User talk:Dylsss

Bar Fruit (talk) 21:10, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

Hi Dylsss, I have already submitted the link to the FL DBPR (Florida Department of Business Professional Regulations), and have uploaded documents from this government-run licensing agency with regards to confirmed thoroughbred deaths. I receive these notifications via public records requests. It is unclear to me why you are suppressing the truth, but indeed you are. I have submitted multiple examples to Wikipedia of the results of such public records requests, but you are classifying this as “disruptive”. Your deleting them is not only egregiously inappropriate, but counter to what’s Wikipedia stands for- which is disseminating the truth from all perspectives. Are you truly impartial? Kindly leave my edits. Else, Wikipedia’s Gulfstream Park page is just a free advertisement for the racing industry. Thank you.

@Bar Fruit: Thank you for contacting me via my talk page. Personally, I think horse racing is a cruel industry, which results in unnecessary horse deaths. However, there are multiple issues with your edits, which is why they have been reverted by me and other Wikipedians multiple times. Firstly

Gulfstream Park regularly edits the replays of horses with catastrophic breakdowns. Below is a small sample of this activity: AUGER collapsed 7.8.29 FULL: https://vimeo.com/436599337 EDITED: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlzLtXAqJvc RUN DEVIL “awkward step” 8.20.20 FULL https://vimeo.com/449856744 EDITED https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFeDtDhO0bo ALLURSTRA 8.28.20 Breaks a front leg FULL: https://vimeo.com/452689543 EDITED: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpzxlrIdeq8 CHANNELED’S ANGEL 8.30.20 Breaks a front leg FULL: https://vimeo.com/453111300 EDITED: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VYWdRvjdT0.

Is inappropriate because it violates WP:OR, it has not been cited from any reliable source, it is not encyclopedic, and is your own commentary, Wikipedia does not conduct original research. Secondly

Racetracks have 18 hours to file death confirmations with the FL DBPR of horses killed or found dead on the racetrack. Horses that end up in kill pens to be purchased by kill buyers are not kept track of. There is no legal obligation to report on these horses’ whereabouts, and commonly horses end up on cattle cars on a train, destined for slaughterhouses in Mexico and Canada. While not illegal to slaughter a horse for human consumption in the US, the USDA has defunded inspecting the meat. This is why the death toll will always be higher than what is reported by the racetrack.

is not relevant to the article, nor is it backed up with any sort of citation, also not appropriate for Wikipedia.

2019: 58 deaths of thoroughbred horses on this racetrack, as confirmed by the FL DBPR (Florida Department of Business Professional Regulations) pari-mutuel wagering division via public records requests. Http://www.myflorida.com/DBPR/

is uncited, and constitutes WP:ORIGINALRESEARCH, since in your above reply, you state yourself that

I receive these notifications via public records requests

it appears that the death amount is your own research, and you have not cited any source, http://www.myflorida.com/DBPR/ is a dead link for me, and does not link to the amount of horse deaths at this entity.

2020: Through July 30th there are 35 confirmed deaths of thoroughbred horses.

is also uncited. Do not add information without being able to WP:VERIFY it, whenever you make an edit to Wikipedia, it is expected that the statement is verifiable, if it is not, you should expect it to be reverted. I've already reverted 4 times, constituting an edit war, I encourage you to add references, otherwise I will revert it again in 24 hours, or another editer might revert it sooner. Addtionally refernces are not in the correct syntax, they are in plain text. Thank you. Dylsss (talk) 21:53, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

I have carefully reviewed the editing disputes page, your comments, and have repeatedly provided “balancing material” citations, as the Gulfstream Park page is biased. I have also edited what I provided, as I am learning the Wikipedia rules and am interested in adhering to them. Further, I have not deleted a single item from the page. I am being respectful to both you and the site. My material is from the government run licensing agency that keeps track of thoroughbred race horses euthanized on racetracks. The material I have provided is in succinct fashion, and can be fact checked. How are these confirmed deaths that have occurred at Gulfstream Park as a direct result of horse racing, not relevant to the page? If this isn’t “balancing material”, then please explain what is.

The Public Records Act, Chapter 119.07 of the Florida Statutes entitles individuals to submit public records requests to state licensing agencies. ^[1] Such requests are sent to the Florida Department of Business Professional Regulations (FL DBPR) pari-mutuel wagering division. Racehorse deaths must be reported within 18 hours to the FL DBPR according to Florida statue rule 61D-2.023(7)(c), ^[2] , and in 2019 Gulfstream Park has reported 58 deaths to the FL DBPR. The public is entitled to this information. ^[3] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bar Fruit (talk • contribs) 18:55, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

@Bar Fruit: You have not reviewed the links to Wikipedia policies which I have given to you, so instead I will quote the important parts On Wikipedia, an inline citation refers to a citation in a page's text placed by any method that allows the reader to associate a given bit of material with specific reliable source(s) that support it. Your citation verifies that I can make a public access request, not how many horses have died at this venue, and as such, does not satisfy the verifiability policy which says In the English Wikipedia, verifiability means other people using the encyclopedia can check that the information comes from a reliable source. as said in the policy All content must be verifiable. The burden to demonstrate verifiability lies with the editor who adds or restores material, the burden lies with you, not me. Additionally Source material must have been published, the definition of which for our purposes is "made available to the public in some form"., the material you're adding, you claim comes from a public access request, and as such is not published or verified by an inline citation. The verifiability policy also says Any material lacking a reliable source directly supporting it may be removed and should not be restored without an inline citation to a reliable source., which is why I've removed the material, and why you should not be adding it back unless you can satisfy the Wikipedia policies verifiability and original research. Your material is original research, because as said in the policy The phrase "original research" (OR) is used on Wikipedia to refer to material—such as facts, allegations, and ideas—for which no reliable, published sources exist, it also says Do not add unsourced material from your personal experience, because that would make Wikipedia a primary source of that material., which is what you are doing. While what you are adding may be true, the original research policy says Even if you're sure something is true, it must be verifiable before you can add it.. You seem to be a single-purpose account focused only on adding this material, rather than contributing constructively to Wikipedia. Dylsss (talk) 20:07, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

Also, this is not "balancing material", NPOV is about how we write about and summarise what reliable sources have said, but your material has no source, so NPOV doesn't apply here, and adding negative unverifiable content does not somehow make an article more neutral. Neither is your information "confirmed", it's confirmed by you, so it is primary original research. Dylsss (talk) 20:37, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

Can you help me change my user name and publish my article for my new client? JabrielAtOmoMusicGroup (talk) 18:42, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

@JabrielAtOmoMusicGroup: Hello, I do not have the rights to change your username, only users in the global renamers group or stewards can change usernames on Wikimedia projects, and as said on your talk page, you do not need to change your username. While I do have the rights to move your draft to article space, it should be reviewed by an Articles for Creation reviewer, you can submit it for a review by placing {{subst:submit}} at the top of the article and clicking the "Submit your draft for review!" button, there is however currently a backlog of 3,300 articles waiting for review, so it could take up to 2 months for the draft to be reviewed. Additionally, I do not believe this person is notable enough to have a Wikipedia article per WP:MUSICBIO and WP:ARTIST. Thanks. Dylsss (talk) 20:25, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

