User talk:TommyBoy

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Welcome to the Wikipedia

Here are some links I thought useful:

Feel free to contact me personally with any questions you might have. The Wikipedia:Village pump is also a good place to go for quick answers to general questions. You can sign your name by typing 4 tildes, like this: ~~~~.

Be Bold!

Sam [Spade] 15:47, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Welcome!

Welcome!

Hi, and welcome to the Biography WikiProject! As you may have guessed, we're a group of editors working to improve Wikipedia's coverage of biographies.

A few features that you might find helpful:

There are a variety of interesting things to do within the project; you're free to participate however much—or little—you like:

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask another fellow member, and we'll be happy to help you. Again, welcome! We look forward to seeing you around! plange 19:16, 6 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to the Military history WikiProject!

Hi, and welcome to the Military history WikiProject! As you may have guessed, we're a group of editors working to improve Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to military history.

A few features that you might find helpful:

There are a variety of interesting things to do within the project; you're free to participate however much—or little—you'd like:

  • Starting some new articles? Our article structure guidelines outline some things to include.
  • Interested in working on a more complete article? The military history peer review and collaboration departments would welcome your help!
  • Want to help with specific requests for assistance? Our requests page has extensive lists of requested articles, images, maps, and translations.
  • Interested in a particular area of military history? We have a number of task forces that focus on specific topics, nations, or periods.
  • Want to know how good our articles are? The assessment department is working on rating the quality of every military history article in Wikipedia.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask one of the project coordinators, or any experienced member of the project, and we'll be happy to help you. Again, welcome! We look forward to seeing you around! Kirill Lokshin 20:41, 31 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome!

Welcome TommyBoy

Thank you for joining the Law Enforcement Wikiproject on the English Wikipedia! As you would have guessed we are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to law enforcement

Since you now are a member you get to have our userbox or banner on your userpage! To add these use:

  1. {{User WikiprojectPolice}} -- our userbox, or
  2. {{Lawenforcementmember}} -- our member banner.

Here are some more tips to get you started:

  • Creating articles: See here for articles you can create, but don't forget to add [[Category:Law enforcement]] to the base of the article and our project banner to the talk page of the article using {{WPLE}}
  • Participate on our talk page: It is highly recommended that you watchlist it. There are also a number of small projects on the talk page as well that may be of interest to you!
  • Check the bulletin board: For news and information, please read the bulletin board regularly or add it to you user-page using: {{Lawenforcementbulletinboard}}
  • Improve an article: Click here to find all the really short articles, pick one from that list and improve it. When you are done go to the talk page of that article and removed {{WPLE| class=Stub}} the bit in bold and another editor will be along to see how well you have done and reassess the article to a much higher class.

All members are reminded:

In a nutshell:

  1. SGGH speak! (Project Coordinator)
  2. Dep. Garcia ( Talk + | Help Desk | Complaints ) (Assistant Coordinator)
  3. Or any project coordinator listed on the main project page or members page.

Again, Thank you and Welcome


SGGH speak! 22:14, 3 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

span> 22:11, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Missouri

There hasn't been much activity at WikiProject Missouri or any of its child projects lately, and I saw your name on the list of active participants. If you are willing to jump in again, please consider helping to revive the project:

If you know anyone who might be interested in Missouri (its history, culture, sports, people, places, architecture, etc.), please pass this message along to them! If you are still interested in the project but aren't currently active, please add yourself to the list of inactive participants at the bottom of this list. Thanks!

On behalf of the project,  fetchcomms☛ 21:44, 8 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for responding! Again, if you know anyone else interested, please encourage them to join in. Keep up the good work!  fetchcomms☛ 15:39, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You are now a Reviewer

Hello. Your account has been granted the "reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on certain flagged pages. Pending changes, also known as flagged protection, is currently undergoing a two-month trial scheduled to end 15 August 2010.

Reviewers can review edits made by users who are not autoconfirmed to articles placed under pending changes. Pending changes is applied to only a small number of articles, similarly to how semi-protection is applied but in a more controlled way for the trial. The list of articles with pending changes awaiting review is located at Special:OldReviewedPages.

