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Welcome to the one hundred and fifty third WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 16,386 last month to 16,434 on 29 December 2020). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 190 is ahead of WP:GM who have 88. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 77 while WP:GM has 69 out of a total number of 4,606 articles.
Currently we have sixty Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
Happy New Year
It is time to wish all members of the project a Happy New Year. Hopefully with the availability of a couple of vaccines things should start to get back to normality soon. The last year has seen 35 of the project's articles promoted to GA, while 9 have been promoted to FA and a list has been promoted to FL. Many thanks to all those members who have been put in the hard work to get these articles to a higher status.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The January 2021 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no nominations on the project talk page.
The project is subscribed to a clean-up listing which lists articles tagged with various clean-up tags that need attention. The listing is refreshed by a bot on a regular basis.
Monitoring is essential Use the watchlist to keep an eye on changes to the project's articles so that vandalism and spamming can be removed as quickly as possible.
Moves Please be careful when performing articles moves and ensure that you also move all the talk sub-pages and update any image fair use rational. Otherwise the archives, to-do lists, assessment comments and GA reviews get lost and the image may be deleted as it has an incorrect FUR. You will also have to check that the Commons link is set correctly.
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By motion, standard discretionary sanctions have been temporarily authorizedfor all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes). The effectiveness of the discretionary sanctions can be evaluated on the request by any editor after March 1, 2021 (or sooner if for a good reason).
Hello! I was in the process of accepting Draft:CallMeCarson, but noticed that you had create-protected the page. I think this draft falls safely within the GNG, particularly with the new sexual misconduct allegations. If you could unprotect the page or let me know why not, it would be much appreciated. Thanks! AviationFreak💬05:17, 12 January 2021 (UTC) (please mention me on reply)
The Editing team has scheduled a major update to mw:Extension:DiscussionTools (the new Reply tool) for next week's deployment train. Since you invoke the feature from a script (I do, too), you're probably going to see that update next week, before it's officially released in the mw:Beta Feature system. The new update will use a similar system for starting a ==New discussion==. As before, full-page wikitext editing will not be affected. There is more information on the project page at mw:Talk pages project/New discussion.
Welcome to the one hundred and fifty fourth WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 16,434 last month to 16,522 on 29 January 2021). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 190 is ahead of WP:GM who have 88. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 79 while WP:GM has 69 out of a total number of 4,640 articles.
Currently we have sixty two Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The February 2021 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no nominations on the project talk page.
The project is subscribed to a clean-up listing which lists articles tagged with various clean-up tags that need attention. The listing is refreshed by a bot on a regular basis.
Monitoring is essential Use the watchlist to keep an eye on changes to the project's articles so that vandalism and spamming can be removed as quickly as possible.
Moves Please be careful when performing articles moves and ensure that you also move all the talk sub-pages and update any image fair use rational. Otherwise the archives, to-do lists, assessment comments and GA reviews get lost and the image may be deleted as it has an incorrect FUR. You will also have to check that the Commons link is set correctly.
Thanks
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Welcome to the one hundred and fifty fifth WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 16,522 last month to 16,781 on 27 February 2021). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 190 is ahead of WP:GM who have 88. WP:YORKS also has the lead in FAs at 79 while WP:GM has 69 out of a total number of 4,643 articles.
Currently we have sixty two Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The March 2021 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no nominations on the project talk page.
The project is subscribed to a clean-up listing which lists articles tagged with various clean-up tags that need attention. The listing is refreshed by a bot on a regular basis.
Monitoring is essential Use the watchlist to keep an eye on changes to the project's articles so that vandalism and spamming can be removed as quickly as possible.
Moves Please be careful when performing articles moves and ensure that you also move all the talk sub-pages and update any image fair use rational. Otherwise the archives, to-do lists, assessment comments and GA reviews get lost and the image may be deleted as it has an incorrect FUR. You will also have to check that the Commons link is set correctly.
Thanks
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A request for comment is open that proposes a process for the community to revoke administrative permissions. This follows a 2019 RfC in favor of creating one such a policy.
A request for comment is in progress to remove F7 (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a, which covers immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
A request for comment asks if sysops may place the General sanctions/Coronavirus disease 2019 editnotice template on pages in scope that do not have page-specific sanctions?
When blocking an IPv6 address with Twinkle, there is now a checkbox with the option to just block the /64 range. When doing so, you can still leave a block template on the initial, single IP address' talkpage.
