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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.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:47, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

WikiProject Apps

Hello, I've noticed you are a member of Wikipedia:WikiProject Apps. I've recently added a table of reliable sources in Wikipedia:WikiProject Apps#Sources but most of the sources are iOS oriented. Do you want to help out and find reliable Android oriented reliable sources to complete the table?

Kind regards, Coel Jo (talk) 01:37, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

@Coel Jo: Sure! I'm happy to help. Regards, CptViraj (📧) 04:52, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

Thanks very much, man!

Thanks for your greetings. May the force be with you! Contract J.A.C.K. (talk) 11:52, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM MAN?

DONT REMOVE MY LINKS. PLEASE — Preceding unsigned comment added by Golushukla123 (talk • contribs)

Don't use Wikipedia for your site promotion. -- CptViraj (📧) 14:35, 5 December 2019 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) I would have removed them too. Never seen such irrelevant external links being placed. DTM (talk) 15:00, 5 December 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of file Random laser architectures.png

Dear CptViraj, I received a message from wikipedia about the deletion, under section F2. Corrupt, missing or empty file, of an image I recently created and updated to WikiCommons. I understand that this action was requested by you. Could you please explain me why ? Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arconsoli (talk • contribs)

Please see WP:F2, The file is not deleted, only local description page. -- CptViraj (📧) 04:33, 8 December 2019 (UTC)

Message - Your draft article, User:Digitalcrm/sandbox

I got your message for deletion of - digitalcrm page We are a crm company - digitalcrm.com and want to post a simple wikipedia page Pl. inform basic guidelines to post a page Thanks vikas — Preceding unsigned comment added by Digitalcrm (talk • contribs) 12:11, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays

Merry Christmas, CptViraj/Archives/2019!
Or Season's Greetings or Happy Winter Solstice! As the year winds to a close, I would like to take a moment to recognize your hard work and offer heartfelt gratitude for all you do for Wikipedia. And for all the help you've thrown my way over the years. May this Holiday Season bring you nothing but joy, health and prosperity.CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 07:33, 22 December 2019 (UTC)

@CAPTAIN RAJU: Merry Christmas🎉 -- CptViraj (📧) 07:41, 22 December 2019 (UTC)

Indexing on Google

Page ShareChat was approved but hasn't been indexed on Google yet. It only comes in the Knowledge Panel. How do I index it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Splaybeats007 (talk • contribs) 09:09, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

@Splaybeats007: It's indexed already but the Wikipedia link isn't appearing at the top on Google, It depends on Google's indexing algorithm so we can't really do anything about it. If you'll search 'ShareChat wikipedia' then it would be at the top. You can read article on Google's PageRank for further information. Kind Regards! -- CptViraj (📧) 11:50, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

Request on 17:48:23, 23 December 2019 for assistance on AfC submission by Eamonnor

Eamonnor (talk · contribs)
- Draft:Ruth Giddings (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Hi, I'm not sure what extra references I can add. The reason I submitted the entry is because this woman is neglected despite representing her country 57 times. There are few references because all she did was win bridge competitions for 50 years. She is in the top 0.001% of competitors for a country in terms of longevity and achievement. Is it that the references should be embedded? I could find numerous listings in newspapers citing her wins but these would be behind paywalls and are just columns of names and her position in the results table. Thanks. Eamonnor (talk) 17:48, 23 December 2019 (UTC) Eamonnor (talk) 17:48, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

@Eamonnor: 3 references that you've added aren't really reliable. Please see WP:RS and WP:ANYBIO. Kind Regards! -- CptViraj (📧) 11:56, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

WikiProject India Newsletter – December 2019

WikiProject India

Newly recognized content

December 2019 recognized content includes:

Newly nominated content

Created by Bellus Delphina

News

The holiday season has begun. WikiProject India Wishes you a Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year, and a prosperous decade. We look forward to working with you in 2020!
Editor Uanfala started a conversation about Lists of notable people in articles about places back in November and it still needs more editor's opinion on the subject.
Join a disscusion about formatting writing credits and music credits. The discussion is about Indian films having some differences from Western films in terms of writing and music credits.
India Search Result is a bot-generated page that tracks newly created articles related to India. It is a place to look out for new page pages. The page is updated daily and make sure to add it to your watchlist.

