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Hi Bibliomaniac15,
Hope all is well on your end? You soft deleted the Apex and Bionic (AB) article due to minimal participation. However, the article is still in mainspace. Did someone request undeletion?  Versace1608  ^{Wanna Talk?} 12:00, 14 April 2020 (UTC) reply

Three V Crossing (low-water crossing) included some information on Yule, ND and the ranch that was once also called Yule. Do you mind if I make an article about the ranch/defunct community? (During the discussion, User:dlthewave stated "This article s about the river crossing; if the ranch was a notable community at one time, then a separate article should be written about it.")-- Epiphyllumlover ( talk) 21:17, 15 April 2020 (UTC) reply

Precious

Eight years!

... and welcome back! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 06:33, 21 April 2020 (UTC) reply

Thanks for your contributions at CFD!

As for the discussion at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2020_April_5#Category:Indian_women_biographers, I would have let it run longer as new points were being made. Anyway, no harm done.

It's good to have more people on the team. The CFD backlog is shorter than I can remember for a long time. Let's hope we can keep it that way! – Fayenatic London 10:02, 25 April 2020 (UTC) reply

It's a pleasure to see you around again. Not sure what circumstances have allowed for your return – hopefully the natural order of life and not an unfortunate byproduct of any public health crises – but the project can only benefit as a result. See you out there! – Juliancolton |  ^Talk 03:11, 26 April 2020 (UTC) reply

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Cheers, mate. shaidar cuebiyar ( talk) 04:01, 4 May 2020 (UTC) reply

Hi, yesterday you closed this CfD as keep. That's OK for 10 of the 11 listed categories, but IMO the consensus was that the first one, Category:Dnieper River system, should be moved to Dnieper basin, since its main article is at Dnieper and most other drainage basin categories are at "Foo basin", not at "Foo system". Could you correct this, or should I list this category again at CfD or WP:CFDS? Markussep ^Talk 07:35, 9 May 2020 (UTC) reply

Thanks! Markussep ^Talk 18:25, 9 May 2020 (UTC) reply

RE CFD on April 13; on April 25 you approved the renaming of categories for Canada, Russia and the United States e.g to Category:Railway stations in Canada by year of opening; but the category for China which I had added to the proposal i.e. Category:Railway stations in China by opening year to Category:Railway stations in China by year of opening was not included. Could you arrange for this to be carried out if possible. Hugo999 ( talk) 10:22, 13 May 2020 (UTC) reply

Category:Pejorative terms for European people has been nominated for renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Sangdeboeuf ( talk) 03:22, 20 May 2020 (UTC) reply

Hello!

You closed Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2020 May 7#Category:Wikipedia images in SVG format as kept, however the discussion was never if the category be deleted or kept, but rather renamed. How did you reason when closing the Cfd as kept? Jonteemil ( talk) 10:50, 20 May 2020 (UTC) reply

	The Barnstar of Diplomacy
	Best regards! Sausa ( talk) 17:31, 20 May 2020 (UTC) reply

@ Sausa11: Err...thanks? Very confused by what this barnstar is about tbh. bibliomaniac 1 5 18:07, 20 May 2020 (UTC) reply

Well, you helped me ones many years ago, I just wanted to express my appretiation, if you don`t mind.. All best, Sausa ( talk) 18:12, 20 May 2020 (UTC) reply

Your supervote at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Breast Tax is far from making any sense. The delete !votes were absolutely clear with establishing that there is a clear lack of WP:HISTRS which significantly covered the subject. There was a lack of even recent media sources covering the subject significantly without mainly relying on Nangeli and Channar revolt. The "Keep" voters mainly rely on the lousy argument described at WP:THEREMUSTBESOURCES.

Now since WP:POVFORKs are strongly discouraged, where you saw any consensus for "Keep"? Wareon ( talk) 04:21, 21 May 2020 (UTC) reply

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Hi, We have been seeing an increased number of vandalism on Devendra Fadnavis Wikipedia page. You had placed the page on semi protection on the 14th of May, for which we are really grateful. During the protection period the act of vandalism ceased but as soon as the protection period was over (18th May) the vandalism restarted. You may go through the edit history to merit the given accusation.

