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Hello {{u|PhilKnight}} I hope you don't mind but I came across your name on the Wikproject Companies page and am in need of some advice on the topic. I have been through a series of disputes with another editor regarding content on business webpages, primarily regarding "Awards received" of multiple business articles. I don't want to get into the details of the dispute with the editor, we are attempting to discuss it on the talk pages. However, more generally the fundamental disagreement is if listing awards to a company is inherently promotional, irrespective of presentation in the article. Is there a relevant forum where I can begin this discussion (or where it has already been discussed) such that a larger consensus might be reached? Thanks [[User:Dbsseven|Dbsseven]] ([[User talk:Dbsseven|talk]]) 23:26, 6 June 2018 (UTC)
Hello {{u|PhilKnight}} I hope you don't mind but I came across your name on the Wikproject Companies page and am in need of some advice on the topic. I have been through a series of disputes with another editor regarding content on business webpages, primarily regarding "Awards received" of multiple business articles. I don't want to get into the details of the dispute with the editor, we are attempting to discuss it on the talk pages. (Though many are sleepy articles and don't get a lot of traffic for consensus building.) However, the fundamental disagreement spreads across multiple articles and asks "is listing awards to a company is inherently promotional, irrespective of presentation in the article?" Is there a relevant forum where I can begin this discussion (or where it has already been discussed) such that a larger consensus might be reached? Thanks [[User:Dbsseven|Dbsseven]] ([[User talk:Dbsseven|talk]]) 23:26, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

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Hi, I contributed to a page for a public figure Alok Kejriwal few years back - the page has been deleted recently. I noticed that you restored this page in past whenever it was deleted. Could you please help me restore this page? Thanks in advance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Saikatblogger (talk • contribs) 07:33, 4 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Saikatblogger, the page was deleted following discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alok Kejriwal. To undelete it, you would need to go through deletion review. PhilKnight (talk) 21:53, 4 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Wikigraphists Bootcamp (2018 India)

Greetings,

It is being planned to organize Wikigraphists Bootcamp in India, please fill out the survey form to help the organizers. Your responses will help organizers understand what level of demand there is for the event (how many people in your community think it is important that the event happens). At the end of the day, the participants will turn out to have knowledge to create drawings, illustrations, diagrams, maps, graphs, bar charts etc. and get to know to how to tune the images to meet the QI and FP criteria. For more information and link to survey form, please visit Talk:Wikigraphists Bootcamp (2018 India). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:45, 15 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

File:Laura-Michelle-Kelly.jpg

Hello. Please could you restore the above file. An email has been received at ticket:2017041710024092, which appears to provide a license but I want to be certain. Please ping me when it is done. Cheers. Green Giant (talk) 23:37, 15 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Green Giant:- it's done. PhilKnight (talk) 00:22, 16 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Fantastic. I have moved the file to Commons with the same name. Please could you delete the local copy? Much obliged. Green Giant (talk) 16:35, 16 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
 Done. PhilKnight (talk) 22:58, 16 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Question

User:PhilKnight, Based on the directives given by WP:ARBPIA2, are we as editors of Wikipedia who wish to mention the location of a city, say, in Samaria (such as Havat Gilad), required to write West Bank as its geopolitical location/region, or can we simply write Judea and Samaria Area, based on either one of the six Administrative Districts of Israel? As for the name of the country, are we permitted to write "Israel", instead of "Palestinian territories", for places located on the former Jordanian side of the pre-1967 Demarcation lines between Israel and Jordan, known as the "West Bank"? The reason why I am asking you is because an article written by a former editor for Wikipedia had initially listed all of the towns in the country according to region as found in Districts of Israel, but then after six years, another editor came along and changed all regional locations to "West Bank" and "Palestinian territories." Is this proper procedure? If not, can we restore the original edit?Davidbena (talk) 03:42, 26 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Davidbena, I'm not sure - I haven't dealt with ARBPIA2 in years. Sorry I can't be of help. PhilKnight (talk) 02:03, 27 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – February 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2018).

