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About the admin request...

I'm not sure if I used the correct help template but I wanted to know if it is possible to ask to have sections on talk pages deleted... (And if so, where, and apologies if I was supposed to ask this somewhere else.) James-the-Charizard (talk) 02:59, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

You can just remove it yourself. -- I dream of horses  If you reply here, please ping me by adding {{U|I dream of horses}} to your message  (talk to me) (My edits) @ 03:48, 12 March 2019 (UTC)
Ok, thanks. I'm debating wether to erase the section above, I just wanted to make sure if I was allowed to or not. James-the-Charizard (talk) 11:48, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

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Your help desk question

You didn't get an answer to this question, but did you find the help you were looking for somewhere else?— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 20:42, 9 August 2019 (UTC)

@Vchimpanzee: I did get the help on Huggle's bugs report page. (Aka the link) Someone replied to me and the solution worked perfectly. ^0^ James-the-Charizard (talk) 20:51, 9 August 2019 (UTC)
Did you find the answer to this question? Because no one responded.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 21:10, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
That one is a bit complex... When I typed it, the RfD had no votes, I got one vote from an admin, and it was closed yesterday as retarget. So... No answer but a solution. James-the-Charizard (talk) 21:41, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
@Vchimpanzee: Ah whoops... Forgot to ping you... James-the-Charizard (talk) 23:06, 22 August 2019 (UTC)
I saw it because your history didn't show me as the last to post. I don't know whether to mark this as resolved, but maybe no one will care.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 15:24, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

Changes.

I made certain changes that were legit, which were later reverted? Zorainkhan123. (talk) 17:25, 3 July 2019 (UTC)

@Zorainkhan123.: I'm not saying the changes weren't legitimate, i'm falling back on the policies of the site which state that you need reliable sources to verify information. James-the-Charizard (talk) 17:27, 3 July 2019 (UTC)

Eda Thetruthseeker765432987 (talk) 16:22, 31 August 2019 (UTC)

@Thetruthseeker765432987: Erm... What? James-the-Charizard (talk) 16:24, 31 August 2019 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

The Original Barnstar
Thanks for your contribution towards the article I created Zionfelix. I really appreciated u james. Michael Owusu Ansah (talk) 12:57, 8 September 2019 (UTC)
@Michael Owusu Ansah: Thanks man! Means a lot! ^w^ James-the-Charizard (talk) 12:58, 8 September 2019 (UTC)

AB

Yea, I removed that #84 once or twice myself, .. thanks. Still not sure how it's going to go though because Watson is suspended the first 4 games, so technically he hasn't worn the number yet either. Guess we'll see soon enough. Never a dull moment. — Ched (talk) 05:05, 11 September 2019 (UTC)

Ched Nope, never a dull moment here. James-the-Charizard (talk) 11:15, 11 September 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion

A speedy deletion for a rower that exists already in European and World Senior Championships, as a medalist, let me speechless 😶.-Arorae (talk) 17:48, 11 September 2019 (UTC)

Arorae The biggest issue with the article is that there are very few/no sources. Not every medalist has to be notable, if you want to add more to the article, then do so, I was tagging based on the fact that the article has very little information about this rower. (Background, life outside rowing, and medalist background should be added with sources.) Just know, I was doing this all in good faith. James-the-Charizard (talk) 17:54, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
one source (already inserted!) is enough ([1])…-Arorae (talk) 17:55, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
Arorae That’s... That’s not a source. That’s a list of pages that link to the article. And challenging your statement of one source is enough, it’s not. Per verifiability policies, articles should usually have multiple independent reliable sources. James-the-Charizard (talk) 18:00, 11 September 2019 (UTC)

… the biggest issue is perhaps that you have not read it accurately…-Arorae (talk) 18:01, 11 September 2019 (UTC) … in the meantime, there are two independent reliable sources… -Arorae (talk) 18:02, 11 September 2019 (UTC)

