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ArbCom 2019 special circular[edit]

This message was sent to all administrators following a recent motion. Thank you for your attention. For the Arbitration Committee, Cameron11598 02:40, 4 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Administrator account security (Correction to Arbcom 2019 special circular)[edit]

ArbCom would like to apologise and correct our previous mass message in light of the response from the community.

Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are required to "have strong passwords and follow appropriate personal security practices." We have updated our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular, two-factor authentication remains an optional means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised.

We are sorry for the wording of our previous message, which did not accurately convey this, and deeply regret the tone in which it was delivered.

For the Arbitration Committee, -Cameron11598 21:03, 4 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Doctors and scientists who committed suicide[edit]

Hello, Maile66,

Just a reminder that you can't delete a category like you would delete an article or talk page because all of the pages assigned to the category are still in that category, whether it exists or not. The now red link category has to be removed from all of the pages that were assigned to the category. Thanks! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:07, 25 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Taken care of. — Maile (talk) 22:17, 25 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Humaliwo NRHP[edit]

@MelanieN and Howcheng: Thought I should mention this to someone connected to the So-Cal task force for NRHP. I'm not familiar with who is still active. Re National Register of Historic Places listings in Los Angeles County, California, there is a Humaliwo that became NRHP in 1976. I created a redirect to Himaliwu, a 2018 student-written article that seems to be the same property. Except the way it's written, the NRHP is dated to 1959. Just mentioning, in case the article needs to be moved. I doubt anyone would see a talk page notice on Humaliwo. — Maile (talk) 12:26, 20 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Considering that the article doesn't cite any source for the NRHP date, I suspect that it's just an error. —howcheng {chat} 16:11, 20 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Maile, thanks for the ping. And hi, Howcheng. My concern here is the actual name of the place. After some research I believe it is not Himaliwu, but Humaliwo. Our article is called Himaliwu, but in the second paragraph it says Humaliwo. As you discovered, at our NRHP article for Los Angeles County, it is called Humaliwo and the listed date is given as 1976. That article's cited reference to the NRHP gallery also says Humaliwo and 1976.[1] The reference cited to the lead paragraph in the Himaliwu article, from the California state parks, also says Humaliwo.[2] So I think the student just got it wrong - both the name and the date. We should probably change the name of the article to Humaliwo and the date to 1976, and make Himaliwu into a redirect. -- MelanieN (talk) 20:19, 20 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, and here's another source for Humaliwo - also cited in the Himaliwu article.[3] -- MelanieN (talk) 20:44, 20 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with you, and I'm glad I asked. Would you like to do the move? — Maile (talk) 21:20, 20 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Why don't you do it? I haven't been online much lately. Darn that Real Life anyhow! -- MelanieN (talk) 23:57, 20 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

 Done — Maile (talk) 00:43, 21 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Sealioning[edit]

@SL93: Have you by any chance seen Sealioning? Just saying ... life is too short to respond to someone who does this. — Maile (talk) 12:36, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

How we will see unregistered users[edit]

Hi!

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Instead of the IP we will show a masked identity. You as an admin will still be able to access the IP. There will also be a new user right for those who need to see the full IPs of unregistered users to fight vandalism, harassment and spam without being admins. Patrollers will also see part of the IP even without this user right. We are also working on better tools to help.

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We have two suggested ways this identity could work. We would appreciate your feedback on which way you think would work best for you and your wiki, now and in the future. You can let us know on the talk page. You can write in your language. The suggestions were posted in October and we will decide after 17 January.

Thank you. /Johan (WMF)

18:14, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Recent edits to anv[edit]

Hey! I noticed your recent edits to the Administrator intervention against vandalism while I reporting someone's comments, and I noticed how you made a comment on another person's post. When they left their report starting the line with *, you replied using :: to indent your text. This isn't generally a big issue, or something that would matter very much on an admin page, but in general it's not the best thing to do. If you would take a moment to read Wikipedia:Colons and asterisks, it outlines some issues with doing this, specifically for people who are visually impaired and have to use screen readers. The page should explain what I'm talking about. Thanks, ― Levi_OP^Talk 14:33, 7 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Levi_OP You are talking about an edit at AIV. Please see Template:Editnotices/Page/Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism. This is how the AIV templates are set up. They are all like that. If you have an issue with that formatting, perhaps you could post a comment at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents. — Maile (talk)

