User talk:Sarahj2107/Archive 17
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Administrators' newsletter – November 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2020).
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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
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- Community sanctions now authorize administrators to place under indefinite semiprotection
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.
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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).
- A reminder that
Ali Benham Bakhtiar
--Stromline (talk) 20:43, 1 November 2020 (UTC)Hi Sarah, Hope you are well. Thanks for your work on maintaining Wikipedia's neutrality. I appreciate the time you put in to make this a good space. I understand you unfortunately had to delete the page I created, for being promotional. I was hoping you could give me another chance to rewrite it, with a more neutral point of view. I did have the article in sandbox for a while so I could collect feedback before publishing, but as there were no comments or remarks, I thought it had been implicitly approved.. I'd be so very grateful, if you could restore the page in order for me to edit it to wikipedia's standard, or if that is not possible, could you please send the article to me so I can edit in sandbox and perhaps you could have a look whether it meets your standards before I publish? I hope to hear from you, about how I can best proceed! :) Thanks again! Nina --Stromline (talk) 20:43, 1 November 2020 (UTC)
- Hi Stromline. Unfortunately I can't restore the article because promotional content is not allowed anywhere on the site, even in a sandbox or user page. I will email you the contents of the page though and you can work on it off site. You might want to check some other articles in the topic to see how they are worded, it will give you an idea of the tone Wikipedia looks for. If you have something in a sandbox and would like feedback on it before publishing then you can use the Articles for Creation process, or you can paste {{subst:submit}} at the top of the page. Let me know if you need any more help. Sarahj2107 (talk) 08:58, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
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Administrators' newsletter – December 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2020).
Administrator changes
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Interface administrator changes
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.
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Administrators' newsletter – January 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2020).
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Guideline and policy news
- Speedy deletion criterion T3 (duplication and hardcoded instances) has been repealed following a request for comment.
Technical news
- You can now put pages on your watchlist for a limited period of time.
Arbitration
- By motion, standard discretionary sanctions have been temporarily authorized
for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes)
. The effectiveness of the discretionary sanctions can be evaluated on the request by any editor after March 1, 2021 (or sooner if for a good reason). - Following the 2020 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Barkeep49, BDD, Bradv, CaptainEek, L235, Maxim, Primefac.
- By motion, standard discretionary sanctions have been temporarily authorized
Mitch McCarthy Page Deleted in 2016
Hello Sarah, I noticed that you deleted a page for Mitch McCarthy in 2016 and was wondering if you could help me restore that page due to his updated body of work. I was on the Wiki page for Olivia Rodrigo's track Drivers License<ref>https://wiki.alquds.edu/?query=Drivers_License_(song)</ref>, which is the current #1 song in the world <ref>https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/olivia-rodrigo-s-drivers-license-debuts-at-no-1-on-billboard-hot-100-more-chart-news-billboard-news/vi-BB1cU2bK</ref> and noticed his credit and that he did not have a page. He has had an expansive career since 2016, mixing other huge top 40 hits for artists such as Melanie Martinez and Carly Rae Jepsen<ref>https://www.discogs.com/artist/2872169-Mitch-McCarthy?page=2</ref>. Please let me know if restoring his page would be possible so that I could update it. Thank you! Sweetjaegs (talk) 02:24, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
- Hello Sweetjaegs, I've had a look at the deleted article and spent some time looking through available sources. I'm sorry but I don't think there is significant coverage about him in multiple independent sources, which is what we require to establish notability. And unfortunately Olivia Rodrigo's song being number 1 doesn't help as the song's notability doesn't mean everyone involved is also notable. Sarahj2107 (talk) 08:55, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
- Hello Sarahj2107, since our last conversation there have been many new articles that have come out about Mitch McCarthy including from Headliner Magazine[1], a feature in Sound on Sound[2], and Billboard[3]. I believe that this would constitute as significant coverage that would establish notability. Let me know what you think, thank you! Sweetjaegs (talk) 22:13, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
- Hi Sweetjaegs, I'm still not convinced it would pass another AfD but the sources are better than before. I have restored and moved the article to Draft:Mitch McCarthy where you can work on improving it and adding the new sources. I suggest putting it through the Article for Creation process before it's moved to main space again, if it's moved back in its current state it will likely be speedy deleted. Sarahj2107 (talk) 08:27, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – February 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2021).
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Arbitration
- The standard discretionary sanctions authorized for American Politics were amended by motion to cover
post-1992 politics of United States and closely related people
, replacing the 1932 cutoff.
- The standard discretionary sanctions authorized for American Politics were amended by motion to cover
Miscellaneous
- Voting in the 2021 Steward elections will begin on 05 February 2021, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2021, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
- Wikipedia has now been around for 20 years, and recently saw its billionth edit!
Administrators' newsletter – March 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2021).
Administrator changes
Interface administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
- A request for comment is open that proposes a process for the community to revoke administrative permissions. This follows a 2019 RfC in favor of creating one such a policy.
- A request for comment is in progress to remove F7 (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a, which covers immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
- A request for comment seeks to grant page movers the
delete-redirectuserright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target. The full proposal is at Wikipedia:Page mover/delete-redirect. - A request for comment asks if sysops may
place the General sanctions/Coronavirus disease 2019 editnotice template on pages in scope that do not have page-specific sanctions
? - There is a discussion in progress concerning automatic protection of each day's featured article with Pending Changes protection.
Technical news
- When blocking an IPv6 address with Twinkle, there is now a checkbox with the option to just block the /64 range. When doing so, you can still leave a block template on the initial, single IP address' talkpage.
- When protecting a page with Twinkle, you can now add a note if doing so was in response to a request at WP:RfPP, and even link to the specific revision.
- There have been a number of reported issues with Pending Changes. Most problems setting protection appear to have been resolved (phab:T273317) but other issues with autoaccepting edits persist (phab:T275322).
Arbitration
- By motion, the discretionary sanctions originally authorized under the GamerGate case are now authorized under a new Gender and sexuality case, with sanctions
authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, any gender-related dispute or controversy and associated people.
Sanctions issued under GamerGate are now considered Gender and sexuality sanctions. - The Kurds and Kurdistan case was closed, authorizing standard discretionary sanctions for
the topics of Kurds and Kurdistan, broadly construed
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- By motion, the discretionary sanctions originally authorized under the GamerGate case are now authorized under a new Gender and sexuality case, with sanctions
Miscellaneous
- Following the 2021 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AmandaNP, Operator873, Stanglavine, Teles, and Wiki13.
Your help with removing a flag
Hello Sarah, many thanks for cleaning up the external links on this new page: Despina Chatzivassiliou-Tsovilis. I wondered if you could advise on citations/sources, which are still flagged as a problem - in essence, what I still need to do to remove the flag! I have tried to include plenty of original, verifiable mainstream sources - leading newspapers in Greece, the Greek parliament, a well-known European news agency, and so on - and am wondering what more I need to do. Also tried to clean up the references to bring them into line with guidelines. Do you feel the flag can now be removed? Can you do that? (since I believe it would be a "conflict of interest" for me to do so). If not, can you advise on what I still need to do to have it removed? Many thanks! GAKM (talk) 16:49, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
- Hello GAKM, I've had another look and I can see you have added quite a few references since the flag was added. There are a few sentences that could use a source for verification, her date and place of birth, and the quote in the Vision section. If you can get those then let me know, I'll remove the flag. Sarahj2107 (talk) 17:27, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
- Hi again Sarahj2107, thanks for that very swift and positive reply! I'll take a look at those last points now and get back to you. For the quote in the "Vision" section, there was indeed an external link to the web page giving the original source (one of the ones I think you removed, in fact!) but I will put it as a footnote reference rather than an in-line external link, and that should hopefully do it. GAKM (talk) 09:04, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – April 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2021).
Administrator changes
- Alexandria • Happyme22 • RexxS
Guideline and policy news
- Following a request for comment, F7 (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a has been deprecated; it covered immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
- Following a request for comment, page movers were granted the
delete-redirectuserright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target.
Technical news
- When you move a page that many editors have on their watchlist the history can be split and it might also not be possible to move it again for a while. This is because of a job queue problem. (T278350)
- Code to support some very old web browsers is being removed. This could cause issues in those browsers. (T277803)
Arbitration
- A community consultation on the Arbitration Committee discretionary sanctions procedure is open until April 25.
Question about deleted page
Hi Sarah!
Yesterday I created a page for SnapSolve, which is an online-learning App. And it was deleted because Wikipedia thought the content is not objective enough. So I was about the change the content. And Wikipedia suggested that I should talk to you first. Do you know how can I change it? Do I just create a new one for it? Thank you so much!
- Hi Blackcat Strawberry, I can't recreate the page for you to change as it is too promotional in tone and would need to be completely rewritten. You can try creating a new one but please make sure you have read the guidelines of spam and promotional content first. Sarahj2107 (talk) 10:32, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
Agricultural Food and Allied Democratic Workers Union
I have noted that you have voted the page mentioned on the subject/headline to be deleted, the issue has been fixed. if there is any issue with the page please let me know I will attend to it.--Willingtonw (talk) 22:23, 27 April 2021 (UTC)
- Hi Willingtonw, unfortunately the issue has not been fixed. All three creations of the article are copyright violations and the latest version will be deleted shortly. For legal reasons Wikipedia cannot host material which violates copyright. You would have to completely rewrite the entire article in your own words. I have previously given you information about copyright and links to relevant articles on your talk page, I strongly suggest you read those before creating any more articles. If you continue to post copyrighted material you will be blocked from editing. Sarahj2107 (talk) 07:24, 28 April 2021 (UTC)
Agricultural Food and Allied Democratic Workers Union
I have seen your reply but I was frustrated as to why the content was a copyright infringement, to which you pointed out the source ("http://afadwu.org.za/about?tab=about") where the copyright right infringement has occurred. The reason I did not note that as a copyright issue is that I was the same person responsible for writing that content as well as responsible for the development of the website, as you could notice from the website header tags. My apologies for the confusion or misunderstanding caused. Can you advise in this case, I know you have suggested that I should rewrite it again in your previous reply, and suggested that you may remove me from editing in the future. --Willingtonw (talk) 12:19, 29 April 2021 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – May 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2021).
Administrator changes
Interface administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
- Following an RfC, consensus was found that third party appeals are allowed but discouraged.
- The 2021 Desysop Policy RfC was closed with no consensus. Consensus was found in a previous RfC for a community based desysop procedure, though the procedure proposed in the 2021 RfC did not gain consensus.
Technical news
- The user group
oversightwill be renamed tosuppress. This is for technical reasons. You can comment at T112147 if you have objections.
- The user group
Arbitration
- The community consultation on the Arbitration Committee discretionary sanctions procedure was closed, and an initial draft based on feedback from the now closed consultation is expected to be released in early June to early July for community review.
Sweetaj Brar
Hii Sarahj2107, I hope you're doing well. Actually I created an article "Sweetaj Brar" At first it was deleted under the afd but I created it Again because subject is notable now as her song "Care Ni Karda" has been featured on Asian Music Chart.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Asian Music Chart Top 40 {{!}} Official Charts Company|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/asian-music-chart/|access-date=2021-05-04|website=www.officialcharts.com|language=en}}</ref> For which, point two criteria matches. But you deleted my article without checking these facts. I request you to return my article as well. Suchayaar (talk) 03:31, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
- Hi Suchayaar. I didn't delete your article without checking all the facts first. The article was almost identical to the version deleted through AfD 3 weeks prior, there were no new sources showing signifiant coverage and I do not believe the Asian Music Chart is enough to meet point 2 of WP:MUSICBIO as it is not a "country's national music chart". You can take it to Wikipedia:Deletion review if you want another opinion on this. Sarahj2107 (talk) 07:30, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
Tina Dabi
Hi, would you please chime in on my talk page at User talk:Anachronist#Tina Dabi? You deleted Tina Dabi a few years ago and I create-protected it. I am concerned that Draft:Tina Dabi, which the reviewer wants to move to main space, doesn't address the concerns in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tina Dabi, which you closed. ~Anachronist (talk) 13:01, 9 June 2021 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – June 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2021).
Administrator changes
Ashleyyoursmile • Less Unless- Husond • MattWade • MJCdetroit • Carioca • Vague Rant • Kingboyk • Thunderboltz • Gwen Gale • AniMate • SlimVirgin (deceased)
Guideline and policy news
- Consensus was reached to deprecate Wikipedia:Editor assistance.
- Following a Request for Comment the Book namespace was deprecated.
Technical news
- Wikimedia previously used the IRC network Freenode. However, due to changes over who controlled the network with reports of a forceful takeover by several ex-staff members, the Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts decided to move to the new Libera Chat network. It has been reported that Wikimedia related channels on Freenode have been forcibly taken over if they pointed members to Libera. There is a migration guide and Wikimedia discussions about this.
Arbitration
- After a Clarification request, the Arbitration Committee modified Remedy 5 of the Antisemitism in Poland case. This means sourcing expectations are a discretionary sanction instead of being present on all articles. It also details using the talk page or the Reliable Sources Noticeboard to discuss disputed sources.
Administrators' newsletter – July 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2021).
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Guideline and policy news
- Consensus has been reached to delete all books in the book namespace. There was rough consensus that the deleted books should still be available on request at WP:REFUND even after the namespace is removed.
- An RfC is open to discuss the next steps following a trial which automatically applied pending changes to TFAs.
Technical news
- IP addresses of unregistered users are to be hidden from everyone. There is a rough draft of how IP addresses may be shown to users who need to see them. This currently details allowing administrators, checkusers, stewards and those with a new usergroup to view the full IP address of unregistered users. Editors with at least 500 edits and an account over a year old will be able to see all but the end of the IP address in the proposal. The ability to see the IP addresses hidden behind the mask would be dependent on agreeing to not share the parts of the IP address they can see with those who do not have access to the same information. Accessing part of or the full IP address of a masked editor would also be logged. Comments on the draft are being welcomed at the talk page.
Arbitration
- The community authorised COVID-19 general sanctions have been superseded by the COVID-19 discretionary sanctions following a motion at a case request. Alerts given and sanctions placed under the community authorised general sanctions are now considered alerts for and sanctions under the new discretionary sanctions.
RE: 2602:AE:127F:E00:5B9:7298:5CA0:548
You just blocked this IP, but perhaps revoking TPA would also be beneficial in this case? Many thanks, Tommi1986 let's talk! 09:59, 26 July 2021 (UTC)
- Opps my bad you revoked it as I sent this message!! Tommi1986 let's talk! 09:59, 26 July 2021 (UTC)
- I don't know if I'll have time to check up on them once their block expires, but if you spot them return to the same behaviour just drop me a message and I'll reblock. Sarahj2107 (talk) 10:04, 26 July 2021 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – July 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2021).
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Guideline and policy news
- An RfC is open to add a delay of one week from nomination to deletion for G13 speedy deletions.
Technical news
- Last week all wikis were very slow or not accessible for 30 minutes. This was due to server lag caused by regenerating dynamic lists on the Russian Wikinews after a large bulk import. (T287380)
Arbitration
- Following an amendment request, the committee has clarified that the Talk page exception to the 500/30 rule in remedy 5 of the Palestine-Israel articles 4 case does not apply to requested move discussions.
Miscellaneous
- You can vote for candidates in the 2021 Board of Trustees elections from 4 August to 17 August. Four community elected seats are up for election.
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