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Hi QuantumRealm,
I'm the editor who reviewed Ben Fergusson, which you recently moved from the draftspace. I was wondering whether you were aware of some of the clean-up tasks that can be done after a draft is moved: the article lacked a short description WP:SHORTDESC, was not stub-sorted WP:STUBSORT, was put into imprecise categories (try finding the most precise categories possible), and its talk page did not have all the relevant banners. Now, none of these are necessary but I'd consider them good practice. No need to apply them to Ben Fergusson – I have taken care of that. Feel free to talk to me if you have questions. Best, Modussiccandi (talk) 21:56, 19 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Wikimedia previously used the IRC network Freenode. However, due to changes over who controlled the network with reports of a forceful takeover by several ex-staff members, the Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts decided to move to the new Libera Chat network. It has been reported that Wikimedia related channels on Freenode have been forcibly taken over if they pointed members to Libera. There is a migration guide and Wikimedia discussions about this.
Consensus has been reached to delete all books in the book namespace. There was rough consensus that the deleted books should still be available on request at WP:REFUND even after the namespace is removed.
An RfC is open to discuss the next steps following a trial which automatically applied pending changes to TFAs.
Technical news
IP addresses of unregistered users are to be hidden from everyone. There is a rough draft of how IP addresses may be shown to users who need to see them. This currently details allowing administrators, checkusers, stewards and those with a new usergroup to view the full IP address of unregistered users. Editors with at least 500 edits and an account over a year old will be able to see all but the end of the IP address in the proposal. The ability to see the IP addresses hidden behind the mask would be dependent on agreeing to not share the parts of the IP address they can see with those who do not have access to the same information. Accessing part of or the full IP address of a masked editor would also be logged. Comments on the draft are being welcomed at the talk page.
Arbitration
The community authorised COVID-19 general sanctions have been superseded by the COVID-19 discretionary sanctions following a motion at a case request. Alerts given and sanctions placed under the community authorised general sanctions are now considered alerts for and sanctions under the new discretionary sanctions.
Articles for Creation July 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive
Hello QuantumRealm:
WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive!
The goal of this drive is to eliminate the backlog of unreviewed articles. The drive is running until 31 July 2021.
Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.
There is currently a backlog of over 1700 articles, so start reviewing articles. We're looking forward to your help!
An RfC is open to add a delay of one week from nomination to deletion for G13 speedy deletions.
Technical news
Last week all wikis were very slow or not accessible for 30 minutes. This was due to server lag caused by regenerating dynamic lists on the Russian Wikinews after a large bulk import. (T287380)
A discussion is open to decide when, if ever, should discord logs be eligible for removal when posted onwiki (including whether to oversight them)
A RfC on the next steps after the trial of pending changes on TFAs has resulted in a 30 day trial of automatic semi protection for TFAs.
Technical news
The Score extension has been re-enabled on public wikis. It has been updated, but has been placed in safe mode to address unresolved security issues. Further information on the security issues can be found on the mediawiki page.
Arbitration
A request for comment is in progress to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the Arbitration Committee election and resolve any issues not covered by existing rules. Comments and new proposals are welcome.
Following an RfC, extended confirmed protection may be used preemptively on certain high-risk templates.
Following a discussion at the Village Pump, there is consensus to treat discord logs the same as IRC logs. This means that discord logs will be oversighted if posted onwiki.
A motion has standardised the 500/30 (extended confirmed) restrictions placed by the Arbitration Committee. The standardised restriction is now listed in the Arbitration Committee's procedures.
Following the closure of the Iranian politics case, standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, post-1978 Iranian politics, broadly construed.
The Arbitration Committee encourages uninvolved administrators to use the discretionary sanctions procedure in topic areas where it is authorised to facilitate consensus in RfCs. This includes, but is not limited to, enforcing sectioned comments, word/diff limits and moratoriums on a particular topic from being brought in an RfC for up to a year.
Miscellaneous
Editors have approved expanding the trial of Growth Features from 2% of new accounts to 25%, and the share of newcomers getting mentorship from 2% to 5%. Experienced editors are invited to add themselves to the mentor list.
