User talk:Interstellarity/Archives/2020/March

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

Administrator changes Money emoji Athaenara • DeltaQuad Fishhead64 • Kudpung • Mikaey Bureaucrat changes DeltaQuad

CheckUser changes DeltaQuad Oversight changes DeltaQuad

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

• Following the 2020 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: BRPever, Krd, Martin Urbanec, MusikAnimal, Sakretsu, Sotiale, and Tks4Fish. There are a total of seven editors that have been appointed as stewards, the most since 2014.
• The 2020 appointees for the Ombudsman commission are Ajraddatz and Uzoma Ozurumba; they will serve for one year.

Discussion in the usual place at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Requests for bureaucratship/Recent. Nothing personal, I just think this recent bold change needs discussion. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 15:13, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

@Ritchie333: Thank you for letting me know. I have commented there. Interstellarity (talk) 16:56, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

Hi, I'm Nehme1499. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Atto Abbas, and have marked it as unpatrolled. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you.

(Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.)

Nehme₁₄₉₉ (talk) 22:21, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

@Nehme1499: Can you please explain why you unreviewed it? Interstellarity (talk) 22:38, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

Because the person is not notable, per WP:FOOTY. I would go as far as saying that it's a hoax page. See this discussion at Transfermarkt. Even if he were an actual player, he's just some youth player. He hasn't played for any national team, nor in any professional league. Nehme₁₄₉₉ (talk) 22:48, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

@Nehme1499: I never like accepting hoaxes on Wikipedia. I trust your judgement. Interstellarity (talk) 23:05, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

Hello, thank you for answering a semi-protected edit request here on March 1. However, you may not have done it correctly according to 3 of WP:ER. NPOV, verifiability, and reliable sourcing you should know already. The rest is the issue in concern.

When you make an edit on behalf of the requester, there is a mandatory copyright attribution. In your edit summary, you have to mention the requesters username in your edit summary.

When you answered the wishes of the request, partial or full, see for response templates, and change {{edit semi-protected|John Doe|answered=no}) to {{edit semi-protected|John Doe|answered=yes}}. This will close the request and remove it from CAT:ESP so it doesn't fill up with answered request.

Those two were the essentials to edit request you missed. There are lots more on WP:ER. So hopefully, you correctly do edit request now. =D To reply, copy and paste this: {{replyto|Can I Log In}}(Talk) 02:47, 12 March 2020 (UTC)

Hello Can I Log In. Thanks for the info. I will try my best to answer edit requests correctly from now on. I normally use the script User:Jackmcbarn/editProtectedHelper to make it easier to respond to edit requests. Feedback helps me become a better editor and I appreciate that brought your concerns to my attention. Interstellarity (talk) 11:14, 12 March 2020 (UTC)

Hello, Interstellarity! Here is the Feb/March 2020 issue of TheWikiWizard.

• What's Hot! (Love poem?)
• Articles (The Missing Manual)
• The Wikipedian
• News about Wikipedia! (Wikipedia News and Events!)
• Editor's Notes (Exciting News!)
• Activity Page (Fun Activities, and super cool stuff...)
• Ads (Super Cool Ads that are totally not spelt woeng)

We hope you like this month's issue! If you'd like to discuss this issue, please go to this issue's talk page. Happy Reading! Thegooduser Life Begins With a Smile :) 🍁 03:36, 14 March 2020 (UTC)

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Hey! Please only use BLPPROD if there are no sources, including external links. Saharat Kaewsangsai contains an external link. --MrClog (talk) 12:16, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

@MrClog: Thank you for letting me know. I will do that from now on. Interstellarity (talk) 13:42, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for organizing the rename proposal at 1918 influenza pandemic. Blue Rasberry (talk) 15:01, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

@Bluerasberry: Thank you very kindly for the coffee although I don't drink it, but it's always nice to see my efforts to improve Wikipedia are recognized by other editors. Interstellarity (talk) 15:59, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

We at Wikiproject Medicine would like to thank you for your contribution now during the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic. We are far from out of the woods with regard to the pandemic and understand that your focus may lie on coronavirus efforts.
We would still like to shine a light on our active medical community, which you are more than welcome to join. As a participant you can ask questions and get help about best practices on editing any health or medical article — on our talk-page. We are a (mostly) collegial bunch, and I do hope you feel welcome to participate. Currently there are two active communities:

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine (talk — The general medical community)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject COVID-19 (talk — A temporary COVID-19 community)

Please join up!

Best regards, Carl Fredrik ^talk 09:54, 20 March 2020 (UTC)

@CFCF: Thank you so much for the kind words. I try my best to keep our articles up to date as information rapidly changes. Interstellarity (talk) 11:16, 20 March 2020 (UTC)

Article : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F2_%E2%80%93_Fun_and_Frustration

The plot line given here is completely wrong and in no way related to any film released ever. Besides the given story is very disturbing. That's why I edited it out and not knowing the actual plot line left it as such.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Abhimanyuanilkumar (talk • contribs)

Hi Abhimanyuanilkumar, Interstellarity was unsure about the above response and asked me for input – this is a tricky case.

• It was correct of Abhimanyuanilkumar to remove the vandalism fake plot. The content was disruptive enough to be removed from the revision history.
• It is understandable that the complete removal of a large section was interpreted as vandalism by Interstellarity. The same could have happened to me or any other person who regularly deals with vandalism, especially since some horror movies do have crazy plots.

I rarely say this, and I won't blame anyone – I make mistakes all the time and made a particularly hefty blunder yesterday – but please ignore the above message and the warnings by Interstellarity. Such content needs to be removed without discussion, and you did nothing wrong. However, I hope that the mistake is relatable; shit happens. Sorry for the trouble. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 18:57, 24 March 2020 (UTC)

@ToBeFree: Thanks for clarifying. I am sorry for the mistakes I made. Interstellarity (talk) 19:39, 24 March 2020 (UTC)

Interstellarity, you're welcome, and no worries. Of ten thousand edits, one of these was bound to happen one day. It's the relative, not the absolute quantity that makes a difference. And the asking for another pair of eyes exactly when it was needed. All the best. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 19:50, 24 March 2020 (UTC)

Please don't move RfAs (all discussions reference the user with the username at the time of candidacy), instead make a new RfA which redirects to the old RfA. It triggers useless notifications and causes records maintained to be redirects. --qedk (t 心 c) 20:54, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

@QEDK: I am so sorry about moving the RfAs. I will do that next time. I hope I didn't cause too much trouble here. Thank you for pointing out my mistakes. Interstellarity (talk) 23:08, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

No pressure, I fixed them. --qedk (t 心 c) 04:59, 27 March 2020 (UTC)