Arorae I read all the policies on this website properly and accurately, as with the sources. In any case, the second source shown on the article is satisfactory enough, I’ve gone ahead and removed the speedy deletion tag. James-the-Charizard (talk) 18:03, 11 September 2019 (UTC)

New Page Review newsletter September-October 2019

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Stubs

Hallo, Thanks for your editing, but please take care not to add {{stub}} to an article which already has a specific stub tag, as you did here. It just wastes other editors' time. Thanks. PamD 18:34, 11 September 2019 (UTC)

PamD Ack! I didn't realize the stub tag was so low in external links... (Using mobile so I didn’t look in external links.) Sorry about that overtag... James-the-Charizard (talk) 18:40, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
Hi James, the place to check for a stub tag is right at the end, after external links and everything else - see WP:ORDER. PamD 22:33, 11 September 2019 (UTC)

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Request on 07:49:00, 9 October 2019 for assistance on AfC submission by Doktorcris


For this IBBS page, citations that have nothing to do with the Society are, apparently, needed. Would it be appropriate to reference Elsevier (publishers of the society journal), who have their own Wiki page, and FEMS (also with their own page), to which society IBBS belongs? Should I remove the sections and leave the text as continuous? Would these changes make the page acceptable?Doktorcris (talk) 07:49, 9 October 2019 (UTC)Doktorcris (talk) 07:49, 9 October 2019 (UTC)
DoktorcrisWell as long as those two are independent and a source of reliable information, then they can be used. WP:RS is a good spot to learn more about what sources are reliable. The article needs to be split into sections, because an article with a lead that large would be too cluttered to read. Hope this helps you. ;) James-the-Charizard (talk to me!) (contribs) 10:30, 9 October 2019 (UTC)

Request on 07:05:25, 11 October 2019 for assistance on AfC submission by Doktorcris


Hi. Can you have another look at the International Biodeterioration and Biodegradation draft page, please? I have made several changes and wonder if the entry might now be acceptable. I have added a couple of external references. The references that were already there are only linked to the subject (i.e., the Society) in that they contain articles written by members. They are published independently. Do I need to remove all links to web pages? I feel these are important. Thanks.Doktorcris (talk) 07:05, 11 October 2019 (UTC)

Doktorcris (talk) 07:05, 11 October 2019 (UTC)

Doktorcris I can in a bit. Busy at the moment but I can soon. You need to click the resubmit button though. James-the-Charizard (talk to me!) (contribs) 12:31, 11 October 2019 (UTC)

A cookie for you!

For helping out at AfC, RfD, and several other important areas! Enterprisey (talk!) 07:49, 18 October 2019 (UTC)
Enterprisey Thanks man! :D James-the-Charizard (talk to me!) (contribs) 11:14, 18 October 2019 (UTC)

Barnstar!!

The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
This is for your valuable efforts on countering Vandalism and protecting Wikipedia from it's threats. I appreciate your effort. You are a defender of Wikipedia. Thank you. PATH SLOPU 16:23, 19 October 2019 (UTC)
Path slopu Thanks! Just saw this, while reverting vandalism and listening to music. James-the-Charizard (talk to me!) (contribs) 16:25, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
By the authority vested in me by myself it gives me great pleasure to present you with this barnstar in recognition of your ongoing efforts to combat vandalism. They are appreciated. Gog the Mild (talk) 15:55, 19 October 2019 (UTC)
Gog the Mild Thanks! Great to know my anti-vandalism efforts are appreciated by the community. ^^ James-the-Charizard (talk to me!) (contribs) 15:57, 19 October 2019 (UTC)
They certainly are . Please keep them up. Gog the Mild (talk) 16:43, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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This is for your tireless efforts on contributing to Wikipedia. I appreciate your efforts. Keep it up!. Regards. PATH SLOPU 16:48, 19 October 2019 (UTC)
Thanks! Tireless indeed, it's what happens when you have a day off from school or work. ;P James-the-Charizard (talk to me!) (contribs) 16:50, 19 October 2019 (UTC)
:-):-)--PATH SLOPU 16:55, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

