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for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes). The effectiveness of the discretionary sanctions can be evaluated on the request by any editor after March 1, 2021 (or sooner if for a good reason).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2021).
post-1992 politics of United States and closely related people, replacing the 1932 cutoff.
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2021).
Interface administrator changes
delete-redirect
userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target. The full proposal is at
Wikipedia:Page mover/delete-redirect.place the General sanctions/Coronavirus disease 2019 editnotice template on pages in scope that do not have page-specific sanctions?
authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, any gender-related dispute or controversy and associated people.Sanctions issued under GamerGate are now considered Gender and sexuality sanctions.
the topics of Kurds and Kurdistan, broadly construed.
may i ask you why the unsourced edits are being deleted as there is sources from xbox 360 owners the old xbox 360 web sites are long gone now so there should be a exemption to this article from users who own the games to verify the issues in the games when running on Xbox 360 for xbox original backwards compatibility
Superusergeneric ( talk) 07:37, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
there is two games i own that do have some issues such as visual issues in sonic heroes in Xbox on xbox 360 And in Namco Museum Arrangment there is a possible crash on Arrangement Games based on the original Arcade games Sonic Heroes Has a visual distortion on text in the game directly noticeable Superusergeneric ( talk) 07:50, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2021).
delete-redirect
userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target.The current nominations table of Grande Fratello VIP (season 5) is way too long to the page, which makes it so hard to read (and other GF seasons such as Grande Fratello (season 12), Grande Fratello (season 11), Grande Fratello VIP (season 4) and Grande Fratello VIP (season 3)). I tried to split it into 2 parts for WP:ACCESSABILITY reasons, but some users reverted it. —— A675974811 ( talk) 03:58, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
Both Big Brother Australia and Finland will make their version of new celebrity seasons this year, and both of them chosen to name the show Big Brother VIP instead of Celebrity BB in AU or Jukkis BB in Finland. There is already a user who chooses to use Celebrity Big Brother (Australian season 2) as the title instead of Big Brother VIP (Australian TV series), I already made a move request you can find at here. And for the Finnish "VIP" version, I left a topic here. Hope you could give some advice. Regards. __——__ A675974811 ( talk) 13:07, 2 April 2021 (UTC)
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Hi, I reach you for help again. It seems I got involving an edit war. About Való Világ (season 10), since the end of February, the user Theplugsboy ( talk · contribs) suddenly came from nowhere and starting to change according to his preferences or revert all my edits just for "look like the Hungarian wiki" and threat me to "Refrain from editing" and the latest one even accused me "vandalism and malicious edits"... It's like every edit move is being watched by this user. I maintain all Való Világ pages mostly by myself for at least 6 years, I just follow the style of what the other English page like and take some idea from BB pages because there isn't an edit guideline for Való Világ, but this person came from nowhere and addicted to editing Való Világ (season 10) page only just for "look like the Hungarian page" and starting to revert without using the talk page. I requested full protection to the page yesterday but it was failed. Also, this user seems very aggressive towards other users according to what I saw. His theory is he is the only one who is doing right and the others not, in fact, he is the person who messing around and even did personal attacks toward other users. I am really tired of this. —— A675974811 ( talk) 05:28, 15 April 2021 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2021).
Interface administrator changes
oversight
will be renamed to suppress
. This is for
technical reasons. You can comment at
T112147 if you have objections.The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Big Brother VIP Albania 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.
—— A675974811 ( talk) 12:27, 11 May 2021 (UTC)
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2021).
Hello Alucard 16,
Please join this discussion - there is increase in the abuse of Wikipedia and its processes by POV pushers, Paid Editors, and by holders of various user rights including Autopatrolled. Even our review systems themselves at AfC and NPR have been infiltrated. The good news is that detection is improving, but the downside is that it creates the need for a huge clean up - which of course adds to backlogs.
Copyright violations are also a serious issue. Most non-regular contributors do not understand why, and most of our Reviewers are not experts on copyright law - and can't be expected to be, but there is excellent, easy-to-follow advice on COPYVIO detection here.