Sorry, when I said anv I meant AIV. When I go there have typed "wp:anv" for a while and it's habit now (Administrator Noticeboard against Vandilism). Also, I'm not talking about any editnotices or templates, I'm talking about this edit that you made to the page, which uses formatting, which if used on pages that someone who is using a screen reader would read, would be very confusing / annoying (once again talking about WP:Colons and asterisks). You used :: to indent your message where you could have used ** like the page suggests, for the reasons listed there. Thanks, ― Levi_OP^Talk 14:58, 7 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I understand what you are saying. But what I am telling you are that the pre-designed templates themselves put those colons there. All an admin does is copy and paste from the template. I did not manually input the colons. That's why I suggested you bring this up at the Admin notice board. Not to report me, but to report the issue. If this formatting is causing a difficulty for readers, then they need to adjust how the templates are applied. — Maile (talk) 15:10, 7 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, sorry. That's my bad. I didn't realize the editnotices page you sent had a dropdown with all of the templates that you would copy and paste. Sorry! ― Levi_OP^Talk 15:27, 7 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That's fine, but I've also posted at the Administrators' noticeboard. I take your issue seriously, but the solution to that is really up to the Administrators to address. Hopefully, someone has a solution to this. Thanks for mentioning to me. — Maile (talk) 15:32, 7 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Commons linking[edit]

@Howcheng: I'm getting ready to move User:Maile66/Merrimac Farm Wildlife Management Area to Main Space. If I do a Merrimac Farm Wildlife Management Area search on Commons, it comes up with 144 images. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:MediaSearch&search=Merrimac+Farm+Wildlife+Management+Area&fulltext=Search&type=image

However, there is no Commons category by that name to do a single link. Without editing each image category link, is there a way to easily amass these images under a new Commons category for Merrimac Farm Wildlife Management Area? — Maile (talk) 13:01, 3 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Not really. Your best bet is to use something like WP:AWB (if you are running Windows) so you can plow through all the images really quickly. —howcheng {chat} 18:23, 3 March 2022 (UTC).[reply]

OK, thanks. I took care of it manually yesterday. Not too bad, just a lot of mouse clicking. — Maile (talk) 16:11, 4 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

March songs[edit]

March songs

Thank you for support in the RfC! Listening to the charity concert mentioned here. I created the articles of the composer and the soprano. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:29, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Now, you can also listen on YouTube, and more music, the piece by Anna Korsun begins after about one hour, and the voices call "Freiheit!" (freedom, instead of "Freude", joy). Music every day, pictured in songs. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:40, 14 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

on Bach's birthday: the places where I sang his Dona nobis pacem --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:33, 21 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

How perfectly delightful. Thank you. — Maile (talk) 22:44, 21 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

When I think of singing it the day before the Iraq War was decided I still feel a chill in my spine. - The Prayer is on the Main page, finally + new flowers, and btw: the TFA is a young writer's first --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:15, 23 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Bach's No. 1 today --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:03, 25 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Promotion of Pershing House[edit]

Congratulations, Maile66! The list you nominated, Pershing House, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best lists on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived. This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured list. Keep up the great work! Cheers, PresN (talk) via FACBot (talk) 00:27, 13 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The Template Barnstar[edit]

		The Template Barnstar
		For all your work making DYK work. Thanks. --evrik (talk) 20:14, 13 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

New administrator activity requirement[edit]

The administrator policy has been updated with new activity requirements following a successful Request for Comment. Beginning January 1, 2023, administrators who meet one or both of the following criteria may be desysopped for inactivity if they have: Made neither edits nor administrative actions for at least a 12-month period OR Made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period Administrators at risk for being desysopped under these criteria will continue to be notified ahead of time. Thank you for your continued work.

22:53, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

User:Dr. Blofeld/Scrabble words[edit]

