User talk:Kj cheetham/Archive 5

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@Kj cheetham Review the page Joshua Mike-Bamiloye Thanks. Jutos222 (talk) 09:32, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

Jutos222, thanks for your messages. It's in the queue so someone will get to it in due course. -Kj cheetham (talk) 10:12, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

Reminder: GA backlog drive

Hello! Just a reminder that, if you have time, you are welcome to join the GA backlog drive; it runs until the end of March. You are receiving this message because you signed up on the drive page but have not yet listed any reviews. We hope to see you there! Either way, happy editing! —Ganesha811 (talk) 18:17, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

DYK for Muckrach Castle

On 29 March 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Muckrach Castle, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Ian Begg restored Muckrach Castle after over 200 years without a roof? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Muckrach Castle. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Muckrach Castle), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

—Ganesha811 (talk) 00:03, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

Ganesha811 Thank you for progressing this! -Kj cheetham (talk) 11:15, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2024

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

Administrator changes

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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New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024

Hello Kj cheetham,

Backlog update: The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to Schminnte, who led with over 2,300 points.

Following that, New Page Patrol organized another backlog drive for articles in January 2024. The January drive started with 13,650 articles and reduced the backlog to 7,430 articles. Congratulations to JTtheOG, who achieved first place with 1,340 points in this drive.

Looking at the graph, it seems like backlog drives are one of the only things keeping the backlog under control. Another backlog drive is being planned for May. Feel free to participate in the May backlog drive planning discussion.

It's worth noting that both queues are gradually increasing again and are nearing 14,034 articles and 22,540 redirects. We encourage you to keep contributing, even if it's just a single patrol per day. Your support is greatly appreciated!

2023 Awards

Onel5969 won the 2023 cup with 17,761 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 50/day. There was one Platinum Award (10,000+ reviews), 2 Gold Awards (5000+ reviews), 6 Silver (2000+), 8 Bronze (1000+), 30 Iron (360+) and 70 more for the 100+ barnstar. Hey man im josh led on redirect reviews by clearing 36,175 of them. For the full details, see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone for their efforts in reviewing!

WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers deployed the rewritten NewPagesFeed in October, and then gave the NewPagesFeed a slight visual facelift in November. This concludes most major work to Special:NewPagesFeed, and most major work by the WMF Moderator Tools team, who wrapped up their major work on PageTriage in October. The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers will continue small work on PageTriage as time permits.

Recruitment: A couple of the coordinators have been inviting editors to become reviewers, via mass-messages to their talk pages. If you know someone who you'd think would make a good reviewer, then a personal invitation to them would be great. Additionally, if there are Wikiprojects that you are active on, then you can add a post there asking participants to join NPP. Please be careful not to double invite folks that have already been invited.

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DYK for Illieston House

On 8 April 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Illieston House, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Illieston House, a castle built around 1600, was sold for £890,000 in 2019? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Illieston House. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Illieston House), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Waggers TALK 12:02, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

Waggers, thank you for progressing this! -Kj cheetham (talk) 16:46, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

You're very welcome, thanks for doing all the hard work behind it! Waggers TALK 07:27, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

WikiCup 2024 April newsletter

We are approaching the end of the 2024 WikiCup's second round, with a little over two weeks remaining. Currently, contestants must score at least 105 points to progress to the third round.

Our current top scorers are as follows:

Sammi Brie (submissions) with 642 points, mostly from 11 GAs about radio and television;
voorts (submissions) with 530 points, mostly from two FAs (Well he would, wouldn't he? and Cora Agnes Benneson) and three GAs;
Generalissima (submissions) with 523 points, mostly from 11 GAs about coinage and history;
SounderBruce (submissions) with 497 points, mostly from a FA about the 2020 season of the soccer club Seattle Sounders FC and two GAs;
Tamzin (submissions) with 410 points, mostly from a FA about the drink Capri-Sun and three GAs;
Kusma (submissions) with 330 points, mostly from a FA about the English botanist Anna Blackburne and a GA.

Competitors may submit work for the second round until the end of 28 April, and the third round starts 1 May. Remember that only competitors with the top 32 scores will make it through to the third round. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs. As a reminder, competitors are strictly prohibited from gaming Wikipedia policies or processes to receive more points.

If you would like to learn more about rules and scoring for the 2024 WikiCup, please read Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring. Further questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges (Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), Epicgenius (talk · contribs), and Frostly (talk · contribs)) are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:05, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

Jeffrey Leiden

Hi Kj_cheetham. I wonder if you can take a look at an edit request I posted at Talk:Jeffrey_Leiden#Vertex_section_edits. I would appreciate your input, and implementation. Thanks again, JohnDatVertex (talk) 14:56, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

New page patrol May 2024 Backlog drive

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WikiCup 2024 May newsletter

The second round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 28 April. This round was particularly competitive: each of the 32 contestants who advanced to Round 3 scored at least 141 points. This is the highest number of points required to advance to Round 3 since 2014.

The following scorers in Round 2 all scored more than 500 points:

Sammi Brie (submissions) with 707 points, mostly from 45 good article nomination reviews and 12 good articless about radio and television;
Generalissima (submissions) with 600 points, mostly from 12 good articles and 12 did you know nominations about coinage and history;
SounderBruce (submissions) with 552 points, mostly from a featured article about the 2020 Seattle Sounders FC season, three featured lists, and two good articles;
BennyOnTheLoose (submissions) with 548 points, mostly from a featured article about the snooker player John Pulman, two featured lists, and one good article;
voorts (submissions) with 530 points, mostly from two featured articles (Well he would, wouldn't he? and Cora Agnes Benneson) and three good articles.

The full scores for Round 2 can be seen here. So far this year, competitors have gotten 18 featured articles, 22 featured lists, and 186 good articles, 76 in the news credits and at least 200 did you know credits. They have conducted 165 featured article reviews, as well as 399 good article reviews and peer reviews, and have added 21 articles to featured topics and good topics.

Remember that any content promoted after 28 April but before the start of Round 3 can be claimed during Round 3, which starts on 1 May at 00:00 (UTC). Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed.

