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Administrators' newsletter – November 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2023).

Administrator changes

added 0xDeadbeef
readded Tamzin
removed Dennis Brown

Interface administrator changes

added Pppery
removed

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration

  • Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 12 November 2023 until 21 November 2023 to stand in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections.
  • Xaosflux, RoySmith and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee Elections. BusterD is the reserve commissioner.
  • Following a motion, the contentious topic designation of Prem Rawat has been struck. Actions previously taken using this contentious topic designation are still in force.
  • Following several motions, multiple topic areas are no longer designated as a contentious topic. These contentious topic designations were from the Editor conduct in e-cigs articles, Liancourt Rocks, Longevity, Medicine, September 11 conspiracy theories, and Shakespeare authorship question cases.
  • Following a motion, remedies 3.1 (All related articles under 1RR whenever the dispute over naming is concerned), 6 (Stalemate resolution) and 30 (Administrative supervision) of the Macedonia 2 case have been rescinded.
  • Following a motion, remedy 6 (One-revert rule) of the The Troubles case has been amended.
  • An arbitration case named Industrial agriculture has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case close 8 November.

Miscellaneous


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Qwerfjkl (bot) – Neko-chan

Page: SIA_Engineering_Company

Diff: Special:Diff/1182826099

Comment/question: Even though this is from last week and isn't specifically relevant, I don't think the bot should trigger on articles with in use/under construction templates. That and it seems to be triggering on the first edit after it was born that includes a bad cite, not actually on edits that actively add the bad cite (see my other edit, Special:Diff//1182864508).

~ฅ(ↀωↀ=)neko-channyan 18:43, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

@Neko-chan, it's best to err on the side of saftey (i.e. notify just in case). It does leave a delay of 15 minutes.
Regarding the latter edit, the reference was initially malformed (see here) and fixing it made the error appear. — Qwerfjkltalk 18:59, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

Qwerfjkl (bot) – WorldTravleerAndPhotoTaker

Page: Flor_Contemplacion

Diff: Special:Diff/1184149187

Comment/question:

No errors on this page from me, perhaps there are existing errors that were never corrected ? I am in the process of improving the article

WorldTravleerAndPhotoTaker (talk) 08:12, 9 November 2023 (UTC)

@WorldTravleerAndPhotoTaker, you added
<ref>{{Cite news |date=6 May 1991|url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes19910506-1.2.5|newspaper=The Straits Times}}</ref>

which is missing |title=. — Qwerfjkltalk 17:08, 9 November 2023 (UTC)
yes you are correct and i have fixed it, sorry ! WorldTravleerAndPhotoTaker (talk) 17:20, 9 November 2023 (UTC)

Question from Fico Puricelli (16:31, 12 November 2023)

Hello. Today I have doubts. What's the difference between adding plot summary into a TV show article, and a comic book, because not all of my drafts and articles accept my plots. Some users say we can't include summaries about fictional works, but some articles are accepted, while others aren't. What do I do? Because there is a lot of confusion. Thank you. --Fico Puricelli (talk) 16:31, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

@
WP:SNG, and just a plot summary is insufficient.
If you can provide more context I might be able to help you more. — Qwerfjkltalk
17:39, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

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Prevent the bot from leaving messages on my talk page

Hello! How can I prevent the bot from leaving messages on my talk page [[8]]? Please help. Thank you in advance! Maxim Masiutin (talk) 00:38, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

@Maxim Masiutin, as it says on User:Qwerfjkl (bot), add {{bots|optout=cs1-errors}}— Qwerfjkltalk 18:47, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
Thank you very much! Maxim Masiutin (talk) 18:49, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Barnstar of Diligence
You're useful! Tulip0333 (talk) 18:10, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

Question from IaincampbellUNSW (08:23, 16 November 2023)

Hello. I would like to make a page for habitats around the world and their bird assemblages. How do I start with a new page --IaincampbellUNSW (talk) 08:23, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

@
WP:TUTORIAL; it's a lot of fun! Happy editing! — Qwerfjkltalk
07:40, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

Question from Ginandtang (00:59, 17 November 2023)

high --Ginandtang (talk) 00:59, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

@Ginandtang, do you have a question? — Qwerfjkltalk 07:40, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

Article Minestone

Minestone looks to me like another term for Coal refuse or, when sifting through online dictionaries, a term for generic mine waste. I am not confident in creating a redirect myself and would greatly appreciate you having a look at it (sidenote: the reason I am posting this to you specifically is because it is linked in your User:Qwerfjkl/lcSD page). CapnJackDaniels (talk) 19:02, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

@CapnJackDaniels, I'm not sure I'm familiar enough with the topic to comment on the merits of merging. I would suggest following one of the options at Wikipedia:Merging - perhaps pinging editors who have edited either of the articles if you don't feel confident enough to do it yourself. (User:Qwerfjkl/lcSD was a page for tracking articles with a short description starting with a lowercase letter, hence this edit on Minestone.) — Qwerfjkltalk 20:25, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

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Hey, Qwerfjkl,

I'm not sure why you created this orphaned talk page as there is no article to accompany it. I deleted it but I just thought I'd inquire in case you meant to create a talk page for a differently spelled article. Thanks, I hope you are having a good week. Liz Read! Talk! 22:36, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

Liz, I wondered why my code wasn't working. Thanks, that was a typo. — Qwerfjkltalk 14:59, 21 November 2023 (UTC)

years in Yugoslavia category renames

Hey, I noticed [15] and similar edits, but there's no bot change to actually rename, what gives? TIA --Joy (talk) 08:32, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

@
WT:CFDW for an admin to process. (Actually I didn't mean to remove the CfD tag, but it doesn't make much difference so I decided to just leave it.) — Qwerfjkltalk
16:42, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

Qwerfjkl (bot) – SheilaD1234

Page: Benedict_Rattigan

Diff: Special:Diff/1186659965

Comment/question:

SheilaD1234 (talk) 18:50, 24 November 2023 (UTC) Sorry, I'm new at this (never edited before) and I don't know how to make it conform to Wikipedia practices. All I know is the contents of the article are correct and verifiable. It was hopelessly out of date (the subject stopped being a TV producer almost 20 years ago, and he has since published articles and books etc, and hosted a conference at the British Museum).

@SheilaD1234, the problem was with this reference:
<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.routledge.com/The-Language-of-Symmetry/Rattigan-Noble-Hatta/p/book/9781032303949}}</ref>

which is missing |title=.
This isn't a big problem, it just contributes to link rot, so please try to add a title to references. — Qwerfjkltalk 19:30, 24 November 2023 (UTC)
Thank you. I hope it's okay now, but please do let me know if it needs amending. SheilaD1234 (talk) 19:46, 24 November 2023 (UTC)

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Hii, i want to know much abaut wikipedia for how ican use this.

Please tell me — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vyizigiro kelly chance (talkcontribs) 12:19, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

Vyizigiro kelly chance, please can you clarify your question. What are you trying to do? — Qwerfjkltalk 16:42, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

Task 21

Please run task 21, thanks — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 11:04, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

MSGJ, I have been running it, but apparently it's made no edits. There's probably some bug in the code, I'll try to fix it. — Qwerfjkltalk 19:06, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
MSGJ, okay, it seems to be working now. Please let me know if there are any errors. I've set it to run every hour. — Qwerfjkltalk 20:45, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
Great, seems to be working — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 17:13, 28 November 2023 (UTC)