We would be obliged if the page was placed on permanent protection to ensure that these acts of vandalism cease forever and only those who have been registered, verified, and have a history of good edits on Wikipedia, make suitable changes to the aforementioned page. FSCOPC ( talk) 14:11, 26 May 2020 (UTC) reply

Hi Bibliomaniac15

Thanks for closing WP:Categories for discussion/Log/2020 May 6#Television_program(me)s. It had been open too long.

I know that weighing the consensus will be a big job, but I wondered if you and @ Fayenatic london had any idea how long that might take? -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 18:05, 27 May 2020 (UTC) reply

@ BrownHairedGirl: I'm hoping to put it out by the end of the week, but I'm waiting for Fayenatic to respond to a couple things. They've been busy IRL so there's been a delay. Thanks for following up! bibliomaniac 1 5 18:08, 27 May 2020 (UTC) reply

No rush, but good to know it is in hand. I just wanted to check that it was still on the radar. And thanks to both of you for taking on a job which won't be easy. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 19:00, 27 May 2020 (UTC) reply

Hi. I'm confused as to what your decision actually is and why. I see your comment that "The result of the discussion was: standardize to "shows" for now", but it's obvious that there was no consensus for this, and in the case of no consensus, the convention is to leave as is. It's only last year that "Category:Welsh-language television programs" was uncontroversially moved to "Category:Welsh-language television programmes". Deb ( talk) 19:39, 28 May 2020 (UTC) reply

Thanks for the link. Couldn't find it. Deb ( talk) 20:08, 28 May 2020 (UTC) reply

I agree with Deb. Clearly bibliomaniac is an American who has trouble counting. I'd bet money that User:Fayenatic_london is actually Chinese. And clearly BrownHairedGirl would see the reverse, as she's the one who nominated the name change, and had already renamed a load of TV categories in 2019 to her preferred choice, to give herself a better argument.

• Oppose - 9 votes
• Comment - 8 votes
• Support - 4 votes
• Standardise - 4 votes (notice I've spelt it correctly with an "s")

Danstarr69 ( talk) 20:16, 28 May 2020 (UTC) reply

I think the racial argument might be taking it a bit far though. Deb ( talk) 20:29, 28 May 2020 (UTC) reply

@ Danstarr69, as I already pointed out [1] to Deb, see WP:NOTAVOTE. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 20:47, 28 May 2020 (UTC) reply

BrownHairedGirl Believe me, I'll be going through the entire list of English speaking TV categories in future, from 2020, 2019 and earlier, and getting all your renamed TV categories reversed. Danstarr69 ( talk) 20:57, 28 May 2020 (UTC) reply

@ Danstarr69, I don't know what categories your are referring to, but I object very strongly to your personalisation of renamings made by consensus. I also remind you that your claim that I renamed a load of TV categories in 2019 to her preferred choice, to give herself a better argument is bogus, because the nomination was based on policy and on copious evidence of usage in reliable sources. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 21:04, 28 May 2020 (UTC) reply

Danstarr69's preferred choice is also 'TV show' (3 occurrences, not a programme in sight). Oculi ( talk) 09:00, 30 May 2020 (UTC) reply

An editor has asked for a Move review of Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2020 May 6. Because you closed the move discussion for this page, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the move review. Deb ( talk) 20:37, 28 May 2020 (UTC) reply

• @ Bibliomaniac15: the move review has (at last!) been closed [2] as endorse. Please will either you or Fayenatic now implement your close? -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 22:10, 3 July 2020 (UTC) reply

@ BrownHairedGirl: Hey there, thanks for the heads up. It looks like Timrollpickering has already listed it at the Large working page here. bibliomaniac 1 5 03:19, 5 July 2020 (UTC) reply

Hi Bibliomaniac15, the renaming of these categories was carried out without leaving redirects, which has broken the links, with many pages now having redlinked categories e.g. List of earthquakes in the United States. When Category:M_? was originally moved to Category:Articles using unknown earthquake magnitude scales, a redirect was left. What was different this time? Currently all the maintenance categories are empty, bar the original renaming mentioned above, which still follows the redirect. I would be grateful if you would add the redirects for the other categories, if that is something that is easy for you to do, thanks. Mikenorton ( talk) 11:05, 29 May 2020 (UTC) reply

@ Mikenorton: Hey, thanks for reminding me. I'll head back as soon as I have time to place {{category redirect}} on each category. Had to give the bot time to rename everything first. bibliomaniac 1 5 17:36, 30 May 2020 (UTC) reply

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Hi, quick question: is this category

• Category:Video game franchises disestablished in 2012

covered by this CFD

• Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2020_May_24#Category:Video_game_franchises_by_year_of_disestablishment?

