News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2023).

Administrator changes

Novem Linguae

• Deckiller
• Electionworld
• MBisanz
• Penwhale
• Raul654
• Roadrunner
• Viridae
• Yannismarou

Bureaucrat changes

MBisanz

Guideline and policy news

• Contributions to the English Wikipedia are now released under theCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0) license instead ofCC BY-SA 3.0. Contributions are still also released under theGFDL license.

Technical news

• Discussion is open regarding a proposedglobal policy regarding third-party resources. Third-party resources are computer resources that reside outside of Wikimedia production websites.

Arbitration

• Two arbitration cases are currently open. Proposed decisions are expected 5 July 2023 for theScottywong case and 9 July 2023 for theAlisonW case.

I saw that you went through and got rid of a copyedit on my draft page for the county of Achalm. I have noticed that some people question the historical accuracy of Achalm existing as I have stated it in the entry, and I was wondering what your take on it is.

PS, thanks for the edit.Momgamer09 (talk)14:47, 15 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2023).

Administrator changes

Firefangledfeathers

• AlisonW
• Amberrock
• Closedmouth
• Scottywong

Interface administrator changes

Novem Linguae

Technical news

• The tag filter onSpecial:NewPages and revision history pages can now be inverted. This allows hiding edits made by automated tools. (T334338)
• Special:BlockedExternalDomains is a new tool that allows easier blocking of plain domains (and their subdomains). This is more easily searchable and is faster for the software to use than the existingMediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. It does not support regex (for complex cases), URL path-matching, or theMediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. (T337431)

Arbitration

• The arbitration cases namedScottywong andAlisonW closed 10 July and 16 July respectively.
• TheSmallCat dispute arbitration case is in the workshop phase.

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2023).

Administrator changes Pppery Theleekycauldron Dwheeler G.A.S Royalbroil Ssd

CheckUser changes Bradv Oversighter changes Bradv

Guideline and policy news

• Followingan RfC,TFAs will be automatically semi-protected the day before it is on the main page and through the day after.
• A discussion atWP:VPP about revision deletion and oversight fordead names found that[s]ysops can choose to use revdel if, in their view, it's the right tool for this situation, and they need not default to oversight. But oversight could well be right where there's a particularly high risk to the person. Use your judgment.

Technical news

• Special:Contributions now shows the user's local edit count and the account's creation date. (T324166)

Arbitration

• TheSmallCat dispute case has closed. As part of the final decision, editors participating inXfD have been reminded to be careful about forminglocal consensus which may or may not reflect the broader community consensus. Regular closers ofXfD forums were also encouraged tonote when broader community discussion, or changes to policies and guidelines, would be helpful.

Miscellaneous

• Tech tip: The "Browse history interactively" banner shown at the top ofSpecial:Diff can be used to easily look through a history, assemble composite diffs, or find out what archive something wound up in.

Hello, Killarnee. Thank you for your work onLi Fangwei.User:SunDawn, while examining this page as a part of ourpage curation process, had the following comments:

Thank you for writing the article on Wikipedia! I genuinely appreciate your efforts in creating the article on Wikipedia and expanding the sum of human knowledge in Wikipedia. Wishing you and your family a great day!

To reply, leave a comment here and begin it with{{Re|SunDawn}}. Please remember to sign your reply with~~~~.(Message delivered via thePage Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.)

✠ SunDawn ✠(contact)02:12, 25 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I don't understand why people dot "etc", but I suppose they're welcome to do so. For me (andnot only me), the dot is mere clutter.Am I so very wrong? --Hoary (talk)02:43, 7 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. As with every abbreviation there comes a period after etc., and despite what the guardian's internal style guide says, all I can find on Google is that one should use a period after etc. By the way, etc. without a dot is on theWikipedia list of common misspellings as

<Typoword="Etc."find="\b(?:and\s+)?([eE])(?:tc\b(?<!/etc)([^\.\w])|ct\b\.*)"replace="$1tc.$2"/><!--avoid /etc the Unix file directory-->

and thus it's not just my opinion only.Killarnee (talk)05:56, 7 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, and the dot is so necessary that it should be added to instances of "etc" within other users' signed comments? Conceivably yes it is; but if you could shed some light on the mysteries (or simply my incomprehension) described inDraft talk:Celebrating Matsu, that'd be so much more welcome. --Hoary (talk)07:35, 7 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Ah I'm seeing it now first, it was your comment and not the actual article. This was not intended but the regex currently is not able to differentiate between this and as many typos as I remove, mistakes can sometimes happen.