Hey! Sorry, I accidentally reverted your revert. I misread the history. Sorry about that! I originally had a notice here, but I removed it as to not cause confusion. motevets (talk) 22:58, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

Hello Dylsss, I note you removed the update I made to this article yesterday; the Myspace was nothing to do with me, but given that her "official site" is now evidently defunct, and she has the link to the site I added at the top of her Twitter bio, I can't help but feel that it's more-or-less her "official site" now. Not the end of the world either way, but just thought the context might carry some value.78.144.76.44 (talk) 15:31, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

@78.144.76.44: Fansites and social media should generally be avoided as an external link per WP:ELNO, especially without any context, I don't think it really makes sense including it. Dylsss (talk) 18:29, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

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Anarchyte (talk • work) 06:32, 23 September 2020 (UTC)

Hey, just wanted to say sorry for reverting your edit on Hampton School. I had Twinkle on, and accidentally clicked revert without thinking. I’ve edited it back to your latest version. EdNg07 (talk) 14:55, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

Thank you Dylsss. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Clancannon (talk • contribs) 19:03, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

@Clancannon: You're welcome, when citing a source, remember to press the cite button, not the link button (if using the visual editor), you shouldn't need to sort references, they should automatically sort numerically from when they are first used. Also remember to sign your comments by typing four tildes (~~~~) and thanks for contributing. Dylsss (talk) 21:00, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

Hi Dylsss

The amendments made by me to two of the wikipedia pages are factually and widely accepted view and therefore. The French Govt. Chevalier award is not given to any tom, dick and Harry and just becuase an actor comes from outside the Bollywood fraternity, edits which is widely accepted and does not cause harm and hurt to anyone should not be rejected. this could create an impression that the contents are controlled to promote a particular view point and you must be aware, majority of media course in the World is biased and wither support a school of thought or of a particular Government or organisation.

The edits on Jayalalitha, a popular Chief Minister of the State of Tamil Nadu in India, is all factual and can be verified from multiple sources.

Please therefore accept the edits made by me. — Preceding unsigned comment added by REALPATRIOTICINDIAN (talk • contribs) 00:02, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

Hi Dylsss. After reviewing your request for "rollbacker", I have enabled rollback on your account. Keep in mind these things when going to use rollback:

• Getting rollback is no more momentous than installing Twinkle.
• Rollback should be used to revert clear cases of vandalism only, and not good faith edits.
• Rollback should never be used to edit war.
• If abused, rollback rights can be revoked.
• Use common sense.

If you no longer want rollback, contact me and I'll remove it. Also, for some more information on how to use rollback, see Wikipedia:Administrators' guide/Rollback (even though you're not an admin). I'm sure you'll do great with rollback, but feel free to leave me a message on my talk page if you run into troubles or have any questions about appropriate/inappropriate use of rollback. Thank you for helping to reduce vandalism. Happy editing! ~Swarm~ ^{sting} 01:28, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

The Sexual Preference (Early 2000's Term) page is missing, and no longer redirects to the page (Modern Term) Sexual Orientation. There's current political unrest causing old definitions labeled as offensive to be deleted despite there being historical significance for outdated terms. Wikipedia has a duty to denote all changes to history, including those which might be seen as offensive or inappropriate. I have reason to believe it may be best to review edits to the Sexual Orientation page without official federal linguistic and librarian feedback as to which term should be utilized. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AKB769 (talk • contribs) 20:46, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

@AKB769: I'm not an invloved editor and I'm not quite sure I understand what you mean. Regardless, blanking a page is disruptive in most cases. Sexual preference does redirect to Sexual orientation, Sexual Preference with a capital P redirects to a book. Dylsss (talk) 21:10, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

Not really used to the layout, but when I searched with Sexual Preference, it autodirected to Orientation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AKB769 (talk • contribs) 21:20, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

hi dylsss u removed my Chana masala links thnku support me and Apreciate me.. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sonkar sumit (talk • contribs) 06:39, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

Yea, so you have classified my desired page reset as irrelevant and directory material, appears you are the judge of relevancy. In that case, type in Wrigley field, and notice the entire section of musical acts that happened at that arena. Try that on a few more stadiums, and perhaps question yourself perhaps its just you....its on the majority of stadium/arena pages that host concerts, but ONLY stricken from the Omni page. People actually USE that reference. I hate basketball. I find no relevance in it whatsoever, and to me the Omni was a concert hall. Quite relevant and NOT directory material as I feel a sports team should be. And look over my lack of knowledge with regard to how to navigate through this rat nest of a site and not be rude with my incorrect placement of information, I will figure it out. Its not a paying job so I probably will not put that many hours in. You can delete this message as soon as you read it and there is no need to reply. But if you removed it, ask yourself why it was removed from that one, and the others were left alone. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Krautank (talk • contribs) 02:42, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

Hi Dylsss,

I am requesting some guidance and/or assistance with my draft on WPI Energy Solutions. This is a company I am trying to write about. It is a private family owned company.

I looked at Exterran Energy's Wikipedia page and tried to write similar to their page.

Any guidance or assistance would be greatly appreciated on how to get this page to not be such an advertising piece.

Thank you very much! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ckentstow (talk • contribs) 18:52, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

Ckentstow, the Exterran Corporation is better, but it's not a great example either. As I've said, the PR language needs to be removed, the use of "solutions" which is a buzzword, needs to be removed, the use of "we", "us" and "our" throughout needs to be removed, this isn't your page, there is no "we". Since early 2015, WPI and TIW had been working hard to build-out their product and service infrastructure across the entire U.S. and Canada., product and service infrastructure are buzzwords, how has this company been "working hard", this is subjective and needs to be removed. better serve our customers in the oil and gas exploration and production industry., this whole line is promotional and should be removed. The whole operations section is trivial and should just be removed all together. maximizing productivity and uptime by partnering with some of the largest names in gas compression to offer solutions for the most demanding applications, this whole line is blatantly promotional. The whole overview section is a copyright violation and needs to be re-written so that it isn't. And finally the references aren't enough to meet the Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies) guidelines, as the references are the companies website, press releases, and an entry in a business directory, none of which establish notability. Dylsss^{(talk • contribs)} 20:37, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

Hi, hope all is well can you please tell me where you have been finding the extra two caps and goal for Ruby Mace from as I've looked on both the FA website and UEFA and they only have her playing twice and scoring the one goal. If you have found it elsewhere then I'm more than happy to keep it as four caps and two goals. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Reganw77 (talk • contribs) 23:18, 8 November 2020 (UTC)

Reganw77, I'm not sure why that was changed back, didn't mean to do that. I've changed it back to how you had it. Dylsss^{(talk • contribs)} 23:31, 8 November 2020 (UTC)

If the channel only has one subscriber, how do I get more people to know about the channel and subscribe to it? Oh, also, you should subscribe to the channel, because it only has one subscriber, so how do I get more people to know about the channel and subscribe to it?

