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User Manlorsen

Manlorsen (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) has reverted again the article Societat Civil Catalana. Diff: [1]. This time the edit is smaller because he seems to edit with the help of another user, Gargaroi (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). Both users are only editing that article. Filiprino (talk) 12:48, 8 August 2018 (UTC)

--Manlorsen (talk) 12:22, 10 August 2018 (UTC) There are apparently more than two users that have other oppinions about Societat Civil Catalana. Please check the list. I was happy with the version of TheRichic of Fish and Karate. It is a pity that here someone is trying to make groups and not trying to improve the quality of the article. The article is at the moment based on sources that are mainly oppinions no facts. I kindly ask you not do discredit myself and Sociedad Civil Catalana.--Manlorsen (talk) 12:22, 10 August 2018 (UTC)

--Manlorsen (talk) 11:54, 10 August 2018 (UTC) In the origins of Sociedad Civil Catalana (SCC) there was a collaboration with members of Somatemps. Somatemps is not a far right organisation. There are no proofs for that but only oppinions. I will bring you soon a statement of Somatemps taking political position [2] [3] https://www.elcatalan.es/jesus-lainz-xavier-codorniu-augusto-bruyel-y-almudena-paso-inauguran-el-vo-congreso-de-catalanidad-hispanica/. I would like to repeat my argument of the begining: If SCC were extreme or far right the current foreign minister the socialist catalan J. Borrell [4] would not participate in many events of SCC, neiter the former leader during more than 10 years of the older comunist party in Spain the catalan Francisco Frutos https://voicesfromspain.com/2017/10/30/francisco-frutos-speech-on-29th-october-2017-barcelona/ or even the descendant of catalans Manuel Valls former socialist minister in France or even the president of the socialist catalans Miquel Iceta or the writer and nobel of literature Mario Vargas Llosa [5]. They would be carefull about his reputation to participate in events of a suppossedly far right organisation, don't you think so? And what about the prize of the european parliament to SCC, do you think the European parlament would give a prize to a far right organisation or to a organisation with far right links? This is written in the pdf document of the european prize [6]: Sociedad Civil Catalana Association/organisation Spain Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes 583, 8011 Barcelona, Spain josep.bosch@societatcivilcatalana.cat 34934451793 34605858455 Spain at national level Sociedad Civil Catalana is an organisation set up by a group of Catalan men and women anxious to continue and promote the creation of awareness and mobilisation of people in Catalonia who support continued links with the rest of Spain and with Europe. The organisation promotes important values such as concord, coexistence, respect, tolerance and freedom of expression and dialogue. For these reasons and the extremely valuable work which it carries out in Catalonia, I feel that this organisation deserves the European Citizens’ Prize. Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ

I kindly ask you to consider an external review of the article and compare it with the spanish version, thanks.--Manlorsen (talk) 11:54, 10 August 2018 (UTC)

Dalida page, French Editor/Organization

Greetings Sir,

The Dalida page is being run by an Organization, this isn't an encyclopedia page, this is a pure French-Propaganda page. The French editor who claims "owning the page" literally prevents anybody other than his organisation to write on the page. He claims that others delete his stuff, yet literally he's the manipulating one who keeps deleting Dalida's Egyptian-Italian identities, unlike her own words in her most famous songs and even the movies about her. This isn't a Wiki page, this is an Organization page, like a French Site for Dalida. Check out the history page, almost no one is supposed to edit other that their organization.

Thank you 41.234.196.72 (talk) 00:15, 9 August 2018 (UTC)

• NeilN, anytime you want to take over, go for it. Drmies (talk) 02:24, 9 August 2018 (UTC)

Weird situation that needs Admin help

NeilN, I've discovered a weird situation here. Some time back, Survivor (TV series) was (probably correctly) moved to Survivor (franchise), along with its Talk page. When that was done, however, the Talk page's Archive pages were left behind. I've found (and moved) Talk:Survivor (franchise)/Archive 1 and Talk:Survivor (franchise)/Archive 3... but there's no original archive at Talk:Survivor (TV series)/Archive 2. Based on the topic dates on Archive 1 and Archive 3, it's quite possible that there is an Archive 2 page... somewhere, but it may have be "lost" (in previous page moves?...). Any chance you can look into this?... Thanks!

(And, if there is no "missing Archive 2" page, then the Archive 3 page should be moved to Talk:Survivor (franchise)/Archive 2, I guess...) --IJBall (contribs • talk) 20:24, 9 August 2018 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @IJBall: Doesn't really need admin help. You can use Special:PrefixIndex to find Subpages of the talk page, e.g. here: subpages of Talk:Survivor (TV series), which shows that there's no Archive_2. If you think there might have been a typo, or some other weird situation, you can do an advanced search for Talk archives, which gives the same result in this case. HTH, Mathglot (talk) 21:06, 9 August 2018 (UTC)

OK, I think I figured it out – the talk topics in so-called "Archive 3" were not in chronological order. Once I fixed that, it's clear there's no "gap", so "Archive 3" is actually, correctly, "Archive 2" – I'm going to go ahead and WP:Page mover Talk:Survivor (franchise)/Archive 3 to Talk:Survivor (franchise)/Archive 2, and this should resolve the issue. Thanks. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 21:37, 9 August 2018 (UTC)

IJBall, if you do the move, make sure you do not leave a redirect behind. If you don't know how to do this, I can help. Mathglot (talk) 00:08, 10 August 2018 (UTC) Okay, looks like you've done it correctly; good work. Mathglot (talk) 00:09, 10 August 2018 (UTC)

I added references to improve the article

Hi Neil, hope all is well. I'm new to Wiki and have been reading a lot more since you made all my changes undone on July 22nd of Judith Blacklock. I can now see that my edits were not all in line with wikipolicy (sorry should have done my homework properly up front!), but other changes I thought (and still think) were an improvement to the wikipage, e.g. I added a couple of newspaper sources (not tabloid) and facts. Just thought I'd check in, as I will try to make them again. When making my edits I was trying to respond to the maintenance template, but am still unclear who can make changes to this when issues in there are addressed. Thanks for your time and effort! Cheers, A.Avandok (talk) 21:33, 9 August 2018 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Avandok: Can't speak for NeilN, but there are possible conflict of interest, promotional, and notability issues here. See your talk page, as well as Talk:Judith Blacklock#Notability. Hope this helps, Mathglot (talk) 01:45, 10 August 2018 (UTC)

Balkans & nationalism... again

Hi, NeilN. I see that you have recently dealt with the account MilosHaran. It seems to be one of a myriad of accounts from Western Balkans used solely to further nationalist propaganda. May I please have some assistance in dealing with this never ending pestilence? Surtsicna (talk) 11:35, 10 August 2018 (UTC)

Instead reporting me we should debate about his origin on talk page. MilosHaran (talk) 11:40, 10 August 2018 (UTC)

DS review

NeilN, can you review the IPA discretionary sanction I instituted here, especially for the effectiveness and clarity of the scope of the topic-ban? Abecedare (talk) 02:44, 12 August 2018 (UTC)

Ha! I always seem to catch you on a break. No worries. I'll ask Bishonen to take a look, since per the AE log they are the second-most active admin in applying discretionary sanctions in this area. Hope things are hunky-dory IRL. Abecedare (talk) 02:49, 12 August 2018 (UTC)

Enjoy your break, Neil. I assume you're on a road trip to see me, so call me when you get here and we'll go to Hamburger King. Drmies (talk) 00:48, 15 August 2018 (UTC)

Still interested in Souliotes?

If you are still interested in edit wars around article Souliotes, please have a look [7]. The pro-albanian users insist on SYNTH about Rum Millet, explained as "Greek" and applied on Souliotes without any source specific on Souliotes. I proposed to them 2 choices: Either we add the definition of "Albanian" in post-medieval era (based on Oliver Schmitt), or we delete (the most correct in my opinion) all the missleading info about who is "Rum". They also delete any additions on the fact that "Rums" were divided into Greeks, Bulgarians, Serbs etc. It seems that they are happy with the present condition of the article, and prevent improvements by co-operation of two reverting one, ready to complain about "3RR". If, by any chance, you feel that you cannot be impartial on articles of Albanian or Greek interest, please suggest me another adming. Thanks.--Skylax30 (talk) 19:16, 18 August 2018 (UTC)

Advertizing

You deleted my link to another saying to stop posting external links, but it was not an external like; rather a link to another Wikipedia site that was very connected to the subject matter.

But, as a side note, Wikipedia is full of links to external sites. What's the rule on that?

Please explain.

Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Keithm66 (talk • contribs) 20:10, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

(talk page gnome) @Keithm66: I don't think NeilN has anything to do with this. However, you appear to be promoting a company in your edits, which is not allowed (WP:PROMOTION), even if no external links are provided. If you find reliable third party sources (WP:RS) that support your additions, please make sure to follow the sentence with a citation (WP:CITE). You may also want to write a draft about the company per WP:WTAF, but if you are affiliated with it that is strongly discouraged per WP:COI. Thanks, —PaleoNeonate – 00:46, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

Catacombs of Paris

Hey I doubt you remember me or my predicament, but back in February I added that the movie "As Above, So Below" was filmed in the Catacombs of Paris. I got into an edit war and did the right thing and went through the proper channels and reported the user and you blocked them for 31 hours and you protected the page for a little while. I went back to it today and well it looks like there's someone who's removed it from an anonymous IP and like one or two other people who have attempted removing it in the interim but were reverted. Anyways, I'm not sure what to do. I don't really want to revert it because I'm afraid it will start another war, but I feel my contribution is helpful and want it to remain in place. It had a verifiable source too! To sum it all up, should I revert and if something bad happens again just go back to the notice board, or is this something you could look into without an official report in place? Thank you for your time, you were immensely helpful before.

