News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2019).

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment asks whether partial blocks should be enabled on the English Wikipedia. If enabled, this functionality would allow administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces, rather than the entire site.
• A proposal asks whether admins who don't use their tools for a significant period of time (e.g. five years) should have the toolset procedurally removed.
• Following a successful RfC, a whitelist is now available for users whose redirects will be autopatrolled by a bot, removing them from the new pages patrol queue. Admins can add such users to Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Redirect whitelist after a discussion following the guidelines at Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Redirect whitelist.

Arbitration

• The fourth case on Palestine-Israel articles was closed. The case consolidated all previous remedies under one heading, which should make them easier to understand, apply, and enforce. In particular, the distinction between "primary articles" and "related content" has been clarified, with the former being the entire set of articles whose topic relates to the Arab-Israeli conflict, broadly interpreted rather than reasonably construed.
• Following the 2019 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Beeblebrox, Bradv, Casliber, David Fuchs, DGG, KrakatoaKatie, Maxim, Newyorkbrad, SoWhy, Worm That Turned, Xeno.

Miscellaneous

• This issue marks three full years of the Admin newsletter. Thanks for reading!

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A tag has been placed on Asekeyevo requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G14 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an orphaned disambiguation page which either

• disambiguates only one extant Wikipedia page and whose title ends in "(disambiguation)" (i.e., there is a primary topic);
• disambiguates zero extant Wikipedia pages, regardless of its title; or
• is a redirect with a title ending in "(disambiguation)" that does not target a disambiguation page or page that has a disambiguation-like function.

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such pages may be deleted at any time. Please see the disambiguation page guidelines for more information.

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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. [2]

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.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2020 Steward elections will begin on 08 February 2020, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 28 February 2020, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• The English Wikipedia has reached six million articles. Thank you everyone for your contributions!

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Happy First Edit Day, Ezhiki, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! Bobherry Talk Edits 14:04, 1 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, the blocking policy was changed to state that sysops must not undo or alter CheckUser or Oversight blocks, rather than should not.
• A request for comment confirmed that sandboxes of established but inactive editors may not be blanked due solely to inactivity.

Technical news

• Following a discussion, Twinkle's default CSD behavior will soon change, most likely this week. After the change, Twinkle will default to "tagging mode" if there is no CSD tag present, and default to "deletion mode" if there is a CSD tag present. You will be able to always default to "deletion mode" (the current behavior) using your Twinkle preferences.

Miscellaneous

• Following the 2020 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: BRPever, Krd, Martin Urbanec, MusikAnimal, Sakretsu, Sotiale, and Tks4Fish. There are a total of seven editors that have been appointed as stewards, the most since 2014.
• The 2020 appointees for the Ombudsman commission are Ajraddatz and Uzoma Ozurumba; they will serve for one year.

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Hi. Since you’ve previously moved this article, perhaps you should add your opinion at Talk:Belogorsk (Crimea)#Article title. Thanks. —Michael Z. 2020-03-19 23:04 z

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

Guideline and policy news

• There is an ongoing request for comment to streamline the source deprecation and blacklisting process.

Technical news

• There is a plan for new requirements for user signatures. You can give feedback.

Arbitration

• Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold a Arbcom RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. A draft RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC (Draft) and not open to comments from the community yet. Interested editors can comment on the RfC itself on its talk page.

Miscellaneous

• The WMF has begun a pilot report of the pages most visited through various social media platforms to help with anti-vandalism and anti-disinformation efforts. The report is updated daily and will be available through the end of May.

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Здравствуйте, Ezhiki! Хотел бы у вас совет насчёт правок в английской википедии. Дело в что в англоязычной версии статьи про якутов, название "якуты" заменили на самоназвание "саха" и впридачу переназывают статьи по такой же логике. Пытался исправить их правки, но всё вернули обратно, да к тому же Якутию вообще переименовали в Саха и впрадачу запретили переименовывать статьи. Даже не знаю с кем посоветоваться и кому обратиться. Знания английского языка нехватает что вести полноценные дискуссии и защитить статьи от неконструктивных правок.

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

Administrator changes

Gnangarra • Kaisershatner • Malcolmxl5

CheckUser changes

Callanecc

Oversight changes

HJ Mitchell

Guideline and policy news

• Discretionary sanctions have been authorized for all pages and edits related to COVID-19, to be logged at WP:GS/COVID19.
• Following a recent discussion on Meta-Wiki, the edit filter maintainer global group has been created.
• A request for comment has been proposed to create a new main page editor usergroup.
• A request for comment has been proposed to make the bureaucrat activity requirements more strict.