I would be happy if I could help but I do not speak Chinese too. I think thatLky269 created several drafts covering similar topics and all got declined because of missing reliable sources is even more mysterious. If anyone can shed light on this, then probably only Lky269 can?

Have a nice dayKillarnee (talk)11:18, 7 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2023).

Administrator changes

0xDeadbeef

Tamzin

Dennis Brown

Interface administrator changes

Pppery

• Ragesoss
• TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

• The WMF is working on making it possible for administrators toedit MediaWiki configuration directly. This is similar to previous work on Special:EditGrowthConfig. Atechnical RfC is running until November 08, where you can provide feedback.
• There isa proposed plan for re-enabling the Graph Extension. Feedback on this proposalis requested.

Arbitration

• Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 12 November 2023 until 21 November 2023 to standin the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections.
• Xaosflux,RoySmith andCyberpower678 have been appointed to theElectoral Commission for the2023 Arbitration Committee Elections.BusterD is the reserve commissioner.
• Followinga motion, the contentious topic designation ofPrem Rawat has been struck. Actions previously taken using this contentious topic designation are still in force.
• Followingseveral motions, multiple topic areas are no longer designated as a contentious topic. These contentious topic designations were from theEditor conduct in e-cigs articles,Liancourt Rocks,Longevity,Medicine,September 11 conspiracy theories, andShakespeare authorship question cases.
• Followinga motion, remedies 3.1 (All related articles under 1RR whenever the dispute over naming is concerned), 6 (Stalemate resolution) and 30 (Administrative supervision) of theMacedonia 2 case have been rescinded.
• Followinga motion, remedy 6 (One-revert rule) of theThe Troubles case has been amended.
• An arbitration case namedIndustrial agriculture has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case close 8 November.

Miscellaneous

• TheArticles for Creation backlog drive is happening in November 2023, with 700+ drafts pending reviews for in the last 4 months or so. In addition to the AfC participants, all administrators and New Page Patrollers can conduct reviews using the helper script, Yet Another AFC Helper Script, which can be enabled inthe Gadgets settings.Sign up here to participate!

Hello! Voting in the2023 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 11 December 2023. Alleligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

TheArbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting theWikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to imposesite bans,topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. Thearbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2023 election, please reviewthe candidates and submit your choices on thevoting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add{{NoACEMM}} to your user talk page.MediaWiki message delivery (talk)00:58, 28 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2023).

Administrator changes

• Ganesha811
• JPxG

• Ajpolino
• Lourdes
• Mairi
• RockMFR
• Somno
• WilyD

Beeblebrox →Just Step Sideways

CheckUser changes

• Beeblebrox
• Opabinia regalis

Oversight changes

• Beeblebrox
• Opabinia regalis

Guideline and policy news

• Following atalk page discussion, theAdministrators' accountability policy has been updated to note that while it is considered best practice for administrators to havenotifications (pings) enabled, this is not mandatory. Administrators who do not use notifications are now strongly encouraged to indicate this on their user page.

Arbitration

• Followinga motion, theExtended Confirmed Restriction has been amended, removing the allowance for non-extended-confirmed editors to post constructive comments on the "Talk:" namespace. Now, non-extended-confirmed editors may use the "Talk:" namespace solely to make edit requests related to articles within the topic area, provided that their actions are not disruptive.
• The Arbitration Committee hasannounced a call for Checkusers and Oversighters, stating that it will currently be accepting applications for CheckUser and/or Oversight permissions at any point in the year.
• Eligible users are invited tovote on candidates for theArbitration Committee until23:59 December 11, 2023 (UTC). Candidate statements can be seenhere.

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2023).

