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The Signpost: 1 August 2022
- From the editors: Rise of the machines, or something
- News and notes: Information considered harmful
- In the media: Censorship, medieval hoaxes, "pathetic supervillains", FB-WMF AI TL bid, dirty duchess deeds done dirt cheap
- Op-Ed: The "recession" affair
- Eyewitness Wikimedian, Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary (part 3)
- Community view: Youth culture and notability
- Opinion: Criminals among us
- Arbitration report: Winds of change blow for cyclone editors, deletion dustup draws toward denouement
- Deletion report: This is Gonzo Country
- Discussion report: Notability for train stations, notices for mobile editors, noticeboards for the rest of us
- Featured content: A little list with surprisingly few lists
- Tips and tricks: Cleaning up awful citations with Citation bot
- On the bright side: Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war — three (more) stories
- Essay: How to research an image
- Recent research: A century of rulemaking on Wikipedia analyzed
- Serendipity: Don't cite Wikipedia
- Gallery: A backstage pass
- From the archives: 2012 Russian Wikipedia shutdown as it happened
Administrators' newsletter – August 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2022).
Administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
- An RfC has been closed with consensus to add javascript that will show edit notices for editors editing via a mobile device. This only works for users using a mobile browser, so iOS app editors will still not be able to see edit notices.
- An RfC has been closed with the consensus that train stations are not inherently notable.
Technical news
- The Wikimania 2022 Hackathon will take place virtually from 11 August to 14 August.
- Administrators will now see links on user pages for "Change block" and "Unblock user" instead of just "Block user" if the user is already blocked. (T308570)
Arbitration
- The arbitration case request Geschichte has been automatically closed after a 3 month suspension of the case.
Miscellaneous
- You can vote for candidates in the 2022 Board of Trustees elections from 16 August to 30 August. Two community elected seats are up for election.
- Wikimania 2022 is taking place virtually from 11 August to 14 August. The schedule for wikimania is listed here. There are also a number of in-person events associated with Wikimania around the world.
- Tech tip: When revision-deleting on desktop, hold ⇧ Shift between clicking two checkboxes to select every box in that range.
New Page Patrol newsletter August 2022
Hello Lee Vilenski/Archives/2022,
- Backlog status
After the last newsletter (No.28, June 2022), the backlog declined another 1,000 to 13,000 in the last week of June. Then the July backlog drive began, during which 9,900 articles were reviewed and the backlog fell by 4,500 to just under 8,500 (these numbers illustrate how many new articles regularly flow into the queue). Thanks go to the coordinators Buidhe and Zippybonzo, as well as all the nearly 100 participants. Congratulations to Dr vulpes who led with 880 points. See this page for further details.
Unfortunately, most of the decline happened in the first half of the month, and the backlog has already risen to 9,600. Understandably, it seems many backlog drive participants are taking a break from reviewing and unfortunately, we are not even keeping up with the inflow let alone driving it lower. We need the other 600 reviewers to do more! Please try to do at least one a day.
- Coordination
- MB and Novem Linguae have taken on some of the coordination tasks. Please let them know if you are interested in helping out. MPGuy2824 will be handling recognition, and will be retroactively awarding the annual barnstars that have not been issued for a few years.
- Open letter to the WMF
- The Page Curation software needs urgent attention. There are dozens of bug fixes and enhancements that are stalled (listed at Suggested improvements). We have written a letter to be sent to the WMF and we encourage as many patrollers as possible to sign it here. We are also in negotiation with the Board of Trustees to press for assistance. Better software will make the active reviewers we have more productive.
- TIP - Reviewing by subject
- Reviewers who prefer to patrol new pages by their most familiar subjects can do so from the regularly updated sorted topic list.
- New reviewers
- The NPP School is being underused. The learning curve for NPP is quite steep, but a detailed and easy-to-read tutorial exists, and the Curation Tool's many features are fully described and illustrated on the updated page here.
- Reminders
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| By the authority vested in me by myself it gives me great pleasure to present you with this award in recognition of your continuing to carry out thorough, detailed and actionable reviews at FAC. This work continues to be very much appreciated. Gog the Mild (talk) 22:03, 1 August 2022 (UTC) |
- Hi Gog the Mild, thanks for this! I haven't been as active as I'd like, but I will get back to the review train soon. On a slightly different note, I currently only have one FAC listed which is quite well discussed (2016 World Snooker Championship). Any chance I could put another one in the furnace? It seems like the only outstanding issues is the formatting of sources. Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 09:11, 9 August 2022 (UTC)
Feedback requests from the Feedback Request Service
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"Let me know if I missed anything"
Well, for starters, you missed that the close time was UTC ;-) Happens to all of us, though. Primefac (talk) 18:42, 9 August 2022 (UTC)
- Apologies! Thanks for that. I edit conflicted with you in fixing my close. I'll get the hang of it! Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 18:53, 9 August 2022 (UTC)
- Typical isn't it, I seek out two qualified admin candidates and prep them thoroughly for a good nom, then the power goes to their head and they start closing them. [FBDS] Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 21:13, 9 August 2022 (UTC)
I do realize I am very late, almost too late to the party, but when you close an RfA (at least from what I've seen/heard), you should remove the line that says " Voice your opinion on this candidate (talk page)". Thanks! (I feel so wrong correcting a bureaucrat) — 3PPYB6 — TALK — CONTRIBS — 03:33, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
Feedback request: Wikipedia proposals request for comment
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Question from LemonadeLadybug (00:44, 14 August 2022)
Can you check one of my edits please :)) --LemonadeLadybug (talk) 00:44, 14 August 2022 (UTC)
Your draft article, Draft:Xavier Gretillat
Hello, Lee Vilenski. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Xavier Gretillat".