P.S. I can gladly send you all the diff links you need just let me know. Lord David, Duke of Glencoe (talk) 08:58, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

P.P.S. feel like I kinda did a BOOMERANG to myself by not checking that NeilN hasn't been online since the 5th. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ If anyone else would like to help, I'd really appreciate it. I can provide details and links from February and while I've left the page alone. Thanks. Lord David, Duke of Glencoe (talk) 11:31, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

(talk page gnome) @DJ-Joker16: I looked and am not sure what's up, it's possible that it was reverted as trivia. Often only the most notable items are listed (if any, since WP:TRIVIA material is generally discouraged). —PaleoNeonate – 09:03, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

13 years of editing

Cheers, —PaleoNeonate – 09:04, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

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Bunt (community)

Hi,

Can you please have a look at Bunt (community) page. I have a strong feeling this Indian caste article is gonna turn into a mess soon as some individuals affiliated with a caste based organisation have become active in editing this page.Linguisticgeek (talk)

• (talk page stalker) @Linguisticgeek: I have warned the user for now and watchlisted the page. In trying to keep the caste-warriors at bay, please be careful not to fall afoul of WP:3RR yourself. Perhaps involving more editors would help. Cheers. Abecedare (talk) 15:18, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

Urgent help with RfC at Naomi Osaka

Hi there. I'm coming to you because I feel like the way things are currently going, the Wikipedia community is going to shoot itself in the foot in regards to factual accuracy with the current RfC at Naomi Osaka located here. Many press outlets are describing her multiple ways, mainly as just Japanese. Alot of our editors seem to be using that for their reasoning, which i feel is not correct. As per my points there, ususally when I have seen people on Wikipedia who have an article about themselves and have dual citizenship, it is mentioned. In Osaka's case, she was born in Japan, but was raised in America and currently lives there and has citizenship in America and Japan. She does not speak fluent Japanese either. The community is about to shoot itself in the foot and merely refer to her as "Japanese" in the lede. I feel that the prior option "Japanese and American", per what I've commonly seen on other articles with this quirk, is the only correct option. I'm wondering if someone can step in and stop this before it's too late. - R9tgokunks ⭕ 19:27, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

Saying the press is calling her "mainly Japanese" is not correct. The press is all over the map. And if you look at all the talk page dialog, several administrators wanted Haitian-Japanese tennis player. So it's not cut and dry. My worry is that we'll get an influx of first time accounts from the canvassing twitter and instagram posts that has caused so many problems the last few days. I wish the rfc would have waited a couple weeks till the social media frenzy died down. We had to protect the article because of social media bombardment. Fyunck(click) (talk) 19:35, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

@Fyunck(click): -

"Many press outlets are describing her multiple ways, mainly as just Japanese."

- R9tgokunks ⭕ 20:36, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

• R9tgokunks, NeilN hasn't edited in over a month, so if you believe the RfC needs additional neutral input, then post a brief, neutral notification of the RfC on a related WikiProject talkpage and/or WP:BLPN. Your post here is not neutral, so don't replicate it elsewhere. Softlavender (talk) 20:21, 13 September 2018 (UTC)
  • That's a damn shame... Thanks for letting me know. I will do that. - R9tgokunks ⭕ 20:44, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

Was ist diese Scheisse?

You're still on break? 🙁 Bishonen | talk 19:56, 13 September 2018 (UTC).

(talk page stalker) That section title gave me my best laugh of the day, which I desperately needed after seeing diese schiesse...Vanamonde (talk) 19:59, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

Yeah, we could definitely use some sanity (of the NeilN variety) and/or some laughs .... Softlavender (talk) 20:16, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

UTRS appeal #22687

A user you have blocked has opened UTRS appeal #22687 on the Unblock Ticket Request System. The reviewing administrator, Dlohcierekim (talk · contribs), has requested your input:

Darkfrog24 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • autoblocks • contribs • deleted contribs • abuse filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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IP user contiues to vandalize

IP user 69.156.0.90 has repeatedly vandalized List of Impact Wrestling albums and other articles. I have warned them and they continue to do so. ^{(talk page stalker)} CrashUnderride 20:43, 18 September 2018 (UTC)

(talk page gnome) @Crash Underride: If it persists, please consider WP:AIV; NeilN is on a Wikibreak. Thanks, —PaleoNeonate – 23:50, 18 September 2018 (UTC)

Perhaps of interest to you

Whilst browsing about, as I generally do, I noticed the relatively recent discussion you initiated at AN about community general sanctions enforcement. I'd suggest you look at a proposal by Callanecc to standardise community general sanctions, specifically community-authorised discretionary sanctions, which have become the most common form. I helped out a bit at the time. You can find it at WP:CDS. We had a bit of discussion about it here.

In addition, I'd note that, at the request of some administrators, I set up an enforcement noticeboard based on AE for the former Gamergate community sanctions. You can see history of that here. It was quite effective for dealing with the overwhelming nature of that specific incident, until it was replaced by ArbCom sanctions. Perhaps these might provide food for thought, if you consider proceeding with your ideas for reform. RGloucester — ☎ 01:50, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

Disruptive user

Hi, what should I do about Mileywave repeatedly inserting her image into the Kim Possible (2019 film) article after reverting her twice?--Sarcathmo17 (talk) 17:03, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

Sarcathmo17, NeilN hasn't edited in a couple of months. Softlavender (talk) 23:21, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

Back

No more ninety-hour work weeks starting next week (I hope) so I'll be more active on the site. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 15:22, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

Welcome back! We were not sure if you would ever return! PackMecEng (talk) 15:25, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

Ditto, super to see you around, —PaleoNeonate – 23:26, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, was worried about you since you didn't post any kind of "away" notice at the top. Softlavender (talk) 04:07, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

You know, you got my hopes up with this. Now I am empty inside! PackMecEng (talk) 14:12, 19 October 2018 (UTC)

He said "starting next week (I hope)". It's only been two weeks. Softlavender (talk) 14:15, 19 October 2018 (UTC)

The heart wants what it wants.™ PackMecEng (talk) 14:17, 19 October 2018 (UTC)

NeilN "rolling around in 9 deuce cadillac"—! What a return  :) ——SerialNumber54129 14:21, 19 October 2018 (UTC)

• [Bishzilla wordlessly clasps the little user to her bosom. Recollects her great strength and desists, puts the flattened little creature down gently. Is it too late?] Please inflate to three-dimensional again! bishzilla _ROARR!! pocket 15:12, 19 October 2018 (UTC).

• Didnt see your activity recently, came here to realise you havent edited in almost six months now. I hope everything is okay in your real life. I hope I see you soon again. —usernamekiran(talk) 23:15, 1 February 2019 (UTC)
• ...The irony here is that the creation of this section over a year ago is, as of this date, NeilN's most recent edit. Hope all is well. Steel1943 (talk) 22:53, 1 December 2019 (UTC)

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The APX

Hi there! So you have deleted The APX page because of undisclosed paid editing. I did tell about that so that can't be used as a deletion criteria. [8]. Jjanhone (talk) 20:18, 16 October 2018 (UTC)

Sorry, my mistake! I was so surprised about what I saw that I didn't notice your comment was very old and you were not talking to me.Jjanhone (talk) 04:39, 17 October 2018 (UTC)

A Favor

Would you mind terribly if you were to semiprotect List of Donald Duck universe characters for a long while? The "Pete is a wolf" vandal has returned to that page to edit-war over his inane assertion again.--Mr Fink (talk) 20:14, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

NeilN hasn't been around for a bit. I've semiprotected the page. ~Awilley (talk) 23:51, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

Lift ban

When I was hot tempered I used to create vandalism only accounts and even impersonated a long term abuse vandal for a joke. So not only do I have several blocked accounts but even globally locked ones and while I can take a break from Wikipedia, I do wish I may edit other sister projects. As an admin, do you know how I can get myself unbanned? It is embarrissing to expose myself and I cannot edit in good conscience when I am not supposed to be doing so. What can I do to return as a help, as I have matured and want to be constructive? I. Do notthink I can clean start with the bans. 2600:1:F16A:CD61:A473:7C4F:4697:CC4 (talk) 01:15, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

DS/AE request

Greetings NeilN. Could you please place Democratic Party presidential primaries, 2020 under DS/AE/1RR/consensus restrictions? There's been some slow-moving edit warring, and lack of respect for talk page consensus. I believe that some policing would help article stability. Thanks in advance. — JFG ^talk 19:50, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

@Awilley: Seeing your remark above that NeilN is away, perhaps you can handle this? Or MelanieN? Thx. — JFG ^talk 19:52, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

Is that a thing already? I'll have a look. ~Awilley (talk) 21:48, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

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Semi Protection Request

Please can your semi protect the MTA Regional Bus Operations bus fleet page? There has been allot of vandalism recently from anonymous IP addresses. Olsen24 (talk) 03:53, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

Olsen24, NeilN hasn't edited in six weeks so it's best to make your request at WP:RFPP. -- Softlavender (talk) 03:56, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