If you would like to learn more about rules and scoring for the 2024 WikiCup, please see this page. Further questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges (Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), Epicgenius (talk · contribs), and Frostly (talk · contribs)) are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:37, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2024

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

Administrator changes

Nyttend

Bureaucrat changes

Nihonjoe

CheckUser changes

Joe Roe

Oversight changes

GeneralNotability

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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RFA2024 update: phase I concluded, phase II begins

Hi there! Phase I of the Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review has concluded, with several impactful changes gaining community consensus and proceeding to various stages of implementation. Some proposals will be implemented in full outright; others will be discussed at phase II before being implemented; and still others will proceed on a trial basis before being brought to phase II. The following proposals have gained consensus:

Proposals 2 and 9b (phase II discussion): Add a reminder of civility norms at RfA and Require links for claims of specific policy violations
Proposal 3b (in trial): Make the first two days discussion-only
Proposal 13 (in trial): Admin elections
Proposal 14 (implemented): Suffrage requirements
Proposals 16 and 16c (phase II discussion): Allow the community to initiate recall RfAs and Community recall process based on dewiki
Proposal 17 (phase II discussion): Have named Admins/crats to monitor infractions
Proposal 24 (phase II discussion): Provide better mentoring for becoming an admin and the RfA process
Proposal 25 (implemented): Require nominees to be extended confirmed

See the project page for a full list of proposals and their outcomes. A huge thank-you to everyone who has participated so far :) looking forward to seeing lots of hard work become a reality in phase II. theleekycauldron (talk), via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:09, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2024

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

Administrator changes

Graham Beards

Bureaucrat changes

Oversight changes

Dreamy Jazz

Guideline and policy news

Phase II of the 2024 RfA review has commenced to improve and refine the proposals passed in Phase I.

Technical news

The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. T43351

Arbitration

The arbitration case Venezuelan politics has been closed.
The Committee is seeking volunteers for various roles, including access to the conflict of interest VRT queue.

Miscellaneous

WikiProject Reliability's unsourced statements drive is happening in June 2024 to replace {{citation needed}} tags with references! Sign up here to participate!

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May 2024 NPP backlog drive – Points award

		The Invisible Barnstar
		This award is given in recognition to Kj cheetham for accumulating at least 5 points during the May 2024 NPP backlog drive. Your contributions helped play a part in the 14,452 reviews completed during the drive. Thank you so much for taking part and contributing to help reduce the backlog! Hey man im josh (talk) 18:44, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

Hey man im josh A very belated thank you for this! -Kj cheetham (talk) 11:38, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

WikiCup 2024 July newsletter

The third round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 28 June. As with Round 2, this round was competitive: each of the 16 contestants who advanced to Round 4 scored at least 256 points.

The following editors all scored more than 400 points in Round 3:

Generalissima (submissions) with 1,059 points, mostly from 1 featured article on DeLancey W. Gill, 11 good articles, 18 did you know nominations, and dozens of reviews;
Skyshifter (submissions) with 673 points, mostly from 2 featured articles on Worlds (Porter Robinson album) and I'm God, 5 good articles, and 2 did you know nominations;
Sammi Brie (submissions) with 557 points, mostly from 1 featured article on KNXV-TV, 5 good articles, and 8 did you know nominations; and
AryKun (submissions) with 415 points, mostly from 1 featured article on Great cuckoo-dove, with a high number of bonus points from that article.

The full scores for round 3 can be seen here. So far this year, competitors have gotten 28 featured articles, 38 featured lists, 240 good articles, 92 in the news credits, and at least 285 did you know credits. They have conducted 279 featured article reviews, as well as 492 good article reviews and peer reviews, and have added 22 articles to featured topics and good topics.

Remember that any content promoted after 28 June but before the start of Round 4 can be claimed during Round 4, which starts on 1 July at 00:00 (UTC). Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether for a good article, featured content, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed.

If you would like to learn more about rules and scoring for the 2024 WikiCup, please see this page. Further questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges (Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), Epicgenius (talk · contribs), and Frostly (talk · contribs)) are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:30, 29 June 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2024

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

Administrator changes

Technical news

Local administrators can now add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without using JavaScript. Documentation is available on MediaWiki. (T6086)

Miscellaneous

The Community Wishlist is re-opening on 15 July 2024. Read more

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:58, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

Rebecca Spindler publications

I noticed you put an "overly detailed section" tag under Rebecca Spindler#Publications. It was overwhelming and I removed references that were not cited much and/or where she was a middle author. I could probably knock a few more off but this isn't my field and I think I left ones where her notability lies. Ditto for the books. I also added citation templates. Do you feel the tag can be removed now? Nnev66 (talk) 20:31, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

Hi Nnev66, thanks for your message and your edits. It looks much better now so I've removed the tag. -Kj cheetham (talk) 19:42, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

Categories for deletion

Please see Category:Human life scientists and Category:indian human life scientists which I have nominated for deletion. Hugo999 (talk) 23:06, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – August 2024

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

Administrator changes

Isabelle Belato

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

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New pages patrol September 2024 Backlog drive

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WikiCup 2024 August newsletter

The fourth round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 29 August. Each of the 8 contestants who advanced to Round 4 scored at least 472 points, and the following contestants scored more than 700 points:

Generalissima (submissions) with 1,150 points, mostly from 3 featured articles, 2 featured lists, 7 good articles, and 13 did you know nominations;
Arconning (submissions) with 791 points, mostly from 2 featured lists, 8 good articles, 4 did you know nominations, and plenty of reviews;
AirshipJungleman29 (submissions) with 718 points, mostly from a high-multiplier featured article on Genghis Khan and 2 good articles; and
BennyOnTheLoose (submissions) with 714 points, mostly from 1 featured article on Susanna Hoffs, 2 featured lists, and 3 good articles.

Congratulations to our eight finalists and all who participated. Contestants put in extraordinary amounts of effort during this round, and their scores can be seen here. So far this year, competitors have gotten 36 featured articles, 55 featured lists, 15 good articles, 93 in the news credits, and at least 333 did you know credits. They have conducted 357 featured content reviews, as well as 553 good article reviews and peer reviews, and have added 30 articles to featured topics and good topics.