Administrator changes

Clovermoss

Dennis Brown

• Julia W
• Marasmusine
• PBS

CheckUser changes

• Aoidh
• HJ Mitchell
• Sdrqaz
• Spicy
• ToBeFree
• Vanamonde93
• Z1720

Maxim

• Enterprisey
• Izno
• SilkTork

Oversighter changes

• Aoidh
• Firefly
• Sdrqaz
• ToBeFree
• Z1720

Maxim

• Enterprisey
• Izno
• SilkTork

Arbitration

• Following the2023 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee:Aoidh,Cabayi,Firefly,HJ Mitchell,Maxim,Sdrqaz,ToBeFree,Z1720.
• Following amotion, the Arbitration Committee rescinded the restrictions on the page name move discussions for the two Ireland pages that wereenacted in June 2009.
• The arbitration caseIndustrial agriculture has been closed.

Miscellaneous

• TheNew Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in January 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles in thenew pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 13,000 unreviewed articles awaiting review.Sign up here to participate!

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2024).

Administrator changes

• Red-tailed hawk
• Robertsky

• Ameliorate!
• Ancheta Wis
• Anthony Bradbury (deceased)
• Cobi
• Ev
• Moondyne
• Worm That Turned

Bureaucrat changes

Worm That Turned

CheckUser changes

Wugapodes

Interface administrator changes

• Enterprisey
• Izno

Guideline and policy news

• AnRfC about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.

Technical news

• Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. (T326065)

Arbitration

• Following amotion, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
• Community feedback isrequested for a draft to replace the "Information for administrators processing requests" section atWP:AE.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the2024 Steward elections will begin on 06 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 27 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC). Theconfirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automaticallycheck your eligibility to vote.
• A vote toratify the charter for theUniversal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open till 2 February 2024, 23:59:59 (UTC) viaSecure Poll. All eligible voters within the Wikimedia community have the opportunity to either support or oppose the adoption of the U4C Charter and share their reasons. The details of the voting process and voter eligibility can be foundhere.
• Community Tech has made some preliminary decisions about the future of theCommunity Wishlist Survey. In summary, they aim to develop a new, continuous intake system for community technical requests that improves prioritization, resource allocation, and communication regarding wishes.Read more
• TheUnreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in February 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with{{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles.Sign up to participate!

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2024).

Administrator changes Sdkb The Night Watch East718 Isabelle Belato Mzajac Staecker Stan Shebs Sugarfish Tamzin

Bureaucrat changes SilkTork

Guideline and policy news

• Phase I of the 2024RfA review is now open for participation. Editors are invited to review, comment on, and propose improvements to therequests for adminship process.
• Followingan RfC, the inactivity requirement for the removal of theinterface administrator right increased from 6 months to 12 months.

Technical news

• The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. (T353388)

Miscellaneous

• The 2024 appointees for theOmbuds commission areだ＊ぜ,AGK,Ameisenigel,Bennylin,Daniuu,Doǵu,Emufarmers,Faendalimas,MdsShakil,Minorax,Nehaoua,Renvoy andRoySmith as members, withVermont serving as steward-observer.
• Following the2024 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards:Ajraddatz,Albertoleoncio,EPIC,JJMC89,Johannnes89,Melos andYahya.

Hello, Killarnee. Your account has beengranted the "extendedmover" user right, either following a request for it or demonstrating familiarity with working with article names andmoving pages. You are now able to rename pages without leaving behind aredirect, movesubpages when moving the parent page(s), and move category pages.

Please take a moment to reviewWikipedia:Page mover for more information on this user right, especiallythe criteria for moving pages without leaving a redirect. Please remember to followpost-move cleanup procedures and make link corrections where necessary, including broken double-redirects whensuppressredirect is used. This can be done usingSpecial:WhatLinksHere. It is also very important that no one else be allowed to access your account, so you should consider taking a few moments tosecure your password. As with all user rights, be aware that if abused, or used in controversial ways without consensus, your page mover statuscan be revoked.

Useful links:

• Wikipedia:Requested moves
• Category:Requested moves, for article renaming requests awaiting action.

If you do not want the page mover right anymore, just let me know, and I'll remove it. Thank you, and happy editing!* Pppery *_{it has begun...} 17:54, 24 March 2024 (UTC)* Pppery *_{it has begun...}17:54, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wanna alert you that despite marking the article as moved,Donkey Kong (arcade game) was not moved toDonkey Kong (1981 video game).Emiya Mulzomdao (talk)04:28, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the reminder, I have done it now (Special:diff/1216329349).Killarnee (talk)12:04, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2024).

