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News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2022).

Administrator changes Modussiccandi BOZ • Brookie (deceased) • Jackmcbarn • Jamesday • Jonathunder • Master of Puppets • Saravask

CheckUser changes Callanecc Oversighter changes Callanecc

Guideline and policy news

• A RfC is open to change the wording of revision deletion criterion 1 to remove the sentence relating to non-infringing contributions.
• A RfC is open to discuss prohibiting draftification of articles over 90 days old.

Technical news

• The deployment of the reply tool as an opt-out feature, as announced in last month's newsletter, has been delayed to 7 March. Feedback and comments are being welcomed at Wikipedia talk:Talk pages project. (T296645)
• Special:Nuke will now allow the selection of standard deletion reasons to be used when mass-deleting pages. This was a Community Wishlist Survey request from 2022. (T25020)
• The ability to undelete the talk page when undeleting a page using Special:Undelete or the API will be added soon. This change was requested in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey. (T295389)

Arbitration

• Several unused discretionary sanctions and article probation remedies have been rescinded. This follows the community feedback from the 2021 Discretionary Sanctions review.

Miscellaneous

• The 2022 appointees for the Ombuds commission are Érico, Faendalimas, Galahad, Infinite0694, Mykola7, Olugold, Udehb and Zabe as regular members and Ameisenigel and JJMC89 as advisory members.
• Following the 2022 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AntiCompositeNumber, BRPever, Hasley, TheresNoTime, and Vermont.
• The 2022 Community Wishlist Survey results have been published alongside the ranking of prioritized proposals.

An arbitration case regarding Skepticism and coordinated editing has now closed and the final decision is viewable at the link above. The following remedies have been enacted:

• Rp2006 (talk · contribs) is warned against a battleground mentality and further incivility.
• Rp2006 is indefinitely topic banned from edits related to living people associated with or of interest to scientific skepticism, broadly construed. This topic ban may be appealed after six months have elapsed and every six months thereafter.
• A. C. Santacruz (talk · contribs) is reminded to remain collegial in editing and interacting with others.
• Roxy the dog (talk · contribs) is warned to remain collegial in editing and interacting with others.
• GSoW is advised that a presence on English Wikipedia, perhaps as its own WikiProject or as a task force of WikiProject Skepticism, will create more transparency and lessen some of the kinds of suspicion and conflict that preceded this case. It could also provide a place for the GSoW to get community feedback about its training which would increase its effectiveness.
• Editors are reminded that discretionary sanctions for biographies of living people have been authorized since 2014. Editors named in this decision shall be considered aware of these discretionary sanctions under awareness criterion 1.

For the Arbitration Committee, –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 05:04, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

Discuss this at: Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard § Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Skepticism and coordinated editing closed

Since you were the one who blocked Yazidis are not Kurds, I wanted to tell you that I suspect that the same sock has returned with Zazas are not Kurds. I would appreciate if you took a look at it. --Semsûrî (talk) 17:32, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

Semsûrî, handled. GeneralNotability (talk) 02:34, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

Thank you. --Semsûrî (talk) 16:13, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

And another one: Shabaks are not Kurds. --Semsûrî (talk) 10:07, 5 March 2022 (UTC)

This sock appears to have returned [5]. Still removing content from their favorite article [6]. Restoring maps [7] [8]. Magherbin (talk) 01:48, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

Magherbin, it looks like several CUs (including me) have checked, no identifiable technical ties to Walkerdude or other known sockmasters in the topic area. GeneralNotability (talk) 02:48, 5 March 2022 (UTC)

21:15, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

Re Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Ryn78/Archive, not sure if you still have this page watchlisted. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 23:44, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

Thanks SandyGeorgia, I have it watchlisted but guess I didn't click on my last notification since I hadn't seen that. I've left a note. GeneralNotability (talk) 01:05, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

A few months back, you blocked KIfanboy for abusing multiple accounts. Shortly after the block, this account appeared, which has many overlapping edits at the same articles, sometimes just a few hours apart. In addition, KIfanboy continues to ignore pleas from others to seek help with moves, which they keep bungling, leading to a drain on community resources with discussions like this one. Thought I'd run it by you first since you've looked at this account recently, thanks. --GoneIn60 (talk) 06:27, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

GoneIn60, yup, behavior and magic pixie dust both say they're the same person. Blocked again, indefinitely this time. GeneralNotability (talk) 00:02, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