-- Calton | Talk 09:51, 3 June 2020 (UTC) reply

Thanks for the tip!

No problem. It just seemed a bit contradictory, especially since a bot had removed "Category:Video game franchises by year of disestablishment" from the category, so I was confused about what it meant. -- Calton | Talk 23:32, 3 June 2020 (UTC) reply

I see that you salted 2020 coronavirus pandemic super-spreaders; I suggest it be created as a redirect to Superspreader#COVID-19 outbreak 2020, after which it can of course be protected if appropriate. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:51, 16 June 2020 (UTC) reply

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Hi. I'm not sure I agree with the decision to rename Category:The Sandlot film series to Category:The Sandlot (film series). I think the appropriate name was the one I suggested in the discussion since the only articles with the category are the films from the series. There is not an article about the series as a whole or articles about any of the characters, soundtracks, or video games from the series. I believe my rationale is supported by categories which use the "film series" parenthetical disambiguator vs. those that simply use "films" as part of the category name. For example, there is Category:Scream (film series), which contains articles about many aspects of the series and Category:Scream films, which contains only the articles about the films themselves. Thanks. Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars ^{Talk to me} 17:04, 24 July 2020 (UTC) reply

May I suggest modification of the close at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2020_July_8#Category:Fictional_drinks to the singular form Category:Fictional food and drink, C2C per Category:Food and drink, editing the existing redirect? – Fayenatic London 14:47, 29 July 2020 (UTC) reply

@ Fayenatic london: Sure, I haven't carried out the second half of the close yet. bibliomaniac 1 5 23:40, 29 July 2020 (UTC) reply

You remved user:2605:E000:1703:26:138:E7B2:837A:A918 from AIV since they are range blocked. However, they are only blocked from certain pages, not the entire wiki. I was hoping they could be blocked from the entire wiki. CLCStudent ( talk) 02:32, 30 July 2020 (UTC) reply

@ CLCStudent:, you're right about that. However, I only see two edits and no warnings, which would make it a decline for now. bibliomaniac 1 5 02:34, 30 July 2020 (UTC) reply

Hi. Somehow the implementation of this rename failed. The target has not been created. Marcocapelle ( talk) 22:10, 30 July 2020 (UTC) reply

@ Marcocapelle: I'm not quite sure what you mean. The bot successfully moved the cat to Category:Converts to Anglicanism from Baptist denominations successfully at 14:59, 29 July 2020. bibliomaniac 1 5 02:04, 31 July 2020 (UTC) reply

It is alright now. When I looked previously, both the original category and Category:Converts to Anglicanism from Baptist denominations were redlinked. Perhaps the processing took place exactly at that moment. Sorry for bothering you. Marcocapelle ( talk) 06:05, 31 July 2020 (UTC) reply

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Hello, I'd like you to reconsider the close to this particular CfD [3]. There's a naming convention in place which clearly establishes 'Macedonian' as the term for nationality. The policy was based on a wide consensus established by a RfC. A recent local consensus of five editors was obviously not aware of this and changed the name of the category. Same goes for '‎Category:Macedonian politicians by party'. -- FlavrSavr ( talk) 18:11, 3 August 2020 (UTC) reply

• FlavrSavr is correct ("According to the official prescriptions of the Prespa agreement, the adjectival form "North Macedonian" is generally to be avoided"). I'm surprised you ignored my view that the place to start is Category:Macedonian people as the rename can now be undone as a speedy (C2C), as it introduces an inconsistency into an otherwise harmonious tree. Also some of the support was in fact for 'North Macedonia', not the demonym 'North Macedonian'. Oculi ( talk) 09:31, 4 August 2020 (UTC) reply

Hello Bibliomaniac15 -- way back in April, you were kind enough to peer review Frances Gertrude McGill, which I'm preparing to nominate for FA class. I've since updated the 'Cases and Methodology' section: I cut out miscellaneous info and chose three specific cases to focus on (which will hopefully better showcase McGill's role in police investigations). Would you be interested in taking a quick look and letting me know what you think? I'd appreciate any final feedback you may have. Alanna the Brave ( talk) 22:34, 3 August 2020 (UTC) reply

