to above, but I do thank them for their clear & direct request above. comment from their Talk. Star Mississippi 01:36, 2 June 2023 (UTC)
• I remember the ANI thread that led to their block. The OP was upset that a number of their articles had been nominated for deletion and started throwing around personal attacks, accusations of racism, etc. That's not good of course, but later in the thread there was a clear consensus that the deletion nominations were inappropriate - so inappropriate, in fact, that the editor who initiated them was topic-banned from AfD. It's understandable that someone might become frustrated after being carpet-bombed with meritless AfDs, and aside from this incident the editor's history seems mostly uneventful and productive. I would support an unblock assuming that there is no evidence of recent block evasion. Spicy (talk) 01:56, 2 June 2023 (UTC)
• I'm all in favour of giving them a chance. I think some of those deleted Liga articles may still be under my user name. Nfitz (talk) 19:52, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
• Support this seems to have gotten ignored among the other drama. I support the unblock, with no editing restrictions. The unblock request statement and rationale aren't perfect, but it is good enough for a second chance. Walt Yoder (talk) 17:04, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

Request an Admin

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Hello. It seems to me that User:Raven is engaging in disruptive editing at this time at this subsection of an ANI .It is OK to comment, of course. But the amount of text they keep adding after my post seems to be dominating this subsection of the ANI. I have no other way to describe it. I'm wondering if an Admin could discourage this behavior somehow - or put a stop to it - if that is the appropriate action. Anyway, please take a look. ---Steve Quinn (talk) 06:21, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

I addressed each of the four specific claims you made about "tendentious editing" by Randy Kryn. In our last exchange, you insisted you had not cited WP:TRIVIAL, and I quoted your "Here User:Nyxaros edits out trivial images"  . This you bring to WP:AN? – .Raven  08:28, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

Did you know that people can use the word "trivial" without it having anything to do with WP:TRIVIAL? JoelleJay (talk) 08:39, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

Then where's the policy mandating the "edit  out   trivial images"? – .Raven  08:50, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

Nyxaros reverts pointing out that trivial images contravene WP:IMGDD, "Images must be significant and relevant in the topic's context, not primarily decorative." IMGDD draws directly from the WP:image use policy and WP:NOTGALLERY. JoelleJay (talk) 09:13, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

MOS:IMAGERELEVANCE maybe? --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 10:28, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

Apparantly the fringe crew doesn't enjoy anyone logically pointing out that their accusations against me don't amount to a hill of beans (and rice). Randy Kryn (talk) 12:29, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

Just a note that administrator involvement at the general ANI thread would still be greatly appreciated to cut down on all the unproductive and tendentious IDHT commentary. JoelleJay (talk) 22:16, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

The original complaint here was sound, .Raven's behavior there has been incredibly poor. --JBL (talk) 19:32, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

Please direct us all to WP:PAs like:
Please stop playing (?) dumb. --JBL 18:01, 2 June 2023 (UTC)
Not playing then, I guess. ... --JBL 17:42, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
At your leisure. – .Raven  .talk 02:54, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

Yes, thank you for demonstrating here the kind of low-quality, combative contributions you are making at ANI. In hindsight, rather than trying to correct your poor behavior, I should have started hatting the inane subthreads you multiplied -- hopefully some administrator will do that. --JBL (talk) 17:22, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

Hopefully they'll consider WP:CIVIL. – .Raven  .talk 22:04, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

Involvement check

I'd like to get a quick check with the community about my level of involvement with Hunter Biden laptop controversy before I take any strong actions dealing with the article. I don't see myself as involved, but the threshold is if the community believes I'm involved, and the area is grey enough where I'd like to make sure. I've made eight edits to the article, the last back in January, reverting edits that were by drive-by editors making edits against existing RFC and noticeboard consensus, removing "falsely" from from claims of election fraud, and adding large quotes to the lead that were not covered in the body. The main dispute has been the subject of an RFC, and edit warring discussion, a close review of the RFC, a BLPN thread, an AN discussion, an ANI thread, a second RFC, which I closed, and more.

These edits are similar to the types of edits I've made on Waukesha Christmas parade attack and The Kashmir Files, which are subject to a high level of drive-by editing that isn't aware of, or disregards, existing consensus. I don't feel I would be administratively involved in either of those situations either.

Input on whether I should avoid any administration around this article would be appreciated. Thanks. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 11:11, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

@ScottishFinnishRadish as a member of the community, I do not consider you involved as you only edited the article in administrative role, returning it to consensus version and responding to an edit request. Lightoil (talk) 12:44, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

Giving this a little bump after the excitement below. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 17:47, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

You're good IMO, and something definitely needs to be done there. Arkon (talk) 18:28, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

Like others, I think you're good to go here. Lightoil has summarised your contributions well, and I agree that there's issues at that article's talk page that need administrative input/action. Sideswipe9th (talk) 18:14, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

Appeal for Limited Exception to topic ban for TheTranarchist

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I withdraw this appeal. It's obviously going to go nowhere, and knowing how things turn out, even if it ends up 2-1 in support of me it'll be closed citing a nonexistent majority opposed to the appeal...

