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Contents
- 1 Requests for closure
- 1.1 Administrative discussions
- 1.2 RfCs
- 1.2.1 Talk:Paul Singer (businessman)#Request for comment on “vulture” descriptor
- 1.2.2 Talk:Michael Greger#Request for comments on SBM source
- 1.2.3 Wikipedia talk:Templates for discussion#Proposed rewording in instructions for listing: when to use <noinclude>
- 1.2.4 Talk:James Watson#RfC on comments leading to Watson's resignation
- 1.2.5 Category talk:People of Jewish descent#Survey
- 1.2.6 Talk:AD 1#What should the articles from 1 to 100 be moved to?
- 1.2.7 Talk:Donald Trump sexual misconduct allegations#RfC: Jane Doe content
- 1.2.8 Talk:Johannes Brahms#RFC: Should the lead of the article on Johannes Brahms include counterpoint as a key element in his compositional style?
- 1.2.9 Talk:Clinton Foundation#RFC: Caracol Industrial Park
- 1.2.10 Talk:National Hockey League#Request for comment on inclusion of subsection "Women in the NHL"
- 1.2.11 Talk:MPay#Proposed merge with Advanced Info Service
- 1.2.12 Talk:Eastern Orthodox Church#RfC about the names of both the Catholic church and the Orthodox church
- 1.2.13 Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation#Proposal: keep two-item dab pages
- 1.2.14 Wikipedia:New pages patrol/RfC on patrolling without user right
- 1.2.15 Talk:Fidel Castro#Request for Comment
- 1.2.16 Wikipedia:Pending changes/Request for Comment 2016
- 1.2.17 Template talk:Marriage#End
- 1.2.18 Talk:Cold war (general term)#Proposed merge with Cold War II
- 1.2.19 Wikipedia talk:Notability (people)#Redirect proposal for Knight's Cross winners
- 1.2.20 Talk:Judith Barsi#Cause of death
- 1.2.21 Talk:Natalie Portman#RfC: Which is the better statement?
- 1.2.22 Talk:Mia Khalifa#Clear Censorship of Her Christian Identity
- 1.2.23 Talk:Douglas MacArthur#Infobox
- 1.2.24 Talk:South West Trains#Request For Comment about the service pattern table and extra content
- 1.2.25 Talk:Female genital mutilation#Wording in the lead
- 1.2.26 Talk:United States involvement in regime change#RfC: Is the following paragraph appropriate for this article, "United States Involvement in Regime Change Actions?
- 1.2.27 Talk:Cinchona#Merge from Jesuit's bark
- 1.2.28 Talk:Popular election#RFC: what sort of page should this be?
- 1.2.29 Template talk:Periodic table#RFC: Should this table follow the IUPAC version for lanthanides, and actinides?
- 1.2.30 Talk:Dental caries#RfC about article's lead image
- 1.2.31 Talk:Goa Opinion Poll#RfC: Referendum Suggestion
- 1.2.32 Talk:Center for Security Policy#RfC: Wording of Lede
- 1.2.33 Talk:Television content rating systems#RfC: Should we add a new category in the comparison table?
- 1.2.34 Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 187#Proposal to stop supporting pull quotes
- 1.2.35 Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Japan/Archive/November 2016#RfC: Shall we ban macrons in titles?
- 1.2.36 Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Access locks: Visual Design RFC
- 1.2.37 Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Access Locks: Citation Template Behaviour RFC
- 1.2.38 Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Draft Namespace Redirects
- 1.2.39 Talk:Nothing Was the Same#RfC: Should metacritic be listed in both the review scores box and the critical reception article?
- 1.2.40 Talk:Lee Harvey Oswald#The initial sentence in this article is not factual. There are two problems, one is a major objective issue in that non factual information is being presented. The other is possibly subjective, as discussed here
- 1.2.41 Talk:List of Rozen Maiden characters#Straw Vote Redirect Dec 2016
- 1.2.42 Talk:Volunteer (Ireland)#RfC for above proposal
- 1.3 Requested moves
- 1.4 Deletion discussions
- 1.4.1 Wikipedia:Miscellany for discussion
- 1.4.2 Wikipedia:Files for discussion#Old discussions
- 1.4.3 Wikipedia:Categories for discussion#Discussions awaiting closure
- 1.4.4 Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2016 June 8#Roman Empire establishments (1st century and earlier)
- 1.4.5 Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Britney Amber
- 1.4.6 Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/London Buses route 109
- 2 Pages recently put under extended-confirmed protection
- 3 Pre-emptive Extended confirmed protection for templates
- 4 Request for Closure Review: Talk:Michael_Portillo#RfC:_Should_predecessors_and_successors_be_included_in_the_infobox.3F
- 5 Administrator protection for block-abusing edits?
- 6 Request for review of Wurdi Youang RFC closure
- 7 Parsley Man
- 8 My account is old and has no email attached to it, I cannot get my password reset! Help!
- 9 Template for the editors with editing restrictions?
- 10 Standard offer for User:Spirot67
- 11 2017 Ombudsman Commission
- 12 Arthur Eddington
- 13 New automated spammer blocking bot going active
- 14 WP:ERRORS
- 15 Admin needed
- 16 Relisting of Wikipedia:Pending changes/Request for Comment 2016
- 17 Admin and/or expert assistance needed at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/London_Buses_route_109
- 18 Rangeblock needed
- 19 Motion regarding Darkfrog24
- 20 Last call for 2016 Community Wishlist Survey
- 21 Motion regarding Fæ
- 22 Request for admin action to protected page Haredi Judaism
- 23 Close review: Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Notability (academic journals)
- 24 Move made during Requested move discussion
- 25 Two IP's constantly edit warring and harrasing each other
- 26 Edit warring and attacking
- 27 Request for editing Mediawiki:common.css
- 28 Old SPI case needs admin attention
- 29 Request for unblock discussion from User:The Rambling Man
- 30 Re-creation of a salted title
- 31 Standard offer unblock request
- 32 Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:List of Monuments in Nepal
Requests for closure
- These requests for closure are transcluded from Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Requests for closure.
Administrative discussions
Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Request for re-close of an old RfC (and closure of a disruptive RfC)
Would an experienced editor assess the consensus at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Request for re-close of an old RfC (and closure of a disruptive RfC) (Initiated 111 days ago on 26 August 2016)? Thanks, Cunard (talk) 02:05, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
- N. B. the permalink is here (the do-not-archive tag expired; but so has discussion, so the permalink should suffice.) Herostratus (talk) 17:25, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
RfCs
Talk:Paul Singer (businessman)#Request for comment on “vulture” descriptor
Really need an administrator to close this one, as it's a contentious issue that has been discussed several times. Softlavender (talk) 23:19, 24 September 2016 (UTC)
Talk:Michael Greger#Request for comments on SBM source
Would an experienced editor assess the consensus at Talk:Michael Greger#Request for comments on SBM source (Initiated 105 days ago on 1 September 2016)? I recommend a formal close per this comment about how this dispute has been ongoing for years:
Note past discussions Turns out this dispute goes back a few years :Talk:Michael_Greger/Archive_1#Don_Matesz_mention, and most of the talk page discussion this year is about it, starting at Talk:Michael_Greger/Archive_1#SBM_source. It's been brought up at BLPN twice: Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard/Archive238#Michael_Greger and just today at Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard/Archive238#Michael_Greger_-_claims_of_BLPSPS_violation. Given what I've found, there may be more as editors haven't been clearly acknowledging past discussions, as with this RfC.
Thanks, Cunard (talk) 23:13, 9 October 2016 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:Templates for discussion#Proposed rewording in instructions for listing: when to use <noinclude>
Would an experienced editor assess the consensus at the RfC at Wikipedia talk:Templates for discussion#Proposed rewording in instructions for listing: when to use <noinclude> (Initiated 103 days ago on 3 September 2016)? Thanks, Cunard (talk) 23:13, 9 October 2016 (UTC)
- The consensus seems apparent enough, so I don't think a formal close is strictly necessary
(all the more so because the discussion has now been automatically archived),but it would be be good to have someone uninvolved confirm that. – Uanfala (talk) 14:22, 9 November 2016 (UTC)
Talk:James Watson#RfC on comments leading to Watson's resignation
Would an experienced editor assess the consensus at Talk:James Watson#RfC on comments leading to Watson's resignation (Initiated 79 days ago on 27 September 2016)? Thanks, Cunard (talk) 05:02, 7 November 2016 (UTC)
Category talk:People of Jewish descent#Survey
Would an experienced editor assess the consensus at Category talk:People of Jewish descent#Survey (Initiated 73 days ago on 3 October 2016)? Thanks, Cunard (talk) 05:02, 7 November 2016 (UTC)
Talk:AD 1#What should the articles from 1 to 100 be moved to?
Would an experienced editor assess the consensus at Talk:AD 1#What should the articles from 1 to 100 be moved to? (Initiated 70 days ago on 6 October 2016)? Please consider Talk:AD 1#RFC: Should articles "1" to "100" be about numbers instead of years? in your close. Thanks, Cunard (talk) 05:02, 7 November 2016 (UTC)
- Comment by involved editor. The closing statement of the earlier RfC stated: the consensus is that the pages 1-100 will be moved only if a consensus can be reached as to the name of the articles. If there's assessed consensus for a title, please consider suggesting a period of time in which pre-move preparations can (need to) be made before the batch moves. This will involve new conditional logic such as year nav/dab templates. If it's assessed there's no consensus, these template updates will not be necessary. Take this with a grain of salt; I'm an involved editor, thanks — Andy W. (talk) 05:10, 7 November 2016 (UTC)
- Comment by involved editor. Concur with Andy. There would be a lot of work required in the year-related templates, although some needs to be done anyway, and the first RfC was contingent on a WP:CONSENSUS as to the move targets, which is not related to a majority. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 04:37, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
- Comment by OP – Work on the templates has started and is not very difficult if we stick to changing the targets of years 1–100. There was a rather strong consensus in the original RfC for limiting the move to this range. Titles of year articles should be consistent but several name variants are already handled by redirects, so there is no harm in whichever solution is adopted. — JFG talk 09:03, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
- Update – By collective effort of some editors, pages 1…9 have been moved to AD 1…AD 9 as a testbed to validate all necessary technical changes, including numerous templates dealing with years. Titles 1…9 are now assigned to the disambiguation pages. There were no objections from readers and other discussion participants so far. We are waiting for a formal closure of the second RfC in order to proceed with the migration work for 10…100 if a naming convention can be decided. — JFG talk 16:28, 24 November 2016 (UTC)
Talk:Donald Trump sexual misconduct allegations#RfC: Jane Doe content
RfC will be 30 days old on 21 November (ignore signatures near the top as they are re-signs or material added significantly after RfC start). FWIW, there is a consensus to close now, due to no activity, at Talk:Donald Trump sexual misconduct allegations#Call for close. Thanks in advance! ―Mandruss ☎ 05:46, 16 November 2016 (UTC)
Talk:Johannes Brahms#RFC: Should the lead of the article on Johannes Brahms include counterpoint as a key element in his compositional style?
Would an experienced editor assess the consensus at Talk:Johannes Brahms#RFC: Should the lead of the article on Johannes Brahms include counterpoint as a key element in his compositional style? (Initiated 56 days ago on 20 October 2016)? Please consider Talk:Johannes Brahms#Illegitimate RFC in your close. Thanks, Cunard (talk) 02:05, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
Talk:Clinton Foundation#RFC: Caracol Industrial Park
Would an experienced editor assess the consensus at Talk:Clinton Foundation#RFC: Caracol Industrial Park (Initiated 55 days ago on 21 October 2016)? Thanks, Cunard (talk) 02:05, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
Talk:National Hockey League#Request for comment on inclusion of subsection "Women in the NHL"
Would an experienced editor assess the consensus at Talk:National Hockey League#Request for comment on inclusion of subsection "Women in the NHL" (Initiated 56 days ago on 20 October 2016)? Thanks, Cunard (talk) 02:05, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
Talk:MPay#Proposed merge with Advanced Info Service
Would an experienced editor assess the consensus at Talk:MPay#Proposed merge with Advanced Info Service (Initiated 51 days ago on 25 October 2016) after 30 days have passed? Thanks, Cunard (talk) 02:05, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
Talk:Eastern Orthodox Church#RfC about the names of both the Catholic church and the Orthodox church
Would an experienced editor assess the consensus at Talk:Eastern Orthodox Church#RfC about the names of both the Catholic church and the Orthodox church (Initiated 57 days ago on 19 October 2016)? Thanks, Cunard (talk) 02:05, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation#Proposal: keep two-item dab pages
Would an experienced editor assess the consensus at the RfC at Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation#Proposal: keep two-item dab pages (Initiated 91 days ago on 15 September 2016)? The discussion is listed at Template:Centralized discussion. Thanks, Cunard (talk) 02:05, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
Wikipedia:New pages patrol/RfC on patrolling without user right
Unanimously opposed; it's snowing, someone please close this. Sam Walton (talk) 12:29, 24 November 2016 (UTC)
- (involved comment) - I think it is reasonable to snow-close or procedural-close the original proposition, but to keep the "alternative proposal" by Jbh open. Maybe refactor the whole page or something. I made a comment to that effect here. TigraanClick here to contact me 14:35, 24 November 2016 (UTC)
- The alternative proposal should certainly remain open, yes. ~ Rob13Talk 15:08, 24 November 2016 (UTC)
- I'll close the first part. BethNaught (talk) 17:18, 24 November 2016 (UTC)
- (Initiated 23 days ago on 22 November 2016). TigraanClick here to contact me 17:53, 24 November 2016 (UTC) Partly done by BethNaught. The other part of the RfC (which should probably run at least a full month) was
Talk:Fidel Castro#Request for Comment
I initiated this RfC yesterday to deal with a situation already extensively debated on the Talk Page and at the Dispute Resolution Noticeboard. Over the past 30 hours the RfC has seen a great deal of attention, with twenty statements of opposition/support/neutrality with regard to the central question. It has reached the point where insults are being traded and the same of issues are being trotted out again and again. Perhaps it is too early to bring it to a close, but I feel that it has served its purpose. Would an experienced editor who is well versed in Wikipedia policy and determining consensus please take a look and, if they see fit, bring it to a close. Midnightblueowl (talk) 19:40, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Pending changes/Request for Comment 2016
Someone uninvolved should review the page for accurate consensus. George Ho (talk) 20:01, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
Just for an update, I relisted the discussion because waiting time for a volunteer would be longer than I thought. I can still welcome the closure. George Ho (talk) 09:14, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
Template talk:Marriage#End
Needs closure from uninvolved editor. Nikkimaria (talk) 04:12, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
Talk:Cold war (general term)#Proposed merge with Cold War II
While the discussion might need more time, requesting it earlier is best due to the backlog of requests above. George Ho (talk) 22:56, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:Notability (people)#Redirect proposal for Knight's Cross winners
Would an uninvolved admin please assess the consensus and formally close this proposal? Thanks, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 00:10, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
Talk:Judith Barsi#Cause of death
Would an experienced editor assess the consensus at Talk:Judith Barsi#Cause of death {(Initiated 52 days ago on 24 October 2016)? Thanks, Cunard (talk) 04:29, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
Talk:Natalie Portman#RfC: Which is the better statement?