Any content promoted after 29 August but before the start of Round 5 can be claimed during Round 5, which starts on 1 September at 00:00 (UTC). Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. If two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether for a good article, featured content, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Remember to claim your points within 14 days of earning them, and importantly, before the deadline on 31 October.

If you would like to learn more about rules and scoring for the 2024 WikiCup, please see this page. Further questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges (Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), Epicgenius (talk · contribs), and Frostly (talk · contribs)) are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:12, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2024

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

Administrator changes

Pppery

Interface administrator changes

Pppery

Oversighter changes

Wugapodes

CheckUser changes

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!

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Administrator Elections: Updates & Schedule

Administrator Elections \| Updates & Schedule
Administrator elections are in the WMF Trust & Safety SecurePoll calendar and are all set to proceed. We plan to use the following schedule: Oct 8 – Oct 14: Candidate sign-up Oct 22 – Oct 24: Discussion phase Oct 25 – Oct 31: SecurePoll voting phase If you have any questions, concerns, or thoughts before we get started, please post at Wikipedia talk:Administrator elections. If you are interested in helping out, please post at Wikipedia talk:Administrator elections § Ways to help. There are many redlinked subpages that can be created.
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"Tim McGarry ( Australian playwright)" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Tim McGarry ( Australian playwright) has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 September 14 § Tim McGarry ( Australian playwright) until a consensus is reached. 1234qwer 1234qwer 4 17:07, 14 September 2024 (UTC)

RFA2024 update: Discussion-only period now open for review

Hi there! The trial of the RfA discussion-only period passed at WP:RFA2024 has concluded, and after open discussion, the RfC is now considering whether to retain, modify, or discontinue it. You are invited to participate at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review/Phase II/Discussion-only period. Cheers, and happy editing! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:38, 27 September 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – October 2024

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

Administrator changes

CheckUser changes

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.

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Administrator Elections: Call for Candidates

Administrator Elections | Call for Candidates

The administrator elections process has officially started! Interested editors are encouraged to self-nominate or arrange to be nominated by reviewing the instructions at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/October 2024/Call for candidates.

Here is the schedule:

October 8–14 - Candidate sign-up (we are here)
October 22–24 - Discussion phase
October 25–31 - SecurePoll voting phase

Please note the following:

The requirements to run are identical to RFA—a prospective candidate must be extended confirmed.
Prospective candidates are advised to become familar with the community's expectations of adminstrators, which are much higher than the minimum requirement of having extended confirmed status. This includes reviewing successful and unsuccessful RFAs, reading the essay Wikipedia:Advice for RfA candidates, and possibly requesting an optional poll on their chances of passing.
The process will have a one week call for candidates phase, a one week pause to set up SecurePoll, a three-day period of public discussion, followed by 7 days of no public discussion and a private vote using SecurePoll.
The outcomes of this process are identical to making requests for adminship. There is no official difference between an administrator appointed through RFA or administrator elections.
Administrator elections are also a valid means of regaining adminship for de-sysopped editors.

Ask any questions about the process at the talk page. A separate user talk message will be sent to official candidates with additional information about the process.

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Administrator Elections: Discussion phase

Administrator Elections | Discussion phase

The discussion phase of the October 2024 administrator elections is officially open. As a reminder, the schedule of the election is:

October 22–24 - Discussion phase
October 25–31 - SecurePoll voting phase
November 1–? - Scrutineering phase

During October 22–24, we will be in the discussion phase. The candidate subpages will open to questions and comments from everyone, in the same style as a request for adminship. You may discuss the candidates at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/October 2024/Discussion phase.

On October 25, we will start the voting phase. The candidate subpages will close again to public questions and discussion, and everyone will have a week to use the SecurePoll software to vote, which uses a secret ballot. You can see who voted, but not who they voted for. Please note that the vote tallies cannot be made public until after voting has ended and as such, it will not be possible for you to see an individual candidate's tally during the election. The suffrage requirements are different from those at RFA.

Once voting concludes, we will begin the scrutineering phase, which will last for an indeterminate amount of time, perhaps a week or two. Once everything is certified, the results will be posted on the main election page. In order to be granted adminship, a candidate must have received at least 70.0% support, calculated as Support / (Support + Oppose). As this is a vote and not a consensus, there are no bureaucrat discussions ("crat chats").

Any questions or issues can be asked on the election talk page. Thank you for your participation. Happy electing.

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Administrator Elections: Voting phase

Administrator Elections | Voting phase

The voting phase of the October 2024 administrator elections has started and continues until 23:59 31st October 2024 UTC. You can participate in the voting phase at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/October 2024/Voting phase.

As a reminder, the schedule of the election is:

October 25–31 - SecurePoll voting phase
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WikiCup 2024 November newsletter

The 2024 WikiCup has come to an end, with the final round being a very tight race. Our new champion is AirshipJungleman29 (submissions), who scored 2,283 points mainly through 3 high-multiplier FAs and 3 GAs on military history topics. By a 1% margin, Airship beat out last year's champion, BeanieFan11 (submissions), who scored second with 2,264 points, mainly from an impressive 58 GAs about athletes. In third place, Generalissima (submissions) scored 1,528 points, primarily from two FAs on U.S. Librarians of Congress and 20 GAs about various historical topics. Our other finalists are: Sammi Brie (submissions) with 879 points, Hey man im josh (submissions) with 533 points, BennyOnTheLoose (submissions) with 432 points, Arconning (submissions) with 244 points, and AryKun (submissions) with 15 points. Congratulations to our finalists and all who participated!

The final round was very productive, and contestants had 7 FAs, 9 FLs, 94 GAs, 73 FAC reviews, and 79 GAN reviews and peer reviews. Altogether, Wikipedia has benefited greatly from the activities of WikiCup competitors all through the contest. Well done everyone!