When reviewing, edits should be accepted if they are not obvious vandalism or BLP violations, and not clearly problematic in light of the reason given for protection (see Wikipedia:Reviewing process). More detailed documentation and guidelines can be found here.

If you do not want this userright, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. Courcelles (talk) 17:33, 18 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, TommyBoy. You have new messages at Courcelles's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

--HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 23:29, 19 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation to join WikiProject United States

Hello, TommyBoy! WikiProject United States, an outreach effort supporting development of United States related articles in Wikipedia, has recently been restarted after a long period of inactivity. As a user who has shown an interest in United States related topics we wanted to invite you to join us in developing content relating to the United States. If you are interested please add your Username and area of interest to the members page here. Thank you!!!

--Kumioko (talk) 20:50, 4 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject United States Government

Greetings. I noticed that you are one of the members of WikiProject United States Government that are still active so I wanted to ask you a question. It appears that this project is mostly inactive aside from what the members might be doing independently. I was considering suggesting that this project be pulled in under WikiProject United States and wanted to solicit comments from some of this projects members before doing so. As with Washington DC and the others the project would for the most part maintain its own independence but I believe this would benefit both projects. What do you think about this? --Kumioko (talk) 23:54, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Email

Hi,

Can you enable email on your account? I'd like to check something with you on a wiki matter if that's ok. Thanks! FT2 (Talk | email) 17:05, 21 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It's under "my preferences" (or at Special:Preferences) - under "user profile", enter an email address, check the box marked "Enable e-mail from other users" and confirm the email address is valid when you receive the confirmation link from the email handler. Something you posted a while back that I thought I'd ask about. Not specifically edit related. Thanks :) FT2 (Talk | email) 15:59, 22 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I was thinking of this or this if they're still relevant. If it is, then feel free to drop me an email or note. (Incidentally you'd need to either confirm your email or check the box allowing emails from other users, before it works). FT2 (Talk | email) 17:56, 23 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion for WikiProject United States to support WikiProject US Presidents

Greetings, It was recently suggested that WikiProject US Presidents might be inactive or semiactive and it might be beneficial to include it in the list of projects supported by WikiProject United States. I have started a discussion on the projects talk page soliciting the opinions of the members of the project if this project would be interested in being supported by WikiProject United States. Please feel free to comment on your opinions about this suggestion. --Kumioko (talk) 02:47, 21 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Autopatrolled

Hi TommyBoy, just wanted to let you know that I have added the autopatrolled right to your account, as you have created numerous, valid articles. This feature will have no effect on your editing, and is simply intended to reduce the workload on new page patrollers. For more information on the patroller right, see Wikipedia:Autopatrolled. Feel free to leave me a message if you have any questions. Happy editing! ItsZippy (talk • contributions) 21:25, 27 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Time for a mop?

Hey TommyBoy, why has no one nominated you for adminship yet? Kaldari (talk) 06:37, 26 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

If I get some time, I'll see if I can put together a nomination. In the meantime, you might want to take a look at Wikipedia:Advice for RfA candidates, Wikipedia:Miniguide to requests for adminship, and Wikipedia:Guide to requests for adminship. Kaldari (talk) 08:26, 26 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Haven't forgotten, just waiting for the drama to die down a bit. Kaldari (talk) 04:00, 30 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The time has come...