Page protection

Hi, can you semi protect this page Bengal Warriors. Recently The team has clinched their maiden PKL title. So people have become emotional and making unconstructive edits loaded with statistical errors. DeoxysX (talk) 18:38, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

DeoxysX I'm sorry but I can't, I am not an administrator. But I can request semi-protection if you want, or you can ask an administrator. James-the-Charizard (talk to me!) (contribs) 18:44, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

I would be grateful, if you kindly request a semi-protection. DeoxysX (talk) 18:51, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

DeoxysX Requested. James-the-Charizard (talk to me!) (contribs) 18:57, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

Thanks a lot man. DeoxysX (talk) 18:58, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

DeoxysX Article was protected for a week. James-the-Charizard (talk to me!) (contribs) 19:13, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

Okay, thanks again. DeoxysX (talk) 19:31, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

Roman Bathing

I have added a citation that attests to my changes as well as the Latin that the line is based upon. Does the citation hold up? Budhotep (talk) 19:06, 20 October 2019 (UTC)

Budhotep Book source looks good to me, I say it holds up. James-the-Charizard (talk to me!) (contribs) 19:13, 20 October 2019 (UTC)

Citation Using Books

You mentioned that others may view the use of a book citation differently. Why would that be? Especially, if a specific page can be provided? Budhotep (talk) 19:18, 20 October 2019 (UTC)

Well I erased that part of the comment since I wasn't wording it right... James-the-Charizard (talk to me!) (contribs) 19:24, 20 October 2019 (UTC)

DQw4w9WgXcQ

Could you please back out of your closure of Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2019 October 13#DQw4w9WgXcQ? You edit conflicted with Steel1943 here, which may change things a bit. Also from looking at it neutrally even before Steel1943's !vote, it is possible to find consensus to delete, so it's best left to an admin to close per WP:BADNAC #2. Also, I'm not sure what you mean by No prejudice against a new RfD in the future. Per WP:RENOM, that's always the case. Unless of course, you think there is some special reason this RfD can be speedy renominated, but that would need to be illustrated more. Thanks, -- Tavix (talk) 19:45, 24 October 2019 (UTC)

Tavix Done, reopened. Sorry for my hasty action. James-the-Charizard (talk to me!) (contribs) 19:54, 24 October 2019 (UTC)

Help needed on how to make my article better

Hi there, I was wondering why my article Zythos Beer Festival wasn't approved. If I missed something, please tell me. If I wasn't allowed to make that article, can you please tell me. I would also like it if you could give me some tips on making my articles better. I'm am a beginner so I don't really know exactly what I'm allowed to do and what I'm not allowed to do. I would also really appreciate it if you could help me with that. Thank you!

Lucasmeert123 Hi, the reason your article was deleted was that it was promotional in nature. Articles need to be written from a neutral point of view (see WP:NPOV) without any promotional language. The article also lacked sources. I recommend you make a draft of an article first, build it, them submit it to WP:AFC for review, where you can get help from other veteran editors. Hope this helps you. ;) James-the-Charizard (talk to me!) (contribs) 11:44, 29 October 2019 (UTC)

Yes, it does! Thank you. I will remember to do that next time! Strange thing was that when I pressed publish changes, it didn't send my article for review. Instead, it sent it to wherever it was sent.

