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

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, TFAs will be automatically semi-protected the day before it is on the main page and through the day after.
• A discussion at WP:VPP about revision deletion and oversight for dead names found that [s]ysops can choose to use revdel if, in their view, it's the right tool for this situation, and they need not default to oversight. But oversight could well be right where there's a particularly high risk to the person. Use your judgment.

Technical news

• Special:Contributions now shows the user's local edit count and the account's creation date. (T324166)

Arbitration

• The SmallCat dispute case has closed. As part of the final decision, editors participating in XfD have been reminded to be careful about forming local consensus which may or may not reflect the broader community consensus. Regular closers of XfD forums were also encouraged to note when broader community discussion, or changes to policies and guidelines, would be helpful.

Miscellaneous

• Tech tip: The "Browse history interactively" banner shown at the top of Special:Diff can be used to easily look through a history, assemble composite diffs, or find out what archive something wound up in.

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Hello. In addition to the email I sent you, I posted about this issue at Village Pump Tech. Perhaps you can add insight there. Or message me directly. DonFB (talk) 07:52, 1 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

777357234@DonFB 94.26.211.115 (talk) 00:30, 6 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open regarding amending the paid-contribution disclosure policy to add the following text: Any administrator soliciting clients for paid Wikipedia-related consulting or advising services not covered by other paid-contribution rules must disclose all clients on their userpage.

Technical news

• Administrators can now choose to add the user's user page to their watchlist when changing the usergroups for a user. This works both via Special:UserRights and via the API. (T272294)

Arbitration

• Remedy 9 ("MarioProtIV topic ban") of the WikiProject Tropical Cyclones case has been rescinded.

Miscellaneous

• The 2023 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of one new CheckUser.
• Self-nominations for the electoral commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections opens on 2 October and closes on 8 October.

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Hey ST47, you blocked this one, and this is them too. Oh, and this. Can you see if one of your fancy longterm range blocks is appropriate here? Thanks, Drmies (talk) 19:24, 5 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

none of those three IPs are in the same /16 (share the same first two octets), so I'm not sure what we would rangeblock here. ST47 (talk) 23:54, 5 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Drmies: ah, I see that some of them are proxies. I've blocked a couple of ranges associated with this. ST47 (talk) 23:57, 5 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I clicked on that proxy check button and I thought it told me they weren't. Ha, I appreciate your expertise. Drmies (talk) 00:29, 6 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

There's an unblock request at User talk:Wattyirl for a range block you placed on 84.203.0.0/16. Can you have a look at it? JBW (talk) 20:47, 5 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

These are both related to ACC requests; please take a look at them:

• You placed a {{webhostblock}} on Special:Contributions/113.203.192.0/18, but this may be overbroad. At the very least, Special:Contributions/113.203.217.0/24 is not part of the given ASN.
• You placed a {{webhostblock}} on Special:Contributions/176.123.16.0/20, but this ISP appears to offer both web hosting and residential internet services, potentially causing impact to legitimate residential users.

Best, — Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 17:39, 9 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

 Done ST47 (talk) 00:38, 11 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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

Administrator changes

0xDeadbeef

Tamzin

Dennis Brown

Interface administrator changes

Pppery

• Ragesoss
• TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

• The WMF is working on making it possible for administrators to edit MediaWiki configuration directly. This is similar to previous work on Special:EditGrowthConfig. A technical RfC is running until November 08, where you can provide feedback.
• There is a proposed plan for re-enabling the Graph Extension. Feedback on this proposal is requested.

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

• The Articles for Creation backlog drive is happening in November 2023, with 700+ drafts pending reviews for in the last 4 months or so. In addition to the AfC participants, all administrators and New Page Patrollers can conduct reviews using the helper script, Yet Another AFC Helper Script, which can be enabled in the Gadgets settings. Sign up here to participate!

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Hi,

The topic related to Accursed Mountains should consider of changing the name. The article consists of information regarding the Albanian Alps. Its designation Accursed Mountains is a poetic and metaphorical name that stands only for a part of the Albanian Alps. Albanian Alps are located over inner and outer geological formations labelled as Albanide (south eastern extensions of Dinaride). Accursed Mountains is only a region in the Albanian Alps.

If another article needs to be created for the Accursed Mountains than it should be a separate topic. They are related, but Albanian Alps cannot be labelled as a second alternative name for Accursed Mountains. Albanian Alps are much bigger that include in their geological formation many regions. Accursed Mountains are part of Albanian Alps. The way the article it written suggests that Albanian Alps are an alterative name of Accursed Mountain. Albanian Alps have many places and regions within them, and one of them is the region called by its poetic and metaphorical name Accursed Mountains. The article about Accursed Mountains is misleading and provides wrong information. The current article about Accursed Mountains talks about Albanian Alps.

Thank you. 69.166.116.149 (talk) 21:29, 12 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Precious

Four years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:50, 8 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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

Guideline and policy news

• Following a talk page discussion, the Administrators' accountability policy has been updated to note that while it is considered best practice for administrators to have notifications (pings) enabled, this is not mandatory. Administrators who do not use notifications are now strongly encouraged to indicate this on their user page.

