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LTA range

@Acroterion and NeilN: I just took out 71.251.40.0/21 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), which has... quite the history, going back to October 2015. Just FYI, since you've dealt with this character. Regards, GAB 05:23, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

Oh, wow! Some of those articles. Blast from the past. --NeilN 05:31, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

2021, good. A nice clean rangeblock. Thanks, Acroterion (talk) 12:48, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

Deleted articles

Hi there. I see you deleted World University Cross Country Championship as part of a block case. I remember the information there was valid, and possibly some of it by myself. Are you willing to share the deleted content so I can recreate what is useful? I would also be interested in any other athletics-related articles that were deleted as a result of this clean-up. Thanks, SFB 14:23, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

@Sillyfolkboy: If you mean World University Cross Country Championships, then I'd be happy to restore it. GAB 17:48, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

Yes, that would be great. Thanks! SFB 20:22, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

@Sillyfolkboy:  Done. GAB 20:35, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

UFAA / AIV

Hi GAB, Just wanted to say thanks for revdelling the edits of the editor I reported at UFAA/AIV a few days ago and I also want to apologise for not actually stating which edits needed revdeling but anyway thanks for dealing with that and again sorry for making you do the legwork there!, Happy editing, –Davey2010 20:40, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

Can you comment on a general issue raised by your block of Special:Contributions/185.165.168.117?

Please see this thread at the ref desk talk page, https://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia_talk:Reference_desk#Can_someone_block_82.43.223.98?, especially the unhatted part of it, which is the part relevant to the block you issued.

What I am wondering is, if the user deserved a month's block for using a proxy, shouldn't his edit also have been removed? Could you clarify, was the editor simply blocked because the address is know to be used as a proxy, or was the editor himself a blocked editor who just happened to be using a proxy which itself was an ok IP if used legitimately?

To me the situation is like the headline, man arrested entering window of house. Was he a known felon, who was caught entering a window? Or was his entering the window the crime for which he was arrested?

Please answer here so the other editors can see what's going on. Thanks. μηδείς (talk) 02:20, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

@Medeis: Replied there. GAB 20:26, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

SPI custom and practice

Thanks for your thanks. I also have a question I hope you can help with. WP:SOCKTAG is all very well as a policy but if there is anything about 'sentencing policy' for abusers that is more specfic I have yet to find it. It's all very well handing out indef blocks for the obvious cases, but what is custom and practice for more complex issues? Specifically I got stuck here (which I now fear has become TLDR), but I am no more clear about others I have taken an interest in. Ben MacDui 19:32, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

@Ben MacDui: I'm so glad that you're interested in taking a more active role at SPI. I can't comment on that case specifically, but I can say that the sockblock policy is very discretionary. Generally, if the socking is exacerbated by other disruptive activity (or vice-versa), the indef will likely come quicker. The best way to get acquainted with the general MO is by reading archived cases (preferably recent). For instance, I keep an SPI log for reference. I hope that this - vague as it is - helps. GAB 23:35, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

At present my thoughts about SPI are something like "one third strange, one third alarming and one third intriguing". No promises but I hope to keep plugging away; there always seems to be a backlog. Your log looks very helpful and I will use it as a reference in future if that's OK. I can see that I might have to create something similar to keep the bewildering array of names encountered in order. I guessed as much about 'policy' - there's a danger that old hands bad habits become newcomers accepted practice - although I suspect there are few complaints from regular editors. See you soon over at the ranch no doubt. Ben MacDui

Administrators' newsletter – February 2018

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

Administrator changes

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Guideline and policy news

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

Technical news

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

Arbitration

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

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Backlog update:

• The new page backlog is currently at 3819 unreviewed articles, with a further 6660 unreviewed redirects.
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Matthew Jocelyn

You just revdeled some edits on Matthew Jocelyn. I removed some stuff of serious BLP concern earlier, which may have some link to what you've removed, and I probably should've called for a revdel. If you could take a look at this range of edits and revdel as appropriate, it would be appreciated. Not "send you a big box of muffins" level of appreciated, but appreciated nonetheless. --Nat Gertler (talk) 22:47, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

@NatGertler:  Done. Someone clearly has an axe to grind. GAB 02:33, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

On this day, 3 years ago..

Hey, GeneralizationsAreBad. I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of the Misplaced Pages Birthday Committee! Have a great day! Lepricavark (talk) 00:16, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

The Propaganda Account

Hello Sir, thanks for your help, i just wonder why the account of User:O.celebi who gets another account to assist him and confirm his claim in Turks in Egypt page, is not blocked? This user uses Misplaced Pages as a political tool and constantly wanting to change the demographics of other nations and getting another user to help him spread his propaganda. Beronzya (talk) 02:38, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

@Beronzya: The other account was found to be a sockpuppet of a different master. Please consider dispute resolution processes, though. Regards, GAB 17:07, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

WP:CBAN for Krajoyn

On Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard, I have started a discussion of a potential CBAN of Krajoyn which you might have been involved in.

The discussion is linked at WP:CBAN for Krajoyn. Iggy (Swan) 19:21, 19 February 2018 (UTC)