@YacinePedia: That's the point, Wikipedia is not for promotion, it is not for getting people to subscribe to your YouTube channel. The actual amount of subscribers doesn't matter, but the fact that the channel has so few subscribers, indicates that there is not chance of the topic being notable. Dylsss^{(talk • contribs)} 20:14, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

At least that doesn't matter, but maybe if the series wasn't discontinued, the channel could get a Million Subscribers in 2030 or after a decade, but I don't think I'm gonna keep my hopes up too high. Anyways, bye. YacinePedia (talk) 21:30, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

With respect, Dylsss, I am surprised you would write that "the previous revision was not vandalism"! Removing almost an entire article, which has been there for many years and has been reviewed by dozens of editors, is not vandalism? And, again with respect, your description of sections that provide factual information as "promotional" has me scratching my head. By your definition, 90% of what is on the Wikipedia could be labeled "promotional"! I am not sure why this particular page is suddenly under attack, but it is nonetheless suspicious. Pasquale (talk) 18:31, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

Pasquale, any good faith effort to improve the encyclopedia is not vandalism, if you are suggesting that Mean as custard was acting in bad faith, well, I'm not sure how you could even argue that, nor would that be a good idea.

In terms of the actual article content, Dimensional Insight's products receive a high level of user feedback. doesn't mean anything, it is just fluff. Diver can be delivered as an on-premise installation, with the complete Diver suite of tools; an appliance installed on-premise but managed by Dimensional Insight; or a software-as-a-service application. has been tagged as CN since 2014. Dylsss^{(talk contribs)} 18:41, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

Regarding your second deletion, Dylsss, that sentence seems to be a simple statement of the different ways their flagship product can be made available, so hardly a promotional pitch. I'll see if I can find a suitable citation for it. As for the first sentence you deleted, far from being fluff, it seems to serve as an introduction to a paragraph about user satisfaction awards. As you may know, in many lines of business, user satisfaction is carefully monitored and quantitatively measured, not by the companies themselves, but by independent services, such as the ones referred to in that very same paragraph. By the way, the leader in that category of independent services is KLAS Enterprises, LLC, whose "Best in KLAS" award is mentioned in several software companies' pages on the Wikipedia, but for which there is no Wikipedia article. As I recall, I created one myself some 10 years ago, but it was promptly ganged up on and permanently deleted by a bunch of Admins, who, quite honestly, were completely ignorant on the subject matter. Make no mistake about it, the Wikipedia is poorer, not better, for that omission. Pasquale (talk) 21:51, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

Hi! Only to point out that the correct denomination is Trans Provincial Airlines (TPA) and not Trans-Provincial Airlines! As you please. Sincerely,Chesipiero (talk) 18:45, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

Article titles should be as concise as possible, adding (TPA) is over detailed as the title describes the article fine without it. For example, TPA is a disambiguation page, it could mean multiple things, so adding TPA wouldn't help the reader understand the article contents. If the airline is known as TPA, then the proper way would be to add (TPA) to the bolded name in the lead of the article, e.g. like in British Airways, All Nippon Airways or Japan Airlines. If you want, you can move the page to Trans Provincial Airlines, but please do this using the move tool, you can do this by clicking on the move link under the "more" menu at the top of a page, this moves the page history with it. Dylsss^{(talk contribs)} 19:05, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

Forgot to ping @Chesipiero:. Dylsss^{(talk contribs)} 19:06, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

Dylsss,

Thank you for dealing with my vain attempts to add to the image file database. I have corrected the files and reuploaded as they have valid copyright I just wasn't including it in the correct way. Thanks again for your patience. Crook47 (talk) 00:15, 15 November 2020 (UTC) Crook47

@Crook47: No... that's not the issue, if it was an issue with the formatting I would have just fixed it myself, the issue is that the image just can't be uploaded to Wikipedia or Wikimedia Commons period, since it is licensed under incompatible terms (non-commercial, no derivatives) Dylsss^{(talk contribs)} 00:24, 15 November 2020 (UTC)

Я зарегистрировался на русской википедии. Там у меня есть страница и правки и ничего не удалено. На вашей английской версии я ничего не правил и не создавал. Я еще только учусь первый день. Зачем вы меня здесь кашмарите? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kot1071 (talk • contribs) 01:59, 15 November 2020 (UTC)

Kot1071, Sorry, I can't read or speak Russian, another user added a warning to your talk page inappropriately, I've blanked your talk page and if they do it again, I will report them to WP:AIV. Dylsss^{(talk contribs)} 02:15, 15 November 2020 (UTC)

Hello Dlyss, I have seen you deleted my sandbox page, It would be so nice if you tell me how to save my sandbox progress (without anyone seeing my changes) without pressing on the "publish changes" because i do not see a save changes icon. I worked on this project and i would appreciate it if you helped me find a way to save my changes instead of publishing them, thank you. Agonz1057 (talk) 01:16, 17 November 2020 (UTC)Agonz1057

Please delete the file of File:Microsoft store on Windows 10.jpg. As it doesn't exist on any article. Moreover the file is similar with File:Windows store.png. please do the needful.

Thank you

🇮🇳DRCNSINDIA (talk) 07:49, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

DRCNSINDIA, I'm not an admin, a bot should do the revision deletion automatically. Dylsss^{(talk contribs)} 07:56, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

Thank you your excellency 🇮🇳DRCNSINDIA (talk) 08:00, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

thank you for the notice about my image upload -- it should be at Wikimedia commons rather than Wikipedia, so please go ahead and delete it.--Jonwiener (talk) 02:37, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

Jonwiener, I'm not an admin, if you want it to be on Commons, you can just wait for the template to expire, and then it will be deleted, note that Commons has stricter rules. You will need to include license information and source. It also looks like the images was previously published on the internet, it might be tagged as missing permission or a copyright violation. I would recommend sending an email to the email response team confirming permission, however this will have to be sent by "Paula Goldman" as they appear the author of the photo. Dylsss^{(talk contribs)} 16:40, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

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Regarding your edit to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Hugo Refachinho/Archive, please don't do that. I know you were just trying to be helpful, which I appreciate, but the SPI archives should not be edited except by SPI clerks or checkusers. If you notice something wrong in an archive, please just bring it to the attention of somebody on the SPI team. Thanks. -- RoySmith (talk) 01:01, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

RoySmith, ah, ok, sorry about that and noted. Will just leave a message on a clerk's talk page next time. Dylsss^{(talk contribs)} 01:06, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

Dylsss, No problem, thanks. -- RoySmith (talk) 01:07, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

Dear Dylsss

Thanks for the help in removing my user page section --VJS (talk) 05:55, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

Vjsuseela, you're welcome! Dylsss^{(talk contribs)} 21:03, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

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Thanks you. Dylsss^{(talk contribs)} 02:40, 1 December 2020 (UTC) Added subtitle "A barnstar for you!"

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Thank you HeartGlow30797. Dylsss^{(talk contribs)} 00:32, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

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Paul9511, I am a human. Dylsss^{(talk contribs)} 01:24, 14 December 2020 (UTC)

Hey, hope Im not violating any rules, but can you also vote on that deletion article. I believe that it is VITALLY important to have that page removed, since it violated Wiki policies and contains dishonesty and innacuracies. --GorgeousJ (talk) 02:41, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

Err, no, and now I'm definitely not, since you've just canvassed me. Dylsss^{(talk contribs)} 02:51, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

OOPS. I honestly did not know about canvassing --GorgeousJ (talk) 02:52, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

@Dylsss: FYI the MFD in question now has 3 additional IP votes with similar style and structure. All of them have not made any prior contributions.--WaltCip-(talk) 13:55, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

Larryzhao123, Revertingv vandalism is exempt from 3RR. Dylsss^{(talk contribs)} 02:47, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

Dylsss, Sorry, I apologize for that.

