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April editathons at Women in Red[edit]

January 2020 at Women in Red[edit]

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Copyright violations on Chartered Institutes for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity[edit]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Chartered_Institute_for_the_Management_of_Sport_and_Physical_Activity

Thank you for flagging the copyright violation. I agree with the removal. However, there was other content that was removed that did not come from the website you flagged. This included infobox additions, a new section, and other text in the introduction not related to the vision/mission paragraphs.

I have reintroduced these elements onto the page. I will leave mission/vision absent.

COI on my profile. Happy to add elsewhere if needed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Reece_at_CIMSPA

While it may not seem like the right thing to do, it is convention, when identifying a copyright issue, to do a rollback, which sometimes picks up other copyright issues and sometimes picks up inrelated,a nd non-problematic issues. You are always welcome to restore the non-copyright issue edits.

••••🎄Merry Christmas🎄••••[edit]

"May you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a ..Merry Christmas.. and a ..Happy New Year.., whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you ..warm greetings.. for Christmas and New Year 2021."

Happy editing,
User:245CMR

Nathan Edmondson[edit]

Hi. My attempts to get others to help regarding an editor blanking content from the Nathan Edmondson article, and refusing to discuss the matter, have only been slightly successful. I've contacted three other admins, and put messages on the WikiComics Project talk page, and only two other editors have so far responded. Since you've participated in disputes regarding comics articles before, can you offer your views in the discussions? My analysis of the blanking, which I did at the request of another editor who alerted me to the problem, is here. The subsequent RfC began here. Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 18:20, 9 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

A cup of coffee for you![edit]

Hope you are doing well and real life isn't too stressful. DanCherek (talk) 15:02, 10 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Books & Bytes – Issue 47[edit]

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December 2021 at Women in Red[edit]

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Nomination for deletion of Template:UNDtest[edit]

Template:UNDtest has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Q28 hope you pay attention to TFD 04:07, 29 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – December 2021[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2021).

Administrator changes

A Train • Berean Hunter • Epbr123 • GermanJoe • Sanchom • Mysid

Technical news

• Unregistered editors using the mobile website are now able to receive notices to indicate they have talk page messages. The notice looks similar to what is already present on desktop, and will be displayed on when viewing any page except mainspace and when editing any page. (T284642)
• The limit on the number of emails a user can send per day has been made global instead of per-wiki to help prevent abuse. (T293866)

Arbitration

• Voting in the 2021 Arbitration Committee Elections is open until 23:59, 06 December 2021 (UTC).
• The already authorized standard discretionary sanctions for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes), broadly construed, have been made permanent.

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Administrators will no longer be autopatrolled[edit]

A recently closed Request for Comment (RFC) reached consensus to remove Autopatrolled from the administrator user group. You may, similarly as with Edit Filter Manager, choose to self-assign this permission to yourself. This will be implemented the week of December 13th, but if you wish to self-assign you may do so now. To find out when the change has gone live or if you have any questions please visit the Administrator's Noticeboard. 20:06, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

January 2022 Women in Red[edit]

Happy New Year from Women in Red Jan 2022, Vol 8, Issue 1, Nos 214, 216, 217, 218, 219 Online events: New: Climate (year-long initiative) | Women in business | US territories Continuing: #1day1woman | Women who died in 2021 Other ways to participate: Encourage someone to become a WiR member this month. Go to Women in RedJoin WikiProject Women in Red Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events. Follow us on social media: Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2022[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2021).

Guideline and policy news

• Following consensus at the 2021 RfA review, the autopatrolled user right has been removed from the administrators user group; admins can grant themselves the autopatrolled permission if they wish to remain autopatrolled.

• Additionally, consensus for proposal 6C of the 2021 RfA review has led to the creation of an administrative action review process. The purpose of this process will be to review individual administrator actions and individual actions taken by users holding advanced permissions.

Arbitration

• Following the 2021 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Beeblebrox, Cabayi, Donald Albury, Enterprisey, Izno, Opabinia regalis, Worm That Turned, Wugapodes.

Miscellaneous

• The functionaries email list (functionaries-enlists.wikimedia.org) will no longer accept incoming emails apart from those sent by list members and WMF staff. Private concerns, apart from those requiring oversight, should be directly sent to the Arbitration Committee.

