News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2020).

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment is in progress to remove the T2 (template that misrepresents established policy) speedy deletion criterion.

Technical news

• Protection templates on mainspace pages are now automatically added by User:MusikBot II (BRFA).

Arbitration

• Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold an RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. The RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC and is open to comments from the community.
• The Medicine case was closed, with a remedy authorizing standard discretionary sanctions for all discussions about pharmaceutical drug prices and pricing and for edits adding, changing, or removing pharmaceutical drug prices or pricing from articles.

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Hello,

Thanks for a great tool. I have one suggestion. I have used the tool to close two cases in the past two days, but once I had finished the closing message, another admin had beat me to the closure. However, the tool still closes the case. What I am suggesting is that if the SPI case page has changed since the page was loaded that the tool warns the user and asks if they still want to continue. This prevents two people from closing the same case if they use the tool. Thanks, Dreamy Jazz ^{talk to me | my contributions} 19:47, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

I'll probably not have time to look at this myself any time soon (haven't done any work on that script in years), but would be happy to take a patch. T. Canens (talk) 06:38, 19 July 2020 (UTC)

Timotheus Canens, funny story...I forked spihelper (with the intent of adding a couple new features that had been bugging me, this among them, and then offering a patch), and, uh, ended up rewriting a fair amount of it and adding a bunch of features. You can find it at User:GeneralNotability/spihelper.js and I have a few fellow clerks helping me beta test it. At some point in the next couple weeks, once I've finished my current development sprint, I'd like to talk about how you'd like to deal with this - I'd be willing to take up maintainership of the script, but I'm also happy to keep my fork separate if you want to keep your version. GeneralNotability (talk) 02:24, 21 July 2020 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2020).

Administrator changes

Red Phoenix

Euryalus • SQL

Jujutacular • Monty845 • Rettetast • Madchester

Oversight changes

GB fan

Keegan • Opabinia regalis • Premeditated Chaos

Guideline and policy news

• There is an open request for comment to decide whether to increase the minimum duration a sanction discussion has to remain open (currently 24 hours).
• Speedy deletion criterion T2 (template that misrepresents established policy) has been repealed following a request for comment.
• Speedy deletion criterion X2 (pages created by the content translation tool) has been repealed following a discussion.
• There is a proposal to restrict proposed deletion to confirmed users.

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Greetings,

I just had two of my articles be deleted as a part of the AFD process. I didn't realize that this process deletes content from user sandbox as well.

• 49th Parallel Coffee
• User:Ktin/sandbox/49th Parallel Coffee ‎
• Elysian Coffee
• User:Ktin/sandbox/Elysian Coffee ‎

Please can I request for the content for my personal sandbox / documentation? Thanks in advance. Ktin (talk) 04:53, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

Your sandbox pages are just a single revision with a redirect. I'm guessing that you want the actual deleted article? T. Canens (talk) 04:58, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

Timotheus Canens, Good clarification. I meant the articles. Thanks much. Ktin (talk) 04:59, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

 Done. T. Canens (talk) 05:05, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

Timotheus Canens, Much appreciated. Ktin (talk) 05:06, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2020).

Administrator changes

Eddie891

Angela • Jcw69 • Just Chilling • Philg88 • Viajero

CheckUser changes

SQL

Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, the minimum length for site ban discussions was increased to 72 hours, up from 24.
• A request for comment is ongoing to determine whether paid editors must or should use the articles for creation process.
• A request for comment is open to resolve inconsistencies between the draftification and alternative to deletion processes.

Arbitration

• A request for comment is open to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the 2020 English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee election and to resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.
• An open request for comment asks whether active Arbitrators may serve on the Trust and Safety Case Review Committee or Ombudsman commission.

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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article 3rd Gymnasium of Agia Paraskevi is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/3rd Gymnasium of Agia Paraskevi until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Place Clichy (talk) 17:05, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

You deleted this article in 2015 due to Orangemoody long-term abuse. The AFC script says to read the LTA page before undeleting. Does that only apply to undeletion of the deleted article, or also to re-creation of an article from the beginning? I have a draft, and would like to know whether I should evaluate it according to musical notability, just as I would if it had no history, or should I be cautious because of the history of abuse? Robert McClenon (talk) 02:01, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

Only undeletion. However, if it's an AFC draft, it may well be worth paying more attention given OM's modus operandi (see Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Orangemoody#Paid editing). T. Canens (talk) 01:48, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2020).