Can we report the IP user to WP:ANV? Larryzhao123 (talk) 02:49, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

Done already Dylsss^{(talk contribs)} 02:49, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

Dylsss, Thank you! Larryzhao123 (talk) 02:49, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

Hi Dylsss! Just wanted to say I'm a fan of your signature—I haven't seen a gradient like that before and it's quite cool! {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 04:35, 26 December 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, your signature is pretty cool as well. Dylsss^{(talk contribs)} 05:53, 26 December 2020 (UTC)

Hi Dylsss, I am acting on William Abadie's behave with the changes I made which you keep undoing. The information you have is incorrect, therefore I am asking that you leave all edits made be Yamadori74 as is, with respect to the artist.

Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yamadori74 (talk • contribs) 16:01, 26 December 2020 (UTC)

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Hi Dylsss, I am new to wikipedia editing, I wanted to make a page for my nonprofit and I worked on the page using our website. I saw you submitted a speedy deletion, I wanted to know what steps I should take so I can publish this page. Kind Regards,

SCDW Marketing (talk) 01:33, 6 January 2021 (UTC)

Hi Dylsss! I recently updated Wikipedia webpage of Oded Stark, which was then swiftly removed by you due to copyright issues. I updated this webpage on Oded Stark's direct request (he wrote the update, which I merely uploaded). Because the update has been dismissed, Oded prefers that there is no webpage of him on Wikipedia at all (if it can't be his way, than better have nothing). Can the current version of Oded Stark be removed altogether? If not, then perhaps we could solve the copyright problems? I looked at Wikipedia:Declaration of consent for all enquiries, which I could get signed by Oded Stark, but I do not know which specific parts of my update of Oded Stark caused copyright issues, and thus do not know what to include in the Declaration. I understand that I should figure this out by myself, but this is simply too demanding, given that I have no experience with editing Wikipedia whatsoever. I was only requested by Oded to edit this one particular webpage. The "entry cost" of learning many Wikipedia rules just for the purpose of editing a single webpage is too much for me.

Sweterkowiec (talk) 21:37, 8 January 2021 (UTC)Sweterkowiec

Sweterkowiec, deletion of biographies of living persons can happen after being discussed at WP:AfD, where the subject has requested deletion who are relatively unknown may be deleted if there is no consensus or no opposition to poorly sourced, relatively unknown BLPs, see WP:BLPREQUESTDELETE. You can nominate the article for deletion and argue why the article should be deleted in regards to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. You should also see Wikipedia:Notability (academics), though I am less familiar with this notability guideline. In terms of freely licensing the copyrighted material, you can see the problem sources at Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2020 November 1. I doubt that the subject would have the authority to freely license everything there, and I don't think that this would be a good idea anyway, as using what a subject has written themselves is rarely appropriate. Dylsss^{(talk contribs)} 00:47, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

Dear Dylsss, I saw what copyright issues caused problems in the revised entry on Oded Stark at Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2020 November 1. However, I do not understand how references to original sources (journal articles) can be causing copyright problems, especially that virtually every entry on an academic professor involves such references, and that the previous version of the entry on Oded Stark, which I tried to revise, contains such references. Or am I taking that what caused copyright issues at Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2020 November 1 too literally? Are references the problem or the text of the revised entry which reveals too much from what is inside copyrighted journal articles? If this is the latter, I can understand that. Sweterkowiec (talk) 08:20, 3 April 2021 (UTC)

Hello Dylsss, in my opinion I did not violate any copyrights concerning my new draft of "Carl Orff Foundation". On the contrary, I rahter think there that there could be a misunderstanding: My name is Rainer Kotzian, I am member of the Board of Directors of the Carl Orff Foundation (www.orff.de - please also refer here: https://www.orff.de/en/institutions/carl-orff-foundation/statutory-organs/) and I am also the author of the contents of our website. So actually I did not violate any copyrights, since I also wrote the texts included on our website. Can you please tell me what to do now in order to solve this misunderstanding? Thanks! Greetings, Rainer (talk) 17:35, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

RainerKotzian, either the website needs to explicitly say that the copied text is licensed under a free license, or you can donate the text under a free license by emailing permissions-enwikimedia.org and following the instructions at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials. That said, articles should summarise coverage from independent sources, so copying from other sources, even if they are freely licensed, is not always the best idea. Dylsss^{(talk contribs)} 18:21, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

Hello! Thank you very much for your ideas, suggestions and information. I have re-worked and written the article now completely new in order to avoid any direct copies and also to give more stringent information. Is it ok now in your opinion? --RainerKotzian (talk) 17:06, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

I was chasing a vandal and confused your name with theirs. Thanks for reverting. Cheers! Magnolia677 (talk) 16:48, 20 January 2021 (UTC)

Dear Dyless,

I am writing to you today as to deal with your recent reversion to a change I made to the pvb florida page. While I do appreciate your involvement in a wikipedia page I and many others use to reference on a regualr basis, your reversion of my edit is nonsensical, and an explanation would be appreciated.

Yours forever and always,

Pvrats — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pvrats (talk • contribs) 02:44, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

Pvrats, we don't include non-notable subjects in list sections or articles, notable subjects should either have a Wikipedia article or references which show the subject is notable. Dylsss^{(talk contribs)} 02:48, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

Please can you hold off the deletions? I don't understand your rationales - there are no other photos of Ian Hetherington on the internet, I cropped that from a 1990 BBC documentary, the same goes with Ken Kutaragi. The advertisement will also come into place when I finish writing the marketing section. Deleting it now would be pointless. I'm flabbergasted to why you would want to delete very pertinent images to the article. ♦ jaguar 23:43, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

Jaguar. No, why would we leave a possible legal liability, either it meets WP:NFCC and is kept, or it doesn't and is deleted. It's trivial to simply re-upload or ask for it to be undeleted at a later date. Regarding the rationale for the images of living people, WP:NFCC specifically states no free equivalent is available, or could be created. These are living people, so an image could be created, and there are free images on Commons of Ken Kutaragi, so there is no doubt that it fails WP:NFCC#1, unless there is any reason why those would not be adequate? WP:NFC#UUI further explains and supports my rationale, it says that the following is unacceptable use for images. Pictures of people still alive, groups still active, and buildings still standing; provided that taking a new free picture as a replacement (which is almost always considered possible) would serve the same encyclopedic purpose as the non-free image. This includes non-free promotional images. Dylsss^{(talk contribs)} 00:07, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

There are no free images of Hetherington, what rationale do I put on that image? Look Dylsss I'm not being funny but you must understand it's quite infuriating to have half the images under threat of deletion when two of them are about to be saved. I know you're more knowledgeable on copyright than I am - could you not have put the correct rationale on Hetherington's image instead of nominating it? Kutaragi I can understand as there are other free images. ♦ jaguar 00:18, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

