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Your speedy tagging
You appear to be looking for articles about Azerbaijani subjects and then tagging them for deletion, even if the articles have existed for a long time. This keeps coming up when I patrol CSD. I have declined several of them. You need to stop because it appears that you have an anti-Azerbaijani bias that is leeching into your edits. If you persist, you risk being blocked for POV editing.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:39, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
- Bbb23, I understand your concern about my CSD tag and I assure you I have no bias against any group. I mostly edit in Azerbaijani articles and sometimes find articles that I think have questionable notability. Articles made by socks or paid editors particularly annoy me (one of two articles I tagged today). I promise to only tag clear cut cases from now on, I'll also gladly accept any other advice you offer on the subject. - Kevo327 (talk) 18:54, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
- I have questions, too, Kevo327. You are mistagging CSD G5s. This speedy deletion criteria isn't for simply having multiple accounts but for ban evasion. That means that the sockmaster has to be blocked at the time of the page creation and the sockpuppet is avoiding a block. Discovering that the page creator is a sockpuppet doesn't mean that their page creations should be tagged for deletion, especially if other editors have worked on the articles, too. They have to be pages that were created after the sockmaster was blocked.
- Please review this criteria at WP:G5 so you understand. To be honest, it's a criteria that many editors misunderstand and if you look at my user talk page, you'll find lots of discussions about it. You have to check block logs for both sockmaster and sockpuppet and check the SPI case report plus look at contributions by other editors to the page history. If other editors have made substantial contributions to the article, it should not be tagged for CSD G5 deletion.
- Thank you for your efforts but deletion tagging has to be carefully done. Liz Read! Talk! 21:44, 28 December 2021 (UTC)
- Liz, I have to admit I didn't know that detail about G5, Looks like I need to re-read the criteria's and related supplements carefully, because by the looks of it I still haven't mastered it. Thank you for your patience. Do you mind me contacting you if I have questions about such policies or whatnot? - Kevo327 (talk) 08:57, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
- Despite the several advices by Bbb23 and Liz, you're still mistagging Azerbaijani articles, for example Azerbaijan Government CERT. Please don't tag for speedy deletion until you familiarize yourself with csd criteria. TheBirdsShedTears (talk) 03:45, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
- Liz, I have to admit I didn't know that detail about G5, Looks like I need to re-read the criteria's and related supplements carefully, because by the looks of it I still haven't mastered it. Thank you for your patience. Do you mind me contacting you if I have questions about such policies or whatnot? - Kevo327 (talk) 08:57, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – January 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2021).
- 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.
- Additionally, consensus for proposal 6C of the 2021 RfA review has led to the creation of an administrative action review process. The purpose of this process will be to review individual administrator actions and individual actions taken by users holding advanced permissions.
- Following the 2021 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Beeblebrox, Cabayi, Donald Albury, Enterprisey, Izno, Opabinia regalis, Worm That Turned, Wugapodes.
- 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.
Administrators' newsletter – February 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2022).
- The Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines have been published for consideration. Voting to ratify this guideline is planned to take place 7 March to 21 March. Comments can be made on the talk page.
- The user group
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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.
- The user group
- Community input is requested on several motions aimed at addressing discretionary sanctions that are no longer needed or overly broad.
- The Arbitration Committee has published a generalised comment regarding successful appeals of sanctions that it can review (such as checkuser blocks).
- A motion related to the Antisemitism in Poland case was passed following a declined case request.
- Voting in the 2022 Steward elections will begin on 07 February 2022, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2022, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
- Voting in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey is open until 11 February 2022.
Your GA nomination of Gregory of Narek
The article Gregory of Narek you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Gregory of Narek for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. --An anonymous username, not my real name (talk) 20:14, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – March 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2022).
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- A RfC is open to change the wording of revision deletion criterion 1 to remove the sentence relating to non-infringing contributions.
- A RfC is open to discuss prohibiting draftification of articles over 90 days old.
- 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)
- Special:Nuke will now allow the selection of standard deletion reasons to be used when mass-deleting pages. This was a Community Wishlist Survey request from 2022. (T25020)
- The ability to undelete the talk page when undeleting a page using Special:Undelete or the API will be added soon. This change was requested in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey. (T295389)
- Several unused discretionary sanctions and article probation remedies have been rescinded. This follows the community feedback from the 2021 Discretionary Sanctions review.
- The 2022 appointees for the Ombuds commission are Érico, Faendalimas, Galahad, Infinite0694, Mykola7, Olugold, Udehb and Zabe as regular members and Ameisenigel and JJMC89 as advisory members.
- Following the 2022 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AntiCompositeNumber, BRPever, Hasley, TheresNoTime, and Vermont.
- The 2022 Community Wishlist Survey results have been published alongside the ranking of prioritized proposals.