User talk:Iazyges/Archives/2018/November

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You're busy in real life and on Wikipedia so I don't think it would be beneficial for us to continue. I hope we can work together in the future. I might go for adoption by another person, maybe not. You're a great coord on MILHIST. Clikity (talk) 21:36, 19 October 2018 (UTC)

@Clikity: I hope we can work together in the future; apologies for the inactivity. Best of luck my friend! -- Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 19:46, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

I want to report Donald Albury, an administrator, who is clearly a Florida based PR agent. This admin continually and consistently edits I formation on behalf of 5W PR clients, specifically Roy Donahue Peebles and The Peebles Corporation, removing accurate, unbiased, and well-sourced information in favor of inaccurate, misleading, and untruthful (but positive) information. Donald Albury has even edited names, business information, and historically significant facts for misleading misrepresentations. See for example, Donald Albury's edits of Roy Donahur Peebles, Jr.'s name and business activities, including corporate names, developments, square footage, and financial information that is demonstrably and facial untrue. Note that all Donald Albury edits rely on the identical, unsourced language contained on The Peebles Corporation's website, and excludes numerous sources and news reports.

I refuse to believe any corporation named "Peebles" holds a lot of power. -- Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 19:49, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

Hello! I requested access, and was accepted, but I was unable to actually gain access to the full website. I was emailed with instructions to give account info (username); I did, and nothing has happened since. The Fold3 system indicates that I only have a Basic Free Membership account. We talked about this back in September and nothing has moved on it. I was approved for access back on 12 January 2018, yes January 2018. Can you help. Broichmore (talk) 08:24, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

@Broichmore: I've notified their coordinator; I had sent an email including your info, but it appears to have slipped through the cracks. Apologies. -- Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 19:52, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

The WikiCup is over for another year! Our Champion this year is Courcelles (submissions), who over the course of the competition has amassed 147 GAs, 111 GARs, 9 DYKs, 4 FLs and 1 ITN. Our finalists were as follows:

1. Courcelles (submissions)
2. Kosack (submissions)
3. Kees08 (submissions)
4. SounderBruce (submissions)
5. Cas Liber (submissions)
6. Nova Crystallis (submissions)
7. Iazyges (submissions)
8. Ceranthor (submissions)

All those who reached the final win awards, and awards will also be going to the following participants:

• Cas Liber (submissions) wins the FA prize, for three featured articles in round 2.
• Courcelles (submissions) wins the GA prize, for 92 good articles in round 3.
• Kosack (submissions) wins the FL prize, for five featured lists overall.
• Cartoon network freak (submissions) wins the topic prize, for 30 articles in good topics overall.
• Usernameunique (submissions) wins the DYK prize, for 24 did you know articles in round 3.
• Zanhe (submissions) wins the ITN prize, for 17 in the news articles overall.
• Aoba47 (submissions
  ) wins the GAR prize, for 43 good article reviews in round 1.

Next year's competition begins on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; it is open to all Wikipedians, new and old. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2019 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Godot13 (talk · contribs · email), Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email) and Vanamonde93 (talk · contribs · email).

Congrats, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 06:23, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2018).

Administrator changes Sir Sputnik Kudpung • Liz • Lourdes Everyking • Jackmcbarn Interface administrator changes Dinoguy1000

CheckUser changes AGK • Ivanvector • Stwalkerster • TonyBallioni Oversight changes Amorymeltzer • Oshwah • TonyBallioni • Vanamonde93 Keilana

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment determined that non-administrators will not be able to request interface admin access.
• A request for comment is in progress to determine whether the Mediation Committee should be closed and marked as historical.
• A
  proposed deletion policy
  (PROD) should be clarified or amended.
• A
  today's featured article
  (TFA) in order to mitigate a recent trend of severe image vandalism.

Technical news

• local talk page or on Meta
  . A discussion regarding deployment to English Wikipedia will be started by community liaisons sometime in the near future.
• A user script is now available to quickly review unblock requests.
• The 2019 Community Wishlist Survey is now accepting new proposals until November 11, 2018. The results of this survey will determine what software the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Tech team will work on next year. Voting on the proposals will take place from November 16 to November 30, 2018. Specifically, there is a proposal category for admins and stewards that may be of interest.

Arbitration

• Eligible editors will be invited to nominate themselves as candidates in the 2018 Arbitration Committee Elections starting on November 4 until November 13. Voting will begin on November 19 and last until December 2.
• The Arbitration Committee's email address has changed to arbcom-enwikimedia.org. Other email lists, such as functionaries-en and clerks-l, remain unchanged.

Please respond to the comments left by the reviewers at Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Aegidius. Failure to do so in a timely manner will cause the review to be failed.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 03:11, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Peacemaker67 looks at the Sydney Wars Op-ed: TomStar81 on the end of World War I Timeline: This month in World War I

Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months.

Hello Iazyges/Archives/2018,

Community Wishlist Survey – NPP needs you – Vote NOW

• Community Wishlist Voting takes place 16 to 30 November for the Page Curation and New Pages Feed improvements, and other software requests. The NPP community is hoping for a good turnout in support of the requests to Santa for the tools we need. This is very important as we have been asking the Foundation for these upgrades for 4 years.

If this proposal does not make it into the top ten, it is likely that the tools will be given no support at all for the foreseeable future. So please put in a vote today.

We are counting on significant support not only from our own ranks, but from everyone who is concerned with maintaining a Wikipedia that is free of vandalism, promotion, flagrant financial exploitation and other pollution.

With all 650 reviewers voting for these urgently needed improvements, our requests would be unlikely to fail. See also The Signpost Special report: 'NPP: This could be heaven or this could be hell for new users – and for the reviewers', and if you are not sure what the wish list is all about, take a sneak peek at an article in this month's upcoming issue of The Signpost which unfortunately due to staff holidays and an impending US holiday will probably not be published until after voting has closed.

Go here to remove your name if you wish to opt-out of future mailings. — Insertcleverphrasehere ^{(or here)}18:37, 16 November 2018 (UTC)

Hello, Iazyges. Voting in the

2018 Arbitration Committee elections

is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 3 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The

topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy

describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2018 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 19 November 2018 (UTC)