User talk:TheDragonFire300

TheDragonFire300 is busy and is going to be on Wikipedia in off-and-on doses, and may not respond swiftly to queries.

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 Welcome to my talk page! 

If you have come here because I have reverted an edit of yours: No, I'm not part of a conspiriracy to hide "the truth." I reverted because it didn't meet a policy that Wikipedia includes. The most common policies are disruptive editing, vandalism, policies on the biographies of living persons and verifiabillity and sourcing. No, I'm not biased against you, and I could be wrong. If you (hopefully respectfully) disagree with me, come and leave a message on my talk page, described below (click SHOW) Sometimes, I can make mistakes. That happens, and given one civil message, I can redact the warning, restore your content, and everything should be okay. However, to do so, please comply with some ground rules: Don't insult me. Not only does that make me dislike you more, it's contrary to Wikipedia's policiy on personal attacks, and can get you another warning. Definitely don't make any threats, like threats of murder, suicide or harm, legal threats, and outing my personal information (or at least what you think is my personal information). This could get you an instant block or a referral to the Arbitration Commitee in severe cases. Discuss, in a calm manner, why you disagree with my revert. If you, in hindsight, actually think I was right, then all is well, and things should be okay. I'm willing to apologise for my actions, but in turn, you should be too. Like me, you're not always right, and please don't insist you are, especially even if I've provided substational evidence to the contrary. Lastly, after the revert is discussed and done, I may be willing to guide you on your Wikipedia career, or at least refer you to somewhere you can get help.

You can leave a message here. I should respond within my next time I'm active.

Please keep the following in mind:

• My preferred method for replies to threads I've made is using the : wikitext to indent the reply and using {{ping|TheDragonFire300}} or {{reply to|TheDragonFire300}}
• Please make sure messages comply with WP:CIVIL, WP:HARASS and WP:NPA. Failure to comply will result in your messages being ignored/removed, and in the case of WP:HARASS and WP:NPA, a warning being issued.
• If I did something stupid, trout me. Even I make mistakes sometimes. (Counter-vandalism is hard).
• SHOUTING AT ME RARELY MAKES THE SITUATION BETTER.
• There is rarely any need to reply to discussions with a resolved box on it or a discussion in the archives.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2024).

Administrator changes

Isabelle Belato

• Ian.thomson
• Modussiccandi

Interface administrator changes

Izno

CheckUser changes

Barkeep49

Technical news

• Global blocks may now target accounts as well as IP's. Administrators may locally unblock when appropriate.
• Users wishing to permanently leave may now request "vanishing" via Special:GlobalVanishRequest. Processed requests will result in the user being renamed, their recovery email being removed, and their account being globally locked.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee appointed the following administrators to the conflict of interest volunteer response team: Bilby, Extraordinary Writ

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2024).

Administrator changes

Pppery

Interface administrator changes

Pppery

Oversighter changes

Wugapodes

CheckUser changes

• Courcelles
• GeneralNotability

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, there is a new criterion for speedy deletion: C4, which applies to unused maintenance categories, such as empty dated maintenance categories for dates in the past.
• A request for comment is open to discuss whether Notability (species) should be adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline.

Arbitration

• Following a motion, remedies 5.1 and 5.2 of World War II and the history of Jews in Poland (the topic and interaction bans on My very best wishes, respectively) were repealed.
• Remedy 3C of the German war effort case ("Cinderella157 German history topic ban") was suspended for a period of six months.
• The arbitration case Historical Elections is currently open. Proposed decision is expected by 3 September 2024 for this case.

Miscellaneous

• Editors can now enter into good article review circles, an alternative for informal quid pro quo arrangements, to have a GAN reviewed in return for reviewing a different editor's nomination.
• A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in September 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles and redirects in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 13,900 articles and 26,200 redirects awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2024).

Administrator changes

• Asilvering
• Significa liberdade

• Good Olfactory
• Hesperian
• I JethroBT
• TommyBoy
• Woody

CheckUser changes

• Barkeep49
• Izno

• Doug Weller
• Spicy

Guideline and policy news

• Administrator elections are a proposed new process for selecting administrators, offering an alternative to requests for adminship (RfA). The first trial election will take place in October 2024, with candidate sign-up from October 8 to 14, a discussion phase from October 22 to 24, and SecurePoll voting from October 25 to 31. For questions or to help out, please visit the talk page at Wikipedia talk:Administrator elections.
• Following a discussion, the speedy deletion reason "File pages without a corresponding file" has been moved from criterion G8 to F2. This does not change what can be speedily deleted.
• A request for comment is open to discuss whether there is a consensus to have an administrator recall process.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Historical elections has been closed.
• An arbitration case regarding Backlash to diversity and inclusion has been opened.
• Editors are invited to nominate themselves to serve on the 2024 Arbitration Committee Electoral Commission until 23:59 October 8, 2024 (UTC).

Miscellaneous

• If you are interested in stopping spammers, please put MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist and MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist on your watchlist, and help out when you can.

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2024).

Administrator changes

• Crisco 1492

• Babajobu
• Daniel
• Elf
• Jayron32
• Thue
• Wugapodes

CheckUser changes

Maxim

Oversighter changes

Maxim

Guideline and policy news

• Following a discussion, the discussion-only period proposal that went for a trial to refine the requests for adminship (RfA) process has been discontinued.
• Following a request for comment, Administrator recall is adopted as a policy.

Technical news

• Mass deletions done with the Nuke tool now have the 'Nuke' tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. T366068

Arbitration

• RoySmith, Barkeep49 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2024 Arbitration Committee Elections. ThadeusOfNazereth and Dr vulpes are reserve commissioners.
• Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate from 3 November 2024 until 12 November 2024 to stand in the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections.
• The Arbitration Committee is seeking volunteers for roles such as clerks, access to the COI queue, checkuser, and oversight.

Miscellaneous

• An unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in November 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!