I kept the discussion away from the context of the original case this time. At my appeal, I asked for an unban or a limited exception, the majority supported an unban, some supported the limited exception, and nobody opposed the limited exception. Somehow, the limited exception was not even mentioned at the close. So here I asked if people thought there was any chance of disruptive editing with just the limited exception, keeping it short and to the point, and so far there's a lot of opposes without a shred of evidence my edits in the area I'm asking to edit would actually be disruptive.

Why did I do the limited exception? Because there was actually a pretty favorable consensus for it at the appeal and ti was completely ignored in the close. Last night, I tried to get back into editing, I wanted to write the article "jail support" so started collating the sources, and I realized I wouldn't be able to write it because someone would drag me over the coals for faithfully summarizing the fact many sources explicitly called out the gender-gap in jail support groups/networks.

And yes, the case was a trainwreck, that was actually supported by consensus. There was never a clear consensus it was the appropriate punishment.

1. At the original case, the majority opposed it, and the evidence was entirely centered in anti-trans BLPs/ORGs. People asked for someone to close it for weeks in the thread and AN, nobody did. I panicked and asked CaptainEek to close it or even better find someone who would, they couldn't. Isabele Belato later explicitly admitted they wanted to close it a long while ago but didn't because of fear of appearing biased. CaptainEek closed it by explicitly stating that the sock would have been a tie-breaker, but there was a majority in favor of a ban, but as shown in the close review, there was actually not.
2. At the close review, started by someone else (so stop blaming me for it...), the consensus was that the case should have been thrown out per DENY the day we learned it was started by a sock and that the case could have been interpreted as either no consensus for a ban or consensus for some lighter more targeted sanction. In essence: yes it was a trainwreck, but it already crashed, yes it didn't have to be so painful a crash, too late. It was not a consensus the ban was the right course of action, just that it was a possible course of action when alternatives would have worked.
3. At the appeal, the majority once again believed my ban should be lifted due to a combination 1) the fact it was highly questionable whether it should have been given in the first place, and 2) per ROPE and AGF I should be given the opportunity to prove myself. A minority opposed, mostly on procedural grounds, and were called the majority... CaptainEek admitted they may have misread the communities will and instituted a harsher sanction than actually called for at the appeal and that wasn't taken into consideration at all.

To those who said I am too emotional because I am suffering a ban that is a punishment rather than actively protecting the enclyopedia? That comes across most charitably as patronizing, especially given the majority of the community has always agreed... To those saying too emotional because I want to edit LGBT articles this pride? Jesus the cultural insensitivity - I am passionate about editing enclyopediacaly, not for a particular viewpoint, LGBT rights is literally one of my academic areas of expertise. To those who point to 1) me asking CaptainEek if certain LGBT-related articles I thought were non-controversial were covered by GENSEX and 2) my warning as somehow evidence of evading my ban, it's ridiculous to never mention the contexts that 1) I did not the edit the articles I was explicitly told not to and 2) the warning was ruled a grey area since it was vandalism unrelated to GENSEX on an article where prior consensus was that the organizations stances/activities on trans rights are not a defining part of their notability. To those arguing that me saying the ban hurts and the fact I asked for an appeal and the AGF that I'll not edit disruptively is evidence I'll edit disruptively, is a mind boggling orwellian statement. Saying I don't want to be punished any longer is proof I should be punished!

There were issued raised. I do not think they merited a full TBAN, true, but I have been diligently working on them. I have never claimed my editing was perfect, but neither was it so terrible no article vaguely related to trans people is safe. I'm taking a break from this kafkaesque NOT-NOTBURO nightmare of a site for at least a week, hopefully two-four. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TheTranarchist (talk • contribs) 16:41, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

I'll keep this short. I just appealed my GENSEX tban, asking for either an unban or a limited exception. There was a lot of outspoken support for an unban, some support for a limited exception, and opposition to the unban (without mention of the limited exception). The unban was denied.

Since it got ignored in the close of the appeal but there seemed to be support for it without opposition, I ask for a limited exception in the following articles (and associated noticeboard discussions):

I ask this be closed in 48-72 hours, I've turned off all my Misplaced Pages notifications and will check this page in 72 hours. In all honesty, if approved, I'll cry tears of joy and probably immediately get to work on fixing up Tri-Ess to make up for lost time. Then move onto fixing up Angela Lynn Douglas, then start overhauling LGBT rights in New York. If denied, it'll honestly be very hard on me, so I'll take a break from all editing for a few weeks and hope it feels less raw when I get back. Either way, you won't see me back at AN until the 6 months are up, but in the former case the next 3 months will feel like an inconvenience/annoyance rather than downright painful. I'm probably an idiot for trying this, but the lack of any opposition to it in my appeal make me feel taking this shot is worth it, and hey, hope springs eternal. TheTranarchist ⚧ Ⓐ (talk) 12:28, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