Administrator changes

added None
removed Blurpeace • Dana boomer • Deltabeignet • Denelson83 • Grandiose • Salvidrim! • Ymblanter

Guideline and policy news

  • An RfC has closed with a consensus that candidates at WP:RFA must disclose whether they have ever edited for pay and that administrators may never use administrative tools as part of any paid editing activity, except when they are acting as a Wikipedian-in-Residence or when the payment is made by the Wikimedia Foundation or an affiliate of the WMF.
  • Editors responding to threats of harm can now contact the Wikimedia Foundation's emergency address by using Special:EmailUser/Emergency. If you don't have email enabled on Wikipedia, directly contacting the emergency address using your own email client remains an option.

Technical news

  • A tag will now be automatically applied to edits that blank a page, turn a page into a redirect, remove/replace almost all content in a page, undo an edit, or rollback an edit. These edits were previously denoted solely by automatic edit summaries.

Arbitration

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:51, 4 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Supporting Indian Wikipedia Program resource distribution

In 2017 - 2018, the Wikimedia Foundation and Google working in close coordination with the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Wikimedia India chapter (WMIN) and user groups will pilot a program encouraging Wikipedia communities to create locally relevant and high-quality content in Indian languages. This program (Code name: Project Tiger) will:

(a) Support active and experienced Wikipedia editors through the donation of laptops and stipends for internet access and
(b) Sponsor a language-based contest that aims to address existing Wikipedia content gaps.

The objective of the program is to provide laptops and internet stipends for existing editors who need support to contribute more actively. 50 basic model Acer Chromebooks and Internet stipends for 100 contributors are available for distribution. Provided resources are the sole property of the beneficiaries and should be used for the betterment of the movement.

If you're an active Wikimedian, and interested to receive support from this project, please apply. It will take around 10 minutes of your time, and will ask descriptive questions about your contribution to Indic Wikimedia projects.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:12, 8 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free image File:Heavenly (Johnny Mathis album).jpg

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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) 18:35, 22 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – March 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2018).

Administrator changes

added Lourdes†
removed AngelOfSadness • Bhadani • Chris 73 • Coren • Friday • Midom • Mike V
† Lourdes has requested that her admin rights be temporarily removed, pending her return from travel.

Guideline and policy news

  • The autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) is scheduled to end on 14 March 2018. The results of the research collected can be read on Meta Wiki.
  • Community ban discussions must now stay open for at least 24 hours prior to being closed.
  • A change to the administrator inactivity policy has been proposed. Under the proposal, if an administrator has not used their admin tools for a period of five years and is subsequently desysopped for inactivity, the administrator would have to file a new RfA in order to regain the tools.
  • A change to the banning policy has been proposed which would specify conditions under which a repeat sockmaster may be considered de facto banned, reducing the need to start a community ban discussion for these users.

Technical news

  • CheckUsers are now able to view private data such as IP addresses from the edit filter log, e.g. when the filter prevents a user from creating an account. Previously, this information was unavailable to CheckUsers because access to it could not be logged.
  • The edit filter has a new feature contains_all that edit filter managers may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string.

Miscellaneous

Obituaries

  • Bhadani (Gangadhar Bhadani) passed away on 8 February 2018. Bhadani joined Wikipedia in March 2005 and became an administrator in September 2005. While he was active, Bhadani was regarded as one of the most prolific Wikipedians from India.
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:00, 2 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Project Tiger Writing Contest

In 2017 – 2018, the Wikimedia Foundation and Google working in close coordination with the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Wikimedia India Chapter (WMIN) and user groups from India, are piloting a program encouraging Wikipedia communities to create locally relevant and high-quality content in Indian languages. This program will (a) support active and experienced Wikipedia editors through the donation of laptops and stipends for internet access and (b) sponsor a language-based contest that aims to address existing Wikipedia content gaps.

Phase (a) has been completed, during which active contributors were awarded laptops and internet stipends. Phase (b) will be a contest in which editors will come together and develop a writing contest focused on content gaps. Each month three individual prizes will be awarded to each community based on their contribution for the month. The prizes worth 3,000 INR, 2000 INR, and 1,000 INR, will be awarded to the top contributors for each month. The contest started at March 1, 2018, 0:00, and will end at May 31, 2018, 23:59 (IST). Useful links are as follows:

Looking forward your participation, all the best. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (talk • mail) at 22:21, 21 March 2018 (UTC).[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – April 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2018).

