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16:28, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

I hope you had a nice break! I was happy to see your resysop request at BN and wanted to welcome you back. Best of luck, and I look forward to seeing you around. — Wug·a·po·des​ 21:46, 7 October 2021 (UTC)

Thank you! I couldn't stay away for long. Glad to be back in the saddle. clpo13_(talk) 22:15, 7 October 2021 (UTC)

15:29, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

Hello and thank you for this block. You might want to have a look at their current Talk page and consider whether the content and their continued access is suitable/appropriate. My feeling is that it is probably not OK but then I'm not a policy expert. Thanks in advance for having a quick look, if you don't mind, please. Best wishes DBaK (talk) 19:34, 15 October 2021 (UTC)

DBaK, thanks for the heads-up. I rolled back their edits. At the very least, the block notice should stay visible. As for talk page access, they haven't done anything in a couple days, but I'll keep an eye on it and revoke if they start being disruptive again. clpo13_(talk) 19:38, 15 October 2021 (UTC)

Many many thanks for having a look. I really appreciate the speedy response. Cheers DBaK (talk) 19:42, 15 October 2021 (UTC)

20:52, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

You've just blocked this gentleman User:Incarnater_the_Big,_Just-the_Big. You might want to take a look at his user-page; it's fairly offensive and (in my view) needs deleting. Thanks for the block. Elemimele (talk) 21:41, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

@Elemimele:  Done Thanks for the notice. clpo13_(talk) 21:48, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

Hello Clpo13, you've recently rejected the protection request for

@Suneye1: I've replied at the SPI. I'm not sure about the connection to Dhy.rjw, but Rob108 and TallMegan have behaved very similarly to each other, so I've blocked both accounts for sockpuppetry. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. clpo13_(talk) 16:30, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

Thanks a lot. Though there were a lot of similarities between Dhy.rjw and the other two accounts, TallMegan and Rob108 were to ones involved in personal attacks and disruption. I'll let the closing admin decide about Dhy.rjw. Thanks. - SUN EYE 1 18:41, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

In that I've edited for years and this is the initial time I'm aware of that a complaint's been lodged against me, it would be taken as a great kindness to me if you could grant me a definite period of time for me to to demonstrate my ability to successfully address the deficiencies in my editing.--Hodgdon's secret garden (talk) 17:38, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

In that some over-generalize my editing as lacking in competence, I'd like to say that with regard to this issue, I know I can improve in my editing competence, by way of: my being patient with regard to Wikipedia's rules in specific as well as social rules in general; my being less obsessive about my interests; my learning better to comprehend other editors' points of view; my being less sensitive regarding shared concepts and beliefs interpretable as "correct" or "admirable"; my attaining more reciprocity in conversing; and my being less concerned with having to share my opinions.--Hodgdon's secret garden (talk) 18:19, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

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WP:RFC/A). clpo13_(talk

) 18:45, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

(Responding to request for input) This seems like insincere pandering. HSG had plenty of opportunity to listen to other editors asking them to modify their approach over the last several months at their user talk page, and didn't take it. I see no reason to believe they will actually do better once the heat is off them. --Sangdeboeuf (talk) 07:47, 23 October 2021 (UTC)

20:07, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

Thank you for the warm welcome, and the guidance on helping out. I'm off and running, editing the page on Ronot society. Lynnmarieisme (talk) 21:17, 25 October 2021 (UTC)lynnmarieisme

pingas :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.223.74.218 (talk) 00:05, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

My honest understanding was that if an article is currently on the Main Page, one shouldn't go about slapping NPOV tags on it without a consensus first being reached on ERRORS or someplace. Is that not "disruptive editing"? Forgive me if I don't find IPs like this one anything close to credible... Kingoflettuce (talk) 02:53, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

I’m not sure of the exact procedure with DYK, but as an uninvolved admin, restoring a stable version seems to me to be the best option right now for something people are coming to from the main page. clpo13_(talk) 03:07, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

Thanks, that's exactly what I had tried to communicate to the IP but I suppose some frustration and annoyance crept in along the way. That guy is relentless! Kingoflettuce (talk) 03:12, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

Hi clpo13, as there is an ongoing discussion on the

My actions thus far have been to raise awareness that the article needs fixing and bring in more editors who understand the situation to collaborate on the neutrality bit (if you look at the article, it was created recently and there are only a few common editors) by adding the NPOV tags and starting a talk discussion, but User:Kingoflettuce seems adamant that this should not be done. While I quote policies to substantiate my belief that the article is biased, that user only quotes "my honest understanding" for the NPOV tag, which is hardly sufficient. Hope you can add the tags back to alert both editors and readers, especially if there is no policy against doing this for DYK articles (it's not a featured article). Thanks! --121.7.1.169 (talk) 06:00, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

Could you please give me some details of why have you deleted the article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Angela Psenak (talk • contribs) 21:17, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

@Angela Psenak: it was actually Jimfbleak who deleted it, and it looks like it was due to copyright infringement from https://soundcloud.com/attiladobak. clpo13_(talk) 21:20, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

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conflict of interest, please don't write about yourself, your friends, relatives or colleagues and note that any COI must be declared Jimfbleak - talk to me?