The community consultation phase of the 2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process is open for editors to provide comments and ask questions to candidates.
Hello, QuantumRealm. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Isha Clarke, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.
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Hullo QuantumRealm, in response to the reason you cited for declining the publication of the page on "Indian_National_Young_Academy_of_Science_(INYAS)", I have now added several independent third party media references which do not make a passing reference to the organization but significantly cover its activities. Do help me out in being able to figure out if my efforts have still been inadequate enough as per Wikipedia standards. Thanks a lot for looking into this.
Hi QuantumRealm. Responding to your denial of this article, I am wondering about your thoughts. This individual is a highly accomplished reporter working for BBC news who has hosted three television shows, authored a book, and has interviewed many high profile individuals. I added more references to the page. I would actually argue that she just as accomplished as Tara McKelvey - whose references are mostly dead links. Please let me know so I may fix this article to your liking. Thanks! Ksaraf (talk) 15:35, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Phase 2 of the 2021 RfA review has commenced which will discuss potential solutions to address the 8 issues found in Phase 1. Proposed solutions that achieve consensus will be implemented and you may propose solutions till 07 November 2021.
Hello! Voting in the 2021 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 6 December 2021. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia 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 impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
Hello, Good day, contacting you concerning my draft that has been rejected for publication. I put in a lot of work and I feel it is comparable with other cryptocurrency pages such as shiba inu and safemoon. Kindly reconsider. I will update the page as the coin grows. Title of draft of Gaaxy, it is a mistake, title is actually supposed to be Galaxy Heroes Coin. Thanks for your consideration.
I have added more references, from notable sources as well. The token is quite notable and growing. It has huge potentials. Kindly look through it again and approve. Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Masterchib (talk • contribs) 12:00, 1 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Hey QuantumRealm, hope you're having a great day :)
I'm not sure if this is exactly how I should contact you - but I believe this is your talk page haha!
First things first, I love your support & openness about LGBTQ+. I am also a straight male, openly supporting pride. Not enough people showing their love and it's nice you're so proud about the community - can always appreciate that!
Secondly, I am writing about a submission you rightfully declined yesterday. I am submitting this page for popular creator, Fxtch. This is in response to an agency, working with the person mentioned.. I appreciate you leaving a reason and have now updated the page, adding all relevant information. Can also confirm all information is accurate, after reaching out to them (Dylan Davies) myself.
Supporting British creators in the esports industry does a great service and I'm grateful to be here. Please let me know if you need anything else or have suggestions for improvement. Thank you!
Unregistered editors using the mobile website are now able to receive notices to indicate they have talk page messages. The notice looks similar to what is already present on desktop, and will be displayed on when viewing any page except mainspace and when editing any page. (T284642)
The limit on the number of emails a user can send per day has been made global instead of per-wiki to help prevent abuse. (T293866)
The already authorized standard discretionary sanctions for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes), broadly construed, have been made permanent.
On 19 December 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Hebetica sylviae, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Hebetica sylviae(pictured) was discovered after a two-year-old named Sylvie overwatered her backyard? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Hebetica sylviae. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Hebetica sylviae), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Following consensus at the 2021 RfA review, the autopatrolled user right has been removed from the administrators user group; admins can grant themselves the autopatrolled permission if they wish to remain autopatrolled.
The functionaries email list (functionaries-enlists.wikimedia.org) will no longer accept incoming emails apart from those sent by list members and WMF staff. Private concerns, apart from those requiring oversight, should be directly sent to the Arbitration Committee.
The user group oversight will be renamed suppress in around 3 weeks. This will not affect the name shown to users and is simply a change in the technical name of the user group. The change is being made for technical reasons. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections.
The Reply Tool feature, which is a part of Discussion Tools, will be opt-out for everyone logged in or logged out starting 7 February 2022. Editors wishing to comment on this can do so in the relevant Village Pump discussion.
Hello! I wanted to drop a quick note for all of our AFC participants; nothing huge and fancy like a newsletter, but a few points of interest.
AFCH will now show live previews of the comment to be left on a decline.
The template {{db-afc-move}} has been created - this template is similar to {{db-move}} when there is a redirect in the way of an acceptance, but specifically tells the patrolling admin to let you (the draft reviewer) take care of the actual move.