Oppose - I can't speak for other editors but it appears this issue is becoming a huge WP:TIMESINK. At this time, I don't believe TTA is capable of returning to GENSEX in good faith for a long time. Their edit volume has dropped off a cliff since the institution of their tban, with a significant number of those edits trying to work around their ban, appealing it, and in one case dealing with a warning for editing a page that was created due to their involvement in GENSEX controversy. I'm in favor of a full siteban at this point. I believe a reset of the TBAN and a restriction on appeals is appropriate. Kcmastrpc (talk) 12:53, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

Oppose I'm sorry but I agree with Kcmastrpc that this is a timesink and at this point is honestly becoming a bit disruptive to the project. This is, I think, the 4th or 5th discussion on this topic? I would have had confidence in TheTranarchist's eventual unban if she'd accepted the TBAN and continued working elsewhere in the meantime, but instead she's entering WP:STICK territory. We're getting continual reruns and appeals for exceptions, which does not inspire confidence, and each discussion inevitably descends into an attempt to re-litigate the original discussion and how justified it was. Please just close this discussion now rather than another endless pit forming. I would support a ban on future appeals, and honestly at this point I'm leaning towards a reset of the original TBAN. — Czello 12:59, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

I agree with Kcmastrpc that this is becoming a huge timesink. This is the fifth discussion we have had on this exact topic in three months - the initial ANI thread, the close review, the topic ban warning dispute, the first appeal, and now this second appeal. I would oppose a full siteban at this time as I believe they can become a productive editor again if forced to take a break from this topic, and to that end I do support banning TheTranarchist from appealing any restrictions on them for a period of one year, to be enforced strictly with escalating blocks if breached. BilledMammal (talk) 13:03, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

Quick comment, I don't think it's either fair or reasonable to hold either the close review nor the warning review against TheTranarchist as she did not initiate those. Both of those examples were initiated by other editors in good faith. Sideswipe9th (talk) 13:19, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

TT also initiated a discussion on the Talk page of the admin who closed the appeal: Sweet6970 (talk) 13:24, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

There was some excellent advice given on that talk page discussion by Tewdar Tewdar's five-step plan: Stay away from GENSEX / Practice encyclopaedic writing style / Appeal when six months is up / Don't start any more appeals until six months is up (don't listen to anyone who tells you this is a good idea) / Profit (hopefully). Note that TT did edit that talk page after Tewdar's post. starship.paint (exalt) 13:41, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

• Oppose - given this attempt, obviously too emotionally involved for the topic area (already planning multiple articles to edit after unblock?). From the history provided by BilledMammal above, it's plain WP:NOTGETTINGIT. Perhaps we can institute another six-month ban on appeals starting from the time of this close. I do not support a siteban. starship.paint (exalt) 13:04, 2 June 2023 (UTC)
  • ... and if this isn't speedily closed, I may just ping everyone who was involved in the recently closed appeal. It's not fair if they are not notified, and OP has asked for this to be closed in 48 hours. I'm giving this about 12 23 hours before a ping. starship.paint (exalt) 13:11, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

    yeah don't. This is one of the most active pages on Misplaced Pages. I think there's enough people here already. Considering the comment about this being a time-sink you're stating you agree with I don't see why you'd want this to be an even more massive waste of time. --Licks-rocks (talk) 13:47, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

  FWIW, strictly oppose any ban on appeals in this case, up to and including the current one. I think the ban is so bad for so many reasons any pathway to overturn it should be open. Loki (talk) 14:07, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

• Support per previous support for overturning the entire topic ban. I also want to specifically say here, even though I didn't last time, that I actually strongly disagree with the closer's comment and the comments of people here that Tranarchist is too emotionally involved somehow. Of course she's got strong emotions about this! She was banned for bad reasons against consensus! I'd be mad too! Loki (talk) 14:05, 2 June 2023 (UTC)
  • Oh, so uninvolved admin CaptainEek got it wrong in the initial consensus! Then either the community or uninvolved admin Isabelle Belato got it wrong in the close review! After that either the community or uninvolved admin RoySmith got it wrong in the appeal! They're all wrong! starship.paint (exalt) 14:13, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

    CaptainEek got it very transparently wrong in the initial close, and the remaining discussions have all ended as no consensus. The community has never once actually endorsed this topic ban. Loki (talk) 14:15, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

    The fact that the community has not found consensus either that CaptainEek was wrong to impose the ban, or that the ban should be lifted, suggests that whether or not you believe the initial decision was wrong it was not "transparently" so. Whether or not TheTranarchist agrees with the merits of the ban, she needs to understand that enough of the community does support it that it continues to remain in place. I have no personal disagreement with TheTranarchist – indeed I am not sure we have ever interacted – and I suspect that I agree with her on many things, so I hope she takes this advice seriously: opening a second appeal only days after her previous appeal was rejected, still less than three months into a ban which was imposed with the provision You may appeal this topic ban, at WP:AN, no sooner than 6 months from now can be charitably be described as brave but more realistically as foolhardy. Repeated unsuccessful appeals, especially ones which are seen as poorly thought through (for instance by appealing multiple times in quick succession, or several months before the first permitted appeal) may end up meaning that the sanctions remain in place for longer than they would otherwise have done, as you exhaust community patience. If I were TheTranarchist, I would do my best to put any idea that the topic ban was "wrong" or not endorsed by the community out of my mind – I cannot see any way in which believing such a thing would be helpful, and several ways in which it could be actively harmful to her prospects of successfully appealing the ban in future. Caeciliusinhorto (talk) 14:37, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