Would you mind signing up for the edit stats pages as out lined here) (ie create the page User:TommyBoy/EditCounterOptIn.js with any content, it would assist others to evaluate you RfA. You can see mine here. Thanks Mtking (edits) 03:05, 12 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hope the RfA-wringer isn't too stressful yet. It's never a pretty sight in the administrator sausage factory :) Kaldari (talk) 06:35, 13 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Questions

Would you please expand upon your answers? I think it's possible that your answers may be misrepresenting you. The one on consensus in particular. That said, just as the questions are optional, so to is this follow up request to expand and clarify. - jc37 20:45, 12 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your comment, I am actually working on answering the questions right now. --TommyBoy (talk) 20:55, 12 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, thanks. I look forward to reading your revised/clarified responses. - jc37 00:53, 13 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, I answered your original questions, but if you have any additional questions, please don't hestitate to ask. --TommyBoy (talk) 00:56, 13 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Nod, but what I asked above was whether you would please expand upon your answers. But as I said, this request is optional. - jc37 01:00, 13 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats

Your nomination is at 78% and is likely to pass. Please make sure you use the tools responsibly. –BuickCenturyDriver 00:16, 19 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

...or you could launch a reign of terror against all who dared oppose you. But no, probably what the guy said above is a better way to go. Shawn in Montreal (talk)

Congratulations

The Tools

I've closed your RfA as succesful. Congratulations, and good luck with your new tools! Maxim(talk) 00:51, 19 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

In my head (about your RfA%), I was like, please don't go below 75 please don't and hopefully it didn't. Congrats TommyBoy. TheSpecialUser TSU 01:06, 19 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Good going! May wisdom accompany your tool usage. Binksternet (talk) 01:36, 19 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Well done, dude! Thoroughly deserved after waiting such a long time. FishBarking? 02:31, 19 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
My congrats also on your adminship. May the extra buttons serve you well, and thanks for all you have done for the project to date and in the future! Jusdafax 02:35, 19 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Congrats. I'm glad the community had the wisdom to give you a chance. If you have any questions about all the new shiny buttons, feel free to ask. I remember they scared the hell out of me for the first few days, afraid I was going to block Jimbo or something :) Dennis Brown - 2¢ © Join WER 03:09, 19 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats TommyBoy! It was kinda close, but you made it. AutomaticStrikeout 03:11, 19 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Good luck with your new job! Reaper Eternal (talk) 05:35, 19 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations! Glad you made it through. — Mr. Stradivarius (have a chat) 09:47, 19 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Well done from me too! Brookie :) { - he's in the building somewhere!} (Whisper...) 09:58, 19 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Congrats! Welcome to the cabal team! We're going to need you to report to WP:ANI promptly and start defending all the other sysops.--v/r - TP 13:33, 19 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations. Go forth and do good; I'm sure that you will. — Hex (❝?!❞) 11:54, 20 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Top 100

Congratulations on making the top 100 list. - jc37 01:19, 19 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Love history & culture? Get involved in WikiProject World Digital Library!

World Digital Library Wikipedia Partnership - We need you!
Hi TommyBoy! I'm the Wikipedian In Residence at the World Digital Library, a project of the Library of Congress and UNESCO. I'm recruiting Wikipedians who are passionate about history & culture to participate in improving Wikipedia using the WDL's vast free online resources. Participants can earn our awesome WDL barnstar and help to disseminate free knowledge from over 100 libraries in 7 different languages. Please sign up to participate here. Thanks for editing Wikipedia and I look forward to working with you! SarahStierch (talk) 22:53, 22 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Happy adminship anniversary!

Wishing TommyBoy a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Anastasia [Missionedit] (talk) 16:39, 19 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Global account

Hi TommyBoy! As a Steward I'm involved in the upcoming unification of all accounts organized by the Wikimedia Foundation (see m:Single User Login finalisation announcement). By looking at your account, I realized that you don't have a global account yet. In order to secure your name, I recommend you to create such account on your own by submitting your password on Special:MergeAccount and unifying your local accounts. If you have any problems with doing that or further questions, please don't hesitate to ping me with {{ping|DerHexer}}. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 14:57, 2 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Extended confirmed protection

Hello, TommyBoy. This message is intended to notify administrators of important changes to the protection policy.

Extended confirmed protection (also known as "30/500 protection") is a new level of page protection that only allows edits from accounts at least 30 days old and with 500 edits. The automatically assigned "extended confirmed" user right was created for this purpose. The protection level was created following this community discussion with the primary intention of enforcing various arbitration remedies that prohibited editors under the "30 days/500 edits" threshold to edit certain topic areas.

