I will reply on this page as I prefer to keep conversations all in one place but may alert you on your talk page too so you get the nice orange bar.
If I have written something on your talk page, I will be watching it so feel free to reply there if you wish. If you prefer to reply here that's fine too.
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If you need access to a Wikipedia article that has been deleted, ask me. If it's not a copyright violation, libel, or personal information, and has not been deleted as a suspected biographies of living persons violation, I will userfy the article for you.
Following a talk page discussion, the Administrators' accountability policy has been updated to note that while it is considered best practice for administrators to have notifications (pings) enabled, this is not mandatory. Administrators who do not use notifications are now strongly encouraged to indicate this on their user page.
Arbitration
Following a motion, the Extended 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 has announced 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.
Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee rescinded the restrictions on the page name move discussions for the two Ireland pages that were enacted in June 2009.
The Lockerby Composite School Wikipedia page was recently edited to include controversial information about a murderer, a pipe bomb threat 25 years ago, and inappropriate teacher controversies. I am not affiliated with this high school, but noticed that other high schools in this school board (Rainbow District School Board) do not have such commentaries and the original write-up of this high school compared to other Rainbow District School Board currently on Wikipedia.
I went back to revert these controversial edits (by creating a Wikipedia account), but the person who added the controversial information, re-instated their edits. There was a note to say to contact/reach out to an Administrator on a list to review changes made. As such, I selected you to please review the controversial edits made.
Ultimately, I do not believe that the editor (Kline) used appropriate judgement to edit the high school Wikipedia page by writing several controversial information pieces. The editor (Kline) appears to be 'slandering' this particular high school.
A request for comment is open to discuss whether admins should be advised to warn users rather than issue no-warning blocks to those who have posted promotional content outside of article space.
Technical news
The Nuke feature also now provides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions.
