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Nomination of Vichy (company) for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Vichy (company) 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/Vichy (company) 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. Zefr (talk) 04:40, 9 February 2020 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – June 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2020).
Administrator changes
CaptainEek • Creffett • Cwmhiraeth
Anna Frodesiak • Buckshot06 • Ronhjones • SQL
CheckUser changes
Guideline and policy news
- A request for comment asks whether the Unblock Ticket Request System (UTRS) should allowed any unblock request or just private appeals.
- The Wikimedia Foundation announced that they will develop a universal code of conduct for all WMF projects. There is an open local discussion regarding the same.
Arbitration
Administrators' newsletter – July 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2020).
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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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- Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold an
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Wishing The Moose a very Moose happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! CommanderWaterford (talk) 06:51, 14 July 2020 (UTC) |
Happy Adminship Anniversary!
Have a very Moose happy adminship anniversary on your special day!
Best wishes, CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 11:37, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – August 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2020).
Administrator changes
Oversight changes
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.
Administrators' newsletter – September 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2020).
Administrator changes
CheckUser changes
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
orshould
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.
Political Userboxes
So, I think we'd be best to group the Userboxes into similar categories, and start with the most extreme. Technically, a LOT of them violate the Userbox policy, but we're probably better off picking off the worst instances first.
I'm inclined to focus on things that specifically fall into the category of "I wouldn't trust this user to treat me fairly if I was a member of X class", because those are the most harmful - with exceptions for attacks on classes that explicitly go against Wikipedia rules, e.g. if someone wants to put up a Userbox saying they're against racists, or against the alt-right (explicitly a white nationalist movement), or the like, I think we'd be sending the wrong message about what groups we want if we delete them.
So, here's some categories that spring out on a first reading:
- Abortion. I'm inclined to leave this alone as long as they're not attacking people who have had abortions, or calling abortion doctors murders. So probably would suggest deleting User:KC109/Userboxes/Abortion Kills, but probably let Template:User Abolish Human Abortion pass by on first instance. It's a hot-button issue, but seems unlikely to directly cause problems if people say their views.
- Calls for impeachment, e.g. User:UBX/Impeach Obama, User:Western Pines/Impeach Medvedev, and I'm sure there'll be a Trump one in there - I think our rules go against them, but I don't see substantial harm arising if we don't deal with them.
- Trump stuff. I'm inclined to either delete absolutely everything beyond the blandest statements or nothing. We're going to have Wiki War III here otherwise.
As for first go? I'm thinking User:ChristTrekker/United States of AMERICA and anything related. It's very hard to see how that one has any redeeming qualities, it's one of those easy-attack slogans. I'd say let's start with anything that can't even bother to be civil, and go from there. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.5% of all FPs 20:03, 17 September 2020 (UTC)
Happy Birthday!
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  Wishing The Moose a very happy birthday on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Don't forget to save us all a piece of cake!--Megan☺️ Talk to the monster 13:41, 4 October 2020 (UTC) | ||
Happy Birthday!
Have a very happy birthday on your special day!
Best wishes, CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 20:43, 4 October 2020 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – November 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2020).
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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.
- Community sanctions now authorize administrators to place under indefinite semiprotection
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).
- A reminder that
Happy First Edit Day!
Have a very happy first edit anniversary!
From the Birthday Committee, CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 08:54, 13 November 2020 (UTC)
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Administrators' newsletter – December 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2020).
Administrator changes
- Andrwsc • Anetode • GoldenRing • JzG • LinguistAtLarge • Nehrams2020
Interface administrator changes
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.
Administrators' newsletter – September 2020
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
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- A request for comment found consensus that incubation as an alternative to deletion should generally only be recommended when draftification is appropriate, namely
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.
"Wikipedia:SPARTA" listed at Redirects for discussion
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Wikipedia:SPARTA. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 December 17#Wikipedia:SPARTA until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. 122.60.185.29 (talk) 00:16, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
"Template:Ssock" listed at Redirects for discussion
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Template:Ssock. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 December 21#Template:Ssock until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 23:30, 21 December 2020 (UTC)