Arbitration

• Following a motion, the Extended Confirmed Restriction has been amended, removing the allowance for non-extended-confirmed editors to post constructive comments on the "Talk:" namespace. Now, non-extended-confirmed editors may use the "Talk:" namespace solely to make edit requests related to articles within the topic area, provided that their actions are not disruptive.
• The Arbitration Committee has announced a call for Checkusers and Oversighters, stating that it will currently be accepting applications for CheckUser and/or Oversight permissions at any point in the year.
• Eligible users are invited to vote on candidates for the Arbitration Committee until 23:59 December 11, 2023 (UTC). Candidate statements can be seen here.

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I Have a Different IP ArtemisandLouie (talk) 07:16, 5 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Mind taking a look at your {{webhostblock}} of Special:Contributions/37.148.216.0/21? It may be overbroad: Special:Contributions/37.148.216.0/22 appears to be a residential/business ISP with a different ASN from the one you blocked. Note that this range is also gblocked, so if you determine a change/unblock is warranted please either let the stewards know or ping me so I can tell them. (As usual, this is related to an ACC request.)

Also, an aside: the archives in User:ST47/Head are out of date: you're on 0d28/0x1C now. I'd try to fix it myself but it's protected :). — Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 18:54, 29 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Bumping thread for 60 days. :) — Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 00:00, 11 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Please also take a look at Special:Contributions/43.241.146.0/24 and the pair and the Special:Contributions/39.40.241.0/24 subset of Special:Contributions/39.40.192.0/18 when you have a chance. — Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 01:02, 17 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Unarchived, Bumping thread for 30 days. — Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 18:12, 15 January 2024 (UTC) :) — Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 18:12, 15 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi--I think this is a proxy? Maybe there's a range you can block. These edits are from a longterm disruptor, a really childish one. Thanks in advance! Drmies (talk) 13:34, 16 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Bumping thread for 60 days. — Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 14:40, 2 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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

Arbitration

• Following the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Aoidh, Cabayi, Firefly, HJ Mitchell, Maxim, Sdrqaz, ToBeFree, Z1720.
• Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee rescinded the restrictions on the page name move discussions for the two Ireland pages that were enacted in June 2009.
• The arbitration case Industrial agriculture has been closed.

Miscellaneous

• The New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in January 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 13,000 unreviewed articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!

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[1] UTRS ticket [2] is the reference. Shouldn't that /22 block be a /24 block? The /22 seems to be walking into a range that is not a webhost. I haven't reserved that ticket in case you want to handle it. Dennis Brown 2¢ 07:32, 12 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Dennis Brown: Looking at each of the constituent /24s, they are all proxy or cloud hosting services. In order, hostinger, packethub, and two by heficed. I think they're all eligible to stay blocked, and I note that the full /22 is also blocked globally. ST47 (talk) 22:12, 13 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That was my thing, I noticed that ISP is on a /24, not a /22, so there seems to be some collateral damage with a /22 block. I have no issue with the /24 being blocked, but I don't quite understand why the /22 is needed. Maybe it is just my misunderstanding (always possible), but it seems the ISP you are trying to block is only /24. The *.*.93.*/24 that the user is using isn't HOSTINGER-HOSTING (*.*.92.*/24), it is a different ISP altogether, TEFINCOMSA-AS-AP. Both are using /24 only. Again, maybe you did this on purpose and I just don't understand, but it *seems* that the /22 is walking outside of HOSTINGER's range, which is only a /24. Are we sure TEFINCOMSA is a relay? 02:57, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

@Dennis Brown: the 93 range is Packethub which is a cloud service provider closely associated with public vpn services. google shows that tefincom is also closely associated with nordvpn. ST47 (talk) 04:10, 15 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, gotcha. Thanks for the info. Dennis Brown 2¢ 04:31, 15 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. Thanks for blocking users related to 'DENOSIO'.

As someone who has contributed to many visa policies and map production over the past 2 years, I have recently been focusing on defending and cleaning up the suddenly increasing number of successors to "DENOSIO."

I plan to continue to defend editors who deface visa pages in the future. Lades2222 (talk) 06:20, 14 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.

Technical news

• Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. (T326065)

Arbitration

• Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
• Community feedback is requested for a draft to replace the "Information for administrators processing requests" section at WP:AE.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2024 Steward elections will begin on 06 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 27 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• A vote to ratify the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open till 2 February 2024, 23:59:59 (UTC) via Secure Poll. All eligible voters within the Wikimedia community have the opportunity to either support or oppose the adoption of the U4C Charter and share their reasons. The details of the voting process and voter eligibility can be found here.
• Community Tech has made some preliminary decisions about the future of the Community Wishlist Survey. In summary, they aim to develop a new, continuous intake system for community technical requests that improves prioritization, resource allocation, and communication regarding wishes. Read more
• The Unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in February 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!