I don't think there is a correct rationale, I think it should be deleted, images like these are routinely deleted for failing WP:NFCC#1, for example see Wikipedia:Files for discussion/2021 January 7#File:Bikay1.jpg or Wikipedia:Files for discussion/2020 November 3#File:2020 Ganja bombings.jpg and via {{di-replaceable fair use}}. The rationale for WP:NFCC#1, would be that e.g. the person is deceased, places which no longer exist, things which can't be adequatley or reasonably be recreated e.g. logos, album covers, video game screenshots. Dylsss^{(talk contribs)} 01:01, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

Just to add. Wikipedia:Non-free content specifically states "Non-free content should not be used when a freely licensed file that serves the same purpose can reasonably be expected to be uploaded, as is the case for almost all portraits of living people." Even if you cannot find an image of a living person, the fact that one could be created (as the person is still alive) means that you cannot use a non-free image. -- Whpq (talk) 01:02, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

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I am requesting assistance because it appears that we need to change the name of our user account. Also, we have been blocked due to advertising? or something like that? Unless someone has hacked our account, I can assure you that we have not been doing any advertising at all. As a matter of fact, our technology is not the kind that you CAN advertise. It is not a click and buy type of offering. We are a pioneering IPaaS tech start up and are on the frontier of some awesome innovation. WE were looking to have a presence to inspire collaboration on tech and humanitarian problem-solving for some of the major SDG goals. Perhaps if you could assist, we would be able to make the necessary changes for a post about the problems being solved and the innovation of technology working towards "Transparency for all". That is a humanitarian theme that a lot of people are working on and not an advertising slogan. But I can understand how this might come across if you are not aware, so if we can work together, hopefully we can manage to edit our piece to fit the wikipedia guidelines. Thank you!  -Nancy 

68.13.195.94 (talk) 17:59, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

I don't remember the contents of the draft exactly, but as I mention in my review, it uses promotional language, such as buzzwords. I am sure it was rightly deleted and your account blocked for advertising and as a violation of the username policy, please appeal on the talk page of your original account for which there are instructions on creating an unblock request. Dylsss^{(talk contribs)} 15:00, 17 February 2021 (UTC)

Hello, I'm Dylsss. I wanted to let you know that I removed one or more external links you added to Tuber melanosporum because they seemed inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page or take a look at our guidelines about links. Thank you. Dylsss(talk contribs) 14:28, 17 February 2021 (UTC) --- Hello, Could you help me? I need to know how insert 3 links in an article. I try it and you removed all the 3 links. Please, I need help. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Laumont Truffle (talk • contribs) 14:45, 17 February 2021 (UTC)

Laumont Truffle, no you don't, that's link spamming, and you will be blocked from editing if you continue. This is beside that fact that your username is a clear violation of the username policy as a promotional username representing a company, and you could be blocked based on that alone, I'd suggest that you request a username change to a username which represents an individual at Special:GlobalRenameRequest if you intend to follow the conflict of interest guidelines and contribute constructively. Dylsss^{(talk contribs)} 14:53, 17 February 2021 (UTC)

Hi Dylsss, I see that there is an issue with the permission granted by the owner of the image, in that he only cleared it for use on Wikipedia. Is the solution here just to ask him if he's OK with licensing out the image under Creative Commons? --DaveDaRave19 (talk) 20:05, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

I added to your talk page, feel free to replace the prod tag with {{OTRS pending}} if the author has emailed. Dylsss^{(talk contribs)} 20:45, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

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• 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.
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• 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.
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Miscellaneous

• Following the 2021 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AmandaNP, Operator873, Stanglavine, Teles, and Wiki13.

Thanks for the heads-up about having marked the image file for speedy deletion. FYI I have contested it on the talkpage by posting a link to the internet archive where the originally linked webpage that granted the license was archived. I haven't had the chance to consult all the technical guidance about different types of licenses, but I hope that this archived page can make the difference and confirm that the use of the image is okay. Best -- Presearch (talk) 18:51, 7 March 2021 (UTC)

Replied. Dylsss^{(talk contribs)} 19:04, 7 March 2021 (UTC)

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In your edit here, you said There is no requirement in WP:NFCC/WP:NFC that a copyright holder be identified. As an administrator, then, can you explain the provenance of the 14.65-year-old {{no copyright holder}}, which when I've used before, other administrators have upheld? — Fourthords | =Λ= | 14:47, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

I am not an administrator. I doubt the validity of this template, especially in this case. WP:NFCC specifically says supplemented, where possible, with information about the artist, publisher and copyright holder, and year of copyright. Furthermore, there is no mention of there being a speedy deletion criterion for unknown copyright holders or authors on WP:CSD. Dylsss^{(talk contribs)} 19:42, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Iwgp-h0.png, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for discussion. Please see the discussion to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you. Wanchan2020 (talk) 18:39, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

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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

• A community consultation on the Arbitration Committee discretionary sanctions procedure is open until April 25.

Yes please for an email of the UA85 evidence. Cabayi (talk) 08:21, 9 April 2021 (UTC)

Hi,

Thanks for bringing to my attention the correct procedure for uploading my Lee Scott (rapper) image - that particular bit of the rules is all new to me! I have got the copyright owner to send an email to submissions so that's fine. One thing though, the OTRS template says there is a 35 day backlog but the missing permission template says it will be deleted in 1 week from now. Will it actually be deleted if the email has been sent just not processed yet? Seems a bit unfair if so but I hope not!

Thanks,

--The Flying Spaghetti Monster! 17:53, 29 April 2021 (UTC)

The Flying Spaghetti Monster, Hi, I've removed the template, files with OTRS pending can be deleted after 30 days (though they will not necessarily be deleted, especially as the backlog is larger than 30 days), however, it is not that much of an issue if it is deleted as the agent processing the ticket will request WP:UNDELETION when they have verified it. Dylsss^{(talk contribs)} 19:26, 29 April 2021 (UTC)

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

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.

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

Administrator changes

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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.

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Administrator changes Trialpears AGK • Eliz81 • Mulad • ThaddeusB • Vianello • Who Lacrimosus → Ikuzaf Interface administrator changes Ragesoss

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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.

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• 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

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A tag has been placed on Windows Photo Editor 10.0.10011.16384 requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G4 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be a repost of material that was previously deleted following a deletion discussion, such as at Articles for deletion. When a page has substantially identical content to that of a page deleted after a discussion, and any changes in the content do not address the reasons for which the material was previously deleted, it may be deleted at any time.

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

Administrator changes

Jake Wartenberg

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Guideline and policy news

• Feedback is requested on the Universal Code of Conduct enforcement draft by the Universal Code of Conduct Phase 2 drafting committee.
• A RfC is open on whether to allow administrators to use extended confirmed protection on high-risk templates.
• A discussion is open to decide when, if ever, should discord logs be eligible for removal when posted onwiki (including whether to oversight them)
• A RfC on the next steps after the trial of pending changes on TFAs has resulted in a 30 day trial of automatic semi protection for TFAs.

Technical news

• The Score extension has been re-enabled on public wikis. It has been updated, but has been placed in safe mode to address unresolved security issues. Further information on the security issues can be found on the mediawiki page.

