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Precious anniversary
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My mind is on Prayer for Ukraine. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:18, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
Ninja'd
By one minute :) -FASTILY 08:12, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
- @Fastily: The ultimate humiliation for a PERM admin. I've met with a terrible fate. ~Swarm~ {sting} 08:18, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
Extended Right
@Swarm: I Know it's earlier that I'm asking for extended rights, frankly say lots of page have extended protected so I can't edit that pages , If you think my edits are constructive then give the right. Thanks :-) Swesdent (talk) 13:50, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
Adoption
Swarm, I am a new user and have been blocked from a particular talk page for bludgeoning (but I don't think I did what is said at WP:BLUDGEON). I have also been accused of tendentious editing. Please adopt me and guide me to make good edits here. Thanks!
- I saw here that you are willing to adopt newcomers.
- I have now been topic banned from articles related to Indian politics also because an admin mistakenly thought I have edited a page other than my own talk page after saying I will not do so until adopted by a Mentor, according to this thread which I feel was done because she (the admin) mistakenly thought I had edited another page after I said I would not until I get adopted.-Y2edit? (talk) 19:09, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – April 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2022).
- An RfC is open proposing a change to the minimum activity requirements for administrators.
- Access to Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have the
deletelogentry
anddeletedhistory
rights. This means that those in the Researcher user group and Checkusers who are not administrators can now access Special:RevisionDelete. The users able to view the special page after this change are the 3 users in the Researcher group, as there are currently no checkusers who are not already administrators. (T301928) - When viewing deleted revisions or diffs on Special:Undelete a back link to the undelete page for the associated page is now present. (T284114)
- Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Procedures § Opening of proceedings has been updated to reflect current practice following a motion.
- A arbitration case regarding Skepticism and coordinated editing has been closed.
- A arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been opened.
- Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines has closed, and the results were that 56.98% of voters supported the guidelines. The results of this vote mean the Wikimedia Foundation Board will now review the guidelines.
GOCE April 2022 newsletter
Guild of Copy Editors April 2022 Newsletter
Hello and welcome to the April newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since December 2021. Election results: Jonesey95 retired as lead coordinator. Reidgreg was approved to fill this role after an 18-month absence from the coordinator team, and Baffle gab1978 was chosen as an assistant coordinator following a one-year break. Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Tenryuu continued on as long-standing assistant coordinators. January Drive: Of the 22 editors who signed up, 16 editors claimed 146 copy edits including 45 requests. (details) February Blitz: This one-week effort focused on requests and a theme of Africa and African diaspora history. Of the 12 editors who signed up, 6 editors recorded 21 copy edits, including 4 requests. (details) March Drive: Of the 28 editors who signed up, 18 claimed 116 copy edits including 25 requests. (details) April Blitz: This one-week copy editing event has been scheduled for 17–23 April, sign up now! Progress report: As of 11 April, copy editors have removed approximately 500 articles from the backlog and completed 127 copy-editing requests during 2022. The backlog has been hovering at about 1,100 tagged articles for the past six months. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Reidgreg, Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Tenryuu To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.
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Sent via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:43, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
Your recent close at WP:ANI
Re this, [1], WP:CBAN seems to require the closing admin to notify the subject of the ban - you seem not to have done so. AndyTheGrump (talk) 17:49, 14 April 2022 (UTC)
- I'm aware and have done so at my earliest convenience. Regardless, thanks for letting me know. ~Swarm~ {sting} 18:10, 14 April 2022 (UTC)
New administrator activity requirement
The administrator policy has been updated with new activity requirements following a successful Request for Comment.
Beginning January 1, 2023, administrators who meet one or both of the following criteria may be desysopped for inactivity if they have:
Administrators at risk for being desysopped under these criteria will continue to be notified ahead of time. Thank you for your continued work. |
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Notification of administrators without tools
Greetings, Swarm. You are receiving this notification because you've agreed to consider endorsing prospective admin candidates identified by the process outlined at Administrators without tools. Recently, the following editor(s) received this distinction and the associated endearing title: | |
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Scardust
Copy/paste from another user's talk page, which doesn't seem interested in helping:
"Hello,
The article "Scardust" has had extensive editing issues in the past. I was dissatisfied with the previous iteration of the article, so I did extensive research and spent about seven hours last night and today fixing up some inaccuracies, cleaning up irrelevant information, properly sourcing claims, and providing a more comprehensive history of the band. At the moment, I believe the article looks fine, but I am afraid that the same users who have caused problems with the article in the past may aggressively change the article again, for the worse.
Would it be possible for you to check the sources, and make sure the article is indeed good and if not, let me know what needs to be changed and I will change it (including sourcing), and to moniter the article so that it remains high quality?
I did message the band themselves who suggested I make the changes I did, and provided me with several sources I cited in the article. I can send you that email exchange if you need.
Thank you in advanced."