09:34, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

Eusha — Preceding unsigned comment added by Meusha (talk • contribs) 10:44, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

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biographies of living people policy, I strongly suggest you refrain from adding it again unless you have a very good source to support it. clpo13_(talk

) 16:48, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

I'm not That desperate to make edits to the encyclopedia. However, I shall remember the insult. I'm leaving with profound knowledge as to why people don't find Wikipedia reliable. You side with the criminals. You'll find that those thoroughly dishonest individuals NEVER read neither the English nor the Bengali books! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Meusha (talk • contribs) 19:07, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

@Clpo13, One last thing. I have already explained this in lucid detail for those with eyes and ears. However, I feel it is only my responsibility to add this - the reference to my "claim" was actually provided. @আফতাবুজ্জামান simply looked at the book at the referenced site and could not see any evidence because he did not read the Bengali book against the English counterpart. And you of course are entirely incapable of making any judgment at all because you do not read Bengali. And yet, you are the one responsible for making decisions on article on a book in Bengali! How silly is that, my dear sir? It is not I who initiated the edit war. I simply reverted the article to what I can see to be a more accurate and factual version when I saw I was being harrassed by a group of schoolboys! As for you, I would like to file a formal complaint against your incompetence and ignorance. Could you kindly tell me how that is done? I will soon publish an article on a Bangladeshi English daily lambasting these clowns who think Tin Goyenda was an original Bangladeshi series! It was a word by word copy of the original American books. The truth is there for everyone to see who bothers to compare the Bangla books to the English ones. Referencing the Bangla books to the English ones is sufficient. Thank you and kind regards. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Meusha (talk • contribs) 06:10, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

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WP:ANI. clpo13_(talk

) 16:07, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

Can you please take a look at my request in Edit warring Noticeboard that I submitted? MehmoodS (talk) 10:43, 29 October 2021 (UTC)

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20:26, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

Hi Clpo13. Just an FYI really. Per Special:Diff/1053165031, assuming I'm not wrong, would you be interested in unblocking Igini234? I'll grant that they're not the best edits ever, but the fault seems to lie elsewhere. Ping@10mmsocket: -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 09:10, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

Look at the pattern of editing on that article today. It's highly likely that this user is also one of the IP addresses that were active before the article was semi-protected. 10mmsocket (talk) 09:29, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

I don't disagree in the slightest - these kind of observations don't easily escape a checkuser. My point stands? -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 09:32, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

@Zzuuzz: I've unblocked them. I agree that it seems they were attempting to bring the article back in line with the sources. clpo13_(talk) 15:32, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

Super, thanks. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 18:52, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

Hello Cody,

Regarding the following edit, could you please provide an example of what would be an acceptable version to you? "Reverted 1 edit by Wmh1978 (talk): Inappropriate without attribution per WP:RSOPINION undothank Tags: Undo Twinkle." My proposed contribution contains no opinions so I'm a bit confused as to how to address your requested revision. Are you saying that I should write something like, "According to X, [insert paraphase from source]..."?

Take care, -WMH1978Wmh1978 (talk) 20:30, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

@

WP:INTEXT address when and how to do this. clpo13_(talk

) 20:38, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

Great, thanks for that helpful information! -Wmh1978Wmh1978 (talk) 20:50, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

Thought that sharing an article written by my old friend Eva Björklund would contribute to enrich the scarce information about her in Wikipedia. Don't worry, I'll never try to contribute again. Goodbye. 2601:586:4B01:7170:2193:5EEC:9439:374F (talk) 20:52, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

	The Special Barnstar
	Thank you for ur contributions :) Le0n0622 (talk) 02:03, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

I was the one that PRODded and de-PRODded this article and subsequently re-nominated it. Since I no longer agree with my previous actions I think the AfD should have been considered uncontested delete rather than no consensus. Dronebogus (talk) 23:26, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

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soft delete. clpo13_(talk

) 23:32, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

Hello Cody, please could you review the ongoing discussion at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasper%27s_Riddle The issues appear to have been resolved so the message templates should be removed. I dont agree with the nomination for deletion as it meets notability criteria therefore edit warring is no valid grounds for deleting an article. The edits made by @User:HappyWithWhatYouHaveToBeHappyWith who nominated it for deletion were useful to improve the article and are agreed upon, so the problems are no longer present on the article. It will only be re-added if it gets deleted. Valid articles should be improved upon not deleted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Factsaboutnigeria (talk • contribs) 14:31, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

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notability guidelines. clpo13_(talk

) 18:24, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

20:35, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

Hello, I noticed your comments on the talk

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WP:ANI at the first sign of disruption. They haven't really done anything blockable at this point, in my opinion. clpo13_(talk

) 21:29, 9 November 2021 (UTC)

