Books & Bytes – Issue 48
Books & Bytes
Issue 48, November – December 2021
- 1Lib1Ref 2022
- Wikipedia Library notifications deployed
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Administrators' newsletter – February 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2022).
- The Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines have been published for consideration. Voting to ratify this guideline is planned to take place 7 March to 21 March. Comments can be made on the talk page.
- The user group
oversight
will be renamedsuppress
in around 3 weeks. This will not affect the name shown to users and is simply a change in the technical name of the user group. The change is being made for technical reasons. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections. - The Reply Tool feature, which is a part of Discussion Tools, will be opt-out for everyone logged in or logged out starting 7 February 2022. Editors wishing to comment on this can do so in the relevant Village Pump discussion.
- The user group
- Community input is requested on several motions aimed at addressing discretionary sanctions that are no longer needed or overly broad.
- The Arbitration Committee has published a generalised comment regarding successful appeals of sanctions that it can review (such as checkuser blocks).
- A motion related to the Antisemitism in Poland case was passed following a declined case request.
- Voting in the 2022 Steward elections will begin on 07 February 2022, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2022, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
- Voting in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey is open until 11 February 2022.
Administrators' newsletter – March 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2022).
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- A RfC is open to change the wording of revision deletion criterion 1 to remove the sentence relating to non-infringing contributions.
- A RfC is open to discuss prohibiting draftification of articles over 90 days old.
- The deployment of the reply tool as an opt-out feature, as announced in last month's newsletter, has been delayed to 7 March. Feedback and comments are being welcomed at Wikipedia talk:Talk pages project. (T296645)
- Special:Nuke will now allow the selection of standard deletion reasons to be used when mass-deleting pages. This was a Community Wishlist Survey request from 2022. (T25020)
- The ability to undelete the talk page when undeleting a page using Special:Undelete or the API will be added soon. This change was requested in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey. (T295389)
- Several unused discretionary sanctions and article probation remedies have been rescinded. This follows the community feedback from the 2021 Discretionary Sanctions review.
- The 2022 appointees for the Ombuds commission are Érico, Faendalimas, Galahad, Infinite0694, Mykola7, Olugold, Udehb and Zabe as regular members and Ameisenigel and JJMC89 as advisory members.
- Following the 2022 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AntiCompositeNumber, BRPever, Hasley, TheresNoTime, and Vermont.
- The 2022 Community Wishlist Survey results have been published alongside the ranking of prioritized proposals.
Books & Bytes – Issue 49
Books & Bytes
Issue 49, January – February 2022
- New library collections
- Blog post published detailing technical improvements
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --10:05, 25 March 2022 (UTC)
Happy April 1
Don't open this!
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![]() Happy April Fool's Day! Thanks for your contributions to improve the dissemination of free knowledge to humanity! North America1000 15:07, 1 April 2022 (UTC) |
The Daily Earth
Hi Espresso Addict, I saw you declined the speedy deletion of The Daily Earth, and I'm hoping you'll reconsider. It is a promotion of a website created by a blocked Wikipedia user (Anisur Rahman Niloy - @Vinegarymass911 has filed an SPI), and the sources either do not mention The Daily Earth, or are hoax articles created by Niloy. It's clear from the Internet Archive that The Daily Earth was created today (not 2015). The "Daily News Today" source is another one of Niloy's websites that the sock attempted to promote, and the article was posted today but backdated to 2016. Politanvm talk 03:16, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
- Hello @Politanvm: -- Was just going offline when I received this message so apologies for any incoherency. IMO Speedy deletion is reserved for completely unambiguous cases; if significant digging is required to confirm the article isn't suitable then a longer time frame (ie prod or AfD) is almost always appropriate. Mere presumption of paid editing or socking is not sufficient. Regards, Espresso Addict (talk) 03:32, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
Pallini Limoncello
I was just going to PRD this. Any reason it should go straight to AfD?Just Another Cringy Username (talk) 23:58, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
- @Just Another Cringy Username: Well, I would oppose a prod too, so it would be a bit of a waste of both of our times. With long-standing articles that have been edited by multiple people, it's almost always best to have a proper discussion, with time to uncover and weigh new sources, and get a community view on whether the topic is suitable or not. Regards, Espresso Addict (talk) 00:10, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – April 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2022).