New Page Review newsletter November 2019

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Helmuth Mylius

I inserted the link, because it is an old document proving the existence of the Party of the Radical Middle Class. In German Wikipedia I had no problems with inserting it. Best Regards, Pumuckl456 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pumuckl456 (talk • contribs) 21:46, 3 November 2019 (UTC)

Pumuckl456 The link wasn't the issue, it was the placement in the article. You need to place external links below the "References" section in an article in a seperate section called "External Links". Hope that helps. ;) James-the-Charizard (talk to me!) (contribs) 21:50, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
(talk page watcher) But as they'd added the link in a section with the wrong title "Web links" instead of "External links", and added it above rather than below the "References" section, it hardly seems appropriate to remove both link and heading and describe their edit as "addition of unnecessary/inappropriate external links". It would have been more constructive to rename and move the section, as I've now done. This was the editor's first edit in English wikipedia, and you didn't give them a welcome template either. Please be more encouraging for beginners. Thanks. PamD 23:52, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
PamD I was trying my best to help a new user... >_< James-the-Charizard (talk to me!) (contribs) 00:06, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

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Billy Moore (musician, born 1931)

Hello, I've been vacillating over this page for a while; it was rejected several times via AfC at Draft:Billy Moore and then seemingly copied, without much improvement, to mainspace... with the disambiguation added. The last rejection was here, and thereafter it was blanked and copied. These attempts to short-circuit the review process tend to irk me as there seems to be no conventional or consistent method of dealing with them. AfD or back to draft seem the only alternatives. Cheers. Eagleash (talk) 14:39, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

Eagleash, Being irked is correct, trying to game the system like that is absolutely unacceptable. Will be AFD'ing the article shortly. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. James-the-Charizard (talk to me!) (contribs) 14:43, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

Hello

Hello James-the-Charizard,

I noticed that some editors were pretty harsh at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Optional RfA candidate poll. While I agree that it is unlikely that you could pass RfA at this time, I want to offer some words of support. Look for the positive advice you received, accentuate the positive going forward, and keep contributing to the encyclopedia. If you ever need input from an administrator, please do not hesitate to reach out to me. One thing I really disagree with is the notion that you should not have subscribed to the administrator's newsletter. That newsletter is not an "insider publication" just for administrators. In my opinion, any editor who is interested in what administrators do is welcome to subscribe and read that newsletter. I subscribed myself before I became an administrator. There should not be a gulf between non-admins and admins, and if you continue your positive contributions, I look forward to supporting your RfA when the time is right. Cullen328 Let's discuss it 07:12, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

Cullen328, those are what I think opposes will say, and have nothing to do with my opinion. The page for admin newsletter specifically says non-admins are welcome to subscribe. I always look at them from talk pages of admins on my watchlist everytime they come, as I do with all other mass messages. I think you'll agree that's likely to be brought up at a potential RfA as there have been more unreasonable opposes at RfAs than that. We are also all allowed to have a personal opinion about things, as we all do, but candidates get opposed for advertising their opinions with infoboxes. My suggestion to wait for 2 years is based on the fact that a recent unsuccessful RfA was tanked by escalation of a two-year-old single-occurrence issue. Usedtobecool TALK ✨ 07:31, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
Cullen328 Thanks for the kind words, Cullen. James-the-Charizard (talk to me!) (contribs) 12:32, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

New page reviewer granted

Hi James-the-Charizard. Your account has been added to the "New page reviewers" user group. Please check back at WP:PERM in case your user right is time limited or probationary. This user group allows you to review new pages through the Curation system and mark them as patrolled, tag them for maintenance issues, or nominate them for deletion. The list of articles awaiting review is located at the New Pages Feed. New page reviewing is vital to maintaining the integrity of the encylopedia. If you have not already done so, you must read the tutorial at New Pages Review, the linked guides and essays, and fully understand the deletion policy. If you need any help or want to discuss the process, you are welcome to use the new page reviewer talk page. In addition, please remember:

  • URGENT: Please consider helping get the huge backlog (around 6,000 pages) down to a manageable number of pages as soon as possible.
  • Be nice to new editors. They are usually not aware that they are doing anything wrong. Do make use of the message feature when tagging pages for maintenance so that they are aware.
  • You will frequently be asked by users to explain why their page is being deleted. Please be formal and polite in your approach to them – even if they are not.
  • If you are not sure what to do with a page, don't review it – just leave it for another reviewer.
  • Accuracy is more important than speed. Take your time to patrol each page. Use the message feature to communicate with article creators and offer advice as much as possible.