Would an experienced editor assess the consensus at Talk:Natalie Portman#RfC: Which is the better statement? {(Initiated 50 days ago on 26 October 2016)? Please consider the closed RfCs Talk:Natalie Portman/Archive 4#RfC: Is the language biased? and Talk:Natalie Portman/Archive 4#Does a "major" role need to be cited as such by reliable sources? in your close. Thanks, Cunard (talk) 04:29, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
Talk:Mia Khalifa#Clear Censorship of Her Christian Identity
Would an experienced editor assess the consensus at the RfC at Talk:Mia Khalifa#Clear Censorship of Her Christian Identity {(Initiated 48 days ago on 28 October 2016)? Thanks, Cunard (talk) 04:29, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
Talk:Douglas MacArthur#Infobox
Would an experienced editor assess the consensus at the RfC at Talk:Douglas MacArthur#Infobox {(Initiated 41 days ago on 4 November 2016)? Thanks, Cunard (talk) 04:29, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
Talk:South West Trains#Request For Comment about the service pattern table and extra content
Would an experienced editor assess the consensus at Talk:South West Trains#Request For Comment about the service pattern table and extra content {(Initiated 46 days ago on 30 October 2016)? Thanks, Cunard (talk) 04:29, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
Talk:Female genital mutilation#Wording in the lead
Would an experienced editor assess the consensus at the RfC at Talk:Female genital mutilation#Wording in the lead {(Initiated 53 days ago on 23 October 2016)? Thanks, Cunard (talk) 04:29, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
Talk:United States involvement in regime change#RfC: Is the following paragraph appropriate for this article, "United States Involvement in Regime Change Actions?
Would an experienced editor assess the consensus at Talk:United States involvement in regime change#RfC: Is the following paragraph appropriate for this article, "United States Involvement in Regime Change Actions? {(Initiated 47 days ago on 29 October 2016)? Thanks, Cunard (talk) 04:29, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
Talk:Cinchona#Merge from Jesuit's bark
Would an experienced editor assess the consensus at Talk:Cinchona#Merge from Jesuit's bark {(Initiated 42 days ago on 3 November 2016)? Thanks, Cunard (talk) 04:29, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
Talk:Popular election#RFC: what sort of page should this be?
Would an experienced editor assess the consensus at Talk:Popular election#RFC: what sort of page should this be? {(Initiated 42 days ago on 3 November 2016)? Thanks, Cunard (talk) 04:29, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
Template talk:Periodic table#RFC: Should this table follow the IUPAC version for lanthanides, and actinides?
Would an experienced editor assess the consensus at Template talk:Periodic table#RFC: Should this table follow the IUPAC version for lanthanides, and actinides? {(Initiated 46 days ago on 30 October 2016)? Thanks, Cunard (talk) 04:29, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
Talk:Dental caries#RfC about article's lead image
Would an experienced editor assess the consensus at Talk:Dental caries#RfC about article's lead image {(Initiated 42 days ago on 3 November 2016)? Thanks, Cunard (talk) 04:29, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
Talk:Goa Opinion Poll#RfC: Referendum Suggestion
Would an experienced editor assess the consensus at Talk:Goa Opinion Poll#RfC: Referendum Suggestion {(Initiated 25 days ago on 20 November 2016)? Thanks, Cunard (talk) 04:29, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
Talk:Center for Security Policy#RfC: Wording of Lede
Would an experienced editor assess the consensus at Talk:Center for Security Policy#RfC: Wording of Lede {(Initiated 41 days ago on 4 November 2016)? Thanks, Cunard (talk) 04:29, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
Talk:Television content rating systems#RfC: Should we add a new category in the comparison table?
Would an experienced editor assess the consensus at Talk:Television content rating systems#RfC: Should we add a new category in the comparison table? {(Initiated 54 days ago on 22 October 2016)? Thanks, Cunard (talk) 04:29, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 187#Proposal to stop supporting pull quotes
Would an experienced editor assess the consensus at the RfC at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 187#Proposal to stop supporting pull quotes {(Initiated 34 days ago on 11 November 2016)? Thanks, Cunard (talk) 04:29, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Japan/Archive/November 2016#RfC: Shall we ban macrons in titles?
Would an experienced editor assess the consensus at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Japan/Archive/November 2016#RfC: Shall we ban macrons in titles? {(Initiated 42 days ago on 3 November 2016)? Thanks, Cunard (talk) 04:29, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Access locks: Visual Design RFC
Would an experienced editor assess the consensus at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Access locks: Visual Design RFC {(Initiated 47 days ago on 29 October 2016)? Thanks, Cunard (talk) 04:29, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Access Locks: Citation Template Behaviour RFC
Would an experienced editor assess the consensus at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Access Locks: Citation Template Behaviour RFC {(Initiated 47 days ago on 29 October 2016)? Thanks, Cunard (talk) 04:29, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Draft Namespace Redirects
Would an experienced editor assess the consensus at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Draft Namespace Redirects {(Initiated 44 days ago on 1 November 2016)? Thanks, Cunard (talk) 04:29, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
Talk:Nothing Was the Same#RfC: Should metacritic be listed in both the review scores box and the critical reception article?
Would an experienced editor assess the consensus at Talk:Nothing Was the Same#RfC: Should metacritic be listed in both the review scores box and the critical reception article? {(Initiated 52 days ago on 24 October 2016)? Thanks, Cunard (talk) 04:29, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
Talk:Lee Harvey Oswald#The initial sentence in this article is not factual. There are two problems, one is a major objective issue in that non factual information is being presented. The other is possibly subjective, as discussed here
This section and others, for example the already closed Talk:Lee Harvey Oswald#Atsugi, are protracted WP:FORUM debates and seem to be going nowhere. (Initiated 101 days ago on 5 September 2016) —DIY Editor (talk) 01:57, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
Talk:List of Rozen Maiden characters#Straw Vote Redirect Dec 2016
After discussing with the closing admin for the AFD and DRV, could an editor close the straw vote and redirect the page? DragonZero (Talk · Contribs) 09:32, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
Talk:Volunteer (Ireland)#RfC for above proposal
RfC template has expired for this merge discussion (Initiated 31 days ago on 14 November 2016). Formal close would be nice. Discussion has pretty well dried up. Scolaire (talk) 16:05, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
Requested moves
Talk:Charlotte (wrestler)#Requested move 29 October 2016
Needs closure from uninvolved editor.LM2000 (talk) 22:05, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
Deletion discussions
Wikipedia:Miscellany for discussion
This discussion forum currently has an average backlog, 17 items going back to November 7, 2016. (15:17, 24 November 2016 (UTC))
Wikipedia:Files for discussion#Old discussions
There's 100+ open discussions, some well over two months old. The vast majority of these are easy closures. Would appreciate it if an admin could spend an hour or so clearing these out. Thanks! -FASTILY 08:18, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion#Discussions awaiting closure
No substantial backlog right now, but it's quite likely that the backlog will grow again at some point in time. Marcocapelle (talk) 01:56, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
- The backlog has grown to about one month (plus one extremely old one listed below). Pppery 03:10, 28 November 2016 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2016 June 8#Roman Empire establishments (1st century and earlier)
This discussion has stayed open for nearly six months! ((Initiated 190 days ago on 8 June 2016)) Pppery 03:09, 28 November 2016 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Britney Amber
Has been open for nearly a month; needs closure from an uninvolved admin (I personally have no opinion on the subject). Erpert blah, blah, blah... 04:22, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/London Buses route 109
The discussion has been left open for a month, I cannot close it as I am involved. Thanks Nordic Nightfury 11:15, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
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Pre-emptive Extended confirmed protection for templates
I've just been asked by a user to reduce a protection level I set some years ago, downgrading from Template Editor protection (TEP) to Extended Confirmed protection (ECP), on the basis that past requests for TEP to ECP were undertaken by administrators (two such changes are in the ECP log further up the Administrators' Noticeboard) and that it would be more suitable for the template in question (Template:Location map Russia).
I've read through the note which was left on my talk page regarding ECP, and I've read through the policy on ECP, and it doesn't appear to permit this pre-emptive usage, but I agree with the broad view expressed by the user, that ECP would be more suitable for some templates.
Any thoughts on this ? Nick (talk) 11:47, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
- Copying my response to Nick from his talk page: WP:PP does not discourage ECP on templates per wording of the policy... not yet. Actually, the wording looks vague, especially WP:PTPROT. Would trying to interfere with protective levels, i.e. upgrading protection from ECP to template-protection, violate the "Wikipedia is not bureaucracy" rule? --George Ho (talk) 11:54, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
- @BU Rob13 and Magioladitis: (Talk page stalking elsewhere). --Izno (talk) 12:49, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
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- I think I declined a couple of those as well. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 12:55, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
- Totally uninvolved; I don't think I've ever seen this template before. Do you think that TE protection is necessary? If so, don't reduce it: this is fundamentally the same thing as going from full to semi. If not, go ahead; we don't have anything against reducing a page from full protection to semiprotection, and this is, again, basically the same thing. Reducing a protection you imposed, if you now believe the protection to be excessive, is reasonable, and it would go against WP:BURO if someone would oppose your action because the lower protection level isn't explicitly authorised for the page in question. Nyttend (talk) 13:01, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
- (edit conflict) There was a large RfC to determine usage of ECP, located here. In that RfC, the consensus was for Option C, which states "Allow use to combat any form of disruption (such as vandalism, edit wars, etc.) on any topic, given that semi-protection has proven to be ineffective." That was very specific consensus to use ECP only to combat active disruption where semi-protection is ineffective. The absence of specific guidance on applying ECP to high-risk templates doesn't mean it's up to administrator discretion. It means that the community has not yet supported us using the tools in this way. Prior to the RfC, administrators could not use this protection level without specific community consensus or a relevant ArbCom remedy. Similarly, I believe that we shouldn't expand the usage of ECP without some evidence of community consensus specifically for that. I expressed similar sentiments when admins started applying ECP creation protection. Maybe these are positive uses of the extendedconfirmed user right and protection level, but administrators who believe that's true should pose the question to the broader community. Admins are provided the tools to use them as the community has determined they should be used. We shouldn't deploy our technical abilities to effectively change the protection policy without an appropriate level of community input. ~ Rob13Talk 13:11, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
- Has the community opposed using ECP for templates? George Ho (talk) 13:25, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
- We don't use administrative tools on a "Well, they haven't explicitly told us not to do it!" basis. The community hasn't supported using ECP for templates, which is what's relevant here. ~ Rob13Talk 13:59, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
- If "high-use" templates are not "high-risk" templates, can ECP apply to "high-use" (not "high-risk") templates? I'm basing this on "high-use" and "high-risk" message templates. George Ho (talk) 14:09, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
- I don't see how it can, the community has only recently discussed the matter and agreed that extended confirmed protection is for cases where semi-protection has been tried and where it has failed. The policy says In cases where semi-protection has proven to be ineffective, administrators may use extended confirmed protection to combat disruption (such as vandalism, abusive sockpuppetry, edit wars, etc.) on any topic. We, as administrators, have to respect the wishes of the community through the use of our tools. I know things change and the wishes of the community often change over time, but we're talking about the most recent significant change in the administrative toolset, something which was ratified only a few weeks ago, I feel this definitely has to go back to the community to be discussed further. Nick (talk) 14:40, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
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- If the community has only just decided it, why would we go back to the community to discuss it further? --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 14:44, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
- Indeed, though pre-emptive Extended Confirmed Protection for templates, as a replacement in some circumstances for Template Editor Protection wasn't discussed during the discussion, so there could be something for the community to discuss without rehashing old arguments. Nick (talk) 15:16, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
- Brexit means Brexit, don't forget.... The Rambling Man (talk) 14:48, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
- If the community has only just decided it, why would we go back to the community to discuss it further? --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 14:44, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
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- I don't see how it can, the community has only recently discussed the matter and agreed that extended confirmed protection is for cases where semi-protection has been tried and where it has failed. The policy says In cases where semi-protection has proven to be ineffective, administrators may use extended confirmed protection to combat disruption (such as vandalism, abusive sockpuppetry, edit wars, etc.) on any topic. We, as administrators, have to respect the wishes of the community through the use of our tools. I know things change and the wishes of the community often change over time, but we're talking about the most recent significant change in the administrative toolset, something which was ratified only a few weeks ago, I feel this definitely has to go back to the community to be discussed further. Nick (talk) 14:40, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
- If "high-use" templates are not "high-risk" templates, can ECP apply to "high-use" (not "high-risk") templates? I'm basing this on "high-use" and "high-risk" message templates. George Ho (talk) 14:09, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
- We don't use administrative tools on a "Well, they haven't explicitly told us not to do it!" basis. The community hasn't supported using ECP for templates, which is what's relevant here. ~ Rob13Talk 13:59, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
- Has the community opposed using ECP for templates? George Ho (talk) 13:25, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
- I think I declined a couple of those as well. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 12:55, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
The community just decided on a policy, but this use case never came up. It's not rehashing things to bring a new use case to the community for discussion. Ideally, such a discussion should also discuss ECP creation protection, which is currently applied to 17 pages but has no basis in the protection policy. ~ Rob13Talk 22:06, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
- This request is make-work nonsense. Template:Location map Russia was last edited in September 2010 and the only talk page comment was in July 2010. Editors should not wander about the project looking for things that might be useful. Clarification I mean George Ho should give a reason for wanting a bunch of people to spend time on the template. Johnuniq (talk) 00:41, 30 November 2016 (UTC)
- I was going to compare this to Template:Location map China, transcluded by 1,300+ pages and semi-protected. However, I almost forget that Russia is part of Eastern Europe, which is subject to discretionary sanctions. So are its related pages. I added discretionary sanctions banner in its talk page. I did the same on the template talk page. Shall I add "ds/talk notice" on many other related pages? If discretionary sanctions is justified for using template-protection on related pages, like "location map Russia", then... I shall not challenge that. Nevertheless, other templates not related to Eastern Europe shall be discussed. George Ho (talk) 05:52, 30 November 2016 (UTC)
- What are saying? Are you thinking of adding tags somewhere? If so, do not add anything to any page unless there is a need. There may be a theoretical possibility that a tag is needed, but the tag should only be added if needed. Or, are you wanting to have a protracted discussion about why a template that has not changed in six years is protected? If so, do not discuss stuff unless there is a need. Johnuniq (talk) 06:15, 30 November 2016 (UTC)
- I was going to compare this to Template:Location map China, transcluded by 1,300+ pages and semi-protected. However, I almost forget that Russia is part of Eastern Europe, which is subject to discretionary sanctions. So are its related pages. I added discretionary sanctions banner in its talk page. I did the same on the template talk page. Shall I add "ds/talk notice" on many other related pages? If discretionary sanctions is justified for using template-protection on related pages, like "location map Russia", then... I shall not challenge that. Nevertheless, other templates not related to Eastern Europe shall be discussed. George Ho (talk) 05:52, 30 November 2016 (UTC)
George Ho you need to stop posting at WP:RFPP asking for changes in template protection. If the template has less than 1,000 uses or is semi-protected and there is no disruptive activity it doesn't need changing. If it is template editor protected it doesn't need changing. Thanks to BU Rob13 they have all been taken care of. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 12:03, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