Hi Maile66, I'm a bit shocked to find that you deleted User:Dr. Blofeld/Scrabble words citing WP:CSD#U5. The criterion applies to pages "where the owner has made few or no edits outside of user pages". Dr. Blofeld is a well-established user, so this subpage wasn't eligible to be deleted under U5. ✗plicit 00:11, 16 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Well, perhaps you haven't noticed, but Dr. Blofeld has left Wikipedia for good. This was merely a user sub page, not an article, put up for deletion by RoanokeVirginia. — Maile (talk) 00:24, 16 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see how that is relevant. U5 still doesn't apply. WP:MFD is where the subpage should be nominated for deletion if RoanokeVirginia believes the content shouldn't exist in userspace. ✗plicit 00:31, 16 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I have restored the page. — Maile (talk) 00:58, 16 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I intended putting the lists in shrunken templates so the page size isn't large. I wasn't confident that it would be accepted as a list in the mainspace. I think it's a very valuable list all on one page and I think it would get traffic if it was moved into the mainspace in templates.♦ Dr. Blofeld 07:32, 16 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Dr. Blofeld: you are most welcome. If you see this, please know that I was sad when I saw that you had left Wikipedia. You were one of the first people who helped me when I started editing at DYK, and I think your absence will be felt in many areas of the encyclopedia. — Maile (talk) 17:32, 16 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Very kind of you, thanks Maile!♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:11, 18 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

A cheeseburger for you![edit]

My apologies for overreacting and giving a final warning. I hope we can both move on from this. Regards. BilCat (talk) 18:37, 19 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@BilCat: thank you, and don't even worry about it. I made a few wrong moves on this myself. We both go forward in good faith, and I wish you many years of happy editing. — Maile (talk) 18:44, 19 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, and you also. BilCat (talk) 19:02, 19 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Wrt rating of article Devayat Bodar[edit]

Dear Senior Editor How has this Devayat Bodar article got rating of C when it should be "Stub", as only 2 reference provided and the content is also not clear. Thanks and Best RS6784 (talk) 06:53, 22 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Please see the article's talk page. The rating was put there by editor @Nizil Shah: You might want to ask that editor directly on their talk page. — Maile (talk) 10:55, 22 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

In past, the article was very long with references but the references were very old and were considered unreliable. So it was trimmed down from c to level of stub by some other editor. I do not watch this article so I didn't know when that happened. He/She might have forgotten to change it to stub. Please change. Regards,-Nizil (talk) 15:40, 22 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

 Done — Maile (talk) 16:04, 22 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@RS6784:.-Nizil (talk) 03:56, 23 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Admin and Senior Editors. RS6784 (talk) 05:05, 23 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Seeking advice/help[edit]

I was trying to decide if/how to post something to the administrators notice board and then I saw a "want to skip the drama" link which suggested reaching out to an admin direct, you were top of the list, so I hope this is ok.

Brief summary of situation: I got a notification of an edit that seemed odd so took a look at the the editor and noticed a pattern of that editor basically just removing all negative content about a blog, the author of that blog, and the book written by the same author. I also noticed that the same editor had been warned before for SPA and BLP and NPOV issues.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Anna_Lertreader the editors talk page is dominated by a history discussions and warnings about this activity.

Notably in 2016: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive938#Edit_warring_over_BLP_violations conclusion that things would escalate if the behavior continued.

It seems the editor is on a path of pushing point of view edits again. What should I do? Or is telling you what I should do? Any advice is welcome. CT55555 (talk) 11:53, 23 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Unless these are recent actionable edits, they are doing nothing wrong. This editor has not been blocked since 2016, and those were very short blocks. The warnings you mention are from 2016. Article talk page thread is from 2016. Their only edits in 2022 are this month on The Wee Blue Book. There's no edit warring or vandalism involved, so I don't see an issue. — Maile (talk) 13:00, 23 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

April[edit]

April songs

promoting dance and singing, peace doves and icecream --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:23, 23 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. — Maile (talk) 21:32, 23 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

question[edit]

do you get edit summary pings whenever DYKUpdateBot hands out a credit on your behalf? theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/they) 01:35, 29 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Are you talking about DYKs for Maile66? If so, I've always gotten them. — Maile (talk) 01:39, 29 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

May Women in Red events[edit]

Women in Red May 2022, Vol 8, Issue 5, Nos 214, 217, 227, 229, 230 Online events: New: Women in the Ancient World | British Overseas Territories Contest (Apr/May/Jun): Translation contest (second month) Continuing: Climate (year-long initiative) | #1day1woman See also: Wikimedia District of Columbia: 100 DC Women contest The Wikipedia Library: #1Lib1Ref Other ways to participate: Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events. Follow us on social media: Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter

--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:53, 30 April 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging[reply]

Happy Adminship Anniversary![edit]

Thank you! — Maile (talk) 00:12, 2 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Adminship Anniversary![edit]

Hooray! Thank you! — Maile (talk) 00:36, 2 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Kalākaua's 1881 world tour[edit]

