Archive 1 May 2007 to Jan 2008 |
Administrators' newsletter – May 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2021).
Interface administrator changes
- Following an RfC, consensus was found that third party appeals are allowed but discouraged.
- The 2021 Desysop Policy RfC was closed with no consensus. Consensus was found in a previous RfC for a community based desysop procedure, though the procedure proposed in the 2021 RfC did not gain consensus.
- The user group
oversight
will be renamed tosuppress
. This is for technical reasons. You can comment at T112147 if you have objections.
- The user group
- The community consultation on the Arbitration Committee discretionary sanctions procedure was closed, and an initial draft based on feedback from the now closed consultation is expected to be released in early June to early July for community review.
Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot
Note: All columns in this table are sortable, allowing you to rearrange the table so the articles most interesting to you are shown at the top. All images have mouse-over popups with more information. For more information about the columns and categories, please consult the documentation and please get in touch on SuggestBot's talk page with any questions you might have.
Views/Day | Quality | Title | Tagged with… |
---|---|---|---|
7 | Saint Aldate (talk) | Add sources | |
3,136 | Fall of Constantinople (talk) | Add sources | |
105 | Christianisation of Anglo-Saxon England (talk) | Add sources | |
289 | The Getaway (video game) (talk) | Add sources | |
2,165 | Lahore (talk) | Add sources | |
55 | Old Minster, Winchester (talk) | Add sources | |
38 | Richard Scrope (bishop) (talk) | Cleanup | |
324 | Ahmednagar (talk) | Cleanup | |
541 | Baghdad Battery (talk) | Cleanup | |
9 | Vietnamese Americans in Boston (talk) | Expand | |
334 | Top Chess Engine Championship (talk) | Expand | |
26 | Russians in Moldova (talk) | Expand | |
14 | Sibyl de Neufmarché (talk) | Unencyclopaedic | |
7,735 | Portugal (talk) | Unencyclopaedic | |
720 | Rawalpindi (talk) | Unencyclopaedic | |
6 | The Greatest Hits (1993 Boney M. album) (talk) | Merge | |
272 | Tiger Force (talk) | Merge | |
225 | COVID-19 pandemic in Chhattisgarh (talk) | Merge | |
4 | Draco Normannicus (talk) | Wikify | |
8 | History of independent Moldova (talk) | Wikify | |
15 | Capitoul (talk) | Wikify | |
3 | 3-hydroxydecanoyl-(acyl-carrier-protein) dehydratase (talk) | Orphan | |
2 | Andrei Yevdokhin (talk) | Orphan | |
3 | Anthony Emeka (talk) | Orphan | |
19 | Godgifu (daughter of Æthelred the Unready) (talk) | Stub | |
12 | Nativity Cathedral, Chișinău (talk) | Stub | |
290 | Udayanraje Bhosale (talk) | Stub | |
9 | Paul Ferguson (bishop) (talk) | Stub | |
6 | Hakon Sweynson (talk) | Stub | |
4 | Brendan Rhim (talk) | Stub |
SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly; your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping!
If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. -- SuggestBot (talk) 23:44, 15 May 2021 (UTC)
A beer for you!
Thank you for the review. It was the first article I worked on for a GA nomination. I do see now, after working on a few other GAs, that there are many things which can be improved there. I will keep at it.
I hear you; even my real life has been strangely hectic of late. I hope it gets easier for both of us. Until then, I hope this beer helps a bit. — The Most Comfortable Chair 03:59, 19 May 2021 (UTC) |
Wulfstan the unimpressively disambiguated
Hi Ealdgyth, just a quick note that Wulfstan (died 1023) has an open GAR at Talk:Wulfstan (died 1023)/GA1. Best, CMD (talk) 17:00, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
- I dropped a note there, but am not watching the GAR page. I just don't have access to the sources I'd need nor any desire to acquire them or interest in that aspect of history. Ealdgyth (talk) 17:25, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
Question about removing coats of arms from articles
Good evening Ealdgyth,
I hope you are enjoying everything the month of May has to offer you. I took a look at the revision history for Lithuanian Crusade and I noticed you removed all the coats of arms from the infobox with the edit summary, "remove coats of arms, other unrecognizable icons that are utterly unlikely to be known to most readers." I was curious about this, and I took a look at your contribs and noticed you have done this to at least a few other articles.
You seem to be an established editor on Wikipedia, so I am certain that you have not done this for light and transient reasons. I just wanted to ask if you could expound on the reasoning that certain things like icons should not belong on Wikipedia on the basis of being unknown to most readers. By the same reasoning, I might be able to argue that we should just remove the names of the belligerents altogether because they're unlikely to be known by most readers. (And also, who are "most readers," anyway?) I think you might make many editors upset with you, especially those in WikiProject Military History. I know they consider details like that when they assess articles for their project.