Please do not accuse other users of vandalism like you falsely did on List of Coronation Street characters. The information that kept being removed was never agreed upon and had been added on a whim by one user. Connorguy99 ( talk) 00:07, 4 August 2020 (UTC) reply

Thanks for letting me know; I apologize. bibliomaniac 1 5 04:30, 4 August 2020 (UTC) reply

Hi, you asked:

Why did you interpret the addition of wikilinks as disruptive editing/vandalism here, here, and here?

This person is deleting and adding the same link over and over again to up his edit count so as to be able to create articles without having to submit them for approval. Equine-man ( talk) 21:22, 21 August 2020 (UTC) reply

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Hi Bibliomaniac15, you blocked the above user recently, you might want to look at their reply and what they call you (translate from Korean) and maybe remove access to talk page? JW 1961 Talk 13:02, 5 September 2020 (UTC) reply

@ Joseywales1961: Yeah, I ended up doing that about five minutes after I initially blocked them. bibliomaniac 1 5 18:22, 5 September 2020 (UTC) reply

For Actuallysethstark1 ( talk · contribs). Cheers, 2601:188:180:B8E0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 ( talk) 02:32, 14 September 2020 (UTC) reply

Thanks for the tip. bibliomaniac 1 5 02:34, 14 September 2020 (UTC) reply

My pleasure. 2601:188:180:B8E0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 ( talk) 02:35, 14 September 2020 (UTC) reply

Its now four months, or so, since the PR. Are you any closer to actually starting on improving this article? shaidar cuebiyar ( talk) 02:08, 18 September 2020 (UTC) reply

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There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Out-of-process category deletions by user:Hyacinth. Thank you.. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 12:23, 5 October 2020 (UTC) reply

@ BrownHairedGirl: Thanks for the tip; that's pretty alarming indeed. Glad it was reverted. bibliomaniac 1 5 18:04, 5 October 2020 (UTC) reply

Yes, not at all good. And the ANI discussion has thrown up evidence of previous, similar problems with the same admin. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 18:06, 5 October 2020 (UTC) reply

Hi Bibliomaniac15, you are listed as GA mentor and this is my first time, I have passed one GA and am about to okay another, but I need to make sure I am doing everything right. Would you mind double checking my work if you have some time? They can be found Talk:2020 BX12/GA1 and Talk:NASA Astronaut Group 8/GA1. I haven't okayed the second yet, but the nominator addressed every single complaint raised. Thank you! Footlessmouse ( talk) 08:03, 18 October 2020 (UTC) reply

Wow, thanks very much ... that was a weird situation! Graham 87 02:09, 28 October 2020 (UTC) reply

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Per Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion, I am requesting that Category:Pupils of Olivier Messiaen be undeleted per the opposition to the deletion of Pupils of x categories at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/IncidentArchive1048#Out-of-process category deletions by user:Hyacinth. Clearly, if articles fail to mention the teachers of the musician who is the topic of the article the way to fix that is to mention the musician's teachers in the articles formerly contained in that category and recreate the category. Hyacinth ( talk) 02:01, 3 November 2020 (UTC) reply

@ Hyacinth: The reason why the categories were undeleted was because your original deletions were completely out of process, as BrownHairedGirl pointed out, not really because of the merits of the category tree itself. I don't feel comfortable overturning the consensus at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2020_May_22#Category:Pupils_of_Olivier_Messiaen, and your citation of WP:REFUND doesn't apply here ("a process intended to assist users in restoring pages or files that were uncontroversially deleted via proposed deletion, under certain speedy deletion criteria...or in deletion debates with little or no participation other than the nominator"). I would say you have two options. You can either:

1. Place the entire Category:Music pupils by teacher tree at CFD and see what the community's thoughts are on the merits of the tree. You could even request to re-review Category:Pupils of Olivier Messiaen and see if there's a consensus to reestablish it.
2. If you feel like you have new information regarding why the category should be recreated, list it on WP:DRV as a request for recreation.