When protecting a page with Twinkle, you can now add a note if doing so was in response to a request at WP:RfPP, and even link to the specific revision.
By motion, the discretionary sanctions originally authorized under the GamerGate case are now authorized under a new Gender and sexuality case, with sanctions authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, any gender-related dispute or controversy and associated people. Sanctions issued under GamerGate are now considered Gender and sexuality sanctions.
You do realise that what you said is victim blaming? If someone improves an article then that's one thing but just deleting everything is completely against the ethos of wikipedia. Will you be writing something on the talk page of the people who did the deleting warning them not to do it and to try to improve pages instead, or is it just me you seek to correct?SandrinaHatman (talk) 19:37, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
@SandrinaHatman: I'm sorry you feel that a note meant as suggestion to how to avoid more of the same is victim blaming but Wikipedia has standards and while, yes, in an ideal world everything would be given the opportunity to be improved rather than deleted but there is so much rubbish knocking about (for whatever reason) that stuff that doesn't obviously meet the standards does tend to get summarily deleted. That's a statement not an excuse for anyone's actions and others may have done things differently but as Nick says understanding what the criteria are is a good place to start. Nthep (talk) 20:16, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
@TomVenam2021: You can ask the Tasmanian government but the permission has to be explicit. The existing image is licenced as the photographer's own work and has attached EXIF information that strongly suggests that this is the case. Nthep (talk) 23:21, 27 March 2021 (UTC)
@TomVenam2021: you don't need to add a new heading every time you comment on a talk page. Finding a replacement photo is easy as anyone can take a photo of him and upload it accordingly. The hard bit is being in the right place at the right time to get one. Nthep (talk) 23:37, 27 March 2021 (UTC)
A quick but possibly dumb question about speedy deletion criteria
I have requested this image that I've uploaded for the article Everywhere at the End of Time to be deleted in the FFD discussion about it, as I did with some audio samples from that article. After an interesting conversation with another administrator, where I had rickrolled him, I realized just how many non-free content I had put in that article. He pointed me out to this list, where the EatEoT article was at the top of. While yes, the article's topic is very abstract (a musical depiction of the stages of Alzheimer's) and very long (a series of six different albums), that does not justify such a large amount of non-free content as I usually though it would.
Anyway, my question is: since an administrator speedily deleted the audio samples I had uploaded, due to criterion G7, could I do that to the previously mentioned image, too? I am genuinely curious about this, as I see a "delete" button just after the name of the file on its FFD discussion, but I have no idea where it takes me or if I have the permission to delete the image. The criterion in question states that, if the uploader of the file him(her)self supports its deletion, it should be speedily deleted. And I am the uploader of the image (two obvious facts). But the criterion says nothing about if the uploader can delete the file if he supports so, which I obviously do.
So, in summary: can a file be speedily deleted by its own uploader, even if he does not hold a higher position on Wikipedia?
@Wetrorave: Hi, simple answer is no. Deletion of files, articles, indeed anything requires administrator rights. G7 is simply a criterion for speedy deletion, not the actual mechanism. You're right that G7 is in an indication that the creator agrees to the deletion of the content but it is also part of G7 that there has to be little or no other editing made by anyone else. If G7 were unbundled from admin rights (I'm not sure if that is technically possible) then the possibility for abuse is huge, if page creators could delete content solely because they were the first to edit a page. Nthep (talk) 08:16, 31 March 2021 (UTC)
Following a request for comment, F7 (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a has been deprecated; it covered immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
Following a request for comment, page movers were granted the delete-redirect userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target.
Technical news
When you move a page that many editors have on their watchlist the history can be split and it might also not be possible to move it again for a while. This is because of a job queue problem. (T278350)
Code to support some very old web browsers is being removed. This could cause issues in those browsers. (T277803)
Hi Ijust wanted to let you know that there is a annoying editor on the Rear of The Year page named Ceej1979mo who also edits the same things unregistered who is changing names of yearly winners to Ralf Little and Garth Crooks when the official website which is on the page confirms it's actually John Altman and Andy Murray respectively. He's very persistent and when I revert it he reverts it automatically and often.
I am getting a bit fed up about this. I'm sure he'll continue to do this under different registered threads. Thanks in advance1135.0.252.54 (talk) 16:24, 4 April 2021 (UTC)
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