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I don't understand why I keep on being blocked. I have a deadline to finish up work and this block is preventing me from doing so Similar is still different (talk) 09:49, 5 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please check again your ban to IP:113.23.0.0/17, Ban code:#18785109. My IP is:1.53.216.245. Why is my IP affected by your ban, when I was just editing my profile? Vp08122010 (talk) 11:46, 20 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Mind taking a look at your {{webhostblock}} of Special:Contributions/37.148.216.0/21? It may be overbroad: Special:Contributions/37.148.216.0/22 appears to be a residential/business ISP with a different ASN from the one you blocked. Note that this range is also gblocked, so if you determine a change/unblock is warranted please either let the stewards know or ping me so I can tell them. (As usual, this is related to an ACC request.)

Also, an aside: the archives in User:ST47/Head are out of date: you're on 0d28/0x1C now. I'd try to fix it myself but it's protected :). — Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 18:54, 29 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Bumping thread for 60 days. :) — Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 00:00, 11 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Please also take a look at Special:Contributions/43.241.146.0/24 and the pair and the Special:Contributions/39.40.241.0/24 subset of Special:Contributions/39.40.192.0/18 when you have a chance. — Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 01:02, 17 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Bumping thread for 60 days. — Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 21:00, 18 February 2024 (UTC) — Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 21:00, 18 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Vanamonde93: could you please take a look the IPs listed above (along with Special:Contributions/41.66.199.156) when you have a chance? They are all blocked as proxies/webhosts, but they each seemed to not be proxies/webhosts and should likely be unblocked. (I'm not picking on you, just saw you were recently active and a CU :)) — Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 21:04, 18 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

In matters of proxies, Mdaniels5757, I'm always going to defer to ST47; they know what they're doing, and I'm very green. I will note there is also a global block on your /21, whether that was placed independently or is based on the same information as ST47's, I don't know. If you would like, I could kick this to the CU mailing list, but I'm not going to take unilateral action here. Vanamonde93 (talk) 21:41, 18 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Vanamonde93 Sorry for the delay in responding. Mind if I send you a wikimail that you can forward to the list? That way I can summarize my reasons for believing each of the 7 current requests are no longer proxies for easy review by the list members. — Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 01:21, 2 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, go ahead. Vanamonde93 (talk) 01:24, 2 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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

Guideline and policy news

• Phase I of the 2024 RfA review is now open for participation. Editors are invited to review, comment on, and propose improvements to the requests for adminship process.
• Following an RfC, the inactivity requirement for the removal of the interface administrator right increased from 6 months to 12 months.

Technical news

• The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. (T353388)

Miscellaneous

• The 2024 appointees for the Ombuds commission are だ＊ぜ, AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Doǵu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, MdsShakil, Minorax, Nehaoua, Renvoy and RoySmith as members, with Vermont serving as steward-observer.
• Following the 2024 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Ajraddatz, Albertoleoncio, EPIC, JJMC89, Johannnes89, Melos and Yahya.

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

Administrator changes

• Kbdank71
• Kosack
• NrDg
• TLSuda

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open to convert all current and future community discretionary sanctions to (community designated) contentious topics procedure.

Technical news

• The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (T313405)

Arbitration

• An arbitration case has been opened to look into "the intersection of managing conflict of interest editing with the harassment (outing) policy".

Miscellaneous

• Editors are invited to sign up for The Core Contest, an initiative running from April 15 to May 31, which aims to improve vital and other core articles on Wikipedia.

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

Guideline and policy news

• Phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship review has concluded. Several proposals have passed outright and will proceed to implementation, including creating a discussion-only period (3b) and administrator elections (13) on a trial basis. Other successful proposals, such as creating a reminder of civility norms (2), will undergo further refinement in Phase II. Proposals passed on a trial basis will be discussed in Phase II, after their trials conclude. Further details on specific proposals can be found in the full report.

Technical news

• Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Wikipedia. This means that administrators have the ability to restrict users from certain actions, including uploading files, moving pages and files, creating new pages, and sending thanks. T280531

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Conflict of interest management has been closed.

Miscellaneous

• This may be a good time to reach out to potential nominees to ask if they would consider an RfA.
• A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in May 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 15,000 articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!
• Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is open until 9 May 2024. Read the voting page on Meta-Wiki and cast your vote here!

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Hi, I'm unsure if I'm blocked myself from editing or is it my IP, I sometimes use VPNs for Netflix and do the odd scroll on Wikipedia and noticed that my I'm blocked from editing of the range of 84.21.168/8.0/22

Thanks! EmiliaPains24 (talk) 00:35, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@EmiliaPains24. It appears to be a block of a colocation facility or web hosting provider, you are not the intended target. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 11:22, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there. Any plans to restart this bot? There's a wave of proxy vandalism in the administrative areas. Wikipedia:Bureaucrats'_noticeboard#"Me_getting_attacked_by_a_bunch_of_users"_etc.. – robertsky (talk) 18:53, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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

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

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