The thing that you should not do, of course, is unilaterally recreate the category, which would totally defeat the purpose of having a CFD in the first place. bibliomaniac 1 5 03:12, 3 November 2020 (UTC) reply

Why was it deleted when she was arguably the most important composition teacher of the 20th century. And, also, there are other famous composition teachers that have his/her own categories, so why delete this one? Peace. — MuzikJunky ( talk) 06:09, 3 November 2020 (UTC) reply

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Myles Turner ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) 120+ vandal edits today. Thanks Adakiko ( talk) 05:24, 18 November 2020 (UTC) reply

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Re this, which statement by Risker? -- Dweller ( talk) Become old fashioned! 09:34, 18 November 2020 (UTC) reply

@ Dweller: I meant you. Not sure why I said Risker. bibliomaniac 1 5 17:10, 18 November 2020 (UTC) reply

Ah, OK. That unpuzzles me! In that case, thanks for the compliment! -- Dweller ( talk) Become old fashioned! 17:39, 18 November 2020 (UTC) reply

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Hi Bibliomaniac15, I hope you are good. I am having an editing issue. I am trying to add a location ping on this map to the Infobox for the following article. Do you know how to do that ? Many thanks Neverstopthat ( talk) 10:00, 11 December 2020 (UTC) Hi Bibliomaniac15, Thanks for the info . I think I was able to fix the issue. Really appreciate your help. All the best and enjoy the holidays. Neverstopthat ( talk) 10:53, 13 December 2020 (UTC) reply

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• The standard discretionary sanctions authorized for American Politics were amended by motion to cover post-1992 politics of United States and closely related people, replacing the 1932 cutoff.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2021 Steward elections will begin on 05 February 2021, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2021, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• Wikipedia has now been around for 20 years, and recently saw its billionth edit!

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Good Article Nomination Backlog Drive The March 2021 GAN Backlog Drive begins on March 1, and will continue until the end of the month. Please sign up to review articles and help reduce the backlog of nominations!

-- For the drive co-ordinators, MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 15:27, 21 February 2021 (UTC) reply

This ip that you recently blocked is back at it. I could go through the staged warnings again if you prefer, but it seems pretty clear that warnings and a block had no effect on their behaviour. 18abruce ( talk) 23:48, 26 February 2021 (UTC) reply

@ 18abruce: I've checked some of their recent edits, which were misinformation, and I went straight to giving them a level 4 warning. If they edit again, feel free to report them to WP:AIV. bibliomaniac 1 5 06:26, 27 February 2021 (UTC) reply

Okay thank you. 18abruce ( talk) 13:41, 27 February 2021 (UTC) reply

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

Administrator changes

TJMSmith

Boing! said Zebedee • Hiberniantears • Lear's Fool • Only • WGFinley

Interface administrator changes

AmandaNP

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment is open that proposes a process for the community to revoke administrative permissions. This follows a 2019 RfC in favor of creating one such a policy.
• A request for comment is in progress to remove F7 (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a, which covers immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
• A request for comment seeks to grant page movers the 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.
• A request for comment asks if sysops may place the General sanctions/Coronavirus disease 2019 editnotice template on pages in scope that do not have page-specific sanctions?
• There is a discussion in progress concerning automatic protection of each day's featured article with Pending Changes protection.

Technical news

• When blocking an IPv6 address with Twinkle, there is now a checkbox with the option to just block the /64 range. When doing so, you can still leave a block template on the initial, single IP address' talkpage.
• When protecting a page with Twinkle, you can now add a note if doing so was in response to a request at WP:RfPP, and even link to the specific revision.
• There have been a number of reported issues with Pending Changes. Most problems setting protection appear to have been resolved ( phab:T273317) but other issues with autoaccepting edits persist ( phab:T275322).

Arbitration

• By motion, the discretionary sanctions originally authorized under the GamerGate case are now authorized under a new Gender and sexuality case, with 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 Kurds and Kurdistan case was closed, authorizing standard discretionary sanctions for the topics of Kurds and Kurdistan, broadly construed.

Miscellaneous

• Following the 2021 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AmandaNP, Operator873, Stanglavine, Teles, and Wiki13.

