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Arbitration
A motion was passed to enact a 500/30 restriction on articles related to the history of Jews and antisemitism in Poland during World War II (1933–45), including the Holocaust in Poland. Article talk pages where disruption occurs may also be managed with the stated restriction.
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For me, it would be ideal if the bot tagged maintenance categories that are empty AFTER their date because then they would be eligible for deletion as unused categories. But before the date, they could still be used.
Thanks again for your bot! LizRead!Talk! 19:24, 2 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Liz: The issue is that these categories don't use any standard templates to signify that it can be empty (such as {{Pec}}) which is not a good way to create these categories. If it's created and not meant to be deleted, it should possibly be signified, I'll hack a fix ofc but this is just an idea. Also another note, the bot now informs category creators on tagging. --qedk (t愛c) 19:28, 2 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
More QEDK bot
Hello, QEDK, I am concerned with all of the empty WikiProject cats that QEDK bot tagged over the last week; many of these are part of established article sorting structures (the mainy thousands in the "by importance" and "by quality" category families being the most important); these are of course critical to WikiProject functionality even though they may be empty part or most of the time, and until now, WikiProjects have not needed to put the {{empty cat}} template on any of them to prevent deletion. Any way that you could please roll back these tags by the bot before these cats are deleted and many, many WikiProject problems ensue? I am also VERY concerned that there is not any page that logs the pages to which the bot applies speedy tags, similar to User:UnitedStatesian/CSD log that I use for such tracking and to other pages used by many users (including you!), and am concerned that the bot is not notifying the creator of each category it tags. (pinging @Liz: so these are on her radar screen too), UnitedStatesian (talk) 02:45, 6 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@UnitedStatesian: I'll set up a fix but again, you have to understand none of these categories have any proper documentation, they don't even need the {{empty cat}} template, if the use the word WikiProject or use the classbar, it ignores them too, these were categories that were mass-produced without there being a need for them. I can get you a list of edits made but there's no way to revert automatically without using specific tools. --qedk (t愛c) 06:00, 6 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Fixed Code is fixed, I'll try to revert most of it manually. I had deployed the notification code (it only recently passed the BRFA for that and it's not allowed to make edits in User talk: namespace otherwise), so it should behave normally from the next run, somehow the deployment did not stick. --qedk (t愛c) 06:11, 6 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
How about the logging of the bot's speedy tags, do you plan to implement that? And your manual reverts are quite urgent because the categories the bot tagged seven days ago are now being deleted. UnitedStatesian (talk) 06:53, 8 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@UnitedStatesian: I plan to do it soon, yes but it's not being logged yet, a wikilinked log of all the pages edited is available but it got wiped when I fixed the bot last time. I've now manually reverted all bad deletion tags (importance/quality related) I've come across. --qedk (t愛c) 09:22, 8 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Bot doing wrong
Here - the bot is routinely adding a speedy delete template to a category that does not meet criteria for speedy delete. Kingsif (talk) 16:56, 7 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Kingsif: I've fixed it for you, redirects don't work like that in the Category namespace, so the bot was doing fine, yeah. --qedk (t愛c) 16:59, 7 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Explicit: Thanks for letting me know, Explicit, this has been fixed in a later update, I'm not sure how many categories were affected but I've reverted the ones (and this one, now) I've come across. --qedk (t愛c) 05:46, 9 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Hi QEDK. I noticed your bot is nominating featured topics categories for C1 (e.g. 1). If I'm not mistaken, featured topics categories are exempt from C1. -FASTILY 06:55, 11 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Fastily:Doing... On a fix. --qedk (t愛c) 07:01, 11 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
This is still happening, [1].--十八 03:16, 15 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Juhachi: Fixed now, it was a goddamn stupid typo in a regex. --qedk (t愛c) 20:31, 15 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Question: Too Many Edits/Monopolozing
qedk, I have a question. Is it against the rules of Wikipedia for a user to monopolize and article and make too many edits? See: [2]. What do you think? Israell (talk) 21:43, 14 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I want to report user BrotherTimothy. See: [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8].