This is the current version that is very good: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scardust&oldid=1085375251
(Eyesofagony (talk) 05:50, 30 April 2022 (UTC))
- The other user's talk page, should you be interested. We're also chatting with them on IRC. Primefac (talk) 06:08, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
- I didn't realize that was you in the IRC. Sorry if this was a lot of "spam" at once. I am obviously new and didn't really know where to go.
- Thank you for the insight. Eyesofagony (talk) 07:53, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
- @Eyesofagony: Well your edits don’t need anyone’s approval, they are accepted and assumed to be beneficial by default in the absence of evidence. Per WP:SILENCE, if there is no valid objection to an edit, it is presumed to be supported by the community’s consensus by default. So I don’t feel the need to review your edit here. If what you are asking me is to keep an eye on the article and audit any removals of sourced content, and block whichever party is in the wrong, that is something I can and will gladly do if I can. ~Swarm~ {sting} 07:34, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
- Thank you for the offer of keeping an eye on it, that's essentially what I am asking, yes, and I appreciate the benefit of the doubt; I'm more so concerned about removal of additions I made, and then if I try to discuss it with the user who removed it, then I'll be banned. It appears to have happened twice on that article, hence why I called it "volatile," and why I just wanted a third pair of eyes. Again thank you! Eyesofagony (talk) 07:51, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
- @Eyesofagony Yes this is a common issue, but rest assured that the reversion or stonewalling of edits without good reason is considered to be a serious offense that is usually handled with immediate blocking. If and when such a problem occurs, you may report it to WP:ANI, where uninvolved users will rule on the matter. Whatever happens, someone somewhere will review the facts if and whenever it becomes necessary. ~Swarm~ {sting} 08:01, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
- This is very useful information. Thank you!
- Alright everyone I'm calling it a night. Eyesofagony (talk) 08:12, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
- I called it a night last night, and woke up to find this. Goodness me. -Roxy the grumpy dog. wooF 15:55, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
- Sorry, your reaction of "why me?" seemed to indicate you weren't interested... Eyesofagony (talk) 16:34, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
- I've made other follow up comments around the place. It seems that a satisfactory resolution has been reached though. Good luck to you. Roxy the grumpy dog. wooF 16:40, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
- Sorry, your reaction of "why me?" seemed to indicate you weren't interested... Eyesofagony (talk) 16:34, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
- I called it a night last night, and woke up to find this. Goodness me. -Roxy the grumpy dog. wooF 15:55, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
- @Eyesofagony Yes this is a common issue, but rest assured that the reversion or stonewalling of edits without good reason is considered to be a serious offense that is usually handled with immediate blocking. If and when such a problem occurs, you may report it to WP:ANI, where uninvolved users will rule on the matter. Whatever happens, someone somewhere will review the facts if and whenever it becomes necessary. ~Swarm~ {sting} 08:01, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
- Thank you for the offer of keeping an eye on it, that's essentially what I am asking, yes, and I appreciate the benefit of the doubt; I'm more so concerned about removal of additions I made, and then if I try to discuss it with the user who removed it, then I'll be banned. It appears to have happened twice on that article, hence why I called it "volatile," and why I just wanted a third pair of eyes. Again thank you! Eyesofagony (talk) 07:51, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
Damn well said
In your reaffirmation of support in that RfA ~TNT (talk • she/her) 10:43, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
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Sockpuppet investigation
Hello Swarm, you previously blocked this user twice for disruptive editing in Generation Z so I'm wondering if you can help us out in this sockpuppet investigation as he seems to be stepping up the personal attacks despite talk page notifications. Agrso (talk) 22:42, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
BLP TBAN
Hi, you BLP TBAN'd me (or at least posted the notice), so I can't do this myself, but could you please so something about Pierre DesMarais, unreferenced in more than a decade? BLP PROD is what I'd do, if I were allowed. Stuartyeates (talk) 20:27, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
- Actually Alberto_B._Gutiérrez needs something too. Stuartyeates (talk) 20:45, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – May 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2022).
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- Following an RfC, a change has been made to the administrators inactivity policy. Under the new policy, if an administrator has not made at least 100 edits over a period of 5 years they may be desysopped for inactivity.
- Following a discussion on the bureaucrat's noticeboard, a change has been made to the bureaucrats inactivity policy.
- The ability to undelete the associated talk page when undeleting a page has been added. This was the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
- A public status system for WMF wikis has been created. It is located at https://www.wikimediastatus.net/ and is hosted separately to WMF wikis so in the case of an outage it will remain viewable.
- Remedy 2 of the St Christopher case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to place a ban on single-purpose accounts who were disruptively editing on the article St Christopher Iba Mar Diop College of Medicine or related pages from those pages.