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Hello - I noticed you relisted the discussion for the the rename of Swaminarayan sect of Hinduism to Swaminarayan Hinduism. Could you please take a look at the discussion and close it? It appears that majority is towards renaming it to Swaminarayan Hinduism. Apollo1203 ( talk) 02:04, 18 March 2021 (UTC) reply

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

Administrator changes

Alexandria • Happyme22 • RexxS

Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, F7 (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a has been deprecated; it covered immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
• Following a request for comment, page movers were granted the delete-redirect userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target.

Technical news

• When you move a page that many editors have on their watchlist the history can be split and it might also not be possible to move it again for a while. This is because of a job queue problem. ( T278350)
• Code to support some very old web browsers is being removed. This could cause issues in those browsers. ( T277803)

Arbitration

• A community consultation on the Arbitration Committee discretionary sanctions procedure is open until April 25.

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@ Bibliomaniac15: Greetings! The Cannon article that you nominated for FA has sentences (usually at the end of a paragraph) that appear unsourced. There are also some other inline templates such as "page needed". Another thing is that many of the images violate MOS:SANDWICH; could you take care of these? Cheers. Wretchskull ( talk) 19:03, 17 April 2021 (UTC) reply

@ Wretchskull: Hi there, I'll see what I can do. Out of curiosity, did you contact any of the other co-nominators besides me? I would appreciate if you could let them know as well. This was a collaboration we did 13 years ago (my God!) as the WP:TSQUAD. bibliomaniac 1 5 19:52, 19 April 2021 (UTC) reply

Precious

Nine years!

-- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 06:39, 21 April 2021 (UTC) reply

I have nominated History of timekeeping devices for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. FemkeMilene ( talk) 20:06, 23 April 2021 (UTC) reply

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

Administrator changes

Enchanter • Carlossuarez46

Interface administrator changes

Ragesoss

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, consensus was found that third party appeals are allowed but discouraged.
• The 2021 Desysop Policy RfC was closed with no consensus. Consensus was found in a previous RfC for a community based desysop procedure, though the procedure proposed in the 2021 RfC did not gain consensus.

Technical news

• The user group oversight will be renamed to suppress. This is for technical reasons. You can comment at T112147 if you have objections.

Arbitration

• The community consultation on the Arbitration Committee discretionary sanctions procedure was closed, and an initial draft based on feedback from the now closed consultation is expected to be released in early June to early July for community review.

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I have noticed multiple recent discussions at Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship regarding the lack of admins, the worries of a "post-admin era", the concerns about keeping up on assorted backlogs/maintenance, etc. Since you were my coach prior to my RfA back in 2008, I would be interested in your current opinion of me before I humbly offer my services again. I just want to help my beloved project, and alleviate the backlogs and stress in the areas that I know best, so that other admins would have more time to focus on other areas that they know better than I. - Adolphus79 ( talk) 22:35, 11 May 2021 (UTC) reply

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

Administrator changes

Ashleyyoursmile • Less Unless

Husond • MattWade • MJCdetroit • Carioca • Vague Rant • Kingboyk • Thunderboltz • Gwen Gale • AniMate • SlimVirgin (deceased)

Guideline and policy news

• Consensus was reached to deprecate Wikipedia:Editor assistance.
• Following a Request for Comment the Book namespace was deprecated.

Technical news

• Wikimedia previously used the IRC network Freenode. However, due to changes over who controlled the network with reports of a forceful takeover by several ex-staff members, the Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts decided to move to the new Libera Chat network. It has been reported that Wikimedia related channels on Freenode have been forcibly taken over if they pointed members to Libera. There is a migration guide and Wikimedia discussions about this.

Arbitration

• After a Clarification request, the Arbitration Committee modified Remedy 5 of the Antisemitism in Poland case. This means sourcing expectations are a discretionary sanction instead of being present on all articles. It also details using the talk page or the Reliable Sources Noticeboard to discuss disputed sources.

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

Guideline and policy news

• Consensus has been reached to delete all books in the book namespace. There was rough consensus that the deleted books should still be available on request at WP:REFUND even after the namespace is removed.
• An RfC is open to discuss the next steps following a trial which automatically applied pending changes to TFAs.