A RfC is open to discuss prohibiting draftification of articles over 90 days old.
Technical news
The deployment of the reply tool as an opt-out feature, as announced in last month's newsletter, has been delayed to 7 March. Feedback and comments are being welcomed at Wikipedia talk:Talk pages project. (T296645)
Access to Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have the deletelogentry and deletedhistory rights. This means that those in the Researcher user group and Checkusers who are not administrators can now access Special:RevisionDelete. The users able to view the special page after this change are the 3 users in the Researcher group, as there are currently no checkusers who are not already administrators. (T301928)
When viewing deleted revisions or diffs on Special:Undelete a back link to the undelete page for the associated page is now present. (T284114)
Hello, QuantumRealm. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Isha Clarke".
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.
Following an RfC, a change has been made to the administrators inactivity policy. Under the new policy, if an administrator has not made at least 100 edits over a period of 5 years they may be desysopped for inactivity.
A public status system for WMF wikis has been created. It is located at https://www.wikimediastatus.net/ and is hosted separately to WMF wikis so in the case of an outage it will remain viewable.
Arbitration
Remedy 2 of the St Christopher case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to place a ban on single-purpose accounts who were disruptively editing on the article St Christopher Iba Mar Diop College of Medicine or related pages from those pages.
Hello, QuantumRealm. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Jaya Ibrahim, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.
If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.
Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. (T307341)
The IP Info feature has been deployed to all wikis as a Beta Feature. Any autoconfirmed user may enable the feature using the "IP info" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features. Autoconfirmed users will be able to access basic information about an IP address that includes the country and connection method. Those with advanced privileges (admin, bureaucrat, checkuser) will have access to extra information that includes the Internet Service Provider and more specific location.
The New Pages Patrol queue has around 10,000 articles to be reviewed. As all administrators have the patrol right, please consider helping out. The queue is here. For further information on the state of the project, see the latest NPP newsletter.
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.
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.
A discussion is open to define a process by which Vector 2022 can be made the default for all users.
An RfC is open to gain consensus on whether Fox News is reliable for science and politics.
Technical news
The impact report on the effects of disabling IP editing on the Persian (Farsi) Wikipedia has been released.
The WMF is looking into making a Private Incident Reporting System (PIRS) system to improve the reporting of harmful incidents through easier and safer reporting. You can leave comments on the talk page by answering the questions provided. Users who have faced harmful situations are also invited to join a PIRS interview to share the experience. To sign up please emailMadalina Ana.
Arbitration
An arbitration case regarding Conduct in deletion-related editing has been closed. The Arbitration Committee passed a remedy as part of the final decision to create a request for comment (RfC) on how to handle mass nominations at Articles for Deletion (AfD).
The arbitration case request Jonathunder has been automatically closed after a 6 month suspension of the case.
Miscellaneous
The new pages patrol (NPP) team has prepared an appeal to the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) for assistance with addressing Page Curation bugs and requested features. You are encouraged to read the open letter before it is sent, and if you support it, consider signing it. It is not a discussion, just a signature will suffice.
Following an RfC, consensus has been found that, in the context of politics and science, the reliability of FoxNews.com is unclear and that additional considerations apply to its use.
The Articles for creation helper script now automatically recognises administrator accounts which means your name does not need to be listed at WP:AFCP to help out. If you wish to help out at AFC, enable AFCH by navigating to Preferences → Gadgets and checking the "Yet Another AfC Helper Script" box.
Arbitration
Remedy 8.1 of the Muhammad images case will be rescinded 1 November following a motion.
An RfC is open to discuss having open requests for adminship automatically placed on hold after the seven-day period has elapsed, pending closure or other action by a bureaucrat.
Tech tip: Wikimarkup in a block summary is parsed in the notice that the blockee sees. You can use templates with custom options to specify situations like {{rangeblock|create=yes}} or {{uw-ublock|contains profanity}}.
Hello! Voting in the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 12 December 2022. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia 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 impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
An RfC on the banners for the December 2022 fundraising campaign has been closed.