Thanks for granting Pending changes reviewer
Hi Swarm. Hope you are keeping fine. Thanks for granting reviewer for Pending changes. Will try my best to see that Wikipedia guidelines for the same are followed. Gardenkur (talk) 14:42, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
Pending Changes Reviewer Request
Hi, you said that I need to be more experienced on Wikipedia. I'm perfectly fine with this! However, can you tell me what counts as "not new anymore" so I don't make another pointless request? 𝕸𝖗 𝕽𝖊𝖆𝖉𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝕿𝖚𝖗𝖙𝖑𝖊 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 (talk) 18:32, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
- I’d say wait a minimum of 1-2 more months. ~Swarm~ {sting} 05:54, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
- Okay, thanks! 𝕸𝖗 𝕽𝖊𝖆𝖉𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝕿𝖚𝖗𝖙𝖑𝖊 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 (talk) 11:55, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
Cedar Fair ANI discussion
I'm somewhat confused by your actions and your hostility to my posts on ANI concerning the Cedar Fair wiki page. My original post was for both threats from another user along with a pattern of behavioral misconduct, which included multiple reverts. An admin posted that he took care of the matter and that should have been the end. You, on the other hand, decided to chime in with content dispute, which clearly does not belong there — a fact to which another admin even reminded you of. You followed again with a statement that content dispute is not something to block over, even though the original complaint was about behavioral issues and had nothing to do with the content. When I tried to steer the discussion back on point, you accused me of goalpost shifting, followed with a warning not to push it. I hope you understand that had you just left the post alone, none of the six lines of discussion that followed would have been needed. What were you trying to accomplish? I posted to ANI hoping to get some resolve, instead I got a lot of unnecessary drama. I thought admins were supposed to resolve issues, not create new ones.—JlACEer (talk) 19:53, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
hi there
Hi there. are you interested in editing history articles at all? I am a coordinator at WP:HIST. Trying to gauge interest in helping to craft a concerted group approach to facilitating editing of articles that pertain to curent or contemporary history. thanks. --Sm8900 (talk) 20:49, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
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Notification of administrators without tools
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Possible socking by a user you indeffed
Hey Swarm, I want to bring a peculiar situation to your attention: a couple of days ago, while working on the pending changes backlog as a reviewer, I reviewed and reverted this edit by User:Jacques Monod at Ptolemy, because I felt such a likely-to-be-contested change to a protected page needed talk page consensus. I observed in passing that the user in question had some pretty nuanced understanding of editing and tagging for an account with less than ten edits and that there was a similar angle of POV pushing regarding Greek ethnicity in at least one of the other edits, but it was not enough to trigger any concerns urging a response other than the revert. However, I got back on today and still had the article open, so I decided to check out the talk page to get further context on any previous discussion on the matter, and to understand why the article was protected in the first place.
When I read the talk page, I was struck by the similarities between the arguments advanced by and those that were advanced several years back by a blocked editor, User:Arianewiki1. When I went to their user talk page, I discovered that you had indeffed Ariane as an implementation of a CBAN authorized at ANI. Because Ptolemy was the second to the last article Ariane had worked on before the indef, I decided to look at a number of the other articles that Ariane had been involved with just before said ban. And sure enough, each that I checked has an account with a very small number of edits recently active on the articles and talk pages, at least one of which has a wall-of-text approach to talk page discussion similar to Ariane's (and a propensity for interacting with one of the editors that the community considered IBANning Ariane from interacting with).
Now, none of this adds up to anything likely to be actionable at SPI, so I don't think there is anything to be done at this stage--and indeed, I am not even 100% convinced myself that my suspicions are correct. But I felt I ought to make someone aware of my observations, in case there's suddenly any disruption regarding spaces and/or community members that Ariane was a problem for, before the indef--and as the blocking admin, you seemed as good a candidate as anyone (sorry Mr. Mop!). Per WP:BEANS, I've kept the details as vague as possible here, while still giving you enough info to look into the matter, but I can share some more idiosyncrasies I found in the newer accounts that somewhat contributed to my concerns, if you'd like. Suffice it to say, if you look at recent histories for the articles Ariane was working on before the indef, the suspicious accounts should be obvious. Anyway, hope I'm wrong and nothing needs to come of this, but again, thought someone with real tools ought to be brought into the loop on what I noticed. SnowRise let's rap 08:42, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – June 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2022).
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- Several areas of improvement collated from community member votes have been identified in the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines. The areas of improvement have been sent back for review and you are invited to provide input on these areas.
- Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. (T307341)
- The IP Info feature has been deployed to all wikis as a Beta Feature. Any autoconfirmed user may enable the feature using the "IP info" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features. Autoconfirmed users will be able to access basic information about an IP address that includes the country and connection method. Those with advanced privileges (admin, bureaucrat, checkuser) will have access to extra information that includes the Internet Service Provider and more specific location.
- Remedy 2 of the Rachel Marsden case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to delete or reduce to a stub, together with their talk pages, articles related to Rachel Marsden when they violate Wikipedia's biographies of living persons policy.
- An arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been closed.