    @LokiTheLiar Isabelle Belato closed the review of Eek's close as endorsed. That means there was a consensus supporting Eek's close and it was not closed as no consensus. I've pinged Isabelle in case she they would like to correct my read of that. Barkeep49 (talk) 14:41, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

    In that case I also think that she they read the consensus wrong, because that discussion was also a fairly clear 50/50 split. Loki (talk) 15:01, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

    @LokiTheLiar: When you say I also think that she read the consensus wrong, are you talking about Eek (she/they) or Isabelle (they/them)? The pronoun choice indicates Eek, but the broader context indicates Isabelle. — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 15:27, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

    Huh. I thought I remembered that being flipped. Corrected! Loki (talk) 15:33, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

  Also I would like to note explicitly to @BilledMammal, @Kcmastrpc and @Starship.paint that this course of action was explicitly suggested by the closer of the previous appeal:

  I'll also go out on a limb and suggest that if a future appeal were to ask to soften the TBAN to just cover BLP articles, I suspect that might be better received. Loki (talk) 14:13, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

  If you think future = 5 days, I'll have you know that RoySmith literally sighed when notified of this appeal. starship.paint (exalt) 14:17, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

  If Roy, or the community didn't want an appeal in that short a time frame, then that should have been explicitly stated. However it wasn't, and it was left open to interpretation. Sideswipe9th (talk) 14:18, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

  CaptainEek explicitly stated in the initial closure that a first appeal would be permissible after six months. TheTranarchist has now appealed twice and it is not yet three months into the TBan. Whether or not RoySmith stated a restriction on when the next appeal could be, the fact that it's only five days since the last one closed and we still haven't got halfway to the timeline set out for a first appeal logged at WP:RESTRICT, TheTranarchist would have done well to consider whether such an appeal at this time was wise. Caeciliusinhorto (talk) 14:44, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

  @Sideswipe9th since I was pinged here and there is a question about how my close should be interpreted, I'll respond. It's not a question of what I wanted; my job as closer is essentially clerical, i.e. to distill the discussion, not to express any opinion of my own. I didn't say anything about when a future appeal could be made because I thought it was obvious that the original 6 month wait time was still in effect, and that "future" referred to that time frame. Frankly, I find it difficult to believe that anybody thought I was encouraging an immediate repeat appeal. -- RoySmith (talk) 16:41, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

  It might be. However, less than a full week later is a bold move, one that I would have likely advised against, but we're probably not going to agree on this matter regardless. Kcmastrpc (talk) 14:17, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

  A future appeal in 3 months, yes. --Licks-rocks (talk) 14:17, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

  Please point out in that closure where a 3 month wait before appealing was stated. Sideswipe9th (talk) 14:19, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

  The original sanction was appealable after six months, they appealed anyway and were unsuccessful. The original sanction, still prohibiting an appeal for six months, remains in effect. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 14:22, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

  that's from the original closure. That being said, I've been up for 20 uninterrupted hours yesterday, so I may write a less grumpy and more charitable response to this case tomorrow. --Licks-rocks (talk) 14:25, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