Matthew Gordon Banks

Why have you removed Karl Hoffman's addition that Phillip Cross is COI - he has been banned from Editing. Do you work for the Intelligence Services like Cross too. Your edit is remarkably quick. 62.128.207.104 (talk) 01:28, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

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Banned User:Asdisis

...again at Croatian Navy. Just look at his edit-summaries. Other IP accounts seems to be also his at bottom of Talk:Croatian Air Force and Air Defence. FkpCascais (talk) 14:34, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

Fkp, you are obsessed with Asdisis. 141.138.55.129 (talk) 19:30, 2 December 2018 (UTC)

You know very well why you edit for years already as IP and refuse to make an account. Because you were indef banned. Please go to your original account and ask for a review of your ban. Obviously you wan´t because you play this game of "Oh I am not Asdisis". So make an account then, you edit years already as IP refusing to make an account, when you get upset enough you recognise you are Asdisis, meantime you deny and play this game of cat and mouse. FkpCascais (talk) 20:13, 2 December 2018 (UTC)

FkpCascais , I edit Wikipedia in the most esteemed way. I have no connections to the IP who you are reporting here, nor to Asdisis. I have 3 or 4 RfCs that I opened and won against you, as a proof. Either I fooled everyone in those RfCs, or maybe the admins who warned you against such behavior on an ANI thread were right. So please, Fkp, spare me of your accusations, especially when you are so blatantly pushing your POV on another page in this very moment: [9]. 141.138.55.129 (talk) 22:12, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

Need advice on situation with a non-responsive OR editor

Hi, NeilN,

I trust your judgment, and I wonder if you can dispense some advice about a situation regarding massive amounts of OR added to Roman diocese by DuckeggAlex (talk · contribs), who is teetering on the edge of what I consider blockable behavior. He does not respond in writing to numerous comments at his Talk page or the article Talk page, though it's clear from his actions that he reads them. I've been on the edge of taking him to ANI several times (would be my first; I'm more of a lurker there), but he seems to stop blockable behavior at the edge of the precipice. I was once again on the edge of going to ANI and probably would have tomorrow, but in the last hour, he's stepped back again, and started doing just what we asked him to. It's not entirely black and white, and he's not doing anything blockable today, but that seems to just go back and forth, and I'm not sure how to deal with a situation like this. If you're willing to have a look, a good starting point is perhaps towards the end, at Talk:Roman diocese#How to proceed?, and fill in the earlier blanks as needed. A possibly relevant side-thread is at User talk:Mathglot#OR at Roman diocese and editor adding it. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 05:00, 2 December 2018 (UTC)

(talk page stalker)@Mathglot: NeilN appears to be on a bit of a break. He has not edited in almost 2 months now. Might want to try someone else for the time being. PackMecEng (talk) 05:03, 2 December 2018 (UTC)

PackMecEng appreciate the tip, thanks! Mathglot (talk) 05:12, 2 December 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2018).

Administrator changes

Al Ameer son • Randykitty • Spartaz

Boson • Daniel J. Leivick • Efe • Esanchez7587 • Fred Bauder • Garzo • Martijn Hoekstra • Orangemike

Interface administrator changes

Deryck Chan

Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, the Mediation Committee is now closed and will no longer be accepting case requests.
• A request for comment is in progress to determine whether members of the Bot Approvals Group should satisfy activity requirements in order to remain in that role.
• A request for comment is in progress regarding whether to change the administrator inactivity policy, such that administrators "who have made no logged administrative actions for at least 12 months may be desysopped". Currently, the policy states that administrators "who have made neither edits nor administrative actions for at least 12 months may be desysopped".
• A proposal has been made to temporarily restrict editing of the Main Page to interface administrators in order to mitigate the impact of compromised accounts.

Technical news

• Administrators and bureaucrats can no longer unblock themselves unless they placed the block initially. This change has been implemented globally. See also this ongoing village pump discussion (permalink).
• To complement the aforementioned change, blocked administrators will soon have the ability to block the administrator that placed their block to mitigate the possibility of a compromised administrator account blocking all other active administrators.
• Since deployment of Partial blocks on Test Wikipedia, several bugs were identified. Most of them are now fixed. Administrators are encouraged to test the new deployment and report new bugs on Phabricator or leave feedback on the Project's talk page. You can request administrator access on the Test Wiki here.

Arbitration

• Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 3 December 2018. Please review the candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page.

Miscellaneous

• In late November, an attacker compromised multiple accounts, including at least four administrator accounts, and used them to vandalize Wikipedia. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately. Sharing the same password across multiple websites makes your account vulnerable, especially if your password was used on a website that suffered a data breach. As these incidents have shown, these concerns are not pure fantasies.
• Wikipedia policy requires administrators to have strong passwords. To further reinforce security, administrators should also consider enabling two-factor authentication. A committed identity can be used to verify that you are the true account owner in the event that your account is compromised and/or you are unable to log in.

Obituaries

• Shock Brigade Harvester Boris (Raymond Arritt) passed away on 14 November 2018. Boris joined Wikipedia as Raymond arritt on 8 May 2006 and was an administrator from 30 July 2007 to 2 June 2008.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:36, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

Seasonal Greetings!

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2019!

Hello NeilN, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you a heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2019. Happy editing, ★Trekker (talk) 09:51, 22 December 2018 (UTC) Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages.

Merry Merry

		Happy Christmas!
		Hello NeilN, Early in A Child's Christmas in Wales the young Dylan and his friend Jim Prothero witness smoke pouring from Jim's home. After the conflagration has been extinguished Dylan writes that Nobody could have had a noisier Christmas Eve. And when the firemen turned off the hose and were standing in the wet, smoky room, Jim's Aunt, Miss. Prothero, came downstairs and peered in at them. Jim and I waited, very quietly, to hear what she would say to them. She said the right thing, always. She looked at the three tall firemen in their shining helmets, standing among the smoke and cinders and dissolving snowballs, and she said, "Would you like anything to read?" My thanks to you for your efforts to keep the 'pedia readable in case the firemen chose one of our articles :-) Best wishes to you and yours and happy editing in 2019. MarnetteD|Talk 14:57, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

I know life is keeping you away from WikiP NeilN but this message is true for your past, present and future editing - to reference another Christmas story :-) Best regards. MarnetteD|Talk 14:57, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

Seasonal Greetings

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2019!

Hello NeilN, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you a heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2019. Happy editing, 7&6=thirteen (☎) 20:27, 24 December 2018 (UTC) Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages.

Merry Christmas!

	Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2019!
	Wishing you and your family a joyous Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Year! Enjoy the holiday season, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, GSS (talk

Happy New Year, NeilN!

Happy New Year!

NeilN,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
Donner60 (talk) 06:35, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

   Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.

Administrators' newsletter – January 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2018).

Administrator changes

Galobtter

Orangemike

BorgQueen • Davidruben • Ocee • Revolving Bugbear • Theda • There'sNoTime • Timc • Tijuana Brass • Tristessa de St Ange

Bureaucrat changes

Addshore

CheckUser changes

Joe Roe • SilkTork

Euryalus • Newyorkbrad • There'sNoTime

Oversight changes

AGK • Joe Roe • SilkTork

Euryalus • Newyorkbrad • There'sNoTime

Guideline and policy news

• There are a number of new or changed speedy deletion criteria, each previously part of WP:CSD#G6:

1. G14 (new): Disambiguation pages that disambiguate only zero or one existing pages are now covered under the new G14 criterion (discussion). This is {{db-disambig}}; the text is unchanged and candidates may be found in Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as unnecessary disambiguation pages.
2. R4 (new): Redirects in the file namespace (and no file links) that have the same name as a file or redirect at Commons are now covered under the new R4 criterion (discussion). This is {{db-redircom}}; the text is unchanged.
3. G13 (expanded): Userspace drafts containing only the default Article Wizard text are now covered under G13 along with other drafts (discussion). Such blank drafts are now eligible after six months rather than one year, and taggers continue to use {{db-blankdraft}}.

• The Wikimedia Foundation now requires all interface administrators to enable two-factor authentication.
• Members of the Bot Approvals Group (BAG) are now subject to an activity requirement. After two years without any bot-related activity (e.g. operating a bot, posting on a bot-related talk page), BAG members will be retired from BAG following a one-week notice.

Technical news

• Starting on December 13, the Wikimedia Foundation security team implemented new password policy and requirements. Privileged accounts (administrators, bureaucrats, checkusers, oversighters, interface administrators, bots, edit filter managers/helpers, template editors, et al.) must have a password at least 10 characters in length. All accounts must have a password:

1. At least 8 characters in length
2. Not in the 100,000 most popular passwords (defined by the Password Blacklist library)
3. Different from their username

User accounts not meeting these requirements will be prompted to update their password accordingly. More information is available on MediaWiki.org.

• Blocked administrators may now block the administrator that blocked them. This was done to mitigate the possibility that a compromised administrator account would block all other active administrators, complementing the removal of the ability to unblock oneself outside of self-imposed blocks. A request for comment is currently in progress to determine whether the blocking policy should be updated regarding this change.
• {{Copyvio-revdel}} now has a link to open the history with the RevDel checkboxes already filled in.

Arbitration

• Following the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: AGK, Courcelles, GorillaWarfare, Joe Roe, Mkdw, SilkTork.