- An RfC is open proposing a change to the minimum activity requirements for administrators.
- Access to Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have the
deletelogentry
anddeletedhistory
rights. This means that those in the Researcher user group and Checkusers who are not administrators can now access Special:RevisionDelete. The users able to view the special page after this change are the 3 users in the Researcher group, as there are currently no checkusers who are not already administrators. (T301928) - When viewing deleted revisions or diffs on Special:Undelete a back link to the undelete page for the associated page is now present. (T284114)
- Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Procedures § Opening of proceedings has been updated to reflect current practice following a motion.
- A arbitration case regarding Skepticism and coordinated editing has been closed.
- A arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been opened.
- Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines has closed, and the results were that 56.98% of voters supported the guidelines. The results of this vote mean the Wikimedia Foundation Board will now review the guidelines.
Please review
Draft:New horizons pro wrestling has been created as a website. Wikipedia doesn't host websites. It's an unsourced repository that will be maintained as such if it isn't deleted. Please speedy delete. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1.145.213.20 (talk) 02:29, 9 April 2022 (UTC)
- Hello IP editor. Two different admins have now told you that the draft isn't suitable for deletion under the G11 criterion. Drafts are not articles and are not visible to search engines, so they are not required to be finished articles, nor to have sources. The forum to discuss deletion of drafts is Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion. You can express your concerns on the draft's talk page. Espresso Addict (talk) 02:50, 9 April 2022 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Editor Retention/administrators
I have started a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Editor Retention/administrators#Wikipedia:Administrators § Involved admins regarding how community standards may have changed regarding involved admins. Feedback is welcome. isaacl (talk) 22:51, 10 April 2022 (UTC)
Undelete Request
The Page, "Saeedullah Safi" was incomplete and I was just about to update it, I'm sorry. Please can I have it back?
- Hello Saeedullah Safi7. I note that this is the second time the article has been deleted. The article is promotional and the subject appears unlikely to meet the notability guidelines for journalists at this time. I also note that your user name includes the subject's name, and assume that you are or represent the subject? If so then you should read WP:Autobiography immediately; writing about yourself is strongly discouraged. Regards, Espresso Addict (talk) 02:16, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
New administrator activity requirement
The administrator policy has been updated with new activity requirements following a successful Request for Comment.
Beginning January 1, 2023, administrators who meet one or both of the following criteria may be desysopped for inactivity if they have:
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I want to report user
Andrewgprout is reverting edits from Chandigarh - Vistara operates UK707 using A321N IXC-DEL-CCU with same aircraft, same flight number and pax does not disembark from plane. That is direct route via DEL. I have made attempt to chat with him on his chat page and he didn’t cared about and still reverted the edits and in the past he has got several warning for edits. I want to report this user. I dont know how I can. Admin please help and look into this matter. 649pardeep (talk) 07:28, 17 April 2022 (UTC)
- Hello 649pardeep -- Apologies for the delayed response. I'm afraid I don't deal with user conduct matters so you will need to ask another admin to advise you. If the editor has broken the three-reverts within 24 hours rule you can report their behaviour at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring but you should be aware that your edits will also be scrutinised. Regards, Espresso Addict (talk) 10:36, 17 April 2022 (UTC)
Hi, would you please check the article if the edit that user made is correct or not. Chandigarh Airport - Airlines and Destinations - Vistara - It operates direct flight from Chandigarh to Kolkata via Delhi without changing anything as UK 707 and even airline’s website mentions the same. 649pardeep (talk) 17:05, 17 April 2022 (UTC)
- @649pardeep: I'm afraid I don't edit in the area of aviation. You can take your concerns to the article's talk page, which you don't seem to have edited yet, or to the talk page of Wikipedia:WikiProject Airports. Regards, Espresso Addict (talk) 21:58, 17 April 2022 (UTC)
