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Wolfshiem

Sorry about that -- I corrected it, as I'm sure the editor must have, and as, perhaps, Fitzgerald may have wanted, prior to reading the note.

After reading the note, I fell into a downward spiral of philosophical arguments around Wikipedia policy and spelling that sapped my will to live, let alone return to change it back. I am glad you have it the way you want it! -Kieran (talk) 20:46, 17 July 2017 (UTC)

"Wolfshiem" was the spelling present in the first edition of the book. "Wolfsheim" was a second edition and later change. The change by the editor was deliberately to obfuscate the Jewish name to avoid potential allegations of anti-Semitism. I do not recall at the moment anything about how Fitzgerald felt about the change (or even if he was aware of it) but viewing "Wolfsheim" as just a "corrected" spelling of "Wolfshiem" is false. In fact it was the reverse as the original spelling is a proper Jewish name while the latter is just invented to avoid being associated with a real name. Using the later edition spelling alone would gloss over an important and interesting aspect of the book's history.
When you edited this page, there should have been a red page notice here saying it's best not to split the discussion into two places. If whatever editor you used did not display this, please let me know because there's a bug. If it did display and you just skipped it, it's kind of the same problem that occurred with your Gatsby edit. Jason Quinn (talk) 07:49, 18 July 2017 (UTC)
I'd literally never seen that before, and pretty much glossed over it -- the interface is pretty busy. It does, indeed show up, so no need to worry about bugs in your non-standard code.
And seriously, this kind of sarcasm and shirtiness is exactly why Wikipedia gets accusations of elitism and exclusivity, and new editors often feel deeply unwelcome. Please reflect on your attitude, as I feel that it is being actively harmful to the project as a whole. -Kieran (talk) 19:52, 27 July 2017 (UTC)
What I wrote is generously informative in explaining lingering doubts you seemed to have about the correctness of the Wolfsheim edit. It appears you are upset because I suggested you may have an issue with hastiness. My comments were not sarcasm nor were they ill-tempered. So I reject your claim. I do, however, expect editors to actually read stuff before they edit. You seem to think that WP:CIVIL requires us to never critique other editors habits. It does not. But now you accuse me of being unwelcoming to newcomers and harmful to the project and you have made me "shirty". I have welcomed many many users on Wikipedia and very often go above and beyond to offer them help and assistance... far above what most Wikipedians do, very likely including you. Since you accuse me of being bad for the project regarding new editors, find me ONE instance of me biting a newbie or stop making unfounded accusations. Regardless, I point out that you are not a new user, and even though I avoid it too, I have no ethical issue being blunt with long-term users if need be. Perhaps in the future be thankful when offered constructive criticism rather acting with thin-skinned indignation. I see no further benefit to this discussion. Jason Quinn (talk) 20:48, 27 July 2017 (UTC)

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Six years now! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:44, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

And counting! Although I haven't been as active recently. Thanks! Jason Quinn (talk) 12:46, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
count to seven ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:57, 2 February 2020 (UTC)
This is a reminder I'm also getting old! Jason Quinn (talk) 10:12, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

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Regarding your edit, I'm not sure we even have a {{incandescent vegetables}} :-) -- RoySmith (talk) 20:41, 2 August 2018 (UTC)

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I noticed on Akiko Akana tht you removed the "orig" from a citation as "no such parameter", which was blank anyway. Looks like something I added, probably from Template:Cite book. Just giving you heads up, in case you want to delete it from that template. — Maile (talk) 20:49, 26 September 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. As far as I recall at the moment |orig= has never been used but |origyear= (which is now |orig-year=) is. Anyway, I check the documentation and didn't notice any (current) issues. Blank parameters should usually be removed. The cite templates have undergone a lot of revision over the years so probably just some quirk of history. Cheers, Jason Quinn (talk) 23:15, 26 September 2019 (UTC)

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The Great Gatsby

Hi Jason. I noticed Talk:The Great Gatsby/GA2 is still open. I added some comments there. As the person who opened the reassessment you should be the one to close it. Regards AIRcorn (talk) 21:08, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

Hi, Aircorn. I delisted the article and closed the discussion. I rarely participate in GA work but I noticed the instructions given at Wikipedia:Good article reassessment in the "How to use this process" section are either confusing, misleading, or broken. I followed them to list the GAR (but it seems like something was missed because it attracted almost no attention) and following them to close was totally confusing. For example, even though I followed the steps to list, no {{GAR/current}} was found to close. I just "winged" everything to close manually so hopefully it was done correctly. Seems to me that an experienced GA editor, who has the ability to think like a newbie, needs to quadruple-check all the instructions to make the process. Cheers, thanks for your comments. Jason Quinn (talk) 00:09, 3 May 2020 (UTC)
There are two processes. An individual one, which was what you opened, and a community one, which judging from the above were the instructions you followed. Individual ones are for simple relatively non-controversial reassessment, usually conducted by experienced editors. The community one is for the more complex or controversial ones, when disagreements occur over a close or those by editors who maybe lack a bit of experience. No drama either way, thanks for closing. AIRcorn (talk) 00:56, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

