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	For your patient, enduring, commendable and valiant defense of Sealed crustless sandwich being categorized falsely as a "ravioli" by unfunny teenagers. Sıgehelmus (Tålk) 22:43, 1 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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

Administrator changes

Al Ameer son • Randykitty • Spartaz

Boson • Daniel J. Leivick • Efe • Esanchez7587 • Fred Bauder • Garzo • Martijn Hoekstra • Orangemike

Interface administrator changes

Deryck Chan

Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, the Mediation Committee is now closed and will no longer be accepting case requests.
• A request for comment is in progress to determine whether members of the Bot Approvals Group should satisfy activity requirements in order to remain in that role.
• A request for comment is in progress regarding whether to change the administrator inactivity policy, such that administrators "who have made no logged administrative actions for at least 12 months may be desysopped". Currently, the policy states that administrators "who have made neither edits nor administrative actions for at least 12 months may be desysopped".
• A proposal has been made to temporarily restrict editing of the Main Page to interface administrators in order to mitigate the impact of compromised accounts.

Technical news

• Administrators and bureaucrats can no longer unblock themselves unless they placed the block initially. This change has been implemented globally. See also this ongoing village pump discussion (permalink).
• To complement the aforementioned change, blocked administrators will soon have the ability to block the administrator that placed their block to mitigate the possibility of a compromised administrator account blocking all other active administrators.
• Since deployment of Partial blocks on Test Wikipedia, several bugs were identified. Most of them are now fixed. Administrators are encouraged to test the new deployment and report new bugs on Phabricator or leave feedback on the Project's talk page. You can request administrator access on the Test Wiki here.

Arbitration

• Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 3 December 2018. Please review the candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page.

Miscellaneous

• In late November, an attacker compromised multiple accounts, including at least four administrator accounts, and used them to vandalize Wikipedia. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately. Sharing the same password across multiple websites makes your account vulnerable, especially if your password was used on a website that suffered a data breach. As these incidents have shown, these concerns are not pure fantasies.
• Wikipedia policy requires administrators to have strong passwords. To further reinforce security, administrators should also consider enabling two-factor authentication. A committed identity can be used to verify that you are the true account owner in the event that your account is compromised and/or you are unable to log in.

Obituaries

• Shock Brigade Harvester Boris (Raymond Arritt) passed away on 14 November 2018. Boris joined Wikipedia as Raymond arritt on 8 May 2006 and was an administrator from 30 July 2007 to 2 June 2008.

Guild of Copy Editors December 2018 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the December 2018 GOCE newsletter. Here is what's been happening since the August edition. Thanks to everyone who participated in the August blitz (results), which focused on Requests and the oldest backlog month. Of the twenty editors who signed up, eleven editors recorded 37 copy edits. For the September drive (results), of the twenty-three people who signed up, nineteen editors completed 294 copy edits. Our October blitz (results) focused on Requests, geography, and food and drink articles. Of the fourteen people who signed up, eleven recorded a total of 57 copy edits. For the November drive (results), twenty-two people signed up, and eighteen editors recorded 273 copy edits. This helped to bring the backlog to a six-month low of 825 articles. The December blitz will run for one week, from 16 to 22 December. Sign up now! Elections: Nominations for the Guild's coordinators for the first half of 2019 will be open from 1 to 15 December. Voting will then take place and the election will close on 31 December at 23:59 UTC. Positions for Guild coordinators, who perform the important behind-the-scenes tasks that keep our project running smoothly, are open to all Wikipedians in good standing. We welcome self-nominations, so please consider nominating yourself if you've ever thought about helping out; it's your Guild and it doesn't run itself! Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators; Reidgreg, Baffle gab1978, Jonesey95, Miniapolis and Tdslk. >>> Sign up for the December blitz! <<< >>> Participate in the Coordinator elections! <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:04, 3 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your work today Hmains (talk) 03:13, 7 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I intend to contest this. Your declaration that this is an illegitimate topic is entirely subjective. The train happens to have been the premier namesake train for the Ontario Northland Railway, as per the Official Guide for the Railways, 1945, 'Ontario Northland Railway.' I notice that you have left standing other items on the same disambiguation page lacking articles. To wit: "The Northland", those parts of the Kansas City metropolitan area north of the Missouri River

