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

Administrator changes Aoidh KillerChihuahua

CheckUser changes Ferret

Guideline and policy news

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

Technical news

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

Arbitration

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

Hello Miniapolis. For the sake of transparency, one of the articles I copyedited for the March drive was recently deleted via expired PROD. The article was Diana Nyago. I don't know the rules on this, but if you have to subtract the word count I am fine with that. Thanks for helping to organise the drive; I had a lot of fun, and am considering joining the next one. All the best, Schminnte (talk • contribs) 21:17, 4 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

No worries, Schminnte; you did the work, and deserve the credit. Glad you enjoyed the drive too, and there should be a one-week blitz coming up in a week or so (as soon as we throw it together ) Have fun and all the best, Miniapolis 18:34, 5 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Ahimsa in Jainism has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Onegreatjoke (talk) 14:28, 10 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:12, 20 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, Miniapolis. I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! interstatefive  00:00, 24 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Miniapolis,

Firstly happy first edit day!

I've recently contributed to the PSSD article by adding multiple tertiary sources from governmental medicines bodies (HealthCanada, HongKong regulators, NHS) and different reference textbooks such as DSM-5 and BNF , but they've been getting deleted repeatedly since this edit, any attempt to bring them back also results in reverts from the same user. Majority of primary sources have been removed yet

The user mentions excessive quotes being the reason for removing whole section, after being asked on why they didn't only remove the offending quotes in case they were problematic they've changed the argument now to the sources being against WP:UNDUE and them being original research.

Some might say instead of looking at the policies and figuring out what to keep on the page, someone's made their mind up on removing that whole section through throwing random policies at it until that section and possibly the whole article is deleted.

What should I do?

Talk:Post-SSRI sexual dysfunction#Sourcing concerns

Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine#Post-SSRI sexual dysfunction—major issues with original research and non-MEDRS sources FallingPineapple (talk) 15:39, 24 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the tag. IMO, you should stop trying to restore content against consensus. Because WP is a popular source of medical information, WP:MEDRS is stringent about the use of primary, secondary and tertiary sources (which are often confused; secondary sources are preferred, especially in medical articles). Buidhe is an experienced editor; you've been around for a few months and only edit this article. You may want to read WP:ADVOCACY. All the best, Miniapolis 19:42, 24 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with his general point on removal of all primary sources, the problem is many WP:MEDRS sources were deleted also in the process. FallingPineapple (talk) 21:13, 24 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) The reliable-sources noticeboard is thataway, and I suggest you read WP:TE and WP:OVERCITE. The page seems adequately sourced. Miniapolis 22:43, 24 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

		The Copyeditor's Barnstar
		Thank you very much for your thorough and skilled copyedit on the Arab–Khazar wars article! The result far exceeds my expectations. Cheers, Constantine ✍ 08:30, 30 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]