@Clpo13: sounds good, will keep an eye out. --PerpetuityGrat (talk) 21:30, 9 November 2021 (UTC)

I am new to Wikipedia. I went through YouTube and some articles to Learn about editing Wikipedia. It is not for commercial purposes or advertising purposes. I wanted to offer a unique article for readers of this page. It’s a very useful article with over 12000 words But the only thing I don’t know is whether I edited it correctly or not. I am really sorry If I made any mistakes While I am editing your page. Thank you for understanding. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AARNissanka (talk • contribs) 19:12, 10 November 2021 (UTC)

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WP:REF for information on using it as a reference for details in the article. clpo13_(talk

) 19:29, 10 November 2021 (UTC)

Thank you for replying to my message. I agree with you that people do promote websites through Wikipedia. even I can see with your page, (Eg: References no 19.20 and 26) but I thought that my article will bring more value for readers compared to some of the liked articles. Also, I get value. If you think it's not a valid addition, I am wondering how those articles link to become valid addition to this page. So I think it's not fair. But I don't have any choice if you say so. Anyway, it’s your decision and don’t know much about Wikipedia editing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AARNissanka (talk • contribs) 21:00, 10 November 2021 (UTC)

This IP you warned is continuing to attack me and anyone who they deem “nazis”. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_page_protection/Increase&diff=1054904181&oldid=1054902872 I keep being stalked by them. This users keeps using this IP range and is back again and again. OyMosby (talk) 18:11, 12 November 2021 (UTC)

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WP:ANI to put some extra eyes on the situation. clpo13_(talk

) 18:38, 12 November 2021 (UTC)

Every useful edit I ever make on wikipedia gets reverted by some self-important gatekeeper intent on keeping information out of the public domain. I really don't know if I should bother. Useless edits, on the other hand, are never reverted. Maybe I should stick to useless contributions. Sitting Duck (talk) 21:46, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

22:05, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

Hi, would you consider relisting Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jon Acuff (2nd nomination) so I can vote in it? I don't think it should have been closed quite yet, given the low participation and, more importantly, the complete and total absence of any RS whatsoever to support this (in my view, G-11-level obviously promotional) BLP article. Levivich 15:33, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

@Levivich:  Done. I apologize for the delay in getting back to you. clpo13_(talk) 20:55, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

Delay? I wish everyone else in my life would get back to me the next day! :-) Thanks! Levivich 21:51, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

Hi there, thanks for protecting General relativity and blocking ip 155.33.135.4 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log). You might have a look at the other IPs (from the same location) they used for the same edit:

• 67.134.206.44 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) edit [16]
• 67.134.206.5 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) edit [17] and content removal [18]
• 98.110.165.168 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) edit [19]

IPs were warned on talk page. Thanks and cheers. - DVdm (talk) 22:34, 10 November 2021 (UTC)

@DVdm: thanks for the heads up. I don't see any clear signs of proxy use on the other IPs. Hopefully the article protection will deter whoever it is. clpo13_(talk) 22:45, 10 November 2021 (UTC)

Unlikely, but hey, who knows . - DVdm (talk) 23:43, 10 November 2021 (UTC)

@Clpo13:, just as I predicted:

• 67.134.206.13 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)

There we go. - DVdm (talk) 17:31, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

See also [20] at AIV. - DVdm (talk) 18:26, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

With all this, the single IP was blocked for a whopping 31 hours by user Alexf (talk · contribs). Immediately after that:

• 67.134.206.50 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)

Right. - DVdm (talk) 19:18, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

Sorry I missed all this. Looks like Hut 8.5 has protected the page for another month. It'll probably need to eventually be semi-protected indefinitely, though. I don't suppose we can ban all Harvard IPs just to catch one crank... You could report the IPs at

WP:OP to see if there's a definite open proxy or VPN range that could be blocked. clpo13_(talk

) 19:58, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

On Byron Brown, you rollbacked my edit (which fixed a broken {{citation needed}} tag). I assume this was in error, and that it's not an issue if I restore it to the proper formatting (I am, however, happy to let the edit stand if you actually did this on purpose).jp×g 03:41, 21 November 2021 (UTC)

Oh, I see that you have already self-reverted. Never mind, then, and good luck with the rest of your RC queue! jp×g 03:43, 21 November 2021 (UTC)

20:01, 22 November 2021 (UTC)

Hi Cody, I am just fixing the FAKE and biased views on this article. Wikipedia is a site that is for fact, not fiction and these articles and 'talks' are wrong. Many have been 'trolled' by these made up words, "Gubbi Gubbi" is a word that Eve Fesl's group made up, Not an Indigenous Austrlian word. By the looks of things you are not in Austrlia so I advise that you let me edit this article as I live in Kabi Kabi territory. I have all the local history books on my area and Gubbi Gubbi is Fake. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SavageCabbages (talk • contribs) 23:33, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