Technical news

• IP addresses of unregistered users are to be hidden from everyone. There is a rough draft of how IP addresses may be shown to users who need to see them. This currently details allowing administrators, checkusers, stewards and those with a new usergroup to view the full IP address of unregistered users. Editors with at least 500 edits and an account over a year old will be able to see all but the end of the IP address in the proposal. The ability to see the IP addresses hidden behind the mask would be dependent on agreeing to not share the parts of the IP address they can see with those who do not have access to the same information. Accessing part of or the full IP address of a masked editor would also be logged. Comments on the draft are being welcomed at the talk page.

Arbitration

• The community authorised COVID-19 general sanctions have been superseded by the COVID-19 discretionary sanctions following a motion at a case request. Alerts given and sanctions placed under the community authorised general sanctions are now considered alerts for and sanctions under the new discretionary sanctions.

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Hello, hope all is well. Are you able to comment at an open BN thread? – xeno ^talk 02:26, 12 July 2021 (UTC) reply

@ Xeno: Hey there, is there a dedicated crat chat page for this whole affair per Amanda? The thread is getting pretty messy. bibliomaniac 1 5 04:30, 12 July 2021 (UTC) reply

I made a section, but I'm not sure where logically an actual page would go. (Attached to the 2009 RfA?!) – xeno ^talk 04:37, 12 July 2021 (UTC) reply

@ Xeno: Ah, I didn't see the section you made when I replied. Thanks! bibliomaniac 1 5 04:45, 12 July 2021 (UTC) reply

Thanks for closing a few CfD discussions! Would you have time to close the oldest ones, the ones from June and early July? Marcocapelle ( talk) 07:00, 30 July 2021 (UTC) reply

@ Marcocapelle: Hey there, it's good to hear from you. It's been quite a while but I hope to take a look. The CFD grind never stops... bibliomaniac 1 5 21:35, 30 July 2021 (UTC) reply

• Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2021_June_24#Category:Eldest_sons_of_barons
• Category:Eldest sons of hereditary barons

Hey, long time : )

Quick question - Your close had "British", did something happen? - jc37 12:20, 31 July 2021 (UTC) reply

@ Jc37: Argh, silly mistake by me. I posted the original rename instead of the alt rename that I closed with on WP:CFD/W. Gonna get that fixed right away. Thanks for the save! bibliomaniac 1 5 17:21, 31 July 2021 (UTC) reply

lol, thanks, and happy to help. I think we've all been there. Thanks again  : ) - jc37 21:05, 31 July 2021 (UTC) reply

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

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open to add a delay of one week from nomination to deletion for G13 speedy deletions.

Technical news

• Last week all wikis were very slow or not accessible for 30 minutes. This was due to server lag caused by regenerating dynamic lists on the Russian Wikinews after a large bulk import. ( T287380)

Arbitration

• Following an amendment request, the committee has clarified that the Talk page exception to the 500/30 rule in remedy 5 of the Palestine-Israel articles 4 case does not apply to requested move discussions.

Miscellaneous

• You can vote for candidates in the 2021 Board of Trustees elections from 4 August to 17 August. Four community elected seats are up for election.

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

Administrator changes

Jake Wartenberg

Emperor • Viridian Bovary

Ashleyyoursmile → Viridian Bovary

Guideline and policy news

• Feedback is requested on the Universal Code of Conduct enforcement draft by the Universal Code of Conduct Phase 2 drafting committee.
• A RfC is open on whether to allow administrators to use extended confirmed protection on high-risk templates.
• A discussion is open to decide when, if ever, should discord logs be eligible for removal when posted onwiki (including whether to oversight them)
• A RfC on the next steps after the trial of pending changes on TFAs has resulted in a 30 day trial of automatic semi protection for TFAs.

Technical news

• The Score extension has been re-enabled on public wikis. It has been updated, but has been placed in safe mode to address unresolved security issues. Further information on the security issues can be found on the mediawiki page.

Arbitration

• A request for comment is in progress to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the Arbitration Committee election and resolve any issues not covered by existing rules. Comments and new proposals are welcome.

Miscellaneous

• The 2021 RfA review is now open for comments.

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Hello Biblionaniac15, I am writing to you in regard of a guy that he is an administrative in a Wikipedia page. This particular person keeps deleting things without mentioning a link or proof. The page that I am referring is the greek version of Skanderbeg. If you notice the English version is completely different from the Greek one. This particular person keeps insisting that his mother was Serbian but there's no proof of her being Serbian even the English version says that. I am beginning you to check it out because he has blocked people in editing it.