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MediaWiki message delivery 16:17, 26 June 2023 (UTC)

Can you speed up the review for Draft:Traumpalast Leonberg IMAX Theater? 2601:206:301:4A90:DC91:6EAB:9194:FC18 (talk) 22:46, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

Pokelego999 (talk) 00:54, 30 June 2023 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2023).

Administrator changes

Novem Linguae

• Deckiller
• Electionworld
• MBisanz
• Penwhale
• Raul654
• Roadrunner
• Viridae
• Yannismarou

Bureaucrat changes

MBisanz

Guideline and policy news

• Contributions to the English Wikipedia are now released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0) license instead of CC BY-SA 3.0. Contributions are still also released under the GFDL license.

Technical news

• Discussion is open regarding a proposed global policy regarding third-party resources. Third-party resources are computer resources that reside outside of Wikimedia production websites.

Arbitration

• Two arbitration cases are currently open. Proposed decisions are expected 5 July 2023 for the Scottywong case and 9 July 2023 for the AlisonW case.

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:49, 3 July 2023 (UTC)

Good day @The Anome i would like to seek your assistance on the review and approval of Qing Madi page. Thank You.

Tobiladun (talk) 12:51, 4 July 2023 (UTC)

It looks fine to me. I've filled in the Wikidata entry a bit more. — The Anome (talk) 14:47, 4 July 2023 (UTC)

MediaWiki message delivery 19:52, 10 July 2023 (UTC)

Hi, I pinged you earlier to User_talk:Jtbobwaysf#Request_admin about an issue at Talk:Avicii#Consensus_on_"committed_suicide". The editor in question has now commented at Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution_noticeboard#Avicii. Would you like to share input there? Thanks! Jtbobwaysf (talk) 11:12, 11 July 2023 (UTC)

do you have any plan for restarting The Anomebot? Notrealname1234 (talk) 15:12, 15 July 2023 (UTC)

MediaWiki message delivery 23:06, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

MediaWiki message delivery 02:19, 25 July 2023 (UTC)

Hello, The Anome. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Hungarian Academy of Arts, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 10:02, 25 July 2023 (UTC)

The redirect Nine eleven has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 July 28 § Nine eleven until a consensus is reached. A smart kitten (talk) 11:41, 28 July 2023 (UTC)

MediaWiki message delivery 23:52, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

MediaWiki message delivery 21:19, 7 August 2023 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2023).

Administrator changes

Firefangledfeathers

• AlisonW
• Amberrock
• Closedmouth
• Scottywong

Interface administrator changes

Novem Linguae

Technical news

• The tag filter on Special:NewPages and revision history pages can now be inverted. This allows hiding edits made by automated tools. (T334338)
• Special:BlockedExternalDomains is a new tool that allows easier blocking of plain domains (and their subdomains). This is more easily searchable and is faster for the software to use than the existing MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. It does not support regex (for complex cases), URL path-matching, or the MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. (T337431)

Arbitration

• The arbitration cases named Scottywong and AlisonW closed 10 July and 16 July respectively.
• The SmallCat dispute arbitration case is in the workshop phase.

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Bearcat (talk) 13:25, 14 August 2023 (UTC)

MediaWiki message delivery 05:58, 15 August 2023 (UTC)

Hi, I am working on a research project on coordination in WikiProjects. Given your extensive contributions to the Wikipedia ecosystem, I would greatly appreciate hearing about your experience. If you are willing to share your insights in a private chat, please let me know. I could be contacted via the email associated with my account, or through my Talk page. Thank you for your consideration! Kookyllama (talk) 02:09, 17 August 2023 (UTC)

15:23, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for uploading File:Le lien cover art.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 17:43, 25 August 2023 (UTC)

MediaWiki message delivery 13:58, 28 August 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for all your work in translating pages about Ukrainian villages! Just a heads-up: I think because you're translating from some out-of-date versions of articles, you're leaving in outdated info about since-abolished raions the settlements used to be in. For example, your article Ocheretuvate, Vasylkivka Raion refers erroneously to Vasylkivka Raion, which was abolished in 2020. The village is now in Synelnykove Raion. HappyWith (talk) 18:23, 30 August 2023 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2023).

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, TFAs will be automatically semi-protected the day before it is on the main page and through the day after.
• A discussion at WP:VPP about revision deletion and oversight for dead names found that [s]ysops can choose to use revdel if, in their view, it's the right tool for this situation, and they need not default to oversight. But oversight could well be right where there's a particularly high risk to the person. Use your judgment.