Arbitration

• A request for comment is in progress to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the Arbitration Committee election and resolve any issues not covered by existing rules. Comments and new proposals are welcome.

Miscellaneous

• The 2021 RfA review is now open for comments.

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

Administrator changes Blablubbs Alvestrand • Black Falcon • Deathphoenix • Dppowell • Mark Arsten • JGHowes (deceased)

Oversighter changes Callanecc Mkdw Interface administrator changes Galobtter

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, extended confirmed protection may be used preemptively on certain high-risk templates.
• Following a discussion at the Village Pump, there is consensus to treat discord logs the same as IRC logs. This means that discord logs will be oversighted if posted onwiki.

Technical news

• DiscussionTools has superseded Enterprisey's reply-link script. Editors may switch using the "Discussion tools" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features.

Arbitration

• A motion has standardised the 500/30 (extended confirmed) restrictions placed by the Arbitration Committee. The standardised restriction is now listed in the Arbitration Committee's procedures.
• Following the closure of the Iranian politics case, standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, post-1978 Iranian politics, broadly construed.
• The Arbitration Committee encourages uninvolved administrators to use the discretionary sanctions procedure in topic areas where it is authorised to facilitate consensus in RfCs. This includes, but is not limited to, enforcing sectioned comments, word/diff limits and moratoriums on a particular topic from being brought in an RfC for up to a year.

Miscellaneous

• Editors have approved expanding the trial of Growth Features from 2% of new accounts to 25%, and the share of newcomers getting mentorship from 2% to 5%. Experienced editors are invited to add themselves to the mentor list.
• The community consultation phase of the 2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process is open for editors to provide comments and ask questions to candidates.

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Administrator changes Clpo13 Brian0918 • JDoorjam • Karanacs • MrDarcy • Mindspillage Interface administrator changes Evad37

CheckUser changes Dreamy Jazz • Ferret • GeneralNotability • Girth Summit • RoySmith Oversight changes Dreamy Jazz • LuK3

Guideline and policy news

• Phase 2 of the 2021 RfA review has commenced which will discuss potential solutions to address the 8 issues found in Phase 1. Proposed solutions that achieve consensus will be implemented and you may propose solutions till 07 November 2021.

Technical news

• Toolhub is a catalogue of tools which can be used on Wikimedia wikis. It is at https://toolhub.wikimedia.org/.

Arbitration

• GeneralNotability, Mz7 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2021 Arbitration Committee Elections. Ivanvector and John M Wolfson are reserve commissioners.
• Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves to stand in the 2021 Arbitration Committee elections from 07 November 2021 until 16 November 2021.

Miscellaneous

• The 2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of five new CheckUsers and two new Oversighters.

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

Administrator changes

A Train • Berean Hunter • Epbr123 • GermanJoe • Sanchom • Mysid

Technical news

• Unregistered editors using the mobile website are now able to receive notices to indicate they have talk page messages. The notice looks similar to what is already present on desktop, and will be displayed on when viewing any page except mainspace and when editing any page. (T284642)
• The limit on the number of emails a user can send per day has been made global instead of per-wiki to help prevent abuse. (T293866)

Arbitration

• Voting in the 2021 Arbitration Committee Elections is open until 23:59, 06 December 2021 (UTC).
• The already authorized standard discretionary sanctions for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes), broadly construed, have been made permanent.

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

Administrator changes Amalthea • Ihcoyc (deceased) • Kateshortforbob • Kirill Lokshin • Rifleman 82 • Ryan Norton • Wrp103 Interface administrator changes Mr. Stradivarius

CheckUser changes Cabayi • Donald Albury • Enterprisey • Izno • Wugapodes Opabinia regalis Casliber • David Fuchs • Newyorkbrad • SoWhy Oversighter changes Cabayi • Donald Albury • Enterprisey • Izno • Wugapodes Opabinia regalis Casliber • David Fuchs • Newyorkbrad • SoWhy

Guideline and policy news

• Following consensus at the 2021 RfA review, the autopatrolled user right has been removed from the administrators user group; admins can grant themselves the autopatrolled permission if they wish to remain autopatrolled.

• Additionally, consensus for proposal 6C of the 2021 RfA review has led to the creation of an administrative action review process. The purpose of this process will be to review individual administrator actions and individual actions taken by users holding advanced permissions.

Arbitration

• Following the 2021 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Beeblebrox, Cabayi, Donald Albury, Enterprisey, Izno, Opabinia regalis, Worm That Turned, Wugapodes.

Miscellaneous

• The functionaries email list (functionaries-enlists.wikimedia.org) will no longer accept incoming emails apart from those sent by list members and WMF staff. Private concerns, apart from those requiring oversight, should be directly sent to the Arbitration Committee.

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2022).

Administrator changes AustralianRupert • Cimon Avaro • Euryalus • Jehochman • Nunh-huh 28bytes Bureaucrat changes 28bytes

Interface administrator changes Evad37 • Galobtter Ragesoss

Guideline and policy news

• The Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines have been published for consideration. Voting to ratify this guideline is planned to take place 7 March to 21 March. Comments can be made on the talk page.

Technical news

• The user group oversight will be renamed suppress in around 3 weeks. This will not affect the name shown to users and is simply a change in the technical name of the user group. The change is being made for technical reasons. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections.
• The Reply Tool feature, which is a part of Discussion Tools, will be opt-out for everyone logged in or logged out starting 7 February 2022. Editors wishing to comment on this can do so in the relevant Village Pump discussion.

Arbitration

• Community input is requested on several motions aimed at addressing discretionary sanctions that are no longer needed or overly broad.
• The Arbitration Committee has published a generalised comment regarding successful appeals of sanctions that it can review (such as checkuser blocks).
• A motion related to the Antisemitism in Poland case was passed following a declined case request.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2022 Steward elections will begin on 07 February 2022, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2022, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• Voting in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey is open until 11 February 2022.

Hello! I wanted to drop a quick note for all of our AFC participants; nothing huge and fancy like a newsletter, but a few points of interest.

• AFCH will now show live previews of the comment to be left on a decline.
• The template {{db-afc-move}} has been created - this template is similar to {{db-move}} when there is a redirect in the way of an acceptance, but specifically tells the patrolling admin to let you (the draft reviewer) take care of the actual move.

Short and sweet, but there's always more to discuss at WT:AFC. Stop on by, maybe review a draft on the way? Whether you're one of our top reviewers, or haven't reviewed in a while, I want to thank you for helping out in the past and in the future. Cheers, Primefac, via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:59, 16 February 2022 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2022).

Administrator changes Modussiccandi BOZ • Brookie (deceased) • Jackmcbarn • Jamesday • Jonathunder • Master of Puppets • Saravask

CheckUser changes Callanecc Oversighter changes Callanecc

Guideline and policy news

• A RfC is open to change the wording of revision deletion criterion 1 to remove the sentence relating to non-infringing contributions.
• A RfC is open to discuss prohibiting draftification of articles over 90 days old.

