Wikipedia:Teahouse/Hosts/Editors who may be pinged
This page is to serve as a directory of editors who may not be regular hosts at the Teahouse but have expertise in particular areas and are willing to be pinged to a Teahouse discussion when a question goes unanswered or requires a better-informed opinion.
Adding
[edit]Editors who have been here at least six months and have made more than 2,000 edits are welcome to add themselves to one of the listed areas. In the interest of brevity, the list is intended to only include the areas that Teahouse is likely to sometimes have problems answering questions about, satisfactorily. So, editors who are not regular hosts at the Teahouse are encouraged to propose at the talk page before adding a new area.
Teahouse discussions get archived within 72 hours of inactivity. There is little point to adding editors, however motivated or knowledgeable, unless they are likely to be active almost daily.
Using
[edit]Hosts should check the contributions history to see if the editors have been recently active when deciding which of them to ping to a discussion. {{Hidden ping}} is recommended.
List
[edit]| Area | Users | Description |
|---|---|---|
| {{admin help}} | Nick Moyes, Girth Summit, Cullen328, GeneralNotability | Questions that may not be difficult to answer but require information that only admins are privileged to see |
| ACDS | Editors familiar with the theories and practices of AE and DS | |
| AFC | Girth Summit, Robert McClenon, CaptainEek, Primefac | Questions about difficult to assess drafts, or procedures and policies related to AFC |
| ArbCom procedures | L235, Euryalus | The specifics of procedures that editors with extensive clerking experience at ArbCom are best equipped to handle |
| Bots | Majavah, Primefac | Policies as well as technical questions about bots (build, approval, operation, issues) |
| Categories | ||
| General copyright | GeneralNotability, Justlettersandnumbers, Moneytrees, Primefac, The4lines | Usually text related (false positives, mirrors, licenses, exceptions, close paraphrasing, etc.) |
| Image copyright | Fastily, Marchjuly | Uploading images, complying with licensing rules, Commons, fair use (queries may also be referred to WP:MCQ as appropriate) |
| Featured Articles | Iridescent | Writing better articles |
| WikiProject Medicine | WhatamIdoing | Questions that are usually referred to the WikiProject (reviewing drafts, disputes, etc.) |
| Wiki markup | Paine Ellsworth, Primefac | Help with complex wiki markup (mainly fixing appearance, usually of tables or graphs) |
| Mobile editing | Cullen328, Nick Moyes | Howtos, issues |
| MOS | Sdkb | Questions about the Manual of Style and related topics |
| OTRS | L235, GeneralNotability, Justlettersandnumbers | Needs OTRS access to answer |
| Revdel and Oversighting | Primefac, L235 | Mainly oversighting; includes requests to suppress material, as well as questions better answered by an experienced oversighter (Posts about material needing suppression are best ignored altogether, instead contact oversighters by email, and only respond to the post once an oversighter has taken action or declined to do so; same with revdel, except for the fact that all admins can revdel) |
| Portals | Certes | |
| Wiki(pedia) software | Whatamidoing (WMF), Majavah | Usually technical issues, and questions about how wiki or Wikipedia software works |
| Sockpuppet Investigation procedures | Drmies (CU), Ivanvector (CU), Cabayi, Vanjagenije, Dreamy Jazz, RoySmith, GeneralNotability | Questions better answered by someone intimately familiar with SPI procedures |
| Editing templates | Paine Ellsworth, Primefac, Trialpears, ProcrastinatingReader (& modules), Sdkb | Complex codes needing fixing or help understanding, policies about widely used templates |
| UTRS | L235 (interface access, not UTRS admin), GeneralNotability (also not a UTRS admin), Majavah (developer, no interface access) | Needs a UTRS volunteer to answer |
| Visual editor | Whatamidoing (WMF) | Howtos, issues, limitations |
| Wikipedia history | Iridescent, Graham87 | Questions better answered by editors intimately familiar with a wide range of issues relating to Wikipedia and Wikimedia |