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Administrators' newsletter – November 2024

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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.
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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

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2024

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Guideline and policy news

Following an RFC, the policy on restoration of adminship has been updated. All former administrators may now only regain the tools following a request at the Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard within 5 years of their most recent admin action. Previously this applied only to administrators deysopped for inactivity.
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Technical news

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Arbitration

The arbitration case Yasuke (formerly titled Backlash to diversity and inclusion) has been closed.
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Merger discussion for George Clarke (comedian)

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hello again after several years!

Hello, @Kj cheetham! I don't know if this rings a bell, but I'm a college professor and in 2020 ran a class in which students added new scientist biographies to wikipedia! I was a complete wiki novice and you coincidentally found our bios and helped out a ton - thank you again! I'm running the class again and our next round of pages went live yesterday. And I was so delighted to see that you found some of them again! I hope you're well, and thanks for being such a gem! Best, Christine Csoconn (talk) 20:02, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

Hi Csoconn, thank you for your message, I do remember you! I'm taking a bit of a break from Wikipedia right now to deal with some things, but I hope to get back to it before too long. Hope all goes well with your class! -Kj cheetham (talk) 10:27, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

A very, very related response - I hope that your wiki break is going well! Have a lovely holiday season! 99.10.162.108 (talk) 23:21, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

belated response, not related, ha!

99.10.162.108 (talk) 23:21, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

...Aaaaaand I wasn't logged in. This is @Csoconn. Total fail on my part - but I hope that my best wishes came through, haha! Csoconn (talk) 23:22, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

Csoconn Thank you very much for your message! Not being logged in is easily done. :-) I'm very happy to help with your Wikipedia activities again in the future, though can't promise a fast response! -Kj cheetham (talk) 16:00, 30 December 2024 (UTC)

[Untitled]

Received email from someone about creating a wikipedia page for me for payment. When I looked around I was not sure about it. Thought of reach out to someone credible about my credentials for this purpose

I am food process engineering professor at The Ohio State University contributing to research, teaching and industrial outreach of next generation of food processing and sanitation technologies that help satisfy consumer demand for minimally processed foods without synthetic preservatives. i serve as editor-in-chief for journal of food process engineering, Wiley. I am also serve as board member of National Agricultural Research, Extension, Education, and Economics Advisory Board Meeting. I am elected as fellow of IFT, IUFoST, ISAE.

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=kcahfoAAAAAJ&hl=en https://nareeeab.ree.usda.gov/board-members https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/17454530/homepage/contact.html https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1540-4273

Hopefully this is okay to reach out this way. Apologies if this is not the right forum. Thank you very much for your attention

V.M. Balasubramaniam balasubramaniam.1@osu.edu 75.118.240.26 (talk) 15:29, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

Hi, sorry for my very late reply. I'd always be very cautious when anyone is asking for money! You probably are sufficiently notable as per WP:NPROF, though I haven't looked in depth. Someone else might be willing to create an article on for you free. (I'm not taking requests though.) You might want to ask at WP:TEAHOUSE. Hope this helps! -Kj cheetham (talk) 16:05, 30 December 2024 (UTC)

Additional NPP Reviews?

Hi there @Kj cheetham,

It's been a while since we chatted; I hope all is well with you. I remember asking you a while ago if you could review some articles I brought over from the Russian Wikipedia (thank you by the way for those reviews). If you are open to it, can you review more of my articles and mark them if they're satisfactory? Here are just some articles I have in NPP that need reviewing: Tenderlybae, Mary Gu, Vacío (rapper), Matrang, Smoky Mo, Thrill Pill, and TNT Music. If you are open to do more, just let me know and I'll send some more articles your way. Thanks in advance for your help!

Disclaimer: you'll see at the top of the pages that there is an expansion tag for other editors to know that not everything was/could be brought over, so don't be alarmed if the articles seem empty. Losipov (talk) 17:03, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

Losipov Thank you for your message, and apologies for my very slow reply! I'm not really taking requests to review specific articles, but I happily will if I stumble across any of them in the queue. -Kj cheetham (talk) 16:09, 30 December 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for contributing!

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Some freshly cooked falafels made by my mom! Hope you like them!.

Spread the goodness of falafel by adding {{subst:Falafel}} to someone's Talk page with a friendly message! Give a falafel sandwich to someone you've had disagreements with in the past, or to a good friend.

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Long-live-ALOPUS Thank you, much appreciated! -Kj cheetham (talk) 16:18, 30 December 2024 (UTC)

My pleasure! 😄 Long-live-ALOPUS (talk) 16:44, 30 December 2024 (UTC)

New pages patrol January 2025 Backlog drive

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2025

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Guideline and policy news

Following an RFC, Wikipedia:Notability (species) was adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline.
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Technical news

The Nuke feature also now provides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions.

Arbitration

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NPP Awards for 2024

		The New Page Reviewer's Iron Award
		This award is given in recognition to Kj cheetham for conducting 772 article reviews in 2024. Thank you so much for all your excellent work. Keep it up! Hey man im josh (talk) 18:09, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

Hey man im josh Thank you! -Kj cheetham (talk) 21:22, 26 January 2025 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – February 2025

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Technical news

Administrators can now nuke pages created by a user or IP address from the last 90 days, up from the initial 30 days. T380846
A 'Recreated' tag will now be added to pages that were created with the same title as a page which was previously deleted and it can be used as a filter in Special:RecentChanges and Special:NewPages. T56145

Arbitration

The arbitration case Palestine-Israel articles 5 has been closed.

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January 2025 NPP backlog drive – Points award

		The New Page Patroller's Barnstar
		This award is given in recognition to Kj cheetham for accumulating at least 100 points during the January 2025 NPP backlog drive. Your contributions helped play a part in the 16,000+ articles and 14,000+ redirects reviewed (for a total of 19,791.2 points) completed during the drive. Thank you so much for taking part and contributing to help reduce the backlog! Hey man im josh (talk) 19:32, 6 February 2025 (UTC)

Hey man im josh a belated thank you for this! -Kj cheetham (talk) 09:51, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – March 2025

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Guideline and policy news

A request for comment is open to discuss whether AI-generated images (meaning those wholly created by generative AI, not human-created images modified with AI tools) should be banned from use in articles.
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A request for comment is open to gain consensus on whether future administrator elections should be held.

Technical news

A new filter has been added to the Special:Nuke tool, which allows administrators to filter for pages in a range of page sizes (in bytes). This allows, for example, deleting pages only of a certain size or below. T378488
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Miscellaneous

The 2025 appointees for the Ombuds commission are だ＊ぜ, Arcticocean, Ameisenigel, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, Galahad, Nehaoua, Renvoy, Revi C., RoySmith, Teles and Zafer as members, with Vermont serving as steward-observer.
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Charolette Richards

Thanks so much for this and the article cleanup. Trying to be better at all the pieces. Have a great day! Star Mississippi 18:37, 8 March 2025 (UTC)

Star Mississippi thank you for the message, happy to help where I can! And thank you for creating the article! -Kj cheetham (talk) 18:45, 8 March 2025 (UTC)

Non-free content on Applications of sensitivity analysis to multi-criteria decision making

About 4.5 years go you tagged that page as having this sort of content. As I understand it, Twinkle at that time didn't have the option for you to say where the content came from or what it was. Would you happen to remember, so that the issue can be rectified? Thanks so much for being watchful about this sort of thing. Oona Wikiwalker (talk) 23:59, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

Hi Oona Wikiwalker, thank you for your message! I'm afraid I don't remember at all. Earwig doesn't reveal anything and I don't have access to the two references at the moment. So I've removed that tag. Please do feel free to re-add it if need be though! -Kj cheetham (talk) 11:01, 6 April 2025 (UTC)

I did not know about Earwig! That's so helpful! (I'm SUCH a newb... but people here are so kind with me as I learn...) 2601:207:701:3E30:796D:BB46:D6D3:240F (talk) 01:16, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

Yeah, ^^that was me.^^ Brain fart; what can I say? laughing out loud. Oona Wikiwalker (talk) 01:19, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

Oona Wikiwalker Not to worry, easily done. :-) Earwig is one of the tools I have on the top menu, under Page -> Analysis -> Copyright vio detector. It's probably the main way I check for issues like that, beyond digging into individual sources and comparing more manually. -Kj cheetham (talk) 09:05, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2025

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2025).

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Need correction for Carole Hooven

Hi- I have no idea how this works or if you're the right person, but there is a book authorship on my new Wikipedia page that is attributed to me, but it's actually written by another Carole Hooven, PhD. The book is Meta-Emotion: How Families Communicate Emotionally. I wrote T: the Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides us, and a bunch of articles, but not Meta-Emotion. But I wouldn't want her caught up in accusations of transphobia, etc., so this should be removed. My webpage is carolehooven.com if that helps. Thank you! Carole 73.238.13.224 (talk) 14:08, 12 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for your message, I've removed that sentance from the article. Definitely confusing to share a name with someone else! For awareness, the usual place to put such requests is the talk page of the article itself. -Kj cheetham (talk) 14:22, 12 April 2025 (UTC)

UAA

Thanks for the report at WP:UAA but please note that some wikis allow organisation accounts - see Commons policy for an example, the German wiki is another. Except for the most offensive usernames, please don't report users at WP:UAA if they haven't edited on this wiki. Cabayi (talk) 16:39, 18 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi Cabayi, thanks for your message. I agree I was a bit over-eager with it. My original thinking was the IP note on the account's talk page was the same person, just forgotten to log in, but that was dealt with as G11 separately anyway. -Kj cheetham (talk) 16:54, 18 April 2025 (UTC)

It's not an unreasonable assumption but it takes you into the realms of sockpuppetry, legitimate & illegitimate uses, editing logged out, Checkusers avoiding associating a user account with an IP... maybe a {{uw-login}} would get things rolling? Cabayi (talk) 17:04, 18 April 2025 (UTC)

All very true - I'll certainly bear that in mind going forward. Thanks again for the guidance. -Kj cheetham (talk) 17:21, 18 April 2025 (UTC)

Paul J. Davies

You've asked for additional citations for this page, but I do not know for what, and a topic was not added to the Talk page. Every section has good references, and the Critical Reception section the names and dates of newspapers and magazines. Please be specific about what you found lacking. PwyllDafydd (talk) 16:09, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

In advance of your reply, I have added Reference notes for ECW Type & Art production output, Ryerson University teaching career, and Riwoche Society book production. Please advise of any other statements in the article you found possibly contentious. PwyllDafydd (talk) 17:00, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi PwyllDafydd, Thank you for your message, and apologies for not elaborating earlier. I've added the citation request tags because a couple of sub-sections within the Career section appeared to lack inline citations entirely. While I noticed some references, like 2 and 12, may function more like footnotes than full references, that alone isn't a problem, but it did make it harder to verify certain claims. In the Critical Reception section, much of the text is unreferenced, aside from the first paragraph. I understand that in-text attribution (e.g. "In The Globe and Mail...") can provide some transparency, but key claims, especially direct quotes or paraphrased evaluations, should be backed by inline citation notes per WP:VERIFY. For example, the statement "His May 1989 biographical profile in Quill & Quire began..." would ideally have a specific footnote referencing the exact issue and page number, so it can be easily verified by readers. On a separate note, I was curious about the selection criteria for the list in the Tibetan language texts section. Also for instance, are is the year range 2005–2017 verifiable through a particular source? Happy to move this discussion to the article's Talk page if easier, especially given potential COI considerations as per WP:COI. Appreciate the additional referencing you've already added—thank you again. -Kj cheetham (talk) 17:23, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

Thank you. I want the article to be rigorous, which content does not advance any objective but its history when Davies is dead.

I have added notes about ECW Type & Art output, fully verifiable in the financial records of ECW Press Ltd who administered or billed every one of the thousand books or so from 1985 through 1999, but is not published information.

I am happy to add that detail in References for the review. I thought I'd read in the guidelines *not* to load up the references like that when the information is otherwise clear in the text.