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Adopt-a-typo: Hi Jason: you have contributed a lot to WP-thanks. Back in 2013 you tried to set up this device and I am wondering about the gender color coding. I am in a course at Portland State Univ called Women Scientists where we are studying the discouragement/bias against/male privilege history of said academics and seekers. I looked around and could not discern how/why you proposed the gender based designator. Please recap it or send me to the talk/page...Gary M Cafe.doppio (talk) 15:41, 22 October 2020 (UTC)

Hi, User:Cafe.doppio. I believe you are referring to the {{Adopt-a-typo}} template that allows people to easily "adopt" a misspelling. I did add the ability to customize the template using "yellow" for neutral, blue for male, and pink for female. It was just simply to extend the adoption of a baby metaphor to the colors usually used for newborn infants. There's nothing more behind it. It was supposed to make the template more fun by allowing the user to chose their color.
There's one other instance of colorization I've worked on in Wikipedia. I've worked on color-coding some family tree templates by gender. For example, this one {{Kim dynasty (North Korea) family tree}}, which is included in many of the articles for the family members. There's a brief discussion of that at Template talk:Kim dynasty (North_Korea) family tree#Gender. I also asked around somewhere else about color conventions from around the world but I don't remember off the top of my head where that was.
I suppose in a course about gender a person might object to the use of "blue for male" and "pink for female" as re-enforcing gender stereotypes. I see that point but unless there's a better way to help readers process things like complex families trees without such colors, it remains the best solution we have. Jason Quinn (talk) 16:05, 22 October 2020 (UTC)

Agree with you about the family tree-you can only try to be fair and inclusive. The non-binary movement is quite evident and sometimes bordering on militant here in Portland. I don't know how a non-binary activist would react to the adopt-typo color coding...I am glad you are still "doing the work"! Cafe.doppio (talk) 21:43, 22 October 2020 (UTC)

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hi

I would like discuss with about your edit on the article Jeffrey Ngai Pang Chin. You reverted to a vertion with so many mistakes. For example,「作家部落」 does not mean [Author's blog]. 部落 means a group of people not blog. and the Ip add so many wrong translation and deleted many infomation on the footnote. Some author of the article is wrong.--124.217.188.112 (talk) 07:24, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

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the author in Ref 7 is also wrong, the essay is use subject “他”which means “he”.--124.217.188.112 (talk) 07:37, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
The reverting editor (please disclose if you the same person) reverted to a version that ALSO had many mistakes. And he did so without explaining what exactly the "wrong information", despite having already been asked to do so by 61.239.39.90. After my revert, I also asked the reverting editor to explain on the article's talk page what the "wrong information" he keeps claiming is. You know, healthy discussion about the article. So has 61.239.39.90. The editor does not seem to wish to initiate discussion and makes large scale reverts just claiming "wrong information" or something similar. That said, something is seriously bizarre about this article and how IP editors are editing here and the style of editing. The article is barely more than a stub and yet is attracting fanatic ownership-style editing. Jason Quinn (talk) 08:16, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
Please start a discussion about the article's content on the article's talk page as is normal practice. Jason Quinn (talk) 09:02, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

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  • When you move a page that many editors have on their watchlist the history can be split and it might also not be possible to move it again for a while. This is because of a job queue problem. (T278350)
  • Code to support some very old web browsers is being removed. This could cause issues in those browsers. (T277803)

Arbitration

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:20, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2021).

Administrator changes

removed Enchanter • Carlossuarez46

Interface administrator changes

removed Ragesoss

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • The user group oversight will be renamed to suppress. This is for technical reasons. You can comment at T112147 if you have objections.

Arbitration

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:51, 7 May 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2021).

Administrator changes

added Ashleyyoursmile • Less Unless
removed Husond • MattWade • MJCdetroit • Carioca • Vague Rant • Kingboyk • Thunderboltz • Gwen Gale • AniMate • SlimVirgin (deceased)

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • Wikimedia previously used the IRC network Freenode. However, due to changes over who controlled the network with reports of a forceful takeover by several ex-staff members, the Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts decided to move to the new Libera Chat network. It has been reported that Wikimedia related channels on Freenode have been forcibly taken over if they pointed members to Libera. There is a migration guide and Wikimedia discussions about this.

