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Administrators' newsletter – February 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2023).
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Guideline and policy news
- Following an RfC, the administrator policy now requires that prior written consent be gained from the Arbitration Committee to mark a block as only appealable to the committee.
- Following a community discussion, consensus has been found to impose the extended-confirmed restriction over the topic areas of Armenia and Azerbaijan and Kurds and Kurdistan.
Technical news
- The Vector 2022 skin has become the default for desktop users of the English Wikipedia.
Arbitration
- The arbitration case Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 has been opened and the proposed decision is expected 24 February 2023.
- In December, the contentious topics procedure was adopted which replaces the former discretionary sanctions system. The contentious topics procedure is now in effect following an initial implementation period. There is a detailed summary of the changes and administrator instructions for the new procedure. The arbitration clerk team are taking suggestions, concerns, and unresolved questions about this new system at their noticeboard.
Miscellaneous
- Voting in the 2023 Steward elections will begin on 05 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
- Voting in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey will begin on 10 February 2023 and end on 24 February 2023. You can submit, discuss and revise proposals until 6 February 2023.
- Tech tip: Syntax highlighting is available in both the 2011 and 2017 Wikitext editors. It can help make editing paragraphs with many references or complicated templates easier.
Prisoner B-3087
This is an article creared by a ne editor; they blanked the page because they thought that what they had done was poor. I've restored the contend, so removing your speedy tag. I Think in such cases it is always worth looking at the page history.TheLongTone (talk) 13:34, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
- BTW did you do this using Twinkle? Whatever, there was no notification of the speedy on the author's talk page,.TheLongTone (talk) 13:38, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
- Hey @TheLongTone, I did look at the page history in this case. But WP:G7 states;
If the sole author blanks a page other than a userspace page, a category page, or any type of talk page, this can be taken as a deletion request.
The author blanked the page, which is why I added the tag. They also posted on the talk page of the article stating that they were getting rid of it. New users wouldn't know to add the tag, so I did, as it appears their intention is to delete the page. Hey man im josh (talk) 13:41, 1 February 2023 (UTC)- Well the book looks like it may well be notable, I've done a minor tidy & added a reference. Imo this editor needs encouragement!TheLongTone (talk) 13:44, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
- That's fine if you want to work on the article, I have no issue whatsoever with that and I appreciate your contribution. With that said, I must say that I think my G7 tag was appropriate. I believe this is pretty much the situation that G7 tags are meant for, pages that an author blanks themselves. Hey man im josh (talk) 13:50, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) There are a few CSD criteria where Twinkle doesn't post a talk page notification and I'm sure that G7 is one of them because Twinkle assumes that if an editor has blanked an article/draft page, it's a sign that they want the page deleted and they don't need to receive a notice. I think G6 and G8 are others as well. I'd prefer that Twinkle always post a notification no matter what the criteria but the Twinkle developers have their own opinions and they get a lot of editor feedback as well. Liz Read! Talk! 21:03, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
- @Liz I missed responding to that point so thanks for replying to it. There should be an option in the Twinkie preferences that may just not be enabled by default, so I'll take a look when I'm back on my PC. Hey man im josh (talk) 22:05, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
- It's actually not an option in the Twinkle preferences to notify editors for G7 or G8 tags. It is however an option for G6. Today I learned. Hey man im josh (talk) 01:58, 2 February 2023 (UTC)
- @Liz I missed responding to that point so thanks for replying to it. There should be an option in the Twinkie preferences that may just not be enabled by default, so I'll take a look when I'm back on my PC. Hey man im josh (talk) 22:05, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) There are a few CSD criteria where Twinkle doesn't post a talk page notification and I'm sure that G7 is one of them because Twinkle assumes that if an editor has blanked an article/draft page, it's a sign that they want the page deleted and they don't need to receive a notice. I think G6 and G8 are others as well. I'd prefer that Twinkle always post a notification no matter what the criteria but the Twinkle developers have their own opinions and they get a lot of editor feedback as well. Liz Read! Talk! 21:03, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
- That's fine if you want to work on the article, I have no issue whatsoever with that and I appreciate your contribution. With that said, I must say that I think my G7 tag was appropriate. I believe this is pretty much the situation that G7 tags are meant for, pages that an author blanks themselves. Hey man im josh (talk) 13:50, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
- Well the book looks like it may well be notable, I've done a minor tidy & added a reference. Imo this editor needs encouragement!TheLongTone (talk) 13:44, 1 February 2023 (UTC)