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Hi! We're conducting a series of participatory workshops with Wikipedia editors, administrators, researchers, and Wikimedia employees to discuss, and hopefully improve, Wikipedia's structures for online research (see meta research page). In an effort to get the right people in the room to discuss these topics, I'm reaching out here to see if you are interested in participating as an active administrator. We'd work with you to ensure this workshop can fit into your schedule, but are targeting end of April/early May. I'm happy to discuss any of these topics further here or on our talk page. Zentavious (talk) 14:04, 29 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

—Ganesha811 (talk) 00:02, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

They are actively vandalizing athlete articles. Left guide (talk) 11:01, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Left guide: Done, 31h. I'd usually say to leave a warning first, but this seemed to deserve an exception. —Bagumba (talk) 11:08, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, I was actually thinking of warning at first, but more live vandalism kept occurring. Thanks for assisting. Left guide (talk) 11:15, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That IP you blocked earlier is back. ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) 21:15, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@WikiOriginal-9: Thanks. Blocked for 1 mo. —Bagumba (talk) 04:10, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

An account you recently blocked appears to have returned. Note the username similarity and the continued vandalism at the Mac McClung article. (the cited source says nothing about the player) Left guide (talk) 23:10, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Left guide: Thanks for the thorough links. Sock blocked. Go ahead and at least revert next time. Best. —Bagumba (talk) 04:17, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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

Administrator changes

• Kbdank71
• Kosack
• NrDg
• TLSuda

Guideline and policy news

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

Technical news

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

Arbitration

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

Miscellaneous

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

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Thoughts? Different accounts keep trying to revise the page. I don't really feel like checking all of that... It's hard to tell on the diffs what they are actually changing without reading it line-by-line. I suspect they have some sort of COI. I didn't wanna revert forever since they're trying... but still. On their user talk page, they're claiming to be a fan of skiing, sure... ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) 14:15, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@WikiOriginal-9: Not an area I've dealt with much. WP:COICOIN looks like a good reference. Those two new accounts might be fair game for a CU request. Good luck. —Bagumba (talk) 14:39, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Z1720 (talk) 00:37, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

♠PMC♠ (talk) 12:03, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 — Amakuru (talk) 00:03, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hey. I submitted a request for semi protection for Jason Terry. It got declined here with an odd reason. I'm not sure if that admin even checked the page history but it's not one user doing the edits in which warning is achievable. As it has always been with Terry's page, whenever semi expires, drive-by IPs wreck havoc. Is indefinite semi something you can consider? Thanks. DaHuzyBru (talk) 03:01, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I assume it was just an oversight. Doesn't seem like the type that should need indefinite, but vandals don't always make sense. I made it 2 years, but would probably wave the flag and do indef if this still continues. —Bagumba (talk) 06:11, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Vandals will never let this moment down. Thanks for actioning. DaHuzyBru (talk) 06:38, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

In relation to this post of yours, if it's of any interest to you, I initially set out to write a message which would convey the point gently. When I read through the message before saving it, however, I decided I'd overdone my attempt to make it gentle, and the editor would be likely to miss the point. For some reason, though, I went ahead and saved it anyway. I think I found it slightly amusing, and also thought it didn't really much matter what I wrote, as the editor wasn't going to get the point anyway, no matter what was said to them. Subsequent events have tended to confirm that impression. I confess that posting the message probably was a bit naughty, but I'm not going to lose any sleep over it. JBW (talk) 10:13, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@JBW: Thanks for following up. I hope my comment did not come off as a criticism of you, as that was not my intent. It's always difficult whether to be (overly) diplomatic or blunt in those situations, and everyone reacts differently. Given the wall of text, I admittedly had to do a double take to be sure I wasn't misreading the situation. Best.—Bagumba (talk) 11:23, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No, it didn't come off as a criticism at all. I also think this editor may be a contender for the world champion at one or both of WP:IDHT and WP:STICK. JBW (talk) 12:01, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Lots of IPs changing his team to Kentucky. Thx Rikster2 (talk) 15:09, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done. 3 days.—Bagumba (talk) 15:45, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]