I do not know how to prove employment responsibilities. For instance, most of the ultimate Visual Compliance workgroup in still on the project with Descartes, all of whom would swear affidavits that Davies created the application in 2001 and managed the project, but has no current published "proof". The MSR eCustoms CEO for the development, Rajiv Manucha P. Eng, has passed away now.

I hope non-contentious claims can go without proof as such. For instance, there is no published source for Davies' motorcycle racing, although there is a photo of Davies trackside with his racer online. Also, of Davies in Lhasa, Tibet with the Potala over his shoulder. But I don't think you want links to photo proof in notes. PwyllDafydd (talk) 17:51, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

I did not reply to yopu on the selection for Tibetan texts, sorry. I know the general importance and frequency of the practices from 20 years' or so participation. Some are weekly, some monthly, some annually, some connected to special occasions. The items I removed from the initial list were mainly prayers for needful private individual observance, in times of difficulty or paying homage, say. The value of the list in the article is to facilitate people finding a source for a text when searching online, and I am happy to return to the full list. PwyllDafydd (talk) 18:46, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

Fully detailed references have been added for all book reviews sampled in Critical Reception, including titles, authors, dates, and page numbers as applicable, with web links where available online. PwyllDafydd (talk) 23:56, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

I have added a number of additional Reference notes to Career statements.

The article is greatly improved on account of your time and comments, thank you most sincerely. PwyllDafydd (talk) 03:12, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

P.S. Reference 2 mentions "now-removed curriculum vitae webpage content" - do you still have a link for that, even though the webpage no longer exists? Perhaps it's still in Internet Archive? -Kj cheetham (talk) 17:27, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

The Internet Archive says the pauldavies.net webpage was saved 253 times between April 7, 2000 and April 4, 2025, with their regular particulars. How do I build this into the Reference? PwyllDafydd (talk) 17:56, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

For now I have added "The Internet Archive saved the pauldavies.net webpage 253 times between April 7, 2000 and April 4, 2025, with their regular particulars." to Reference 2. PwyllDafydd (talk) 18:08, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for your detailed reply and for the work you've done to improve the article.

The additional references in the Critical Reception section are appreciated. It's worth keeping in mind WP:BURDEN, which mandates that all direct quotations be supported by inline citations. I believe most are now covered, with the exception of the 23 May 2024 Instagram quote, which still appears unreferenced.

For reference 2, A number of career event details following were drawn from now-removed curriculum vitae webpage content originally prepared by Davies, supported by the independent published references cited. The Internet Archive saved the pauldavies.net webpage 253 times between April 7, 2000 and April 4, 2025, with their regular particulars. isn't really suitable. Per WP:WAYBACK, it's best practice to cite a specific version of the page from the Internet Archive. For instance: https://web.archive.org/web/20221205122903/http://pauldavies.net/ is from December 2022. Please use an appropriate version, as that's just an example. If you’re drawing from archived content, a precise URL is necessary so other editors can verify the source. (It could be better formatted, but the link is the important thing as the starting point.)

I'd also recommend avoiding extraneous biographical details in the references themselves (e.g., Philip W. Leon passed away in February 2012), unless they're relevant to the article and accompanied by a verifiable source. Otherwise, they risk violating WP:VERIFY and may be seen as WP:OR (original research). This applies in various places. Similarly, details like There was a bookstore on the street level for many years... are likely too tangential and unverifiable for inclusion. Unless there’s a reliable source and a clear encyclopedic reason, it may be best to remove such content. See WP:INDISCRIMINATE for more on what kind of detail is appropriate.

Using a photograph as a reference is not out of the question. However without the ability to WP:VERIFY something with from a reliable source as per WP:RS, then arguably such things shouldn't be in an encylopedia such as Wikipedia. Wikipedia isn't meant to serve as an webpage hosting platform, so it’s probably best to raise such cases on the article’s talk page for wider input.

Where statements like Winners are documented online only from 2015 to date are included, please do link to the specific online source so others can confirm that information.

For the Tibetan texts list — if the aim is to help readers locate these practices, that’s admirable, but per Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lists of works#Basic list style – examples, such lists should ideally be supported by reliable sources explaining their significance, selection, or usage. Otherwise, it may come across as original research.

Just to clarify: I’m not doing a full review of the article - my involvement has been limited to referencing and verifiability concerns to explain my original tagging.

Lastly, a reminder from WP:COIEDIT — while editors with a potential conflict of interest may edit directly, best practice is to propose changes on the article’s Talk page and allow uninvolved editors to review them.

I hope this helps! -Kj cheetham (talk) 09:26, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

This is very helpful, thank you kindly for your clear comment and thorough attention. All of the changes you have reviewed and state here will be made as recommended. PwyllDafydd (talk) 09:45, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

Obsolete message asking for advice retracted, as below. PwyllDafydd (talk) 17:42, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

Obsolete message retracted, as below. PwyllDafydd (talk) 18:03, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

I write over my last discontented notes because the matter was clarified with the kind assistance of the original supervising editor on the Talk page. PwyllDafydd (talk) 19:21, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

Let me repeat my gratitude for your thorough attention and clear insightful advice earlier. Without which I could not have progressed with the Article. The concepts you communicated have informed several further refinements. Sincerely, Pwyll PwyllDafydd (talk) 01:39, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi PwyllDafydd thanks for your latest message, and apologies for my slow reply as I've been away this week. I've not looked in detail, but I'm glad it sounds resolved and another editor was able to assist. I'm happy I've been able to provide some insights. Have a good weekend. -Kj cheetham (talk) 10:03, 26 April 2025 (UTC)

Thanks!

Hello and thanks for reviewing the likes of Herbert Willing, Egil Brenna Lund, Gonzalo Lorenzo, Juan Ramón (footballer, born 1909), Juan Villacampa, Henri Conchy, Auguste Kramer, Domingo Torredeflot, Josep Torrens, and Salustiano Santos.

Kind regards. Barr Theo (talk) 03:12, 22 April 2025 (UTC)

Barr Theo, thanks for your message - happy to help! -Kj cheetham (talk) 09:15, 26 April 2025 (UTC)

New pages patrol May 2025 Backlog drive

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Welcome ...