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How we will see unregistered users[edit]

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18:14, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Royal Indian Air Force[edit]

Can you please review the article on Royal Indian Air Force for any errors. Cookersweet (talk) 15:51, 14 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

February with Women in Red[edit]

Women in Red Feb 2022, Vol 8, Issue 2, Nos 214, 217, 220, 221, 222 Online events: New: Black women | Hong Kong and Macau | Women in sport Continuing: Climate (year-long initiative) | #1day1woman Other ways to participate: Encourage someone to become a WiR member this month by registering in the box at the top of our main page. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events. Follow us on social media: Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter

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Kbach[edit]

Hey there, as you allow for it, I am questioning your revert edit on my work in process on Kbach. It's a work in process, maybe it was too earlty to publicize as I am still working on the later parts and I have not yet finalized some quotes which, though they have footnotes, need to be adapted better to the article. I hope you are okay if I go on with my work to avoid a useless edit war. Blessings from Cambodia.Willuconquer (talk) 15:55, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I don't engage in a edit wars. That said, while many edits might be open to discussion with regard to wording, structure, style and many other editorial issues, compliance with copyright rules is not one of those areas. I believe your edit was a violation of our copyright rules, if you disagree I'm happy to discuss.--S Philbrick(Talk) 16:42, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

As a follow-up point, you said you were questioning my revert, but you didn't provide any hint as to why you disagree.--S Philbrick(Talk) 16:44, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I'm happy we are both peaceful about this. I agree in the current state, the page may have needed a edit revert. However, I did indicate that it was a work in progress. The references were provided to show I was not going on a "copycat" work. Many quotes were being considered for rewording and empty sections were going to be filled in. What I suggest is to under to reversion and let me one week to finish my work on this article and assess from there. Thanks for your help in making this article better. Willuconquer (talk) 12:04, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

In the very early days of Wikipedia (15 or so years ago), it was reasonably common for editors to create an article in place, and to add "under construction" graphics to let readers know that wasn't quite ready for prime time. That practice is largely discouraged today. While it is still true the many new articles start out small and grow organically over time, it is no longer considered acceptable to have an article in main space that isn't ready for readers. While this general change in practice occur quite a few years ago, the existence of draft space made it much easier to distinguish between articles that are ready for general viewing, and articles that are still in the early stages of development. However, even when it was acceptable practice to have an unfinished article in main space, it has never been acceptable to have copyright problems in any version, even in draft space. I have observed hundreds of editors who seem to think that it's okay to drop copyrighted or closely paraphrased text into an article as long as they clean it up in short order, but this is not the case. Some of them are unaware that all prior versions of articles are accessible, and we cannot have copyright problems in any version of any article. My revert had nothing to do with the fact that this article wasn't in polished shape, It was because your edit included material that was too close to a source.--S Philbrick(Talk) 15:02, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Books & Bytes – Issue 48[edit]

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2022[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2022).

Guideline and policy news

• The Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines have been published for consideration. Voting to ratify this guideline is planned to take place 7 March to 21 March. Comments can be made on the talk page.

Technical news

• The user group oversight will be renamed suppress in around 3 weeks. This will not affect the name shown to users and is simply a change in the technical name of the user group. The change is being made for technical reasons. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections.
• The Reply Tool feature, which is a part of Discussion Tools, will be opt-out for everyone logged in or logged out starting 7 February 2022. Editors wishing to comment on this can do so in the relevant Village Pump discussion.

Arbitration

• Community input is requested on several motions aimed at addressing discretionary sanctions that are no longer needed or overly broad.
• The Arbitration Committee has published a generalised comment regarding successful appeals of sanctions that it can review (such as checkuser blocks).
• A motion related to the Antisemitism in Poland case was passed following a declined case request.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2022 Steward elections will begin on 07 February 2022, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2022, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• Voting in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey is open until 11 February 2022.

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Always precious[edit]

Precious

ten years

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:17, 20 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

March editathons[edit]

Women in Red Mar 2022, Vol 8, Issue 3, Nos 214, 217, 222, 223, 224, 225 Online events: New: Women's History Month Art+Activism | Feminism and Folklore | Dutch Caribbean Continuing: Climate (year-long initiative) | #1day1woman | Women in sport (Feb/Mar) Other ways to participate: Encourage someone to become a WiR member this month by registering in the box at the top of our main page. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events. Follow us on social media: Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter

--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:38, 27 February 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – March 2022[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2022).

Guideline and policy news

• A RfC is open to change the wording of revision deletion criterion 1 to remove the sentence relating to non-infringing contributions.
• A RfC is open to discuss prohibiting draftification of articles over 90 days old.

