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Administrators' newsletter - February 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2017). This first issue is being sent out to all administrators, if you wish to keep receiving it please subscribe. Your feedback is welcomed.

Administrator changes

NinjaRobotPirate • Schwede66 • K6ka • Ealdgyth • Ferret • Cyberpower678 • Mz7 • Primefac • Dodger67

Briangotts • JeremyA • BU Rob13

Guideline and policy news

• A discussion to workshop proposals to amend the administrator inactivity policy at Wikipedia talk:Administrators has been in process since late December 2016.
• Wikipedia:Pending changes/Request for Comment 2016 closed with no consensus for implementing Pending changes level 2 with new criteria for use.
• Following an RfC, an activity requirement is now in place for bots and bot operators.

Technical news

• When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)
• Following the latest RfC concluding that Pending Changes 2 should not be used on the English Wikipedia, an RfC closed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. (T156448)
• The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee released a response to the Wikimedia Foundation's statement on paid editing and outing.

Obituaries

• JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.

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13:38, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

Template:Show

Can you lower the protection of Template:Show to "Template protection", so template editors can edit it? --George Ho (talk) 07:45, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

Done. --Closedmouth (talk) 08:38, 4 February 2017 (UTC)

User block

G'day, you blocked User:Australians kiIled in a plane crash, now there is User:Largk making similar comments in an edit summary; as well as blocking the User, perhaps keep an eye on the article with a view to semi-protecting it if that sort of thing keeps happening? Cheers YSSYguy (talk) 13:36, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

Never mind, Largk has been blocked. Cheers again YSSYguy (talk) 13:39, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

This is Bigger than All of Us

You have no idea what you are getting into.

The Council. Ruth Kritz (talk) 06:19, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

Find a more constructive hobby. --Closedmouth (talk) 06:23, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

Fair Use in Australia discussion

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Abu Sayyaf article

You know the reason why I am forced to to vandalize the Abu Sayyaf article and you have to understand this because those Motherfucking Pigs do barbaric acts such as beheading innocent hostages just like they did to my friend Bernard Then in 2015 and I will never forgive them for their acts to those victims.

Thank you 175.138.189.9 (talk) 12:38, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

It won't bring your friend back. --Closedmouth (talk) 12:43, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

On this day, 8 years ago...

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Undeletion request

Can you undelete this? I plan on using it.. Makeandtoss (talk) 09:43, 28 July 2017 (UTC)

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I know what you did in 2011

Hello!

I thought I´d create La Rivista Della Televisione as a redirect to Recurring_Saturday_Night_Live_characters_and_sketches_introduced_2006–2007#La_Rivista_Della_Televisione.

WP suggests I check with you first, per "10:01, 6 June 2011 Closedmouth (talk | contribs) deleted page La Rivista Della Televisione (G8: redirect to a deleted or nonexistent page (TW))"

Ok with you? Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 18:39, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

Katerina Kolozova page

How can it be improved?Kkolozova (talk) 15:01, 21 October 2017 (UTC)

Katerina Kolozova There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved.

Please, remove the page dedicated to me. If my student writing an article and using my account (so, it's not a matter of sharing because he doesn't have one, and does not know how to edit on Wikipedia) falls under the category of conflict of interest - which we both did not realize was the case - remove it. It is against your standards and I am emabarrassed by the remark autobiography. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kkolozova (talk • contribs) 15:55, 21 October 2017 (UTC)

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Nine years of adminship, today.

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A Current Affair

A Current Affair is now a disambiguation page and may no longer need protection. Certes (talk) 10:50, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

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File:B5bugerbear.jpg

Hello Closedmouth. I would like to contact Lizard_King about this drawing of Bigfoot for use in a documentary but I can't seem to find anyway to reach him. The email he left to reach out is gone and he has not updated his talk page in many years. I saw you moved the image to the Commons, did you do that with permission from Lizard_King, and if so, do you know how I can reach him? Thank you. Nostrander (talk) 00:26, 14 August 2019 (UTC)

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Ten years!

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User talk:Ryan.W.Gibson

I'm glad you found the user and that the user got a new name and all that, but it doesn't change the fact that their original name was against policy: "Conduit Pharmacy" quite obviously gives "the impression that the account represents a group, organization or website", no matter what the user says in the first person. They weren't blocked for spamming or whatever, but for having a username that doesn't follow policy. Orangemike's block was neither against policy nor unreasonable. If you don't like how that policy is written, propose a change. Drmies (talk) 14:22, 4 January 2020 (UTC)

Winning

The article Winning (film) was recently moved from Winning. As the title is likely to be the only reason it was a vandalism target, could you reduce "Winning (film)"'s protection to at least PC? Thanks. © Tbhotch^™ (en-3). 21:28, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

Heh, I guess I foolishly thought that meme would stick around. --Closedmouth (talk) 06:03, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

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I broke the ping. Just a courtesy heads up as you declined the PROD in 2009. StarM 22:09, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

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"List of Hannah Montana episodes (Season 3))" listed at Redirects for discussion

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File:Necromancer.jpg

Hi, I replaced this picture, see the article. Hekerui (talk) 21:59, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

Pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity

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Imminent suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity

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