User talk:Cyberwolf/Archives/2024/February
Administrators' newsletter – February 2024
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2024).
Administrator changes
Bureaucrat changes
Guideline and policy news
- An RfC about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.
Technical news
- Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. (T326065)
Arbitration
- Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
- Community feedback is requested for a draft to replace the "Information for administrators processing requests" section at WP:AE.
Miscellaneous
- Voting in the 2024 Steward elections will begin on 06 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 27 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
- A vote to ratify the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open till 2 February 2024, 23:59:59 (UTC) via Secure Poll. All eligible voters within the Wikimedia community have the opportunity to either support or oppose the adoption of the U4C Charter and share their reasons. The details of the voting process and voter eligibility can be found here.
- Community Tech has made some preliminary decisions about the future of the Community Wishlist Survey. In summary, they aim to develop a new, continuous intake system for community technical requests that improves prioritization, resource allocation, and communication regarding wishes. Read more
- The Unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in February 2024 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!
Your draft article, Draft:Small bore at the gorge
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Hello, Cyberwolf. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Small bore at the gorge".
In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.
Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 18:21, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
The Signpost: 13 February 2024
[edit]- News and notes: Wikimedia Russia director declared "foreign agent" by Russian gov; EU prepares to pile on the papers
- Disinformation report: How low can the scammers go?
- Serendipity: Is this guy the same as the one who was a Nazi?
- Traffic report: Griselda, Nikki, Carl, Jannik and two types of football
- Crossword: Our crossword to bear
- Comix: Strongly
How does PROD work?
[edit]Hi Cyberwolf! I have definitely seen you around these parts being super helpful, so thanks for that!
I think you and I both came to the Craig Warren Smith article around the same time, I saw his edit on Recent Changes and was like "ohhh dearrr" lol. I have observed how hard it is for academics to understand the way things work around here, and often try to brute force things without communicating.
However, as someone with background in his area of scholarship, I *do* think he has a solid claim to notability (and when I scrolled back, it looked like the article originally had some legit contributors and he just added tons of text later in its history? Might have read that wrong from a quick mobile review).
I just left him a pretty detailed note on his talk page explaining COI, edit warring, and how things will go down if he keeps trying to paste his own content into the article. I also provided an offer of help in facilitating a conversation on the talk page to fix the article, as all of the historical references are pretty much bonked and would need to be replaced with legitimate ones.
I'm confident that, as long as the encyclopedic but unsourced content I left standing isn't blatantly false, he would in fact meet and surpass notability. If it turns out anything *is* false, the story changes dramatically. But assuming good faith, I feel like this article can be saved, and it's nice low-hanging fruit for me as a person who's much better at tweaking and updating text than writing drafts from scratch!
I have stayed far afield of deletion-based stuff, so I'm only vaguely familiar with PROD- is that the one where I can just take the tag off the page and that's that? Additionally, would you be offended if I do? I am hoping the subject will engage on his talk page or mine, and willing to bring it to the COI/N (which I just found yesterday, lol) if he doesn't respond and just keeps trying to change the article. Just curious about your thoughts here, since as a "Digital Divide" nerd, if he actually helped spawn the sub-field that's pretty big news!
Thanks for your time and happy editing, Chelsea aka Chiselinccc (talk) 16:45, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
- Ugh, curse my verbosity- apologies that the question in the title doesn't come into play till 3/4 through my message.
- TL;DR I'm hoping to unprod that article, and wondering your thoughts/what to do! Chiselinccc (talk) 16:46, 28 February 2024 (UTC)