This is all the thanks I get for making requests of any kind? You know what? Have it your way.Until you trust EC users to edit templates, I'll not make any more requests for protection on templates. George Ho (talk) 12:12, 1 December 2016 (UTC); edited, 18:17, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
- (edit conflict) To be fair, I don't mind the edit requests where template protection is needed even when they're currently semi'd. Those requests aren't particularly necessary, as I regularly go through the database report and widdle away at unprotected or underprotected high-risk templates, but they aren't damaging. The continued requests for ECP protection to high-risk templates do need to stop, though. ~ Rob13Talk 12:14, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
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- George Ho I didn't say you should stop just that you need to be more selective in your requests. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 14:00, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
- My apologies for my outbursts hours ago; I struck that comment. However, I still decide to hold myself off from such requests until the time being, i.e. allowing EC users to edit templates without telling them to request the special right to have access to template-protected pages. George Ho (talk) 18:17, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
- As for requesting protection on templates transcluded by <1,000 pages, I saw one of administrators accept some of my such requests in the past. I thought any of you would do the same. George Ho (talk) 18:18, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
- @George Ho: It really depends on the template. I'd template protect a template with 100 transclusions if those transclusions were Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Barrack Obama, United States, etc. It's very possibly I would semi-protect a ~800 transclusion template if the pages were medium traffic, but not for low traffic pages. ~ Rob13Talk 02:29, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
- George Ho I didn't say you should stop just that you need to be more selective in your requests. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 14:00, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
Follow-up ECP discussion
I've drafted an RfC to gauge consensus on two use cases of ECP at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Extended confirmed protection policy 2. Could some of the admins here look over the proposal and provide any suggestions? I'd like to keep it at these two use cases for now to avoid muddling things up. Note that the RfC isn't live, so no actual comments should be made there yet. ~ Rob13Talk 02:29, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
Can you add more proposals of usage? "High-risk" can be interpreted broadly. What about "high-use templates"? And what about protecting titles of articles? --George Ho (talk) 04:45, 2 December 2016 (UTC)- Never mind. I overlooked or misread the bold statement. --George Ho (talk) 07:37, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
- @BU Rob13: I'll say what GH struck himself on: We should distinguish between high-use-low-risk and high-use-high-risk templates. I know that I would very clearly not support ECP for Template:Navbox, but I might for Template:WikiProject Video games--both are considered high use but one has a highly-visible impact and one does not. --Izno (talk) 13:06, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
- @Izno: If we get into the weeds of what a high-risk template is, we're never getting out of that with any type of consensus for anything. That's been posed to the community many times but failed to gain consensus any which way. As always, protection should be a matter of administrative judgement, and the protection level should be comparable to how widely used, complicated, and high-risk those templates are. We already trust administrators to correctly differentiate between templates in need of semi and templates in need of template protection, so I think it's safe to trust them to make this differentiation as well. ~ Rob13Talk 18:55, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
- If the community doesn't form a consensus in favor of using ECP on "high-risk" templates, maybe another RfC proposal to use ECP on "high-use" templates might do. George Ho (talk) 19:31, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
- No, we need to keep this simple. Protection is an administrative discretion area, including about which templates are high risk and which are not. Approve it for templates or don't, and if we do, let the decision about what is at risk be up to the administrator. Katietalk 19:54, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
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- Agree, this should be generally discretionary - and can be entertained at RFPP as needed. Being able to use LESS protection (ECP as opposed to TP when TP would have otherwise been used) shouldn't be a big stretch. — xaosflux Talk 20:05, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
- Concur, Protection should never be based on a set of "if-then-else" conditions. The admins were already granted discretionary use of ECP, I don't see why template protection should be made an exception. Blackmane (talk) 00:20, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
- If template protection is not an exception, how do we motivate people into requesting to become template editors? George Ho (talk) 05:39, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
- Two things: Blackmane, the community never granted purely discretionary use of ECP. They granted discretionary use on these conditions: "In cases where semi-protection has proven to be ineffective, administrators may use extended confirmed protection to combat disruption (such as vandalism, abusive sockpuppetry, edit wars, etc.) on any topic." Extending that to pre-emptive protection of high-risk templates is more than trivial. The community may or may not want the use of ECP to be extended in that way. George Ho, I'm not terribly worried about "motivation" to become template editors. If we create a situation where less editors need the right, then less editors will ask for it, and that's completely fine. There's no need to grant user rights just for the sake of granting them. Lastly, I will be launching this RfC in the absence of any additional comments in a week or so, when I have time to go about notifying everyone from the last ECP RfC. ~ Rob13Talk 08:23, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
- If template protection is not an exception, how do we motivate people into requesting to become template editors? George Ho (talk) 05:39, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
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- No, we need to keep this simple. Protection is an administrative discretion area, including about which templates are high risk and which are not. Approve it for templates or don't, and if we do, let the decision about what is at risk be up to the administrator. Katietalk 19:54, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
- If the community doesn't form a consensus in favor of using ECP on "high-risk" templates, maybe another RfC proposal to use ECP on "high-use" templates might do. George Ho (talk) 19:31, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
- @Izno: If we get into the weeds of what a high-risk template is, we're never getting out of that with any type of consensus for anything. That's been posed to the community many times but failed to gain consensus any which way. As always, protection should be a matter of administrative judgement, and the protection level should be comparable to how widely used, complicated, and high-risk those templates are. We already trust administrators to correctly differentiate between templates in need of semi and templates in need of template protection, so I think it's safe to trust them to make this differentiation as well. ~ Rob13Talk 18:55, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
@BU Rob13: yes, you are correct. That was the decision that I was referring to as I was involved in the RFC. Apologies to George Ho for not being specific on this. Blackmane (talk) 23:08, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
- @BU Rob13: may I suggest adding the sentence "Extended confirmed protection should not be used as a preemptive measure on templates against disruption that has not yet occurred" (bolded words mine) in accordance with the existing policy on the use of ECP? While I am disappointed with the last ECP RfC, the community spoke quite clearly, and I don't see a strong case against allowing ECP for templates with ongoing severe disruption. However, I will oppose any attempt to allow using ECP to preemptively protect templates. There are already more than enough protection levels for that. Altamel (talk) 21:14, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
- @Altamel: Where are you suggesting I add that? The RfC is already clear that it's addressing only use on high-risk templates. ~ Rob13Talk 21:27, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
- After the last sentence of the second paragraph, after "two such potential use cases." insert "In accordance with existing protection policy, if extended confirm protection is approved for either of these two cases, it should only be used with prior evidence of disruption, not as a preemptive measure." That, or something carrying the same meaning. Thanks. Altamel (talk) 21:36, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
- Isn't this asking for more unnecessary rules, Altamel, or is semi-protection adequate enough or something? Criticism of Wikipedia#Excessive rule-making tackles that. Also, WP:TPROT says that "template protection" should not be used on less risky templates on the grounds that the template editor user right exists – the existence of the right should not result in more templates becoming uneditable for the general editing community. In other words, maybe we can make templates editable just for autoconfirmed and/or EC users. This is George Ho actually (Talk) 01:20, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
- I understand that, in theory, ECP is less restrictive than full protection or template protection. That is a reasonable point. But in practice, I have not seen evidence that ECP is being used to make page protections less restrictive rather than more restrictive. Of the 248 pages that are currently extended confirm protected, I count 8 instances where full protection/template protection was reduced to extended confirmed, and 32 instances where a page was upgraded from semi to ECP. The empirical evidence shows that in general, ECP is being used to deny additional editors the ability to modify pages, not the other way around. I noticed that you have made efforts to downgrade some templates from template protection to ECP—thank you for that. But on the whole, I am concerned that if preemptive ECP on templates is allowed, the general trend will be to upgrade, not downgrade protection, which is precisely what has happened with articles. In the last RfC, the closer wrote that extended-confirmed protection should not be used as a first resort, which I interpret as barring preemptive protection. We ought to respect the result of such a widely attended RfC, and note this condition in the upcoming RfC. I see no harm to clearly spelling out the rules under which ECP may be allowed for templates. All the best, Altamel (talk) 04:41, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
- Isn't this asking for more unnecessary rules, Altamel, or is semi-protection adequate enough or something? Criticism of Wikipedia#Excessive rule-making tackles that. Also, WP:TPROT says that "template protection" should not be used on less risky templates on the grounds that the template editor user right exists – the existence of the right should not result in more templates becoming uneditable for the general editing community. In other words, maybe we can make templates editable just for autoconfirmed and/or EC users. This is George Ho actually (Talk) 01:20, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
- After the last sentence of the second paragraph, after "two such potential use cases." insert "In accordance with existing protection policy, if extended confirm protection is approved for either of these two cases, it should only be used with prior evidence of disruption, not as a preemptive measure." That, or something carrying the same meaning. Thanks. Altamel (talk) 21:36, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
- @Altamel: Where are you suggesting I add that? The RfC is already clear that it's addressing only use on high-risk templates. ~ Rob13Talk 21:27, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
- Somewhat echoing Xaosflux and KrakatoaKatie in regard to the case of high-risk templates, if it is to be allowed, it should be at the discretion of protecting administrators. That being said, I've always found the template editor usage guidelines to be excellent advice. I don't think potentially opening up the ability to edit high risk templates is necessarily a good idea, because of the higher possibility errors being introduced to them, the chance of bold changes being implemented without consensus, etc. Editing high risk templates can affect the display of thousands of pages, as opposed to just one with the majority of edits. An understanding of that is important when editing said templates.— Godsy (TALKCONT) 06:07, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
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- WP:PC2016 is still open, Godsy and Altamel. Vote soon before it is closed. PC2 allows other editors to edit under the supervision of administrators, especially when ECP or semi-protection is used, as opposed to TP, which blocks non-administrators out but allows those who have rights to edit TP-locked templates. But the number of TE is very small. George Ho (talk) 03:50, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
Request for Closure Review: Talk:Michael_Portillo#RfC:_Should_predecessors_and_successors_be_included_in_the_infobox.3F
This is a request for an official review of the decision to close the Request for Comment at Talk:Michael_Portillo, which was requested by Smerus and carried out by Midnightblueowl. The RfC concerned the issue of whether the subject's infobox should contain his political predecessors and successors, as is customary on other BLPs and as is provided for in the community-endorsed infobox template. As you will be aware, the standard policy is to let RfCs run for 30 days, unless the discussion has come to a standstill and there is either an agreement by both sides that the RfC should be closed or another compelling reason for closure. This RfC was opened on November 14, 2016 – it was closed today, Dec. 3 2016, whereas under normal circumstances it should have been closed no sooner than 11 days from now. Discussion has not come to a standstill (an editor !voted and commented just 10 hours before closure), and there was no such agreement by both sides that the RfC should be closed; the request for closure was filed by Smerus without the consultation of other editors. Moreover, as this issue is relevant to thousands of BLPs wiki-wide I think it is all the more important that the RfC be allowed to run for at least the full 30 day period. Prior to making this review request, I informed Midnightblueowl here and they agreed that an official review was appropriate. I have also notified Smerus on their user talk page. Best wishes, Specto73 (talk) 23:24, 3 December 2016 (UTC)
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- It might make more sense to open an RfC about including predecessors and successors in politician infoboxes in general. Everything said there pro and con has general applicability. DGG ( talk ) 01:42, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
- @DGG: That is precisely my view. As the inclusion of predecessors and successors in political infoboxes is the current status quo standard, I agree that a wiki-wide consultation would be more appropriate. Given the general applicability of this issue and the overwhelming past consensus, I would be exceedingly grateful if you would reopen the discussion – I don't see any reason that suggests the RfC should have been closed in the first place, and I am disinclined to start a general RfC as I am very much in favour of maintaining the status quo. Thanks, Specto73 (talk) 22:17, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
- It might make more sense to open an RfC about including predecessors and successors in politician infoboxes in general. Everything said there pro and con has general applicability. DGG ( talk ) 01:42, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
" Simply believing a closure is wrong, even where reasonable people would have closed a discussion differently, is not sufficient for requesting review. Most closure reviews need to be based on context or information left out of the discussion, or new information that would have altered the discussion outcome were it held now." (WP:CLOSECHALLENGE). If anyone is concerned about the "thousands of BLPs wiki-wide" (actually it only affects 'Infobox officeholder' articles), they should, as suggested by DGG, take the issue to discussion at Template:Infobox_officeholder. If they are 'disinclined' to do this, that may offer some index of the true level of their concern.--Smerus (talk) 11:46, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
- As I have said, WP:RFC very clearly states that an RfC should run for at least 30 days unless there is a compelling reason why it should not. No such compelling reason was provided at the time, and the request for closure was submitted without the notification of any other editors. My submission is that, as the discussion was still very much active at the time of closure, the closure has cut short any opportunity for further valuable input on either side. I did not want to start a further RfC as I think that it is pretty clear where the past consensus lies, but, if that is what it takes, I will gladly do so. Specto73 (talk) 18:23, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
I would ask, also, that admins take into account the fact that three 'Yes' voters (Smerus, Nikkimaria, and Gerda Arendt) have been previously sanctioned by the Arbitration Committee for unhelpful or disruptive contributions to infobox discussions: Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Infoboxes#Use_of_infoboxes. Specto73 (talk) 21:40, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
- What a lovely comment ;) - Seriously: we just saw a RfA fail because of things 4 years ago, and this is just as old. Two of the three were only warned, I was restricted and have never found out why, but also don't care. The restrictions were lifted in 2015. I think any closing admin would be better advised to check if comments in the given discussion were helpful. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:22, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
- I would add that, in that distant but spectacular battle, I was one side and Nikkimaria and Gerda on the other. The fact that we have concurred on this issue might give food for thought.--Smerus (talk) 09:01, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
- I think we always agreed that infoboxes should be concise. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:46, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
- ps: The then-arbs saw you and Nikkimaria on the same side, but we know how well they looked at evidence, proposing to ban a user because he uncollapsed an infobox. I asked the next arb candidates what happened in the edit in question. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:53, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
Administrator protection for block-abusing edits?