... to project QAI! Thank you for reviewing and adding quality content! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:11, 28 April 2025 (UTC)

Gerda Arendt thank you for the warm welcome! Always happy to help out where I can. :-) -Kj cheetham (talk) 12:44, 30 April 2025 (UTC)

Articles to be reviewed are on the project talk. - Are you familiar with the RD (Recent deaths) corner of the main page? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:46, 30 April 2025 (UTC)

Gerda Arendt, I'll take a look. I've not had a proper look at the talk page yet. I know the RD corner exists, but haven't had any involvement with it at all before. -Kj cheetham (talk) 18:57, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

Never mind RD for now, - I had a problem there yesterday, but it was solved. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:18, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

Request

Good Evening @User:Kj cheetham I created these articles but until now they have not been reviewed. Would you mind reviewing them.

• Alien Skin • Keem Fame Rich • Fik Gaza • Uncle Mark • Ssentamu Churchill James

if any corrections need be done or improvements please I’d be glad for a feedback being a new editor I could make mistakes but I’m willing to learn n improve. Once again thanks for your time, hoping to hear from you soon. @1# Wakabenga 22:47, 30 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi Wakabenga, thank you for your message! I tend not to take requests to review specific articles - there is a very large backlog and they are in a queue. Just glancing at Uncle Mark though, I don't see any major issues but you should remove the external link to Next Radio 106.1 FM from the lede. Keep up the good work! -Kj cheetham (talk) 10:33, 4 May 2025 (UTC)

Thanks I’ll do just that

thanks for your time once again ⋆⁺ ཐི Wakabenga ཋྀ ⁺⋆ (talk) 10:41, 4 May 2025 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2025

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2025).

Administrator changes

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NaomiAmethyst (overlooked last month)

Interface administrator changes

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Following an RfC, administrator elections were permanently authorized on a five-month schedule. The next election will be scheduled soon; see Wikipedia talk:Administrator elections for more information. This is an alternate process to the RfA process and does not replace the latter.
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An RfC has resulted in a broad prohibition on the use of AI-generated images in articles. A few common-sense exceptions are recognized.

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Biscuit Series - Alyssa Satin Capucilli

Dear Kj cheetham,

Thank you very much for reviewing the page for the author Alyssa Satin Capucilli. This was my first time creating a new article and I have two questions:

1. How is it possible to add a picture of the writer in the Infobox? There are photos of the writer online and from the publisher webpage, but I am not sure if I am allowed to use those images due to possible copyright.

2. I created a new page for the Biscuit series and have linked it on the author's page. I would like to add a photo of the book cover on the Biscuit series Wikipedia page, but once again I am not sure if I am allowed to use the book cover image due to possible copyright. Here is the link to the image: https://yabookscentral.com/press-release-biscuit-celebrates-20-years/

Thank you very much for your assistance in advance! I sincerely appreciate it. Writer1960 (talk) 15:13, 6 May 2025 (UTC)

Hi Writer1960! Thank you for your message. For adding an existing image to an infobox, have a look at H:INFOP. However, you're right to be cautious about copyright! It's not my area of expertise, but WP:UPIMAGE has some further information. Anything on https://alyssacapucilli.com/ is copyrighted (noted at the very bottom of the pages), and I suspect you couldn't get away with claiming "fair use" by just taking an image from there. Are you able to find another photo somewhere else somehow?

For the Biscuit series, my first thought would be to question if it's sufficiently notable to warrant it's own article, rather than just being part of the author's article. Take a look at WP:NBOOK. I've not reviewed your other article, but without things like winning major awards, or significant independant reviews, it may be at risk of being deleted and/or merged to the author article. If it's based on WP:PRIMARY sources, i.e. those written by the author or their publishing company, such as press releases like you just linked to, it'll likely be challenged. (Notability of books and book serieses isn't my area of expertise either, as I mainly deal with biographies.) Hope this helps! -Kj cheetham (talk) 15:51, 6 May 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for your message. I will look at WP:UPIMAGE for more information. The images for Alyssa Satin Capucilli all appear to be from publishers or news articles and are most probably copyrighted. Thank you for letting me know.

As for the Biscuit series, I created the article since the books are very popular. The Biscuit series feature over 70 books and have sold over 21 million copies (as of 2016). Additionally, the series has won several notable awards including the Washington Irving Award, Garden State Award, Bank Street College Best Book Award, and the Oppenheim Portfolio Gold Award.

Thank you once again for your assistance! Writer1960 (talk) 16:20, 6 May 2025 (UTC)

I can't comment if any of those awards are "major", but the people at WP:BOOKS, or Wikipedia talk:Notability (books), or maybe WP:TEAHOUSE may be able to help if you ever need more specific advice relating to books. I'm happy to help if you have more general editing queries though! -Kj cheetham (talk) 17:00, 6 May 2025 (UTC)

P.S. For the book series, if you look at WP:NFC#CS you may be able to use an image. I'd also suggest noting WP:IMAGERES as it should be as low resolution as possible, and also you'd have to meet all the criteria at WP:NFCCP. -Kj cheetham (talk) 19:16, 7 May 2025 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your help! I sincerely appreciate it. I will look into it. Writer1960 (talk) 20:54, 8 May 2025 (UTC)

Updates to Reshma Kewalramani

Hello, I hope you are well. I wonder if you wouldn’t mind having a look at an edit request I posted at Talk:Reshma Kewalramani#Second paragraph of Career section update. If you agree that the changes improve the section, I would appreciate if you could implement those changes. Thanks so much, JohnDatVertex (talk) 18:34, 7 May 2025 (UTC)

Hi JohnDatVertex, thanks for your message. I'll leave it to someone else to check the sourcing, but I've tagged it for attention so it's in the queue at least. Hope this helps. -Kj cheetham (talk) 18:55, 7 May 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for helping with placing the edit request in the queue, and all your other help. JohnDatVertex (talk) 15:42, 8 May 2025 (UTC)

