User talk:Chris G
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Administrators' newsletter – March 2026
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2026).
Administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Oversight changes
Guideline and policy news
- Following an RfC, the web archival service archive.today has been deprecated; links to the site should be removed.
- A request for comment is open to discuss retiring CSD criterion R3 in favour of handling such redirects through RfD.
Arbitration
- Following a motion, remedy 9.1 of the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been amended to limit TenPoundHammer to one XfD nomination or PROD per 24-hour period.
- Following a motion, the Iskandar323 further POV pushing motion has been rescinded.
- The Arbitration Committee has passed a housekeeping motion rescinding a number of outdated remedies and enforcement provisions across multiple legacy cases. In most instances, existing sanctions remain in force and continue to be appealable through the usual processes, while some case-specific remedies were amended or clarified.
Miscellaneous
- Following the 2026 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: A09, AmandaNP, Barras, Count Count, M7, SHB2000, Teles and VIGNERON.
- An Unreferenced articles backlog drive is taking place in March 2026 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:35, 1 March 2026 (UTC)
The Signpost: 10 March 2026
- Interview: Bernadette Meehan, new Wikimedia Foundation CEO
Part 2.
- News and notes: Security testing unleashes computer worm on Meta-wiki
Dormant worm awakes; a sketchy archiving site struck; ether burns.
- Special report: What actually happened during the Wikimedia security incident?
A horrifying exploit took place, which could have had catastrophic and far-reaching consequences if used maliciously; instead, it seems to have happened by accident and was used for childish vandalism. How did this happen, and what did the script actually do?
- In the media: Indonesian government blocks Wikimedia logins; archive site scoured from Wikipedia after owner runs malware
As well as controversy over LLM translations.
- Recent research: To wiki, perchance to groki
Comparisons continue.
- Obituary: Madhav Gadgil, Fredrick Brennan, Mark Miller, Chip Berlet
Rest in peace.
- Opinion: Interface administrators and trusting trust
Potential attacks are the logical consequence of giving a group of users unlimited control over JavaScript.
- Technology report: English Wikipedia deprecates archive.today after DDoS against blog, altered content
After the archive site launched a DDoS campaign against a small blog in January 2026, a request for comment was started, with consensus to deprecate the site used almost 700 thousand times.
- Op-ed: Why is "Trypsin-sensitive photosynthetic activities in chloroplast membranes" cited in "List of tallest buildings in Chicago"?
The answer is slop.
- Essay: The pursuit of a button click
Volunteering for Wikipedia has its rewards. The thank-button, for example.
- In focus: Short descriptions: One year later
A discussion of the challenge set forth to the Wikipedia community one year ago!
- WikiProject report: Unreferenced articles backlog drive
Unreferenced articles in English Wikipedia - help us in the backlog drive!
- Community view: Speaking of planning ...
The WMF planning process is underway.
- Traffic report: Over the mountain, kissing silver inlaid clouds
Death and the Winter Olympics.
- Crossword: "It will never happen"
Want to take a break?
- Comix: BRIEn't
Or is it.
* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:10, 10 March 2026 (UTC)
Orphaned image deletion bot should not consider images in draft articles awaiting review to be "orphaned"
Given that it's reported to be taking 7-8 weeks for new article review and approval/rejection, the bot should not be auto-removing images that belong only to draft articles after seven days.
I also found it odd that I received my first notice from the bot *after* the image had been removed. A warning that "this bot has flagged ___ as a candidate for removal in 96 hours, please see page ___ for advice on how to update your free-use tags or request a manual exemption before that deadline" would be far more constructive. As a new editor, this seems like an absurdly opaque and unfriendly process. ~2026-18549-60 (talk) 13:06, 25 March 2026 (UTC)
- That bot hasn't run in over 10 years. I'm guessing you're just here to waste my time, but thank-you for the trip down memory lane, it was a nice bot back in the day. --Chris 13:16, 25 March 2026 (UTC)
- Definitely not here to intentionally waste anyone's time! The "B-Bot has removed your images" email linked to a policy page, that in turn said "this policy follows the rules discussed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/Orphaned_image_deletion_bot", which is a discussion page on implementing a removal bot in Perl ~10 years ago. That page, in turn, linked to WP:BRFA, which says near the top 'if this isn't an urgent issue, go back and file a report on the talk page of the user listed as operator on the last page', which was you. So I guess what happened is that someone else has started a bot that does approximately what yours used to, but no one troubled to update the links to a new policy page. Perhaps their implementation never even went through the same community review that yours apparently did. Again, not a great experience for new users. I will keep pulling the string to figure out who, if anyone, takes responsibility for the new, somewhat lacking bot. ~2026-18549-60 (talk) 15:14, 25 March 2026 (UTC)