• Apprehension - I would have preferred that there be some distance between the previous appeal and this current one, or that if the prior close was going to be reviewed or amended, that it be done by a third party. I think these sorts of hasty appeals are detrimental to your cause, and rarely yield positive results. Anytime the community feels that you are becoming a burden on their time, it diminishes the future credibility of your actions. Of course I get that you're upset, I would be too, but you need to focus your efforts on more constructive tasks. --Cheers, ⛵ WaltClipper -(talk) 14:18, 2 June 2023 (UTC)
• Please, everyone who has more than ten total responses in all of these threads, just say your piece and stop. No need to reply to each other or try and convince each other. At this point everyone knows what everyone who's been discussing this disagrees with or supports. Just make your statement and try and ignore it. Please. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 14:28, 2 June 2023 (UTC)
• Oppose. The previous appeal by the user, which also explicitly asked for the community to grant the user a limited exception to the articles... of the form LGBT Rights in XYZ, was declined by the community a mere five days ago. I do not see anything that has meaningfully changed since that short time ago, and so I will echo my prior comments there: if this user wants their TBAN narrowed, they should abide by it for a good amount of time prior to their appeal, rather than violating it and being put on final warning less than one month before appealing. I initially favored a more narrow TBAN in the first AN thread (one that would have allowed for this sort of editing while disallowing editing about the intersection of BLP and GENSEX), but I can't currently get behind narrowing the restriction in light of the recent TBAN violation (for which they received a formal warning) and the user's pattern of attempting to push the TBAN's limits since very shortly after it was enacted. That the user is appealing again after the community discussion five days ago denied their appeal seals it... please wait for six months before appealing again. — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 14:52, 2 June 2023 (UTC)
• Oppose I respect TheTransarchist as an editor. I understand their desire to be able to edit in the area they choose. However, this is another appeal for a lifting of restrictions shortly after one was declined. Please, you need to stop. Wait the ban out and THEN go back to editing. Repeatedly coming to request changes to your topic ban is going to begin to wear out the patience that the community has. It's been 5 days since the last appeal. This isn't a good look to keep coming back over and over and hope for a different result. RickinBaltimore (talk) 15:06, 2 June 2023 (UTC)
• Oppose - Based on my review of TT's editing style before and after the TBAN was implemented, I think ROPE is premature and would likely be counterproductive at this time. My hope is for TT's editing to improve before she returns to the GENSEX topic area - for example, as she and I have discussed, by more closely citing sources as described at WP:TSI. From my view, TT appears to be minimizing issues with her editing that existed before the TBAN was first implemented and therefore should not yet return to the GENSEX topic area until there is 1) greater recognition of editing issues that can be improved, and relatedly, 2) reassurance that these issues will improve. Beccaynr (talk) 15:37, 2 June 2023 (UTC)
• Oppose - There is no reason that this TBAN should be narrowed. Also this idea of limited exceptions for editors is not really a thing that happens. As I explained in Newimpartial's request for a limited exception: WP:BMB says On very rare occasions, a limited exception may be requested; for example, to participate in a particular discussion. There should be a very compelling reason given for a ban exception, and I really want to edit these articles is not a good enough reason. TTA appears to be way overly emotionally invested in editing LGBT-related articles as demonstrated by her now two appeals to her TBAN prior to the 6 month TBAN appeal period and saying just above "If denied, it'll honestly be very hard on me," which is further evidence that she has not learned her lesson and is not ready for reintroduction into those areas. Arguments that the original TBAN was unjust should be rejected in this discussion because they have been rejected in now 3 (soon to be 4) past discussions. Enough is enough. This is becoming a time-sink. Iamreallygoodatcheckers 15:52, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

Proposal: Speedy close this per WP:SNOW

It's becoming very clear very quickly that this proposal doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of getting through; almost every response is in opposition to overturning the ban. I'm honestly amazed TT was unwise enough to start it, and five separate editors (myself included) have called this a time-sink. Some editors have even proposed further restrictions be put in place. Given the track record of previous such discussions, which can end up the length of a literal novel, I don't think it's wise to go through all of this again (for the fifth time, and less than a week after last time). Sadly TT said she was turning off notifications and running off for 3 days, and so she won't be able to self-close. I'm requesting an admin speedily close this and ideally WP:TROUT OP. — Czello 16:06, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

Shutting off notifications for 3 days while appealing a topic ban is honestly... not ideal. I support close, let's hurry up and avoid further rancor. Cheers, ⛵ WaltClipper -(talk) 16:23, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

Support, no chance this will be successful. Iamreallygoodatcheckers 16:38, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

User:BigHaz redux

I'd like to re-introduce a discussion around the unusual behavior of admin User:BigHaz. Whatever their situation – a long hiatus with barely any activity for 5 years, and then suddenly performing numerous unilateral speedy deletions with poor justification – I feel their actions fall short of proper admin behavior and merit more investigation.

The previous discussion from 5 May 2023 can be found here where Liz first brought up an issue: Misplaced Pages:Administrators'_noticeboard/Archive352#User:BigHaz. In retrospect, I do not believe Liz's posting was an "overreaction," as the user's actions have continued a pattern of poor judgment and problematic interactions with other users. Pinging previous folks in that conversation as a courtesy: Ingenuity, Beyond My Ken, Enterprisey.

I don't remember encountering BigHaz in the past. But what I found unusual was that an article I created in 2019 was just tagged for speedy deletion (WP:A7) by Thewritestuff92, an editor with barely 200 lifetime edits . The CSD/A7 tagging was that user's first edit of 2023. Less than 15 minutes later, it gets deleted immediately by BigHaz.

To recap, we have this odd situation:

• Thewritestuff92's first edit since November 2022 was to tag Christianné Allen with CSD/A7 at 19:50 local time.

  There is substantial WP:RS coverage of her as Rudy Giuliani’s former communications director (see Google News search), so the proper process would be WP:AFD and not CSD.

• Thewritestuff92 leaves a note about the CSD/A7 on my talk page at 19:53 local time.
• Ten minutes later, at 20:03, BigHaz deletes it.

  Any decent admin should see that it's not a proper CSD/A7 situation, and should go through a regular AfD process.

