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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.
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Tech News: 2022-02
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Orphaned templates
Hi, R'n'B, I've come across your 28 page orphaned templates report a few months ago and a lot of the templates that I've looked through have since been deleted, are no longer orphans, or are now redirected to another template. I was wondering if you plan on updating the pages with your RussBot account since it's been twelve years and the report is pretty outdated to a degree. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 16:16, 15 January 2022 (UTC)
- Sorry, that's an orphaned report. :-) But you may find Wikipedia:Database reports/Unused templates more useful. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 20:27, 15 January 2022 (UTC)
- No problem. I can still find it useful digging through the old report. The Unused templates report is already covered by my task force. But thanks for the input. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 21:40, 15 January 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-03
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Question
Is a hat note needed for William McAndrew (educator) per WP:NOTAMB? Are people going to end up on that page looking for the coach, and vice versa? Viriditas (talk) 23:36, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
- Strictly speaking, probably not. But they were both in the field of education, in Illinois, so there is at least some potential for confusion. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 02:04, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
Hello, R'n'B,
I was just deleting a broken redirect to this page and was surprised to see that you deleted a User talk page. Was there a special reason that allowed this page to be deleted as an exception to the rules? Thanks. Liz Read! Talk! 22:35, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
- There was no content; only a redirect to itself. And there was no deleted history to restore. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 02:26, 19 January 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-04
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Tech News: 2022-05
17:41, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
Hello, after creating a number of {{R to disambiguation page}} redirects (interestingly not shown as such in the edit tags) yesterday as a test run, potentially to look for somebody to create a bot, I noticed your BRFA, which had excluded the disambiguation pages without links. I don't think I agree with the arguments presented there, as disambiguation pages with no internal links could equally well be linked intentionally at any given point in time, and as an editor, I don't (want to) check whether a "(disambiguation)" redirect exists when doing that – if it doesn't, I would be rather surprised by the resulting red link. The argument about creating redirects for every article seems to be a highly exaggerative slippery slope that is not a reason to not create ones for every actual disambiguation page, which, unlike the former, are not misleading. Also, tools like WP:DisamAssist are already creating redirects like these when run on a dab page, no matter the backlinks, though only on a page-by-page basis to be fair. And it would keep people like me from bothering about at these. So, thoughts on this? It seems that extending the task as described would lead to about 50 thousand additional redirects, which is more or less comparable to the scale of the original run. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 00:14, 23 January 2022 (UTC)
- in case you missed this... ~~~~
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Bots Newsletter, January 2022
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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.
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- A motion related to the Antisemitism in Poland case was passed following a declined case request.
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