Technical news

• The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. You can review the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page.
• Enterprisey created a script that will show a link to the proper Special:Undelete page when viewing a since-deleted revision, see User:Enterprisey/link-deleted-revs.

Miscellaneous

• A request for comment closed with consensus to create a Village Pump-style page for communication with the Wikimedia Foundation.

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Hi, since you were involved in previous naming discussions, would you like to participate in the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Rivers#Article titles for rivers in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus? Markussep ^Talk 08:04, 8 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The article Privokzalny (inhabited locality) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Set index isn't necessary. None of the links have an article at all.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Koridas (...Puerto Rico for statehood!) 23:46, 20 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I have added a comment on the talk page explaining why the prod request is invalid. I cannot decline the prod myself, being the article's author.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); May 21, 2020; 00:12 (UTC)

• Note on removing PROD; Any editor (including the article's creator or the file's uploader) may object to the deletion by simply removing the tag; this action permanently cancels the proposed deletion via PROD. -- Otr500 (talk) 16:43, 31 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I removed the PROD, with an explanation. (At least, I think I did it right; the documentation of the template is confusing).Every-leaf-that-trembles (talk) 21:07, 31 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Ezhiki, I hope you are doing fine. I understand that you are taking a break and rarely appear here, but I will leave this in hope you may want to react. As you probably know, last year Moscow Oblast eliminates all the districts, converting them into cities under oblast jurisdiction. This means a lost of oir articles need to be moved, and a lot more need to be updated. I postponed it, but I feel now the info is outdetad, and needs to updated somehow. I started by moving Taldomsky District into City under oblast jurisdiction of Taldom, which now needs to be updated first, and I will try to do it, but I feel that I might have insufficient understanding of all the details. So if you at some point would feel like taking it up (cleaning even one article would already very helpful, since I can then apply the pattern to other articles), you are by all means welcome to do it. I do not think we even have separate articles on cities of federal subject significance, so I do not even know what would be the best way to approach this.--Ymblanter (talk) 14:33, 24 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Yaroslav! Good to see you around. You are right, I was taking a break, then got another job which does not afford me much time to be useful around here, then got another one which is very much the same. And by now my knowledge is so out of date, I don't know how useful it can really be any more (I used to keep copious notes of all the changes, but as you imagine that's terribly behind after nearly two years of neglect). Anyway, if I get a chance to look into Moscow Oblast specifically, I will (those are quite significant changes, which definitely need to be covered), but I cannot unfortunately make any promises. Whatever you can do in the meanwhile is better than doing nothing and is very much appreciated. Please forgive me. I do hope to ultimately come back in full force; I just have no idea when it might be. Hopefully before retirement :)—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); June 1, 2020; 03:20 (UTC)

Thank you for the response. I will continue moving forward, and feel free to join any time as your circumstances allow you to do it.--Ymblanter (talk) 06:54, 1 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hopefully, I have fixed not Taldomsky District, Taldom, Severny, Moscow Oblast, Verbilki, and Zaprudnya. I will now move to other districts.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:18, 13 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I need administrator's help in resolving the conflict over the topics related to Bashkortostan. Last few days there is edit war with user Валко participation on the pages Bashkortostan, History of Bashkortostan and Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. The main discussion is here.

At first, the essence of the conflict and a brief background. In March 2019 Russian Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee imposed for this user ban for any edits related to the establishment date of Bashkir ASSR. After user was indefinitely blocked in RuWiki in particular for his contribution on Bashkir/Bashkortostan topics. After his blocking in RuWiki user introduces his original researches in English Wikipedia.

User claims that Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was not Autonomous Republic before 1925. Based on this, user removes Autonomous word from articles and changed Bashkir ASSR to Bashkir Soviet Republic (1, 2). His typical practice - give a bunch of links, none of which confirms his theories. For example, on the talk page of Bashkortostan article user gave seven links, which allegedly say that Bashkir ASSR was not Autonomous Republic before 1925. But no one of this links does not contain this statement. Moreover, this links indicates that the Bashkir Republic was autonomous since it's foundation in 1919 (1, 2 - links shown by him). I think this is an example of disruptive behavior of this user and an attempt to mislead other users.