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2019).

Administrator changes

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New Page Review newsletter December 2019

A graph showing the number of articles in the page curation feed from 12/21/18 - 12/20/19

Reviewer of the Year

This year's Reviewer of the Year is Rosguill. Having gotten the reviewer PERM in August 2018, they have been a regular reviewer of articles and redirects, been an active participant in the NPP community, and has been the driving force for the emerging NPP Source Guide that will help reviewers better evaluate sourcing and notability in many countries for which it has historically been difficult.

Special commendation again goes to Onel5969 who ends the year as one of our most prolific reviewers for the second consecutive year. Thanks also to Boleyn and JTtheOG who have been in the top 5 for the last two years as well.

Several newer editors have done a lot of work with CAPTAIN MEDUSA and DannyS712 (who has also written bots which have patrolled thousands of redirects) being new reviewers since this time last year.

Thanks to them and to everyone reading this who has participated in New Page Patrol this year.

Top 10 Reviewers over the last 365 days
Rank Username Num reviews Log
1 Rosguill (talk) 47,395 Patrol Page Curation
2 Onel5969 (talk) 41,883 Patrol Page Curation
3 JTtheOG (talk) 11,493 Patrol Page Curation
4 Arthistorian1977 (talk) 5,562 Patrol Page Curation
5 DannyS712 (talk) 4,866 Patrol Page Curation
6 CAPTAIN MEDUSA (talk) 3,995 Patrol Page Curation
7 DragonflySixtyseven (talk) 3,812 Patrol Page Curation
8 Boleyn (talk) 3,655 Patrol Page Curation
9 Ymblanter (talk) 3,553 Patrol Page Curation
10 Cwmhiraeth (talk) 3,522 Patrol Page Curation

(The top 100 reviewers of the year can be found here)

Redirect autopatrol

A recent Request for Comment on creating a new redirect autopatrol pseduo-permission was closed early. New Page Reviewers are now able to nominate editors who have an established track record creating uncontroversial redirects. At the individual discretion of any administrator or after 24 hours and a consensus of at least 3 New Page Reviewers an editor may be added to a list of users whose redirects will be patrolled automatically by DannyS712 bot III.

Source Guide Discussion

Set to launch early in the new year is our first New Page Patrol Source Guide discussion. These discussions are designed to solicit input on sources in places and topic areas that might otherwise be harder for reviewers to evaluate. The hope is that this will allow us to improve the accuracy of our patrols for articles using these sources (and/or give us places to perform a WP:BEFORE prior to nominating for deletion). Please watch the New Page Patrol talk page for more information.

This month's refresher course

While New Page Reviewers are an experienced set of editors, we all benefit from an occasional review. This month consider refreshing yourself on Wikipedia:Notability (geographic features). Also consider how we can take the time for quality in this area. For instance, sources to verify human settlements, which are presumed notable, can often be found in seconds. This lets us avoid the (ugly) 'Needs more refs' tag.

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Tricky (TV series)

The article has been deleted and redirected to Pop (British and Irish TV channel). Thanks for stating your opinion on the RfA. Foxnpichu (talk) 01:06, 30 December 2019 (UTC)

Foxnpichu No problem. James-the-Charizard (talk to me!) (contribs) 01:08, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
By the way, I noticed you have on your userpage that you may want to be an admin one day. Would you like me to nominate you? Foxnpichu (talk) 16:47, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
Foxnpichu Not at the moment. While that is a future goal, I know i'm not ready. (Short active tenure, and only 3400+ edits) Plus I feel I need to improve myself, as a person and through my edits. But thank you for the kind offer. James-the-Charizard (talk to me!) (contribs) 18:45, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
Your welcome. Foxnpichu (talk) 14:21, 31 December 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – January 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2019).