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WP:CITE). clpo13_(talk

) 23:39, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

That said, you should also explain your changes, either via

vandalism. clpo13_(talk

) 23:56, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

Do you think that this is structured well enough to be read by the closure? It is just less than 4,000 words in full but the "Must read" section is way less than that and should be easily to read, and I just want to make sure that the closure will be able to read it in reasonable enough time. My !comment at AfD is this, plus link to 'essay' (as suggest here by DRN moderator). It this a valid way to structure and summarize my AfD !comment? Thank you. Davide King (talk) 17:59, 24 November 2021 (UTC)

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WP:AN#Mass killings under communist regimes content resolution that a panel close might be necessary due to the contentious nature of the discussion. However it happens, I'm sure the closer(s) will take the time to evaluate the arguments thoroughly to keep this from dragging out longer than it needs to. I don't want to comment on the content at this point, but I do think your rationale is well-structured, especially in pointing out the most important parts for the closer to read and having a summary for a quick evaluation. It might be long, but it seems appropriately detailed regarding the policies and guidelines relevant to this article. For a topic like this, a long but well-reasoned comment is much better than the usual drive-by ILIKEIT/IDONTLIKEIT sort. It might even persuade other AFD !voters, who will have more time to look it over than the closer. clpo13_(talk

) 18:23, 24 November 2021 (UTC)

Thank you! My only hope is that it is at least read by the closure (I agree about a panel close), though I do not think it might persuade other AFD !voters, as they completely miss our points, as if we are denying that killings happened under Communist regimes and/or many people indeed died (none of us is disputing any of this) — what we are disputing is the connection between all those events with each other and/or communism, how the article is selectively about sources, cherry pick those that support such connection, and treat it as majority/scholarly consensus/discourse (in reality, they are at best a minority in academic, and popular press sources are not really good for this).

Some of us do not even dispute that it may be notable (I have supported this topic as a full rewrite), though other do (mainly the connection and link between events and their, in fact, lack thereof) — I am supporting deletion because only that and/or total rewrite (it would be better to delete and then gain consensus for the rewrite before recreation) can support the numerous issues and controversies, which have been acknowledged by moderator at

WP:DRNMKUCR

(completely ignored in rebuttal of our arguments), and a NPOV article without such issues simply cannot be written (we cannot even agree about the main topic's scope and structure), and is ironically proved by the comments and behavior of the 'Keep' side. All of this must be clear and weighted ...

— as long as that is done, whatever the result will be, I can accept it and live with it. Davide King (talk) 18:37, 24 November 2021 (UTC)

21:13, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

Was just about to ask if you'd consider extending this editor's warning to a block, when I saw your post about them at AIV. Have gone ahead and blocked the IP for a while, more for the BLP violation than the ranting. They clearly have strong views and an enthusiasm for sharing, and there seemed a reasonable chance more BLP violations would follow. Hope that's ok. -- Euryalus (talk) 03:54, 30 November 2021 (UTC)

@Euryalus: No worries. Upon reflection, they likely weren't going to stop any time soon, and the BLP stuff was pretty egregious, so a block makes sense. Thanks for taking care of it. clpo13_(talk) 19:14, 30 November 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for revdeleting. I should have done that myself. I didn't really know what to do about protection and I guess I sort of forgot full move protection--it's not a thing that I do frequently cause I rarely run into this problem. That is one particularly tasteless LTA. Drmies (talk) 15:12, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

@Drmies: No problem. Page move vandalism is a pain. clpo13_(talk) 16:43, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

It looks like we protect-conflicted on User talk:Firefangledfeathers, I reinstated your previous protection length. Just wanted to give you a heads up. -- LuK3 (Talk) 17:23, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

@LuK3: I just saw that, thanks. I have no strong feelings on length if Firefangledfeathers wants to reduce it. clpo13_(talk) 17:27, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

I don't have a preference. Grateful for you both. If you care to look into it anymore, Penn Jillette could possibly use some BLP-related revdel. Firefangledfeathers 17:33, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

I have a right to point out on a talk page that there should be a criticism section of "human rights" article on Wikipeda. I provided examples of abuse of "human rights' lingo as well. Your, unethical, attempt to muzzle my criticism is just further evidence for the need for a criticism section in the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.147.248.119 (talk) 04:32, 3 December 2021 (UTC) It would take you only a few minutes of googling to find many examples of alleged "human rights" organizations in contradiction of their own alleged values.. For instance I gave you the example of the UN "human rights' Council. Check the current member states to see if they all actually follow the follow the migration rules the alleged UN "human rights' council proscribes to others. (hint. they don't) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.147.248.119 (talk) 05:01, 3 December 2021 (UTC)

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Bots Newsletter, December 2021