Administrator changes

• Kbdank71
• Kosack
• NrDg
• TLSuda

Guideline and policy news

• AnRfC is open to convert all current and futurecommunity discretionary sanctions to (community designated)contentious topics procedure.

Technical news

• The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (T313405)

Arbitration

• Anarbitration case has been opened to look into "the intersection of managing conflict of interest editing with the harassment (outing) policy".

Miscellaneous

• Editors are invited tosign up forThe Core Contest, an initiative running from April 15 to May 31, which aims to improvevital and other core articles on Wikipedia.

Hi Killarnee.Regarding yourclosure ofthis move request, the1982 TV program is the most likely primary topic for "Today (Australian TV program)" and should be kept there, having aired for 44 years in comparison to the1960 TV program's one year. Would you be able to either move the 1982 article back or reopen the RM discussion?Happily888 (talk)04:49, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Today (1960 TV program) is an Australian television program too, so disambiguation by country wouldn't fully disambiguate these two articles but by year does. Or do you mean something different? And because of the primary, naming the article justtoday doesn't work either, so the article needs disambiguation either way.

@Pppery: What do you think?Killarnee (talk)17:12, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Personally I'm againstpartial disambiguation in pretty much every situation, including this one, but the other viewpoint is not inherently unreasonable.* Pppery *_{it has begun...}17:14, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2024).

Administrator changes

Nyttend

• JohnOwens
• Killiondude
• MelanieN
• Nihonjoe

Bureaucrat changes

Nihonjoe

CheckUser changes

Joe Roe

Oversight changes

GeneralNotability

Guideline and policy news

• Phase I of the2024 requests for adminship review has concluded. Several proposals have passed outright and will proceed to implementation, includingcreating a discussion-only period (3b) andadministrator elections (13) on a trial basis. Other successful proposals, such ascreating a reminder of civility norms (2), will undergo further refinement in Phase II. Proposals passed on a trial basis will be discussed in Phase II, after their trials conclude. Further details on specific proposals can be found in thefull report.

Technical news

• Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Wikipedia. This means that administrators have the ability to restrict users from certain actions, including uploading files, moving pages and files, creating new pages, and sending thanks.T280531

Arbitration

• The arbitration caseConflict of interest management has been closed.

Miscellaneous

• This may be a good time to reach out to potential nominees to ask if they would consider an RfA.
• ANew Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in May 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles in thenew pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 15,000 articles awaiting review.Sign up here to participate!
• Voting for theUniversal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is open until 9 May 2024. Read thevoting page on Meta-Wiki andcast your vote here!

Hi Killarnee. Thank you for your creation of the page onNordweststadt (Karlsruhe), though seems like a part of the page was translated fromde:Nordweststadt (Karlsruhe). I just wanted to drop a quick note that it is while it's perfectly allowed to reuse content between pages, the licence technically requires attributing the original article. This is usually done with just an edit summary identifying the source wiki, and a link For example:Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Wikipedia article at [[:de:Exact name of French article]]; see its history for attribution. Or, if you are using the Wikipedia:Content translation tool, it will make this edit summary for you automatically. You can also add a{{translated page}} template to the talk page. You can read more abut attributing translations atWP:TFOLWP. Thanks!Alpha3031 (t •c)15:10, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have neither translated the article nor would the few sentences that make up the article qualify for copyright. I've had this discussion before because I thought the same as you.Killarnee (talk)16:23, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2024).

Administrator changes

Graham Beards

• Deskana
• Mets501
• Staxringold

Bureaucrat changes

• Deskana
• Warofdreams

Oversight changes

Dreamy Jazz

Guideline and policy news

• Phase II of the2024 RfA review has commenced to improve and refine the proposals passed inPhase I.

Technical news

• TheNuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title.T43351

Arbitration

• The arbitration caseVenezuelan politics has been closed.
• The Committee isseeking volunteers for various roles, including access to theconflict of interest VRT queue.

Miscellaneous

• WikiProject Reliability'sunsourced statements drive is happening in June 2024 to replace{{citation needed}} tags with references!Sign up here to participate!

Thank you for uploadingFile:IOS 18.jpg.