Linnéa Edgren listed sources may not be reliable

The only think I can think of you are refering to is familysearch.com, but the links in the citation point to actual city records, not transcriptions or genealogy. Diogenes99 (talk) 02:27, 8 May 2025 (UTC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard/Archive_207#Census_documents_from_FamilySearch Diogenes99 (talk) 03:34, 8 May 2025 (UTC)

Hi Diogenes99, thank you for your message. I was partly thinking of FamilySearch, but given it's not user-generated content in this case, I'm happy with that. The other thing was WP:IMDB. Use in the External Links is fine (as per WP:IMDB-EL), but I was less sure about use in the main text when looking at WP:CITEIMDB. -Kj cheetham (talk) 09:16, 8 May 2025 (UTC)

gotcha on inline imdb since there is no need to link inline. I think you are right about that. Diogenes99 (talk) 09:21, 8 May 2025 (UTC)

Purged all IMDB citations replaced with Swedish film institute citations. Updated the links to family search to indicate they refer to images, and added a link there to the national archive images. I'll remeve the warning tomorrow if no objection. Diogenes99 (talk) 10:33, 8 May 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for that. I've just removed the warning template myself. :-) -Kj cheetham (talk) 10:44, 8 May 2025 (UTC)

thanks!

@Kj cheethamthanks for reminder me to de-orphanize! I just did this, with a reference to the Aptamer wiki page which he was an inventor. OK take down the flag? Zamphere (talk) 18:55, 16 May 2025 (UTC)

Hi Zamphere, thanks for your message! I assume you're referring to Andrew D. Ellington? That's great you've able been to wikilink to that article. I've just taken the flag down myself for you. -Kj cheetham (talk) 09:20, 17 May 2025 (UTC)

Thank you!

Hello @Kj cheetham, thank you so much for helping to improve the entry on Robin Markwica. Thanks also for your feedback regarding categories. I have just inserted four more categories. See: Robin Markwica. Enjoy the rest of your weekend! MassAve74 (talk) 19:45, 17 May 2025 (UTC)

Hi MassAve74, thank you for your message, and good work with Robin Markwica! Enjoy the rest of your weekend too. :-) -Kj cheetham (talk) 08:52, 18 May 2025 (UTC)

Articles for Creation backlog drive

Hello Kj cheetham:

WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive in June!
The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than 1 month of outstanding reviews from the current 3+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 June 2025 through 30 June 2025.

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ORCID page links

Thanks for reviewing Elena Hassinger. I noticed you removed the link to her ORCID page (which I then noticed had been formatted incorrectly). I don't particularly care whether it's there or not, but I'd like to know for the future: do we have a policy against including ORCID links? Thanks again. a bunch of penguins (talk) 21:06, 20 May 2025 (UTC)

A bunch of penguins, thanks for your message! Not quite a policy, but it's covered in Wikipedia:ORCID and Template:Authority control. The authority control box I added to that article already includes an ORCID link, with details pulled from wikidata. -Kj cheetham (talk) 08:18, 21 May 2025 (UTC)

Ok, thank you for explaining! And for handling the authority control :-) a bunch of penguins (talk) 16:43, 21 May 2025 (UTC)

Happy to help. :-) -Kj cheetham (talk) 17:43, 21 May 2025 (UTC)

Request for page review

Hi when you have time could you please review page Ilir Shaqiri ? Thank you Lanceloth345 (talk) 22:23, 22 May 2025 (UTC)

Lanceloth345 thanks for your message! I tend not to take requests to review specific articles - there is a very large backlog and they are in a queue. However in this case, looks like someone else has reviewed it already anyway. -Kj cheetham (talk) 08:39, 23 May 2025 (UTC)

May thanks

Thank you for improving article quality in May. One of mine was Jadwiga Rappé. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:09, 24 May 2025 (UTC)

A first: two stories about two people who worked together and died the same day --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:39, 27 May 2025 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Working Man's Barnstar
	Thank you for reviewing my articles! JohnMizuki (talk) 17:35, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

JohnMizuki, thank you, that's very kind of you! (As an aside for interest, we just completed a month-long backlog drive to work on the queue for new articles needing review - still over 10000 in the queue though, even though we did a lot!) -Kj cheetham (talk) 18:33, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

Woaah that's a lot of pending work. Can I check new articles too, or it's for admins? Maybe I can help with the easy ones JohnMizuki (talk) 18:53, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

The backlog was over 18000 at the start of May, and also new article are added daily. The team apparently reviewed 17309 articles in the May session, but we can't sustain that every month as people burn out, hence needing to do a special push every few months. I definitely need a rest now! The queue is never-ending. :-( To be able to mark articles as reviewed, you need to apply for a special permission on your account. I suggest taking a look at WP:NPP though as a starting point, as there's quite a few things to be aware of. If it's something you're interested in getting involved with, would be good to have you on board! Literally just reviewing a single article every so often would be appreciated. Just spotted your account is auto-patrolled now too, so we won't need to review your new articles because you've shown you know what you're doing. :-)-Kj cheetham (talk) 19:04, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2025

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2025).

Administrator changes

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0xDeadbeef

CheckUser changes

L235

Oversight changes

L235

Guideline and policy news

An RfC is open to determine whether the English Wikipedia community should adopt a position on AI development by the WMF and its affiliates.

Technical news

A new feature called Multiblocks will be deployed on English Wikipedia on the week of June 2. See the relevant announcement on the administrators' noticeboard.
History merges performed using the mergehistory special page are now logged at both the source and destination, rather than just the source as previously, after this RFC and the resolution of T118132.

Arbitration

An arbitration case named Indian military history has been opened. Evidence submissions for this case close on 8 June.

Miscellaneous

Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is open until 17 June 2025. Read the voting page on Meta-Wiki and cast your vote here!
An Articles for Creation backlog drive is happening in June 2025, with over 1,600 drafts awaiting review from the past two months. In addition to AfC participants, all administrators and new page patrollers can help review using the Yet Another AFC Helper Script, which can be enabled in the Gadgets settings. Sign up here to participate!
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