Administrator changes

added 331dot • Cordless Larry • ClueBot NG
removed Gogo Dodo • Pb30 • Sebastiankessel • Seicer • SoLando

Guideline and policy news

  • Administrators who have been desysopped due to inactivity are now required to have performed at least one (logged) administrative action in the past 5 years in order to qualify for a resysop without going through a new RfA.
  • Editors who have been found to have engaged in sockpuppetry on at least two occasions after an initial indefinite block, for whatever reason, are now automatically considered banned by the community without the need to start a ban discussion.
  • The notability guideline for organizations and companies has been substantially rewritten following the closure of this request for comment. Among the changes, the guideline more clearly defines the sourcing requirements needed for organizations and companies to be considered notable.
  • The six-month autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) ended on 14 March 2018. The post-trial research report has been published. A request for comment is now underway to determine whether the restrictions from ACTRIAL should be implemented permanently.

Technical news

Arbitration

  • The Arbitration Committee is considering a change to the discretionary sanctions procedures which would require an editor to appeal a sanction to the community at WP:AE or WP:AN prior to appealing directly to the Arbitration Committee at WP:ARCA.

Miscellaneous

  • A discussion has closed which concluded that administrators are not required to enable email, though many editors suggested doing so as a matter of best practice.
  • The Foundations' Anti-Harassment Tools team has released the Interaction Timeline. This shows a chronologic history for two users on pages where they have both made edits, which may be helpful in identifying sockpuppetry and investigating editing disputes.
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:23, 2 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move

Hello there. The move that I requested from an administrator was Wembley Arena to The SSE Arena, Wembley (which redirects to the former). More people agreed with the move than disagree (see Talk:Wembley Arena) and thus I wanted to get this move finalised. Since my admin help request, someone has closed the discussion in favour of moving it, so I am kindly requesting if you could perform it now? Thank you! --MetrolandNW (talk) 13:01, 14 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

190.185.118.138

190.185.118.138 (talk · contribs · WHOIS)

This IP has continued to make disruptive edits past your recent 48 hour block. Would you mind blocking them again? Thanks. 185.89.216.241 (talk) 05:14, 19 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

G7 deletion of moved page

Hi. I'm looking at what is now 2018 Asian Youth Olympic Games Qualifier (girls' field hockey), and wondering if there was some cut&paste moving going on that resulted in partial loss of the page's edit history. The earliest edit appears to be a move to 2018 Women's Asian Youth Olympic Games Field Hockey Qualifier, which you recently G7 deleted. Could you re-check this please? Thanks. --Paul_012 (talk) 12:47, 29 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Paul, I looked but couldn't make head nor tails of what I was looking at. I'm sorry, but you're going to need to recruit an admin more technically proficient than me for this. I've restore the file with all of its editing history. PhilKnight (talk) 21:28, 30 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – May 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2018).

Administrator changes

added None
removed Chochopk • Coffee • Gryffindor • Jimp • Knowledge Seeker • Lankiveil • Peridon • Rjd0060

Guideline and policy news

  • The ability to create articles directly in mainspace is now indefinitely restricted to autoconfirmed users.
  • A proposal is being discussed which would create a new "event coordinator" right that would allow users to temporarily add the "confirmed" flag to new user accounts and to create many new user accounts without being hindered by a rate limit.

Technical news

  • AbuseFilter has received numerous improvements, including an OOUI overhaul, syntax highlighting, ability to search existing filters, and a few new functions. In particular, the search feature can be used to ensure there aren't existing filters for what you need, and the new equals_to_any function can be used when checking multiple namespaces. One major upcoming change is the ability to see which filters are the slowest. This information is currently only available to those with access to Logstash.
  • When blocking anonymous users, a cookie will be applied that reloads the block if the user changes their IP. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. This currently only occurs when hard-blocking accounts.
  • The block notice shown on mobile will soon be more informative and point users to a help page on how to request an unblock, just as it currently does on desktop.
  • There will soon be a calendar widget at Special:Block, making it easier to set expiries for a specific date and time.