Technical news

• The deployment of the reply tool as an opt-out feature, as announced in last month's newsletter, has been delayed to 7 March. Feedback and comments are being welcomed at Wikipedia talk:Talk pages project. (T296645)
• Special:Nuke will now allow the selection of standard deletion reasons to be used when mass-deleting pages. This was a Community Wishlist Survey request from 2022. (T25020)
• The ability to undelete the talk page when undeleting a page using Special:Undelete or the API will be added soon. This change was requested in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey. (T295389)

Arbitration

• Several unused discretionary sanctions and article probation remedies have been rescinded. This follows the community feedback from the 2021 Discretionary Sanctions review.

Miscellaneous

• The 2022 appointees for the Ombuds commission are Érico, Faendalimas, Galahad, Infinite0694, Mykola7, Olugold, Udehb and Zabe as regular members and Ameisenigel and JJMC89 as advisory members.
• Following the 2022 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AntiCompositeNumber, BRPever, Hasley, TheresNoTime, and Vermont.
• The 2022 Community Wishlist Survey results have been published alongside the ranking of prioritized proposals.

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2022).

Administrator changes Firefly • Sdrqaz Ad Orientem Geschichte • Ryan Postlethwaite • Sabine's Sunbird • Wassupwestcoast

Interface administrator changes Evad37

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open proposing a change to the minimum activity requirements for administrators.

Technical news

• Access to Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have the deletelogentry and deletedhistory rights. This means that those in the Researcher user group and Checkusers who are not administrators can now access Special:RevisionDelete. The users able to view the special page after this change are the 3 users in the Researcher group, as there are currently no checkusers who are not already administrators. (T301928)
• When viewing deleted revisions or diffs on Special:Undelete a back link to the undelete page for the associated page is now present. (T284114)

Arbitration

• Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Procedures § Opening of proceedings has been updated to reflect current practice following a motion.
• A arbitration case regarding Skepticism and coordinated editing has been closed.
• A arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been opened.

Miscellaneous

• Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines has closed, and the results were that 56.98% of voters supported the guidelines. The results of this vote mean the Wikimedia Foundation Board will now review the guidelines.

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2022).

Administrator changes Colin M David.Monniaux • Fribbler • Grue • Kpjas • West.andrew.g

CheckUser changes Ks0stm Oversighter changes Ks0stm

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, a change has been made to the administrators inactivity policy. Under the new policy, if an administrator has not made at least 100 edits over a period of 5 years they may be desysopped for inactivity.
• Following a discussion on the bureaucrat's noticeboard, a change has been made to the bureaucrats inactivity policy.

Technical news

• The ability to undelete the associated talk page when undeleting a page has been added. This was the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
• A public status system for WMF wikis has been created. It is located at https://www.wikimediastatus.net/ and is hosted separately to WMF wikis so in the case of an outage it will remain viewable.

Arbitration

• Remedy 2 of the St Christopher case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to place a ban on single-purpose accounts who were disruptively editing on the article St Christopher Iba Mar Diop College of Medicine or related pages from those pages.

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2022).

Administrator changes Tamzin Barek • Darkwind • Geometry guy • ProcseeBot • RoyBoy • Sean Whitton • Valereee • Visorstuff • WAvegetarian Sn0wflake → VersedFenrir

CheckUser changes Ivanvector

Guideline and policy news

• Several areas of improvement collated from community member votes have been identified in the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines. The areas of improvement have been sent back for review and you are invited to provide input on these areas.

Technical news

• Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. (T307341)
• The IP Info feature has been deployed to all wikis as a Beta Feature. Any autoconfirmed user may enable the feature using the "IP info" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features. Autoconfirmed users will be able to access basic information about an IP address that includes the country and connection method. Those with advanced privileges (admin, bureaucrat, checkuser) will have access to extra information that includes the Internet Service Provider and more specific location.

Arbitration

• Remedy 2 of the Rachel Marsden case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to delete or reduce to a stub, together with their talk pages, articles related to Rachel Marsden when they violate Wikipedia's biographies of living persons policy.
• An arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been closed.

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2022).

Administrator changes AA • Gwalla • Ioeth • Laurascudder • Moriori (deceased) • Nat • Rfl Drilnoth → AFigureOfBlue Bureaucrat changes Lee Vilenski

Interface administrator changes Nihiltres

Technical news

• user_global_editcount is a new variable that can be used in abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users. (T130439)

Arbitration

• An arbitration case regarding conduct in deletion-related editing has been opened.

Miscellaneous

• The New Pages Patrol queue has around 10,000 articles to be reviewed. As all administrators have the patrol right, please consider helping out. The queue is here. For further information on the state of the project, see the latest NPP newsletter.

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2022).

Administrator changes

Valereee

Anthony Appleyard (deceased) • Capitalistroadster • Samsara

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC has been closed with consensus to add javascript that will show edit notices for editors editing via a mobile device. This only works for users using a mobile browser, so iOS app editors will still not be able to see edit notices.
• An RfC has been closed with the consensus that train stations are not inherently notable.

Technical news

• The Wikimania 2022 Hackathon will take place virtually from 11 August to 14 August.
• Administrators will now see links on user pages for "Change block" and "Unblock user" instead of just "Block user" if the user is already blocked. (T308570)

Arbitration

• The arbitration case request Geschichte has been automatically closed after a 3 month suspension of the case.

Miscellaneous

• You can vote for candidates in the 2022 Board of Trustees elections from 16 August to 30 August. Two community elected seats are up for election.
• Wikimania 2022 is taking place virtually from 11 August to 14 August. The schedule for wikimania is listed here. There are also a number of in-person events associated with Wikimania around the world.
• Tech tip: When revision-deleting on desktop, hold ⇧ Shift between clicking two checkboxes to select every box in that range.

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2022).

Administrator changes DanCherek • DatGuy • Femke • Z1720 Aldux • Graham Beards • Nyttend

Interface administrator changes Mr. Stradivarius

Guideline and policy news

• A discussion is open to define a process by which Vector 2022 can be made the default for all users.
• An RfC is open to gain consensus on whether Fox News is reliable for science and politics.

Technical news

• The impact report on the effects of disabling IP editing on the Persian (Farsi) Wikipedia has been released.
• The WMF is looking into making a Private Incident Reporting System (PIRS) system to improve the reporting of harmful incidents through easier and safer reporting. You can leave comments on the talk page by answering the questions provided. Users who have faced harmful situations are also invited to join a PIRS interview to share the experience. To sign up please email Madalina Ana.

Arbitration

• An arbitration case regarding Conduct in deletion-related editing has been closed. The Arbitration Committee passed a remedy as part of the final decision to create a request for comment (RfC) on how to handle mass nominations at Articles for Deletion (AfD).
• The arbitration case request Jonathunder has been automatically closed after a 6 month suspension of the case.

Miscellaneous

• The new pages patrol (NPP) team has prepared an appeal to the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) for assistance with addressing Page Curation bugs and requested features. You are encouraged to read the open letter before it is sent, and if you support it, consider signing it. It is not a discussion, just a signature will suffice.
• Voting for candidates for the Wikimedia Board of Trustees is open until 6 September.

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2022).