This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for 13 June 2022 (second appearance). Please check that the article needs no amendments. Feel free to amend the draft blurb, which can be found at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/June 2022, or to make comments on other matters concerning the scheduling of this article at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/June 2022. I suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from two days before it appears on the Main Page. Thanks and congratulations on your work!—Wehwalt (talk) 16:07, 3 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you today for the article, introduced: "The world tour was an effort by Hawaii's last king to save the dwindling Hawaiian race by supplementing the population with imported labor from similar cultures. One nation at a time, he brought Hawaii to the world's attention. Kalākaua was successful in jump-starting new immigration. He was a consummate tourist and an impressionable royal who returned home and tried to recreate the splendor of European monarchies in Hawaii. Kalākaua had no security guards to protect him, yet his safety was never in jeopardy, even though he chose public transport on ships and railways to circumnavigate the globe. It was just Kalākaua, a couple of friends, his cook, and here and there an extra person or two. One can only wonder how many days they all slept to recover from 281 days of non-stop globe trotting.! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:17, 13 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

TFL notification[edit]

Hi, Maile66. I'm just posting to let you know that Pershing House – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for May 30. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008 (Talk) 21:23, 6 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Great news! – Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 21:36, 6 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – May 2022[edit]

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

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, a change has been made to the administrators inactivity policy. Under the new policy, if an administrator has not made at least 100 edits over a period of 5 years they may be desysopped for inactivity.
• Following a discussion on the bureaucrat's noticeboard, a change has been made to the bureaucrats inactivity policy.

Technical news

• The ability to undelete the associated talk page when undeleting a page has been added. This was the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
• A public status system for WMF wikis has been created. It is located at https://www.wikimediastatus.net/ and is hosted separately to WMF wikis so in the case of an outage it will remain viewable.

Arbitration

• Remedy 2 of the St Christopher case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to place a ban on single-purpose accounts who were disruptively editing on the article St Christopher Iba Mar Diop College of Medicine or related pages from those pages.

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June 2022 Good Article Nominations backlog drive[edit]

Good article nominations | June 2022 Backlog Drive

On 1 June, a one-month backlog drive for good article nominations will begin. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number and age of articles reviewed. Interested in taking part? Sign up here!

You're receiving this message because you have conducted 5+ good article reviews or participated in previous backlog drives. Click here to opt out of any future messages. (t · c) buidhe 04:26, 28 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The Bugle: Issue CXCIII, May 2022[edit]

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Hawkeye7 on a World War II summit and the American space program

The Signpost: 29 May 2022[edit]

June events from Women in Red[edit]

Women in Red June 2022, Vol 8, Issue 6, Nos 214, 217, 227, 231, 232, 233 Online events: New: LGBTQ+ women | Greenland and the Faroes | Women in music Contest (Apr/May/Jun): Translation contest (third and last month) Continuing: Climate (year-long initiative) | #1day1woman Other ways to participate: Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events. Follow us on social media: Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter

--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 09:21, 31 May 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging[reply]

Books & Bytes – Issue 50[edit]

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --12:52, 1 June 2022 (UTC) (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – June 2022[edit]

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

Guideline and policy news

• Several areas of improvement collated from community member votes have been identified in the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines. The areas of improvement have been sent back for review and you are invited to provide input on these areas.

Technical news

• Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. (T307341)
• The IP Info feature has been deployed to all wikis as a Beta Feature. Any autoconfirmed user may enable the feature using the "IP info" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features. Autoconfirmed users will be able to access basic information about an IP address that includes the country and connection method. Those with advanced privileges (admin, bureaucrat, checkuser) will have access to extra information that includes the Internet Service Provider and more specific location.

Arbitration

• Remedy 2 of the Rachel Marsden case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to delete or reduce to a stub, together with their talk pages, articles related to Rachel Marsden when they violate Wikipedia's biographies of living persons policy.
• An arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been closed.

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James F. Kelley DYK review[edit]

Hi there, I just want to make sure James F. Kelley got a proper DYK review. I’m a bit confused as to what happened. It looks like the Good Article review template was used, but then was deleted. Thriley (talk) 19:53, 8 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It's all there; Template:Did you know nominations/James F. Kelley. For some reason it doesn't show properly on the article talk page. But it appears nothing has been lost. Don't know why they used a GA review template, but it was accepted and promoted. Right now, it's in Queue 4. — Maile (talk) 20:52, 8 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2022-24[edit]

16:57, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

ongoing[edit]

United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack