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Administrators' newsletter – March 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2021).

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added AmandaNP

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  • 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.
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User pages

Hello, Minorax,

Unless an editor's user page is basically a Linked-In profile advertising their business ventures, editors are allowed to have a user page with some personal information. And in this recent case, the editor's ONLY edit was to post their name to their user page. What a nice introduction to Wikipedia for them to return and find warnings on their user talk page! I removed the link in case anyone thought it was spammy and invited them to the Teahouse.

Try to be more welcoming, especially to very inexperienced editors and realize that most newcomers believe they are able to post a profile like on social media. Your job, if you are going to patrol, is to inform them of how they can better use Wikipedia, not tag their pages with deletion notices. You are likely the first Wikipedia editor they encounter so unless they are a vandal, try to welcome them to the project. Thanks. Liz Read! Talk! 02:10, 20 March 2021 (UTC)

@Liz: Noted. --Minorax (talk) 02:11, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
@Liz: Side note, User:GIOAbdul1813814 & User:KiraHake518917 was suppose to trip Special:AbuseFilter/935 --Minorax (talk) 02:13, 20 March 2021 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – April 2021

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  • 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-redirect userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target.

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  • 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)

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  • The user group oversight will be renamed to suppress. This is for technical reasons. You can comment at T112147 if you have objections.

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2021

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WP:A3

You tagged several drafts with A3, which is not applicable to draft space. A few of them I deleted per WP:G2, principally because I found the titles of the drafts to be blatantly disruptive, but you should know better than to use speedy delete tags on pages for which they are clearly ineligible.--Bbb23 (talk) 12:41, 10 June 2021 (UTC)

@Bbb23: Hi, thanks for the note. I've tagged the pages based on the fine print at the section which states "{{Db-a3}} everywhere else", and totally missed out the header of the section. Sorry for any inconvenience. --Minorax (talk) 12:50, 10 June 2021 (UTC)
Maybe you just don't do much speedy tagging, but the letters before the numbers on the criteria represent the name space of the criterion: A applies to article space, R to redirects, etc. There is nothing specific to draft space, but G (general) applies to all spaces and is the one most often used for drafts.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:06, 10 June 2021 (UTC)

Tagging pages for G13 speedy deletion

Hello, Minorax,

Please review Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion#G13 to see the necessary criteria to qualify for a CSD G13 deletion. Not all pages in User space qualify. Thanks. Liz Read! Talk! 15:59, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

@Liz: Hi, thanks for the note. Yes, User:Blackpetal03/sandbox was a bad tag but User:Mileymusicworld/sandbox definitely qualifies for G13, as per the 2nd point listed at WP:G13. The {{AFC submission}} template isn't showing properly as there is a missing ] within the template. --Minorax«¦talk¦» 00:05, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
Well, editing on Wikipedia is a constant learning experience. Liz Read! Talk! 04:39, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

File mover granted

Hello Minorax. Your account has been granted the "filemover" user right, either following a request for it or due to a clear need for the ability to move files. Please take a moment to review Wikipedia:File mover for more information on this user right and under what circumstances it is okay to move files. When you move a file please remember to update any links to the new name as well! If you do not want the file mover right anymore, just let me know, and I'll remove it. Thank you, and happy editing! Seddon talk 21:20, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2021).

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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The Gift

Hi. After performing your requested move, I saw that The Gift (Turkish TV series) is also from 2019, so that The Gift (2019 TV series) is still ambiguous. I therefore further moved the Philippine series to The Gift (2019 Philippine TV series). Lennart97 (talk) 16:20, 4 July 2021 (UTC)

@Lennart97: Thanks, didn't realise the Turkish one was also from 2019. --Minorax«¦talk¦» 23:39, 4 July 2021 (UTC)

CSD G13s

Hello, Minorax,

If you want to tag stale drafts for deletion, please check their edit history. Drafts are tagged six months after the last human edit and not before that hour and date. I don't know where you live, but if you are in the United States, be aware that January 2021 was in Standard Time while July 2021 is in Daylights Savings Time. So, if your computer displays local time (and not the Wikipedia standard UTC time), a draft whose last edit was 7 pm January 8, 2021 (ST) could only be tagged at 8 pm July 8, 2021 (DST) or later. And then the whole thing gets reversed in the fall when the time changes again and we are an hour behind. There are actually only a few weeks out of the year where the time period of six months ago is the same as the time period of the current day. The reason for being this strict is because there are over a dozen editors and admins who handle CSD G13s and we need to work on the same clock so we aren't working at cross-purposes. So, please do not tag drafts prematurely.

I do appreciate you posting notifications on the talk page of the draft page creators, a step that is often overlooked. Thanks for your work! Liz Read! Talk! 01:49, 9 July 2021 (UTC)

@Liz: Hello Liz. For this whole time, I thought that G13 can be applied as long as it's 6 months after the day of the last edit. Thanks for the clarification. --Minorax«¦talk¦» 05:36, 9 July 2021 (UTC)
Well, things use to be much looser years ago. There is a database report, Wikipedia:Database reports/Stale drafts, that gets issued in the middle of the night listing all of the stale drafts and some industrious editors would tag the hundreds of drafts appearing on the list and they'd all be deleted by an admin in one fell swoop.
But at the end of summer 2020, SDZeroBot got started and it issues lists of drafts and when they expire (see User:SDZeroBot/G13 soon for an example). There is also Category:AfC G13 eligible soon submissions which lists stale drafts in order of their time of expiration. So, now drafts are being tagged & deleted throughout the day and night when they hit the six month mark. I have to say that the old way was much simpler but now that we do things the current way, it would be hard to get all of the editors who tag drafts & admins who delete them to refrain and wait until a daily database report is issued. So, the best we can do is have everyone follow the same general practices. Liz Read! Talk! 05:47, 10 July 2021 (UTC)
Also, when you tag a page for deletion (CSD, PROD, AFD/CFD/MFD/etc.), please post a notification on the talk page of the page creator. I recommend using Twinkle because once you set up your Preferences to "Notify page creator", Twinkle will post these notices for you which makes things easy. You can even set up Twinkle to keep a log of your deletion tags which can be interesting to keep track of. I know I look at my list sometimes to see if some pages have been recreated or if a page has been kept, the reasons why it wasn't deleted. Thanks again! Liz Read! Talk! 03:19, 12 July 2021 (UTC)
@Liz: Is there something I'm missing out on? I've been using Twinkle and it automatically leaves a note for the page creator. --Minorax«¦talk¦» 04:13, 12 July 2021 (UTC)
Okay, that's a fair question. First, these days I mostly do page deletions and I leave this message on a lot of talk pages so I apologize if it sounded rehearsed. The reason I'm so uptight about this is because the only time an editor filed a complaint against me on ANI is when I didn't post a deletion notification on their talk page about a category deletion. So, I might go overboard about this issue. They were quite upset.
I had to go into my deletion log to see what page I was referring to and it was Draft:Iaminvi. As for Twinkle, what I found out (when I messed up that notification that brought me to ANI), is that in Twinkle's Preferences, you can select what types of CSD cases where you notify the editor. You have to have all of the CSD criteria boxes checked and, in my case, I didn't have the CSD C1 box checked, I think I just had a couple of the more common CSD criteria checked. So, you might check your Twinkle Preferences.
But this was only one instance so, again, I apologize if it sounded like I'm making a habit of correcting you. With CSDs and PRODs, I randomly check to see if the page creator was notified and in about 1/3 of the cases, they aren't, so I post this message. I appreciate you taking it in the spirit that you did. Liz Read! Talk! 05:36, 12 July 2021 (UTC)
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