Miscellaneous

• Accounts continue to be compromised on a regular basis. Evidence shows this is entirely due to the accounts having the same password that was used on another website that suffered a data breach. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately.
• Around 22% of admins have enabled two-factor authentication, up from 20% in June 2018. If you haven't already enabled it, please consider doing so. Regardless of whether you use 2FA, please practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:39, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

Invitation to the discussion

I kindly invite you to the discussion in Talk:2016 Taiwan presidential election to decide whether to include the term "Republic of China" in the election infobox and the lead section as it is the official name of the country. Thank you. Lmmnhn (talk) 10:21, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

Appealing topic ban

Per this statement of yours at AE about me on 23 April 2018, “they may appeal every six months thereafter to me.” This is such an appeal of the topic-ban you gave me. To refresh your memory, you gave me the topic-ban because (as you said) of a comment that I made at my user talk page. Please note that I deleted that comment from my user talk page on April 19, 2018, [10] and the next edit at my user talk page was by you four days later imposing the indefinite topic ban.[11] Anythingyouwant (talk) 15:01, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Anythingyouwant, NeilN has not edited for several months. I'll ping DougWeller, who probably has an inkling of the best way forward. - Sitush (talk) 17:28, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Thanks Sitush. I think there’s supposed to be a space between “Doug” and “Weller” so it’s Doug Weller. Anythingyouwant (talk) 18:41, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Sorry. I'm an idiot. - Sitush (talk) 18:59, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Nonsense, people make typos all the time. Cheers. Anythingyouwant (talk) 19:10, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

(edit conflict)Because NeilN is away, and also because the ban was upheld when it was appealed at ARCA, the appeal would probably need to be to the community instead of a single admin. WP:AE is the most logical venue in my opinion. ~Awilley (talk) 18:43, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

I don’t have loads of time Awilley, nor heaps of confidence that the time would be well spent, nor any inclination to occupy hours of time of loads of other people. My preference is therefore to leave the appeal here for NeilN, as he allowed. If years go by without response from him, then maybe I’ll reconsider, assuming I have not slipped the surly bonds of the internet. Anythingyouwant (talk) 19:08, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Makes sense. ~Awilley (talk) 19:11, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Anyway Awilley, as I recall, this topic ban was upheld by ArbCom largely (or mostly) on grounds of being within the “discretion” of NeilN, so I will now leave it in his discretion. Anythingyouwant (talk) 19:20, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

DougWeller is an account of mine that made 2 edits many years ago. But I don't get pings to it. Doug Weller talk 19:59, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Any thoughts about the *other* matter at hand? Anythingyouwant (talk) 20:06, 24 January 2019 (UTC) Doug Weller Anythingyouwant (talk) 20:17, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Okay, well, absent any contrary advice from Doug Weller or anyone else, I will just wait for NeilN. Cheers! Anythingyouwant (talk) 22:50, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

A lot of people miss you Neil, why not tell them how you’re doing? Anythingyouwant (talk) 03:22, 24 May 2020 (UTC)

Ok?

Looks like the 90-hour work weeks didn't end after all. Hope you're ok. - Sitush (talk) 17:26, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Topic ban listings?

Is there a simple way to find out if someone's indefinite topic ban is still in effect? I may have come across someone who may be violating a topic ban imposed in 2017 (and who was blocked for violating it in 2018). I can't find any sign the topic ban was lifted, but absence of evidence is not blah blah blah. If necessary, I could just tell you the name -- you're the admin who imposed it -- but I'd rather limit the opportunities for making a fool of myself when I can. --Calton | Talk 08:55, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

Calton, Neil hasn't edited in six months. You may possibly find the topic ban listed at WP:Editing restrictions, but they don't always get listed. Unless the editor successfully appealed the TBan on AN (or ANI), it's still in effect. Softlavender (talk) 09:32, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

Xennials dispute: editor misrepresented you?

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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@NeilN: Hello, please excuse me if I'm doing this wrong; other than twelve small edits over the years I've only been editing a lot since December. User DynaGirl claims that you support the word "neologism" in the lead sentence of the article Xennials. I see that you're referring to the word as a neologism in a discussion on the talk page, but I don't interpret that to mean that you support using the word "neologism" in the lead of the article. I believe Dynagirl has a pattern of manipulation. I have to say this isn't a good first experience with editing on Wikipedia. It's certainly been difficult for me to not get sucked into being argumentative.

This is where I believe she misrepresents you: [12]

This is your talk page edit that she references: [13]

This is the dispute over the word "neoligism" [14] --Kolya Butternut (talk) 08:16, 3 February 2019 (UTC)

Kolya Butternut, NeilN is on a wiki-break and will not be answering your question. He hasn't edited in six months. Softlavender (talk) 11:06, 3 February 2019 (UTC)

Hi NeilN, something strange seems to be going on with this editor. At the time they came to your talk page, I had already supported removal of neologism from the lead and edited it into the article [15]. At this point, Kolya Butternut has repeatedly illustrated on Talk:Xennials that they are more interested in me (i.e. arguing with me, attempting to discredit me, etc) than with article content or consensus. This makes me suspicious that Kolya Butternut could possibly be related to someone I’ve previously brought to SPI. Koyla is not technically a new editor, rather they appear to be a recently revived WP:Sleeper account. I think you were one of the admins involved with blocking some of the socks and IPs that have generally disrupted articles related to generations for quite some time. Hopefully, you (or some friendly talk page stalkers) could keep an eye on the situation on Xennials and on generation articles in general. There has also been a lot of recent disruption to G.I. Generation. With respect to Xennials, something strange appears to be going on with Koyla, or the IP currently editing on that article, or both. DynaGirl (talk) 18:29, 4 February 2019 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Administrators' newsletter – February 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2019).

Administrator changes

Enterprisey • JJMC89

BorgQueen

Harro5 • Jenks24 • Graft • R. Baley

Interface administrator changes

Enterprisey

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment is currently open to reevaluate the activity requirements for administrators.
• Administrators who are blocked have the technical ability to block the administrator who blocked their own account. A recent request for comment has amended the blocking policy to clarify that this ability should only be used in exceptional circumstances, such as account compromises, where there is a clear and immediate need.
• A request for comment closed with a consensus in favor of deprecating The Sun as a permissible reference, and creating an edit filter to warn users who attempt to cite it.

Technical news

• A discussion regarding an overhaul of the format and appearance of Wikipedia:Requests for page protection is in progress (permalink). The proposed changes will make it easier to create requests for those who are not using Twinkle. The workflow for administrators at this venue will largely be unchanged. Additionally, there are plans to archive requests similar to how it is done at WP:PERM, where historical records are kept so that prior requests can more easily be searched for.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2019 Steward elections will begin on 08 February 2019, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 28 February 2019, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• A new IRC bot is available that allows you to subscribe to notifications when specific filters are tripped. This requires that your IRC handle be identified.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:15, 4 February 2019 (UTC)

Continued Wikihounding /POV edits.

I made numerous edits in a massive attempt to rid the article John Hagee of issues, and very pro-Israel editor Icewhiz removed some of the content as "No consensus for attack content in lede". Less than 5 minutes later, the Israel-based IP 79.183.56.98 (talk · contribs) undid all of my other edits, claiming "unexplained massive removal of sourced content, discuss first", then 4 minutes after that, Icewhiz fails to revert the change and starts removing other content. Obviously, I highly suspect it's his IP, based on his past editing with a very pro-Israel POV. (numerous times he has been taken to ANI, AE, etc, via this type of editing.) To make matters worse, I come back from my wikibreak, try to reach a middle ground by making this edit, and then post to Nyttend (talk · contribs)'s talk page about my concerns and my consternation in dealing with this, and Icewhiz wikihounds me to his page. I made no ping at him or anything. This isn't the only time Icewhiz has hounded me. In a case you presided over last year at AE where Icewhiz misleadingly attempted to get me blocked for a false report of violating sanctions, I called into play this hounding behavior and nothing was done about it.(see here.) Just going to his talk page shows that he has even engaged in this behavior with User:Nableezy. Indeed, I noticed that Icewhiz made a completely unnecessary comment at SPI (here) about the users intentions for reporting a valid concern of a sockpuppet. I'm getting really sick of being followed around Wikipedia by this user, and their other problems with editors are cause for great concern. - R9tgokunks ⭕ 22:49, 6 February 2019 (UTC)

R9tgokunks as mentioned in several threads on this page NielN is on an extended wikibreak and has not edited in months. Please be aware that as you have also posted about this on Nyttend's talk page this could be seen as WP:FORUMSHOPPING. MarnetteD|Talk 22:48, 6 February 2019 (UTC)

MarnetteD, I had an issue with my browser and wasn't able to complete my post. Please re-read? I was bringing it here because NeilN presided over interactions between the user and myself before. Do you have a comment on how I should proceed? I'm really fed up with being harassed by the user via their hounding and edit warring. - R9tgokunks ⭕ 22:50, 6 February 2019 (UTC)

MarnetteD, as I read it, the issue with forum shopping is that you're trying to get a desirable response after getting an undesirable one; I just got back from work and haven't made any edits in seven hours, so I haven't made any responses at all. Plus, by pinging me here, R9tgokunks made sure that I would see the response — were NeilN active, I would have been able to come in and say "I already said X" were that the case. Nyttend (talk) 22:54, 6 February 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for the clarification Nyttend. Just so you know R9 did not ping you with their first edit which is the one I responded to. I hadn't looked into the situation in depth so I was just worried that R9 might be creating a problem for themselves. I hope that things work out to everyone's satisfaction. MarnetteD|Talk 23:02, 6 February 2019 (UTC)