• There are also at least three other issues with this admin's deletion actions in the last 24 hours.
  • User_talk:BigHaz#R3_deletion with J947
  • User_talk:BigHaz#Role_of_the_Chinese_Communist_Party_in_lawmaking with Pppery
  • User_talk:BigHaz#10_000_BC with Pppery

I'm concerned that even when it was pointed out by J947 that the CSD criteria clearly says, "Speedy deletion is intended to reduce the time spent on deletion discussions for pages or media with no practical chance of surviving discussion" , BigHaz dismissed this , and has kept performing dubious deletions.

In that earlier May conversation, BigHaz admitted they may be out of touch with the current norms. To wit: And don't know what admin standards are any more: You may be right in this claim. When last I dealt with admin-related matters, there was a general sense that it was a good idea that people were doing them. It appears that I am now trespassing on a little fiefdom where good faith is not to be assumed. If this is the case, I'll happily perform other actions in the future.

I am therefore formally asking BigHaz for the time being, please refrain from acting on CSD deletions, and to use your own words: "perform other actions in the future."

I welcome BigHaz's response and others to add any additional context. - Fuzheado | Talk 01:59, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

To respond to the accusations being made in the order in which they were raised:

1. The article cited was not written in a way which made it anything other than promotional. If the subject was in fact notable, I'm happy to accept that I made a mistake. I'm human, after all, and I assume everyone else around here is as well. The fact that it was deleted ten minutes after being tagged for speedy deletion is, quite simply, a function of what speedy deletion is. Had it been tagged in some other way, the process would have taken longer, as we know.

2. Regarding my interactions with J947, the other user is well aware of the process to contest a speedy deletion tag and (for reasons I don't claim to understand, but which probably make sense to them) opted not to in this instance.

3. Regarding my interaction with Pppery, I'm presently discussing the issue with that user on my Talk page. They have raised (somewhat belligerently, but so be it) cogent points, and I'm happy to take the relevant action if that's the best outcome.

4. To the concern about "dubious deletions", I would respond that any and every page could be seen as a "dubious deletion" in some respect - some for more cogent reasons than others, but there's usually going to be someone who doesn't like something being deleted. Following J947's comments, I haven't deleted anything dealing with redirects, for example.

5. My response in May has been taken out of context. The allegation, largely, was that by handling the PROD process the way that I was demonstrated a level of dangerous incompetence. My response was that I was labouring under the misapprehension that we assumed that we were all "pulling in the same direction", so to speak. I'm happy to reiterate that point now, as it appears that there is a willingness to fly off the handle when someone does something remotely different to what you expect (even to the extent of J947's willingness to ignore processes in the interests of making a point). BigHaz - Schreit mich an 02:14, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

As a further point, CSD is by definition "unilateral". I fail to see why that should be a criticism. BigHaz - Schreit mich an 02:15, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

And one final PS (apologies, I know this is rather poor form), I am moving back into a situation at work where I'll be very much busier for a few months, so depending on how long "the time being" is, you may get your wish without needing to make a big thing of it. BigHaz - Schreit mich an 02:18, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

There is definitely someone being belligerent on your talk page, but it’s not Pppery. 100.36.106.199 (talk) 12:05, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

Do we need IP addresses throwing in comments? BigHaz - Schreit mich an 13:02, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

More than we need administrators who refuse to take any kind of negative feedback. I mean, I haven't deleted any Misplaced Pages articles on questionable grounds this week! 100.36.106.199 (talk) 14:16, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

So asking someone who says "You shouldn't have deleted article xyz" to explain why I shouldn't have done so is "refus to take negative feedback"? Righto. BigHaz - Schreit mich an 23:41, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

Yes, that is probably what I mean, and not at all a continued demonstration of your unwillingness to take criticism seriously. Oy vey. --100.36.106.199 (talk) 01:52, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

Ad hominem is fun, isn't it? BigHaz - Schreit mich an 05:03, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

Ad hominem <-- please read it. 100.36.106.199 (talk) 19:34, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

I mean for crying out loud, there is definitely one ad hom comment in this discussion; it was Do we need IP addresses throwing in comments? 100.36.106.199 (talk) 19:35, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

• BigHaz - with regards to the article itself, if you thought it was promotional (FWIW, I do not), the correct criterion for deletion would have been WP:G11. Now, in your point 1 above, you are talking about notability. An WP:A7 deletion is obviously tangentially related to notability, but it is much stricter than that - admins do not have discretion to delete articles purely because they believe the subject is not notable. To be eligible for A7, an article must fail to indicate why its subject is important or significant in some way. Your mileage may vary, but I would consider the following sentence a claim of significance: "She served as Director of Communication for Rudy Giuliani." As such, the article was not eligible for A7 deletion; it should have gone to AfD to allow other editors to look for additional sources, weigh notability, etc. Based on this deletion, and on your response above, I would advise you to spend some time getting reacquainted with our deletion processes before taking admin actions in this area. I haven't looked at the other aspects of this report. Girth Summit _(blether) 12:09, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

  My apologies for misspeaking in that instance. The article was, as you rightly point out, tagged A7. When I saw the article and the tag, my conclusion was that simply serving in a position for a notable person does not make a person notable. I have, in the past, worked in the office of a person who held a very senior political role here in Australia. That doesn't give me sufficient (or indeed any, really) notability for an article here. A relative has held the position of Director-General for a government department in Queensland. He doesn't rise to the level of notability as a result of that, despite the fact that he reported on a daily basis to ministers who were themselves notable. And so it goes.