Technical news
A new preference named "Enable limited width mode" has been added to the Vector 2022 skin. The preference is also shown as a toggle on every page if your monitor is 1600 pixels or wider. When disabled it removes the whitespace added by Vector 2022 on the left and right of the page content. Disabling this preference has the same effect as enabling the wide-vector-2022 gadget. (T319449)
Arbitration
Eligible users are invited to vote on candidates for the Arbitration Committee until 23:59 December 12, 2022 (UTC). Candidate statements can be seen here.
The arbitration case Stephen has been opened and the proposed decision is expected 1 December 2022.
A motion has modified the procedures for contacting an admin facing Level 2 desysop.
Miscellaneous
Tech tip: A single IPv6 connection usually has access to a "subnet" of 18 quintillion IPs. Add /64 to the end of an IP in Special:Contributions to see all of a subnet's edits, and consider blocking the whole subnet rather than an IP that may change within a minute.
Voting for the Sound Logo has closed and the winner is expected to be announced February to April 2023.
Tech tip: You can view information about IP addresses in a centralised location using bullseye which won the Newcomer award in the recent Coolest Tool Awards.
Voting in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey will begin on 10 February 2023 and end on 24 February 2023. You can submit, discuss and revise proposals until 6 February 2023.
Tech tip: Syntax highlighting is available in both the 2011 and 2017 Wikitext editors. It can help make editing paragraphs with many references or complicated templates easier.
Following a request for comment, the Portal CSD criteria (P1 (portal subject to CSD as an article) and P2 (underpopulated portal)) have been deprecated.
The Terms of Use update cycle has started, which includes a [p]roposal for better addressing undisclosed paid editing. Feedback is being accepted until 24 April 2023.
The rollback of Vector 2022 RfC has found no consensus to rollback to Vector legacy, but has found rough consensus to disable "limited width" mode by default.
QuantumRealm. Thank you for reviewing and accepting the article Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association. I am a bit confused and need help. The article is still listed as "Draft:Pennsylvania Manu...." When I click on the "Move" command for the article, it tells me you "moved" the Draft:Pennsylvania Manu...." on 10 April. But there is still no article titled "Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association." I'd like to move it out of draft and into mainspace, but do not know how to accomplish this. So please Help! Hamish barebones (talk) 18:30, 18 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for reaching out to me about the "Draft:Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association" article. I understand your confusion and concerns. I apologize for any misunderstanding that may have occurred. After further consideration, I decided to draftify the article because it requires some additional improvements and sources to meet Wikipedia's content guidelines and notability criteria.
As an experienced editor, I would recommend you to take a look at the following Wikipedia policies and guidelines for better understanding:
WP:N – Notability guidelines: Make sure the subject of the article meets Wikipedia's notability criteria and has received significant coverage in reliable, independent sources.
WP:RS – Reliable sources: Ensure that the article is well-sourced with citations from reliable and independent sources to support the information provided.
WP:V – Verifiability: All the information in the article should be verifiable, and any challenged or likely-to-be-challenged material must be supported by reliable sources.
WP:MOS – Manual of Style: Follow the Wikipedia Manual of Style for a consistent and professional presentation of the article.
To increase the chances of the article being accepted, I would suggest working on these aspects and addressing any possible issues. You may also want to seek input from other experienced editors or post your draft at the Wikipedia:Teahouse for further feedback and guidance.
Once you have made the necessary improvements, you can resubmit the article for review through the Articles for Creation process. Keep in mind that acceptance is not guaranteed, but addressing the issues I mentioned above will definitely improve the likelihood.
I hope this helps you, and I appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia. If you have any further questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to reach out.
QuantumRealm. I am very confused. How did we get from: "Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions. The article has been assessed as C-Class…. This is a great rating for a new article, and places it among the top 19% of accepted submissions — kudos to you!"
To: "(the article) requires some additional improvements and sources to meet Wikipedia's content guidelines and notability criteria."
Please answer a few questions for me:
As an experienced editor, I would recommend you to take a look at the following Wikipedia policies and guidelines for better understanding:
QR: WP:N – Notability guidelines: Make sure the subject of the article meets Wikipedia's notability criteria and has received significant coverage in reliable, independent sources.