I hadn't noticed that, but even without the "I had an issue with my browser" note, I would have assumed some mistake. You'd be nuts if you intentionally ended your statement with "revert the change and starts removing the", without finishing anything, adding a signature, etc., so I would have assumed a too-early "enter" or something of the like. Nyttend (talk) 23:09, 6 February 2019 (UTC)

Question about COI tag on Vivek Ramaswamy page

Hi. I've been hired, only recently, to work with Vivek Ramaswamy on his page. I understand that you placed a COI tag on the page in March 2017 and I'd like to get an understanding from you about the removal of the tag. Have the issues been resolved? Is there a way for me to work with editors to get the tag removed? I wasn't involved with the company when the tag was put on and I work for them with a clear COI - is there a way to move ahead to get it removed? Thanks for your assistance in the matter, FinalFrontier.003 (talk) 07:11, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

FinalFrontier.003, NeilN is on an extended break from Wikipedia, so he will not see or answer your question. Softlavender (talk) 09:37, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

Talk pages consultation 2019

The Wikimedia Foundation has invited the various Wikimedia communities, including the English Wikipedia, to participate in a consultation on improving communication methods within the Wikimedia projects. As such, a request for comment has been created at Wikipedia:Talk pages consultation 2019. You are invited to express your views in the discussion. ~ Winged Blades^Godric 05:20, 24 February 2019 (UTC)

Self-admitted sock

Hi, Neil. You may wish to be aware of this message that was posted on my talk page yesterday: User talk:Amaury/2019#Guilty. The relevant SPI is at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Simulation12. Amaury (talk | contribs) 17:56, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) @Amaury: NeilN has [not] edited for four months now, FYI re your SPI. ——SerialNumber54129 18:02, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

I've blocked the IP. There are many IPs from that range being disruptive at various venues. I'm knocking them off one by one - don't know if a range block would be feasible as I haven't wanted to take the time to figure it out. I also just semi'ed the SPI itself.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:06, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2019).

Administrator changes

Evad37

There'sNoTime

Alex Shih • Brian • Mushroom • Nakon • Oscarthecat • PeruvianLlama • Ragib • Reaper Eternal • Rossami • Tom

Interface administrator changes

Evad37 • Galobtter

Ritchie333

CheckUser changes

There'sNoTime

Keegan • Ks0stm

Oversight changes

There'sNoTime

Ks0stm • Sphilbrick

Guideline and policy news

• The RfC on administrator activity requirements failed to reach consensus for any proposal.
• Following discussions at the Bureaucrats' noticeboard and Wikipedia talk:Administrators, an earlier change to the restoration of adminship policy was reverted. If requested, bureaucrats will not restore administrator permissions removed due to inactivity if there have been five years without a logged administrator action; this "five year rule" does not apply to permissions removed voluntarily.

Technical news

• A new tool is available to help determine if a given IP is an open proxy/VPN/webhost/compromised host.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee announced two new OTRS queues. Both are meant solely for cases involving private information; other cases will continue to be handled at the appropriate venues (e.g., WP:COIN or WP:SPI).
  • paid-en-wpwikipedia.org has been set up to receive private evidence related to abusive paid editing.
  • checkuser-en-wpwikipedia.org has been set up to receive private requests for CheckUser. For instance, requests for IP block exemption for anonymous proxy editing should now be sent to this address instead of the functionaries-en list.

Miscellaneous

• Following the 2019 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Base, Einsbor, Jon Kolbert, Schniggendiller, and Wim b.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:13, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

Inexplicable vandalism from experienced editor

Could you take a look at this edit? It's unambiguous vandalism, and the editor self-reverted almost immediately. Normally I'd just leave a template on the editor's talk page and move on, but they have 20,000+ edits and a bunch of user permissions related to fighting vandalism, so I assume they know the rules. In any case, I thought it was weird enough that I would be better off passing the buck to someone with experience in the area. Nblund ^talk 04:30, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

Worth considering whether it's a compromised account; they hadn't edited for a month. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 04:36, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

A user who would do this would not vandalize an article with the phrase "SJW nonsense." I'm pretty sure the account is compromised. Ian.thomson (talk) 04:51, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

It may have been a temporary compromise. They made that one uncharacteristic vandalism edit, reverted immediately, and have done nothing since. Somebody in their household messed with their keyboard, said OMG, and reverted?) I suggest we keep an eye on the account but not take any action right now. If anything further like that happens we should immediately block as compromised. (BTW Nblund, the reason others are chiming in here is because NeilN hasn't edited in several months. If it happens again, notify someone else.) -- MelanieN (talk) 05:00, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

Erm, too late. >_> Ian.thomson (talk) 05:01, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

Fair enough. They can work it out when they come back to editing. (Surprise!!! 0;-D) -- MelanieN (talk) 05:02, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

Thanks to to all for taking a look! After looking around, I realized I probably would have known about the Wikibreak if I had read virtually any other talk-page thread. Alas. NeilN: sorry to clutter your talk page, but - amazingly - posting on your user page still gets things done even when you're not here. Nblund ^talk 05:17, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

Long time no chat

Hi NeilN! I hope that you're doing well and that life is happy. It's been awhile since we've seen one another, and I just wanted to leave a message here to say hello and let you know that I was thinking about you... Cheers :-) ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 03:37, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

Miss seeing you around! Airplaneman ✈ 22:19, 18 March 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2019).

Administrator changes

Reaper Eternal • ThaddeusB

Bogdangiusca • Christopher Parham • Necrothesp • Schneelocke • Siroxo • Sarah

Mentifisto → Lofty abyss

Interface administrator changes

Mr. Stradivarius

Bureaucrat changes

DeltaQuad

Kingturtle

Technical news

• In Special:Preferences under "Appearance" → "Advanced options", there is now an option to show a confirmation prompt when clicking on a rollback link.
• The Wikimedia Foundation's Community health initiative plans to design and build a new user reporting system to make it easier for people experiencing harassment and other forms of abuse to provide accurate information to the appropriate channel for action to be taken. Please see meta:Community health initiative/User reporting system consultation 2019 to provide your input on this idea.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee clarified that the General 1RR prohibition for Palestine-Israel articles may only be enforced on pages with the {{ARBPIA 1RR editnotice}} edit notice.

Miscellaneous

• Two more administrator accounts were compromised. Evidence has shown that these attacks, like previous incidents, were due to reusing a password that was used on another website that suffered a data breach. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately. All admins are strongly encouraged to enable two-factor authentication, please consider doing so. Please always practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.
• As a reminder, according to WP:NOQUORUM, administrators looking to close or relist an AfD should evaluate a nomination that has received few or no comments as if it were a proposed deletion (PROD) prior to determining whether it should be relisted.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:57, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

Long time no see

Dropping by to say hello! Hope that you're doing well:-) ∯WBG^converse 17:25, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

ArbCom 2019 special circular

Administrators must secure their accounts The Arbitration Committee may require a new RfA if your account is compromised. Use strong, unique passwords for your Wikipedia account and associated email Change your password now if your Wikipedia account password or email password is reused on another website, exposed, or weak Enable two-factor authentication now for improved security

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Why have I received this message? All administrators are receiving it. What prompted you to send this message? Recently, several Wikipedia admin accounts were compromised. The admin accounts were desysopped on an emergency basis. In the past, the Committee often resysopped admin accounts as a matter of course once the admin was back in control of their account. The committee has updated its guidelines. Admins may now be required to undergo a fresh Request for Adminship (RfA) after losing control of their account. What do I need to do? Only to follow the instructions in this message. Check that your password is unique (not reused across sites). Check that your password is strong (not simple or guessable). Enable Two-factor authentication (2FA), if you can, to create a second hurdle for attackers. How can I find out more about two-factor authentication (2FA)? You can find out more about 2FA at m:2FA.

This message was sent to all administrators following a recent motion. Thank you for your attention. For the Arbitration Committee, Cameron11598 02:29, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

Administrator account security (Correction to Arbcom 2019 special circular)

ArbCom would like to apologise and correct our previous mass message in light of the response from the community.

Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are required to "have strong passwords and follow appropriate personal security practices." We have updated our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular, two-factor authentication remains an optional means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised.

We are sorry for the wording of our previous message, which did not accurately convey this, and deeply regret the tone in which it was delivered.

For the Arbitration Committee, -Cameron11598 21:04, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2019).

Administrator changes

HickoryOughtShirt?4 • RexxS

Necrothesp

Bratsche • Kyle Barbour • Kzollman • Madman

Interface administrator changes

Pharos

Bureaucrat changes

Primefac

CheckUser changes

Reaper Eternal

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment concluded that creating pages in the portal namespace should be restricted to autoconfirmed users.
• Following a request for comment, the subject-specific notability guideline for pornographic actors and models (WP:PORNBIO) was removed; in its place, editors should consult WP:ENT and WP:GNG.

Technical news

• XTools Admin Stats, a tool to list admins by administrative actions, has been revamped to support more types of log entries such as AbuseFilter changes. Two additional tools have been integrated into it as well: Steward Stats and Patroller Stats.