Arbitration

Obituaries

  • Lankiveil (Craig Franklin) passed away in mid-April. Lankiveil joined Wikipedia on 12 August 2004 and became an administrator on 31 August 2008. During his time with the Wikimedia community, Lankiveil served as an oversighter for the English Wikipedia and as president of Wikimedia Australia.
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:05, 2 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Vw6 listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:Vw6. Since you had some involvement with the Template:Vw6 redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Septrillion (talk) 19:02, 5 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Vw7 listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:Vw7. Since you had some involvement with the Template:Vw7 redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Septrillion (talk) 19:02, 5 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Vw8 listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:Vw8. Since you had some involvement with the Template:Vw8 redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Septrillion (talk) 19:03, 5 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Request to remove article deletion notice

I am the author of an article for which I think I was the editor who requested the deletion. I had inadvertently posted the article as a live article when my intention was to create a user page. I immediately requested the deletion to avoid posting the faulty, incomplete article as a live article. I changed Li Jian (museum curator) · (Deleted) to Li Jian (art curator)2017-12-06 20:20. If removing the deletion notice does not follow Wikipedia protocol, I understand why the notice on my record of articles written should remain. However, would it be possible to say "deleted by author's request" or something like that to indicate that the request for deletion was not made by somebody else?Mitzi.humphrey 19:49, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

The article indiates that you requested deletion. PhilKnight (talk) 22:27, 9 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Sockpuppeteer

Hello PhilKnight, you might be interested in the issue I am reporting as you have already been involved in it previously. It is about a bunch of IPs which are very likely (99%) related to an old acquaintance of en.wikipedia: a sock-puppet abuser who created about 50 socks to disrupt IPA transcriptions, obsessed especially with Italian names and words. The investigation I am referring to is the following: 84101e40247. The new IPs from which similar or identical edits have been done recently are the following: 95.235.116.126 (see: Loayur, Duelai, Ddgfs), 87.17.102.163 (see: Sasalikasty), 193.204.194.210 (see: Dyukpore), 79.30.8.179 (see: Vufroled), 5.90.255.50 (see: Ksyru), 79.49.65.250 (see: Fruial, Kilorty); it is also possible that there are some more, but for the moment these are enough to care about, right? I hope that you or someone else will take appropriate measures against this recidivous vandal! Thank you for reading :-) 198.46.84.16 (talk) 12:48, 25 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This editor has posted the same message to me and to Vanjagenije. I am dealing with it. I have also posted a message at User talk:198.46.84.16 about posting the same message to multiple administrators. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 15:17, 25 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I have just read your comment, I am sorry for posting the same message in different users' pages, I will not do it any more. 198.46.84.16 (talk) 16:48, 25 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – June 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2018).

Administrator changes

added None
removed Al Ameer son • AliveFreeHappy • Cenarium • Lupo • MichaelBillington

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • IP-based cookie blocks should be deployed to English Wikipedia in June. This will cause the block of a logged-out user to be reloaded if they change IPs. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. For the time being, it only affects users of the desktop interface.
  • The Wikimedia Foundation's Anti-Harassment Tools team will build granular types of blocks in 2018 (e.g. a block from uploading or editing specific pages, categories, or namespaces, as opposed to a full-site block). Feedback on the concept may be left at the talk page.
  • There is now a checkbox on Special:ListUsers to let you see only users in temporary user groups.
  • It is now easier for blocked mobile users to see why they were blocked.

Arbitration

  • A recent technical issue with the Arbitration Committee's spam filter inadvertently caused all messages sent to the committee through Wikipedia (i.e. Special:EmailUser/Arbitration Committee) to be discarded. If you attempted to send an email to the Arbitration Committee via Wikipedia between May 16 and May 31, your message was not received and you are encouraged to resend it. Messages sent outside of these dates or directly to the Arbitration Committee email address were not affected by this issue.

Miscellaneous

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:00, 1 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

advice

Hello PhilKnight I hope you don't mind but I came across your name on the Wikproject Companies page and am in need of some advice on the topic. I have been through a series of disputes with another editor regarding content on business webpages, primarily regarding "Awards received" of multiple business articles. I don't want to get into the details of the dispute with the editor, we are attempting to discuss it on the talk pages. (Though many are sleepy articles and don't get a lot of traffic for consensus building.) However, the fundamental disagreement spreads across multiple articles and asks "is listing awards to a company is inherently promotional, irrespective of presentation in the article?" Is there a relevant forum where I can begin this discussion (or where it has already been discussed) such that a larger consensus might be reached? Thanks Dbsseven (talk) 23:26, 6 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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