Technical news

• Special:Contributions now shows the user's local edit count and the account's creation date. (T324166)

Arbitration

• The SmallCat dispute case has closed. As part of the final decision, editors participating in XfD have been reminded to be careful about forming local consensus which may or may not reflect the broader community consensus. Regular closers of XfD forums were also encouraged to note when broader community discussion, or changes to policies and guidelines, would be helpful.

Miscellaneous

• Tech tip: The "Browse history interactively" banner shown at the top of Special:Diff can be used to easily look through a history, assemble composite diffs, or find out what archive something wound up in.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:32, 4 September 2023 (UTC)

Hi, The Anome I need your help with the article I recently created Villaflores College Diaz College and Tanjay National High School to be searchable throughout Wikipedia and Google just like the page I created Anabel Payano, Kevin Balot and Tanjay Science High School. This pages and articles are searchable online throughout Wikipedia and Google search and automatically pop.Thanks Rc ramz (talk) 09:09, 9 September 2023 (UTC)

@Rc ramz: Thanks for your contributions! Unfortunately, I have no control over Google's ranking algorithms. Sometime it can take some time for an article to appear in their search results. In general, articles seem to rise in prominence over time. I don't have any other advice to give you, other than to write good articles. — The Anome (talk) 23:33, 9 September 2023 (UTC)

thank you for responding. I greatly appreciate it. Rc ramz (talk) 03:01, 10 September 2023 (UTC)

MediaWiki message delivery 21:06, 11 September 2023 (UTC)

Ten years ago, you were found precious. That's what you are, always. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:21, 16 September 2023 (UTC)

MediaWiki message delivery 19:18, 18 September 2023 (UTC)

MediaWiki message delivery 16:49, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

Just FYI we usually use the present tense even for discontinued things. For example, Netscape Navigator starts with Netscape Navigator is a discontinued proprietary web browser (emphasis mine). NM 07:10, 25 September 2023 (UTC)

Thanks! I wasn't aware of that policy; I'll bear it in mind in the future. — The Anome (talk) 16:55, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

MediaWiki message delivery 01:25, 3 October 2023 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2023).

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open regarding amending the paid-contribution disclosure policy to add the following text: Any administrator soliciting clients for paid Wikipedia-related consulting or advising services not covered by other paid-contribution rules must disclose all clients on their userpage.

Technical news

• Administrators can now choose to add the user's user page to their watchlist when changing the usergroups for a user. This works both via Special:UserRights and via the API. (T272294)

Arbitration

• Remedy 9 ("MarioProtIV topic ban") of the WikiProject Tropical Cyclones case has been rescinded.

Miscellaneous

• The 2023 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of one new CheckUser.
• Self-nominations for the electoral commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections opens on 2 October and closes on 8 October.

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MediaWiki message delivery 14:37, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Unknown-importance_Oceania_articles most of these items are so far from the subject that I queried the source of the editing of July, and was replied to as if it was expected collateral damage, if I have understood right - however I might have well indeed misread the issue and do hope that I have not offended such mass editing where it is of benefit. From experience so far, I expect most of the 400 + are tagged politics/oceania and very far from the reality. I am not qualified as to the understanding of the mechanics of the massive bot operations in any way - or the processes of ores inside the rater app that I utilise for tagging. However trying to understand some of the talk page items here, I must say as a result of looking at the oceania material that large bot activity makes me very nervous. JarrahTree 11:28, 15 October 2023 (UTC)

UtherSRG (talk) 12:57, 15 October 2023 (UTC)

MediaWiki message delivery 23:45, 16 October 2023 (UTC)

MediaWiki message delivery 23:15, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

—Kusma (talk) 00:03, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

		Hook update
		Your hook reached 23,458 views (977.4 per hour), making it one of the most viewed hooks of October 2023 – nice work!

GalliumBot (talk • contribs) (he/it) 06:36, 26 October 2023 (UTC)

Fram (talk) 07:22, 27 October 2023 (UTC)

MediaWiki message delivery 23:20, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

MediaWiki message delivery 21:04, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2023).

Administrator changes

0xDeadbeef

Tamzin

Dennis Brown

Interface administrator changes

Pppery

• Ragesoss
• TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

• The WMF is working on making it possible for administrators to edit MediaWiki configuration directly. This is similar to previous work on Special:EditGrowthConfig. A technical RfC is running until November 08, where you can provide feedback.
• There is a proposed plan for re-enabling the Graph Extension. Feedback on this proposal is requested.