Arbitration

• In response to the continuing compromise of administrator accounts, the Arbitration Committee passed a motion amending the procedures for return of permissions (diff). In such cases, the committee will review all available information to determine whether the administrator followed "appropriate personal security practices" before restoring permissions; administrators found failing to have adequately done so will not be resysopped automatically. All current administrators have been notified of this change.
• Following a formal ratification process, the arbitration policy has been amended (diff). Specifically, the two-thirds majority required to remove or suspend an arbitrator now excludes (1) the arbitrator facing suspension or removal, and (2) any inactive arbitrator who does not respond within 30 days to attempts to solicit their feedback on the resolution through all known methods of communication.

Miscellaneous

• A request for comment is currently open to amend the community sanctions procedure to exclude non XfD or CSD deletions.
• A proposal to remove pre-2009 indefinite IP blocks is currently open for discussion.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:37, 5 May 2019 (UTC)

RE: Deletion Request for a Hip-Hop/Rap Musician's Sibling (Discussion at Talk:Cardi B#Hennessy Doesn't Need a Page... Not Famous Enough)

Had done this to fellow admin Acroterion's page but he said that the deletion didn't come to any consensous. Then I transferred the situation to Page Protection Requesting but EL C replied about the page has not been erased.

I don't think she should not have an article here anyway. Only 489 words too long makes it too non-notable for the subject.

Level of protection is creation indefinite and it was supposed to red-linked. And here's who I am speaking bout: Hennessy Caroline younger sister of Cardi B. (no really that's the moniker she was given with due to her father looking intoxicated at delivery)

It must be deleted before protection for said rapper expires on the 21st of August. Otherwise.... another eternal lockup. Make it happen one day. One day!

Cheers,

67.81.163.178 (talk) 15:45, 18 May 2019 (UTC)

Hi, I thought you should know that Neil has not edited the project for some time, and it is unlikely he will see this message in the short term. Roxy, the dog. wooF 16:29, 18 May 2019 (UTC)

Urgent BLP expurgation

Only Southern Poverty Law Center says CIS is hate group. No RS say CIS is hate group. None! So text was removed. You do edit war to restore unsourced BLP text [16] [17] then PROTECT page to preserve it. Even admin must follow BLP. Be careful and remove. Here you act less like redactor more like some kind activist? How can this be? Where to complain about activist redactor? 185.65.206.138 (talk) 08:26, 31 May 2019 (UTC)

Hi, I thought you should know that Neil has not edited the project for some time, and it is unlikely he will see this message in the short term. His actions were, in my opinion, entirely correct, Regards -Roxy, the dog. wooF 10:42, 31 May 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2019).

Administrator changes

Andonic • Consumed Crustacean • Enigmaman • Euryalus • EWS23 • HereToHelp • Nv8200pa • Peripitus • StringTheory11 • Vejvančický

CheckUser changes

Ivanvector

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC seeks to clarify whether WP:OUTING should include information on just the English Wikipedia or any Wikimedia project.
• An RfC on WT:RfA concluded that Requests for adminship and bureaucratship are discussions seeking to build consensus.
• An RfC proposal to make the templates for discussion (TfD) process more like the requested moves (RM) process, i.e. "as a clearinghouse of template discussions", was closed as successful.

Technical news

• The CSD feature of Twinkle now allows admins to notify page creators of deletion if the page had not been tagged. The default behavior matches that of tagging notifications, and replaces the ability to open the user talk page upon deletion. You can customize which criteria receive notifications in your Twinkle preferences: look for Notify page creator when deleting under these criteria.
• Twinkle's d-batch (batch delete) feature now supports deleting subpages (and related redirects and talk pages) of each page. The pages will be listed first but use with caution! The und-batch (batch undelete) option can now also restore talk pages.

Miscellaneous

• The previously discussed unblocking of IP addresses indefinitely-blocked before 2009 was approved and has taken place.
• The 2019 talk pages consultation produced a report for Phase 1 and has entered Phase 2.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:48, 8 June 2019 (UTC)

Not even a dicky bird?

C'mon Neil, at least drop us a word, however small. In a few months you're going to lose your bit for inactivity. At least let us know you're alive and relatively well. I'm sure you can spare 30 seconds from your work, however busy you are .... Softlavender (talk) 00:12, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2019).

Administrator changes

28bytes • Ad Orientem • Ansh666 • Beeblebrox • Boing! said Zebedee • BU Rob13 • Dennis Brown • Deor • DoRD • Floquenbeam¹ • Flyguy649 • Fram² • Gadfium • GB fan • Jonathunder • Kusma • Lectonar • Moink • MSGJ • Nick • Od Mishehu • Rama • Spartaz • Syrthiss • TheDJ • WJBscribe

¹Floquenbeam's access was removed, then restored, then removed again.

²Fram's access was removed, then restored, then removed again.

Bureaucrat changes

28bytes • WJBscribe • Wizardman

Interface administrator changes

MSGJ • TheDJ

CheckUser changes

Beeblebrox • BU Rob13 • DoRD

Oversight changes

Beeblebrox • BU Rob13 • DoRD • GB fan

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment seeking to alleviate pressures on the request an account (ACC) process proposes either raising the account creation limit for extended confirmed editors or granting the account creator permission on request to new ACC tool users.

• In a related matter, the account throttle has been restored to six creations per day as the mitigation activity completed.

• The scope of CSD criterion G8 has been tightened such that the only redirects that it now applies to are those which target non-existent pages.
• The scope of CSD criterion G14 has been expanded slightly to include orphan "Foo (disambiguation)" redirects that target pages that are not disambiguation pages or pages that perform a disambiguation-like function (such as set index articles or lists).
• A request for comment seeks to determine whether Wikipedia:Office actions should be a policy page or an information page.

Technical news

• The Wikimedia Foundation's Community health initiative plans to design and build a new user reporting system to make it easier for people experiencing harassment and other forms of abuse to provide accurate information to the appropriate channel for action to be taken. Community feedback is invited.

Miscellaneous

• In February 2019, the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) changed its office actions policy to include temporary and project-specific bans. The WMF exercised this new ability for the first time on the English Wikipedia on 10 June 2019 to temporarily ban and desysop Fram. This action has resulted in significant community discussion, a request for arbitration (permalink), and, either directly or indirectly, the resignations of numerous administrators and functionaries. The WMF Board of Trustees is aware of the situation, and discussions continue on a statement and a way forward. The Arbitration Committee has sent an open letter to the WMF Board.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:20, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

PA just for asking about reliability

while I am trying to remove the neutrality issue of the Women's rights in Iran 's article, HistoryofIran accused me to do pov-pushing IRI edits 2 times! In another hand, when I issued the lack of source for some key sentences in the lede, he said "Are you honestly saying women in Iran have just as much rights compared to other countries? The article makes it quite clear that that is not the case" ... or " The whole article pretty much highlights the lack of women rights in Iran, yet you're still putting a citation need tag"... everyone knows that Wikipedia articles are not RS! I just want to improve Women's rights in Iran article and you can check my edits in that article, but by such suffering from HistoryofIran who was blocked by you, it could be too difficult. Regards!Saff V. (talk) 06:55, 11 July 2019 (UTC)

Neil does not appear to be active on the project at the moment. -Roxy, the dog. wooF 06:58, 11 July 2019 (UTC)

Welcome Obama

Can you please unprotect the page? I have revamped Draft:Welcome Obama substantially, and want to move it to the mainspace. And I promise you, I am not a sockpuppet of Padmalakshmisx. --Kailash29792 (talk) 06:26, 25 July 2019 (UTC)

 Done. El_C 06:30, 25 July 2019 (UTC)

Neil hasn't edited since 2018. He's missed. Bishonen | talk 07:06, 25 July 2019 (UTC).

IP 2.24.81.243

Hi NeilN. Would you mind watching File:National Bank of New Zealand logo.svg and Lloyds Bank Canada. I think the IP who was edit warring over this file a few years back has returned as 2.24.81.243. The file was removed from the article per Wikipedia:Files for discussion/2016 September 2#File:National Bank of New Zealand logo.svg and the close was endorsed per Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2017 January 26. I posting here because you did remove both the file from the article and the corresponding non-free use rationale from the file's page here and here after you blocked 2.25.221.253 per Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/3RRArchive336#User:2.25.221.253 reported by User:Marchjuly (Result: Blocked 48 hours). I'm pretty sure it's the same person; the account started editing a few days ago, made a couple of unrelated edits, then immediately went to the file's page and the concerned articles (neither of which had been edited in over two years since your edits, except for one cleanup edit made to the article in December 2018). FWIW, I did post something about this on Nthep's user talk as well the other day, but he might be busy or something at the moment. -- Marchjuly (talk) 13:25, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

Sorry. I didn't notice that NeilN hasn't edited in quite while when I posted the above. I hope the reason for that is he just decided to take an extended Wikibreak to recharge his batteries and not something more serious. -- Marchjuly (talk) 20:46, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

He got very busy with work and apparently never got unbusy. Softlavender (talk) 23:27, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – August 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2019).

Administrator changes

Johnuniq • Kosack • Valereee

Ad Orientem • Ched • Gadfium • Jonathunder • Nick • Yelyos

Bald Zebra • Beetstra • Doug Bell • Journalist • Ruud Koot • Splash • Voice of Clam

Interface administrator changes

Dinoguy1000

CheckUser changes

RickinBaltimore

Oversight changes

Beeblebrox

RickinBaltimore

Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, the page Wikipedia:Office actions has been changed from a policy page to an information page.
• A request for comment (permalink) is in progress regarding the administrator inactivity policy.

Arbitration

• Editors may now use the template {{Ds/aware}} to indicate that they are aware that discretionary sanctions are in force for a topic area, so it is unnecessary to alert them.