Waldemar W. Koczkodaj
Hi there. This is regarding Waldemar W. Koczkodaj the page violates the Wikipedia guidelines as it is a self promotion page. The person has no contribution towards change in society or a research which has any breakthrough which benefit society nor the person has ever been interviewed on news or any article has been published by any news or scientific agency about his contribution. There are many people on google scholar who has many publication but they are also not on Wikipedia as there are no significant contribution towards society. I request you to please revert the changes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Grammerwikiedits (talk • contribs) 20:51, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
- Hello Grammerwikiedits. I suggest that you read the WP:PROF guideline, which describes how the notability of academics is measured, and if you feel that the subject does not meet that guideline, you take the article to WP:Articles for Deletion. Regards, Espresso Addict (talk) 22:04, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
About Murtadha al-Yusuf
Hi dear, Please can you review the page again, I think this guy important to have a wiki page. First, he is the founder of "hatha al-youm" Second he is the one of the people who was threatened on Telegram by groups loyal to Tehran on charges of normalization with Israel, During the hacking of the website of The Kurdistan 24 Channel and revealed the conversations in the emails of employees as well as the list of phones. Texts can be shortened and stay as you see fit..
Thanks Mr.memoiq (talk) 18:21, 28 April 2022 (UTC)
- Hello Mr.memoiq -- Thanks for commenting but I have already declined the immediate deletion request. I don't get involved with patrolling new articles so someone else will stop by shortly and process the article. Regards, Espresso Addict (talk) 18:34, 28 April 2022 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of women innovators and inventors by country
I would be interested to see your reactions on this one.--Ipigott (talk) 15:07, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks for bringing this to my attention; I suppose it was inevitable after the deletion of the other list. Have responded there quickly; I've got to go offline now, but will try to help more when I'm back. Regards, Espresso Addict (talk) 20:51, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
Please review Draft:Amnon Rapoport
Hi Espresso Addict -- Many thanks for your comments and suggestions. I added three of the subject's books and one book review for each of them. I also tried to keep the language neutral. Cheers Gooseberry487 (talk) 18:52, 8 May 2022 (UTC)
- Hi Gooseberry487 -- Thanks for updating the draft. Is there a version of the foreward to the Budescu et al. edited collection available online anywhere? We can't use GoodReads links, and anyway, it didn't seem to have the text. That would be very helpful because it is independent writing about Rapoport, rather than by him.
- I don't review drafts unless it's an area I'm very familiar with, which this isn't, so unfortunately you will just have to wait for a regular reviewer to stop by. Despite the warning about the waiting list, actually most drafts get reviewed quite promptly. Cheers, Espresso Addict (talk) 00:18, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
- Hi Espresso Addict -- Thank you for further improving my draft. Regarding the independent source for Budescu et al., I found the reference to the abstract that talks about the subject's work and impact ("pioneer and leader"). I updated the reference to it and left everything else unchanged. Thanks also for the heads-up regarding the reviewing process! Cheers Gooseberry487 (talk) 00:31, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – May 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2022).
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- Following an RfC, a change has been made to the administrators inactivity policy. Under the new policy, if an administrator has not made at least 100 edits over a period of 5 years they may be desysopped for inactivity.
- Following a discussion on the bureaucrat's noticeboard, a change has been made to the bureaucrats inactivity policy.
- The ability to undelete the associated talk page when undeleting a page has been added. This was the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
- A public status system for WMF wikis has been created. It is located at https://www.wikimediastatus.net/ and is hosted separately to WMF wikis so in the case of an outage it will remain viewable.
- Remedy 2 of the St Christopher case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to place a ban on single-purpose accounts who were disruptively editing on the article St Christopher Iba Mar Diop College of Medicine or related pages from those pages.