  As mentioned above, I'm moving back into a "busy phase" at work, so my ability to interact with Misplaced Pages beyond the superficial will be reduced once again. At some point in the next 12 months, I may end up with another few weeks where I can attempt to make myself useful. I will need to reconsider my default idea that Misplaced Pages is a place to do that. BigHaz - Schreit mich an 13:01, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

  You are again talking about notability; the question is not whether or not the person is notable, A7 requires there to be no claim of significance or importance, which is a lower threshold than notability. I don't think that there are many people who would agree with the notion that holding that role is not a CCoS, especially when the article had three sources, each discussing the subject in significant depth. I am not saying that you cannot be useful here, just that your understanding of our deletion processes seems to be at odds with current practices. Girth Summit _(blether) 13:10, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

  Replace "notable" with whatever other adjective suits if it matters. As mentioned on my talk page in response, I still remain unconvinced that "worked for a person who is himself highly notable" amounts to a claim of anything much other than having a job, but there you are. Perhaps my relative's career does add up to an article - not that I intend to write it. BigHaz - Schreit mich an 23:44, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

  BigHaz, the point is that the determination of notability in this case should have been made through a community discussion at AfD, not unilaterally by an administrator who is out of touch with current norms and practices. Please be more cautious in the future. Cullen328 (talk) 23:59, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

  Point taken. The point I've been trying to make throughout has been that the determination appeared pretty clear-cut, which was (and, unless I'm radically mistaken, still is) the point of CSD tags. Had it not done so, I would have removed the tag, as you can see that I have done on a number of other occasions. BigHaz - Schreit mich an 01:10, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

removal of protection from all articles related to the Russian-Ukrainian war.

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

I ask the administrators to remove the extended protection from all articles related to the Russian-Ukrainian war. Please help . Kiriuxa2002 (talk) 07:01, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

Why? Girth Summit _(blether) 07:03, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

Gosh. Every single one of your edits so far has been about asking for this protection to be removed. That isn't giving to happen - the protection is needed to prevent disruption from inexperienced editors and bad faith actors. Go and do something else while you learn the ropes. Girth Summit _(blether) 07:12, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

I don't believe that's gonna happen anytime soon, considering the contentiousness (is that even a word?) of the topic, and the numerous occasion where point-of-view pushers will attempt to insert false/unsourced information. LilianaUwU 07:26, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

Ummm User contributions for Kiriuxa2002. User page created with this comment/text: участник из славгорода, which translates from Russian to participant from Slavgorod. I think this can be marked as answered and archived/closed. Cinderella157 (talk) 07:58, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

Cannot edit own js page

I can't edit these own subpages User:DefenderTienMinh07/EditCounterOptIn.js and User:DefenderTienMinh07/minerva.js which are belong to my userpage. When I click Edit button, it said: "You do not have permission to edit this JavaScript page because it is a redirect and it does not point inside your userspace." ☀DefenderTienMinh⛤☯☽ (talk) 23:22, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

(Non-administrator comment) You may be trying to look at the page it redirects to, which you can't edit. You might want to try User:DefenderTienMinh07/EditCounterOptIn.js and User:DefenderTienMinh07/minerva.js. Heart 23:26, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

I’ve deleted those redirects, I think that will fix the problem. Courcelles (talk) 23:27, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

Unblock/Unban request from User:Greenock125

Greenock125 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log)

• Carrying request over from UTRS appeal #73557. Yamla found no evidence of recent socking.

I believe this block is no longer necessary because I understand why I was blocked. I broke copyright rules by copying text directly from websites and evading my block after it was imposed by abusing multiple accounts, creating another account, and using multiple IP addresses. I admit continuing to keep editing in 2022, I should not have done that and fully apologize for my actions. I promise this will never happen again, make productive contributions, and abide by all Misplaced Pages polices.

What is copyright? It allows the owner the exclusive rights to use their work. When someone creates an original work, fixed in a tangible medium, they automatically own copyright to the work. How is Misplaced Pages licenced? All content published on Misplaced Pages is licensed by the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). Why is copyrighted content not allowed on Misplaced Pages? The database servers for Misplaced Pages are found in the United States, which means any copyright content published on Misplaced Pages would infringe US copyright law. Under what circumstances can we use copyrighted content? To get permission to use copyrighted content you need to contact the owner of the content which is the original author.

How do you intend to avoid violating the copyright policy in the future? To avoid violating the copyright policy in the future I would make sure to use my own words and not copy text directly from websites.

--Carried over by -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 15:59, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

@Greenock125: If you are unbanned what do you plan on working on? -- Shadow of the Starlit Sock 02:28, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

• If I was unbanned from Misplaced Pages I would be mainly working on music articles but also I would edit movie and sports articles.