Miscellaneous

• Following a research project on masking IP addresses, the Foundation is starting a new project to improve the privacy of IP editors. The result of this project may significantly change administrative and counter-vandalism workflows. The project is in the very early stages of discussions and there is no concrete plan yet. Admins and the broader community are encouraged to leave feedback on the talk page.
• The new page reviewer right is bundled with the admin tool set. Many admins regularly help out at Special:NewPagesFeed, but they may not be aware of improvements, changes, and new tools for the Curation system. Stay up to date by subscribing here to the NPP newsletter that appears every two months, and/or putting the reviewers' talk page on your watchlist.

  Since the introduction of temporary user rights, it is becoming more usual to accord the New Page Reviewer right on a probationary period of 3 to 6 months in the first instance. This avoids rights removal for inactivity at a later stage and enables a review of their work before according the right on a permanent basis.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:24, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

Hey

Hey Neal, you have not been seen on Wiki for about 10 months, i hope that this is because you decided to take a long Wiki-break and not because of some problems in your real life. Take care man.---Wikaviani ^{(talk) (contribs)} 00:23, 14 August 2019 (UTC)

+1. It's actually been a year now since NeilN's last logged admin action, and it's only that brief note from October 5 (ironically saying he was hoping to be more active going forward) that has stopped him from being desysopped for inactivity already. I hope he comes back one day. -- Pawnkingthree (talk) 12:22, 14 August 2019 (UTC)

Notification

Hello NeilN. I hope you are enjoying your time away from Wikipedia. As a formality, please be advised that the Arbitration Committee has received an unblock appeal from Darkfrog24 and we have posted it at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Unblock appeal by Darkfrog24 for review by the community. I wanted to make you aware of the appeal as the blocking administrator in June 2018. Additional information is available at User talk:Darkfrog24#Restore user talk page access. Best regards, Mkdw ^talk 20:11, 15 August 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2019).

Administrator changes

Bradv • Chetsford • Izno

Floquenbeam • Lectonar

DESiegel • Jake Wartenberg • Rjanag • Topbanana

CheckUser changes

Callanecc • LFaraone • There'sNoTime

Oversight changes

Callanecc • Fox • HJ Mitchell • LFaraone • There'sNoTime

Technical news

• Editors using the mobile website on Wikipedia can opt-in to new advanced features via your settings page. This will give access to more interface links, special pages, and tools.
• The advanced version of the edit review pages (recent changes, watchlist, and related changes) now includes two new filters. These filters are for "All contents" and "All discussions". They will filter the view to just those namespaces.

Arbitration

• A request for comment is open to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the 2019 English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee election and to resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.

Miscellaneous

• A global request for comment is in progress regarding whether a user group should be created that could modify edit filters across all public Wikimedia wikis.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:37, 7 September 2019 (UTC)

Arbitration proposed decision listed

The proposed decision in the Antisemitism in Poland arbitration case has been released, and it contains one or more findings of fact or remedies which relate to you. Please review this proposed decision and draw the arbitrators' attention to any relevant material or statements. Comments may be brought to the attention of the committee on the proposed decision talk page. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 05:28, 7 September 2019 (UTC)

Pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity

Established policy provides for removal of the administrative permissions of users who have not made any edits or logged actions in the preceding twelve months. Because you have been inactive, your administrative permissions will be removed if you do not return to activity within the next month.

Inactive administrators are encouraged to rejoin the project in earnest rather than to make token edits to avoid loss of administrative permissions. Resources and support for reengaging with the project are available at Wikipedia:WikiProject Editor Retention/administrators. If you do not intend to rejoin the project in the foreseeable future, please consider voluntarily resigning your administrative permissions by making a request at the bureaucrats' noticeboard.

Thank you for your past contributions to the project. — JJMC89 bot 00:10, 1 October 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – October 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2019).

Administrator changes

Barkeep49

Beetstra • KillerChihuahua • Kusma

Arcadian • Extraordinary Machine • Xeno

JamesBWatson → JBW

Interface administrator changes

Evad37

CheckUser changes

Courcelles • SilkTork • Timotheus Canens

Oversight changes

Courcelles • SilkTork • Timotheus Canens

Guideline and policy news

• Following a discussion, a new criterion for speedy category renaming was added: C2F: One eponymous article, which applies if the category contains only an eponymous article or media file, provided that the category has not otherwise been emptied shortly before the nomination. The default outcome is an upmerge to the parent categories.

Technical news

• As previously noted, tighter password requirements for Administrators were put in place last year. Wikipedia should now alert you if your password is less than 10 characters long and thus too short.

Arbitration

• The 2019 CheckUser and Oversight appointment process has begun. The community consultation period will take place October 4th to 10th.
• The arbitration case regarding Fram was closed. While there will be a local RfC focus[ing] on how harassment and private complaints should be handled in the future, there is currently a global community consultation on partial and temporary office actions in response to the incident. It will be open until October 30th.

Miscellaneous

• The Community Tech team has been working on a system for temporarily watching pages, and welcomes feedback.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:55, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

Imminent suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity

Established policy provides for removal of the administrative permissions of users who have not made any edits or logged actions in the preceding twelve months. Because you have been inactive, your administrative permissions will be removed if you do not return to activity within the next several days.

Inactive administrators are encouraged to rejoin the project in earnest rather than to make token edits to avoid loss of administrative permissions. Resources and support for reengaging with the project are available at Wikipedia:WikiProject Editor Retention/administrators. If you do not intend to rejoin the project in the foreseeable future, please consider voluntarily resigning your administrative permissions by making a request at the bureaucrats' noticeboard.

Thank you for your past contributions to the project. — JJMC89 bot 00:03, 25 October 2019 (UTC)

Suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity

Established policy provides for removal of the administrative permissions of users who have not made any edits or logged actions in the preceding twelve months. Because you have been inactive, your administrative permissions have been removed.

Subject to certain time limits and other restrictions, your administrative permissions may be returned upon request at WP:BN.

Thank you for your past contributions to the project. — xaosflux ^Talk 00:06, 1 November 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2019).

Administrator changes

GermanJoe • Girth Summit • Kees08 • Nosebagbear

DESiegel • GB fan • MSGJ • Voice of Clam • WilyD

DeltaQuad • Fang Aili • Pakaran

Bureaucrat changes

DeltaQuad • Pakaran

Interface administrator changes

MSGJ

CheckUser changes

L235 • Mz7 • SQL • ST47

Ivanvector

DeltaQuad

Oversight changes

L235 • Mz7 • ST47 • Stwalkerster • The Blade of the Northern Lights • Xaosflux

DeltaQuad • DGG • Julia W

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC was closed with the consensus that the resysop criteria should be made stricter.

• The follow-up RfC to develop that change is now open at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/2019 Resysop Criteria (2).

• A related RfC is seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure.

Arbitration

• Eligible editors may now nominate themselves as candidates for the 2019 Arbitration Committee Elections. The self-nomination period will close November 12, with voting running from November 19 through December 2.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:15, 3 November 2019 (UTC)

Hello NeilN

Hey there, You might not remember me but back in 2016/2017 when I began editing we had a lot of conflicts/disagreements and if you can’t remember it’s totally understandable. What did happen though? you aren’t as active as you once were. New Interests elsewhere i presume? Celestina007 (talk) 07:58, 23 November 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2019).

Administrator changes

EvergreenFir • ToBeFree

Akhilleus • Athaenara • John Vandenberg • Melchoir • MichaelQSchmidt • NeilN • Youngamerican • 😂

CheckUser changes

Beeblebrox

Deskana

Interface administrator changes

Evad37

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC on the administrator resysop criteria was closed. 18 proposals have been summarised with a variety of supported and opposed statements. The inactivity grace period within which a new request for adminship is not required has been reduced from three years to two. Additionally, Bureaucrats are permitted to use their discretion when returning administrator rights.
• Following a proposal, the edit filter mailing list has been opened up to users with the Edit Filter Helper right.

Technical news

• Wikimedia projects can set a default block length for users via MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry. A new page, MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry-ip, allows the setting of a different default block length for IP editors. Neither is currently used. (T219126)

Arbitration

• Voting in the 2019 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 2 December 2018 UTC. Please review the candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page.

Miscellaneous

• The global consultation on partial and temporary office actions that ended in October received a closing statement from staff concluding, among other things, that the WMF will no longer use partial or temporary Office Action bans... until and unless community consensus that they are of value or Board directive.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:48, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

Hi Neil

Sorry to see you have stopped editing. I hope everything is OK. You are missed. -Ad Orientem (talk) 02:14, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

Merry Merry!

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2020!

Hello NeilN, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2020. Happy editing, ★Trekker (talk) 17:13, 21 December 2019 (UTC) Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages.

Administrators' newsletter – January 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2019).

Administrator changes

Dreamy Jazz • Newslinger • Rosguill

Deor • Spartaz • Xeno

Angusmclellan • clpo13 • Edgar181 • Matthewedwards • NCurse

CheckUser changes

Bradv • Casliber • David Fuchs • Maxim • Newyorkbrad • SoWhy • Xeno

Oversight changes

Bradv • Casliber • DGG • David Fuchs • Maxim • Newyorkbrad • SoWhy • Xeno

Someguy1221

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment asks whether partial blocks should be enabled on the English Wikipedia. If enabled, this functionality would allow administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces, rather than the entire site.
• A proposal asks whether admins who don't use their tools for a significant period of time (e.g. five years) should have the toolset procedurally removed.
• Following a successful RfC, a whitelist is now available for users whose redirects will be autopatrolled by a bot, removing them from the new pages patrol queue. Admins can add such users to Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Redirect whitelist after a discussion following the guidelines at Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Redirect whitelist.

