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Administrators' newsletter – February 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2020).

Guideline and policy news

  • Following a request for comment, partial blocks are now enabled on the English Wikipedia. This functionality allows administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces rather than the entire site. A draft policy is being workshopped at Wikipedia:Partial blocks.
  • The request for comment seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure closed with wide-spread support for an alternative desysoping procedure based on community input. No proposed process received consensus.

Technical news

  • Twinkle now supports partial blocking. There is a small checkbox that toggles the "partial" status for both blocks and templating. There is currently one template: {{uw-pblock}}.
  • When trying to move a page, if the target title already exists then a warning message is shown. The warning message will now include a link to the target title. [1]

Arbitration

  • Following a recent arbitration case, the Arbitration Committee reminded administrators that checkuser and oversight blocks must not be reversed or modified without prior consultation with the checkuser or oversighter who placed the block, the respective functionary team, or the Arbitration Committee.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:05, 1 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Anonymous eidtor's harrassment against me, on and off Wikipedia

Hello, Bradv. I have edited Wikipedia for over 12 years now, with a specific focus on articles about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I believe that you and I may have interacted a few times on one or two matters related to my work on such pages, if only in such settings as deletion discussions. I understand that you are a member of the arbitration committee, and I am asking for your help as a member thereof. Someone who edits Wikipedia anonymously has engaged in behavior that I feel consistitutes harrassment against me, and this harrassment has occurred both on and off Wikipedia. Their conduct originated over a dispute this editor had with my revert of content they had removed on List of missions of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This editor began their harrassment against me on my talk page, then it further spread and intensified when they somehow tracked me down off Wikipedia through a couple of nasty comments related to this matter on my personal blog. I have tried to reason with them civily, both on and off Wikipedia, but they have no interest in reciprocating with civility regarding this matter. I hate to have to bring any member of the Arbitration Committee in on a situation like this, but the nature of tehe esclating incvility of the editor involved in this matter has created problems for me that are now spreading to and impacting my life outside of Wikipedia, so I need to request your intervention. If you are not in a position to help me, you can pass this matter along to any other member of that committee whom you think would be able to do so. Thanks for any help you may be able to give me in dealing with this apparent internet trollery that is impacting my life, both on and off Wikipedia. I am preserving all available evidence on this matter on my talk page and on the thread of my personal blog for now, but as soon as I hear back from you to note that this matter has been approrpriately handled, I will be absolutely relieved to expunge this content from both my talk page and my personal blog. Thanks again. --Jgstokes (talk) 02:13, 3 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Bradv, quick follow-up to my earlier comment. Due to the nature of the off-Wikipedia harrassment that came into play on my blog, which is hosted on Blogspot, a subsidiary of Google, I had to report the comment chain from my blog to Google. And given jthe nature of the exchange, which violates Google conduct rules as well, for Wikipedia purposes and next steps here, I wanted to furnish you with this copy of the exchange in question. The ball is in your court. Inform me of the next play, whatever that may be. --Jgstokes (talk) 02:53, 3 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Jgstokes, I've passed on this report to the rest of the committee. If you have any other evidence or comments that you want to share privately, please email the committee at arbcom-en@wikimedia.org. I'm sorry you are experiencing this, and I hope we can get to the bottom of it. – bradv🍁 02:59, 3 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia Bots

Hi Bradv! Please can you tell me how to write a bot in Wikipedia? Bilal190023 (talk) 11:05, 3 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 12

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past two months (December 2019 and January 2020).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 12th issue issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 06:12, 5 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Demond Anthony block

Have you seen this and Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Superkeegan9100/Archive? Check the logs on the IP range, you'll see they match.-- Jezebel's Ponyobons mots 19:07, 11 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ponyo, I had not seen those, but I would concur that one of those is the master (or both). Should they be retagged? – bradv🍁 19:14, 11 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The Superkeegan SPI is pretty stale, so I'm not sure there would be much value in retagging based on that report. The PeppaPig stuff is more recent though. @NinjaRobotPirate and Berean Hunter:, as the CUs who handled the linked SPIs, what do you think? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ponyo (talk • contribs) 19:19, 11 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Ponyo, NinjaRobotPirate, and Berean Hunter: I think there's enough in the logs to merge these two SPIs, and include the newly blocked socks as well: Terrence Mac, Demond Anthony. What do you think? – bradv🍁 21:36, 11 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The technical and behavioural overlap is striking. You would think they would have aged out of their obsession with the topic by now.-- Jezebel's Ponyobons mots 21:40, 11 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Seems possible to me. The more checks I run, the less I believe in coincidence. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 06:16, 12 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Just in case

Hello B. I saw your r/d work here. I wondered if you wanted to remove the edit summary that is contained in the sinebot edit as well. If not no worries I just wanted to double check. Best regards. MarnetteD|Talk 01:05, 12 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

MarnetteD, done. Thanks for letting me know. – bradv🍁 01:08, 12 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
You are welcome. Sinebot can be a tricky editor at times but at least it is on our side :-) MarnetteD|Talk 01:11, 12 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Message from Anitaoguni

Hi Bradv,

I'd like to know why you deleted the Few Models Management page. Thanks a lot.

Looking forward to your response.

Anitaoguni (talk) 08:32, 13 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Anitaoguni, I deleted it because it was blatant advertising. What is your relationship to the company? – bradv🍁 12:57, 13 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

New Page Reviewer newsletter February 2020

Hello Bradv,

Source Guide Discussion

The first NPP source guide discussion is now underway. It covers a wide range of sources in Ghana with the goal of providing more guidance to reviewers about sources they might see when reviewing pages. Hopefully, new page reviewers will join others interested in reliable sources and those with expertise in these sources to make the discussion a success.

Redirects

New to NPP? Looking to try something a little different? Consider patrolling some redirects. Redirects are relatively easy to review, can be found easily through the New Pages Feed. You can find more information about how to patrol redirects at WP:RPATROL.

Discussions and Resources
Refresher

Geographic regions, areas and places generally do not need general notability guideline type sourcing. When evaluating whether an article meets this notability guideline please also consider whether it might actually be a form of WP:SPAM for a development project (e.g. PR for a large luxury residential development) and not actually covered by the guideline.

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16:08, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

A thorny problem

Hi Bradv, I've been approached by another editor about some harassment issues. I don't want to give too much information away publicly, but I/they have tried the standard channels, and haven't really been able arrive at a satisfactory conclusion. I'm wondering whether there's anything that Arbcom might be able to do about it (or, whether the wise heads on the committee have any suggestions for where else we might turn). Would you be willing to receive an e-mail where I can set everything out, so you can let me know whether you think there is anything to committee could do? Or would you advise my just to e-mail the general committee address so everyone can see it? Thanks in advance. GirthSummit (blether) 19:03, 13 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Girth Summit, I'm sorry to hear that this is happening, and I'm very willing to do what I can to help. Please feel free to email myself or the full committee, whichever you feel is more appropriate. – bradv🍁 05:32, 14 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Bradv, thanks - I'll put something together over the weekend and send it over. GirthSummit (blether) 09:24, 15 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Message from 182.239.160.241

Hello! This is benjaminzyg and I wish my global lock to be appealed. Let me know in my talk page --182.239.160.241 (talk) 02:04, 16 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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