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Nomination of Vichy (company) for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Vichy (company) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vichy (company) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Zefr (talk) 04:40, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

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  • A motion was passed to enact a 500/30 restriction on articles related to the history of Jews and antisemitism in Poland during World War II (1933–45), including the Holocaust in Poland. Article talk pages where disruption occurs may also be managed with the stated restriction.

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Happy...

Wishing The Moose a very Moose happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! CommanderWaterford (talk) 06:51, 14 July 2020 (UTC)

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Administrators' newsletter – August 2020

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Political Userboxes

So, I think we'd be best to group the Userboxes into similar categories, and start with the most extreme. Technically, a LOT of them violate the Userbox policy, but we're probably better off picking off the worst instances first.

I'm inclined to focus on things that specifically fall into the category of "I wouldn't trust this user to treat me fairly if I was a member of X class", because those are the most harmful - with exceptions for attacks on classes that explicitly go against Wikipedia rules, e.g. if someone wants to put up a Userbox saying they're against racists, or against the alt-right (explicitly a white nationalist movement), or the like, I think we'd be sending the wrong message about what groups we want if we delete them.

So, here's some categories that spring out on a first reading:

  • Abortion. I'm inclined to leave this alone as long as they're not attacking people who have had abortions, or calling abortion doctors murders. So probably would suggest deleting User:KC109/Userboxes/Abortion Kills, but probably let Template:User Abolish Human Abortion pass by on first instance. It's a hot-button issue, but seems unlikely to directly cause problems if people say their views.
  • Calls for impeachment, e.g. User:UBX/Impeach Obama, User:Western Pines/Impeach Medvedev, and I'm sure there'll be a Trump one in there - I think our rules go against them, but I don't see substantial harm arising if we don't deal with them.
  • Trump stuff. I'm inclined to either delete absolutely everything beyond the blandest statements or nothing. We're going to have Wiki War III here otherwise.

As for first go? I'm thinking User:ChristTrekker/United States of AMERICA and anything related. It's very hard to see how that one has any redeeming qualities, it's one of those easy-attack slogans. I'd say let's start with anything that can't even bother to be civil, and go from there. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.5% of all FPs 20:03, 17 September 2020 (UTC)

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday from the Birthday Committee

Wishing The Moose a very happy birthday on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee!

Don't forget to save us all a piece of cake!--Megan☺️ Talk to the monster 13:41, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

Happy Birthday!

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Happy First Edit Day!

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2020

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Administrators' newsletter – September 2020

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"Wikipedia:SPARTA" listed at Redirects for discussion

A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Wikipedia:SPARTA. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 December 17#Wikipedia:SPARTA until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. 122.60.185.29 (talk) 00:16, 18 December 2020 (UTC)

"Template:Ssock" listed at Redirects for discussion

A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Template:Ssock. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 December 21#Template:Ssock until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 23:30, 21 December 2020 (UTC)