An administrator is ordering me to protect the edits of socks with the edit comment, "Do not edit closed AfDs". Two examples are, [1] and [2] I am giving the administrator a chance to explain himself, but if there is no response here, I will simply revert him, as such edits have no 3RR limits. @Sandstein:. Unscintillating (talk) 17:04, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
- Might want to discuss this on User talk:Sandstein before coming here. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 17:11, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
- I thought I was clear in my warning: "Do not edit closed AfDs, not even to strike through comments by blocked editors. This creates the mistaken impression that the closing admin closed the discussion in the state after your edits." Our policy at WP:TPO is also quite clear: "Never edit or move someone's comment to change its meaning, even on your own talk page. Striking text constitutes a change in meaning, and should only be done by the user who wrote it or someone acting at their explicit request." I'm not sure what the point of this is, except to waste the time of others. Sandstein 17:31, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
- (edit conflict) WP:TPO is not a policy it is a guideline. Further WP:TPO has in no way been disregarded. Changing the meaning to the rest of the discussion is covered by dating the strike. This is exactly why the edits of blocked editors in AfDs cannot be directly reverted, with the exception of when their post is the last post in the AfD. Changing the meaning to the blocked editor's comments is exactly the purpose of the strike, which is covered by policy. Also, this is long-standing practice in closed AfDs, and you've not responded to the point that I can revert you and my revert is not subject to 3RR. Unscintillating (talk) 17:54, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
- I thought I was clear in my warning: "Do not edit closed AfDs, not even to strike through comments by blocked editors. This creates the mistaken impression that the closing admin closed the discussion in the state after your edits." Our policy at WP:TPO is also quite clear: "Never edit or move someone's comment to change its meaning, even on your own talk page. Striking text constitutes a change in meaning, and should only be done by the user who wrote it or someone acting at their explicit request." I'm not sure what the point of this is, except to waste the time of others. Sandstein 17:31, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
- For further examples of Unscintillating's obsessive attitude and repeated long-term misbehaviour regarding this issue, please see e.g., Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2011_September_7#Template:Banning-enforcement_undermining and Wikipedia_talk:Banning_policy/Archive_7#RfC_to_re-validate_WP:Banning_policy. It's also worth mentioning that, after I disagreed with him regarding this issue, he stalked and hounded me for over a year. It might be time to consider a topic ban formally restricting this chronically annoying editor from any edits to closed AfDs. Reyk YO! 17:39, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
- Don't edit closed discussions. Barring serious issues like outing or a severe BLP issue, that's pretty absolute. The discussion is an archive of exactly what the closer saw when they made their close, and it's important to maintain it as such. ~ Rob13Talk 18:32, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
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- Given that WP:Blocking policy is a policy, and WP:SOCKSTRIKE is established practice, your comment seems to be a matter for you to take up at the respective talk pages.
Your other point that AfDs are harder to read, I disagree with, as it has been my experience that reading old AfDs with block-abuse strikeouts in place allows considering if the closer was improperly influenced by block-evading editors, which is only done while considering the information available to the closer. Unscintillating (talk) 19:03, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
- "Barring serious issues" - I think we're all agreed on that much. But some of us see socking as just such a serious issue. (I would support this strike-through.) Andy Dingley (talk) 22:10, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
- Given that WP:Blocking policy is a policy, and WP:SOCKSTRIKE is established practice, your comment seems to be a matter for you to take up at the respective talk pages.
*Just my 2c here but what's the problem with Unscintillating striking a socks comment & adding a note?, Nac & admins have done it for quite some time & in one case a comment was struck a month after the closure so I don't get the issue here ?, Although AFDs shouldn't be edited after closure I just don't see an issue with striking a socks comment after closure? .... –Davey2010Talk 19:14, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
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- Nevermind I didn't realize one sock-strike was added despite the AFD being closed back in October - I personally have no issue with anyone adding a sock strike perhaps a few hours or days of it being closed but these shouldn't be added 2 months (or even a month) after a closure - I'm not going to revert but I would recommend the sock-strike be reverted because it's rather pointless - Many socks have been blocked and many have commented at AFD and many haven't had their !vote striked (nor should they). –Davey2010Talk 20:21, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
- There's pretty much never a valid reason to edit an AFD that closed a month an and a half ago. Spouting off policies and essays that you imagine support this behavior is not compelling, especially when It looks like you haven't read them very carefully, i.e. SOCKSTRIKE reads, in part '"When deciding how to clean up after a sock, ask yourself "What is the cleanest and least disruptive way of dealing with each edit?" and use that as your guide. As long as you aren't emotionally motivated, you will probably get it right most of the time. If you are unsure with any modification, just ask an admin first" emphasis not added. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:17, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
- The issue of closed AfDs has no relevance for policy. Nor is there any theory that the edits of banned or blocked editors have a statute of limitations. The following is from WP:Blocking policy:
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Anyone is free to revert any edits made in violation of a block, without giving any further reason and without regard to the three-revert rule. This does not mean that edits must be reverted just because they were made by a blocked editor (obviously helpful changes, such as fixing typos or undoing vandalism, can be allowed to stand), but the presumption in ambiguous cases should be to revert.
- Unscintillating (talk) 21:12, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
You didn't revert, you struck them out. Not the same thing. In any case, you may notice that literally nobody who has commented so far agrees with your position. As I would hope you are aware, consensus, not quoting rules, is how decision making works here, and consensus does not appear at this time to favor your position. Beeblebrox (talk) 21:19, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
- I also agree the striking in closed AfDs was inappropriate. Would anybody object to a mass undo of his other such edits today? BethNaught (talk) 21:21, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
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- Since the op is so fond of linking to things, I would suggest that both WP:POINT and definently WP:BOOMERANG apply at this point and it's unlikely anyone would object other than the filing party here. Beeblebrox (talk) 21:28, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
- I'll get on with it. BethNaught (talk) 21:34, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
- Since the op is so fond of linking to things, I would suggest that both WP:POINT and definently WP:BOOMERANG apply at this point and it's unlikely anyone would object other than the filing party here. Beeblebrox (talk) 21:28, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
- @Unscintillating: It is not desirable to make a fuss about socks or banned users. Certainly sock edits should be struck or removed from active discussions, but there is no point doing that to a closed discussion. We know that some comments are from dubious contributors while others might completely miss the point of the discussion—tagging them is not helpful, and the excitement may in fact be counter productive per WP:DENY. Johnuniq (talk) 00:50, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
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- @Johnuniq, We recently started a similar discussion at WT:Dealing with sock puppets#Recommendations for WP:TPO violations for AfD restored on project page. Your main focus there seemed to be to prefer removal to strikethrough. As for your objections to WP:Blocking policy, can I suggest airing those at WT:Blocking policy? Unscintillating (talk) 01:24, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
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- Your last sentence suggests the boomerang is in full effect here. Beeblebrox said it best above in that consensus is how decisions are made. No party in this thread seems to be in full agreement with you. It might suggest your actions were not ok. Killiondude (talk) 01:44, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
- I noticed the strikes on a few closed AFDs as well (some were closed like a month ago?). Personally, I don't get the point in striking out the stuff from closed AFDs. Considering that we are trying to WP:DENY recognition, it is better to just let it be. Sometimes, edits made to an AFD after it has been closed are also disruptive in the sense that other editors need to double check the edit - which wastes time of multiple editors. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 03:22, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
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- There has always been a large wiggle room between that which needs to be done and that which can be done, but most editors wouldn't bother to. I see these strike-throughs as being within this. There is no need for them (the AfD has gone now, it wouldn't have been affected by them). Yet Unscintillating also has justification for striking them: these were socks. It is not a good thing to start talking about BOOMERANGs. Andy Dingley (talk) 08:08, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
- For reference, I'm not assuming any bad faith and I'm not in support of any boomerang here. I'm just saying that it goes contrary to WP:DENY. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 02:13, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
- There has always been a large wiggle room between that which needs to be done and that which can be done, but most editors wouldn't bother to. I see these strike-throughs as being within this. There is no need for them (the AfD has gone now, it wouldn't have been affected by them). Yet Unscintillating also has justification for striking them: these were socks. It is not a good thing to start talking about BOOMERANGs. Andy Dingley (talk) 08:08, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
- This is pretty ridiculous. The others are correct imo that closed AFDs and similar discussions should not be altered unless there's a serious issue. Striking the comments of a sock for the sake of striking them is not serious enough. Doing so changes the meaning. Even an IAR perspective yields little as this behavior does nothing to improve the encyclopedia. EvergreenFir (talk) 03:36, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
- If you stirke through a sock's comment in a closed discussion, you're giving a false impression - namely that the closing admin saw the comment crossed out. Please also note that in some cases, a user may appeal a closure on the grounds of sockpuppetry not recognized until after the closure - and if you strike it out, it looks like the issue was known at the time of closure. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 12:29, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
- Oyi, I can kind of see the point of wanting to strike those out. It could be relevant to a later DRV or other review of the AfDs. For example, it is common to see someone commenting at an RfA that the RfA candidate was often on the wrong side of outcomes at AfDs and if those were greatly influenced by socks, it might be helpful if those socks comments/votes were struck. That said A) that seems rather unlikely, B) striking them seems confusing, C) the whole thing (honestly on both sides) seems like a huge waste of time. Maybe just let Unscintillating add a note to the end of the AfD saying "bob and tom were later determined to be socks of mary" would be a workable solution (outside of the AfD close box if someone really wants to be hugely litteral about _that_)? Again, I honestly don't think it matters much either way, but if it's somehow important enough we need to discuss it here, I think we can find a compromise rather than having both sides quote policies/guidelines at each other and not be willing to move. Hobit (talk) 14:18, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
How about the following compromise: In cases where the sock's participation in the XfD had no meaningful effect, leave it alone per WP:DENY. In cases where there is a real reason to believe that the sock's participation could mislead someone who later looked at the XfD, rather than edit the closed RfA, an editor can post a note in small print at the bottom of the XfD, along the lines of "Post closing note: User:X was later revealed to be a sockpuppet of banned User:Y." Newyorkbrad (talk) 17:07, 6 December 2016 (UTC) Rereading, I see that Hobit made the same suggestion. Newyorkbrad (talk) 17:53, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
- Great minds :-). In all seriousness, I'd be okay with this being in all the AfDs if someone _really_ wanted to do it (otherwise I fear we'll be back here with folks arguing about "meaningful effect"). It seems like a waste of time to me, but people are allowed to waste their own time and I don't see how it could be considered disruptive. Hobit (talk) 18:09, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
- It is disruptive because editing a closed discussion breaks the integrity of what is shown in the discussion. If no one ever reads the closed discussion, adding comments to glorify the achievements of a banned user achieves nothing other than encouraging the banned user by doing the opposite of WP:DENY. If others want to read the closed discussion, they now have to check the history, notice that someone made an edit, and then check the diff of the edit to be sure what changes were made. It is simple to link to an archived closed discussion, but if it has been edited, the link is misleading because it does not show the situation when the discussion was closed. Editing closed discussions to glorify socks is not helpful. Johnuniq (talk) 00:08, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
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- I agree completely with Johnuniq. Editing the archives in this manner serves no helpful purpose and makes review of the discussion history more convoluted than need be. --Jezebel's Ponyobons mots 00:12, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
- I'm a bit unclear on how this applies to what NYB and I suggested. We are suggesting not striking anything, but instead just adding text at the end (probably outside the closed section). It would be clear without looking at the history. Hobit (talk) 01:51, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
I don't think you are aware of how unclear that would be when most of the AfD is sockstrikes. But[I]t is something to look at. Unscintillating (talk) 02:04, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
- I'm a bit unclear on how this applies to what NYB and I suggested. We are suggesting not striking anything, but instead just adding text at the end (probably outside the closed section). It would be clear without looking at the history. Hobit (talk) 01:51, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
- I agree completely with Johnuniq. Editing the archives in this manner serves no helpful purpose and makes review of the discussion history more convoluted than need be. --Jezebel's Ponyobons mots 00:12, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
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- This argument has moved into a discussion of WP:DENY, because of disagreement with WP:Blocking policy. But WP:Blocking policy is a "widely accepted standard that all editors should normally follow", so unless this noticeboard is a place to engage in "consensus denial", the place for that discussion would be at WT:Blocking policy. Unscintillating (talk) 02:04, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
- Had Sandstein accepted my request for G5, link, there would be no issue now, although there is another AfD that IMO should be relisted and needs more discussion. Unscintillating (talk) 02:04, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
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- For the record, note that the request for G5 took place when there were no edits to the closed AfD. Unscintillating (talk) 00:20, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
- facepalm I need a great shot of happy beverage to deal with this kind of special... Does post facto editing of closed discussions improve the encyclopedia? If a closed discussion gets incorporated into precedent/evidence in annother discussion the editors and their commentary will be analyzed then. If an editor takes a principled position against a sock swarm, the explanation will be plain as day (if it wasn't already considered in the discussion itself) when editors look and discover that the "majority" POV was actually the sound of a great many ducks singing in concert. I strongly suggest that OP drop the stick unless this is the molehill they wish to sacrifice their wiki career on. Hasteur (talk) 02:22, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
- And now we see attempted WP:FORUMSHOPing since he doesn't like the result here:[3]. Don't worry, I already shut it down. Beeblebrox (talk) 01:57, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
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- Are you closing that RfC in your authority as an administrator? Unscintillating (talk) 02:24, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
- Are you asking this question because you have something to say about that? Because if you do I'd rather you just come out and say it, your passive agressive style of questioning everyone is extremely tiresome and does not serve you well. Beeblebrox (talk) 02:31, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
trying to unilaterally alter policy as a result of this discussion
- I've updated WP:Blocking policy to reflect the administrator's close of the RfC at WT:Blocking policy that comment is not needed on the question "Are block-evading edits within closed AfDs protected edits?", as the question has been asked and answered. Unscintillating (talk) 23:35, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
- You are really acting the fool here. There was no formal policy change, there was a consensus arrived at here that your edits were not helpful. It's really not that big of a deal unless you make it into one, which is only going to WP:BOOMERANG on you. Drop it, like now. Beeblebrox (talk) 06:02, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
Request for review of Wurdi Youang RFC closure
This is a request to review the closure at Talk:Wurdi Youang#RfC: should the coordinates be included in the article to determine whether the closer interpreted the consensus (or lack thereof) incorrectly. I and other editors have discussed this with the closer at Talk:Wurdi Youang#Post-closure.