In July and August 2016, a request for comment established consensus for community use of the new protection level. Administrators are authorized to apply extended confirmed protection to combat any form of disruption (e.g. vandalism, sock puppetry, edit warring, etc.) on any topic, subject to the following conditions:

  • Extended confirmed protection may only be used in cases where semi-protection has proven ineffective. It should not be used as a first resort.
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Please review the protection policy carefully before using this new level of protection on pages. Thank you.
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Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins

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Please note that TOTP based two-factor authentication is now available for all administrators. In light of the recent compromised accounts, you are encouraged to add this additional layer of security to your account. It may be enabled on your preferences page in the "User profile" tab under the "Basic information" section. For basic instructions on how to enable two-factor authentication, please see the developing help page for additional information. Important: Be sure to record the two-factor authentication key and the single use keys. If you lose your two factor authentication and do not have the keys, it's possible that your account will not be recoverable. Furthermore, you are encouraged to utilize a unique password and two-factor authentication for the email account associated with your Wikimedia account. This measure will assist in safeguarding your account from malicious password resets. Comments, questions, and concerns may be directed to the thread on the administrators' noticeboard. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:34, 12 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

A new user right for New Page Patrollers

Hi TommyBoy.

A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.

If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins).MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:48, 15 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Five years of adminship

Wishing TommyBoy a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Chris Troutman (talk) 02:58, 19 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Happy New Year, TommyBoy!

Happy New Year!

TommyBoy,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
Mojo Hand (talk) 15:41, 1 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

   Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.

Belated best wishes for a happy 2018

The Fox Hunt (1893) by Winslow Homer, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Thank you for your contributions toward making Wikipedia a better and more accurate place.

== BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 13:37, 16 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom 2019 special circular

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 Administrators must secure their accounts

The Arbitration Committee may require a new RfA if your account is compromised.

View additional information

This message was sent to all administrators following a recent motion. Thank you for your attention. For the Arbitration Committee, Cameron11598 02:23, 4 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Administrator account security (Correction to Arbcom 2019 special circular)

ArbCom would like to apologise and correct our previous mass message in light of the response from the community.

Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are required to "have strong passwords and follow appropriate personal security practices." We have updated our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular, two-factor authentication remains an optional means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised.

We are sorry for the wording of our previous message, which did not accurately convey this, and deeply regret the tone in which it was delivered.

For the Arbitration Committee, -Cameron11598 21:04, 4 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Courts

I see that you have created articles with regard to the US and I was wondering if you could help out Finnish creating the rest of the state courts thanks Bigmike2346 (talk) 17:12, 15 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Have a very happy adminship anniversary on your special day!

Best wishes, CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 11:56, 19 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Notice about a new WikiProject Proposal

This is a friendly notice about a proposal to have yearly based WikiProjects. You can find the proposal by clicking here. Elijahandskip (talk) 19:01, 16 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Wishing TommyBoy a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Bobherry Talk Edits 00:43, 19 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Administrators will no longer be autopatrolled

A recently closed Request for Comment (RFC) reached consensus to remove Autopatrolled from the administrator user group. You may, similarly as with Edit Filter Manager, choose to self-assign this permission to yourself. This will be implemented the week of December 13th, but if you wish to self-assign you may do so now. To find out when the change has gone live or if you have any questions please visit the Administrator's Noticeboard. 20:07, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

Merchandise giveaway nomination

A t-shirt!
A token of thanks
Hi TommyBoy! I've nominated you (along with all other active admins) to receive a solstice season gift from the WMF. Talk page stalkers are invited to comment at the nomination. Enjoy! Cheers, {{u|Sdkb}} talk ~~~~~
A snowflake!

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:50, 31 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

How we will see unregistered users

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18:13, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

New administrator activity requirement

The administrator policy has been updated with new activity requirements following a successful Request for Comment.

Beginning January 1, 2023, administrators who meet one or both of the following criteria may be desysopped for inactivity if they have:

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Administrators' newsletter – August 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2022).

