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The Signpost: 2 March 2024

Vandalism

Thanks for your help with squashing vandalism on my talk. Not sure why this LTA is targeting me as I have not had an encounter with them for maybe 2 years now. wizzito | say hello! 05:25, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

@Wizzito: You're welcome. Always here to help :) Prodraxis (talk) 06:12, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Pohang Space Walk

The article Pohang Space Walk you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Pohang Space Walk for comments about the article, and Talk:Pohang Space Walk/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Toobigtokale -- Toobigtokale (talk) 06:42, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

Question from Hotassistant (17:47, 7 March 2024)

how do i add a picture that I have permission to use? --Hotassistant (talk) 17:47, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

@Hotassistant, welcome! To add images, please see this page for file syntax as well as the Manual of style guide for images. Happy editing! Best, Prodraxis (talk) 20:11, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
Thanks, someone keeps deleting my work even when its correct. How do I fix this? or get it certififed? Hotassistant (talk) 17:22, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
@Hotassistant: Hi, that image was deleted by EugeneZelenko as a copyright violation and the bot just processed the removal. You should get the copyright owner to contact the Volunteer Response Team with a consent form so they can verify the permission. Thanks! --Nintendofan885T&Cs apply 18:51, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

RFA2024 update: no longer accepting new proposals in phase I

Hey there! This is to let you know that phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship (RfA) review is now no longer accepting new proposals. Lots of proposals remain open for discussion, and the current round of review looks to be on a good track towards making significant progress towards improving RfA's structure and environment. I'd like to give my heartfelt thanks to everyone who has given us their idea for change to make RfA better, and the same to everyone who has given the necessary feedback to improve those ideas. The following proposals remain open for discussion:

  • Proposal 2, initiated by HouseBlaster, provides for the addition of a text box at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship reminding all editors of our policies and enforcement mechanisms around decorum.
  • Proposals 3 and 3b, initiated by Barkeep49 and Usedtobecool, respectively, provide for trials of discussion-only periods at RfA. The first would add three extra discussion-only days to the beginning, while the second would convert the first two days to discussion-only.
  • Proposal 5, initiated by SilkTork, provides for a trial of RfAs without threaded discussion in the voting sections.
  • Proposals 6c and 6d, initiated by BilledMammal, provide for allowing users to be selected as provisional admins for a limited time through various concrete selection criteria and smaller-scale vetting.
  • Proposal 7, initiated by Lee Vilenski, provides for the "General discussion" section being broken up with section headings.
  • Proposal 9b, initiated by Reaper Eternal, provides for the requirement that allegations of policy violation be substantiated with appropriate links to where the alleged misconduct occured.
  • Proposals 12c, 21, and 21b, initiated by City of Silver, Ritchie333, and HouseBlaster, respectively, provide for reducing the discretionary zone, which currently extends from 65% to 75%. The first would reduce it 65%–70%, the second would reduce it to 50%–66%, and the third would reduce it to 60%–70%.
  • Proposal 13, initiated by Novem Lingaue, provides for periodic, privately balloted admin elections.
  • Proposal 14, initiated by Kusma, provides for the creation of some minimum suffrage requirements to cast a vote.
  • Proposals 16 and 16c, initiated by Thebiguglyalien and Soni, respectively, provide for community-based admin desysop procedures. 16 would desysop where consensus is established in favor at the administrators' noticeboard; 16c would allow a petition to force reconfirmation.
  • Proposal 16e, initiated by BilledMammal, would extend the recall procedures of 16 to bureaucrats.
  • Proposal 17, initiated by SchroCat, provides for "on-call" admins and 'crats to monitor RfAs for decorum.
  • Proposal 18, initiated by theleekycauldron, provides for lowering the RfB target from 85% to 75%.
  • Proposal 24, initiated by SportingFlyer, provides for a more robust alternate version of the optional candidate poll.
  • Proposal 25, initiated by Femke, provides for the requirement that nominees be extended-confirmed in addition to their nominators.
  • Proposal 27, initiated by WereSpielChequers, provides for the creation of a training course for admin hopefuls, as well as periodic retraining to keep admins from drifting out of sync with community norms.
  • Proposal 28, initiated by HouseBlaster, tightens restrictions on multi-part questions.

To read proposals that were closed as unsuccessful, please see Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review/Phase I/Closed proposals. You are cordially invited once again to participate in the open discussions; when phase I ends, phase II will review the outcomes of trial proposals and refine the implementation details of other proposals. Another notification will be sent out when this phase begins, likely with the first successful close of a major proposal. Happy editing! theleekycauldron (talk • she/her), via:

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:53, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors 2023 Annual Report

Guild of Copy Editors 2023 Annual Report

Our 2023 Annual Report is now ready for review.

Highlights:

  • Introduction
  • Membership news, obituary and election results
  • Summary of Drives, Blitzes and the Requests page
  • Closing words
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Welcome

@Pickersgill-Cunliffe: Thanks! I'm looking to improve some Korean milhist stuff because their coverage is absolutely atrocious due to systemic bias resulting from a tendency to favor English sources. Prodraxis (talk) 22:49, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

March thanks

story · music · places

Thank you for improving article quality in March! - I uploaded Madeira vacation pics (from back home, at least the first day) and remember Aribert Reimann. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:20, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: Thank you for writing great content and being a great service to WP in March as well. :) Prodraxis (talk) 22:15, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
Thank you! - Some days later, a calf in the mist and chocolate cake, and a story of collaboration --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:49, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
I listen to Bach's St John Passion today, - 300 years after it was first performed. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:10, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 March 2024