News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2017).

Administrator changes

Boing! said Zebedee • Ansh666 • Ad Orientem

Tonywalton • AmiDaniel • Silence • BanyanTree • Magioladitis • Vanamonde93 • Mr.Z-man • Jdavidb • Jakec • Ram-Man • Yelyos • Kurt Shaped Box

Guideline and policy news

• Following a successful proposal to create it, a new user right called "edit filter helper" is now assignable and revocable by administrators. The right allows non-administrators to view the details of private edit filters, but not to edit them.
• Following a discussion about mass-application of ECP and how the need for logging and other details of an evolving consensus may have been missed by some administrators, a rough guide to extended confirmed protection has been written. This information page describes how the extended-confirmed aspects of the protection policy are currently being applied by administrators.

Technical news

• You can now search for IP ranges at Special:Contributions. Some log pages and Special:DeletedContributions are not yet supported. Wildcards (e.g. 192.168.0.*) are also not supported, but the popular contribsrange gadget will continue to work.

Arbitration

• Community consultation on the 2017 candidates for CheckUser and Oversight has concluded. The Arbitration Committee will appoint successful candidates by October 11.
• A request for comment is open regarding the structure, rules, and procedures of the December 2017 Arbitration Committee election, and how to resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.

23:25, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

14:21, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

15:31, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for your quick work on Stephen F. Teiser. I see you are experienced with a range of articles, so I thought I'd ask what the procedures and expectations are about assessment.

This seems to me to be more than "Start": "An article that is developing, but which is quite incomplete. It might or might not cite adequate reliable sources."

I wouldn't be insulted by a "B" class: "The article is mostly complete and without major problems, but requires some further work to reach good article standards."

The standard problem with academics is finding biographical sources, but their personal lives are not usually what makes them notable. The emphasis is properly on their work. I could add more reviews, but I selected these to show the nature of Teiser's work but not the puffery. The goal was to be useful to people like my students if they want to know a little more about how Teiser's work fits into the development of the field.

Does it seem to you that the article is in fact "quite incomplete," rather than "mostly complete"? It is a little discouraging.

In any case, cheers and apologies for intruding.ch (talk) 05:14, 18 October 2017 (UTC)

@CWH: No problem. I reassessed the article as B-Class. Best wishes and thank you for your message. --Meno25 (talk) 07:09, 18 October 2017 (UTC)

Many thanks -- both for your patience and for all your good work!ch (talk) 16:11, 18 October 2017 (UTC)

18:18, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

00:20, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for your rating of this bio. I look forward to your contributions to moving it beyond a "c" rating. Castlemate (talk) 12:28, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

@Castlemate: You're welcome. Actually, I was hesitant whether to assess it as B or C-class. Then I settled for the later. --Meno25 (talk) 12:32, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

If you can make it a B-class I would be very pleased. Arbitrary ratings such as these are truly dispiriting for contributors and so I really do hope that you can improve upon what has been done to date. It might be useful if you compared this bio to other Fijian Royal/nobles and then see how poor English language Wikipedia articlesin this area actually are. Castlemate (talk) 12:43, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

@Castlemate:  Done and thank you for your work. Best wishes. --Meno25 (talk) 13:12, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

Sorry you seem to have misunderstood what I was saying. If the article is C-class then so be it but instead of standing in judgement I was suggesting that you might show how you could improve the work already done by improving the article. What can be written and referenced that improves the article? How does it compare to similar bios? If it isn't up to scratch please do something that improves it rather that adding pointless ratings that contribute little. Castlemate (talk) 13:21, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2017).

Administrator changes

Longhair • Megalibrarygirl • TonyBallioni • Vanamonde93

Allen3 • Eluchil404 • Arthur Rubin • Bencherlite

Technical news

• The Wikimedia Foundation's Anti-Harassment Tools team is creating an "Interaction Timeline" tool that intends to assist administrators in resolving user conduct disputes. Feedback on the concept may be posted on the talk page.
• A new function is now available to edit filter managers that will make it easier to look for multiple strings containing spoofed text.

Arbitration

• Eligible editors will be invited to submit candidate statements for the 2017 Arbitration Committee Elections starting on November 12 until November 21. Voting will begin on November 27 and last until December 10.
• Following a request for comment, Ritchie333, Yunshui and Ymblanter will serve as the Electoral Commission for the 2017 ArbCom Elections.

Obituaries

• The Wikipedia community has recently learned that Allen3 (William Allen Peckham) passed away on December 30, 2016, the same day as JohnCD. Allen began editing in 2005 and became an administrator that same year.