Arbitration

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:45, 9 June 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2021).

Guideline and policy news

  • Consensus has been reached to delete all books in the book namespace. There was rough consensus that the deleted books should still be available on request at WP:REFUND even after the namespace is removed.
  • An RfC is open to discuss the next steps following a trial which automatically applied pending changes to TFAs.

Technical news

  • IP addresses of unregistered users are to be hidden from everyone. There is a rough draft of how IP addresses may be shown to users who need to see them. This currently details allowing administrators, checkusers, stewards and those with a new usergroup to view the full IP address of unregistered users. Editors with at least 500 edits and an account over a year old will be able to see all but the end of the IP address in the proposal. The ability to see the IP addresses hidden behind the mask would be dependent on agreeing to not share the parts of the IP address they can see with those who do not have access to the same information. Accessing part of or the full IP address of a masked editor would also be logged. Comments on the draft are being welcomed at the talk page.

Arbitration

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:26, 3 July 2021 (UTC)

Requesting evaluations of the The Great Gatsby FAC nomination

Hello, Jason Quinn. As you're one of the more active editors of The Great Gatsby article, I was hoping you might weigh in on its current nomination as a Featured Article Candidate. As any Wikipedia editor can participate in a review of a FAC nomination, it would be appreciated if you would contribute an evaluation of the article, whether pro or con. → Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates/The_Great_Gatsby/archive2 — Flask (talk) 18:08, 12 July 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2021).

Guideline and policy news

  • An RfC is open to add a delay of one week from nomination to deletion for G13 speedy deletions.

Technical news

  • Last week all wikis were very slow or not accessible for 30 minutes. This was due to server lag caused by regenerating dynamic lists on the Russian Wikinews after a large bulk import. (T287380)

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

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Administrators' newsletter – September 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2021).

Administrator changes

readded Jake Wartenberg
removed Emperor • Viridian Bovary
renamed Ashleyyoursmile → Viridian Bovary

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • The Score extension has been re-enabled on public wikis. It has been updated, but has been placed in safe mode to address unresolved security issues. Further information on the security issues can be found on the mediawiki page.

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:45, 3 September 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – October 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2021).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration

  • A motion has standardised the 500/30 (extended confirmed) restrictions placed by the Arbitration Committee. The standardised restriction is now listed in the Arbitration Committee's procedures.
  • Following the closure of the Iranian politics case, standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, post-1978 Iranian politics, broadly construed.
  • The Arbitration Committee encourages uninvolved administrators to use the discretionary sanctions procedure in topic areas where it is authorised to facilitate consensus in RfCs. This includes, but is not limited to, enforcing sectioned comments, word/diff limits and moratoriums on a particular topic from being brought in an RfC for up to a year.

Miscellaneous

  • Editors have approved expanding the trial of Growth Features from 2% of new accounts to 25%, and the share of newcomers getting mentorship from 2% to 5%. Experienced editors are invited to add themselves to the mentor list.
  • The community consultation phase of the 2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process is open for editors to provide comments and ask questions to candidates.
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:04, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

RfA 2021 review update

Thanks so much for participating in Phase 1 of the RfA 2021 review. 8 out of the 21 issues discussed were found to have consensus. Thanks to our closers of Phase 1, Primefac and Wugapodes.

The following had consensus support of participating editors:

  1. Corrosive RfA atmosphere
    The atmosphere at RfA is deeply unpleasant. This makes it so fewer candidates wish to run and also means that some members of our community don't comment/vote.
  2. Level of scrutiny
    Many editors believe it would be unpleasant to have so much attention focused on them. This includes being indirectly a part of watchlists and editors going through your edit history with the chance that some event, possibly a relatively trivial event, becomes the focus of editor discussion for up to a week.
  3. Standards needed to pass keep rising
    It used to be far easier to pass RfA however the standards necessary to pass have continued to rise such that only "perfect" candidates will pass now.
  4. Too few candidates
    There are too few candidates. This not only limits the number of new admin we get but also makes it harder to identify other RfA issues because we have such a small sample size.
  5. "No need for the tools" is a poor reason as we can find work for new admins

The following issues had a rough consensus of support from editors:

  1. Lifetime tenure (high stakes atmosphere)
    Because RfA carries with it lifetime tenure, granting any given editor sysop feels incredibly important. This creates a risk adverse and high stakes atmosphere.
  2. Admin permissions and unbundling
    There is a large gap between the permissions an editor can obtain and the admin toolset. This brings increased scrutiny for RFA candidates, as editors evaluate their feasibility in lots of areas.
  3. RfA should not be the only road to adminship
    Right now, RfA is the only way we can get new admins, but it doesn't have to be.