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Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. BRFA activity by month Welcome to the eighth issue of the English Wikipedia's Bots Newsletter, your source for all things bot. Maintainers disappeared to parts unknown... bots awakening from the slumber of æons... hundreds of thousands of short descriptions... these stories, and more, are brought to you by Wikipedia's most distinguished newsletter about bots. Our last issue was in August 2019, so there's quite a bit of catching up to do. Due to the vast quantity of things that have happened, the next few issues will only cover a few months at a time. This month, we'll go from September 2019 through the end of the year. I won't bore you with further introductions — instead, I'll bore you with a newsletter about bots. Overall Between September and December 2019, there were 33 BRFAs. Of these, Y 25 were approved, and 8 were unsuccessful (N2 3 denied, ? 3 withdrawn, and 2 expired). September 2019 Y Monkbot 16, DannyS712 bot 60, Ahechtbot 6, PearBOT 3, Qbugbot 3 · N2 DannyS712 bot 5, PkbwcgsBot 24 · ? DannyS712 bot 61, TheSandBot 4 TParis goes away, UTRSBot goes kaput: Beeblebrox noted that the bot for maintaining on-wiki records of UTRS appeals stopped working a while ago. TParis, the semi-retired user who had previously run it, said they were "unlikely to return to actively editing Wikipedia", and the bot had been vanquished by trolls submitting bogus UTRS requests on behalf of real blocked users. While OAuth was a potential fix, neither maintainer had time to implement it. TParis offered to access to the UTRS WMFLabs account to any admin identified with the WMF: "I miss you guys a whole lot [...] but I've also moved on with my life. Good luck, let me know how I can help". Ultimately, SQL ended up in charge. Some progress was made, and the bot continued to work another couple months — but as of press time, UTRSBot has not edited since November 2019. Article-measuring contest resumed: The list of Wikipedians by article count, which had lain dead for several years, was triumphantly resurrected by GreenC following a bot request. October 2019 Y OAbot 3, DannyS712 bot 47, Pathbot 2, PearBOT 2, DannyS712 bot 59, DannyS712 bot 62, HasteurBot 14, PearBOT 4, WOSlinkerBot 4, MilHistBot 5 Curb Safe Charmer adopts reFill: TAnthony pointed out that reFill 2's bug reports were going unanswered; creator Zhaofeng Li had retired from Wikipedia, and a maintainer was needed. As of June 2021, Curb Safe Charmer had taken up the mantle, saying: "Not that I have all the skills needed but better me than nobody! 'Maintainer' might be too strong a term though. Volunteers welcome!" November 2019 Y BHGbot 4, YiFeiBot 2, DannyS712 bot III 64 · ? PearBOT Old bots do new tricks: DannyS712 bot III 64 prowled redirects, YiFeiBot 2 archived GoCE requests, and BHGbot 4 removed links to portals deleted at MfD (until its authorization was revoked in January at operator BrownHairedGirl's request). December 2019 Y DemonDays64 Bot, DannyS712 bot III 66, Bot1058 6, Monkbot 15, MilHistBot 6, PearBOT 5, DannyS712 bot IV 65 · N2 SportsStatsBot · Xinbenlv bot, SteveBot 8 Redirects to be autopatrolled: A RfC took place at WP:NPP, closing with unanimous consensus that new redirects should be automatically marked as patrolled by bot. DannyS712 wasted no time, and submitted DannyS712 bot III 66 the next day; it passed two days after that. 200,000 bios get short descs: Along a similar vein, JavaScript Wiki Browser. One particularly neat task, PearBOT 5, automatically generated short descriptions for more than 200,000 biographies. In the next issue of Bots Newsletter: What's next for our intrepid band of coders, maintainers and approvers? What happens when two bots want to clerk the same page? What happens when an adminbot goes hog wild? Will reFill ever get fixed? What's up with ListeriaBot, anyway? Python 3.4 deprecation? In my PyWikiBot? (It's more likely than you think!) These questions will be answered — and new questions raised — by the January 2022 Bots Newsletter. Tune in, or miss out! Signing off... jp×g 04:29, 10 December 2021 (UTC) (You can subscribe or unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding or removing your name from this list.)

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No, I didn't change anything StreamGamer (talk) 00:14, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

I only changed the years active years. StreamGamer (talk) 00:16, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

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Why does MrOllie keep undoing my question I keep asking him? 216.145.84.248 (talk) 20:23, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

I have no clue, but he obviously isn't interested, so please stop re-adding it. Continuing to do so could be considered harassment. clpo13_(talk) 20:25, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

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Hello everyone, and welcome to the 22nd issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter. This issue will be covering new and updated user scripts from the past seven months (June through December 2021).

Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!

Featured script LuckyRename, by Alexis Jazz, is this month's featured script. LuckyRename makes requesting file moves easier, and automates the many steps in file moving (including automatic replacement of existing usage). Give it a shot! Updated scripts SD0001: hide-reverted-edits has been updated to take into account changes in reversion tools like Twinkle and RedWarn. Writ Keeper: massRollback.js has added a rollback-some option (missed in last issue). ClaudineChionh: SkinSwitcher (a fork and update of Eizen's script) provides an options menu/toolbox/toolbar allowing users to view a given page in MediaWiki's default skins.