Arbitration

• Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 12 November 2023 until 21 November 2023 to stand in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections.
• Xaosflux, RoySmith and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee Elections. BusterD is the reserve commissioner.
• Following a motion, the contentious topic designation of Prem Rawat has been struck. Actions previously taken using this contentious topic designation are still in force.
• Following several motions, multiple topic areas are no longer designated as a contentious topic. These contentious topic designations were from the Editor conduct in e-cigs articles, Liancourt Rocks, Longevity, Medicine, September 11 conspiracy theories, and Shakespeare authorship question cases.
• Following a motion, remedies 3.1 (All related articles under 1RR whenever the dispute over naming is concerned), 6 (Stalemate resolution) and 30 (Administrative supervision) of the Macedonia 2 case have been rescinded.
• Following a motion, remedy 6 (One-revert rule) of the The Troubles case has been amended.
• An arbitration case named Industrial agriculture has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case close 8 November.

Miscellaneous

• The Articles for Creation backlog drive is happening in November 2023, with 700+ drafts pending reviews for in the last 4 months or so. In addition to the AfC participants, all administrators and New Page Patrollers can conduct reviews using the helper script, Yet Another AFC Helper Script, which can be enabled in the Gadgets settings. Sign up here to participate!

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:50, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

MediaWiki message delivery 00:53, 21 November 2023 (UTC)

The redirect Fu-chien County has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 November 23 § Fu-chien County until a consensus is reached. Jay 💬 11:09, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

You created the redirect page for the Canadian Policy Research Network (CPRN). Since the network was shutdown in 2012, the curators of the network content at Carleton College have since donated the CPRN.org domain to the Cerebral Palsy Research Network. While the new CPRN does not yet "rate" as notable for a Wikipedia article ( I have tried), it is the #1 rank for CPRN on Google and our content provides much needed guidance for people with CP. Unfortunately due to issues with the google algorithm, all of our results are labeled "Canadian Policy Research Network" despite being on the Cerebral Palsy Research Network site. I have requested that this redirect page be deleted from Wikipedia as Google staff indicate that this is the source of the labeling of their search engine results. Paulh144 (talk) 23:03, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

I've changed the CPRN page to be a disambiguation page, rather that a redirect, and also marked it as such on Wikidata. This should hopefully stop the behaviour you are complaining about. I've also updated the Wikidata entries for both the Canadian Policy Research Networks (Q5030484) and the Cerebral Palsy Research Network (Q123207546) to add start and end times for their ownership of the cprn.org domain, and added annotations both on Wikipedia and Wikidata to indicate that the earlier CPRN is defunct; Google are known to use Wikidata data in their search processing. It may take quite some time for changes, if any. from this to ripple through to search engine results. — The Anome (talk) 23:36, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

MediaWiki message delivery 23:07, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

MediaWiki message delivery 23:48, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for your contributions to Alexander Lozza. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it has no sources. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. microbiologyMarcus ^{(petri dish·growths)} 21:03, 6 December 2023 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2023).

Guideline and policy news

• Following a talk page discussion, the Administrators' accountability policy has been updated to note that while it is considered best practice for administrators to have notifications (pings) enabled, this is not mandatory. Administrators who do not use notifications are now strongly encouraged to indicate this on their user page.

Arbitration

• Following a motion, the Extended Confirmed Restriction has been amended, removing the allowance for non-extended-confirmed editors to post constructive comments on the "Talk:" namespace. Now, non-extended-confirmed editors may use the "Talk:" namespace solely to make edit requests related to articles within the topic area, provided that their actions are not disruptive.
• The Arbitration Committee has announced a call for Checkusers and Oversighters, stating that it will currently be accepting applications for CheckUser and/or Oversight permissions at any point in the year.
• Eligible users are invited to vote on candidates for the Arbitration Committee until 23:59 December 11, 2023 (UTC). Candidate statements can be seen here.

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MediaWiki message delivery 02:10, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

MediaWiki message delivery 16:16, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

A category or categories you have created have been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 December 19 § X in fiction VI on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 18:22, 19 December 2023 (UTC)

A category or categories you have created have been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 December 21 § X in fiction IX on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 04:15, 21 December 2023 (UTC)