At the time of the last newsletter (#25, December 2020) the backlog was only just over 2,000 articles. New Page Review is an official system. It's the only firewall against the inclusion of new, improper pages.
There are currently 706 New Page Reviewers plus a further 1,080 admins, but as much as nearly 90% of the patrolling is still being done by around only the 20 or so most regular patrollers.
If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process or its software.
Various awards are due to be allocated by the end of the year and barnstars are overdue. If you would like to manage this, please let us know. Indeed, if you are interested in coordinating NPR, it does not involve much time and the tasks are described here.
To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here. Sent to 827 users. 04:30, 16 September 2021 (UTC)
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Hi Alucard. Please familiarise yourself with WP:DRAFTIFY if you have not already. Tell Haddad had seven references when you moved it to draft, and had been edited by the creator three minutes prior. Before it was turned into an article it was also a long-standing redirect to Eshnunna, which should at least have been restored. Thanks. – Joe ( talk) 10:00, 6 October 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading File:Big Brother (U.S. TV Series) Logo.png. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).
Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. -- B-bot ( talk) 17:04, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
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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.Thanks for fixing your transclusion of {{ Console gamer}}. Per your offer today, I mirrored your css page to my sandbox so that I could run my usual AWB find-and-replace settings against it. Only one other userbox transclusion is broken, but several have moved if you'd like to bypass the redirects. See [1] and [2].
For what it's worth, the ".css" thing is a dirty hack, and I don't think it's really necessary. I had a small amount of IP vandalism on my user page in the early days. I requested that an admin semi-protect it (which you have every right to do with your pages) and I created an edit notice. Since then, I've had just about no vandalism whatsoever. That allows other experienced editors to conduct userbox and category maintenance as necessary. — void xor 20:49, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter
Volume 12, No. 4 — 4th Quarter, 2020
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Index |
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Project At a Glance
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2020, the project has:
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-- MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 08:33, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2020).
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for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes). The effectiveness of the discretionary sanctions can be evaluated on the request by any editor after March 1, 2021 (or sooner if for a good reason).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2021).
post-1992 politics of United States and closely related people, replacing the 1932 cutoff.
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2021).
Interface administrator changes
delete-redirect
userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target. The full proposal is at
Wikipedia:Page mover/delete-redirect.place the General sanctions/Coronavirus disease 2019 editnotice template on pages in scope that do not have page-specific sanctions?
authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, any gender-related dispute or controversy and associated people.Sanctions issued under GamerGate are now considered Gender and sexuality sanctions.
the topics of Kurds and Kurdistan, broadly construed.
may i ask you why the unsourced edits are being deleted as there is sources from xbox 360 owners the old xbox 360 web sites are long gone now so there should be a exemption to this article from users who own the games to verify the issues in the games when running on Xbox 360 for xbox original backwards compatibility
Superusergeneric ( talk) 07:37, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
there is two games i own that do have some issues such as visual issues in sonic heroes in Xbox on xbox 360 And in Namco Museum Arrangment there is a possible crash on Arrangement Games based on the original Arcade games Sonic Heroes Has a visual distortion on text in the game directly noticeable Superusergeneric ( talk) 07:50, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2021).