This file is aderivative work, containing an "image within an image". Examples of such images would include a photograph of a sculpture, a scan of a magazine cover, or a screenshot of a computer game or movie. In each of these cases, the rights of the creator of the original image must be considered, as well as those of the creator of the derivative work.

While the file description page states the source and copyright status of the derivative work, it only names the creator of the original work without specifying the status of their copyright over the work.

Wikipedia takescopyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine thelicense and thesource of the original image. If you know this information, then you can add acopyright tag to theimage description page.

If you have uploaded other derivative works, consider checking that you have specified their license and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have created inyour upload log.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at themedia copyright questions page. If the file is already gone, you can still make arequest for undeletion and ask for a chance to fix the problem. Thanks again for your cooperation.Hajoon0102💬22:53, 11 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Hajoon0102: Where is the image within the image? This image was officially published by Apple for newspapers etc., just read the license I included in the file description. And all the icons on the image are Apple's property only. So your tag doesn't apply here.Killarnee (talk)23:22, 11 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for my misunderstanding.Hajoon0102💬00:01, 12 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You can't redirect an article (even a very bad one) then tag it asWP:R3.Elli (talk |contribs)22:27, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

What article are you talking about?Killarnee (talk)22:28, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Double Disc Album andHorror-Core.Elli (talk |contribs)22:29, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I redirected because these articles already exist. And keeping Double Disc Album is technically not useful as the redirect Double disc album already exists and MediaWiki isn't case sensitive; for Horror-Core I searched but couldn't find any sources for this spelling. But I'm fine withWP:RfD.Killarnee (talk)22:35, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for uploadingFile:IOS 18.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under aclaim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (seeour policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in anyarticles will be deleted after seven days, as described insection F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk)04:00, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for uploadingFile:IOS 18.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under aclaim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (seeour policy for non-free media).

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2024).

Administrator changes

• Elli
• HouseBlaster
• Pickersgill-Cunliffe

• Brianga
• De728631
• Georgewilliamherbert
• Hyacinth (deceased)
• ProveIt
• The Night Watch

Technical news

• Local administrators can now add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without using JavaScript.Documentation is available on MediaWiki. (T6086)

Miscellaneous

• TheCommunity Wishlist is re-opening on 15 July 2024.Read more

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2024).

Administrator changes

Isabelle Belato

• Ian.thomson
• Modussiccandi

Interface administrator changes

Izno

CheckUser changes

Barkeep49

Technical news

• Global blocks may now target accounts as well as IP's. Administrators maylocally unblock when appropriate.
• Users wishing to permanently leave may now request "vanishing" viaSpecial:GlobalVanishRequest. Processed requests will result in the user being renamed, their recovery email being removed, and their account being globally locked.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committeeappointed the following administrators to theconflict of interest volunteer response team:Bilby,Extraordinary Writ

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2024).

Administrator changes

Pppery

Interface administrator changes

Pppery

Oversighter changes

Wugapodes

CheckUser changes

• Courcelles
• GeneralNotability

Guideline and policy news

• Following anRfC, there is a newcriterion for speedy deletion:C4, whichapplies to unused maintenance categories, such as empty dated maintenance categories for dates in the past.
• Arequest for comment is open to discuss whetherNotability (species) should be adopted as asubject-specific notability guideline.

Arbitration

• Following amotion,remedies 5.1 and 5.2 ofWorld War II and the history of Jews in Poland (the topic and interaction bans onMy very best wishes, respectively) were repealed.
• Remedy 3C of theGerman war effort case ("Cinderella157 German history topic ban") wassuspended for a period of six months.
• The arbitration caseHistorical Elections is currently open. Proposed decision is expected by 3 September 2024 for this case.

Miscellaneous

• Editors can now enter intogood article review circles, an alternative for informalquid pro quo arrangements, to have aGAN reviewed in return for reviewing a different editor's nomination.
• ANew Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in September 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles and redirects in thenew pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 13,900 articles and 26,200 redirects awaiting review.Sign up here to participate!

Hi Killarnee, I just wanted to let you know that I have added thenew page reviewer user right to your account. This means you now have access to thepage curation tools and can start patrolling pages from thenew pages feed. If you asked for this atrequests for permissions, please check back there to see if your access is time-limited or if there are other comments.