Administrator changes

Ajpolino • LuK3

Jackmcbarn

Ad Orientem • Harej • Lid • Lomn • Mentoz86 • Oliver Pereira • XJaM

There'sNoTime → TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment found consensus that incubation as an alternative to deletion should generally only be recommended when draftification is appropriate, namely 1) if the result of a deletion discussion is to draftify; or 2) if the article is newly created.

Technical news

• The filter log now provides links to view diffs of deleted revisions (phab:T261630).

Arbitration

• The 2020 CheckUser and Oversight appointment process has begun. The community consultation period will take place from September 27th to October 7th.
• Following a request for comment, sitting Committee members may not serve on either the Ombuds Commission or the WMF Case Review Committee. The Arbitration Committee passed a motion implementing those results into their procedures.

Miscellaneous

• The Universal Code of Conduct draft is open for community review and comment until October 6th, 2020.
• Office actions may now be appealed to the Interim Trust & Safety Case Review Committee.

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Awesome

Ten years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:49, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2020).

Guideline and policy news

• Community sanctions now authorize administrators to place under indefinite semiprotection any article on a beauty pageant, or biography of a person known as a beauty pageant contestant, which has been edited by a sockpuppet account or logged-out sockpuppet, to be logged at WP:GS/PAGEANT.

Technical news

• Sysops will once again be able to view the deleted history of JS/CSS pages; this was restricted to interface administrators when that group was introduced.
• Twinkle's block module now includes the ability to note the specific case when applying a discretionary sanctions block and/or template.
• Sysops will be able to use Special:CreateLocalAccount to create a local account for a global user that is prevented from auto-creation locally (such as by a filter or range block). Administrators that are not sure if such a creation is appropriate should contact a checkuser.

Arbitration

• The 2020 Arbitration Committee Elections process has begun. Eligible editors will be able to nominate themselves as candidates from November 8 through November 17. The voting period will run from November 23 through December 6.
• The Anti-harassment RfC has concluded with a summary of the feedback provided.

Miscellaneous

• A reminder that standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to post-1932 politics of the United States and closely related people. (American Politics 2 Arbitration case).

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--Nyapue (talk) 07:21, 31 October 2020 (UTC)Drizilik is one of Sierra Leone's leading pop culture artists. Which is why as a team, we are concerned that his WIKIPEDIA page has been put done. Whist we are in the throes of reviewing his page contents to make sure he meets your platforms regulations, we ask that you kindly restore his page. Would be grateful if you worked with us to achieve this.

It's deleted after a discussion for failing the general and musician notability guidelines, and will not be restored unless he is shown to meet at least one of those guidelines. Note that we strongly discourage editing with a conflict of interest, and account sharing is prohibited on Wikipedia. T. Canens (talk) 03:41, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

Hello! Voting in the 2020 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 7 December 2020. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate in the 2020 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add {{NoACEMM}} to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:19, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

Hello Timothy,

As it is, I cannot access the page to make any changes. Can it please be put up so I can include all verified contents and also contents to show Drizilik meets more than 1 of the criteria. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nyapue (talk • contribs) 10:33, 25 November 2020 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2020).

Administrator changes

Andrwsc • Anetode • GoldenRing • JzG • LinguistAtLarge • Nehrams2020

Interface administrator changes

Izno

Guideline and policy news

• There is a request for comment in progress to either remove T3 (duplicated and hardcoded instances) as a speedy deletion criterion or eliminate its seven-day waiting period.

Technical news

• Voting for proposals in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey, which determines what software the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Tech team will work on next year, will take place from 8 December through 21 December. In particular, there are sections regarding administrators and anti-harassment.

Arbitration

• Voting in the 2020 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 7 December 2020 UTC. Please review the candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page.

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