Of course, Bashkir ASSR had different variants of names at the time of it's foundation. Among them were Autonomous Bashkir Soviet Republic (ABSR), Bashkir Soviet Republic (BSR) and others. But, firstly, user ignores the fact that Bashkir ASSR was Autonomous Republic since it's establishment and for this reason he removes Autonomous word from articles. Secondly, the variant BASSR is the most recognizable and widespread, and no reason to replace it with others variants. Google Books search-test: "Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic" (164 results), "Autonomous Bashkir Soviet Republic" (15 results), "Bashkir Soviet Republic" (BSR - ABSR = 29 - 15 = 14 results), "Autonomous Soviet Bashkir Republic" (9 results). User does not explain why from different variants of names (BASSR, ABSR, BSR, ASBR) he chose BSR. Obviously, he is confused by the presence of the word Autonomous in the name of Republic.

User also denies the fact that the BASSR was the first autonomous republic in RSFSR and removes this along with the source Great Soviet Encyclopedia. The GSE contains the following text: BASSR was the first autonomous Soviet republic in the RSFSR (Russian text: явилась первой автономной советской республикой в составе РСФСР). But Валко introduces original research that German Republic and Turkestan Republic founded earlier than Bashkir ASSR. But German Autonomy and Turkestan Republic were not autonomous republics on the time of their establishment, they became autonomous republics later. German Autonomy became autonomous republic only in 1923 (document by Soviet Govement). Turkestan Republic became autonomous republic in 1920 after approval of the Constitution on 9th Congress of Soviets of Turkestan. Great Russian Encyclopedia contains this information - Autonomous Republic since 1920 (Russian text: с 1920 – ТАССР). To prove his original research Валко brings the text from the GRE article where allegedly says that BASSR was second republic: В октябре 1918 в Поволжье возникло первое национально-государственное образование в РСФСР – Немцев Поволжья трудовая коммуна<...> В марте 1919 из южной части Уфимской губернии и северной части Оренбургской губернии организована вторая национальная автономия – т.н. малая Башкирская АССР.. But this fragment does not say that BASSR was a second Autonomous Republic.

Also user defends the idea that Bashkir ASSR was not established in 1919 (1, 2). But members of Russian Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee and mediators on Bashkir-Tatar topics found this theory false. 1919 year as a establishment date of BASSR is accepted in specialized scientific literature.

Probably, may be better if you find out opinion about this user, his original researches, his editing and discussion methods from Russian Wikipedia's administrators, mediators on Bashkir-Tatar topics and members of Arbitration Committee (Helgo13, La loi et la justice, Андрей Романенко, Vladimir Solovjev, Q-bit array).

If my request is difficult for you, I can find another administrator or mediator for this. Thank you. --Rg102 21:51, 27 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• It seems the problem is solved. Sorry, if I wasted your time. --Rg102 05:04, 1 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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

Administrator changes

CaptainEek • Creffett • Cwmhiraeth

Anna Frodesiak • Buckshot06 • Ronhjones • SQL

CheckUser changes

SQL

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment asks whether the Unblock Ticket Request System (UTRS) should allowed any unblock request or just private appeals.
• The Wikimedia Foundation announced that they will develop a universal code of conduct for all WMF projects. There is an open local discussion regarding the same.

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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• A request for comment is in progress to remove the T2 (template that misrepresents established policy) speedy deletion criterion.

Technical news

• Protection templates on mainspace pages are now automatically added by User:MusikBot II (BRFA).

Arbitration

• Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold an RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. The RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC and is open to comments from the community.
• 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.

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Dear Ezhiki, AyodeleA2 has written this amazing article about a unit now in Kyrgyzstan which is heir to the Fighting Way of the 87th Guards Rifle Regiment. There is no similar article, it appears, in the Russian Wikipedia. I would like to translate it back into Russian, which I could do with G-Translate, but all the cases, nominative, etc would all be wrong. I could find the right categories, etc, but would you help me fix all the tenses etc etc, clean up the grammar? Buckshot06 (talk) 21:22, 31 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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

Administrator changes

Red Phoenix

Euryalus • SQL

Jujutacular • Monty845 • Rettetast • Madchester

Oversight changes

GB fan

Keegan • Opabinia regalis • Premeditated Chaos

Guideline and policy news

• There is an open request for comment to decide whether to increase the minimum duration a sanction discussion has to remain open (currently 24 hours).
• Speedy deletion criterion T2 (template that misrepresents established policy) has been repealed following a request for comment.
• Speedy deletion criterion X2 (pages created by the content translation tool) has been repealed following a discussion.
• There is a proposal to restrict proposed deletion to confirmed users.