Pending requests Mass-patrolling at Special:NewPages Taking up the mantle of an almost completed peer review javascript bot Restore the Wikipedia Citation Tool for Google Books Autohighlighting specific characters (Greek) ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests Miscellaneous Wikipedia:User scripts/Ranking is a sortable table of Wikipedia's thousand-or-so most commonly used scripts; it includes their author, last modification date, installation count, and sometimes a short description. Toolhub is a community managed catalog of software tools used in the Wikimedia movement. Technical volunteers can use Toolhub to document the tools that they create or maintain. All Wikimedians can use Toolhub to search for tools to help with their workflows and to create lists of useful tools to share with others.

New scripts

• Ahecht:
  • draft-sorter sorts AfC drafts by adding WikiProject banners to their talk pages. It supersedes User:Enterprisey/draft-sorter, adding a few features and fixing some bugs.
  • massmove, a modified User:Plastikspork/massmove.js that adds a link to the left column, allows adding and removing both prefixes and suffixes.
  • watchlistcleaner removes missing pages (redlinks), redirects, pages you haven't edited recently, and/or pages you've never edited from your watchlist.
• Awesome Aasim:
  • Infiniscroll adds infinite scrolling to user contributions, page histories, and log pages.
  • Quick create allows for the fast creation of red-linked pages with two clicks.
• Caburum:
  • UTCclock adds a clock displaying the current UTC time.
• Chlod:
  • CCI case handlers, allows graphically editing a talk page's {{copied
    }} templates.
• DaxServer:
  • Visual Editor's source mode editing, in main namespace articles or in the user's Sandbox. When clicked, it converts one {{cite book}} inside a <ref>...</ref> tag block into an {{Sfn
    }}.
• FlightTime:
  • OneClickArchiver is a custom version of User:Technical_13/Scripts/OneClickArchiver which doesn't prepend {{Clear
    }} to the top of each section on the archive page.
• Jon Harald Søby:
  • diffedit enables editing directly from viewing a diff "when, for instance, you notice a tiny mistake deep into an article, and don't want to edit the entire article and re-find that one line to fix that tiny mistake".
  • warnOnLargeFile warns you if you're about to open a very large file (width/height >10,000px or file size >100 MB) from a file page.
• JPxG:
  • PressPass adds a collection of tools for Newspapers.com including configurable automatic citation generation in five different formats.
  • CurrentSwitcher gives you links on the contribs page to hide duplicate entries, current revisions, rollbacks, huggles, twinkles, and redwarns.
  • TrackSum lets you automatically sum the lengths of tracks in templates like {{track listing}} and get total runtimes.
• Nardog:
  • CopySectLink adds a button to copy the unencoded page title or section path next to each heading.
  • IPAInput allows you to type in IPA symbols by directly looking at an IPA key like Help:IPA/English and clicking on the symbols.
  • TemplatePreviewGuard warns when you try to use "Preview page with this template" with a page that doesn't transclude the template.
• NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh:
  • Vector
    skin.
  • CopyvioChecker adds a "CopyvioCheck" tab to all pages, except Special (Vector skin only).
  • LiveDiffLink is a version of Equazcion's LiveDiffLink which shows a wikilink instead of a URL.
  • QuickDiff (by OneTwoThreeFall at Fandom) lets you quickly view any diff link on a wiki, whether on Recent Changes, contribs pages, history pages, the diff view itself, or elsewhere. For more information, view its page on Fandom.
• Novem Linguae:
  • SNG
    keywords and displays them at the top of the article.
  • NotSoFast highlights recently created articles in the new pages feed, to discourage patrolling them too quickly.
  • UserRightsDiff concisely displays what perm was added or removed when viewing Special:UserRights.
  • VoteCounter displays a rough count of keeps and deletes at XFDs, RFCs, etc.
  • NPP
    patrol, to help you calibrate your reviewing.
• P.T.Đ:
  • TwinkleMobile
    enables Twinkle on mobile view (Minerva skin).
• Qwerfjkl:
  • editRedirect adds a → link after redirects to edit them.
  • RegExTypoFix, a script for fixing typos, is a wrapper for User:Joeytje50/RETF.js.
  • talkback creates links after user talk page links like this: |C|TB (with the first linking to the user's contributions, and the latter giving the option of sending a {{talkback}} notice). It also adds a [copy] link next to section headers.
• Rublov:
  • diff-link shows "copy" links on history and contributions pages that copy an internal link to the diff (e.g., Special:Diff/1026402230) to your clipboard when clicked.
• Rummskartoffel:
  • auto-watchlist-expiry automatically watchlists every page you edit for a user-definable duration (you can still pick a different time using the dropdown, though).
  • generate pings generates the wikitext needed to ping all members of a category, up to 50 editors (the limit defined by MediaWiki).
  • share ExpandTemplates url allows for easy sharing of your inputs to Special:ExpandTemplates. It adds a button that, when clicked, copies a shareable URL to your exact invocation of the page, like this. Other editors do not need to have this script installed in order to access the URL generated.
  • show tag names shows the real names of tags next to their display names in places such as page revision histories or the watchlist.
• Tol:
  • VisualEditor Citation Needed adds a button (under "Insert") in VisualEditor to add a {{citation needed}} tag.
• Venkat TL:
  • ColourContrib color-codes the user contributions page so that pages you've edited last are sharply distinguished from pages where another editor was the last to edit the page.
• Vukky
  :
  • Twinkle
    enabled to use it).

