Administrators' newsletter – July 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2020).
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Interface administrator changes
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- A request for comment is in progress to remove the T2 (template that misrepresents established policy) speedy deletion criterion.
- Protection templates on mainspace pages are now automatically added by User:MusikBot II (BRFA).
- Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold an
RfC regarding on-wiki harassment
. The RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC and is open to comments from the community. - The Medicine case was closed, with a remedy authorizing standard discretionary sanctions for
all discussions about pharmaceutical drug prices and pricing and for edits adding, changing, or removing pharmaceutical drug prices or pricing from articles
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- Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold an
GA Nomination
Can you explain how a GA review of Brynhild Olivier was carried out recently without this nominator being notified and thus having no opportunity to respond? Up to now, Legobot has always been the method by which reviewer and nominator communicate. --Michael Goodyear ✐ ✉ 01:42, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
Tech News: 2020-28
20:18, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
Legobot always breaks my username, but only when I pass an article
- User talk:Tamravidhir § Your GA nomination of Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019 2
- User talk:DannyS712 § Your GA nomination of Chafin v. Chafin 2
Psiĥedelisto (talk • contribs) please always ping! 13:18, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
- (talk page watcher) @Psiĥedelisto: It's a known problem that Legobot can't handle certain Unicode characters in page names, so I've created User:Psi?edelisto and User talk:Psi?edelisto so that people can click a link that takes them to the right page. What surprises me is not that this edit was in error, but that this edit was correct. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:43, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
- @Redrose64: Good idea about the redirects. I know, right? That is strange, and makes me believe it probably would not be so hard for Lego to fix. Psiĥedelisto (talk • contribs) please always ping! 05:19, 12 July 2020 (UTC)
Tech News: 2020-29
16:30, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
Tech News: 2020-30
19:12, 20 July 2020 (UTC)
Is the TFA bot bot down? Operation Cobra wasn't protected and recieved a ton of vandalism, it looks like Osbert Lancaster is going that way too. Aza24 (talk) 06:49, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
- @Aza24: To quote from the bot's user page, it
... applies move protection to upcoming WP:TFAs
. The vandalism you refer to is ordinary editing which cannot be prevented by a move prot; moreover, TFAs are not normally edit-protected. It's extremely rare that a TFA does not experience some kind of vandalism for a couple of days - merely being linked from the main page makes it a vandalism magnet. See WP:PROT#Guidance for administrators and WP:TFAP. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 07:59, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
Tech News: 2020-31
13:52, 27 July 2020 (UTC)