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Administrators' newsletter – July 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2021).
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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.
Ricard White (actor)
Hi I’m Dragongirl95, I saw your reply to my request to edit Richard White (actor) and it said it needs citations from a reliable source? How is IMDb not a reliable source? How do I prove his birthday is August 4,1953? I’m one of Richards biggest fan so I highly doubt I would give inappropriate information about his birthday. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dragongirl95 (talk • contribs) 07:38, 21 August 2021 (UTC)
- @Dragongirl95: I don't think you understand what it means for a source to be reliable. IMDB is so unreliable we have WP:IMDBREF. Perhaps a few minutes reviewing WP:RS would be in order. Toddst1 (talk) 14:43, 21 August 2021 (UTC)
Ricard White (actor)
Hi Dragongirl95 here,
I read ur newest reply and I didn’t realize that you don’t count IMDb for sources. However does this count as a reliable source? https://famousbirthdays.io/richard-white-voiceactor/. I kinda wish that I had done the galaxycon live session with Richard so that I could’ve asked him in virtual person but I was too late and when you google his birthday in the sear it says his birthday is August 4,1953 so I don’t know how much proof you need for Richards birthday date.
Thanks for your time
It seems someone has been involved in edit war with you. I have reverted it. Please block that user aswell protect the page from disruptive edits. Already that page has lots of edit wars recently.
157.49.142.26 (talk) 07:26, 30 August 2021 (UTC)
Multiple repeat offender
Remember this guy? I've just blocked him permanently. Deb (talk) 11:29, 1 September 2021 (UTC)
And...
Have you noticed the spate of new users adding poorly-sourced content about Finland to day and year articles? Deb (talk) 20:25, 2 September 2021 (UTC)
- Yep. That signpost article cuts both ways. We got a couple of solid contributors (one joined the project) but plenty of bozos. Toddst1 (talk) 22:41, 2 September 2021 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – September 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2021).
Administrator changes
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.
ANEW
What on earth?--Bbb23 (talk) 15:36, 10 September 2021 (UTC)
- @Bbb23:, I have no idea what that was supposed to be. Thanks for finding it and fixing it. Toddst1 (talk) 18:06, 10 September 2021 (UTC)
New Page Patrol newsletter September 2021
Hello Toddst1,
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. 04:33, 16 September 2021 (UTC)
Balloon ascent on horseback
I managed to find a few references for this on Google Books if you're interested, but none of them really explain why. A friend of mine is a bit of an expert on the history of ballooning and has written a book about it (which doesn't mention this incident), but one thing I learned from him is that the earliest experiments with hot air balloons had little in the way of objective and they had no idea how they were going to use them in the long term. Apparently one theory was that horses would run faster if they had a balloon attached to them! Deb (talk) 07:53, 16 September 2021 (UTC)
Pierre Testu-Brissy - October 15 1798
Pierre Testu-Brissy. Your edit comment said ... this ascent not even mentioned in the linked person's biography. It is cited in the Wiki page, but where can I find his biography? It's not obvious in my Google searching. I am excited (a bit) about reading it and enhancing the Wiki article. Many thanks. Chienlit (talk) 08:36, 16 September 2021 (UTC)
- My mistake. It is mentioned in his biography.
- However, that event seems quite trivial. If you think it should be included on the WP:DOY page, open a discussion on the talk page and see what others think. If I'm reading @Deb:'s comment above correctly, she seems to imply that the first horse ride in a balloon wasn't that significant either. Usually events listed have articles about them, like Storming of the Bastille or Apollo 11 but not Henry Kisssinger got sick on a diplomatic mission in Paris. Toddst1 (talk) 16:57, 16 September 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks for your edits and effort. etc. I'll retry DoY when I'm actually sure what his name was (there are several alternatives online), and have a handle on his personal biography. I'll keep searching. Chienlit (talk) 20:08, 16 September 2021 (UTC)
- P.s. In the early days we didn't know what to do with computers, a predicted market of circa 6 in the UK.
Anne Rice
I've done nothing of the sort. What "poorly referenced biographical content" are you referring to? If you are going to accuse me of something it would help if you specify the details of you are talking about. Two Bananas (talk) 21:10, 25 September 2021 (UTC)