The RFC was closed as "no consensus"; there were several editors on each side of the debate, and (to my mind) no indication that any editors were likely to change their minds on the subject. However I do not think that "no consensus" is an appropriate decision for the RFC closure because:
- According to WP:RFCEND, the outcome should be "determined by weighing the merits of the arguments and assessing if they are consistent with Wikipedia policies"
- According to WP:CLOSE#Consensus the closer should "discard irrelevant arguments: those that flatly contradict established policy"
- Editors in favour of including the coordinates in the article explicitly cited policies, and well-established guidelines and precedents, specifically.
- WP:NOTCENSORED: Wikipedia will not remove ... information from articles if it is otherwise encyclopedic
- WP:5P1: Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, i.e. "a type of reference work or compendium holding a comprehensive summary of information".
- WP:GEO#Usage guidelines: In general, coordinates should be added to any article about a location, structure, or geographic feature that is more or less fixed in one place.
(As is currently done on 1,000,000+ other pages.)
- Editors wanting to remove the coordinates appear not to have cited any Wikipedia policies at all that would exclude the coordinates.
Even the closing statement says that there is a policy that would have the coordinates included in the article (even when an external organization wants them removed) but does not mention any policy that would exclude them.
The result of "no consensus" is not appropriate because it applies equal weighting to opinions that have no basis in policy, whereas those opinions should have been discarded; only those opinions based on policy should have been considered. I submit that result of the RFC should have been to include the coordinates because there are several policies and guidelines that say we should include them and explicitly say that we will not remove them at the request of an external organization. There are no policies that would exclude the coordinates from the article. Mitch Ames (talk) 08:15, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
- The GEO wikiproject can state whatever it wants, it is not valid policy or guideline regarding content, any more than any other wikiproject. The only real argument with a policy back was NOTCENSORED which relies on the information being 'encylopedic', given that the only point of co-ords is to precisely pinpoint a location, it is arguable if that is useful information if the location is in private ownership and is a culturally significant area that is highly unlikley to welcome tourists tramping over it. As the owners have specifically requested it not be geolocated, this is even more unlikely to be useful. What it is - useful information, precisely where it is (beyond a general area) - useless given you cant go to it. As there was only one policy-backed argument, which was directly opposed by people arguing the information was not encyclopedic, a 'no consensus' result is acceptable. Only in death does duty end (talk) 08:40, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
- I agreed that WP:GEO#Usage guidelines is not a policy, but it is a generally accepted guideline whose existence - together with the existence of coords on many, many other articles - tell us that the precise (precision per WP:COORDPREC) location is deemed by the Wikipedia community to be encyclopedic. Mitch Ames (talk) 08:52, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
- Wikiprojects only indicate that members of that wikiproject find the work they do encyclopedic. It does not necessarily make their focus encyclopedic just because a number of people are interested in what is (for a lot of projects) less-than-useful cruft. It is arguable that there is an encyclopedic benefit to that information, and since multiple people have argued that, a no-consensus result is a reasonable close to that RFC. You need a stronger argument than 'other stuff exists' and 'its encyclopedic' when people disagree. Only in death does duty end (talk) 09:22, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
- I agreed that WP:GEO#Usage guidelines is not a policy, but it is a generally accepted guideline whose existence - together with the existence of coords on many, many other articles - tell us that the precise (precision per WP:COORDPREC) location is deemed by the Wikipedia community to be encyclopedic. Mitch Ames (talk) 08:52, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
- I note that I already pointed to Mitch Ames that policy reasons were presented, and that they are aware of it. It is their choice to come here and state otherwise. Diffs: Mitch Ames disagreeing with the RfC, just about the same text he posted here (but I have not compared thoroughly); me pointing two presented policies; Mitch Ames replying to me, so he knew that policy reasons were presented. - Nabla (talk) 09:52, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
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- I'm not asserting that the "removers" did not present any policy, I'm asserting that the removers did not present any policy that would exclude the coordinates from the article. Here's where I point out that your two policies do not exclude the coords from the article, and thus are immaterial to the discussion. Mitch Ames (talk) 09:58, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
- endorse Here we are weighing potential real-world damage vs. harm to the quality of our article. This is not a trivial issue--in fact it is in many ways one of the key issues at Wikipedia. We need to weigh these trade-offs all the time here (that trade-off is, in fact, the basis for our BLP policy). The claim by those wanting to remove it is that there is no significant gain to be had by including the GPS coordinates, and there is potential harm to the site. The claim by those wanting to keep it comes down to NOTCENSORED and a wikiproject best-practices document. I think both are fairly reasonable. So I endorse given the numbers and the relative strength of both arguments (I'm honestly not sure what I'd have voted here). Hobit (talk) 14:23, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
- Overturn. Once something's added, and you have an RFC requesting its removal, "no consensus" defaults to retaining the content, not to removing it. Moreover, the closure depends on "ethical concerns voiced by several editors", but we aren't bound by certain groups' ethical concerns. Perhaps there's actively consensus to remove the coords (I haven't looked over the discussion itself), but if that's the case, we'll need to have a completely new close, because the current one is deeply flawed. Nyttend (talk) 15:53, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
- The question posed in the RfC was "should the coordinates be included?". The result of the RfC was "no consensus to include". Whether that result means that the material should not be removed because it was already in the article is outside of the scope of the RfC and not a valid reason for overturning the close. Personally, I think an interpretation of policy that would give WP:BOLDly inserted content special status is incredibly wrong-headed. Consensus requires substantial agreement which is too large of a burden to require for removing material that never had a real prior consensus. Also, you have conflated "ethical concerns voiced by several editors" with " certain groups' ethical concerns" which is a misreading of my closing statement. One oppose commenter spoke specifically to Wikipedia's overarching purpose ("The ultimate goal of Wikipedia is the preservation of human knowledge and culture."), which is an argument of some merit. One commenter asked "Is there anything in Wiki's policy that prohibits voluntary restraint out of respect of the traditional owners?", which is a valid rebuttal of the WP:NOTCENSORED arguments, a policy that specifically relates to removal or inclusion of offensive material. - MrX 16:55, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
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- The question posed in the RfC was "should the coordinates be included?". The result of the RfC was "no consensus to include". — As I stated at Talk:Wurdi Youang#Post-closure, [4] taking the literal wording of the question ignores the fact that the disputed change was the removal of the coordinates, for which there was no consensus. [5][6]. Mitch Ames (talk) 00:27, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
- Here is the state of the article when the RfC was started. The article did not include the coordinates at that time, nor for a full five days prior to the start of the RfC. - MrX 01:02, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
- As stated explicitly in the RFC description, and as previously pointed out, the RFC was raised as a direct result of the removal of the coordinates and the discussion at Talk:Wurdi Youang#Location that commenced immediately (20 minutes) after that removal, but failed to achieve a consensus. I deliberately and explicitly did not revert the removal of the coordinates when I replied to Dhamacher's request to not include them as a courtesy, pending discussion. That courtesy should not be taken as agreement with the removal. Mitch Ames (talk) 01:58, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
- NC is a tricky thing. What is the default when we can't reach a decision? An IP added the data and no one edited the article for a long time. But soon (in terms of edits, but certainly not time) after the addition was reverted, then reinstated then reverted again. It's not clear where the "bold" edit was. In cases like this, I think we need to defer to the closer. But a review is certainly reasonable. I'll continue to endorse that close. The more I think about it, the more I think the request to keep the data out of the article seems reasonable. It's a lot like a BLP issue IMO. Hobit (talk) 02:04, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
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- An IP added the data ... — We should judge the edit on its merits, not on the editor that made it. If we are to judge edits based on the editor, then we need to also consider that Dhamacher has a potential conflict of interest as a researcher working on the site. Mitch Ames (talk) 03:23, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
- It's a lot like a BLP issue ... — There's a fundamental difference: we have a WP:BLP policy; we do not have a policy that says "do not include coordinates" I know there is no policy that says "include coordinates", but see my previous points re WP:5P1 and WP:GEO#Usage guidelines as to why we should include coords). That's why my review request says the "no consensus" result is wrong - when you exclude the arguments that are not based on policy, the consensus of editors who refer to relevant policies is that the coordinates should be included.
- Perhaps we should have a policy on not providing coordinates in some cases - I've certainly suggested it several times during the discussion, but none of the "excluders" seem to be sufficiently motivated to try to create one. But the reality is that we do not have such a policy, and consensus should be based on existing policies. Mitch Ames (talk) 02:56, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
- Policy follows practice here, not the other way around. AFAIK, this issue hasn't come up before and seems like something that is rare enough that it likely won't come up often. As such, we shouldn't have policy--instead we figure out what the right thing is to do. And we do use relevant policies. (NOTCENSORED doesn't _really_ apply because it's not about offensive material, but the spirit of the idea is there. Same with the ideas of BLP even though this isn't a BLP. We look to policy and history to help us make decisions, but when no policy is fully on point, we need to wing it and figure out what we think is the right thing to do.). Hobit (talk) 03:36, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
- Similar discussions have occurred before: Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 82#Unsourced geocoords] is about unsourced coordinates, but also delves in to sourced but sensitive coords; Wikipedia talk:Sensitive wildlife locations is about wildlife, but it's the same principle - the risk of damage to something if its location is published. Mitch Ames (talk) 05:18, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks for that. Those discussions are a bit old, and not quite on point, but seem pretty relevant. One common thread is that we shouldn't be publishing information that isn't published elsewhere (WP:V etc.) and that that argument is a fine way to keep unpublished information off of Wikipedia. Is there a reliable source for this location? Hobit (talk) 13:55, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
- The coordinates originally come from an UNESCO-IAU case study about Astronomical Heritage, author was Ray Norris. This case study was published on the UNESCO Portal to the Heritage of Astronomy (see http://www2.astronomicalheritage.net/index.php/show-entity?identity=15&idsubentity=1 ). I am the Technical Manager for this UNESCO site. As soon as we became aware of the formal request (by the traditional owners of the site) to conceal the precise location, we complied with this request and changed the original coordinates to the "cultural center" where the traditional owners are happy to receive visitors and guide them to the site. Ruediger.schultz (talk) 17:59, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
- The coordinates are reliably sourced, as mentioned several times during the dicussions: [7][8] Mitch Ames (talk) 23:22, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
- The second one is effectively a blog from what I can tell, and the 1st is a later redacted report. Which I will note that the owners of the site could have removed from the archive if they requested (or created a robots.txt file). I think the situation is more complex than I had thought, but I'll stick with my endorse. Hobit (talk) 01:24, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
- actually we submitted such a "right to forget" request to archive.org (dated october 27, 2016), but have not yet received an answer from them... Ruediger.schultz (talk) 08:12, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
- The second one is effectively a blog from what I can tell, and the 1st is a later redacted report. Which I will note that the owners of the site could have removed from the archive if they requested (or created a robots.txt file). I think the situation is more complex than I had thought, but I'll stick with my endorse. Hobit (talk) 01:24, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks for that. Those discussions are a bit old, and not quite on point, but seem pretty relevant. One common thread is that we shouldn't be publishing information that isn't published elsewhere (WP:V etc.) and that that argument is a fine way to keep unpublished information off of Wikipedia. Is there a reliable source for this location? Hobit (talk) 13:55, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
- Similar discussions have occurred before: Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 82#Unsourced geocoords] is about unsourced coordinates, but also delves in to sourced but sensitive coords; Wikipedia talk:Sensitive wildlife locations is about wildlife, but it's the same principle - the risk of damage to something if its location is published. Mitch Ames (talk) 05:18, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
- Policy follows practice here, not the other way around. AFAIK, this issue hasn't come up before and seems like something that is rare enough that it likely won't come up often. As such, we shouldn't have policy--instead we figure out what the right thing is to do. And we do use relevant policies. (NOTCENSORED doesn't _really_ apply because it's not about offensive material, but the spirit of the idea is there. Same with the ideas of BLP even though this isn't a BLP. We look to policy and history to help us make decisions, but when no policy is fully on point, we need to wing it and figure out what we think is the right thing to do.). Hobit (talk) 03:36, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
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- NC is a tricky thing. What is the default when we can't reach a decision? An IP added the data and no one edited the article for a long time. But soon (in terms of edits, but certainly not time) after the addition was reverted, then reinstated then reverted again. It's not clear where the "bold" edit was. In cases like this, I think we need to defer to the closer. But a review is certainly reasonable. I'll continue to endorse that close. The more I think about it, the more I think the request to keep the data out of the article seems reasonable. It's a lot like a BLP issue IMO. Hobit (talk) 02:04, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
- As stated explicitly in the RFC description, and as previously pointed out, the RFC was raised as a direct result of the removal of the coordinates and the discussion at Talk:Wurdi Youang#Location that commenced immediately (20 minutes) after that removal, but failed to achieve a consensus. I deliberately and explicitly did not revert the removal of the coordinates when I replied to Dhamacher's request to not include them as a courtesy, pending discussion. That courtesy should not be taken as agreement with the removal. Mitch Ames (talk) 01:58, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
- Here is the state of the article when the RfC was started. The article did not include the coordinates at that time, nor for a full five days prior to the start of the RfC. - MrX 01:02, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
- The question posed in the RfC was "should the coordinates be included?". The result of the RfC was "no consensus to include". — As I stated at Talk:Wurdi Youang#Post-closure, [4] taking the literal wording of the question ignores the fact that the disputed change was the removal of the coordinates, for which there was no consensus. [5][6]. Mitch Ames (talk) 00:27, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
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Endorse non-inclusion'. When it comes to inclusion or non-inclusion of material, Wikipedia's practice has always been "When in doubt, leave it out". All the wikilawyering in the world about whether the material was in or out at the time of the RFC doesn't change that basic guideline, so "No consensus" means "No consensus to include". And absent any compelling reason to include the exact coordinates -- an ACTUAL reason, not handwaving about principles -- then the cultural center is perfectly appropriate to use for the co-ordinates. --Calton | Talk 08:30, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
- Wikipedia's practice has always been "When in doubt, leave it out" — What is the actual policy? (You know, those things that RFC decisions are supposed to be based on.) In the absence of policy, can you please provide some evidence to support this assertion of "Wikipedia's practice has always been ...". Mitch Ames (talk) 12:29, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
- I fail to understand how Mitch Ames thinks that further ridiculous Wikilawyering would be any way convincing. It's also not my job to educate Mitch Ames on the most basic of practices here -- his entirely self-serving interpretation to the contrary . But tell you what, I'll go dig up the (ludicrously unnecessary) evidence just as soon as Mitch Ames provides NOT further bureaucratic waffle or vague, question-begging handwaves about "encyclopedic", but ACTUAL CONCRETE reasons for including the exact location -- which is inaccessible by the general public -- as opposed the cultural center -- which is where the general public would actually go and is therefore ACTUALLY USEFUL and ENCYCLOPEDIC. It is not my job nor responsibility to read his mind to figure out why this is so goddamn important to him yet he is unable to give a rational explanation that is not 100% bureaucratic. --Calton | Talk 12:51, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
- ... ACTUAL CONCRETE reasons for including the exact location -- which is inaccessible by the general public -- as opposed the cultural center ... — The article is about the stone circle, not the cultural centre. Mitch Ames (talk) 11:36, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
- As I've already pointed out, the existence of coordinates on 1,000,000+ other pages suggests that the locations of places and objects of fixed location is generally considered encyclopedic, ie appropriate for inclusion in Wikipedia. Whether or not the site is accessible is irrelevant to the fact that the location of a fixed object/place has encyclopedic value.