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A tag has been placed on Kobylenka requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G14 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a disambiguation page which either

• disambiguates only one extant Wikipedia page and whose title ends in "(disambiguation)" (i.e., there is a primary topic);
• disambiguates zero extant Wikipedia pages, regardless of its title; or
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I've unspeedied it, but one of the village in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast doesn't appear to be mention in the linked article, and I can't seem to find it on the Russian Wikipedia either (assuming it's spelt Кобыленка). – Uanfala (talk) 11:08, 28 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

OSM knows it (Pochinkovsky District) but it seems to suggest Kobylinka as an alt spelling. One would need to check OKTMO or smth like this.--Ymblanter (talk) 13:36, 28 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The spelling was per the Registry of the inhabited localities of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, the most recent iteration of which seems to be the January 2020 edition (available here; Kobylenka is listed on page 71). If someone could add it as a reference; I would greatly appreciate it (I'm on mobile connection right now, so doing this properly would be quite a pain :)). Thanks all!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); August 28, 2020; 15:51 (UTC)

 Done, thanks a lot.--Ymblanter (talk) 16:31, 28 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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

Administrator changes

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Angela • Jcw69 • Just Chilling • Philg88 • Viajero

CheckUser changes

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Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, the minimum length for site ban discussions was increased to 72 hours, up from 24.
• A request for comment is ongoing to determine whether paid editors must or should use the articles for creation process.
• A request for comment is open to resolve inconsistencies between the draftification and alternative to deletion processes.

Arbitration

• A request for comment is open to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the 2020 English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee election and to resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.
• An open request for comment asks whether active Arbitrators may serve on the Trust and Safety Case Review Committee or Ombudsman commission.

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Your talk page is so large that it is approaching the maximum possible size of a Wikipedia page. You might want to consider archiving it. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 21:54, 17 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Taken care of, and made your post above three bytes shorter as well! :)—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); October 1, 2020; 15:36 (UTC)

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No activity since June of 2020. I think he has gone to that great hedge in the sky ... 50.111.19.2 (talk) 12:31, 25 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Nah, still in the regular old hedge on the ground :) Good hearing from you; cheers!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); October 1, 2020; 15:38 (UTC)

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

Administrator changes

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Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment found consensus that incubation as an alternative to deletion should generally only be recommended when draftification is appropriate, namely 1) if the result of a deletion discussion is to draftify; or 2) if the article is newly created.

Technical news

• The filter log now provides links to view diffs of deleted revisions (phab:T261630).

Arbitration

• The 2020 CheckUser and Oversight appointment process has begun. The community consultation period will take place from September 27th to October 7th.
• Following a request for comment, sitting Committee members may not serve on either the Ombuds Commission or the WMF Case Review Committee. The Arbitration Committee passed a motion implementing those results into their procedures.

Miscellaneous

• The Universal Code of Conduct draft is open for community review and comment until October 6th, 2020.
• Office actions may now be appealed to the Interim Trust & Safety Case Review Committee.

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

Guideline and policy news

• Community sanctions now authorize administrators to place under indefinite semiprotection any article on a beauty pageant, or biography of a person known as a beauty pageant contestant, which has been edited by a sockpuppet account or logged-out sockpuppet, to be logged at WP:GS/PAGEANT.

Technical news

• Sysops will once again be able to view the deleted history of JS/CSS pages; this was restricted to interface administrators when that group was introduced.
• Twinkle's block module now includes the ability to note the specific case when applying a discretionary sanctions block and/or template.
• Sysops will be able to use Special:CreateLocalAccount to create a local account for a global user that is prevented from auto-creation locally (such as by a filter or range block). Administrators that are not sure if such a creation is appropriate should contact a checkuser.

Arbitration

• The 2020 Arbitration Committee Elections process has begun. Eligible editors will be able to nominate themselves as candidates from November 8 through November 17. The voting period will run from November 23 through December 6.
• The Anti-harassment RfC has concluded with a summary of the feedback provided.

Miscellaneous

• A reminder that standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to post-1932 politics of the United States and closely related people. (American Politics 2 Arbitration case).

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

Administrator changes

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Interface administrator changes

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Guideline and policy news

• There is a request for comment in progress to either remove T3 (duplicated and hardcoded instances) as a speedy deletion criterion or eliminate its seven-day waiting period.

Technical news

• Voting for proposals in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey, which determines what software the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Tech team will work on next year, will take place from 8 December through 21 December. In particular, there are sections regarding administrators and anti-harassment.

Arbitration

• Voting in the 2020 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 7 December 2020 UTC. Please review the candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page.

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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Neya (inhabited locality) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Neya (inhabited locality) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Clarityfiend (talk) 08:10, 5 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]