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If you're interested

The article discussed here Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard/Archive263#Vanessa_Beeley is back. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 19:12, 23 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Gråbergs Gråa Sång: And? Do you think the new article is inappropriate as well? If so, take it to the appropriate place to bring that up. If not, I'm not sure why it matters. Seraphimblade Talk to me 16:27, 24 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Floriane de Saint Pierre - G11

Hi, Seraphimblade, I trust this finds you well. I am reaching out as I do not seem to understand why my article was deleted under G11.This is not the first time that I have tried to submit a page on Floriane de Saint Pierre. In the past, I have been told my administrators that the subject of my page passes the notability guideline, but that it was not written correctly. I have significantly revised the text in order to remain neutral in tone. Additionally, all of the sources used are from independent and reliable sources to prove everything that was stated. I do not have any direct interest in promoting this article. I simply attended a university lecture by this individual last year, and was surprised to find no existing articles. Since we have the same Alma Matter, and as I found her lecture so inspiring, I was motivated to create her page, but we have no direct contact. I would really appreciate knowing what part of the text was not neutral enough in either tone or content, as everything stated was backed by reliable sources. I thank you in advance for your time and reply!

@RC1996: The article was written in the style of a CV. Those are inherently promotional and so are not permitted. Seraphimblade Talk to me 16:26, 24 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 26 April 2018

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Editing Information About Yourself

Hi Seraphimblade

Thanks for the very prompt response and thank you for the clarification.( See below ) I'm new to Wikipedia and when I discovered myself on there I did not look at conflict of interest before editing. That was indeed ignorant of me. I'm not sure how to reverse the editing that I made - though some things are incorrect, I would rather leave things as they are. I'm not particularly tech savvy. Can you tell me how get my page back to the way it was. Thank you Tina Cross


Hi there, I am a New Zealand singer/entertainer and I see someone has posted information about me. I'm not sure how Wikipedia works but upon discovering this information I decided to edit and correct here and there. I have noticed that much of my editing says ' citation needed'. If the information is about my career then surely I am the best person to verify my own career information In many instances, I'm unsure how to get citation. For example I was a celebrity dancer on 2008 New Zealand Dancing With The Stars. I'm unsure how to verify this other than with a newspaper article. Thank you, I look forward to hearing from you. Kind Regards Tina Cross ONZM

@Cross.sullivan: We cannot accept personal knowledge as a reference, even from an article subject, since article content must be verifiable by reliable published sources. However, a newspaper article from a reputable publication would generally be an acceptable reference. I would also strongly recommend that you read the guidelines on editing with a conflict of interest, which includes editing an article about oneself. Seraphimblade Talk to me 04:23, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

Carlisle Homes

Could you please undelete this article? It was speedy deleted as blatant advertising, which (as someone who I don't think has edited the article, but lives in the company's country of operation and has heard of them) in my view wasn't (also in Graham Bartlett's at WP:REFUND. They are a notable company - if people want to argue otherwise, they should nominate it at AfD so there can be an actual discussion about it. The Drover's Wife (talk) 02:02, 29 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@The Drover's Wife: What references do you intend to use to write the article? Most of them there were just trivial name drops, and half the article was "awards", common with UPE (which in this case we know it was). If you've got some more substantial references in mind and plan to fix it using those, I'd certainly be willing to, but I will not as was since that would reward a UPE. Seraphimblade Talk to me 02:48, 29 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I'd potentially be interested in expanding it because references aren't hard to come across, and I have zero problem with the awards section being removed. I have no idea what UPE means, but I really resent prominent Australian business topics unilaterally disappearing on the whim of some overseas user because they've never heard of them. The Drover's Wife (talk) 02:54, 29 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
It has nothing to do with having heard of them, or indeed whether the company is notable (and referring to another editor's nationality is bad form anyway, and makes me half tempted to just say no). G11 means that the article is advertising, it has nothing to do with notability. In this case, the article was a brief "profile" or "about us" with half of it being awards, with reference bombing of generally trivial mentions. UPE means undisclosed paid editor, and in this case we know the article was written by an undisclosed paid editing ring. So, if an established editor is willing to work on the article and has sources to hand, I'm certainly happy to restore it for that purpose, but if those name drops are all that's available, restoring it would serve the UPE's purpose of "getting the copy up". Since you've said the references are easy to find, let me know what you've found and then I'll restore it. Seraphimblade Talk to me 03:02, 29 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Topic ban clarification

An editor is making bad edits to the Peter Strzok page. I was going to take it to the talk page of the article but it seems pointless given the track record of the editor and the fact that the editor appears to have been topic-banned from US politics (?)[1]. Could you clarify whether the editor is topic banned or not? Can the editor's bad edits be reverted? Snooganssnoogans (talk) 01:13, 2 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Snooganssnoogans: Yes, that editor is topic banned from post-1932 American politics and those edits were clear violations of the ban. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. Seraphimblade Talk to me 01:22, 2 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – May 2018

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

Administrator changes

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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.
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Deleted Draft: Accolade (health and benefits company)

Hi, my draft was flagged as promotional and deleted. I will attempt to revise so that it does not sound promotional, as this was not the intention.

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