- I repeat my earlier question: What is the actual policy or guideline, or where is the evidence that says Wikipedia's practice has always been "When in doubt, leave it out"? You may not agree with my interpretation or weighting of WP:NOTCENSORED, WP:5P1 and WP:GEO#Usage guidelines, but I have cited policy, guideline and precedent to support my case. Perhaps you'll do me the courtesy of citing some evidence for your alleged "When in doubt, leave it out". Mitch Ames (talk) 12:32, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
- I fail to understand how Mitch Ames thinks that further ridiculous Wikilawyering would be any way convincing. It's also not my job to educate Mitch Ames on the most basic of practices here -- his entirely self-serving interpretation to the contrary . But tell you what, I'll go dig up the (ludicrously unnecessary) evidence just as soon as Mitch Ames provides NOT further bureaucratic waffle or vague, question-begging handwaves about "encyclopedic", but ACTUAL CONCRETE reasons for including the exact location -- which is inaccessible by the general public -- as opposed the cultural center -- which is where the general public would actually go and is therefore ACTUALLY USEFUL and ENCYCLOPEDIC. It is not my job nor responsibility to read his mind to figure out why this is so goddamn important to him yet he is unable to give a rational explanation that is not 100% bureaucratic. --Calton | Talk 12:51, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
- Note on "reliable sourced coordinates": We just got informed by the archive.org team, that (as per our request based on the request by the traditional owners http://profiles.arts.monash.edu.au/duane-hamacher/files/2016/10/Letter-to-Wikipedia-re-Wurdi-coordinates.pdf ) the UNESCO Astronomy and World Heritage Portal page about Wurdi Youang has been excluded from their index. So the UNESCO page (nor any historical snapshots of it), where the disputed coordinates originate from, can no longer be referenced as a reason to include these coordinates into the WP article.Ruediger.schultz (talk) 07:22, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
Parsley Man
User:Parsley_Man blocked a month, by Nyttend, for harassing E.M.Gregory. Blackmane (talk) 04:40, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
- The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
This past summer User:Parsley_Man brought me to this board. The outcome was a WP:BOOMERANG: 31 July 2016 : "Parsley Man will leave E.M.Gregory alone." Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive930. He backed off, briefly, but has recently begun trailing me around making minor edits on a range of articles (I am eclectic, but the fundamental discord stems from our different perspectives on Islamism). I recently requested on his talk page that he back off; he has not. Instead he now follows me around to articles I have just edited to make trivial changes like this [9], apparently just to let me know that he is watching my every step. But sometimes in bizarre ways, as when he followed me from Keith Ellison, which we have both edited, to a page where I was moving a bit of text from Ellison's overstuffed page. Parsley Man made 5 rapid edits, correcting and tweaking, but choosing NOT to correct my error in cutting off the last 2 letters of the congressman's name, [10]. I am requesting that an administrator repeat the instruction Parsley Man was given in July, to leave E.M. Gregory alone." Respectfully, E.M.Gregory.E.M.Gregory (talk) 19:28, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
- Since you've posted here before, you know that there's a big yellow box up there that tells you you're required to notify an editor about whom you've started a discussion. I've done that for you. Don't forget it again. Katietalk 21:19, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
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- I don't think I have, actually. did I? I might have forgotten. I do know that I was dragged here once by Parsley; not he by me.E.M.Gregory (talk) 21:50, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
- my bad. I knew that Parsley Man checks my edits daily, and would have seen this. I can see that I ought to have notified him. But I am not the skilled wikilawyer Parsley is.E.M.Gregory (talk) 21:34, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
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- I checked his last 50 contribs and only two of them involved pages that you have also edited recently. Are you sure you aren't worrying needlessly? I can't see anything particularly problematic in his/her edits either. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 21:28, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
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- He is a tremendously active editor, you need to look at more edits, or at the comps in the previous ANI. Or check his name against my edits. For example, he recently followed me to Keith Ellison.E.M.Gregory (talk) 21:48, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
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- He was instructed not to at this page. He backed off for a few weeks, then began to track me around again, slowly but with increasing frequency in the last couple of months. I had already tried ignoring him, so I tried thanking him occasionally for a good edit and cooperating on a few things. I finally gave up and called him on it on his talk page, reminding him of the ANI instruction. He may also dislike me because in one of our earliest encounters, about a year ago, when he burst into Wikipedia like Athena, a fully formed and highly knowledgeable editor, I asked him to list previous names under which he had edited, which he declined to do. I believe that he thinks that by making this a creepy and nasty environment for editors with whose worldview he disagrees, he can drive such editors off the project. He's probably correct.E.M.Gregory (talk) 21:45, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
- This tool demonstrates the truth of your words. Even if I check only the pages that you edited first and that Parsley Man has only once edited, I see a good number of articles, including recently edited articles, at which he's clearly just stalking you from place to place. This is entirely inappropriate. I've blocked him for a month, and I'll leave a note that recidivism will probably lead to an indefinite block. Nyttend (talk) 02:15, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
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- Thank you.E.M.Gregory (talk) 11:12, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
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My account is old and has no email attached to it, I cannot get my password reset! Help!
Hello I have a very old Wikipedia user account (Falreign) which has no email associated with it. I remember creating this account a very long time ago and it was not necessary to have an email back then. I want to use my account for normal activity, including a place to store my payment information when I donate.
Is it possible to have my email added to this account name and some one reset my password?
Your help is appreciated! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 161.208.15.134 (talk) 17:13, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
- Unfortunately, you'll have to create a new account. If you forgot your password, and did not set an email address on the account, there is no possible way for you to recover your password. See Help:Logging in. If you don't have email, you cannot get your password back. The only solution is to create a new account. --Jayron32 17:17, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
- There is no way to do what you are asking. It should be possible for you to get control of the account by following the instructions on Wikipedia:Changing username/Usurpations. The account has never made any edits. - GB fan 17:19, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
- GB fan's solution is the only one -- make a new account, and the request usurpation (taking over the name) of the old, unused Falreign account. However, I strongly recommend that you find a better place to "store your payment information" than Wikipedia. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 18:33, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
- I presume they meant donating to the Wikimedia Foundation. However you don't need a Wikimedia account to donate; this includes setting up recurring donations. For more information see the WMF FAQ. --47.138.163.230 (talk) 03:28, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
- GB fan's solution is the only one -- make a new account, and the request usurpation (taking over the name) of the old, unused Falreign account. However, I strongly recommend that you find a better place to "store your payment information" than Wikipedia. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 18:33, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
The Falreign (talk · contribs) account has no edits or actions of any kind, so you won't be losing anything by creating a new account and usurping the old one, except for any preferences you may have set, and the logged creation date of the account. Someguy1221 (talk) 03:33, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
Template for the editors with editing restrictions?
Just wondering, and posting this here since I'm sure an administrator would know: Is there a template that exists that editor with editing restrictions can use to make editing requests on pages' respective talk pages? For example, for an editor to use on a redirects' talk page for a rather uncontroversial edit, but cannot make the edit themselves due to restrictions placed on them, but cannot use a "protected page edit request" template since the page is not protected? I've looked through the pages listed at Category:Request templates, and I cannot find one that meets this need. (But, I also want to ensure that the template places the templates page in a category that gets checked frequently.) Steel1943 (talk) 22:56, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
- I agree with the proposal. It's pretty simple: use {{Request edit}} and replace "COI" with "Edit restriction". However, I don't a situation where an editor with a restriction would even be allowed to make such an edit request. Standard TBANs include talk pages. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 23:20, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
Standard offer for User:Spirot67
User:Spirot67 made an unblock request (at their talk) page after they were given the WP:standard offer. I copied the whole request here for admins' consideration:
Dear Wikipedia. I seek a review of my blocked status on this site. I have understood that my editing efforts in March, relating to the Daily Beast, constituted a violation of the rules and etiquette of the site. Although my intentionat the time was never malicious, I have realised subsequently that the manner in which I edited the articles was deemed aggressive and in contradiction to the rules and etiquette with regard to disputation on this site. I have since then become aware of the rules and have understood how (going forward)to more effectively and constructively edit an article in such a manner that it complies with the site's rules and regulations. I understand that this would involve dialoguing with other contributors on the Talk page when matters of differing opinion arise. I am also aware of the three-revert rule within 24 hrs, and that in matters of ongoing dispute, where consensus cannot be reached with other collaborators, that a formal 'dispute resolution' process exist to over come the dispute. I thank you for your consideration of my request and look forward to your reply. (Redacted) Spirot67 (talk) 03:30, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
Should we unblock this user? Vanjagenije (talk) 23:54, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
- The 2016 U.S. presidential election is over, so the temptation to edit disruptively in favor of one's preferred candidate is probably much diminished. I think it's alright to give Spirot67 another chance. Just the same, I would advise Spirot67 to avoid political articles. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 01:48, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
- The election may be over, but social and political conditions in the US haven't changed one iota, and are more than likely to be exacerbated on all sides in the next four years, so the argument made above by NRP doesn't really hold water. Beyond My Ken (talk) 04:34, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
- I think BMK makes a good point, but what's the worst that can happen? If he goes right back to edit warring over American politics, he can be instantly topic banned via discretionary sanctions (as long as someone gives him a warning prior to unblocking). If you want to give me a trout if he starts edit warring again, that's fine. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 18:52, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
- That's certainly true, but why give an alcoholic a shot of bourbon just because he asks nicely? Sure, we can throw him into jail if he then goes on a bender and does harm to others or damage to property, but he wouldn't have done it in the first place if we hadn't enabled him, so why do it? (And, yes, I'm quite aware of the irony and dangers of the analogy.) Beyond My Ken (talk) 01:08, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
- I think BMK makes a good point, but what's the worst that can happen? If he goes right back to edit warring over American politics, he can be instantly topic banned via discretionary sanctions (as long as someone gives him a warning prior to unblocking). If you want to give me a trout if he starts edit warring again, that's fine. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 18:52, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
- I'm all for second chances, but like Reagan, I believe in "Trust but verify". I prefer a CU review before unblocking. Dennis Brown - 2¢ 11:49, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
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- CheckUser shows no evidence of socking from the current IP address Spirot67 uses, and he has made no edits other than to his talk page in the last six months. The suspected socks listed on his talk page are stale. Katietalk 14:51, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
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- Thank you Katie. While CU isn't magic pixie dust, it does lend credibility, and as such, I would support extending some rope here. Blocks are cheap if it doesn't work out. Dennis Brown - 2¢ 00:07, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
- Support. I echo the concerns voiced by Beyond My Ken, but there will be plenty of scrutiny of Spirot67's future edits, and blocks are indeed cheap. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 11:22, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
- Support unblocking. I believe we can give him/her another chance. SQLQuery me! 17:08, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
- Support unblock. While I also agree with BMK's comments, the passions surrounding the elections themselves is likely to be substantially diminished. While the next 4 years will likely be tumultuous, I don't see how that would be necessarily a stickler provided that doesn't impact Spirot67's editing. Blackmane (talk) 00:14, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
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- Past history in the modern era would certainly lead to that conclusion, the problem is, I think this particular time is going to be an outlier, and the tumult is likely to be somewhat more severe than you might think. However, if other editors are convinced that watching Spirot67's edits will be sufficient, I'm not going to mount any additional arguments against unblocking them (and I'll try my damndest not to say "I told you so" if things don't work out, which I hope will not be the case.) Beyond My Ken (talk) 00:47, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
- Support unblock per reasonable request, BMK is welcome to place ITYS on my talk page in 72-font, bold letters if warranted. 78.26 (spin me / revolutions) 18:26, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
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- Nah, I'd get very little pleasure out of that, but thanks for the offer. Beyond My Ken (talk) 22:22, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
- Weak support of lifting the block, with the understanding that any recurrence of problematic behavior will very likely lead to another block which may very easily receive much less favorable review later. John Carter (talk) 22:26, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
- Support - request sounds sincere enough. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 22:34, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
2017 Ombudsman Commission
Hello everyone - particularly CU/OS holders,
The WMF has posted a call for volunteers for the 2017 Ombudsman Commission. The responsibilities of this group are to evaluate functionary compliance to the various global policies surrounding access to non-public information, on all Wikimedia projects. See m:OC and the announcement for more information.