Arbitration

• The fourth case on Palestine-Israel articles was closed. The case consolidated all previous remedies under one heading, which should make them easier to understand, apply, and enforce. In particular, the distinction between "primary articles" and "related content" has been clarified, with the former being the entire set of articles whose topic relates to the Arab-Israeli conflict, broadly interpreted rather than reasonably construed.
• Following the 2019 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Beeblebrox, Bradv, Casliber, David Fuchs, DGG, KrakatoaKatie, Maxim, Newyorkbrad, SoWhy, Worm That Turned, Xeno.

Miscellaneous

• This issue marks three full years of the Admin newsletter. Thanks for reading!

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:06, 4 January 2020 (UTC)

I miss you, NeilN!

I hope you're doing well... ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 05:34, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

I also just checked if you were back. I hope nothing happened, your last edit said you were returning, but that was October 2018. Best, —PaleoNeonate – 12:47, 10 March 2020 (UTC)

Hope all is okay Neil, Weird as it probably sounds but I actually do miss you and do think of you occasionally, Hope you're well Neil, Take care, Dave /// –Davey2010^Talk 21:03, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – February 2020

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

Administrator changes

Ergo Sum • Nick Moyes • QEDK • Wugapodes

Dennis Brown

Aude • BrownHairedGirl • CALR • Jengod • John Reaves • J.smith • Kim Dent-Brown • K1Bond007 • MECU • Refdoc • RHaworth

CheckUser changes

Opabinia regalis • Premeditated Chaos

Interface administrator changes

Ragesoss

Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, partial blocks are now enabled on the English Wikipedia. This functionality allows administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces rather than the entire site. A draft policy is being workshopped at Wikipedia:Partial blocks.
• The request for comment seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure closed with wide-spread support for an alternative desysoping procedure based on community input. No proposed process received consensus.

Technical news

• Twinkle now supports partial blocking. There is a small checkbox that toggles the "partial" status for both blocks and templating. There is currently one template: {{uw-pblock}}.
• When trying to move a page, if the target title already exists then a warning message is shown. The warning message will now include a link to the target title. [18]

Arbitration

• Following a recent arbitration case, the Arbitration Committee reminded administrators that checkuser and oversight blocks must not be reversed or modified without prior consultation with the checkuser or oversighter who placed the block, the respective functionary team, or the Arbitration Committee.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2020 Steward elections will begin on 08 February 2020, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 28 February 2020, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• The English Wikipedia has reached six million articles. Thank you everyone for your contributions!

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:06, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2020

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.

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Administrators' newsletter – April 2020

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

Administrator changes

Cabayi • Lee Vilenski

Boing! said Zebedee

Jonny-mt • MarkGallagher • PeaceNT

Money emoji → Moneytrees

Bureaucrat changes

SilkTork • WereSpielChequers

CheckUser changes

NativeForeigner

Oversight changes

Someguy1221

Daniel Case

Guideline and policy news

• There is an ongoing request for comment to streamline the source deprecation and blacklisting process.

Technical news

• There is a plan for new requirements for user signatures. You can give feedback.

Arbitration

• Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold a Arbcom RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. A draft RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC (Draft) and not open to comments from the community yet. Interested editors can comment on the RfC itself on its talk page.

Miscellaneous

• The WMF has begun a pilot report of the pages most visited through various social media platforms to help with anti-vandalism and anti-disinformation efforts. The report is updated daily and will be available through the end of May.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:00, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

Miss u

Hey !!! NeilN Where are you ? You have stopped editing ! I hope you're doing well. Tanisha priyadarshini (talk) 15:47, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

Children in BLP, RFC

Evening NeilN, going back some time ago there was a discussion on childrens names being included in BLP. Sorry for reaching back to 2014! Anyway - did the RFC take place as I cannot find it, or if policy was ever clarified? I ask this because I have reverted a few edits, made reference to BLP policy, then just to ensure I wasn't causing mayhem went off to find out more about it as I am aware of several reputable editors who do the removal based on policy. However I can't find a more definitive answer. I am now being reverted with reference to following RFC's which seem somewhat... errr... poorly attended, and outcomes seem un-linked to the actual policies (particularly WP:BLPNAME, WP:NOTPUBLICFIGURE etc) which could be easily resolved by a review of said policies?[19][20] The policy page itself has held its own discussions during the formulation of the policies themselves that seems more clear cut than the language they eventually used, but were ignored in 2014 and in subsequent RFC. [21][22] Anyway, if you are aware of a later BLP RFC can you let me know, if not I may end up starting a request to revisit of the policy to make it clearer. Koncorde (talk) 20:42, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

Ah, just noticed the tag at the foot of the page. Will try Drmies. Koncorde (talk) 20:47, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

I miss Neil too. Drmies (talk) 21:53, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2020

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

Administrator changes

Gnangarra • Kaisershatner • Malcolmxl5

CheckUser changes

Callanecc

Oversight changes

HJ Mitchell

Guideline and policy news

• Discretionary sanctions have been authorized for all pages and edits related to COVID-19, to be logged at WP:GS/COVID19.
• Following a recent discussion on Meta-Wiki, the edit filter maintainer global group has been created.
• A request for comment has been proposed to create a new main page editor usergroup.
• A request for comment has been proposed to make the bureaucrat activity requirements more strict.

Technical news

• The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. You can review the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page.
• Enterprisey created a script that will show a link to the proper Special:Undelete page when viewing a since-deleted revision, see User:Enterprisey/link-deleted-revs.

Miscellaneous

• A request for comment closed with consensus to create a Village Pump-style page for communication with the Wikimedia Foundation.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:19, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

Today's Wikipedian 10 years ago

Awesome

Ten years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:03, 19 May 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2020

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

Administrator changes

CaptainEek • Creffett • Cwmhiraeth

Anna Frodesiak • Buckshot06 • Ronhjones • SQL

CheckUser changes

SQL

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment asks whether the Unblock Ticket Request System (UTRS) should allowed any unblock request or just private appeals.
• The Wikimedia Foundation announced that they will develop a universal code of conduct for all WMF projects. There is an open local discussion regarding the same.

Arbitration

• A motion was passed to enact a 500/30 restriction on articles related to the history of Jews and antisemitism in Poland during World War II (1933–45), including the Holocaust in Poland. Article talk pages where disruption occurs may also be managed with the stated restriction.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:27, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2020

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

Administrator changes

Malcolmxl5

John • TheCoffee • Tim!

Creffett → GeneralNotability

DeltaQuad → AmandaNP

CheckUser changes

Bbb23

Interface administrator changes

TonyBallioni

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment is in progress to remove the T2 (template that misrepresents established policy) speedy deletion criterion.

Technical news

• Protection templates on mainspace pages are now automatically added by User:MusikBot II (BRFA).

Arbitration

• Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold an RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. The RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC and is open to comments from the community.
• The Medicine case was closed, with a remedy authorizing standard discretionary sanctions for all discussions about pharmaceutical drug prices and pricing and for edits adding, changing, or removing pharmaceutical drug prices or pricing from articles.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:25, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – August 2020

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

Administrator changes

Red Phoenix

Euryalus • SQL

Jujutacular • Monty845 • Rettetast • Madchester

Oversight changes

GB fan

Keegan • Opabinia regalis • Premeditated Chaos

Guideline and policy news

• There is an open request for comment to decide whether to increase the minimum duration a sanction discussion has to remain open (currently 24 hours).
• Speedy deletion criterion T2 (template that misrepresents established policy) has been repealed following a request for comment.
• Speedy deletion criterion X2 (pages created by the content translation tool) has been repealed following a discussion.
• There is a proposal to restrict proposed deletion to confirmed users.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:21, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!

Hey, NeilN. I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! Megan Barris (Lets talk📧) 07:34, 30 August 2020 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!

Happy First Edit Day, NeilN, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! 1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 09:17, 30 August 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2020

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

Administrator changes

Eddie891

Angela • Jcw69 • Just Chilling • Philg88 • Viajero

CheckUser changes

SQL

Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, the minimum length for site ban discussions was increased to 72 hours, up from 24.
• A request for comment is ongoing to determine whether paid editors must or should use the articles for creation process.
• A request for comment is open to resolve inconsistencies between the draftification and alternative to deletion processes.

Arbitration

• A request for comment is open to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the 2020 English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee election and to resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.
• An open request for comment asks whether active Arbitrators may serve on the Trust and Safety Case Review Committee or Ombudsman commission.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:56, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

John Mooney

John Mooney was in fact born in 1998. There isn't a public citation but I'm basing this on direct feedback from the man himself and his father, Kevin Mooney. It is 100% accurate that his birthdate is 3/20/98. I don't know how else to prove it to you but when the person and his father both say that's what it is, is that good enough? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chitownchristian (talk • contribs) 15:35, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

(talk page gnome) Answered at the user's talk page, —PaleoNeonate – 02:35, 9 February 2021 (UTC)

Why on earth did the OP come here? The page wasn't even created until two years after NeilN stopped editing.-- P-K3 (talk) 20:28, 26 February 2021 (UTC)