All those reverts made today with no discussion on Talk page. Besides, he's decided to monopolize the article. He’s reduced Jackson’s awards to 200 something from over 800 with no prior discussion. I think he should be blocked. Israell (talk) 23:39, 14 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Israell: I dropped a message on their talk page, let's see. --qedk (t愛c) 20:36, 15 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Baiting by Banananasas on the Charles Thomson Talk Page
On another note: [9]. User Banananasas has just accused me of edit-warring on the Charles Thomson page when I did not edit that page since Dec. 17th of last year... If that's not baiting, I'd love to know what that is. I am pinging Woody here since he did alert Banananasas a few times (about edit-warring and the General Sanctions on Michael Jackson articles). Israell (talk) 00:06, 16 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I've sanctioned Banananasas for 6 months and warned TruthGuardians, protecting the articles won't do much at this point, so I've let it be. As for what you can do, @Flyer22 Frozen, Israell, and Woody: is to add the {{MJ sanctions}} template to talk pages of articles related to the topic area, while it's not what an awareness notice counts as, it lets editors know they are liable to be sanctioned (you can also inform editors using {{subst:Gs/alert|topic=mj}}). Thanks for letting me know about this disruption asap. Best, qedk (t愛c) 08:25, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
New Page Reviewer newsletter June 2020
Hello QEDK,
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Discussions and Resources
A discussion on handling new article creation by paid editors is ongoing at the Village Pump.
Also at the Village Pump is a discussion about limiting participation at Articles for Deletion discussion.
I want to know how long the ban is? Arsi786 (talk) 21:29, 18 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Arsi786: It's indefinite, and can only be appealed to the community. See WP:UNBAN - I recommend you wait for a minimum of 6 months with no infractions before appealing. --qedk (t愛c) 20:36, 18 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Ok so for six months avoid making such edits but does this mean I can revert vandalism on topics related to these stuff or no? and after six months do I go back to the administrator page noticeboard and then make the appeal or is it in another page I have to go? Arsi786 (talk) 21:49, 18 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Arsi786: All the exceptions are listed in WP:BANEX, I recommend you do not tread down the path of reverting "maybe" vandalism edits and just edit a different topic area, you can appeal your ban at either WP:AN or WP:ANI. Finally note that the ban is indefinite, 6 months is just a general appealable time period. --qedk (t愛c) 20:53, 18 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Okay thank you for the help I also made a repeal at ANI Arsi786 (talk) 22:22, 18 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, I was wondering if you could please help me regarding this matter.
User: 186.34.188.183 has been making several disruptive edits even after being warned several times by various users.
In Bustamante Park: He renamed the link to the article of Plaza Baquedano with "Plaza Dignidad"[10]. "Plaza Dignidad" was a name used refer to Plaza Baquedano by some protestors during the 2019–2020 Chilean protests, the name "Plaza Dignidad" is in no way official.
In Lawrence Vigouroux: When refering to the citizenship of said person he replaced "English-born Chilean" with "British"[11]. In his edit summary he stated that the reason for this was that "British. He got a Chilean citizenship through his father, who has Chilean descent. Chile it's known to give citizenship to good footballers". In which way is that relevant?, even if he acquired citizenship just because "he is a good footballer" does that make him less of a Chilean?.
In Afro-Chileans: He removed naturalized people from the list of notable Afro-Chileans[12][13][14], stating in his edit summary the following:"People who only hold Chilean citizenship on paper because they were "bought" in adulthood by the Chilean ANFP (Chilean football federation) in complicity with the Chilean government". I created a section on the talk page of said article with the goal of discussing this, but he ignored it.
Hope you're well! This users appears to have been topic-banned by you from editing pages connected with Michael Jackson, as evidenced here. The user was notified here.