Technical news

• The deployment of the reply tool as an opt-out feature, as announced in last month's newsletter, has been delayed to 7 March. Feedback and comments are being welcomed at Wikipedia talk:Talk pages project. (T296645)
• Special:Nuke will now allow the selection of standard deletion reasons to be used when mass-deleting pages. This was a Community Wishlist Survey request from 2022. (T25020)
• The ability to undelete the talk page when undeleting a page using Special:Undelete or the API will be added soon. This change was requested in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey. (T295389)

Arbitration

• Several unused discretionary sanctions and article probation remedies have been rescinded. This follows the community feedback from the 2021 Discretionary Sanctions review.

Miscellaneous

• The 2022 appointees for the Ombuds commission are Érico, Faendalimas, Galahad, Infinite0694, Mykola7, Olugold, Udehb and Zabe as regular members and Ameisenigel and JJMC89 as advisory members.
• Following the 2022 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AntiCompositeNumber, BRPever, Hasley, TheresNoTime, and Vermont.
• The 2022 Community Wishlist Survey results have been published alongside the ranking of prioritized proposals.

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Ireneus[edit]

hello :) for your recent review on the Ireneus, from here I got the text https://www.christianhistoryinstitute.org › ...PDF Midwife of the Christian Bible

but you passed on the following link: https://www.christianitytoday.com/history/issues/issue-80/why-reformers-read-fathers.html?id=7830&number=6&type=issueNext

I don't know if in that case the revision is maintained, but I just inform you this, in case there is a solution, thank you. Tuxzos22 (talk) 17:30, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Andela[edit]

Hi, could use more assistance from you and Diannaa on persistent promotional and copyright issues. Thanks for helping thus far. 2601:188:180:B8E0:0:0:0:7E59 (talk) 17:49, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

April Editathons from Women in Red[edit]

Women in Red Apr 2022, Vol 8, Issue 4, Nos 214, 217, 226, 227, 228 Online events: New: Gender studies | French overseas territories New Contest (Apr/May/Jun): Translation contest Continuing: Climate (year-long initiative) | #1day1woman Other ways to participate: Encourage someone to become a WiR member this month by registering in the box at the top of our main page. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events. Follow us on social media: Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter

--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 22:46, 22 March 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging[reply]

Books & Bytes – Issue 49[edit]

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --10:06, 25 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Question[edit]

Hi, SP - can you advise as to how we go about moving a CC-By-SA 4.0 from en.WP to Commons (see Ticket #2022032910002245)? Atsme 💬 📧 13:11, 31 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I'm semiretired and packing for trip to the final four. I plan to to reassess my Wikipedia involvement when I get back, hopefully for the positive. S Philbrick(Talk) 14:02, 31 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Understood - just attended the Big 12 Conference - Equestrian - and OSU won the Championship (my granddaughter is an OSU Equestrian, and is there on a scholarship). Good luck to whatever team you're rooting for!! Atsme 💬 📧 18:14, 31 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, that's great! S Philbrick(Talk) 14:31, 1 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Robert Rubin?[edit]

Hi S Philbrick, I'm not sure if you're still on hiatus, but I thought I would say hello in any case. It's been a a little over a year since you last reviewed new material for the Robert Rubin article, but I'm still working with his team, and I wonder if you'd be willing to look at my latest suggested update? It think it's more straightforward than the derivatives topic we had discussed before, although I wouldn't say it's uncomplicated. I'd appreciate it if you can, but no worries if not. Hope all is well with you. Best, WWB Too (Talk · COI) 13:42, 6 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – April 2022[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2022).

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open proposing a change to the minimum activity requirements for administrators.

Technical news

• Access to Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have the deletelogentry and deletedhistory rights. This means that those in the Researcher user group and Checkusers who are not administrators can now access Special:RevisionDelete. The users able to view the special page after this change are the 3 users in the Researcher group, as there are currently no checkusers who are not already administrators. (T301928)
• When viewing deleted revisions or diffs on Special:Undelete a back link to the undelete page for the associated page is now present. (T284114)

Arbitration

• Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Procedures § Opening of proceedings has been updated to reflect current practice following a motion.
• A arbitration case regarding Skepticism and coordinated editing has been closed.
• A arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been opened.

Miscellaneous

• Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines has closed, and the results were that 56.98% of voters supported the guidelines. The results of this vote mean the Wikimedia Foundation Board will now review the guidelines.

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New administrator activity requirement[edit]

22:53, 15 April 2022 (UTC)