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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Sonia89f (talk | contribs) at 12:14, 20 April 2018 (→Please comment on Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Shehzad_Poonawalla: new section). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

My sincere thanks

Wikipedia:Featured topic candidates/Laureus World Sports Awards/archive1 has just been promoted to featured topic. Thanks for your help in getting it there! The Rambling Man (talk) 21:42, 30 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi TRM, it was a pleasure reviewing them and I'm glad I played my part in getting this to featured topic status. Congratulations again for leading the charge. Hope to see the ESPY Awards achieve featured topic status as well. Cheers – Ianblair23 (talk) 10:06, 4 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Millennia in the Republic of Upper Volta

I have nominated Category:Millennia in the Republic of Upper Volta and two sub-cats for merging to Burkina Faso. Please see the discussion at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 February 19.

I do like the appearance of the templates you made in Category:2nd-millennium establishments templates by country. However, Template:2nd-millennium establishments in the Republic of Upper Volta will become obsolete if the category is merged. Also, as it's only used on one page, a template is not really needed. Would you consent to it being manually merged to the target category page? My usual practice has been to combine multiple territory names into one table, e.g. at Category:20th-century establishments in Russia. – Fayenatic London 10:32, 19 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Well, the appearance which I believe you devised for these templates has now been rolled out to myriads of category pages. Category:2nd-millennium establishments in Burkina Faso incorporates the period that is needed from Template:2nd-millennium establishments in the Republic of Upper Volta, so may we delete the template as a housekeeping matter? – Fayenatic London 22:57, 1 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Fayenatic, no objection from me. Go ahead. Cheers – Ianblair23 (talk) 00:51, 2 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for that. I made corresponding changes to Template:2nd-millennium establishments in Grenada and then incorporated it into the one page that transcluded it, Category:2nd-millennium establishments in Grenada. Is it OK for me to delete that template as well, and then tag the category for deletion as empty? – Fayenatic London 20:42, 14 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Fayenatic, yes please do. Cheers – Ianblair23 (talk) 01:43, 15 April 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.
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Netball templates

Hi Ian, I was wondering if you might be able to help sort out a template problem that seems (?) to be from one of your templates. I thought I'd take a crack at creating a rosters list for the netball competition at this year's Commonwealth Games, and it seems as if the only other one we have is the one you did for the 2006 games. The problem is that, since they're template-based - see Template:2006 Commonwealth Games England netball team roster - there seems to be an error (I think in Template:IFNA player?) that is throwing a ton of "<span="font-size:140%;">" into the template. Any chance you could work out what's going on there? I have nowhere near the template skills needed to fix it, and I'd love to be able to do this year's games. The Drover's Wife (talk) 08:49, 14 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi The Drover's Wife, I have fixed the template. Cheers – Ianblair23 (talk) 02:07, 15 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you! The Drover's Wife (talk) 02:59, 15 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry to bother you again, but is there any chance you'd be able to alter this template so clubs can be disambiguated? Plenty of netball club names are not terribly original, and it doesn't appear to give me the option to do it as it is. The Drover's Wife (talk) 08:59, 15 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi The Drover's Wife, please see this diff. Cheers – Ianblair23 (talk) 10:49, 15 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Ah, thank you! I'd looked everywhere I could think of and hadn't found that. The Drover's Wife (talk) 10:56, 15 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Please comment on Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Shehzad_Poonawalla

Hello, Can you please takeout few minutes to comment on this. Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Shehzad_Poonawalla Regards Sonia89f (talk) 12:14, 20 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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