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25 April 2024 |
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2024).
- Phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship review has concluded. The proposals for creating a discussion-only period on a trial basis (2), administrator elections on a trial basis (13), creating tenure requirements for candidates (25) and participants (14) have all passed outright, and will now proceed to the implementation phase. The proposals for creating a reminder of civility norms (2), administrator recall (16 and 16c), putting named administrators and bureaucrats on call (17), requiring links for claims of specific policy violations (9b), and creating a better mentoring system (24) have all passed, but will undergo further refinement in phase II before proceeding to implementation. Proposals that have passed outright, but on a trial basis, will be discussed at phase II after their trials have concluded.
- 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
- The arbitration case Conflict of interest management has been closed.
- This may be a good time to reach out to potential nominees to ask if they would consider an RfA.
- A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in May 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 15,000 articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!
- Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is open until 9 May 2024. Read the voting page on Meta-Wiki and cast your vote here!
Nomination of Waterloo in popular culture for deletion
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Waterloo in popular culture until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.
Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 18:30, 7 April 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:
- Made neither edits nor administrative actions for at least a 12-month period OR
- Made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period
Administrators at risk for being desysopped under these criteria will continue to be notified ahead of time. Thank you for your continued work.
22:53, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
Nomination for deletion of Template:CEM
Template:CEM has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:05, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
Nomination for deletion of Template:CEM poster
Template:CEM poster has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:05, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
Efron template
Hi! I saw that you improved this template a while ago. It produces the error "Missing or empty |title=" now, could you take a look?
Example: public domain: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (in Russian). 1906. {{cite encyclopedia}}
: Missing or empty |title=
(help)
Alaexis¿question? 13:47, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) Fixed on the template page; the template is not causing errors in article space unless the title is omitted. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:40, 19 August 2022 (UTC)
Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of Inchiquin
Dear PBS, Grandmaster Editor, 1st Class. Thank you for having created in July 2009 the article Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of Inchiquin. You built it up from the entry written by Richard Bagwell in the Dictionary of National Biography, volume XLI, 1895, mostly by copying text over verbatim, acknowledging that origin by attribution, which of course is all fine and good practice. You also added citations that give that source but also the source from where Bagwell got it, e.g. "Bagwell, p.320. Cites: Carte Ormonde i 264". It must have been considerable work to find Bagwell's exact source.
I would like to add to your work by incorporating information from more recent sources such as A New History of Ireland (Moody et al., 1976), the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004), the Dictionary of Irish Biography (2009), and what else might be found. I think it is also considered better to paraphrase than to incorporate verbatim passages, even it attributed (I do not know where the guidelines say such a thing or perhaps they don't and I am wrong). Concerning your citations, I wonder what is right to do. It seems a bit unusual to say "Smith (1999) citing Miller (1888)". If a fact can be found in more than one source, which one should be cited, the oldest, the lates, the most renowned, the most accessible? Or should more than one be cited (all, the oldest and the latest?). I want to improve, not undo your work, with many thanks and best regards, Johannes Schade (talk) 07:59, 23 August 2022 (UTC)
Disambiguation link notification for September 6
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Disambiguation link notification for September 13
An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of Thomond, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page William Brereton.
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