Administrator changes

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removed Anthony Appleyard (deceased) • Capitalistroadster • Samsara

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.
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Technical news

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Arbitration

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Miscellaneous

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Kathryn D. Sullivan

Hi there! I have been working on bringing articles on women astronauts up to featured status. My nomination of Sally Ride is nearing closure at FAC, and the next cab off the rank is Kathryn D. Sullivan. Since you are the next major contributor to the article still active, I was wondering if you would be interested in co-nominating it with me? I'm an experienced nominator, and will do all the work. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:19, 7 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – September 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2022).

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  • A discussion is open to define a process by which Vector 2022 can be made the default for all users.
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Technical news

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).
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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.
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Promotion of Kathryn D. Sullivan

Congratulations, TommyBoy! The article you nominated, Kathryn D. Sullivan, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best articles on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.
This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured article. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) via FACBot (talk) 00:06, 28 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – October 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2022).

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Technical news

  • 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

Miscellaneous

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Kathryn D. Sullivan scheduled for TFA

This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for 23 November 2022. Please check that the article needs no amendments. Feel free to amend the draft blurb, which can be found at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/November 23, 2022, or to make comments on other matters concerning the scheduling of this article at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/November 2022. I suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from the day before this appears on Main Page. Thanks and congratulations on your work. Gog the Mild (talk) 14:59, 11 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Administrators' newsletter – December 2022

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CheckUser changes

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Oversight changes

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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

Miscellaneous

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Happy New Year, TommyBoy!

Happy New Year!

TommyBoy,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
— Moops ⋠T⋡ 04:39, 2 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

   Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2023

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Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • Voting for the Sound Logo has closed and the winner is expected to be announced February to April 2023.
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Administrators' newsletter – February 2023

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Technical news

  • The Vector 2022 skin has become the default for desktop users of the English Wikipedia.

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • Voting in the 2023 Steward elections will begin on 05 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
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Administrators' newsletter – March 2023

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Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • The 2023 appointees for the Ombuds commission are AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, JJMC89, MdsShakil, Minorax and Renvoy as regular members and Zabe as advisory members.
  • Following the 2023 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Mykola7, Superpes15, and Xaosflux.
  • 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.
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Administrators' newsletter – April 2023

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

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration

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Administrators' newsletter – May 2023

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

Guideline and policy news

  • A request for comment about removing administrative privileges in specified situations is open for feedback.

Technical news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2023

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

Guideline and policy news

  • 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.

Miscellaneous

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2023

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

Administrator changes

added Novem Linguae
removed

Bureaucrat changes

removed MBisanz

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration

  • Two arbitration cases are currently open. Proposed decisions are expected 5 July 2023 for the Scottywong case and 9 July 2023 for the AlisonW case.
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Administrators' newsletter – August 2023

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

Administrator changes

added Firefangledfeathers
removed

Interface administrator changes

added Novem Linguae

Technical news

Arbitration

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Administrators' newsletter – September 2023

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

Guideline and policy news

  • 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.

Technical news

Arbitration

  • 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.
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Wikiproject Military history coordinator election nominations open

Nominations for the upcoming project coordinator election have opened. A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next coordination year. The project coordinators are the designated points of contact for issues concerning the project, and are responsible for maintaining our internal structure and processes. They do not, however, have any authority over article content or editor conduct, or any other special powers. More information on being a coordinator is available here. If you are interested in running, please sign up here by 23:59 UTC on 14 September! Voting will commence on 15 September. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the current coord team. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:05, 2 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The Center Line: Fall 2023

The Center Line
Volume 10, Issue 1 • Fall 2023 • About the Newsletter

Features

• A New Future for Road Articles Online

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Administrators' newsletter – November 2023

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

Administrator changes

added 0xDeadbeef
readded Tamzin
removed Dennis Brown

Interface administrator changes

added Pppery
removed

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration

  • Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 12 November 2023 until 21 November 2023 to stand in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections.
  • Xaosflux, RoySmith and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee Elections. BusterD is the reserve commissioner.
  • 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

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2023

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

Guideline and policy news

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.
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Voting for the WikiProject Military History newcomer of the year and military historian of the year awards for 2023 is now open!