HB: Does not this apply to all articles? Can I respectfully submit that a subject is either “notable” or it is “not notable?” There is no middle ground. So there is little I can do here, except suggest that an organization that has been successfully serving the US fifth largest state’s manufacturing base for 113 years is notable? Now I have to prove it.
QR: WP:RS – Reliable sources: Ensure that the article is well-sourced with citations from reliable and independent sources to support the information provided.
HB: I can do something here like adding more citations. The article currently has 23 citations. One of those citations is from the PMA itself, explaining its organizational purpose. I am presently adding more and deleting the PMA citation and its content.
QR: WP:V – Verifiability: All the information in the article should be verifiable, and any challenged or likely-to-be-challenged material must be supported by reliable sources.
HB: All current sources for citations are verifiable. I will continue to add sources that meet this criterion.
QR: WP:MOS – Manual of Style: Follow the Wikipedia Manual of Style for a consistent and professional presentation of the article.
HB: Can you get more specific here? I’ve been editing for almost four years but took a big break during the Covid lockdowns and should be considered a new editor. I have talked to a more experienced editor and asked him to review the article. He made several suggestions on revisions, which I will make.
Final question (I promise) It took four months to get this article approved. There are now more (3,900) articles in the pending articles for creation approval queue. If I rewrite the article and it meets your approval, can you change the Draft: Article to mainspace?
A request for comment about removing administrative privileges in specified situations is open for feedback.
Technical news
Progress has started on the Page Triage improvement project. This is to address the concerns raised by the community in their 2022 WMF letter that requested improvements be made to the tool.
Following an RfC, editors indefinitely site-banned by community consensus will now have all rights, including sysop, removed.
As a part of the Wikimedia Foundation's IP Masking project, a new policy has been created that governs the access to temporary account IP addresses. An associated FAQ has been created and individual communities can increase the requirements to view temporary account IP addresses.
Technical news
Bot operators and tool maintainers should schedule time in the coming months to test and update their tools for the effects of IP masking. IP masking will not be deployed to any content wiki until at least October 2023 and is unlikely to be deployed to the English Wikipedia until some time in 2024.
Arbitration
The arbitration case World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been closed. The topic area of Polish history during World War II (1933-1945) and the history of Jews in Poland is subject to a "reliable source consensus-required" contentious topic restriction.
Following an RfC, TFAs will be automatically semi-protected the day before it is on the main page and through the day after.
A discussion at WP:VPP about revision deletion and oversight for dead 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.
The SmallCat dispute case has closed. As part of the final decision, editors participating in XfD have been reminded to be careful about forming local consensus which may or may not reflect the broader community consensus. Regular closers of XfD forums were also encouraged to note 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 of Special:Diff can be used to easily look through a history, assemble composite diffs, or find out what archive something wound up in.
WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive!
The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than 2 months outstanding reviews from the current 4+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 November 2023 through 30 November 2023.
Following a motion, the contentious topic designation of Prem Rawat has been struck. Actions previously taken using this contentious topic designation are still in force.
Following several motions, multiple topic areas are no longer designated as a contentious topic. These contentious topic designations were from the Editor conduct in e-cigs articles, Liancourt Rocks, Longevity, Medicine, September 11 conspiracy theories, and Shakespeare authorship question cases.
Following a motion, remedies 3.1 (All related articles under 1RR whenever the dispute over naming is concerned), 6 (Stalemate resolution) and 30 (Administrative supervision) of the Macedonia 2 case have been rescinded.
Following a motion, remedy 6 (One-revert rule) of the The Troubles case has been amended.
An arbitration case named Industrial agriculture has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case close 8 November.
Miscellaneous
The Articles 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 in the Gadgets settings. Sign up here to participate!
I am writing to know why my draft was nominated for speedy delivery as I made all the changes requested I make to this article from my previous submission. I even modeled this recent submission after Approved Wiki pages of appointed SSGs in Nigeria such as Abubakar Shehu-Abubakar, George Akume,Tammy Danagogo to name a few.
I saw you said the references were not notabe enough but they are from local news papers with active links and I can add more news references but they will still refer to Oluebube as an aide which is his current role in the government.