All in all, some very neat scripts were written in these last few months. Hoping to see many more in the next issue -- drop us a line on the talk page if you've been writing (or seeing) anything cool and good. Filling in for DannyS712, this has been jp×g. Take care, and merry Christmas! jp×g 07:30, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2021).

Administrator changes Amalthea • Ihcoyc (deceased) • Kateshortforbob • Kirill Lokshin • Rifleman 82 • Ryan Norton • Wrp103 Interface administrator changes Mr. Stradivarius

CheckUser changes Cabayi • Donald Albury • Enterprisey • Izno • Wugapodes Opabinia regalis Casliber • David Fuchs • Newyorkbrad • SoWhy Oversighter changes Cabayi • Donald Albury • Enterprisey • Izno • Wugapodes Opabinia regalis Casliber • David Fuchs • Newyorkbrad • SoWhy

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• Following consensus at the
  2021 RfA review, the autopatrolled user right has been removed
  from the administrators user group; admins can grant themselves the autopatrolled permission if they wish to remain autopatrolled.

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• Following the 2021 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Beeblebrox, Cabayi, Donald Albury, Enterprisey, Izno, Opabinia regalis, Worm That Turned, Wugapodes.

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For your assistance in the return to editing at Thomas Bartlett Whitaker, Use of the all caps in the notes, in the in-text syntax was the issue, I see. Thank you. Cheers. 2601:246:C700:558:7012:C16C:DDF:500B (talk) 23:26, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

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Hello, @Clpo13

Can you please delete the two edits? I wasn't the person doing them, and I want them deleted out of my contribution list. It's about the Taylor Swift on the talk page, and the one the Lip Synch Battle. I hope you can find a way to do that. I do not mean any harm. Xx 2A00:6020:B49F:3D00:2C5D:F402:B92A:4C4B (talk) 00:07, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

Block evasion?

That was quick and obvious. -

MrOllie (talk

) 20:42, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

@

WP:MEAT; there's overlap at Oneida Baptist Institute, as well. Whatever the case, they're continuing the dispute in exactly the same way, so I've blocked them for the same amount of time as the IP. clpo13_(talk

) 20:52, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

Title of the 'Shooting of Ashli Babbitt'

Clpo13,

Happy New Year. I was prevented from moving the 'Shooting of Ashli Babbitt' page to change the name to 'Ashli Babbitt', apparently because on 12/21/21 you either changed the name of the page name to "Shooting of Ashli Babbitt' or changed the protection settings so the page could not be moved to a different name. I wanted to reach out to respectfully ask your reasoning for keeping the title as the 'Shooting of Ashli Babbitt', rather than having it named 'Ashli Babbitt'.

The current title the 'Shooting of Ashli Babbitt' appears to run afoul of Wikipedia's rules for Precision of Article Names (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_titles#Precision_and_disambiguation) ("Usually, titles should unambiguously define the topical scope of the article, but should be no more precise than that. For instance, Saint Teresa of Calcutta is too precise, as Mother Teresa is precise enough to indicate exactly the same topic. On the other hand, Horowitz would not be precise enough to identify unambiguously the famous classical pianist Vladimir Horowitz.")

Thank you for your attention to this matter. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chunterkap (talk • contribs) 22:16, 7 January 2022 (UTC)

(

WP:BLP1E, which explains why we rarely create biographical articles about people who are exclusively notable because of one event. Firefangledfeathers

22:32, 7 January 2022 (UTC)

Firefangledfeathers,

Thank you for taking the time to respond to my concern, and for doing so respectfully even though you would likely oppose the proposed name change. I reviewed WP:BLP1E and believe the page would be more appropriate named for Babbitt as an individual rather than for the event that brought her name into the public sphere. Out of respect for you, and the Wikipedia community, I seek further clarification to avoid initiating inappropriate controversy.

WP:BLP1E States:

“We generally should avoid having an article on a person when each of three conditions is met:

1. If reliable sources cover the person only in the context of a single event. 2. If that person otherwise remains, and is likely to remain, a low-profile individual. Biographies in these cases can give undue weight to the event and conflict with neutral point of view. In such cases, it is usually better to merge the information and redirect the person's name to the event article. 3. If the event is not significant or the individual's role was either not substantial or not well documented. John Hinckley Jr., for example, has a separate article because the single event he was associated with, the Reagan assassination attempt, was significant and his role was both substantial and well documented.”

The use of the work ‘each’ in the introduction requires that all 3 conditions be met for the Article name to reflect the individual rather than the event. None of the three conditions appear to be met.