delete-redirect
userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target.The current nominations table of Grande Fratello VIP (season 5) is way too long to the page, which makes it so hard to read (and other GF seasons such as Grande Fratello (season 12), Grande Fratello (season 11), Grande Fratello VIP (season 4) and Grande Fratello VIP (season 3)). I tried to split it into 2 parts for WP:ACCESSABILITY reasons, but some users reverted it. —— A675974811 ( talk) 03:58, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
Both Big Brother Australia and Finland will make their version of new celebrity seasons this year, and both of them chosen to name the show Big Brother VIP instead of Celebrity BB in AU or Jukkis BB in Finland. There is already a user who chooses to use Celebrity Big Brother (Australian season 2) as the title instead of Big Brother VIP (Australian TV series), I already made a move request you can find at here. And for the Finnish "VIP" version, I left a topic here. Hope you could give some advice. Regards. __——__ A675974811 ( talk) 13:07, 2 April 2021 (UTC)
The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter
Volume 13, No. 1 — 1st Quarter, 2021
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-- MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 13:42, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
Hi, I reach you for help again. It seems I got involving an edit war. About Való Világ (season 10), since the end of February, the user Theplugsboy ( talk · contribs) suddenly came from nowhere and starting to change according to his preferences or revert all my edits just for "look like the Hungarian wiki" and threat me to "Refrain from editing" and the latest one even accused me "vandalism and malicious edits"... It's like every edit move is being watched by this user. I maintain all Való Világ pages mostly by myself for at least 6 years, I just follow the style of what the other English page like and take some idea from BB pages because there isn't an edit guideline for Való Világ, but this person came from nowhere and addicted to editing Való Világ (season 10) page only just for "look like the Hungarian page" and starting to revert without using the talk page. I requested full protection to the page yesterday but it was failed. Also, this user seems very aggressive towards other users according to what I saw. His theory is he is the only one who is doing right and the others not, in fact, he is the person who messing around and even did personal attacks toward other users. I am really tired of this. —— A675974811 ( talk) 05:28, 15 April 2021 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2021).
Interface administrator changes
oversight
will be renamed to suppress
. This is for
technical reasons. You can comment at
T112147 if you have objections.The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Big Brother VIP Albania 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.
—— A675974811 ( talk) 12:27, 11 May 2021 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2021).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2021).
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WikiProject Big Brother Newsletter - July 2021 | ||||||||||
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User:TheDoctorWho ( talk) 08:14, 14 July 2021 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2021).
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2021).
Hello Alucard 16,
Please join this discussion - there is increase in the abuse of Wikipedia and its processes by POV pushers, Paid Editors, and by holders of various user rights including Autopatrolled. Even our review systems themselves at AfC and NPR have been infiltrated. The good news is that detection is improving, but the downside is that it creates the need for a huge clean up - which of course adds to backlogs.
Copyright violations are also a serious issue. Most non-regular contributors do not understand why, and most of our Reviewers are not experts on copyright law - and can't be expected to be, but there is excellent, easy-to-follow advice on COPYVIO detection here.
At the time of the last newsletter (#25, December 2020) the backlog was only just over 2,000 articles. New Page Review is an official system. It's the only firewall against the inclusion of new, improper pages.
There are currently 706 New Page Reviewers plus a further 1,080 admins, but as much as nearly 90% of the patrolling is still being done by around only the 20 or so most regular patrollers.
If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process or its software.
Various awards are due to be allocated by the end of the year and barnstars are overdue. If you would like to manage this, please let us know. Indeed, if you are interested in coordinating NPR, it does not involve much time and the tasks are described here.
To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here. Sent to 827 users. 04:30, 16 September 2021 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2021).
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Hi Alucard. Please familiarise yourself with WP:DRAFTIFY if you have not already. Tell Haddad had seven references when you moved it to draft, and had been edited by the creator three minutes prior. Before it was turned into an article it was also a long-standing redirect to Eshnunna, which should at least have been restored. Thanks. – Joe ( talk) 10:00, 6 October 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading File:Big Brother (U.S. TV Series) Logo.png. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).
Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. -- B-bot ( talk) 17:04, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2022).
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.Thanks for fixing your transclusion of {{ Console gamer}}. Per your offer today, I mirrored your css page to my sandbox so that I could run my usual AWB find-and-replace settings against it. Only one other userbox transclusion is broken, but several have moved if you'd like to bypass the redirects. See [1] and [2].
For what it's worth, the ".css" thing is a dirty hack, and I don't think it's really necessary. I had a small amount of IP vandalism on my user page in the early days. I requested that an admin semi-protect it (which you have every right to do with your pages) and I created an edit notice. Since then, I've had just about no vandalism whatsoever. That allows other experienced editors to conduct userbox and category maintenance as necessary. — void xor 20:49, 18 February 2022 (UTC)