"Northland", a region in northeast Columbus, Ohio, USA This game (pre-existing article), a very dubious inclusion: Northland (computer game), published by Freeverse Software What is your authrotity to delete someone's work with no dialog before the act?Dogru144 (talk) 23:52, 11 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I will remind you that there are innumerable links to on disambiguation pages, items having no existing article or pre-existing article.Dogru144 (talk) 23:52, 11 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Dogru144: This falls under the heading of WP:OTHERCRAPEXISTS. Just because there may be other items added to a list that should not be there under Wikipedia policies and guidelines, which have not yet been removed, does not mean that you should add more or that what you add should not be removed. As it stands, I have removed the redlink to the name of the train, since no article exists now, nor is it likely to be created because the individual train is not sufficiently notable to justify its own article. (If you disagree, create the page; see WP:WTAF.) The entry remains on the page only by virtue of the notability of the railway, though it may or may not remain if other editors take exception to it. As for the "innumerable" links having no articles, yes, there probably are, and a like number are removed from those lists each and every day. General Ization ^Talk 02:00, 12 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I have, by the way, removed the computer game you mentioned for the same reason. General Ization ^Talk 02:03, 12 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Dogru144: As for authority, any Wikipedia editor may add or remove content when the addition or removal is in keeping with Wikipedia policies and/or guidelines (and, in some cases, consensus), and no editor may declare that other editors do not have the authority to do so. Please read WP:OWN carefully. General Ization ^Talk 02:15, 12 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This is a very serious case that shakes the world of French and international humor as North American and European humorists are affected by this case.

We talk about it on the Internet, on television and on radio in France and abroad. As you will notice the sources are from French sites but also international web sites.

So what you just did is not appropriate.

So I ask that you review your judgment

--Susanowoo (talk) 23:29, 13 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

See your Talk page, please. General Ization ^Talk 23:33, 13 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Why did you delete the mention about the boys state basketball win on Verona mos page? Mikehancho91 (talk) 06:02, 14 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Mikehancho91: Because it was a) unsourced and b) misplaced in the History section of the article. General Ization ^Talk 06:04, 14 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

		Happy Christmas!
		Hello General Ization, Early in A Child's Christmas in Wales the young Dylan and his friend Jim Prothero witness smoke pouring from Jim's home. After the conflagration has been extinguished Dylan writes that Nobody could have had a noisier Christmas Eve. And when the firemen turned off the hose and were standing in the wet, smoky room, Jim's Aunt, Miss. Prothero, came downstairs and peered in at them. Jim and I waited, very quietly, to hear what she would say to them. She said the right thing, always. She looked at the three tall firemen in their shining helmets, standing among the smoke and cinders and dissolving snowballs, and she said, "Would you like anything to read?" My thanks to you for your efforts to keep the 'pedia readable in case the firemen chose one of our articles :-) Best wishes to you and yours and happy editing in 2019. MarnetteD|Talk 22:34, 18 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the thanks, but another editor has reverted my rewrite of the sourced material. You might wish to make your views known at Talk:Island (the only discussion currently open there). Beyond My Ken (talk) 08:19, 19 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like it's almost resolved now. General Ization ^Talk 13:21, 19 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

User:DasMage, he also spammed on Space Force, see contributions. Thanks.BlueD954 (talk) 04:50, 20 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The same address that pasted the Taekwondo article on the Muay Thai page also pasted the article for Judo on the Taekwondo page (which I undid). 2601:14A:700:F2C6:F0A0:C8C7:DFDA:625C (talk) 08:50, 20 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You previously dealt with this user and nominated many of their creations for deletion at [[1]] (others can be seen on that page as well.) This user is still creating these categories, and I was alerted to this through their addition of one of them in [this edit.] A quick look at their contributions shows many have not been dealt with. [[2]]. - R9tgokunks ⭕ 22:12, 22 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]