In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.
Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 20:15, 14 August 2022 (UTC)
- Hello, Lee,
- Of course, should you wish to return to working on this draft, you can restore it yourself. These Twinkle CSD G13 messages are typically going out to new editors. Liz Read! Talk! 20:17, 14 August 2022 (UTC)
Feedback request: Biographies request for comment
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Regarding Dan Cherek
Hello! Recently I noticed, that my family member Anatolii Dimarov's wiki page was cleaned of all of it's information. Almost all of the information about him was removed and he was worded as a Russian writer by Dan Cherek. However, he was a Ukrainian writer and a patriot. This was done on the day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24th and I believe that this was a horrible mistake or an anti-Ukrainian act. I edited the page back to its original state however my family and I feel offended about the treatment of our deceased family member by Dan Cherek and require an explanation. Thank you! GlizzyGobblerHetman (talk) 00:12, 16 August 2022 (UTC)
- (Hi, Lee!) It looks like this is about Anatoliy Dimarov, where I reverted some unattributed translations a few months ago while doing some copyright checks but didn't notice that the revert included an inapplicable {{Russia-writer-stub}} that had previously been placed by another editor. DanCherek (talk) 02:18, 16 August 2022 (UTC)
- Hi GlizzyGobblerHetman - looks like Cherek added the wrong template to the article which is now fixed. What's more pressing is that if this is a family member, you should not be editing their page directly as you have a conflict of interest. You should instead leave edit requests on the talk page. What's more, despite this person being deceased, we still require that the sourcing of this article be stronger than that of any non-biographical article, and require all claims to be well cited, (see WP:BLP). Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 06:21, 16 August 2022 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Survivor: Africa
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This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Vocem Virtutis -- Vocem Virtutis (talk) 20:40, 16 August 2022 (UTC)
Promotion of 2016 World Snooker Championship
Your GA nomination of Minesweeper (video game)
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Your GA nomination of Minesweeper (video game)
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Slightly Early Closure of Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/DanCherek
Hello Lee and greetings to you. I wanted to let you know that the RfA of Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/DanCherek, which you had closed was closed slightly early. It was scheduled to end at 19:22 UTC on 9th August but it was closed by you at 18:38 UTC which means that it was closed around 44 minutes earlier. Although this RfA was obviously going to pass, I fully believe that no normally running RfA should be closed early (even by 1 minute) before its scheduled end time and it should run for the complete duration of 7 days minimum. There can be other RfA's which might be borderline cases and there can be people who just might !vote at the very last minute before its scheduled end time which might give additional information and/or change consensus which can make or break an RfA. I just wanted to let you know about this as this was your first RfA closure. I hope you and all other bureaucrats will take a note of this important thing from now on. Thank you. TheGeneralUser (talk) 11:20, 18 August 2022 (UTC)
- Hi. Yes, I was aware of this. See a couple of threads above. This wasn't a closing early issue, it's that BST and UTC aren't the same and I got mixed up. Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 11:34, 18 August 2022 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Honolulu (pool)
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Your GA nomination of 1970 World Snooker Championship
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article 1970 World Snooker Championship you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Mike Christie -- Mike Christie (talk) 18:01, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
A brownie for you!
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Just realized you're a bureaucrat now. Have a brownie.  I dream of horses (Contribs) (Talk) 07:53, 23 August 2022 (UTC)
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- All the sacrifice of all this time is now justified! :P. Thanks! Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 07:59, 23 August 2022 (UTC)
Disambiguation link notification for August 23
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Question about the draft of an article
I had a question, can you transfer the draft of this article that I created in the English Wikipedia to the main space after reviewing it, of course, if it is accepted by your Excellency, I have translated this article in the Persian Wikipedia and it has There is a wiki and reliable sources, the reference of this draft is Farsi sites, please see those sites and translate to English to create the least problem in the draft. Thanks 𝕞𝕖𝕙𝕣𝕤𝕙𝕒𝕕 𝕚𝕣𝕒𝕟 (talk) 13:00, 23 August 2022 (UTC)
- If you article is accepted through the AfC process, then it will be placed in mainspace. However, it is unlikely to do so as it is lacking in citations showing this person is notable. We have rules on what subjects have articles, specifically WP:GNG. Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 13:52, 23 August 2022 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of 2011 World Snooker Championship
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TFA
Thank you today for 1982 World Snooker Championship, "about the 1982 edition of the World Snooker Championship. Davis's first defence"! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 04:57, 24 August 2022 (UTC)
Help me
How change color my user name? when i use from display title is not change it please help me ˢᵁᴺ ᶠᴵᵀᴱᴿ.ᴵᴿ (talk) 11:11, 27 August 2022 (UTC)
- You mean for the signature? You can use <span style="color:green"> for example. Lee Vilenski (talk • contribs) 07:39, 28 August 2022 (UTC)
FL promotion
Congrats on this passing! SNUGGUMS (talk / edits) 18:17, 28 August 2022 (UTC)
Promotion of List of snooker Triple Crown finals
Feedback request: History and geography request for comment
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