They have made two edits to pages in article space since being notified of the sanctions, visible as Edit #1 and Edit #2. I spotted them edit-warring with another user and pointed them both to the talk page (not realising they were under GS), where they have made 5 edits with examples at Edit #3 and Edit #4.
I believe this constitutes a breach of the topic ban and would be grateful if you could review?
@Darren-M: I've blocked them for 3 days. --qedk (t愛c) 18:49, 22 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Sock puppet accounts
You said drop a note here if any of those sock puppet accounts I sent became active again and that came soon as Special:Contributions/2.127.78.222 just made another round of edits. TKOIII (talk) 19:24, 23 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@TKOIII: Blocked the /23 range for 3 months. --qedk (t愛c) 20:57, 23 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Now the bot is incorrectly applying C1 tags to categories that are under discussion at WP:CFD, such as here. Can you please correct this? And related question, where to we stand on creating the log page for all pages that are being tagged by the bot? Let me know on both, UnitedStatesian (talk) 21:26, 25 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@UnitedStatesian: I was not aware of that template so never wrote the regex to accomodate it, should be fixed in a bit. As for the logs, I'll either do it today or by month-end, the source code is available publicly, so you can submit a pull request if you want (the link is in the bot userpage source). Best, qedk (t愛c) 12:04, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Fixed --qedk (t愛c) 16:35, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Hello
The meta is prefix was intentional. Some people don't like clicking links and suddenly end up in another project. I see you tried to implement it in another way, but removed it again. Anyway, the prefix method looks much better, in my view. And if you look at the history you'll see almost all the time meta links have the prefix. Thanks.– Ammarpad (talk) 06:33, 29 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Ammarpad: Links to internal sites are not a biggie afaik, feel free to revert me; I couldn't find a better solution, so it's up to you. --qedk (t愛c) 22:03, 29 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The Medicine case was closed, with a remedy authorizing standard discretionary sanctions for all discussions about pharmaceutical drug prices and pricing and for edits adding, changing, or removing pharmaceutical drug prices or pricing from articles.
Hello QEDK, I was wondering if you would consider nominating a user for Adminship. This user is TheImaCow. This user joined 3 months ago, but during that time, this user has already made over 32,000 edits on Wikipedia. This user has contributed tirelessly on Wikipedia, and every single edit has been made with one goal in mind: to improve the quality of Wikipedia. Based on all of this, I think this user will be a great fit for the administrator position. I know that I don’t have as much experience as I would need to nominate this user myself, so I wanted to ask someone who was actually qualified to do it first. Take a look and tell me what you think. If you think they’re ready, you can nominate them if you want. Thanks! ProClasher97 ~ Have A Question? 16:53, 1 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@ProClasher97: There's actually several steps involved in nominating someone for RfA, one of them would be the editor displaying an willingness for the role, while I appreciate you putting in a good word, it depends on the person actually wishing to take on the role. Secondly, 3 months is a very short period and it's hard to prove an user is experienced enough to take on the role of a sysop in less than a year, that's a modicum of experience imo. Hope that clarifies it! I'm sure they would appreciate you putting in a good word for them nonetheless. --qedk (t愛c) 17:39, 1 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Although I have nothing against this, I am certain for several reasons that it will not happen. There are problems like User_talk:TheImaCow#NAC, or the fact that I've only been here for 3 months. As I read in some RFAs/user essays, it takes at least a year "to understand the policies properly (i agree with that)". and even that happens only in "exceptional cases". So, to be clear, I'm honored, of course, and there are things that speak for it, but also things that speak against it, like the contents of that message. --TheImaCow (talk) 18:17, 1 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Hey
Hey, Where've you been on IRC? I've been missing our Brooklyn 99 chats! ~RhinosF1(Chat) / (Contribs) 16:45, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@RhinosF1: My MacBook died. Just got set up on my desktop before it BSoDed on Friday, fixed now thankfully, should swing by tomorrow. (hopefully) Thanks for asking! --qedk (t愛c) 17:07, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