Condition 1 appears to not be satisfied, as Babbitt has been subsequently covered for events other than the shooting itself. For instance, a 1/3/22 article in the Associated Press (certainly a ‘reliable source’), covered a 2016 motor vehicle incident and subsequent legal repercussions that Babbitt was involved in that clearly predate her Jan 6 2022 death (https://apnews.com/article/ashli-babbitt-capitol-siege-a15c7e52a04d932972b7a284c7a8f7df). Yes, attention was first drawn to Babbitt due to the Jan 6 shooting, but her presence in the public spear has moved beyond the single event.

Condition 2 appears to not be satisfied, in that Babbitt has not remained a ‘low-profile individual’. As documented in the current Wiki page, Babbitt has become a cause cé·lè·bre, garnering widespread and continuing public attention.

Condition 3 similarly appears to not be satisfied, as the event is clearly not ‘not significant’, and nor was ‘the individual's role…either not substantial or not well documented’. As is the case with the John Hinckley Jr. page, the example used to illustrate Condition 3, Babbitt should have a separate article because the single event she was first associated with, her death on Jan 6, was unquestionably a significant public event, and her role was both ‘substantial’ and ‘well documented’.

Again, I thank you for your guidance and hope for further engagement on this issue.

Chunterkap Chunterkap (talk) 18:34, 8 January 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia:BIO1E, the guideline that discusses whether an article should be about the event or the person. Schazjmd (talk)

18:41, 8 January 2022 (UTC)

Correction to last comment: Paragraph 3 should read:

The use of the work ‘each’ in the introduction requires that all 3 conditions be met for the Article name to reflect the event rather than the individual. None of the three conditions appear to be met. Chunterkap (talk) 18:40, 8 January 2022 (UTC)

Schazjmd,

Thank you for taking the time to respond to my concern. I reviewed WP:BLP1E and still believe the page would be more appropriate named for Babbitt as an individual rather than for the event that brought her name into the public sphere. I stated my reasoning in subsequent comments above. Out of respect for you, and the Wikipedia community, I seek further clarification to avoid initiating inappropriate controversy.

I thank you for your help and hope for further engagement on this issue.

Chunterkap Chunterkap (talk) 18:53, 8 January 2022 (UTC)

WP:RSPM. Schazjmd (talk)

19:10, 8 January 2022 (UTC)

Schazjmd,

Thank you for your response. The proposed name change appears as if it could be controversial. So I would like to move this discussed to the page itself and attempt to build consensus prior to attempting to change the name. I hope you will participate in the new discussion.

A happy and a healthy 2022 to you.

ChunterKap Chunterkap (talk) 19:17, 8 January 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-02

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• A oauth_consumer variable has been added to the AbuseFilter to enable identifying changes made by specific tools. [26]
• Gadgets are now able to directly include JSON pages. This means some gadgets can now be configured by administrators without needing the interface administrator permission, such as with the Geonotice gadget. [27]
• Gadgets can now specify page actions on which they are available. For example, |actions=edit,history will load a gadget only while editing and on history pages. [28]
• Gadgets can now be loaded on demand with the withgadget URL parameter. This can be used to replace an earlier snippet that typically looks like withJS or withCSS. [29]
• At wikis where the Mentorship system is configured, you can now use the Action API to get a list of a mentor's mentees. [30]
• The heading on the main page can now be configured using MediaWiki:Mainpage-title-loggedin for logged-in users and MediaWiki:Mainpage-title for logged-out users. Any CSS that was previously used to hide the heading should be removed. [31] [32]
• Four special pages (and their API counterparts) now have a maximum database query execution time of 30 seconds. These special pages are: RecentChanges, Watchlist, Contributions, and Log. This change will help with site performance and stability. You can read more details about this change including some possible solutions if this affects your workflows. [33]
• The sticky header has been deployed for 50% of logged-in users on more than 10 wikis. This is part of the Desktop Improvements. See how to take part in the project.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 January. It will be on all wikis from 13 January (calendar).

Events

• Community Wishlist Survey 2022 begins. All contributors to the Wikimedia projects can propose for tools and platform improvements. The proposal phase takes place from 10 January 18:00 UTC to 23 January 18:00 UTC. Learn more.

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Tech News: 2022-03

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• When using WikiEditor (also known as the 2010 wikitext editor), people will now see a warning if they link to disambiguation pages. If you click "Review link" in the warning, it will ask you to correct the link to a more specific term. You can read more information about this completed 2021 Community Wishlist item.
• You can automatically subscribe to all of the talk page discussions that you start or comment in using DiscussionTools. You will receive notifications when another editor replies. This is available at most wikis. Go to your Preferences and turn on "Automatically subscribe to topics". [34]
• When asked to create a new page or talk page section, input fields can be "preloaded" with some text. This feature is now limited to wikitext pages. This is so users can't be tricked into making malicious edits. There is a discussion about if this feature should be re-enabled for some content types.

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• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 January. It will be on all wikis from 20 January (calendar).

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