-- Carried over by -- X750. Spin a yarn? _{Articles I've screwed over?} 09:15, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

@Greenock125: Your November, 2020 block also mentions "no communication" as a rationale for the block. Why do you think the blocking admin felt the need to note that in your block rationale, and how do you plan to address that particular problem if unblocked? --Jayron32 18:18, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

Carried over from user talk-"When I was blocked in November 2020, I was asked to answer questions in my own words about copyright to establish if I should be unblocked, but I violated copyright in giving my answers. I should not have done this. If I am unblocked, I will make sure to answer any questions or concerns on my talk page when I receive them, Greenock125 (talk) 4:03 pm, Today (UTC−4)"-- -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 20:35, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

@Greenock125: How specifically did you violate copyright policies? -- Shadow of the Starlit Sock 20:37, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

Carried over from user talk. "When I was answering questions on Copyright, I copied text from the Copyright article and used it in my answers, I should not have done that and answered in my own words. Greenock125 (talk) 20:44, 23 May 2023 (UTC)" -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 20:46, 23 May 2023 (UTC) -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 20:46, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

Greenock125, you answered "Under what circumstances can we use copyrighted content?" incorrectly. You appear to have missed all of WP:FAIRUSE. Would you like to comment on this? --Yamla (talk) 21:07, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

Copied over. Not sure if it was meant to answer Yamla's question. ':Also I would avoid copyright violations by avoiding long quotations from sources when creating any articles . Greenock125 (talk) 21:04, 23 May 2023 (UTC)" -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 21:20, 23 May 2023 (UTC) -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 21:20, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

Ummm, I am not be an admin, but I don't think the user grasps how to avoid copyright. – Callmemirela 🍁 04:28, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

Carried over from user's talk. ":You can use copyrighted content if it is Non-free content and is fair use in US copyright law and complies with the criteria for Non-free content. Greenock125 (talk) 21:19, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

You are allowed to use Non-free content in articles only if the usage of the content is considered in United States copyright law and complies with the criteria for Non-free content. Greenock125 (talk) 09:38, 24 May 2023 (UTC)" -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 09:51, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

-- Deepfriedokra (talk) 09:51, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

carried over "When creating music articles, I am allowed to use brief quotations of copyrighted text as extensive use of copyrighted quotation text is prohibited. Any changes to quotation text in articles must be marked clearly (e.g. ). Greenock125 (talk) 6:10 am, Today (UTC−4)

" -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 10:17, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

My two cents? Have them summarize an article quelconque. Because you can use long quotation as long it's relevant to the content itself; say it's an actor summarizing their feelings for the role, a review for a film or politicians' words after a shooting, just as long as it's not the only content, quotation marks are clear and a source follows the quote. – Callmemirela 🍁 15:04, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

• CCI on this editor: Misplaced Pages:Contributor copyright investigations/Greenock125. I'm ambivalent to this appeal. Moneytrees🏝️(Talk) 17:39, 24 May 2023 (UTC)
• I also am not supportive of an unblock at this time. I asked a pretty straightforward question above, and instead got an answer to a question I asked nothing about. I asked about lack of communication, and got some rambling reply about copyright. That doesn't make me feel like letting this editor back in the fold would be productive at this time. --Jayron32 15:38, 25 May 2023 (UTC)

  (Carried over from user talk)

  If I am unblocked and unbanned, I will tackle the lack of communication by stopping any editing, and when an editor comes into my talk page with a concern, question, or warning, I will comment on it, I will not ignore it and make sure I acknowledged that I have read it. Greenock125 (talk) 15:59, 25 May 2023 (UTC)

  -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 16:57, 25 May 2023 (UTC)

IP block exemption request

Copied from user talk:Mjroots
Hello Mjroots, Please i will like to request for an IP block exemption for this user:LordXI01 for a duration. He will be contributing to a wikipedia project " Africa Day Campaign". If you can grant him a minimum of 6 months IP block exemption. I did be glad. Below are his details: User:LordXI01 IP Address:102.176.94.159 JDQ Joris Darlington Quarshie (talk) 06:29, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

I've no objection to the request, but I don't know how to do this . Would someone please oblige. Mjroots (talk) 06:33, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

 Done: I've granted IPBE for a sufficient period of time. Can I just take this opportunity to add for other admins in the future: If you're in Ghana it's almost certain that all your IP addresses will be hard blocked. Users who are almost certainly in Ghana, and who are almost certainly not socks or spammers, please don't hesitate to grant temporary IPBE. -- zzuuzz 06:55, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

Thanks a lot @Zzuuzz JDQ Joris Darlington Quarshie (talk) 07:08, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

Indeed, see the Diff blog post series starting here and m:Talk:No open proxies/Unfair blocking. It's a difficult balancing act, to say the least. Graham87 07:27, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

Thanks a lot let me share these links with the communities. JDQ Joris Darlington Quarshie (talk) 07:59, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2023

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

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Guideline and policy news

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

Technical news

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

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• 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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