This is a good time to re-acquaint yourself with the guidance atWikipedia:New pages patrol. Before you get started, please take the time to:

• AddWikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers to your watchlist to follow NPP-related discussions
• If you useTwinkle,configure it to log your CSDs and PRODs
• If you can read any languages other than English, add yourself to thelist of reviewers with language proficiencies

You can find a list of other useful links and tools for patrollers atWikipedia:New pages patrol/Resources. If you are ever unsure what to do, ask your fellow patrollers or just leave the page for someone else to review – you're not alone!Hey man im josh (talk)18:17, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks :)Killarnee (talk)18:21, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please note that the page (Q39070890) is needing to moved so thatTranscend (advocacy)is correctly namedTranscend Australia. As I'm Company Secretary as registered on ACNC (the government regulator) I'm seeking this change for and on behalf of Transcend Australia LtdClaraDuncanAdvocacy (talk)03:37, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

ItemQ39070890 on Wikidata? Items on Wikidata cannot be moved but you can edit the label of the item yourself.Killarnee (talk)03:41, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I seem unable to edit the title so thatTranscend (advocacy) is amended to readTranscend Australia. Article read noted a move was necessary and in following the information I've bee directed to yourself.ClaraDuncanAdvocacy (talk)03:46, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Alright I moved the article toTranscend Australia. And please add{{paid|employer=Transcend Australia}} to your user page, obviously you have a connection to the organization and at Wikipedia you have to disclose this perfoundation:PAID.Killarnee (talk)03:54, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for that!

Not paid; I receive no benefit of any kind. I'm a volunteer at Transcend Australia and my interest as a responsible person as Company Secretary is disclosed on ACNC profile.

I'm a Connected contributor and only checking quality of the information and updating as appropriateClaraDuncanAdvocacy (talk)06:08, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2024).

Administrator changes

• Asilvering
• Significa liberdade

• Good Olfactory
• Hesperian
• I JethroBT
• TommyBoy
• Woody

CheckUser changes

• Barkeep49
• Izno

• Doug Weller
• Spicy

Guideline and policy news

• Administrator elections are a proposed new process for selecting administrators, offering an alternative torequests for adminship (RfA). The first trial election will take place in October 2024, withcandidate sign-up from October 8 to 14, adiscussion phase from October 22 to 24, andSecurePoll voting from October 25 to 31. For questions or to help out, please visit the talk page atWikipedia talk:Administrator elections.
• Followinga discussion, the speedy deletion reason "File pages without a corresponding file" has been moved from criterionG8 toF2. This does not change what can be speedily deleted.
• Arequest for comment is open to discuss whether there is a consensus to have anadministrator recall process.

Arbitration

• The arbitration caseHistorical elections has been closed.
• An arbitration case regardingBacklash to diversity and inclusion has been opened.
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You approved the AfC submissionList of investigational autism and pervasive developmental disorder drugs recently, which is one of many drafts submitted by the prolific IP editor 76.174.0.57. The list is clearly worthwhile but I do note that it has 89 external links in its main sections and only three actual references. Is this appropriate for a list article? It seems to go against the guidance atWP:ELLIST. I'm not sure what to do here and would value your advice. Some of the links may be totally unnecessary, since there are valid wikilinks to existing articles. In other cases, it might be better to convert the EL to cites, and if so I'm open to doing that.Mike Turnbull (talk)13:10, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There areother lists which have the same pattern of external links so I wouldn't remove these links without further discussion. But I indeed don't think these links are useful, if someone wants information there are the linked articles.Killarnee (talk)13:32, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the link to the other lists. It seems this is a bit of a minefield, so I'm going to raise the issue with the pharmacology project to see what people think.Mike Turnbull (talk)14:42, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Now atWT:WikiProject Pharmacology#External links in list articles if you wish to comment.Mike Turnbull (talk)14:55, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Mike.Killarnee (talk)18:46, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Mike Turnbull: Just wanted to note this, from the AfC reviewing guidelines:"Avoid declining an article because the references contain bare URLs or other reference formatting problems. Instead, run reFill (and check its output!) or tag the article with {{cleanup-link rot|date=October 2024}} or {{citation style|date=October 2024}}." (quoted fromWP:AFCSTANDARDS). SoKillarnee was following the guidelines in approving the page. In my own case, I had figured that the page could be tagged with a relevant clean-up template or that someone else with the know-how could fill the bare URLs. Thanks. –76.174.0.57 (talk)22:17, 29 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Sportfreunde Oesede I looked at it and the content seems appropriate for one section. What do you think?Oona Wikiwalker (talk)04:33, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As the article only consists of this one section, I don't think that it does add any value to the navigation.Killarnee (talk)17:11, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you.Killarnee (talk)21:57, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you 😀Killarnee (talk)12:36, 18 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks 😄Killarnee (talk)13:45, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Killarnee. Thank you for your work onNeu-Rüppurr. Another editor,Hey man im josh, has reviewed it as part ofnew pages patrol and left the following comment:

