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The Bugle: Issue CXXVII, November 2016

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 looks at two new books on the US military Interview: A chat with our new project coordinators Review essay: Nick-D discusses recent works on the British and Australian Armies in World War I Op-ed: TomStar81 on the end of the Battle of the Somme Timeline: This month in World War I

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If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 11:30, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins

Hello,

Please note that TOTP based two-factor authentication is now available for all administrators. In light of the recent compromised accounts, you are encouraged to add this additional layer of security to your account. It may be enabled on your preferences page in the "User profile" tab under the "Basic information" section. For basic instructions on how to enable two-factor authentication, please see the developing help page for additional information. Important: Be sure to record the two-factor authentication key and the single use keys. If you lose your two factor authentication and do not have the keys, it's possible that your account will not be recoverable. Furthermore, you are encouraged to utilize a unique password and two-factor authentication for the email account associated with your Wikimedia account. This measure will assist in safeguarding your account from malicious password resets. Comments, questions, and concerns may be directed to the thread on the administrators' noticeboard. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:32, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

A new user right for New Page Patrollers

Hi Alexf.

A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.

If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins).MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:46, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

Unblock request on hold

There's an unblock request at User talk:Painreliefnomed, for a spamusername block that you placed. The editor seems to be willing to edit within policy (though a more detailed unblock request making that really clear would have been helpful). Although the editor linked to a web site related to the username, the change was a perfectly constructive one, replacing a dead link with a link to a live copy of the same cited source. I am inclined to unblock. Do you have any comment to make? The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 21:24, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

@JamesBWatson: - OK. Go ahead. No issues in that case. -- Alexf^(talk) 22:27, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, Alexf. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. Mdann52 (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, Alexf. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. Mdann52 (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Admin's Barnstar
	Good work on page deletions. PikachuRP25 16:46, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

Thanks. -- Alexf^(talk) 16:49, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

Aplusshanghai

Hi, quick question: in this edit, did you actually intend to tag User:Aplusshanghai as a sockpuppet of User:Art+Shanghai? I don't want to refactor your post, in case I misunderstand. Thanks, Wikishovel (talk) 13:28, 30 November 2016 (UTC)

@Wikishovel: The first account created the article. A second account was created with a similar name (pointing to the same organization) and immediately started working on the same promotional (and copyvio) article. If you disagree, please feel free to refactor, or comment in the talk page for the user. Article was removed as copyvio (twice). -- Alexf^(talk) 13:31, 30 November 2016 (UTC)

I may have swapped the names inadvertently and not put the correct sock master. Thanks. -- Alexf^(talk) 14:16, 30 November 2016 (UTC)

Deleting my article

Hello, I was just wondering why you keep deleting my article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Reactshin (talk • contribs) 20:07, 1 December 2016 (UTC)

Because the subject is not notable. The deletion notice in all the instances you created (please stop recreating the same article, which was deleted by several admins), clearly says :"(A7: Article about a website, blog, web forum, webcomic, podcast, browser game, or similar web content, which does not credibly indicate the importance or significance of the subject)".

There are also at least three very detailed notices in your User Talk Page explaining the issue so I have to wonder how "I was just wondering why you keep deleting my article". Maybe you should read the Wikipedia rules, starting with the Five Pillars if you want to be a contributor. -- Alexf^(talk) 21:20, 1 December 2016 (UTC)

User:PoohPoop

You may wish to revoke talk page access as well.--Cahk (talk) 08:08, 3 December 2016 (UTC)

Done. User not here. -- Alexf^(talk) 15:41, 3 December 2016 (UTC)

Deleting my article

Hello, I was just wondering why you keep deleting my entry under the page "Hyperspectral Imaging". There is a dedicated point "Software Resources" with the sub-point "Commercial Software". All software there is made by companies and all of the described software links to external pages of companies - and of course they do, because software is naturally programmed by someone and do not appear from nothing. So I'm wondering why you only delete my entry and don't delete all the other commercial software tools as well. Are you biased? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Manfred Pail (talk • contribs) 15:20, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

Not biased. An account was created in violation of the username rules, that made edits to spam their own site ([1]). The account was renamed to you at the company name, and proceeded to spam. Another account was created, under your own name this time, and did the same edit ([2]) to the same article (Hyperspectral imaging). Seems to me you are not here to help build an encyclopedia but to disregard conflicts of interest rules. Maybe instead of writing references to your own site, you should instead discuss them in the article's talk page and open it for discussion. As per pointing out other spammy edits, thanks for the info, they will be looked at. Please read about conflicts of interest as pointed above. -- Alexf^(talk) 15:29, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

Well the topic is "Commercial Software". Surprisingly all of the software is comercial ;-) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Manfred Pail (talk • contribs) 15:41, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXXVIII, December 2016

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 looks at America's nuclear capability at the start of the Cold War Review essay: Hawkeye7 on the Manhatten Project suite of articles Op-ed: TomStar81 discusses leadership changes in World War I Timeline: This month in World War I

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Thanks.

Thanks for blocking that vandal's IP (81.130.188.111), if it happens again, block 81.130.188.111 for a longer period (3rd time: 124, 4th time: 248, 5th time: 496,..., Nth time: (31*(2^N)). --Brynda1231 [Talk Page] [Contribs] 14:52, 8 December 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Brynda1231 (talk • contribs)

Tu maza Jeev

Dear sir I have created a article Tu Maza Jeev there is a tag of deletion on it I request you to remove the same as the article is refined. Please reach our to me asap as I find the person who added the tag is not active plz do the needful --†Ïv㉫Ǹ Ｇ✿Ǹ＄Aしv㉫＄ 17:38, 10 December 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tiven2240 (talk • contribs)

The article is in AfD. The tag cannot be removed until the AfD runs its course. -- Alexf^(talk) 19:11, 10 December 2016 (UTC)

Viom technocrats

Since the block, just moments ago, the user's talk page has been replaced with another copy of the advert. I think talk page access may need to be revoked too. Cabayi (talk) 16:07, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

Done. Thanks. -- Alexf^(talk) 16:09, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

A cheeseburger for you!

Just as you Blocked that guy, I was typing in a warning. I thought I had somehow blocked him when I saw the block notice, lol. Layla, the remover (talk) 13:47, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

User:BigDaddyJ was caught by a filter, so there are a lot more cases of similar vandalism in that article than what you see, therefore the block. -- Alexf^(talk) 13:52, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

Pretty harsh

Hello, I just need to bring out my concerns about the loose banhammer fingers. Case I refer to is user https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Hrastprogrammer While it were a self promoting in sense that the interpreter is published through a shareware lincense, but it makes no difference concidering the nature of that wikipedia page List_of_BASIC_dialects (a list full of commercial products). I don't have specific information or if there is more related, but this infinite time ban is grose if it only from that one edit in list of BASIC dialects. I have no connection to this other than a HP calculator and visiting on calculator community forums. PS. Happy (or unhappy, which ever floats the boat) holidays. --Wartiokone (talk) 14:29, 14 December 2016 (UTC)