Miscellaneous

There are 17 Did You Know nominations, 20 Good Article nominations, and 1 Featured Articles candidates to be reviewed.
You can join the discussion at Wikipedia:In_the_news/Candidates#Citizenship_Amendment_Act_protests.
There are 3 articles waiting to be peer-reviewed.

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Delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) at 08:40, 26 December 2019 (UTC) on behalf of DannyS712 (talk)

Stale AfCs

Hi CptViraj, I noticed you are tagging stale drafts listed at Wikipedia:Database reports/Stale drafts. I am not sure if you are aware, but you are tagging drafts that are already tagged for deletion. If you note the column that says "tagged", it outlines drafts that are already tagged and do not require further action. You will notice that these pages, after six months, automatically say "This draft has not been edited in over six months and qualifies to be deleted per CSD G13" and fall in Category:G13 eligible AfC submissions. By tagging these pages, you are essentially double tagging them. Thanks Cpt! ~riley (talk) 09:22, 21 December 2019 (UTC)

@~riley: There is a glitch in G13 eligible cat. I'm not sure if it's for all or it's just me, Pages aren't being displayed in the Category:G13 eligible AfC submissions. When I tag drafts with {{Db-g13}} it is displayed in Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as abandoned drafts or AfC submissions so sysops can delete them quickly. Thanks for the message. -- CptViraj (📧) 09:33, 21 December 2019 (UTC)

Have you brought it to anyone's attention that this needs to addressed? There is no imminent need for these pages to be created "quickly", and Wikipedia:Database reports/Stale drafts is patrolled on a daily basis by administrators. ~riley (talk) 09:37, 21 December 2019 (UTC)

I'm sure this had been reported for another category, and it's still unfixed. -- CptViraj (📧) 09:43, 21 December 2019 (UTC)

Which category would that be? ~riley (talk) 09:48, 21 December 2019 (UTC)

The simple solution to this is a bot null editing the pages listed on Wikipedia:Database reports/Stale drafts, I just ran a test using my bot and after null editing, it appeared in the category. I can easily set this up to be an automated process that runs every 24 hours. Moving forward, can you hold off on double tagging these? ~riley (talk) 10:20, 21 December 2019 (UTC)

@~riley: I'm tagging g13 drafts for 5-6 months but I never got any message releted to double tagging so, being honest I'm still unsure if it's really double tagging. CAT:G13 is a maintenance category which is used for tracking g13 eligible draft while Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as abandoned drafts or AfC submissions is a category to track g13 nominated drafts. What I'm saying is CAT:G13 just shows us that these drafts are eligible for deletion as per WP:G13 but aren't nominated for deletion, {{Db-g13}} is used to nominate drafts which categories pages in Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as abandoned drafts or AfC submissions. -- CptViraj (📧) 12:47, 21 December 2019 (UTC)

My understanding of it seems to be very different. While it does say it is a tracking category, I don't get why it is then listed as "tagged" on the stale drafts page or why it's categorized under Category:Speedy deletion just like Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as abandoned drafts or AfC submissions. There really should only be one category as they are serving the same purpose (if that, considering it hasn't been populating the G13 eligible one). The good news is that out of this discussion, we have gotten Category:G13 eligible AfC submissions populating? :) Merry Christmas! ~riley (talk) 08:47, 22 December 2019 (UTC)

@~riley: Awesome, Thankyou. Merry Christmas! -- CptViraj (📧) 08:55, 22 December 2019 (UTC)

@~riley: Looking at the source code for the bot task, "tagged" means either having an AfC template or being in Category:Draft articles, not being tagged for deletion DannyS712 (talk) 01:32, 26 December 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for clarifying. My bad, I was wrong on this one. Please accept my apologies, Cpt. ~riley (talk) 08:49, 26 December 2019 (UTC)

@~riley: No problem, Happy editing. @DannyS712: Thankyou for clarifying and happy holidays. -- CptViraj (📧) 08:53, 26 December 2019 (UTC)