Not mentioned at target.

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Hey man im josh (talk)23:05, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Hey man im josh: It's an official subdivision of the district, seeBoroughs of Karlsruhe. Did you mean this should be mentioned in the article of the district?Killarnee (talk)23:09, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Killarnee: It sounds like this would be better targeted toBoroughs of Karlsruhe. Typically we would expect a mention of the redirect at the target because, if someone is searching for that term, they typically expect to find some relevant information there. Otherwise it may come across as misleading if there's nothing there. I've retargeted it for now and marked it as reviewed. I'll likely be doing the same with a number of other redirects because I do think the boroughs article provides more relevant information.Hey man im josh (talk)14:04, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Well, the articles about the districts of Karlsruhe are mainly stubs and starts, so if the information about whether and if so how the district is further divided is not mentioned there, then the problem is not in the redirect, but it's in the article. I will add the information to the articles and change the redirects back if you're ok with that.

For example,Waldlage andFeldlage are located in Karlsruhe, but are not districts of Karlsruhe, but rather a partially internal and often cultural/historical subdivision of the respective district. I don't know how to describe this in English, it's a German thing (it doesn't even have an English article,w:de:Ortsteil, translates to "part of the district"). Therefore, I don't think directing the redirects to theboroughs of Karlsruhe list is right.Killarnee (talk)22:03, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Hey man im josh: As a sample I added the information to an article that the district is subdivided, seeSpecial:diff/1261033430. What do you think? This is probably too less information for a separate section, so I wrote it in the introduction. I would then do the same with the other districts and revert or adjust the redirects. But I would be happy to hear your feedback first.

By the way, it was not correct that with every redirect you edited, the redirect was not mentioned in the article about the district, see for example in the previously linked articleWaldstadt (Karlsruhe)#History, whereFeldlage was already mentioned before I created the redirect.Killarnee (talk)23:14, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think that makes it a suitable target, but you a raise a good point about overdoing it with info. I liked that boroughs articles as a target because it has relevant info and you could click the parent area, but that's a personal preference. I did mark some redirects as approved when I saw that you had added relevant text to the target, so, at this point, I'd say it's a matter of personal preference. Anyways, thank you for your work with that and the redirects!Hey man im josh (talk)23:23, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

And oh I forgot. I took a picture of one of these road signs, this road sign is forWaldstadt Waldlage, maybe it helps understanding how the district/subdistrict things work, because I find it indeed not easy to understand it myself as it's locally different how these systems work.Killarnee (talk)23:33, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Killarnee. Thank you for your work onDornwald-Untermühl. Another editor,Hey man im josh, has reviewed it as part ofnew pages patrol and left the following comment:

Not mentioned at target.

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Hey man im josh (talk)23:06, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Killarnee. Thank you for your work onRennbuckel. Another editor,MPGuy2824, has reviewed it as part ofnew pages patrol and left the following comment:

not mentioned in target page

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-MPGuy2824 (talk)11:17, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@MPGuy2824: Please see my reply to Hey man im josh above.Killarnee (talk)11:19, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

We should not besurprising readers. If you can mention these subdivisions at the target page (with a good ref), it would be great. Alternatively, you can change the target to a page that already mentions the subdivision. -MPGuy2824 (talk)11:21, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Killarnee. Thank you for your work onWeingärtensiedlung. Another editor,MPGuy2824, has reviewed it as part ofnew pages patrol and left the following comment:

not mentioned in target page

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