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This time it’s Heritage USA. LovelyGirl7 talk 04:06, 1 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You may not have seen the notice at the top of this page that I don't do individual copyedit requests to preserve what's left of my sanity :-). Someone will get to it soon, I'm sure; the requests page is the shortest I've ever seen it in over seven years with the GOCE. I'm taking what passes for a break by working on backlog articles for a while. WP:VOLUNTEER. Good luck and all the best, Miniapolis 14:29, 1 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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

Administrator changes

Lourdes†

AngelOfSadness • Bhadani • Chris 73 • Coren • Friday • Midom • Mike V

† Lourdes has requested that her admin rights be temporarily removed, pending her return from travel.

Guideline and policy news

• The autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) is scheduled to end on 14 March 2018. The results of the research collected can be read on Meta Wiki.
• Community ban discussions must now stay open for at least 24 hours prior to being closed.
• A change to the administrator inactivity policy has been proposed. Under the proposal, if an administrator has not used their admin tools for a period of five years and is subsequently desysopped for inactivity, the administrator would have to file a new RfA in order to regain the tools.
• A change to the banning policy has been proposed which would specify conditions under which a repeat sockmaster may be considered de facto banned, reducing the need to start a community ban discussion for these users.

Technical news

• CheckUsers are now able to view private data such as IP addresses from the edit filter log, e.g. when the filter prevents a user from creating an account. Previously, this information was unavailable to CheckUsers because access to it could not be logged.
• The edit filter has a new feature contains_all that edit filter managers may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string.

Miscellaneous

• Following the 2018 Steward elections, the following users are our new stewards: -revi, Green Giant, Rxy, There'sNoTime, علاء.

Obituaries

• Bhadani (Gangadhar Bhadani) passed away on 8 February 2018. Bhadani joined Wikipedia in March 2005 and became an administrator in September 2005. While he was active, Bhadani was regarded as one of the most prolific Wikipedians from India.

I am grateful for your vote of support at my WP:AN#Topic ban appeal. My appreciation also for the words "Let's temper justice with mercy." —Roman Spinner (talk)(contribs) 05:44, 3 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, you told me, "BTW, please don't use extra parentheses on article lines; they mess up the script we run to generate the barnstar table" in a thread, but I don't know what you are talking about. Could you pinpoint the problems so I can take care of it? Thanks! Thinker78 (talk) 04:15, 17 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I was going to check your section on the drive page for a possible example, but you haven't done any articles yet :-). Sometimes editors will add (section) or something similar to their article list (see Twofingered Typist's (partial count) in his section on the drive page); I used to do that myself, until I started banging my head against the drive script (which is different from the word-count script). All the best, Miniapolis 13:43, 17 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Can you review Zakir Rashid Bhat and advise if you still feel Notability is an issue? --Wikishagnik (talk) 15:07, 19 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You're right; judging by the quality of the sources, he seems to meet WP:SOLDIER. I'll remove the {{GOCEreviewed}} tag and re-tag the page for copyediting. All the best, Miniapolis 15:27, 19 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]