Hello GeneralNotability! Apologies for sticking my nose in where I don't belong. However, I noticed something. When you revdel something under RD 5, it cites "Under other valid deletion policy" with a link to WP:DEL#REASON, however all the reasons there (except for the 2nd one) appear to refer to deletion of articles and not deletion of content with RD. I understand that there is WP:BEANS and WP:DENY (Deny applies mainly to vandals and not giving them attention, however really that concept could also be applied to something that may be revdel'd) however I'm not sure if this would really be the best palce to link to, unless I'm misunderstanding what it's saying. And it's not just the stuff you most recently rev del'd but every other time I"ve seen RD5 used. ― Blaze Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#6545} 03:27, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

Also, I apologize for the mess I caused. I had a lapse of better judgement (doesn't excuse me from what I Did) and in hindsight I probably shouldn't handle stuff like that when I'm tired and/or not at my best. ― Blaze Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#6545} 04:57, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

Hello, GeneralNotability,

I was puzzled by your message on Juggyevil's talk page that he wasn't under a checkuser block when the block notice states that he was blocked because he was found to be a sockpuppet and has operated multiple accounts. That says "checkuser" to me but I didn't want to discuss this on his talk page. Thanks for any clarification you can offer. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 04:41, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

Liz, it's a block made by a checkuser, but it isn't a checkuser block - CU blocks will always be explicitly called out as such (usually with the {{checkuserblock}} or {{checkuserblock-account}} templates in the block reason). Blocking for abuse of multiple accounts is something any admin can do. GeneralNotability (talk) 15:08, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

Hi, GeneralNotability. 65.94.138.239 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) reminds me strongly of Tyciol. You blocked the IP on the English Wikipedia, but he is still editing Wiktionary and Wikiquote.[10] Cheers, gnu57 14:21, 12 March 2022 (UTC)

Hey. I was wondering if you might be able to take a look at the situation over at Talk:James Shupe with your functionary hat on. User ElisaShupe says they've sent an email to the WMF for proving their identity. Would you be able to chase this up so that we can verify if changes are needed to the article? Thanks. Sideswipe9th (talk) 18:06, 12 March 2022 (UTC)

P.S. I've also asked GorillaWarfare here. Sideswipe9th (talk) 18:12, 12 March 2022 (UTC)

22:06, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

Hi GN, if you want us to act on this please drop a request here (sample). — xaosflux ^Talk 01:07, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

xaosflux, yup, I know (but thanks for the reminder!) - will post it shortly. GeneralNotability (talk) 01:23, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

Hello, I have decided to recreate a CSD'd local description of this file. My reasoning is explained on their talk here and was just wondering if I should note this action anywhere since I do not want to appear as if I am trying to hide any actions taken. Terasail^[✉️] 20:45, 18 March 2022 (UTC)

Terasail, to be blunt, I want nothing to do with that file nor any discussion surrounding it. GeneralNotability (talk) 01:35, 19 March 2022 (UTC)

See Special:Diff/1077903072. It's still firing off all the requests at once on User:Suffusion of Yellow/sandbox, but that should fix it. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 20:49, 18 March 2022 (UTC)

Good spot Suffusion of Yellow, will add that. Thanks! GeneralNotability (talk) 01:34, 19 March 2022 (UTC)

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15:59, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Shaiksuhana2 Opened it 117.226.129.181 (talk) 05:54, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

Hi. Could you take a look at Draft:Mario Kleff? It's a brand-new user creating a new draft for a previously deleted article that was a subject of undisclosed COI, whose previous author you blocked last year. One edit doesn't exactly seem like grounds for an SPI, but maybe you'll have a better idea of how to deal with this. --Paul_012 (talk) 10:01, 23 March 2022 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) I also notice a new user had edited a related article (one of the few remaining related to MK, after several deletions) a few minutes after registering.--Rocknrollmancer (talk) 00:54, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

Paul_012, Rocknrollmancer, don't see anything that clearly ties this draft to the past versions other than the subject. Pretty clear puffery, of course, just not something I can easily tie back to the last group. GeneralNotability (talk) 00:59, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-03-27/From the team. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 23:19, 27 March 2022 (UTC)

19:53, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

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Much kudos to you. I never knew it existed prior to your cough. Thank you. 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 09:05, 29 March 2022 (UTC)

Timtrent, I live to serve :) GeneralNotability (talk) 23:30, 29 March 2022 (UTC)

I think you are missing an indirect object in a prepositional phrase (:"for their ___"), or whatever they call those things. sorry, former English major Cheers, --Deepfriedokra (talk) 07:25, 30 March 2022 (UTC)