en User talk:TheEpTic Archives 2019 December

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2019).

Administrator changes

EvergreenFir • ToBeFree

Akhilleus • Athaenara • John Vandenberg • Melchoir • MichaelQSchmidt • NeilN • Youngamerican • 😂

CheckUser changes

Beeblebrox

Deskana

Interface administrator changes

Evad37

Guideline and policy news

An RfC on the administrator resysop criteria was closed. 18 proposals have been summarised with a variety of supported and opposed statements. The inactivity grace period within which a new request for adminship is not required has been reduced from three years to two. Additionally, Bureaucrats are permitted to use their discretion when returning administrator rights.
Following a proposal, the edit filter mailing list has been opened up to users with the Edit Filter Helper right.

Technical news

Wikimedia projects can set a default block length for users via MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry. A new page, MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry-ip, allows the setting of a different default block length for IP editors. Neither is currently used. (T219126)

Arbitration

Voting in the 2019 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 2 December 2018 UTC. Please review the candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page.

Miscellaneous

The global consultation on partial and temporary office actions that ended in October received a closing statement from staff concluding, among other things, that the WMF will no longer use partial or temporary Office Action bans... until and unless community consensus that they are of value or Board directive.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:48, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

Sources needed for Days of the Year pages

I see you recently accepted a pending change to June 10 that did not include a direct source.

You're probably not aware of this change, but Days of the Year pages are no longer exempt from WP:V and direct sources are required for additions. For details see the content guideline and the WikiProject Days of the Year style guide. I've gone ahead and un-accepted this edit and backed it out.

All the pages in the Days of the Year project have had pending changes protection turned on to prevent vandalism and further addition of entries without direct sources. As a pending changes patroller, please do not accept additions to day of year pages where no direct source has been provided on that day of year page. The burden to provide sources for additions to these pages is on the editor who adds or restores material to these pages. Thank you and please keep up your good work! Toddst1 (talk) 03:18, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

@Toddst1: I see! I do apologise for this. As it was a direct link to an existing article I felt there wasn't an issue, but I am wrong. I'll be sure to go over these guidelines and will double check all sources for these pages in the future! Thank you for reaching out :) TheEpTic (talk) 03:32, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

Because you thanked me

TheEpTic, you thanked me for one of my recent edits, so here is a heart-felt...
YOU'RE WELCOME!
It's a pleasure, and I hope you have a lot of fun while you edit this inspiring encyclopedia phenomenon! DoebLoggs (talk)

09:55, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

♥ TheEpTic (talk) 10:03, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

Thank You!

Thank you for suggesting that I use Twinkle. It was super easy to enable and I'm already loving it! I have to sign off soon, but I appreciate you helping a new guy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 911ChickenCop (talk • contribs) 01:14, 6 December 2019 (UTC)

@911ChickenCop: You're most welcome! I'm glad I could help :) TheEpTic (talk) 01:16, 6 December 2019 (UTC)

Incorrect revert due to American English

Hi, you just reverted my edit on Coffee_cake, I was just reverting an edit made by a new user who had changed all the spellings from American English to British English (and had done so on many articles). I'm reverting your changes again, just FYI, as it was just a cleanup from a new user. Have a good day! 90.207.158.232 (talk) 07:24, 6 December 2019 (UTC)

--quick note, here's the link to the users page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:MabelJones44 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.207.158.232 (talk) 07:27, 6 December 2019 (UTC)

I see, the article is in US English. No worries, I apologise for confusion and have reverted the warning! TheEpTic (talk) 07:42, 6 December 2019 (UTC)

No worries! 90.207.158.232 (talk) 09:17, 6 December 2019 (UTC)

Incorrect revert in the "yeísmo" page

Hello, I'm some random user. I wanted to let you know that your revert of one of my recent contributions - specifically in the Yeísmo page, 'adding translations for examples in a foreign language' - does not appear to be constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Help desk.

Worth noting the translation in that case is specially relevant due to homography.

Thanks. 179.182.190.6 (talk) 00:49, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

If you click on the words you're translating, you'll see there's already translations for them. I'm not sure how this improves the article when the page for the linked words already provide the translation, and more. TheEpTic (talk) 00:51, 8 December 2019 (UTC)