In my opinion, enwiki has been routinely under-represented on this group, as well as many other global groups. If any enwiki functionaries think they have time for the relatively-light workload, then it would be nice to see some volunteers from here! The more knowledgeable functionaries they have on there, the better. Note that anyone can apply, not just those with CU/OS rights.
Regards, -- Ajraddatz (talk) 00:10, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
Arthur Eddington
I would like to call attention to the article Arthur Eddington, where an unregistered user is adding a weird scenario on the evolution and ultimate fate of the universe, with various analogies, and with some references which don't actually mention Eddington. (I have twice removed the addition as original synthesis, and don't want to be revert warring.) - Mike Rosoft (talk) 09:24, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
- And it's now removed again. [11] - Mike Rosoft (talk) 09:48, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
- I just semi-protected the page for a week, via disruptive editing. Dennis Brown - 2¢ 11:43, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
New automated spammer blocking bot going active
Hello admins, Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/AnomieBOT III 3 has completed the "passive" portion of the trial and is getting ready to go active. If you see any issues, please report them at the BRFA. Thank you, — xaosflux Talk 15:50, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
WP:ERRORS
Once again, errors has numerous items, some of which have been waiting for six or more hours to be addressed. This is a daily occurrence. Please attend to these issues which affect the main page expeditiously. The Rambling Man (talk) 16:19, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
- Was just about to post an alert when I saw TRM has already done so. ERRORS has some issues that need expeditious attention from an admin. On a side note please see this discussion at ITNC. Admins really need to stop posting substandard articles to the main page w/o, or even against consensus. This is becoming a recurring problem and it is very annoying to those of us lesser mortals who spend time reviewing and working on nominated articles. Thank you. -Ad Orientem (talk) 18:41, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
- Just replace the main page with a banner that says "Welcome to Wikipedia", it's fairly useless anyway. Beyond My Ken (talk) 19:24, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
- Are there actually any admins here?! The Rambling Man (talk) 19:29, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
- Cleared some outstanding or outdated requests. Additionally I'll keep more of an eye on this, though I have very little understanding of the processes going on right now. Sam Walton (talk) 19:41, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks Sam. If any admin needs help in understanding how to fix up the various sections of the main page per ERROR reports, don't hesitate to contact me. The Rambling Man (talk) 20:57, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
- Cleared some outstanding or outdated requests. Additionally I'll keep more of an eye on this, though I have very little understanding of the processes going on right now. Sam Walton (talk) 19:41, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
- Are there actually any admins here?! The Rambling Man (talk) 19:29, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
- Just replace the main page with a banner that says "Welcome to Wikipedia", it's fairly useless anyway. Beyond My Ken (talk) 19:24, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
Admin needed
(non-admin closure) Community discussion closed by KrakatoaKatie. AE discussion closed as moot by Lankiveil. Beyond My Ken (talk) 23:31, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
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Could use a closer at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement#Ag97. Drmies (talk) 03:05, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
- Or, alternately, the community topic ban proposal at [12]. Beyond My Ken (talk) 05:17, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
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Relisting of Wikipedia:Pending changes/Request for Comment 2016
Though there are a lot of votes, I relisted the discussion because I feared that waiting time for a volunteer to close the discussion, which I requested ten days ago, is getting longer. --George Ho (talk) 09:19, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
Admin and/or expert assistance needed at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/London_Buses_route_109
The above AfD has been running for a month - I cannot close it as I am involved, as opener. Thanks Nordic Nightfury 11:01, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
Rangeblock needed
Either this jerk or a copycat was doing this last night as well. IPs I blocked already are 2607:FB90:A084:951A:2EB5:7DF8:2A2B:4C95 and 2607:FB90:2BC:4C23:CF9:EF23:FCF5:2FDC. Widr blocked another one a few minutes ago. Drmies (talk) 18:56, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
- See here for more: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/2607:FB90:A025:56C3:6F1A:1DC3:6173:E38F. I've blocked a few myself. RickinBaltimore (talk) 18:59, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
- Last night it was this and many others. Drmies (talk) 19:00, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
- I placed a short rangeblock on the /32 above to stop the immediate disruption. CU shows that they may be using some sort of bot for the disruption. —DoRD (talk) 19:05, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
- Drmies, I love you like a son, but I can't block that range. It's huge. Bishonen | talk 19:07, 12 December 2016 (UTC).
- That's what Zilla said? Block Chicago, come on, do it. You get shot there anyway. You walk out the door, you get shot. But thanks for looking into it, mom. Drmies (talk) 19:10, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
- You mean that doesn't just happen here? RickinBaltimore (talk) 19:12, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
- And another edit conflict with the little Drmies. Never mind, Zilla tired of this. Why is the SPI link red? Bishonen | talk 19:15, 12 December 2016 (UTC).
- After I posted the link, DoRD deleted the SPI it looks like. RickinBaltimore (talk) 19:19, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
- And another edit conflict with the little Drmies. Never mind, Zilla tired of this. Why is the SPI link red? Bishonen | talk 19:15, 12 December 2016 (UTC).
- You mean that doesn't just happen here? RickinBaltimore (talk) 19:12, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
- That's what Zilla said? Block Chicago, come on, do it. You get shot there anyway. You walk out the door, you get shot. But thanks for looking into it, mom. Drmies (talk) 19:10, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
- Drmies, I love you like a son, but I can't block that range. It's huge. Bishonen | talk 19:07, 12 December 2016 (UTC).
- I placed a short rangeblock on the /32 above to stop the immediate disruption. CU shows that they may be using some sort of bot for the disruption. —DoRD (talk) 19:05, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
(talk page stalker) @DoRD: It looks like they are back again under the 2607:FB90 IP range, as 2607:FB90:17CC:9B8F:2B3F:72F4:5CFD:197A (talk · contribs · WHOIS), 2607:FB90:A2BA:C01C:4B2A:5162:98F7:6BED (talk · contribs · WHOIS), 2607:FB90:2B4:722B:2F0A:297A:F70E:2AFC (talk · contribs · WHOIS), 2607:FB90:A29B:C9E3:558A:F709:74C7:1042 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), 2607:FB90:A2A9:13A1:F12C:BF05:55F5:BEDC (talk · contribs · WHOIS), 2607:FB90:A287:8D1:2B1D:ED24:5715:3031 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), 2607:FB90:2CE:BDED:2335:8358:7259:2FE6 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), 2607:FB90:A236:36B:4CF3:FD6D:9053:9359 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) and 2607:FB90:A03D:7D1A:9E20:3A50:1C1E:6B8A (talk · contribs · WHOIS) among lots of others, I'm sure.
I also have access to the 2607:FB90 range, as it can used by all T-Mobile customers, and getting a new IP address in this range is as easy as rebooting your android/smartphone, or even just simply turning on airplane mode, then turning it back off again and just after one IP address is blocked, the serial vandal is able to obtain a new one only in a matter of seconds.
I have often used that range to do anti-vandalism work, as RickinBaltimore has seen me at WP:AIV a lot... With that said though, there is no trouble switching to the IPv4 range for this network. All you have to do is change/edit your APN settings to force an IPv4 (172.56.X.X, 172.58.X.X and/or 208.54.X.X) address to be used instead of an IPv6 (2607:FB90) address. While this may seem irrelevant, performing another (perhaps longer than the last one) rangeblock on 2607:FB90::/32 once again may not have as much of a collateral impact as one may think because you can switch to the IPv4 network by changing/editing your APN settings in order to use an address from a different range to edit. Though, I'm pretty sure that not everyone using this network knows how change/edit their APN settings, which would be very problematic here...
Anyhow, just some food for thought, and since I also use the 2607:FB90 range, I thought that I might put in my two cents as well... :-) 73.96.113.62 (talk) 03:17, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
Motion regarding Darkfrog24
For the Arbitration Committee, Miniapolis 21:54, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
Last call for 2016 Community Wishlist Survey
The 2016 Community Wishlist Survey survey ends in roughly 90 minutes. Get your votes in if you haven't already! See also the admins and stewards category. Best — MusikAnimal talk 22:29, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
Motion regarding Fæ
For the Arbitration Committee, Miniapolis 23:50, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
- Discuss this at: Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard#Motion regarding Fæ
Request for admin action to protected page Haredi Judaism
Please see: Talk:Haredi Judaism#Replace image with infobox
Action required: Add {{Jews and Judaism sidebar}} to top and move rabbi image to terminology section.
I would do it but am involved. Many thanks. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 00:18, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
Done — Maile (talk) 00:48, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
Close review: Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Notability (academic journals)
(non-admin closure) I am withdrawing this. I still think the speedy close was out of process but upon reflection I think a) the MfD should not have been filed as it was and b) in any case there is good discussion about revising NJournals. So I am going to let sleeping dogs lie, without regard for why. Jytdog (talk) 20:28, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
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The above MfD was speedy-closed by User: Nyttend on the basis that The result of the discussion was: speedy keep. Quoting the top of WP:MFD: "Established pages and their sub-pages should not be nominated, as such nominations will probably be considered disruptive, and the ensuing discussions closed early". If you wish to prevent this page from being used, seek consensus to have it tagged with {{historical}}. (diff)
I discussed first with Nyttend at their Talk page here and Nyttend was unwilling to undo the close.
I find this speedy-close to be unhelpful and out of process. Yes the top of MfD says that, but per WP:DELETION MfD is how we delete essays. The reasoning that "we don't do that for established pages in WP" is not true, per (for example) two project deletion discussions -- Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Esperanza and Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Conservatism - one of which was successful and the other not, but each of which proceeded through full discussion and was closed and was not speedy-closed. Nyttend also said that we don't MfD essays that violate policy/norms, but in my view we do, per Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Conflict of Interest ducks.
Nyttend also said that there is no disruption being caused by the Njournals essay, but there has been a slew of discussion all around WP including Jimbo's talk page, this AfD) this User talk page, ANI here, FRINGEN WT:NJournals, etc.
The deletion discussion should be re-opened and allowed to continue through its course and be closed normally. Thanks for your time. Jytdog (talk) 04:33, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
- For some bizarre reason, this is being treated as a piece of the previous section, despite properly having == header text ==. Can't explain why. Despite explanations from people at the MFD and from me, Jytdog repeatedly has failed to get the point: (1) we don't delete such pages, as is demonstrated by his example of Wikipedia:Esperanza, which actually still exists and has no entry in the deletion log; (2) the strife surrounding this page is caused by people making a fuss, not because of a problem with the content on the page itself. The speedy close was due to a failure of the deletion-advocates to advance any reasons for deletion: the nomination was created and supported by people misusing MFD to deprecate a page's use, and it's well established that MFD is a place for deleting pages, not modifying their use: if you don't understand this, you need to be taught (if you'll listen) or ignored (if you won't), not accommodated. You'll note the numerous "keep" or "speedy keep" voters who noted that the nominator's and supporters' stated goals could have been accomplished by getting the page marked as {{failed proposal}} or {{historical}} or something of the sort. Nyttend (talk) 04:43, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks for your note Nyttend. I heard you at your Talk page, and posted this to hear from others. Yes the outcome of a MfD is not always deletion; this is true. Sometimes it is. Stepping back now to see what folks say and if this turns out to be a waste of time indeed, i'm apologizing in advance. Jytdog (talk) 004:53, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
- (Cross posting from Wikipedia_talk:Notability_(academic_journals)#Problematic)
The speedy close was appropriate, because MfD is not a forum for settling policy questions. This issue of notability of journals, of giving them an easy run relative to the WP:GNG for example, is clearly in policy space. MfD was the wrong forum. The correct forum is an RfC. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 05:39, 13 December 2016 (UTC) Also note that this is the wrong forum to challenging an MfD close, the right one is WP:DRV. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 05:40, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
- The nominator stated that they thought the page should be, "delete[d] ... and put ... out of its misery", so deletion was being sought. If this were a policy or guideline, speedy keep number five (i.e. "The page is a policy or guideline. The deletion processes are not a forum for revoking policy.") would apply, but it is an essay (tagged as such since 2009). None of the other speedy keep criteria are seemingly applicable. I found the rationales of those with a preference for deletion to be reasonable (though I disagreed with them and !voted keep); I certainly would not call six contributors with a preference for deletion (meaning it wasn't snowing) all providing substantial reasons a "failure of the deletion-advocates to advance any reasons for deletion". Unfortunately, "established pages" is vague, and that section addresses policies and is titled "Policies, guidelines, and process pages". An essay falls outside of that in my opinion, and it is not unprecedented for them to be listed at MfD. For example, one of similar size and "establishment" was listed in 2015, Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Advocacy ducks (the information at the top of Mfd was basically the same at that time). The listing of smaller, lesser known essays like Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Bitter stories made sweet is more common. I can see where Nyttend was coming from, but I think this is a borderline case that is not cut and dry. As such, especially as the opinions were so divided, I think the discussion should have been allowed to continue. Therefore, I must conclude that we should overturn the close and relist the discussion. I concur with SmokeyJoe that deletion review would have been the appropriate venue to have this discussion. — Godsy (TALKCONT) 06:22, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
- my apologies to those saying this is the wrong forum. I brought this here because I am challenging the speedy-close ... there was no decision on the consensus or lack thereof. Perhaps that was incorrect. Hm. Jytdog (talk) 06:54, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
- "Speedy Keep" is clearly wrong here, but a SNOW close (also effectively a Keep before the time is up) wouldn't have been out of place. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 15:29, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
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Move made during Requested move discussion
Move made during ongoing Requested move discussion.
Please move the page back and protect until the Requested move discussion has run its course.