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2020).

Guideline and policy news

  • Following a request for comment, partial blocks are now enabled on the English Wikipedia. This functionality allows administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces rather than the entire site. A draft policy is being workshopped at Wikipedia:Partial blocks.
  • The request for comment seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure closed with wide-spread support for an alternative desysoping procedure based on community input. No proposed process received consensus.

Technical news

  • Twinkle now supports partial blocking. There is a small checkbox that toggles the "partial" status for both blocks and templating. There is currently one template: {{uw-pblock}}.
  • When trying to move a page, if the target title already exists then a warning message is shown. The warning message will now include a link to the target title. [2]

Arbitration

  • Following a recent arbitration case, the Arbitration Committee reminded administrators that checkuser and oversight blocks must not be reversed or modified without prior consultation with the checkuser or oversighter who placed the block, the respective functionary team, or the Arbitration Committee.

Miscellaneous


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New Page Reviewer newsletter February 2020

Hello James-the-Charizard,

Source Guide Discussion

The first NPP source guide discussion is now underway. It covers a wide range of sources in Ghana with the goal of providing more guidance to reviewers about sources they might see when reviewing pages. Hopefully, new page reviewers will join others interested in reliable sources and those with expertise in these sources to make the discussion a success.

Redirects

New to NPP? Looking to try something a little different? Consider patrolling some redirects. Redirects are relatively easy to review, can be found easily through the New Pages Feed. You can find more information about how to patrol redirects at WP:RPATROL.

Discussions and Resources
Refresher

Geographic regions, areas and places generally do not need general notability guideline type sourcing. When evaluating whether an article meets this notability guideline please also consider whether it might actually be a form of WP:SPAM for a development project (e.g. PR for a large luxury residential development) and not actually covered by the guideline.

Six Month Queue Data: Today – 7095 Low – 4991 High – 7095

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Administrators' newsletter – March 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2020).

Guideline and policy news

  • Following an RfC, the blocking policy was changed to state that sysops must not undo or alter CheckUser or Oversight blocks, rather than should not.
  • A request for comment confirmed that sandboxes of established but inactive editors may not be blanked due solely to inactivity.

Technical news

  • Following a discussion, Twinkle's default CSD behavior will soon change, most likely this week. After the change, Twinkle will default to "tagging mode" if there is no CSD tag present, and default to "deletion mode" if there is a CSD tag present. You will be able to always default to "deletion mode" (the current behavior) using your Twinkle preferences.

Miscellaneous


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Administrators' newsletter – April 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2020).

Guideline and policy news

  • There is an ongoing request for comment to streamline the source deprecation and blacklisting process.

Technical news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • The WMF has begun a pilot report of the pages most visited through various social media platforms to help with anti-vandalism and anti-disinformation efforts. The report is updated daily and will be available through the end of May.
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Administrators' newsletter – May 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2020).

Administrator changes

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CheckUser changes

readded Callanecc

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readded HJ Mitchell

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Why are you deleting the page?

I know its not the best work as I am disabled and you and that woman deleting it all the time is making me ill again. I just want to create a page for a great actor called tony clay as he deserves it. Please don't delete or update it for your standards posh man or woman

Ill create page again and you can make it better for me please and I will forgive you for being biased against a great actor.

Thank You sir or madam — Preceding unsigned comment added by HalfwayHighway (talk • contribs) 16:53, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

HalfwayHighway Per the previous AFD, the subject lacks notability. And if you have any type of Conflict of Interest, you must disclose it. James-the-Charizard (talk to me!) (contribs) 16:58, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2020).

Administrator changes

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CheckUser changes

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Guideline and policy news

Arbitration

  • 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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New Page Reviewer newsletter June 2020

Hello James-the-Charizard,

Your help can make a difference

NPP Sorting can be a great way to find pages needing new page patrolling that match your strengths and interests. Using ORES, it divides articles into topics such as Literature or Chemistry and on Geography. Take a look and see if you can find time to patrol a couple pages a day. With over 10,000 pages in the queue, the highest it's been since ACPERM, your help could really make a difference.