Please consider joining the brainstorming which will last for the next 1-2 weeks. This will be followed by Phase 2, a 30 day discussion to consider solutions to the problems identified in Phase 1.

There are 2 future mailings planned. One when Phase 2 opens and one with the results of Phase 2. To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here.

Best, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:08, 10 October 2021 (UTC)

RfA Reform 2021 Phase 2 has begun

Following a 2 week brainstorming period and a 1 week proposal period, the 30 day discussion of changes to our Request for Adminship process has begun. Following feedback on Phase 1, in order to ensure that the largest number of people possible can see all proposals, new proposals will only be accepted for the for the first 7 days of Phase 2. The 30 day discussion is scheduled to last until November 30. Please join the discussion or even submit your own proposal.

There is 1 future mailing planned with the results of Phase 2. To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here.

16:13, 31 October 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2021).

Guideline and policy news

  • Phase 2 of the 2021 RfA review has commenced which will discuss potential solutions to address the 8 issues found in Phase 1. Proposed solutions that achieve consensus will be implemented and you may propose solutions till 07 November 2021.

Technical news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:44, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

ArbCom 2021 Elections voter message

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2021).

Administrator changes

removed A Train • Berean Hunter • Epbr123 • GermanJoe • Sanchom • Mysid

Technical news

  • Unregistered editors using the mobile website are now able to receive notices to indicate they have talk page messages. The notice looks similar to what is already present on desktop, and will be displayed on when viewing any page except mainspace and when editing any page. (T284642)
  • The limit on the number of emails a user can send per day has been made global instead of per-wiki to help prevent abuse. (T293866)

Arbitration


Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:24, 3 December 2021 (UTC)

Administrators will no longer be autopatrolled

A recently closed Request for Comment (RFC) reached consensus to remove Autopatrolled from the administrator user group. You may, similarly as with Edit Filter Manager, choose to self-assign this permission to yourself. This will be implemented the week of December 13th, but if you wish to self-assign you may do so now. To find out when the change has gone live or if you have any questions please visit the Administrator's Noticeboard. 20:06, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

RFA 2021 Completed

The 2021 re-examination of RFA has been completed. 23 (plus 2 variants) ideas were proposed. Over 200 editors participated in this final phase. Three changes gained consensus and two proposals were identified by the closers as having the potential to gain consensus with some further discussion and iteration. Thanks to all who helped to close the discussion, and in particular Primefac, Lee Vilenski, and Ymblanter for closing the most difficult conversations and for TonyBallioni for closing the review of one of the closes.

The following proposals gained consensus and have all been implemented:

  1. Revision of standard question 1 to Why are you interested in becoming an administrator? Special thanks to xaosflux for help with implementation.
  2. A new process, Administrative Action Review (XRV) designed to review if an editor's specific use of an advanced permission, including the admin tools, is consistent with policy in a process similar to that of deletion review and move review. Thanks to all the editors who contributed (and are continuing to contribute) to the discussion of how to implement this proposal.
  3. Removal of autopatrol from the administrator's toolkit. Special thanks to Wugapodes and Seddon for their help with implementation.

The following proposals were identified by the closers as having the potential to gain consensus with some further discussion and iteration:

  1. An option for people to run for temporary adminship (proposal, discussion, & close)
  2. An optional election process (proposal & discussion and close review & re-close)

Editors who wish to discuss these ideas or other ideas on how to try to address any of the six issues identified during phase 1 for which no proposal gained are encouraged to do so at RFA's talk page or an appropriate village pump.

A final and huge thanks all those who participated in this effort to improve our RFA process over the last 4 months.

This is the final update with no further talk page messages planned.

01:46, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

Merchandise giveaway nomination

A t-shirt!
A token of thanks
Hi Jason Quinn! I've nominated you (along with all other active admins) to receive a solstice season gift from the WMF. Talk page stalkers are invited to comment at the nomination. Enjoy! Cheers, {{u|Sdkb}} talk ~~~~~
A snowflake!

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:50, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – January 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2021).

Guideline and policy news

  • Following consensus at the 2021 RfA review, the autopatrolled user right has been removed from the administrators user group; admins can grant themselves the autopatrolled permission if they wish to remain autopatrolled.

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • The functionaries email list (functionaries-en@lists.wikimedia.org) will no longer accept incoming emails apart from those sent by list members and WMF staff. Private concerns, apart from those requiring oversight, should be directly sent to the Arbitration Committee.
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:24, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

How we will see unregistered users

Hi!

You get this message because you are an admin on a Wikimedia wiki.