Administrator changes ScottishFinnishRadish Staxringold Ahoerstemeier (deceased) • Ched

Interface administrator changes Cyberpower678 CheckUser changes GorillaWarfare

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, consensus was found that if the rationale for a block depends on information that is not available to all administrators, that information should be sent to the Arbitration Committee, a checkuser or an oversighter for action (as applicable, per ArbCom's recent updated guidance) instead of the administrator making the block.
• Following an RfC, consensus has been found that, in the context of politics and science, the reliability of FoxNews.com is unclear and that additional considerations apply to its use.
• Community comment on the revised Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines is requested until 8 October.

Technical news

• The Articles for creation helper script now automatically recognises administrator accounts which means your name does not need to be listed at WP:AFCP to help out. If you wish to help out at AFC, enable AFCH by navigating to Preferences → Gadgets and checking the "Yet Another AfC Helper Script" box.

Arbitration

• Remedy 8.1 of the Muhammad images case will be rescinded 1 November following a motion.
• A modification to the deletion RfC remedy in the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been made to reaffirm the independence of the RfC and allow the moderators to split the RfC in two.
• The second phase of the 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review closes 3 October.

Miscellaneous

• An administrator's account was recently compromised. Administrators are encouraged to check that their passwords are secure, and reminded that ArbCom reserves the right to not restore adminship in cases of poor account security. You can also use two-factor authentication (2FA) to provide an extra level of security.
• Self-nominations for the electoral commission for the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections open 2 October and close 8 October.
• You are invited to comment on candidates in the 2022 CUOS appointments process.
• An RfC is open to discuss whether to make Vector 2022 the default skin on desktop.
• Tech tip: You can do a fuzzy search of all deleted page titles at Special:Undelete.

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2022).

Administrator changes

• 
  • Isabelle Belato
  • Whpq
• 
• 
  • Atama
  • Astronautics~enwiki
  • Athaenara
  • Eddie891
  • GraemeL
  • Marianocecowski
  • Natalya
  • Pratyeka
  • SB Johnny

Interface administrator changes

• TheresNoTime
• Ragesoss

CheckUser changes

• 
  • Blablubbs
  • Firefly
• Joe Roe

Oversight changes

• DGG

Guideline and policy news

• The article creation at scale RfC opened on 3 October and will be open until at least 2 November.
• An RfC is open to discuss having open requests for adminship automatically placed on hold after the seven-day period has elapsed, pending closure or other action by a bureaucrat.

Arbitration

• Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 13 November 2022 until 22 November 2022 to stand in the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections.
• The arbitration case request titled Athaenara has been resolved by motion.
• The arbitration case Reversal and reinstatement of Athaenara's block has entered the proposed decision stage.
• AmandaNP, Mz7 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2022 Arbitration Committee Elections. Xaosflux and Dr vulpes are reserve commissioners.

Miscellaneous

• The 2022 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of two new CheckUsers.
• You can add yourself to the centralised page listing time zones of administrators.
• Tech tip: Wikimarkup in a block summary is parsed in the notice that the blockee sees. You can use templates with custom options to specify situations like {{rangeblock|create=yes}} or {{uw-ublock|contains profanity}}.

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2022).

Administrator changes

• Eddie891
• Euryalus
• TheresNoTime

• Alex.muller
• Excirial
• RedWordSmith
• Ron Ritzman
• TheresNoTime
• Stephen

Interface administrator changes

TheresNoTime

TheresNoTime

CheckUser changes

TheresNoTime

Oversight changes

TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

• Consensus has been found in an RfC to automatically place RfAs on hold after one week.
• The article creation at scale RfC has been closed.
• An RfC on the banners for the December 2022 fundraising campaign has been closed.

Technical news

• A new preference named "Enable limited width mode" has been added to the Vector 2022 skin. The preference is also shown as a toggle on every page if your monitor is 1600 pixels or wider. When disabled it removes the whitespace added by Vector 2022 on the left and right of the page content. Disabling this preference has the same effect as enabling the wide-vector-2022 gadget. (T319449)

Arbitration

• Eligible users are invited to vote on candidates for the Arbitration Committee until 23:59 December 12, 2022 (UTC). Candidate statements can be seen here.
• The proposed decision for the 2021-22 review of the discretionary sanctions system is open.
• The arbitration case Reversal and reinstatement of Athaenara's block has been closed.
• The arbitration case Stephen has been opened and the proposed decision is expected 1 December 2022.
• A motion has modified the procedures for contacting an admin facing Level 2 desysop.

Miscellaneous

• Tech tip: A single IPv6 connection usually has access to a "subnet" of 18 quintillion IPs. Add /64 to the end of an IP in Special:Contributions to see all of a subnet's edits, and consider blocking the whole subnet rather than an IP that may change within a minute.

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2022).

Administrator changes

• ComplexRational
• Extraordinary Writ

Stephen

• Andrew Yong
• Dbenbenn
• DESiegel
• GlassCobra
• Joe Decker
• Nancy
• Pathoschild
• StuffOfInterest
• William Pietri
• Wwwwolf
• Xdamr

Interface administrator changes

Nihiltres

CheckUser changes

Moneytrees

• Ivanvector
• SilkTork

Oversighter changes

• GeneralNotability
• Moneytrees

• Guerillero
• SilkTork

Guideline and policy news

• Speedy deletion criterion A5 (transwikied articles) has been repealed following an unopposed proposal.

Arbitration

• Following the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Barkeep49, CaptainEek, GeneralNotability, Guerillero, L235, Moneytrees, Primefac, SilkTork.
• The 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review has concluded with many changes to the discretionary sanctions procedure including a change of the name to "contentious topics". The changes are being implemented over the coming month.
• The arbitration case Stephen has been closed.

Miscellaneous

• Voting for the Sound Logo has closed and the winner is expected to be announced February to April 2023.
• Tech tip: You can view information about IP addresses in a centralised location using bullseye which won the Newcomer award in the recent Coolest Tool Awards.

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2023).

Administrator changes Gimmetrow Bjelleklang Bob the Wikipedian Leithp WhisperToMe 100 inactive admins

CheckUser changes BDD Bradv Donald Albury Maxim MusikAnimal Oversighter changes BDD Bradv Donald Albury Maxim

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, the administrator policy now requires that prior written consent be gained from the Arbitration Committee to mark a block as only appealable to the committee.
• Following a community discussion, consensus has been found to impose the extended-confirmed restriction over the topic areas of Armenia and Azerbaijan and Kurds and Kurdistan.

Technical news

• The Vector 2022 skin has become the default for desktop users of the English Wikipedia.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 has been opened and the proposed decision is expected 24 February 2023.
• In December, the contentious topics procedure was adopted which replaces the former discretionary sanctions system. The contentious topics procedure is now in effect following an initial implementation period. There is a detailed summary of the changes and administrator instructions for the new procedure. The arbitration clerk team are taking suggestions, concerns, and unresolved questions about this new system at their noticeboard.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2023 Steward elections will begin on 05 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• Voting in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey will begin on 10 February 2023 and end on 24 February 2023. You can submit, discuss and revise proposals until 6 February 2023.
• Tech tip: Syntax highlighting is available in both the 2011 and 2017 Wikitext editors. It can help make editing paragraphs with many references or complicated templates easier.