From purely a style standpoint, the Manual of Style gives us an explicit exception to the general recommendation against flag icons in the context of a military conflict. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Icons#Avoid flag icons in infoboxes says, "Examples of acceptable exceptions include infobox templates for military conflicts and infoboxes including international competitions, such as FIFA World Cup or the Olympic Games."
I would also say that if someone reading Wikipedia were specifically focused on studying the crusades and other military conflicts from around that time, they might recognize the icons from article to article and appreciate that they were there. Or someone who just happened upon the article might be entertained by them, or be inspired to look up heraldry and the history of national iconography. There is value to them. I believe that if we were to ask for community consensus about whether to keep them, the community would agree with me. But I would like to know what you think.
Have a lovely day,
JarmihiGOCE (talk) 23:09, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
- Well, the community was asked about them and pretty decisively decided that coats of arms are not helpful. See the closure of the RfC (courtesy link to the full discussion: Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Icons#Close the coats-of-arms loophole). Ealdgyth (talk) 23:34, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
- Ealdgyth, I want to thank you for replying so quickly and kindly. I was unaware of that conversation. When I read the new style, I at first was caught up on the "of a person" part, failing to remember that all coats of arms are literally personal, not national. The tone of that discussion was mildly upsetting (haha) and I'm sorry I reopened that wound on your talk page. Thank you for your help, and have a good night! JarmihiGOCE (talk) 00:31, 20 May 2021 (UTC)
Dot Esports
Hi Ealdgyth, hope you're doing well. A few days ago I opened a discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Video_games/Sources about the use of Dot Esports and InvenGlobal, two websites you deemed not reliable enough for an FA during your review of League of Legends. Would you be so kind as to expand on your reasoning at the discussion? It would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Anarchyte (talk) 08:22, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
Precious anniversary
Nine years! |
---|
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:07, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
Solicitation for a source check
Hey Ealdgyth, whenever you have the chance I'd love an outside eye at Power Mac G4 Cube's sources. I'm not taking it to FAC very soon (too much other stuff going on) but it'd be great to get a set of eyes on it before then as I have a a few sources I'd want a second opinion on. Hope things are well in your part of the world. Cheers, Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs talk 18:20, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
- Hey David (and this is directed at @Anarchyte: too).. I'm insanely busy with outside-wiki stuff and I'm not sure when I'm going to be free ... it may not be til next winter depending on a lot of stuff. So I can't promise anything, sorry! Ealdgyth (talk) 18:29, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
- No problem. Best of luck with the outside-wiki stuff :) Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs talk 22:57, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
Happy First Edit Day!
Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot
Note: All columns in this table are sortable, allowing you to rearrange the table so the articles most interesting to you are shown at the top. All images have mouse-over popups with more information. For more information about the columns and categories, please consult the documentation and please get in touch on SuggestBot's talk page with any questions you might have.
Views/Day | Quality | Title | Tagged with… |
---|---|---|---|
194 | Peachtree City, Georgia (talk) | Add sources | |
268 | Eighth Crusade (talk) | Add sources | |
246 | Louis II of Italy (talk) | Add sources | |
1,088 | People's Crusade (talk) | Add sources | |
776 | Kola nut (talk) | Add sources | |
13 | Cultural depictions of William the Conqueror (talk) | Add sources | |
58 | Second Swedish Crusade (talk) | Cleanup | |
1,722 | Normans (talk) | Cleanup | |
414 | Battle of Nicopolis (talk) | Cleanup | |
302 | Invasions of the British Isles (talk) | Expand | |
1,441 | Turkish Armed Forces (talk) | Expand | |
398 | Southern Christian Leadership Conference (talk) | Expand | |
150 | Housing in the United Kingdom (talk) | Unencyclopaedic | |
672 | Crown of Aragon (talk) | Unencyclopaedic | |
37 | McWane (talk) | Unencyclopaedic | |
9 | Warmians (talk) | Merge | |
1,336 | Nāga (talk) | Merge | |
6 | Bishopric of Turku (talk) | Merge | |
9 | Remigius de Fécamp (talk) | Wikify | |
1,066 | Selma to Montgomery marches (talk) | Wikify | |
34 | Spanish chivalry (talk) | Wikify | |
132 | Nando Moura (talk) | Orphan | |
3 | Humanist Counseling in the Dutch Armed Forces (talk) | Orphan | |
3 | McCree Harris (talk) | Orphan | |
11 | Welche (talk) | Stub | |
11 | Michael Clanchy (talk) | Stub | |
8 | Compacts of Basel (talk) | Stub | |
37 | Third Swedish Crusade (talk) | Stub | |
6 | David C. Douglas (talk) | Stub | |
7 | Council of Lillebonne (talk) | Stub |
SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly; your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping!
If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. -- SuggestBot (talk) 23:32, 29 May 2021 (UTC)