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2024

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

Arbitration

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2024

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

CheckUser changes

removed Wugapodes

Interface administrator changes

removed

Guideline and policy news

  • An RfC 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 a motion, 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 is requested for a draft to replace the "Information for administrators processing requests" section at WP:AE.

Miscellaneous

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Administrators' newsletter – March 2024

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

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

Miscellaneous

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Administrators' newsletter – April 2024

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

Administrator changes

removed

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

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

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • Editors are invited to sign up for The Core Contest, an initiative running from April 15 to May 31, which aims to improve vital and other core articles on Wikipedia.
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Administrators' newsletter – May 2024

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

Administrator changes

readded Nyttend
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Bureaucrat changes

removed Nihonjoe

CheckUser changes

readded Joe Roe

Oversight changes

removed GeneralNotability

Guideline and policy news

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

Miscellaneous

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2024

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

Administrator changes

readded Graham Beards
removed

Bureaucrat changes

removed

Oversight changes

removed Dreamy Jazz

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

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

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2024

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

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Presidency Navigation Templates vs. Biography Navigation Templates discussion

Hello, TommyBoy! Since you are listed as an active member of the United States Presidents WikiProject, would you mind leaving a comment at a project talk page discussion about a series of templates that I created for the presidencies of Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and George W. Bush? Another editor and myself disagree about whether there should be a separate navigation template for each Presidency apart from the biographical navigation template. Thanks! -- CommonKnowledgeCreator (talk) 21:53, 9 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Could you please look in on this editor's edits...

You've edited Martha Jefferson in the past... Well, an editor is changing "enslaved persons" & "slavers" etc in multiple articles back to the outdated and demeaning terminology of "slaves" etc. Is there an RFC somewhere that speaks to this issue? Thanks, Shearonink (talk) 13:49, 11 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

CfD nomination at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 August 2 § Families by person

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Administrators' newsletter – August 2024

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

Administrator changes

readded Isabelle Belato
removed

Interface administrator changes

readded Izno

CheckUser changes

removed Barkeep49

Technical news

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

Arbitration

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Voting for coordinators is now open!

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Administrators' newsletter – September 2024

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

Administrator changes

removed Pppery

Interface administrator changes

removed Pppery

Oversighter changes

removed Wugapodes

CheckUser changes

removed

Guideline and policy news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

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Account Retired

Due to a lost password issue which I could not successfully resolve, I had to create a new account, and I respectfully request that this account and the attached user rights be retired. TommyBoy2024 (talk) 01:16, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This has been mentioned at AN. No action can be taken until it is verified that TommyBoy2024 (talk · contribs) is TommyBoy (talk · contribs). Your account has 119,091 edits and was created on 9 November 2004. Email is enabled as shown by the "Email this user" link on this page. If the email address works, it should be easy to recover the account. If not, recovery may still be possible. Johnuniq (talk) 07:24, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
If this account cannot be formally retired, I respectfully understand that, but due to multiple failed attempts at recovering my password over several weeks, I have decided to change my username in order to continue editing Wikipedia as a registered user even if that results in loss of user rights attached to my former username. TommyBoy2024 (talk) 16:02, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
You should explain the situation precisely: what you tried and what happened. Do you know the email address linked to the account? (Do not disclose the address in public; just say whether you know it, or not, or maybe.) Does that email work (can you read it if an email is sent)? Johnuniq (talk) 00:50, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Despite multiple attempts over the past several weeks, I was unfortunately unable to restore the password for this account, User and I have also changed my UserName again in order to continue editing on Wikipedia as a registered user.--PresidentTommyBoy (talk) 01:17, 9 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Voting for WikiProject Military history coordinators is now open!

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Nominations now open for the WikiProject Military history newcomer of the year and military historian of the year

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