Thank you ! Sagecandor (talk) 05:49, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
- Note the tag on the top of the page (before) the move, said: Do not move the page until the discussion has reached consensus for the change and is closed. (Emphasis in original tag). Sagecandor (talk) 05:50, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
- Page was moved back by Volunteer Marek. I've asked the user who renamed the article to refrain from doing so again; no need to protect it unless we have more problems there. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 12:48, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
- FYI, the user who renamed the page has stated that "it was a mistake for me to just change" the title of the page. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 19:34, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
- Page was moved back by Volunteer Marek. I've asked the user who renamed the article to refrain from doing so again; no need to protect it unless we have more problems there. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 12:48, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
Two IP's constantly edit warring and harrasing each other
The IP's of Special:Contributions/95.49.103.80 and Special:Contributions/95.235.130.101 have been constantly editing and warring against each other on both sandboxes and userpages, 95.235 has been insulting the other constantly and 95.49 has been spamming the other with warning templates and including a report to ARV. Either one or both of these IP's are in the wrong and should be dealt with. — Preceding unsigned comment added by -glove-(alt, public) (talk • contribs) 18:38, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
- I've blocked Special:Contributions/95.235.130.101 for 31 hours for vandalism due to a number of their edits. Looking at the 2nd IP right now. RickinBaltimore (talk) 18:44, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
- They might be the same person. This may be a sideshow. Robert McClenon (talk) 18:46, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
- Indeed, and the other IP's edits are showing a attitude that they aren't here to build an encyclopedia. RickinBaltimore (talk) 18:47, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
- This diff here: [15], calling the placing of a unwarranted level-4 warning "a joke" is enough to warrant a short time out for disruption. RickinBaltimore (talk) 18:51, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
- And to add one more detail, both IPs were globally blocked due to LTA. RickinBaltimore (talk) 19:09, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
- This diff here: [15], calling the placing of a unwarranted level-4 warning "a joke" is enough to warrant a short time out for disruption. RickinBaltimore (talk) 18:51, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
- Indeed, and the other IP's edits are showing a attitude that they aren't here to build an encyclopedia. RickinBaltimore (talk) 18:47, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
- They might be the same person. This may be a sideshow. Robert McClenon (talk) 18:46, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
Edit warring and attacking
187.67.133.193 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) has been revert-warring on Live from the Suwannee River Jam. When I reverted their removal of the redirect and warned them on their talk page, they proceeded to leave an WP:NPA violation on my talk page. Please block. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 02:09, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
- Obviously "fascist" is no good, but seeing as how you're kind of acting suboptimally on that page yourself, how about we just let their momentary loss of cool slide? Also, you need to tell them you're talking about them here. Floquenbeam (talk) 03:18, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
Request for editing Mediawiki:common.css
Hey, Per Special:PermaLink/753600253#RfC for changing colors to align with Wikimedia UI and Special:PermaLink/754556867#Reopening discussion about aligning colors with Wikimedia color palette and no objection after the given time, please change content of Mediawiki:Common.css with content User:Ladsgroup/common.css. Thanks. :)
Ladsgroupoverleg 02:25, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
- Whoa, whoa, whoa. An unadvertised section at the village pump that has only been open since the 8th is not cause for changing the main CSS for every single user of Wikipedia. Normal RFCs last quite a bit longer. --Majora (talk) 02:36, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
- User:Majora The change is almost unnoticeable but if you think it should stay open longer, Can you give a time?
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Ladsgroupoverleg 02:38, 14 December 2016 (UTC)- More then a week, less then a year? More people have to have a chance to look at it and 5 days is not enough. Many editors only edit once a week. There are numerous admins who understand CSS and how delicate that particular page is that watch VPT all the time. You definitely didn't need to post here. Those that are involved in technical matters know of your thread. And worse comes to worse you can always use {{edit fully-protected}} on the mediawiki talk page. --Majora (talk) 02:43, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks for the very helpful time span. I'll do the {{edit fully-protected}} instead
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Ladsgroupoverleg 02:56, 14 December 2016 (UTC)- The time span was to make a point since I can't give you an exact time frame. It doesn't work like that. --Majora (talk) 02:59, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
- The discussion was open for three weeks in the talk page of common.css, it's almost unnoticeable change. Use common sense. And I asked you to give me a time span and not to make a point, right? Why seven days is enough for RfAs and not for a slight change in the Mediawiki:common.css when it's constantly changing even without an RfC sometimes?
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Ladsgroupoverleg 03:17, 14 December 2016 (UTC)- If it's such a "slight change", why are you so all-fire hot to implement it immediately? Beyond My Ken (talk) 05:16, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
- Because I have a lot other things to do and I want to finish this so I can move on to other things. Is it clear?
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Ladsgroupoverleg 06:44, 14 December 2016 (UTC)- Ah, so Wikipedia should hop to it because you're one very busy chap. Got it. Beyond My Ken (talk) 06:50, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
- Because I have a lot other things to do and I want to finish this so I can move on to other things. Is it clear?
- If it's such a "slight change", why are you so all-fire hot to implement it immediately? Beyond My Ken (talk) 05:16, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
- The discussion was open for three weeks in the talk page of common.css, it's almost unnoticeable change. Use common sense. And I asked you to give me a time span and not to make a point, right? Why seven days is enough for RfAs and not for a slight change in the Mediawiki:common.css when it's constantly changing even without an RfC sometimes?
- The time span was to make a point since I can't give you an exact time frame. It doesn't work like that. --Majora (talk) 02:59, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks for the very helpful time span. I'll do the {{edit fully-protected}} instead
- More then a week, less then a year? More people have to have a chance to look at it and 5 days is not enough. Many editors only edit once a week. There are numerous admins who understand CSS and how delicate that particular page is that watch VPT all the time. You definitely didn't need to post here. Those that are involved in technical matters know of your thread. And worse comes to worse you can always use {{edit fully-protected}} on the mediawiki talk page. --Majora (talk) 02:43, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
- User:Majora The change is almost unnoticeable but if you think it should stay open longer, Can you give a time?
Ladsgroup, you have a rather intrusive signature, could you please change it (remove the yellow smiley bit)? Fram (talk) 09:12, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
Old SPI case needs admin attention
A clerk, an admin and then an admin clerk teamed up and processed the case. :) ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 14:08, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
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Can someone please look at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/JShanley98? It's been open for almost a month without a single comment. The evidence is pretty much obvious, but I'll provide more if necessary. Just tell me what to do, and I'll do it. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 09:45, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
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Request for unblock discussion from User:The Rambling Man
Speedy overturn of the hasty block per the "clear, active consensus" here, specifically to allow the ongoing AE filing to continue and reach its conclusion. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 13:56, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
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Pursuant to the terms laid out at WP:AE for overturning an arbitration enforcement block, User:The Rambling Man has requested that he be unblocked here. Background on this block can be found here, here, at TRM's user talk page here and at the blocking admins talk page here. As I, at this point, am merely acting as a means to transmit information here, I am officially done commenting on the matter, and will make no vote in this discussion. --Jayron32 12:55, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
- Support unblock and allow the WP:AE thread to come to a consensus one way or another, per my comments at the ANI thread. Regardless of whether TRM's comments were or weren't a breach, the blocking admin was both clearly WP:INVOLVED by any possible measure, and in disregarding the ongoing WP:AE discussion was either inappropriately supervoting (if he was aware of it), or failing to conduct even the most cursory of enquiries into the circumstances (if he wasn't). I do feel that the tone of a lot of TRM's recent commentary has been inappropriate, and this block was arguably correct, but this is clearly a single admin using the letter of the law as a pretext to block someone against whom he has a grudge, rather than the genuine neutral enforcement of policy. ‑ Iridescent 13:03, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
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- WP:INVOLVED states that "One important caveat is that an administrator who has interacted with an editor or topic area purely in an administrative role ... is not involved and is not prevented from acting in an administrative capacity in relation to that editor." In the previous incident on TRM's talk page, Mike V was acting an administrative capacity, issuing an AE warning. Mike V is therefore not involved in a way that would prevent them acting in following up that warning. Andrew D. (talk) 13:25, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
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- But he has also prevented evidence against TRM at the ArbCom case[16] and made proposals against TRM there[17]. Fram (talk) 13:39, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
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- That evidence seemed mainly about TRM's interactions with other editors. Providing such evidence and suggesting remedies is an administrative type of action, not an indication of personal involvement. Where is the evidence of some direct clash between these editors? Andrew D. (talk) 13:51, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
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- The refusal to even come back to the incorrect interaction ban reminder, coupled with the addition of evidence and proposals to the arbcom case, and the block bypassing an ongoing AE discussion, certainly gives a very strong impression of an admin out to get someone at all costs, as most people in this discussion (here and ani) seem to recognise. Fram (talk) 13:58, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
- Just noting that I support an unblock, on the basis of my comments in the AE thread, but as I have twice declared in the context of this incident that I am not uninvolved when it comes to TRM (as we have collaborated on WP for years) I ought not to count towards consensus here. Iridescent's proposal to return the matter to AE is a sensible one. BencherliteTalk 13:08, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
Procedural oppose- the terms of the arbcom sanction under which this block is imposed clearly state that it may only be appealed at the the arbitration enforcement noticeboard. As this is not that page, appeal is moot. (Non-administrator comment) Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 13:09, 14 December 2016 (UTC)- That same section says "If however, in the opinion of an uninvolved administrator[...]" The argument for the unblock is that Mike V is not an uninvolved editor, making the block invalid under that section. Valid blocks can only be appealed at AE, but this one can be discussed here. Fram (talk) 13:15, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
- Policy is absolutely explicit that AE blocks can be appealed at AN as well as at AE. Arbcom are not Govcom, much as some of their members may like to pretend they are; they have no authority to unilaterally overwrite policy in that way; they can create additional processes for appeal, but they can't close off the existing ones. The arbitration process is not a vehicle for creating new policy by fiat. The Committee's decisions may interpret existing policy and guidelines, recognise and call attention to standards of user conduct, or create procedures through which policy and guidelines may be enforced. if you want chapter-and-verse from WP:ARBPOL. (I should know; I was there.) ‑ Iridescent 13:18, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
- That same section says "If however, in the opinion of an uninvolved administrator[...]" The argument for the unblock is that Mike V is not an uninvolved editor, making the block invalid under that section. Valid blocks can only be appealed at AE, but this one can be discussed here. Fram (talk) 13:15, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
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- Comment, the sheer amount of procedural bureaucratic (Redacted) wrapped up in this is staggering. TimothyJosephWood 13:18, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
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- Support unblock per Iridescent. I want to go one further and see Mike V desysopped or, at the very least, admonished, for abuse of tools which were used incorrectly in order to have the last word here. He was way too involved to administer any kind of block here. CassiantoTalk 13:13, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
- Like Bencherlite, I don't think I would count as uninvolved here, but I do believe that Mike V should not have blocked TRM (and should have removed his incorrect interaction ban warning). So, as an editor involved with TRM (but as far as I recal not with Mike V), I support an unblock and a continuation of the AE discussion. Fram (talk) 13:15, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
- Support - two fold, a) Mike V is clearly involved and shouldn't have done the block themselves plus the "supervote" or "didn't even bother to look" issue and b) because as stated above ArbCom should not be given the ability to unilaterally override policy to suit themselves. This is a lesson for both to learn from. Mike V about appropriate actions, and for ArbCom not to try and create situations where they have all the say and everybody else has none as they did with; The first four blocks under this provision shall be arbitration enforcement actions and may only be reviewed or appealed at the arbitration enforcement noticeboard. Nope, among other things this is policy; request review at ... AE or at the administrators’ noticeboard ("AN"). Plus also the enforcing admin and ARCA, but, they aren't relevant here. Mr rnddude (talk) 13:25, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
- Support and a gigantic trout to Mike. --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 13:36, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
- Support speedy unblock so that TRM can participate in the AE thread. No comment on the block itself at this point. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 13:37, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
- Support per Iridescent. JAGUAR 13:40, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
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Re-creation of a salted title
Moved it to the dab-less title to keep history in one place, and deleted it under G4 because of substantially identical sources that led to an AfD deletion less than two months ago. Oh, and sock Blocked and tagged. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 17:54, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
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I'm not sure about the right way to handle this but I suppose we should move Matheus Soares (DJ) to Matheus Soares, if it's good enough for prime time, or move it to Draft:Matheus Soares if it's not. – wbm1058 (talk) 17:37, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
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Standard offer unblock request
Years ago, when I was still an immature High School student, I made the mistake of block evasion and copyright infringement on Wikipedia. When I was first banned, I didn’t know anything about the possibility of a fresh start, so I simply kept coming back in disguise, which eventually turned into a pattern of sockpuppetry, spanning numerous accounts. Satt 2 is the earliest account that I still have access to, hence my submission through this account.
After my most recent block as Damianmx, I had an honest, off-the-record conversation with an experienced administrator @Drmies:. Drmies told me about the possibility of a clean start and encouraged me to admit to my wrongdoings in order to make things right, which is what I set out to do. Following up on that advice, for over six months now, I have not produced any sockpuppets and neither do I intend to engage in that kind of behavior in the future. Moreover, I have not engaged in any copyright-related violations for several years.
Drmies has graciously unblocked me on the condition that I make this official unblock plea to you directly. After a long period of socking, I understand that many will not be eager to support unblocking me. However, if I am given a way out of this long cycle of block evasion, I intend to make the best use of this opportunity. In the past, I have authored countless well-sourced articles and edits, many that I have been thanked for. If I am given the possibility of a new start, I promise to channel my productivity on Wikipedia but, this time, as a legitimate editor. I ask that you consider.--Satt 2 (talk) 05:11, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
- Support, of course! - We all grow up. 6 years ago I was much more immature! I initially made an account to write a shitty page about myself, thinking of Wikipedia as on the same level ar UrbanDictionary. And now see where I'm at. Time for a second chance, and thanks for deciding to stick with us and continue volunteering your time and efforts to Wikipedia despite the initial mishaps. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 05:16, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
- Oppose, unless combined with a rigid topic ban from all things Georgia (country). This user was initially blocked not merely for being an immature high school student, but for making problematic content edits, and his socks (up until this year) kept getting recognized and blocked not merely because of block evasion, but because they were still making those exact same problematic content edits. This user has apparently always been a national POV warrior, and I see nothing at all in his unblock request addressing this. Fut.Perf. ☼ 07:27, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
- @Satt 2: Before I would be willing to consider supporting this, could you supply a full list of accounts you've used in the past? ~ Rob13Talk 07:32, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:List of Monuments in Nepal
Some editors have previously brought up issues with the existences of pages like Wikipedia:List of Monuments in Nepal in the project namespace. Comments at this would be welcome. 103.6.159.65 (talk) 10:08, 15 December 2016 (UTC)