Google Adds New Languages to Google Translate

In late February, Google added 5 new languages to Google Translate: Kinyarwanda, Odia (Oriya), Tatar, Turkmen and Uyghur. This expands our ability to find and evaluate sources in those languages.

Discussions and Resources
  • A discussion on handling new article creation by paid editors is ongoing at the Village Pump.
  • Also at the Village Pump is a discussion about limiting participation at Articles for Deletion discussion.
  • A proposed new speedy deletion criteria for certain kinds of redirects ended with no consensus.
  • Also ending with no change was a proposal to change how we handle certain kinds of vector images.

Six Month Queue Data: Today – 10271 Low – 4991 High – 10271

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2020).

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Administrators' newsletter – August 2020

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Administrator changes

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Oversight changes

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Guideline and policy news

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Hello James.

I read that you enjoy to help new users and found your name funny so I decided to message you. I am trying to include an article (Draft:HYPR) through the AfC process for a company that had its article deleted on february struggling with WP:NCORP-based notability (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/HYPR Corp), since it was declined I have updated sources and cited what i think are the three best sources to prove notability. Could you take a look? It's been over a month since I sent the submission. Thanks! Kriptocurrency (talk) 14:29, 15 August 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2020

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Administrator changes

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Administrators' newsletter – September 2020

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2020

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New Page Patrol December Newsletter

Hello James-the-Charizard,

A chart of the 2020 New Page Patrol Queue

Year in review

It has been a productive year for New Page Patrol as we've roughly cut the size of the New Page Patrol queue in half this year. We have been fortunate to have a lot of great work done by Rosguill who was the reviewer of the most pages and redirects this past year. Thanks and credit go to JTtheOG and Onel5969 who join Rosguill in repeating in the top 10 from last year. Thanks to John B123, Hughesdarren, and Mccapra who all got the NPR permission this year and joined the top 10. Also new to the top ten is DannyS712 bot III, programmed by DannyS712 which has helped to dramatically reduce the number of redirects that have needed human patrolling by patrolling certain types of redirects (e.g. for differences in accents) and by also patrolling editors who are on on the redirect whitelist.

Rank Username Num reviews Log
1 DannyS712 bot III (talk) 67,552 Patrol Page Curation
2 Rosguill (talk) 63,821 Patrol Page Curation
3 John B123 (talk) 21,697 Patrol Page Curation
4 Onel5969 (talk) 19,879 Patrol Page Curation
5 JTtheOG (talk) 12,901 Patrol Page Curation
6 Mcampany (talk) 9,103 Patrol Page Curation
7 DragonflySixtyseven (talk) 6,401 Patrol Page Curation
8 Mccapra (talk) 4,918 Patrol Page Curation
9 Hughesdarren (talk) 4,520 Patrol Page Curation
10 Utopes (talk) 3,958 Patrol Page Curation
Reviewer of the Year

John B123 has been named reviewer of the year for 2020. John has held the permission for just over 6 months and in that time has helped cut into the queue by reviewing more than 18,000 articles. His talk page shows his efforts to communicate with users, upholding NPP's goal of nurturing new users and quality over quantity.

NPP Technical Achievement Award

As a special recognition and thank you DannyS712 has been awarded the first NPP Technical Achievement Award. His work programming the bot has helped us patrol redirects tremendously - more than 60,000 redirects this past year. This has been a large contribution to New Page Patrol and definitely is worthy of recognition.

Six Month Queue Data: Today – 2262 Low – 2232 High – 10271

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2021

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2021

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Administrators' newsletter – March 2021

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

Administrator changes

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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.
  • 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).

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Administrators' newsletter – April 2021

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

Administrator changes

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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-redirect userright, 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

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