When someone edits a Wikimedia wiki without being logged in today, we show their IP address. As you may already know, we will not be able to do this in the future. This is a decision by the Wikimedia Foundation Legal department, because norms and regulations for privacy online have changed.

Instead of the IP we will show a masked identity. You as an admin will still be able to access the IP. There will also be a new user right for those who need to see the full IPs of unregistered users to fight vandalism, harassment and spam without being admins. Patrollers will also see part of the IP even without this user right. We are also working on better tools to help.

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We have two suggested ways this identity could work. We would appreciate your feedback on which way you think would work best for you and your wiki, now and in the future. You can let us know on the talk page. You can write in your language. The suggestions were posted in October and we will decide after 17 January.

Thank you. /Johan (WMF)

18:12, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Misidentified species

Hi Jason,

I just saw your question for Modussiccandi at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship, and was intrigued. It's a good question.

I disagree with the answer he gave (though I certainly don't intend this as a criticism of him). Once in a while, someone notices that a picture is not of what is claimed in the article, and removes it or discusses it with the editor who put it there, giving sources. This is a routine part of the editing process – people make mistakes, they get corrected. I don't see it as original research. It's more lack of (adequate) research by the editor who put the wrong picture there. When it turns out that a picture of a footballer is in fact a picture of a different footballer, it gets fixed, and I don't think anyone would call it original research.

I've never see a species picture with a citation. At Taraxacum platycarpum for instance, there are two pictures, with no references supporting the claim that they are really T. platycarpum. That seems out of line with WP policies. Maproom (talk) 22:21, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

Hi, Maproom. I thought the set of questions for this RfA were too routine and too easy. I wanted to add something more original and that had some depth. Glad you find it interesting as well. Jason Quinn (talk) 22:53, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Precious anniversary

Precious
Nine years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:59, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – February 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2022).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • The user group oversight will be renamed suppress in around 3 weeks. This will not affect the name shown to users and is simply a change in the technical name of the user group. The change is being made for technical reasons. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections.
  • The Reply Tool feature, which is a part of Discussion Tools, will be opt-out for everyone logged in or logged out starting 7 February 2022. Editors wishing to comment on this can do so in the relevant Village Pump discussion.

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:01, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Typo Team News

Template:Typo Team News has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Nigej (talk) 19:55, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2022).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:46, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!

Happy First Edit Day!

Have a very happy first edit anniversary!

From the Birthday Committee, CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 00:30, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

Category redirect

Hello. I was going reply with this at the section you started at Template talk:Redirect category shell#Intend to delete the arrow image from template, but I thought it might be too far off-topic. Reading your post makes me wonder if I may have been tripped up by the similar Template:Category redirect recently. Which is correct? this edit or my revert? --DB1729 (talk) 00:47, 31 March 2022 (UTC)

Hi, DB1729. That's a good question! To be honest I'm not sure off the top of my head. At the moment I'm cleaning up the house for company coming over. Let me get back to you on this. Cheers, Jason Quinn (talk) 01:57, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
Hi, @DB1729:. The two relevant things I found about it were WP:R#CATEGORY and Wikipedia:Categories for discussion#Redirecting categories. It seems you use soft redirects for categories as you did so your revert was correct. I now remember this again issue. Been a while since it came up! Cheers, Jason Quinn (talk) 10:58, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
PS Had soft redirect not been used, it would have had the same issue at with the other discussion. Jason Quinn (talk) 10:59, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
Ahh yes, that clears it up for me. I had scanned the toc at Wikipedia:Categorization and missed the section that contains both those links. Thank you very much! --DB1729 (talk) 13:06, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
And I may have understood this back when I created Category:University of Leeds alumni. Or maybe I just copied the syntax of a similar redirect. Simply don't remember. DB1729 (talk) 13:18, 31 March 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2022).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • Access to Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have the deletelogentry and deletedhistory rights. This means that those in the Researcher user group and Checkusers who are not administrators can now access Special:RevisionDelete. The users able to view the special page after this change are the 3 users in the Researcher group, as there are currently no checkusers who are not already administrators. (T301928)
  • When viewing deleted revisions or diffs on Special:Undelete a back link to the undelete page for the associated page is now present. (T284114)

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:13, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

New administrator activity requirement

The administrator policy has been updated with new activity requirements following a successful Request for Comment.

Beginning January 1, 2023, administrators who meet one or both of the following criteria may be desysopped for inactivity if they have:

  1. Made neither edits nor administrative actions for at least a 12-month period OR
  2. Made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period

Administrators at risk for being desysopped under these criteria will continue to be notified ahead of time. Thank you for your continued work.

22:52, 15 April 2022 (UTC)


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