Hello! Voting in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 11 December 2023. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia 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 impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
Hi, I removed a redundant text that was found both in "european hand fan section" and "cultural variations". Even if I explain the reason in the edit summary, you still tagged me as vandalism. It is not needed to have exactly the same text twice. 2001:1C06:1B01:9400:2F:A1C1:58D7:6EAF (talk) 13:49, 4 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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.
Do you even read the contributions of IPs before you thank and welcome them to Wikipedia? This welcome to an IP for vandalizing the article about the upcoming superbowl strikes me as inappropriate. Tarl N. (discuss) 21:35, 11 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Tarl N. I'd like to address the issues you brought up. I looked back at the edit you were referring to, and I couldn't find thanks in the way you described. As part of building a positive and welcoming community, my method has been to welcome all unregistered IPs.
I get that your message on my talk page was meant to give your point of view, but it came across as a bit hostile to me. I think the best way to clear up any confusion or argument is to talk about it in an open and polite way. I am a volunteer just as you, I deserve respect and dignity. There was nothing inappropriate that I did.
If you still think my actions don't follow community standards, I'm willing to talk about this more or look into other options, such as the ANI report, to find a solution.
Sorry I came across as cranky, but I strongly feel that when interacting with a new user's edit, the fundamental operation an editor should perform is verify that edit is both meaningful and acceptable. By providing a welcome message and creating their talk page, you set the user's visible status to other editors as "has previously interacted with the Wikipedia Community" (no red link on the talk). That status changes the risk calculus for a bad edit - to the detriment of other reviewers. I'd ask that when you spend the seconds creating a new talk page with a welcome message, you at least look at the edit which brought them to your attention, and validate it does not itself cause problems for Wikipedia. Tarl N. (discuss) 23:29, 12 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I acknowledge your viewpoint. However, a capable editor ought to evaluate a user based on their contributions, not by what is on their talk page. If the user is engaging in vandalism, this will be evident from their edit history. The editor's response should be based on the quality and nature of these contributions, without considering whether the user has received interactions or welcome messages on their talk page. QuantumRealm (meow🦁 • pawtrack🐾) 05:12, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Reverts
If you make a revert, unless it is for vandalism, please remember to leave an edit summary explaining the reason for your revert. And please have one. This is especially important when using tools, such as rollback. You seem to be forgetting to leave such edit summaries, and be making reverts without any apparent rationale, other than “I do not like it.” 2603:7000:2101:AA00:49C4:B839:790A:579E (talk) 11:08, 12 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
In addition, as to red links, please don’t delete them because you dislike them. Only - especially with tools - only revert their creation with an edit summary. And only when “there is no reasonable expectation that the article in question will eventually be created (either as its own article or as a redirect).” If such a reasonable expectation exists, kindly let it be. “In general, a red link should be allowed to remain in an article if it links to a term that could plausibly sustain an article, but for which there is no existing candidate article, or article section, under any name.” In accordance w our rules. You have been reverting red links to what are clearly plausible articles - books by a notable author for example. 2603:7000:2101:AA00:49C4:B839:790A:579E (talk) 11:24, 12 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Draft:Jishnu Raghavan
I'm not Sock, I'm not a Sock please don't suspect me I had just created this article in a good faith. It's true that I'm not a SOCK. In this wikipedia platform I'm to edit and create new article in my future. Sreenu S (talk) 16:24, 16 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
So I spent a whole weekend on write interesting article just for getting rejection in a few seconds without any direction? What's wrong, explain please, thank you Antonio Vinzaretti (talk) 08:04, 19 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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As Israeli, I find it absurde that the English page about this person is defined by you as "not sufficiently notable for inclusion in Wikipedia.". Dror is one of the key leaders in Israel, Personaly I'm part of a comunitry of close to 100,000 people that follow him daily on his whatsapp groups. (check is social media) - he is being quated and interviewed almost every day etc etc. https://x.com/faniaoz/status/1771595428573712817?s=20
I edited parts that were wrong, and this page need to be restored ASAP as it makes Wikipedia looks like a political tool which tries to hide the people that are working to change the Israeli goverment.
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